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Nov 11, 2016
Well, when this song came out, the cause of Titanic's sinking (in 1912) was not known. The wealthy owner got off ok.
It wasn't a Nice Mountain or an Ice Mountain - a mere ice flow that Titanic scraped against with a barely noticed bump. It took 90 years before investigators looked through the construction materials order list to find that the rivets that held the steel hull panels to the steel frame (it was not of welded construction) had been low grade iron, rather than proper steel. The scraping against ice was enough to break their heads off and the hefty hull panels simply fell off. Good song but.