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Originally Posted by stocktree
Why would they set sail knowing there was a fire?
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Under White Star then it was ''sail or be crucified''. The storage was overloaded with coal (even taken from other steamships) that was burning and the thought was just to keep shovelling it into the boilers a lot of the time to eventually get some containment.
This had the effect of keeping the ship at full speed under Captains orders to make up for lost time.