Category: Titanic Myths

• The "Titanic" Iceberg Arson

  This theory claimed that Titanic did not strike an ordinary iceberg on 14 April 1912, but a disguised explosive device—later retroactively imagined as a camouflaged German mine or similar hidden weapon. The theory is historically unusual because it projects wartime sabotage logic backward onto a prewar disaster. It developed after 1914, when submarine mines, naval explosives, and maritime deception had become far more familiar to the public. In that atmosphere, some writers and rumor networks re-read the Titanic catastrophe as hidden attack rather than natural collision.