In addition to the near collision, the Titanic was on fire from the minute she set sail. The ship’s crew knew about it, of course. However, they did not dare to say a word about it to the passengers for they feared it would cause everyone to panic. Crew and firemen on the ship kept the fire under control during its short voyage. As stated by J. Dilley in Logan Marshall’s book, The Sinking of the Titanic, “I was assigned to the Titanic from the Oceanic, where I had served as a fireman. From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire, and my sole duty, together with eleven other men, had been to fight that fire. We had made no headway against it,” (Marshall 31). The fire was pretty large and would not go out. Fortunately, it did no harm to the
