The Titanic did NOT hit an iceberg. Nor were the lookouts the first to spot the floating ice mountain.

Valladolid,(Spain) January 17, 2020. During the inauguration of the Titanic The Reconstructión exhibition, at the Valladolid Science Museum, and in front of the reconstruction of the largest Titanic in the world, Jesús Ferreiro, journalist and president of the Titanic Foundation, explained, to the guests and the media, that, in reality, the Titanic never “collided” with an iceberg, which is what we have been saying for the last 108, but that it “brushed”, very slightly, on its starboard side, against the iceberg that caused its sinking on the night of April 14-15, 1912.

We all know, from our own experience, that it is not the same as our car "rubbing" than "colliding", and that is the big difference because, if the Titanic had "collided" with the iceberg, its sinking would have occurred more quickly. and, therefore, the number of fatalities would be much higher. The "rubbing" was so soft that none of the people on board noticed it, not even the officers and crew who were on duty on the bridge. Some survivors said they felt a slight tremor, but did not care. In addition, curiously, not all survivors agree when noting the time they noticed that slight tremor.

Before the attentive gaze of the Mayor of Valladolid, and of the journalists and guests who attended this event, the president of the Titanic Foundation explained that, although it has always been said that it was the lookouts who first spotted the Iceberg, this did not happen like this either.

Both the officers and the crew members who were on duty that night on the bridge, declared, before a commission of the United States Senate, that the first person to see the iceberg was First Officer William Murdoch, who at that time He was on guard, on the starboard side of the bridge, and he entered the interior shouting to the helmsman: "ship by the bow, engines all behind", because, in reality, what Murdoch saw, reflected in the white ice of the iceberg, it was the lights of his own ship, the Titanic, which he believed was another ship that they had in front of their prow and that they were going to collide with him.

When the engines turned "all the way back" there was a small tremor in the ship, which alerted the lookouts and made the passengers confuse with the slight brush of the Titanic with the iceberg.

If the Titanic had "collided" with the iceberg, its sinking would have been much faster and the number of its fatalities would be much higher.

First mate William Murdoch, who perished in the shipwreck, was regarded as one of the heroes of the tragedy, whose lives must have been saved by most of the survivors.

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