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    Default Things about the RMS Titanic and her sisterships


    posting this to share what I know just out of curiosity,

    uhm I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I'm intrigue by the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic, I've done my research and it's really a confusing feeling to believe what the official reports say and partially believe in the theory,

    anyway to start, from what I've read;

    We all know the RMS Titanic sank April 15 1912 but a few of us know that the titanic has two other sister ships each with there own story.

    The RMS Titanic;The largest of the three, sank Apr 15 1912


    The RMS Olympic; The only surviving Ship of the three but was scrapped on 1937


    The RMS Britanic; Converted to a Hospital Ship during WWI but sank due to a seamine on 1916


    The conspiracy theory is that: -(Text below this is from net)


    This is only one part of a larger picture. For more information, please read The Titanic Conspiracy and The James Cameron Conspiracy.

    There are some who believe that the Titanic tragedy was simply a conspiracy designed to pull off one of the largest acts of insurance fraud ever committed. The sister ship of the Titanic by the name of the Olympia had sustained damage during one of its voyages and it was said that the ship was rendered completely useless. Many experts see evidence that supports this theory due to some of the inconsistencies in the Titanic sinking story.Small differences in the two ships have been analyzed by experts suggesting that after the Olympic had been damaged, that it was designed to look like the Titanic. Many accounts of this type of marine insurance fraud has been documented throughout the course of time. The idea of swapping ships in order to collect insurance is not a new idea, and if the story is true, this would be the largest case of marine insurance fraud ever successfully pulled off.

    Source:The Titanic Conspiracy Theory, Investigating the Titanic Conspiracy

    Just posting this to start an exchange of ideas, and opinions. So what are your thoughts about this? = )

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    nice read.. imagine, if tinuod ni, nipatay silag daghan taw para makuha rato? di man sad katuohan kay daghan byag important people onboard..

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    lageh bro,hehehe, kuyaw kaayo bro if tinoud some points about the conspiracy theory borders on reality that it actually happened.

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    ive read about this article before but im not sure how it works.

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    Conspiracy Theory nasad.....

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    there's this other conspiracy theory sa titanic which said nga it's some jesuit plot to kill some personalities and kasabwat ang captain daw.. will search link nya and i'l share it pud.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tokidoki View Post
    ive read about this article before but im not sure how it works.
    it's like this bro,to simplyfy


    the RMS Olympic (The titanic was still being built at this time) was heading for New york, when is collided with a British Warship the HMS Hawke, The damages to the RMS Olympic were so bad she had to be dry docked. The Owners of the ship was in a big problem and heavily constrained in financial resources. So they decided that the insurance money was more profitable than repairing the the ship, so they switched the ship's name to make the RMS Olympic look like the titanic and to ram the ship to an ice berg to make it look like an accident and collect the insurance.

    for the full story please read below:
    Damage to the Olympic occurred when it was inadvertently rammed by a British naval vessel by the name HMS Hawke. Both ships received major damage from the incident and it left the Olympic with a large hole in the hull and her main starboard engine out of commission. With the help of a few tugboats, the Olympic was taken back to Southhampton to assess the damage. Eyewitness reports suggest that the route of the Hawke and the Olympic intersecting may not have been an accident at all.

    When White Star brought the event to court in order to claim damages for the dismembered Olympic, it was ruled that the collision was entirely the fault of the Olympic. Unable to collect money for her repairs, White Star was left with a severely damaged ship which was losing the company money by being unable to collect fares.

    Damage reports had found that the outer covering of one of the propellers had been severely damaged, the crankshaft had been damaged, and the bearing within the propeller had also been bent. The central turbine engine was unusable and the impact of the Hawke’s iron ram had caused vast internal damage to the Olympic. The Titanic and Olympic had cost a fortune to build, and would require years of operation before the company would see any profit. It was absolutely necessary to get the Olympic up and running.

    Harland & Wolff had no spare engine crankshaft, propeller, or propeller shaft on hand to replace those damaged items on Olympic , except ones awaiting fitment to her sister vessel, Titanic. Essentially, the Olympic was repaired with parts from the unfinished Titanic, some of which can still be seen. One of the propellers still bears the 01 from the Titanic, which was model 401. It should also be noted that the bent bearing, which was designed to last a lifetime was never commissioned to be replaced. This would have resulted in a shaky voyage, which was noted by a passenger and survivor by the name of Lawrence Beesley.

    Both the Titanic and Olympic were not initially designed to have bulkheads installed, but one was put into the Olympic to repair the damage to the hull. When Dr. Robert Ballard found the wreckage of the Titanic, he found a bulkhead which was not mentioned on any of the initial plans.

    A Harland & Wolff photograph of Olympic , taken when the vessel was in the Thompson Graving Dock in 1911, clearly shows her to have had a vertical joint in her hull plating immediately forward of the port side anchor hawse pipe. Photographs of Titanic , while still on the stocks and while fitting out in 1911, show that there was no similar joint in her hull plating just ahead of her port side anchor. However, In a picture of Olympic , taken during her 1912/13 refit following the Titanic disaster, shows this vessel not to have the tell-tale plating joint; proving quite conclusively that the hull pictured is that of Titanic although the name Olympic is clearly visible on both sides of the bow.

    Quite possibly the most conclusive evidence that Titanic conspiracy theorists believe proves the theory is the tonnage of the ships. Many additions were made to the Titanic while attempting to model the Olympic after her. The Olympic was recorded as having a tonnage of around 45,000, while the Titanic weighed in at about 46,000. Plainly put, the addition of 1,000 lbs to the Titanic still resulted in the Titanic weighing 46,000, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. It is very plausible that the 1,000 pounds of tonnage was added to the Olympic in order to meet the weight of the Titanic.


    I don't really believe in all of it but it's a really intriguing read.

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