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The males in our house have soaked up all the Titanic material for years, books, magazines, doco's, films.
So when I read someone on the forum said that the Titanic did not sink but it was her sister ship, I was quite shocked. Has anybody heard of this and if so could they give me a link, unless of course it was a joke. ![]() |
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Andrew Newton did a documentary on it. They were 'swapped' secretly as the sister ship was damaged and therefore needed to be scuppered to claim the insurance (apparently). dashes off to find link.... PM Tuza! Last edited by Avid; 11-14-2008 at 11:26 AM. |
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you will always get conspiracies about big items like this.
I believe that the sister ships to the titanic was the HMHS Britannic and Olympic. I personally don't believe that it was swapped over, the hitting of the ice berg would have had to be planned in order to claim insurance on the ship. the design of the ship itself was poorly constructed not having the bulkhead going all the way to the deckhead. in other words, the partitions in the ship where not air tight and there was no way to stop water from flooding one compartment to the next. |
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Three of the wealthiest people in the world who were totally against the Federal Reserve coming into America happened to go down on the Titanic. Hmm. imagine that?
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I don't believe that. My great grandmother was on the Carpathia; one of the ships that picked up Titanic survivors, and she talked to some of them. I think this is some kind of joke.
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heard the same story about the titanic tragedy being some insurance fraud ...
but it doesn`t really make sense.... ![]() http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/ships/id45.html the olympic ![]() these ships seemed to attract collisions the britannic ![]() now they should have done it like the japanese: the (nearly) unsinkable YAMATO. (same size as the titanic (length)) ![]() it took 12 bomb and 7 torpedo hits including their own ammunition on board exploding ...to sink it. Last edited by capreycorn; 11-15-2008 at 12:11 AM. |
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I tend to agree on this. I read a story quite similar to yours somewhere on the net. If i am not mistaken, the ship owners were the jesuits. salute. |
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Britannic and Olympic were the only sister ships of the Titanic.
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