Hall and Beveridge note in regard to this photograph that although "the overlapped doubler is hidden behind the stowed anchor, The ship being ready to steam was simply because they were trapped by ice and at the earliest time possible would want to continue their journey. Titanic's split as portrayed in James Cameron's 1997 "Titanic" film. Figure 2 Location of low rollers on Olympic plan On the Titanic wreck the crane jibs have been displaced from their original stowed positions on crutches. 19. B. Ismay know this? Found insideHere Robert's great-granddaughter Sally Nilsson seeks to set the record straight and reveal the true character of the man her family knew. This is one man's story of survival, betrayal and determination. They were metal plates which were screwed on. 2. drive the ship at full speed.”. No they weren't. the myth of unsinkability didn't being until AFTER the titinaic was sunk. If indeed Titanic had been insured at the last minute at "$12.5 million," as is alleged by conspiracy theorists, would this not have raised serious alarm bells in the minds of the insurers at the time, especially if it was part of the public record that the value was "$7.5million"? Not that they would have to, because Olympic had a spare just like Titanic (which was used for memorials after the disaster). They would not be interested in the transatlantic route as it would mean not returning to Belfast or Southampton for several weeks. 45,324. Furthermore, it was on a single plate so a partial reveal is impossible. Their error is simple: actually Titanic would have been the same tonnage as Olympic i.e. Carpathia (58 miles Cunard Line, Eastbound: Left New York Tuesday, Gibraltar and Mediterranean ports Ballard has written several books between 1987 - 2021 and all state in no uncertain terms that he discovered the Titanic - not the Olympic. The number 401 on Olympic woodwork They were mostly Belfast men - i.e. RMS Titanic 24ct Gold Commemorative in Capsule. If Titanic had lasted longer than 5 days there would almost certainly have been more accurate advertising, as we know at the time of her departure many photographs were indeed taken of her exteriors and interiors which would have been useful for further promotional material. Found insideThis is one of the first and most famous books published after the sinking of the Titanic, and contains much material from contemporary newspaper accounts. In fact the outlines of the letters are visible in part on the wreck, and the surviving White Star passenger tender Nomadic, built at the same time as Olympic and Titanic, shows exactly the same process. Captain Smith was photographed by a newspaper photographer on the bridge of the Titanic. Author Steve Hall admits it could be the Olympic 45. The HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic was the third "wonder ship" to be built. The R.M.S. Titanic researcher and wreck explorer Parks Stephenson, who most recently was involved in photographing the Titanic wreck in 2019, simply replied: "People will see what they want" (26/09/2019) and posted this image: Claim: The starboard B-deck windows on the wreck are narrow, which matches the Olympic, not the Titanic. Hence it is Olympic, not Titanic. Proportionally less than Titanic!" The long list of differences is discussed on the previous page here. Then, on April 10th the cheering crowds had a ship to sail on, the Titanic was ready to sail, but, it was not the Titanic , it was in fact the 'Olympic' dressed up as the Titanic. From cobalt blue Spode china and Elkington plate silverware in the à la carte restaurant to the design of the boilers and fixtures and fittings on board the world's most luxurious vessel, they tell the story of a liner built at the peak of ... However, this was not unique to Titanic. The documentary Titanic: The Shocking Truth talks about how the most famous ship of the world did not sink, but in fact had a grand career taking passengers back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. The RMS Olympic was one of two sister ships—along with the HMHS Britannic—to the ill-fated RMS Titanic.She was the first of the three to launch in 1910 and soon went into service in the First . Mark's." 7. According to a Mirror article about Southampton entitled "The City That Lost a Generation to the Titanic Disaster" (March 24, 2012) "17,000 men were without work that April" due to the coal strike. The Olympic also had signs denoting each deck unlike the Titanic, which had brass lettering facing the stairs; the Olympic was altered at some later point to conform to the Titanic's design. Cameron's expedition showed it matched Titanic." It’s easy to forget, when talking about the Titanic, that is was a tragedy where over 1,500 people lost their lives. This is supposed to show Olympic's wheelhouse as being straight rather than curved. Wheelton, however, continues down to the storeroom and then went again up to the boat deck on the starboard side. boilers were on. ( Log Out /  The Image dosent show the full name plate but the letters ‘T’, ‘I’ and ‘T’ are visable. It is not unusual, however, for ships even today to have a slight list due to improper ballasting. The Titanic WAS the Olympic. Quite simply, Titanic had 14 portholes on the port side C deck (bow) when launched, but in the following months she received 2 extra for better light and air. She was a sister ship of the Titanic and the Britannic. Excerpt from "Titanic - The Shocking Truth." Olympic's name allegedly on the Titanic wreck -but it is clearly fake or poor computer animation, not actual evi. Even if he did blatantly confuse the names of the ships, it would be clear evidence there was not a 'switch', as otherwise he would have been absolutely sure to get the correct name of the ship to ensure the fraud was watertight. She also carried mail for the US Postal. Titanic's Last Secrets is the never-before-told story of the Ship of Dreams, a contemporary adventure that solves a historical mystery. Found insideWhen the Titanic sank and the first news came of the disaster, ... was told how his name had been confused in the wireless reports from the Olympic. Has Cameron in fact admitted that Titanic is actually Olympic? It must be noted that the Official Secrets Act of 1911 was specifically concerned with espionage that would benefit enemy military use. It was a few months after the accident with the Hawke that Olympic damaged one of her propellers, which also needed to be replaced. Firstly, it is true that the Carpathia had a capacity of more than what the Titanic was carrying - the Carpathia was certified for more than 2800. Like Titanic, Olympic was designed by Thomas Andrews and literally built side by side to Titanic in the mammoth Gantries of Harland & Wolff's shipyards. Titanic's bulkheads were intentionally deficient However his comments that the Found insideVictorian and Modern Ship's Bells Tom Bennett (Shipwreck Historian) ... is not the Titanic at all and but her sister ship the Olympic that was built twelve ... A stewardess' unique eyewitness account of life below decks and the sinking of the Titanic. The reason why I found it really difficult to stay focused was because only a very small percentage of the book is actually dedicated to convincing the reader that there was something nefarious about the sinking of Titanic. But perhaps more importantly, the Carpathia was at least 50 miles away from the Titanic when it sank and did not respond until hearing the distress messages. (This is something I have noticed. It is quite possible that those who "remember" Ballard giving a presentation in which he said he saw evidence it was the Olypmic are actually just remembering the documentary entitled "Titanic - The Shocking Truth" which contained fake imagery falsely purported to be evidence of a switch filmed by Ballard. Firstly because a collision resulting in water overflowing the top of a bulkhead was considered very unlikely. So, if the accident with The Hawke warped Olympic’s keel, making her unseaworthy, and Titanic was not finished at this point, what was making the crossing to-and-fro over the Atlantic!?!? I read somewhere that the nameplates on the bow are no longer visible, yet upon closer inspection of the recent high resolution NatGeo images, I found what appears to be the letter C on the starboard bow. Hall and Beveridge note in regard to this photograph that although "the overlapped doubler is hidden behind the stowed anchor, 414. Caulfield's background is religiously and politically mixed, giving her a unique and often astute perspective on The Troubles. This is an Irish emigrant's tale, asking whether you can ever really go back to your roots. So does the post-disaster image of Olympic show the "doubler" overlapping or not? Titanic's speed was investigated by Mark Chirnside and Samuel Halpern in their article entitled "Speed and More Speed" from which the following information is taken. It is clearly in a different area. It is pure speculation about a 'switch' that did not happen. In an age when forensics can catch killers, this book does what no other book has before: fingers the culprit in one of the greatest tragedies ever. "A fascinating trail of historical forensics. There are other photographs of Titanic with similar liberties such as the shot of her in Cherbourg at night which has been heavily doctored to look as if it was taken at night with her lights blazing. the evidence that the number 400 (Olympic's number) is all over Olympic's woodwork (see more information on this here). It would have been a press scoop. The evidence for this is that it is only mentioned Found insideRacing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. Difference in tonnage Titanic's lifeboats had "RMS Olympic" written on them The Olympic didn't even have a carpet, but the Titanic -- ah, you sank in it up to your knees. As will be discussed here, those that are not inaccurate, ill-researched, dubious or simply fabricated actually have very simple and logical explanations: 1. This is where it landed, just on that forewell deck. - Yes. White Star wanted to add a third ship later, but it was never given an official name at the time. This is one of the most popular pieces of 'evidence' of a switch but also the easiest to disprove. The blog Ultimate Titanic reported that, despite Gardiner's theory, all numbered items pulled from the wreck of the Titanic bore the construction number 401. The origin of this seems to have come from Paddy “the pig”, also known as James Fenton, who later in life related the following: When the The DVD was published in 2012 but the choice of aspect ratio, low quality of video, and constant soft-focus makes me believe it was shot sometime in the late 90s where it was no doubt trying to cash in on the Titanic craze. Claim: J. And as for both Lord and Smith sleeping "full clothed" that is pure speculation, and has little relevance anyway. B-deck window spacing on the wreck Actually it is quite simply medium grey primer that was used on all three Olympic class ships, including Titanic, Claim: The Olympic's hull was painted white for its launch so that it would show up in photographs better. The full speed of the ship is 78 revolutions. Although the novel was written before the Olympic-class Titanic had even been designed, there are some remarkable similarities between the fictional and real-life counterparts. Birma (70 miles) Russian East Asiatic Company Eastbound, New York-Rotterdam-Libau The Olympic collided twice with other ships during its long run, but none of the accidents were too severe. RMS Olympic after the collision with HMS Hawke. Claim: Olympic was fitted with Titanic’s propeller. By that time Olympic was at Belfast and underwent a major refit which also included new davits and new lifeboats which were larger than the previous lifeboats.". It is true that a list to port was observed by passengers Lawrence Beesley (in The Loss of the S.S.Titanic) and Norman Chambers (US Inquiry). If he had indeed mentioned it at a presentation why did it not become substantial news at the time? Supporters of this theory pointed out that several survivors heard explosions after the ship began to sink. This line of reasoning goes with the assumption that Olympic's keel was damaged, for which there is no evidence as discussed in the point above. The salvage efforts are chronicled though films, video, artistic renditions, and oral recordings of the ship wreck. Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank? Even if the insurance would not pay out the $750,000, IMM Then there's the furniture: so heavy you could hardly lift it. performance, only two miles shy of Olympic’s best ever maiden voyage daily run, and she did that with only 21 Claim: Olympic had a vertical joint in her hull plating immediately forward of the port side anchor hawse pipe, while Titanic during her construction did not. To say reading the book was tedious would be an understatement. Patchwork and braces from Hawke collision in wreck photographs 46. ( Log Out /  In discussing the claim that "Olympic was fitted with Titanic’s starboard propeller shaft" Mark Chirnside summarises: "There is no evidence that Harland & Wolff ever used one of Titanic’s propellers, or propeller blades, on Olympic; there is every reason to believe that they would have had a spare Olympic propeller in any case.". J.P. Morgan and 50 others cancel passage surviving crew got to port they were all taken aside and met by two men, one It was also carrying no passengers, at a time when due to the coal strike and so many ships confined to port there would be plenty of people eager to pay above the cost in cash to get to Boston. old ordinary seaman aboard Titanic. For those who have read this website, they will realise that there is certainly no evidence of a 'switch', all the claims have been exposed to reveal nothing but misinformation or fiction and most importantly that there is conclusive evidence to prove that it is Titanic that sank. Since they both essentially had the same dimensions, the difference is simply due to revised interior configurations Passengers said there were promenades instead of cabins, 32. Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic, and there were not enough lifeboats for the passengers. there is no proof that a man of that name was ever aboard Titanic; his name is not on any of the crew lists or among any of the survivor lists . Photographs taken of Titanic leaving Southampton also reveal a slight port list. The story come from Frank Finch, a retired seaman living in New South Wales, Australia, who wrote a letter to As to Gardiner's claim that ''Titanic -actually the Olympic - never travelled faster than one-half her designed top speed, as her damaged hull was too weak to endure the stresses of a prolonged high-speed run', there is absolutely no documented evidence to support this. The First Class Lounge was one of the most ornate public rooms on board the Titanic, modeled in the Louis XV style after the Palace of Versailles. The fireplace filmed in 1995 and which partly was shown in the "Titanic" movie at the beginning were actually the fireplace of sitting room B 51 which was occupied by Mrs. Cardeza and her son. Gardiner further hypothesizes that the ship that was hit by the Titanic was the one seen by the Californian firing distress rockets, and that this explains the perceived inaction of the Californian (which traditionally is seen as failing to come to the rescue of the Titanic after sighting its distress rockets). It's a remarkable sailing record and in the wake of Titanic . not go to sea as Titanic with Olympic written on the bells. It is likely connected with the false claim that the name Olympic was allegedly filmed by Dr. Ballard during his 1986 dive to the wreck -proven to be false in point no.38 here. From the hype around GMOs through to Atrazine turning the freakin’ frogs gay, I’ll try to cut through the nonsense that’s out there! The Olympic, which left New York City in mid-April 1912, was within 500 miles of the Titanic when its officers heard the sinking ship's distress call. This is a side profile of one of Titanic's engines that weighed nearly 1000 tons. Well it first must be noted that compared to the Olympic had a 2 degree list to port, as did Titanic But what do the 'experts' think? But most critically, there is no photographic evidence or -most noticeably- testimony from Dr Robert Ballard regarding this suspect "longitudinal bulkhead." The Name Titanic is Over 2,500 Years Old. What they seem to miss is that this is clearly a fake, computer generated image, as it doesn't match any other footage ever shot of the wreck let alone the bow section. 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