Accident Or Conspiracy- The Real Truth Behind The Sinking Of RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic is a name etched in the memories of hundreds, stamped on the minds of thousands
and passed through the ears of millions.
The largest passenger liner in service at the time sunk to its watery grave on April
14, 1912 where it still rests today.
Titanic’s maiden voyage carrying a whopping 2,224 people on board turned out to be its
last when five of her sixteen compartments gave way to the sea after colliding with an
iceberg.
Killing more than 1,500 people, it became one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters
in history.
The accident not only claimed lives but also raised questions, the answers to which are
still buried in the seabed!
Was it all the fault of an iceberg or a lot of facts have been concealed to paint a picture
of an unfortunate happening, as far away from the truth as possible?
Let’s start with the first question that comes to our mind, why was the crew unable
to spot the apparently fatal iceberg in time?
Titanic’s radio operators had received six messages from other ships warning of drifting
ice on the fateful day of April 14, which Captain Smith had acknowledged.
So why was he not alert enough to spot danger?
You might know that sonars weren’t a thing back then and so binoculars were used to see
any possible threats approaching in the waters.
The interesting thing here is that the most magnificent ship of the time had no binoculars
on board!
The second officer, David Blair had a key to a cabinet on the ship that housed the binoculars,
so things should have been pretty much under control.
But on the last minute, before the voyage began, the officer was replaced who left the
ship in such a hurry that he took the key with him.
Don’t you think this key played a key role in Titanic’s downfall?
Let that sink in!
We have all heard that Titanic was cruising at a high speed when it struck an iceberg
and sank only 2 hours and 40 minutes later.
But does this not ring a bell in your mind?
Titanic was going fast and not only that; it was way beyond the speed it was made to
run at.
The ship was lagging behind its schedule and hence it crossed the speed limits.
It was the ship that would create history in the field of ship building and thus there
was no way that its reputation could be put at stake by allowing any delay.
Maybe the lives of more than 2 thousand people seemed insignificant in the light of Titanic’s
reputation!
Or maybe the reason for the extra speed was a fire in the coal bunker that needed to be
kept under control.
To eliminate such fires, the standard pattern was to increase the rate at which the coal
was being removed from the bunker and put into the steam engine boiler in order to increase
the rate of draw-down of the coal pile.
Why should we go by this explanation?
Now you don’t expect such a huge ship with the most complex technology of the time to
sink so easily, do you?
Journalist Senan Molony, who has studied Titanic in detail claims that the ship didn’t sink
because of an iceberg.
Yes, seems like we have been living a lie for over a century!
As per him the pictures of the Titanic before it sailed showed a 9meter black mark on the
side which were hidden from the passengers by facing this side away from the docks.
Why was this done?
A fire in the ship’s hull, which started even before it departed Belfast for Southampton
had caused the mark.
This weakened the metal and eased out way for the iceberg to wreck the ship which was
otherwise impossible!
The fire was known and played down to escape bankruptcy, risking the lives of plenty!
The speed, the fire, all making sense now?
Next we need to consider the role of lifeboats.
If we keep in mind the number of passengers on board, there should have been 60 boats
for an emergency evacuation but the chief designer, Alexander Carlyle decided to equip
the ship with only 48!
If this concerns you, let’s tell you that the boats were further reduced to just 20
at the time of sailing to make the deck look clutter free.
Can you believe that?
Furthering this, a lifeboat drill was supposed to take place on the morning of the accident
which was canceled by the Captain.
Wow!
We can blame this cancellation for causing unnecessary 30minutes to launch the lifeboats
while abandoning the ship which should have taken only 10minutes!
Another loophole was that in a lifeboat with a capacity to hold 65 people, only 27 were
sent in the first batch.
If you reflect on it, you’d realize that they could have saved more lives!
That’s too much negligence for a ship that could have written a golden history, well,
it did write history but with blood!
Aren’t these too many coincidences for a single ship?
Maybe we are over thinking but then, we have another one here that’ll be hard to overlook!
Ever heard about JP Morgan who set up the investment banking firm that still bears his
name?
Well, he was credited with almost single-handedly saving the U.S. banking system during the
Panic of 1907 and who had a hand in the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
Why are we bringing banking in here?
Titanic was carrying men like John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor Straus
who were allegedly opposed to the creation of a U.S. central bank.
Conspiracy theorists suggest that Morgan was supposed to be on board but decided against
it at the last minute which is strange because he owned the Titanic!
Was there foul play?
Did Morgan plan Titanic’s sinking to clear his way?
Maybe it was all a coincidence, his missing the ship while the other 3 gentlemen boarded
it and in fact, died on it.
Creation of the Federal Reserve a year after Titanic’s sinking was also a coincidence,
maybe!
Shall we move to another conspiracy theory?
Alright now, all of us know that Titanic’s construction took 26 months and costed a meager
7.5 million.
Yay, it was anything but meager, just checking if you were attentive or not, congrats you
passed the test!
Anyway back to Titanic’s elaborate designing and planning which was going behind schedule.
Meanwhile Titanic's sister ship Olympic, was involved in a collision with the Royal Navy
Warship HMS Hawke in Southampton Water on 20 September 1911 causing extensive damage.
An Admiralty inquiry assigned blame to the Olympic, and hence the ship lost its claim
for insurance.
Both the ships being out of action would have caused the White Star a lot of financial loss
and hence a plan was formulated.
To make sure that at least one of the vessels was making money, badly damaged Olympic was
patched up and sent to sail as Titanic while the real Titanic would be completed simultaneously
and enter waters as Olympic!
To get a full insurance of an already damaged ship, a plan was made to open the seacocks
and flood the ship slowly enough to allow all the passengers to safely exit by the lifeboats
making several trips.
The real Titanic spent 25 years in service as the Olympic and was scrapped in 1935.
A working ship getting money and a damaged vessel getting a full insurance claim, a smart
plan but didn’t work as expected!
Uhmm, this was just a theory by Robin Gardiner in his book, Titanic: The Ship That Never
Sank?
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