Titanic

DISCLAIMER: All thoughts and ideas in this post are not factual or taken into account in history. These ideas are not supported by history. I am not a history teacher or a professional. If you are easily offended by conspiracy theories please close out this blog. 

Hello Everyone! So I decided to take a step away from fashion blogging and blog about something I am truly passionate about. So I thought what better way to start this blog off. I'm going to talk about the Titanic. 

There are so many theories regarding the Titanic. I am sure you might have heard some of them before.  There are literally so many. Feel free to dive into the internet and research more, but I want to talk about the one that I personally believe to be true.

So the Titanic was built by a company called White Star Line. Titanic was 1 of 3 Olympic class ocean liners built at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast .  The other two being the RMS Brittanic and the RMS Olympic. J P Morgan (yes the chase guy) is said to actually have financed a the building of these ships. I am not sure if there is any proof to this, I have not done much research on that. Anyway, the RMS Olympic was launched a year before the RMS Titanic. Within months of the Olympics launch (in 1911) it had two collisions. The second collision with a Navy cruiser called the HMS Hawke. This Collision caused serious damage to the Olympic specifically the keel and steal beams. 

Some say that the damage to the Olympic was actually more serious that what was told. Anyway, repairs on the Olympic would be EXTREMELY expensive. White Star Line was facing a potential financial disaster. So the theory is that the Olympic was actually swapped with the Titanic and sunk in a staged incident, and the real Titanic would then take the place of the Olympic and carry on the duties. The two ships were basically identical with only a few minor differences!  

Evidence:

• Portholes. So many people have pointed out the difference in the number of portholes on the Olympic and Titanic. So the first photos to ever be released of the Titanic show that the ship had 14 portholes. 

But photographs taken the day Titanic was to set sail showed that there were in fact now 16 portholes. If you look at photos of the Olympic, it had (you guessed it) 16 potholes. People have also pointed out the difference in the windows. 

• Rumors. So there was a coal strike going on at the time the "Titanic" set sail. This had led to thousands of firemen, boiler stokers and greasers short of work. Yet despite this the Titanic struggled to find crew, with many men refusing to work on the ship at any price. Its said that this is because there were "rumors" going around from workers of White Star Lines that the ships had been swapped as part of an insurance scam. 

• Cancellations. It is said that there were A LOT of last minute cancellations from some very high profile passengers including J P Morgan himself. J P claimed he had fallen ill. But there was a report (that has sense disappeared) stating Morgan was actually seen perfectly well with his mistress in France on the day "Titanic" sunk. Many believe this was because Morgan obviously knew about the intentions of the Titanic and of course could not be on a ship that was to sink. 

• Californian. The SS Californian, also owned by JP Morgan, was a large passenger ship that was ultimately blamed for the loss of life on the Titanic. On the day the Titanic sank it was in the same area as the Titanic when it struck the iceberg. But oddly enough the passenger ship was holding no passengers at all. The only cargo on the Californian was blankets and sweaters. People seem to think that the plan was to have the Californian there to get all of the passengers safely off of the Titanic with no lives loss. As we know today, that is not at all what happened. Author Robin Gardiner suggests serious navigation errors lead to the Californian stopping in the wrong area, several miles away from the Titanic. 

Again, I am not a professional or licenced in any way. I am just sharing my thoughts on some theories. So what are you thoughts? Do you think this could be true or false? What is a conspiracy theory you believe about the Titanic? Let me know in the comments!