The Ship That Never Sank

              We all know the great love story of Titanic. The Titanic was called the unsinkable ship, people claimed that not even God could sink that ship. The ship hit an iceberg that caused too much damage to stay afloat. She sank into the Northern Atlantic Ocean only about 400 miles from Canada. Titanic split into to two halves due to immense pressure as the ship was being swallowed by the sea. The ship that was called unsinkable now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in two pieces.

              

Or does it?

People say that Titanic was the greatest shipwreck of all time, but what if I told you that Titanic never left port on April eleventh. 

              Titanic had a sister ship called the Olympic. The Olympic was damaged in an accident and White Star Line, the company that owned both ships, couldn’t get insurance money for it. The Olympic was basically given a death sentence because of the damages she had received during the accident. White Star Line needed that insurance money because if they didn’t get it they would have gone bankrupt. Isn’t considerably ironic that the Titanic gave them just that, millions in insurance money. Theories are educational guesses that have a great deal of support. However they do not have facts, just support, which means they cannot be accepted as the truth until proof is given with facts. The great Titanic conspiracy theory is a combination of highly strange coincidences, claimed eye witnesses and certain facts that just don’t match up.

              Just before the launch of the Titanic in 1912 the Olympic was slowly starting to resemble the Titanic more and more. They were built as sister ships and created to look almost identical, with only a few minor differences. However, White Star Line was re-designing the Olympic just before the launch of the Titanic. Now why would White Star Line worry about the design aspects of the Olympic considering that the ship was damaged and needed a lot more attention than a design makeover? The Titanic had five port holes on the focsial deck, while the Olympic did not have the five port holes at the time of its launch. In the winter of 1911 the Olympic suddenly appeared with the exact same port hole arrangement as the Titanic. Also there are drawings of both ships after their accidents that show the impact points from the collisions Titanic and Olympic endured. Both ships have almost identical impact points in the drawings. Another eerie fact is that at the launch point were both ships were there is only one dry dock. The Olympic was brought in to have a propeller replaced. That task really should have only taken about two days, the Olympic was at the launching site for one week. The two ships were changing places in and out of the dry dock for a time period of about four days. Many people speculate that this is the moment when the ships were switched. The only things that would have needed to change in order for the ships to switch was rearranging the life boats and changing the name plates on each of the ships.

It is known that out of all of the crew members that sailed Titanic to South Hampton from Belfast only one of those men signed back on to go on Titanic’s maiden voyage. This information is very strange considering that there was a coal strike in Britain and many seamen were out of jobs. So the question is, why would those men willingly give up their jobs? Did they know about the switch, or at least have a pretty good idea that Titanic was never going to set sail for New York on April eleventh 1912? Not only did many of the crew members who built the ship not sign back on but many passengers cancelled their voyages only weeks before the Titanic was to set sail. There were fifty five cancellations, most of them being first class tickets. Also the owner of the ship, James P. Morgan cancelled his voyage as well. His reasoning was ill health, however a French reporter stated that only days after the Titanic set sail he spotted Morgan and his mistress on vacation and his health was not an issue or at least didn’t seem to be. 

The Olympic was to be switch and pose as the Titanic. Then during “Titanic’s” maiden voyage there was to be an “accident” that would provide insurance money to White Star Line and save the company from going belly-up.  Now the story goes that there was a plan to save all of the passengers aboard the Titanic after the accident. Morgan also owned a ship called the Californian. The Californian left the port of London rather quickly and the only explanation given was the ship had to be somewhere for an emergency. On board the Californian was very little people, however there was about three thousand wool sweaters and blankets. Why would a ship with no passengers and no cargo sail into the middle of the Atlantic? The ship was ordered to go at full speed until April fourteenth, when the captain ordered the ship to a stop. However if the plan was to have the Californian come to the rescue then sadly the plan was wreaked. (No pun intended) When the Titanic hit the ice berg Captain Smith swerved the ship and because of the swerve the Titanic was no longer headed in the same direction as the Californian. As the Californian sat and waited, the Titanic was sinking.    

All of this information adds up to support the theory of what would have been the greatest insurance scam in all of history. However the supposed insurance scam turned into a murder scene rather quickly. Titanic was said to be unsinkable, that statement may still may be true. Maybe the Olympic sunk on the night of April fourteenth and not the Titanic. Could all of these claims be true? Could the two ships, Titanic and Olympic really have been switched? People have argued for years about the truth behind the switch theory. The truth behind the real story however can only be found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Could the rusted ship at the bottom of the ocean really be the Olympic?

Truth can be a powerful tool, some people spend their whole lives trying to understand it, however very few find what they are searching for. Most of them drowned in their own ambitions.