there is a theory that the sister ship the olympic was the real ship to sink, however there was some kind of insurance scam that said it was the titanic
2007-02-21 07:43:36 · 15 answers · asked by fat momma 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
No it was the titanic that sank.
But a lot of the photographs that were published afterwards were actually of the Olympic
2007-02-21 07:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Olympic was in a collision with a British warship, the HAWKE. The Titanic is sitting on the bottom, 2-1/2 miles down.
It's easy to tell the difference between the two: the Titanic had a partially enclosed promenade deck, while the Olympic's prom deck was not enclosed. On the underwater footage, you can CLEARLY see the enclosed prom deck on Titanic. Also, after Titanic sank, Olympic was outfitted with at least twice as many lifeboats, all of which are visible in photos.
Also, I used to have a friend, Edwina MacKensie (listed as Edwina Troutt on the passenger manifest) who was aboard Titanic and was rescued in Lifeboat #13. She was 27 years old the night of the sinking, and clearly remembers that it was the Titanic she was on. She died in 1984 (I think), at the age of 101.
In response to the very long-winded (and Wikipedia-lifted) answer, regarding the "tiller" direction (Titanic had a wheel, not a tiller) when Murdoch ordered "Hard a Starboard" it was with the knowledge that the Brown's Telemotor wheel was geared in reverse. If you turned it to "starboard" you were really turning the rudder to Port. Murdoch also reversed the port engines in an attempt to get the ship to swing to port faster. Unfortunately, the regulations for lifeboats, as well as the techniques for piloting ships had been developed using smaller vessels of around 10,000 tons, not the whopping 46,000 tons of Titanic.
"I hard-a-starboarded and reversed the port engines. I was going to hard-a-port around it, but we were too close, and there was nothing more I could do. I've closed the watertight doors."
Murdoch.
2007-02-21 07:55:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Titanic hit the iceberg and sank in 1912. Olympic, one of it's sister ships, recieved distress calls from Titanic, but was too far away to assist, and still did not contain enough lifeboats. The Olympic served through World War One, but was later sold and demolished in 1934. The Titanic did have another sister ship, called Britannic, which was sunk by a water mine.
2007-02-21 07:56:37 · answer #3 · answered by James 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Britannic,also known as Gigantic, sank. The Olympic was not as luxurious as the Titanic. I never heard about an insurance scam. Here a website about the history of the ships.
2007-02-23 13:52:53 · answer #4 · answered by jc2006 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No this is not true, it was the RHS Titanic who hit the iceberg, her sister ships were the RHS Olympic and the RHS Brittanic. The Brittanic went down as Vampire stated it was at this time used as a hospital ship. Also there is another point of interest with the Titanic one of her four funels was not used as it was false, it orginally had three but that was changed into four to make it look more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
2007-02-21 07:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Zmithy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The RMS huge struck an ice berg at approximately eleven:40pm on April 14, 1912 and sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later at 2:20am April 15, 1912. The deliver replaced into placed in 1985 at 40-one levels north, 40 9 levels west appromimately 450 miles southeast of Newfoundland. She is resting in 2 products 12,500 ft (over 2 miles) under the exterior of the North Atlantic.
2016-12-17 15:37:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that theory too!!!
Don't know for sure though!!!
Watched it on conspiracy theories and as the company was in trouble and the Olympic had major structural damage they swapp over 'name tags'. When a dive was done there was some discrepancies.......... Like too many portholes for the Titanic etc...
2007-02-22 10:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could have been the rumour is the two ships were swapped after the Olympic was in collision with a British warship , maybe it was an insurance scam.
2007-02-21 07:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by Joel 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it was the Titanic which hit an iceburg and sank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
It's polite to give a link when quoting a gazillion paragraphs, so I'll just give the link and you can look click on it.
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2007-02-21 08:16:40 · answer #9 · answered by OhWhatCanIDo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Also, there are underwater photographs of various plaques on the wreck with Titanic written on them.
2007-02-21 07:50:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋