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A couple of weeks ago i heard a special report of a documentary of the Titanic that said that some English....

English reports had been researching about the hisotry of the titanic and had figured out that it had all been qa fraud. That supposely the boat that hit the iceberg wasn't really the Titanic and that it existed for some decades before getting it out of service. Does anybody know about or know where I can find information??

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1. I don't know, but I don't think it's true. What would the point have been?
2. Sounds interesting. Completely untrue, but interesting.
3. Between the surviving witnesses and the wreck on the bottom I think you have a false conspiracy theiry going. Try typing in "Titanic conspracies" into this search engine. http://www.dogpile.com/
4. Wow...I have heard some pretty crazy conspiracy theories before,but that one is really out there. As a previous answer asked "What would have been the point?" If you find it,I hope you'll share.
5. not.......huge amount of witness.
6. According to the book "The Titanic Conspiracy," by Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat, (Birch Lane Press, 1996), the Titanic Disaster was in fact a huge case of insurance fraud, which even today would be by far the largest in history if true. Soon after its launch the Titanic's sister ship, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a series of accidents and was returned to Belfast for extensive, and expensive, repairs. White Star Lines had woefully under insured the great liners, and the cost of repairing the Olympic, estimated at 1/6th the ship's total cost, were putting a heavy strain on the owner's pocket books. So a daring plan was created. The still under construction Titanic was also in Belfast. So the great liners were switched. In secret the damaged Olymic was rechristened Titanic, and the Titanic was quickly finished and launched as the repaired Olympic. The still damaged former Olympic was then put to sea on its maiden voyage and rammed into an iceberg on purpose to recoup its losses, after White Star had purchased extra insurance of course. White Star had instructed Capt. Smith the hit the iceberg in an area of the ocean that was heavily used by other ships, insuring the by the time the great ship went down all of its passengers and crew would be saved. However the ships went down much quicker then expected, resulting in great loss of life. It was in fact the Titanic, not the Olympic, which continued to sail until 1923. Apparently this explains why the ship was steaming almost full speed through a well known iceberg area, why the iceberg warnings were ignored, and why several well known passengers (including the ship's true owner J.P. Morgan) cancelled at the last minute. http://www.titanicberg.com/Titanic_Myths_and_Rumors.html http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/2563/
7. The discovery of the wrieck shortly after the book proved it was rubbish, as all the artefacts and metal plates had a hull number identifying the ship as the Titanic. AH, but AH, say the conspiracy twits, how do we know they weren't put there on purpose? In the expectation that they would be found? I don't think so.