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Welcome to the board! In terms of some of the points you've raised, the third sistership was only laid down in November 1911, so it was simply Olympic and Titanic together at Harland & Wolff. *There is a point in witch olympic was in to get a propeller replaced it should of taken a day or so but it was there for a wekk.* Many people who've researched some of the detail in the Olympic's return to Belfast in February-March 1912 would disagree with that. One of the reasons for the ship's delay was the tide, while Bruce Beveridge and Steve Hall cover this in their book. The details of Olympic's delay are by no means as 'suspicious' as Robin Gardiner's 1998 book would have us believe. *Also the promanade decks where different granted but if they where switched titanic would just get olympics design and olympic could be focused on so the change would't take long to do maybe a week.* If you're referring to the B-deck suites as well -- is that what you're saying when you speak about 'Olympic's design'? -- then I think most people with a technical knowledge of the vessels would disagree. The 'improvements' to Titanic were major structural alterations in comparison with the Olympic, and a matter of changing them in a week is pretty much impossible. Dan Butler, author of 'Unsinkable,' Bruce Beveridge, author of 'Olympic and Titanic: The Truth Behind The Conspiracy', Cal Haines, Scott Andrews, and many others have gone into detail on this question in the past. Mr. Beveridge believes that Mr. Gardiner has 'not done his homework,' to use that cliche. *Also mr morgan promissed to go on the voyage but he cancelled at the last minute, now this would be fine were it not for the fact he said he was ill but was seen a week after the disaster fine in monte carlo.* Most historians accept that Mr. Morgan cancelled because he wanted to spend time with his mistress in France. Any suggestion that he was missing the voyage owing to a conspiracy to sink the ship is simply speculation, IMHO. Best wishes, Mark. |
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Mark Chirnside, Warwickshire, England. 'RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister.' |
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Posted on: 2005/1/2 19:56
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