Titanic Informative Essay

I. There has been evidence collected that the Titanic was not the actual boat that supposedly hit an iceberg and killed hundreds of passengers and crew members.

Intro, what's important and interesting, what will be argued, and organize paper a. It is said that the Titanic was switched out with its sister ship, the RMS Olympic before its departure on April 14, 1912. Being sister ships, they were virtually identical, the structure, designs and layout. The Titanic and Olympic “were moored side by side in dry dock; the swap would entail nothing more elaborate that swapping a few nameplates and plaques.” () Previously, the Olympic had been in a serious collision with another ship, the damage was pretty bad and had wrung out many expenses for

i. It is believed that the bottom of the Olympic was painted black so it would look even more identical to the Titanic. The Olympic originally had an undercoat of grey paint. “Corrosion has done its relentless work, but where the original black paint of the hole has flaked away it is still possible to see spots of grey paint which form the undercoat.” (0.23 Plimplam) The Titanic had an original black undercoat, not grey. The RMS Olympic was the only ship to have that grey undercoat. ii. There is a White Star tradition where the names of the ships were engraved into the ship's bow. When researchers went to the bottom of the ocean the found that there were iron letters riveted onto the original bow plates that spelled out Titanic. “With the passage of time, two of the letters have dropped off and been lost forever in the sediment of the seabed. At the place where they once were, engraved into the haul are the letters m and p.” (2.07 Plimplam) The letters could have been the two letters used to spell put

still wanted to make money off of the RMS Olympic although it was very badly damaged in the collision with another ship (money/insurance scam) i. The Olympic had gotten into a collision with the HMS Hawke and had to be repaired maybe it was disguised as the Titanic to get passengers on ii. “Rumours were circulating amongst the workers at Harland and Wolff that the ships had been swapped as part of an insurance scam, and Titanic was to be sunk” iii. pressure on White Star to make up the cost of the damage to Olympic, which had been damaged in a collision with HMS Hawke, but which the insurance company would not cover.

III. Conclusion: a lot of believable info but the story that most people believe is that the titanic was the actual ship that sank a. “The reality is that while they were indeed sister ships and at first glance seemingly identical, in fact there were numerous differences, many structural, that meant any switch would have been a huge, extensive, time consuming and not to mention very expensive undertaking.” b. The RMS Olympic was the ship that sank April 15, 1912, not the titanic. There is evidence on the actual boat in the ocean, talk between the crew and people and the switch happened as part of a money