OLYMPIC & TITANIC The Truth Behind The Conspiracy

>>The most common flaw whether the area be history, science or current politics is the “begging the conclusion” fallacy. IE: “I’ve haven’t provided any logical evidence for my position but unless you provide evidence against it then my position must be the true one”. <<

I think if you check, you'll find that the operative fallacy is The Arguement From Ignorance. Rather different from Begging The Question.

Still, it's important to note that paranoid conspiracy theorists typically use both to very good effect.
 
This book will not be available 'new' after December 2011. The book is no longer being printed and what stock is left will likely be gone by the close of the year.
The book will be replaced with 'TITANIC Or OLYMPIC: Which Ship Sank ?

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Hi Anneliese
It will be basically an updated version of the first book. Of course it will be printed on better paper then the old one and we'll have an eight page colour section with Olympic artifacts showing the build number 400 on the items. It is being edited by Art, so all the little errors will be corrected. We have some new images for the book and quite a bit of the text will be revamped.
What has happened, Bruce and I have had so much other work leading up to April 2012 that time has been very restricted on how much time we could put into the book.
To be honest, I see several plus's over the old book. The revamped text, professionally edited, the quality of the paper used and the images will be far sharper and the colour section will have some wonderful photographs of Olympic artifacts from John White’s wonderful collection in it.
Mark Chirnside is doing the foreword and Cyril Codus’s wonderful drawing of Olympic and Titanic will spread across two pages. I think it will be 230 pages.
I think it would be a nice book to add to your Titanic collection. I think it will sell for £15.
The book to get before this one would be Titanic In Photographs.

Cheers,
Steve
 
Thankyou Steve,

I am sure I will be adding both to my collection. The pictures alone are worth it, destroying the switch theory is just a bonus. My old copy will be passed on to someone I know who actually believes in the hogwash theory.

Anneliese
 
>>The book to get before this one would be Titanic In Photographs. <<

I've made a point of ordering both. When the first will get here is beyond me. The Amazon.uk page I ordered from indicated some were in stock, but I haven't heard anything from them since placing the order.
 
Hi Mike,
we've finished on this latest book.
A lot of work has gone into it. We've added a colour section as well. I should have some more news on the publish date in 2 weeks.
The last 12 months has been full on with Titanic projects. It is only now I really have time to put my feet up and get back to watching some YouTube treats.
Bruce and I have a Titanic App. which we're working on and that should be available early next year.
 
Sound like someone is pretty threatened by Mr Gardiner's book and the fact that foul play was obviously involved in the sinking of the "Titanic" (Olympic).
 
Also, if the Olympic was a "write-off" (as Gardiner claimed), why didn't the WSL scuttle or scrap the Olympic - as the Olympic - with no lives lost? It would be a much more straightforward and cheaper option than switching two ships in broad daylight and ending up with two damaged leviathans instead of one. The Olympic was already a damaged ship so I think no one would be that surprised that she struck a berg or a rock and sank. I guess the Olympic brand was too popular to be removed so early.
 
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Perhaps the best proof that a switch did not happen lies in the argument used by the conspiracy theorists – that it was done to cash in on an insurance claim. That in itself makes the theory illogical, because the fact remains that Titanic was seriously underinsured once fully furnished and fitted out. Both ships, in fact, were insured for considerably less than their build costs. Each vessel, fully equipped, cost £1,500,000.

At the time of the accident the vessel carried insurance of £1,000,000, with the remaining risk being carried by the company’s insurance fund. There simply was no profit in sinking Titanic on purpose, and even if there were, an elaborate switch scheme would have been unnecessary. One man, one box of matches and a drum of lamp oil is all that would have been needed. Imagine this scenario: on 30 February 1912, while en route to Belfast for replacement of a propeller blade with a limited crew aboard, Olympic catches fire. Uncontained, the fire becomes a raging inferno fuelled by the vast amounts of furniture and joinery aboard. The crew is forced to abandon ship – this time with no loss of life, as there are plenty of lifeboats to go around. The fire burns for several days unabated, totally gutting the ship. The hulk is then towed back to Belfast and later declared a total write-off. The newspaper headlines read ‘Olympic lost to fire; investigation underway to determine cause’. The insurance companies pay out and the hulk is scrapped. End of story. But as we have learned, even this scenario is untenable, as the ships were vastly uninsured.
 

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