Any one interested in History??

[sweetlad86]

One bit of history that fascinates me but saddens me is titanic.. I have always been interested in it and sad that so many people lost their lives and now people in lower class were condemned to death yet hadnt done anything wrong in the first place.. My landlord is a buddist and says that his phobia of water is because he was a weathy man on the titanic in his past life and his stubborness is being paid this life as he shunned people with his money and is now poor in this life.. I know if i am out of my deph in water and cannot safely touch the bottom i worry unless im in a swimming pool but i dont relate that to anything life this however if past lives do exist are our phobias from past life experiences?

Sad thing about it too. Is that it was more to do with the insurance pay out if the ship which was meant to be the titanic but its starting to come to light that it was more likely to be her sister ship RMS Olympic.

The story goes that on 20 September 1911, Olympic broke hear back when she collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke off the Isle of Wight. Although the incident resulted in the flooding of two of her compartments and a twisted propeller shaft, Olympic was able to limp back to Southampton.

The Hawke incident was a financial disaster for Olympic's operator, and keeping her out of revenue service made matters worse. Olympic returned to Belfast, and to speed up her repair, Harland and Wolff was forced to delay Titanic's completion and use her propeller shaft for Olympic. In February 1912, Olympic lost a propeller blade and she once again returned to her builder for emergency repairs. To get her back to service immediately, Harland & Wolff again had to pull resources from Titanic, delaying her maiden voyage from 20 March 1912 to 10 April 1912.

This is where the story gets interesting, there have been reports of the ship builders going home and the next day the titanic had change a little from the day before and they were told if they told any body about the changes they would be fired.

Doesn't the dates look strange too, 4 days later the titanic sinks, very convent for White Star Line isn't??

White Star Line save a lot of money with the sinking to, I think the pay out was about £6,000,000.