Considering so many overly rich women refused to believe the Olympic (not really the Titanic)would sink so wouldn't go on the early lifeboats, leaving them only half full, it wasn't at all cowardly for any number of men to fill the empty spaces. In this day and age it would likely be children with one of their parents first, then every man and woman for themselves.....and why not? What was unforgivable was that poor steerage passengers were locked in and left to die in the freezing Atlantic Sea, or drown in it.

I completely believe it was that it was swapped for the Titanic because the Olympic was damaged and there was no claim on insurance for it. Reportedly, a few men worked over the weekend to change the portholes and put on a nameplate over the word "Olympic". Indeed, at that time the name of the ship was always painted directly on to the sides. There might still be a video which was made of the wreck of the so called Titanic with the nameplate broken with one half fallen away and showing some of the name Olympic beneath. Look up the maritime accidents of the Captain. Why would they have put him in charge of the true Titanic? An alcoholic who had already damaged the Olympic and more. It seems it was his fault the Olympic and the ship it crashed into was previously damaged to the point of disrepair to meet sea worthy standards of the time. I read that a lot of the workers on board disembarked before it finally sailed for the US. They realised it was the Olympic. A call went out for replacement workers and the company lied they were striking for greedily wanting more pay. Unfortunately, many of those who took the jobs were foreign and didn't understand English enough when the original workers tried to warn them, and those who did understand English were told it was a lie to stop them taking the jobs. As for the deaths of those who were going to vote against the Federal Reserve, it was probably not intended they would actually die. Remember there was another ship close enough to reach them in time, but its Captain ignored the distress call because they were working for rival companies. The excuse was that the Captain of the nearby ship thought it was a ruse to divert them and ensure the "Titanic" reached the US first. Also there were enough lifeboats for the first class passengers, especially as the steerage passengers had been locked below! Many of the early boats were barely half full. It was pig headedness not to allow men or steerage passengers on the early boats with so much room to spare. Reportedly, a lot of the first class passengers wouldn't believe the "unsinkable" so called Titanic could sink until the situation was obvious, and that was why they wouldn't get in the boats at first. In addition, I read that it wasn't intended it would hit an iceberg. There was something planned to be done quite further along and a unexpected ship was seen simply not moving. Waiting to pick up at least first class passengers? Some accounts of survivors have said about hearing the "Titanic" hitting the iceberg. Others said they didn't hear it and didn't think it actually did hit it. Who knows what really happened? The bulk heads didn't go to the top as they are supposed to, so when not only one or two compartments were flooded with the water spilling over the top of the bulkheads, five of them became flooded. Probably cost cutting to not using so much metal to ensure water wouldn't spill over the top of one bulkhead to another. Not planned nor foreseen, as it was probably the same on a lot of the ships at the time. That the shareholders would die was probably not the intention. The delay would have been enough to ensure they weren't present for the vote. More likely it was a matter of not caring too much of they did die but it wasn't the explicit intention. Of course whether others died didn't matter to those who planned it. When the overly rich and far too powerful do a thing, especially a big thing, it is usually for more than one reason. Remember though that the shareholders who were going to vote against the Rothschild plans, weren't necessarily going to vote against because they had the public interest at heart. They might have had other reasons, such as the Rothschilds gaining far more power than they themselves would have. Perhaps they wanted a better deal for themselves. I doubt we will ever know their reasons but they were unlikely to have been very conscientious about the average Jo and Joanna Blogs. My 1920 father heard it was the Olympic when he was young. Of course his parents, my grandparents, were old enough to remember it when it happened, and word got around those days even without it being in the papers, and people not having TV's, radios or the Internet. From the way my father spoke, it seemed it was quite common knowledge but of course never officially admitted to. Reportedly, a number of very rich and powerful people mysteriously cancelled their tickets shortly prior to the sailing. The word was that they had received a warning to not go on. Didn't we hear a number of ()ewich people were telephoned on the morning and told to not go to work at the Twin Towers? Probably not all ()ewich people, not the poor and 'inconsequential'.

Btw, it was Captain John Smith.

They were not concerned about safety, all they can think about was money.

It was blatantly lied about until relatively recently, when filming of the wreckage showed the stearage gates to be still locked underwater.

@@angr3819 There were no gates between classes below deck!!!

There were no locked gates keeping passengers in. The reason steerage passengers suffered so many losses is because they were a long way from the boat deck, many didn't speak English and they had no idea where to go. Your figures are wrong, approx 60% of first class survived and 25% of steerage.

​@@Dizzy19.There were actually gates present separating third, first class and second class. But yes you are right third class were one confused bunch that night 3rd class mostly contained immigrants wanting to start new lives in America. They came for different countries and spoke diverse languages. This led to third class not understanding the serious situation above. Those who knew about the sinking ship couldn't get out due to the maze like corridors and got lost there. The crew did not show partiality that night, they did according to the orders they were the heroes that night.

SS Mount temple was so far away that they would have arrived hours after Titanic would've perished. Other ships like frankfurt, Baltic, Ypiranga and even her own sister ship Olympic were also contacted but sadly they too were too far away

No doubt the Californian could've helped Cpt Lord should've made changed like Rostron did. As Robert Ballard said one time, considering how dangerous travel can be on the North Atlantic, "I would always hope that the other mariner out there would stretch a little to save my life."

Well he was told about the rockets and he was much close than the Carpathia yet he didn't go help

Some things to consider... it would have been fairly dangerous for another ship to navigate safely in the dead of night in an icefield. Even if they got to the ship before it sank, it would have been very hard to transport that many people from one ship to another, either by lifeboats or picking them out of the cold sea before they perished. I don't think there was enough time, even if the ship was beside it when it hit the berg, to get everyone to safety in time. At least some lives would have been lost, possibly less than the number who did die, but I doubt everyone on board could have been saved. It just would have been too difficult to orchestrate a full evacuation, particularly after it was obvious the ship was sinking and panic set in. The sad truth is, even if a ship could have attempted to help in time, it was really Captain Smith's fault the ship sank and so many lives were lost.

@@graphiquejack Well there seems to be different schools of thought about this whole Californian affair The Carpathia made it through the icefield still at night with a vastly increased number of lookouts and successfully rescued as many as she could. And the Californian was way closer (three times closer if we believe Cpt Lord when he said 19mi; Robert Ballard determined she was only 10 mi away - at the most)

Word my 1920 born father heard was that alcoholic Smith had gone to bed in a drunken stupor. My father's parents were old enough to remember the information that wouldn't have been put in the newspapers, and would never be officially said or written.

@@angr3819 Captain Smith was teetotal.

@@Dizzy19. That's what I hear eh

Not to mention the slow even flooding rather than most ships that flood quickly and capsize, and sitting on the sea floor upright. It all adds up to the magic and mystery of the titanic

yeah who ever gathered the stock footage did a really poor job. most shots are from RMS Olympic in the 1920s lol

@@richardhellawell4596 Because the Titanic didn't at all last long enough

Very possibly they couldn't see the other ship. It was reportedly near but not within sight.

It was Captain John Smith.

@@angr3819 what was, i hope you are not blaming him

You ever hear the saying...the tip of the iceberg.

@@richardcray2919 Regardless of how much of an iceberg is underneath the one that doomed the Titanic wasn't really that big

@@fmyoung Ninety percent of an iceberg is below the waterline.

@@richardcray2919 Yes I knew it was a lot

@@richardcray2919 Okay, yea I knew it was a lot

Captain Smith who had caused various crashes at sea, including the Olympic, which led to it being swapped for the insurance job.

I bet both of you believe that the earth is flat

Cpt Lord was the cautious captain of a ship with an uninspired watch

None of what you said is remotely true, the switch never happened it was more than debunked for more than 2 decades

Oceanliner designs recently covered this theory and went pretty in-depth exposing so many flaws with it. And he's not the only one, this theory has been debunked for years.

False .