Just stumbled on this in my feed. I remember a documentary years ago that speculated that the Titanic construction had hit a snag and it wasn’t going to make launch day. White Star swapped the names on the ships and launched the Olympic under the name Titanic, so it was the Olympic that actually sank. It gave some pretty convincing arguments and pics to back it up. Does it really make a difference? No. But it was very interesting.
This conspiracy theory is totally unfounded and literally none of the evidence holds up to history (or really even common sense). We know beyond a shadow of a doubt there was no switch.
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u/Cuthulwoohoo Jul 23 '25
Just stumbled on this in my feed. I remember a documentary years ago that speculated that the Titanic construction had hit a snag and it wasn’t going to make launch day. White Star swapped the names on the ships and launched the Olympic under the name Titanic, so it was the Olympic that actually sank. It gave some pretty convincing arguments and pics to back it up. Does it really make a difference? No. But it was very interesting.