They decided to claim the [unclaimed Titanic] child as their own. Pulling together their wages, they paid for the cost of the burial and a headstone. And on the morning of 4th May 1912 the Mackay-Bennett cable men carried the tiny coffin through the cemetery and to its final resting place. ibid.
Four hundreds miles south of Newfoundland a million-ton chunk of Greenland ice drifts into the north Atlantic shipping lanes. After a journey of more than 1,900 miles it is about to become the most notorious iceberg in history. The Titanic’s story is as iconic as the ship itself. She was the largest and most luxurious liner of her era, and supposedly unsinkable. But a giant iceberg is only part of Titanic’s story. 10 Mistakes that Sank the Titanic, Channel 5 2019
10 mistakes than sank Titanic: 1908: It’s been a warm wet season in Greenland … ibid.
‘On the inside she is opulent beyond belief. They wanted to create the most comfortable Atlantic crossing you could possibly imagine.’ ibid. Alex Churchill, historian and Titanic researcher
An incident that would trigger the first great mistake: The Delay: ‘This public perception that Titanic is not sinkable’ … Prioritising the repairs to Olympic halted Titanic’s construction and delayed her maiden voyage by three weeks. ibid.
More icebergs than usual on the shipping routes. ibid.
‘She was going too fast’ … This excessive speed is the second major mistake.’ ibid.
Smouldering in the deck below something that the company had expressly concealed from its passengers: ‘Titanic was in fact on fire when she left Southampton on her maiden voyage’ … Titanic’s firemen revealed that a fire had taken hold in the coal bunker in boiler room 5. ibid.
The fire would have made the steel walls of the bunker red hot. ibid.
The message never reached Captain Smith. ibid.
The binoculars in the crow’s nest were stored in the second officer’s cabin. But on this particular voyage, the lookouts couldn’t get at them. ibid.
They were staring into an optical illusion. ibid.
The collision was so glancing that hardly anyone realised what had happened. ibid.
Different temperatures affect the strength of steel … When its chilled in subzero water, the steel undergoes a fundamental change … Titanic’s rivets below the waterline would have become similarly brittle. ibid.
The slag in the [iron] rivets can make them even more liable to fracture. ibid.
Down below in the boiler rooms all hell was breaking loose. The iceberg has opened up a hole in Titanic’s hull. ibid.
Bulkheads too short … water spills over them flooding all the compartments … Titanic’s bows dip below the surface hoisting her stern high in the air. ibid.
Morse code: ‘CQD CQD This is the Titanic. Have hit a berg. We are sinking by the head’ … ibid.
There was another ship on the horizon … The Californian’s radio operator had already gone to bed having been told to get off the airwaves by Jack Phillips earlier that evening. ibid.
Titanic’s final mistake: Dodging the iceberg: ‘If the iceberg had struck the iceberg head on … that damage would not have been fatal.’ ibid. expert
In 2012, two years before the Great War, the grandest ship ever built struck an iceberg killing over 1,500 people. The tale of its sinking is legendary. ‘There are stories of heroism, how the band played till the end’ … But are these stirring tales of a heroic captain and crew actually true? Since the tragedy Titanic historians have sought to personal papers of Lord Mersey, the man charged in Britain with investigating the disaster. History’s Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne s1e1, History 2021
17 foot propellers: the ship is the length of two and a half football fields, and can ferry 3,547 passengers and crew. She is the largest man-made moving object on Earth. ibid.
At full capacity, Titanic’s lifeboats could hold just half the ship’s 2,240 passengers … Smith and crew may not have trained sufficiently with the lifeboats they did have. ibid.
He underlines, No Reduction of Speed. ibid.
At 9.20 p.m. Captain Smith heads to his cabin to go to sleep, handing command to his senior officer. ibid.
Titanic hit the iceberg; the crew shut the water-tight doors; and the ship came to a dead stop. But is that really what happened? ibid.
For 20 minutes Smith decides to keep the ship pressing forward at half speed instead of coming to a full stop. ibid.
Lord Mersey’s Inquiry led to crew changes in shipping, including more lifeboats, twenty-four hour radio communication and the formation of the Ice Patrol. ibid.
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 was a tragedy unlike any other. Surely, it could never happen again. But it did. Because incredibly Titanic had a near identical sister who suffered an almost identical fate. And here in the warm waters of the Mediterranean within only a few years of her older sibling she met her end. Her name was Britannic. She was Britain’s biggest ship. Titanic’s Tragic Twin: The Britannic Disaster, BBC 2021
On 21st November 1916 she sank in just fifty-five minutes, three times faster than Titanic. ibid.
When an iceberg ripped open the Titanic in 1912 she became the most famous maritime disaster in history … A fire raged in the boiler room for days before she left port. Does this mean the Titanic was doomed before she even set sail? Conspiracies Decoded, 2022
Vienna, Austria (1814-15); Verona, Italy (1822); Chieri, Italy (1825): These three secret meetings were between the Jesuits and the Black Nobility Families (Illuminati) of Europe.
The purpose of the meetings was to plan on bringing down every single government of the world and replace them with the Pope’s temporal power, and also to destroy the American constitution. Who Controls the World?
Construction of the Titanic began in 1909 at a shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. Belfast was Protestant and hated by the Jesuits. Morgan took control of the White Star Lines. The Jesuits ordered J P Morgan to build the Titanic. From the very beginning of the luxury liner the Titanic was destined for doom ...
Edward Smith was given an order to sink the Titanic and with it, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isa Strauss and John Jacob Astor; the three richest people in the world who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve System ... ibid.
Three clangs of the bell in the RMS Titanic’s crow’s-nest in April 1912 unknowingly signalled the impending death of 1,500 people. Titanic: A Dead Reckoning, History 2023
Startling revelations suggest an answer to the mystery that has haunted the tragic disaster for so long – the identity of the ship that turned its back on the Titanic. ibid.
Titanic’s mighty Marconi signal splits the night for more than 500 miles. ibid.
The lights of the mystery ship start to fade … the Mount Temple. ibid.