13 Titanic Mysteries That May Never Be Solved
Was it even the Titanic? Everyone agrees that a luxury liner set sail on April 10, 1912, and sank five days later, taking the lives of around 1,500 of the 2,223 aboard. But that’s pretty much where the consensus ends. Some insist the ship that sank wasn’t the Titanic, but rather, the nearly identical R.M.S. Olympic. As the story goes, the Olympic had been damaged in an accident the year before, but in order to score a bigger insurance payoff, the ships’ common owners passed off the Olympic as the Titanic and then deliberately sank it. While there are lots of holes in this Titanic theory, serial numbers found on parts of the ship that didn’t sink support it. Here’s why we remain fascinated by the Titanic after more than a century. >>Leptitox click here<< Did a fire actually seal the ship’s fate? A recent documentary offers credible evidence that the Titanic (let’s just call it that, for argument’s sake) had ...