Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. No, because Titanic was always Titanic.
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  2. The BBC didn't produce the scans.
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  3.  @svezanovac2  What new evidence? All this shows is the current condition of the wreck.
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  4.  @svezanovac2  In 1912, the Germans didn't even have a U-boat with a diesel engine. Those in service had unreliable paraffin engines, and were only capable of operating at short range.
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  5. You mean to cover up the fact that Lloyds paid out £1 million, the full amount for which Titanic was insured, to the owners of a ship which cost £1.5 million to build? Or the rivets? The same rivets which served Olympic well for 23 years?
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  6. Mo. They are utter nonsense, spread by conspiracist extremists. Just don't ask them for any evidence, as it is a matter of faith with them, and evidence is irrelevant.
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  7. The depth of your knowledge, by which I mean how shallow it is, is astounding. Details on the wreck prove her identity as Titanic, and prove also that the wreck could not possibly be her sister. OLYMPIC, by the way.
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  8. Congratulations upon picking out possibly the daftest of the many daft conspiracist or switcher videos around. A totally fact free zone.
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  9. A worthy tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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  10. Well done, Cyril. Snout in the trough for a bit longer, mate.
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  11.  @expattaffy1954  Hello Mr. Swithin. That is the problem with your dementia, isn't it? It doesn't reverse itself. Your photograph of Titanic in Belfast in 1912, just before completion, was very interesting, although widely available. But it is hardly Olympic in Jarrow in 1935, is it?
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  12.  @Tozzpot500  Don't waste your time. The poor old chap is demented, and deserves pity, not contempt. You might try to view his video, but everyone who makes any critical comment is immediately blocked.
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  13. 'Nameplate?' After 110 years on the sea bed, and with a hull covered in rusticles? No possible. Simply check the forward windows layout on photos. of 'B' deck, and the 401 number on the propeller. Both unique to Titanic and different from Olympic. That is more than enough evidence.
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  14. Well, we have been waiting for 110 years. Do you mean Astor & Guggenheim, who had remained silent about the Fed., or Straus, who was a supporter. I can prove the latter. Can you provide evidence to support your nonsense?
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  15. Did you enjoy the Switcher video you watched and swallowed whole? A pity about the total lack of supporting facts, of course.
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  16. Scrapped in the 1930s, although some of her fittings were auctioned off, and may still be seen.
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  17. Probably the same day 'they' announce that the earth is flat, and carried around on the backs of four Elephants. One is as believable as the other, after all.
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  18. No, but it might be able to detect the nam 'Titanic' on the bow.
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  19. An insurance scam which lost White Star £500,000 and their reputation for safety? How does that work, please?
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  20. Really? Who would have launched this torpedo, and where from?
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  21.  @bidensucks2922  Whyever not? It is such fun!
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  22. As 'they' didn't, no, no-one would have.
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  23. He was a lifelong teetoaller.
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  24. What makes you think black people were not allowed aboard Titanic?
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  25. Brilliant! Pay £1.5 million to build a ship, then sink it in order to claim £1 million from the insurers. Not an accountant, are you?
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  26. Relevance? How about this? 1902 - Boer War ended. 1 year later the first powered flight. Isn't that suspicious? Or, not?
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  27. Oh dear, yet another gullible fool who has watched a conspiracist video, and fallen hook line and sinker for a myth invented in the mid 1990s.
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  28. Will you say the same in 5 - 10 years, when this has morphed into Euthanasia, and you get a knock on your door?
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  29. Olympic never had a 'bent keel' as the inspection report issued by the Royal Navy, and confirmed by teams from the Board of Trade & White Star, confirmed in November, 1911. The extent of the damage was summarised as :- “Two major watertight compartments were flooded, hull plating gashed from the Orlop deck to E deck, and the starboard propeller shafting damaged.” The first claim of a bent keel arose in a book written in the mid 1990s by one Robin Gardiner. His co-author, Dan van der Vat, later dissociated himself from the book.
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  30. Which expeditions have made the sort of claim that identifies Titanic as Olympic? None that I know of. As for insurance, Titanic cost £1.5 million to build, but was insured for £1 million, which was what Lloyds paid. Incidentally, it seems that you are unaware that Morgan didn't scam anyone of anything after 31 March, 1913, When he died. You have watched a switcher video, clearly, and swallowed it whole. Very unwise, as repeating a myth invented in the mid 1990s does mark you look something of a berk!
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  31. I am astounded by the depth of your knowlesge. By which I mean, how shallow it is.
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  32. Compared to today's cruises liners she was. But by the standards of 1911-2, the Olympics were huge.
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  33. 'No detail?' You mean apart from the layout of the windows at the forward end of 'B' deck, unique to Titanic, or the propeller blade with the build number 401 (Titanic) on it?
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  34. Had you actually done any research, instead of simply being a berk, you would not have referred to 'Columbia.'
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  35. Oh dear. Another gullible twerp who watched a switcher video and swallowed it whole.
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  36. Where from, and why?
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  37. Perhaps you don't know that this was a myth invented in 1995, to sell a book? Or perhaps you are simply a gullible fool?
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  38. Nonsense. 'Titanic' means, according to my dictionary, 'of exceptional strength, size, or power.' Not that the designer named the ship anyway, of course.
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  39. I kinow it is the BBC, but why are conservative politicians labelled as 'Right Wing?'
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  40. No, it isn't. Why do you feel the need to believe in a myth invented in the mid 1990s by an author eager to sell his book?
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  41. Why, however, do you believe that it should be enforced on everyone else?
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  42. Nonsense. Don't believe everything you see in switcher videos, especially when they are fact free zones.
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  43. Yes, so terribly designed that her sister was a successful and popular liner for 23 years, in peace & war.
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  44.  @nr12345  Whereas apparently your information is derived entirely from Google. Titanic was constructed in order to survive with four compartments compromised. The collision affected five, or possibly six. The damage was far beyond anything which could have been anticipated. You might as well accuse Leonard Peskett for designing a flawed design because he did not incorporate anti-torpedo bulkheads into the Mauretanias. Howwever, 'You cant even get the Britannic history correct. It performed only marginally better than the Titanic, it didn't last even 4 years before it sank and killed more people but feel free to believe it lasted 23 years, lmao.' I didn't realise that you were a qualified idiot until I read that comment. Presumably, you have never heard of RMS Olympic? Look her up on Google, which appears to be your only source of information. Then just go away, you fool.
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  45. When you 'connected the dots' did you use a crayon because your carers won't let you get hold of anything sharp?
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  46. Amazing how any reference to Titanic brings out idiots like you. Presumably you watched a switcher video and swallowed it whole? 1). There were three major financiers aboard Titanic. Astor & Guggenheim had never commented on the Fed., whilst Straus was a supporter. This is actually supported by two newspaper articles reporting a speech he made in October, 1911. 2). Olympic had been fully repaired and was back on her Atlantic run for late November, 1911. 3). White Star ships had their names engraved in the hull, not painted on. If any exploration team had made any such discovery, why would they keep it a secret, as any media outlet in the world would have sold the family silver for the exclusive? The fact is, the 'O' you refer to does not exist. 4). The pattern of windows at the forward end of the wreck matches the modified pattern applied to Titanic, and differs significantly from Olympic's pattern at the same period. 5). What about the windows? Titanic had sixteen portholes forward on her port side, after two extra had been added during building. The Olympic of the same period had the original fourteen, until two more were added during refit. What do you think that proves?
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  47. Really? Despite the total lack of any evidence to suggest that a swap was even possible?
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  48. The conspiracy theory is a myth, invented by an author in the mid 1990s. Similarly, the bunker fire had no effect on the bulkheads.
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  49. No.
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  50.  @lindarogers8994  Using lol is unwise, as it tends to suggest a lack of intelligence. There is precisely no evidence to support your contention, and a vast quantity which proves it false. I assume you watched a switcher video & swallowed it whole?
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