Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "BuzzFeed Unsolved Network" channel.

  1. Absolute, unmitigated, idiocy. Have you thought of seeking professional help?
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  2. Only if you swallow it whole, and can't be bothered checking any of the (false) claims it makes.
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  3.  @thomasgreen8894  No. You mean you have watched conspiracy theory videos on YouTube, made by people who have little actual knowledge of the subject, and you have swallowed them whole. Read any book by any researcher or historian for the facts of the matter. Or simply look up a few facts about Astor, Guggenheim, and Straus for yourself. instead of simply believing unsubstantiated nonsense claimed by people with conspiracy axes to grind.
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  4.  @TimeMasterOG  Unfortunately, switchers have seen the claim on a video or perhaps in Gardiner's book. In their addled way of thinking, it must be true.
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  5. No, she didn't. She received part of ther half-completed Titanic's propeller shaft. The supposed propeller swap was invented by switchers to explain why a propeller with 401 on the blade was found on the wreck. Olympic was repaired in six weeks, and was back in service by late November, 1911, well before Titanic was anywhere near complete.
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  6. You mean how Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, I suppose?
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  7. Both Olympic and Titanic were launched with 14 portholes on their port sides forward. Titanic had two more added before completion, and Olympic was similarly modified in 1912. Astor, Guggenheim, and Straus had never expressed opposition to the Fed. Indeed, in two newspapers from October, 1911, Straus had expressed his support. Moreover, how do you suggest Morgan would have persuaded the three to travel on the Titanic? Californian had sailed a week before Titanic left Queenstown, heading for Boston with a mixed, general, cargo. How would Morgan have known that the two ships would even be close, let alone that Titanic would find a convenient iceberg? You are perhaps confusing J. P. Morgan with Henry Morgan? More likely, you have simply watched a switcher video, and gullibly swallowed it whole.
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  8. Morgan did not cancel, because he had never booked. He was already committed to attend an event in Venice on 23 April, which wouldn't have been possible had he sailed on Titanic. There was a news item to that effect in the New York Times in March, 1912.
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  9. Did J. P. promote the war by means of a Ouija Board? He died in 1913.
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  10.  @Will46666  So, you don't care about facts at all then? You prefer fantasies instead?
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  11. How? In 1912? Who had a submarine with the range to reach Titanic or the speed to catch her? Don't be silly.
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  12.  @lukeaustin4465  Tell you what then. You Provide one shred of contemporary evidence to prove that Astor, Guggenheim, or Straus opposed the Federal Reserve. I await your response with interest.
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  13. How did he persuade the survivors to refer to the iceberg, then? By the way, he died less than a year later, so he couldn't actually have written much, unless he had a Ouija Board connected to a laptop, could he?
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  14. Smith was a lifelong teetotaller, in point of fact.
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  15. Except that there is no connection between the two events, until a false one was invented in the 1990s. If you think you know differently, feel free to explain.
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  16. No. She wasn't.
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  17. 'an accident caused by arrogance and ignorance.' What arrogance & what ignorance?
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  18. Nonsense. The video is only credible if you don't bother to check the absurd claims it excretes.
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  19. If you mean the windows forward on 'B' deck, Olympic retained the original, even, square, windows until her refit. Titanic received uneven, rectangular, windows from late in 1911 when she was modified with additional cabins and the cafe Parisien.
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  20.  @albertdavid6393  With all your inane ranting and drooling, you haven't actually managed to explain what you blame Morgan for.
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  21. Astor, just like Guggenheim, had never expressed his opinion about the Federal Reserve. Isidor Straus had actually spoken in favour of it, in a speech in October 1911 reported in the New York Times. What is really 'fishy' is the way conspiracists have twisted or simply invented history in support of their obsessions.
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  22. You must be seriously disturbed. I hope your carers are taking good care of you.
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  23. Perhaps you might try to explain the connection between the two events?
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  24. What is even odder is your apparent belief that the names of the two Olympics were rivetted on, when they were, as was White Star's custom at the time, engraved into the hull, and then painted in. If Olympic was 'uneconomical to maintain' how was it that in April, 1912, there were two Olympic class liners at sea, one heading for New York and the other for Southampton, and both steaming at 21+ knots? As you have already been told, both ships were insured for two thirds of their £1.5 million building costs, and £1 million was what Lloyds paid out. You can check this fact for yourself, of course.
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  25. Perhaps they would, but they didn't on this occasion.
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  26. good point. If you wish to dispose of business rivals, even ones such as these three for whom there is no actual evidence of their opposition to the Fed., is hoping that they will sail aboard Titanic, hoping that Titanic will hit an iceberg and sink, and then hoping that the three will have the good manners not to survive, really the best way of achieving your aim?
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  27. Astor & Guggenheim never made their opinions about the Federal Reserve knowm. Straus had, in October, 1911, made his support fro the concept known. His opinions may still be read in the archives of the New York Times. I would be happy to give you further details. Other ships did answer, and made for Titanic, but they were, like Carpathia, too far away to arrive in time. By the way, Carpathia was a Cunard liner, and was not carrying blankets. I think you mean Californian? However, Californian was not carrying blankets either. When she docked in Boston on 19 April, her cargo was recorded as a 'mixed, general', one by the Boston newspapers. Titanic was supplied with Socket Signals, recommended by the Board of Trade. 36 of them. They were white, with explosive heads, and were state-of-the-art at the time. In 1912, there was no requirement that distress flares should be red, and white flares were visible from a greater distance. If what you claim had been remotely correct, why would Californian's officers have been so concerned about a ship firing 'celebratory' rockets? The glasses are a total Red Herring. Lookouts rarely used them, as their job was to scan the whole horizon, not just a small part of it. When anything was spotted, it was to be reported to the Bridge, where officers with glasses would identify it, and what, if any, action needed to be taken. Have you ever thought of finding out a few facts, if you are really interested?
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  28. You suggest that an insurance claim which lost White Star £500,000 was a good idea? Who were these individuals who were eliminated, by the way?
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  29. Enjoy the switcher video you swallowed whole, did you? Much easier than assessing facts, or even thinking, I suppose. One question. Who were taken out deliberately?
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  30. The problem here is that such conspiracy theories, where Titanic is concerned, do collapse into jokes when confronted with a few facts.
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  31. Really? In thre case of Titanic, wouldn't some actual 'truth' be desirable?
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  32. The Federal Reserve theory is simply a myth invented by Robin Gardiner in a 1995 book, believed by many gullible fools who cannot be bothered to look into Robin's false claims.
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  33. No, 'they' didn't. Olympic and Titanic were both insured for £1 million, which was two thirds of their building costs. £1 million was what Lloyds paid out. It was in the newspapers at the time. Perhaps you missed it? Seriously, had what you falsely suggested actually happened, don't you think that, just possibly, there would have been a mass raising of eyebrows in Lloyds' Office?
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  34. How did it do that? Do you refer to the myth, from the 1990s, that Astor, Guggenheim, & Straus opposed the Fed? A pity that there is not a single shred of evidence in support of this, isn't it?
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  35. It wasn't a cruise.
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  36. Oh dear! Someone else swallowing a switcher video whole! When Olympic went to Belfast for repairs after the collision with HMS Hawke, Titanic was little more than half completed. When Olympic returned to her Atlantic service in late November, Titanic was five months away from completion. There is even a photograph of the pair close together in October, 1911. Olympic is a completed, fully painted, ship, whereas Titanic is still in base paint, has parts of her superstructure still not in place, and only one of four funnels fitted. Someone blindfolded at midnight on the darkest night of the year would still be able to tell them apart! The boiler stoking Crew all quit.' Another nonsensical myth. Titanic was delivered from Belfast to Southampton by a passage crew, mainly of Belfast men, who had no interest in signing on, but wanted to return home. Much the same had happened with Olympic in 1911. White Star were based in Southampton, and had already recruited the Deep-Sea crew from that port.
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  37. Possibly a good idea to rest your case, as you haven't actually made one.
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  38.  @Allahdaylight  Yes, your medication clearly is overdue. Do your carers know you have got hold of the laptop? A Russian submarine off Newfoundland in 1912? Astonishing idea. Are you sure that they didn't use long-range missiles, or even large bricks?
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  39. You would also think that sinking a ship which cost £1.5 million to build in order to claim £1 million from the insurers was not all that bright an idea either. Which, of course, helps to explain why 'they' did nothing of the sort.
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  40. How would the sinking have any effect on the creation of the Fed?
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  41. Just out of interest, are you aware that the footage is actually of Captain Smith aboard Olympic in summer, 1911? The white summer uniform is something of a clue.
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  42.  @ZeranZeran  I have no idea what it says. Other newsreel footage of Olympic in New York had the port of registry of the tugs treated in a similar manner, so that viewers would not realise that the footage was not of Titanic as was being claimed. Perhaps what had been concealed might have, similarly, given away the fact that Smith was not aboard Titanic at the time?
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  43. The sinking of Titanic in 1912 coincided with the start of the Depression of 1929? How does that work? Come to that, how did sinking an underinsured ship which belonged to one of his companies benefit J. P. Morgan?
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  44.  @mickeywicked478  You think so? Please explain how you have reached such a conclusion.
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  45. No.There is a single CGI video which appeared from nowhere around the year 2000. It has precisely no provenance, and no exploration team has either claimed it, nor even mentioned it. Even Robin Gardiner, the author who invented the switch nonsense in 1998, denounced it as fake. If you believe in it, you might as well also believe in the Cottingley Fairies.
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  46.  @amaritineenthusiast  Agreed. As a naval historian with a secondary interest in Titanic, it has become something of a crusade against ignorance.
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  47. Hello Mr. Swithin! Still as crazy as ever, I observe.
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  48. Were you actually to read ther evidence given to the British Inquiry by several senior Master Mariners, you would read that they all agreed that Smith's actions accorded with those that they would have followed had they been in a similar situation. Their evidence was presented on days 26 & 27 of the Inquiry. Try reading what Andrew Braes, for example, said.
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  49. Switching the ENGINE? What are you even talking about? Do you have the faintest idea what the 'engine' of an Atlantic liner looked like? Simply to educate you, and clearly someone needs to, 401 was the build number allocated to Titanic by Harland and Wolff, just as 400 was Olympic's build number. Nothing with the number 400 has ever been found on the wreck. Nor has the name 'Olympic' been found on the wreck. If it had been, don't you think that the exploration team who found it might, just possibly, have mentioned it?
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  50. Are you sure she wasn't destroyed by a Klingon Bird of Prey? more probable than your suggestions.
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