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

  1.  @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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  2. 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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  3. Smith was a lifelong teetotaller, in point of fact.
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  4. 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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  5. No. She wasn't.
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  6. 'an accident caused by arrogance and ignorance.' What arrogance & what ignorance?
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  7. Nonsense. The video is only credible if you don't bother to check the absurd claims it excretes.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. You must be seriously disturbed. I hope your carers are taking good care of you.
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  11. 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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  12. ‘Was the Fire started on Purpose as a sabotaged or not & it was an accidental fire???' Neither, it was simply a smouldering coal fire, caused by spontaneous combustion of wet coal. Such things were not uncommon, and explain why IMM insisted that the bunkers of their ships were inspected on a daily basis.
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Really? In thre case of Titanic, wouldn't some actual 'truth' be desirable?
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. Possibly a good idea to rest your case, as you haven't actually made one.
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  23.  @skyhighnightlight  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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  24. 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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  25. How would the sinking have any effect on the creation of the Fed?
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  26. 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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29.  @mickeywicked478  You think so? Please explain how you have reached such a conclusion.
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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32. Hello Mr. Swithin! Still as crazy as ever, I observe.
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35.  @yasarmajid134  I suspect it is not a serious question. However: I do not defend Morgan. I simply correct some of the half-witted claims and allegations made about him, and more widely about Titanic. by ignorant conspiracy theorists. Comments generally dating to no earlier than the mid 1990s. If some half-wit claimed that hitler was Jack the Ripper, I would correct that as well. Simply correcting a falsehood does not equate to admiration. Secondly, I correct this nonsense both because I have the knowledge, and because I have plenty of free time. Do you understand now?
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  36. Are you sure she wasn't destroyed by a Klingon Bird of Prey? more probable than your suggestions.
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  37. 'Can you tell I like this conspiracy' Indeed. The way you have fallen for it, despite the lack of evidence, and the errors of fact you have made, are characteristic. 1). J. P. Morgan had nothing removed from the ship. He confirmed in March that he would not be sailing in Titanic, as he intended to be at St. Mark's in Venice instead. This was even confirmed in newspapers in March, 1912. 2). 'If you look at the windows on the ships titanic were all even and had portholes underneath, Olympic were uneven and no portholes. The ship 12,500 ft in the Atlantic has uneven windows, no portholes' Sorry. Wrong way round. Titanic's 'B' deck forward end was modified during building, in late 1911, to include extra cabins and a cafe. As a result, the windows there were unevenly spaced and rectangular. The olympic of the same period still retained to evenly spaced, square windows, of her original construction. The wreck matches Titanic, not Olympic. 3). The hotel in Alnwick, the 'White Swan' has an 'Olympic Restaurant' which uses furniture purchased when Olympic was scrapped in the mid 1930s. Some of this furniture carries the number 400, which was Olympic. None has ever been found carrying Titanic's number, 401. You have got this the erong way round. 4). White Star marketed the ships as Olympic & Titanic. They used an artist's impression for their publicity material. Why go to the trouble of producing duplicate sets of advertising material for two similar ships? 5). 'As far as the crew. They were threatened with imprisonment, black balling, all sorts of threats.' Simply untrue. Did noy of the crew, for the rest of their lives, ever make any statement to this effect? You have precisely no evidence to support this outright lie. Do provide your proof, assuming you can, of course. 6). Olympic didn't need repair after late November, 1911, when she left Belfast to resume her Atlantic crossings. Just out of interest, if Olympic needed repair, and Titanic, in November, 1911, was still five months short of completion, which ship actually undertook these crossings?
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  38. Nonsense. The Fed. claim originated from 1995. I assume you have proof from contemporary sources that this has any credibility? You don't? Oh well, never mind.
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  39. The story is totally unsubstantiated, of course. But gullible fools will always be gullible fools.
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  40. Claimed by whom, exactly?
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  41.  Shoahshana Goldberg-Shekelstein  Sorry, but that is simply wrong. Neither Astor nor Guggenheim ever expressed their views about the Federal Reserve. Straus did, in a speech reported in two articles in the New York Times from October, 1911. The articles may still be read, and confirm his support for the concept of the Fed, The claims of opposition by these three are myths, invented by conspiracists in the mid 1990s.
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  42. Only when viewed with the eyes of Conspiracy Theory faith.
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  43.  @MagicalOwls  It depends upon the nature of the collision. A cruise liner sank after collision with an iceberg as recently as 2007. Olympic had previously survived a collision with a Royal Navy cruiser. Moreover, I doubt anyone would suggest that Lusitania was badly designed because of her lack of anti-torpedo bulges. Titanic suffered an event just as outside her design parameters as Lusitania did.
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  44.  @scamueladams  No. Simply a rational one.
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  45. 'Is it normal that a ship sailed with a permanent fire on board ?' How do you think the boilers aboard Titanic were fired? Small bunker fires were not unusual, as spontaneous combustion was always a possibility, which is why IMM required daily examinations of the bunkers aboard their ships. In this case, the fire was dealt with around a day before the collision with, according to stoker survivors, the only damage being to paintwork inside the bunker. The real Olympic, at the time of Titanic's sinking, was on her way from New York to Southampton, fully certified by the Board of Trade and insured by Lloyds of London. There was no conspiracy, just a conspiracy fantasy.
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  46.  @lukeaustin4465  As Abe Lincoln, or perhaps Mark Twain, wisely said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Too late, I fear, in your case.
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  47. 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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  48. You think that White Star deliberately chose where to sink the ship so that it could not be investigated? In 1912, virtually anywhere in the Atlantic would have done.
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  49. Why is demonstrating that the Reptile theory is nonsense a mistake? Why is stating that Guggenheim booked his passage late, or that he never expressed his opinions about the Fed., both correct statements, wrong? Why is ridiculing the mummy lunacy 'rediculous'? Aside from your spelling of course?
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  50.  @meechiedee  Well, you won't find a single credible source which proves that any of the financiers opposed the Fed., but you can easily find one which proves that Straus did.
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