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

  1. So, you think that J. P. Morgan conceived a cunning plan that would take 112 years to mature, using an organisation which only came into existence around six months after he had died? Well, I am convinced. But only that you are a typical conspiracy fantasy fool.
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  2.  @lordhegamonster6931  If you reply to any of my comments, at least try to make the reply vaguely rational.
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  3.  @lordhegamonster6931  I watched it some time ago. Very convincing. Assuming that you are totally ignorant of both facts and of history, that is.
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  4.  @lordhegamonster6931  'You (Jew)Tube deletes any articulate, thoughtful, well reasoned responses, unfortunately..' Surely then that wouldn't be a problem for you, as your responses are not articulate, thoughtful, or well reasoned?'
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  5.  @lordhegamonster6931  It looks like the response you confidently asserted would not been posted has actually been posted. What rotten luck for you.
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  6.  @lordhegamonster6931  I will be honest when you explain exactly how relevant my political views are to the events of April 1912.
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  7. No. It is a Cunarder. Lusitania or Mauretania. The ventilators are distinctive.
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  8. No there wasn't.
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  9. Both Olympic and Titanic were insured for £1 million. Olympic was about 10 months older, but both were virtually brand new.
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  10. Er, Olympic, like Titanic, cost £1.5 million to build. She also, like Titanic, was insured for £1 million.
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  11. Doesn't any conspiracy theory need a smidgeon of evidence to make it credible? The Titanic ones don't have such.
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  12. Stop being sensible. Titanic conspiracists get easily annoyed when they encounter sensible comments.
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  13. The three financiers concerned had never expressed opposition to the Fed. Indeed, one of the three was a supporter.
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  14. Easy. No such footage exists, or ever has existed. A poorly made CGI appeared in 2000, or thereabouts, which has immediately labelled as fake by Robin Gardiner, the author who started this nonsense off. If credible footage really existed, don't you think that someone might, just possibly, have noticed?
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  15. What 'riveted letters?'
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  16.  @toscanojamie9474  Which bit of 'factual' information? Ther mythical letters, the propeller which was never transferred from Titanic to Olympic, or the fittings from Olympic, with the build number 400 on them, purchased when she was scrapped in 1934-5 and still to be seen in an hotel in Northumberland?
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  17.  @toscanojamie9474  Nonsense. The wreck itself is intracontravertible proof that she is Titanic. The 'B' deck end window pattern, as well as the build number on the propeller blade, among other features, cannot be denied. As to the insurance fraud, who actually benefitted by building a ship for £1.5 million, and then scuttling it for the insurance value of £1 million? Do feel free to explain why this was really a 'cunning plan,' Baldrick.
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  18.  @toscanojamie9474  If you actually believe the things you have been posting, then you haven't actually reviewed any evidence at all. You have simply accepted switcher fantasies as fact.
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  19. You might not like this, but the whole world is not one vast conspiracy theory. However much you might wish to believe that it is.
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  20. Yes, of course it did, and you also saw the Loch Ness monster last week, with Elvis riding it.
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  21. No, White Star didn't. Lloyds records are quite clear on this. As are contemporary accounts. Bruce Ismay went on public record at the April 1912 United States Senate Hearings and also it was reported in the official public findings that the value of Titanic was "$7.5million" a figure independently verified by the New York Times and The Spectator ("$8 million"), while insured at only "$5 million" (as reported at the Senate Inquiry, The New York Times and Lloyds itself). If indeed Titanic had been insured at the last minute at "$12.5 million," as is alleged by conspiracy theorists, would this not have raised serious alarm bells in the minds of the insurers at the time, especially if it was part of the public record that the value was "$7.5 million?"
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  22. Wrong.
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  23. No-one at the time, probably. But since this switch nonsense was invented by Robin Gardiner in 1995, a lot of people have done. With the result that, except for the fanatics, the who idea has been proven to be nonsense.
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  24. Morgan did not have a reservation aboard Titanic to cancel. He had a prior engagement at St. Mark's in Venice. It was even announced in newspapers in March, 1912, which may still be read today, although obviously you conspiracists wouldn't want to read the article. Guggenheim (two 'g's by the way) and Astor had never expressed any opinions about the Fed., whilst Straus (one 's') had spoken in favour, and newspaper articles reporting his speech may, also still be read, although, again, you conspiracists wouldn't want to read them. The Federal Reserve Act was actually passed on 23 December, 1913, not 'a week after the sinking. How did J. P. Morgan feel about this? Hard to tell, as he died in Rome in March, 1913, aged 75. The stupidity of conspiracists, dumbly believing a myth created in the mid 1990s, never ceases to astound me.
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  25. The bow section was not crushed because, unlike a submarine, it was completely open to the sea, and not enclosed. Andrea Gail sank during a storm. Ships do sink as a result of storms. The rest of your post is, like the other conspiracist fairy tales surrounding Titanic, simply entertaining nonsense.
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  26. Smith had an excellent record since being made a Master Mariner in 1887. He became White Star's senior captain in 1904. White Star had their pick of any captain they chose. Why do you think that they would have chosen an unreliable one?
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  27.  @Firemarioflower  Don't be a fool. When Olympic berthed in New York, a tugboat had a minoe collision with Olympic's side. Olympic did not 'crash' into her. So, the sea trials were a joke, were they? I assume you can jusrify your claim? No, of course you can't. I have never quite understood why you people, when you have nothing to support you, simply make thinks up instead. Smith was not used to piloting such a large vessel.' Was anyone? Would you suggest that large ships had no right to exist?
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  28. How was it a set-up? Moreover, why?
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  29. Sorry, but you have been misinformed.
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  30. You mean the Olympic which had already been repaired, and which had been back at sea sin 20 November, 1911? That Olympic?
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  31. Brilliant! White Star lost £500,000 from the loss of Titanic, as well as their reputation as a safe line. I thought insurance scams were supposed to be profitable?
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  32. Planting rusticles? Engine serial numbers, crankshaft cserial numbers? What are you talking about? Still, if you are so keen, why not finance an expedition for yourself? Is the hull number on the propeller blade not enough for you, or something?
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  33. Except, of course, for the inconvenient facts that the conspiracists who invented this nonsense in the late 1990s failed to tell you about when you swallowed whole one of their videos? Neither Astor nor Guggenheim had ever expressed their views about the Fed., whilst Straus had spoken in support of it. Simply look the three up for yourself, as you urge others to 'do some homework.'
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  34. Presumably, the video you watched didn't actually inform you that the claims about three financiers who were opposed to the Fed. dying on Titanic were false, invented, ones, dating from the 1990s? No? I thought not.
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  35.  @vladraduandrei5227  Really? What makes you think that?
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  36. But who aboard Titanic actually opposed the Federal Reserve?
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  37. What a wonderfully daft comment!
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  38. Oddly, your most recent post :- 'doveton sturdee and that is how you shut down an over opinionated know it all, no rebuttal ? Really must try harder !!! ' Hasn't appeared on here, only in my inbox. However :- As I have corrected the most obvious errors in your earlier post, how much more do you need? Perhaps the fact that the Federal Reserve Plot theory dates from the 1990s, or the dates of the newspaper articles relating Straus' speech in favour of the Fed.? Actually from October, 1911. You could even look up Astor, Straus, & Guggenheim for yourself, and see what the facts really are. Or the date of the newspaper article confirming that Morgan intended to be in Venice? Bruce Ismay actually used Morgan's suite instead. Do you suggest that Ismay was unaware of Morgan's vast and overwhelming plot? Incidentally, the Spring 1912 Issue of the Shipbuilder (and a few other sources) describe the prestigious parlour suite, B 52 - 56, but make no mention about it being specifically designed or altered for Morgan. Or accounts of the actual insurance figure paid out by Lloyds? Would they help disabuse you of your errors?
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  39. When Californian docked in Boston on 19 April, 1912 (the day the US Inquiry began) the local shipping papers stated that she was carrying a 'mixed, general' cargo, as Leyland Line ships usually did, before reloading from New Orleans with cotton. The 'woollen sweaters' claim is a false myth, of modern origin. If Captain Lord was part of some fantastical plot, why didn't he react when alerted to the flares being fired by a nearby 'large steamer?'
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  40. He had been a Master Mariner since 1887.
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  41. 'never say that God cannot do something like sink the Titanic!!!!! ' No one did. Except in a movie, of course. 'Greed?' Commercial companies seeking to make a profit? Normal business practice.
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  42. Is your medication overdue?
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  43.  @Allahdaylight  Yes dear. Of course they did.
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  44. You mean the mountain of evidence that the wreck is indeed Titanic, however much fantasists might delude themselves? Or the insurance pay out? $5 million, for a ship which cost $7.5 million to build?
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  45. The Conspiracy Theories about Titanic are Lies, unsupported by a shred of evidence.
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  46.  @lea-rw5cb  There was a small fire in one of 19 bunkers, identified in Southampton and dealt with at least 24 hours before the collision. The testimony of stoker survivors, who stated that the only damage was to paintwork in the affected bunker, is quite clear on this point. Seriously, had there really been a serious fire, would the ship even have sailed? Olympic, by the way, used the same steel and rivets. She was a successful ocean liner for almost a quarter of a century.
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  47.  @marcusbaker830  Odd, then, that in 23 years of seafaring, Olympic encountered no such problems.
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  48. No, it wasn't.
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  49. He was 75 years old.
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  50. Who was pressured to get a job done faster, and by whom?
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