Journal Entry 7: Titanic- Maria Luiza Perez Chavez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOeIdDXN8SM Everyone knows the story about titanic, either by watching the movie, reading about it or by what they have heard, or even because they lived through it. The ship departed from Southampton, United Kingdom on April 15, 1912, en route to New York City, it held 2,224 passengers. The RMS Titanic was the second ship built in the Olympic class liners, the architect died in the disaster along with the commander Edward Smith. The ship collided with an ice berg during the voyage April 14, 1912 and sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later killing more than 1,500 passengers. The world was shocked and outraged many lives were sadly lost and with the remains residing on the seabed, showing the wreck of the boat split in two and disintegrating. Many artefacts have been found and taken to a museum, but one of the things that has kept the …show more content…
The theory states that the reason why the ship "crashed" was for insurance purposes, the Olympic is the ship that some believe to be the one in the ocean not the Titanic. Both ships were meant to be identical ships.the Olympic had been involved in two accidents one very dangerous, and the Navy investigated the wreck and blamed, although not guilty the Olympic at fault.since it was founded that it was there fault they were not covered. So as the repairs for the ship were being made and some repairs did not work out, it made the voyage to Belfast, where the Titanic was being built, so that they could finish the rest of the repairs.one very important piece of evidence that began the conspiracy theory was a starter propeller marked with the Titanic's number that was fitted to the Olympic instead due to its need of being pushed to