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German Sub Sank the Titanic!
National Examiner (tabloid) | Aug. 27, 2002 | Dr. Franklin Ruehl, PhD.

Posted on 08/21/2002 10:12:24 PM PDT by vikingchick

Shocking New Theory!

The Titanic was sunk by a German submarine, not an iceberg, stunning new evidence reveals.

"The one thing people think they know about the Titanic is that she struck an iceberg," says David Roberts, an historian with the Merseyside Maritime Museum in England.

"However, based on survivor testimony, we can't necessarily make that assumption. In fact, when we look at the evidence, the only thing we can take for granted is that the Titanic skimmed past the iceberg, barely making contact with it.

"Subprofiler images of the Titanic's hull have now proven that the damage she sustained wasn't as bad as we first thought. So something else must have been responsible for her loss that night.

"By 1912, the German navy had perfected the U-boat design. At the time of the Titanic's disaster, the political turmoil that would lead to World War I was already brewing. And the Germans had sent U-boats out on patrol in the North Atlantic."

The luxury liner sailed out of Southampton, England on Wednesday, April 10, 1912. Just four days later, she bagan her death plunge to the bottom of the icy North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, taking more than 1,500 passengers and crew to a watery grave and leaving only about 700 survivors.

"When questioned by a U.S. Senate inquiry panel, several Titanic crew members and passengers testified that they heard explosions deep in the bowels of the ship AFTER it had hit the iceberg," says noted Titanic historian Daniel Cherry.

"One officer said he heard four explosions, like the sounds of a big gun in the distance."

Roberts also said some survivors in lifeboats spotted a mysterious craft in the area, possibly a submarine that had surfaced.

"Many of the survivors huddled in lifeboats that night reported seeing a strange light from a nearby ship, almost like a beam from a searchlight," he explains. "They were encouraged because they hoped the other ship would come to their aid, but it never did.

"The most widely accepted theory is that the ship was the Californian. But to his dying day, her captain Stanley Lord insisted that there was another ship between his and the Titanic.

"The Californian was surrounded by a huge ice field and Lord had ordered that she stay put until daylight. During the night, the sailors on watch, including 3rd Officer Charles Groves, said they saw an unidentified vessel five to six miles from their location. The vessel was there until about 2 a.m., when she moved away from the Californian.

"She was the mystery ship that failed to go to the Titanic's aid. And the reason she didn't was that she had either just collided with the Titanic or used her torpodoes to sink her."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Miscellaneous; US: New Jersey; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: davidroberts; germans; germany; godsgravesglyphs; merde; merseyside; southampton; titanic; uboat; uboats; unitedkingdom
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To: Shooter 2.5
"Look at all the Freepers who believe there's a face on Mars. "

You say that like its not true !

I suppose next thing you are going to tell me is that: the bat-boy isnt as patriotic as we are led to believe (I think he was joining the military IIRC); crack cocaine is not a government conspiracy to keep the black man down; the US really DID put men on the moon; and, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not real.

Man, whats a person to believe anymore...lol

101 posted on 08/22/2002 4:09:22 PM PDT by Villiany_Inc
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To: Lee Enfield
"McKinny and Mcauliff said it was Bush who ordered the sinking to benefit his friends in the ice maker industry."

Ah yes The Big Ice cartel I’ll buy that ;)

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102 posted on 08/22/2002 5:08:20 PM PDT by Taxbilly
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To: Villiany_Inc
Yeah, I could tell you all kinds of stuff. Right now I'm jonesing to tell what I know about Deally Plaza.
103 posted on 08/22/2002 6:49:09 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: Oztrich Boy
Wasn't it Benjamin Disraeli, the British statesman, who said, "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."??? ;^)
104 posted on 08/23/2002 10:07:52 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: jjm2111
There is no valid association between the 2nd and 3rd Reich. The KaiserReich didn't do genocides or anything like that.
105 posted on 08/23/2002 4:35:16 PM PDT by weikel
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To: weikel
I was being facetous.
106 posted on 08/23/2002 4:44:33 PM PDT by jjm2111
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To: jjm2111
Oh LOL. Sorry its hard to tell when Im just reading text.
107 posted on 08/23/2002 4:45:22 PM PDT by weikel
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To: weikel
Yeah, sorry about that. The 2nd reich is a pretty fascinating period in history. I believe relatives of the kaiser are still around too.
108 posted on 08/23/2002 5:30:45 PM PDT by jjm2111
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To: vikingchick
Hmmmm. Now I'm starting to think this article is true. :)
109 posted on 09/20/2002 6:40:45 PM PDT by vikingchick
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To: FreeNot
That's the one, allright. lol
111 posted on 09/20/2002 7:20:06 PM PDT by vikingchick
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 8/21/2002. Thanks vikingchick.

The unknown vessel a few miles off was never identified. It wasn't a German u-boat that had just sunk the Titanic, it was a time travel vehicle, with ghoulish tourists from the future who wanted to be there for the sinking. ;')

112 posted on 05/31/2015 12:23:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: weikel
The KaiserReich didn't do genocides or anything like that.

The Herero would have been surprised to hear that - those few of them who were left.

113 posted on 05/31/2015 12:32:04 PM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: gcruse

True, cold water hitting steam boiler, very bad. And the number six boiler was below the forward funnel and just aft of the three forward holds.


114 posted on 05/31/2015 12:34:10 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: vikingchick

"Look over there, don't you see it? It's some kind of
strange boat...Oh, wait, it's just a dumb, stupid movie, nevermind".

115 posted on 06/01/2015 7:25:13 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: capitan_refugio
Wasn't it Benjamin Disraeli, the British statesman, who said, "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."???

And most of the poll results you're seeing in America today utilize all three.

116 posted on 06/01/2015 7:37:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: gcruse

LOL! I think the key phrase here is “after hitting the iceberg.” In other words, it hit the damn iceberg. Wait, those are the same words.

Not poking fun at you, but the article.


117 posted on 06/01/2015 10:40:24 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: vikingchick

Everybody knows the Jews sank the Titanic......Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg, what’s the difference?


118 posted on 06/01/2015 10:41:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: vikingchick
That's okay. The Hindenburg was actually brought down by the U.S. secretly testing their anti-aircraft missiles.

So we are sort of even.

119 posted on 06/01/2015 10:47:28 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: vikingchick

This theory just doesn’t hold water.


120 posted on 06/02/2015 6:52:02 PM PDT by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
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