German Sub Sank the Titanic!

National Examiner (tabloid) | Aug. 27, 2002 | Dr. Franklin Ruehl, PhD.

[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."

[Krafty123]

Hmm... Might even be plausible, coming from a different source...

[vikingchick]

True enough. ;)

[Bandolier]

Elvis was driving the sub that night, took too many reds, and didn't have a TV to shoot.

(They will discover these details, eventually.)

[gcruse]

"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.

The key word here is 'after' hitting the iceberg.  Torpedoes
do not have delay timers.  But water hitting boilers goes
boom, and rapidly changing metal temperatures can
make things shrink and go boom.
 

[Bogey78O]

You're posting this to entertain us right?

[SAJ]

Shocking new theory!

Dipwad PhD sprinkles cocaine on his Cheerios and snorts PCP from his tinfoil hat.

[vikingchick]

Of course! :)

[baseballfanjm]

It was the 200 foot rods, I swear it! I know, I was there in a past life as an orca.

[Bill Rice]

"Elvis was driving the sub that night, took too many reds, and didn't have a TV to shoot."

LOL! Muh jelly-doughnut, Muh jelly-doughnut!

Thank yuh, thank yuh vera much.

[Bogey78O]

Don't mess with PCP.

http://spacemoose.com/strips/pcp.htm

[Vidalia]

NO! This man did while sneaking up from behind with a very dull but determined "weapon", and the hydraulics did that ship in...

[Nick Danger]

[Bobby777]

The German sub included a Sears mini-refrigerator ... working in 3 8-hour shifts, the crew of the submarine placed ice cubes all over the sub ... working quickly, they covered the sub with 300,000 tons of ice ... amazingly the sub was able to not only stay upright, but catch up with and pass the Titanic, stopping silently ahead of her ... the Titanic was carrying 1,974,253 bagels to New York and the Kaiser, inventor of the now famous "Kaiser roll" feared the competition ... later it was proven that the Mossad and the OSS, even though they didn't exist, had plotted the whole thing ...

Seriously, the Titanic had a coal fire in her belly which had been burning long before she left Southampton ... also, the boilers were round and would have rolled through the ever-steeper tilting ship ... add in the 29 degree F water (salt water has a lower freezing point) and you've got the potential for wild steam explosions too ... though the power stayed on for a long time from the batteries and no doubt from some generators ...

[UbIwerks]

Does that paper say Hitler is still alive and living in Paraguay?

[weikel]

BS this just sounds like a continuation of the all Germans are evil crap. If Germany won WWI the Soviet Union would have been destroyed immediately ending communim, monarchy as opposed to socialist Democracy would be the predominate government of Europe, Hitler would have never risen, the Arabs would never have gotten independent states. History would in short have been much better.

[pubmom]

Oliver Stone now has the subject for a new film.

[BUSHdude2000]

But Leo DiCaprio, James Cameron and the girl who played the easy slut on the Titanic told me it was an iceberg....

[Jagdgewehr]

Uh...question. Were the Germans operating U-boats in the North Atlantic in 1912? If so, why would they feel the need to sink passenger/commerce shipping two years prior to the start of WWI?

I may be a little fuzzy on my history here.

[Consort]

The first 16 World War I UBoats were launched before the Titanic sailed, so it had to be one of those. UBoat.net