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Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? (Paperback)

by Robin Gardiner (Author)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd; New Ed edition (2 Oct 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0711027773
ISBN-13: 978-0711027770
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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In April 1912 the unthinkable happened - the supposedly unsinkable Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. Or so it was thought. For more than 80 years, the drama of the last hours of the Titanic has long fascinated the public. The discovery of the wreck by Dr. Robert Ballard and his team became one of the greatest media events of the late 1980s. However, as time passed, so evidence has appeared to cast doubt on the accepted wisdom of the great liner's fate. In the best-selling The Riddle of the Titanic Robin Gardiner and co-author Dan Van der Vat shocked the world with their claims that it was not in fact the Titanic but the sister ship Olympic, which ended its days amidst the icy waters of the North Atlantic on that fateful night. Here, in another paperback reprint of Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank? the follow-up volume, Robin Gardiner reveals what really happened on that terrible night, and gives fresh evidence which sheds new light on the true circumstances.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Absurd conclusions reached by questionable methodology, 26 Jul 1999

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This review is from: "Titanic": The Ship That Never Sank (Hardcover)

I suppose I deserved this - I bought the first book, and should have known better. 'Once fooled, shame on you. Twice fooled, shame on me.' Gardiner explains away all the huge gaps in his theory with the catch-all caveat that it's a developing theory, therefore holes are acceptible. I imagine that's why he exonerated Captain Lord from any responsibility in the first book, but has him 'in' on the conspiracy in the second. He makes some laughable gaffs - I particularly enjoyed his conclusion that Sixth Officer James Paul Moody was an 'Olympic Class Sprinter' due to reports that he was on both the port and starboard sides of the boatdeck at the same time. This was based on the now thoroughly discredited lifeboat launch times from the British Inquiry. If he had used the revised timeline, he would have seen that Moody's reported actions make perfect sense as he progressed from port to starboard. Less amusing was his effort at character assasination with Harold Lowe - based entirely on the accounts of Minahan and Collyer, at least one of whom is dubious in the extreme. He completely ignores the many glowing accounts of Lowe's character and actions in favour of cheap and glib revisionism. Attempting to learn about the Titanic from this drivel is the equivalent of trying to understand the complexities of the JFK assasination by watching Oliver Stone's movie, or learning about the American Civil War by watching the movie 'Belle Starr' Follow the advice of Brian Ticehurst of the British Titanic Society....

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1.0 out of 5 stars The ship that never sank?, 1 Nov 2007

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I bought this book about three years ago and I was not impressed. There seemed to be very little evidence for Gardiner's switch theory about the Titanic being switched with the Olympic and it was not very convincing. To me it seems as if this book has just been written to make money and there is more fiction than fact. I have been studying the Titanic for years and know that there is no evidence to suggest that the Marconi operator, Harold Bride's escape story is untrue. He was a real hero and the character assassination done to him in this book does not make for pleasant reading.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting theory - short on evidence, 14 Sep 1999

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This review is from: "Titanic": The Ship That Never Sank (Hardcover)

An entertaining read. Gardiner's theory seems far fetched at first but he does give some very plausible motives and reasons for swapping the two ships. However historical conjecture is one thing, but when it comes to hard physical evidence, Gardiner really doesn't have any. He hints at several clues found on the wreck that support his theory, but fails to elaborate on them or even quote his sources. The theory tends to fall down due to the author's lack of detailed knowledge of the differences between the two ships - they differed in many more details than he lists. The whole process of switching identities is vastly underestimated by Gardiner. He makes it sound simple, but in reality it would have been an enormous task. Unlike many Titanic historians I approached this book with an open mind. The final verdict - a good read, but I don't buy Gardiner's theory.

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