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Titanic - 94 years ago today

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Mitchell Holman - 15 Apr 2006 14:00 GMT
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  But for you-know-what, would Titanic have lead
a life as obscure her sister ship Olympic? And did
her loss cause the White Star line to fold and
get bought up by Cunard?

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Don Phillipson - 15 Apr 2006 20:22 GMT
>    But for you-know-what, would Titanic have lead
> a life as obscure her sister ship Olympic? And did

It is not clear how getting sunk in wartime makes a
ship "obscure."

> her loss cause the White Star line to fold and
> get bought up by Cunard?

This company takeover has many components
including hull subsidies, passenger traffic, etc.,
some of which did not exist when the Titanic sank.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Mitchell Holman - 16 Apr 2006 01:59 GMT
"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> wrote in news:Lkf0g.10801
$Xl.25267@newscontent-01.sprint.ca:

>>    But for you-know-what, would Titanic have lead
>> a life as obscure her sister ship Olympic? And did
>
> It is not clear how getting sunk in wartime makes a
> ship "obscure."

   Olympic was scrapped in 1935.

>> her loss cause the White Star line to fold and
>> get bought up by Cunard?
>
> This company takeover has many components
> including hull subsidies, passenger traffic, etc.,
> some of which did not exist when the Titanic sank.


   Makes sense.
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ray o'hara - 16 Apr 2006 17:08 GMT
> >    But for you-know-what, would Titanic have lead
> > a life as obscure her sister ship Olympic? And did
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> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)

it was the brittanic that was sunk in wartime after hitting a mine.
so i guess you can say she was obscure.
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Michael Gooding - 21 Apr 2006 10:44 GMT
There's a school of thought which maintains that the Olympic WAS the
Titanic, following an accident and an insurance fraud.
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