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interele | 12:39 Wed 10th Dec 2014 | History
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You would have thought this was an easy question but the more I
look the more I tend to believe the conspiracy people ;-)

If you look at a picture of the Titanic how many port hole
things are there in the white gunwales section on the front
of the port side.

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this is from the link Mamyalynne provided, if it's any help Both Olympic and Titanic had 15 portholes on the starboard side of the forecastle on C-Deck. On the same area on the port side, both were launched with 14 portholes. However, Titanic was modified before she sailed to have 16 and Olympic received the same modification after Titanic was gone. As proof,...
19:54 Wed 10th Dec 2014
what conspiracy people? the same ones who say that man has never landed on the moon and the CIA killed Kennedy?

Do you have a link to a picture please?
what have the port hole things got to do with it?

Who's consipiring to do what?

The Titanic sank because the captain tried to dodge the iceberg, which then scraped along the side and let water into a lot of compartments. If he'd hit it head on water would only have got into a couple and the ship would have survived.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

There is no doubt that at the time of its design and construction, Titanic was the finest example of design and construction afloat.

It is impossible to have foreseen the catastrophic effects of the iceberg's impact, and that in itself was compounded by the captain's decision to attempt not only to slow down, but to try and pass the berg, both of which added to the horrendous physical damage suffered by the ship, and its consequent rapid flooding and sinking.

The amount of portholes had absolutely no effect on the ship's sinking, that was caused entirely by the design which allowed water to flood over the tops of structural compartments, which rapidly dropped the bows below the waterline, and even more quickly upended the ship which broke her back and sent her to the bottom.

Not sure who your 'conspiracy people' are, but a quick lesson in basic ship design, coupled with basic physics, will show you that porthole inclusion was not connected to the sinking of the Titanic.
jno and I have cross-posted, and she is indeed correct - a full-on impact would have had less effect and cause less damage than the sideways 'scrape' that was the undoing of this massive vessel.

What are the conspiracy people saying?
i may be way off the mark but i think the op is referring to the possibility that it wasn't the titanic that sank but its sister ship ... the reason for it sinking being irrelevant
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Because in the photos they have a different number of portholes .
Now as much as I love a good conspiracy theory ( ie switching the Olympic
and the Titanic ) I am assuming there are a lot of wrongly attributed
pictures out there and I was wondering which one actually is the Titanic
That is one conspiracy put forward but then things of this magnitude always bring forth such speculation.
There are interele, have you checked my links out?
"What are the conspiracy people saying?"
While it was the Protestant shipyard workers who built the Titanic it was the Belfast Catholics who built the iceberg?
Lol Sandy :-)
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Yes, I looked at the links and none of them look like the picture from the second link to me

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M
LOL ( for laugh out loud ! ) Sandy. The old ones are the best. ;-)
But as the link re telling them apart says, wrong pictures have been attributed to each - so how sure are you about the picture you're looking at.
That makes more sense than any conspiracy sandy.
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Not sure at all.. Just googled Titanic the other day ( why I can't remember now ) and noticed the different portholes and it been rotting my soul ever since.

:-)

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