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by w14 1364 days ago
> That conspiracy is as old as the Titanic.

Indeed. My Uncle was involved with the installation of Samson and Goliath [0], the two yellow cranes at Harland and Wolff. Goliath was installed in 1969, and the story of the ships being swapped was told to him then.

The story told to him was that Morgan had ships ready to sail to the rescue from New York, but they ended up fog bound and delayed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_and_Goliath_(cranes)