The Great Titanic Conspiracy

'Everybody makes mistakes, but the Royal Navy's inquiry into the collision between HMS Hawke and Titanic's sister ship, Olympic, was more than merely mistaken - it must have been an intentional cover-up, a travesty. In order to accurately fix the position of the collision, the Navy said that it had recovered Hawke's armoured ram from the sea bed where it had settled after being torn off as the cruiser reeled away from Olympic. In reality Hawke's ram had not been torn off at all but had survived the collision without any appreciable damage. The ram, clearly still in excellent condition, had still been attached to the cruiser when she returned to Portsmouth Harbour. There is a crystal-clear photograph of HMS Hawke in dry-dock for repair after the incident, the undamaged ram firmly in place on her otherwise badly mauled bow. The Royal Navy lied at the Inquiry.'