Did the Freemasons rig the Titanic inquiry ?

[Skywizard]

A new secret archive shows a high level of masonic involvement in
the inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic


The Titanic inquiry may have foundered because of Masonic involvement

The inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic may have been influenced by the Freemasons,
new evidence suggests.

“The Titanic inquiry in Britain was branded a ‘whitewash’ because it exonerated most of those involved. Only three passengers were interviewed, and they were all from first class"
Titanic Expert Nic Compton

A secret archive containing the names of two million Freemasons has been made public for the first time on the genealogy site Ancestry which reveals extensive Masonic involvement in the controversial British investigation into the catastrophe.

It confirms that not only the judge who oversaw the British Wreck Commissioner’s inquiry into the disaster and leading investigators, but also even some of those who escaped censure were all Freemasons.

While a US Senate inquiry into the sinking savaged the White Star Line and singled out the British Board of Trade for blame for lax regulations which allowed the scandalously small number of lifeboats fitted on the ship, the UK investigation overseen by Lord Mersey avoided blaming the Board of Trade.

Lord Mersey himself - John Charles Bigham - was, the records show, a Freemason, initiated in 1881 at the Northern Bar Lodge in London.

Crucially, so too appears to have been the President of the Board of Trade Sydney Buxton, initiated at Limehouse in East London in 1888 where he was the local MP at the time.


The ship split into two at 2.20am on April 15 and the RMS Carpathia arrived around 4am

The names of at least two of the inquiry’s five expert assessors – Prof John Harvard Biles, a specialist in naval architecture, and Edward Chaston, the senior engineer assessor – can also be found in the Masonic archive.

Meanwhile Lord Pirrie, who was not only chairman of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast which built the Titanic but, crucially, also one of the directors of White Star’s parent company, also appears to have been a Freemason.

The peer was born William Pirrie in Quebec in 1847. The records show a William Pirrie initiated at St George's Lodge in Montreal in 1904.

Titanic Expert Nic Compton, author of Titanic on Trial told History.com: “The Titanic inquiry in Britain was branded a ‘whitewash’ because it exonerated most of those involved. Only three passengers were interviewed, and they were all from first class.

“Even Captain Smith was exonerated on the grounds that most other ships at that time also sped through the ice at full speed with no serious consequences.

“The only person both inquiries heaped scorn on was the captain of SS Californian, the ship that had stood by about eight miles off, its crew watching the emergency flares being fired by Titanic, without doing anything about it until it was too late.”

Mr Compton said the British inquiry got drawn into more populist issues, such as whether Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon had paid the crew of Lifeboat 1 a bribe not to go back and pick up swimmers and whether Bruce Ismay had behaved like a coward.

The passenger line sank in the Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of April 15 1912 after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

Lookout Frederick Fleet had spotted the iceberg and altered the bridge but by the time First Officer William Murdoch had ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines put in reverse, it was too late. The ship was carrying only enough life boats for half the passengers, the crew were not trained for a full evacuation. In all, more than 1500 people died and 700 survived the disaster.

The British inquiry was headed by the Board of Trade who had approved the ship, and some believed it had little interest in finding itself or White Star negligent.

It concluded that Captain Smith had done "only that which other skilled men would have done in the same position" and neither White Star or its parent company, the International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM) was found negligent.

However the new Freemason links cast new light on the proceedings.

“The records demonstrate the extensive involvement which freemasons have had in British society,” said Diane Clements, director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry.

“As freemasonry approaches its 300th birthday in 2017, we are pleased to be able to provide access to details of past members.”




Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...reemasons.html



peace...

[Cardillac]

if one has read the Robin Gardiner books about the sunken Titanic actually being the Titanic's almost identical sistership the Olympic renamed the Titanic (and vice versa) it opens a huge can of worms; not to mention a subsequent book trying to debunk Gardiner...

but according to Mike Sparks (author of book "James Bond is Real"- a must read if one is interested in Hitler's escape from the bunker among many, many other things), he claims to personally know Robert Ballard (discoverer of Titanic wreck on ocean floor) and Ballard told Sparks (among others in closed circles) that one of the places where the name Titanic should appear on the disintigrating wreck he saw the letters... MP...

it's a long, extremely complicated story; due to a series of unlucky events the practically new Olympic was no longer sea worthy and J. P. Morgan (Rothschild agent), owner of the White Star Line, in colusion with the British Board of Trade, decided to scuttle the Olympic (re-named Titanic) and cash in on the insurance otherwise the White Star Line would've gone bankrupt endagering the future existence of the Harland-Wolf shipyards in Belfast and all of the suppliers...

there was supposedly a rescue plan in place but the 'Titanic' sank at the wrong place at the wrong time...

subsequently J.P. Morgan managed to rid himself of the bankers on board the 'Titanic' (among others) John Jacob Astor, Isador Strauss and Benjamin Guggenheim who were opposing what would one yr. later become the Federal Reserve in the US; two birds were killed with one stone: Morgan rid himself of his biggest opponents and cashed in on insurance fraud at the same time-

and the world isn't complicated?

please stay well all-

Larry

[ghostrider]

people think the Titanic was an accident ... hmmm how handy to have wealthy elite at that time , on a maiden voyage of a new vessel , go down at sea ... the circle never ends the rich only want to be richer and will do anything to have it all ...

[KiwiElf]

Ummmm, to the OP: you mean the sinking of the Olympic disguised as the Titanic?...