It seriously irritates me that the most persistent of the theories is propped up on Wikipedia with absolutely no effort put into refuting it. The other ones have rather extensive explanations in relation to their propositions, so why doesn't this?

Short answer is absolutely not. Having wasted so much time on it, I can assure you that the theory is based on facts mangled beyond recognition and even outright fabrications.

It all comes from two people that everyone else cribs notes from. Robin Gardiner first came up with the theory in [1995] (https://www.amazon.ca/Riddle-Titanic-Dan-Robin-Gardiner/dp/0297815288) that he has since [updated] (https://www.amazon.ca/Titanic-Conspiracy-Cover-Ups-Mysteries-1996-03-02/dp/B01K17OE4O/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476538631&sr=1-2) [3] (https://www.amazon.ca/Titanic-Ship-that-Never-Sank/dp/0711034869/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476538662&sr=1-2&keywords=robin+gardiner) [times.] (https://www.amazon.ca/Great-Titanic-Conspiracy-Robin-Gardiner/dp/0711034966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476538662&sr=1-1&keywords=robin+gardiner) Dan Van der Vat was on the first edition but not in later editions as he dismissed it. As far as I can tell, Gardiner has written 3 separate books with the other two being a [history of the White Star Line] (https://www.amazon.ca/History-White-Gardiner-published-Publishing/dp/B00EKYEHLU/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476538662&sr=1-13&keywords=robin+gardiner) and the [White Star Line in picture postcards.] (https://www.amazon.ca/Postcards-McDougall-MacDougal-published-Publishing/dp/B00EKYQKZG/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476538662&sr=1-12&keywords=robin+gardiner) The White Star Line operated the Titanic.

The second is John Hamer who takes Gardiner's theory and runs with it to add on his own crap about the Federal Reserve.

It would take way too damn long to go over everything, so I'll just leave you with the "smoking gun." (Incidentally, I despise it when documentaries pull that nonsense.)

The theorists claim that [Titanic's name was riveted onto the hull and Father Time caused AN to fall off and reveal MP underneath (from Olympic).] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4x56PCOalk) Well, it's a total lie. [Here's footage from 1987] (https://youtu.be/Cp1Jqi_PhUg?t=5m26s) when the letters were first uncovered. [Here's footage from the early 2000s.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wKaTNLBc1Q) The name's engraved. No MP. Go back to the MP footage and it's pretty clearly CGI.

They resort to straight-up lying to the audience on a piece of evidence that would have proved beyond a doubt that the swap happened. That's the level of integrity you're dealing with here. I've gone through it all before (as I've previously stated) and there really isn't any aspect that doesn't receive similar treatment.

As for the Federal Reserve crap, it's all just baseless speculation that uses a whole lot of nothing to make wild claims. It's every bit as useful and intellectual for me to accuse you of being in on Benghazi based on nothing in particular other than what pops into my head. Just the basic question of how on earth there would be any guarantee that three separate first class men would die on Titanic is enough to dismantle that one. Both of these used to share a page with the curse of Amun-Ra which is the level of dignity they deserve.

If you have more specific questions about that, I can help you out. Or if you want, you can read [Hall and Beveridge's book] (https://www.amazon.ca/Titanic-Olympic-Which-Ship-Sank/dp/0752461583) that deals directly with it. Or [Mark Chirnside's dissertation.] (http://www.markchirnside.co.uk/pdfs/Conspiracy_Dissertation.pdf)

Whoops. Forgot something.

It's RMS OlympiC. It may seem like pedantry, but it actually identifies the vessel as a White Star liner.

[Here's a list of WSL vessels.] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_White_Star_Line_ships)

[Here's a list of Cunard vessels.] (http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/cunard.shtml)

The Oceanic in 1870 was the first vessel built for the White Star Line with the previous three being acquisitions. Thomas Ismay (father of the infamous Joseph Bruce Ismay) purchased the line 2 years prior and started the policy of making it easy to identify their ships by ending them in -ic. You can see from the list that 76 out of 93 ships ended in -ic (or 76 out of 90 since the days of Ismay started).

Cunard, the bitter rivals of the White Star Line, had their ships end in -ia. A good number of those ships from the same era as the White Star Line end in that suffix. This was also to help people readily identify their ships.

By calling Olympic "Olympia," you are saying it belongs to their bitter rivals. Which did happen in the mid 1930s but Olympic was immediately scrapped when Cunard came to own it.