evidence: CLAIM: The Titanic did not sink. It was switched with one of its sister ships, the Olympic, before it set sail. [...] But maritime historians told The Associated Press that switching the RMS Titanic and the RMS Olympic would not have been possible. "There’s a mountain of evidence against this switch conspiracy," said J. Kent Layton, who has published multiple books about the Titanic. [...] Speculation that the Olympic, which was damaged in a 1911 collision with the HMS Hawke, a British warship, was sunk in place of the Titanic as part of an insurance fraud scheme to build an entirely new boat with the Titanic’s policy also doesn’t hold up, in part because the Titanic wasn’t insured for its full construction value. The ship cost $7.5 million to build, but was insured only for $5 million, meaning that its sinking was a financial loss.