Carter Roy

Let's blow up the shipwreck people have questions about.

Oh, that won't be suspicious at all.

That brings us to one more theorized coverup attempt.

Almost immediately after the disaster, the British government and the Cunard line pointed fingers at Captain Will Turner.

They blamed him for the fiasco.

He was shamed for failing to protect his ship, for ignoring orders to take a zigzag route, orders no one could prove he'd received.

Within an hour of completing the inquest, the lawyers received their own orders.

Don't let Captain Turner testify.

This came down from the British Navy.

Someone there didn't want Turner to share what he'd witnessed on the Lusitania.

Unfortunately for Turner, he'd already given his account to the lawyers and was found not guilty of endangering the ship.

The inquiry found Germany solely at fault, and 10 years later, in 1925, Germany paid over a million dollars in damages for sinking the Lusitania, and that's in 1920s money.

This lined up with the official story from day one that Germany was entirely to blame.

So why would they try to scapegoat Captain Turner?

because the German torpedoes weren't fully at fault.

Like I said, lies on top of lies.

The official British story was that the Lusitania was torpedoed twice, but the Germans said they only fired once and Captain Turner agreed.

So of course they wanted to keep him quiet and discredit him.

He challenged their official narrative.

Captain Turner believed the second explosion happened after cold seawater flowing in through the single torpedo hole hit the pressurized central steam line.