So I was thinking about the Titanic and...

An idea popped into my head. So in the early 1900s a shipping company such as White Star Line or an entirely fictional one promotes one of its ships to be unsinkable and formulates an evil plan to have the ship crash into an ice berg on its maiden voyage and survive for the purpose of making the company more popular :D.
I know it's a ridiculous idea, but I'd like to hear your input on it.
 
The Titanic becomes a troopship, goes to the bottom during the Great War with even greater loss of life. White Star still merges with Cunard in the '30s.
 
An idea popped into my head. So in the early 1900s a shipping company such as White Star Line or an entirely fictional one promotes one of its ships to be unsinkable and formulates an evil plan to have the ship crash into an ice berg on its maiden voyage and survive for the purpose of making the company more popular :D.
I know it's a ridiculous idea, but I'd like to hear your input on it.

Actually, some people have tried to argue that the Titanic was really the Olympic and was sunk on purpose as part of a giant insurance scam.
 
The ship takes more damage then planned and sinks. Or, the captain will not take the risk and the ship never hits an iceberg.
 
Lloyds of London will refuse to insure the vessel (or raise their rates to an unaffordable extreme), and the shipping company's publicly trade stock drops in value once news breaks out.

Of course, they could attempt it without getting the ship insured, but no one in his right mind would do it.
 
How likely would it be for the ship to even encounter an iceberg, even if it goes off course?
 
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