Did Freemasons 'whitewash' Titanic inquiry?

Secret archives reveal that several key members of the investigation were Freemasons

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A newly-opened database of Freemason membership records may explain why the investigation into the sinking of the Titanic turned out to be a 'whitewash', the Daily Telegraph reports.

More than two million Freemason membership records from 1733 to 1923 are now open to the public for the first time via Ancestry.com, allowing researchers to trace some of the clandestine connections that may have influenced history. One of the first theories to emerge from the new data suggests that the secret society could have compromised the inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic.

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