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Olympic
Rms olympic-d745t8b
Career
Name

Olympic

Ordered

1906

Builder

Harland and Wolff, Belfast

Laid Down

16 December 1908

Launched

20 October 1910

Completed

May 1911

Fate

Retired at Southampton after 24 years service & scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland.

Status

scrapped (besides the Second Class Lounge)

Cost

£3,150,000

Characteristics
Class

Olympic-class ocean liner

Displacement

52,067 tons

Length

269.0 m (882 ft 6 in)

Beam

28.2 m (92 ft 6 in)

Height

53.3 m (175 ft) (keel to top of funnels)

Draught

10.5 m (34 ft 7 in)

Installed power

59,000 hp produced at maximum revolutions

Propulsion

Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers
One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller

Speed

21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum)

Capacity

2,435 passengers
950 crews

Clear

The RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner that sailed for the White Star Line from 1911 - 1937, She had a successful maiden voyage that began on June 14, 1911 and ended June 21, 1911.

History

The Olympic was involved in an accident with a navy battlecruiser, the HMS Hawke, both ships got seriously damaged and almost sunk. Olympic was repaired and delayed Titanic's maiden voyage to March, she was involved in another accident in 1912 and delayed Titanic's completion to April. Olympic received distress calls from her doomed sinking sister, RMS Titanic, 500 miles away. But Olympic was too far away to assist her sister. Olympic was refitted as a troop transport in early 1915. She sunk a German U-boat in 1918, she got awarded later for her outstanding service. Olympic later sunk a Nantucket lightship in 1934 but this one was by mistake, the U-boat she sunk in 1918 she did on purpose. She was decommissioned in 1935 after aging and to make way for new ships, she was sold to a British ship scrapper in 1936 and she was scrapped the following year, 1937. Most of her fittings can be found at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, Northumberland. The a la carte restaurant can be found in a cruise ship, Celeberity Millennium. The hull can be found at a junkyard in Jarrow where she was scrapped.

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