RMSRoyal Mail Ship , usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract by Royal Mail. They have the right to fly the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing.The designation has been used since 1840...
Olympic was the lead ship of the Olympic
classThe Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line in the early 20th century. Although the three were the largest and most luxurious of their time, two were lost early in their careers: in the infamous disaster on the morning of...
ocean linerAn ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo, mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...
s built for the White Star LineThe Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of her sister ship, Britannic...
, which also included Titanic
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom...
and Britannic
HMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. It was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. However, it was launched on the eve on the First World War and was quickly put to use as a hospital ship...
. Unlike her sisters, Olympic
served a long and illustrious career (1911 to 1935), becoming known as "Old Reliable."
History
J. Bruce IsmayJoseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman who served as Managing Director of the White Star Line of steamships. He traveled on the maiden voyage of his company's marquee ocean liner, the RMS Titanic. Bruce Ismay is typically remembered as a coward who saved himself as other heroes went down...
, the chairman of White Star LineThe Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of her sister ship, Britannic...
, and William PirrieWilliam James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC was a leading Irish shipbuilder and businessman.Born in Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish parents, he was taken back to Ireland when he was two years old and spent his childhood at Conlig, County Down...
, the chairman of Harland and WolffHarland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a British diversified heavy industrial company specialising in shipbuilding, ship breaking, offshore construction, modular construction, civil and marine engineering, renewables and associated project management, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.The...
shipyardShipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...
, intended the Olympic
-class ships to surpass rival Cunard'sCunard Line is a British-American-owned British-operated shipping company that has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
largest ships, LusitaniaRMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915. The ship sank in 18 minutes, eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard...
and MauretaniaTwo ocean liners of the Cunard Line have been named RMS Mauretania, after the ancient territory of Mauretania:* RMS Mauretania , launched in 1906 and remained in service until 1934...
, in size and luxury. Olympic
was to be built first, followed by Titanic
and Gigantic
(the latter renamed Britannic
after Titanic's sinking). In order to accommodate the construction of the class, Harland and Wolff upgraded their facility in Belfast; the most dramatic change was the combining of three slipways into two larger ones. Olympic's keel was laid in December 1908 and she was launched on 20 October 1910. For her launch, the hull was painted in a light grey colour for photographic purposes (a common practice of the day for the first ship in a new class, as it made the lines of the ship clearer in the black and white photographs). Her hull was repainted following the launch.
Her maiden voyage commenced on 14 June 1911. Designer
Thomas AndrewsThomas Andrews, Jr. was an Irish-born businessman and shipbuilder; managing director and head of the draughting department for the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. Andrews was the shipbuilder in charge of the plans for the ocean liner RMS Titanic...
was present for the passage to New York and return, along with a number of engineers, as part of Harland and Wolff's "Guarantee Group" to spot areas for improvement. Olympic had a cleaner, sleeker look than other ships of the day: rather than fitting her with bulky exterior air vents, Harland and Wolff used smaller air vents with electric fans, with a "dummy" fourth funnel used for additional ventilation. For the powerplant Harland and Wolff employed a combination of reciprocating engines with a centre low-pressure turbine, as opposed to the steam turbines used on Cunard's Lusitania
and Mauretania
. White Star claimed the Olympic
class's engine set-up to be more economical than expansion engines or turbines alone. Olympic
consumed 650 tons of coal per twenty four hours with an average speed of 21.7 knots on her maiden voyage, compared to 1000 tons of coal per twenty four hours for both the Lusitania
and Mauretania
.
Hawke
incident
Olympic's
first major mishap occurred on 20 September 1911, when she collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke
HMS Hawke, launched in 1891, was the sixth British warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar class cruiser, a 12-gun twin-screw protected cruiser displacing 7,350 tons...
off the Isle of WightThe Isle of Wight is an English island and a county, located 3-5 miles from the south coast of the mainland, in the English Channel. It is separated from mainland England by the Solent and is situated south of the county of Hampshire...
. Although the incident resulted in the flooding of two of her compartments and a twisted propeller shaft, Olympic
was able to limp back to SouthamptonSouthampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
. At the subsequent inquiry the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces . From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early...
blamed Olympic
for the incident, alleging that her large displacement generated a suction that pulled Hawke
into her side. In command during this incident was Captain Edward SmithCaptain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR was an English naval officer, and ship's captain. He was the captain in command of the RMS Titanic; he died on board when it sank in 1912...
, who was lost at sea a year later onboard Titanic. One crew member, Violet JessopViolet Constance Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse who achieved fame by surviving the disastrous sinkings of two sister ships: the RMS Titanic in 1912 and the HMHS Britannic in 1916...
, survived not only the collision with the Hawke
but also the later sinking of Titanic
and the 1916 sinking of BritannicHMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. It was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. However, it was launched on the eve on the First World War and was quickly put to use as a hospital ship...
, the third ship of the class.
The Hawke
incident was a financial disaster for Olympic's
operator, and keeping her out of revenue service made matters worse. Olympic
returned to Belfast, and to speed up her repair, Harland and Wolff was forced to delay Titanic's
completion and use her propeller shaft for Olympic
. In February 1912, Olympic
lost a propeller blade and she once again returned to her builder for emergency repairs. To get her back to service immediately, Harland & Wolff again had to pull resources from Titanic
, delaying her maiden voyage from 20 March 1912 to 10 April 1912.
Titanic
disaster
On 14 April 1912, Olympic
, now under the command of Herbert Haddock, received the distress signal from her sister Titanic
, but was five hundred miles away so she was unable to render assistance.
1912 "mutiny"
Olympic
, like Titanic, did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone on board, and was hurriedly equipped with additional, second-hand collapsible lifeboats following her return to England. Towards the end of April 1912, as she was about to sail from Southampton to New York, the ship's firemen went on strike because of fears that the ship's new collapsible lifeboats were not seaworthy. The 40 collapsible lifeboats were secondhand, having been transferred from troopships, and many were rotten and could not open. The men instead sent a request to the Southampton manager of the White Star Line that the collapsible boats be replaced by wooden lifeboats; the manager replied that this was impossible and that the collapsible boats had been passed as seaworthy by a
Board of TradeThe Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions...
inspector. The men were not satisfied and ceased work.
On 25 April a deputation of strikers witnessed a test of four of the collapsible boats. Only one was unseaworthy and they said that they were prepared to recommend the men return to work if it was replaced. These terms were accepted. However, the deputation said that they would not sail aboard the Olympic unless the strikebreakers were removed, a condition which the company refused to accept, saying that they would rather abandon the sailing than dismiss loyal men.
All 54 strikers were arrested on a charge of mutiny when they went ashore. However, on 4 May 1912 Plymouth magistrates found the charges against the mutineers were proven, but discharged them without imprisonment or fine due to the circumstances of the case. Most of the strikers returned to work and the Olympic
sailed on 15 May.
Refit
On 9 October 1912 White Star withdrew Olympic
from service and returned her to her builders at Belfast to be refitted to incorporate lessons learned from the Titanic disaster. A complement of 64 wooden lifeboats were installed along the boat deck, one on top of each other. In addition, an inner watertight skin was constructed in the boiler and engine rooms and some of the watertight bulkheads were extended up to B-deck. At the same time, alterations and additions to her passenger cabins were carried out on B Deck which necessitated deleting her B Deck promenades - one of the few features that separated her from her sister ship. With these changes, Olympics gross tonnage rose to 46,359 tons, 31 tons larger than
Titanic's.
In 1913,
Olympic returned to service and briefly regained the title of largest ocean liner in the world, until
SS ImperatorSS Imperator was an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line launched in 1912. She was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg America ships that included and built by the line for transatlantic passenger service. At the time of her launch in May 1912, she was the largest...
entered passenger service in June 1913.
World War I
In
World War IWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
,
Olympic initially remained in commercial service under Captain Herbert Haddock. She sailed from New York on 20 October 1914 for Britain, though carrying very few passengers, as Germany had announced that her U-boats would sink the
Olympic on sight and most of the passengers had cancelled.
Audacious incident
On the sixth day of her voyage, the Royal Navy alerted Haddock that four U-boats were pursuing his ship and ordered him to head north for Glasgow instead of continuing into the English Channel. On 27 October, as the
Olympic passed near
Lough SwillyLough Swilly in Ireland is a fjord-like body of water lying between the western side of the Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal....
, she received distress signals from
HMS AudaciousHMS Audacious was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. The vessel did not survive its first conflict, being sunk by a naval mine off the northern coast of Donegal in Ireland in 1914.-Loss:...
which had struck a
mineA naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of or contact with an enemy ship...
off
Tory IslandTory Island is an island in Ireland, located nine miles off the County Donegal coast of Northwest Ireland. It is part of County Donegal in the Province of Ulster...
and was taking on water.
The
Olympic took off 250 of the
Audacious' crew, then the destroyer HMS
Fury managed to attach a tow cable between
Audacious and
Olympic and they headed west for Lough Swilly. However, the cable parted after the
Audacious' steering gear failed. A second attempt was made to tow the warship, but the cable became tangled in
HMS LiverpoolHMS Liverpool was a 4,800 ton Town-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy commissioned in 1909. Named for the port city of Liverpool, the cruiser served continuously in home waters subordinated to the Home Fleet from 1909 through the initial stages of the First World War.During the war,...
's propellers and was severed, and a third attempt also failed when the cable gave way. By 17:00 the
Audacious' quarterdeck was awash and it was decided to evacuate the remaining crew members to
Olympic and
Liverpool, and at 20:55 there was an explosion aboard the
Audacious and she sank.
Commander of the Home Fleet, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, was anxious to suppress the news of the sinking of
Audacious, for fear of the demoralizing effect it could have on the British public, so ordered
Olympic to be held in custody at Lough Swilly. No communications were permitted and passengers were not allowed to leave the ship, the only people departing her the crew of the
Audacious and Chief Surgeon John Beaumont who was transferring to
RMS CelticRMS Celtic was an ocean liner belonging to the White Star Line. The first ship larger than the in gross tonnage, she was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed The Big Four....
. Steel tycoon
Charles M. SchwabCharles Michael Schwab was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world.-Life:Schwab was born into a German Catholic family and grew up in Loretto,...
, who was travelling aboard the liner, sent word to Jellicoe that he had urgent business in London with the Admiralty and Jellicoe agreed to release Schwab if he remained silent about the fate of
Audacious. Finally, on 2 November,
Olympic was allowed to go to Belfast where the passengers disembarked.
Naval service
Following
Olympic's return to Britain, the White Star Line intended to lay her up in Belfast until the war was over but in September 1915 she was requisitioned by the
AdmiraltyThe Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty.In...
to be used as a fast troop transport. Stripped of all her luxurious fittings, and armed with 12-pounders and 4.7-inch guns, the newly-designated HMT (His Majesty's Transport) 2810 left Liverpool on 24 September 1915, carrying soldiers to Mudros,
GreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
for the
GallipoliThe Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east...
campaign. On 1 October she sighted lifeboats from the French ship
Provincia which had been sunk by a U-boat that morning off
Cape MatapanCape Matapan, also known as Cape Tenaro, Taenaro or Tainaro , is situated at the end of the Mani, Laconia, Greece. Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece. It separates the Messenian Gulf in the west from the Laconian Gulf in the east....
and picked up 34 survivors.
From 1916 to 1917,
Olympic was chartered by the Canadian Government to transport troops from Halifax,
Nova ScotiaNova Scotia is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. Its capital, Halifax, is a major economic centre of the region. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada with an area of...
to Britain. In 1917 she gained 6-inch guns and was painted with a
"dazzle"Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II...
camouflage scheme to make it more difficult for observers to estimate her speed and heading. After the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
declared war on
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
in 1917,
Olympic transported thousands of U.S. troops to Britain.
Sinking of U-103
In the early hours of 12 May 1918, while en route for France with US troops under the command of Captain Bertram Fox Hayes,
Olympic sighted a surfaced U-boat ahead. Her gunners opened fire at once, and she turned to ram the submarine, which immediately crash dived to and turned to a parallel course. Almost immediately afterwards
Olympic struck the submarine just aft of her conning tower and her port propeller sliced through
U-103SM U-103 was a German Type Mittel U U-boat during the First World War. U-103 was built on AG Weser in Bremen, launched on 9 June 1917 and commissioned 15 July 1917...
's pressure hull. The crew of
U-103 blew her ballast tanks and scuttled and abandoned the submarine. This is the only known incident in World War I in which a merchant vessel sank an enemy warship.
Olympic returned to Southampton with at least two hull plates dented and her prow twisted to one side, but not breached.
Olympic did not stop, but continued on to Cherbourg. The
USS DavisUSS Davis was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis . She served with the United States Coast Guard as '....
sighted a distress flare and picked up 31 survivors from
U-103. It was discovered that
U-103 had been preparing to torpedo the
Olympic when she was sighted, but the crew could not flood the two stern torpedo tubes.
During the war,
Olympic is reported to have carried up to 201,000 troops and other personnel, burning 347,000 tons of coal and travelling about 184,000 miles. Her impressive World War I service earned her the nickname
Old Reliable.
Post-war
In August 1919
Olympic returned to Belfast for restoration to civilian service. Her interior was modernized and her boilers were converted from coal burning to oil fired. Oil was more expensive than coal, but it reduced the refuelling time from days to hours, and allowed the engine room personnel to be reduced from 350 to 60 people. During the conversion work and drydocking a dent with a crack at the centre was discovered below her waterline which was later concluded to have been caused by a torpedo that had failed to detonate.
Olympic emerged from her refit with an increased tonnage of 46,439, allowing her to retain her claim to the title of largest British built liner afloat, although the Cunard Line's
AquitaniaRMS Aquitania was a Cunard Line ocean liner that was built by the John Brown and Company shipyard near Clydebank, Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on 30 May 1914. Aquitania was the third in Cunard Line's "grand trio" of express liners,...
was slightly longer. In 1920 she returned to passenger service, on one voyage that year carrying 2,403 passengers. She was joined with two other White Star line vessels,
Majesticthumb|right|250px|Swimming pool on board the RMS Majestic circa 1922RMS Majestic, launched in 1914 as SS Bismarck, was, at 56,551 gross tonnage, the largest ship in the world until the completion of the in 1935. Originally slated to be the third and largest member of German HAPAG Line's trio of...
and
Homeric for an express service from 1922, operating successfully until the
Great DepressionThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
reduced demand after 1930.
At the turn of 1927-28,
Olympic was converted to carry tourist third cabin passengers as well as first, second and third class. Tourist third cabin was an attempt to attract travellers who desired comfort without the accompanying high ticket price. New public rooms were constructed for this class, although tourist third cabin and second class would merge to become 'tourist' by late 1931.
One year later
Olympic's first class cabins were again improved by adding more bathrooms, a dance floor was fitted in the enlarged first class dining saloon, and a number of new suites with private facilities were installed forward on B-deck. More improvements would follow in a later refit, but 1929 saw
Olympic's best average passenger lists since 1925.
Demise
At the end of 1932, with passenger traffic in decline,
Olympic went for an overhaul and refit that took four months. She returned to service in March 1933 described by her owners as "looking like new". Her engines were performing at their best and she repeatedly recorded speeds in excess of 23 knots, despite averaging less than that in regular transatlantic service. Passenger capacities were given as 618 first class, 447 tourist class and only 382 third class after the decline of the immigrant trade. 1933 was
Olympic's worst year of business - carrying under 10,000 passengers in total.
In 1934,
Olympic again struck a ship. The approaches to New York were marked by lightships and
Olympic, like other liners, had been known to pass close by these vessels. On 15 May 1934,
Olympic, inbound in heavy fog, was homing in on the radio beacon of Nantucket Lightship LV-117. Now under the command of Captain John Binks the ship failed to turn in time and sliced through the smaller vessel, which broke apart and sank. Four of the lightship's crew went down with the vessel and seven were rescued, of whom three died of their injuries - thus there were seven fatalities out of a crew of eleven. Three of the lightship's surviving crewmen were interviewed by the newsreels immediately after the accident.
In 1934 the
White Star LineThe Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of her sister ship, Britannic...
merged with the
Cunard LineCunard Line is a British-American-owned British-operated shipping company that has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
at the instigation of the British government. This merger allowed funds to be granted for the completion of the future
RMS Queen MaryRMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...
. Cunard White Star then started retiring its surplus tonnage, which included the majority of the old White Star liners.
Olympic was withdrawn from service in 1935 and sold to Sir John Jarvis for £100,000 to be partially demolished at
JarrowJarrow is a town in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the River Tyne and has a population of 27,526.-Foundation:The Angles re-occupied a 1st century Roman fort on the site of Jarrow in the 5th century Its name is recorded around AD 750 as Gyruum, representing Old English [æt] Gyrwum =...
, providing work for the region. In 1937,
Olympic was towed to
InverkeithingInverkeithing is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, located on the Firth of Forth. According to population estimates , the town has a population of 5,265. The port town was given burgh status by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century and is situated about 9 miles north from...
to T.W. Ward's yard for final demolition.
Official Number and Code Letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to
IMO NumbersAn IMO ship identification number is a identifying character string assigned by the International Maritime Organization to a ship for identification purposes in order to enhance "maritime safety, and pollution prevention and to facilitate the prevention of maritime fraud". The pattern is like...
.
Olympic had the UK Official Number 131345 and used the
Code LettersCode Letters were a method of identifying ships before the introduction of modern navigation aids. Later, with the introduction of radio, code letters were also used as radio callsigns.-History:...
HSRP.
Olympic today
Olympic's fittings were auctioned off immediately before she was scrapped; some of her fittings, namely those of the First Class Lounge and part of the Aft Grand Staircase, can be found in the White Swan Hotel, in
AlnwickAlnwick Alnwick Alnwick ( is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The towns population was just over 8000 at the time of the 2001 census and Alnwick's district population was 31,029....
,
NorthumberlandNorthumberland is a ceremonial county and unitary district in the North East of England. It borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of North...
, England. Some fittings and panelling also ended up at a
HaltwhistleHaltwhistle is a small town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, situated east of Brampton, near Hadrian's Wall, and the villages of Plenmeller, Rowfoot and Melkridge. The name of Haltwhistle has nothing to do with a railway stop, but is literally Hal-twysel, meaning "a meeting of the...
paint factory. The rest of her fittings found homes in scattered places throughout Great Britain.
In 2000,
Celebrity CruisesCelebrity Cruises is a cruise line founded in 1988 by the Greek Chandris Group. In 1997, Celebrity Cruises Ltd. merged with Royal Caribbean International to become Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which operates Celebrity, Royal Caribbean International, Azamara Cruises, Pullmantur Cruises and CDF...
purchased some of Olympic's
original wooden panels and created the RMS Olympic
Restaurant on board their newest cruise ship, MillenniumGTS Millennium is the lead ship of the Millennium Class of cruise ships, operated by the Celebrity Cruises line. Her sister ships are the Constellation, Infinity, and Summit.She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire, France...
. According to Celebrity Cruise Line, this wood panelling once lined Olympic's
à la carte restaurant.
In 2004, in the Titanic
MuseumThe Titanic Museum Attraction is a permanent two story museum shaped like the Titanic itself. It is located on Country Highway 76, Branson, Missouri and built half-scale to the original...
in Branson, MissouriBranson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named for Rueben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s. Branson is a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and the surrounding states. The population was 6,050 at the 2000 census...
, USA, a first class cabin from the Olympic
served as an example of the class's interior quarters. A replica of the Grand Staircase in the Titanic
also appears at this museum, as well as many items recovered from the Titanic
wreckage.
The clock depicting 'Honour and Glory Crowning Time' from Olympic's
grand staircase is on display at the SouthamptonSouthampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
Maritime MuseumA maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water...
.
There is also an entire appartment in the town of SouthportSouthport is a seaside town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. The town is located on the Irish Sea coast, to the north of Liverpool and west-southwest of Preston...
, UK, that is fitted with the interiors from the Olympic.
See also
Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a steamship of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast. She was built as a tender to the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, and is the last remaining vessel built for the White Star Line still afloat.-History:...
- surviving tender to Olympic
Further reading
External links
Olympic Home at Atlantic Liners
RMS Olympic; Old Reliable
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ship/101/Encyclopedia TitanicaEncyclopedia Titanica is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly-updated information on the . The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a database of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or Titanic enthusiasts...
: RMS Olympic]
Olympic on Titanic-Titanic.com
The RMS Olympic Restaurant on the Celebrity Millennium (Virtual Tour of ship's Plaza Deck shows panoramic view).
Olympic's Fittings at White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, England
Maritimequest RMS Olympic Photo Gallery
Lostliners: RMS Olympic
White Star Line RMS Olympic the Ship Magnificent
Lego RMS Olympic
1931 - 1960 ; The Cunard-White Star Liners
White Star Line History Website, Olympics owners.