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  2. RMS Olympic - Wikipedia

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    RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.

  3. USS Olympia (C-6) - Wikipedia

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    USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service with the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. She is currently a museum ship in Philadelphia.

  4. Olympic-class ocean liner - Wikipedia

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    Although two of the vessels did not achieve successful enough legacies, they are amongst the most famous ocean liners ever built; Both Olympic and Titanic enjoyed the distinction of being the largest ships in the world. Olympic was the largest British-built ship in the world for over 20 years until the commissioning of Queen Mary in 1936.

  5. A ship carrying the Olympic torch arrives in Marseille amid ...

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    A majestic three-mast ship carried the Olympic torch from Greece for the welcoming ceremony at sunset Wednesday in the city's old port. The torch was lit in Greece last month before it was ...

  6. Chinese Taishan - Wikipedia

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    Olympic Voyager''s launch in Hamburg, 1999 MS Chinese Taishan (Chinese: 中华泰山号) is a cruise ship that was formerly owned by Royal Olympic Cruises and Carnival Corporation & plc, sailing for Carnival subsidiaries Costa Crociere and Ibero Cruises as Grand Voyager.

  7. SS Nomadic (1911) - Wikipedia

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    SS Nomadic is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 at Belfast, that is now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter.She was built to transfer passengers and mail to and from the ocean liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

  8. Lightship Nantucket - Wikipedia

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    Lightship 117 at Nantucket was sideswiped by the SS Washington in early 1934, and four months later, on 15 May 1934, she was rammed and sunk by the British White Star ship RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon in dense fog. [3] Four men went down with the ship and seven survivors were picked up by the Olympic. Three survivors later died of ...

  9. White Swan Hotel, Alnwick - Wikipedia

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    At the entrance to the hotel is the revolving door that was originally fitted to Olympic ' s First Class restaurant entrance. [9] This was a feature that only appeared on Olympic, which needed a way of keeping sea breezes out of the room. Titanic had no such need as changes to the ship's design made a revolving door unnecessary. [14]