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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 .
This auction also included the Olympic 's four landscape oil paintings from the B, C, D and E-Deck landings, along with the communicating doors from the two Boat-Deck entry vestibules. [14] The carved clock of the Olympic, believed to be identical to the one on Titanic, is displayed at the SeaCity Museum in Southampton.
He created a painting titled Plymouth Harbour for the first-class smoking room of the RMS Titanic. The painting perished when the ship went down. He also created a comparable painting titled The Approach to the New World, which hung in the same location on the Titanic ' s sister ship, the RMS Olympic.
After the loss of Titanic, the third ship Britannic claimed the title of largest British-built ship, until her own sinking in November 1916. After this Olympic held the title for 20 years until the commissioning of RMS Queen Mary in 1936.
HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) (/ b r ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ k /) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic ...
Herbert James Haddock CB [1] (27 January 1861 – 4 October 1946 [1]) was a British [2] naval reserve officer [3] and ship's captain, and was best known as the captain of the RMS Olympic at the time of the sinking of the Titanic. [4]
After the sinking, he testified at both the British Titanic inquiry and United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. [5] [4] On 25 May 1912, just a few weeks after the sinking, Barrett was working on Titanic ' s sister ship RMS Olympic where he was questioned by Senator William Alden Smith as part of an investigation. [8]
During Olympic ' s building, Bell had remained in Belfast during the whole time, superintending the ship's construction, "making any suggestions which he thought would lead to improvements." [ 2 ] He oversaw the installation of the ship's powerplant and served on the ship as Chief Engineer during her maiden voyage.