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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 .
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Nomadic was one of two vessels commissioned by the White Star Line in 1910 to tender for their new ocean liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, which were too large to dock in Cherbourg Harbour. She and her running mate SS Traffic ferried passengers, their baggage, mail and ship's supplies to and from large ocean liners moored offshore. [1]
Olympic was the largest British-built ship in the world for over 20 years until the commissioning of Queen Mary in 1936. Titanic ' s story has been adapted into many books, films, and television programs and Britannic was the inspiration of a film of the same name in 2000.
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HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke.She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser.. After commissioning in 1893, Hawke served in the Mediterranean Fleet, the International Squadron during the Cretan Revolt (1897–1898), and various other duties, including transporting relief crews to naval stations.
The two tenders left the Olympic at the exit of Belfast Lough, at the mouth of the Lagan, to head for Cherbourg. [12] Sailing at a maximum speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph), they reached their destination on 3 June 1911. [13] Traffic serving Olympic via the Third Class entrance located at the bow, pre-Titanic disaster
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 ...