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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.
Original file (1,401 × 2,088 pixels, file size: 789 KB, MIME type: image/png) ... English: Cutaway diagram of White Star new liners Olympic and Titanic, midships.
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
The public's fascination with the Titanic spans generations — and there's no question as to why. The $7.5 million (over $200 million today) luxury ocean liner was a representation of grandeur ...
RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time.
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...
In the years since the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, we have become familiar with haunting images of the doomed passenger liner’s bow, lying at the bottom of the North Atlantic ...