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Edward Smith, captain of Titanic, on board the Olympic in 1911. Titanic had about 885 crew members on board for the maiden voyage. [108] Like other vessels of the time, Titanic did not have a permanent crew, and the vast majority of crew members were casual workers who only came aboard the ship a few hours before sailing from Southampton. [109]
Construction of Olympic started in December 1908 and Titanic in March 1909. The two ships were built side by side. [12] Before building of Olympic began, three entire slipways were razed to the ground in order to give way for the cradles whereupon both sisters would be laid. As a result of such density, large surroundings were in demand; 6,000t ...
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.
Although Olympic and Titanic were the two largest ships in the world, at the time, the Hamburg-Amerika Line was beginning work on a trio of even larger superliners, and the Cunard Line was planning to build a similarly-sized liner that would be the larger, slower sister to Mauretania and Lusitania.
[11] [iv] [v] Olympic was launched first, in October 1910, with Titanic seven months later. To provide better photographs against the steelwork of the gantry, Olympic's hull was painted white during building, then repainted after launch. Titanic was painted in White Star's black hull livery from the outset. Britannic was then constructed on the ...
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Carlisle was one of the men who designed the three ships of the Olympic class: the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic. In the design of the Olympic and the Titanic, he was responsible for the decor, the equipment and general arrangements, as well as the implementation of the davits system for the lifeboats. After 40 years at Harland and ...
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