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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 .
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.
Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. Jessop is best known for having survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been aboard the eldest of the three sister ships, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the ...
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]
She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania captured the eastbound Blue Riband on the maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season.
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.
All of the ship's crew transferred to the trawler via the ship's lifeboats and were then ferried to the waiting armed merchant cruiser HMS Alsatian, and HMS Forward. Charles Lightoller , the ship's First Officer (and also the most senior officer to survive the sinking of the Titanic ), was the last man off, taking the navigation room's clock as ...
Olympic sailing classes, a class of sail boats currently raced in the Summer Olympic sailing program as well as boat varieties formerly raced Olympic -class ocean liner , a trio of ocean liners built in the early 20th century, comprising RMS Olympic , RMS Titanic , and HMHS Britannic