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Transoceanic Liners || White Star Line || Titanic || Britannic
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Introduction
In her construction, it was agreed by William James Pirrie of Harland and Wolff and Joseph Bruce Ismay of the White Star Line that money would be no object in creating the greatest ship to ever sail the seven seas. She would be the first of three ships, dubbed the "Olympic Class." She would be the prototype of the most graceful, and perhaps jinxed, liners ever built. She would be the royal mail, triple screw, transatlantic passenger steamer Olympic.
She would be the firstborn and most charmed of the ships in her class, the others being the infamous Titanic and ill-fated Britannic. Her life would span for almost a quarter of a century, from 1911 to 1937, seeing World War I, the Great Depression, and the rise of Fascism.
Olympic would be the first ship to have a pool for swimming instead of dipping. She would be the first ship to be converted from coal to oil power. She would be reputed to be one of the safest liners in the world. She would be one of the most elegant and luxurious liners of the pre-war Gilded Age. She would be the largest wholly British passenger liner until the advent of the R.M.S. Queen Mary in 1936.
The purpose of this site is
to educate those who seek information on the R.M.S. Olympic, and
sites like these are a rarity compared to the sites that are dedicated
to that of her sister ship, Titanic. Because there are so
few sites dedicated to this illustrious ship, there is more the reason
for this site to be made. Everyone knows how frustrating it is to
look for something on the internet, and what the search engines give you
have nothing that you want. The navigation bar is at the bottom of
the page, as is the button for going back to the top if you feel like it.
I hope you enjoy your stay here, and drop me a line if you want to.
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Last Update: 14 March 1999
