To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
The first of the three ships was The Olympic, hence the three were Olympic class. The other common bit of remarkable trivia is that a nurse who served on the Titanic wound up serving during wartime on the Brittanic, so she was on two of the three (the two that sank). Olympic saw service in WWI, returned to work as an oceanliner, then was retired in 1935, sold for scrap, and by 1939 was just a memory -- just in time for WWII.
2 posted on
09/25/2025 12:25:21 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Yup. Olympic class ships were White Star’s answer to the increased competition from Cunard. Ironically it was the Olympic class that brought the end to White Star, allowing Cunard to take over/absorb White Star.
4 posted on
09/25/2025 12:42:59 PM PDT by
Semper Vigilantis
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To: SunkenCiv
The first of the three ships was The Olympic, hence the three were Olympic class.
Right, and it truly had an Olympic swimming pool.
9 posted on
09/25/2025 12:52:01 PM PDT by
Dr. Franklin
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