RMS Olympic

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| Ship country = United Kingdom
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| Ship name = RMS Olympic"
| Ship operator = *25px White Star Line 1911–34
25px Cunard-White Star Line 1934–35
| Ship registry = Liverpool
| Ship route = Southampton – Cherbourg – Queenstown – New York City
| Ship builder = Harland and Wolff, Belfast
| Ship original cost = $7.5 million (USD)
| Ship yard number = 400
| Ship completed = 31 May 1911
| Ship maiden voyage = 14 June 1911
| Ship in service = 1911–1935
| Ship out of service = 12 April 1935
| Ship identification = *Wireless call sign MKC (until 1933)
Call sign GLSQ (1934 onward)
| Ship fate = Scrapped 1935–37
| Ship notes = Sister to the infamous ships Titanic and Britannic.
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|}RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner, sister to the famous ships Titanic and Britannic. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935. In September 1911, Olympic collided with the HMS Hawke. This included service as a troop carrier during World War I, which gained her the nickname "Old Reliable". In September 1915, during World War I, Olympic was painted in a dazzle camouflage, naming itself as the HMT Olympic. On 12 May 1918, she spotted a U-boat ahead, which is named U-103. Olympic’s port propeller sliced through U-103’s pressure hull. Olympic did not stop to pick up the survivors, but continues on to Cherbourg. She returned to passenger service as RMS Olympic after the war, and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. In May 1934, Olympic struck another ship, called Nantucket Lightship LV-117. 

Her scrapping began in 1935 in Jarrow. Between 1935 and 1937, Olympic’s superstructure was demolished, and then, on 19 September 1937, her hull was towed to Thos. W. Ward’s yard at Inverkeithing for final demolition which was completed by late 1937. Olympic was scrapped from 1935 to 1937 due to the Great Depression.

By the time of her retirement, Olympic'' had completed 257 round trips across the Atlantic, transporting 430,000 passengers on her commercial voyages, travelling 1.8 million miles.

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Category:RMS Titanic