January 19th; RMS Olympic

Now Olympic was the most closely resemble of Titanic. It was only about 10 feet shorter. They were near identical, there being just a few differences here and there.

Olympic's differences were the bridge being more curved, having evenly spaced windows on the promenade decks (oddly less safe,) and having bad windows inside the 1st class reception room. Olympic was what you could call the true unsinkable ship, while being docked in Southampton another ship collided with the stern of Olympic (the back) causing several compartments to flood, but the watertight doors activated and the ship was fine. She served in the first world war which later earned her the title, "Old Reliable." Something even crazier is that Olympic actually managed to sink two German U-boats. The first one it sunk by spotting a U-boat right ahead and the captain ordered that the ship be set to full ahead. Olympic then rapidly gained speed and rammed the U-boat sinking it.

this is a picture of Olympic with it's war paint. The second U-boat it sunk was with one of it's 4 deck guns. After World War I the White Star Line was beginning to fail. With the loss of Britannic and Titanic the company had lost a lot of money in a short amount of time. In 1934, after White Star and Cunard merged, the new owner wanted to remove all of the iconic White Star ships. Even though Olympic's engines were working better then they ever have before, (and now diesel engines) it was the White Star Lines flag ship, and was sent to be scrapped. After a relatively medium ship life of 23 years Olympic, the last remain tie to Titanic was scrapped.