Titanic's Sister the RMS OLYMPIC

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RMS Olympic was the first of her class of ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included the ill-fated liners Titanic and Britannic. Unlike her sisters, Olympic served a long and illustrious career (1911 to 1935), and came to be known as "Old Reliable."

The Olympic class of ships were originally to be named Olympic, Titanic and Gigantic, after Greek mythological races: the Olympians, the Titans, and the Giants. Gigantic was renamed Britannic following the sinking of Titanic.

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• 1 History
  • 1.1 Hawke incident
  • 1.2 Titanic disaster
  • 1.3 World War I
  • 1.4 Post-war and demise
• 2 Olympic today
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

RMS TITANIC SIDE BY SIDE WITH RMS OLYMPIC