The Story of RMS Olympic: Titanic's forgotten twin
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
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The RMS Olympic was a massive Olympic class liner and older sister of the infamous Titanic. She was crown jewel of the White Star Line and served an incredibly important role in history, even if she has (unfortunately) been forgotten by history today.
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@@kaiserwilhelm5562 I’m sorry your majesty
My grandmother as a schoolgirl took a day trip on the Olympic, I was blown away when she told me it was so matter of fact we where watching the movie Titanic and she recognized the staircase
Titanic sank in 1912, and only about 700 or so people survived that, and out of those, a few lived until the late 2000s. Olympic over the course of her career transported about half a million passengers, and was in transatlantic passenger service until 1935, 23 years later than Titanic's sinking. Bearing these facts in mind, it's likely that there are possibly a few hundred people alive today in 2021, who sailed on Olympic. Hopefully none of them died of fucking COVID...
@@DarqeDestroyer Sadly my grandmother passed away in 2012, but not before she saw 7 great grandchildren, I think off the top of my head she was born in 1919 so it would have been in the mid to late 20s I guess, so I'm going to say your figure of a few hundred is going to be pretty close
@@mjc8281 My condolences on your loss, MJ.
That’s so cool! Also, sorry for your loss.
@@mjc8281 I hope she went peacefully. Seeing great grandchildren is also quite a feat that many people never get to see!
It sounds amazing these days to have been on board a ship like that in person, but it probably wasn't considered that big a deal at the time lol. Did she tell you what she thought of the trip?
She was the real deal, “Old Reliable”. Thank you for this well done video. She definitely deserved the attention
E own’s the titanic
she was a write off after her crash with HMS Hawk and was swopped in a insurance scam with titanic and thats what is on the sea bed
It's unfortunate that the Olympic could not be saved and turned into a museum. She was the only surviving sister
Unfortunately she went to the scrapper right in the middle of the 1930's economic depression when there was simply no money available. She was broken up in Jarrow having been purchased by the local MP to provide work for the mass unemployed.
@@markrl75 True. Cunard-White Star didn't have money to save her
@@davinp - I always thought it was a great pity they couldn't save the RMS Aquitania who survived both world wars and lasted right up until 1950 a career lasting 36 years. Most people have probably never heard of her but she was quietly one of the best ships of her day.
That would have been wonderful. A lot of the great liners of the 1910-1920 era were scrapped during the Depression. I think that if they'd known that another world war was only a few years off, the ships might've been spared (i.e. become a "mothball fleet") for war service. They may have been past their prime as liners, but they still had great carrying capacity as troop ships and could all manage well over 20 knots.
@@TorontoJediMaster - That is very true. A lot of those liners where not practical to retain due to failing high pressure steam equipment and boilers. Superheated steam leaks are definitely not fun and extremely dangerous. Overhauling boiler equipment would have been very expensive. HMS Bulwark was sent to the breakers in 1981 (just before the Falklands war where she would have been very useful) for that very reason. The plan had been to retain her until the Invincible class were fully operational but a serious steam leak put paid to that. This was a big problem on other WW2 era RN aircraft carriers coming to the end of their operational life in the 1970's.
The story of the Olympic class liners will never stop to fascinate me. I am just sorry Olympic was the only one to realize her full glory and that her sisters never got that chance. And that both were lost with such great loss of life.
Titanic's loss of life was in freezing depths, and Britannic's came from her shredding propellers! It indeed is so terrible that they instead became coffins when they were truly so mesmerizing
@@NauticalStudy 😃
Britannic lost 30 people due to the lifeboats getting caught in the propellers. I wouldn't call that such a great loss of life
The Olympic was rebranded as the titanic and it actually sank not the titanic. The titanic was rebranded as the Olympic because of an incident and insurance issues. That same damage unreported is what most likely sank the Olympic and killed thousands. Then J.P Morgan cashed in on insurance fraud.
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And while sad, the only people lost were crew members who disobeyed orders, launching lifeboats while the ship was moving. They were sucked into the propellers.
Hey y’all, this video seems to be getting a lot of traction all of the sudden so I just want to say that i appreciate your support. Yes, the audios quiet, but UA-cam won’t let me edit it without making the music ridiculously loud. Sorry. It’s fixed in my newer vids.I have no idea why you’re drawn to this video specifically, but I’ll take your support any day. Check out my other videos, they’re a lot less monotone and have a bit more effort. Also, Lusitania sank in 1915, not 1916. That’s my mistake. Thanks!
The Olympic is a very beautiful ship... and the videos in your documentary showcases her splendor my dear... You did a very well job, please keep up the good work, And can you do us a favor champ, and create one on The Queen Mary "Which is related cousin ship to the Titanic and the Olympics, and It's value huge sense it's still moored in Long Beach California It was made by Concord / White Star.
I'm subscribing now. Cheers love!
I appreciate it! I have a video on her in my "potential video list" a video on the Queen Mary, so you might just be my motivation to make it! Thanks!
@@NauticalStudy My dear that video would be like a breath of fresh air, no one has fulled tied Queen Mary and Titanic together and they was both made by white star line and the Queen Mary is still here. "I see her at least 3 times a week and I say to myself always I'm looking at the Titanic "Minus the 4th smoke stack." anyways luv gotta run" I'll start gazing through your video collection tomorrow when I'm doing tea time.Your a wonderful narrator "Cheers"
@@NauticalStudy I will sacrifice my click to the subscription
I have subbed.
Also, this came into the recommended. Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏
My grandfather came over on the Olympic sometime around 1927 when he was just one year old. As the story goes my great parents smuggled him over in an instrument case. He always liked the Titanic more but obviously family connections to the Olympic are significant & without that historic ship I probably wouldn’t even exist. I definitely am not letting it’s history getting forgotten. When titanic or other famous ships are mentioned I often bring up the Olympic, the massive passenger liner that successfully served in World War I, sinking U-boats, having amazing camouflage which in itself is interesting history & surviving long enough to retire.
Awesome story!!!
Seu avô foi um cara de sorte por navegar em uma lenda como olimpic
RMS Olympic is the older sister-ship of the Titanic and at the time was one of the largest transatlantic liners in the world. Olympic was actually on the return trip to England that night when Titanic sank and steamed towards the scene. When Carpathia was offered by Olympic to take on Titanic survivors, the captain refused since Olympic may cause a panic among the survivors.
On October 27, 1914, Olympic was on the sixth day of her voyage when she intercepted a distress signal from a stricken British Battleship, Audacious which struck a mine and was taking on water. She arrived at the scene, assisted in rescuing the crew and attempted to tow the battleship to shallow waters. But the towing was to no avail and Audacious went under.
During the war, Olympic departed Halifax on December 1, 1917, five days later - The Halifax Explosion happened. Olympic was lucky to have been at sea because if she were in port at the time, she would’ve been a total loss.
Olympic was a great ship, but are there any documentaries on the Olympic?
I never thought about that, how if the Olympic saved that, how traumatizing that would be, like seeing a ghost
she was the largest ship when she launched and was only one upped by Titanic a year later and only by 1500 gross tons. and i agree she should be featured in more documentaries
There's a theory that says titanic and Olympic changed names after Olympics crash with a small vessel. So the original Olympic now named titanic was the one that sunk. And the original titanic survived with the name of Olympic
@@janjimgar918 That’s just what it is - a theory that’s been proven to be false because it’s not as simple as just swapping the names.
You have to love that Titanic swap “documentary” offering up extremely fake 90s CGI of falling riveted name letters as proof of the conspiracy.
Also no White Star liner - or any liner for that matter - has riveted metal letters for their names.
"Widely unheard of younger sister Titanic"
Your sass and sarcasm is awesome and I'm subbing.
i mean, it was widely unheard of…until the 15th, that is.
Slight error. It was the B-deck promenade that was eliminated on the Titanic and replaced with staterooms, an enlarged a la carte restaurant, and Cafe Parisien. The A-deck promenade remained the same on both ships, but it was partially enclosed on Titanic to make up for the loss of an enclosed promenade area for First Class passengers on B-deck.
I was about to comment on this too when I reached that part.
The Ship my grandfather came to America on that he left home in Cromwell England, rode a bicycle to Southampton and traveled to America. That was 101 years ago today.....
WOW
That's a great family story.
Ppl love to yak about their grandpa. What do you do? Flip burgers?
I always loved the story behind the Titanic and it's fateful voyage, recently my girlfriend and I spent a week in the White Swan hotel in Alnwick and to my incredible surprise she said we were residing in the interior of the Olympic... I was simply awestruck and this documentary is reinforcing that feeling. Thank you.
Kind of poetic really. Olympic was named after the home of the Gods, Titanic was named after the enemy of the Olympians, and Britanic was named after a country that was beginning to lose its domerience over her territorys. Of the three, the Olympic prevailed.
Then, in New York, The Statue of Liberty would be the titan Prometheus who stole fire from the Olympians.
Yes
Great documentary of Olympic. I studied Olympic for 2 years and you put such details and thought in only 10 min . I built a scratch build RC detailed with world exclusive videos of her reenactment details in honor of her memory. Thank you
Oh! how wonderful!!! I wish I had a model of her!
Thank you for this video. As a resident of Southampton so much is made of the Titanic and nothing of this more successful ship.
I'm looking forward to visiting South hampton next year so much history there...
Ok I just gotta emphasize that I get that the audio is crap. I always appreciate feedback and y'all have made that abundantly clear.
Audio is just fine.. love history!!😊
Britannic is just crying in the corner rn
Oh believe me, I have a video for her in the works too
XD yes
Lol
You said what I was going to say
Awwwwww!!! We love her, too!!! So sad, what happened to her.
Did you know she sank in only about 400 feet of water, outside of the Greek Isles??
Why? Arent folks going down to see her? I wonder?
The ship shown at the 1:14 mark is actually the Titanic before her forward promenade was enclosed. That video is awesome, the definition is really good.
Dear Nautical Study...Please do not remove this video!!!
I LOVED IT!
Go, OLYMPIC!!! She was the first ! over Titanic.
I want to thank you for so wonderfully honoring the Beautiful Legacy of this gorgeous Ship!!
I had always wished that she could have been saved, like the Queen Mary was!
I think that it was politics and jelousy, that made Cunard put her out. It sickens me, as this is one of my 3 Favorite Ships /Ocean Liners.
THANK YOU AGAIN, for such a wonderful video, that did this wonderful ship justice, and is a legacy reminder of how amazing she was! It really upsets me, how she is ignored, and or used only as a reference as 'how the Titanic looked".
If you care to redo this video, like you said, ( and, btw, I did NOT notice any mistakes or errors), except the volume was a bit low, only!); then Post it as an Updated version, and also please leave this one available.
I loved it!!!
Download it
Wonderful! Great pix of the Olympic that I never saw before. She was a great ship. I particularly like the score to this video: Strauss waltzes arranged for quartet or chamber orchestras. Let's have more of that. Thank you for an excellent 14 minutes. I wish it had been an hour.
The *OLYMPIC* needs much more recognition than she got. To date, there's never been a movie about her while *TITANIC* had many movies about her (most popularly, the 1997 James Cameron film), and even *BRITTANIC* had, at least, one movie about her (if not more).
Also, it was a very ill-fated move to scrap her. Today, she could have been a museum or a cruise ship if she had been saved instead of being scrapped. Just imagine the crowds of people who could have seen a living legacy of the famous Olympic-class ocean liners from the early 20th Century. Now, that would have been a sight to behold.
Britannic and Titanic Also have many Documentary
And They Will make new Britannic movie in 2024
@@jokewestrik-elskamp6653oh god not again
Yeah, and I really think there should be a movie focusing on the ships that were around the Titanic when she was sinking. The Olympic was one of the ships that picked her sister’s distress call and tried to dash to her rescue, even though she was unable to get there in time.
Titanic's other sister is also forgotten - the HMHS Brittanic which sank in WWI, meaning it never made it to passenger service
...I read that she is sunk in only 300 or 400 feet of water; but do you see anyone trying to visit her, with submersibles??? I haven't really heard.
Don't understand the facination w the "T", except what Hollywood caused with the movies.
@@judydenver5362 people dive to her without any submersible
Yes, everyone knows that. It's only 300-400 feet, like I said. But you can visit more comfortably, and film, and document, from a submersible.
@@judydenver5362 she lays on her side and because the waters aren't freezing there, she has no rusticles eating her
Now days Britannic is Much more Famous even when she was in world war
I have read all I can about the Olympic and you're right, it is a huge pity that, today, this grand and, generally, successful liner - come troop ship - is virtually forgotten or not known about at all. By the tragic virtue of both her sisters being no more, the new Cunard/White Star company could have afforded to lay the ship up as a tribute to her lost sisters if not as a museum, as maritime museums were not in vogue back then. As a troop ship, although not as fast as Cunard's vessels, she could still outrun U-Boats and, therefore, saved thousands of soldiers' lives; then bringing home survivors at war's end. For this service alone the UK government, that had requisitioned her, should have purchased her to be saved for posterity.
We will never see their like again and that's what makes saving and refurbishing the Queen Mary (1) so vital. For if the Queen Mary is ever scrapped then, like her earlier sisters, she'll only live on film and in the memories of all the lives she's touched. Thank you for these important videos. Cheers and plain sailing. BH
Titanic was a disaster which left a bad image on White Star Line. Why would any company preserve something as a tribute to a disaster. People often become sentimental these days. For the people of the 1930s Olympic was just an old ocean liner. There was no Titanic fever then.. It started only after Walter Lord published A Night To Remember in the 1950s.
I adore this comment!!! Olympic and Queen Mary are my very favorite ships!!
It was right in the middle of the Great Depression and the sad truth is nobody wanted an ageing steam ship and nobody had the money or will to preserve the ship.
Ocean liners were always seen as disposable once their service time was up and Olympic was no different.
Thank you for this great video. I love this ship and seeing her get the attention she deserves is awesome!
Thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍 Olympic is my favourite ocean liner
I hate it when people say olympic and britannic are called the "the 2 titanics" olympic came in first and britannic came last
White Star Line: “We’re losing business because of the depression. What can we do to bring more people in?”
Also White Star Line: “Paint the stairs green.”
Unbelievable🤦🏼♀️
Yeah, it looks so ugly
That color belonged inside a baby's diaper. Ughhhh!!!
Indicating sea sickness perhaps.
The Olympic is favorite Ocean liner, I even have a model of her in her war paint along with models Titanic and Britannic.
Where can I find the scale model of the RMS olympic
@@matthewtomson7874 Found it on Amazon for ~$50, however they only have the Dazzle paint which isn't bad if you have the rest of the Olympic class.
@@kingdutchorama4999 I got Titanic and Britannic I need olympic
@@matthewtomson7874 Yes! Where???
FAR OUT!!!!! Where can i get a model of her???
Awesome video. Would love to see a video on popular feelings of passengers about booking on Olympic directly after Titanic sank. I've heard that beside the fact that Olympic was too far away from Titanic on the night she sank, there were concerns about upsetting the passengers if they saw an exact replica of Titanic coming to their rescue.
Olympic deserves this video it's always overshadowed by titanic
Perhaps. But, "Olympic" had a twenty-five year career where she was known for her reliability. While her sister is synonymous with tragedy.
@@TorontoJediMaster TITANIC over shadows all ships,just the way it is.
@@sean25911 no titanic just sank like ships that sank at the same way
i dont know why but titanic is just a ship just like anyother.
@@sean25911 Nope. Olympic became a troop ship with an awesome camo scheme, sunk a U-Boat by ramming it, survived through the war, collided into a warship and a lightship and still survived.
Titanic just... sank.
@@sean25911 Better at drowning people.
The thing is, since it was scrapped, you might have a tiny bit of recycled Olympic inside your house.
Nice video :D always have hope for these types of videos !
Honestly the Olympic is my favorite of the 3 liners!
I've always loved the 3 sisters but unfortunately know more about the Titanic as more videos and books are made about it. Thanks for this awesome video ❤
Good review mate
This ship should have been turned into a museum. I would’ve loved seeing it
not a bad video, well done!
I appreciate that from you, you're a legend in the ocean liner community
Hey hi Sam.
Olympic deserves a movie about her she's so forgotten she's barely remembered her twin sister Titanic may be the most popular but about Olympic? She needs love too.
I think Britannic really need more Loves
She is really most Forgotten ever one talks about Titanic. After Titanic go to Britannic Story and Olympic is ever time at the background. Hi i am Titanic and Britannic sister then finish
@@jokewestrik-elskamp6653
Yeah and despite the tragedy Titanic had she could've suffered the same fate being turned into scrap metal I'd say hitting the iceberg did her a favor.
It’s a shame they didn’t think to turn her into a museum. They couldn’t see around the corner of titanic fanaticism which would have loved to board the Olympic to see what titanic looked like
I still, just dont get the fanaticism, the weird interest in Titanic. It's in essence, a grave, a cemetery, a crypt to the dead. What about the other lovely, beautiful ships that sank...The Lucitania, etc. et al, what is it about the Titanic....is it because of romanticized movies??? Sorry, but just can't figure it out. It's creepy, too.
@@judydenver5362 the thing about titanic is that it was an ironic tragedy. To start it’s the most catastrophic maritime disaster during peacetime. Lusitania sank in wartime. Titanic sank because of a tragic fluke never seen before or since. No ship has sank from an iceberg except the titanic. Next is the poetic nature of the tragedy. A ship that is the largest of its time, and has been deemed unsinkable by the press hitting an iceberg and sinking is ironic and tragic enough, but that this happened on its maiden voyage is just unbelievable. And I think the last part of the fascination of it is that this is something that could have been avoided in terms of the human loss of life. The accomplishment of building a ship like titanic at that time is a great one, but human arrogance got involved. They purposely didn’t put enough lifeboats on board because they never imagined an event like this as possible. It took titanic almost 3 hours to sink from the moment they hit the iceberg. The list was never extreme enough that lifeboats couldn’t have been launched. They could have gotten most if not all souls on board off the ship if they had enough lifeboats. The fact that there was a ship on the horizon that didn’t help also adds to the tragedy. It’s important to remember an event like this to remember humans are fallible and to then create redundancy in safety so it doesn’t happen again. You add all that up and you have a fascinating story and event.
@@shayhicks7682 I see. I hadn't thought of ALL those things, quite like that. I do know, that of all, the ships in the area, the Titanic was found to be excessively speeding, through the ice flows, (I know, the ice was everywhere, like floating white parches, for miles, according to the survivors, and not like just on 'Berg" shown in most movie and video accounts; and have yet to look into why Isnay, his "possible" order to the Captain, had been given, to speed through, etc., etc., so many things. I was urged to read "a Sea of Glass", too. So you see, I'm intrigued, too, to find out just what is the facination and interest.
Thanks so much! 🤗
...The Olympic, The Britannic, The Queen Mary, and the Original beautiful SS France, (before the ugly remodels), are still my very favorite Ocean Liners!
Olympic was truly an unsinkable ship
Ah yes, the Old Reliable. She survived the WW1, with many of her running mates died.She survived enemy submarines and a torpedo that never detonated. She had her primes and peaks. It is more and more brought home to me that all the good luck of Olympic Class went to her alone. Such a shame she wasn't preserved and turned into a museum, being so beautiful, gorgeous, and the closest thing to the most famous tragic ship in the world. Imagine how popular she would have been today if she was actually kept as a museum.
Imagine if she was a museum ship that still offered around the world trips at the same time.
The idea probably won’t work for any company at the time
I wish we could see an Olympic feature movie. The story of an unsinkable liner would have been perfect for cinema
Great video 🎬 I love Violet Jessop’s memoir ❤️ These ships hold such mystique and are fascinating to study 🔥
I really think there should be a movie focusing on the ships that were around the Titanic when she was sinking. The Olympic was one of the ships that picked her distress call and made massive efforts to try to dash to her sister’s rescue, but since she was about 505 miles away, she was unable to get there in time. She only made it as close as about 110 miles when she informed by the Carpathia that she had finished picking up the Titanic’s survivors and thus continuing her journey to the Titanic’s sinking location would gain them nothing. The Olympic’s crew still offered to carry the survivors since the Olympic was bigger than the Carpathia, but the Bruce Ismay and the Carpathia’s crew declined because they were afraid that a ship looking near-identical to the Titanic would give the survivors greater anxiety. From there, the Olympic resumed her voyage to Southampton, picked up more lifeboats on her way there, and had all of her parties and concerts cancelled out of respect for her sunken sister and the many people who lost their lives in her disaster.
She should have been noteworthy for being the only one of the three sisters that DIDNT sink!
A few calls yes but she served and completed her time at sea.
...though not for lack of trying... rammed a RN cruiser, a German U-boat and a lighthouse ship...
The only ship of the Olympic-class that earned the title as "unsinkable"
Excellent history of the White Star trio. Well done.
I saw an hour and a half show Once about how they did switch the Titanic and the olympic. It made a lot of sense to me
Until you stop believing obscure documentaries and look at the facts.
The Titanic and Olympic were not switched and that theory only came up because of the book Robin Gardiner wrote in the 1990s.
In reality she was more popular than titanic, I think she's only really been overshadowed in recent times... I think if Britannic survived she wouldve been the most popular.
But Now days Olympic is most Forgotten
Lovely video, subscribed!
My Great Grandparents sailed to Europe on their honeymoon aboard the Olympic. They returned on the Titanic. Both were saved in lifeboat number 7.
what were their names?
8:29 - 8:43 contains misleading information. The staterooms on Titanic were added in place of the B deck promenade, not the A deck promenade. The A deck promenade was used along its entire length, but the B deck promenade wasn't much used. So that's where they put in the staterooms, cafe Parisien etc. The difference to the A deck promenade was that the forward third of Titanic's was glassed in. This was because of experience with Olympic, where it was found that in heavy seas, spray from waves crashing over the bow could reach the forward end of the A deck promenade, soaking the wealthy 1st class pax. This is actually the primary way that Olympic and Titanic can be told apart at a glance - the forward 1/3 of Titanic's A deck promenade is glassed, whereas Olympic's A deck promenade is open along its entire length. As for B deck... that promenade was glassed in from the beginning on Olympic. During her 1913 refit, the B deck promenade was deleted, staterooms and a cafe Parisien being added, bringing her up to Titanic's spec. For whatever reason though, they never glassed in the forward end of her A deck promenade, and it remained open throughout her entire career. Making for an easy way to tell the ships apart, as noted above.
Great piece. Where can I get a list of the waltzes you played on the audio? Thanks.
Here you go, lots of excellent ones right here that were actually played on board White Star liners:
ua-cam.com/video/wPUIeAKywF4/v-deo.html
i’m so happy with the lack of comments about the ludicrous *“sWiTcH tHeOrY”* :)
**sigh** nevermind, we got one. smh.
@@DerpyPossum Ahh dont worry about these people
They just want attention.
@@jollamasbait i’m not so sure. i’ve seen quite a few who genuinely believe that stuff, and it makes me worried for the sake of the human race.
@@DerpyPossum aahh
dont worry these people are bottom feeders
they are just people that dont undestand science and math.
@@jollamasbait While you may be right, unfortunately they also breed and vote.
Also, there are no existing photos of Titanic’s propellers other than the few taken on the wreck. The mystery of titanic’s center screw is one of the biggest debates of the Olympic class.
In my own honest opinion, the Olympic is my favorite of the three Olympic-class White Star Liner sisters. I get that Titanic is more famous and all, and I also *really* like her as well, but there's just something about the oldest of the three sisters that makes her stand out more to me.
Yes beacuse Oly is strong Titanic is so sinkable
Great video, well worth a watch
The RMS Queen Mary took the Olympic's place shortly after the Olympic was removed from service. The Queen Mary was more state of the art than the Olympic was the Queen Mary first launched.
These old liners are so beautiful
Great photos and videos, thanks!
I really never knew any of this!! What a fantastic video thank you.
Absolutely brilliant video
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
@@NauticalStudy I loved the bit at the end where you said about how the Olympic is being remembered for this scam nonsense when actually she deserves to be remembered.
@@JHallam77 exactly! It’s such a shame that people only hear about her from those ridiculous clickbait videos. I really appreciate your support!
imagine if this was never scrapped and kept as a museum piece or a hotel like queen Mary
If only!! That would be my wish!!!!
This channel deserves 1M subs for talking about me
I appreciate it and it’s an honor to have a ship as famous as yourself watching my biography of yourself
Cool. I have models of all 3 sister ships, as well as the Carpathia
It may be worth mentioning that Cunard didn't have much more respect for their own Mauretania either. She was a legend as well, but (ab)used as a booze-cruise ship in the prohibition era and scrapped in 1935.
Desperate times. They were absolutely desperate for money.
Also Olympic was launched on October 20th, 1910. And Titanic was Lunched on May 31st, 1911.
Seems amazing in this day and age that a replica of Titanic was scrapped instead of becoming a museum
These ships are so beautiful. They have a dignified look... almost as if they knew they were the queens of the oceans.
Modern day ships are bulky and look more like they are built from legos or something.
You forgot to mention, after the war ended and was in dry docks getting refurbished for passengers again, it was noted that a section of plate in her hull had an inward bulge and a crack, fitters believing she was hit by a torpedo but it failed to detonate!
Genuinely very interesting, Thank you
They actually were nor twins. They started off as sister ships but as the Titanic was being constructed people such as J Bruce Isnay and members of engineering discovered improvements so the Titanic was a much improved version of the Olympic. As the Britannica was even though she was lost to a mine explosion during the war. All three were though members of the Olympic Class. And there really was nothing wrong with them. The Titanic unfortunately was victim to a series of unfortunate happenings that caused her to fatality go to the bottom. But her design the materials (rivets being the exception) all other materials and qualified labor were quite good ......Top of the line.
Olympic is my favorite of the sister ships and I hate that she’s only brought up for conspiracy theories 🙄 but it makes me happy hearing her interior is on display in England and that the ship still lives on in some capacity
Olympic is the most Forgotten to This days of her sisters but back then she was the most Famous
A lt of observers are critical of the Olympic class design because of the fate of her sisters but the Olympic's service record speaks for itself and despite the tragedy of the Titanic the ships were of a sound design.
Beautiful video, nicely done!
Often not mentioned is "Old Reliables" unquenchable thirst for the blood of other ships.
-It looks like this is one of his older videos and hes more shy because of it and is why sounds quieter and more emotionless and monotone or atleast is what im guessing-
I’m lucky enough to own parts of her
**jealousy intensifies**
@@DerpyPossum Even more :-D
What parts?
@@misterbuklau4053 floor tiles 6 of them
@@shaun1912 Thats cool
Why did they paint the grand staircase green? I never knew there were no inside pictures of the Titanic. Very good video
Green was VERY a popular color in the 1930’s, they painted it to keep up with the times as by the 1930s/ depression era 1920s opulence was almost seen as vulgar. the 1930s muted natural shades in pastels or darker natural shades such as orient red or in this case, paris green painted with a high gloss lacquer gave a high end look without being overly ostentatious.
Thanks for the reply 😊 Nothing was even said about that at the Titanic museum.
There are some existing photos of various rooms on the Titanic, just not of the grand staircase.
That there was the Titanic. That said, the Queen Mary is over 100ft longer, 3 additional decks and was about 35% faster...plus, the Queen is 80,000 gross tons vs the Titanic’s 46,000 gross tons.
Firstly, great video. A couple of things.
1. The Olympic is also called 'Beloved'. This comes from the nickname saying about these vessels, 'The Beloved, the damned, the forgotten'. Also no mention of their 'cousins' the Traffic & The Nomadic, whom were created to serve this class of vessel.
2. The original planned name for the third vessel was ' RMS Gigantic'. But, due to war requirements became 'HMHS Britannic. This vessel only became a hospital ship after it was turned down to be a troop carrying vessel. Courtesy of their rival Cunard.
3. The last surviving white star ship is today standing proudly in front of Titanic Belfast, as a living museum. The history of this grand lady is worthy of a video of its own.
Once again. Great video. Good job.
the whole “RMS Gigantic” thing is nothing but a myth and has no factual evidence.
@@DerpyPossum i agree
The RMS Olympic should get more notice for her service she was the only sister to survive all that was put her way and came back home a true modern marvels for her time when steam was king 👑 and ruled the sea
My friend is a marine biologist and she says the Olympic was the Titanic and the Olympic wasn’t done in time ! so they switched it to the Titanic ! The Olympic out lived them all ! Was this titanic ?
NO! That’s the titanic switch theory and it’s been disproven a thousand times. It’s just people posting the same garbage on social media over and over without doing research, but really nobody is to blame if they believe it after seeing it somewhere. I did a video a on it and why it’s bogus, but there are a lot of video: that are more informative and go deeper into the origin and spread of the misinformed theory.
@@NauticalStudyWhat's dumber to you? the federal reserve theory or the switch theory?
@@amaritineenthusiast Both are equally unsupported by any actual evidence, and both date from the 1990s.
Wonderful Last words..
Good i loved it
Thanks man! Even a month and a half later I still think I could've touched it up in few spots like my more recent vids, but I appreciate the compliment.
Wonderful old video.
Statistically someone has to think so
He dismissed the switching of Olympic and Titanic too easily.
It would be easy to check.
They made pretty good arguments in several documentaries and the things they said can be verified.
Did the captain of the Titanic crash his previous ship?
Why did they say he had a exemplary record?
Why was it 12 from its reported position?
Was the Titanic engraved with the name or plates originally?
Out of all the bodies found and no they didn't get all of them but the captains was one never found?
Why was the captain sleeping in his close? Captain of another ship too?
These things can be researched. There's record out there
I made a video addressing the theory in detail.
'Did the captain of the Titanic crash his previous ship?'
No, he didn't. The Olympic was in the Solent, and in the charge of a Solent Pilot, who was deemed at fault in a subsequent court case.
'Why did they say he had a exemplary record?'
Because he had, perhaps?
'Why was it 12 from its reported position?'
Because navigation in 1912 was not a precise science.
'Was the Titanic engraved with the name or plates originally?'
Yes. Just as Olympic's name was engraved into her hull.
Out of all the bodies found and no they didn't get all of them but the captains was one never found?
Relevance being?
'Why was the captain sleeping in his close? Captain of another ship too?'
Captains are allowed to sleep. That is why there are Watchkeeping Officers.
'These things can be researched. There's record out there.'
These things have been intensively researched already. However, conspiracists simply refuse to accept any research which challenges their fantasies.
Great video thank you
I adore this ship
Most beautiful ship in human history ever ❤
Wow that fireman survived all 3 ships accidents. Luckkyyy
I have questions about the exact year 1920: was Liverpool the England port for RMS Olympic that year? The inside decor was already renovated?
So Olympic did run that route in 1920, but what do you mean the inside decor was renovated? Her post-titanic renovation was in 1913 if i recall correctly, the one where her bridgewings were extended.
@@NauticalStudy I meant this: "In August 1919, the venerable Olympic returned to Belfast to be restored to civilian service. During this time, Olympic received modernized interiors and her boilers were converted to burn oil rather than coal."
Liverpool was where Olympic was registered but Southampton was her home port. During The Great War Olympic switched to sailing from Liverpool to New York going around the northern coast of Ireland as this was believed to be safer as it was further from continental Europe. By 1920 RMS Olympic would have switched back to Southampton.
the audio is pretty quiet, but good informative video.
Wow. This video is a year old now. Congrats
It was speculated that the third ship was to be called Gigantic. With the sinking of Titanic, it was altered to the less bold Britannic👍
Some pieces of obscure documentation show that Gigantic was merely a very unofficial consideration for the name. She was ordered in 1911 as Britannic.
Noo Britannic original name was Britannic that theory is fake Britannic was already called Britannic before Titanic left Belfast.
@@DerpyPossum yes and people say be course is simeler to Titanic name a Hello Britannic and Titanic are Also where simeler name and even Olympic is as ship is almost the same ship. How can a name more scarry Then a ship is almost the Titanic
Great video
Would have been nice if they had preserved 'Olympic' as a tourism draw in Halifax,. It would have been a fitting final home for and a tribute to the millions who left Europe for America..... many of whom arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax. Halifax has strong Titanic ties too with most of the victims buried there.
Most of the victims bodies were never recovered. Only 300 or so of the 1,500 lost were ever recovered.
Should also mention the fact that after the Titanic disaster the Brittanic was redesigned with double sides & later the olympic was withdrawn so she could also be rebuilt with full double sides.
That dazzle paint scheme is f'n cool
"Forgotten" Sister..??? Who said RMS Olympic is forgotten. She is equally celebrated along with her famous twin Titanic.
All 3 Olympic class steamers are equally famous.
0:00 let's face it,in reality there's nothing romantic about 1500 people drowning or dying of hypothermia.
One minor correction at 08:37 concerning design details and differences between the Olympic and Titanic. Inside the red rectangle is not where the Café Parisien is located and where State Rooms were added as a result of Ismay noticing the promenade was not being used. This occurres on B-deck, where the whole 1st Class was enclosed by a promenade, like A-Deck as well.
Then, focusing on A-deck, the design change made the experience walking on deck more friendly towards the passengers. Concerning there was more protection now from the wind and rain, with the steel screening and sliding windows etc.