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Titanic Sister Ship Olympic

Posted on March 16, 2010.
Titanic Sister Ship OlympicSurviving sister ship of the Titanic in Philadelphia?

I was recently in Philadelphia and saw a big, old boat that was in a state of disrepair. My comments thereon to the person I was with (who lived in the area) and he said it was a sister ship to the Titanic has been there for some time and was considered an eyesore. He said there were plans for restoration / repair it.
I was under the impression that Titanic's sister ships (Olympic and Brittanic) are no longer in existence, and research on the web seems to suggest.
What I suspect is that this ship was a ship that was part of the fleet of Cunard / White Star over a similar time, but I can not find any references to this anywhere, including Wikipedia. Does anyone know anything about this?
Please do not reply with useless answers like "no idea" that everyone's lost time!

Your impression that the Titanic had two sister ships, Olympic and British were correct.

The Olympics has been abandoned in 1935 as one of your previous respondents said. Briton has not been completed before the First World War. It has been used as a hospital ship and torpedoed by a submarine in the Mediterranean in 1916.

None of the White Star liners survive, but the nomads tender that was used to transfer passengers between ship and shore in Cherbourg was recently purchased for conservation in Northern Ireland (where the White Ship Star Line have been built in Belfast)

The boat you saw was the United States. It was the U.S. flagship line, built with a lot of government grant to enable it to carry troops in wartime. It was incredibly fast - the speed has been for many years a secret U.S. government - and therefore, it was easily the Blue Ribbon as the fastest liner passengers to cross the Atlantic. The United States was withdrawn in 1969, then moved to strange places, including Turkey.

I can not imagine anyone in the U.S. (I'm British) who want to scrap a ship as emblematic. The problem is that the vessels are kept very expensive to restore and maintain. In addition, it appears that the U.S. has lost its management, who were known for all metals: the designer has no wood Gibbs everywhere except the grand piano, apparently for reasons of fire. It would be difficult to show the vessel in a historical form: the Queen Mary sailed to Long Beach it was immediately removed from service and therefore his furniture, etc. still existed. It is therefore not surprising that you're stuck with a horror.

PS I noticed a previous respondent suggested that the ship that you saw was America. The United States has operated with a smaller, before the Second World War ship called the SS America, which I presume has been scrapped.

Neither sister ship survived. Here's the story:

Olympic keel was first laid down shipbuilders Harland and Wollf, Belfast, Ireland in 1908. Olympic was the first of a new class of ships. "Oly" as she was affectionately known, was the most successful career of the 3 sisters (Olympic, Titanic and Britannic) the other two sinking in peacetime and war. His first experience of service in time of war (WWI) has come while doing business travel. In October of 1914 Olympic events on the sinking of the battleship Audacious rescue British and led a daring. Olympique later became a troop ship carrying Canadians forehead. It was during this service that Olympic received its nickname "Old Reliable" for its trustworthy service carrying troops on these trips.

most notable achievement during the Olympic war was the ramming and sinking of German submarine U-103 May 12, 1918. Olympic was the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship during the war. Korvettenkapita¤n Claus Ra¼cker, commander of the 9-month old U-103 had unsucces.

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