RMS Olympic information

	RMS Olympic arriving at New York on her maiden voyage, 21 June 1911
History
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Olympic
Owner	Oceanic Steam Nav Co 1911–34; Cunard-White Star Line 1934–35;
Operator	White Star Line 1911–34; Cunard-White Star Line 1934–35;
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Southampton – Cherbourg – Queenstown – New York City
Ordered	1907
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Cost	$7.5 million (USD)
Yard number	400
Way number	347
Laid down	16 December 1908
Launched	20 October 1910
Completed	31 May 1911
Maiden voyage	14 June 1911
In service	1911–1935
Out of service	12 April 1935
Identification	UK official number 131346; Code letters HSRP (until 1933); ; Wireless call sign MKC (until 1933); Call sign GLSQ (1930 onward); ;
Fate	Scrapped 1935–37
General characteristics
Class and type	Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage	45,324 gross register tons; 46,358 after 1913; 46,439 after 1920
Displacement	52,067 tons
Length	882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)
Beam	92 ft 9 in (28.3 m)
Height	175 ft (53.4 m) (keel to top of funnels)
Draught	34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Decks	9 decks (8 for passengers and 1 for crew)
Installed power	24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers originally coal burning, later converted to oil fired in 1919. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 85 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp. Total 46,000 hp, however capable of 59,000 hp at full speed.
Propulsion	Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller.
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911); 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (service, 1933); 24.2 knots (45 km/h; 28 mph) (Max Speed);
Capacity	2,435 passengers
Crew	950

RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname "Old Reliable", and during which she rammed and sank the U-boat U-103. She returned to civilian service after the war, and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable. Olympic was withdrawn from service and sold for scrap on 12 April 1935 which was completed in 1937.

Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic, which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the largest British-built liner until RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934, interrupted only by the short careers of Titanic and Britannic.^[5]^[6] The other two ships in the class had short service lives: in 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank in the North Atlantic; Britannic never operated in her intended role as a passenger ship, instead serving as a hospital ship during the First World War until she hit a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916.

^ Chirnside 2015, p. 34.
^ Chirnside 2015, p. 246.
^ Chirnside 2004, pp. 43–44.
^ Chirnside 2015, p. 39.
^ Chirnside, Mark, RMS Olympic Specification File (November 2007)
^ Cite error: The named reference thegreatoceanliners was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[FOOTNOTEChirnside201534-1] Chirnside 2015, p. 34.

[FOOTNOTEChirnside2015246-2] Chirnside 2015, p. 246.

[FOOTNOTEChirnside200443–44-3] Chirnside 2004, pp. 43–44.

[FOOTNOTEChirnside201539-4] Chirnside 2015, p. 39.

[5] Chirnside, Mark, RMS Olympic Specification File (November 2007)

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History
RMS Olympic arriving at New York on her maiden voyage, 21 June 1911
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Olympic
Owner	Oceanic Steam Nav Co 1911–34 Cunard-White Star Line 1934–35
Operator	White Star Line 1911–34 Cunard-White Star Line 1934–35
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Southampton – Cherbourg – Queenstown – New York City
Ordered	1907
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Cost	$7.5 million (USD)
Yard number	400
Way number	347
Laid down	16 December 1908
Launched	20 October 1910
Completed	31 May 1911
Maiden voyage	14 June 1911
In service	1911–1935
Out of service	12 April 1935
Identification	UK official number 131346 Code letters HSRP (until 1933) Wireless call sign MKC (until 1933) Call sign GLSQ (1930 onward)
Fate	Scrapped 1935–37
General characteristics
Class and type	Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage	45,324 gross register tons; 46,358 after 1913; 46,439 after 1920
Displacement	52,067 tons
Length	882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)^[1]
Beam	92 ft 9 in (28.3 m)
Height	175 ft (53.4 m) (keel to top of funnels)
Draught	34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Decks	9 decks (8 for passengers and 1 for crew)
Installed power	24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers originally coal burning, later converted to oil fired in 1919. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 85 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp. Total 46,000 hp,^[3] however capable of 59,000 hp at full speed.^[4]
Propulsion	Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller.
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911) 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (service, 1933) 24.2 knots (45 km/h; 28 mph) (Max Speed)^[2]
Capacity	2,435 passengers
Crew	950