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The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. The Olympic remained in service until 1935, when it was retired and sold for scrap. Auctioned items from the Olympic and objects recovered from the ...
Capt. Haines, of the Allen liner Parisian, wirelessed Halifax last night confirming the radiograms from the Olympic that no Titanic survivors were aboard the Parisian. Following the announcement ...
RMS 'Olympic,' one of the 'Titanic's' sister ships | Fred Pansing, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain During the First World War, the refurbished Olympic served as a British troop transport vessel ...
The Titanic accident meant a major remodeling of the Olympic, especially in terms of safety. Lifeboat capacity trebled from 20 lifeboats to 68. Over the years, it had different uses. It ...
The Titanic’s powerful owner, banking magnate J.P. Morgan (far right), is at the heart of many conspiracy theories. The Olympic was the first to be built, and as the line’s namesake ...
Social media posts reviving a long-running conspiracy theory - that the Titanic ocean liner wreck on the floor of the North Atlantic is really its sister ship Olympic - are missing the context ...
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Pulled aboard the RMS Carpathia following the Titanic disaster on April 14–15 ... That left one goal unconquered: an Olympic gold medal. Williams represented America at the 1924 Olympics ...
The gilt-trimmed walnut upright, now at the showroom of Besbrode Pianos in Leeds, was commissioned in 1912 for the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic. It was made by the same craftspeople ...
In 1912, Richard Norris Williams survived the Titanic, and eventually went on to win an Olympic gold medal. But it wasn’t that simple. Williams was a 21 year old tennis player with lots of ambition.