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5 unusual facts about RMS Olympic


Abbeyleix

The town once had a carpet factory, established in 1904 by Yvo de Vesci, the 5th Viscount – notably producing some of the carpets used on the RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Alfred Frank Evans

From September 1913 to April 1914, Evans worked in the Southampton dockyards, making several voyages with the RMS Olympic.

Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic

The main staircase of the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, England has banisters from the Olympic's Grand Staircase, which is presumed to have been identical to the Titanic's.

Victoria Montgomery

The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage.

Walter Lord

In July 1926 at the age of 9 he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton on the RMS Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic.


Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Inverkeithing

RMS Olympic (Hull only during 1937 as superstructure was removed at Jarrow between 1935 to 1937)


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