The Life of RMS Olympic

Here we have a picture representing the life of RMS (HMT) Olympic from her birth started in 1908 to her death in 1936.

With each stage you can see how Olympic changed over her time as an Oceanliner and her brief time as a Troop Carrier during World War 1.

As a Troop Carrier she was the only oceanliner in the War to ever sink a German U-Boat, she sank U-103 who attempted to Sink the Olympic but fail, Olympic however tried to ram the sub but her massive propellors sliced the hull of the sub, sinking it.

Olympic had several refits and overhauls during her life, these included the extra lifeboats after the sinking of younger sister and her coal burning boilers replaced with oil burning boilers.

In the end with dying trade, White Star and CUNARD merged, giving the newest CUNARD vessel the money needed to complete her at the cost of most of the older White Star liners being retired and this included the Olympic, the last of the Olympic Class liners. So in 1934 she was retired, 1935 partially demolished and in 1936, the rest of her hull was taken to Scotland for the final scrapping.

She lived for a short 24 years, nothing remains of her anymore apart from a few of her internal parts like her First Class Lounge that exists in an Hotel in Northern England.