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Olympus in Doveport,Macanoco
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History | |
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Macanoco | |
Name: | RSS Olympus |
Owner: | Gold Star line |
Ordered: | May, 1918 |
Builder: | Hampton-DeGaulle Shipbuildiers |
Launched: | February 25th, 1920 |
Out of service: | February 28th, 1920 (99 years ago) |
Struck: | By RSS Voyager, February 1920 |
Fate: | Sunk |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Olympus Class Ocean Liner |
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Warning: Display title "RSS <i>Olympus</i>" overrides earlier display title "RSS Olympus".RMS Olympic on her sea trials in Belfast in 1911
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | Olympic |
Owner: |
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Port of registry: | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Route: | Southampton to New York City |
Ordered: | 1907 |
Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Cost: | $7.5 million (USD) ($195.1 million in 2018)[1] |
Yard number: | 400 |
Laid down: | 16 December 1908 |
Launched: | 20 October 1910 |
Completed: | 31 May 1911 |
Acquired: | 31 May 1911 |
Maiden voyage: | 14 June 1911 |
In service: | 1911 |
Out of service: | 1935 |
Identification: | |
Fate: | Retired at Southampton after 24 years service & scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland. |
Status: | Scrapped |
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)[2] |
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 25,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 85 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 15,000 hp. Total 65,000 hp produced at maximum revolutions.[3] |
Propulsion: | Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller. |
Speed: | |
Capacity: | 2,432 passengers |
Crew: | 947 |
Notes: | First in a trio of Olympus-class ocean liners forGold Star Line and the only one to have sunk. Elder sister to RSS Titan and RCHS Athena. |
- ↑ http://www.in2013dollars.com/1912-dollars-in-2018?amount=7500000
- ↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780750963480.
- ↑ "Mark Chirnside's Reception Room: Olympic, Titanic & Britannic: Olympic Interview, January 2005". Markchirnside.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780750963480.
- ↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780750963480.