RSS Olympus

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Olympus in Doveport,Macanoco
History
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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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Olympic sea trials.jpg
RMS Olympic on her sea trials in Belfast in 1911
History
 United Kingdom
Name: Olympic
Owner:
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:
  • Official Number 131346
  • Code Letters HSRP
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  • Radio callsign "MKC"
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:
  • 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911)
  • 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (service, 1933)[4]
  • 24.2 knots (45 km/h; 28 mph)[5]
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.
  1. http://www.in2013dollars.com/1912-dollars-in-2018?amount=7500000
  2. Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780750963480.
  3. "Mark Chirnside's Reception Room: Olympic, Titanic & Britannic: Olympic Interview, January 2005". Markchirnside.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
  4. Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780750963480.
  5. Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780750963480.