RSS Olympus
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 RSS Olympus on her sea trials in Doveport in 1911
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| History | |
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 MacanocoMacanoco
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| Name: | Olympus |
| Owner: |
 Gold Star Line 1911–1911 |
| Port of registry: | Doveport, Macanoco |
| Route: | Doveport to |
| 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: | 1911 |
| Identification: | Radio callsign "MKC" |
| Fate: | Sunk in 1911 |
| Status: | Sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Olympus-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) |
| 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, |
| Propulsion: | Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller. |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911) |
| 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. |