arrival

Beautiful Mules

The date on this photograph - April 10, 1912 is the date that her sister ship, Titanic left Southampton on her fateful maiden voyage. I wonder if this is the Olympic arriving in New York? I know she left New York on April 13 for Southampton and was 500 miles from Titanic during the sinking.

See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E0D6143CE633A... which says, 'With more than two thousand passengers on board, of whom more than nine hundred were in the first cabin, the White Star liner Olympic from Southampton arrived late yesterday afternoon. As the Olympic steamed into New York harbor, her sister ship the Titanic started on her maiden voyage from Southampton for this city.' Among the passengers was the English actor, Sir John Hare, see www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163476980/

thanks for the info...that's awesome to know.

I get the shudders just viewing this at maximum pixel! Small by today's standards, but only because shipbuilders of 100 years ago tended to employ high length:width ratios(9.0 & higher) vs modern liners which are much wider for the same length. If Olympic were 102 feet wide instead of 93 and were one deck taller she would've held the size record for another 10 years.

Goodbye is THE word.

This was at the end of her maiden voyage. See www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/maiden_voyage_mysteries.html 'The westbound transatlantic passage officially began when the ship passed the Daunt’s Rock Light Vessel at 4:22 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) outside of the harbor of Queenstown, and ended when the ship passed the Ambrose Channel Light Vessel at 2:24 a.m. New York Time (NYT) on June 21, 1911, before entering New York Harbor.' According to www.geocities.com/titanicandco/olympic.html : ' When they arrived in New York the on looking crowd must have been amazed. They would never had seen a ship of that size. Unfortunately, neither had the other ships in New York harbour who found out difficult to keep control in their berths as the Olympic passed. The O.L. Hallenbach suffered serious damage to her rudder and stern frame when the Olympic's propeller pulled her in. The Olympic was not damaged (except for a few marking to her paintwork). The Olympic finally docked at pier 59.'

See www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmaritimemuseum/tags/rmsolym... for photos from the UK's National Maritime Museum of the Olympic.

Other Bain/LOC photos of the first New York arrival of the "Olympic", on 6/21/11: Some history of the "Olympic"--------- www.atlanticliners.com/olympic_home.htm

This is what it would have approximated with the fateful Titanic coming into NY, less than a year later. Only the sizable OLYMPIC would be the only one photographed in New York, in this era, thanks to an iceberg.