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Arrival OLYMPIC, 6/21/11 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 9 older comments, and then…
• JSleeper said:

  Of White Star's three ships of this type, the Olympic lasted the longest. The Brittanic was sunk in the Mediterranean while functioning as a hospital ship during WWI. The Olympic was called Old Reliable, and was finally broken up in 1937. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

• Sam Wise said:

  And then, of course, the third ship of the type was the Titanic.

• JSleeper said:

  Actually, the Titanic was the second. The Brittanic (originally called Gigantic) was the third. After the Titanic went down they put her on hold for a bit, building up the watertight compartments and adding a lot more lifeboats. She never got a chance to be a passenger liner, though.

• Robert Carrier said:

  Amazing photo! Thank you once again LOC!

• ~ Liberty Images said:

  Haven't parts of the Olympic been used in a pub in England or Ireland?