Today around 12PM (Europe Time) it will be 100 years ago that the giant White Star Liner Olympic was launched in Harland and Wolff on October 20, 1910. The ship had a tonnage of 45,000. During the first World War she did service as a transport ship, after the war there was an party aboard the Olympic in a night of 1920. She was called "The Old Reliable".
On April 13, 1935 she was withdrawn from service duo the fusion of Cunard Line and White Star Line. She was docked in Southampton behind the Mauretania, waiting for a new owner. In May 1935 she was purchased by a French millionaire who wanted it as a floating hotel in France. During a research on the Olympic she showed her age, holes below in the funnels, rust in the hull. She had to be resold to an ship breakers. In 1937 the empty hull of Olympic was moved to Scotland to make Olympic history.
See the beautiful video
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