Olympic Launch

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	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
Belfast Titanic Society	CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH BELFAST TITANIC SOCIETY COMMEMORATES CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC’S LAUNCH The Belfast Titanic Society will mark 100 years since the launch of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic with a short ceremony on ...	14th October 2010
Sphere	1911 EVENTS OF THE SEASON Olympic maiden voyage; Titanic launch...	28th February 1911
	POSTCARD: LAUNCH OF THE GIANT WHITE STAR LINER 'OLYMPIC' AT HARLAND & WOLFF'S SHIPYARD, BELFAST
Weekly Irish Times	A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...	21st September 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	CAPTAIN SMITH AND LAUNCH OF TITANIC From an unidentified French paper...	1912
	OLYMPIC LEAVING FOR JARROW SCRAPYARD, OCT. 1935 The Olympic pictured on October 12th, 1935, in Southampton, hours before beginning her last trip to the Jarrow scrapyards. This striking view shows how impressive the Olympic was....	12th October 1935
	OLYMPIC AS AQUITANIA This French postcard shows the Olympic but the caption reads Aquitania. The same card and mistake were replicated in a colour version....
	TITANIC LAUNCH TICKET An extremely rare example of a ticket to the launch of the Titanic Launch of t...	31st May 1911
Chicago Examiner	OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma...	25th September 1912
	OLYMPIC CLOCK A study fot the Olympic's clock in the Grand Staircase, pictured at Southampton's Maritime Museum....
	OLYMPIC AFTER HAWKE ACCIDENT The hull of the Olympic after the Hawke rammed it (Sept. 20, 1911)...	20th September 1911
	OLYMPIC The olympic in profile; At the pier in New York; Pier 59; New York skyline...
Attractions Management	TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN AT ULSTER MUSEUM TITANICa The Exhibition is to launch at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum County Down at the end of May to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic. ...	9th March 2011
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD Posted August 1912...	1912
Chicago Examiner	BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced...	20th December 1911
travelio.net	BELFAST MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAUNCH OF THE TITANIC Belfast is set to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city's most famous creations - RMS Titanic. On May 31st 1911, Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough by Harland & Wolff ...	25th May 2011
bighospitality.co.uk	BELFAST DISTILLERY RELEASES WHISKEY TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC LAUNCH The Belfast Distillery Company has released a new whiskey brand to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic from one of the city's dockyards....	7th June 2011
White Star Memories	OLYMPIC ARTEFACTS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1934! RMS Olympic's registration document has been reunited with its original leather wallet! after some 70 odd years apart! The two a were last together when the WSL was sold off and Olympic was scrapped in 1934/5. ...	4th March 2010
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built....	31st May 2011
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850....	26th May 2011
	BOXING PRACTICE IN OLYMPIC'S GYMNASIUM A photograph taken aboard the Olympic by Titanic Saloon Steward Edward Wheelton...
	OLYMPIC COCKTAIL BAR The Olympic cocktail bar, now located in the lounge bar of the Lambton Hounds Inn, Pity Me, County Durham....
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD ca. 1920...
New York Times	BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ...	24th January 1912
	OLYMPIC POSTCARD (CIRCA 1920) White Star Line Triple Screw S.S. "Olympic" 46,439 tons Largest oil burning steamer 882½ feet long...
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
	WHITE STAR MEMORIES WSM houses the largest and finest collection of White Star Line artefacts & memorabilia in Europe and specialise in the 'Olympic' class liners; "Olympic", "Titanic" & "Britannic". ...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
dailyecho.co.uk	RARE TICKET TO TITANIC LAUNCH UP FOR AUCTION A RARE and possibly unique ticket for the launch of Titanic in Belfast on May 31, 1911, is set to fetch between 50,000 and 70,000 dollars (£31,000 to £44,000) at an auction in America next month. The auction is one of many events being held to mark the centenary of Titanic’s sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April, 1912. The ticket, coming up for sale at Bonhams in New York on Sunday, April 15 – is particularly rare because it is unused and still has its un-torn, perforated stub attached. ...	23rd March 2012
Chicago Daily News	LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...	27th February 1912
	DOWNSHIRE HOUSE This is the house where in the summer of 1907, the Olympic & Titanic were conceived by Lord William Pirrie and J. Bruce Ismay....
	RMS OLYMPIC 1935 (1)
	RMS OLYMPIC 1935 (2)
	MARK CHIRNSIDE'S RECEPTION ROOM Titanic and 'Olympic' class research site, with a focus on Mark Chirnside's books and articles....
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
	DAMAGE TO THE OLYMPIC FOLLOWING COLLISION WITH HMS HAWKE	20th September 1911
	TITANIC CHANDELIER A light fitting from the Olympic, identical to ones fitted in the Grand Staircase of the Titanic ...
	OLYMPIC VS KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE The two giant liners were rivals...
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
New York Times	CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise...	6th October 1946
	CHEQUEBOOK JOURNALISM A Marconigram sent to the Wireless Operator of the Olympic by a New York newspaper....	17th April 1912
	OLYMPIC IN CHERBOURG The RMS Olympic in Cherbourg - 1911...	1911
	TITANIC IS LAUNCHED	31st May 1911
Chicago Record-Herald	NEWS ONLY FROM AMERICA Writing under the impression that the Titanic was saved, the newspapers call attention to the absence of any dry dock on the American seaboard large enough to accommodate such a vessel....	17th April 1912
New-York Tribune	GET GIANTS OF THE SEA Captains Smith and Haddock for Olympic and Titanic --- Captain Herbert J. Haddock of the White Star liner Oceanic, which left port on Wednesday for Southampton, was congratulated by wireless yesterday on his appo...	2nd December 1910
The New York Times	OLYMPIC CUTS HER OWN TIME Five Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes from Daunt's Rock to the Lightship --- The new White Star liner Olympic, which arrived in Quarantine last night and anchored, has made even better time on her second voyage th...	19th July 1911
Washington Times	CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...	16th April 1912

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