I found these deck photos of the Olympic online

[Jon]

Enjoy! Tried putting them on the forum but they were to big so stuck them on MSN.

 

[Jon]

Some more

You have to copy and paste the link as for some reason its not doing it like before - if that makes any sense. They are well worth a look. There is an interesting photograph of Canadian troops on her poop deck!

 

[Bill Sauder]

Thanks for posting these John, very interesting... do you know anything about them or who they're from?

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Just so you know, the photo of the ship with the white paint job, the stripe and the crosses is the Britannic.

 

[Bill Sauder]

Thank you Michael! I don't know how that one got by me.

jk.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

No big deal Bill. I almost missed it myself. Still, some very nice photos. A couple of them are extremely rare, like the one with the compass tower in it. I don't recall ever seeing it before.

 

[Martin Williams]

How wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing these, Jon. High quality photographs showing passengers aboard the Olympic BEFORE the Great War seem to be exceptionally rare - these are, in fact, the very first I've seen.

Judging from the array of fashionable clothing, I'd date these snaps to the summer of 1913 - perhaps 1914, at the very latest. No matter when they were taken, they are fantastically helpful in allowing us to imagine how the decks of the Titanic looked during her maiden voyage.

 

[Jon]

Hiya Martin & Bill

They are photographs currently up for sale on ebay and were taken in 1913! Also in the album are some pictures taken on the Baltic. It will be interesting to see how much they sell for.

 

[Brent Holt]

"No matter when they were taken, they are fantastically helpful in allowing us to imagine how the decks of the Titanic looked during her maiden voyage."

I personally am more interested that they show Olympic in her early years. Not that they help out with Titanic. Olympic was a ship in her own right.

 

[Martin Williams]

What you say is perfectly true. But, as the Olympic and Titanic were, to all intents and purposes, identical twin sisters, these photographs are more helpful in allowing us to imagine what life was like aboard in April, 1912, than - say - similar photographs taken aboard the Mauretania in 1923. That was the point I was trying to make...

 

[Jon]

The photographs sold for over $1,400..

 

[Jon_dalbyball]

I have added 2 more scarce photo's. One is of Olympic in New York and the other passengers and crew leaving or going out to the Olympic.

 

[Jon_dalbyball]

A new photograph of the Olympic and Mauretania before scrapping. Enjoy

 

[Eric Longo]

Hi Jon,

Are these your photographs or are you taking the scanned images off eBay and posting them?

Best wishes,
Eric

 

[Jon_dalbyball]

Hi

Some are from ebay - yes! It's the best place to find unseen photographs.