Olympic should have been saved as a museum ship. I know old cruise liners like the SS United States and others have found it hard to be maintained but to have an almost identical ship to the famous Titanic still around (not to mention Olympic’s own history and that of Britannic) would have been very valuable to preserve for future generations!
Interest in the Titanic had died down. It started attracting attention again in the 1950s with the publication of Walter Lord's book "A Night to Remember" and the movie based on it.
why do people get this wrong ships like olympic and titanic and even SS United States are all ocean liners! Not cruise ships! Im not mad its just annoyying. You cant call the Queen Mary 2, SS United States, SS America, RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic, HMHS Brittanic, SS Normandie etc cruise ships. They are by heart ocean liners. Cruise ships arn't built for transatlantic crossings but are built for long time travel with lots of activity and entertainment. An Ocean liner on the other hand is meant to take you from point A to point B in the fastest way and in comfort hence the lack of extreme entertainment that can be found on cruise ships. Only minimal entertainment but still a fun voyage.
While refitting 'Old reliable' after the war they discovered a large dent below her waterline... It was believed she'd been struck by a torpedo that failed to detonate.
Haunting and absolutely sickening ! At least when a ship sinks, there is something left of it, as tragic as this is ! 😟 However, it is some consolation that certain interior fittings were saved from the Olympic .
JUNE 2024 RMS OLYMPIC was the quiet one of the trio, over looked by the tragedy of TITANIC and BRITANNIC. Old and Reliable had a service life, and after scrapping, some of her fixtures was saved for all to see. Shame no documentary made to show this pioneer ship as been produced, but thanks to this clip the pioneer sister lives on, as well as in books too. 🇬🇧Ⓜ️🇬🇧👋👋👋👋👋🤗🤗🤗
It’s too bad no one realized the historical significance of this class of ships and preserved her as a museum . It would be the closest you could get to the titanic being a sister ship
But you need to understand the situation that time. In 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
In that period of time that would be like going backward. Titanic became retroactively popular once ocean liners as a whole began getting phased out and Hollywood began making movies about it. There would be no money to be made with it without that nostalgia since in those days it was just considered an inferior ship and reminder of how technologically inferior ships were just a few years earlier. It’s like thinking people today would be interested in staying in a hotel that hadn’t been upgraded since the 1990’s. Maybe in the future a themed hotel about life before cell phones and WiFi might exist but right now that’d be considered roughing it.
The sad reality is that Museum ships are very expensive to maintain. If not, then the SS United States would be one today, yet she sits rotting away at a pier that can be barely paid for. Queen Mary needed millions for some restoration work that took a very long time to gain. The New Jersey BB62 took a lot of funds to get to dry dock to help preserve the ship for the next few decades, but a lot of work still needed couldn't be done due to lack of funds. Many museum ships fail with the ship left rotting away to eventually sink at pier or towed away for scrap.
Very interesting to see this as there hasn’t been a lot of archive film shown. My mother and father went to see the ship arrive at Jarrow and later was able to purchase items during its dismantling, one was a large table from the ship’s kitchen and lumps of coal wrapped in the local paper dated 1935. I still have the coal but the table ultimately succumbed to woodworm.
We have to remember that while yes today its tragic that she wasnt preserved, at the time there wasnt any historical value to her. Looking back now we can see what a terrible mistake it was but lets look at it this way. If a modern cruise ship was to be scrapped tomorow and it was just another cruise ship ppl wount think twice about it. We could never imagine that in another 50 years she would be cherished if preserved. They made the best decision they could at the time without the benefit of hindsight.
In truth, the tourist industry only really began in the 1960s. There were very few artifacts before that time that were regarded with any kind of sentimental value. Today, we can only wonder at the fact, but even had they transformed her into a museum ship, it would have cost millions to keep her in good condition for what is now almost a century since she last made an ocean voyage. Had she existed for that entire period of time, would visitors numbers have remained high enough to pay for her survival???
situation that time actually make scrapping Olympic was a good decisions. On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
If thet could have seen the future, they would have kept this liner tucked away. Think of the tourists that would have come to see her in the wake of the Titanic popularity.
Poor Olympic. She should have been turned into a museum or something. Unless she was too unsafe. Beautiful things like grand ships should be preserved.
But you need to understand the situation that time. On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
Becauss back then, it was just an old ship. Any historical interest at that time was nonexistent. She was around 25 years old, which was a typical lifespan for a liner in that day.
Such a shame she wasn’t saved. But they weren’t to understand then what a valuable piece of history she would become. The fascination with Titanic at that time had dwindled.
If time travel was a thing I would go back with the money needed Buy the Olympic from Cunard/White Star and turn her into a musuem ship instead of letting her be scrapped
Financially 1933 was the worst year for RMS Olympic as she ran at a net loss for the first time. In 1934 White Star merged with the Cunard Line and this merger allowed for funds to be granted for the completion of the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. These two ships made the older White Star line fleet redundant. An idea was suggested in turning RMS Olympic into a floating hotel anchored off the coast of France, but nothing came of it. Although the ship itself was scrapped, parts of her first class lounge can still be found at the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick
But you need to understand the situation that time. On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
A ship from another era, her class system, a primative design and relatively small size, meant it was unrealistic to be converted to a proper cruise ship. Plus with the qe1 and mary in place on the Atlantic, it had no job to do.
Not with those old coal fired boilers and steam piston engines. Olympic was scrapped in '35. No ocean liner in WWII dared use coal because it gave off cinders and at night time that's asking for a torpedo. BTW, the USA and Europe would have gone ballistic if a coal fired ocean liner showed up in a harbor during 1970, that was when they started writing environmental laws.
What Shame This Liner was aSister ship to the illfated Titanic!Theyshould have Kept it As A Muesum.The only One to survive disasters As Her Sister ships Fates.
@@ljts7587 Every part of that ship had 400 etched on it. The demolition helped to prove this was Olympic from the day her building began. You can still see 400 on the parts of the ship that were kept.
situation that time actually make scrapping Olympic was a good decisions. On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
Thanks to movie tone for the footage
When was this? I know that she wasn’t scrapped in 1935 or whatever (contrary to popular belief) so when was this?
What if Olympic didn't scrapped
My grandfather came over from Belgium on the Olympic. I have his original ticket and boarding pass. Great video.
That's really cool
@@LinkTardis it really is
Very cool 👍
Que tú abuela fue la olympic
@@Casa-r2kwth you yapping about bro sthu
Olympic should have been saved as a museum ship. I know old cruise liners like the SS United States and others have found it hard to be maintained but to have an almost identical ship to the famous Titanic still around (not to mention Olympic’s own history and that of Britannic) would have been very valuable to preserve for future generations!
Interest in the Titanic had died down. It started attracting attention again in the 1950s with the publication of Walter Lord's book "A Night to Remember" and the movie based on it.
It created jobs for destitute workers in the middle of the Great Depression. The average life of ships then was 20 years.
@@kyllepoiencot4361 if Titanic hadn’t sunk few people would have ever heard of these ships!
Yeah I agree it’s sad too see her go and get scrapped at least she had a full life
why do people get this wrong ships like olympic and titanic and even SS United States are all ocean liners! Not cruise ships! Im not mad its just annoyying. You cant call the Queen Mary 2, SS United States, SS America, RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic, HMHS Brittanic, SS Normandie etc cruise ships. They are by heart ocean liners. Cruise ships arn't built for transatlantic crossings but are built for long time travel with lots of activity and entertainment. An Ocean liner on the other hand is meant to take you from point A to point B in the fastest way and in comfort hence the lack of extreme entertainment that can be found on cruise ships. Only minimal entertainment but still a fun voyage.
While refitting 'Old reliable' after the war they discovered a large dent below her waterline... It was believed she'd been struck by a torpedo that failed to detonate.
Poseidon really had a burning hatred for the Olympic class lmao.
That image of just her hull with all superstructures gone was pretty haunting
Haunting and absolutely sickening ! At least when a ship sinks, there is something left of it, as tragic as this is ! 😟 However, it is some consolation that certain interior fittings were saved from the Olympic .
JUNE 2024
RMS OLYMPIC was the quiet one of the trio, over looked by the tragedy of TITANIC and BRITANNIC.
Old and Reliable had a service life, and after scrapping, some of her fixtures was saved for all to see.
Shame no documentary made to show this pioneer ship as been produced, but thanks to this clip the pioneer sister lives on, as well as in books too.
🇬🇧Ⓜ️🇬🇧👋👋👋👋👋🤗🤗🤗
Would have turned Olympic into a museum for me
Such a shame, but in the time of the great depression it was as they said 'a God send' for the workers
The only one of the Big Three White Star ocean liners that had a full career
This makes me want to cry 😢 rip
It’s too bad no one realized the historical significance of this class of ships and preserved her as a museum . It would be the closest you could get to the titanic being a sister ship
But you need to understand the situation that time.
In 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
In that period of time that would be like going backward. Titanic became retroactively popular once ocean liners as a whole began getting phased out and Hollywood began making movies about it. There would be no money to be made with it without that nostalgia since in those days it was just considered an inferior ship and reminder of how technologically inferior ships were just a few years earlier. It’s like thinking people today would be interested in staying in a hotel that hadn’t been upgraded since the 1990’s.
Maybe in the future a themed hotel about life before cell phones and WiFi might exist but right now that’d be considered roughing it.
The sad reality is that Museum ships are very expensive to maintain. If not, then the SS United States would be one today, yet she sits rotting away at a pier that can be barely paid for. Queen Mary needed millions for some restoration work that took a very long time to gain. The New Jersey BB62 took a lot of funds to get to dry dock to help preserve the ship for the next few decades, but a lot of work still needed couldn't be done due to lack of funds. Many museum ships fail with the ship left rotting away to eventually sink at pier or towed away for scrap.
So sad. Wish we still had you, ‘Old Reliable.’
Very interesting to see this as there hasn’t been a lot of archive film shown. My mother and father went to see the ship arrive at Jarrow and later was able to purchase items during its dismantling, one was a large table from the ship’s kitchen and lumps of coal wrapped in the local paper dated 1935. I still have the coal but the table ultimately succumbed to woodworm.
We have to remember that while yes today its tragic that she wasnt preserved, at the time there wasnt any historical value to her. Looking back now we can see what a terrible mistake it was but lets look at it this way. If a modern cruise ship was to be scrapped tomorow and it was just another cruise ship ppl wount think twice about it. We could never imagine that in another 50 years she would be cherished if preserved. They made the best decision they could at the time without the benefit of hindsight.
In truth, the tourist industry only really began in the 1960s. There were very few artifacts before that time that were regarded with any kind of sentimental value. Today, we can only wonder at the fact, but even had they transformed her into a museum ship, it would have cost millions to keep her in good condition for what is now almost a century since she last made an ocean voyage. Had she existed for that entire period of time, would visitors numbers have remained high enough to pay for her survival???
I CANT BELIEVE THIS???? She should of been preserved as a museum! THE CRIME OF IT ALL.... A CRIME!!!!!
Yup. Would have been ideal for wedding venues
@@2000spqr give it a rest, people were starving! Including my parents & grandparents!
situation that time actually make scrapping Olympic was a good decisions.
On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
If thet could have seen the future, they would have kept this liner tucked away. Think of the tourists that would have come to see her in the wake of the Titanic popularity.
I live in Durham and never knew her superstructure was broken up in Jarrow. Very cool
Outrageous. She should have been preserved as a museum ship. She didn't survive everything unlike her unlucky sisters, just to be scrapped.
shouldve never scrapped this beauty.
They truly wasted a legend. 😢
Basically looking at the titanic in colour 👍
Poor Olympic. She should have been turned into a museum or something. Unless she was too unsafe.
Beautiful things like grand ships should be preserved.
She was obsolete and unsafe at that time. Also, people did not have enough money for good food. So, the scrapping of the Olympic was inevitable.
Wish they would have made a floating museum out of her. Such a shame they didn't.
But you need to understand the situation that time.
On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
So heartbreaking! Such a shame she couldn't escape the ship breaker's torch. Why couldn't they just turn her into a floating museum or hotel?
To relive the Great depression a little, to give people jobs
Becauss back then, it was just an old ship. Any historical interest at that time was nonexistent.
She was around 25 years old, which was a typical lifespan for a liner in that day.
Because it was the middle of the depression and there were far more important things to deal with. Olympic's death allowed people to live.
Because it was a Death trap.. Ship technology and building moved on from poor designs.
@@marcothorsen950Wouldn't call it a "death trap" but yeah, she was outdated
Pretty crazy if you think of her value as saved.
Such a shame she wasn’t saved. But they weren’t to understand then what a valuable piece of history she would become. The fascination with Titanic at that time had dwindled.
You know this could easily be upscaled and ratio corrected. What is the source media format?
If time travel was a thing I would go back with the money needed Buy the Olympic from Cunard/White Star and turn her into a musuem ship instead of letting her be scrapped
Financially 1933 was the worst year for RMS Olympic as she ran at a net loss for the first time. In 1934 White Star merged with the Cunard Line and this merger allowed for funds to be granted for the completion of the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. These two ships made the older White Star line fleet redundant. An idea was suggested in turning RMS Olympic into a floating hotel anchored off the coast of France, but nothing came of it. Although the ship itself was scrapped, parts of her first class lounge can still be found at the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick
If only we could of made her a museum ship to view today
But you need to understand the situation that time.
On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
If only they knew how crazy people would be over titanic
A ship from another era, her class system, a primative design and relatively small size, meant it was unrealistic to be converted to a proper cruise ship. Plus with the qe1 and mary in place on the Atlantic, it had no job to do.
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The thumbnail makes me tear up
Instead why didn people make her a museum of her story after each year to years
Shame they did that, knowing what to the two sister ships, they should have put her in dry dock as a museum.😢
If it had lasted just another year or so, it would have been kept going still further for the war effort and hopefully been around in the 50's.
My Nan’s grandma heard of the Olympic
Very sad she wasn't saved like like the Queen Mary
Over 20 years old. When she was broken up. Could have gone another 30 or 40 years
Not with those old coal fired boilers and steam piston engines. Olympic was scrapped in '35. No ocean liner in WWII dared use coal because it gave off cinders and at night time that's asking for a torpedo. BTW, the USA and Europe would have gone ballistic if a coal fired ocean liner showed up in a harbor during 1970, that was when they started writing environmental laws.
@@Easy-Eight it was converted to oil in 1919
This male voice sounds like new zeland accent
I’m so sad rms Olympic is scrapped
seems like the boat or ship had a very good innings
It's very sad ending for a magnificent ship. I find myself looking for Harry Enfield in this video. Mr Chumley Warner. 😅
imagine if they didn't scrap it...
OMG A OLD CAMERA WITH SOUNDS IN 1912?!?!?!?
1937 was shot this film. Sound appeared in 1929.
@@FURY1958
ok, thank you very much for the information
where are the Titanic swap theorists 😂
The true unsinkable.....
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the first and last of the class
tragic really,great for shipworkers but what a waste of a beautifful time capsule
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Nòooooooooooooppo!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Titanic ship 🚢 of dreams
A sad ending, but Olympic most likely would have been sunk in WWII and ended up at the bottom like her sisters.
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The man has four legs
What a waste,
Pity the colour is chyte.
they should be ashamed of themselves. could have been saved for future generations
The ship breaking work put food on the table for thousands in Jarrow. Families were malnourished. No money for sentiment during the Depression.
What Shame This Liner was aSister ship to the illfated Titanic!Theyshould have Kept it As A Muesum.The only One to survive disasters As Her Sister ships Fates.
😢 bye 👋
The Olympic is actually the original Titanic. Its that simple.
Probably why she went to the breakers. To hide evidence of the switch. You’ll know the score;)
Me too thinks the same. Even when she went through demolition many ppl had said she is Titanic
@@ljts7587 Every part of that ship had 400 etched on it. The demolition helped to prove this was Olympic from the day her building began. You can still see 400 on the parts of the ship that were kept.
The 2 comments from the top are dumb
And the original one

why bother using ai to color footage when the colors dont even match up to anything
such an idiotic thing to do scrap such a famous liner should of been preserved
situation that time actually make scrapping Olympic was a good decisions.
On 1930s, it was Great Depression that time and Olympic no longer profitable and After white star and cunard merging into cinard white star, cunard white star really need money for finishing RMS Queen Mary so they scrap not just Mauretania, but also RMS Olympic so they can get money for finishing new auper liner RMS Queen Mary and scrapping RMS Olympic giving a job for thousands of people who struggle for having food on their table during Great Depression so its understandable why Olympic got scrapped.
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I think she's really the Titanic.
Yeah ok conspiracy theorist,well your wrong,titanic is sat at the bottom of the ocean "fact"
yard number 401 being found on the wreck in the Atlantic says otherwise. i own pieces of Olympic, all are stamped 400
Yup, switched at birth
@@guillermodelcastillo2548 blatantly wrong. They were never switched