RMS Olympic! the sister ship of RMS Titanic... seagulls hover around the vessel during departure from Southampton.. March 28th, 1928... source: mirc.sc.edu
Nope. The Normandy is a 10. The Olympic class look is pretty much the same like their pre WW1 competitors. It's the celebrity effect! People think you are beautiful because they see you so many times. But in reality you are nothing special. The Olympic is a 7. That's it.
@@steffenreimann2854 what sort of prick starts with nope? I mean it's his opinion. You could try say. Have you ever seen? Or I disagree... Jesus the man likes them. No need to be a dick?
Douglas Taggart Now I’m intrigued by your response. What do you feel would be the “wrong reason” regarding the Olympic being preserved as a historical attraction? I mean I see your point I guess if the only reason was so that tourists and visitors would visit her ONLY to compare her to Titanic. The Olympic was an amazing vessel with a distinguished history in her own right and FULLY deserves her place in maritime history.
Douglas Taggart Yes, I hear you on that. I agree to a certain extent, because I do think that would be happening. However, I think it would have happened regardless, just because of how the Titanic disaster took place and how it shaped history. Let’s say Britannic had survived as well and both liners were preserved as a pair; it would be ALL about both of them being similar to the Titanic, and each liners individual history and achievements would be overshadowed by that, it’s inevitable. However, I believe when they scrapped the Olympic they also scrapped the sole reminder of an entire period of history, a way of life and a symbol of a nation. Because that’s inevitably what these liners were: they were National symbols of Irish shipbuilding pride and British wealth.
@@Orly90 I know what differs an ocean liner from a cruise ship, BUT I think it still would be possible to build a cruise ship that looks nice. What do you think about this: www.deviantart.com/majaorca100/art/France-2-137655181 A modern cruise ship with balconies and low mounted lifeboats. Her hull would indeed be larger compared to her internal space. What if NCL (which owned SS Norway, former SS France) had built something like this instead of that horrible looking monster Norwegian Epic? I think she would've created some interests and been a good PR for NCL. Or are true ship enthusiasts like me too few? Average "landlubbers" obviously don't care much about what ships look like on the outside...
ItzMike it pretty much depends on preference. I personally agree with this person that cruise ships today look extremely ugly, but any ship built before the 1960’s looks beautiful in my opinion.
This footage is simply breathtaking. Despite a lifelong interest in history, the great transatlantic ocean liners, and White Star's Olympic Class in particular, this footage has not been seen until now. What's most striking is the clarity of the film. In 1912, film footage was grainy, used a different reel speed and shaky. This has a cinematic quality that seems almost current with the exception of colour. This real-time footage of RMS Olympic may be the only historical means of illustrating what RMS Titanic would have looked like in close up. Many thanks for sharing this jewel in maritime historical preservation.
Even though you make a good point, I still think it's sad that people look at photos and much rarer videos of this beautiful ship just to 'connect' to the Titanic. If I had the 'chance' to travel back in time to witness either of the 3 sisters, the Olympic wins hands down!
this was not taken in 1912, you can see that she has lifeboats all the way down the boat deck. probably was taken after WW1/ 1920's. but yes, good point about the clarity, I was thinking the same thing too.
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Well, in my opinion ALL the former ocean liners were beauties compared to the hideous top-heavy looking motorized barges we have around today. They call them "cruise ships".
Sealover, at least we can afford to go on a cruise today, we could never afford those old liners of the past. Ships today have everything you could dream of.
@@dadumbderpster666ooferdoof5 - The Olympic was beautiful. Many improvements were made to Titanic like extra luxury suites, cafes and even more elaborate decor. They were quite similar but with each ship in the series some changes were made. It's a shame that Olympic wasn't kept like a few other classic ships have but sadly the times were tough and she was an anachronism.
There is something aesthetically perfect about the Olympic class of ocean liners. It's like the designers got the form exactly right, with nothing superfluous or out of place. The three liners were simple yet elegant. To me, no other ship/liner comes close to the aesthetic perfection Harland & Wolff achieved with the Olympic Class ocean liners (not even the Normandie, which many consider to be the most beautiful liner). They are quite simply beautiful & perfect in every way. It's such a shame that the Titanic and Britannic sank and that the Olympic was scrapped (though you can see many of the Olympics first class dining room's fixtures and fittings at the White Swan hotel in Alnwick, it's well worth a visit if you love the Olympic class liners). If professional restorers could get hold of the original negative then this footage could be restored to a crystal clear high definition. That would be amazing to see.
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I love that smoke is coming out of the chimney of her 4th funnel. I know it’s from her stoves & other accessories rather than engines, but it’s still cool to see!
It's probably from the oil engines. She was refitted to work on oil. Exhaust from those engines would have also used the fourth funnel, unlike her steam days.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Actually after the refit, the engines were still the same and needed steam from the boilers, now burning oil instead of coal. The fourth funnel still provided ventilation to the engine room and the galleys of the ship.
What a beautiful ship. A shame that the girl was scrapped. This may sound really opinionated, but out of the Queen Mary vs. Olympic being transformed into a hotel, I would rather have Olympic than the Queen Mary. Olympic just has so much history behind her. Not that the Queen Mary doesn't, but the fact that the Olympic and Titanic were virtually identical, that would be enough for me.
MBLR Studios same prefer the if the Olympic was in Long Beach California instead of the Queen Mary. In my opinion the Olympic was a way better looking ship then the Queen Mary both r beautiful ships tho
Apparently it almost happened, and if a certain bid had of come into fruition a week earlier, we would almost certainly be seeing the Olympic instead of the QM, but sadly we know what happened.
These classic-design ships look absolutely beautiful. They have a really fancy vibe to them. I wish ships still looked like actual ships. The cruises we have now look really ugly.
Because the idea is to cram as many paying passengers on them as possible compared to the size of their hulls. But I think it still _would_ _be_ possible to build a cruise ship that looks nice. What do you think about this: www.deviantart.com/majaorca100/art/France-2-137655181
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Probably the closest any of us will ever get to seeing what the Titanic looked and sounded like in motion. That said Olympic was a beautiful ship in her own right.
@@steveputland4324don’t believe everything you read on the internet. There is so much false information about Titanic, including conspiracy theories about this supposed switch. The ships were not 100% identical. The actual serial number 401 (compared to Olympic’s hull number 400) was found at the wreck site. Not to mention that the damage to Olympic in the Hawke collision did not seem to add up to how much it would cost to crash a multi million dollar ocean liner into an iceberg and let it sink. Then factor in the payouts to victims’ families, the deceased crew’s families, the negative PR, the loss of one of the ships that was created solely to tag team the transatlantic route. It makes absolutely zero sense. But of course, I saw it on the internet so it HAS to be true.
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This is absolutely beautiful. What a Grand ship. Such a shame the Titanic sank. Wish they would have made the Olympic into a museum. Would have loved to seen it. Thank you for sharing this video.
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Hat's off to all those Harland & Wolf workers who are no longer with us, and to those old sailors with their old memories of a time when Britain really did rule the waves.
@@michaelt9443 sadly H&W haven't built ships like this since the 60s. They so exist but really in name only. They do very different things today with a fraction of the staff and have been rescued many times since.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Absolutely, the Harland and Wolff of today bears no resemblance whatever to the company of the early 20th c. Today’s “toads” are mainly built either in Germany or Italy. U.K. no longer has a major shipbuilding industry.
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What gets me is that all those people on that video all them lives of each individual are all gone now, but remembered on a piece of film forever. That particular moment in time has been captured not known by those on board and around the ship that will be watched and remember forever. It fascinates me. Wish I could go back in time and see this with my own eyes. In the present day now nothing seems as prestige and as spectacular now,
My grandmother and her mother came over on the Olympic in 1934. I've been researching trying to find footage as well as photos from their trip in old photos. it truly is fascinating!
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How's that for eerie symbolism... right at the end of the video, you can see and hear above the Olympic, an airplane - the invention which would ultimately be the death of the great ocean liners.
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Yeah, I hate it when people say the fourth funnel is just for looks and served no other purpose, when it actually was used for ventilation and even had a ladder inside so the crew could climb to the top.
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Many comments are about "Olympic should've been saved as a museum ship and a reminder of Titanic". Back then Titanic was actually a disaster that people, not least White Star Line, wanted to forget. WSL never fully recovered from the disaster and was finally forced to merge with Cunard in the 1930's. WSL even used the name Britannic again, because she was lost in war and more like a hero, but never the name Titanic. Olympic could indeed have been saved to remind us of the era and these amazing ships. But it wasn't so easy: - We must remember that saving a ship of this size takes a huge amount of money: It was also "the great depression", money couldn't be found so easily. Olympic was indeed for sale but they coudn't find any buyer. Many, and even older ships than Olympic have been saved but they are relatively small and a lot cheaper to keep and maintain, like for example the tender SS Nomadic (1911) in Belfast and SS Great Britain (1845) in Bristol.
- And in the 1930's Olympic was not much more than a 24 year old ship that had done her job. If she had survived into this century, it would've indeed had been a completely different situation. The great depression also "killed" many great ships, even much younger ships as Olympic.
You can still view bits of her at the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, sections of the staircase and restaurant were salvaged and used to fit out the hotel when she was scrapped
@@bisken6547 Titanic II (Palmer's project) is not in construction yet. Only a preliminary design phase has happened: titanicll.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/is-the-titanic-ii-design-now-complete/
When you consider the limited technology available in the Edwardian period, You cannot help but admire this beautiful example of this workmanship, While at the same time, spare a thought for her tragic sister who foundered on that freezing cold morning of April 15th 1912. and the great loss of life that incurred.RIP !!
@@martincvitkovich724 I would have enjoyed being some opium addicted heir to a mining fortune back then, travelling the world in the great liners of the time.
@@Gr8thxAlot Please, do not bring up the QM2 in a video about the Olympic class ever again. That's like bringing up a toddler's messy drawing in a discussion about Caravaggio.
This is absolutely magnificent. A glimpse into the past when ship travel was at its height and the only way to cross! Nothing like the enormous cruise ships of today that to me look like big globs of cotton candy on a stick!
Well you could argue that the Imperator class liners were originally masculine ships that were later acquired by the British and Americans who go by ships as feminine objects. So you could argue that these ships changed genders throughout their history. Oh wait. What am I saying anymore?
What is so amazing is that we actually get a grasp of the sheer size of these ships, actually seeing people walking her decks putting her to scale. I can understand why so people felt safer on the Titanic after she had struck the iceberg.
The Olympic Class liners were truly incredible pieces of engineering. In my opinion, such beautiful liners had never been built before, and have never again been built since. Olympic herself was the very definition of what a liner should be: elegant, graceful, prestigious, and sleek. The age of the four-funnel was short, but boy howdy was it a great one. Today’s cruise “liners” don’t even come close to that beauty. Cruise ships are glorified barges with engines. They’re fat, lumbering great things that are nothing in comparison to the liner. They’re not graceful, and they’re certainly not elegant. True liners are glorious ladies who deserve our respect. Cruise ships are hillbillies who should have stayed in the hills. The age of the liner was one that will be remembered fondly, respected greatly, and loved dearly, and preserving films like this is the perfect way to make certain of that. Thank you for sharing this video. As you said in the title, it is truly breathtaking.
The Lusitania and Mauretania were remarkably similar in design and build. The Olympic class were beautiful but nothing that innovative or new compared to what came just before it or after it.
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc .
So agree - Fascinating to see what essentially the Titanic looked like. The advances in photography between 1912 & 1920's is significant affording a great perspective
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+Matthew Cox True, but the most valuable parts of the ship were put on sale and are still around today, and her lounge is still half in tact which is much better than the whole thing being at the bottom of the ocean.
Good point. Two of the three Olympic Class liners have been preserved that way, even if in deplorable condition. I remember reading somewhere the British regretted scrapping the Olympic when WWII came around. It would have made a good troop ship.
There are dislikes (by morons) in almost every YT video. If a video has more than 5 times more likes than dislikes it's probably a good video. This has 65 times more likes so it's VERY good. 👍
I’m sure many of the dislikes are from people who are angry that not everyone believes the incorrect theory that the Olympic was switched with the Titanic.
Would be quiet the site to see for sure! But I do think even if they didin't scrap her then, it would be stil unlikely it survived all the was to modern day, it was already quiet old for it's type and that generation of oceanliners would be replaced in a couple of years, plus the comming world war and all. It wouldn't be impossible, but highly unlikely stil, sadly. Would've been pretty cool tho
Brittanic was slight different, way heavier ,covered poop deck on the rear plus extra lifeboat storage , and gantry davits for more lifeboat capacity ,most other aesthetics where pretty much the same
I love the outward appearance of steamy ships, sinuous and elegant with sharp prows hurling themselves on the sea, black hull and impressive funnels. I can not say the same of today's ships, in my opinion outwardly much lower than the old steam ships I would dare to say almost ugly in comparison! there is something romantic and timeless in them that I do not find in today's ships unfortunately, not counting the splendid Victorian and Georgian interiors they had, I do not like the minimalist style of today! I wish the ships were still like that! 😍😍😍😍
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc .
Thomas Andrews wasn't the chief designer of the Olympic-class ships, that honor falls to the Right Honorable Alexander Carlisle, who oversaw the design and initial construction until he retired in June 1910, three year after the designs were finalized and two years after construction of Olympic and Titanic started. Andrews took over from Carlisle, and oversaw the finishing up and some of the modifications that were incorporated based on experience. Until then he worked alongside another man who doesn't get enough credit for designing the trio: Edward Wilding. It's something of a Hollywood myth that Andrews was the man solely responsible for the Olympic-class, that he was the sole man in charge from the beginning of the project, and so these other men get overlooked.
@@rmstitanic8163 Absolutely. Go Google or Duck Carlisle and Wilding. Andrews was the junior to Carlisle and then took over when the latter retired. But by then, most of the work was done.
@@mikedicenso2778 Carlisle was more involved in the safety department such as watertight department and lifeboats. Just because he was called Right Honorable, doesn't make him Chief Designer. Decor and safety isn't the be all of ships design.
@@rmstitanic8163 He was in charge until 1910, then Andrews took over. What's not to understand? Each man had an area to focus on, but Carlisle was the guy in charge overall. Most of the work was done and construction well underway by the time Andrews took over. It's just that simple.
And electric cranes. Britannic struck a mine during the war serving as a hospital ship, she sank in an hour with a thousand people on board than Titanic. Less than 30 perished.
Ship designers could do worse than recreating some of the elegant and beautiful public spaces on the Olympic class ships... still some of the most beautiful ship interiors ever.
It is a sin that they have scrapped such a beautiful ship with a great trajectory. Surely today it would be a floating museum and the closest thing we would have to the Titanic :(
SO SAD Olympic, Titanic & Brittanic didn’t survive as a trio of liners to preserve the Olympic class of liners more thoroughly. I wish that at least Olympic would have been preserved as a museum. It’s just sad. I’m very much a fan of the Edwardian Age (fascinated by the obscene wealth and the fashion, not the class discrimination and uptight social mores), and these liners were like time capsules of it.
THIS IS PRICELESS!!!! It's breathtaking!!! How did you find it!!! I could watch this, all day, She's got to be my all-time favorite ship, along with the Queen Mary. This footage is stunning!!!! So well preserved, and looks like todays standards and clarity, cinematically, except for spots of deterioration on a frame here or there, they pass by, quickly!! BOY!!!! This is just a TREASURE, and irreplaceable!!!!! Thank you so very much, a thousand times, over, for finding this, posting it, and saving it for History!!!!!
@@TheAviationGuyID They could have beached her, for later generations to restore. They even scuttled a three hundred year old 74 gun ship of the line in 1948. The last of its type remaining. Now we only have a single ship of the line surviving in HMS Victory. Same thing they could have beached her. She would have been a great gift to the future. Just as Olympic.
b hiby historical preservation only began to become a thing after the war (probably because we lost so much to the Luftwaffe) and even then a lot from the Victorian and Edwardian eras was destroyed because it was considered deeply unfashionable right up until the mid-1980s. We owe the survival of a lot of what's left to preservationists like John Betjeman who were for many years lone voices in the establishment. Sadly the great liners had no such advocate and the handful that have survived have done so largely by accident (in the case of the QM, it was cheaper for the city to buy a tired old ship and turn her into a floating hotel than it was to build one of a similar size).
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Same on our side of the Pond. They only ship left from that era I think is the USS Constitution, the one that had cannonballs bounce off her sides, LOL.
@@harrietharlow9929 Yeah legendary ship. They called her Ironsides because of that. Would love to see it some day. The Brits do have a few left such as the HMS Trincomalee but there is only one First Rate 100 gun ship left in HMS Victory.
Something so beautifully haunting about ships back in this period. Cruise ships today are not very nice looking ships in my opinion. I suppose the same thing goes with modern architecture. I was probably born in the wrong time but I thought the same when I was a we kid, I used to ask my dad why was everything so much more beautiful in the olden days.
People have talked about building a replica of Titanic. I think that's a mistake. Titanic and Brittanic both had tragic fates. Olympic on the other hand, had a distinguished career, through WWI, until she was scrapped in 1937. They should make a full size replica of Olympic. That would be a fitting tribute to 'Old Reliable', as well as Titanic and Brittanic.
Yes, but unfortunately the most famous ships are the ships that sank. Olympic isn't even known by "average Joe". It's the same with Lusitania and Mauretania. Most people know about Lusitania, but Mauretania is mostly forgotten, even if she hold the Blue Riband speed record for 20 years and had a longer career than Olympic. They are actually building a Titanic replica in China, called "Romandisea Titanic". This will be permanently moored as a tourist attraction. The other one, Clive Palmer's Titanic II, will most likely never happen. The project has been delayed more than once. It was "hot" again in 2018, when the ship designer Deltamarin announced that they continue the planning of the ship, but nothing has happened since then.
As must as I am saddened to say, the Olympic Class Liner's were outclassed before their keels were even laid. Yes, they where going to be bigger that any vessels then afloat, but they weren't particularly revolutionary at all really. They had the same 50 year old hull design as the previous three generations of liners, they weren't hydrodynamically novel, the hull shape was tried and tested but, already out of date. They had reciprocating main engines, with a single turbine, again tried and tested but, already outdated, and seen as inferior by most. The Olympic Class were triple screw steamers, already very much out of vogue by 1912, and viewed as vastly inferior to the quadruple screw steamers coming into fashion. In terms of luxury, and size, by the time Olympic was launched, SS Imperator was under construction, and outclassed them in both respects, and outclassed the Olympic Class in terms of technological advancement such as hull design, and being a quadruple screw, turbine powered vessel. So, by the time Olympic was scrapped in 1935-1937, she was practically dinosaurian. But despite all of that, to me, the Olympic Class are three of the best liners ever created, and for me weren't surpassed until SS Normandie entered service.
That has to be the most up close and clear video in existence of Olympic, surely. The film of her on her deck while being loaded up with cargo is nothing on this. This perspective is the closest one will ever be able to judge what her and Titanic truly looked like, amazing.
@Railfan 765 Thank you I never knew that. They were 3 of the most beautiful ships ever designed no matter who designed them. To live back then and have lots of money!
Olympic proved there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the design of her, Titanic and Britanic, they were just very unfortunate in the circumstances that led to their loss. Despite several incidents, Olympic soldiered on and became known as "Ol' reliable". I live just a few miles from where Olympic was finally scrapped!
Graham Crichton Ram a mine with the costa concordia and tell me where it gets you when your superstructure bends and doesn’t allow you to close any watertight doors or the rudder, only relying on your shitty piddly now thrusters which won’t help.
I'm 68 years old, and my Grandfather was a crew member on RMS Olympic. By the way the tug at the beginning of this film was operated by the Alexander Towing Company.
I feel nostalgia for that bygone era too, but then I realize that I probably never could have travelled on those wonderful ships and visited Europe. Now, I, retired and barely middle class income-wise can take one or two cruises a year.
One of the most ominous things about Olympic post Titanic was White Star's effort to avoid making her look too similar to her ill-fated sister. She gained all of Titanic's features in her 1912-13 refit except the A-deck enclosure, despite the open promenade being considered one of her biggest flaws. White Star were paranoid about losing potential passengers because they thought that nobody would travel on a mirror image of Titanic. As we now know today, the opposite was in fact true. People flocked to Olympic to get a glimpse of what the infamous Titanic looked like.
OMG it is spectacular!!!....looks alomost exactly as the titanic...people feeling bad for the titanic mega tragedy can look at OLYMPIC and relive the majestic nature of these class of ships!..marvelous...shame that she survived unlike many ships of her age just to be SCRAPPED!!
@@MrDaiseymay Exactly.Later after the loss of Titanic they changed a few things,so she looked different.On the Night Titanic sunk,the Olympic wanted to help her Sister and was on the way to rescue passenger and crewmember of Titanic in their Lifeboats,but she was too faraway.Also they thought it wouldn't have been a good idea to do that,because it must have been the horror for the passenger and crew,because just imagine》They still had the shock in their bones when Titanic sunk and than being rescued by Olympic that looked like Titanic....😳
@@J.A.Hansen I heard about that, something to do with "mirror imaging" or something along the line. Where it would spook the passengers seeing same looking ship next to them after the other one sunk.
@@J.A.Hansen correct, the instruction was given by the captain of the RMS Carpathia (the ship that came to the rescue) for Olympic not to intervene as this may cause more horrific trauma for survivors seeing a near identical ship approaching. a very considerate decision he made
Thank you for posting this moment from shipbuilding history! The _Olympic_ was quite a ship. I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't seem to have a nameplate visible on its bow. I wonder, was it not there, or was that a limitation of the camera?
That was a camera limitation, although I’m not sure exactly what kind. I think it has to do with the exposure, which would naturally be set in a way that would best capture the full majesty of the ship rather than just her nameplates and the like.
I`ve been trying to figure out whether it actually had a nameplate when it set out in 1912 or if the name was embossed into the hull. This picture is 1928 and a lot could happen in those 16 years, and it might be a camera limitation but it doesn`t seem to have any identification.
@@fredocarroll Would have thought some of those camera shots of the bow at that distance, you would have seen the name if it was there. Maybe something on the port side with a mag but not sure. Could be a camera problem but certainly a strange situation. Also noted smoke coming out of 4th funnel which differed from the Titanic situation in 1912. Not such a clear shot of the stern but I believe name and place of registration have to be shown there.
The nameplate was changed in her later years to a bolder and more modern style. The letters were carved out as before but were six inches taller. The cutout areas were painted in with ochre colored paint. The gold sheer stripe got lowered as well. That area is in dark shadow here so it is almost invisible.
Sieht wirklich haargenau wie ihr berühmtes Schwesterschiff aus. Faszinierend, so bekommt man eine sehr genaue Vorstellung davon, wie auch die "Titanic" in einem Hafen gewirkt haben muss. Faszinierend auch, dass die "Olympic" noch lange nach dem Untergang ihrer berühmten Schwester noch so erfolgreich die Nordatlantik-Route befahren hat. Schade, dass das Schiff verschrottet wurde.
My Grandfather saw the Olympic as a boy in Belfast probably around this time, amazing that footage of this quality with sound exists. This is closest we'll ever get to how the Titanic would have looked in motion as the only film we have of it is in harbour, unless of course you believe that the ships were switched........
There's something so much more graceful and impressive about the lines and design of these early 20th century liners. Even though they wee not as large as some of today's cruise ships, they looked bigger because of their design. Today's ships look stupid in comparison, with their stacks and stacks of balconies making up a ridiculously high superstructure that is all out of proportion. I'm wondering why the Olympic's name is not visible on either side of the bow in this video. Even with the poor film quality, you would think the white letters on the black background would be visible.
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc .
White Star Line's Olympic Class ships were the most beautiful class of ships I've ever seen.
Nope. The Normandy is a 10. The Olympic class look is pretty much the same like their pre WW1 competitors. It's the celebrity effect! People think you are beautiful because they see you so many times. But in reality you are nothing special. The Olympic is a 7. That's it.
@@steffenreimann2854 I fully, and whole-heartedly disagree. The Olympic-class had a clean, elegant lines second to none.
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@@steffenreimann2854 poor little philosoph
@@steffenreimann2854 what sort of prick starts with nope? I mean it's his opinion. You could try say. Have you ever seen? Or I disagree...
Jesus the man likes them. No need to be a dick?
To this day I find the Olympic class to be perhaps the most beautiful ships ever built. Possibly the most beautiful transport machine ever built.
I agree!
I concur.
just no
agree
Everything seems wonderfully proportioned like a Boeing 747. Sleek and futuristic.
If this vessel were spared she’d be the greatest tourist attraction in Europe today 🇬🇧
eyescrynot ABSOLUTELY. She’d be the sole survivor of her class of liners. They were incredibly short-sighted about that.
Yeah but for the wrong reason
Douglas Taggart Now I’m intrigued by your response. What do you feel would be the “wrong reason” regarding the Olympic being preserved as a historical attraction? I mean I see your point I guess if the only reason was so that tourists and visitors would visit her ONLY to compare her to Titanic. The Olympic was an amazing vessel with a distinguished history in her own right and FULLY deserves her place in maritime history.
@@tillyboos because it would be about looking like the titanic not about tbe olympic itself
Douglas Taggart Yes, I hear you on that. I agree to a certain extent, because I do think that would be happening. However, I think it would have happened regardless, just because of how the Titanic disaster took place and how it shaped history. Let’s say Britannic had survived as well and both liners were preserved as a pair; it would be ALL about both of them being similar to the Titanic, and each liners individual history and achievements would be overshadowed by that, it’s inevitable. However, I believe when they scrapped the Olympic they also scrapped the sole reminder of an entire period of history, a way of life and a symbol of a nation. Because that’s inevitably what these liners were: they were National symbols of Irish shipbuilding pride and British wealth.
Back when ships looked like ships instead of oversized floating hotels that they call cruise liners.
We could call them "Covid 19 hotels" now...
@@sarcasmpersonified9435 True lol
Well that's what cruise liners are meant for, to be hotels. Ocean liners were designed for carrying passengers across the ocean, not entertainment.
@@Orly90
I know what differs an ocean liner from a cruise ship, BUT I think it still would be possible to build a cruise ship that looks nice. What do you think about this:
www.deviantart.com/majaorca100/art/France-2-137655181
A modern cruise ship with balconies and low mounted lifeboats.
Her hull would indeed be larger compared to her internal space.
What if NCL (which owned SS Norway, former SS France) had built something like this instead of that horrible looking monster Norwegian Epic? I think she would've created some interests and been a good PR for NCL.
Or are true ship enthusiasts like me too few? Average "landlubbers" obviously don't care much about what ships look like on the outside...
ItzMike it pretty much depends on preference. I personally agree with this person that cruise ships today look extremely ugly, but any ship built before the 1960’s looks beautiful in my opinion.
This footage is simply breathtaking. Despite a lifelong interest in history, the great transatlantic ocean liners, and White Star's Olympic Class in particular, this footage has not been seen until now. What's most striking is the clarity of the film. In 1912, film footage was grainy, used a different reel speed and shaky. This has a cinematic quality that seems almost current with the exception of colour. This real-time footage of RMS Olympic may be the only historical means of illustrating what RMS Titanic would have looked like in close up. Many thanks for sharing this jewel in maritime historical preservation.
Even though you make a good point, I still think it's sad that people look at photos and much rarer videos of this beautiful ship just to 'connect' to the Titanic. If I had the 'chance' to travel back in time to witness either of the 3 sisters, the Olympic wins hands down!
this was not taken in 1912, you can see that she has lifeboats all the way down the boat deck. probably was taken after WW1/ 1920's. but yes, good point about the clarity, I was thinking the same thing too.
@@Pelley4560 March 28, 1928 to be exact. Says so in the video description. Gorgeous view of Old Reliable though.
Bruce B Chin i agree! At first i thought this video was fake
The only surviving.sister at that.time
She's with out a doubt absolutely beautiful
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Most beautiful ship class ever
But many liners were beautiful in their own ways
CombraStudios yup. I've never seen a ship that's prettier than these 3 before or since.
Well, in my opinion ALL the former ocean liners were beauties compared to the hideous top-heavy looking motorized barges we have around today. They call them "cruise ships".
Sealover, at least we can afford to go on a cruise today, we could never afford those old liners of the past. Ships today have everything you could dream of.
@@jimcrawford5039 Everything except prestige regarding the looks of modern day cruise ships.....
@@NazmusLabs Personally I think the Lusitania and Mauretania were sleeker looking.
Wasn’t she just gorgeous😭❤️💖
The Olympic was the most beautiful ocean liner ever built, IMHO! And this video was nothing short of amazing.
Even titanic
Olympic was beautiful. Titanic was even more luxurious inside, not that it mattered for very long.
@@susieq9801 Olympic was, and forever will be, the most luxurious four-funneled liner. Long live olympic! queen of the seas!
@@dadumbderpster666ooferdoof5 - The Olympic was beautiful. Many improvements were made to Titanic like extra luxury suites, cafes and even more elaborate decor. They were quite similar but with each ship in the series some changes were made. It's a shame that Olympic wasn't kept like a few other classic ships have but sadly the times were tough and she was an anachronism.
There is something aesthetically perfect about the Olympic class of ocean liners. It's like the designers got the form exactly right, with nothing superfluous or out of place. The three liners were simple yet elegant. To me, no other ship/liner comes close to the aesthetic perfection Harland & Wolff achieved with the Olympic Class ocean liners (not even the Normandie, which many consider to be the most beautiful liner). They are quite simply beautiful & perfect in every way. It's such a shame that the Titanic and Britannic sank and that the Olympic was scrapped (though you can see many of the Olympics first class dining room's fixtures and fittings at the White Swan hotel in Alnwick, it's well worth a visit if you love the Olympic class liners).
If professional restorers could get hold of the original negative then this footage could be restored to a crystal clear high definition. That would be amazing to see.
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Beautiful, no music. Just the actual sounds of the majestic beauty itself.
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Nobody cares.@@thesterrave
I love that smoke is coming out of the chimney of her 4th funnel. I know it’s from her stoves & other accessories rather than engines, but it’s still cool to see!
This is from the smoking room, because it comes from a hole in the middle of it
@@hugos5114 and they were preparing lunch
It's probably from the oil engines. She was refitted to work on oil. Exhaust from those engines would have also used the fourth funnel, unlike her steam days.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Actually after the refit, the engines were still the same and needed steam from the boilers, now burning oil instead of coal. The fourth funnel still provided ventilation to the engine room and the galleys of the ship.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Apparently in the 1920s many ship were converted to oil firing to keep labour costs down.
What a beautiful ship. A shame that the girl was scrapped. This may sound really opinionated, but out of the Queen Mary vs. Olympic being transformed into a hotel, I would rather have Olympic than the Queen Mary. Olympic just has so much history behind her. Not that the Queen Mary doesn't, but the fact that the Olympic and Titanic were virtually identical, that would be enough for me.
MBLR Studios same prefer the if the Olympic was in Long Beach California instead of the Queen Mary. In my opinion the Olympic was a way better looking ship then the Queen Mary both r beautiful ships tho
Apparently it almost happened, and if a certain bid had of come into fruition a week earlier, we would almost certainly be seeing the Olympic instead of the QM, but sadly we know what happened.
No one was interested in such things at that time, and Olympic was just one of dozens of old ships back then, nothing special.
i cant imagine that she would still survive to this day.
@@haltdeinmaul8613 Not too farfetched. We've got quite a few World War 1 battleships still afloat.
Great footage of a great ship. Olympic was scrapped only a mile from where I live on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Love the way how White Star Liners are designed, straightforward clean, no clutterry things on superstructure
These classic-design ships look absolutely beautiful. They have a really fancy vibe to them. I wish ships still looked like actual ships. The cruises we have now look really ugly.
Because the idea is to cram as many paying passengers on them as possible compared to the size of their hulls.
But I think it still _would_ _be_ possible to build a cruise ship that looks nice.
What do you think about this:
www.deviantart.com/majaorca100/art/France-2-137655181
@@sealover5861 Now that's a design I could get behind! Hopefully a ship like this gets built in the future. What a nice looking project that is!
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Probably the closest any of us will ever get to seeing what the Titanic looked and sounded like in motion. That said Olympic was a beautiful ship in her own right.
Yes indeed
The Olympic was the ship that sank, The Titanic was the ship that sailed on for many years after wearing the Olympic name !
@@steveputland4324Idk in what timeline you live.
True !!!!!! Insurance scam gone wrong !!!!!@@steveputland4324
@@steveputland4324don’t believe everything you read on the internet. There is so much false information about Titanic, including conspiracy theories about this supposed switch. The ships were not 100% identical. The actual serial number 401 (compared to Olympic’s hull number 400) was found at the wreck site. Not to mention that the damage to Olympic in the Hawke collision did not seem to add up to how much it would cost to crash a multi million dollar ocean liner into an iceberg and let it sink. Then factor in the payouts to victims’ families, the deceased crew’s families, the negative PR, the loss of one of the ships that was created solely to tag team the transatlantic route. It makes absolutely zero sense. But of course, I saw it on the internet so it HAS to be true.
Don’t you hate when you’re filming a historic ship and another boat steams right in front of you?
Those were the ships own tugs. Lol.
Really wish this ship would have been preserved for historical purposes. Would have been a money maker for sure with the allure of the titanic.
Titanic’s sinking was barely remembered by the 1930s. :I
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This is absolutely beautiful. What a Grand ship. Such a shame the Titanic sank. Wish they would have made the Olympic into a museum. Would have loved to seen it. Thank you for sharing this video.
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That was absolutely spellbinding, I watched it about four times in a row! One of three extraordinary and beautiful ships.
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Hat's off to all those Harland & Wolf workers who are no longer with us, and to those old sailors with their old memories of a time when Britain really did rule the waves.
robert harding well, Harland and Wolff still exist
@@michaelt9443 yes but the ones that built Olympic class are all dead.
@@michaelt9443 sadly H&W haven't built ships like this since the 60s. They so exist but really in name only. They do very different things today with a fraction of the staff and have been rescued many times since.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Absolutely, the Harland and Wolff of today bears no resemblance whatever to the company of the early 20th c. Today’s “toads” are mainly built either in Germany or Italy. U.K. no longer has a major shipbuilding industry.
These wonderful ships are real works of art, So beautiful in every way.
My great uncle David Osborne Jones, and his wife, May, sailed on Olympic from Southampton to Ellis Island, arriving 15 Sept 1920
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That is amazing!!
2:50 Photobombed by a tug.
Jake Rutigliano tug life 🔥⚠️🔥
@@TheHildle
😂. That's very Witty.
Tug: Hello there y'all.
What gets me is that all those people on that video all them lives of each individual are all gone now, but remembered on a piece of film forever. That particular moment in time has been captured not known by those on board and around the ship that will be watched and remember forever. It fascinates me. Wish I could go back in time and see this with my own eyes. In the present day now nothing seems as prestige and as spectacular now,
My grandmother and her mother came over on the Olympic in 1934. I've been researching trying to find footage as well as photos from their trip in old photos. it truly is fascinating!
Not, necessarily, I have two family member's who were born in 1921 and 2. They could have been children on this ship.
Cary Grant came to America for the first time on the RMS Olympic back around 1928. He was part of an acrobatic troupe.
@@thatamy8870 did you find those photos
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How's that for eerie symbolism... right at the end of the video, you can see and hear above the Olympic, an airplane - the invention which would ultimately be the death of the great ocean liners.
That’s dubbed sound. There was no sound in 1928 apart from a couple of movies from the big studios.
timestamp?
@@dadumbderpster666ooferdoof5 4:18
@@jimcrawford5039 correct. But you could indeed see a plane overhead.
Plus the Hindenburg disaster killed off any competition with the Zeppelins and airplanes as a choice of air travel.
Olympic was the True Unsinkable Ship
Absolutely
yes i agree
@@wannaplaythisdavid yep
Olympic also a true sister ship
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Most beautiful design ship line indeed
Smoke rising from the fourth funnel... they must be busy preparing lunch!
Yeah, I hate it when people say the fourth funnel is just for looks and served no other purpose, when it actually was used for ventilation and even had a ladder inside so the crew could climb to the top.
I think it had to do with Olympic being converted from being coal fired to oil burning boilers
It was used for boiler and engine room ventilation and also for the kitchens all of which would be especially busy and smoky during departure
Velts 4th funnel was added for aesthetics and the illusion of speed.....
@@Velts125 the olympic was converted to oil? i never knew this!
the Old Reliable
Still, i bet you theres that one guy onboard praying his life that Olympic wont sink on that voyage
(Edited on Sept. 22, 2020)
She was one tough, beautiful lade that didn't take anything from anyone--not even a U0Boat!
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Never seen this video of the RMS Olympic. Thanks for sharing
Many comments are about "Olympic should've been saved as a museum ship and a reminder of Titanic".
Back then Titanic was actually a disaster that people, not least White Star Line, wanted to forget. WSL never fully recovered from the disaster and was finally forced to merge with Cunard in the 1930's. WSL even used the name Britannic again, because she was lost in war and more like a hero, but never the name Titanic.
Olympic could indeed have been saved to remind us of the era and these amazing ships. But it wasn't so easy:
- We must remember that saving a ship of this size takes a huge amount of money: It was also "the great depression", money couldn't be found so easily. Olympic was indeed for sale but they coudn't find any buyer.
Many, and even older ships than Olympic have been saved but they are relatively small and a lot cheaper to keep and maintain, like for example the tender SS Nomadic (1911) in Belfast and SS Great Britain (1845) in Bristol.
- And in the 1930's Olympic was not much more than a 24 year old ship that had done her job. If she had survived into this century, it would've indeed had been a completely different situation. The great depression also "killed" many great ships, even much younger ships as Olympic.
Thanks for this
You can still view bits of her at the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, sections of the staircase and restaurant were salvaged and used to fit out the hotel when she was scrapped
@@davidtanycoed yeah i saw it on yt
Which is why there are currently two titanics in construction. One as a museum parked somewhere, and the other to be ysed as an ocean liner
@@bisken6547
Titanic II (Palmer's project) is not in construction yet. Only a preliminary design phase has happened:
titanicll.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/is-the-titanic-ii-design-now-complete/
When you consider the limited technology available in the Edwardian period, You cannot help but admire this beautiful example of this workmanship, While at the same time, spare a thought for her tragic sister who foundered on that freezing cold morning of April 15th 1912. and the great loss of life that incurred.RIP !!
superb quality footage from 1928 !
A beautiful ship how nice Olympic is?
The only reason I would have wanted to lived in early 1900’s would have been to experience miraculous ships like these.
that and morphine sold over the counter
@@martincvitkovich724 I would have enjoyed being some opium addicted heir to a mining fortune back then, travelling the world in the great liners of the time.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l whatever gave you that idea?
The Queen Mary 2 is still sailing. That would be close with a modern twist, of course.
@@Gr8thxAlot Please, do not bring up the QM2 in a video about the Olympic class ever again. That's like bringing up a toddler's messy drawing in a discussion about Caravaggio.
This is absolutely magnificent. A glimpse into the past when ship travel was at its height and the only way to cross! Nothing like the enormous cruise ships of today that to me look like big globs of cotton candy on a stick!
Such a beautiful girl! 😍💙
XxButterfly EffectxX I wonder what she tastes like?
@Duggin Raymond i'm dead lolololololol
She is not girl. Just because we call ships always as "she", it doesn't means that she is famale. Olympic is "boy".
@Duggin Raymond true:)
Well you could argue that the Imperator class liners were originally masculine ships that were later acquired by the British and Americans who go by ships as feminine objects. So you could argue that these ships changed genders throughout their history. Oh wait. What am I saying anymore?
What is so amazing is that we actually get a grasp of the sheer size of these ships, actually seeing people walking her decks putting her to scale. I can understand why so people felt safer on the Titanic after she had struck the iceberg.
I'm so glad the QUEEN MARY was saved. She is built in this style. I live 60 miles from Long Beach, and go visit her every year.
The Olympic Class liners were truly incredible pieces of engineering. In my opinion, such beautiful liners had never been built before, and have never again been built since. Olympic herself was the very definition of what a liner should be: elegant, graceful, prestigious, and sleek. The age of the four-funnel was short, but boy howdy was it a great one. Today’s cruise “liners” don’t even come close to that beauty. Cruise ships are glorified barges with engines. They’re fat, lumbering great things that are nothing in comparison to the liner. They’re not graceful, and they’re certainly not elegant. True liners are glorious ladies who deserve our respect. Cruise ships are hillbillies who should have stayed in the hills. The age of the liner was one that will be remembered fondly, respected greatly, and loved dearly, and preserving films like this is the perfect way to make certain of that. Thank you for sharing this video. As you said in the title, it is truly breathtaking.
The Lusitania and Mauretania were remarkably similar in design and build. The Olympic class were beautiful but nothing that innovative or new compared to what came just before it or after it.
Ok boomer. Take your pills.
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc
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So agree - Fascinating to see what essentially the Titanic looked like. The advances in photography between 1912 & 1920's is significant affording a great perspective
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So glad that ship never sank
Half-Life Scientist Although she was later scrapped.
+Matthew Cox True, but the most valuable parts of the ship were put on sale and are still around today, and her lounge is still half in tact which is much better than the whole thing being at the bottom of the ocean.
But too bad it was scrapped while still quite serviceable.
I would have prefer her to sink... At least she would still exist.
Good point. Two of the three Olympic Class liners have been preserved that way, even if in deplorable condition. I remember reading somewhere the British regretted scrapping the Olympic when WWII came around. It would have made a good troop ship.
now this video makes me understand how big the olympic class liner really were lol. REALLY BIG
Why are there dislikes? What's to dislike here?? This is incredible!!
There are dislikes (by morons) in almost every YT video. If a video has more than 5 times more likes than dislikes it's probably a good video. This has 65 times more likes so it's VERY good. 👍
its disliked by the u-boat that got sunken by the olympic and several other u-boats XD
(JUST A JOKE)
I’m sure many of the dislikes are from people who are angry that not everyone believes the incorrect theory that the Olympic was switched with the Titanic.
A magnificent, vintage video of "Old Reliable!" As close as one will ever get to watching her sister, Titanic in port maneuvers!
Long live the Old Reliable!!
Why was I nearly drooling through the whole thing? 🤭
Imagine if they didn't scrap it. It would be one of the most valuable ships today as it provides a near identical experience to the Titanic.
Would be quiet the site to see for sure! But I do think even if they didin't scrap her then, it would be stil unlikely it survived all the was to modern day, it was already quiet old for it's type and that generation of oceanliners would be replaced in a couple of years, plus the comming world war and all. It wouldn't be impossible, but highly unlikely stil, sadly. Would've been pretty cool tho
It’s like watching the Titanic.
yeah its beacuse they was sister ships and building in the same style only the britannic has looked a little bit different
@@Sunrise-mj1gz thank you
@@Sunrise-mj1gz no Britannia looked similar but during world war she was turned into a hospital ship.
@@courtneyjaylyn1335 *Britannic and well you are right but technicly he is right, it did look different 😂 now dosen't it?
Brittanic was slight different, way heavier ,covered poop deck on the rear plus extra lifeboat storage , and gantry davits for more lifeboat capacity ,most other aesthetics where pretty much the same
I love the outward appearance of steamy ships, sinuous and elegant with sharp prows hurling themselves on the sea, black hull and impressive funnels. I can not say the same of today's ships, in my opinion outwardly much lower than the old steam ships I would dare to say almost ugly in comparison! there is something romantic and timeless in them that I do not find in today's ships unfortunately, not counting the splendid Victorian and Georgian interiors they had, I do not like the minimalist style of today! I wish the ships were still like that! 😍😍😍😍
Emanuele Simotti the QM was the start of the decline.
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc
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I would do anything to go back in time to stop the Olympic from being scrapped and to be turned into a hotel.
The Only way would to have bought her during the 30s during the recession with the intent of using her as attraction or something similar.
This is priceless, makes me feel like I'm back in those times, even the sound is on 😀
Moving footage. So clear considering the age. I would love a time machine to be able to go back to the days of the awesome ships of Thomas Andrews.
Thomas Andrews wasn't the chief designer of the Olympic-class ships, that honor falls to the Right Honorable Alexander Carlisle, who oversaw the design and initial construction until he retired in June 1910, three year after the designs were finalized and two years after construction of Olympic and Titanic started.
Andrews took over from Carlisle, and oversaw the finishing up and some of the modifications that were incorporated based on experience. Until then he worked alongside another man who doesn't get enough credit for designing the trio: Edward Wilding.
It's something of a Hollywood myth that Andrews was the man solely responsible for the Olympic-class, that he was the sole man in charge from the beginning of the project, and so these other men get overlooked.
@@mikedicenso2778 You sure about that. Thomas Andrews was chief designer of all three.
@@rmstitanic8163 Absolutely. Go Google or Duck Carlisle and Wilding. Andrews was the junior to Carlisle and then took over when the latter retired. But by then, most of the work was done.
@@mikedicenso2778 Carlisle was more involved in the safety department such as watertight department and lifeboats. Just because he was called Right Honorable, doesn't make him Chief Designer. Decor and safety isn't the be all of ships design.
@@rmstitanic8163 He was in charge until 1910, then Andrews took over. What's not to understand? Each man had an area to focus on, but Carlisle was the guy in charge overall. Most of the work was done and construction well underway by the time Andrews took over.
It's just that simple.
Те, кто считают самым красивым четырёхтрубным лайнером Аквитанию ни разу не видели Олимпик
So true
She's so beautiful wish she was around today as would have loved to have seen her
I'm seriously getting choked up seeing the first and last of the class "alive" rather than in still images from afar.
Notice how they added those extra lifeboats on the upper deck after the Titanic disaster...
And electric cranes. Britannic struck a mine during the war serving as a hospital ship, she sank in an hour with a thousand people on board than Titanic. Less than 30 perished.
b olympic never got the electric davits capable of launching multiple boats that were fitted to Britannic.
@@rich_edwards79 You're right, Olympic just got more boats. Always thought both got the Britannic modification.
Ship designers could do worse than recreating some of the elegant and beautiful public spaces on the Olympic class ships... still some of the most beautiful ship interiors ever.
oh! and, also, LOVE seeing how the "little" tugs so gently and perfectly manuever her, This is so rare and special!!!
It is a sin that they have scrapped such a beautiful ship with a great trajectory. Surely today it would be a floating museum and the closest thing we would have to the Titanic :(
SO SAD Olympic, Titanic & Brittanic didn’t survive as a trio of liners to preserve the Olympic class of liners more thoroughly. I wish that at least Olympic would have been preserved as a museum. It’s just sad. I’m very much a fan of the Edwardian Age (fascinated by the obscene wealth and the fashion, not the class discrimination and uptight social mores), and these liners were like time capsules of it.
@Roberto Lecanda I've seen many photos of the QM2 and for me she can't hold a candle to the Olympic-class.
So sad that her other 2 identical sisters had to sink they would have been beautiful liners
The beauty of that ship is a sight for sore eyes. To create such a sculptural hull with such precision, her designers must have been geniuses to a man
It's all inspiration and perseverence of an idea.
THIS IS PRICELESS!!!! It's breathtaking!!! How did you find it!!! I could watch this, all day, She's got to be my all-time favorite ship, along with the Queen Mary.
This footage is stunning!!!! So well preserved, and looks like todays standards and clarity, cinematically, except for spots of deterioration on a frame here or there, they pass by, quickly!!
BOY!!!! This is just a TREASURE, and irreplaceable!!!!!
Thank you so very much, a thousand times, over, for finding this, posting it, and saving it for History!!!!!
The eldest sister...She had a charmed life.
It’s a shame she went out the way she did, but she has a very very long and prosperous career, much longer than most vessels of the day
Such a shame they scrapped her! I wish they would have given her the Queen Mary Treatment
Sadly they cant the great depression was againts them
@@TheAviationGuyID They could have beached her, for later generations to restore. They even scuttled a three hundred year old 74 gun ship of the line in 1948. The last of its type remaining. Now we only have a single ship of the line surviving in HMS Victory. Same thing they could have beached her. She would have been a great gift to the future. Just as Olympic.
b hiby historical preservation only began to become a thing after the war (probably because we lost so much to the Luftwaffe) and even then a lot from the Victorian and Edwardian eras was destroyed because it was considered deeply unfashionable right up until the mid-1980s. We owe the survival of a lot of what's left to preservationists like John Betjeman who were for many years lone voices in the establishment. Sadly the great liners had no such advocate and the handful that have survived have done so largely by accident (in the case of the QM, it was cheaper for the city to buy a tired old ship and turn her into a floating hotel than it was to build one of a similar size).
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Same on our side of the Pond. They only ship left from that era I think is the USS Constitution, the one that had cannonballs bounce off her sides, LOL.
@@harrietharlow9929 Yeah legendary ship. They called her Ironsides because of that. Would love to see it some day. The Brits do have a few left such as the HMS Trincomalee but there is only one First Rate 100 gun ship left in HMS Victory.
I wish I was there in person. This is also the same year my grandfather was born.
Something so beautifully haunting about ships back in this period. Cruise ships today are not very nice looking ships in my opinion. I suppose the same thing goes with modern architecture. I was probably born in the wrong time but I thought the same when I was a we kid, I used to ask my dad why was everything so much more beautiful in the olden days.
People have talked about building a replica of Titanic. I think that's a mistake. Titanic and Brittanic both had tragic fates.
Olympic on the other hand, had a distinguished career, through WWI, until she was scrapped in 1937.
They should make a full size replica of Olympic. That would be a fitting tribute to 'Old Reliable', as well as Titanic and Brittanic.
Yes, but unfortunately the most famous ships are the ships that sank. Olympic isn't even known by "average Joe". It's the same with Lusitania and Mauretania. Most people know about Lusitania, but Mauretania is mostly forgotten, even if she hold the Blue Riband speed record for 20 years and had a longer career than Olympic.
They are actually building a Titanic replica in China, called "Romandisea Titanic". This will be permanently moored as a tourist attraction.
The other one, Clive Palmer's Titanic II, will most likely never happen. The project has been delayed more than once. It was "hot" again in 2018, when the ship designer Deltamarin announced that they continue the planning of the ship, but nothing has happened since then.
Why the hell was she scrapped? She was the last of the survivors. Breaks my heart
she was obsolete and a refit would have been too costly.
As must as I am saddened to say, the Olympic Class Liner's were outclassed before their keels were even laid. Yes, they where going to be bigger that any vessels then afloat, but they weren't particularly revolutionary at all really. They had the same 50 year old hull design as the previous three generations of liners, they weren't hydrodynamically novel, the hull shape was tried and tested but, already out of date. They had reciprocating main engines, with a single turbine, again tried and tested but, already outdated, and seen as inferior by most. The Olympic Class were triple screw steamers, already very much out of vogue by 1912, and viewed as vastly inferior to the quadruple screw steamers coming into fashion. In terms of luxury, and size, by the time Olympic was launched, SS Imperator was under construction, and outclassed them in both respects, and outclassed the Olympic Class in terms of technological advancement such as hull design, and being a quadruple screw, turbine powered vessel. So, by the time Olympic was scrapped in 1935-1937, she was practically dinosaurian. But despite all of that, to me, the Olympic Class are three of the best liners ever created, and for me weren't surpassed until SS Normandie entered service.
When Cunard started to scrap White star ships Olympic was showing its age and was starting to creak
Cause
The great depression
Mauritania and Olympic shouldn’t have been scrapped.
Ìncredible footage many, many thanks for putting this up !!
That has to be the most up close and clear video in existence of Olympic, surely. The film of her on her deck while being loaded up with cargo is nothing on this. This perspective is the closest one will ever be able to judge what her and Titanic truly looked like, amazing.
Thomas Andrews was at the top of his game when he designed those 3 sisters. Too bad he had to die in one of his magnificent creations.
That is the such a sad irony. I would have liked to see what he would havr designed had he lived. A very talented man.
@Railfan 765 Thank you I never knew that. They were 3 of the most beautiful ships ever designed no matter who designed them. To live back then and have lots of money!
This just made my day seeing this
Olympic proved there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the design of her, Titanic and Britanic, they were just very unfortunate in the circumstances that led to their loss. Despite several incidents, Olympic soldiered on and became known as "Ol' reliable".
I live just a few miles from where Olympic was finally scrapped!
Unless of course you include an ice berg or mine, in which case her design may not appear so sound ;)
Graham Crichton Ram a mine with the costa concordia and tell me where it gets you when your superstructure bends and doesn’t allow you to close any watertight doors or the rudder, only relying on your shitty piddly now thrusters which won’t help.
@@WhatALoadOfTosca For someone who saw all the facts and went by appearances anyway, maybe not, but that would also make them actual idiots :)
@@WhatALoadOfToscawhich would have sunk practically any ship of the time!
@@damonrobus-clarke533 Practically or actually?
Wow thanks for sharing
Wow, this was the year my great grandfather was born, it’s actually mind blowing to see that ships size can still hold up to modern ship sizes today
I'm 68 years old, and my Grandfather was a crew member on RMS Olympic. By the way the tug at the beginning of this film was operated by the Alexander Towing Company.
I feel nostalgia for that bygone era too, but then I realize that I probably never could have travelled on those wonderful ships and visited Europe. Now, I, retired and barely middle class income-wise can take one or two cruises a year.
Fascinating seeing the plane flying over at the end.
One of the most ominous things about Olympic post Titanic was White Star's effort to avoid making her look too similar to her ill-fated sister. She gained all of Titanic's features in her 1912-13 refit except the A-deck enclosure, despite the open promenade being considered one of her biggest flaws. White Star were paranoid about losing potential passengers because they thought that nobody would travel on a mirror image of Titanic.
As we now know today, the opposite was in fact true. People flocked to Olympic to get a glimpse of what the infamous Titanic looked like.
her promenade certainly wasnt a major flaw. her lack of private lavatories was.
@@hugos5114 Yes. In 1912 that was not as much of an issue, but just a decade later things were changing rapidly and she was already outdated.
I don’t know if I buy that. The Britannic had the enclosed promenade just like Titanic.
OMG it is spectacular!!!....looks alomost exactly as the titanic...people feeling bad for the titanic mega tragedy can look at OLYMPIC and relive the majestic nature of these class of ships!..marvelous...shame that she survived unlike many ships of her age just to be SCRAPPED!!
This is truly awesome ! To be able to see this up close & think about the Titanic & how much they look alike . Thank You to who ever uploaded this :)
yeah--TWINS in fact
@@MrDaiseymay Exactly.Later after the loss of Titanic they changed a few things,so she looked different.On the Night Titanic sunk,the Olympic wanted to help her Sister and was on the way to rescue passenger and crewmember of Titanic in their Lifeboats,but she was too faraway.Also they thought it wouldn't have been a good idea to do that,because it must have been the horror for the passenger and crew,because just imagine》They still had the shock in their bones when Titanic sunk and than being rescued by Olympic that looked like Titanic....😳
@@J.A.Hansen I heard about that, something to do with "mirror imaging" or something along the line. Where it would spook the passengers seeing same looking ship next to them after the other one sunk.
@@J.A.Hansen correct, the instruction was given by the captain of the RMS Carpathia (the ship that came to the rescue) for Olympic not to intervene as this may cause more horrific trauma for survivors seeing a near identical ship approaching. a very considerate decision he made
Hey, I’m looking good!
Olympic! I missed you!
Thank you for posting this moment from shipbuilding history! The _Olympic_ was quite a ship. I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't seem to have a nameplate visible on its bow. I wonder, was it not there, or was that a limitation of the camera?
That was a camera limitation, although I’m not sure exactly what kind. I think it has to do with the exposure, which would naturally be set in a way that would best capture the full majesty of the ship rather than just her nameplates and the like.
I`ve been trying to figure out whether it actually had a nameplate when it set out in 1912 or if the name was embossed into the hull. This picture is 1928 and a lot could happen in those 16 years, and it might be a camera limitation but it doesn`t seem to have any identification.
@@aj6954 1911 was its maiden voyage; _Titanic_ first sailed in 1912, so even longer!
@@fredocarroll Would have thought some of those camera shots of the bow at that distance, you would have seen the name if it was there. Maybe something on the port side with a mag but not sure. Could be a camera problem but certainly a strange situation. Also noted smoke coming out of 4th funnel which differed from the Titanic situation in 1912.
Not such a clear shot of the stern but I believe name and place of registration have to be shown there.
The nameplate was changed in her later years to a bolder and more modern style. The letters were carved out as before but were six inches taller. The cutout areas were painted in with ochre colored paint. The gold sheer stripe got lowered as well. That area is in dark shadow here so it is almost invisible.
Its ironic that of the three ships the Titanic and Britannic are still with us, while the Olympic has been lost to time.
At least some parts of the Olympic are still with us like parts of her grand staircase.
Wow that was something , thank you for posting
And the voices of people watching and explaining , from 1928 ! Wow !!
what a lovely video and more modern than the usual ones form the 1910s
Salute to Olympic class
Sieht wirklich haargenau wie ihr berühmtes Schwesterschiff aus. Faszinierend, so bekommt man eine sehr genaue Vorstellung davon, wie auch die "Titanic" in einem Hafen gewirkt haben muss. Faszinierend auch, dass die "Olympic" noch lange nach dem Untergang ihrer berühmten Schwester noch so erfolgreich die Nordatlantik-Route befahren hat. Schade, dass das Schiff verschrottet wurde.
It’s like titanic 16 years later it’s like time travel
yep sure does
My Grandfather saw the Olympic as a boy in Belfast probably around this time, amazing that footage of this quality with sound exists.
This is closest we'll ever get to how the Titanic would have looked in motion as the only film we have of it is in harbour, unless of course you believe that the ships were switched........
Why could he see Olympic in Belfast in 1922
@@anormalcommentor9452 Why are you mentioning the year 1922 ??
@@davidscott2771 I meant 1928 but why would you see Olympic in Belfast in 1928
@@davidscott2771 Go on answer me
@@anormalcommentor9452 Ah yes you're still there LOL, got the locations mixed up it was Liverpool he saw the Olympic not Belfast. Night night.
There's something so much more graceful and impressive about the lines and design of these early 20th century liners. Even though they wee not as large as some of today's cruise ships, they looked bigger because of their design. Today's ships look stupid in comparison, with their stacks and stacks of balconies making up a ridiculously high superstructure that is all out of proportion. I'm wondering why the Olympic's name is not visible on either side of the bow in this video. Even with the poor film quality, you would think the white letters on the black background would be visible.
Hear, hear! A toast to the Olympic class.
AIRPLANES KILLED passenger ships. People take a 6 hour flight instead of days-long trips. Sooooo the ships evolved from ferry service to entertainment resorts. That’s why they look like hotels, with theaters, malls, amusement parks, etc
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Gracias por subir este video
I played that music from the 1997 Titanic movie as she departs from Southampton
4:42 how this footage ends it’s kind of poetic: the end of the era for the ocean liners, War is coming.
Beautiful ship. A shame they are all gone.
That was amazing!!!
A lot of people confuse the Olympic and the titanic. Thankfully you got it right.