RMS Olympic on her last voyage before being scrapped (in colour)

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Maritime Stories

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@Maritime-stories 6 ай бұрын

Thanks to movie tone for the footage

@lochlanmuir2291 6 ай бұрын

When was this? I know that she wasn’t scrapped in 1935 or whatever (contrary to popular belief) so when was this?

@donbine3965 6 ай бұрын

My grandfather came over from Belgium on the Olympic. I have his original ticket and boarding pass. Great video.

@LinkTardis 5 ай бұрын

That's really cool

@TobiasStevens137 5 ай бұрын

@@LinkTardis it really is

@roadweary5252 5 ай бұрын

Very cool 👍

@Casa-r2k 12 күн бұрын

Que tú abuela fue la olympic

@JavierJaimes-uy5ln 10 күн бұрын

@@Casa-r2kwth you yapping about bro sthu

@kyllepoiencot4361 5 ай бұрын

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!

@zacmumblethunder7466 5 ай бұрын

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.

@jamescrawford9883 5 ай бұрын

It created jobs for destitute workers in the middle of the Great Depression. The average life of ships then was 20 years.

@jamescrawford9883 3 ай бұрын

@@kyllepoiencot4361 if Titanic hadn’t sunk few people would have ever heard of these ships!

@martinramsdale99 6 ай бұрын

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. 🇬🇧Ⓜ️🇬🇧👋👋👋👋👋🤗🤗🤗

@hadorstapa 6 ай бұрын

That image of just her hull with all superstructures gone was pretty haunting

@murraykitson1436 5 ай бұрын

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 .

@efnissien 6 ай бұрын

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.

@DoneRegularly 5 ай бұрын

Poseidon really had a burning hatred for the Olympic class lmao.

@Miakel 6 ай бұрын

Such a shame, but in the time of the great depression it was as they said 'a God send' for the workers

@JHunt-l4s 6 ай бұрын

Would have turned Olympic into a museum for me

@sneezyg1 5 ай бұрын

The only one of the Big Three White Star ocean liners that had a full career

@GreenGuy0113 6 ай бұрын

This makes me want to cry 😢 rip

@corrioliseffect 5 ай бұрын

So sad. Wish we still had you, ‘Old Reliable.’

@thebritishempire8754 5 ай бұрын

I live in Durham and never knew her superstructure was broken up in Jarrow. Very cool

@Mythbuster3808 6 ай бұрын

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.

@KebabMusicLtd 5 ай бұрын

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???

@acdii 5 ай бұрын

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.

@stepvanjoe3469 5 ай бұрын

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

@ShipVSAnimator 2 ай бұрын

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.

@2000spqr 5 ай бұрын

I CANT BELIEVE THIS???? She should of been preserved as a museum! THE CRIME OF IT ALL.... A CRIME!!!!!

@MichaelJoseph-vb5ml 4 ай бұрын

Yup. Would have been ideal for wedding venues

@jamescrawford9883 3 ай бұрын

@@2000spqr give it a rest, people were starving! Including my parents & grandparents!

@ShipVSAnimator 2 ай бұрын

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.

@christopherbyrd5818 6 ай бұрын

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.

@TheNapoleonGuy1 5 ай бұрын

They truly wasted a legend. 😢

@jyddentz 5 ай бұрын

Wish they would have made a floating museum out of her. Such a shame they didn't.

@ShipVSAnimator 2 ай бұрын

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.

@CommanderViviax 5 ай бұрын

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.

@Arceemunoz 13 күн бұрын

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.

@boomspoon4004 4 күн бұрын

shouldve never scrapped this beauty.

@KebabMusicLtd 5 ай бұрын

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

@MadHatterDJ- 5 ай бұрын

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.

@waynemacfarland1546 6 ай бұрын

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?

@ss-united-states-my-beloved 6 ай бұрын

To relive the Great depression a little, to give people jobs

@cgschow1971 6 ай бұрын

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.

@zeddeka 6 ай бұрын

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.

@marcothorsen950 6 ай бұрын

Because it was a Death trap.. Ship technology and building moved on from poor designs.

@thebritishempire8754 5 ай бұрын

@@marcothorsen950Wouldn't call it a "death trap" but yeah, she was outdated

@noway9880 5 ай бұрын

You know this could easily be upscaled and ratio corrected. What is the source media format?

@TheDefiantPirate 5 ай бұрын

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

@windowcreek1798 5 ай бұрын

The Olympic is actually the original Titanic. Its that simple.

@ljts7587 5 ай бұрын

Probably why she went to the breakers. To hide evidence of the switch. You’ll know the score;)

@sameerambedkar1241 5 ай бұрын

Me too thinks the same. Even when she went through demolition many ppl had said she is Titanic

@MadHatterDJ- 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@gerarditogm2181 4 ай бұрын

The 2 comments from the top are dumb

@gerarditogm2181 4 ай бұрын

And the original one

@ken7875 5 ай бұрын

Shame they did that, knowing what to the two sister ships, they should have put her in dry dock as a museum.😢

@thetoughcookie3665 6 ай бұрын

Pretty crazy if you think of her value as saved.

@olgahalahanyuk9761 6 ай бұрын

❤😢

@AAAAA_AAAAAAAA_AAAAA 6 ай бұрын

Instead why didn people make her a museum of her story after each year to years

@bennewnham4497 5 ай бұрын

If only we could of made her a museum ship to view today

@ShipVSAnimator 2 ай бұрын

@krystiantucker7702 5 ай бұрын

seems like the boat or ship had a very good innings

@peterm1826 5 ай бұрын

Over 20 years old. When she was broken up. Could have gone another 30 or 40 years

@Easy-Eight 5 ай бұрын

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.

@peterm1826 3 ай бұрын

@@Easy-Eight it was converted to oil in 1919

@RocketHarkness 5 ай бұрын

the first and last of the class

@waynejones205 5 ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢😢

@ChairmanPaulieD 5 ай бұрын

where are the Titanic swap theorists 😂

@RayMiller-t3s 6 ай бұрын

😢

@MR.1912-Official 29 күн бұрын

🎉🎉🎉😢

@davethomas8410 4 күн бұрын

Very sad she wasn't saved like like the Queen Mary

@ProlaineDelaCruz 6 ай бұрын

The man has four legs

@Peace2U-ec6es 6 ай бұрын

A sad ending, but Olympic most likely would have been sunk in WWII and ended up at the bottom like her sisters.

@jonathonbaker-guntang4163 6 ай бұрын

What a waste,

@petersmith4455 5 ай бұрын

they should be ashamed of themselves. could have been saved for future generations

@stuarthancock571 5 ай бұрын

The ship breaking work put food on the table for thousands in Jarrow. Families were malnourished. No money for sentiment during the Depression.

@DaleRunningbear 5 ай бұрын

😢 bye 👋

@xr6lad 5 ай бұрын

Pity the colour is chyte.

@zaahir1 6 ай бұрын

@markbolam1383 5 ай бұрын

such an idiotic thing to do scrap such a famous liner should of been preserved

@ShipVSAnimator 2 ай бұрын

@aldolasc6186 5 ай бұрын

😪

@joeblow4215 5 ай бұрын

I think she's really the Titanic.

@ivanfernyhough3851 5 ай бұрын

Yeah ok conspiracy theorist,well your wrong,titanic is sat at the bottom of the ocean "fact"

@Tozzpot500 5 ай бұрын

yard number 401 being found on the wreck in the Atlantic says otherwise. i own pieces of Olympic, all are stamped 400

@guillermodelcastillo2548 5 ай бұрын

Yup, switched at birth

@Tozzpot500 5 ай бұрын

@@guillermodelcastillo2548 blatantly wrong. They were never switched