RMS Olympic (eBook)

Titanic's Sister

Mark Chirnside (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6348-0 (ISBN)

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Launched as the pride of British shipbuilding and the largest vessel in the world, Olympic was more than 40 per cent larger than her nearest rivals: almost 900ft long and the first ship to exceed 40,000 tons. She was built for comfort rather than speed and equipped with an array of facilities, including Turkish and electric baths (one of the first ships to have them), a swimming pool, gymnasium, squash court, á la carte restaurant, large first-class staterooms and plush public rooms. Surviving from 1911 until 1935, she was a firm favourite with the travelling public - carrying hundreds of thousands of fare-paying passengers - and retained a style and opulence even into her twilight years. During the First World War, she carried more troops than any other comparable steamship and was the only passenger liner ever to sink an enemy submarine by ramming it. Overshadowed frequently by her sister ships Titanic and Britannic, Olympic's history deserves more attention than it has received. She was evolutionary in design rather than revolutionary, but marked an ambition for the White Star Line to dominate the North Atlantic express route. Rivals immediately began trying to match her in size and luxury. The optimism that led to her conception was rewarded, whereas her doomed sisters never fulfilled their creators' dreams. This revised and expanded edition of the critically acclaimed RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister uses new images and further original research to tell the story of this remarkable ship 80 years after her career ended.

MARK CHIRNSIDE is a well-known maritime author. He has previously written RMS Aquitania: The Ship Beautiful, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic: The Olympic Class Ships, RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister, The 'Big Four' of the White Star Fleet, and Oceanic: White Star's Ship of the Century for The History Press. Website: http://www.markchirnside.co.uk

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Belfast • Britannic • First World War • Harland & Wolff • harland and wolff, harland & wolff, belfast, shipyard, shipbuilders, yard • hmhs britannic • Ocean liner • Olympic • olympic class • olympic class ships • passenger liner • passenger ship • RMS Titanic • shipbuilders • Shipyard • steamship • Submarine • Titanic • titanic's sister • titanic's sister, olympic, britannic, titanic, hmhs britannic, rms titanic, passenger ship, ocean liner, troops, first world war, ww1, wwi, world war one, world war i, world war 1, steamship, passenger liner, submarine, olympic class ships, olympic class, white star line, transatlantic liner • transatlantic liner|harland and wolff • troops • White Star Line • World War 1 • World War I • World War One • WW1 • wwi • Yard
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6348-4 / 0750963484
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6348-0 / 9780750963480