Sunday 15 April 2012

sister


This blog is al about family.
So today when everybody talks about the Titanic we take you to her sister the Olympic.

The reason is that the captain of this ship was named Reginald Vincent Peel .
He succeeded Captain Smith when he became master of the Titanic.
Maybe related in the distance he is related to our Reginald Peel .
Captain Reginald Vincent Peel was born 25 Aug 1875 BEBINGTON, CHESTER, ENGLAND as son of Lionel  and Mary Peel .
This Lionel Peel was born 14 May 1846 Shenstone ,Stafford ,England as son of Edmund and Lucy Peel

RMS Olympic was the lead ship of the Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included Titanic and Britannic.

part of the interior of the Olympic can be founs on board Celebrity´s Millenium.


Unlike her ill-fated younger sisters, Olympic served a long and illustrious career (1911 to 1935), including service as a troopship during World War I, earning the nickname "Old Reliable." She was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods in 1911–13, interrupted only by the brief career of the slightly larger Titanic.[2]

Olympic's first major mishap occurred on 20 September 1911, when she collided with a British warship, HMS Hawke off the Isle of Wight. Although the incident resulted in the flooding of two of her compartments and a twisted propeller shaft, Olympic was able to return to Southampton under her own power.

At the subsequent inquiry the Royal Navy blamed Olympic for the incident, alleging that her large displacement generated a suction that pulled Hawke into her side.[7][8] In command during this incident was Captain Edward Smith, who was lost at sea a year later onboard Titanic. One crew member, Violet Jessop, survived not only the collision with the Hawke but also the later sinking of Titanic and the 1916 sinking of Britannic, the third ship of the class.[9]

The Hawke incident was a financial disaster for Olympic's operator, and keeping her out of revenue service made matters worse. Olympic returned to Belfast, and to speed up her repair, Harland and Wolff was forced to delay Titanic's completion in order to use her propeller shaft forOlympic. In February 1912, Olympic lost a propeller blade, and once again returned to her builder for repairs. To get her back to service as soon as possible, Harland & Wolff again had to pull resources from Titanic, delaying her maiden voyage from 20 March 1912 to 10 April 1912.[10]

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