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Here we have a picture representing the life of RMS (HMT) Olympic from her birth started in 1908 to her death in 1936.

With each stage you can see how Olympic changed over her time as an Oceanliner and her brief time as a Troop Carrier during World War 1.

As a Troop Carrier she was the only oceanliner in the War to ever sink a German U-Boat, she sank U-103 who attempted to Sink the Olympic but fail, Olympic however tried to ram the sub but her massive propellors sliced the hull of the sub, sinking it.

Olympic had several refits and overhauls during her life, these included the extra lifeboats after the sinking of younger sister and her coal burning boilers replaced with oil burning boilers.

In the end with dying trade, White Star and CUNARD merged, giving the newest CUNARD vessel the money needed to complete her at the cost of most of the older White Star liners being retired and this included the Olympic, the last of the Olympic Class liners. So in 1934 she was retired, 1935 partially demolished and in 1936, the rest of her hull was taken to Scotland for the final scrapping.

She lived for a short 24 years, nothing remains of her anymore apart from a few of her internal parts like her First Class Lounge that exists in an Hotel in Northern England.
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~Meluvsoshawott May 16, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I can't believe they did that to Olympic. she could have been a museum ship, or hotel ship, both or something!
They didn't have to demolish her. (Even though the White Star Line and Cunard Line Merged an needed money) ._.;
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~Lex-the-Pikachu May 17, 2012
But she was suffering from metal fatigue
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~Meluvsoshawott May 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
She was? Oh I didn't know that.
Couldn't the have fixed the metal, or not?
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~Lex-the-Pikachu May 17, 2012
not really as it would really mean replacing the metal of the entire ship. RMS Aquatania was in the same situation, she came a bit later than the Olympic class but survived to 1950 but her age and metal fatigue was so bad that before the decision was made to scrap her, a piano fell through a deck.
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~Meluvsoshawott May 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh my god, yeah that would taken a crap load of time and money. ._.;
Oh god! o_o; that's terrible!
Well at least Titanic and Britannic are still with us.
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~Lex-the-Pikachu May 17, 2012
Titanic, not for much longer
Britannic doesn't appear to have degraded much at all so she may still be with us for a while
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~Meluvsoshawott May 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yeah, only the remainder of time she has left (Which would be what, another 50 years or something?)
Britannic looks in relatively good shape. Except for that huge rip in her Bow.
(This is random, but Britannic sunk on my birthday. O: )
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*MizaT11 May 9, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Awesome! :D
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~Lex-the-Pikachu May 9, 2012
glad you liked it
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*MizaT11 May 9, 2012  Student Digital Artist
^^
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