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Star Line RMS Olympic, the ill-fated RMS Titanic, and the HMHS Britannic
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Introduction:
Via this page you can reach two of the
magnificent trio of ships built by Harland & Wolf in Belfast,
being the Olympic Class liners – RMS Olympic, the ill-fated RMS Titanic and the Hospital ship, HMHS
Britannic. For many years I have been asked,
“Reuben why have you never written about the Titanic, for you have
covered well over 700 hundred ships from all over the world, but never
her?”
I have to be very honest, my personal feeling
is that although the event related to the Titanic was of mammoth proportions
and with a tragic loss of life, but she seems to be the only ship the vast
majority seems to be interested in. Whenever I look up eBay for maritime
memorabilia, there are hundreds of items listed related to the Titanic and it
all seems like simple greed and based on a tragedy. Frequently I read the
statement “Titanic the Unsinkable Ship.” Excuse me, she was never the
worlds greatest or an “unsinkable” ship, for White Star Line never
ever promoted her to be “unsinkable.” That stupid lie was a media
beat up that came about after the tragic event and of course the movie industry
loves this kind of thing, for it is perfect for the theatre and thus they took
it up, and today the majority of people just take it as being an absolute fact,
for the human race are just media idiots!
However, considering that I was going on a
voyage from Australia
to England
on the delightful 500 passenger MV Athena, built in 1948 as the MS Stockholm
and was completely rebuilt from her hull up in 1994/95 into a luxury cruise ship, but
we departed on April 14, 2012. Her owner had asked me if I would be so kind to
give some further lectures on this voyage as I had done the year before, and as
it was the 100th.Anniversarry of the
Titanic’s tragedy, they requested if I would give a lecture on her on the
15th.and follow that up on the with two
further sesions, one being a special question and
answers session. The one question was, “Did White Star Line ever promote the Titanic as being unsinkable?” Amazingly,
out of a packed theatre only six people said no, which I felt was simply
unbelievable! But, that proves the power of the media. I now have the basic’s of this lecture, but modifies online, Thus
finally, I have written about the RMS Titanic after all!
Before the Titanic, was that great and superb
Trans-Atlantic liner, the RMS Olympic that served her passengers in grand style from 1911 to 1934, in addition
she served her country well as a troopship with great success! Thus I always
ask the question, why has the Olympic been so badly ignored by the vasy majority in the Maritime industry and historians,
except by the few true and genuine ship lovers!
Then last of the Olympic Class Liners was the RMS
Gigantic which was rapidly renamed after the
tragedy of the Titanic, RMS Britannic. However she never did become a
commercial Liner, for she entered the was as a Hospital Ship the HMHS
Britannic that served her country well, but
tragically after just eleven months she struck a German laid mine that brought
about her sad end, much too soon for such a great ship!
I trust that you will enjoy reading the
features what have many photographs: To enter, just click on the image of
the ship you wish to visit first. Then on each of the pages you visit you
will find the relevant links at the bottom of each page to continue or change
ships.
Reuben Goossens.
Maritime Historian, Author, Lecturer &
Cruise‘n’Ship Reviewer.
Commenced in the Passenger
Shipping Industry in 1960.
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RMS Olympic ---------- -----
---- RMS Titanic-------- --------HMHS Britannic
“Blue Water Liners sailing to the distant shores.
I watched them come, I watched them go and I watched
them die.”
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