Olympic Class Liners

Olympic’s keel, yard No. 400, was laid towards the end of 1908, and just over three months later, the keel of Titanic , No. 401, was laid alongside, under the massive Arrol Gantry at Harland & Wolff’s yard in Belfast.  With a construction period of about three years, the two liners’ massive hulls became almost a part of the skyline on the …

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Titanic’s Engines

As Titanic was the largest moving man-made object built to date when launched, she needed some rather powerful machinery to push her along. The White Star Line’s major rival, Cunard, was already operating the quadruple-screw, turbine-driven sister ships Lusitania and Mauritania, and the turbine-only propulsion system these vessels both employed was a great success, combining good speed with economy too, and embraced technology …

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