Olympic II

Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard No.: 400 Launched: October 20th, 1910 Maiden Voyage: 14th June, 1911 Gross Tonnage: 45,324 tons Length: 852.4 ft. Beam: 92.5ft. Decks: 5 Funnels: 4 Masts: 2 Propellers: 3 Engines: 2 x four cylinder triple expansion engines + 1 l.p. turbine to center propeller Boilers: 25 double ended, 4 single ended Speed: 21 knots Port of Registry: Liverpool Carrying Capacity: 1.054 first class, 510 second class, 1,020 …

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Titanic’s Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

Titanic’s Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall was born on 23rd March, 1884, in Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He had served almost thirteen years at sea when he joined Titanic, starting his nautical career at William Thomas of Liverpool, where he was an apprentice. He then joined the Wilson Line of Hull where he became an officer, …

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Teutonic

Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard No.: Launched: 1889 Maiden Voyage: 1889 Liverpool – New York Gross Tonnage: 9,984 tons Length: 565.7 ft. Beam: 57.7 ft. Decks: 3 Funnels: 2 Masts: 3 Propellers: 2 Engines: 2 x triple expansion Boilers: 12 double Speed: 16 knots Port of Registry: Liverpool Carrying Capacity: 300 first class, 190 second class, 1000 steerage Sister Ships: Majestic I In the March of 1887, the keel of the White …

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Olympic

It took an incredibly short period of time, a mere six months, from the meeting in London between Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie to discuss the new Olympic-class liners, and the actual keel-laying in December 1907 of the first of the trio, Olympic, yard No. 400. On October 20th, 1910, Olympic was launched at Harland and Wolff’sBelfast yard, and she immediately entered the …

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