When was the olympic ship scrapped

She was withdrawn from service and sold for scrap in ; demolition was completed in The Olympic was involved in an accident with a navy battlecruiser , the HMS Hawke , both ships got seriously damaged and almost sunk.

Olympic was repaired and delayed Titanic 's maiden voyage to March, she was involved in another accident in and delayed Titanic 's completion to April. Olympic received distress calls from her doomed sinking sister, RMS Titanic , miles away. But Olympic was too far away to assist her sister. Olympic was refitted as a troop transport in early She sunk a German U-boat in , she got awarded later for her outstanding service.

Olympic later sunk a Nantucket lightship in but this one was by mistake, the U-boat she sunk in she did on purpose. She was decommissioned in after aging and to make way for new ships, she was sold to a British ship scrapper in and she was scrapped the following year, The a la carte restaurant can be found in a cruise ship, Celeberity Millennium.

The hull can be found at a junkyard in Jarrow where she was scrapped. Ship Wiki Explore. Articles Pictures. They ultimately did the right thing scrapping both the Olympic and the Mauritania and the Berengaria. Scrapping the Olympic and the Berengaria's superstructure actually was a good thing for the town of Jarrow in County Durham, England.

For a while it provided much needed employment for several hundred men of the town, located in one of the worst hit areas by the Great Depression. In her death, by providing work to these men, the Olympic was actually helping to put food in the bellies of starving young kids and ensuring that they had a roof over their heads.

I really cannot stress hard enough just what the people of Tyneside and Wearside in England suffered during the Great Depression. The coal mines and the shipyards were mostly derelict. Tens of thousands of proud, hardy, working class "Geordie" men were unemployed and desperate for work to feed their families, put clothes on their backs and pay the rent or the doctors bill.

In their "death" Olympic and Berengaria at the very least went a little way to alleviate this. Her bare hulk was then towed to Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland, again another coal mining area just like Tyneside and Wearside that was hit right between the eyes by the Great Depression with thousands of men unemployed and with wolves at the door.

The Olympic again provided more much needed local employment as the work began to complete the scrapping. Olympic was a truly great, beautiful ship but every story must have an ending. Click to expand Seumas said:. None of that would ever have happened. RMS Olympic, had she not been scrapped during , would have been put to use as a troopship during WW2. The schedules would have been punishing and it's unlikely she would have been spared the time for a full overhaul in dry dock.

She would have been in the same run down state as RMS Aquitania was in the late forties. A once great ship rapidly falling to bits and haemorrhaging money for Cunard-White Star. These beasts can't be kept running forever. She wasn't even in service anymore and was in the process of being turned into a floating university. Cam Houseman Member. Keith Peterson Member. I reckon if I could send people back in time to County Durham or Fife in the mid thirties with the eye watering mass unemployment, families living on eighteen shillings dole a week, no National Health Service, TB commonplace, the cruel "Means Test" for state benefits, hand-me-down clothes and shoes, breaking up the furniture for firewood, scavenging railway lines for coal Then you'd see why it was a good thing that Olympic, Mauritania and Berengaria got the chop.

Cam Houseman said:. Could you honestly have told an unemployed, borderline starving man in Jarrow or Inverkeithing that saving an aging ocean liner for sentimental reasons is more important than providing him with work?

Read that it's a short book and you'll understand why nobody had any time for foolish notions like preserving the Olympic or Mauritania in the UK of the thirties.

She'd have just ended up like the Aquitania did in the s. Falling to bits there is the famous story of the grand piano crashing through the rotten deck and it was amazing nobody got hurt and far too expensive to maintain. It's better to remember them as they were. Nothing lasts forever. I'm sorry but you are incorrect on both counts.

Remember also that just as Olympic needed a refit after lessons were learned from her sister's sinking, so to would John Brown's have made significant adjustments to Aquitania's design when she was on the stocks. The Aquitania was a very famous ship in her day and there was quite a send off for her when she had departed for the breakers in The Mauritania was probably equal with the Olympic in terms of public popularity, indeed if not more popular.

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