RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister

ISBN-13: 9780752491516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str.

Mark Chirnside

Opis

The definitive study on this famous and highly successful White Star liner Sitting around a dining room table in 1907, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newly-built Cunard liners, "Lusitania" and "Mauretania." From that smoke-filled room came the first designs of three White Star superliners." Olympic" and "Titanic" were to be built at Harland & Wolff's yard in Belfast, while the third ship was to follow after construction had been completed on the first pair of sisters. The only ship to make a return passenger voyage was "Olympic" and she was always overshadowed by her younger sisters. This is the definitive story of Titanic"'s sister RMS" Olympic."