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| Name: | Olympic |
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| Port of registry: |  Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Route: | Southampton to New York |
| Ordered: | 1907 |
| Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number: | 400 |
| Laid down: | 16 December 1908 |
| Launched: | 20 October 1910 |
| Completed: | 31 May 1911 |
| Maiden voyage: | 14 June 1911 |
| In service: | 1911 |
| Out of service: | 1935 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | Retired at Southampton after 24 years service & scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland. |
| Status: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Olympic-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 45,324 gross register tons; 46,358 after 1913; 46,439 after 1920 |
| Displacement: | 52,067 tons |
| Length: | 882 ft 6 in (269.0 m) |
| Beam: | 92 ft 6 in (28.2 m) |
| Height: | 175 ft (53.3 m) (keel to top of funnels) |
| Draught: | 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m) |
| Decks: | 10 decks (1 crew deck) |
| Installed power: | 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engineseach producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 75 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 h. 59,000 hp produced at maximum revolutions.[1] |
| Propulsion: | Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers. One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller. |
| Speed: |
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| Capacity: | 2,435 passengers |
| Crew: | 950 |
| Progress | 100% complete |
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