RMS Olympic
Owner: White Star Line
Port of registry: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Route: Southampton to New York
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number: 400
Laid down: 16 December 1908
Launched: 20 October 1910
Christened: Not christened
Maiden voyage: 14 June 1911
In service: 1911
Out of service: 1935
Identification: Official Number 131345
Code Letters HSRP
Radio callsign "MKC"
Fate: Retired at Southampton after 24 years service and scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
General characteristics
Class and type: Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage: 45,324 (46,358 after 1913, increased to 46,439 after 1920)
Displacement: 52,067 tons
Length: 882 ft 6 in (269.0 m)
Beam: 92 ft 6 in (28.2 m)
Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Installed power: 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines each 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: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum)
Capacity: 2,435 passengers