Topic: Two amazingly high quailty Olympic photos! (Read 3376 times)

firestar12 · « **on:** March 22, 2009, 03:11:27 »

Look at this! One photo of her maiden voyage, and one of her being scrapped!

The images are so high quailty, that I am not even going to DARE to post these on the forum using the BBC codes and I can't upload them as an attachment because they are too high quality. Look at them!

These are sure to fit any screen thats for sure!

(Here are the high quality versions)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Olympic_ggbain_09366.jpg
http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/5318/image0017lq2.jpg

matt5674 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2009, 03:26:11 »

I heard on Olympic's final voyage, she hit a light ship. Cutting it in half. That was when Olympic was known to be getting too old. And the first pic shows she had saltwater erosion on her hull(look at waterline) making it look like she was way old.

firestar12 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2009, 03:27:54 »

Quote from: matt5674 on March 22, 2009, 03:26:11

I heard on Olympic's final voyage, she hit a light ship. Cutting it in half. That was when Olympic was known to be getting too old. And the first pic shows she had saltwater erosion on her hull(look at waterline) making it look like she was way old.

Yes, I really hope white star painted over that!

matt5674 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2009, 03:32:32 »

They did. When Olympic lost a propeller shaft. They had to take a shaft from Titanic(still under construction) and a Propeller that was lost. Which delayed Titanic's maiden voyage from March 10, 1912, to April 10, 1912.

firestar12 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2009, 03:39:04 »

Quote from: matt5674 on March 22, 2009, 03:32:32

They did. When Olympic lost a propeller shaft. They had to take a shaft from Titanic(still under construction) and a Propeller that was lost. Which delayed Titanic's maiden voyage from March 10, 1912, to April 10, 1912.

Did they ever find the prop? Why was it lost?

llamalord · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2009, 15:24:25 »

Quote from: Firestar on March 22, 2009, 03:39:04

Did they ever find the prop? Why was it lost?

I knew about that legend but never even cared enough to look into it further.

firestar12 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2009, 15:27:35 »

Quote from: llamalord on March 22, 2009, 15:24:25

I knew about that legend but never even cared enough to look into it further.

Hey llamalord, check your PM inbox!

matt5674 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2009, 18:37:42 »

Olympic was the Sister that never got killed.

Nathan|C · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:05:46 »

Quote from: matt5674 on March 22, 2009, 18:37:42

Olympic was the Sister that never got killed.

Actually the Scots/Brits killed her in the 30s

Sam · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:19:40 »

Allso looks like she had a small colission with the dock wall.

You can see a white line at the same height as the dock wall.
Bad day for the captain

matt5674 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:41:32 »

Nathan, Your at 1499 posts. one more and you got 1500 posts. About the same as titanic's death toll

Nathan|C · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:46:35 »

1500;

It's also the name of a small Fiat, it was a year, it's part of the name of a Dell Computer, it's the number of jobs a company called "Sharp" cut in Japan in January....your point being? It's a number...

(And I've been informed below that it's the smallest engine size on the Dodge Ram pickup).

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:52:15 »

Is also the name of the smallest RAM Pickup.

Nathan|C · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2009, 19:52:35 »

I missed that on my list. Thank you.

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2009, 20:01:08 »

Year 1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

one dollar is equal to 1500 Lebanese pound

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1500 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive.

The SEAT 1500 was a Spanish-built 6-seater model of saloon and estate cars, based on the Italian Fiat 1800.

The first vehicle built by the automotive division of Fuji Heavy Industries was called the Subaru 1500

Troop 1500 is a documentary film about a unique Girl Scouts of the USA troop which unites mothers and daughters monthly behind the bars at the Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas.

firestar12 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2009, 21:36:19 »

The second picture is a very sad sight. You can just barley make out her rudder and what is rest of her. A very sad sight. I hate that she was scrapped. I hate it when ANY ship is scrapped.

capn_cal · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2009, 00:15:49 »

wow those are very good

(at first when the word olmpic was in the topic i thought it meant the sport)

(my mistake

)

Stuart2007 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2009, 00:50:58 »

Quote from: Firestar on March 22, 2009, 21:36:19

I hate that she was scrapped. I hate it when ANY ship is scrapped.

Look on the bright side. The ship gets recycled. You might buy a razor blade one day that was made out of the hull!

matt5674 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2009, 02:32:52 »

Or dance in a gym that has wood paneling from Olympic.

capn_cal · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2009, 04:01:29 »

or it could be in your next sunglasses or in your newspaper

llamalord · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2009, 13:41:04 »

FireStar,

I think more people would be interested in this topic if your photos were actually on this topic...

RMS Canada · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2009, 16:48:59 »

Those are some truly wonderful pictures of Olympic.

RMSGreatBritain · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2009, 18:20:45 »

I second comment that RMS Canada

llamalord · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2009, 23:50:01 »

Told you so FireStar

matt5674 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 24, 2009, 03:03:10 »

It was sad to see RMS Olympic be scrapped. She was the most beautiful (second to Titanic) ship of the 1900s to 1930s.

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