RMS Olympic was the longest lived of the Olympic Class liners White Star Line constructed to compete with Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania.While her sister ships Titanic and Britannic went to the bottom, Olympic prospered and even served her country in war time as a troopship, earning the nickname "Old Reliable" after proving herself unsinkable time after time.As is the case with ocean liners who manage to stay afloat, Olympic's sailing days eventually ended …
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…Olympic's final dark moment came on May 15, 1934. Flying under the new Cunard-White Star flag, she rammed the Nantucket lightship in heavy fog. Seven members of the lightship's crew were lost. Her owners, forced together by the Great Depression (and the British government), decided that the old liner had outlived her usefulness. In March of 1935, RMS Olympic made her last crossing to New York. Upon her return to England, she was decommissioned and sold for scrap...