The Olympic Class Ocean Liners
Business Tycoon J.P. Morgan invested a ton of money into White Star Line to create a new line of luxury boats, the Olympic class ocean liners. These luxury boats were supposed to be the new fancy way of traveling, and the White Star Line shipping company was in fierce competition to land the title of the leading boating company on the planet.
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The first of the three Olympic class ocean liners was the RMS (Royal Mail Steamer) Olympic. In December 1908, construction on her started, about three months before the building of the Titanic began in Belfast (Northern Ireland) – where the other two ships would later be built as well. Here is the true story of the “cursed sisters.”