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which, you will see, is " Olympic, 1911." 

 The White Star Line had already been 

 impressed with the big ship, and they 

 doubtless felt the severe competition which 

 the two swift Cunarders put up. The 

 directors decided, however, that whilst a 

 bigger ship than these might well be war- 

 ranted, the extra cost involved in the 

 faster speed was not altogether worth 

 while. The Olympic appeared in 1911, and 

 the sister ship Titanic a year later. These 

 vessels had a length of 882 J ft., beam 

 94ft., and tonnage 45,000. They were 

 able to carry 3,346 passengers and crew, 

 besides having a cargo capacity of 6,000 

 tons. 



Harland & Wolff were, of course, 

 the builders and designers, and, unlike 

 the Cunarders, the propelling force is 

 divided between turbines and recipro- 

 cating machinery of the quadruple expan- 

 sion type. These develop 30,000 horse 

 power, whilst the turbine of the low- 

 pressure type uses the steam after its work 



