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Orion-class dreadnought battleship HMS Conqueror
Hospital ship RMS Olympic arriving at Mudros Harbour, 1915.
HMT Olympic in dazzle
Olympic lived to see the breakers unlike her sisters Britannic and Titanic. Unlike her sisters, she did not sink after hitting something although not for the lack of trying:
She first hit/was hit by a cruiser, HMS Hawke
Then in WW1 she rammed and sank SM U-103 which was trying to torpedo her. It’s actually thought that she took an unrelated torpedo dud at some point in the war
After the war she hit the smaller liner named Fort St. George
And finally she accidentally rammed and cut in half the lightship Nantucket after being unable to see her in time due to dense fog
Orion-class dreadnought battleship HMS Conqueror
Hospital ship RMS Olympic arriving at Mudros Harbour, 1915.
HMT Olympic in dazzle
Olympic lived to see the breakers unlike her sisters Britannic and Titanic. Unlike her sisters, she did not sink after hitting something although not for the lack of trying:
She first hit/was hit by a cruiser, HMS Hawke
Then in WW1 she rammed and sank SM U-103 which was trying to torpedo her. It’s actually thought that she took an unrelated torpedo dud at some point in the war
After the war she hit the smaller liner named Fort St. George
And finally she accidentally rammed and cut in half the lightship Nantucket after being unable to see her in time due to dense fog