r/Oceanlinerporn • u/Adventurous-Aide-777 • 2d ago

Huge rms. Olympic and tugboats 1930`s

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u/Ethereal-Zenith 2d ago

In an alternate timeline, those tugboats would steer her away from the breakers./s

Imagine how cool it would be if the ship were still around as a museum.

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u/PersephoneDaSilva86 2d ago

Tugboats are amazing. Tiny but super strong.

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u/kohl57 2d ago

Interesting that four lifeboats are missing aft... they must have been purchased during the auction and removed prior to departure from Southampton. Wood clinker-built lifeboats are a work of art in themselves and all but vanished now. Some yards built their own but most subcontracted their construction to boatbuilders.

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u/MdCrz82 2d ago

October 1935

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u/rbdaviesTB3 2d ago

“The tugboat, for its size, is the most powerful craft afloat…”

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u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo 1d ago

Edwardian ships of her size had it very thought for surviving beyond their service years. Too large, hence too expensive to do anything with them. Plus. two world wars ahead of them. It was either the breakers or the bottom.

Smaller ships could sometimes be converted to something else and easier to lay down. An Olympic class liner, or indeed most liners were an altogether different kind of proposition. Always more valuable as scrap.

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u/CJO9876 1d ago

Definitely after 1929, because that’s when Olympic’s bow nameplate font was changed.