Olympic, Titanic, Britannic: An Illustrated History of the 'Olympic' Class Ships

Very nearly sized for the coffee table and lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings and graphics covering construction, features and the working lives of the ships. Posters and other materials by which the voyages were sold are also included.A valuable history of what were to be the last three ships ordered by the once great White Star Line. The loss of the supposedly unsinkable Titanic and approximately two-thirds of its passengers and crew, and the resulting criticisms levied at the company caused many of the line's potential passengers to cancel bookings and seek passage on other lines' ships. That, and the results of the Official Enquiry into the loss led to the company's collapse and it later merged with a major competitor, Cunard. A second ship from the class, Britannic, was later lost during WW1 to a mine and only Olympic had a usefully long working life into the 30s.This book is a biography of the three vessels and the company itself. Although the Titanic is by far the most familiar of the company's ships, if not the best-known of all twentieth Century ocean liners, the author does not over-concentrate on that vessel alone but has tried to be equally fair to all three.Much of the story of the ships, their features and designs and the facilities on offer - they were originally intended to be identical, but design changes were made in the light of experience - is included.For anyone with any interest in the Titanic or its sister ships, White Star or ocean-going liners in general may find much that is useful and interesting in this book.

I bought this for my grandson who was 9 last week. He reads like an adult and is obsessed with the Titanic and hopes to work in the shipping industry after university. ( yes he's planned that far ahead) . He loves the book, and found a lot of information he had not found before. His very Great book.

Mark Chirnside is now widely recognised for his thorough, in-depth and highly researched books on the great Atlantic liners. His latest offering is, basically, an illustrated companion to his current book 'The Olympic Class Ships: Olympic, Titanic, Britannic'. Although profusely illustrated and covering the sisters, Titanic is featured, but only in brief with the more concentration on her two sisters and the author does highlight this at the very start of the book. The book in general is a wonderful voyage through the history of the Olympic Class liners, from their birth to end of career. The book features a generous amount of previously unpublished images and with the captions continuing the story, the book not only flows nicely with it's layout, but is a pleasure to read and admire the black & white and colour images.

At last a book that dose not go on and on about the RMS Titanic (1912) and not mention anything about her two sisters the RMS Olympic (1911-1935) and the HMHS Britannic (1915-1916). This book shows some loverly and rare pictures of the Olympic Class Liners and spans thier life with the White Star Line it even shows a loverly colour picture of the RMS Mauretania (1907-1934) sister to the RMS Lusitania (1907-1915) and RMS Aquitania (1913-1950) while it is sad that the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage with such a great loss of life we sould not forget that Olympic served White Star for 25 years and Britannic did her duty for King and Country as a hospital ship and to me that makes them just as equaly famous as the Titanic.

My friends grandfather worked on the Olympic, and has never really found out much about him or the station he worked at, just knew him to be an engineer on board. So after seeing this book online i sent him this book just to give him something to read, but was amazed that he found a photo of his grandfather in one of the photographs. He emailed the author for more information and a possible photograph of his grandfather and the author has responded and gave him further information on his grandfather. You couldn't of asked for a better outcome. You never know how fate works, but glad he has a book and the information from it.

My favourite subject, though I've never seen this book before now. Item arrived in excellent time and was nicely packed and in good time. Great seller, thank you!!

Extensive amount of detail and fantastic pictures in this book relating to the Titanic and her sister ships... My Grandson loves it!

I bought this book for my 6 year who is obsessed with the history of the Titanic. I know this book is not designed for young children but it captured his imagination and taught him so much about more about Titanic and he learnt about her sister ships. This book has become part of our bedtime reading.

Son dos libros espectaculares, a todo aquel que le guste la historia del Titanic y sus gemelos, con fotografías maravillosas, qué menos, pues qué vinieran escritos en español, pero bueno está Google para consultar el inglés, los recomiendo son una maravilla.

bien reçu très beau livre super bonne année

questo i libro stato perfetto grazie

found it a bit hard to follow jumps from ship to shipoverall ok book for ship lovers