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The bow cradle on RMS Olympic and the hydraulic gear that will be used to help launch her hull.

Photographed at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard shortly before her launch on October 20, 1910.

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Turbine propeller and two propeller bosses for RMS Olympic on wharf at Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, Ireland.

Date: 1909-1910

Museum of the Northern Ireland: HOYFM.HW.H1510

The $60 million French liner "Normandie," tied up at a Hudson River pier since August of 1939, towers over a policeman and three other men, May 15, 1941. The U.S. Coast Guard seized the ship and converted it for military use.

Photo: Associated Press

Launch of RMS Britannic at Harland and Wolff on February 26, 1914.

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Colorized by Anton Logvinenko: link

New York, 1903. “Docking a big liner – R.M.S. Oceanic.”

Coming into NY harbour in 1927 on the French Ocean liner SS Ile de France, a woman passenger stands on the ship’s deck which is covered with ice after a severe cold spell.

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The former ocean liner SS America Star, El Fantasma Gris. 

Is that Olympic? 

The luxury ocean liner SS Normandie lies capsized in the icy Hudson River after catching fire while being converted into an Allied troop transport ship on Feb. 9, 1942, New York -

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