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New Real life Pictures Fresh set of SSE Pictures This month’s ocean liner ShipSim Magazine Issue 20 - April 2011 -RMSwww.shipsimmag.com Olympic1

©ShipSim Magazine 2010 Issue 20 21st April 2011 Pictures from SS A new month and a fresh set of pictures from Ship Simulator Extremes.

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Real Life Pictures A selection of pictures from the maritime world.

Ocean Liners Page This month we take a break from the French theme and move across the English Channel to Belfast.

Wardroom SSM notices, contributors as well as a look at Issue 21 of ShipSim Magazine.

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©ShipSim Magazine 2010 Guess the Ship Ship Quiz:

Q: Vessel in focus... A: White Marlin

Q: Bugsier 2 operates... A: Hamburg

Q: SS08 steam tug A: Furie

Q: Ferry on cover... Can you guess the name of this ship and who operates her? A: Albatross IV

Ship Quiz Q: Last vessel in focus... A: Cutter Ÿ How many ferries does the ferry pack include? Guess the ship: Ÿ What is the name of the Hamburg ferry? Ventura, operated by P&O Ÿ Name of the Hull - Rotterdam ferry? Cruises.

Ÿ Name of the SS anchor handling tug? Nautical Term

Ÿ Name of the SS hovercraft? Scuttle

Nautical Term of the Month A small opening in a ship’s deck or hull. (Scuttling is Aft deliberately sinking a vessel)

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©ShipSim Magazine 2010 Congratulations to December’s POTM Winner!

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©ShipSim Magazine 2010 Ocean Liners Welcome to the Ocean Liners page, produced in association with OceanLiners.com. This month we take a break from the French theme and cross the channel with RMS Olympic.

History of the Olympic Olympic Facts RMS Olympic was the first of Belfast and was fitted with extra Built: 1908 three large ocean liners lifeboats and had its bulkheads constructed for the White Star strengthened. Builder: Harland & Line to compete against the World War I saw a decline in Wolff successful Cunard liners (Lusitania passenger numbers as Germany and Mauretania). had threatened to sink the liner. In addition to the Olympic, the Length: 269m other sister ships were the Olympic participated in the war, Gigantic (Britannic) and the attempting to tow the HMS Beam: 28.2m Titanic. Audacious which had been damaged by a mine. Although Speed: 21kn Harland & Wolff shipyards in Audacious later sunk, the Belfast, N. Ireland built these survivors had been transferred to Fate: Scrapped ‘Olympic class’ ships, and the Olympic. She also was dazzle upgraded the shipyard to painted and used for a fast troop 1937 accommodate the large size of transport. On 12th May, 1918 the hulls. Olympic rammed and sank the Timeline: German submarine U-103 which The keel of Olympic was laid in had been preparing to torpedo her. 1908: Laid down. December 1908 and she was launched on the 20th October, The Olympic returned to Belfast 1910: Launched 1910. after the war to be refitted for civilian service. During this refit 1911: Maiden voyage Externally the Olympic had clean the she was converted to burn oil lines, using smaller air vents instead of coal. assisted with ventilation through 1911: Collided with HMS the fourth ‘dummy’ funnel. Inside She remained popular until the Hawke she was luxurious, and even had onset of the Great Depression. an indoor Arabian swimming pool. 1918: Rammed and sank In 1934 the White Star Line and German submarine Her maiden voyage from Cunard Line merged , leading to Southampton to New York the Olympic retiring in 1935. 1937: Scrapping commenced on the 14th June, She was ultimately scrapped taking 1911, during which she was the two years to complete, in completed world’s largest liner. Inverkeithing, Scotland in 1937.

On the 20th September, 1911, while commanded by Captain Smith (lost with the Titanic) the Olympic collided off Southampton with the cruiser HMS Hawke, flooding two of her compartments and twisting the propeller shaft. Repairs at the shipyard in Belfast delayed the construction of the Titanic.

In 1912-13, following the loss of the Titanic, Olympic returned to Wikimedia Wikimedia Commons

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©ShipSim Magazine 2010 Name Link Description Great Lakes www.boatnerd.com Great lakes. § Vermaas article Unfortunately, we were unable to Panama Canal www.panamacanal.com Panama Canal site. feature the Vermaas article as Marine Traffic AIS www.marinetraffic.com/ais Vessel tracker. advertised in the last edition of SSM. Professional Mariner www.professionalmariner.com Maritime magazine. We hope to bring you this article in a future edition of the magazine. Ships Monthly www.shipsmonthly.com Maritime magazine. Maritime News www.marinelink.com Maritime magazine. § Calling all mariners Marine Log www.marinelog.com Maritime magazine. If you work at sea and would like to tell us about your work or take part Baird Maritime www.bairdmaritime.com Online news. in an interview we would love to hear Marine Link www.marinelink.com Maritime magazine. from you. If interested send a Thank you to Chitch for compiling this set of maritime links. message via shipsimmag.com or a direct email to [email protected].

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