Which shipmaker built the RMS Olympic for the White Star Line during the early 20th century?
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RMS Olympic RMS "Olympic" ( ) was a British transatlantic ocean liner, the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of "Olympic"-class liners. Unlike her younger sister ships, "Olympic" had a long career, spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname "Old Reliable". "Olympic" returned to civilian service after the war and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable.
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Olympic-class ocean liner The "Olympic"-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century. They were "Olympic" (1911), "Titanic" (1912), and "Britannic" (1915). All three were designed to be the largest and most luxurious passenger ships in the world, designed to give White Star an advantage in the transatlantic passenger trade. Two were lost early in their careers: "Titanic" sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage, after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean, and "Britannic" in 1916, after hitting a mine laid by the minelayer submarine "U-73" in a barrier off Kea in the Aegean Sea during World War I. "Olympic", the lead vessel, had a career spanning 24 years and was retired in 1934 and sold for scrapping in 1935.
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SS Noordam (1902) SS "Noordam (1902) was a 12,531 ton passenger liner of the Holland America Line, sailing mostly between Rotterdam and New York. It was built by Harland and Wolff. In April 1912 she alerted "RMS Titanic" to ice early into its ill-fated maiden voyage. She operated during part of World War I, but hit mines on two occasions and was laid up until the war ended. In 1923 she was chartered by Swedish American Line and operated as SS "Kungsholm until 1926 when she reverted to Holland America as "Noordam". She was scrapped in 1927.
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SS Suevic SS "Suevic" was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. "Suevic" was the fifth and last of the "Jubilee Class" ocean liners, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route. In 1907 she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name "Skytteren", she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany.
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SS Gallic (1894) SS "Gallic was a paddle wheel steamship, built in 1894 as SS "Birkenhead by John Scott & Co., Kinghorn, Fife. She was owned and operated by Birkenhead Corporation as a ferry on the River Mersey until being sold to the White Star Line in 1907 for use as a passenger tender to the company's various ocean liners.
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The Principal London The Principal London, formerly known as Hotel Russell, is a five-star hotel, located on Russell Square, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, owned and operated by the Principal Hotel Company. <section begin=architecture />It was built in 1898 by the architect Charles Fitzroy Doll. It is distinctively clad in decorative thé-au-lait ("tea with milk") terracotta and was based on the Château de Madrid on the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Its restaurant, which was named after the architect but has since been renamed Tempus, is said to be almost identical to the RMS "Titanic"'s dining room which he also designed. <section end=architecture />Also in the hotel is ‘Lucky George’, a bronze dragon on the second floor stairs. An identical copy was on the Titanic.
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SS North American North American was a Great Lakes steamship built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan, in 1913 for the Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company. The vessel was launched on January 16, 1913, and was the older of two near-sister ships, the newer one being SS "South American".
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SS Baltic (1850) SS "Baltic" was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamer built in 1850 for transatlantic service with the American Collins Line. Designed to outclass their chief rivals from the British-owned Cunard Line, "Baltic" and her three sister ships—"Atlantic", "Pacific" and "Arctic" —were the largest, fastest and most luxurious transatlantic steamships of their day.
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White Star Hotel White Star Hotel is a heritage listed building that operates as a hotel in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The hotel is located adjacent to the Royal George Hotel on Stirling Terrace, once the commercial and social centre of town, overlooking Princess Royal Harbour. The building was named for the White Star Line, an important shipping and passenger line that once operated out of Albany.
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SS Duchess of York (1928) SS "Duchess of York" was a 20,021 ton ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. Built in 1928 in Clydebank by the shipbuilders John Brown & Company, she was originally intended to be named "Duchess of Cornwall". However agreement was reached with Red Funnel company to swap names with the latter's paddle steamer "Duchess of York", launched in 1896.
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SS Columbia (1880) SS "Columbia" (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and later the Union Pacific Railroad. "Columbia" was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
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SS Great Northern (1914) Great Northern was a passenger ship built at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company, itself a joint venture of the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. "Great Northern", along with sister ship "Northern Pacific" , were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the northern transcontinental rail lines via the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915.
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SS Tropic (1871) SS "Tropic" was a steamship operated by the White Star Line. Built in 1871 by shipbuilders Thos. Royden & Co, the 2,122 gross-ton vessel operated on the Liverpool to Calcutta run in 1871, and in 1872 began serving South American ports from Liverpool. In 1873, the ship was sold to Serra y Font, Bilbao, and renamed "Federico".
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PS America PS "America" was a paddle wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891. Together, with her sister ship  , she tendered the various White Star Liners which stopped to embark passengers at Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh). She is best known for her assistance of the  , who was making her final call of port at Queenstown on her maiden voyage. "America" embarked 123 passengers onto "Titanic" (three First-Class, seven Second-Class and one hundred-thirteen Third-Class). The "Titanic" sank on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, with three-fourths of her maiden voyage completed.
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RMS Britannia RMS "Britannia" was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on 5 February 1840, at the yard of Robert Duncan & Company in Greenock, Scotland. The ship and her sisters, "Acadia", "Caledonia", and "Columbia", were the first ocean liners built by the company.
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RMS Majestic (1914) RMS "Majestic was a White Star ocean liner working on the North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Line liner SS "Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship in the world until completion of  in 1935.
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Rivers-class ocean liner The Rivers class was a class of eleven ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), the first class of German express liners. The ships were built between 1881 and 1890, the first nine in Glasgow by John Elder & Co. or the renamed Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, the last two in Stettin by Vulcan. All were named for rivers in Germany.
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Star of India (ship) Star of India was built in 1863 at Ramsey in the Isle of Man as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, she was not restored until 1962–63 and is now a seaworthy museum ship home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark.
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SS America (1939) SS "America" was an ocean liner launched in 1939 by Eleanor Roosevelt for United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS "America" (carrying this name three different times during her career), the USS "West Point", the SS "Australis", the SS "Italis", the SS "Noga", the SS "Alferdoss", and the SS "American Star". She served most notably in passenger service as the SS "America", and as the Greek-flagged SS "Australis", She was finally wrecked as the SS "American Star" at Playa de Garcey on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in 1994. The wreck is still there to this day, but has now mostly collapsed into the sea and only the keel remains visible at low tide.
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RMS Caronia (1904) RMS "Caronia" was a British ocean liner, launched on 13 July 1904. She was built for Cunard by John Brown & Co. of Glasgow. She was the only ship in the Cunard fleet to be named after an American, being named after Caro Brown, granddaughter of Cunard's New York agent. She left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 25 February 1905. A successful 1906 cruise from New York to the Mediterranean led to "Caronia"' s being used for cruising frequently in the coming years.
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SS City of Berlin City of Berlin was a British ocean liner that won the Blue Riband for the Inman Line in 1875 as the fastest liner on the Atlantic. She was also the largest passenger ship for six years except for the inactive "Great Eastern" Built by Caird & Company in Scotland, "City of Berlin" was the Inman Line's premier unit for thirteen years until "City of New York was commissioned in 1888. She served the Inman Line until 1893 when Inman was merged into the American Line, and she was operated by her new owners on both the American Line and Red Star Line until 1898. She was sold to the U.S. Government, and was in their service until after World War I.
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SS Tauric SS "Tauric" was an ocean liner built in 1891 by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line and completed on 16 May 1891. Though designed as a livestock carrier, "Tauric" carried a small amount of cabin-(second-) and steerage-(third-) class passengers. Her maiden voyage began at Liverpool and ended at New York. After this, "Tauric" began running the Liverpool to Portland route. In 1903, the White Star Line had the ship chartered to the Dominion Line, now taking on the name "Welshman". The Dominion Line in turn transferred her to the Leyland Line in 1921. She was scrapped eight years later, in 1929.