Here you go, Sophia. A short one this time.



The Launching of Titanic Animated - 112 Years Later

Direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXvzHNyphk

Nice touch with Olympic at the end. She had just finished her sea trials and was inspected and certified ready to carry passengers and the visiting dignitaries were invited to inspect Olympic after the launch of Titanic and I believe some of them were invited to board Olympic for the trip from Belfast to Southampton prior to her maiden voyage to New York.

By the way... there was no champaign bottle used to christen White Star Line ships (despite what you see at the start of the 1958 film A Night To Remember). Just 2 rockets were fired, one 15 minutes before the launch and the second one at the start of the launching - you see the second one in the video.

The only thing missing in the video is the more than 100,000 people who were present at the launch, maybe they can be added later as video animation improves (you just get the sounds for now).

Sophia wrote on Jul 5^th, 2020 at 12:25pm:


They actually didn't use the Maheno for bombing practice .... it was target practice with the planes guns. Bullets were removed from the teak decking by souvenir hunters

Had it been bombed it would not have held together as it has ..... any hits with bombs would have seen bits of the wreck strewn all over the beach.

All the wear down of her has been by rust & the ocean waves.

Another great animation from the Titanic: Honor and Glory team:



The Launching of RMS Olympic - Animated 113 Years Later

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Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlC3qFMirQs

From what I've read the reason why Olympic was painted white (light grey actually) for her launch was because she was the first ship in a new class of liners and it also made her look better in the photographs taken with the black and white film used at the time.

You can also see Titanic being built alongside although the construction on her was more advanced than shown in the video but I guess they wanted to concentrate on showing Olympic.

The next scene shows one of the boilers being lifted by the shipyard's massive floating crane before it was lowered into the ship.

And the last scene recreates Olympic (on the left) being moved into drydock to have a broken off propeller blade replaced (after Titanic was taken out of the drydock) in early March 1912.

The original photograph is attached - this is also the last known photograph taken of the 2 sister ships together.

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2023 at 6:21pm:


I’ll second that!

Captain Carl I’m going to call him now 

Gnads wrote on Nov 21^st, 2023 at 10:01am:


Hmmm… That’s interesting… bombing practice without bombs? 

Used for bombing practice but not one mark of a bomb making contact...?
Very strange?

*thinks a bit.

I know!!!

...Aliens.

Sounds like machine gun target practice then.