The RMS Olympic - Titanic's sister ship - departed from Belfast on this day in history.
Olympic returned to Belfast on the 2nd of March 1912, after throwing a propeller which damaged the ship. Due to throwing a propeller, Olympic returned to Belfast to get repaired. The RMS Olympics' Maiden Voyage By the time Olympic had thrown a propeller, she was already sailing for months as a passenger ship. The maiden voyage of the Olympics began on the 14th of June 1911. Like with Titanic's maiden voyage, the Olympics' maiden voyage also began in Southampton. Titanic's maiden voyage took place nearly a year after the Olympics' maiden voyage. Titanic began her maiden voyage on the 10th of April 1912. She would follow the same journey that her sister ship, the RMS Olympic, took months earlier. Only, Titanic's maiden voyage ended in tragedy, whereas, the Olympics' didn't. The Olympics' maiden voyage went a lot more smoothly and didn't end in the same tragedy as Titanic's maiden voyage did. Titanic was supposed to reach New York on the 17th of April 1912, but sadly, she did not make it to New York and sank into the Atlantic ocean in the early morning hours of the 15th of April 1912. The RMS Olympic reached New York City on the 21st of June 1911 - several days after she left Southampton on her maiden voyage.
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