Win The Olympic-Class Ships: Olympic, Titanic, Britannic Fabricated By Mark Chirnside Ebook

informative and interesting This is the ultimate resource book on White Star Line's Olympic class ships, As such, it is a thorough research piece that examines the history and technical aspects of the three ocean liners that comprised this classOlympic in service, Titanic, and Britannic.
As a longtime fan of the great liners, Olympic in particular, I consider this an essential part of my library, It is my contention, one shared with the author, that Titanic cannot be put into proper perspective without examining her sister ships therefore, I also recommend The Olympic Class Ships to those familiar only with the most famous of the trio.


The author immediately puts the ships' histories into context by examining their owners, the shipyard in which they were built, and the competing ships of the rival Cunard Line.
We then are treated to details of the lives of each ship in turnincluding technical information and remembrances of crew and passengersbut not necessarily in isolation, After all, the lives of the three ships were indeed intertwined, as history impacted each of the ships' designs at different points in time,

Mr. Chirnside's thorough research extends to the appendices, Aside from the expected chronologies, there is a wonderful analysis on Californian's role in the Titanic story, andsomething I've rarely seena tribute to those who perished on Britannic, the only one of the three that did not see passenger service.


I was surprised to learn that the author was a University student, I look forward to reading his future works over what I suspect will be a very promising career,

Excellent book, special for those interested in historic vessels, I have always loved anything white star line related, My favorite book on the topic thus far, Very informative and interesting. Sitting around a dining room table in, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newlybuilt Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania, From that smokefilled room came the first designs of three White Star superliners, Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic, Each ship was subtly different, Lessons learned from the service of Olympic were put into practice for Titanic, With the loss, on her maiden voyage, of Titanic, the hull design was radically changed for the third sister ship, The new double hull, however, did not prevent Britannic from sinking in less than an hour in the Aegean after she hit a

German mine in, Illustrated with many rare images of all three vessels, only one of which survived in regular service, this is the definitive history of the most famous sister ships of all time.
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