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Titanic & Her Sisters Olympic & Britannic

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Tom McCluskie retired from the archive department of Harland Wolff,(the company that built the Olympic Class Liners)and co-writers do a fine job in providing history of Harland & Wolff, The White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navagation Company)and technical and ancedotal notes on the building of these great liners. Photos not often seen are included through out the book. This is a must have book for any White Star Line - Titanic, Olympic and Britannic collector. Don't forget to check out Tom's other books "Anotomy of the Titanic" and "The Wall Chart of the Titanic"

If one is seeking a comprehensive book on the Olympic-class liner, this volume is vital to one's collection. Many rarely-printed images are offered alongside the popular pictures of Olympic, the lesser-photographed Titanic, as well as the even less-imaged Britannic. Many of the pictures are of Olympic, from her keel-laying through her fitting out, being the first of the three sisters launched. For those interested in the Titanic's building, launch and outfitting, where images of ship #401 are not in existence, Olympic, hull #400 helps bring a better visualization of Harland & Wolff's work to put these vessels on the sea.

A word of caution to those looking for a flawless historical reference guide - the book's captions are woven with mid-identifications; all three sisters are mis-labeled throughout the book, and a photograph of a Cunard hospital ship is wrongly referred to as Britannic. Despite the snafus in editing, the pictures alone puts this book on my shelf right next to "Titanic, An Illustrated History", "The Last Days of Titanic", and "Ghosts of the Abyss".

I have lots of books about different ships in the early 1900's and tons of books on Titanic and this one is one of my favorites.I liked how all three ships are together and there are some rare photos.There are photos of the ships going through construction, in dry dock and at launch. There is lots of interesting information listed about the White Star Line as well.

One of the nice consequences of Cameron's blockbuster ( I didn't like it much) is the number of books that have come out about the tragedy , the ship and her sisters.

This is one of the biggest. And a must for anybody interested in the subject.

It is a good book, well worth the price, but I have one complaint-it has a few errors in captions.

(For example, Titanic's aft Grand Staircase [not as grand as the forward one] was mistaken for Olympic's forward Grand Staircase. Yes, there are differences-Olympic's forward Grand Staircase was just as grand as Titanic's forward staircase.)

Aside from a few captioning errors, it is a wonderful book, a must have for an Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic enthusiast. Pictures are wonderful, saw so many things that couldn't be seen otherwise.

Tom McCluskie, an employee of Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipbuilders who designed and built the Titanic, has made a bit of an industry for himself putting out books on the subject. This book is probably the one most worth having, as it has all of the photos in his other books plus some amazing and unusual photos of Britannic under construction that I had never seen before (especially impressive were some shots of the reciprocating engines being installed). The price is definitely right, but be warned that for the massive size of the book the binding is a little on the weak side.

My mom got this book and another titanic book from a co-worker off her job who was moving and was trying to get rid of a few things. We got the book in 2008 I believe and I actually didn't start reading it until about a month and a half ago believe it or not. I was always very interested in titanic but never paid to much attention to her sisters. Lately, (after buying the movie titanic) I became even more interested and decided to read this book. VERY, VERY INFORMATIVE. You will not be disappointed. This book talks not only about all 3 sisters but also about the white star line, harland & wolff, and the various crew members and other people involved in the titanic at that time (it is over 500 pages). It even talks about what happened after the sinking and even talks about the movie. This book was published in 1998. I got the book free but I wouldnt mind paying for it if i didnt have it. Lots of pics. Some you may have seen before as well as some you didnt. I'm on my second reading now on this book.

I love reading stories about old ships and Titanic and others of her time are always interesting. This is a great coffee table book and well worth the price!

to me titanic and her sister ships were just flawly made.this book show how they were book and the inside story shipping business of early 20th century.

This is a very very good book. aside from some spelling errors and as stated before errors in comparisons, The book covers the idea before the construction, the way the ships were constructed,the seatrials and how the mechanicals work and the history about each Olympic class ship starting with the launch of the Olympic and the life of the Olympic and then moves on to the Titanic and the life of the titanic and then finaly the Britannic life with a portion of the aftermath hearing that J.Bruce Ismay responded to. very good book. tells more about how the engines works and how the engines were running at different rpm and how each rpm =`s a different speed.