It does because the Olympic was completed first and during some trials they drove it into something pretty hard. The insurance company would not pay up and the ship was left with a serious list. Something had moved and the whole ship was tilting.
Some say that to get their money back, they swapped the names of the ships then sailed the Olympic across the Atlantic and sank it allegedly on an iceberg. The insurance woulfd pay for that so P&O managed to get their money bck after all.
It does because the Olympic was completed first and during some trials they drove it into something pretty hard. The insurance company would not pay up and the ship was left with a serious list. Something had moved and the whole ship was tilting.
Some say that to get their money back, they swapped the names of the ships then sailed the Olympic across the Atlantic and sank it allegedly on an iceberg. The insurance woulfd pay for that so P&O managed to get their money bck after all.
Pretty much the 9/11 of it's day.
Icebergs can't melt steel beams!
Considering the hull was designed to survive being beached...