My grandfather sailed on one of Titanic's sister ships the Olympic. The Olympic was built first, the Titanic second and the third ship to be built was supposed to be called the "Gigantic" but after the Titanic disaster the "Gigantic" was renamed the "Britannic" to tone down the grandiose name a bit. The Titanic was virtually identical to the Olympic but the Titanic had extra suites added to its deck where lifeboats were on its sister ship Olympic making Titanic a heavier ship tonnage-wise. Less … [More]
