Three Sisterships
Olympic and Titanic, Belfast, 2 March 1912
The Chairman of White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, needed to respond to the threat posed by the Cunard Line’s fast, elegant liners, Lusitania and Mauretania.
In 1907, during an after-dinner discussion with William Pirrie, Chairman of Harland & Wolff, the concept of the Olympic-class liners, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, was born.
