Did you know? That the RMS Titanic's nearly-identical sister Olympic was torpedoed?

RMS Olympic had one of the luckiest and most Dramatic careers of any ship to set sail.

Near the End of World War I, while Olympic had been serving as a troopship, she was spotted by a German Submarine when she was just outside of Southampton on September 4, 1918. The Submarine was believed to be a U-boat U-53, with its commander Otto Von Schrader firing two torpedoes at the Olympic, One of them missed, and One torpedo struck the Olympic at the very center of the ship.

Unbelievably, the torpedo didn't ignite and the RMS Olympic kept sailing as usual.
The Olympic was refitted with an Inner Skin after the Titanic Disaster so, the ship didn't even begin to flood even though there was a torpedo size hole inside. It wasn't until after the war that workers spotted the hole and began removing it carefully. .

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