RMS Olympic Ismay had previously planned to build a ship named "Olympic" as a sister ship to . The senior Ismay died in 1899 and the order for the ship was cancelled. Construction of "Olympic" began three months before "Titanic" to ease pressures on the shipyard. Several years would pass before "Britannic" would be launched. In order to accommodate the construction of the class, Harland and Wolff upgraded their facility in Belfast; the most dramatic change was the combining of three slipways into two larger ones. "Olympic" and "Titanic" were constructed side by side. "Olympic"s keel was laid on 16 December 1908
The ships Anne and Little James to a lack of ships to carry on trade with England, and could only send fur pelts home in small quantities. Per Bradford's later recollection, 60 persons—men, women and children, were on the two ships "Anne" and "Little James" combined, although in reality the number of passengers was much more than that. There are no separate passenger lists for "Anne" and for "Little James" as those who came over on these ships were grouped together in official records when the 1623 division of land was made for them. But author Charles Banks did identify at least four men, three with