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
Way (vessel) under weigh with very little fuss" (R. H. Dana "Two Years before the Mast" xxiii. 236). Way (vessel) Way, (sometimes Weigh) in a nautical context of a ship or vessel, is a noun that refers to her speed or momentum. As an example the "Oxford English Dictionary", sense 14, has "She ran into the "Nio" before her way could be stopped." (Taken from an Admiralty report of a collision at sea). The "Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" has "On the other hand, we have seen several ships break their chains by having too much way upon them". From a