Olympic-class ocean liner a dining room. "Britannic" provided third-class passengers more comfort than its two sister ships. First of the "Olympic"-class liners, "Olympic" was launched on 20 October 1910 and commissioned on 14 June 1911. She made her maiden voyage on 14 June 1911, under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith to great fanfare and acclaim. On 20 September of the same year, while under the command of a harbour pilot she was involved in a collision with the cruiser in the port of Southampton, leading to her repair back at Harland and Wolff and delaying the launch of her sister "Titanic".
RMS Olympic York on "Olympic" on 21 July 1920 on the same voyage on which Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were celebrating their honeymoon. One of the attractions of "Olympic" was the fact that she was nearly identical to "Titanic", and many passengers sailed on "Olympic" as a way of vicariously experiencing the voyage of "Olympic"s sister ship. On 22 March 1924, "Olympic" was involved in another collision with a ship, this time at New York. As "Olympic" was reversing from her berth at New York harbour, her stern collided with the smaller liner "Fort St George", which had crossed into her