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
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