first | previous | next | last | index   9 of 53  38kb Titanic (left) and Olympic together. This photo was taken the day Olympic was launched (October 20, 1910). "The skeleton within the scaffolding began to shape, at the site of which men held their breaths. It was the shape of a ship, a ship so monstrous and unthinkable that it towered there over the buildings and dwarfed the very mountains by the water...with a rudder as big as a giant elm tree, with propellers the size of windmills - everything was on a nightmare scale..." - Belfast resident; 1910