first | previous | next | last | index   45 of 53  29kb By the early 1930s Olympic had begun to show her age, as mechanical and structural problems started to surface. In January 1935, it was announced that Olympic would be retired from service. She stood abandoned for a little over six months. In September that year she was sold for £100,000 to Sir John Jarvis who then sold her to the Jarrow ship breakers of Thomas Ward & Sons. The photo was taken August 31, 1936 after being stripped to her hull.