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Description: | The First Class cabins on board all ships at this time were some of the finest bedrooms on board. They were fashionably decorated with in various styles from the Italian Renaissance, Queen Anne, Adams, Georgian, Regency' Louis Quinze, and Modern Dutch. As you can see from this photograph these bedrooms also had an adjoining sitting room for added comfort. The rooms also had two wardrobe rooms, and a private bath and toilet. Although having a private bath and toilet is standard today, this was only reserved for the wealthiest passengers who could afford it. Some rooms also had electric heaters, arm chairs, horsehair sofas, marble wash stands and fans in the ceiling. Some of the rooms even had a smaller adjoining room for their servants. All the furniture would of course be bolted down on to the floor to stop it from moving when the sea caused the ship to toss and turn.
This was very different from the rather plain and basic accommodation of the Second Class passengers. These rooms would also seem like palaces compared with the extremely primitive Third Class accommodation, which only consisted of several bunk beds and maybe some where for the passengers to put their clothes.
The First Class cabins like all the rooms on board Olympic were designed very similarly to her sister ship's Titanic and Britannic.
R.M.S Olympic was built at the Harland and wolff ship yard in Belfast, London at a cost of US $7,500,000. She was launched on October 20, 1910 and entered passenger service in 1911, serving the White Star Line. She served the North Atlantic route, sailing from Southampton Docks.
She was one of a trio of sister ships which were built at the beginning of the twentieth century. The others were called Titanic (1912) and Gigantic (later renamed Britannic) (1914). The sister ships were almost identical in design. R.M.S Olympic however could be distinguished by her open first class promenade. The first class promenade on Titanic and Britannic was partially closed. This was because modifications had been made to Titanic and Britannic (whom came into service later) after Olympic passengers complained of spray coming from the sea onto the promenade.
Unlike her other sister ships, R.M.S Olympic had a much more longer and successful life as a liner than her other sister ships. She served the North Atlantic route for the White Star Line until 1935, when she retired and was turned into scrap. When she went to the scrap yard parts of her interiors were taken out first and were sold to buyers all over the country. Some of her interiors can still be seen in peoples homes today. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | National Monuments Record (English Heritage) | Subjects: | First Class bedroom cabin Olympic First Class White Star Line First Class cabin ship's interior ocean liners | Temporal: | start=1910-10-20; end=1935-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: National Monuments Record (English Heritage) | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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