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Description: | The parlour suite were one of the finest quarters for passengers to stay in. They were so luxurious and expensive that they were reserved only for the First Class passengers.
The parlour suite consisted of a sitting room, two bedrooms, two wardrobe rooms and a private bath and toilet. They were decorated and fitted out with the most fashionable and modern décor and furniture of the time. The sitting room within the suite for example was decorated using a range of styles from different periods including Louis Seize (XVI) and Louis Quatorze (XIV). All the furniture would of course be bolted down to the floor to stop them from moving when the ship swayed with the sea.
The occupants of the rooms vas even given a free inside cabin for his or her servants. These staterooms cost £870 to stay in in 1912.
The First Class parlours like all the other rooms on board Olympic had very similar designs to her sister ship's Titanic and Britannic.
Not all the passenger's rooms were like this however. In fact there were only two of these parlour suites on board Olympic and her sister ship Titanic. This was because they were so expensive to rent out.
The rooms of the rest of the First Class passenger's were not quite as luxurious as this. They did all however have a bed (or several according to the number of occupants), a wardrobe and dresser, a bathroom, and an electric heater. The Second Class rooms were much more simpler and modest than the first class rooms, whilst the third class rooms were extremely primitive and plain.
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: | cabin Olympic bedroom parlour suite First Class White Star Line bedroom 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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