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Ziggy_TARDIS4/15/2016 7:30:41 pm PDT

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The Olympic had a significant series of collisions. 2 months after it’s maiden voyage, a British Cruiser has hot-dogging through a narrow channel, and speared the Olympic with is ram, though the Olympic suffered only moderate flooding in 2 compartments, and nearly pulled the cruiser under.

During World War I, the Olympic because, as of now, the only ship to have ever suck a military submarine in combat. I will let the note on Wiki explain.

n the early hours of 12 May 1918, while en route for France with US troops under the command of Captain Hayes, Olympic sighted a surfaced U-boat 500 m (1,600 ft) ahead. Her gunners opened fire at once, and she turned to ram the submarine, which immediately crash dived to 30 m (98 ft) and turned to a parallel course. Almost immediately afterwards Olympic struck the submarine just aft of her conning tower and her port propeller sliced through U-103’s pressure hull. The crew of U-103 blew her ballast tanks, scuttled and abandoned the submarine.Olympic did not stop to pick up survivors, but continued on to Cherbourg. Meanwhile, the USS Davis had sighted a distress flare and picked up 31 survivors from U-103. Olympic returned to Southampton with at least two hull plates dented and her prow twisted to one side, but not breached.

It was subsequently discovered that U-103 had been preparing to torpedo Olympic when she was sighted, but the crew were not able to flood the two stern torpedo tubes. For his service, Captain Hayes was awarded the DSO. Some American soldiers on board paid for a plaque to be placed in one of Olympic’s lounges to commemorate the event, it read:

And towards the end of its career, lost in fog, it hit and split in two the Nantucket Lightship, sinking it.