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Why did they scrap the rms olympic?

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THE OLYMPIC WAS THE TITANIC SISTER SHIP

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  1. Jarrow. and then sold it for scrap.

    Olympic sat quietly at her berth in Southampton for the next six months. In September of 1935 she was sold for $500,000 to Sir John Jervis a mmember of the British parliament who, concerned about job loss due to the Depression, immediately re-sold her to Thomas Ward and Sons Ship Breakers in Jarrow, Scotland (in his constituency).

    On October 11, Olympic departed Southampton for the last time, arriving at Jarrow for scrapping two days later. Auctioneers Knight, Frank and Rutley of London auctioned off 4,456 lots of Olympic's interior fittings. Her dismantling took two years and was completed at Inverkeithing.

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