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Geographical discoveries and mass migrationsEurope's population put ship designers ahead of the need to create powerful fast and comfortable sea liners. The first experience of the construction was the powerful liners built at the shipyard "John Brown and Co." in Clydebank, "Lusitania" and "Mauritania". The competitors of "Lusitania" and "Mauritania" were the twin ships of the "Olympic" - "Olympic" "Titanic" and "Giant". The ships were built at the Harland & Wolff Ltd. shipyard. commissioned by White Star Line. The stakes in the competition were not made on speed, but on increased comfort, maximum displacement and passenger capacity.

Why ships were named after the Greek gods

The name of the whole series of "Olympic" refers toancient Greek myths. Olympus on Greek mythology is the place of the abode of the gods, therefore it is not surprising that the whole series had a generalized name "Olympique". According to mythology, there were several generations of gods, among whom the Titans represented the second generation. Already from them went the more famous gods, such as Prometheus, Atlas, Zeus. Zeus raised an uprising against the Titans and won. The Titans were overthrown in Tartarus, and the era of Zeus rule began. According to one version, the Titans were incinerated by Zev's lightning, and people emerged from their ashes. Probably the ambitions of the creators and the lack of knowledge of mythology became the reason for the name of the ship in honor of the deceased tribe of the supergods. In addition, in English there is an adjective titanic, which can be translated as colossal. Indeed, in terms of displacement, the Titanic surpassed all existing ships at the time, including its twin brother, Olimpica. "Olympic" - the only one of the same name series served the term and was written off due to obsolescence. The third ship of the series, despite the fact that after the death of the "Titanic" was urgently renamed from "The Giant" to "Britannicus", briefly survived his elder brother and was undermined by a German mine during the First World War.

Another Titanic?

It is noteworthy that almost 14 years before the crash"Titanic" was published novel of the little-known American writer Morgan Robertson "Futility" (Futiliity), which did not impress the audience. Only the field of death of the Titanic revealed that in a fantastic novel, to the smallest detail, a similar catastrophe of the world's largest ship called Titan is described. Everything was predicted, including the cause of the crash - the iceberg.