Albatros 1/1250 AL150A-S RMS Olympic Limited Edition Waterline Model
Olympic, AL 150A-S is one of only 25 models made and hand-painted in dazzle camouflage by Albatros SM in Germany. The model is cast in a lead-free pewter and the dazzle camouflage pattern is the first one that was applied to the ship when she was bringing US troops to Europe to join Allied forces fighting on the Western Front in 1917. It is believed that she was wearing when she rammed and sank U103 which had been trying to set up a torpedo attack on the troop ship. The decks are finished in a weathered teak brown and the ship has the heavy gun armament added in the middle of WW1, see photograph.
Albatros has also made Olympic as a troopship in 1914 (AL 150A-1) currently on general release and available from Antics.
R.M.S. OLYMPIC (limited edition: 25 pieces)
Olympic was sister ship to the Titanic and became a troopship after the outbreak of WW1. With the Gallipoli campaign, she was used as a hospital ship but became a troop transport again to bring troops across the Atlantic and was given a dazzle pattern as a defence against submarine attack. together with 6x6 inch guns. The model shows this state. (In 1918 the camouflage was changed again) The ship had carried over 200,000 soldiers by the end of the war, survived many dangers and rammed and sank a German U-boat (U 103). Olympic's bow was damaged but she completed her voyage and delivered troops to France before going home for repair. Unlike her sisterships (Titanic and Britannic), Olympic was the only one of the three White Star sister ships to survive, and she was given the nickname, "Old Reliable". After the war, the ship was converted to oil firing and into a luxurious passenger ship again. Until 1935 she still sailed the Southampton - New York route but with the completion of motor ship, RMS Britannic and the merger with the Cunard Line, she was withdrawn in 1937 then scrapped.