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Date Posted: 11:17:38 12/18/99 Sat
Author: Blake Kniffin
Subject: Stuart
In reply to: Stuart 's message, "Reports from Inverkeithing" on 04:45:10 12/16/99 Thu

> Yesterday I visited the small town of Inverkeithing in
> Fife, Scotland. It was here on 19th September 1937
> that the sripped down hull of the Olympic was towed.
> The yard of Thomas Ward & Co. still exists as does the
> office that was there on the site at the time. No ship
> breaking goes on
> there now but the scrapyard is still fully active. In
> the entrance hall of the administraive building there
> is a wall with the names of all the ships broken
> there. The Olympic was one of hundreds they have
> demolished but her name was written in bigger letters
> than most of the others, though it was hard to see as
> a large ships wheel and two telegraphs
> retained from another ship where placed in front of it
> as ornaments. I asked at the enquiry desk if anything
> is known to survive of the Olympic and the answer was,
> unfortuately, nothing. The yard has broken up several
> ships since the Olympic and the scrapyard is very
> full, so any
> items, if found, would almost certainly be impossible
> to distinguish. I did get some photographs of the
> basin where the hull would have been towed and of the
> Olympic's name on the list of broken up ships. I had
> been wanting to take more like some from the Forth
> Rail Bridge but the battery in my camera ran out. I
> will be posting the pics that did come
> out when they are developed.
>
> P.S. would any of you object to me putting a link to
> this forum on my website?
> http://users.classicfm.net/rmsolympic

Stuart, of course, go ahead and put your link on. Your page is wonderful! I love hearing all of this!
~Blake

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Re: Stuart -- Stuart, 17:56:48 12/18/99 Sat