R.M.S. Olympic
Plan Sheet Descriptions
This 9 sheet set of plans depicts R.M.S. Olympic in her maiden voyage configuration. Actual full size sheets are in 1/144 scale and are 3 ft. wide and 7-10 ft. long depending on the plan.
Olympic 1 – Plan Ordering Code OL1 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the full starboard profile of the ship. Frame locations are indicated. New! Hydraulic riveting is now included in this drawing.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 2 – Plan Ordering Code OL2 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the full port profile of the ship. Frame locations are indicated. Rigging details are shown. Hydraulic riveting on the hull is shown.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 3 – Plan Ordering Code OL3 – Price Per Sheet $38.00 USD
This plan sheet has drawings of four views of the ship: overhead (plan) view, forward view,aft view, underbody view.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 4 – Plan Ordering Code OL4 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has a map of the locations of all the visible ventilators. It also has individual multi-view drawings of each ventilator.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 5 – Plan Ordering Code OL5 – Price Per Sheet $38.00 USD
This plan sheet has a map of deck equipment. It also includes multi-view drawings of the individual deck equipment items.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 6 – Plan Ordering Code OL6 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has drawings of the Boat Deck deckhouses showing exterior bulkhead, window, and door locations. It also has a plan of “A” Deck with the same format as the Boat Deck drawings.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 7 – Plan Ordering Code OL7 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has plans of the “B” Deck deckhouses, showing exterior bulkhead, window, and door locations. It also includes drawings of the forward well deck, aft well deck and docking bridge.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 8 – Plan Ordering Code OL8 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet has three separate drawings which comprise the hull contour lines. Included are the body plan, sheer plan, and half breadth plan.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
Olympic 9 – Plan Ordering Code OL9 – Price Per Sheet $30.00 USD
This plan sheet is a drawing of the shell plate expansion. This drawing has never been found among the Olympic drawings. It was created using the Olympic framing plan and the Olympic shell plating plan. The plan is of constant scale both vertically and horizontally. All hull plates on the starboard side can be visualized in this expansion. This plan will help the modeler in plating the hull.
Special Note: It should be noted that the shape of individual plates cannot be derived directly from the shell plating expansion. The shell plating expansion shows the shape of plates in the x and y dimensions. On the ship there is also curvature in the z dimension. The shell plating expansion is at best a general guide to the individual plate shape. The modeler will need to develop the true shape of individual plates directly on the ship. The advantages of this drawing are that it shows all the seams, butts and doubling in one drawing. As an aid to the modeler, notations have been added which show how an individual plate or strake is overlapped or overlaps those adjacent to it.
Below is a closer view of a section of this plan showing some of the details.
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Addenda
From time to time information comes to light which requires that one or more of the plan sheets be changed. This section will display changes which are more than merely minor drafting errors. All changes will be made to the plan sheets from the date of the change noted here forward.
2. Date of change: 11/19/2010
Plan sheets affected: OL2, OL3, OL5, OL6
Nature of change: It has come to light that on the port roof of maiden voyage Olympic’s tank room that there were brackets for storing boards which were used as awning rafters for a covering over the reciprocating engine skylight opening when the skylight cover was removed during maintenance. The hard cover was removed when large pieces of equipment or parts needed to be shipped to the reciprocating engine room. When the hard cover was removed, these board were erected to support a temporary canvas cover over the skylight opening. On Titanic these boards were stowed against the aft railing of the tank room roof.
This drawings shows the boards and brackets in red on the roof of maiden voyage Olympic’s tank room.
This photo (red arrow) shows the outboard brackets and boards on maiden voyage Olympic
This photo shows the brackets (red arrows) on post Titanic disaster (1912) Olympic.
2. Date of change: 05/20/2011
Plan sheets affected: OL3, OL5
Nature of Change: For some time a structure was observed on later Olympic. It was located on the aft inboard aspect of port B deck hatch #4. Recently this object was discovered in wreck photos of Titanic. This prompted a reexamination of early Olympic photos. This object can be traced to at least 1912 so it was most likely original equipment. Unfortunately photo quality is too poor to discern all the details of this object but I have interpreted it as best I could. The function of the object is unknown at present. If better photos surface, adjustments to the drawings will be made. Below are drawings illustrating the changes which have been made to the plans.
Drawing of port #4 hatch area with object indicated by arrow
Multi-view drawing of object
photo of later Olympic showing object indicated with arrow
3. Date of change: 9/19/2011
Plan sheets affected: OL3, OL4, OL5, OL6
Nature of change:
Forward of Funnels 1, 2, and 3 on the port side is an access hatch to the fidley vents. Recent study of archival and wreck photos have led me to alter the size and position of these hatches. The new positions which are identical for all three boiler casings is shown in the drawing below.
