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                 VALENTINE'S "TITANIC" POSTCARD CARRIED TO NEW YORK BY "OLYMPIC"

                         ON HER FIRST SCHEDULED SAILING AFTER "TITANIC" SINKING

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               RARE  & HISTORIC POSTCARD - MAILED AT GLENANNE, ARMAGH, IRELAND -

                        CARRIED BY "OLYMPIC" FROM QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK

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WHITE STAR LINE TRANS-ATLANTIC ROUTE: Southampton > Cherbourg > Queenstown > New York

"OLYMPIC" - on her regularly scheduled route - departed from New York at 3pm on Saturday 13 April 1912, and would have passed TITANIC in mid-ocean had it not been for the disaster that happened at 11.40pm on Sunday 14 April 1912. When OLYMPIC received the news by radio at 1am, she was already 500 miles east of TITANIC. Despite her position, she turned to go to TITANIC'c aid, but then realized she would have arrived too late to give any assistance to her stricken sister-ship, so she resumed her sombre journey to Southampton, which was reached at 7am on Sunday 21 April.

                                          TIMELINE OF "TITANIC" and "OLYMPIC"

                                      "TITANIC" - MAIDEN VOYAGE TO NEW YORK                                                • Left Southampton 3pm Wednesday 10 April 1912 • arrived Cherbourg, France Thursday 11 April 1912  • arrived Queenstown, Ireland Friday 12 April 1912 • Struck iceberg 11.40pm Sunday night 13 April 1912  • sank Monday 2.20am 15 April 1912.

                            "OLYMPIC" - WHITE STAR LINE SERVICE TO NEW YORK

• 21 April 1912 arrived back at Southampton from New York, and prepared for 3-day turnaround 

• 24 April 1912 - scheduled voyage (to New York) postponed to 26 April

• 26 April 1912 - sailing was cancelled by White Star Line due to crew unrest 

• THEN . . . FOR 3 WEEKS, her scheduled voyage to New York was delayed by a strike by the boiler-room crew, enlistment of replacement crew, addition and testing of extra lifeboats, and rehiring of former crew members, until

• 15 May 1912 - OLYMPIC's first voyage after the TITANIC disaster was scheduled for Wednesday 15 May from Southampton, departing at 12 noon.

                                                      -- that day --

• OLYMPIC departed Southampton half-empty, with only 335 passengers and her crew of 900

• arrived at Cherbourg, France at 6pm the same day (15 May), embarking a further 147 passengers

• arrived at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland 16 May 1912 at 11am (embarked another 54 passengers) 

• arrived in New York 22 May 1912 at 2pm.

                                          ••• A "VALENTINE'S SERIES" POSTCARD •••

• First printing (NOT this card) in Great Britain before TITANIC's Maiden Voyage and distributed throughout Britain and Ireland, with the reverse (address) side printed ONLY with details of TITANIC's size, etc., WITHOUT ANY WORDING on the front.

• There is NO MENTION OF HER LOSS ON THE ORIGINAL VALENTINE'S POSTCARD.

• After news of the disaster broke, the postcard was Reprinted and "Appalling disaster" wording added at the base.

• Card was mailed from Glenanne post office, Armagh, Ireland, on 13 May 1912, and carried to New York on OLYMPIC, which called at Queenstown (Cobh) on 16 May, her final port of call on her first scheduled voyage since the TITANIC disaster.

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CONDITION : Normal wear associated with vintage postcards, mailed or not. Some corner wear, as expected. Generally in very fine/excellent condition. RARE AND HISTORIC VINTAGE POSTCARD.

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