Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Even the anchor was special

I spent a major chunk of my life completely oblivious to the fact there was a  ship called the Olympic. I knew about the Titanic (who didn't?) but here was her sister ship, which happened to carry great uncles Math & Theo to Europe on the trip of their lives in 1914.   Funny how once you're aware of something, any other mention of it catches your eye.  Yesterday, I was flipping thru the pages of the September, 1911 issue of Popular Science magazine, as you do, and, woohoo, I found this: 

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