1908 Olympic Class 'Design D' - By Victor Vila












1908 Olympic Class 'Design D' - By Victor Vila
A LINER DESIGNS EXCLUSIVE - BY VICTOR VILA
In 1908, Harland and Wolff shipyard presented a design to White Star Line representatives which would represent the next step forward in ocean liner technology. This drawing, ‘Plan D’, would set the basic outline of what would come to be known as the Olympic Class of ships - Olympic, Titanic and Britannic - three of the most famous ships in history.
Learn more about Victor’s Olympic-Class plan here.
This replica of the original drawing was completed by Olympic-class historian Victor Vila and is an exact duplicate of the original 1908 drawing now on display in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum.
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
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LINER DESIGNS is pleased to bring you this glorious representation of all three Olympic class sister ships as they were intended to be; Olympic circa 1913, Titanic circa 1912 and Britannic hypothetically finished as a liner circa 1920.
Scale: 1/350
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
Britannic was intended to round off the three Olympic-class ships and secure White Star Line’s dominance on the Atlantic run; but it was not to be. Designed as an improvement over her sisters Olympic and Titanic, her design and construction was heavily impacted by the loss of the latter in April 1912. Before completion she was famously requisitioned for use as a hospital ship by the British government at a time when thousands of young men were dying and being terribly wounded in battlefields across the ocean. She was lost after striking a mine in November 1916, prompting many to wonder what could have been had she survived.
Learn more about Liner Designs’ Britannic drawing here.
Liner Designs’ scale drawings are printed to order and exactly to scale to suit your display. All of our drawings are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper
Dimensions:
1/200 Scale: 1412mm x 512mm - 55.6" x 20"
1/350 Scale: 806mm x 292mm - 31.7" x 11.5"
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
When she was launched, Olympic was lauded as the world’s largest man-made moving object and her maiden voyage received extensive media coverage. The first of what was planned to be a major trio of luxurious liners, Olympic went on to have one of the most legendary careers of any liner. This drawing depicts her on June 21, 1911; the day she first steamed into New York harbour on her Maiden Voyage. Learn more about Liner Designs’ Olympic drawing here.
Liner Designs’ scale drawings are printed to order and exactly to scale to suit your display. All of our drawings are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper
Dimensions:
1/200 Scale: 1412mm x 512mm - 55.6" x 20"
1/350 Scale: 806mm x 292mm - 31.7" x 11.5"
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
Olympic’s career as a troopship is the stuff of legends - and this paintscheme, the wild ‘Number 19 Type AX’ dazzle scheme is the most famous of the guises the ship wore throughout the conflict. Learn more about Liner Designs’ Olympic drawing here.
Liner Designs’ scale drawings are printed to order and exactly to scale to suit your display. All of our drawings are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper
Dimensions:
1/200 Scale: 1412mm x 512mm - 55.6" x 20"
1/350 Scale: 806mm x 292mm - 31.7" x 11.5"
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
When she was launched, Olympic was lauded as the world’s largest man-made moving object and her maiden voyage received extensive media coverage. The first of what was planned to be a major trio of luxurious liners, Olympic went on to have one of the most legendary careers of any liner. This drawing depicts her in 1933 before her retirement.
Liner Designs’ scale drawings are printed to order and exactly to scale to suit your display. All of our drawings are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper
Dimensions:
1/174 Scale: 1980mm x 580mm - 77.95” x 22.83”
1/200 Scale: 1412mm x 512mm - 55.6" x 20"
1/350 Scale: 806mm x 292mm - 31.7" x 11.5"
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
Titanic wrested the title of world’s largest ship from her older sister Olympic but only for a brief moment; in April 1912, on her maiden voyage, she struck an iceberg and sank with enormous loss of life among her passengers and crew. Learn more about Liner Design’s Titanic drawing here.
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The LARGEST commercially-available profile of Titanic of its kind in the world!
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
Dimensions:
1/174 Scale: 1980mm x 580mm - 77.95” x 22.83”
1/200 Scale: 1412mm x 512mm - 55.6" x 20"
1/350 Scale: 806mm x 292mm - 31.7" x 11.5"
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
Britannic was intended to round off the three Olympic-class ships and secure White Star Line’s dominance on the Atlantic run; but it was not to be. Designed as an improvement over her sisters Olympic and Titanic, her design and construction was heavily impacted by the loss of the latter in April 1912. Before completion she was famously requisitioned for use as a hospital ship by the British government at a time when thousands of young men were dying and being terribly wounded in battlefields across the ocean. She was lost after striking a mine in November 1916, prompting many to wonder what could have been had she survived.
Learn more about Liner Designs’ Britannic drawing here.
Dimensions:
1189mm x 297mm
841mm x 297mm
594mm x 210mm
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
Britannic was intended to round off the three Olympic-class ships and secure White Star Line’s dominance on the Atlantic run; but it was not to be. Designed as an improvement over her sisters Olympic and Titanic, her design and construction was heavily impacted by the loss of the latter in April 1912. Before completion she was famously requisitioned for use as a hospital ship by the British government at a time when thousands of young men were dying and being terribly wounded in battlefields across the ocean. She was lost after striking a mine in November 1916, prompting many to wonder what could have been had she survived. This HYPOTHETICAL drawing depicts Britannic as she was intended to look had she survived the war and become the beautiful Liner she was intended to be.
Learn more about Liner Designs’ Britannic drawing here.
Dimensions:
1189mm x 297mm
841mm x 297mm
594mm x 210mm
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
When she was launched, Olympic was lauded as the world’s largest man-made moving object and her maiden voyage received extensive media coverage. The first of what was planned to be a major trio of luxurious liners, Olympic went on to have one of the most legendary careers of any liner. This drawing depicts her on June 21, 1911; the day she first steamed into New York harbour on her Maiden Voyage. Learn more about Liner Designs’ Olympic drawing here.
Dimensions:
1189mm x 297mm
841mm x 297mm
594mm x 210mm
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
LINER DESIGNS is pleased to bring you this glorious representation of all three Olympic class sister ships; Olympic circa 1911, Titanic circa 1912 and Britannic circa 1916.
Liner Designs drawings are proudly made in Australia. All of our prints are available as unframed archival prints produced on the highest quality premium 230gsm matte paper.
NOTE: Watermark present in preview images will not be included on the finished product.
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