OLYMPIC and TITANIC: A Sister’s Call (15 April 1912)

MGY MKC SOS -- TITANIC calling OLYMPIC, distress! As the RMS TITANIC slipped beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic she maintained near continuous contact with her own sister-ship OLYMPIC. The elder sibling had left New York the day before and was steaming east towards the stricken liner. She initially failed to grasp the direness of the situation unfolding 500 miles away. That is until TITANIC informed her they were loading passengers into the lifeboats. This was almost incomprehensible. The lifeboa