Purchase Date: 28th May 2010
Depicting: The White Star Line Ship "Olympic" and the The LMS Locomotive "Royal Scot"
Card Info: The 46,000-ton liner "Olympic", sister ship of the "Titanic", was built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast, and made her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1911. She remained in service until 21935 and, while being used as a troopship during WW1, she rammed and sank the German submarine U-130. The LMS Locomotive was a "Royal Scot" Class 4-6-0, one of 50 built at Glasgow in 1927.
Artist: Norman Wilkinson
Price Paid: 75p
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