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Christmas Dinner on the RMS Olympic
by John MacFarlane 2013
RMS Olympic Christmas Dinner Menu 1920 (Photograph courtesy of Bill Little collection)
In 2013 a Surrey BC colleague, Bill Little, shared the image of a Christmas Dinner menu from the RMS Olympic.
George Charles Bristol, who saved the menu as a souvenir of his voyage. (Photo from the Bill Little collection.)
The menu was saved by a relation, George Charles Bristol (1889–1972), who sailed from Southampton arriving in New York City on December 22nd, 1920.
The RMS Olympic (Photo from the Wikipedia collection.)
The RMS Olympic enjoyed a long and illustrious career of 24 years, from 1911 to 1935. She was the largest ocean liner in the world, interrupted only by the very brief career of the slightly larger RMS Titanic from 1911–1913.
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MacFarlane, John M. (2013) Christmas Dinner on the RMS Olympic. Nauticapedia.ca 2013. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/RMS_Olympic.php
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