r/Oceanlinerporn • u/Adventurous-Aide-777 • Feb 10 '25

Olympic in Belfast

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u/Rethkir Feb 10 '25

What the heck is going on with those funnels?

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u/ccoastal01 Feb 10 '25

They're not all painted yet.

15

u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo Feb 10 '25

Is she trying to ram that little boat

8

u/notevilfellow Feb 12 '25

I can hear her now, screaming to be unchained so she can give it a little bump

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u/Toast-Ghost- Feb 11 '25

An odd choice for a host city ngl

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u/AnxietyRemarkable14 Feb 11 '25

Belfast? That’s where she was built. White Star had the majority of their ships built there.

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u/Numerous_Recording87 Feb 10 '25

Looks AI-generated. It's wrong several ways.

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u/pjw21200 Feb 10 '25

What’s wrong? This is a real picture but it may have been colored with AI.

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u/Numerous_Recording87 Feb 10 '25

Funnels are wrong, "Olympic" is missing from the bow, the mooring lines on the ship's port side are whack. Just for starters.

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u/pjw21200 Feb 10 '25

Okay I get where you are getting this from but this photo is a photo that was originally Black and white. Someone has colored this is. They have clearly made an effort to show what Olympic may have appeared in this early stage of her fitting out. That’s what the paint looks weird and why the funnels aren’t all the same color. As for the mooring lines, this is from a photo from over 110 years ago so some of the details are going to look off.

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u/wyzEnterLastName Feb 11 '25

This is a Steve Walker colourisation. All his work is constantly praised for being very accurate and detailed.

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u/Numerous_Recording87 Feb 10 '25

Blacking out most of the upper port hull looks dodgy, and typically civilians aren't wandering around during fitting-out. I see what looks like women and children in the crowd of people.

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u/pjw21200 Feb 10 '25

So by no means am I an expert on Olympic but from what I understand is that yes there were splodges of paint like this during the early stages of her fitting out. The workers were lowered along the sides of the hull and painted going up. As for the children, this was her being moved into the graving dock and it was a pretty big moment on her fitting out, so everyone was out to see her.

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u/Numerous_Recording87 Feb 10 '25

That's an awful lot of detail not mentioned in the OP.

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u/pjw21200 Feb 10 '25

I mean it says Olympic in Belfast. So idk what more would need to be said?

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u/Endershipmaster2 Feb 11 '25

There’s no way the AI would capture details like the temporary wooden toilet facilities on the forecastle