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Originally Posted by jumpy
For certain, many of the pictures you see of the Titanic, in old news reels and photographs, are in actual fact her sister ship; due to the fact that so few pictures of Titanic were taken before she sank. This can be seen quite clearly in a newsreel film where the names of the tugboats have been scratched out from each frame to hide the fact that they are the tugs berthing Olympic in New York, the destination Titanic never made. The same applies to many of the postcards of Titanic.
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There were some serious structural differences between Titanic and Olympic, and if you know what to look for it's not hard to tell them apart at all. For instance:
Olympic, with the open A deck (circled in Red):
Titanic, with the closed A deck (circled in Red):