 Wireles Operator John Phillips mentions several time throughout the  sinking that he has been in contact with a ship called the Olympic.  The Olympic was the Titanics older sister ship, entering service in  1911, and an almost identical copy of the Titanic. She was the first  in a trio of sister ships built by the White Star Line to counter  their rival company the Cunard Line and their new luxury ships the  Luistania and the Mauretania. Unlike the Titanic and the Britannic,  (the third sister ship that was sunk by a mine during the First  World War), the Olympic went on to have an illustrious career as a  passenger liner and served proudly during the First World War as a  troop transport gaining the nickname "Old Reliable". After nearly  twenty five years of service the Olympic was taken out of service in  1935 and scrapped in the late thirties. Unfortunately on the night  of the sinking the Olympic was five hundred miles away from the  Titanic and unable to arrive to her aid in time.