the sister ships to the r.m.s titanic where in dry dock preparing to be fitted with the war equipment when someone walked into the British parliament and the owners of the white star line with an offer of 1.2 million dollars.

" excuse me mister Churchill but I was wondering if the owners of the white star and the members of parliament if I could buy the liners known as Britannic and Olympic?" the man said to the British prime minister.

the prime minister was shocked but allowed the two ships to be bought, so did the owners of the white star line.

"that's fine with us" they said, " we actually were going to have them scrapped in the year of 1935."

that caught the man's attention.

"what?!" he said with surprise.

"yes", they said.