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TIL After the Titanic disaster, White Star Line equipped her identical sister ship, Olympic, with extra second-hand collapsible lifeboats, many of which were unseaworthy. Many of the ships crew went on strike in protest, so White Star Line prosecuted them with Mutiny, and hired an inexperience crew

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