bell wrote:

If anything white star may have became arrogant, that even after a bad accident Olympic still stayed afloat.

One passenger on the Olympic maiden voyage, joked saying, ‘she is far to big to sink’

So popular thought was the size played a key part in the terminology of the phrase, Unsinkable.

As explained in another thread, neither White star nor Harland and world said they where unsinkable, though they did not really deny it. The popular magazine dubbed them practically Unsinkable.

Good day to all,