Hellenic Olympic Committee
Hayes was criticised for this action by the British Admiralty, who accused him of placing the ship in peril by stopping her in waters where enemy U-boats had been active. The ship’s pace was considered to be her finest defence towards U-boat assault, and such a large ship stopped would have made an unmissable goal. However, the French Vice-Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet took a special view, and awarded Hayes with the Gold Medal of Honour. Olympic made a quantity of extra trooping journeys to the Mediterranean till early 1916, when the Gallipoli Campaign was deserted. In March 1913, Olympic …
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