Everyone knows of the grandeur and beauty of the RMS Titanic. While her 'titanic' reputation is (for the most part) thanks to James Cameron's blockbuster '97 film, she was the cause behind maritime safety regulations being immensely revamped following her April 14, 1912 incident. So much so that it caused the SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea) to be be established in 1914.
However, most are not aware that she was actually only the SECOND of her kind. Unlike how the popular film would lead you to believe, Titanic didn't have much fanfare during her maiden voyage, prior to her sinking, of course, as the massive anticipation of such a ship's maiden voyage was all done a year prior with Titanic's older sister, Olympic.
Olympic, unlike her sisters, was different. She wasn't wrought with tragedy during her lifespan. In fact, she saw constant success and was the only ship of her class to become profitable: Titanic sinking only 4 days, 11 hours and forty minutes into her maiden voyage, and Britannic never entered commercial service, instead was requisitioned by the Admiralty in May 1915 and was completed as a hospital ship on December 12 and entering naval service as a Hospital Ship on December 23, only to sink after hitting a mine near Kea in the Aegean Sea on November 21, 1916, nearly a year later.
However, Olympic herself saw massive success even in the Great War. Out of the British liners requisitioned as troopships during the war, Olympic carried the most troops. She carried a grand total of 200,857 troops, making 36 troopship voyages. She even managed to achieve a feat no commercially-built vessel could ever achieve during the war: sinking a German submarine. In this case, she rammed it with her stem, and her aft propellers pulled it in as it made a diving attempt to escape, causing its conning tower to be sliced nearly in two! Following the war, she gained much recognition, rumors to have sunk three U-Boats instead of one, Halifax naming their Olympic Hall Community Centre after her, and most of all keeping consistent, if not more, popularity throughout the twenties. However, the rising popularity of ArtDeco themed interior as well as a lot of her own interior being repainted in garish green to help appeal to the ArtDeco popularity combined with struggling to keep popularity amidst the Great Depression ended her service in 1935 after a well-anticipated and prepared cruise ship conversion fell through. Contrary to popular belief, she was actually in a brand-new condition before being laid up after the cruising plans fell through.
Even though she wasn't saved like other ships, such as the Queen Mary and the SS United States (saved from scrap, at least), she still had a loyal following and many people regarded her as a fine ship. Charlie Chaplin himself even said that the Olympic's À la Carte restaurant was the "best place to dine on land and sea". Frank Munsey had considered her his favorite liner, Charles H Fecke said that she had 24 of the finest cabins that he'd ever seen on any ship, Captain Reginald Peel said that she was one of the best ships he had ever commanded. And even PAS Franklin of IMM even said that she "was still the finest ship afloat". Sir Bertram Fox Hayes, the valiant Captain in charge of her during the war and responsible for sinking U-103, even said, "I suppose it is inevitable, but it is, nevertheless, very sad to me. She was the finest ship afloat. Not the fastest, but the most comfortable and the easiest to handle."
Even a syndicate tried to make a deal with Cunard to turn her into a floating hotel off the southern coast of France, but this, too, did not come to fruition as the money they offered was slightly less than what they would have received from selling her for scrap.

Despite all of this, her sister, Titanic, has become immortalized by Hollywood and Britannic and much less so Olympic have both been a forgotten memory.

This petition is not to see Olympic rebuilt as a cruise ship to compete with the modern ones of today (being built as a cruise ship would put her in too much disadvantages, from size, passenger capacity, safety concerns, and even unfaithful reproductions), but rather, to be built as something more significant: a floating hotel and/or museum. Similar, in a way, to how the RMS Queen Mary is today.
In the 2000s, Sarel Gous attempted to build a replica of the Titanic as a cruise ship, but this fell through for a multitude of reasons but in the case of the replica's build, it couldn't be made as a faithful replica. Due to SOLAS regulations, it is no longer legal to have lifeboats mounted as high as they were on the Olympic-class liners, standards now require that lifeboats be mounted no higher than 15 meters above the waterline. For the lifeboat placement to be the same, but with enough lifeboats, it would require a height exemption similar to that granted to the RMS Queen Mary 2. More importantly, modern fire-prevention regulations prohibit the large-scale use of wood in the interior, making most of Olympic and Titanic's signature interiors impossible to be properly replicated, including the Grand Staircase and First-Class Lounge.
However, seeing as a floating hotel/museum would also be exempt from this, as is the case with the RMS Queen Mary, which has large-scale use of wood for her interior as well, she could properly be replicated, as she would not be sailing the seas in any way.

Despite that Clive Palmer has a replica Titanic in production as a cruise ship, it's success seems dubious. But a floating hotel of Olympic is the more viable option, Not only would it not have to worry about the wood of its interior, it would also have no concerns of people taking issue with it being rebuilt, as has been done with the several Titanic replicas of the past. It also seems more fitting, as she was almost a floating hotel after being withdrawn from service.