WI RMS Olympic sunk in Halifax explosion 1917

On December 1, 1917 OTL, RMS Olympic departed Halifax and missed the explosion by five days. Let's say a mechanical problem delays her in Halifax for five days and the explosion destroys her + 6000 troops. All three of White Star Line's great but cursed ships are sunk. (Titanic-iceberg, Britannic-sea mine, Olympic-Halifax explosion).

How does this impact the rest of WW1? Obviously US troops haven't arrived in great numbers in Europe yet. The loss of Olympic means they will arrive later than Spring 1918. Perhaps they might be delayed until late 1918? Does Germany's Spring Offensive have a chance of succeeding in taking Paris? Could WW1 go the other way? Last longer? Does this mean a more lenient peace treaty with Germany? And does this butterfly away Hitler and WW2?
 
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It won't make a difference to the war, other troopships will be found. If she's loaded with troops and they're all killed it still amounts to no more than a few days casualties in the trenches when there's no battles being fought.

The whole Olympic Class will go down in mythology as being a cursed class with numerous superstitious causes being named for the curse.
 
It won't make a difference to the war, other troopships will be found. If she's loaded with troops and they're all killed it still amounts to no more than a few days casualties in the trenches when there's no battles being fought.

The whole Olympic Class will go down in mythology as being a cursed class with numerous superstitious causes being named for the curse.
US lacked any troopships so can Britain make up for the 6000 troop carrier per crossing over the next year? Even a delay of a couple of months could make the difference in the German Spring Offensive. Let's say the war drags on an additional six months. How does the Peace Treaty change? Harsher or more lenient?
 
Repurposing some of the Armed Merchant Cruisers will make up the difference, they were mostly converted liners anyway.
 
US lacked any troopships
The US merchant marine was undersized for the country's economy and trade going into World War 1. They partly made up for that in the troopships department with interned German liners that they took over in 1917. The US used some of those big liners for things like submarine depot ships, so they could have used a few more as troopships if they had decided to.

 
I don't think it would have had much of an impact. Olympic carried up to 6,000 troops. If we assume a two week turn around time that would be 25 round trips. So we are talking about 150,000 troops. Pershing had 2,000,000 so the absence of 150,000 would not have been significant even ignoring that there were other ships that could have picked up the shortfall.
 

Here is a thread about the consequences of RMS Olympic sunk in late 1917 or 1918 (until 11 November 1918) as far as post WW1 consequences go.

Granted, this thread has RMS Olympic sinking in 1917 due to the Halifax Explosion as opposed to U-boat attacks in 1918 in that hyperlinked thread, but the effects should be applicable to this thread.
 
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