Olympic-class ocean liner so, the "Olympic"-class ships were built to surpass rival Cunard's largest ships, "Lusitania" and "Mauretania", in size and luxury. "Olympic", along with "Titanic" and the soon to be built "Britannic", were intended to be the largest and most luxurious ships to operate on the North Atlantic, but not the fastest, as the White Star Line had already switched from high speed to size and luxury. The three vessels were designed by Thomas Andrews and Alexander Carlisle. Construction of "Olympic" started in December 1908 and "Titanic" in March 1909. The two ships were built side by side. The construction of "Britannic"
General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessel an intra-theater line haul roll-on/roll-off cargo ship. The vessel's cargo deck is designed to handle any vehicle in the US Army inventory and can carry up to 15 M1 Abrams main battle tanks or 82 ISO standard containers. The "Robert T. Kuroda" is the lead vessel of a new subclass of the "Frank S. Besson" class called LSV (MOD). The "Kuroda", named after Robert T. Kuroda, and its sister ship, the "Smalls", named after Robert Smalls, are generally similar to the rest of the class except that the ships are longer than the other ships of the class. This is