RMS Olympic Ismay had previously planned to build a ship named "Olympic" as a sister ship to . The senior Ismay died in 1899 and the order for the ship was cancelled. Construction of "Olympic" began three months before "Titanic" to ease pressures on the shipyard. Several years would pass before "Britannic" would be launched. In order to accommodate the construction of the class, Harland and Wolff upgraded their facility in Belfast; the most dramatic change was the combining of three slipways into two larger ones. "Olympic" and "Titanic" were constructed side by side. "Olympic"s keel was laid on 16 December 1908
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