RMS Olympic and sold at auction before she was scrapped, and now adorn buildings and a cruise ship. By contrast with "Olympic", the other two ships in the class, "Titanic" and , did not have long service lives. "Titanic" collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank, while "Britannic" struck a mine and sank in the Kea Channel in Greece in 1916. "Britannic" never served her intended role as a passenger ship. Built in Belfast, Ireland, "Olympic" was the first of the three s – the others were and . They were by far the largest
A- and B-class destroyer July 1940. was sunk by a mine off the Isle of Wight on 17 December 1940. was sunk by two large German heavy cruisers, and "Lützow". was so badly damaged when the ammunition ship blew up on 4 August 1943 at Algiers that she could not be repaired and was towed to Taranto and paid off. "Skeena" was wrecked in a storm off Iceland on 25 October 1944. "Saguenay" was heavily damaged in a collision with the merchant ship "Azara" and was consigned to the role of a training ship after being repaired. The surviving ships were worn out from