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 Ship of the Line including Bush, who loses a leg, and his ship dismasted, he is then forced to strike his colours and surrender. This novel ends as a cliffhanger. A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, "A Ship of the Line", which follows "The Happy Return", is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished "Hornblower and the Crisis"). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower