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
Sinking of the RMS Titanic the hull plates. This suggests that the iron rivets along the plate seams snapped off or popped open to create narrow gaps through which water flooded. An engineer from "Titanic"s builders, Harland and Wolff, suggested this scenario at the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry following the disaster but his view was discounted. "Titanic"s discoverer Robert Ballard has commented that the assumption that the ship had suffered a major breach was "a by-product of the mystique of the "Titanic". No one could believe that the great ship was sunk by a little sliver." Faults in the ship's hull may have been a