White Star Line "Olympic" class were to be the biggest and most luxurious ships in the world. The "Olympic" was the only ship of this class that was profitable for White Star. "Titanic" sank on her maiden voyage, while "Britannic" was requisitioned by the British government before she was fully fitted, and used as a hospital ship during World War I. "Britannic" hit an underwater mine, in the Kea Channel off the Greek island of Kea, and sank on the morning of 21 November 1916. Like many other shipping lines, the White Star Line suffered heavy losses during the First World War which
Murature-class patrol ship Murature-class patrol ship The "Murature"-class patrol ships are a class of World War II era Argentine Navy warships, originally classified as minelayers and later reclassified as patrol ships. The class is named after José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1916 to 1918. The class was as part of a program to build four mine warfare ships during the Second World War, of which two ("Murature" and "King") were completed as patrol ships and the others ("Piedrabuena" and "Azopardo") as antisubmarine frigates. "Murature" was laid down in 1944 and commissioned in 1945, while her sister "King" was launched in