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
The Diamond Mine (short story) artist's relationship with her family. The Diamond Mine (short story) "The Diamond Mine" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in "McClure's" in October 1916. Aboard a ship, Cressida Garnet, a soprano, meets a cousin of her late first husband's. She tells him of her love affair with Blasius Bouchalka, a Bohemian violinist who was her second husband. After he had an affair with their maid, Ruzenka, she filed for divorce and never saw him again. She is now set to marry Jerome Brown, a financier. Later, we learn that Cressida died on the RMS Titanic.