White Star Line naval mine, while in service as a hospital ship. "Britannic" was the largest loss for the company, and also the largest ship sunk during the conflict. 1916 also saw the loss of the liner "Cymric" which was torpedoed off the Irish coast in May, and also of the cargo ship "Georgic", which was scuttled in December with its cargo of 1,200 horses still on board, after being intercepted in the Atlantic by the German merchant raider . 1917 saw the loss of the liner "Laurentic" in January which struck a mine off the Irish coast and sank with the loss
German naval ship Mühlhausen decided to convert her into a training and support vessel for mine-clearing divers. The rebuilding was done at the Peene-Werft shipyard in Wolgast and on April 6, 1995 she was recommissioned as "Mühlhausen" (M1052) and classified as Type 742A ship. After forty years in service, the "Mühlhausen" was decommissioned in 2007 and was replaced by the converted Frankenthal class mine hunter "Rottweil". At the time of her decommissioning, "Mühlhausen" was the largest naval ship still in service with a hull made of glued laminated timber (mahogany). German naval ship Mühlhausen Mühlhausen was a naval ship in service with the German