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
RMS Titanic alternative theories his book, "Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?". In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the "Titanic", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact "Titanic"s sister ship , disguised as "Titanic", as an insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902. "Olympic" was the slightly older sister of "Titanic", built alongside the more famous vessel but launched in October 1910. Her exterior profile was