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
Ocean liner the risk of being torpedoed by enemy submarines. The war was marked by the loss of many liners."Britannic", while serving as a hospital ship, sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916 after she struck a mine. Numerous incidents of torpedoing took place and large numbers of ships sank. "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" was defeated and scuttled after a fierce battle with HMS "Highflyer" off the coast of west Africa, while her sister ship "Kronprinz Wilhelm" served as a commerce raider. The torpedoing and sinking of on 7 May 1915 caused the loss of 128 American lives at a time when