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
Murature-class patrol ship she was decommissioned; her sister "King" remained as the oldest unit still in service in the Argentine navy as of late 2015. 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"