<Tr> <Td> Britannic </Td> <Td> Harland and Wolff, Belfast </Td> <Td> 1910 </Td> <Td> 30 November 1911 </Td> <Td> 26 February 1914 </Td> <Td> 23 December 1915 </Td> <Td> Sunk following mine strike off Kea, 21 November 1916 </Td> </Tr> <P> 1: ^ For ships in passenger service, "commissioned" is taken to mean the date of departure on maiden passenger voyage </P> <P> First of the Olympic - class liners, Olympic was launched on 20 October 1910 and commissioned on 14 June 1911 . She made her maiden voyage on 14 June 1911, under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith to great fanfare and acclaim . On 20 September of the same year, while under the command of a harbour pilot she was involved in a collision with the cruiser HMS Hawke in the port of Southampton, leading to her repair back at Harland and Wolff and delaying the launch of her sister Titanic . When RMS Titanic sank, Olympic was on her way across the Atlantic just in the opposite direction . She was able to receive a distress call from Titanic but she was too far away to reach her sister before she sank . After the sinking of Titanic, Olympic was returned to dry dock in the autumn of 1912, where she underwent a number of refinements to improve her safety . She then resumed her commercial service . </P> <P> During the First World War, the ship served as a troop transport . On 12 May 1918, she rammed and sank the German submarine U-103 . Once she was returned to commercial service in 1920, she crossed the Atlantic as one of a trio of grand White Star liners . The other two were seized as war reparations from Germany: Majestic and Homeric . During the 1920s Olympic would enjoy great popularity on the transatlantic route, earning the nickname' Old Reliable' . Passengers included such luminaries as Charlie Chaplin and the then Prince of Wales Edward VIII . In 1934 she inadvertently collided with and sank Nantucket Lightship LV - 117, leading to the death of seven of her eleven crewmembers . </P>

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