RMS Majestic (1914)

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RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line's North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of the German ocean liner company Hamburg America Line's trio of transatlantic liners, her completion was delayed by World War I. The liner never sailed under the German flag except on her sea trials in 1922. Following the war, she was finished by her German builders, handed over to the Allies as war reparations and became the White Star Line flagship RMS Majestic, replacing the sunk HMHS Britannic, which went down in the Aegean Sea, in November 1916, after hitting a mine laid by SM U-73. She was the second White Star ship to bear the name, the first being the RMS Majestic of 1889. She served successfully throughout...

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