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'' Normandie '' in 1935. The ''Majestic'' was built by the Blohm & Voss shipbuilders in Hamburg , Germany and was launched on 20 June 1914 by Countess Hanna von Bismarck, the granddaughter of the 19th century German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck . The ship was to have been the flagship of the Hamburg America Line and the final of Albert Ballin 's "Big Three" (the other two being the '' ''Imperator'' '', which later became the '' Berengaria '', and the '' Vaterland '', which later became the '' SS Leviathan ''). However, the First World War was to completely alter the ship's fate, and she never sailed under the German flag. Under the terms of the Treaty Of Versailles , the as-yet uncompleted ship was awarded to White Star Line as compensation for the loss of RMS ''Britannic'' , which was sunk by a German mine in the Aegean in 1915. However, the ship's handover went far from smoothly. Furious at being forced to complete the ship for British owners, the shipbuilders completed the ship in the colours of the Hamburg-America Line and with the name Bismarck painted on her bow. The workers even had the audacity to use the new British master's cabin as a storage closet. The ship served as the flagship of the White Star Line from 1922 until 1934, when it was withdrawn from service after the British Government forced a merger between the White Star Line and its traditional arch rival, Cunard , during the Great Depression . After briefly serving as the training ship ''Caledonia'', she was damaged by fire and scrapped in 1943. FURTHER READING
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