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Nov 21, 2016 · The Britannic and the Titanic: A story of two ships. Sunken giant at the bottom of the Aegean: The Britannic, a diver’s paradise, provides clues to mysteries of the Titanic. HMHS Britannic...
Sep 12, 2016 · Sister ship to the Titanic, Britannic is the world's largest civilian shipwreck. In 2016, 100 years after her sinking, an expedition has used the latest underwater technology to reveal her secrets. Sunk by a German mine in November 1916, the Britannic was the largest of the three Olympic class luxury liners built by the White Star Line at ...
HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner.
The Germans suspected hospital ships of secretly transporting troops -- a charge that would be laid against the Britannic after she sank. (No evidence to support this charge has ever appeared.)
Britannic (II), yard number 433, was the third Olympic Class ship, and the largest ship ever built for the White Star Line. Britannic is best known as being the sister ship of Olympic and Titanic, and also for her own sinking while serving as a hospital ship in 1916.
Mar 22, 2017 · Steamship Mutual. Published: March 22, 2017. Generate pdf. 21 November 2016 was the centenary of the sinking of His Majesty's Hospital Ship "Britannic", the largest British Mercantile Marine loss of the First World War.
Nov 16, 2016 · Requisitioned as a hospital ship in November 1915, Britannic never had the opportunity of fulfilling its role as a passenger ship on the lucrative Southampton to New York run.
