HMHS Britannic - Wikipedia
On the morning of 21 November 1916 she hit a naval mine of the Imperial German Navy near the Greek island of Kea and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 of 1,066 people on board; the 1,036 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats. Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War. [3] .
Britannic | Ship, Wreck, Sinking, Titanic, & Facts | Britannica
Britannic, British ocean liner that was a sister ship of the Olympic and the Titanic. Having never operated as a commercial vessel, it was refitted as a hospital ship during World War I and sank in 1916, reportedly after striking a mine.
Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in Aegean Sea
2009年11月13日 · The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in the Aegean Sea on November 21, 1916, killing 30 people. More than 1,000 others were rescued.
Britannic Sinks - Titanic Connections
Despite all of the additional safety modifications, the Britannic sank in about 55 minutes, much faster in to the 2 hours and 40 minutes that it took her sister ship Titanic to sink. Thirty lives were lost that day with more than 1,030 lives saved.
The Wreck of the Britannic - Titanic Connections
On November 21st 1916 HMHS Britannic struck a mine laid by U-73. For almost 60 years after her sinking Britannic lay undisturbed on the bottom of the Aegean sea, until 3rd December 1975, when she was discovered by deep sea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau on board his research vessel Calypso.
HMHS "Britannic": The Brief Life of "Titanic's" Gigantic Sister
2017年3月22日 · Harland & Wolff did their best to re-design "Britannic" to be capable of surviving the damage the iceberg had inflicted on her sister, yet "Britannic" went to the bottom in a third of the time it took "Titanic" to sink. This article considers what might have gone wrong.
HMHS Britannic - Titanic Wiki
HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the Olympic-Class Ocean Liners and the sistership of the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. Some claim her original name was going to be RMS Gigantic and it was changed after the sinking of the Titanic, as 'Giant' in her name would scare away the...
On This Day, November 21, 1916: The Sinking of the Britannic
On November 21, 1916, as World War I raged, one of the largest passenger ships ever built, requisitioned by the British Admiralty to serve as a hospital ship during the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in the Dardanelles, struck a German mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
HMHS Britannic | History of The "Lost Sister" - Titanic And Co
The Sinking of HMHS Britannic On 12 November 1916 at 2.23 p.m., the Britannic left Southampton for her final voyage under the command of Captain Charles Bartlett (also known as the “Iceberg Charlie”) with his assistant Captain Harry William Dyke.
The sinking of the RMS Titanic’s younger sister, the Britannic
2016年11月29日 · The Britannic was the largest ship sunk during the First World War. Famous explorer Jacques Cousteau found the ship on the 3rd December 1975. British author and historian Simon Mills bought the wreck for £15,000 and he said he wanted to “reconstruct its story” while allowing the “public to participate.”