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HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) ( / brɪˈtænɪk /) 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 ...
Britannic (film) Britannic. (film) Britannic is a 2000 spy television film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. The film is a fictional account of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916; it features a German agent sabotaging her while she is serving as a hospital ship for the British Army during World War I ...
Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse, Glasgow built Britannia, launching her on 1 December 1925 and completing her in March 1926. [1] She was 460 ft 1 in (140.23 m) long and had a beam of 59 ft 7 in (18.16 m). As built her tonnages were 8,802 GRT and 5,281 NRT. She had a quadruple expansion engine that developed 558 NHP [2] and gave her a ...
MV Britannicwas a British transatlanticocean linerthat was launched in 1929 and scrapped in 1961. She was the penultimate ship built for White Star Linebefore its 1934 merger with Cunard Line. When built, Britannicwas the largest motor shipin the UK Merchant Navy. Her running mate ship was the MV Georgic.
HMT. Rohna. HMT Rohna was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo liner that was built on Tyneside in 1926 as SS Rohna and requisitioned as a troop ship in 1940. ("HMT" stands for His Majesty's Transport.) Rohna was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1943 by a Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb launched by a Luftwaffe ...
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) [1] was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" following the Great Chicago Fire [2] and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
Iolaire wrecked on the "Beasts of Holm". Lifeboat from the Iolaire. HMY Iolaire was an Admiralty Yacht that sank at the entrance to Stornoway harbour on 1 January 1919, with the loss of at least 201 men out of the 283 on board. The overcrowded vessel was trying to negotiate a difficult route under exceptionally bad weather conditions.
The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in Drøbak Sound, the northernmost part of the outer Oslofjord in southern Norway, on 9 April 1940. It marked the end of the "Phoney War" and the beginning of World War II in Western Europe . A German fleet led by the cruiser Blücher was dispatched up the Oslofjord to begin the German invasion of Norway ...