On the morning of 21 November 1916 she was shaken by an explosion caused by a naval mine of the Imperial German Navy near the Greek island of Kea and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 people.
In 19 she served between the United Kingdom and the Dardanelles. She was laid up at her builders, Harland and Wolff, in Belfast for many months before being requisitioned as a hospital ship. She was designed to be the safest of the three ships with design changes made during construction due to lessons learned from the sinking of the Titanic. īritannic was launched just before the start of the First World War. At the time she was the largest hospital ship in the world. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until her sinking near the Greek island of Kea, in the Aegean Sea, in November 1916. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. HMHS Britannic ( / b r ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ k/) 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. One bronze quadruple-blade central propeller.Two bronze triple-blade outboard wing propellers.Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines, each producing 16,000 hp (12,000 kW) for outboard wing propellers, one low-pressure turbine producing 18,000 hp (13,000 kW) for the centre propeller.24 double-ended, 5 single-ended (coal-fired) boilers.Sank after striking a German mine set by SM U-73 on 21 November 1916 near Kea in the Aegean Seaġ75 ft (53 m) from the keel to the top of the funnels His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Britannic
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