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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship

The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship

[html]We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of safety improvements. It had enhanced watertight […]
                              




   



We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of safety improvements. It had enhanced watertight co*partments, an increased number of lifeboats, and improved ventilation and escape routes. Those refinements paid dividends when the Britannic struck a German naval mine in 1916, then sank near the Greek island of Kea. Of the 1,066 people on board, most managed to escape on lifeboats and only 30 people ultimately lost their lives. (An estimated 1,500 people died on the Titanic.) The animation above tells the tale of the Britannic in an hour, roughly the same time that the ship took to slip into the sea.


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