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HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS 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.
Britannia was a large ship for the period, 207 feet (63 m) long and 34 feet (10.3 m) across the beam, with three masts and a wooden hull. [2] She had paddle wheels and her coal-powered [2] two-cylinder side-lever engine (from Robert Napier) had a power output of about 740 indicated horsepower with a coal consumption around 38 tons per day. [2]
HMHS Britannic, owned by the White Star Line and third sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, sank in 1916 after hitting a German naval mine; MV Britannic (1929), a motor liner owned by the White Star Line and then Cunard Line, scrapped in 1960; SS Britannic (1874), holder of the Blue Riband, owned by the White Star Line
HMS Britannia (1820) was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1820. She was a training ship after 1859, and broken up in 1869. HMS Prince of Wales (1860), a 120-gun first rate ship of the line renamed Britannia in 1869, as she replaced the previous vessel in the cadet training role. She was broken up in 1916.
MS Stena Britannica may refer to: Stena Britannica (built 1967) - Broken up in 2001; Stena Britannica (built 1981) - Now Stena Saga with Stena Line; Stena Britannica (built 2000) - Now Finnfellow with Finnlines; Stena Britannica (built 2003) - Now Stena Scandinavica with Stena Line; Stena Britannica (built 2010) - Current Stena Britannica with ...
When new, Britannic was the largest motor ship in the UK Merchant Navy [9] and the second largest in the World, second only to the Italian liner Augustus. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Britannic was built as a "cabin ship" with berths for 1,553 passengers: 504 cabin class, 551 tourist class and 498 third class. [ 12 ]
Cunard's major concern was the delivery of the mail and most of the ship’s space was allocated to engines and coal. The Britannia quartette also carried 115 passengers traveling in a single class along with 225 tons of cargo. The dining room was a long deck house aft of the funnel and the only other public room was a small ladies cabin.
The ship was built by Portsmouth Dockyard between 1904 and 1906. Armed with a battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) and four 9.2 in (234 mm) guns, she and her sister ships marked a significant advance in offensive power compared to earlier British battleship designs that did not carry the 9.2 in guns.