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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.
Stena Britannica is the focus of the Season 4 Episode 4 of the documentary TV show Mighty Ships. The episode first aired on 16 October 2011. [ 13 ] During filming a problem with the locking pins of the bow watertight door meant that, for 72 hours / six crossings, loading and unloading could only be carried out via the upper ramp while engineers ...
Renamed Stena Britannica (III) in 1991, Stena Saga in 1994 and Saga in 2021. Still owned by Stena RoRo, being used in the Philippines as an accommodation ship. [75] MS Stena Baltica (VI) (1988 - 1989 (Chartered Out)) Built in 1973. Never used in service with Stena Line. Renamed Nieborow in 1988. Scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey in 2017.
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 Hollandica, launched in January 2010, is the first of two identical Ropax ferries built by Wadan Yards in Warnemünde and nearby Wismar, Germany for Stena Line. [4] The second of the two ships, launched towards the end of 2010, is Stena Britannica.
The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with SS New York, a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of Titanic. After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed into the Atlantic with 2,200 passengers and crew on board, under the ...
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
Britannia was launched on 20 April 1893, a week ahead of Valkyrie II and joined a fleet of first class cutters that was growing fast as others followed the royal lead. In a highly competitive fleet, Britannia soon set about achieving the race results which would eventually establish her as the most successful racing yacht of all time.