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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.
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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
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 ...
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]
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.
Britannic is a 2000 spy television film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the sinking of HMHS Britannic in 1916. The film portrays a German agent sabotaging her while she is serving as a hospital ship for the British Army during World War I. [2]