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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. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic ...
Discovered today on youtube that a dive in 2019 actually found the bell from the crows nest right below the mast sitting on the bottom. Should we update the main page to include this find? The video in question is Britannic's Lost Bell by Richard Simon if anyone wants to give it a watch. WestRail642fan 23:19, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
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For urgent orders requiring rapid acceleration, the handle is moved three times so that the engine room bell is rung three times. This is called a "cavitate bell" because the rapid acceleration of the ship's propeller will cause the water around it to cavitate, causing a lot of noise and wear on the propellers. Such noise is undesirable during ...
On 13 November 1915, Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship from her storage location at Belfast. Repainted white and from bow to stern with large red crosses and a horizontal green stripe, she was renamed HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic. [52] Olympic (left), and Britannic, still fitting out, at Harland & Wolff, c.1915