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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 ...
This is a list of ships sunk by missiles.Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by guided weapons, launched from aircraft, although it was not until 1967 that a ship was sunk by a missile launched from another ship outside a test ...
The cargo vessel sank in the South China Sea off Quảng Nam Seaport, Quảng Nam province, Vietnam. All eight crew members were rescued by the Vietnam Coast Guard. [170] The Admiral United States: The 100-foot (30 m) yacht burned and sank in Basin A, Marina Del Rey, California, after fireworks and ammunition caught fire aboard the vessel. [171]
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
A Mirabello-class scout cruiser that struck a mine and sank 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) in 11 metres (36 ft) of water southwest of Cape Fontana and 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi) from Odessa. [5] Moskva Russian Navy: 14 April 2022 A guided missile cruiser that sank after being hit by Ukrainian missiles. [6] [7] Novocherkassak: 26 December ...
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 2016 Ship State Description USS Reuben James United States Navy: The decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii by a Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) fired by the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (United States Navy).
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. Jessop is best known for having survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been aboard the eldest of the three sister ships, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the ...