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In the course of the collision, Hawke lost her inverted bow, which was replaced by a straight bow. The subsequent trial pronounced Hawke to be free from any blame. During the trial, a theory was advanced that the large amount of water displaced by Olympic had generated a suction that had drawn Hawke off course, causing the Olympic ' s voyage to ...
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 ...
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
Minnewaska was involved in another collision two years later, this time with Nomadic on 29 November 1931, during which Nomadic ' s bow was damaged. [9] On 30 July 1933, Cherbourg inaugurated its new ferry terminal which now allowed liners to come to the quay. [7] The tenders were no longer useful and thus in the following year, the Traffic was ...
In the spring of 1887, the family sailed to Europe aboard the ocean liner SS Britannic. One day out of port, their ship was rammed by the SS Celtic, the bow of which pierced a full 10 feet (3.0 m) into the side of the Britannic, killing several passengers and injuring numerous others. The Roosevelt party was evacuated to lifeboats before ...
Launched in 1872 by Harland and Wolff originally as Arctic for White Star trans-Atlantic routes, collided with White Star's SS Britannic off Sandy Hook in 1887. Sold to the Danish Thingvalla Line in 1893 under Amerika. Scrapped in 1898. Traffic: 1872: 1872–1896: 155
The Britannic was 882ft/269m long. The ship lies at about 400ft/120m deep, less than twice the length of the ship. The bow is bent because it reached the seabed before the sinking was complete (the rolling over to starboard side caused the bow to bend). Therefore, the timeline of the sinking on this page is never true (the sinking angle is too ...
As a result, the Olympic went through a major refit and design changes for the construction of the Britannic. [222] In August 1912, the liner Corsican struck an iceberg in the Atlantic, severely damaging the bow. However, because the weather was hazy at the time, speed had been reduced to 'dead slow', which limited further damage.