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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 ]
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 ...
[1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6] The idea for creating a song chronicling news events and personalities originally came to Joel from a conversation he had with Sean Lennon , wherein Lennon claimed that nothing of note happened in the news ...
Arthur John Priest (31 August 1887 – 11 February 1937) was a British fireman and stoker who was notable for surviving four ship sinkings, including the RMS Titanic, [2] HMS Alcantara, HMHS Britannic and the SS Donegal. [3] Due to these incidents, Priest gained the moniker "the unsinkable stoker". [3]
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 ...
Archie Jewell (4 December 1888 – 17 April 1917) was an English sailor who was on the crew of the Titanic.He survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship HMHS Britannic, but died during the sinking of the SS Donegal when it was torpedoed without warning by German forces during the course of World War I.
Some commands will allow the crew to vote on a song from a list of popular choices, usually during morning quarters. [2] Breakaway music may sometimes be related to the name of the ship, such as the " Theme from Star Trek " ( USS Enterprise (CVN-65) ) or "Kansas City, Here I Come" ( USS Kansas City (AOR-3) ).
Pushkin – a Russian ballistic missile submarine that also survived the nuclear attack; Leif Ericson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975; HMS Leviathan – aircraft carrier, HMS Leviathan by John Winton, 1967 (There was a real carrier named HMS Leviathan but she was scrapped incomplete in 1968)