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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 ...
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 ...
Two crew members, stewardess Violet Jessop and stoker Arthur John Priest, [9] survived not only the collision with Hawke but also the later sinking of Titanic and the 1916 sinking of Britannic, the third ship of the class.
Gustav Sieß—responsible for sinking the largest ship on the list, the hospital ship Britannic struck a mine and sunk (the younger sister ship of Titanic and Olympic)—topped the list with five entries, four (including Britannic) sunk in U-73 and a fifth sunk in U-33, all between April 1916 and April 1917. [7]
The ship was withdrawn from service in October 1912 and was extensively refitted to improve her safety in light of Titanic′s sinking. She returned to service in March 1913. [107] Construction of Britannic was postponed in order to allow the lessons learned from the sinking of her sister to be implemented into her design. [108]
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]
Mia starts by explaining the company that built the Titanic, the White Star Line, had three boats in business that were important to her theory: the Titanic, the Olympic and the Britannic.
Arthur John Priest (31 August 1887 – 11 February 1937) was an English 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]