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The historical docudrama The Mystery Of The Britannic was released in 2017, in which the maritime explorer Richard Kohler investigates the ship's last voyage. [citation needed] Alma Katsu's 2020 novel The Deep was set partly on the Britannic, and on its sister ship the Titanic, and centred around the sinking of both ships. [104]
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 sinking of the ship has been confirmed by Russian sources. [87] [88] Mangust-class patrol boat — On 6 May 2024, Ukraine used MAGURA V5 sea drones to attack a Russian patrol boat in Crimea. Footage was released appearing to show the drone detonating next to a small boat appearing to resemble a Mangust-class vessel. [89]
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]
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]
He was diving at approximately 300-feet (120 m) depth in the Mediterranean at the wreck of (Titanic's sister ship) Britannic, a bit "larger than the Titanic and deemed equally “unsinkable”, [which] sank in 57 minutes after hitting a mine in 1916 while serving as a First World War hospital ship.
The cruiser is the largest Russian warship to be sunk in wartime since the end of World War II, and the first Russian flagship sunk since Knyaz Suvorov in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Russia said that 396 crew members had been evacuated, with one sailor killed and 27 missing, but there are unverified reports of more casualties.
SM U-73 was one of 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.She engaged in the commerce war as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-73 has the distinction of being responsible for planting the underwater mine that later led to the sinking of the largest ship sunk during World War I, the 48,158 tons hospital ship Britannic.