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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 ...
Bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank off Sultan Shoal on February 5, 1942 R.M.S. Empress of Asia leaving Vancouver in 1917: RMS Empress of Britain: 1930 Torpedoed and sunk on October 28, 1940, by a German U-boat: R.M.S. Empress of Britain in 1931. RMS Empress of Canada: 1920 Torpedoed and sunk in 1943 by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci
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]
Britannic was taking civilians to Canada and would be bringing Canadian troops and airmen back to Britain. [ 41 ] After Bismarck sank the battlecruiser Hood during the Battle of Denmark Strait on the morning of 24 May, Rodney was ordered by the Admiralty to join in the pursuit of the German ship, leaving the destroyer Eskimo to escort Britannic ...
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.
An anti-aircraft ship that sank in Portland Harbour on the coast of Dorset, England, a day after suffering heavy damage in a German dive bomber attack. 50°34′37″N 002°25′10″W / 50.57694°N 2.41944°W / 50.57694; -2.41944 ( HMS Foylebank
Peresvet – On 4 January the Russian battleship caught fire and sank after striking two mines, one forward and the other abreast a boiler room, north of Port Said, Egypt. Of 771 aboard 167 were killed. 167 Navy 1918 United Kingdom: HMHS Glenart Castle – On 26 February the hospital ship was hit and sunk by a torpedo from UC-56. [12]