The reaction in the dining room was immediate. In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, director general of the White Star Line, and Lord Pirrie, chairman of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast had decided to build a trio of ocean liners of unmatched size to compete with the Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretanianot in terms of speed but in terms of luxury and safety. 433 came to a dramatic halt: the sinking of Titanic caused the builders, Harland and Wolff, together with the owners, White Star Line, to stop all work whilst a new and much safer design was considered. Shortly after their escape funnel No.3 collapses. 08:35 Bartlett decides to stop the ship and orders all boats to be sent away. In the aftermath of Titanic’s sinking, much work was carried out, not only to make the ship safer, but to reinforce the message to passengers that lessons had been learned. A dramatic image captured during the sinking of the SS VESTRIS (November 12, 1928) by crew member Fred Hanson. Advancing flooding into Boiler Room 5. By Sunday, Britannic was again all set for a routine round trip, and she left Southampton, bound yet again for Naples. The fatal explosion (digital elaboration by Michail Michailakis). There now came a rather peculiar period in Britannic’s short life, due mainly to the failure of the Gallipoli campaign that had been providing Britannic with the constant supply of wounded soldiers. Ten days later, fully equipped and staffed, she departed on her maiden voyage. A mere nine days later, she was again ready for her familiar sortie to the Mediterranean, although this time, she would take with her nearly 500 extra medical staff, accompanied by tons of medical equipment for use in Egypt, Malta and India. Britannic’s bow was actually on the sea floor while the stern was still afloat, so shallow is the ocean where she sank! Water poured in through the portholes as the Britannic headed toward Kea. First, Captain Bartlett decided to try to run the Britannic aground on the nearby island of Kea. © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. It’s still debated to this day whether or not Britannic was struck by a torpedo, or whether she ran into a mine, but whatever she did hit, the effects were almost immediate. After less than 2 minutes Boiler Room 6 is already flooded and inoperable. 08:14 The forward E-Deck portholes are already underwater and the ship is taking a starboard list. Edison stumbled on one of his great inventions–the phonograph–while working on a way to record telephone communication at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Bartlett decides to try again to beach the ship and restarts the engines. But fate stepped-in again, as it does quite often with the Olympic-class liners, and due to new campaigns in the north of the Balkans, Mudros again became a focal point for injured troops, and soon the town’s hospitals were overrun. National Security Council staff member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, begin shredding documents that would have exposed their participation in a range of illegal activities regarding the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to a rebel Nicaraguan ...read more, In what proved a fateful decision on November 21, 1776, Continental Commander in Chief General George Washington writes to General Charles Lee in Westchester County, New York, to report the loss of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and to order Lee to bring his forces to New Jersey. Just over two months since being released, Britannic was again requisitioned, along with Aquitania. This might have been successful, but, earlier, the ship’s nursing staff had opened the portholes to air out the sick wards. As an extra precaution, there were two more red crosses high up the ship on the side of the promenade deck which could be illuminated at night. BRITANNIC's sinking rate increases again and water is soon reported forward on D-Deck. Soon after, the Captain will restart the engines in a desperate attempt to beach the ship. 09:04 The water is now 119m/390ft deep and BRITANNIC's bow hits the bottom whilst the stern is still above the surface. One of the more noticable improvements was the provision of new, much larger pairs of davits, capable of holding six lifeboats each. This complete, she again sailed for Southampton, arriving back home on the 4th April, 1916. By December 12th, 1915, Britannic had sailed to Liverpool, accompanied by heavily armed escorts. BRITANNIC's flooding limit. 08:12 The BRITANNIC is thrown instantly off-course by three points (33.75 degrees), while her bow rises noticeably and then falls back down. Doctors and nurses left instantly for their posts. She sailed first to Naples to take-on coal and water, and then to her intended destination, Mudros, on the Greek island of Lemnos, where she was loaded with casualties of the fierce fighting taking place in the Dardenelles. Fifth Officer Fielding estimates the stern rising some 46m/150 feet into the air.

The water is about 180m/591ft deep. He was 22 when he lost his life on the BRITANNIC. Since the ship was still moving as fast as it could, the boats were sucked into the propellers, killing those on board. 09:00 When Bartlett is informed of the water on D-Deck he gives the order to abandon ship and BRITANNIC's whistle is blown for the last time. The engines are stopped and the lifeboats are made ready to be lowered. It … Again she returned to Southampton, arriving on the 9th February, 1916, and once the patients aboard her had all been off-loaded, she was again prepared for another voyage, this time to Augusta. Less than 30 minutes later, Bartlett realized that the ship was going to sink and ordered it abandoned. But following the disaster, White Star decided to opt for a less aggresive name given the circumstances, and settled on Britannic.
In fact, most of the 30 people who died were in the prematurely launched lifeboats.

Then the Britannic rolled over her starboard side and the funnels began collapsing and the deck machinery fell into the water as the ship vanished into the depths. Even so, she went to war with 58 lifeboats aboard, almost three times the amount Titanic had carried.
In this capacity, Captain Charlie Bartlett led the Britannic on five successful voyages bringing wounded British troops back to England from various ports around the world. Captain Bartlett decided the best course of action was to make an attempt to beach her on Kea Island, some two miles away, but this seemed to accelerate the rate of sinking, so he ordered the engines to be stopped. The first of these was the rather obvious changing of the ship’s name. So, on Tuesday, November 21st, 1916, Britannic left the familiar port of Naples, bound again for Mudros. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! In the wake of the Titanic disaster on April 14, 1912, the White Star Line made several modifications in the construction of its already-planned sister ship. After sailing to Southampton, she was ready to depart by 9th of September, again to Naples and Mudros, but this time via Cowes on the Isle of Wight, returning to Southampton on 11th October, 1916. Work began on the third and final Olympic-class liner, Britannic, on the 30th November, 1911, on the same slipway that Olympic had vacated on the 20th October, 1910, just over one year earlier. Similar scenes took place aboard the BRITANNIC, as her list continued to increase. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate.

The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in the Aegean Sea on November 21, 1916, killing 30 people. That seemed strange to Violet Jessop when compared with the calmness aboard. More than 1,000 others were rescued. READ MORE: The Titanic: Before and After Photos, Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in Aegean Sea, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britannic-sinks-in-aegean-sea.


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