World War I Calamity: HMHS Britannic

The night of 15 December 1916.The White star line Britannic is departing from Southampton to Limos island, just before world war 1. Britannic was the sister ship of titanic. But the real name was Hospital ship. There were a total of 260 passengers. The captain of the ship was Charles Alfred Bartlett. 
The passengers boarded and the ship departed. While the ship was was sailing World war I had began and the ship was sailing in a thunder stormy night, Waves were splashing then the early morning of  21dec came. 
Nearby a submarine was aiming a missile at the Britannic  but another ship was protecting the Britannic.  The ship fired at the submarine but it missed it. It fired at the ship, one of the crew fired at the missile and it  exploded. but the submarine fired again  and hit the Britannic. 
The Britannic started sinking fast. The people started going to the life boats. Nurses were taking blankets to keep the passingers warm. A life boat was lowered, since the ship's propellers were still working that life boat got sucked in. Another life boat also got sucked in. Then the ship turned over and sank.
The ship was built in a firm at Belfast at Harland and wolf on 30 November 1911. The workers added more life boats then the Titanic. When the ship was sinking the captin ordered that the ships propellers to keep working that's why the life boat got sucked in. Also the captain of the ship abandoned the ship before all passengers had evacuated it.



 

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  1. Dinesh Kumar SinghMarch 3, 2021 at 11:59 PM

    Dear Kritarth, love your blogs. Who was the Captain of the ship? Was he tried in a court for his poor management?
    Do write about more such episodes.
    Love you.
    Dinesh

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  2. prateeksolankiMarch 22, 2021 at 11:05 AM

    Interesting history of the Brittanic. Did not know about this. Great article and very interesting.

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