HMHS Britannic - Sleeping Sun
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Uploaded by tcr2006 on Jun 16, 2007
At 8:12AM on November 21, 1916, the HMHS Britannic shook with an explosion. With the damage she sustained and a few malfunctions, she reached her flooding limit (six watertight compartments); unfortunately, nurses had opened the portholes to ventilate rooms (against orders) and, as the bow sank further into the water and reached these portholes, the ship was overwhelmed. Captain Bartlett, attempting to save his ship, tried to beach the ship on the island of Kea, unsuccessfully. Within 55 minutes, at 9:07AM, the HMHS Britannic descended into the Kea Channel, following her sister in being a time capsule.
Thankfully, of the roughly 1100 people aboard her at the time, only thirty were killed. These fatalities were due to the propellors, as two lifeboats, launched without authorization and without Bartlett's knowledge, drifted into them as Captain Bartlett attempted to beach the ship.
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From an engineering stand point Britannic should have never sunk, the addition of the covered shelter deck on the stern of the ship as well as the enclosed promenades and extra deck above the poop deck, and the fact that she had a double hull and curved expansion joints that could'nt create a fracture, means she should have been nearly un-sinkable but a failure on the water tight doors and open portholes caused the ship to sink twice as fast as her sister Tianic. Rest in peace Britannic
Timberwolf8998 2 days ago
All cruise ship have sunk and there"Titanic Olympia and Britannic"We will never forgot you. :(
derekramac16 4 days ago
@mesner5 Well thats what I read in a book by Robert Ballard so, but you could be right
Drakelx555 1 week ago
@DuckSwe Noone else fought of that?
DuckSwe 1 week ago
Eh.. First its black and looks like Titanic then White and beutiful? xd
DuckSwe 1 week ago
@Drakelx555 it is actually still a conrtoversy, no one knows what caused the explosion.
mesner5 1 week ago
@ianobey11 Well that changes must have been done in the last moment when it became a hospital ship! Really, I'm living in Greece and I do some diving from time to time! Hope I'll have the chance to go see Britannic one day ;)
77elvistheking 1 week ago
It's just like Titanic but lest famous. Titanic sank on it's maiden voyage...I don't trust the White Star Line!
happykiddo1234 1 week ago
@JDK0316191 You're right, but seriously dude, do you realy want to exacute people just because they're stupid?
2silvertv 1 week ago
Maybe its that Tannic at the end that makes them sink
Wulfstint 1 week ago