Interestingly enough Britannic was never finished as a luxury liner as WW 1 started and it was fitted out as a troop ship. It was hit by a torpedo and sank even faster than Titanic. The funny part is Olympic survived WW 1 and was finally sold for scrap in 1935. By the time of her retirement, Olympic had completed 257 round trips across the Atlantic, transporting 430,000 passengers on her commercial voyages, travelling 1.8 million miles, and nobody ever talks about her
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Actually, Britannic was converted to a hospital ship. The reason for the Germans wanting to send it to the bottom of the sea was because they were suspicious the ship was transporting munitions. To this day there is still some debate as to whether Britannic was hit by a torpedo or struck a mine, although it is widely agreed upon that a torpedo was to blame. The ship sank in under an hour, about less than half the time of the Titanic, probably because alot of portholes were left open which aided in the sinking process. There is still talk about converting the wreck to the world's first underwater museum. Unlike Titanic which is rapidly decaying, Britannic is still in relatively good condition and more intact. The movie Britannic (which I think was released in 2000) was really good.
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It's in about 400 ft. of water, I say a doc about it, Titanic had a expansion joint between the 3rd and 4th stacks that went down to E deck. It ended in a point that made the hull weak. They dived on Britannic to see if her joint ended in a point, and found out it ended in a curve that made it considerably stronger than Titanic. What I don't understand is why nobody tried to stop some of the water coming in, You didn't have to stop all of it, just enough so the pumps could keep up. If you delayed Titanic from sinking for about 2 hours, everybody lives, and why no passengers tried to cobble together some kind of raft. You were either in a boat or in the water. If it had been me I would have grabbed some mattresses thrown them in a lifeboat and tried to stuff them in a hole somehow. If that didn't work I'd got me some deck chairs and life jackets and anything else I could find that looked like it would float and tied it together with the rope left after they lowered the lifeboats into the water. I damn sure wouldn't have just sat there waiting to die.