T he Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, had two sister ships almost identical in size and luxury: the Olympic and the Britannic.The White Star Line hoped to conquer its ...

The Britannic never has engaged in trans-Atlantic service, not having been completed at the outbreak of the war. She was turned over to the government and fitted as a hospital ship with cots for ...

On the morning of November 21, 1916, the British ocean liner Britannic—then outfitted as a hospital ship during World War I—was cruising the Aegean Sea on its way to the bloody battlefield of ...

The 'Britannic' as imagined by the White Star Line, prior to its requisition as a hospital ship | Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Like its older sisters, the Britannic was built to serve as a ...