Titanic Britannic facts
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Violet Jessop, a ship nurse. She served on each of the three ‘sisters’ Titanic, Britannic and Olympic. While she was on board, the Olympic collided with a war ship and nearly sank, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, the Britannic hit an underwater mine and sank. Violet survived all three.
how much bigger was the britannic than the titanic?
An ocean line stewardess who survived the sinking of three ships: Titanic, Britannic, and the Olympic, made sure to grab her toothbrush while going down with the Britannic because it was the first thing she missed having after going down on the Titanic.
What is the difference between titanic and britannic?
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what happened to titanic's sister ship britannic?
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John Priest survived the Asturias foundering (1907, damaged in collision), Olympic and Hawke collision (1911), Titanic sinking (1912, hit iceberg), Alcantara sinking (1916, torpedoed), Britannic sinking (1916, hit mine), and Donegal sinking (1917, torpedoed).
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Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable,” the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and the Britannic, and was also aboard the third of the trio of Olympic class vessels, the Olympic, when it had a major accident.
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Violet Jessop - a stewardess and a nurse - who was aboard the oceanliner Olympic when it collided with a warship in 1911. She was also aboard Titanic (1912) and the Britannic (1916) when they sank. She survived all three events.
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There was a ship only 20 miles from the Titanic as it sank. The SS Californian failed to respond immediately to the sinking and her captain has been villainized (some say unfairly) ever since. She later sank less than 200 miles from the wreck of Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, during WWI.
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About Arthur John Priest who was not only a survivor of Titanic when she sunk, but he also survived 4 other ship sinkings. He was aboard Olympic when she sunk in 1911 , and Britannic when she hit a mine in 1916. He survived WW1, the sinking of the Alcantara in 1916 and also Donegal 1917.
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Titanic took 2 h 40 min to sink, whereas her sister ship Britannic only took 50 min
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Olympic, sister ship of Titanic and Britannic, successfully defeated a German U-boat by sinking it during World War 1.
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Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, which also sank after striking an underwater mine. Thanks to post-Titanic safety upgrades, there were very few casualties, mostly from when a lifeboat was sucked into the propellers running at full speed.
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The largest ship sunk in WW1 was the Titanic's nearly identical sister ship Britannic
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Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic, it's sister ship Britannic and the collision of a third sister ship Olympic
The 30 victims of the wreck of the HMHS Britannic, sister ship of the RMS Titanic, were all in lifeboats, and died as two of the lifeboats were forced into the then above-water propellers. - source
The Titanic was not unique but rather one of three identical Olympic-class ocean liners including the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic - source
When does the titan arum bloom?
A nurse by the name of Violet Jessop was on Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank. Four years later she survived the sinking of its sister ship, Britannic, after it hit a sea mine and sank. She was also on the last of the three sisters, Olympic, when it collided with a warship.
One Woman Survived the Wrecks of the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic
On the 107th anniversary of the Titanic hitting an iceberg in the north Atlantic that one of the survivors, Violet Jessop, during WW1, was a Red Cross nurse, and was on board HMHS Britannic, a sister ship of the Titanic used as a hospital ship. It sunk after hitting a mine... she survived again.
The Titanic was not one of a kind, 3 ships of the same magnitude were constructed in Belfast (Olympic, Titanic and Britannic). 2 sank and the 3rd suffered major damage.
The Titanic had two sibling ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, that also had gaping holes torn in their sides and one of which that sank at sea.