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	HMHS Britannic
		Februar 1914 stå Britannic klar, og planen var å sette skipet i tjeneste i 1915.
		Britannic On 21 November 1916 Britannic was on a journey to Salonika in Greece to pick up wounded soldiers from Gallipolli when she suddenly was shaken by an explosion.
		Britannic sank in less than an hour, as opposed to the two and one-half hours it took the Titanic to sink, as a result of human error that undid the technological safeguards built into her.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/mediterranean/britannic/britannic.htm (828 words)

	Hospital Ship Britannic:The Enigma
		Robert Ballard,who examined in detail the wreck in 1995, suggested that the extension of the hull damage was the result of the bending of the bow against the seabed during the sinking.
		Britannic sank in relatively shallow waters and hit the seabed before she was totally submerged and the bow section was almost detached from the rest of the hull.
		Britannic still holds the mystery of her demise well hidden inside her rusty wreck and despite the use of modern technology we haven't able to solve this enigma yet.
	www.hospitalshipbritannic.com /the_enigma.htm (2483 words)

	HMHS Britannic
		The Britannic was the sister ship to the Olympic and Titanic, although it never ran on the North Atlantic.
		The Britannic arrived at Liverpool, from Belfast, on 12 December 1915, but it did not leave on its maiden voyage to Mudros until 23 December.
		On 12 November 1916 the Britannic left Southampton and, after bunkering at Naples on the 17th, on the 21st it ran into a mine field in the Zea Channel, 4 miles west of Port St.Nikolo, Kea.
	www.ocean-liners.com /ships/britannic.asp (684 words)

	Allt om HMHS Britannic
		Britannic var dessutom en halvmeter tjockare än Titanic var och hon hade ännu fler vattentäta skott med dörrar som kunde manövreras elektriskt.
		Britannic förseddes med ca 3000 sjukhussängar och medicinska besättningen bestod av 52 officerare, 101 sköterskor och 336 biträden.
		Fråga om det var en mina eller en torped som sänkte Britannic har länge varit omdiskuterad.
	www.titanicnorden.com /skepp/britannic.html (1555 words)

	Hmhs Britannic
		HMHS ''Britannic'' was the third ''Olympic''-class ship of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS ''Titanic'' and RMS ''Olympic''.
		The ''Britannic'' passed Gibraltar around 00:00 on November 15th and arrived at Naples on the morning of the November 17th for its usual coaling and water refueling stop, completing the first stage of its mission.
		By the morning ''Britannic'' was steaming at full speed (around 21 knots) into the Kea Channel, between Cape Sounion (the southernmost point of Attica, the province which includes Athens) and the island of Kea.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/HMHS_Britannic (3263 words)

	HMHS Britannic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMHS Britannic (1914), the third Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives.
		Britannic was launched on February 26, 1914 at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast and fitting out began.
		The Britannic passed Gibraltar around 00:00 on November 15th and arrived at Naples on the morning of the November 17th for its usual coaling and water refueling stop, completing the first stage of its mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMHS_Britannic (3156 words)

	HMHS BRITANNIC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Britannic was suppose to leave Mudros, but when some of the crew was foodposioned she had to stay put, eight days after the arrival to Mudros she left abd headed back to Southampton.
		Britannic left the harbour in Southampton on Sunday the 12th November 1916, she was suppose to leave at 10.00pm but didn't leave until 12.00.
		Britannic is resting lying on the side at a depth of 105m, when she sank her stern hit the bottom before the entire ship had gone under the surface, this made a big bend to the stern.
	hem1.passagen.se /ramsback/titanic/english/brit.htm (956 words)

	Britannic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Britannic's maidenvoyage took place on December 23, 1915 from Liverpool to Naples, Italy and port of Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos.
		Britannic returned to Southampton on October 11, 1916 and left port for her fifth voyage on October 20, 1916 to and Madros via Naples.
		It was a beautiful day and HMHS Britannic steamed through the Kea channel and the Greek mainland on her way to the island of Lemnos.
	web.inter.nl.net /hcc/fspanjer/brit.htm (592 words)

	WebTitanic \| Other Liners \| HMHS Britannic
		Because of their size, the five ships including Britannic would have to anchor in very deep water and rely on as many as eight smaller ships to ferry the wounded and ill from the battlefront docks to the ships.
		The Britannic returned to Southampton on January 9th, 1916 where her patients were transferred to waiting trains for transportation to hospitals in London.
		Britannic began her fourth voyage on September 24th, 1916 with members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment on board.
	www.webtitanic.net /frameBritannica.html (1066 words)

	PBS Online - Lost Liners - Britannic
		Instead her fancy fittings sat in storage, her promenade decks were crowded with hospital beds and her first-class dining room had become the intensive care ward where the most seriously wounded would stay before and after surgery in the operating theater next door, formerly the grand reception room.
		But until the Britannic reached the port of Mudros on the Aegean island of Lemnos, the gathering point for casualties from all the Mediterranean theaters, she would be relatively empty, her nurses, doctors and orderlies with nothing to do except to make sure the hospital was ready to receive its patients.
		The Britannic seemed to be one piece, but he thought he'd found evidence of a major secondary explosion that had blasted a huge hole in the forward part of the hull.
	www.pbs.org /lostliners/britannic.html (5058 words)

	HMHS Britannic - Definition, explanation
		HMHS Britannic was the third Olympic-class ship of the White Star Line, sister ship of the Titanic and the Olympic.
		She was originally meant to be called the Gigantic, but because of the bad luck of her predecessor and the patriotic feelings in Britain on the verge of the First World War, she was christened the Britannic instead.
		Britannic was launched on February 26 1914 and fitting out began but before Britannic could commence regular service between New York and Southampton, the war broke out and the ship was repainted as a hospital ship.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hm/hmhs_britannic.php (670 words)

	HMHS Britannic
		Finally, in early 1914, Britannic was launched, on the 26th February, and the White Star Line announced that she would begin her regular run to New York from Southampton via Cherbourg and Queenstown in the spring of 1915.
		Still incomplete, and over twenty-one months since she was launched, Britannic's fate was sealed; she was requisitioned to be a hospital ship by the Admiralty, and her interiors were hurriedly altered to accommodate the large quantity of beds, medical equipment and medical staff that would soon be filling her empty rooms.
		The fact that Britannic was only carrying about a third of her usual quota of passengers kept the death rate very low indeed, and apart from thirty fatalities caused when the two lifeboats were crushed by the propellers, everybody else aboard the stricken liner managed to escape in a lifeboat.
	www.titanic-titanic.com /britannic.shtml (1366 words)

	Ships of the Line: HMHS Britannic
		Britannic was launched in 1914 and was put into service as a hospital ship for Great Britian during World War I. The Britannic was the largest of the White Star trio.
		Britannic never saw commercial service and was lost on only her 6th voyage while serving as a hospital off the island of Kea, about 40 miles south east of Athens, Greece on the November 21, 1916.
		In September of 1998, a group of British divers explored the Britannic, known has HMHS Britannic 98 the team dived on and explored the wreck, and conducted a video and photographic survey of the wreck.
	members.tripod.com /~lch4/britannic.html (341 words)

	Diving the HMHS Britannic
		Britannic was launched on February 26th 1914 and was to commence service between Southampton and New York in the spring of 1915.
		The intention was to compare the steel and rivets from Britannic with similar material retrieved from her sister Titanic.
		Coal was recovered from the Britannic to determine its chemistry or ability to form coal dust.
	www.ocean-discovery.org /britannic.htm (3847 words)

	HMHS Britannic - The "Forgotten Sister"
		On the 2nd July 1914 they announced that Britannic would not be ready for her maiden voyage until early spring 1915.
		On the 13th November 1915, the Britannic was requisitioned by the British government as a hospital ship.
		If there was a conspiracy against the Britannic it could easily have resulted from the allegations made against the misuse of the ships especially if the Geneva Convention had been breached (no weapons to be carried on hospital ships - except for a permitted amount).
	www.titanicandco.com /britannic.html (2811 words)

	LostLiners.com - HMHS Britannic
		Her designation was changed to HMHS Britannic (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) and on December 15th, 1915 she was ready for service; painted white with a green stripe and large red crosses on her side.
		Because Britannic lies on her wounded side, the damage from the explosion is hidden from view.
		Britannic's loss, though hard on her owners and sad for those who sailed on her, made news for only a brief time.
	www.lostliners.com /Liners/White_Star/Britannic (2345 words)

	HMHS Britannic
		She arrived in Liverpool, England and was fitted for her duties as a hospital ship with 2034 berths (beds) and 1035 cots (fold-up beds), as well as a staff of 52 officers, 101 doctors and nurses, 336 orderlies (hospital attendants), and a crew of 675 men and women.
		The HMHS Aquitania had suffered damage in the same storms and was unable to make the trip back to the Mediterranean to pick up more wounded.
		As the sun shown down, the HMHS Britannic steamed through the Kea Channel, the small water way between the tiny Greek island of Kea and the Greek mainland, on her way to the island of Lemnos.
	members.aol.com /WakkoW5/britannic.html (3214 words)

	HMHS Britannic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMHS Britannic was the third Olympic-class ship of the White Star Line, sister ship of Titanic and Olympic.
		Britannic was launched on February 26, 1914 and fitting out began but before Britannic could commence regular service between New York and Southampton, the war broke out and the ship was repainted as a hospital ship.
		One crew member aboard those first lifeboats, Violet Jessop, survived not only the sinking of Britannic, but had also survived the sinking of the Titanic (1912), and was on board the Olympic (1911) when it was involved in a collision with HMS Hawke.
	www.titanic-nautical.com /RMS-Titanic-HMHS-Britannic.html (743 words)

	HMHS Britannic: Titanic's Little "Big" Sister
		The Britannic left England in December 1915 on her way to Naples, Italy for coal and then to the island of Lemnos.
		After her third voyage in April 1916, the Britannic was released from war service as was sent to Ireland to be refitted for commercial service.
		The Britannic now lies in 360 feet of water in the Agean Sea, a body of water she was never meant to travel on.
	teachertech.rice.edu /Participants/jewilson/Articles/britt.html (1229 words)

	The Classic Liners of Long Ago - Britannic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On November 13, 1915, Britannic was seized by the British government for use as a hospital ship, and was painted in the internationally recognized colors of a hospital ship.
		The war worsened again by September, and thus the Britannic went from RMS Britannic to HMHS Britannic once again, as she was fitted out as a hospital ship again.
		Fifty-five minutes after the Britannic hit the mine, she was on the bottom of the Aegean Sea, lying on her starboard side.
	ocean-liners.schuminweb.com /ships/britannic.asp (1063 words)

	Britannic expeditions
		These accusations originally concerned alleged Allied misuse of their hospital ships (including Britannic) for the purposes of transporting illegal military personnel and supplies, but over the ensuing years the legend has grown up that the Britannic was, in fact, carrying an illegal arms shipment.
		Britannic never attained the angle of trim of Titanic’s near vertical position, while Britannic’s heavy list to starboard also differed somewhat from the slight list to port experienced on the Titanic.
		Since the Britannic has been resting on the seabed for over eighty-four years, it is quite remarkable that all of the deckhouses (with the exception of the captain’s bridge) are completely in situ, and shows no signs of collapsing even now, though isolated patches of deterioration (particularly the port side children’s playroom) are visible.
	britannic.marconigraph.com /muw_expeditions.html (6394 words)

	TITANIC's younger sister, the HMHS Britannic
		The Britannic was launched on February 26th 1914, and White Star planned to steam her between Southampton and New York, starting in the spring of 1915.
		The HMHS Britannic had struck a mine, and yet another "unsinkable" White Star giant was about to founder.
		The HMHS Britannic sank 55 minutes after the collision, and her "passengers" were saved by the resue vessel.
	infotitanic.tripod.com /britannic.html (931 words)

	RMS Britannic
		Before the Brittanic could commence regular service between New York and Southhampton[?] the war broke out and the ship was repainted as a hospital vessel.
		It was renamed the HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Brittanic.
		The ship served successfully in the Mediterranean in this regard until 1916 when cruising off Greece the ship was rocked by a violent explosion, and sank an hour later.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMHS_Britannic.html (499 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/HMHS Britannic
		HMHS Britannic (1914), the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives.
		The Britannic passed Gibraltar around midnight on November 15th and arrived at Naples on the morning of the November 17th for its usual coaling and water refueling stop, completing the first stage of its mission.
		The first to arrive on the scene were the Greek fishermen from Kea on their kaikia, who picked up many men from the water.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/HMHS_Britannic (3232 words)

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