The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Advent to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Send

Everyone knows in regards to the Titan­ic. Much less incessantly can we pay attention in regards to the Bri­tan­nic—the sis­ter pas­sen­ger lin­er that the British become a hos­pi­tal send dur­ing Global Battle I. Introduced in 1914, two years after the Titan­ic sank within the North Atlantic Ocean, the Bri­tan­nic fea­tured a num­ber of secure­ty strengthen­ments. It had enhanced water­tight com­section­ments, an larger num­ber of lifeboats, and progressed ven­ti­los angeles­tion and get away routes. The ones refine­ments paid div­i­dends when the Bri­tan­nic struck a Ger­guy naval mine in 1916, then sank close to the Greek island of Kea. Of the 1,066 peo­ple on board, maximum guy­elderly to flee on lifeboats and simplest 30 peo­ple ulti­mate­ly misplaced their lives. (An esti­mat­ed 1,500 peo­ple died at the Titan­ic.) The ani­ma­tion above tells the story of the Bri­tan­nic in an hour, tough­ly the similar time that the send took to slide into the ocean.

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