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After the tragic loss of her well known famous Titanic her sister ship His.Majestys.Hospital.Ship HMHS Britannic while under construction in Harland And Wolff was heavily modified with extra lifeboats and the promenade deck on a deck at the stern was enclosed and the major changes for the ship is that As a hospital ship, Britannic carried 42 open lifeboats and 16 collapsibles taking the total up to 56 liferboats.28 open lifeboats were held by the gantry davits two of those lifeboats were motorized) and the rest 14 were held in normal Wellin davits. There was a collapsible boat under each Wellin-mounted boat the Britannic was the largest oceon liner in the world in her time she was constructed in 1910 and launched in 1914 her origonal name was to be Gigantic but changed to Britannic, whilst being fitted out the outbrake of World War 1 broke out and she was recommisioned as a hospital ship so her hull was painted white with 4 long green bands and 3 large red crosses and her 4 funnels were painted completely buff she also had 2 red crosses on either side of boat deck which illuminated at night she then entered service in 1915-1916 from southampton to serve the medditerranean to aid wounded british soldiers but on the early hours of November 21st 1916 while sailing in the Kea Channel of the island of Kea bound for Lemnos Greece she was spotted by the german U-Boat U-73 and she laid 12 mines a few kilometers from her path and she struck a mine and sank in 55 minutes killing 30 occupants in 2 of the lifeboats that got sucked into the propellors
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There were 20 lifeboats and that was only enough for half of the ship's maximum capacity.
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Yes, her name was Violet Jessop. She survived both of the sinkings and was also onboard the eldest sister Olympic when she collided with HMS Hawke in September 1911
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1
