Some Interesting British Ships 🚢

[♥ Lily ♥]

HMHS Britannic

HMHS Britannic was the third of the White Star Line's Olympic class of vessels.

The Britannic ship sunk,
along with one of her sister ships RMS Titanic.

She was shaken by an explosion, caused by an underwater mine,
in the Kea Channel off the Greek island of Kea
on the morning of 21 November 1916,
and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 people.

There were 1,065 people on board;
the 1,035 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats.
Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War.
The vessel is also currently the largest passenger ship on the sea floor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic



RMS Olympic

RMS Olympic was a transatlantic ocean liner,
the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners,
that included Britannic and Titanic.

Unlike her younger sister ships Olympic had a long career,
spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935.

By contrast with Olympic, the other ships in the class,
Titanic and Britannic, did not have long service lives.

Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world
for two periods during 1911–13,
interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic
(which had the same dimensions
but higher gross tonnage owing to revised interior configurations),
before she was then surpassed by SS Imperator.
Olympic also retained the title of the largest British-built liner
until the RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934,
interrupted only by the short careers of her slightly larger sister ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

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RMS Titanic

Also owned by White Star Line, RMS Titanic
was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean
in the early morning of 15th April 1912,
after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage
from Southampton to New York City.

Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died,
making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime
maritime disasters in modern history.

The wreck of Titanic, first discovered over 70 years after the sinking,
remains on the seabed, split in two
and gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m).

Since her discovery in 1985, thousands of artefacts have been recovered
and put on display at museums around the world.

Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history;
her memory is kept alive by numerous works of popular culture,
including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic

For more info about the Titanic, here's the link to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-mariti...FQeeGwodq_ULJQ

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RMS Lusitania

RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner
that was sunk 11 miles off the Irish coast
whilst carrying British and American tourists
after it was struck by a single torpedo
from a German submarine in World War I,
causing a major diplomatic uproar.

The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband,
and briefly the world's largest passenger ship
until the completion of her sister ship Mauretania.

She was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906,
at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade.

She made a total of 202 trans-Atlantic crossings.

When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on 1st May 1915,
German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic.

Germany had declared the seas around the United Kingdom a war zone,
and the German embassy in the United States
had placed a newspaper advertisement warning people
of the dangers of sailing on Lusitania.

On the afternoon of 7th May, Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Boat,
11 mi (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland
and inside the declared "zone of war".

A second, unexplained, internal explosion
sent her to the bottom in 18 minutes,
causing the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew.

The sinking caused a storm of protest in the United States,
however, as 128 American citizens were among the dead.

The sinking helped shift public opinion
in the United States against Germany,
and was a factor in the United States'
declaration of war nearly two years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

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The Mary Rose

The Mary Rose is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII and this was his favourite and most beloved ship.

After serving for 33 years in several wars and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545.

While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she suddenly sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight.

King Henry VIII watched his prized anf favourite ship sink from his telescope on shore and the Tudor King was in total disbelief and shock.

The wreck of the Mary Rose was rediscovered in 1971. It was raised in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust, in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of immeasurable value as a Tudor-era time capsule.

The excavation and raising of the Mary Rose was a milestone in the field of maritime archaeology, comparable in complexity and cost only to the raising of the Swedish 17th-century warship Vasa in 1961.

The finds include weapons, sailing equipment, naval supplies and a wide array of objects used by the crew. Many of the artefacts are unique to the Mary Rose and have provided insights into topics ranging from naval warfare to the history of musical instruments. Since the mid-1980s, while undergoing conservation, the remains of the hull have been on display at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. An extensive collection of well-preserved artefacts is on display at the nearby Mary Rose Museum, built to display the reconstructed ship and its artefacts.

The Mary Rose was one of the largest ships in the English navy through more than three decades of intermittent war and was one of the earliest examples of a purpose-built sailing warship. She was armed with new types of heavy guns that could fire through the recently invented gun-ports. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she was also one of the earliest ships that could fire a broadside, although the line of battle tactics that employed it had not yet been developed. Several theories have sought to explain the demise of the Mary Rose, based on historical records, knowledge of 16th-century shipbuilding, and modern experiments. The precise cause of her sinking is still unclear, because of conflicting testimonies and a lack of conclusive physical evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose

The Mary Rose Ship Museum in Portsmouth on the south coast of England: http://www.maryrose.org

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The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary (which is allegedly haunted)
was sold to the USA and she's now a tourist attraction
and a hotel that rests on Long Beach in California.




Queen Mary 2

The Queen Mary 2 is now the world's largest transatlantic liner.
(Not to be confused with the world's largest cruise liner.)




The QE2

The luxurious QE2 has now retired
and she was sold by the UK to Dubai
where she rests as a seven star tourist hotel.

There is anger and petitions amongst British people
to bring her home and back to Southampton
as she's a part of our national heritage.

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A simulation of the radio transmission and C.Q.D. call alerting that RMS Titanic was in distress.

The Carpathia

The crew on Titanic called for assistance and help to the nearest ship available in the Atlantic;- her rival ship Carpathia.

RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson.

Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1,517 lives on 15 April 1912.

Carpathia braved dangerous ice fields and diverted all steam power to her engines in her attempt to aid the ship, but arrived two hours after Titanic had sunk; nevertheless, she was able to rescue 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats.

Carpathia herself met her fate in the Atlantic on 17 July 1918 during the First World War after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-55 off the Irish coast. Five of her crew lost their lives in the sinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia




The sinking of the Titanic remains a mystery. The Titanic had been dubbed as a ship that was 'unsinkable'.
Some believe the Titanic hit an iceberg.... others believe the kitchen caught on fire...
and others believe that the ship was deliberatey sunk.

[Neon Knight]

"Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often traveling out of convoy and without escort. Their high speed made it difficult for U boats to catch them . . . In December 1942, Queen Mary carried 16,082 American soldiers from New York to Great Britain, a standing record for the most passengers ever transported on one vessel."

My granddad sailed on the Queen Mary during the war, being taken to either Italy or Syria, I'm not sure which.

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"Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often traveling out of convoy and without escort. Their high speed made it difficult for U boats to catch them . . . In December 1942, Queen Mary carried 16,082 American soldiers from New York to Great Britain, a standing record for the most passengers ever transported on one vessel."

My granddad sailed on the Queen Mary during the war, being taken to either Italy or Syria, I'm not sure which.

That's a lot of men on one ship! It's nice that your granddad was able to sail on the Queen Mary. I didn't realise the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were also warships, (I thought they were just transatlantic liners between the UK and US.)

[Dick]

GREAD THREAD, LILY. I SERVED IN THE CANADIAN ROYAL NAVY. ON WEEKDAYS WE SAILED THE ATLANTIC AND SHOT MISSLES AND SHIT, WEEKENDS WE GOT DRUNK IN HALIFAX. GOOD TIMES. LOVE THE SEA AND SHIPS.

[Mortimer]

cool thread, the british are famous seaferers