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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_HNWv6ADo

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhCwwWq0r4

[♥ Lily ♥]

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-maritime-museum?gclid=CMPTmpXT09ACFQeeGwodq_ULJQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05o7sOAjtXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xKDRmhp6lQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqstKa3qcTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pun18bi_0-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdVIMBMVsMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wan0IJuXlys

[♥ Lily ♥]

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEFkgzCn7BI

[♥ Lily ♥]

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8Ej22hKVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGWY4WFbs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOf8H2_j5s

[♥ Lily ♥]

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.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmmljsJ8csw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQfrwdIHck

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.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6prEaKOvHDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Xj56A5INM

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.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-KZXiV8DQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZ21hR8DLI

[♥ Lily ♥]

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkwsU98QlQ


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

http://www.maritimequest.com/liners/carpathia/carpathia_portrait_1.jpg
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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.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOca_wTZ5BQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6Hqwmf77A

[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.

[♥ Lily ♥]

"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

[♥ Lily ♥]

cool thread, the british are famous seaferers

Let's hope the Titanic II will have better luck when it's finally completed and launched at sea.

[Armenian Bishop]

Titanic Survivors have compared the voices of the drowning people to that of the sound of people cheering in a sports stadium. As many as 1,635 people perished, with the sinking of the Titanic.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Titanic Survivors have compared the voices of the drowning people to that of the sound of people cheering in a sports stadium. As many as 1,635 people perished, with the sinking of the Titanic.

It's very eerie.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Auction model of 17th Century Man-of-War 64-Gun British Battle Ship.

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[♥ Lily ♥]

Although I've never seen any movies about Titanic, I took a lot of interest in this ship as a child after seeing a good drawing of the ship sinking that an older boy in my junior school had drawn, which was placed on a wall within the school hall showing the pupils drawings.

That was the first time I saw and learned about the ship after the schoolboy's drawing of it caught me eye and so I wanted to learn more about the ship. I was curious why the ship was sinking in the drawing.

I get tearful whenever I watch interviews with the survivors of RMS Titanic describing their experiences of what happened to them and what they heard and saw on that grand and luxurious ship.

It's sad hearing the way the poorer people onboard the ship were treated as 3rd class citizens.... and hearing how upon the launch of the exquisite ship that she was branded in the media as being 'unsinkable', before she made her maiden voyage across the Atlantic (her first and last voyage.)

The sinking of the ship remains an elusive mystery.

I don't know what it is about the Titanic, but there's something about this particular ship that intrigues me more than any other ship.

My mum took me to visit the Mary Rose Ship Museum on the south coast and she took a lot of interest in this famous ship.... it's also an intriguing ship and it also remains a mystery as to why it sunk.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Remembering the dogs onboard the Titanic: http://www.dogingtonpost.com/dogs-on-the-titanic/ R.I.P.https://d33ypg4xwx0n86.cloudfront.net/direct?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.picasion.com%2Fresize80% 2Fdf93857049a4b83ed0439c503b76e7f0.png&resize=w1024

http://www.dogingtonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/titanic_dogsWB.jpg

[♥ Lily ♥]

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

[Armenian Bishop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9PsSLAK1u0

Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar, on the flagship HMS Victory.

[♥ Lily ♥]

The Top Ten Most Famous Ships In History: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-famous-ships-in-history.php

[♥ Lily ♥]

It was once said that Britain ruled the waves, and that's no surprise given the amount of time and money that was dedicated to building the world's greatest fleet of ships. Some of these ships still survive, and BritEvents takes a look at what we think are the top ten historic ships, now open to the public.

http://www.britevents.com/img/features/historic-british-ships.jpg?width=700&height=400&mode=crop

The British Navy has existed for hundreds of years, and in that time has been praised for its range and reach, the excellence of its manpower, the power of its weaponry, and the quality of the ships themselves.

From the early days of the service up until recent war efforts, the ships that have served as vessels under the monarchy have been the subjects of prose, song, poetry, art, and volumes of military history.

Today, many of these queens of the deep blue sea have been restored to their former glory and are public museums. These museum ships are funded and maintained by various organisations in addition to the British government, and draw tourists by the thousands from all over the world to the British isles to see them.

Here are our top ten historic ships, now open for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.britevents.com/features/top-10-historic-british-museum-ships/

[♥ Lily ♥]

14 odd names for Royal Navy ships: https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/14-odd-names-for-royal-navy-ships-1-7168404

[♥ Lily ♥]

It was a national tragedy that all those American and British civilians (tourists and travellers) who were travelling to the US on that grand Lusitania ship were killed when the Germans torpedoed the grand ship from underneath the Celtic Sea and off the coast of Ireland, on Friday 7th May 1915.

She wasn't a warship, but a passenger liner like RMS Titanic and her sister ship HMHS Britannic.

It happened just 3 years after SOS alert calls were received regarding the White Star Line RMS Titanic (beautifully built by the Irish) was in serious distress, and she mysteriously and tragically sunk on her maiden voyage in April 1912.

The beautiful Lusitania (I think she was built by the Irish too) met a similar tragic fate to Titanic's sister passenger liner ship - White Star Line HMHS Britannic - which sank after an explosion in the Aegean Sea in 1916.

R.I.P.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_n1HSPz-k

[Fieraru]

Very nice!

I used to take great interest in the first ironclad and steel battleships around the late 19th century, and Britain was of course leading the way in naval technology, well ahead of the US after it's Civil War.

[KMack]

Titantic compared to modern ships.

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[♥ Lily ♥]

Titantic compared to modern ships.


Titanic was an Ocean Liner (like the Queen Mary and Queen Mary 2 and the Lusitania,) not a cruiseliner. The role of Titanic, the Lusitania, Queen Mary (now a retired tourist attraction in the US,) was to transport people across the Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain and the US.

The Queen Mary 2 is currently the world's largest passenger liner, which shouldn't be confused with a cruiseliner.

[♥ Lily ♥]

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[♥ Lily ♥]

HMS Warrior 1860, Portsmouth Ship Museum

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[♥ Lily ♥]

HMS Victory

Experience life on board the world's most famous warship;- HMS Victory!

https://www.hms-victory.com

HMS Victory is best known for her role in the Battle of Trafalgar,
Victory currently has a dual role as the Flagship of the First Sea Lord
and as a living museum to the Georgian Navy.

On 7th May 1765 HMS Victory was floated out of the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard.

In the years to come, over an unusually long service, she would gain renown leading fleets
in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.

She transferred to The National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2012.

https://www.hms-victory.com

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The Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the starboard mizzen shrouds of the Victory. J. M. W. Turner (oil on canvas, 1806–1808)

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

[Finnish Swede]

How about this one?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq95sPcNVCU

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

[Finnish Swede]

New photos of Titanic.

https://www.geek.com/news/titanic-is-deteriorating-new-images-from-dive-reveal-decaying-ship-1800933/

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/21/titanic-wreck-shocking-state-deterioration-new-images/2080134001/

[PaleoEuropean]

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.




I have been on the Queen Mary a few times and used to see it when I would go to Catalina Island :)

[Ülev]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/RRS_David_Attenborough_in_build_at_Cammell_Laird_9 _June_2019.jpg
Author Michael F 1967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RRS_David_Attenborough_in_build_at_Cammell_La ird_9_June_2019.jpg

Polar research ship officially named Sir David Attenborough

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7507181/Kate-William-prepare-christen-polar-research-ship-Sir-David-Attenborough.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49829315
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-09-26/ship-for-scientific-research-formally-named-after-sir-david-attenborough-with-cambridges/

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

[Ülev]

^^

https://youtu.be/nJh64TvPrUs

[♥ Lily ♥]

The National Maritime Museum is based in Greenwich London (where world time begins due to the prime meridian being placed in Greenwich,) and is close to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (pronounced as 'Grenich') in south-east London. (The Royal Observatory played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known for the fact that the prime meridian passes through it, and thereby gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time.)

https://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqpK4iO_K5QIVw7TtCh1mzwHWE AAYASAAEgI_i_D_BwE

https://www.rmg.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk-bzsO_K5QIVWeDtCh3sAQ27EAAYASAAEgJ1_PD_BwE

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich


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