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Name:
Britannic,
Length: 903' 6 ¼" length overall (LOA) (sic: the usual notorious length mistake)
800' between perpendiculars (BP) (sic: 103-foot counter? NO! LOL!)
Beam: 94' 6 ½" amidships at the waterline ( ½”?)
Height: 60' 6 ½" waterline to boat deck,
175' from the keel to tops of her funnels
Tonnage: 48,158 GRT, 26,4OO Net (sic: 24,592 net)
Sisters: 2 - White Star Steamship Company Ltd. (White Star Line)
Originally: White Star Steamship Navigation Company Limited
#1: RMS Olympic 882x92x59 45,328 1909 #400 #700 (what’s this 700?) H&W
On 1st voyage, dropped blade off port propeller. (sic) sent to H&W.
Collided Nantucket Lightship, Oct 1936, (sic!) damaged bow, was
sent to H&W, never resumed service or was repaired. (sic!!!)
Scrapped 1939, (sic: but was taken off British register then………..)…
The White Star Line
was merged later in 1937, to the Cunard-White Star Line. (sic: 1934)
WSL liquidated 1951. (sic: wasn’t it earlier?)
#2: RMS Titanic 883x92x59 46,439 1911 #401 #701 (sic: what’s this 701?) H&W
Titanic struck an iceberg, on 14 Apr 1912, Sat. (sic: Sun) at 11:40 PM (GMT) (sic: ship’s time they surely mean, not GMT)
she finally sank on 15 Apr 1912, Sun. (sic: Mon) at 2:20 AM (GMT). 705 souls (generally true, but debated 711/12)
rescued by RMS
Carpathia (Cunard/1906). (sic: 1902/3) 1,518 passengers & crew
perished on that horrible, cold, dark, and lonely night. (well, we’ll never know for sure!) The RMS
Titanic was found on 1 Sep 1985,………………………………by the WHOI-
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute research team. Led by Dr. Robert
Features: No public features. Converted to a hospital ship 1914. (sic: 1915)
Funnels: 4 Total;……….
Colours: Dove white, (superstructure) White Star "Buff" funnels, teal stripe
and red cross markings, standard terra-cotta red keel.
(but)
HMHS Britannic never wore the White Star Line livery.
The only similarity to White Star, was the "buff" funnels. (and white supersturcure, it can be said…………………………..)
Pennant: Flying the flag of Britain.
Bow: Icebreaker (what exactly do they mean here?), 2 anchors, (but surely three at the bow) 1 crane, (sic) 1 mast, (sic) 1 forward hatch (sic)
Stern: Cross-channel, 1 rudder, 1 aft docking bridge, 2 cranes (sic, others missed….)
Hull:………………………………….
Steel frame, wood structures, (deckhouse fittings?) steel inner/outer skins,
teak decking, steel funnels, wood masts (spruce) (and metal),
1 main mast on the bow, with light, bell, and crow's nest.
1 mast aft promenade deck, stabilizer wings on keel, (bilge keel?)
double bottomed……………….and double skinned all
the way up to "B" deck, (sic: double skin reached
F-deck — but five w.t. bulkheads reached “B” deck)………………………….
Builder: Harland & Wolff Ltd, Queens Island, Northern Belfast, Ireland
Yard #: 733 (sic: what’s these 700 figures?)
Hull #: 433
Birth #: ???
Construction: August 191O - November 1914, (sic: November 1911 — roughly finished November 1915) the building was
paused during 1912, after the
Titanic incident, and to make changes to her base
designs.
Launched: Oct. 1913, 9:3O AM (GMT) (what? ALL WRONG!!!!!)
Passengers: 1,324. (sic) Never saw commercial service.
Capacity: 3,547 Total (Double Occupancy)
Life vests: 3,56O
Life rings: 49
Crew: 899 Total (sic: most seem to be taken from Titanic details and several errors)
Capt: W. A. Flemming (sic: Chaplain)
Exec: TBD
1st: TBD
2nd: TBD
3rd: TBD
4th: TBD
5th: TBD
6th: TBD
Qms: TBD (Helmsman)
Incl: Hospital ship staff and crew as assigned.
Lookouts:
AM: TBD
PM: TBD
(missing…………………………………………..)
Wireless: TBD
Engines: 2 Reciprocating, inverted 4 cylinder,
triple expansion, direct-acting, steam driven,
3O,OOO bhp @ 75 rpm, (sic: those are Titanic figures) turbine.
1 Parsons, low pressure, geared steam turbine;
16,OOO bhp @ 165 rpm, engines are from builders. (turbine output incorrect)
Boilers: 29 Total;…. 24 Double ended, 5 Single ended, 215 PSI each
Furnaces: 159 Total;
Active heat surface of 144,142 square feet (sic: more like 150,000 for
Britannic)
Fuel: Coal; 65O,OOO Tons/total, (sic: that’s far too high!)
Props: 3 Total
1 Center: 16', cone cap
1 Left Wing: 23'6", no cap (7m)
1 Right Wing: 23'6", no cap (7m)
Rudder: 1, Aft, amidships, 64.5 Tons, 6 hinges (sic: 101-102 ton estimate)
1 Mail room (Deck F)
Elevators: 2 Total
1 B deck - D deck
1 D deck - Orlop deck (sic)
Stairs: Many; Compass deck - Orlop deck
Lifeboats: 4O Boats Total (sic: not in any specification, although even records vary)
Lifeboat total capacity: 1,178 souls (sic: that’s
Titanic in 1912!)
14 Wooden lifeboats
65 souls each - 3O'O"L-9'1"W-4'O"D
2 Wooden cutters
4O souls each - 25'2"L-7'2"W-3'O"D
4 Engelhardt collapsibles
47 souls each - 27'5"L-8'O"W-3'O"D (sic: Titanic?)
Speed: 2O knots - 23 knots (roughly accurate, 21-24 perhaps)
Collision: 20+ knots
Demise: Sunk, due to collision with an underwater mine,
or a German anti ship torpedo.
Who: U-73, a German Submarine, during World War I.
When: 21 November 1916
Total Time: 55 minutes.
Place: Aegean Sea, 40 miles (from……..) Athens, Greece……………………
Perished: 30 (most estimates agree, inc. log, but there are thirty-two or -three names on graves by some sources)
