Sinking Passenger Liners

[U2222]

Originally Posted by Kavok

Weren't the Titanic sister ships Olympic and Britannic impressed into Wartime service? I seem to remember one was converted into a hospital ship and either this or the other struck a mine?

Yes but in WW1
Britannic was sunk by a mine and Olimpic survived to be scrapped in the 1930's

[Jimbuna]

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

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by U2222

Yes but in WW1
Britannic was sunk by a mine and Olimpic survived to be scrapped in the 1930's

apparently Britannic may well not have sunk had all the nurses not insisted on having all the port holes open to air the wards. the water rushed in through these open port holes into the wards.