Britannic

HMHS Britannic was a White Star Line Olympic-class ocean liner (converted to hospital ship) which went into service in December 1915 and was sunk by a mine in November 1916. She was the third of the Olympic-class ships and is the younger sister to the Olympic and the Titanic.

Originally envisioned as an ocean liner, Britannic was requisitioned by the British Admiralty and converted into a hospital ship before she could enter passenger service. Britannic was designed to compete with the Aquitania and the rest of the Cunard fleet and had various enhancements in comparison to her sisters.

Design
Britannic, much like her sisters, had similar design and layout but did sport various differences unlike the latter two. Following the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and subsequent mutiny on the Olympic over insufficient lifeboats, the White Star Line became committed to passenger safety. One of the biggest exterior visual changes to Britannic was the addition of gantry davits which could house additional lifeboats and which could automatically launch them, thus allowing for a full evacuation. Unlike the Olympic and Titanics 20 lifeboats, of which the 14 wooden lifeboats could only carry 65 passengers, Britannics lifeboats could carry up to 75 passengers. All in all, Britannics lifeboats could carry at least 3,600 passengers on it's lifeboats, surpassing it's 3,309 maximum passenger capacity and being double of what Titanics could carry (1,178 passengers).

As with her sisters, Britannic was designed with luxury in mind. Britannic sported many of the rooms featured on the Olympic and Titanic but also featured some new additions and refinements to the design of these ships.