About BritannicBritannic was the third largest ship with Olympic-class ocean liner of White Star Line. The meaning of the Britannic is 'British' and 'Britain' in Roman. It is also called as the sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, which is aimed to provide service as a transatlantic passenger line. The first by the ship was given on the eve of the First World War. On 21 November 1916 it got an accident, in which about 30 people lost their life.
After this accident some changes were made in the ship to the hull, boiler rooms and engine. After these changes the ship again launched on 26 February 1914 at the Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast. She is then added into the military service where she was going under other repair work. In May 1915 she had a trial or moorings of her engines and got ready with emergency entrance. White Star Line was British Ship Company who bought the RMS Britannic (1929) in 1960. The company is also known as Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets. The name was first found by the John Pilkinton and Henry Threlfall in Liverpool, England. The company was more famous for its luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic and her sister Britannic. The white line is also merged with two other small lines that are Eagle and Black Ball forming a corporation, the Liverpool Melbourne and Oriented Steam Navigation Company Limited. However, the White Star had concentrated on the service for New York.
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