RMS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, built as a running mate to Olympic and Titanic but redesigned with a strengthened hull and additional lifeboats after the Titanic disaster. She never entered the civilian passenger service for which she was built, having been requisitioned as a hospital ship for the First World War, and in 1916 she sank in the Aegean Sea after striking a naval mine, becoming the largest ship lost in that war and, like Titanic, one of the most studied shipwrecks of the twentieth century.
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SignificanceThe largest intact passenger ship on the seabed in the world. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia, HMHS Britannic
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Britannic was launched on 26 February 1914, months before the start of the First World War.
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The vessel is the largest intact passenger ship on the seabed in the world.
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HMHS Britannic () was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of ocean liners and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic.
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