I present to you a new and improved revision of my older HMHS Britannic.
This new Britannic features the updates I did for my Titanic with hullplates and porthole locations and size. I've corrected the funnels and added their plating and to top it off an overhead view of Britannic.
The overhead view is something I found in an old folder where I keep most of my backups and so I thought I'd throw it in so you all could see the her from above.
Britannic is the largest and most different out of the three sisters. She features new safety equipment such as the larger davits allowing for lifeboats to be stacked on each other to save deck space.
It's such a shame she also sank, she may of redeemed White Star Line if she survived to sail along side her older sister Olympic.
Britannic hit an underwater mine that was held to a concrete anchor by a chain just below the surface. The explosion ripped a small hole into her bow but because the explosion also opened up the Fireman's Passage it gave the water a direct link to Boiler Room 6. Its not unknown what happened but the watertight doors didn't close as the door to that Boiler Room was wide open. Some have said the explosion damaged the control system to the doors in that area of the ship.
The captain of the ship kept her steaming at full steam as he was hoping to try to save his vessel by beaching her but that only made her sink faster. As the bow sank lower and lower water started to pour into the ship through open portholes as in the area the ship was in it was still rather hot even in early morning and portholes had been opened to let the ship's air ventilate better.
Lifeboats began to be launched without the order from the captain but because the ship was still moving this was dangerous. A lifeboat with at least thirty people in it was sucked into the huge still spinning propellers and were unfortunately shredded, the people in that boat were the only deaths of the sinking Britannic.
When the water was starting to make its way up the super structure after the forecastle deck was submerged the ship suddenly lurched to starboard and capsized as she completely rolled over. The sudden roll caused the four funnels to collapse and within second of rolling the ship disappeared under the waves.
The wreck lies 400 feet below the surface and is completely intact apart from its missing funnels, collapsed masts, destroyed wheelhouse and bridge and the mangled and twisted bow. I can understand the damage to the bow but the gigantic hole in her hull that reached all the way from the well-deck all the way down to the keel I don't believe was caused from the ship hitting the seabed. The hole looks like something blew out from inside with its twisted and ripped back hullplates and that there is clearly a huge portion of the hull missing, if it was caused by the ship hitting the seabed and bending it before splitting I would think there would be bend and pulled apart hullplates, not a gigantic hole.