“We remember her for her ending. For the ways war’s cruelty and unfairness severed her life. But, for just one… small… minute… can we pause to imagine who she could have been??”

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HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line’s Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until her sinking near the Greek island of Kea, in the Aegean Sea, in November 1916. At the time, she was the largest hospital ship in the world.

Britannic was launched just before the start of the First World War. She was designed to be the safest of the three ships with design changes made during construction due to lessons learned from the sinking of the Titanic. She was laid up at her builders, Harland and Wolff, in Belfast for many months before being requisitioned as a hospital ship. Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War.

After the First World War, the White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by the award of SS Bismarck as part of postwar reparations; the vessel is the largest intact passenger ship on the seabed in the world.