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HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the Olympic-Class Ocean Liners and the sistership of the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. Some claim her original name was going to be RMS Gigantic and it was changed after the sinking of the Titanic, as 'Giant' in her name would scare away the traumatised public while the White Star Line was ...
RMS Olympic (1910) and RMS Titanic (1911) had been built. The HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic was the third “wonder ship” to be built. There is some debate whether she was originally planned to be named "Gigantic", but as it can be seen on the name plate on the main picture above it reads "Britannic".
7 Οκτ 2009 · I decided to draw this imagined 1000-footer. She retains the name Gigantic through her career since she would be the largest ship in the world by far, unlike the real Gigantic/Britannic which had been surpassed in size by the German liner Imperator before she was even launched.
After Titanic sank, a rumor began to circulate that the White Star Line had indeed planned to name the third ship "Gigantic", but then changed the name after the Titanic sank to avoid the appearance of arrogance. White Star denied these claims at the Titanic inquiries.
Intended to be the third ship in the trio of express liners conceived by Lord Pirrie and Bruce Ismay, the Gigantic was laid down in November 1911, almost six months after the launch of the Titanic, the idea being to incorporate improvements in her based on service experience with her two sisters.
22 Μαρ 2019 · The RMS Gigantic was the third commissioned Olympic-Class Ocean-liner after Olympic and Titanic and preceding Britannic. Gigantic's design, by default, featured lessons learned from the her ill-fated sister-ship, the RMS Titanic, and included additional lifeboats.
6 Ιαν 2023 · RMS Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic (which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage) before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913.
