What Happened to the Titanic's Sister Ships

The trio of ships saw journeys of triumph and tragedy. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but not many people know that the Titanic had 2 sister ships.

Bad luck seemed to follow the trio of ships, but each one of them had glorious moments that live in the minds of those who sailed in them. White Star Line, the company who built the Titanic, had high hopes for what the “unsinkable ship” and its sister ships, the Britannic and the Olympic, would accomplish.

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The Olympic 1:10
The Titanic hit an iceberg 2:03
The Olympic could save the Titanic 2:28
The Olympic against Germany 3:03
How the Olympic crashed 3:55
The Britannic, the youngest and biggest 5:00
The Britannic as a hospital ship 5:47
How the Britannic sank 6:50

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SUMMARY:
- The Olympic was the first of the trio to set sail on June 11, 1911, heading toward New York. The sheer size of it would wow the crowds. The Olympic’s maiden voyage went without incident, and a crowd of 8,000 people in New York got to explore its luxurious accommodations while it was docked there.
- At some point during the early hours of April 15, 1912, the crew of the Olympic decided they wouldn’t make it in time and halted their course. The survivors of the Titanic were eventually rescued by the Carpathia.
- The Olympic was set up with lifeboats for all crew and passengers after the Titanic sank. It went from having 20 lifeboats to 64. Changes were also made to the watertight bulkheads, and an extra hull was installed to construct a type of double hull.
- For several years, the Olympic was used in the war effort against Germany. Throughout the years, she carried over 200,000 passengers, including thousands of Americans fleeing from Europe and troops battling during World War I.
- The ship crashed with the Nantucket lightship, and the crash signaled the beginning of the end. Beaten up and after years of service, the Olympic was demolished and scrapped for parts.
- Although the Britannic was the youngest of the trio of ships, having been constructed last, it was also the biggest. They intended to name it “Gigantic.” However, after the Titanic’s disaster, they changed the name to the Britannic since they considered it to be a lucky name.
- Just a year after it was turned into a hospital ship, the Britannic was making its way through the Aegean Sea to pick up wounded soldiers when it was struck by a loud explosion.
- Unlike the Titanic’s large death toll, only 30 people perished in the sinking of the Britannic — over 1,000 survived. So many people survived because the accident happened in the morning when the temperature of the water was warmer.
- The bad luck that followed the Titanic and the Britannic and the accidents and demise of the Olympic were remarkable, but what was most impressive is that there was a woman who sailed on all 3 ships and survived. Violet Jessop was a crew member and nurse aboard the ships.

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[smallman]

“Every ship is unsinkable until it sinks”
-Micheal The Ruyter

[BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL]

TIMESTAMPS
The Olympic 1:10
The Titanic hit an iceberg 2:03
The Olympic could save the Titanic 2:28
The Olympic against Germany 3:03
How the Olympic crashed 3:55
The Britannic, the youngest and biggest 5:00
The Britannic as a hospital ship 5:47
How the Britannic sank 6:50

[e.tripinn]

me: goes into cruise ship. the captain: this ship is unsinkable! me:leaves immediately

[DCvsDJ]

Fact: Britannic never served her intended Transatlantic livery

[imapotatook]

Lesson : Don't go on a ship when the say it's "unsinkable "

[kemuelikedratate]

How to not sink a ship :
don't call it " unsinkable"

[ramessursanjiv]

*We all know that sisters cannot live separately...*
*So, she sank after the Titanic.
...*

[skepticalsmileyface]

Titanic: hits iceberg

Iceberg: AY IM WALKING HERE

[NASTYVEGASNATE]

Actually, when Olympic was heading to the titanic site, the captain of the carpathia told Olympics captain to turn around. He said that he felt that upon seeing the Olympic would send the survivors into a panic and that no one was going to board a ship that is identical to the one that had just sunk.

[levishrekerman]

I love the way that ms. Unsinkable or Violet Jessop survived those three ships

[davinp]

Brittanic is Titanic's forgotten sister. She served as a hospital ship in WWI. She took less than an hour to sink after hitting an underwater mine. But since the watertight door was jammed opened and portholes left open, that allowed water to come in and sink Brittanic. After Titanic sank, construction was halted on Brittanic to make safety improvements which sadly didn't save her from sinking

[Arpit]

Titanic : i am unsinkable
iceberg : hold my ice

[delaney]

Olymic: **gets hit by HMS Hawke**
Titanic: **hits an iceberg**
Britanic: **I forget**
Olympic again: **rams the heck into a ship**

[yousif_almashhadani]

Titanic: *crys*
Climate change: Who hurt you?
Titanic: The iceberg **sniff**
Climate change: Gimmie a few years

[asdfghjkl]

Great show! We were in Minnesota when they blew the whistle from the Titanic the first time. Such an exciting time!

[aliyah]

*the second titanic?*







*JACK GET UP TIME TO GET ON THE TITANIC!*

Jack: *...*

[sadech]

What happened to the Titanics 2 *sister* ships?


James Charles: *hEy SiStErS¡!*

[amdspeaks]

Submarine gets defeated by the Olympic
Me:this ship's an athlete

[KingSandwich]

Titanic: i was the heart of the sea.
Britannic: i was a hospital ship that sank.
Olympic: im just here to ram ships and U-boats

[mauveskydiver]

Titanic:Turn it
Britannic:Beach it
Olympic:RAM IT