HOBBY BOSS – HMHS BRITANNIC – SCALE 1:700 – COD. 83422. GLUE AND COLORS NOT INCLUDED. WE DO NOT SHIP TO THE CANARY ISLANDS. The HMHS Britannic, initially designed with the name RMS Britannic, was a British hospital ship, originally intended to be used as an ocean liner by the White Star Line shipping company; it was the sister ship of the RMS Olympic and the ill-fated RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912. It was built in Belfast at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, the largest shipyard in Northern Ireland, with steel from Scotland. The three Olympic-class ocean liners were designed by Joseph Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, and William James Pirrie, a partner in the Harland & Wolff shipyards. Britannic was the largest and safest of the three ocean liners, having been designed to be able to stay afloat with six watertight compartments flooded, following the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage. On the morning of 21 November 1916, Britannic was rocked by an explosion caused by an Imperial German Navy mine near the Greek island of Keos and sank 55 minutes later. There were 1,066 people on board, of whom 30 perished; the 1,036 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats. Britannic was the largest ship lost during the First World War.[1] After the war, the White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by being given the SS Bismarck as part of its post-war reparations, which was commissioned as the RMS Majestic. The wreck was located and explored by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1975; It is the largest intact passenger ship on the ocean floor.[2]