RMS Mauretania (1906) and launched with passengers. When "Britannic", working as a hospital ship during World War I, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine in the Kea channel the already davited boats were swiftly lowered saving nearly all on board, but the ship took nearly three times as long to sink as "Lusitania" and thus the crew had more time to evacuate passengers. "Mauretania" departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of Captain John Pritchard, and on the return voyage captured the record for the fastest eastbound crossing of the Atlantic, with an average speed of
German submarine U-626 the last U-boat of 1942 to be sunk by an American agency, and it was not known until after the war that "Ingham" had sunk "U-626". German submarine U-626 The German submarine "U-626" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. The ship was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, and commissioned in May 1942. After six months of basic training she was assigned to the 6th U-boat Flotilla. "U-262" sailed from Bergen in December 1942 on her first operational voyage. She was sunk seven days later by a single depth charge from USCGC