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-272 German submarine U-272 German submarine "U-272" was a type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" in World War II. She was laid down on 28 November 1941, launched on 15 August 1942 and commissioned on 7 October that year under the command of "Kapitänleutnant" Heinz Hepp. She served in the 8th U-boat flotilla, a training unit and never reached operational status. She was sunk after colliding with on 12 November 1942. 29 of her crew died and there were 19 survivors. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. "U-272" had a displacement of when at