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-563 crash-dived. On her most successful day, 12 April 1943, the boat sank the "Pacific Grove" and damaged the "Fresno City" southeast of Cape Farewell (Greenland). The "Fresno City" was sunk later that day by . "U-563" also sank the Dutch ship "Ulysses" in the same area. The boat left Brest for the last time on 29 May 1943. On the 31st, she was sunk by two British Handley Page Halifaxes of 58 Squadron and an Australian Sunderland flying boat of No. 228 Squadron RAF. Forty-nine men died with "U-563"; "U-563" took part in nine wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-563 German