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-652 The 3,410 ton merchant ship "Baron Pentland" remained afloat due her cargo of timber despite a broken back, but was later torpedoed and sunk by on 19 September. On 4 September 1941, off Iceland, the American destroyer received a signal from a British bomber that a German submarine was in the vicinity. "Greer" made sonar contact, and pursued the "U-652" at close range. The aircraft dropped four depth charges, and soon after the U-boat fired a torpedo at the US warship, perhaps believing she had launched the attack. "Oblt.z.S." Fraatz also misidentified the destroyer as ""one of the 50 American