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
That Was the Week That Was dance of the liberal Republicans", then a substantial component of the GOP, many of whose members had supported Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York for the Republican nomination. On April 21, 1985 in the United States, the ABC network aired "That Was The Week That Was" as a special, hosted by David Frost (also serving as an executive producer) and Anne Bancroft, and featuring future "Saturday Night Live" cast members Jan Hooks and A. Whitney Brown and puppetry from "Spitting Image". Kristy Glass and Kevin Ruf starred in a remake of "TW3" for ABC's "Primetime Live" in the fall