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-567 five destroyers, seven corvettes and one aircraft carrier, sinking the 3,324-ton Norwegian merchant ship "Annavore" on 21 December 1941. "U-567" was herself sunk later the same day at by depth charges dropped by and - there were no survivors from her crew of 47. "U-567" took part in five wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-567 German submarine U-567 (U-567) was a type VII C submarine in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during the Second World War. Her keel was laid down on 27 April 1940 at the Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg as yard number 534. She was launched on 6 March