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
The World That Never Was and his sympathy for his subjects. Writing for "The A.V. Club", Samantha Nelson gave the book a rating of "B-", explaining that "Butterworth's fascination with the era is a mixed blessing"; while Clif Garboden of the "Boston Phoenix" questioned the book's style and presentation but described it as "interesting, important, impressively (too) thorough, fair, and eye-opening". In the "International Socialist Review", Eric Kerl wrote ""The World That Never Was" brilliantly contextualizes the political radicalism of the time", but criticised Butterworth's ambivalence towards Marxism and Leninism and lack of an analysis of revolutionary strategy. The World That Never Was The World