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-24 (1936) by the Soviet Union in early 1945, but sunk as target practice by the on 26 May 1947, off Sevastopol (also sunk that same day was the former ). German submarine U-24 (1936) German submarine "U-24" was a Type IIB U-boat that was in service of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. She was laid down on 21 April 1936 at the F. Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel with yard number 554, launched on 24 September and commissioned into the "Kriegsmarine" on 10 October. "Oberleutnant zur See" Heinz Buchholz took command on 3 July 1937. German Type IIB submarines were