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
7th U-boat Flotilla 7th U-boat Flotilla The 7th U-boat Flotilla (German "7. Unterseebootsflottille"), also known as Wegener Flotilla, was the seventh operational U-boat combat unit in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". Founded on June 25, 1938, under the command of "Korvettenkapitän" Werner Sobe, it was named in honour of "Kapitänleutnant" Bernd Wegener. Wegener, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on August 19, 1915, after his submarine "U-27" was sunk by British Q-ship HMS "Baralong", which was an atrocity and war crime itself. The flotilla, under the name "Wegener Flotilla", was founded in Kiel in June 1938. In September 1940, the flotilla left its