Titanic Historical Society of the disaster in Boston, Massachusetts. The event brought together several living survivors, including Eva Hart, Louise Pope, Michel Marcel Navratil, and Beatrice Sandstrom, who enthralled those in attendance with their vivid first-person accounts of the night the "Titanic" foundered in the north Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord, author of his seminal "Titanic" work, "A Night to Remember", was another featured guest. The Society also works to preserve the history of other ocean liners, especially the "Titanic" 's sister ship, the White Star Line's HMHS "Brittanic", which sank after hitting an enemy mine in World War I, and the Cunard ship
Ocean liner the risk of being torpedoed by enemy submarines. The war was marked by the loss of many liners."Britannic", while serving as a hospital ship, sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916 after she struck a mine. Numerous incidents of torpedoing took place and large numbers of ships sank. "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" was defeated and scuttled after a fierce battle with HMS "Highflyer" off the coast of west Africa, while her sister ship "Kronprinz Wilhelm" served as a commerce raider. The torpedoing and sinking of on 7 May 1915 caused the loss of 128 American lives at a time when