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
Gil Eannes (ship) hospital ship, "Gil Eannes" served also as maritime authority, mail ship, tug, icebreaker and general support ship for the Portuguese fishing vessels. "Gil Eannes" was designed to replace a ship with the same name, as hospital and support ship for the Portuguese White Fleet. The first "Gil Eannes" was the former German merchant ship "Lahneck", captured by the Portuguese authorities in 1916. "Lahneck" was then renamed "Gil Eannes", being transformed and employed as auxiliary cruiser by the Portuguese Navy, during World War I. In 1927, she was adapted to hospital ship and sent, for the first time, to the seas