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
Italian hospital ship Ramb IV Italian hospital ship Ramb IV Ramb IV was an Italian hospital ship, built at Monfalcone by the United Yards of the Adriatic ("Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico", CRDA) in 1938. "Ramb IV" was the last of four sister ships all built to the same design. The other ships were the , , and the . The four ships were built for the Royal Banana Monopoly Business ("Regia Azienda Monopolio Banane"). These ships were originally devised as "banana boats" for transporting refrigerated bananas from Somaliland and Eritrea in Italian East Africa. In the event of war, the design of "Ramb IV" allowed it