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
Yongfeng-class coastal defense ship raised the ship and rearmed it with Japanese guns to enter Japanese service on October 15, 1938, renamed "Asuka" (飛鳥). "Asuka" first served as a torpedo-boat mothership but eventually, in 1940, served as a liaison ship until it was sunk by American aerial attack on May 7, 1945 in the Huangpu River. Specification: "Yongji" is the 2nd ship of "Yongfeng"-class coastal defense ship built by China itself. Construction begun in 1911, the same year as its sister ship "Yongjian", but due to the Xinhai Revolution, construction was delayed and not until seven years later in 1918 was "Yongji" finally completed.