HMHS Britannic filming the wreck for National Geographic. In 2012, on an expedition organised by Alexander Sotiriou and Paul Lijnen, divers using rebreathers successfully installed and recovered scientific equipment used for environmental purposes, to determine how fast bacteria are eating "Britannic"s iron compared to "Titanic". Having her career cut short in wartime, having never entered commercial service, and having had few victims, "Britannic" did not experience the enthusiasm aroused upon the mention of her name, unlike that of her sister ship "Titanic". After having been long ignored by the public, she finally gained fame when her wreck was discovered. Her name was
Titanic (1943 film) passenger liner which eventually shared "Titanic"s fate; it was sunk a few days before the end of World War II by the Royal Air Force on May 3, 1945, with loss of life more than three times than that on the actual "Titanic". The ship had been turned into a prison ship and filled with Jewish inmates that the Nazis had put there in hopes that the ship would be destroyed by the British. The scenes with the lifeboats were also filmed on the Baltic Sea; some of the interior scenes were shot in Tobis Studios. "Titanic" endured many production