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
German hospital ship Ophelia up any survivors. However, the English captured her and made her prize, charging us with having sent her for scouting purposes, although she was obviously fitted up as a hospital ship and bore all the requisite markings...We also considered ourselves released from our obligations and with far more justification took action against hospital ships which, under cover of the Red Cross flag, were patently used for the transport of troops. — German Admiral Scheer The British renamed the ship SS "Huntley" and used her for transporting fuel from Portishead to Boulogne. On 21 December 1915 she was torpedoed and sunk