RMS Mauretania (1906) and launched with passengers. When "Britannic", working as a hospital ship during World War I, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine in the Kea channel the already davited boats were swiftly lowered saving nearly all on board, but the ship took nearly three times as long to sink as "Lusitania" and thus the crew had more time to evacuate passengers. "Mauretania" departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of Captain John Pritchard, and on the return voyage captured the record for the fastest eastbound crossing of the Atlantic, with an average speed of
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain last record. So I saved all these little pop songs." After hearing 2004's "The Grey Album", which mashed up Jay-Z's "The Black Album" and the Beatles' "The White Album", Linkous invited the album's producer, Danger Mouse, to come to North Carolina and help him finish the tracks he had begun recording. Although it was Sparklehorse's first studio album in five years, approximately 25 minutes of the 55-minute-long record were released in some form previously, dating from the sessions for the It's a Wonderful Life album. "Ghost in the Sky" was originally released on the Japanese pressing of "It's a Wonderful