While this is an obvious made-for-TV follow up to Titanic (Cameron) it does draw attention to a signficant shipwreck that has been largely forgotten.
Bollards relatively recent expedition has shown that the ship was sunk by torpedo's as shown, but sunk because the portholes were open and the bulkhead doors were not closed.
It is indeed fortunate that it happened on an inwards transit because on an outwards one the loss of life would have been enormous.
Yet again we have intrigue and romance fictionally built into a disaster movie but the truth of the matter is that the sinking of Britannic was an act of war with minimal loss of life. With what had happened in Galipoli and the Western Front it was hardly newsworthy.
The movie for all its slights of hand might have just made its sinking more noteworthy than has otherwise been the case.
Bollards relatively recent expedition has shown that the ship was sunk by torpedo's as shown, but sunk because the portholes were open and the bulkhead doors were not closed.
It is indeed fortunate that it happened on an inwards transit because on an outwards one the loss of life would have been enormous.
Yet again we have intrigue and romance fictionally built into a disaster movie but the truth of the matter is that the sinking of Britannic was an act of war with minimal loss of life. With what had happened in Galipoli and the Western Front it was hardly newsworthy.
The movie for all its slights of hand might have just made its sinking more noteworthy than has otherwise been the case.