Reporting

Stories from newspaper and magazine articles about the Britannia.

 

The Times - a report of the sinking

 

LIFE Magazine - the story of some of the survivors of Lifeboat Number 7

 

Birmingham Evening Mail - Alfred Warren's local paper

 

The Illustrated London News - 2nd Lt. Cox, Sub Lt. Davidson and Lt. Rowlandson rescued from their raft

 

Sunday Pictorial - Spencer Mynott's story


Sunday Pictorial - the reunion of Spencer Mynott and Alfred Warren


The Independent - the obituary of Captain William McVicar who sailed on Lifboat Number 7.  (This article gives the date of Britannia's sinking, incorrectly, as 23 March).

 

The Guardian - the obituary of Vice Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh who sailed on Lifeboat Number 7