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Britannic Waives the Rules is based on the real-life experiences of the author Michael Walsh who from March 1959 to January 1960 served as a deck rating on RMS Britannic. As far as memory recalls the names of characters depicted relate to real people. MV Britannic the last of the White Star Line fleets had an illustrious pedigree. Founded in Liverpool in 1845 the shipping company first prospered by carrying gold-diggers to the Gold Rush (1851) during which Australia's population quadrupled and the Klondike Gold Rush (1896) with the similar expansion of migrants. The White Star Line often made headlines for the wrong reasons. The company's investments in 1867 literally broke the lending bank. Sold for GBP1,000 the White Star Line was headquartered at Albion House, Liverpool, which today stands as the company's last monument. On a deal made over a billiard table, Oceanic Class liners built six liners at Harland and Wolff. Oceanic liners names ended in -ic. Several maritime disasters befell the company of which the worst was the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. The last of the White Star Line vessels whose name ended in -ic was MV Britannic (1929-1960). Britannic Waives the Rules recounts the first-hand experiences of the vessel's last crews before the liner was taken to the breaker's yard.

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