Editing HMHS Britannic (section)

=== First service ===
[[File:HMHS Galeka and the HMHS Britannic.jpg|thumb|''Britannic'' with {{HMHS|Galeka}}, taking on board the wounded at [[Mudros]]]]
When declared fit for service on 12 December 1915 at Liverpool, ''Britannic'' was assigned a medical team consisting of 101 nurses, 336 non-commissioned officers and 52 commissioned officers as well as a crew of 675 people.<ref name=MC241 /> On 23 December, she left Liverpool to join the port of [[Mudros]] on the island of [[Lemnos]] on the [[Aegean Sea]] to bring back sick and wounded soldiers.<ref name=MC243>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=243}}.</ref> She joined with several ships on the same route, including ''Mauretania'', ''Aquitania'',<ref>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=92}}.</ref> and her sister ship ''Olympic''.<ref>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=94}}.</ref> The four ships were joined a little later by {{SS|Statendam|1914|2}}.<ref>{{usurped|1=[http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120414091511/http://www.webtitanic.net/frameBritannica.html « HMHS ''Britannic'' »]}}, ''WebTitanic''. Accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She made a stopover at [[Naples]] before continuing to Mudros, in order for her stock of coal to be replenished. After she returned, she spent four weeks as a floating hospital off the [[Isle of Wight]].<ref>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=244}}.</ref>

The third voyage was from 20 March 1916 to 4 April. The Dardanelles was evacuated in January.<ref>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=245}}.</ref> At the end of her military service on 6 June 1916, ''Britannic'' returned to Belfast to undergo the necessary modifications for transforming her into a transatlantic passenger liner. The British government paid the White Star Line £75,000 to compensate for the conversion. The transformation took place for several months before being interrupted by a recall of the ship back into military service.<ref>{{harvnb|Chirnside|2011|p=246}}.</ref>