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“Oh, good day. Sorry I didn’t see you there, I must’ve been daydreaming again.”

Name: Annabel Sophia Carlisle
Nicknames: Anna, Annie, "Princess" (she only lets Marco call her this)
DOB: 12 November 1894
Height: 6'2.5"
Weight: 200lb
Eyes: Cyan
Hair: Ginger-blonde
Notable Features: Scar on right side of her waist, about 3-5" long; scar on the outside of her right thigh, about 7-9" long; circular divot on left side just above the hip, about 1/3" across; scar along middle of abdomen, about 12" long

Current Residence: Liverpool, England
Employer: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company/White Star Line
Command: RMS Titanic, hull 401 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders, Belfast, Ireland

Personality: Anna is a soft-spoken girl compared to her sisters. While she's capable of handling herself and proud of it, she prefers having others around just in case things get out of hand. The infamous sinking of Titanic in April 1912 left her afraid of the ocean, its darkness, and the cold. With the help of her sisters and close friends, she recovered from all of it by her second maiden crossing in 1925, and has not shown such fears since. Still, when she feels threatened she'll seek out either her sisters Olivia and Brittany, her best friend Cara Princeton, or her partner Marco Plymouth.
While she still has some anxiety about making long voyages, Anna takes any chance she can to go out and see the world beyond her home port. She also enjoys sewing and embroidery, as well as sharing gossip over a cup of good British tea.

Bio: Anna has had an eventful life, much like Olivia. However, while the older sister’s beginnings were much lighter-hearted, Anna’s weren’t so. Several of Olivia’s mishaps delayed Anna’s ship - the soon-to-be-infamous RMS Titanic - reaching completion. Anna herself had mishaps in a relationship (arranged by her father Alexander Carlisle) with Montague Crawford, the first of Sir Hartley’s two younger brothers. A week before Olivia’s maiden crossing Anna and Monty shared dinner at a seafood restaurant on the Liverpool waterfront. Anna left the meal disgusted at the clams her partner ordered, and on their way back to her father’s mansion Monty uttered a phrase so horrendous it left Anna in tears. Despite attempts to hide and even explain away her crying, he smacked her across the face. Anna told her father later that night that Monty wasn’t her man, recounted Monty’s assault in a tear-choked voice. But Mr. Carlisle ignored her pleas, and Monty’s abuse continued. Olivia and Brittany tried to help, but neither sister could change father’s mind.

Anna, forced to take matters into her own hands, ordered her crew not to allow Monty passage on Titanic while docked in Southampton. But on April 10, unseen by the young commander, her fiancé bribed the gangway managers and boarded the liner.

Four days into her inaugural trip, Titanic sideswiped an iceberg and sank in less than three hours, taking 1500 of her 2200 passengers and crew to a watery grave. Anna herself was left adrift in a lifeboat with 42 of roughly 700 other survivors, which Cara Princeton and the Carpathia’s crew collected as dawn broke. Anna told Cara about how abusive Monty was, and the smaller captain’s face went pale. Monty had survived the sinking by pretending to be someone else’s husband and getting in a lifeboat with mainly women and children.

When Carpathia docked in New York on April 18, an onrushing crowd of reporters swept a blue-coated captain aboard and left him lost in the corridors. The captain heard Anna crying in the suite Cara lent her, and entered against her demands. He apologized for trespassing, explaining he entered because he'd gotten lost, and introduced himself as Marco Plymouth. Though scared of Marco, Anna let him offer his comfort until Cara came to escort him off the ship. On her return the girls talked about him. Cara insisted that Marco wasn't trustworthy because he disrespected Anna's demands, though Anna tried and eventually did convince her to let the man have another chance: "He gave me a warmth I haven't felt with anyone."

Roughly a month after this first encounter she and Marco had a proper talk. Marco came from a rough but well-off family in Boston, and while he was off duty he helped his brothers and mother run their grandma's hotel.

With both his and Cara’s support, Anna went out to enjoy the sights of the city. While she and Marco were talking over pizza about her past, Monty showed up from within the passing crowd and put a gun to Marco’s head. Anna snapped at her former fiancé and broke off the forced relationship in an impressive show of bravery.

December of 1912 saw Anna join Marco on his way home to Boston, and at his guide she met the crew of his grandmother’s inn: Dan Comanche, the man in charge of running the front desk, was a well-mannered bloke and very talented on the clarinet; Mother Emily had impressive skill in the kitchen and did well with keeping her boys in line; and Grandma Charlie told such enthralling tales it left Anna on the edge of her seat. Mike - Marco’s younger brother - was a suave young man and tried several times during the winter to swipe her from Marco’s arms; he handled his work in a half-assed manner, and his clothes stank to high heaven and back. But, Mike’s presence was the only dark stain of an otherwise idyllic holiday that Anna remembers fondly. One of her most vibrant memories is of Marco playing serenades on the old piano in the hotel’s ‘Officers’ Lounge’.

Anna returned to her New York penthouse on January 10, 1913, and in the warmer months to come her relationship with Marco solidified in earnest. Introducing him to Olivia that July was nothing but rocky, though, and left the battleship captain doubting his choice to stay.

Introducing Marco to Cunard sisters Lucy and Maggy Brown was much smoother, and came on August 6 while he, Anna and Cara were visiting Coney Island. That day was filled with beach sports like badminton and a new game which people were calling volleyball. Marco also had the chance to beat Maggy in a swimming race between the end of the boardwalk and the beach. The bubbly commander insisted Marco cheated, but kept good humor as she teased a rematch.
Lucy was a more timid sort, but she always had an air of elegance in her mannerisms. She also took pleasure in making seashell jewelry and other knickknacks.
Maggy was the exuberant one of the pair, and would’ve taken Marco for herself had it not been for Cara’s intervening.

Anna tried as best she could to clear Marco’s name for her sisters whenever the chance arose, but she couldn’t shake their doubts. Olivia - much like Cara - insisted that Marco was luring Anna with false pleasantry to abuse her, while Brittany argued Monty was the better match. With Cara’s help Anna arranged to bring her family to Boston and meet the gentleman she spoke so highly of. That Christmas left little to be desired, and Anna’s protective older and younger sisters were finally able to at least see Marco as a respectable gentleman.

In November 1914, Anna and Marco returned to her home in Liverpool, booking their trip aboard Lusitania. The pair stayed in her family's manor until the end of May 1916, when Marco received his order to arms as a letter sent from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. After a tearful goodbye Marco left the mansion. In a shockingly clever display of battle tactics he fended off the entire German High Seas Fleet near Jutland, holding the line single-handed until the British Grand Fleet arrived to assist.

Marco was summoned to Westminster Palace by a telegram from Churchill, as the captain was anchoring at Scapa Flow after another easy patrol. By none other than Queen Alice herself, Marco was given the highest honors of his career: he was inducted into the knighthood as Sir Marcus of Boston, given a Victory Medal, a Distinguished Service Order, and the Victoria Cross. Anna couldn’t have been happier as, when he came home on her birthday of all days, she opened her door to see him in all his finery. She leapt into his embrace, and the pair celebrated between her bedsheets.

Anna and Marco sealed their vows on December 18 that year, with both her family and his in attendance.

Even more cause for celebration was a fundraiser dedicated to building a new Titanic, which by now had raised enough money for Harland and Wolff to undertake the project. This was built based on the lessons learned from Anna’s disaster, and became the ultimate of comfort and luxury at sea. Starting in April 1919, the massive liner took 5 years to complete. With Marco at her side, Anna boarded her new command at Liverpool on April 4, 1925, and successfully docked in New York more than a week later. The world was abuzz with Titanic’s return more than ten years after the original was lost at the bottom of the ocean. Marco, seeing Anna much more confident than when he first met her, made this moment to propose visiting her whenever they were close by and telegram while separated. Though Anna didn’t initially like the idea she agreed. Neither partner had any way of knowing it would be nearly 18 years before they saw each other again.

Between 1925 and 1929, Anna ran the transatlantic service from Southampton to New York alongside Cunard sisters Margaret and Abigail Tania, their German brothers Anton and Berthold von Hamburg, and Old Reliable Olivia - though neither sister realized it at the time. But as the Great Depression gripped the shipping lanes, White Star Line ran short on money and had to merge with their rival Cunard Line in 1933, putting both companies’ ships under a single banner. In 1937 Olympic and Mauretania, the oldest of the fleet, were sold for scrap. Anton's liner Berengaria followed in 1938, and the next year Berthold's Majestic was taken to the cutter’s torch. Anna had every right to fear Titanic following her fleet mates, though in a stroke of luck the famous four-stacker was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a troopship, alongside Aquitania.

Nazi Germany began their blitz across Europe and kicked off the Second World War, so Titanic returned home to Belfast for conversion - this included modernizing her boilers to burn oil, which was cheaper and more economical than coal. While the fuel conversion was fully completed when Titanic was called to service, only half of her interiors were pulled away for warehouse storage. Anna took her command alongside her chief surgeon sister Brittany, and made sail on her first mission as a military vessel towards the coast of France. Here, she dropped anchor to assist in evacuating British soldiers from the beachheads. Titanic had several Vickers .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns mounted to her decks, so she could protect the “Little Ships of Dunkirk” from the Luftwaffe. Another girl of the former White Star Line, Noelle Andrews, was also a part of the evacuation thanks to the large spaces within her tender steamer SS Nomadic. Anna’s former second officer, Charles Herbert Lightholler, also took part with his motor yacht Sundowner (this was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on May 30, 1940). Together, the trio made quick work of both evacuating their compatriots and repelling the Nazis. But on June 2, two days before the evacuation ended, Titanic’s guns all ran out of ammo. To substitute, Anna had all of the smallest potatoes in her pantries collected and funneled into the gun breeches. Stale biscuits were also considered, but it was found they were too wide and brittle for the guns to fire them effectively. Surprisingly, the potato shot worked a treat; two Junkers Ju87B Stukas and one Messerschmitt Bf109E were downed, their pilots either killed in crashing or taken prisoner. For this act of brave ingenuity Anna was awarded a Distinguished Service Order from Queen Alice, as well as a Silver Medal of Honor from the French prime minister Paul Reynaud (History remembers this as “Bangers’ Mash Day”.).

As dawn broke on June 4, the Ships of Dunkirk brought the last of their refugees to Ramsgate. Titanic had well over 700 men onboard, and Nomadic had 250 - these were transferred to Titanic so Noelle could resume her work of tendering for Cherbourg some twenty miles westward. Sundowner transferred its 127 men to Titanic as well, putting the liner’s total carriage at a very respectable 1,077 British soldiers. In a further gesture of kindness - as if evacuating and sheltering them from the Luftwaffe wasn’t enough - Anna opened her dining saloon on B deck and invited all the evacuees to dinner. Many a smiling face left Titanic later that night, each accompanied by a full belly.

Titanic was called to ferry troops from the United States when word reached the Admiralty that the situation in North Africa grew more dire. With pantries restocked, ammo reloaded and the rest of her interiors stripped away, Anna set off for New York City to collect her vital cargo of soldiers. On November 10, 1942, after several such voyages to the Mediterranean coast, Titanic was spotted by a German U-boat. A white trail of foam rocketed towards the great ship, and slammed into the port side amidships - but strangely, it bounced off the double hull without exploding. A second torpedo shot towards her port bow, and this one did explode. Water immediately inundated the three foremost compartments, and a fourth filled as the watertight door was jammed in its frame. A slow leak was found in Boiler Room 5, but the crew managed to quickly patch it. Almost all of the fuel in her bulkhead bunkers was spent by this point, so whatever was in her double hull was all she had left. The boilers, without any more fuel to keep them hot, began to cool. The engines, without any steam, ground to a halt. There was still pressure enough to keep the generators running, which kept the radio supplied for a maximum of three days. Otherwise Titanic was dead in the water. Commander Anna and her crew dropped anchor off the southern coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.

Rescue took two days to arrive, but thankfully this time Titanic took much longer to flood and her radio aerials remained intact. An American battleship - hailing the callsign NPL on the radio - approached the liner, which had by now developed no worse than a 10° list to port. The two vessels were quickly lashed together, and with the battleship’s pumps Titanic’s list slowly equalized. While Anna watched the assisting ship’s crew she recognized the captain - Marco. She called out for him to come aboard and share a cup of tea, and the couple spent the entire afternoon catching up. As the sun dipped below the horizon Marco bade his girlfriend farewell and returned to his ship, its crew packing up after effecting temporary repairs and adding some of the battleship’s extra fuel to the liner’s undamaged bunkers. With this she could make it to Le Havre, France, and add enough supplement for the rest of the journey to Belfast.

Permanent repair work didn't start until late 1944, but by this point Cunard's superliner - RMS Queen Mary - had already proven itself a successful troopship. Titanic was no longer needed for the war effort. Work was put on hold before the end of the war in May 1945, when Germany surrendered to the Allied powers. By 1946 work to repatriate Titanic began, and all of her fittings were reinstalled. The ship was also fitted with a steam-heated jacuzzi in her swimming bath area on F deck; an additional lift was installed directly forward of the Aft Grand Staircase; her Third Class dining saloon was converted to a movie theater; every stateroom was given private bathroom facilities; class distinctions were changed from First, Second and Third, to Luxury and Tourist. Her varnished oak paneling was painted white with gold trim, and her furniture was replaced with the latest in MCM style.

Anna returned to passenger duties in 1949 as a limited-service liner, until a lifeboat refit in 1950-4, after which Titanic was a full-fledged passenger liner once again.

She had a second refit in 1980-5 to modernize her aging machinery and electrical systems - including the addition of several television sets - and on her return to work the screen picked up a news report saying the original vessel - now 73 years old - was just discovered in two pieces at the bottom of the Atlantic. Video footage of the wreck showed the bow in near-intact condition. While Anna was thrilled at the idea her old ship was found and still in somewhat sound shape, there was little chance of recovering and restoring it to its former glory. Although, not all is lost. Plans were arranged to anchor Anna’s current Titanic alongside her tender Nomadic as a floating hotel/museum in Belfast, Ireland. Here, since 1989 Anna and Noelle hosted tours of their respective ships as part of a larger museum dedicated to Titanic’s legacy - a little corner of Belfast Lough now known as the Titanic Quarter. While neither vessel is currently anchored here due to the start of a Kansen War in 1991, there is hope the last White Star Line vessels will one day come home.

Update 6/14/23, 10:30p: Redraw

Description
“Oh, good day. Sorry I didn’t see you there, I must’ve been daydreaming again.”

Name: Annabel Sophia Carlisle
Nicknames: Anna, Annie, "Princess" (she only lets Marco call her this)
DOB: 12 November 1894
Height: 6'2.5"
Weight: 200lb
Eyes: Cyan
Hair: Ginger-blonde
Notable Features: Scar on right side of her waist, about 3-5" long; scar on the outside of her right thigh, about 7-9" long; circular divot on left side just above the hip, about 1/3" across; scar along middle of abdomen, about 12" long

Current Residence: Liverpool, England
Employer: Oceanic Steam Navigation Company/White Star Line
Command: RMS Titanic, hull 401 of Harland and Wolff Shipbuilders, Belfast, Ireland

Personality: Anna is a soft-spoken girl compared to her sisters. While she's capable of handling herself and proud of it, she prefers having others around just in case things get out of hand. The infamous sinking of Titanic in April 1912 left her afraid of the ocean, its darkness, and the cold. With the help of her sisters and close friends, she recovered from all of it by her second maiden crossing in 1925, and has not shown such fears since. Still, when she feels threatened she'll seek out either her sisters Olivia and Brittany, her best friend Cara Princeton, or her partner Marco Plymouth.
While she still has some anxiety about making long voyages, Anna takes any chance she can to go out and see the world beyond her home port. She also enjoys sewing and embroidery, as well as sharing gossip over a cup of good British tea.

Bio: Anna has had an eventful life, much like Olivia. However, while the older sister’s beginnings were much lighter-hearted, Anna’s weren’t so. Several of Olivia’s mishaps delayed Anna’s ship - the soon-to-be-infamous RMS Titanic - reaching completion. Anna herself had mishaps in a relationship (arranged by her father Alexander Carlisle) with Montague Crawford, the first of Sir Hartley’s two younger brothers. A week before Olivia’s maiden crossing Anna and Monty shared dinner at a seafood restaurant on the Liverpool waterfront. Anna left the meal disgusted at the clams her partner ordered, and on their way back to her father’s mansion Monty uttered a phrase so horrendous it left Anna in tears. Despite attempts to hide and even explain away her crying, he smacked her across the face. Anna told her father later that night that Monty wasn’t her man, recounted Monty’s assault in a tear-choked voice. But Mr. Carlisle ignored her pleas, and Monty’s abuse continued. Olivia and Brittany tried to help, but neither sister could change father’s mind.

Anna, forced to take matters into her own hands, ordered her crew not to allow Monty passage on Titanic while docked in Southampton. But on April 10, unseen by the young commander, her fiancé bribed the gangway managers and boarded the liner.

Four days into her inaugural trip, Titanic sideswiped an iceberg and sank in less than three hours, taking 1500 of her 2200 passengers and crew to a watery grave. Anna herself was left adrift in a lifeboat with 42 of roughly 700 other survivors, which Cara Princeton and the Carpathia’s crew collected as dawn broke. Anna told Cara about how abusive Monty was, and the smaller captain’s face went pale. Monty had survived the sinking by pretending to be someone else’s husband and getting in a lifeboat with mainly women and children.

When Carpathia docked in New York on April 18, an onrushing crowd of reporters swept a blue-coated captain aboard and left him lost in the corridors. The captain heard Anna crying in the suite Cara lent her, and entered against her demands. He apologized for trespassing, explaining he entered because he'd gotten lost, and introduced himself as Marco Plymouth. Though scared of Marco, Anna let him offer his comfort until Cara came to escort him off the ship. On her return the girls talked about him. Cara insisted that Marco wasn't trustworthy because he disrespected Anna's demands, though Anna tried and eventually did convince her to let the man have another chance: "He gave me a warmth I haven't felt with anyone."

Roughly a month after this first encounter she and Marco had a proper talk. Marco came from a rough but well-off family in Boston, and while he was off duty he helped his brothers and mother run their grandma's hotel.

With both his and Cara’s support, Anna went out to enjoy the sights of the city. While she and Marco were talking over pizza about her past, Monty showed up from within the passing crowd and put a gun to Marco’s head. Anna snapped at her former fiancé and broke off the forced relationship in an impressive show of bravery.

December of 1912 saw Anna join Marco on his way home to Boston, and at his guide she met the crew of his grandmother’s inn: Dan Comanche, the man in charge of running the front desk, was a well-mannered bloke and very talented on the clarinet; Mother Emily had impressive skill in the kitchen and did well with keeping her boys in line; and Grandma Charlie told such enthralling tales it left Anna on the edge of her seat. Mike - Marco’s younger brother - was a suave young man and tried several times during the winter to swipe her from Marco’s arms; he handled his work in a half-assed manner, and his clothes stank to high heaven and back. But, Mike’s presence was the only dark stain of an otherwise idyllic holiday that Anna remembers fondly. One of her most vibrant memories is of Marco playing serenades on the old piano in the hotel’s ‘Officers’ Lounge’.

Anna returned to her New York penthouse on January 10, 1913, and in the warmer months to come her relationship with Marco solidified in earnest. Introducing him to Olivia that July was nothing but rocky, though, and left the battleship captain doubting his choice to stay.

Introducing Marco to Cunard sisters Lucy and Maggy Brown was much smoother, and came on August 6 while he, Anna and Cara were visiting Coney Island. That day was filled with beach sports like badminton and a new game which people were calling volleyball. Marco also had the chance to beat Maggy in a swimming race between the end of the boardwalk and the beach. The bubbly commander insisted Marco cheated, but kept good humor as she teased a rematch.
Lucy was a more timid sort, but she always had an air of elegance in her mannerisms. She also took pleasure in making seashell jewelry and other knickknacks.
Maggy was the exuberant one of the pair, and would’ve taken Marco for herself had it not been for Cara’s intervening.

Anna tried as best she could to clear Marco’s name for her sisters whenever the chance arose, but she couldn’t shake their doubts. Olivia - much like Cara - insisted that Marco was luring Anna with false pleasantry to abuse her, while Brittany argued Monty was the better match. With Cara’s help Anna arranged to bring her family to Boston and meet the gentleman she spoke so highly of. That Christmas left little to be desired, and Anna’s protective older and younger sisters were finally able to at least see Marco as a respectable gentleman.

In November 1914, Anna and Marco returned to her home in Liverpool, booking their trip aboard Lusitania. The pair stayed in her family's manor until the end of May 1916, when Marco received his order to arms as a letter sent from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. After a tearful goodbye Marco left the mansion. In a shockingly clever display of battle tactics he fended off the entire German High Seas Fleet near Jutland, holding the line single-handed until the British Grand Fleet arrived to assist.

Marco was summoned to Westminster Palace by a telegram from Churchill, as the captain was anchoring at Scapa Flow after another easy patrol. By none other than Queen Alice herself, Marco was given the highest honors of his career: he was inducted into the knighthood as Sir Marcus of Boston, given a Victory Medal, a Distinguished Service Order, and the Victoria Cross. Anna couldn’t have been happier as, when he came home on her birthday of all days, she opened her door to see him in all his finery. She leapt into his embrace, and the pair celebrated between her bedsheets.

Anna and Marco sealed their vows on December 18 that year, with both her family and his in attendance.

Even more cause for celebration was a fundraiser dedicated to building a new Titanic, which by now had raised enough money for Harland and Wolff to undertake the project. This was built based on the lessons learned from Anna’s disaster, and became the ultimate of comfort and luxury at sea. Starting in April 1919, the massive liner took 5 years to complete. With Marco at her side, Anna boarded her new command at Liverpool on April 4, 1925, and successfully docked in New York more than a week later. The world was abuzz with Titanic’s return more than ten years after the original was lost at the bottom of the ocean. Marco, seeing Anna much more confident than when he first met her, made this moment to propose visiting her whenever they were close by and telegram while separated. Though Anna didn’t initially like the idea she agreed. Neither partner had any way of knowing it would be nearly 18 years before they saw each other again.

Between 1925 and 1929, Anna ran the transatlantic service from Southampton to New York alongside Cunard sisters Margaret and Abigail Tania, their German brothers Anton and Berthold von Hamburg, and Old Reliable Olivia - though neither sister realized it at the time. But as the Great Depression gripped the shipping lanes, White Star Line ran short on money and had to merge with their rival Cunard Line in 1933, putting both companies’ ships under a single banner. In 1937 Olympic and Mauretania, the oldest of the fleet, were sold for scrap. Anton's liner Berengaria followed in 1938, and the next year Berthold's Majestic was taken to the cutter’s torch. Anna had every right to fear Titanic following her fleet mates, though in a stroke of luck the famous four-stacker was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a troopship, alongside Aquitania.

Nazi Germany began their blitz across Europe and kicked off the Second World War, so Titanic returned home to Belfast for conversion - this included modernizing her boilers to burn oil, which was cheaper and more economical than coal. While the fuel conversion was fully completed when Titanic was called to service, only half of her interiors were pulled away for warehouse storage. Anna took her command alongside her chief surgeon sister Brittany, and made sail on her first mission as a military vessel towards the coast of France. Here, she dropped anchor to assist in evacuating British soldiers from the beachheads. Titanic had several Vickers .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns mounted to her decks, so she could protect the “Little Ships of Dunkirk” from the Luftwaffe. Another girl of the former White Star Line, Noelle Andrews, was also a part of the evacuation thanks to the large spaces within her tender steamer SS Nomadic. Anna’s former second officer, Charles Herbert Lightholler, also took part with his motor yacht Sundowner (this was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on May 30, 1940). Together, the trio made quick work of both evacuating their compatriots and repelling the Nazis. But on June 2, two days before the evacuation ended, Titanic’s guns all ran out of ammo. To substitute, Anna had all of the smallest potatoes in her pantries collected and funneled into the gun breeches. Stale biscuits were also considered, but it was found they were too wide and brittle for the guns to fire them effectively. Surprisingly, the potato shot worked a treat; two Junkers Ju87B Stukas and one Messerschmitt Bf109E were downed, their pilots either killed in crashing or taken prisoner. For this act of brave ingenuity Anna was awarded a Distinguished Service Order from Queen Alice, as well as a Silver Medal of Honor from the French prime minister Paul Reynaud (History remembers this as “Bangers’ Mash Day”.).

As dawn broke on June 4, the Ships of Dunkirk brought the last of their refugees to Ramsgate. Titanic had well over 700 men onboard, and Nomadic had 250 - these were transferred to Titanic so Noelle could resume her work of tendering for Cherbourg some twenty miles westward. Sundowner transferred its 127 men to Titanic as well, putting the liner’s total carriage at a very respectable 1,077 British soldiers. In a further gesture of kindness - as if evacuating and sheltering them from the Luftwaffe wasn’t enough - Anna opened her dining saloon on B deck and invited all the evacuees to dinner. Many a smiling face left Titanic later that night, each accompanied by a full belly.

Titanic was called to ferry troops from the United States when word reached the Admiralty that the situation in North Africa grew more dire. With pantries restocked, ammo reloaded and the rest of her interiors stripped away, Anna set off for New York City to collect her vital cargo of soldiers. On November 10, 1942, after several such voyages to the Mediterranean coast, Titanic was spotted by a German U-boat. A white trail of foam rocketed towards the great ship, and slammed into the port side amidships - but strangely, it bounced off the double hull without exploding. A second torpedo shot towards her port bow, and this one did explode. Water immediately inundated the three foremost compartments, and a fourth filled as the watertight door was jammed in its frame. A slow leak was found in Boiler Room 5, but the crew managed to quickly patch it. Almost all of the fuel in her bulkhead bunkers was spent by this point, so whatever was in her double hull was all she had left. The boilers, without any more fuel to keep them hot, began to cool. The engines, without any steam, ground to a halt. There was still pressure enough to keep the generators running, which kept the radio supplied for a maximum of three days. Otherwise Titanic was dead in the water. Commander Anna and her crew dropped anchor off the southern coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.

Rescue took two days to arrive, but thankfully this time Titanic took much longer to flood and her radio aerials remained intact. An American battleship - hailing the callsign NPL on the radio - approached the liner, which had by now developed no worse than a 10° list to port. The two vessels were quickly lashed together, and with the battleship’s pumps Titanic’s list slowly equalized. While Anna watched the assisting ship’s crew she recognized the captain - Marco. She called out for him to come aboard and share a cup of tea, and the couple spent the entire afternoon catching up. As the sun dipped below the horizon Marco bade his girlfriend farewell and returned to his ship, its crew packing up after effecting temporary repairs and adding some of the battleship’s extra fuel to the liner’s undamaged bunkers. With this she could make it to Le Havre, France, and add enough supplement for the rest of the journey to Belfast.

Permanent repair work didn't start until late 1944, but by this point Cunard's superliner - RMS Queen Mary - had already proven itself a successful troopship. Titanic was no longer needed for the war effort. Work was put on hold before the end of the war in May 1945, when Germany surrendered to the Allied powers. By 1946 work to repatriate Titanic began, and all of her fittings were reinstalled. The ship was also fitted with a steam-heated jacuzzi in her swimming bath area on F deck; an additional lift was installed directly forward of the Aft Grand Staircase; her Third Class dining saloon was converted to a movie theater; every stateroom was given private bathroom facilities; class distinctions were changed from First, Second and Third, to Luxury and Tourist. Her varnished oak paneling was painted white with gold trim, and her furniture was replaced with the latest in MCM style.

Anna returned to passenger duties in 1949 as a limited-service liner, until a lifeboat refit in 1950-4, after which Titanic was a full-fledged passenger liner once again.

She had a second refit in 1980-5 to modernize her aging machinery and electrical systems - including the addition of several television sets - and on her return to work the screen picked up a news report saying the original vessel - now 73 years old - was just discovered in two pieces at the bottom of the Atlantic. Video footage of the wreck showed the bow in near-intact condition. While Anna was thrilled at the idea her old ship was found and still in somewhat sound shape, there was little chance of recovering and restoring it to its former glory. Although, not all is lost. Plans were arranged to anchor Anna’s current Titanic alongside her tender Nomadic as a floating hotel/museum in Belfast, Ireland. Here, since 1989 Anna and Noelle hosted tours of their respective ships as part of a larger museum dedicated to Titanic’s legacy - a little corner of Belfast Lough now known as the Titanic Quarter. While neither vessel is currently anchored here due to the start of a Kansen War in 1991, there is hope the last White Star Line vessels will one day come home.

Update 6/14/23, 10:30p: Redraw