Vera Campbell is the main protagonist of the 2000 spy television film Britannic.
She is voiced by Amanda Ryan.
Biography[]
In April 1912, Campbell was on the RMS Titanic when she struck an iceberg. Her husband did not survive the sinking. Her experience left her with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
Vera Campbell boarded the HMHS Britannic, a hospital ship that was secretly carrying a large amount of small arms and munitions bound for Cairo, Egypt.
She, along with the eventual cooperation of the Britannic's crew, had foiled every sabotage attempt onboard the Britannic made by Ernst Tilbach who was disguised as Chaplin Reynolds at the time. Unaware that Campbell is responsible, he finds himself growing attracted to her whilst the voyage continues following Britannic's stopover at Naples, Italy. Campbell and Reynolds soon bond a relationship until Campbell discovers his true identity. Campbell confronts him in the engine room where Reynolds reveals his real name, as Ernst Tilbach, and then he tells her he is going to sink the Britannic.
Ernst Tilbach then blows a hole in the Britannic's port side bow. The ship tries sailing for island of Kea seven miles away, but the beaching operation causes her to sink even faster. Campbell discovers that William Lewis, one of Lady Lewis's children, has disappeared. Ernst Tilbach helps her and they get William to a lifeboat before it is lowered. Another explosion in the ship causes Ernst Tilbach to be trapped in a flooding room. Campbell helps him escape and they make their way through the ship, swimming through flooded rooms, vents, grates, and corridors, eventually making it outside by swimming through a porthole and climbing aboard an empty lifeboat that has been lowered into the water, but is still attached by its ropes to the davits.
Campbell and Tilbach notice a lifeboat filled with people getting pulled into the still spinning propellers. They watch in horror as another lifeboat and its occupants are smashed to pieces by the spinning propeller blades. Ernst ties Vera Campbell to a line thrown to them from a nearby lifeboat.
Despite Campbell's protests that they both can be pulled to safety, he throws Vera Campbell into the sea after kissing her. Soon after, the lifeboat's ropes break and the lifeboat gets sucked towards the propellers, Ernst Tilbach sacrifices himself by staying aboard the lifeboat, leaving Campbell to watch him die. After Tilbach's death, the Britannic rolls over, causing the funnels and deck machinery to tumble into the sea as the ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean. A British battleship, HMS Victoria, arrives to rescue the survivors. Reflecting on her experience, Campbell quotes the poem "Roll on, Thou..." from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron.