Britannic sank in less than an hour, leaving little time for a controlled evacuation. As the ship continued moving, lifeboats were launched into dangerously rotating propellers, leading to immediate ...

More than a century after it sank during World War I, the wreck of the Britannic, the Titanic’s sister ship, continues to reveal fragments of its history. Resting roughly 400 feet below the Aegean Sea ...

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Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: The location of the wreck—about 45 miles southeast of Athens in the Aegean Sea—in deep and tumultuous waters have made the site’s exploration tricky, ...

The first batch of artifacts has been retrieved from the bottom of the Aegean Sea, where the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, has lain for more than a century. HMHS Britannic was one of ...

An 11-person diving team recovered luxury items and equipment from the Britannic wreck, which lies 400 feet deep off the Greek coast since 1916. It was the Titanic’s sister ship.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Britannic was an ocean liner requisitioned as a hospital ship in World War I. The ship was heading toward the ...

Since the release of the grand and immensely popular 1997 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, it has become common knowledge that the White Star Line’s enormous luxury ocean liner, the ...

A dive team has identified a shipwreck off the coast of Nantucket as a World War I-era fishing boat that sank nearly 100 years ago with more than 20 men aboard. The ST Seiner was last seen in January ...

Greece has announced the recovery of artefacts from the wreck of the HMHS Britannic, more than a century after the Titanic’s sister ship sank in the Aegean Sea during World War I after striking a ...