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May 31, 2024 · Britannic, British ocean liner that was a sister ship of the Olympic and the Titanic. Having never operated as a commercial vessel, it was refitted as a hospital ship during World War I and sank in 1916, reportedly after striking a mine.
HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) (/ b r ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ k /) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic ...
Nov 13, 2009 · The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in the Aegean Sea on November 21, 1916, killing 30 people. More than 1,000 others were rescued.
In November 1916 the hospital ship Britannic was steaming off the island of Kea, Greece when there was a sudden explosion.
The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg ...
Sep 12, 2016 · Sister ship to the Titanic, Britannic is the world's largest civilian shipwreck. In 2016, 100 years after her sinking, an expedition has used the latest underwater technology to reveal her secrets.
Nov 20, 2020 · Encyclopedia Britannica. Titanic, in full Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from...
Exploring the Britannic by Robert Ballard. In the almost 80 years since its sinking, ours was only the second expedition to explore the wreck of HHM Britannic, but the first to see her clearly.
For almost 60 years after her sinking Britannic lay undisturbed on the bottom of the Aegean sea, until 3rd December 1975, when she was discovered by deep sea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau on board his research vessel Calypso. Britannic was not his original mission.
Nov 21, 2016 · Kea, Greece – A hundred years after it sank in the Aegean, the Britannic is shedding light on what sent its doomed sister-ship, the Titanic, to the bottom of the...
