SHE was the largest ship lost in the First World War, all of her 48,000 tonnes sinking in just 55 minutes. The Britannic followed the watery fate of her sister ship The Titanic, settling at the ...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article stated that the Britannic was a Victorian-era ship. This is incorrect; the Britannic, along with her sister-ship Titanic, both set sail during the ...

Rick Ayrton captured snaps of the HMHS Britannic, which lies off the coast of Kea, Greece. The sister ship of the Titanic sank after an unexplained explosion onboard in 1916. Thirty people who ...

RMS 'Olympic,' one of the 'Titanic's' sister ships | Fred Pansing ... successful trips between the UK and the Mediterranean, the Britannic struck a German mine in the Aegean Sea on November ...

As the 20th century dawned, the owners of Britain’s White Star Line were thinking big. Really big. They envisioned three huge ocean liners that would be larger and far more ...

Like the Olympic, Britannic took part in the First World War. The Royal Navy confiscated this ship from the company and put it to work as a hospital ship. It didn’t take too long to suffer the ...

However one of its sister ships also sank, with the other having a very close call. The Britannic also ended up at the bottom of the ocean, however, it sank in much shallower waters. It had a ...

The Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, had two sister ships almost identical in size and luxury: the Olympic and the Britannic. The White Star Line hoped to conquer its ...