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 ...

The 48,000-tonne Britannic, which was even larger than her famous sister Titanic, sunk rapidly as the captain had accelerated the engines in an attempt to beach the ship. She was the largest ship ...

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 ...

In fact, 100 years ago today, its sister ship the HMHS Britannic also met its doom at sea. As the sinking of the “unsinkable ship” made headlines, its owners at the White Circle Line already ...

FEBRUARY 26, 1914: The Titanic’s sister ship HMHS Britannic was launched on this day in 1914 – only to follow her sibling’s dismal fate by sinking two years later. The hospital craft, which British ...

including Titanic and its sister ship Britannic. John Priest was one of more than 150 'firemen', or stokers, whose job it was to keep Titanic's 29 colossal boilers at steam, day and night ...

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 ...

Ornate carved wooden panelling from HMHS Britannic, one of the Titanic's sister ships built at Harland and Wolff, has fetched more than a quarter of a million pounds at auction. Two items from the ...

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 ...