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 bot… ...

The HMS Britannic had been serving as a World War I hospital ship when it struck a German mine five kilometres off the island of Kea, 60km southeast of Athens, in November 1916. The ship sank in ...

A deep-diving photographer has captured haunting images of the HMHS Britannic — the Titanic’s sister ship that sank at sea in a maritime disaster 105 years ago.. Rick Ayrton, 63, a retired ...

The bell of the Britannic, which is the largest passenger ship on the sea floor, is a Holy Grail of wreck diving. The 890-foot, 48,000-ton vessel sits in 400 feet of water.

His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Britannic sunk in 55 minutes on 21 November 1916. It was larger than the Titanic but went down faster as the engines were accelerated in an attempt to beach it.

The wreck, lying in just 400ft of water, was discovered in the mid-1970s by the French diver Jacques Cousteau. Today it’s owned by Simon Mills, a British marine historian, who bought it from the ...

Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck. HMHS Britannic was completed at Belfast's Harland and Wolff ...

One Britannic item has been recreated as a bar The wood was taken off the vessel, which launched in Belfast in 1914, so it could be used as a troop ship during World War One.