Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, its sister ship Britannic, and a third disaster, and still went back to sea.

T he 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 ...

Britannic was the largest ship sunk during World War I. Famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau discovered the wreck in 1975. She rests on the floor of the Aegean Sea today on her side, ...

The Britannic never has engaged in trans-Atlantic service, not having been completed at the outbreak of the war. She was turned over to the government and fitted as a hospital ship with cots for ...

On the morning of November 21, 1916, the British ocean liner Britannic—then outfitted as a hospital ship during World War I—was cruising the Aegean Sea on its way to the bloody battlefield of ...

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This article was originally published with the title “ The Britannic—A Remarkable Ship ” in SA Supplements Vol. 30 No. 777supp (November 1890), p. 12407 doi:10.1038 ...

New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San Jose, Colombia's government announced Thursday, after the first robotic exploration of the three-century-old shipwreck. Dubbed ...

The ship sank in 1895. John Evenson, a tugboat that sank in 1895, was recently discovered by a team of maritime experts, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. It was found in Lake Michigan.

Early Royal Navy ships were prefixed HBMS, which stood for His Britannic Majesty’s Ship, before dropping the B and adopting the more well-known HMS. When the United States Navy was formed in 1775, it ...