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… ...

Its life as a hospital ship lasted just 11 months. The Britannic, perhaps more than any physical object, lies as a testament to how shockingly and irreversibly the Great War changed the world.

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 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 ...

The sinking of Britannic was especially tragic—not only because it followed so closely the sinking of its sister ship, Titanic, in 1912, but because extensive safety improvements had been made ...

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 ...