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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 ...
RMS Britannic was supposed to be the grand finale, the best of the bunch, the ship that would add an exclamation point to White Star’s dominance of the waves. It didn’t turn out that way.
But there will be more than 90 objects retrieved from the Titanic and its sister ships, Olympic and Britannic. Visitors can also get up close to original items from the White Star Line.
The ship was sailing with 25 crew members when it sank, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sixteen of the crew members died in the sinking, ABC reported. The Koning Willem de ...
Simone Mills, the president of The Britannic Foundation, who has also bought the shipwreck, requested the recovery of the artifacts—all of which will be showcased at the new Underwater Archaeology ...
He was chosen by Simon Rogan to lead the culinary team, bringing Rogan’s pioneering farm-to-fork philosophy to life through a menu that perfectly embodies this vision aboard the Britannic Explorer.
Hospital ship Britannic, from Florence Irving's scrapbook. DX/2108/4/3 Built at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, White Star Line’s Britannic was the third of the Olympic-class passenger liners ...
April 10, 1912 9:30 -11:30 am: Passengers arrived in Southampton and began boarding the ship. 12 pm: The Titanic set sail and began her maiden voyage. Even before they had left port at ...
The Olympic Class ships were intended to be the greatest liners to ever sail the oceans, but the Britannic sank only four years after her sister ship the Titanic. While the wreck of the Titanic is two ...
The Adriatic Affair: Finding the 1856 Le Lyonnais Wreck “Of the people on the ship, 114 died and only 18 survived. Those that did lived through extraordinary conditions in the North Atlantic ...