EVERYONE knows the story of the RMS Titanic which sank in the cold waters of the North Atlantic But not many will know be aware that her sister ship, the HMHS Britannic, was just as doomed as the ...

Off the southern coast of Greece sits the wreckage of one of the Titanic’s sister ships, the HMHS Britannic. Over a century after the luxury-ocean-liner-turned-World-War-I-hospital sank, scuba divers ...

A section of the HMHS Britannics first-class lounge panelling in richly-carved oak from the Louis XV period. The panelling was made for the Britannic and is identical to that which was fitted on the ...

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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 ...

Luck can be a double-edged sword. For Irish-Argentinian nurse Violet Jessop, better known throughout maritime history as "Miss Unsinkable", there is some debate as to whether luck was really on her ...

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 ...