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| New York Times | (1917) | INSIST TORPEDO SANK HER Hospital Ship Britannic Survivors Say Propellers Killed 45 Men --- Several survivors of the hospital ship Britannic, which was sunk in the Aegean Sea, were among the crew of the Adriatic, which arrived here... | 28th January 1917 | |||
| The Oregonian | (2007) | MYSTERIOUSLY FAST SINKING OF BRITANNIC EXPLORED Why did Britannic plummet 400 feet to the floor of the Aegean Sea despite the many improvements made in her design and construction?... | 13th October 2007 | |||
| Whittier Daily News | (2010) | TAKE A TRIP ON THE TITANIC Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she went to sea (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.... | 28th February 2010 | |||
| Telegraph.co.uk | (2007) | TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP TO BECOME DIVERS' PARADISE When it was launched in 1914 it was intended to be superior to its sister ship the Titanic but, two years later, the Britannic lay at the bottom of the Aegean Sea - the victim of a mine laid by a German U-boat.Now a project is under way to transform it into a subaquatic paradise for divers and a haven for tourists.... | 2nd August 2007 | |||
| Belfast Telegraph | (2006) | DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary.... | 27th September 2006 | |||
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(2005) | ROYAL EDWARD Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1... | 10th May 2005 | |||
| BBC News | (2008) | DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC 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 shipyard two years after Titanic was lo... | 21st November 2008 | |||
| ET Reviews | (2004) | THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC BY MARK CHIRNSIDE Titanic is arguably the most famous ship in history, and her popularity has often come at the expense of her siblings. Yet she was but one of a trio of sister ships. The number of titles that have attempted to tell the story ... | 6th December 2004 | |||
