Aegean

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New York Times	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	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	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	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	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
scientificcomputing.com	TITANIC EXPLORER DETAILS NEW DEEP-SEA JOURNEY Oceanographer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the Titanic wreck, has new plans to plumb the depths of the seas. Ballard said on July 28, 2011 that his latest deep-sea venture will send crews combing through the Black, Aegean and Mediterranean seas for artifacts from ship wrecks and ancient civilizations. His research vessel, the E/V Nautilus, set out from a port in Turkey last week on a four-month mission that will use four remote-operated vehicles and sonar technology to explore lost cities, as well as hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes....	2nd August 2011
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton 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	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....	21st November 2008
Titanic Review	THE OLYMPIC CLASS SHIPS: OLYMPIC, TITANIC, BRITANNIC Michael Tennaro In this new book, Chirnside has done the triplets proud, with a thoroughly researched history of each of these vessels. ...	6th December 2004