This Wednesday, Feb. 26, marks the 100th anniversary of the launching of HMHS Britannic, sister ship of the most famous ocean liner of all, RMS Titanic. Britannic never sailed as a liner; once ...

The HMHS Britannic: The Workhorse of World War I. Like its older sisters, the Britannic was built to serve as a transatlantic passenger liner, similar in dimensions and accommodations.

HMHS Britannic was built to be even bigger and safer than its infamous sibling but met a very similar fate when it sunk when an explosion gouged a hole in its hull in 1916.

The HMHS Britannic is the sister ship of the famous doomed passenger liner the Titanic, which was being built in the Harland and Wolff dockyard at the time of the Titanic’s sinking.

Ornate carved wooden panelling from HMHS Britannic, one of the Titanic's sister ships built at Harland and Wolff, has fetched more than a quarter of a million pounds at auction. Two items from the ...

In fact, 100 years ago today, its sister ship the HMHS Britannic also met its doom at sea. ... 1916, the Britannic was heading through the Aegean Sea to pick up wounded soldiers.

HMHS Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, was sunk in 1916 by a German mine and lies 400ft below the surface. Comments. News. Keyan Milanian. 20:26, 16 Oct 2016 Updated 20:26, 16 Oct 2016.

Titanic stewardess Violet Jessop also survived another sinking years after the tragedy. Jessop was on board HMHS Britannic when it struck a mine in 1916 and sank. Before joining the Titanic, she ...

An expedition to find how the British hospital ship HMHS Britannic was sunk in the Aegean Sea in WWI has found the remains of German mines in the area. Mike McKimm reports. SEE ALSO. Britannic wreck ...

Ornate carved wooden panelling from HMHS Britannic, one of the Titanic's sister ships, external built at Harland and Wolff, has fetched more than a quarter of a million pounds at auction.. Two ...