Arthur Priest, a British stoker, earned an almost mythical status for his extraordinary ability to survive a series of ...
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 ...
Harland & Wolff, the firm whose shipyards have produced some of the UK’s most famous ships including the RMS Titanic, on ...
Britannic was originally a commercial ship sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. However, in May 1915, it was named HMHS(that means His Majesty Hospital Ship), it was repainted white with red crosses and ...
Stanley said there are more dangerous but less traveled mountains and shipwrecks that are less deep but better preserved, ...
RMS Titanic was one of three Olympic-class ocean liners built between 1908 and 1915. Her sister ships were RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. While the sinking of Titanic made her the most famous ship in ...
S/S Burdigala went to the bottom on November 14, 1916 with only one casualty. HMHS Britannic sank exactly one week later, having struck a mine just two miles away from the earlier disaster scene.
Two years later, World War I broke out and Violet enrolled with the British Red Cross. Still working as a stewardess, she was assigned to the HMHS Britannic. The youngest of the ‘Olympic-class’ liners ...
She was on board the HMHS Britannic as a wartime nurse on November 21, 1916, when that ship struck a mine and started to sink. Jessop was able to get to a lifeboat. However, the turning of the ...
ON WEDNESDAY, THE MV Shingle, a former smuggling ship, was sunk in the seabed off Co Mayo to create the country’s first ...
There is lifetimes upon lifetimes of work left to do. I had a phenomenal dive a few years ago for the Britannic when we were ...
Next year Archie plans to dress up as one of the Titanic’s sister ships – thee HMHS Britannic – which Archie said also sunk after hitting an underground mine. Archie said he’d never been ...