So much so that it pleasantly surprised Dr. Robert Ballard, the oceanographer and professor who discovered the Titanic , when he visited the wreck site for the first time. Britannic 's excellent condition had attracted many divers, historians and Titanic enthusiasts to her location, as the wreck of Titanic is badly destroyed in comparison and Britannic offers a better visual insight in to the design of the Olympic-class liners.
Furthermore, Britannic, being at feet deep is far more accessable than Titanic is to many is the closest they can get to the ill fated liner. That said, all four funnels have separated from the superstructure and are lying flattened in various places, thankfully the No. The bow is broken and lying at an angle but isn't in terrible shape. The break at the bow is a mixed blessing as it allows people to explore the boiler rooms of the vessel.
Also visible are several of the unique giant gantry davits and red cross symbols. The ship lies on its side, giving divers quite an interesting perspective.
The wreck was first discovered and explored by famous French underwater explorer Jaques Cousteau in The wreck is currently owned by British historian Simon Mills, but is governed and protected by the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, which tends to be overly strict at times. Britannic still retains the record of being the largest shipwreck on the ocean floor. Other larger ships have sunk but almost all larger wrecks were either partially destroyed in sinking reducing their size to less than that of Britannic , or were scrapped and removed.
Britannic's entire hull and superstructure remain in existence helping to protect her title. Violet Jessop was a nurse aboard Britannic. She survived both the sinking of the Titanic and the Britannic. Her head was badly inured in the sinking of the latter and helped cause miss Jessop to lose her hair. KMS Bismarck. SS Thistlegorm.
Unknown ship. Grindstone Island Cars Various cars scatter the bottom of the river covered in grass and zebra muscles. The Britannic , sister ship to the Titanic , sinks in the Aegean Sea on November 21, , killing 30 people.
More than 1, others were rescued. In the wake of the Titanic disaster on April 14, , the White Star Line made several modifications in the construction of its already-planned sister ship. First, the name was changed from Gigantic to Britannic probably because it seemed more humble and the design of the hull was altered to make it less vulnerable to icebergs.
In addition, it was mandated that there be enough lifeboats on board to accommodate all passengers, which had not been the case with the Titanic. The nearly 50,ton luxury vessel, the largest in the world, was launched in , but was requisitioned soon afterward by the British government to serve as a hospital ship during World War I.
In this capacity, Captain Charlie Bartlett led the Britannic on five successful voyages bringing wounded British troops back to England from various ports around the world. On November 21, the Britannic was on its way to pick up more wounded soldiers near the Gulf of Athens, when at a. Captain Bartlett ordered the closure of the watertight doors and sent out a distress signal. Fifty-five minutes later, the metre ft "wonder ship" lay starboard side down on the seabed.
There the Britannic, which was launched in February at Belfast, and, the following year, put to use as a wartime hospital ship for the first time, would stay at a depth of metres ft , untouched and forgotten, until being discovered by the explorer Jacques Cousteau, in Now, the mystery, and controversy that has shrouded this vessel - which sank so quickly compared with the or so minutes taken by the Titanic - could soon be lifted.
There are plans to turn the shipwreck into a spectacular underwater museum. Its location, which until now has been glimpsed only by a handful of divers, will be opened up to tourists. The aim is for the first tours in submersibles to begin next summer. Simon Mills, a British marine historian who bought the shipwreck from the UK government in and who organised the underwater project with Greek officials, told the Guardian: "Our plan is to start off with three- or four-seater submersibles.
The Titanic lies in the cold waters of the north Atlantic and is rapidly disintegrating because of iron-eating bacteria, in a couple of hundred years there will be very little that is recognisable. But the Britannic is completely different. On its sixth trip through the Aegean on November 21, to pick up wounded soldiers from the Middle East the Britannic hit a mine and sank. Britannic was to be the largest vessel lost during The Great War.
After completion in early , the outbreak of WWI put an end to her luxury liner plans pictured and the 48, tonne vessel was converted into a hospital ship for the Royal Navy before her maiden voyage.
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