She was meant to be safer than Titanic. She ended up meeting the same fate.
In 1916, the HMHS Britannic the largest of the Olympic-class liners and Titanic’s sister ship, went down in the Aegean Sea after striking a German naval mine. She sank in under an hour.
Unlike Titanic, Britannic had more lifeboats, watertight bulkheads, and reinforced hull design. But war made the seas deadlier. Though 1,000+ were onboard, only 30 lives were lost a miracle, considering her size.
Today, Britannic rests just 390 feet beneath the water, lying on her side near the Greek island of Kea. She’s still remarkably preserved. Her ghostly remains are now a protected war grave, visited only by elite divers and researchers.
She was bigger than Titanic. But she barely gets mentioned.
Lost not to ice, but to war.
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