The Britannic and the Titanic A story of two ships

The Britannic and the Titanic A story of two ships The Britannic and the Titanic: An account of two boats Kea, Greece - A hundred years after it sank in the Aegean, the Britannic is revealing insight into what sent its destined sister-transport, the Titanic, to the base of the Atlantic, and in addition making another jumping industry in Greece. The HMS Britannic had been serving as a World War I healing center ship when it struck a German mine five kilometers off the island of Kea, 60km southeast of Athens, in November 1916. The ship sank in only 55 minutes. Paving the way to the November 21 centennial of the sinking, applications for jumping licenses have taken off and the Greek government needs the 49,000-ton wreck, the biggest on the planet, to wind up the centerpiece of a progression of marine exhibition halls the nation over. "[It] will be the principal submerged verifiable historical center in Greece with worldwide significance," says Angeliki Simosi, leader of Greece's submerged artifacts division. The motivation behind why: Because the Britannic may hold the way to how and why the Titanic sank in 1912. The Britannic's bottom was laid at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, only five months before the Titanic was propelled. The ship was scarcely coming to fruition when the Titanic went down, and the fiasco tossed the shipyard into an emergency of certainty. "These [ships] were mechanical firsts. They were the primary ships ever this huge," says Richie Kohler, who has made two documentaries about the Britannic. "They were amplifying the known capacities of designing, given their capacity to comprehend the elasticity and things like that."