Artifacts recovered from the sister’s sister ship from Titanic

Greece has announced the recovery of artifacts from the wreck of the Britannic HMH, more than a century after the Titanic sister ship was sunk in wartime in the Aegean Sea by a German mine.

The operation was carried out in May but did not make public until Monday, when the Ministry of Culture published details on the discoveries.

A team of 11 members of in -depth professional divers with closed circuit equipment carried out the takeover, organized by the British historian Simon Mills, founder of the British Foundation.

Among the items recovered and lifted with inflatable cushions were the bell of the ship’s watch, a port navigation lamp, binoculars, ceramic tiles from Turkish baths and first and second -class cabin equipment.

The artifacts were fixed in containers and immediately cleaned from marine organizations.

They were then transferred to the Laboratories of the Ephorate of underwater antiquities in Athens, where conservation work will continue.

Certain objects identified in the original plane could not be recovered due to their state and their location.

The artifacts will finally be exhibited at the new National Museum of underwater antiquities in Piraeus, in a section dedicated to the First World War.

The Britannic was the third in the White Star Line Company’s Olympic Steam Steam Class, as well as RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic.

The ship was requisitioned by British admiralty during the war to serve as a hospital ship.

On November 16, 1916, he struck a German mine off the island of Kea and sank in less than an hour.

Of the 1,065 people on board, 30 died when two rescue canoes were fired in the propellers of the ship.