{"id":184832,"date":"2025-09-17T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=184832"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:22:13","slug":"extraordinary-artifacts-found-on-titanics-sister-ship-britannic-109-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/184832\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary artifacts found on Titanic’s sister ship Britannic 109 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the first time in more than a century, divers have brought to the surface relics from the Britannic – the Titanic’s sister ship – which sank in the Aegean Sea during the First World War, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Greece’s Culture Ministry announced that an 11-member deep-sea diving team conducted a week-long operation in May to recover the artefacts, which include the ship’s bell and the port-side navigation light.<\/p>\n

Among the items raised to the surface using lift bags were the lookout bell, the navigation lamp, silver-plated first-class trays, ceramic tiles from a Turkish bath, a pair of passenger binoculars and a porcelain sink from second-class cabins.<\/p>\n

The artefacts are now undergoing conservation in Athens and will be included in the permanent collection of a new Museum of Underwater Antiquities under development at the port of Piraeus.<\/p>\n

Launched in 1914 as a luxury liner, the Britannic was soon requisitioned as a hospital ship. But on 21 November 1916, while bound for the island of Lemnos, it struck a mine and went down off Kea, southeast of Athens.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in more than a century, divers have brought to the surface relics from the Britannic – the Titanic’s sister ship – which sank in the Aegean Sea during the First World War, Euronews writes. Greece’s Culture Ministry announced that an 11-member deep-sea diving team conducted a week-long operation in May to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":184704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184833,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184832\/revisions\/184833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}