The luxury liner was requisitioned as a hospital ship during World War I. Thirty people died after the vessel struck a German naval mine and sank off the coast of Greece ...
The world renowned oceanographer famous for leading the team that located the wreckage of the Titanic 40 years ago will visit Peoria this week to discuss that historic finding.
An 11-person diving team recovered luxury items and equipment from the Britannic wreck, which lies 400 feet deep off the Greek coast since 1916. It was the Titanic's sister ship.
From a set of binoculars to a piece of the ship’s bell, haunting relics from the Britannic have been pulled from the deep at last.
Dr. Bob Ballard, the man who discovered the Titanic in 1985, opened a new exhibit at the Peoria Riverfront Museum featuring declassified footage of the secret mission to find the Titanic, which will ...
A Voyage Through Time” VR Experience! This exhibit takes passengers through a virtual journey of what it would have been like to be on board the Titanic in 1912. Explore ...
Thirty of the more than 1,060 people on board the Britannic died when the lifeboats they were in were struck by the ship's still-turning propellers.
The ship, which sunk off the coast of Greece after striking a German mine during World War I, sits about 400 feet below the ocean’s surface.
Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the ...