This article traces the shift from historic ocean liners to modern cruise ships focused on entertainment. It discusses maritime law issues, like injury liability on ships and extending admiralty ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: Greece’s Ministry of Culture approved a tricky diving mission that allowed the recovery of select artifacts from the sunken Britannic, the sister ...

In the early 20th century, the British White Star Line set out to make the largest and most luxurious ocean liners the world had ever seen. Between 1909 and 1914, the shipping line built a trio of ...

The first batch of artifacts has been retrieved from the bottom of the Aegean Sea, where the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, has lain for more than a century. HMHS Britannic was one of ...

For the first time ever, divers recovered artifacts from the HMS Titanic's sister ship nearly a century after it was lost during World War I. The ship, called the Britannic, sank in the Aegean Sea off ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Britannic was an ocean liner requisitioned as a hospital ship in World War I. The ship was heading toward the ...

The dives on the HMHS Britannic were conducted in May, but the details of what was found were released by officials in Greece this week, the BBC reported. A team of 11 deep-sea divers brought up the ...

Divers have recovered artifacts from the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, for the first time since the ocean liner sank in the Aegean Sea more than a century ago after striking a mine during ...