Overview

• Recovered items include the ship’s bell, navigational lanterns, silver serving trays, ceramic tiles from the Turkish bath, a nearly intact porcelain basin, and a plate stamped with the White Star Line emblem.
• An eleven‑diver team working in roughly 120 meters of water used lift bags to bring fragile objects to the surface under strong currents and poor visibility, according to Greece’s Culture Ministry.
• The operation was organized by historian Simon Mills and the Britannic Foundation in cooperation with Greek authorities.
• The collection is expected to serve as a centerpiece for a World War I section at the forthcoming Piraeus museum once conservation is complete.
• Britannic, the Olympic‑class sister ship to Titanic, sank after a mine explosion off Kea on November 21, 1916, with about 30 fatalities, and the wreck was located by Jacques‑Yves Cousteau in 1975.