Binoculars found in the wreckage of HMHS BritannicGreek Ministry of Culture and Sports
Binoculars found in the wreckage of HMHS BritannicGreek Ministry of Culture and Sports
One had "Titanic" written on the side, the other "Olympic" written on the side. 
Why is Titanic considered a sacred shrine from which nothing can ever be retrieved but the sister ship is a-okay to get stuff from?
That’ll buff right out.....................
The Britannic was 883 feet, it sank it 400 foot waters.
It sank intact so that means the bow would have hit the sea floor while the stern was still above water.
My grandfather was a sapper in World War 1 with the Canadian Engineers. He was discharged after being wounded in Belgium and returned to Halifax Canada from Liverpool on November 14th, 1917 aboard the Olympic. The Olympic left Halifax on December 1st, 1917 with Chinese nationals being sent to war as a Labor Battalion... 5 days before the Halifax Explosion on December 6th, 1917.
And on the 12th of January 1918 in New York, the Olympic took it's first compliment of American troops to the battlefields of Europe.
From the book: Carrying Canadian Troops: The Story of RMS Olympic as a First World War Troopship - David R. Gray Canadian War Museum 2002
On her 22nd troop-carrying voyage in late April 1918, en route from South Hampton to New York, a German submarine made an unsuccessful attack on Olympic. On her return from New York, Olympic turned the tables and rammed and sank U-103 in the English Channel. Some reports suggested that two submarines were destroyed in that interaction, but the second was not confirmed. Thus Olympic became the only troopship during the First World War to sink an enemy submarine.
Olympic in dazzle at Pier 2 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, painted by Arthur Lismer 1918.
