LOST artefacts from Titanic's wrecked sister ship have been recovered for the first time more than a century after a mine explosion sank it.

HMHS Britannic was built by the same company and is the third in its Olympic-class ocean liners, along with the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic.

The ship sank in the Aegean Sea, near the Greek island of Kea, in 1916 after hitting a mine.

It was intended to serve as a transatlantic passenger liner but was converted into a hospital ship during World War I - making it the biggest in the world at the time.

The ill-fated ship sank in less than an hour.

Although all 1,060 people managed to get off, 30 sadly died when the lifeboats they fled in were struck by the ship’s still turning propellers.

Explorers have divided down to the deep

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