And while the wreck of the Titanic has been carefully documented in the years since, it’s only now that divers have recovered artifacts from the wreck of the Britannic for the first time. However, when World War I began in 1914, the Britannic became a hospital ship — the HM Hospital Ship Britannic, or HMHS Britannic. Like the wreck of the Titanic, which wasn’t discovered until 1985, it took decades to locate the wreck of the Britannic. Now, with artifacts recovered from the Britannic for the first time, another chapter in its story is complete. After reading about how divers recovered artifacts from the Britannic for the first time, discover the full story of how the Titanic sank.