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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 the coast of Greece in 1916. Though designed in 1914 as a luxury cruise liner, it functioned as a hospital ship during the Great War.

The vessel sank Nov. 21, 1916, after hitting a mine near the island of Kea, around 45 miles southeast of Athens.

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On board at the time were 1,060 people. Most survived the sinking, though 30 people died after their lifeboats were struck by the ship's rotating propellers.

In a Sept. 16 statement, th

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