Titanic Museum
The Titanic was very important to the people of Belfast and Ireland and the Titanic Museum is a fitting memorial to this great ship and the events the followed. The building itself is located in the Titanic Quarter and is a very imposing structure set in the grounds on the riverside.
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After purchasing our tickets and taking a few photos outside, we entered the exhibition . 6 Floors of information, memorabilia shown by way of interactive techniques and relics and the like from the ship were on view.
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Titanic was launched from Harland and Wolff's yard at Queen's Island, Belfast on May 31st, 1911. It sailed to Southampton and then began its maiden voyage and 4 days into the voyage struck an iceberg. The exhibition demonstrates just how the ship was built, the different skills that workers needed to build such a ship and what sort of furnishings that it had on board.
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It takes a long time to actually read and peruse all the information and visual evidence available here but something of note was the inclusion of the discovery in recent times of the ship under the sea!
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A good walk along the road took us to the Titanic Dock & Pump-House. The dock was built some 20 years before the Titanic and at the time was the lrgest dock in the world. The pumps installed in the Pump-house were powered by steam and it is preserved for people to see the machinery. Outside the slipway doesn't seem all that big but remembering that only the hull fitted in here and it must have been an amazing sight for people of the time to see.
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