Belfast, Antrim -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/16/2012 -- Noel Molloy is a man with a mission to explain – and entertain. He is project manager for Titanic Belfast, a structure as monumental as the ship it commemorates. "That's where she was built. That's where she was designed. That's where the workers lived.” As any Belfast resident will tell you, "Titanic was fine when she left us" on 2 April 1912. Twelve days later, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, Titanic struck an iceberg. As she sank, with the loss of 1,517 lives, at 2.20am the next morning, the seeds of a thousand legends took root.
A source for Stream Advertising said “When she sank emotions ran very high as the titanic was known to be the unsinkable ship” For many of that era the loss of the titanic was hard to take in, When built she was designed to withstand the toughest seas, who knew it would be an iceberg that would bring down this fantastic ship.
For once, the term "of Titanic proportions" applies literally. The top of the five-storey building is exactly as high as the tip of Titanic when the transatlantic liner was completed at the Harland and Wolff yard a century ago. During construction, she was known as SS No 401; her twin, Olympic, occupied the adjacent slipway as SS No 400. "We know thousands of people whose relatives worked on Titanic," says Mr Molloy, "but we can't find anyone who worked on Olympic."
Built in Harland and Wolf, Belfast’s biggest and best the Titanic nicknamed ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ was destined for greatness. While Harland and Wolff did not have a monopoly on large ships, The White Star Line wanted to achieve supremacy on the world's leading intercontinental link, which – then as now – connected southern England with New York.
One hundred years ago, Northern Ireland's capital was a proud and wealthy powerhouse of the British Empire, its foundations resting on the linen trade and heavy engineering – with the finest shipbuilders on earth. A source at stream advertising said “We all know the history of the Titanic; It is easily regarded as the most famous ship in the world, even one hundred years on, in the 21st Century people still get emotional when thinking or referring to the titanic” Voices of some survivors, recorded in the 1960s, recount that horrifying night. The needless loss of life was soon exposed by official inquiries by the Board of Trade and the US Senate, which revealed how cost-cutting and a botched evacuation took many lives. Titanic carried lifeboats for fewer than half her passengers and crew, and many of the vessels were only half-full when they were launched.
One more strange twist remains: not in the Titanic story, but in the Titanic Belfast building itself. Most of it is an ingenious commemoration of the genius and follies of man. But the top two floors comprise a banqueting suite, resembling a dozen upmarket hotels between here and Dublin. Sales conferences and wedding receptions will help pay the rent, which will help if Titanic Belfast fails to meet visitor targets. But its prospects, unlike its subject's, seem set fair. The opening on 31 March will harness the surge in interest around the centenary of the sinking and it may also help the city lay its own ghosts to rest: "It took many, many decades before Belfast itself could come to terms with the loss.” A source for Stream Advertising said “Titanic Belfast is a great way to commemorate those 1,517 people who lost their lives on the fateful night that was April 2nd 1912, It shows the relatives of those who lost their lives that they will never be forgotten, even after one hundred years since the tragedy we all live it as if we were their ourselves”
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