Thomas Andrews & his family.So, why Titanic? Good question. No one alive has ever seen Titanic as she was, all we have seen is the wreck. Yet we still compare things to Titanic, something we have never really seen. We can look at photographs and some early film. But, did you know most of the pictures of Titanic, are not of Titanic at all but her sister ship ‘Olympic’.
Olympic had a longer life and went on to be nicknamed ‘old reliable’, she even sunk a U boat in the war (but that’s another story). I’ve often read Titanic was poorly built. If that was the case, look at Olympic. It also is an insult to her builders and the many people skilled and unskilled who worked on her. Titanic at Belfast stood as the largest ever man made object. Men from Harland & wolff among them her designer Thomas Andrews travelled on the maiden voyage and were lost with her.
As she left Southampton carpets were still being laid. The clock on her first class staircase was put in place, she had arrived from Belfast with a mirror temporarily covering the space. It is said the passengers could still smell fresh paint.
Contributor: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581
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