Titanic’s fitting out at Harland and Wolff was now complete, and the next stage in her tragically-short life would be her sea trials. These were actually scheduled for 10.00am on Monday, 1st April, a mere 9 days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage, but due to the adverse weather conditions which would have made sailing her down the narrow …
Location: Donegall Square, Belfast, Antrim, BT1 5GS, United Kingdom The Titanic disaster hit the people of Belfast particularly hard. Not only had she been built in Belfast, she had spent the largest part of her life there too, and to many people of the city, she was a ‘Belfast ship. Between the 3rd and the 25th of May, a memorial …
Age: 39 Date of Birth (D.O.B.): 7th February, 1873 Place of Residence: Belfast, Ireland Embarked at: Belfast, Ireland (Harland and Wolff Guarantee Group) Ticket Number: 112050 Price Of Ticket: Cabin Number: A-36 Class: First Class Passengers Destination: New York City, New York Survived: No Died: 15th April, 1912 at sea Thomas Andrews boarded the Titanic at Belfast, Ireland, traveling to New York City, New York. Thomas …
The shipbuilding company of Harland and Wolff stands on Queen’s Island, in Belfast’s River Lagan, and was built on land reclaimed from a river-straightening scheme undertaken between the years 1841 – 1846. The company’s roots were initially sown in 1853, when Robert Hickson and Company opened a shipbuilding yard on the island, building iron-hulled ships. …
The White Star Line had been using the port of Southampton, on the south coast of England, as a major, and mainly transatlantic, port since 1907. However, the existing dock areas would not be large enough to accommodate the new Olympic-classliners, so a new, and much larger dock covering 16 acres and dredged to almost forty feet was …