This page has been specially designed and written for thousands of pupils from across Northern Ireland who are doing the Belfast Telegraph cross-curricular project on Titanic. Today concludes a six-week period in which we have focused on the iconic ship
IT’S been over 100 years since the sinking of Titanic in 1912, but the ship is still talked about to this very day.
The most iconic ship in history has left a lasting legacy and nowhere more so than in Belfast, where Titanic was built.
In Northern Ireland’s capital city there is an area called the Titanic Quarter which has restaurants, hotels and visitor attractions.
The centrepiece of the Titanic Quarter is Titanic Belfast, a building designed to reflect the industrial legacy of Harland & Wolff, the firm which constructed Titanic.
Titanic Belfast is an eye-catching building and was opened to the public in 2012.
Last year it was named the world’s leading tourist attraction at the World Travel Awards, having previously claimed the best European tourist attraction prize.
There are lots of things to see and do for families, giving children and adults an insight into the legend of Titanic.
Titanic Belfast is located beside the site of where the ship of the same name was built and in an interactive way the Titanic experience and tour outlines how it was constructed and launched as well as telling the story of how things went wrong when it struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Beside Titanic Belfast is SS Nomadic, a boat which was built in 1911 to ferry first and second class passengers to Titanic when anchored off Cherbourg in France.
The Nomadic returned to Belfast in 2006 to be restored. It is an historic vessel and the last remaining White Star Line ship in the world. It is no surprise that the Nomadic attracts so many visitors.
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the number of days spent searching for survivors after the sinking of
the ship the total percentage of passengers and crew who survived
the disaster
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31.6
the ticket number of a passenger who received a
full refund prior to departure and is assumed not to have sailed. It was never found out who the
passenger was criticising the White Star Line for failing to provide enough lifeboats on the ship. She also talked about why she was against efforts to salvage the vessel, insisting that Titanic was a gravesite for 1,500 people and should be treated as such.
She was a professional singer, a magistrate and worked for the Conservative Party, and was active well into her 80s, attending several Titanic Historical Society conventions.
In 1994 Eva, who was awarded an MBE for her service to the community, wrote her autobiography which was called ‘Shadow of the Titanic: A Survivor’s Story’.
She died on February 14, 1996, just two weeks after her 91st birthday.
53.4
this percentage of people could have survived with the number of lifeboat
places available