encyclopedia titanica

A scaleddown replica of the front of RMS Titanic has been built by engineering students in Hampshire Pupils at the Quilley School in Eastleigh used early 20th Century shipbuilding techniques to create the model of the illfated liner The oneeighth scale section of the stem has been built to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship sinking A topping off ceremony takes place later before it is installed as a permanent artwork on the campus The 2m 65ft tall section of the stem the most forward part of the ships bow was built with the same riveting and hot bending techniques as were used to build Titanic at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast in the 1900s