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TITANIC LETTER DISPLAYED IN CORK BBC News TITANIC LETTER DISPLAYED IN CORK
A message in a holy water bottle which was thrown overboard by a Titanic victim while the ship sank has now been donated to a heritage centre in Cork by his family. Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Glanmire in Cork was given the bottle at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the US. As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea. The bottle was washed ashore a year later in Dunkettle, only a few miles from his family home....		 26th October 2011
SON IN STEP WITH TITANIC MEMORY BBC News SON IN STEP WITH TITANIC MEMORY
The living links to the workers who built the Titanic are becoming fewer as time passes. But one got in touch with me after seeing my report on BBC Newsline about the joiners in County Londonderry who are building a replica of the Titanic's grand staircase. John Flynn's grandfather, also called John, was a joiner who worked on the original staircase. It was one of the most spectacular sights on board the most famous ship to sail from Belfast. ...		 25th October 2011
TITANIC HERO HAROLD LOWE'S PLAQUE IS FUNDED BY COUNCIL BBC News TITANIC HERO HAROLD LOWE'S PLAQUE IS FUNDED BY COUNCIL
Memorabilia from the Titanic will not now have to be sold off to pay for a plaque commemorating a hero of the disaster from Barmouth in Gwynedd. Records show Fifth Officer Harold Lowe was in the only lifeboat that went back to the sinking ship to rescue people from freezing waters in April 1912. The Titanic Trust gave the town council council a set of medals which were due to be auctioned for the plaque fund....		 20th October 2011
VIDEO: RAISING A TITANIC STAIRCASE BBC News VIDEO: RAISING A TITANIC STAIRCASE
The best known ship to sail from Belfast had a famous set of steps inside. Anyone who has seen a film about the Titanic will remember the scenes around the grand staircase. Now Northern Ireland joiners are building a replica for the new Titanic visitor centre in Belfast. Chris Page's report begins with the exclusive pictures of the wreck on the Atlantic seabed filmed by BBC Newsline's Mike McKimm six years ago. ...		 6th October 2011
BBC News RMS TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS AT ROYAL CROWN DERBY
Royal Crown Derby has opened the doors to its new Titanic exhibition....		 22nd February 2011
BBC News HARLAND AND WOLFF WINS NOMADIC REFURBISHMENT CONTRACT
Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff H&W has rekindled its 100-year link with one of its most renowned vessels....		 9th February 2011
BBC News NEW £15M SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC MUSEUM GETS TIME CAPSULE
A time capsule has been buried beneath concrete at the site of a new £15m Titanic museum in Southampton....		 5th February 2011
BBC News OCEAN SCIENCE GIANT ALVIN SET FOR UPGRADE
Few research tools in the history of science can match the achievements of Alvin the US manned deep-submersible....		 16th December 2010
BBC News GODALMING VANDALISED TITANIC MEMORIAL 'COULD COLLAPSE'
A Godalming memorial is in danger of collapse if a spate of vandalism continues according to Surrey Police....		 9th December 2010
BBC News TITANIC POSTCARD AND BROCHURE UP FOR AUCTION
A postcard written on the Titanic by a passenger in third class who died along with nine members of her family is expected to fetch up to £15000 at auction this weekend....		 30th October 2010
BBC News SOUTHAMPTON TITANIC ENGINEERS MEMORIAL IS RESTORED
A newly-restored memorial marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS Titanic sank 98 years ago will be unveiled in Southampton....		 2nd September 2010
BBC News VIDEO REVEALS TITANIC'S CONDITION
New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic almost 25 years since it was first discovered....		 2nd September 2010
BBC News TITANIC SHIP HERO CAMPAIGNER DIES
A man who campaigned to clear the name of his uncle who was wrongly portrayed as a coward in the 1997 feature film Titanic has died....		 24th August 2010
BBC News IN PICTURES TITANIC ANCHOR HISTORY REMEMBERED
A piece of history was re-created in the Black Country when a replica of the Titanic's anchor was pulled through Dudley and Netherton....		 19th August 2010
BBC News SCHOOLGIRL WINS BID TO HONOUR BARMOUTH'S TITANIC HERO
A 15-year-old schoolgirl has won her campaign to commemorate Titanic hero Harold Lowe after learning there was no memorial to him in his home town....		 19th August 2010
BBC News TITANIC RELATIVES TO ATTEND CENTENARY CRUISE IN 2012
Relatives of passengers who died when the Titanic sank in 1912 are among those attending a cruise in 2012 to mark 100 years since the disaster....		 17th August 2010
BBC News REPLICA TITANIC ANCHOR PULLED THROUGH THE BLACK COUNTRY
A piece of history will be re-created when a replica of the Titanic's anchor is pulled through Dudley and Netherton on Sunday 15 August 2010....		 14th August 2010
BBC News SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM PLAN GETS GREEN LIGHT
Southampton City Council says it will consider selling off assets and short-term borrowing to raise the extra £10m needed to build a £15m maritime museum....		 4th August 2010
BBC News STATUE OF CAPTAIN SMITH OF THE TITANIC IS RESTORED
A famous bronze statue of Captain Smith master of the ill-fated Titanic ship has a new look....		 31st July 2010
BBC News 'JACK PHILLIPS' - THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANIC
John George Phillips who was nicknamed 'Jack' gained posthumous fame as the man who tried to save the Titanic and all those on board....		 15th July 2010
BBC News BID TO REVAMP GODALMING TITANIC MEMORIAL MOVES FORWARD
A bid to revamp a memorial in Surrey to Jack Phillips chief telegraphist on the Titanic has moved forward....		 15th July 2010
BBC News BELFAST LOSES REPLICA TITANIC ANCHOR BID TO DUDLEY
Belfast is proud of having built the Titanic but the city has lost out on one piece of maritime memorabilia to landlocked Dudley in the West Midlands....		 19th June 2010
BBC News SOUTHAMPTON'S £8M AERONAUTICA MUSEUM PLAN UNVEILED
Plans have been unveiled for a £8m museum celebrating Southampton's maritime and aviation history. ...		 19th June 2010
BBC News NOMADIC TRUST 'TIME CAPSULE' PLAN
The body set up to oversee the restoration of the SS Nomadic has delayed a key bid for lottery funds....		 25th May 2010
BBC News TITANIC LETTER SELLS FOR A RECORD £55,000
A letter from a first-class passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic has been sold at auction for £55,000....		 20th April 2010
BBC News MUSICAL OF SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC CREW STORIES
A trio of Southampton singer-songwriters have written a musical show based on the city's connections with the Titanic....		 10th April 2010
BBC News LOTTERY CASH FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM
A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell off artwork to raise £5m of the total £15m cost but dropped the idea after criticism....		 30th March 2010
BBC News SOUTHAMPTON AUTHORITY CRITICISED OVER ART SELL-OFF BID
A council has been criticised by the Charity Commission over its plan to sell off art work in order to raise £5m to help fund a new Titanic museum. Southampton City Council had planned to sell work by French sculptor Auguste Rodin and British painter Sir Alfred Munnings but later dropped the idea. ...		 26th February 2010
BBC News TITANIC PROJECT 'READY FOR 2012'
"Every effort is being made" to ensure that Belfast's £97m Titanic signature building will be ready for the 2012 centenary, those behind it have said....		 4th December 2009
BBC News TITANIC ROW OVER CITY'S BIG WHEEL
Belfast's big wheel is blocking the route to a memorial to those who died in the legendary Titanic disaster....		 1st December 2009
BBC News VOYAGE RETRACES TITANIC JOURNEY
A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 killing 1,517 people....		 8th October 2009
BBC News POLICE CALLED IN OVER NOMADIC ROW
The police were called to look into the removal of artefacts from the historic White Star vessel SS Nomadic, it has emerged. The artefacts - two ornate doors - were taken by the Nomadic Preservation Society which said it bought them in Paris and has proof of ownership....		 23rd September 2009
BBC News MONEY WORRIES FOR NOMADIC PROJECT
The project to restore the Nomadic has received a £500,000 grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, bringing the total pledged to £4m. However, less than £8,000 has been raised from corporate donors and a 'Sponsor a rivet' delivered just £330. ...		 16th September 2009
BBC News TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY
A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built....		 8th September 2009
BBC News LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97
The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97....		 31st May 2009
BBC News UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT
The man, one of Britain's most experienced dive masters, was leading a filming expedition around the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic....		 24th May 2009
BBC News TOURING THE TITANIC QUARTER
Once one of the world's busiest ports, Belfast was where the Titanic was designed, built and launched. The vast shipyards employed more than 30,000 people in the 1950s. Now the land is being cleared and redeveloped in one of Europe's biggest waterside schemes. ...		 30th April 2009
BBC News BRASS BOX HOLDS TITANIC 'SECRET'
It was a small brass trinket box that held safe its secret link to the Titanic across the years and thousands of miles. The box was picked up by an Irishman at a flea market in New York.He brought it home across the Atlantic - across the site where in 1912 more than 1,500 people perished in the icy waters of the ocean....		 8th April 2009
BBC NEWS NOMADIC AT 'CRUCIAL' REPAIR STAGE
Work to restore a ship that ferried passengers to the Titanic has entered a "crucial" stage, according to the organisation overseeing the project. A team of engineers will look at how the SS Nomadic can be restored and become a tourist attraction in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Denis Rooney, of the Nomadic Charitable Trust, said the work could take six months. ...		 12th January 2009
BBC News DRAMATIC FOOTAGE OF BRITANNIC
Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck....		 21st November 2008
BBC News TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES
The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....		 20th October 2008
BBC News TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES
The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....		 20th October 2008
BBC News TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS
The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912....		 16th October 2008
BBC News TITANIC LIFE-SIZE REPLICA PLANNED
A life-size replica of parts of the Titanic could be added to Belfast's Odyssey Arena if a US-backed development plan is accepted. Suspended behind glass, the £64m scale model of the boat would incorporate a five-star hotel, an exhibition area and conference rooms....		 20th June 2008
BBC News TITANIC LIFE VEST TO MAKE $80,000
A life-jacket from the ill-fated Titanic could make $80,000 (£40,570) when it goes up for auction next month. The life-preserver was found during the initial recovery operation after the liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. The item is one of several linked to the Titanic which are being sold off by Christie's in Manhattan, New York....		 30th May 2008
BBC News NOMADIC RESTORATION SURFS THE WEB
The restoration of the SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, is to be charted on a new website. The ship was transported to Belfast in 2006 after being bought by the government. It saw out the end of the last century as a floating restaurant beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris....		 28th May 2008
BBC News GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY
Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...		 15th April 2008
BBC News COUNCIL MAY SAVE TITANIC PROJECT
Belfast City Council may invest £10m of ratepayers' money to ensure the Titanic Quarter goes ahead.More than two-thirds of the funding has already been secured, but the development is in jeopardy after it failed to secure lottery money. ...		 27th March 2008
BBC News TITANIC WATCH UP FOR WEB AUCTION
A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale.The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay....		 19th March 2008
BBC News TITANIC LETTER COULD FETCH £9,000
A letter penned by a passenger of the doomed Titanic which sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people on board, is expected to raise £9,000 at auction.Charles Jones, who worked for the Colgate firm in New York, was returning to the US after a UK trip to buy sheep from Dorset farmer James Foot....		 18th March 2008
BBC News TITANIC CEREMONY STILL ON CARDS
The official commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy will go ahead as planned, Belfast City Council has said. ...		 4th January 2008
BBC News TITANIC CALL FOR BIG WHEEL TO GO
Titanic enthusiasts have called for the dismantling of Belfast's Big Wheel in the grounds of city hall in time for the 96th anniversary of the tragedy. ...		 3rd January 2008
BBC News RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD
Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II....		 6th December 2007
BBC News TITANIC APOLOGY TO CITY SHIPYARD
The developer behind the Titanic Quarter has apologised to Harland and Wolff after a model showed the area occupied by the shipyard as apartments....		 5th October 2007
BBC News TITANIC YARD HAS SIGHTS ON DESIGN
The yard that built the Titanic is now to design elements of an advanced heavy lift vessel after an agreement with Netherlands shipbuilder, Merwede....		 1st October 2007
BBC News TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR £90,000
A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched £90,000 at auction. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic" opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. ...		 23rd September 2007
BBC News QE2 BACK ON CLYDE AFTER 40 YEARS
The QE2 has marked the 40th anniversary of its launch by returning to the stretch of river where it was built.The liner, which has been on a celebratory tour, will be given a gala reception at Greenock, on the Clyde. ...		 20th September 2007
BBC News DIVE TO FILM TITANIC RESCUE SHIP
Divers are preparing to record the first video footage of the wreck of RMS Carpathia, which rescued more than 700 survivors from the Titanic in 1912.The vessel was herself sunk off the Cornish coast in a German torpedo attack six years later. ...		 26th August 2007
BBC News TITANIC KYLIE MISTAKEN FOR REAL WAITRESS
Kylie Minogue was mistaken for a real waitress in her role in Doctor Who when a pensioner asked her for a cup of tea. While filming a one-off Christmas special outside a Swansea hotel, an elderly customer apparently thought the singer was a member of staff. The 39-year-old star plays a waitress on the Titanic in the BBC Wales show. ...		 1st August 2007
BBC News NEW TITANIC LINK TO THE PAST
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum says it has launched the most wide-ranging website ever dedicated to the Titanic and its place in Belfast's history. The site is backed by the NI Tourist Board and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of virtual visitors. ...		 5th March 2007
BBC News HISTORIC SHIP RECORDS GO ONLINE
Details of more than 30 million people who emigrated from Britain by ship are being published on a new website. Previously family history researchers would have had to make the journey to The National Archives in London to read the lists...		 10th January 2007
BBC News NEW MOVE IN NOMADIC'S RESTORATION
The restoration of the SS Nomadic from a run-down restaurant to its former glory is set to take another step forward. The ship, built in 1911, will move from its current dock at Harland and Wolff to Barnett's Dock later....		 23rd December 2006
BBC News POIGNANT JOURNEY TO TITANIC GRAVE
His family always thought their grandfather had been lost at sea when Titanic sank. William McQuillan was a stoker on the Titanic But more than 90 years later, his granddaughter was astonished to see William McQuillan's grave pictured in a television documentary. Following up the information from the programme, Marjorie Wilson became the first member of her family to pay their respects at the graveside in Nova Scotia, almost a century later. ...		 30th October 2006
BBC News TITANIC LIFE VEST FETCHES £43,000
One of the Titanic's few remaining lifejackets has been sold to a private collector for £43,000 ($80,000). The auction at Devizes in Wiltshire also featured dozens of letters sent by some of the 1,500 people who died when the ship sank in the Atlantic in 1912. ...		 1st October 2006
BBC News TITANIC MODEL AVOIDS PLANNING AXE
A maritime enthusiast who built a model of RMS Titanic in his back garden has been told that the project will not be sunk by planning regulations......		 5th September 2006
BBC News MAN'S DEATH DELAYS NOMADIC HOMECOMING
The homecoming ceremony for the SS Nomadic has been delayed after a man working on the boat at the Harland and Wolff shipyard collapsed and died. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. It had been planned that the boat would be towed up the River Lagan on Monday evening for a ceremony at the Odyssey complex. NIO Minister David Hanson said the event would now be held on Tuesday. ...		 18th July 2006
BBC News NOMADIC GOES ON SHOW AT ODYSSEY
A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday. The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A reception, including a brass band, has been prepared for the ship which saw action as a troop carrier in both world wars. It arrived in Belfast at the weekend after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre. ...		 17th July 2006
BBC News NOMADIC ARRIVES IN BELFAST
The SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, has reached Belfast after a four-day trip from the French port of Le Havre.The boat completed its historic home-coming after being towed on a barge up Belfast Lough on Saturday.The Nomadic, which was built in the city, once ferried first class passengers to the doomed liner.It will remain at Belfast docks until Monday when it will go on show near the Odyssey Centre for a few days.It will then be removed again for restoration. ...		 16th July 2006
BBC News BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING
Amid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. The Nomadic is to return to Belfast Weeds grow on its deck, and year after year of recent neglect have taken a heavy toll. Step onboard and you see the enormity of the renovation task. Look hard enough, however, and you do glimpse the potential. The question is will the millions needed be raised to do the job? ...		 11th July 2006
BBC News RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP
The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...		 5th July 2006
BBC News NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST
The SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships and a vital link to the Titanic story, is returning to Belfast.The Northern Ireland Office bought the ship at an auction in France for 250,000 euros.Social Development Minister David Hanson said his department purchased the Nomadic at auction in Paris. ...		 26th January 2006
BBC News 'NO ISSUE' WITH TITANIC PROJECT
The chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners has dismissed concerns that the Titanic Signature Project will not be finished by 2012 The opening of the visitor attraction is planned to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the liner's sinking....
BBC News FRESH APPEAL FOR MARITIME MUSEUM
It was built in Belfast, yet no-one bothered to make an application for a museum to commemorate it. Now a fresh appeal is being made for the establishment of a maritime museum in Belfast linked to the Titanic....
BBC News TITANIC MUSEUM DESIGNS UNVEILED
Designs showing how Southampton's new museum, marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, will look have been unveiled....
 

 
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