encyclopedia titanica

he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic following a campaign by a Coventry manTitanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the worlds only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic the last remaining vessel with direct links to the illfated shipYesterday the Governments bid of 170000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfasts Harland and Wolff shipyard where it was originally built in 1912 to be renovated the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson