Nomadic : Bring her back home Friday 13th January 2006 12:00 PM Belfast Telegraph Eamonn Holmes is backing the campaign to bring the Titanic-era Nomadic ferry back to the city where the Harland and Wolff vessel was built.
The Ulster-born Sky News presenter says that if Belfast is going to have a sector named Titanic Quarter it needs to house attractions linked to the Titanic.
The only remaining White Star Line ship, which is moored at Le Havre in northern France, may go for scrap if a buyer is not found when it goes under the hammer in less than two weeks. Submitted by NULL
The Lord Mayor of Belfast urged a full condition report to be carried out on the Nomadic to determine whether the former White Star Line vessel is worth saving.
But campaigners battling to bring the Titanic-era ferry back to Belfast said she has already received the seal of approval from Harland & Wolff, the company that built her. Submitted by NULL
Nomadic : Government urged to find funds for Titanic tender Wednesday 11th January 2006 5:00 PM BBC Northern Ireland The government has been urged to fund the return to Belfast of a ship described as an "important building block" in a Titanic tourist project.
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds says cash is needed to bring back SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships.
The ship, built at Harland and Wolff the year before the Titanic, was used as a tender to take first-class passengers to and from the great liner. Submitted by NULL
Nomadic : Save the last link with the Titanic Tuesday 10th January 2006 11:00 AM Milton Keynes Today John White, from Heelands, who has dedicated his life to preserving the story of the 'unsinkable' ship and toured the world telling her story to tens of thousands, is now leading a bid to rescue the SS Nomadic – last of the White Star Line.
The boat was the Titanic's tender and built to carry first and second-class passengers out to the liner from Cherbourg. Submitted by NULL
Preserve the memory of Titanic Monday 9th January 2006 11:00 AM icCoventry TITANIC enthusiast Howard Nelson has achieved a lifetime's ambition by setting up the first trust dedicated to the doomed liner in his land-locked home city of Coventry.
The 60-year-old, of Allesley, Coventry, has opened the Titanic Heritage Trust, at Coventry University's Technology Park in Puma Way.
The trust is aiming for charitable status by the end of the year and wants to protect the Titanic wreck site and artefacts and preserve its history. Submitted by NULL