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	Titanic Stories	TITANIC BELFAST:OPENING MARCH 2012 A new building is currently pushing its way towards the sky in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter...
	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
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	£100M TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING TAKES VISITORS ON AMAZING VOYAGE - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Here is the first glimpse of what the new iconic Titanic Belfast building will look like inside. Opening in April 2012, the £100m structure in the Titanic Quarter, east Belfast, will be the largest man-made tourist attraction in Northern Ireland’s history. The people behind the building believe the "spirit that built Titanic is reborn". ...	24th May 2011
	opodo.co.uk	BELFAST EXHIBITION TELLS STORY OF THE TITANIC - OPODO Belfast exhibition tells story of the TitanicOpodoPeople with an interest in the story of the Titanic can pay a visit to Belfast this year to see a new exhibition. TITANICa: The Exhibition is currently showing at the Ulster Transport Museum, which is located seven miles east of Belfast city centre. ......	1st July 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC GROUP STEP UP WHEEL CAMPAIGN The Belfast Titanic Society has stepped up its campaign against plans for the Belfast wheel to remain in its current location in the grounds of Belfast City Hall by meeting with the Environment Minister....	2nd December 2009
	bbc.co.uk	£97M TITANIC BELFAST ATTRACTION TAKES SHAPE BBC Northern Ireland has been given a preview tour of the new £97m Titanic Belfast building. The visitor attraction is due to open in eight months. The building is in the same spot where the famous ship was built by Belfast shipbuilder Harland and Wolff......	3rd August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST ON A BARGE SS Nomadic will return to Belfast on a barge brought from the other side of the world specially for the task.It will take five days to ferry the former Titanic tender from the French port of Le Havre to Belfast, where she was built 95 years ago.The Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that the final remaining White Star Line vessel will return in July this year.She was saved from the scrapyard when she was bought at auction in Paris by DSD for the reserve price of €250,000.The Belfast Telegraph has spearheaded the media campaign to rescue Nomadic. ...	16th May 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : FRENCH BACKING FOR BELFAST BID TO RETURN TITANIC TENDER A member of the French Titanic Society has pledged ?2,000 to the campaign to return the last remaining White Star Line vessel to Belfast - even though she is currently moored in a French port.Thierry Defournaud, head of communication with the society, promised the group would support the campaign to return the Nomadic ferry to the city where she was built, even if other restoration projects are set up."Of course we are supporting the Belfast project," he said."Myself, I made a pledge for ?2,000 for the Belfast bid."...	16th January 2006
	www.TitanicConvention.com	2ND ANNUAL BELFAST TITANIC CONVENTION The 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention will take place from 27-29 March 2008 at the W5 in Belfast, Northern Ireland overlooking the slipway for the Titanic....	7th February 2008
	televisual.com	WHIZZ KID MAKES TITANIC CENTENARY SPECIAL FOR BBC The Titanic Centenary Commemoration - a live televised event - will be held in Belfast next April, 100 years after the tragic sinking of the legendary liner. It will be produced for BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland by Whizz Kid Entertainment and Belfast-based integrated communications agency ASG. The 90-minute event will air in prime time across the UK from Belfast's Waterfront Hall on the night of April 14. The story of the legendary liner, built and launched in Belfast, will be retold through orchestral performances, a massed choir and documentary and archive material....	7th December 2011
	travelio.net	BELFAST MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAUNCH OF THE TITANIC Belfast is set to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city's most famous creations - RMS Titanic. On May 31st 1911, Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough by Harland & Wolff ...	25th May 2011
	The Times	SIR EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES AN M.P. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE BELFAST (NORTH DIVISION) The nomination for North Belfast took place yesterday. Six papers containing the names of Sir John Preston, Sir William Quartus Ewart, and Mr. Thomas M'Cormick (secretary of...	13th August 1889
		MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND Number 702. Cunningham, mother. Grant £60. Named on the Belfast City Hall Memorial, Belfast. ...	March 1913
	NI Dept. for Social Development	HANSON ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF NOMADIC TRUST The members of the proposed charitable trust, tasked to oversee the restoration and fundraising for the SS Nomadic, have been announced.Minister for Social Development David Hanson MP said: "My Department, Belfast City Council, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and Belfast Industrial Heritage Society have all proposed representatives to form the trust. "...	13th October 2006
	eventmagazine.co.uk	TITANIC STORY TO BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM BELFAST - EVENT MAGAZINE The tale of the Titanic will be recreated through a documentary and music event at Belfast's Waterfront Hall to commemorate the centenary of the boat's sinking. The event on 14 April will be broadcast live on BBC Two from Belfast’s waterside venue, near the site where the ship was launched in 1911. Organisers say they are in talks with "all the major international broadcasters" to show the event globally....	3rd January 2012
	Belfast Telegraph	FULL STEAM AHEAD AS TITANIC FESTIVAL GETS SET TO DRAW IN HUGE CROWDS Titanic fever will grip Belfast this week with the launch of the annual Titanic Made in Belfast Festival. Hundreds of Titanic and White Star Line artefacts and memorabilia including a postcards written by a passengers on board the doomed vessel, a man’s watch valued at £90,000, and the keys to a family treasure chest that went down with the stricken ship are due to go on display in Belfast today....	2nd April 2010
	The Times	PIRRIE NOMINATED FOR LORD MAYOR OF BELFAST Our Belfast Correspondent telegraphed last night: At a special meeting of the Belfast City Council yesterday, Alderman Pirrie, a director of the firm of Harland and Wolff, was unanimously nominated Lor...	29th November 1895
		VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM MCQUILLAN Has a stone in Fair view Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Titanic section, number 183. also named on the Belfast City Hall Memorial, Belfast....
	Belfast Telegraph	BIG WHEEL ROLLS OFF AFTER TOWERING OVER BELFAST FOR THREE YEARS It turned into one of the best known landmarks in Belfast in the three years it was in the city, but only took four days to disappear from the skyline....	24th April 2010
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER: UNSINKABLE ADVENTURE Titanic Belfast will take each visitor on an interactive journey from Boomtown Belfast, through to Titanic Beneath, which will have live feeds to Professor Ballard’s expeditions to the wreckage and his other ongoing ocean explorations. It will encourage people to interpret the story for themselves. “The Titanic story really draws you in. It is essentially a human story about the people who built the ship and those passengers and crew who were on board. The main draw is the authenticity of Titanic Belfast. ...	6th September 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC GAIN FOR BELFAST Nearly 100 years after it sank, interest in the Titanic continues to prove lucrative for Belfast....	19th January 2010
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC SHOWPIECE TO RECREATE LINER'S TALE The temperature drops and the voices of survivors recorded 50 years ago recount harrowing tales of making it through one of the most infamous disasters of the last century. That is the desired effect of one of the galleries in the Titanic Belfast attraction which is set to open in time for the centenary of the Belfast-made liner. Giving a tour of the 93ft building, the same height as the ship, project manager Noel Molloy said that Titanic Belfast would recreate the Titanic story....	28th September 2011
	eturbonews.com	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS GIVING AWAY 12 'BACK TO TITANIC' TRIPS TO BELFAST To commemorate Titanic’s Irish heritage, Titanic Museum Attractions in Branson, Mo. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. will give away six 11-day trips for two to Belfast beginning today. The 12 winners of the “Back to Titanic 100th Year ‘Tour Ireland’ Sweepstakes” will go to Belfast where they will visit the birthplace of the world’s best-known, most luxurious ocean liner. ...	14th June 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC GIFT TO BELFAST TAKES A BOW A replica 30 foot section of the bow of the famous 'unsinkable' ship has been unveiled beside the berthing dock where the Titanic was built in Belfast almost a century ago....	3rd July 2010
	bbc.co.uk	SS NOMADIC The Titanic's tender ship, the SS Nomadic has celebrated its centenary. The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg. The Nomadic, like the Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. ...	25th April 2011
	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
	The Times	T. ISMAY CONTRIBUTES TO PIRRIE HOSPITAL FUND BELFAST, DEC 16 Much gratification is expressed in Belfast with regard to a letter received by the Lord Mayor, who is a partner in the large shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, from Mr. Thom...	17th December 1896
	Belfast Telegraph	TV STAR DELIGHTED BY RETURN OF SS NOMADIC SKY News presenter Eamonn Holmes has expressed his delight that Nomadic is to return to the docks where she was built.The Ulster-born presenter, who gave his backing to the campaigners as they battled to bring the 'mini-Titanic' back from France to Belfast, said he was looking forward to seeing her in the docks where she was built in 1911."I look forward to being there the day they crack the bottle of champagne against her," he told The Belfast Telegraph."I think it's another piece in the jigsaw of making Belfast a top tourist attraction. ...	31st January 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT: NOMADIC SAILS INTO BELFAST Fans of the SS Nomadic will be dressing up in period costume to welcome her as she makes a triumphant return to Belfast's docks this evening.The ship has already made an appearance in Belfast Lough as she arrived on Saturday morning but her official homecoming will take place this evening.As the Titanic's 'little sister' proceeds up the Lagan to dock next to the Odyssey Arena, she will receive a chorus from a brass band as supporters dressed in Edwardian fashion cheer her.A party of members of the French Titanic Society (AFT) who worked closely with Belfast Industrial Heritage in the hard-fought campaign to save Nomadic from the scrapyard will be present this evening to welcome her home.The 95-year-old vessel was bought by the Department of Social Development in January at auction in Paris....	17th July 2006
	newsletter.co.uk	PENSIONERS TELL OF PRIDE OVER TITANIC DISPLAY A LARGE outdoor ceramic artwork on the Titanic created by a group of pensioners has gone on display in north Belfast. The display put together by 15 people was inspired by personal memories and a trip to ‘TITANICa’ at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s — an exhibition which opened earlier this year to mark the centenary of the launch of the ship. As part of the creative process, the pensioners explored the history of Edwardian Belfast, the shipbuilding industry in Belfast and the on-board lifestyle of passengers who travelled on the Titanic. ...	3rd November 2011
		TITANIC 100 PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION AT BELFAST CITY HALL The Titanic 100 photographic exhibition celebrates the building of the great ship from its inception to launch, focussing on the photography of RJ Welch, the official photographer of Harland and Wolff. Through Welch's camera lens we get a remarkable glimpse of the scale of the Yard and the ship. Step back in time and see how Belfast looked in 1911 from the grand view of City Hall. ...
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC FANS WANT BELFAST MEMORIAL TO BE RELOCATED The Belfast Titanic Society has hit out at plans for the Belfast wheel to remain at its current location because it obscures a memorial to the victims of the sea disaster....	5th June 2009
	Independent	A 'NEW' TITANIC NINE-COURSE MENU FROM 1912 A special menu has been created in concert with the Made in Belfast Festival, an annual event that celebrates the making of the Titanic in Belfast nearly 100 years ago....	13th April 2010
	Independent	A 'NEW' TITANIC NINE-COURSE MENU FROM 1912 A special menu has been created in concert with the Made in Belfast Festival, an annual event that celebrates the making of the Titanic in Belfast nearly 100 years ago....	13th April 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
		TITANIC LEAVING BELFAST Harley Crossley — Titanic leaving Belfast (Acrylic on Canvas)...
	eTravelBlackboard Mice News	BELFAST TO MARK TITANIC 100 Belfast City Council is to hold two months of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic....	22nd February 2011
	newsletter.co.uk	BEHIND THE SCENES AT OUR ICONIC TRIBUTE TO TITANIC - BELFAST NEWSLETTER It has been claimed there is no project currently under way in Britain, or indeed Europe, that can match up to Titanic Belfast in terms of scale or grandeur. LAURA MURPHY enjoys a tour of the iconic building in the heart of the city’s Titanic Quarter and draws her own conclusions ACCORDING to Noel Molloy, the man who is tasked with the mammoth responsibility of overseeing the Titanic Belfast project, once you come to visit the finished exhibition, you’ll be there “for anywhere between two hours and two days - literally.” And having been fortunate enough to get a sneak preview of the work in progress at Titanic Quarter, I can confirm he isn’t lying....	30th August 2011
	thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985...	2nd November 2011
	Weekly Irish Times	BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON Article...	7th September 1912
		PROBATE REPORT Calendar of all Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Principle Probate Registries of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice Ireland -- 1912 ANDREWS Thomas (Junior) [405] 12 August ...	1912
	The Times	LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf...	10th February 1912
		TITANIC FOUNDATION Titanic Foundation exists to educate the world on Belfast’s maritime and industrial heritage- past, present and future. We want to be seen as a symbol of Belfast’s visionary future and to encourage new generations to believe anything is possible....
	BBC News : Northern Ireland	NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ...	30th October 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	BELFAST MUST RECLAIM TITANIC'S LEGACY The sinking of the Titanic exactly 97 years ago was marked by a solemn ceremony earlier this week at the Titanic Memorial statue outside the City Hall in Belfast. Wreaths were laid in memory of the 1,513 passengers and crew who lost their lives when the vessel struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and sank....	22nd April 2009
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	GRAVESTONE FOR TITANIC FALL BOY - BELFAST TELEGRAPH The forgotten teenager who plunged to his death while building the Titanic is to get a gravestone at last. Samuel Scott, 15, was the first person connected with the tragic vessel to die after he fell on the construction site. His body has lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery but a new headstone will be unveiled on Saturday....	26th July 2011
	The Times	HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...	25th December 1895
	Event Magazine	£11M TITANIC EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN BELFAST Belfast is to host an £11m Titanic-themed visitor attraction, to open for the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the famous vessel.Event Communications is creating the exhibition, after winning a competitive pitch tendered by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board....	12th December 2008
	bbc.co.uk	BELFAST CEREMONY MARKS TITANIC'S LAUNCH 100 YEARS ON A ceremony has taken place in Belfast to mark the moment the Titanic was launched 100 years ago. A large crowd of school children cheered as they attempted to re-enact the mood on the docks as those involved in building the ship watched her roll down ......	31st May 2011
		HARLAND AND WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHER CELEBRATED IN NEW TITANIC EXHIBITION Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition....
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ARTEFACTS GO ON DISPLAY More than 200 Titanic artefacts and memorabilia are to go on display in Belfast. The Titanic Made in Belfast festival begins on Saturday and features a series of talks on the doomed vessel....	30th March 2010
	TIME	THE TITANIC: "SHE WAS ALRIGHT WHEN SHE LEFT HERE" To grasp the extent of Belfast's tourism appeal during the three decades of the "Troubles," one only had to visit the Europa. Its status as the world's most bombed hotel underlined the fact that, for over 30 years, Northern Ireland's capital was a tourism desert. Today, Belfast's hostelries are packed with visitors as the city reaps the rewards of political stability....	28th January 2008
	4NI	BID TO REVIVE BELFAST'S TITANIC HERITAGE Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the ¢€ËœTitanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....	18th October 2007
	The Times	PIRRIE'S ELECTION AS LORD MAYOR ASSURED The unanimous nomination of Alderman Pirrie to be Lord Mayor of Belfast for next year has increased the hope that, as one of the most energetic members of the firm of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, he may be able to ...	30th November 1895
	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
	Titanic 100	PACKED PROGRAMME OF EVENTS FOR TITANIC 100 Belfast's most famous creation, Titanic, will be commemorated in an extended annual festival from 31 March - 31 May 2011, which will include key dates of the ship's build. The two-month Titanic 100 Festival will include a variety of exhibitions, tours, plays, films, talks and family fun......	4th April 2011
	Belfast Newsletter	BELFAST FIREMAN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE The story of a fireman's fortunate escape from sailing in the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic was told yesterday in the Belfast Custody Court, when, before Sir Andrew Newton-Brady, RM, [Resident Magistrate] Patrick Morgan...	26th April 1912
	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....
	The Times	BELFAST SHIPBUILDER'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY CARLISLE, of Orme-square, W., for some years general mannager and chairman of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders and engineers, of Belfast, and lately a director ...	10th April 1926
	UTV	BELFAST 'S TITANIC CENTENARY The crumbling boat which ferried passengers to the Titanic will be ship-shape again in time to mark the centenary of the ill-fated ocean liner. Repair work on the SS Nomadic which is now docked in Belfast shipyard, and will cost millions, could take five years to complete.A charitable trust set up to raise the money for the massive refurbishment is buying a temporary protective canvas in a bid to stop further deterioration. ...	29th November 2006
	Titanic Stories	WHERE TITANIC WAS BUILT Titanic Stories You many think Belfast is famous for producing one thing, the Titanic. You would be wrong. Titanic may be the best known export but she was by no means the only innovative piece of engineering to leave these shores....	11th July 2008
	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 Northern Ireland	NOMADIC DOCKS AT THE ODYSSEY The SS Nomadic has been towed up the River Lagan and has been docked beside the Odyssey in Belfast harbour. Nomadic, which arrived in Belfast on Saturday, was used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated Titanic. A welcome home ceremony which had been planned for the ship at the Odyssey for Monday had to be cancelled after a man working onboard the vessel died. The ship will remain at the Odyssey for the next two days before it is taken away for restoration. ...	19th July 2006
	bighospitality.co.uk	BELFAST DISTILLERY RELEASES WHISKEY TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC LAUNCH The Belfast Distillery Company has released a new whiskey brand to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic from one of the city's dockyards....	7th June 2011
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING IS JUST A SHELL, BUT ALREADY IT'S AWESOME Stepping through the entrance gates of the old Harland and Wolff drawing offices the new Titanic Belfast building looms impressively above me. The shiny aluminium shards which clad each of the four 90ft ‘hulls’ of the building glint in the sunlight, and as you walk closer you can see the different shapes which make each of them individual and give the impression of water glistening off the side of a boat as it cuts through the icy North Atlantic sea...	31st May 2011
	The Times	MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me...	22nd April 1912
	irishemigrant.com	BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event....	23rd August 2011
	guardian.co.uk	TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built....	31st May 2011
	ie	TITANIC EXPLORER VISITS SHIP'S BIRTHPLACE Dr. Ballard, the world famous oceanographer who discovered Titanic, has visited the ship’s birthplace in the former Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices in Belfast. Dr. Ballard was in town as part of preparations for the centenary of Titanic’s loss next year and is providing unseen Titanic material for the new £97m Titanic Belfast visitor attraction....	1st November 2011
	Larne Today	TITANIC DRESS LOOKS SHIP-SHAPE WITH HELP FROM WELDER GRAEME A LARNE welder has spoken of his pride after being called upon to help create a unique dress inspired by one of Belfast’s most stunning buildings. Titanic Belfast, which will be the world’s largest visitor attraction based on the ill-fated ocean liner, commissioned the dress to celebrate the centenary of ship’s maiden voyage and the opening of the building next spring....	12th October 2011
	Titanic Stories	TITANIC BELFAST: TITANIC IN MY BLOOD Susie Millar, whose great grandfather Thomas Millar died upon the Titanic, shows us around Belfast – birthplace of Titanic. ...
	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
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC SURVIVOR BACKS NOMADIC APPEAL The youngest survivor of the Titanic disaster is backing the Belfast Telegraph's campaign to bring the Nomadic home to the city where she was built.The clock is ticking for the luxury ferry, which was built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff to carry passengers onto the Titanic and her sister liner Olympic.She faces the scrapyard if no buyers are found by the time she goes under the hammer on January 26....	19th January 2006
	The Irish Film Television Network	NETWORK IRELAND TELEVISION LAUNCHING 'TITANIC'' PROJECTS AT MIPCOM Titanic, Born in Belfast, is the story of the building of this magnificent vessel in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in that city. It also shows how the shadow of the failure that hung over that city, because of the Titanic disaster, has finally given way to a more positive mentality. The achievement of the people of Belfast in building such an engineering marvel is finally being recognised and celebrated in its hometown for the great accomplishment that it was. ...	28th September 2011
	The Times	MRS. PIRRIE HONORED BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal...	6th April 1904
	New York Times	LORD PIRRIE OPERATED UPON Belfast Shipbuilder Has Recovered from the Immediate Effects --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Feb. 22---Lord Pirrie, head of the Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff...	23rd February 1912
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	STRICTLY JUDGE SWAPS SEQUINS FOR TITANIC DOCUMENTARY Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman has been on a visit to Belfast to celebrate a very personal interest in the Titanic ahead of the 100th anniversary of its sinking. Next spring the BBC will be airing a new three-part documentary about the Belfast-made ship, called The Titanic And Me, which looks at the human legacy of the disaster via the descendants of those who lost their lives, and the presenter is Len Goodman, Strictly’s popular voice of reason....	15th August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : MAYOR CALLS FOR TITANIC FERRY REPORT The debate over the merits of a mission to save the Nomadic continued today.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....	12th January 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	ULSTER READY TO SALUTE NOMADIC Ulster's amateur seafarers are planning a rapturous welcome for SS Nomadic when she arrives in Belfast Lough.Kathleen Neill of Belfast Industrial Heritage (BIH), which spearheaded the bid to rescue the former Titanic tender, said she has already been contacted by Carrickfergus Yacht Club, Bangor Old Gaffers' Association, Bangor Marina Berthholders Association and the Royal County Down Yacht Club."They want to know exactly when she'll be coming, because they all want to get out in force to provide a guard of honour to escort her home," she said....	11th February 2006
	BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER 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. ...	11th January 2006
		TITANIC : REAL ARCHIVE FILM 1912 Original archive movie film of the Titanic entering dock at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast,....
	Irish Times	COUNCIL GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO BELFAST TITANIC PROJECT Work on a signature project to commemorate the Titanic is set to get under way next month after Belfast City Council gave the project the green light today.The backing of councillors means all stakeholders have now rubber-stamped plans for a five-storey tourist attraction on the derelict shipyard where the famous liner was built almost 100 years ago. The total cost of the project will be in the region of £100 million (€110 million)....	17th December 2008
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	KATE WINSLET MAY 'RETURN TO TITANIC' ON DIVE WITH RICHARD BRANSON - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Titanic star Kate Winslet is to be invited on a once-in-a-lifetime voyage to see the sunken Belfast-built liner that inspired the movie that shot her to international stardom. Virgin boss Richard Branson is planning to shell out Â£38,000 to visit the Titanic wreck and he wants the star of the blockbuster movie based on the ship's story to join him. ...	21st November 2011
	Voyage	MUSGRAVE John P. Eaton On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...	12th December 2004
	The Times	HARLAND RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF BELFAST Sir E. J. Harland was yesterday re-elected Mayor of Belfast....	2nd December 1885
		SS NOMADIC THE LAST WHITE STAR LINE SHIP Telling the story of the White Star Line tender SS Nomadic as she is brought to Belfast for restoration....
	Henry Aldridge and Son	RMS TITANIC AUCTION ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 2010 Titanic and White Star Line specialists Henry Aldrige and Son have announced their next auction of Titanic, White Star Line and Ocean Liner Memorabilia. Selected lots will be available to view at the Titanic Made in Belfast Exhibition in Belfast April 3rd to April 11th....	16th March 2010
	Belfast Titanic Society	TITANIC SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE 99 YEARS SINCE THE LOSS OF THE SHIP On Friday 15th April at 12 noon, members of the Belfast Titanic Society will gather at Belfast City Hall to remember those from the city who were lost aboard RMS Titanic in 1912. Wreaths will be placed at the Titanic Memorial, on the Donegall Square East side of the City Hall grounds....	13th April 2011
	info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ...	12th July 2006
	BBC News Online	TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF Titanic ferry to be auctioned offThe SS Nomadic is being auctioned in Paris for 250,000 euros (?170,000), the French Titanic Society said.At least three buyers - from Belfast, Monaco and France - are expected to bid for the derelict vessel.The 67-metre (221-foot) ship is docked in the port of Le Havre after finishing its life as a floating restaurant.The ship is up for auction as the Port of Paris authorities try to recover unpaid mooring fees.A company from Northern Ireland is hoping to take the Nomadic back to Belfast - where she was built - for a full restoration, as part of a permanent Titanic memorial. ...	25th January 2006
	The Times	LADY PIRRIE WIDOW OF THE GREAT SHIPBUILDER --- Viscountess Pirrie, widow of the famous Belfast shipbuilder and shipowner, died yesterday at her home in Carlos Place, W., at the age of 78. She was Margaret Montgomer...	20th June 1935
	New York Times	LORD PIRRIE TO RETIRE His Harland & Wolff Interests Sold to Brown & Co., Report Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, March 13---It is reported from Belfast on good authority that Lord Pirrie has intimated his intention not o...	14th March 1912
	New York Herald	TITANIC LEAVING BELFAST	16th April 1912
	New York Times	TITANIC TESTS HER SPEED Then She Sails for Southampton to Prepare for Maiden Voyage by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times LONDON, April 2.—The White Star liner Titanic, which has just been completed by Ha...	3rd April 1912
	UTV	HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....	16th May 2006
	Washington Times	SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the...	22nd April 1912
	Belfast Titanic Society	CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH BELFAST TITANIC SOCIETY COMMEMORATES CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC’S LAUNCH The Belfast Titanic Society will mark 100 years since the launch of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic with a short ceremony on ...	14th October 2010
		JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ...
	The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882)	SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
	The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
	The Times	NEW M.P. FOR EAST BELFAST Mr. Henry P. Harland, a director of Harland and Wolff, was yesterday returned as Conservative member of Parliament for East Belfast. No other candidate was nominated. The seat became vacant through the elevation to the peera...	9th February 1940
	Travel Daily News	TITANIC TRAIL PUTS BELFAST AT HEART OF DIGITAL TOURISM REVOLUTION Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the world's first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail and, appropriately, it is based around the city's most famous product, ¢€ËœTitanic'. The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding, and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the Council.The ¢€ËœBelfast Titanic Trail' uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors ¢€Ëœback to the future' leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen's Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look. Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her. ...	8th August 2006
	New York Times	30-KNOT LINER PROBABLE Statement of the Managing Director of Harland & Wolff --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Aug. 22---According to New York reports published here, Lord Pirrie, head of the firm of...	23rd August 1907
	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
		TOURISM IRELAND : TITANIC STORIES Titanic Stories is designed to direct you to the most authentic information and experiences about the Titanic on the island of Ireland. There is a wealth of undiscovered stories to find within the pages of this website and on the many Titanic tours, historical sites, towns and cities connected to RMS Titanic. ...	24th March 2011
	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
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC'S PROMISE MUST BE FULFILLED Any doubts about the degree of interest in and level of affection for the SS Nomadic should have been dispelled by the large turn-out of spectators who went to the Odyssey last week to see the return of the famous ship for themselves.Despite being bereft of her superstructure, Nomadic is still an impressive sight. Built in Harland & Wolff at the same time as Titanic to serve as a tender to ferry first class passengers to the great liner, she at last provides Belfast with a tangible link with its most celebrated export.Salvaging the vessel from the scrapyard has been a major achievement, but greater challenges lie ahead. If Nomadic is to be transformed from a rusting hulk into an international tourist attraction, she will need to be completely renovated.While the Department for Social Development has acquired the vessel, and Belfast City Council has pledged £100,000 to the restoration fund, a determined effort will be required to raise funds to turn the vision into reality....	24th July 2006
	Chicago Daily News	LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...	27th February 1912
	herald.ie	TITANIC SISTER SHIP MARKS 100 YEARS The ship was launched from Hamilton Dock on April 25, 1911. It was luxuriously equipped and was the tender ship for the Olympic class transatlantic liners. In January 2006, the Department for Social Development purchased the SS Nomadic at a Paris auction. The vessel was brought back to it's home city and it is being restored to its former glory in Hamilton Dock, Belfast....	25th April 2011
	Nottingham Daily Express	DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,...	22nd April 1912
		TITANIC SCHOOLS PROJECT Terry Madill conducts a schools visit to the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, helping to educate young people about what life was like for those who worked on the building of the Titanic, the world's most famous ocean going liner...	30th August 2011
	The Times	MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...	21st April 1904
	Cumberland News	LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv...	20th April 1912
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANICS EPIC STORY CAPTURED ON CANVAS The tragic tale of the ill-fated Titanic is once again being retold with the launch of a new art exhibition in Belfast...	1st February 2011
	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
	The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S WILL WILLIAM JAMES, first VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., of Belgrave-square, W., and Witley Park, Surrey, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1896-97, who died on board ship in t...	9th May 1925
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago....
		TITANIC LEAVES BELFAST FOR SOUTHAMPTON Titanic departs commanded by Captain Bartlett, later to command the Britannic on her final voyage....	2nd April 1912
	The Times	WOLFF, GUSTAV W. OBITUARY --- MR. G. W. WOLFF --- Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, for long a partner in Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, died yesterday at his residence in Park-street, W. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ...	18th April 1913
	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 Newsline	BBC VIDEO OF NOMADIC HOMECOMING One of the last remaining links to the Titanic, the SS Nomadic, has come home to Belfast. BBC Newsline has a series of special reports to mark the event....	18th July 2006
	Titanic Stories	99TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITANIC'S SINKING COMMEMORATED IN BELFAST 15th April 2011 was the 99th anniversary of Titanic’s foundering after hitting an iceberg in mid Atlantic. In towns and cities throughout the world, the event is remembered in simple ceremonies. ...	16th May 2011
		BUILDING THE TITANIC This original picture shows the Titanic under construction in Belfast, certainly in late 1911. Note that three funnels are not yet painted, there is a scaffolding around the fourth funnel....	1911
	Belfast Telegraph	MEDIATOR OFFER FOR NOMADIC ROW An expert in restoration projects has offered to act as a go-between to resolve clashes between the trust responsible for restoring SS Nomadic and the volunteers who raised funds to return her to Belfast. ...
	UTV	TITANIC TRAGEDY IS REMEMBERED A service has been held in Belfast to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. The world`s most famous maritime disaster happened when the vessel hit an iceberg in April 1912....	30th April 2007
	The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S TITLE Last night's Gazette contains the formal notification of the new peerages included in the Birthday Honours. * Mr. W. J. Pirrie becomes Baron Pirrie of the city of Belfast *....	21st July 1906
	The Times	PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice...	25th July 1898
	The Times	THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...	22nd July 1899
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ARTWORK UNVEILED IN BELFAST A giant toy modelling kit of the Titanic was unveiled yesterday on the site where the doomed liner was built almost a century ago. ...	30th October 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	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	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
	dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	NEW TOUR OFFERS A TASTE FROM TITANIC Belfast's food businesses will be offering some Titanic treats when a culinary walking tour joins the menu of tourist delights in the city....	10th April 2010
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC WEBSITE SHOWS BELFAST LINK A Titanic website has been unveiled in New York. It will profile Northern Ireland and its shipbuilding heritage and aims to attract thousands of tourists....	30th September 2010
	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	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
	Mega Yacht News	SS NOMADIC SOON OPENED TO THE PUBLIC The Members of the Nomadic Preservation Society, in collaboration with Titanic Conventions, have the pleasure to invite you to the ¢€ËœTITANIC & NOMADIC CONVENTION' to be held in Belfast (Northern Ireland) next 6th, 7th and 8th April 2007....	13th February 2007
	eturbonews.com	ALL EYES ON TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS AS THE 100TH YEAR APPROACHES In May 1911, the RMS Titanic slid down Slipway No. 3 at the Queen's Yard of Harland & Wolff and settled on the waters of the Victoria Channel in Belfast, Ireland while more than 100000 people looked on....	23rd May 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	OFFICES WHERE TITANIC PLANS WERE DRAWN COULD BE A HOTEL Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms - where the liner was designed - into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today....	5th March 2009
	Norwich Evening News 24	TITANIC LABOUR OF LOVE A Titanic enthusiast has created an 8ft replica of the sister ship of the most famous vessel in history.Robin Burrows and wife Sue, from Little Plumstead, are to send the model of the Nomadic on permanent loan to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast....	2nd April 2007
	telegraph.co.uk	THE TITANIC SANK INTO THE DEPTHS OF HUMANKIND In Belfast yesterday, they put out at City Hall a plan of the RMS Titanic, drawn for the Board of Trade inquiry into its sinking, at 2.20am on April 15, 1912, in mid-Atlantic with the deaths of 1517 passengers and crew. Those statistics chill us still. ......	23rd April 2011
	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
	Belfast Telegraph	THE TITANIC TO TAKE A BOW Almost 100 years after the Titanic was built a 30ft replica section of the ship's bow has been constructed to bring the ship back to life and celebrate the skills and innovation of Belfast ship workers....	19th June 2010
	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	'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 Northern Ireland	£1BN TITANIC AREA PLAN SUBMITTED Northern Ireland\'s biggest planning application has been submitted to develop Belfast\'s Titanic quarter. The £1bn plans include building a tourist centre with a target of attracting 500,000 visitors annually. ...	8th January 2007
	Voyage	GLENDUN John P. Eaton GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...	26th October 2004
		POSTCARD: LAUNCH OF THE GIANT WHITE STAR LINER 'OLYMPIC' AT HARLAND & WOLFF'S SHIPYARD, BELFAST
		CARD CASE Silver plated card case from the Titanic. The case was reputedly pilfered from the ship by a steward — a member of the delivery crew from Belfast — because of his disappointment at being transferred to the Olympic prior to the maid...
	Belfast Newsletter	TITANIC EXPERT DISMISSES THEORIES A Belfast Titanic expert has poured ice-cold Atlantic water on a proliferation of old theories about the disaster, following the recent 96th anniversary of its sinking....	24th April 2008
	newsletter.co.uk	TITANIC WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE OLYMPICS A TRAVEL journalist has claimed that the Titanic commemorations in Belfast will be an even bigger draw for tourists than this year’s London Olympics. ...	18th January 2012
	Belfast Telegraph	GETTING A STEER ON THE NOMADIC'S HISTORY The ship's wheel once used to steer Titanic's "little sister" is about to return to Belfast. Volunteers who have been raising money to restore SS Nomadic have tracked down what they believe to be her ship's wheel and will be handing it over to the team responsible for restoring her in the next fortnight. SS Nomadic is the last remaining White Star Line vessel and once ferried first class passengers onto the Titanic at Cherbourg on the mighty liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. ...	25th April 2009
	U.TV	TITANIC DEVELOPER MAY SEEK DAMAGES A property development company may seek damages if buyers are unable to complete on apartments in Belfast's Titanic Quarter the High Court has heard....	25th May 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.co.uk	COUNCIL MARKS TITANIC CENTENARY Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition. The 'Titanic 100' exhibition will be held at Belfast City Hall until May. It will focus on the construction ......	31st March 2011
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	NOMADIC WILL MISS THE BOAT FOR TITANIC CENTENARY - BELFAST TELEGRAPH A total of more than £7m is being spent on its restoration, but even with the latest £3.2m cash boost, the SS Nomadic will not be completed in time to capitalise on next year's Titanic centenary celebrations....	26th July 2011
	The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng...	4th April 1925
	bbc.co.uk	100 YEARS SINCE TITANIC SET SAIL It was 100 years ago that the Titanic, the largest passenger ship ever made at the time, was launched in Belfast where it was built. The ship didn't make its doomed voyage from Southampton to New York until the following year, 1912......	13th April 2011
	Voyage	ARMENIAN John P. Eaton Cestrian, sister ship to the Armenian, seen here at Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard following completion. (courtesy Lawrence Dunn, Famous Liner...	27th March 2005
	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
	Southern Daily Echo	DEATH NOTICE Creese, Henry Philip. Engineer. Dearly beloved Husband of Annie Creese, 2 Enfield Grove, Woolston. Deeply mourned by sorrowing Wife and Children. Belfast Papers please copy. [Same notice appeared in Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912]...	30th April 1912
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	HEADSTONE FOR TITANIC TEEN - 100 YEARS ON - BELFAST TELEGRAPH A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic has finally been given a headstone on his grave - more than 100 years after his death. Fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott fractured his skull while working on the ship in 1910 ......	1st August 2011
	Irish Central	100 IRISH ON BOARD FOR THE TITANICS MEMORIAL CRUISE - SEE VIDEO More than 100 Irish have signed up to the cruise which will commemorate the Titanic. The cruise will follow the exact fateful route that the Belfast-built Titanic took 100 years ago....	1st September 2010
	abc.net.au	TITANIC - 100 YEARS THEN AND NOW A special film about the Titanic and the last living survivors of its sinking premiered in Brisbane last night. Called Titanic - 100 Years Then and Now it took five years to make and involved shoots in Southhampton & Belfast where the Titanic was built ......	1st June 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	HARBOUR BOOK IS LAUNCHED A new book celebrating 400 years of Belfast Harbour was launched earlier this week....	13th November 2010
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED A poignant ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the launch of Titanic into the waters of Belfast Lough is to be held later this week.It was on May 31, 1911, that the ill-fated liner was pushed from its birthplace in the Harland and Wolff shipyard into the lough to float for the first time....	29th May 2006
	New York Times	LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19...	20th June 1935
	thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON AND BELFAST'S TITANIC MEMORIALS TAKE SHAPE AHEAD OF ANNIVERSARY THEY have both been billed as landmark tourist attractions to mark the 100th anniversary of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage. But council heritage bosses behind a £15m Titanic museum in Southampton have shrugged off ......	13th April 2011
	Irish Central	TITANIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISE ATTRACTS VACATIONERS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE The 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Belfast-built Titanic will be marked by a cruise retracing the ship's final journey....	4th August 2010
	The Times	PIRRIE RE-ELECTED LORD MAYOR BELFAST, DEC 1 At a meeting of the corporation, held to-day, Alderman Pirrie was unanimously re-elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year....	2nd December 1896
	New York Times	PIRRIE DENIES THAT HE IS TO RETIRE BELFAST, Nov. 20---Lord Pirrie to-day personally denied the report that he is about to retire from the Chairmanship of the great shipbuilding and engineering firm of Harland & Wolff. ...	21st November 1913
	Belfast Telegraph	COUNCIL AWARDS Â£10M TO TITANIC PROJECT The £97 million Titanic Signature Project received good news this week when Belfast City Council agreed to contribute Â£10 million to the scheme....	5th November 2009
	News Letter	SPECIAL TOURS AS NOMADIC RENOVATION PROCEEDS THE SS Nomadic is once again being opened up to the public due to exceptional interest from tourists on the Titanic trail in Belfast. The tender vessel, which was used to ferry first and second class passengers to the Titanic, was open to the public for six months after returning to Northern Ireland at Easter last year....	14th October 2008
	The Times	PIRRIE INSTALLED AS LORD MAYOR BELFAST, JAN 1 At the meeting of the City Council to-day Sir William M'Cammond vacated the chair, and Alderman Pirrie was installed as Lord Mayor. He is, as he stated in his address, a Libe...	2nd January 1896
	News Letter	BUILDING PLAN FOR TITANIC QUARTER PUTS ULSTER ON THE RECORD NEWS that a state-of-the-art Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is to be located in Belfast's Titanic Quarter has been hailed as representing "the ideal occupant in the ideal location"....	24th August 2007
	Yourhub.com	TITANIC AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE: There is something special about that ship, the RMS Titanic, which sank over 95 years ago on April 15, 1912. The ship, built in Belfast, Ireland, set sail for America at noon on April 10, 1912 on its maiden voyage and sailed off into history and folklore as well....	28th December 2007
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ROOM TO HOST ART EVENT The historic rooms where the Titanic was designed a century ago have been selected to host one of Northern Ireland's most prestigious art events. The 127th Annual Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition will be held in the Titanic Drawing Offices of Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast from September 19 to October 19....	12th September 2008
	artlyst.com	TITANIC THE ART COLLECTION LOST AT SEA Today is the 100 anniversary of the launch of the S.S. Titanic in Belfast. Little recorded artwork was claimed through insurers in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and as we approach the centenary of the tragedy, it is curious to learn that the interiors, with all of it's opulence, had little original art commissioned of note. Most authors have overlooked the fact that there was still important art lost on the voyage....	31st May 2011
	The Times	VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...	23rd June 1921
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CELEBRATIONS LOOK SET TO SPARK A TITANIC £40M BOOST FOR TOURISM - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Year long Titanic celebration events are expected to help generate an extra £40m for the economy in 2012. The Business Barometer survey by Close Invoice Finance found around 31% of Northern Ireland companies expect the year-long ......	18th July 2011
	newtownabbeytoday.co.uk	JOSH TO COOK UP A TITANIC FEAST A JORDANSTOWN student and his team of cooks are preparing to rustle up a Titanic feast in an exclusive competition. Josh Maxwell is head chef in the team from Belfast Metropolitan College which will be travelling to the Nestle Toque d'Or Grand Finals ......	9th May 2011
	bbc.co.uk	TITANIC TEENAGER SAMUEL SCOTT GETS HEADSTONE - BBC NEWS A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic is finally to get a gravestone. Samuel Scott, 15, fractured his skull whilst working on the ship in 1910. His body has since lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery......	29th July 2011
	Lurgan Today	TITANIC CONTRACT FOR LOCAL FIRM LOCAL exhibition specialists Redhead Conference and Exhibition based in Lurgan have won the contract to design and construct this years Titanic 100 exhibition on behalf of Belfast City Council....	12th February 2011
		LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
	The Times	LORD PIRRIE'S TITLE The conferment by the King of the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom upon Lord Pirrie by the name, style, and title of Viscount Pirrie, of the City of Belfast, was gazetted last night....	16th July 1921
	PRLog.org	TITANIC GIFT COMPANY WINS INNOVATION VOUCHER White Star Momentos Ltd based on the shores of Belfast Lough have just been awarded an amazing £4000 Innovation Voucher by Invest Northern Ireland. The voucher is to be used for research and developement skills locally to design and produce a unique commissioned piece of Silver Jewelry....	26th January 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC REFLOATS TITANIC'S TALE The tragic tale of the Titanic is to be performed over three nights â€” onboard her tender. GCSE Drama students from Dominican College in Fortwilliam will stage the play â€˜Titanicâ€™ on the SS Nomadic, the Belfast-built vessel that carried first class passengers on to the legendary liner before she set off on her doomed maiden voyage....
	4NI.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER TO REVIVE CITY'S HERITAGE Belfast is set to finally commemorate its full maritime and industrial heritage. It has just been revealed that one of the main objectives of a new initiative, the ¢€ËœTitanic Signature Project', is to record and celebrate the city's great maritime and industrial heritage....	23rd October 2007
	theday.com	NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT WILL RECREATE SHIP'S DISCOVERY Until now, Ballard said, their families had not publicized their connection with the ship because they felt in some way ashamed and responsible for what had occurred. But Ballard recently went to Belfast and met with the families, who agreed to be interviewed for the first time. "For me, this story has always been about the people, not the ship," Ballard said....	12th January 2012
	bbc.co.uk	CENTENARY PROVES ENDURING APPEAL OF THE TITANIC STORY - BBC NEWS Tickets are already selling well as there appears to be no dip in the public's enthusiasm for the story of the ill-fated luxury liner. Louise Patten, granddaughter of the ship's second officer Charles Lightoller, told the BBC why she believes the story still exerts such a powerful pull 100 years on....	22nd December 2011
	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
	Voyage	TITANIC (1888) John P. Eaton Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...	22nd November 2004
	The Times	PIRRIE SWORN IN AS PRIVY COUNCILLOR At a meeting of the Privy Council of Ireland held yesterday at Dublin Castle, the Lord Lieutenant presiding, Lord Powerscourt, Mr. Justice Andrews of the Exchequer Division, and the Lord Mayor of Belfast (Ald...	7th August 1897
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	DID JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY DRESS AS A WOMAN TO FLEE TITANIC? Ismay has gone down in history as one of the 20th century's greatest cowards for fleeing the foundering Titanic while women and children were still on board. But a new play premiering in Belfast this week could cast Joseph Bruce Ismay in a new light....	5th April 2011
		THE GREAT GANTRY, HARLAND & WOLFF, BELFAST
	Belfast Telegraph	HISTORIC HOME OF TITANIC SHIPYARD FOUNDER RAZED TO THE GROUND Residents last night spoke of their 'absolute shock' after the historical homes of Gustav Wolff - of Harland and Wolff fame - which they fought to save, were demolished. The two 19th century cottages in east Belfast were last summer spot listed by the Environmental Heritage Service (EHS) after a campaign was launched to prevent their destruction....	20th January 2009
	Belfast Today	EVERY DAY IS A POTENTIAL ANNIVERSARY ON THE RIVER LAGAN Una Reilly, Chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society mobilised our memories and organised a simple ceremony on the river. "This anniversary marks a reclaiming by Belfast of her very important part in the worldwide Titanic story," Una explained as she planned the boat trip on the MV Joyce Too. "Contrary to popular belief, Titanic was not launched by a notable lady wearing a big hat and smashing a bottle on her bow," she reminded me. "She was simply pushed into the water by hydraulic rams when a signal was given and a whistle was blown at 12.13 pm on May 31, 1911, and 62 seconds later Titanic was afloat for the first time. ...	5th June 2006
	BBC Scotland	STUDENT TITANIC MODEL MAKES WAVES An Aberdeen student who spent three years building a replica of the Titanic is having his work honoured by the liner's own home city. Stuart Robb's 6ft long model is to be put on display in Belfast City Hall In April for an exhibition marking the 95th anniversary of the sinking. ...	6th February 2007
	Belfast Telegraph	PUBLIC SCULPTURE UNVEILED AT THE TITANIC QUARTER The first public artwork for the Titanic Quarter was unveiled as part of the Belfast festival at Queens. The â€œcontemporary and innovative artworkâ€ is called â€˜Kitâ€™ and is a site-specific light sculpture which is 13.5 metres tall and cast in bronze....	4th November 2009
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	BALLARD RETURNS TO TITANIC The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic is to return to its final resting place to capture new images of the ship for the £100m visitor attraction in Belfast. Dr Robert Ballard will journey two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean next month to film the mangled stern section, which broke off from the rest of the liner as she sank on her maiden voyage in 1912....	4th August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	£7 MILLION RESTORATION OF TITANIC SHIP GOES AHEAD The £7 million restoration of a tender ship which ferried first-class passengers on board the Titanic is to begin early next year after the project today secured another £500,000 cash injection....	16th September 2009
	Weekly Irish Times	GIGANTIC TO EXCEED 'AQUITANIA' Article...	14th December 1912
	Nomadic Preservation Society	PROGRAMME FOR NOMADIC CENTENERY CELEBRATIONS REVEALED Celebrating a century of maritime history Outline programme Friday 3rd June 2011 13:30 ~ 17:00. Delegate registration at Holiday Inn, Belfast. 13:30 ~ 17:00. Exclusive opening tour...	5th November 2010
	Titanic Stories	TITANIC THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN ALL OVER THE WORLD! If you are looking for Titanic based events attractions memorials and tours to do all over the world then look no further than the Titanic Today section on the Titanic Stories website. We keep to date listings of all the great Titanic related activities happening across the globe and especially in Belfast home of the Titanic. Visit our Titanic Today section for the all the latest! ...	20th February 2011
	Irish Times	LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city's relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast's proudest but ultimately most tragic achievements, the RMS Titanic ....	14th July 2009
	Belfast Telegraph	EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over Â£2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the Â£7 million refit of the derelict SS Nomadic may not be completed, on schedule, for the centenary of its launch in Belfast in 2011 due to a cash shortfall. ...
		LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
	Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri...
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been used to create the image by Rita Duffy, who hopes to raise money for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. The Titanic, which was dubbed unsinkable before it hit an iceberg and foundered in the north Atlantic in April 1912, is at the centre of plans to rejuvenate a large part of the city's docklands. ...	26th 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
	Liverpool Echo	AMONG THE MISSING One of the Titanic’s first-class passengers not yet accounted for is Mr. W. H. Parr, a young electrical engineer, whose wife, with her infant child, is now in Northwich on a visit to her father, Mr. Joseph Poole, a guardian over-seer and a well-known...	17th April 1912
	BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC TO LEAVE CITY CENTRE BERTH The SS Nomadic, the ship which ferried passengers to the Titanic, is to leave its berth close to Belfast city centre.The tender will be removed on Wednesday from Queen's Quay to Barnett's Dock for maintenance ahead of her planned move to dry dock before the end of the year. ...	31st October 2007
	bbc.co.uk	HISTORIC TITANIC COMPANY MINUTE BOOK BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY H&W - BBC NEWS The Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic, has bought back its original Minute Book for an undisclosed sum. The item was just one lot that went under the hammer at an auction of rare books and historical memorabilia in Dublin this afternoon. ...	14th December 2011
	4NI	FUNDING BLOW FOR TITANIC PROJECT Belfast's Titanic Signature Project - showcasing the city's maritime and industrial heritage and likely to cost an estimated £90m, has suffered a setback. The initiative, which aims to attract thousands of tourists to the Titanic Quarter, had applied to receive 25m of lottery money and has now failed to reach the final funding shortlist for the lottery's Living Landmarks Fund....	19th October 2007
	build.ie	PATTON WIN PRESTIGIOUS NEW TITANIC CONTRACT he contract to fit out a major new exhibition centre dedicated to the story of the Titanic has been secured by the Patton Group's recently established Heritage Division. The Ballymena based company, which has itself established an impressive history ......	6th May 2011
		TITANIC 1912 ARCHIVE FOOTAGE Original archive film of the Titanic....
		RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...	23rd March 2011
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CAN TITANIC CENTRE DELIVER AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE? It’s great to hear all about the architectural features of the building as ‘Belfast’s Eiffel Tower’ and the banqueting for 750 covers. But will not visitors from across the globe also want to see something really historical, original and unique in the galleries to bring out that special factor? Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/can-titanic-centre-deliver-authentic-experience-16005003.html#ixzz1NZQ08O92 ...	27th May 2011
	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
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	ALL'S SHIPSHAPE IN JOHN'S BOOK OF TITANIC FACTS - BELFAST TELEGRAPH John White’s new book, The RMS Titanic Miscellany, contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous ship, from facts and figures to biographies and urban myths surrounding the ill-fated voyage. John is not new to the specific art of writing fact books — with over 30 sports books to his name, he could be called something of an expert at the genre — but this book is certainly different to his usual fare....	21st July 2011
	u.tv	PUBLIC ACCESS TO TITANIC DRAWING OFFICE - U.TV The seven-year agreement between the Department of Enterprise and developers at Titanic Quarter is expected to be signed soon. It is hoped the building could be open to tourists for the centenary of the ship's sinking next April, after Titanic Belfast opens its doors to the world at the end of March. The attraction is expected to be thronged with visitors - but until recently all those enthusiasts could not have expected to get inside the historic drawing offices nearby where the vessel was designed....	12th December 2011
	bbc.co.uk	TITANIC WEDDING A wedding themed on the Titanic might not be thought to be the best of omens for the future, but Northern Ireland tourism chiefs are hoping plenty of young couples will think otherwise. The Titanic Suite of Belfast's new £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner has started taking bookings ahead of its opening next year. The visitor attraction, which is due to open in eight months, is in the same spot where the famous ship was built by Harland and Wolff 100 years ago....	12th August 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....	1st April 2009
	thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850....	26th May 2011
	Irish Independent	COBH JOINS IN PLANS FOR TITANIC CENTENARY AN Irish town is to play a major role in the 100th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic. Titanic left Belfast's renowned shipyard in 1912 hailed as the new wonder of the world. It was the largest and most luxurious ship at that time, and Cobh in Co Cork was the liner's last port of call before its fatal voyage. A total of 1,513 people died when the ship hit an iceberg off Newfoundland in April 1912....	15th August 2007
	Voyage	TRAFFIC John P. Eaton On 10 April 1912 Titanic arrived at Cherbourg from Southampton at 6:35 p.m. after a voyage of little more than five hours. After taking aboard mail and pasengers she departed at 8:10 p.m. Boarding were 274 passengers: 142 first class, 30 second...	22nd September 2005
		HUGH FITZPATRICK'S CHILDREN Hugh Fitzpatrick had two children, Rose and Rev. Dan Fitzpatrick, S. J. Rose was born on 10th October, 1912 6 months after the sinking. Rose married Joe Fitzpatrick and family (Joe, Dan, Margaret, Maura, Paul, Brian, Denis, and Eugene)...
	Chicago Examiner	OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma...	25th September 1912
	4ni.co.uk	PLAY EXPLORES TALE OF TITANIC OWNER BRUCE ISMAY A play exploring the story of Titanic owner Bruce Ismay is to be one of the opening events of Belfast's Titanic 100 festival. The play documents one of the most controversial incidents in the fateful story of the RMS Titanic......	4th April 2011
	The Times	EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES A BARONET From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, July 24 WHITEHALL, JULY 23 The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet...	25th July 1885
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC : BRING HER BACK HOME 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....	13th January 2006
	Irish Examiner	TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED The British government paid ?170,000 (?250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.The bid was accepted at an auction in Paris after fears that the SS Nomadic would end up in a breaker's yard instead of being brought back to Belfast.The ferry was the last White Star vessel to be built at the city's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was launched in 1912.A special charitable trust will now be set up to oversee fundraising and the full restoration of the Nomadic....	26th January 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	RARE COPY OF ORIGINAL TITANIC REPORT AT FAIR A rare copy of the original report on the loss of the Titanic, dated July 30, 1912 - three months after the tragedy - will be on display at the Belfast Antiquarian Book Fair in the Wellington Park Hotel on Saturday (10am-5pm).The report, which was completed by mid-summer after the sinking on April 14, is being presented for sale by Arthur Davidson of Davidson Books at Spa, Ballynahinch....	8th November 2006
	guardian.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO OPEN IN SOUTHAMPTON BY 2012 It is 97 years next month since she went down, but the Titanic - the supposedly unsinkable liner that scraped an iceberg in the north Atlantic on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,500 people - continues to exercise a huge public fascination. There have been several films and myriad books and documentaries, Belfast has its Titanic quarter around the docks where she was built - and now Southampton, the city which provided most of the crew, is planning its own interactive museum, to open in time for the centenary in 2012....	31st March 2009
	Sphere	1911 EVENTS OF THE SEASON Olympic maiden voyage; Titanic launch...	28th February 1911
		FILM OF TITANIC ENTERING THE THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK ...	3rd February 1912
		LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ...	11th April 1912
	Birmingham Mail	BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION MARKS REGION'S LINKS WITH TITANIC Links with the legendary liner Titanic are being celebrated with an exhibition outlining the contribution by West Midlands’ craftsmen to the construction of the ill-fated ship. The two-day Bull Ring display, which is open today and tomorrow, showcases the work done in the region to supply parts to Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff. A new visitor attraction is set to open in Northern Ireland next spring to mark the centenary of the ship’s maiden voyage....	30th September 2011
	dailymail.co.uk	TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TICKETS ORDERED FOR TITANIC CENTRE Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90 million visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner. The interest in Titanic Belfast - 400,000 are expected to pay a visit in its first year - emerged as its operators marked 100 days until Northern Ireland's largest ever tourism project opens its doors. The eye-catching building, which is made up of 3,000 aluminium panels shaped like the vessel's hull, has been built on the spot where the liner was first rolled into the water in 1911. ...	22nd December 2011
	Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC JOINS ELITE LIST OF FINE SHIPS The Titanic's little sister has joined an elite list of the finest historical ships in the UK to have survived to the present day. The SS Nomadic (pictured above) joins the likes of the Cutty Sark, the Mary Rose and the Royal Yacht Britannia on a list of just 61 ships that form the Core Collection of the National Register of Historic Vessels (NRHV). The 96-year-old, Belfast-built ship was tender to many of the great transatlantic liners and also served in two world wars....	5th September 2008
	New York Times	ADRIATIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE Great New White Star Liner Leaves Liverpool for New York --- LIVERPOOL, May 8---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic left here to-day for New York. The Adriatic was launched at Belfast last September. She has an...	9th May 1907
	Belfast Telegraph	DIVERS PROBE SECRETS OF TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP A team of divers is exploring the wreck of Belfast-built ocean liner HMHS Britannic, the last of the three White Star Line sister ships that include Titanic and Olympic.Divers and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) have penetrated the wreck of the former hospital ship, which has lain close to the Greek port of Kea in the Aegean Sea since her sinking in November 1916 as she passed through a minefield. The resulting footage will be screened in a History Channel documentary....	27th September 2006
	Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR $57,000 A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night. Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US ex...	12th April 2006
	nationalpost.com	THIS SHIP SAILS AGAIN A couple years back during a trip to Belfast, I was urged to visit the shipyards where the Titanic was built. The offer didn't seem all that appealing, since everyone knows the story: big ship, unsinkable, hubris, irony, birth of a metaphor and all that. But I went to the area now called Titanic Quarter, saw the massive dry dock where the vessel was created, took the tour and by the end had to admit the visit was interesting and fun, and not just because of the "Built by the Irish, Sunk by the British" T-shirts. Almost 100 years after it went down in the North Atlantic, the story of the Titanic remains compelling. The challenge is to find enough new to say....	14th November 2011
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	COUPLES OFFERED TITANIC WEDDING A Titanic-themed wedding might not provide the ideal metaphor for a plain-sailing future together, but that is unlikely to discourage couples reserving Northern Ireland's latest venue for their big day. The Titanic Suite perched high in the roof of a new £100 million visitor attraction in Belfast dedicated to the doomed liner has started taking bookings ahead of its opening next year. The fifth and sixth floors of the centre replicate the opulent surrounds of the ship's first class banqueting room, complete with the famous sweeping grand staircase....	11th August 2011
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
	4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
		VARIOUS MEMORIALS Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...

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