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Belfast - Birthplace of the Titanic
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Belfast - Birthplace of the Titanic

The Story of Titanic

In this section, the speaker introduces the story of Titanic and its connection to Belfast.

The Beginning of the Story

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  • The speaker mentions that there is a saying in Belfast about Titanic being all right when she left here.
  • Many people don't associate Titanic with Belfast, but this dock opened on April Fool's Day and held 21 million gallons of water.
  • Three beautiful ships were ordered: Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. Perry and Esme dreamed of building the world's biggest transatlantic ocean liners.

The Biggest Ship in the World

  • Titanic was over a thousand times heavier than an identical sister ship and was practically unsinkable.
  • She sat in the world's biggest drydock on her maiden voyage carrying passengers from all classes of society.
  • Tragically, she sank 12 days into her maiden voyage, leaving an unforgettable story that people around the world still learn about today.

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For a time, a century ago, Belfast was the world's leading industrial city, anchored by the biggest shipyard in the world, and there it created the biggest man-made moving object in history....the ocean liner Titanic. Today Belfast is more about the spaces Titanic left behind. At the 880 foot-long Thompson Graving Dock, where Titanic was hauled to check and clean its hull and fit the propellers, Colin Cobb, a self-professed Titanorak who runs Titanic Walking Tours, brings it home sharing that the dock could hold 21 million gallons of water, or, in terms better understood in Ireland, 168 million pints of Guinness.