Titanic Belfast

With Tom being a Titanic buff a must see for us is the new Titanic Belfast experience.  They refer to it as an experience and not a museum because there are no artifacts from the ship out of respect for the people who perished during the sinking.  Titanic Belfast was built adjacent to the design and drafting offices and the shipyards where Titanic and its sister ship, the Olympic, was constructed.  The Olympic was the first of the three sister ships and was launched in 1911.  Titanic was the second and was launched in 1912.  There are multitudes of facts that I could bore you with, but I can't remember them.  This is best for all of us, I think.  Although, one interesting piece of information that the tour guide mentioned is that no one deemed the ship "unsinkable" until years after it sunk.  The term came from the media taking a quote out of context.  (You don't say?!)  True to form, even the people in Ireland bring up that someone jinxed the ship by calling it unsinkable.  Among the people we talked to that person that said this was a different person each time.  

Titanic Belfast

Titanic Belfast and the design offices of Harland and Wolf

The coordinates of the current location of the Titanic

 

The location of the building of the Titanic.  Obviously, the close point is the bow.

Inside Titanic Belfast