Olympic’s keel, yard No. 400, was laid towards the end of 1908, and just over three months later, the keel of Titanic , No. 401, was laid alongside, under the massive Arrol Gantry at Harland & Wolff’s yard in Belfast. With a construction period of about three years, the two liners’ massive hulls became almost a part of the skyline on the …
Ever since the release of James Cameron’s movie ‘Titanic’, there has been a whole host of schemes and projects all promising the same thing: the re-creation of a faithful replica of Titanic. Many people even set-up websites proclaiming to have a company which was going to build a new, all-improved Titanic , only for these sites to disappear weeks …
It took an incredibly short period of time, a mere six months, from the meeting in London between Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie to discuss the new Olympic-class liners, and the actual keel-laying in December 1907 of the first of the trio, Olympic, yard No. 400. On October 20th, 1910, Olympic was launched at Harland and Wolff’sBelfast yard, and she immediately entered the …
The shipbuilding company of Harland and Wolff stands on Queen’s Island, in Belfast’s River Lagan, and was built on land reclaimed from a river-straightening scheme undertaken between the years 1841 – 1846. The company’s roots were initially sown in 1853, when Robert Hickson and Company opened a shipbuilding yard on the island, building iron-hulled ships. …
The White Star Line had originally been a company serving Australia with traditional sailing vessels during the great Australian gold rush. The company went bankrupt as this gold rush faded, and on the 18th January, 1868, Thomas Henry Ismay bought the company for £1,000. From this point forward, the White Star Line would commission ships …