Titanic’s fitting out at Harland and Wolff was now complete, and the next stage in her tragically-short life would be her sea trials. These were actually scheduled for 10.00am on Monday, 1st April, a mere 9 days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage, but due to the adverse weather conditions which would have made sailing her down the narrow …
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 …
It would seem that you can´t have a good story without a conspiracy theory raising its ugly head these days, and the story of the Titanic is no exception. Robin Gardiner, a plasterer from Oxford, England, has written a book, ´Titanic – The Ship That Never Sank´, in which he goes to great lengths to persuade the …
The White Star Line had been using the port of Southampton, on the south coast of England, as a major, and mainly transatlantic, port since 1907. However, the existing dock areas would not be large enough to accommodate the new Olympic-classliners, so a new, and much larger dock covering 16 acres and dredged to almost forty feet was …