Titanic

The grand vessel, dubbed unsinkable, left Southampton at midday on April 10 1912. Later that day, the White Star Line ship reached Cherbourg, ...

“Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends”’. It is near to the iconic Titanic Belfast building, which opened on the centenary of the Titanic sinking, a visitor attraction the pays tribute to Belfast’s maritime heritage. So too did Thomas Andrews from Co Down, the Titanic’s architect. The memorial carries the name of the Belfast men known at the time to have been lost in the tragedy: Twenty two of the dead are named in a memorial in the grounds of Belfast City Hall, which was unveiled in 1920. The Titanic link to Belfast has its origins almost half a century earlier, when White Star Line in 1869 chose Harland and Wolff in the city to commence construction of vessels to rival Cunard Line, which was the main shipping service across the Atlantic.

One of Titanic's most memorable characters is Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates, but this character was almost played by a very different actress.

As for Kathy Bates, her performance as Molly Brown won over the hearts of viewers thanks to her kindness and strength and was one of the most memorable performances in Titanic. The “ Unsinkable Molly Brown” is one of the most memorable characters in Titanic, but she was almost played by a very different actress, who would have given her a different type of charm: Reba McEntire. Although the main story in Titanic, along with its protagonists, is fictional, it featured various characters based on real-life people, among those Molly Brown, who was wonderfully played by Kathy Bates, but she wasn’t the producers’ first option for the role.

THUNDER BAY – The Royal Mail Ship Titanic has a legacy as the end of an era. It is a story that has never aged. The romance, the tragedy, and end of the age ...

“After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship’s time. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity. The RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. The RMS Titanic left port as a ship of dreams.

On 10 April 1912, the RMS Titanic finally departed from the Southampton docks, after being first being laid down on the 31 March 1909, and set off on its ...

On the evening of the 10 April, the ship stopped at Cherbourg, France to take on more passengers. The collision led to five of the sixteen watertight compartments being breached, the ship would have been kept afloat if only four were affected. The two men then devised a plan to build a set of large liners that would be known for their comfort instead of their speed. At approximately 1:30 PM the ship set sail for New York City. Onboard were some 2,200 people, approximately 1,300 of whom were passengers. It must be noted that there was a maximum capacity of 48 lifeboats but instead only installed 20 on the ship, as it was thought to be too cluttered and thought the Titanic would float long enough for rescue to arrive. The two passenger liners were garnering much attention for their expected speed; both would later set speed records crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

The same would have been true for musician Wallace Henry Hartley but for one terrifying event 110 years ago, which turned Wallace and his fellow band members into almost legendary figures. You see, Wallace was the bandmaster on the ill-fated RMS Titanic.

It is believed that when his body was recovered a silver matchbox was found in his pocket, engraved with the message ‘From Collinson’s Staff, Leeds’. “Calmly, as if in the concert room, they went on playing, while slowly the great ship dipped her bows deeper into the water, and one by one the lifeboats were launched. The musicians were either directed to, or voluntarily played music as the ship was sinking to keep passengers calm as the fortunate ones were loaded into lifeboats. The largest passenger ship of its time, there were 2,200 people on board Titanic on its voyage, 1,300 passengers and 900 crew, with passengers paying between the equivalent today of £800 and £3,300 for the journey. This hymn, possibly apocryphally, was to become connected to his son following the tragedy. The same would have been true for musician Wallace Henry Hartley but for one terrifying event 110 years ago, which turned Wallace and his fellow band members into almost legendary figures.

On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

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