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Recently the one-hundred year anniversary of the sinking ofthe Titanic passed. The worlds largest passenger cruise liner at the time, ithad been claimed that the Titanic was unsinkable. This was quickly provenwrong; after setting off on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912 it hit aniceberg in the Atlantic Ocean less than five days later and 1,514 people losttheir lives. Below are five towns and cities that played their part in theTitanics journey, from its construction to the rescue of the 710 survivors. Belfast The story of the Titanic began in Belfast in NorthernIreland where it was built between 1909 and 1911 by a company called Haalandand Wolff Shipyard. White Star liners had commissioned the building of threeOlympic class cruise liners; the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic. Thesewere the three largest liners from White Star. Haaland and Wolff had morelicence than most ship builders, playing a large part in turning the originalWhite Star sketches into a final design. Construction of the Titanic took place on Queens Island inBelfast Harbour, which had since been renamed the Titanic Quarter. Just to beable to build ships of this size three existing slipways had to be demolishedand turned into two new slipways. The Olympic and Titanic ships were builtalongside each other, the Olympic construction beginning in December 1908 withconstruction of the Titanic getting underway on 31 March 1909. Building theTitanic was a dangerous undertaking with safety precautions and equipment muchdifferent than they are today. A total of 246 people were injured during itsconstruction and eight people died; six on the ship and two in the shipyard. On 31 May 1911, exactly two years after construction began,the Titanic was launched from Belfast in front of 10,000 spectators. It wastowed to a fitting-out berth where the engines, funnels and superstructure wereinstalled and the interior was fitted. Trials took place on 2 April with theship certified as seaworthy following these. That evening it finally leftBelfast ready for its maiden voyage. Southampton Southampton, on thesouth coast of England, was the location of the Titanics departure. In 1907White Star began to use Southampton as a major port, mostly for transatlanticcruises. At the time Southampton Dock was not large enough to accommodate thisneed meaning a new dock had to be constructed solely for this purpose. This wassixteen acres in size and forty foot deep and was named the White Star Dock.There were three services a week between Southampton and New York and at thistime travelling by ship was the only way of reaching the United States fromEurope. The Titanic departed from Southampton with over 2,000 people on boardon 10 April 1912 in front of a large crowd. When the ship sunk a few days laterthe loss of life was felt in Southampton more than anywhere else, as aroundeighty percent of the crew members were from the town. Cherbourg Cherbourg in France was the first of two stops to pick uppassengers. Compared with Southampton Cherbourg was a small port without thefacilities required to service such a ship. At 6.30 on the evening of 10 Aprilthe ship anchored off the shore of Cherbourg and two small boats then servicedit and bought passengers on board. An hour and a half after its arrival it leftCherbourg and headed north towards Southern Ireland. Queenstown Queenstown on the South Coast of Southern Ireland was thelast passenger pick-up of the Titanic.It anchored off Roches Pint in Cork Harbour the day after leaving Cherbourg. Asin Cherbourg it was serviced by other boats due to the restrictions of theport. Eight people left the ship and 123 joined for the onward journey. New York New York Harbour was due to be the final destination of theTitanic but it never made it. Instead survivors reached New York via anothership, Carpathia. Carpathia responded to distress calls from the Titanic andarrived a few hours after the ship had sunk. The 710 survivors were taken onboard and then reached New York, and 40,000 waiting spectators, three dayslater. Andrew Marshall ©
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