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Follow on Google News | Stream Advertising Comments on the Titanic Endeavour, Belfast’s newest attractionStream Advertising Comments on the Titanic Endeavour, Belfast’s newest attraction
By: StreamAdvertising For once, the term "of Titanic proportions" Built in Harland and Wolf, Belfast’s biggest and best the Titanic nicknamed ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ was destined for greatness. While Harland and Wolff did not have a monopoly on large ships, The White Star Line wanted to achieve supremacy on the world's leading intercontinental link, which – then as now – connected southern England with New York. One hundred years ago, Northern Ireland's capital was a proud and wealthy powerhouse of the British Empire, its foundations resting on the linen trade and heavy engineering – with the finest shipbuilders on earth. A source at stream advertising said “We all know the history of the Titanic; It is easily regarded as the most famous ship in the world, even one hundred years on, in the 21st Century people still get emotional when thinking or referring to the titanic” Voices of some survivors, recorded in the 1960s, recount that horrifying night. The needless loss of life was soon exposed by official inquiries by the Board of Trade and the US Senate, which revealed how cost-cutting and a botched evacuation took many lives. Titanic carried lifeboats for fewer than half her passengers and crew, and many of the vessels were only half-full when they were launched. One more strange twist remains: not in the Titanic story, but in the Titanic Belfast building itself. Most of it is an ingenious commemoration of the genius and follies of man. But the top two floors comprise a banqueting suite, resembling a dozen upmarket hotels between here and Dublin. Sales conferences and wedding receptions will help pay the rent, which will help if Titanic Belfast fails to meet visitor targets. But its prospects, unlike its subject's, seem set fair. The opening on 31 March will harness the surge in interest around the centenary of the sinking and it may also help the city lay its own ghosts to rest: "It took many, many decades before Belfast itself could come to terms with the loss.” A source for Stream Advertising said “Titanic Belfast is a great way to commemorate those 1,517 people who lost their lives on the fateful night that was April 2nd 1912, It shows the relatives of those who lost their lives that they will never be forgotten, even after one hundred years since the tragedy we all live it as if we were their ourselves” End
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