When Titanic was constructed at Harland and Wolff from 1909 through 1912, she would become the largest moving object ever made by man, edging out her elder sister Olympic thanks to additional features that were included in her after experience with Olympic showed various possibilities for improvement.
Titanic Connections, using original photographs of the Titanic and her sister Olympic, as well as building plans, digital recreations, and other sources, will be taking our visitors on a tour of the ship. Every Tuesday, Titanic Connections’ historian Nick DeWitt will touch on a particular feature of the Titanic, starting with her keel plates and finishing eventually with the tops of the masts, funnels, and the wireless aerial. As Bruce Ismay said in James Cameron’s 1997 epic “Titanic,” the tour will be “from the keel plates up!’
We hope you’ll enjoy this feature and we look forward to bringing it to you each week. If you have a feature of the ship you want to make sure we touch on, please let us know! While the weekly tours will be done from the bottom of the ship to the top, we are always open to suggestions about what you’d like to hear more about when we get to that part of the ship!
