Titanic Dock & Pump House Tour
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The Thompson Graving Dock is located on the west-side of Queen's Island in Belfast, within sight of the Harland and Wolff shipyard. The dock was constructed by the Belfast Harbour Commissioners and opened in 1911. It was designed to accommodate the new mammoth White Star liners Olympic and Titanic.
The hulls of each ship were built on slipways at the Harland & Wolff shipyard. Following the launch of the hull of the Olympic on 20 October 1910 Titanic on 31 May 1911 each empty hull was fitted out, and moved to the dry-dock for painting of the hull and fitting of the propellers. The dock would be used during the ship's lives when they returned to Belfast for refitting.
The adjacent building is the dock pump house and was used to pump out water from the dock. The pump house originally served the Alexandra Graving Dock, located on the other side of the pump house from the Thompson Graving Dock, and was extended to provide additional pumping capacity for the new Thompson Graving Dock.
Today, the dock is the only location where it is possible to properly gauge the scale of the Titanic, as the whole footprint of the graving dock would have been occupied by the hull of the ship. The pump house serves as a heritage attraction telling the story of the dock and the Titanic.
The dock is 850 feet (259 metres) in length, exactly the length of the Olympic-class liners between perpendiculars; their waterline length. The sides of the dock are flush for half their height, while above the sides are stepped outwards. The landward end of the dock is curved, while the harbour-end is flat, with a large, movable caisson gate.
The width of the dock floor measures 100 feet (30.48 metres), while at the caisson gate the width is 96 feet (29.26 metres), giving a margin of just 1 foot 9 inches (0.53 metres) either side of the dock gate for the transit of the Olympic and Titanic; the margin was even smaller for the 94 feet (28.7 metre) wide Britannic.
The graving dock was a dry dock; the dock would be flooded to allow a ship to enter the dock. The caisson gate to the dock would be closed and the dock pumped dry. The ship had to be positioned exactly, so that she would come to rest on the keel blocks. With the dock dry, shipyard workers from Harland and Wolff could descend on the ship to work on her, fitting the ship out and working on her hull, propellers and rudder; parts of the ship that would normally be underwater.
A walk around the Titanic's old Dock & Pump House in Belfast, Northern Ireland Harland Wolff
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Titanic Dry Dock & Pump House - Belfast
Cena do vault (vala) monumental, onde eram armados e reparados os navios da White Star, entre eles o Olimpic, o Titanic e o Britanic.
O Dry Dock & Pump House fica localizado às margens do Rio Langan, o rio que corta a Irlanda (tanto a República quanto a do Norte) e deságua na baía de Belfast. De dimensões monumentais, o Dry Dock é uma das principais atrações da capital norte-irlandesa
Titanic's Dry Dock & Pump House
Original Titanic Graving (Dry) Dock and pump house (1904) Belfast, Ireland. I23 million gallons of water could be pumped out by steam in 2 hours. (Filmed 2012) See cruise blog:
Belfast, in Titanic's dock
Titanic ship Dock at Belfast UK
Titanic ship Dock
The place where Titanic Docked before its maiden journey. It is in Belfast, north Ireland, United Kingdom
Titanic Flotation Dock, Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, 30/8/09
I had wanted to see this location for the majority of my life and it didn't disappoint.
Belfast, Northern Ireland: RMS Titanic
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The Titanic Quarter, Belfast.
Belfast tour: The Titanic Experience, the Titanic Hotel (fomer Harland & Wolff/Titanic drawing office) the Nomadic (Titanic's tender), the HMS Caroline battleship and the Titanic dry-dock pump house.
Titanic Berth Southampton Docks berth 44 Great Britain UK
Titanic Berth Southampton Docks Great Britain UK
The Port of Southampton is a major passenger and cargo port located in the central part of the south coast of England. It has been an important port since the Roman occupation of Britain nearly two thousand years ago, and has a multifaceted history. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, it was a centre for naval shipbuilding and a departure point for soldiers going to war. The port also played a role in the development of hovercraft, flying boat services, seaplanes and the Spitfire fighter plane. Before the advent of jet travel, Southampton was Britain's gateway to the world. The port also played a minor role in the history of Britain's canals.
RMS Titanic is, as of the time of its construction, the largest ship ever built, nearly 900 feet long and 25 stories high. The pride of J. Bruce Ismay and the White Star Line, this elegant 46,000-ton luxury ocean liner was launched in April 1912 with sixteen watertight compartments in the lower section which can be sealed individually with the intention that the mighty ship remain afloat even on collision with another vessel, providing plenty of time to summon assistance with the state-of-the-art five kilowatt Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus.
This magnificent steamship, constructed at an estimated cost of £1,564,000 and travelling with an 885-person crew, is equipped with every luxury and built to serve a clientèle which includes many famous millionaires. Titanic's maximum total capacity is 3547 passengers, her port of registry is Liverpool. She carries the sixteen lifeboats required by regulations and an additional four collapsible lifeboats; these twenty boats can carry a combined maximum of 1098 people.
Trans-Atlantic travel is offered in first, second and third-class price ranges, with the first class offering the most extensive amenities: a squash court, gymnasium, Turkish bath, heated salt-water swimming pool, deck games such as ring toss or shuffleboard, a fully stocked library, a variety of cafés and lounges, and dining halls where first class passengers may dine in opulence. Even the facilities in third class are excellent compared to those of other ocean liners of the era.
One way fares for the trans-Atlantic crossing (1912 currency) are a not-insubstantial £870 for a First Class parlour suite, £30 for a First Class berth, £12 for Second Class and a somewhat more economical £3 to £8 for Third Class. Constructed by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the RMS Titanic departs Southampton to speed the well-to-do and many emigrants on their way toward New York City. The maiden voyage in April 1912 will have 2,228 people on board including notables such as John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man in the world.
TItanic 1943 Trailer
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Titanic Quarter Belfast
Titanic Experience and Slipway, Thompson Dry Dock where the Titanic was fitted out and the Nomadic the White Star Line Tender that ferried passengers from Cherbourg to the Titanic as the ship was too big to dock.
HMS Caroline... and RMS Titanic - Made in Belfast, Ireland (Currently Northern Ireland)
HMS Caroline was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. Caroline was launched and commissioned in 1914. At the time of her decommissioning in 2011 she was the second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after HMS Victory. She served as a static headquarters and training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, based in Alexandra Dock, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the later stages of her career. She was the last remaining British First World War light cruiser in service, and she remains the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland still afloat.
From gotobelfast.com:
The Titanic was designed and built in Belfast between 1909 and 1912 and sent proudly out on her maiden voyage. When RMS Titanic sailed away from Belfast on her maiden voyage on April 10th, 1912, she was hailed as 'the new wonder of the world'. A remarkable feat of Edwardian engineering and craftsmanship, she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship ever seen, and despite her tragic sinking she remains a source of enduring pride in the city where she was built - Belfast.
Already visitors can explore the recently restored Titanic's Dock and Pump-House which comprises a 7-acre scheduled monument site and includes the Thompson Dry Dock and its associated Pump-House. The Pump-House was once the beating heart of Harland & Wolff's operation during the construction of the great White Star Liners - Britannic, Olympic and most famously the RMS Titanic.
Life is returning to Queens Island, home to Harland and Wolff shipbuilders. A £7billion waterfront development, twice the size of London's Canary Wharf, has already begun, bearing the name Titanic Quarter. Titanic's little sister, SS Nomadic, which served as a tender ship at Cherbourg, has returned to Belfast and is being faithfully restored. There are ambitious plans to commemorate the centenary of Titanic's launch and her departure from Belfast in 2012 including the development of an iconic visitor attraction with galleries telling the story of Northern Ireland's maritime history and the world famous Titanic.
The Thompson Dock itself is the footprint of Titanic and provides an amazing representation of the scale of the ship. Today the Pump-House comprises of a Visitor Centre & Cafe, Interpretative Centre, meeting rooms & event space. Belfast has gained international recognition as a 'city on the rise' by Lonely Planet in 2007 and Titanic now has a future as well as a past.
The TITANIC Dock Description
Irish man described how the TITANIC ship has been built in the Dock yard which still functioning as the same like 100 years before...
Original Titanic dockyard at Belfast Harbour after 101 years
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, The sheer size of Titanic and her sister ships posed a major engineering challenge for Harland and Wolff; no shipbuilder had ever before attempted to construct vessels this large. The ships were constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour. Harland and Wolff had to demolish three existing slipways and build two new ones, the biggest ever constructed up to that time, to accommodate the giant ships.[9] Their construction was facilitated by an enormous gantry built by Sir William Arrol & Co., a Scottish firm responsible for the building of the Forth Bridge and London's Tower Bridge. The Arrol Gantry stood 228 feet (69 m) high, was 270 feet (82 m) wide and 840 feet (260 m) long, and weighed more than 6,000 tons. It accommodated a number of mobile cranes. A separate floating crane, capable of lifting 200 tons, was brought in from Germany.[6
The Titanic Drydock and a Stena Liner
Made from Google Maps to share with a friend, used the unique tilt feature which makes one feel like they are in an aeroplane. :)
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The pier Titanic never reached
One hundred years ago, the Titanic would have arrived on New York's West Side piers. CNN's Richard Roth takes a look.