Wednesday 14 March 2012

Belfast wagers on Titanic's unsinkable appeal

In this photo of Tuesday March 13, 2012 a man walks past the new 100 million British pounds ($157 million)Titanic Belfast Visitor's Center. Celebrating the Titanic ship and the people who built her in the Titanic Belfast, with its four prow-like wings jutting jauntily skyward beside the River Lagan on the site of the old Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic, then the world's largest, most luxurious ocean liner, left this spot on April 2, 1912 on its maiden voyage from England to New York, and twelve days later, it stuck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in the early hours of April 15, and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)To most of the world, the name Titanic means tragedy, spiced with romance, sacrifice and luxury. But in Belfast, where it was built, the doomed ship is a triumph of industry, enterprise and engineering.


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