Titanic and olympic slipways5/11/2023 The Fit-Out – the fitting-out of Titanic from her launch through to April 1912. It overlooks the slipway from which Titanic was launched and a window enables visitors to see the slipways and docks as they appear now. The Launch gallery portrays scenes from the Spring day when Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough, watched by 100,000 people. The Launch – how Titanic was launched on. The visit continues on a six-seater car which takes the visitor on a ride through a recreation of a shipyard which moves through a scale replica of Titanic's enormous rudder. A lift carries visitors to the top of the gantry, where scenes of shipbuilding are displayed through audio and images. The Shipyard – a ride aboard a mini-car up and around a replica of Titanic's rudder.The second gallery is dominated by a steel scaffold standing 20 metres (66 feet), which alludes to the Arrol Gantry built to aid the construction of Titanic and Olympic. It illustrates the city's major industries before leading through an original set of gates from the Harland and Wolff shipyard into an interactive floor presenting Titanic's construction plans, along with original drawings and scale models of the ship. The first gallery recreates scenes from Belfast at the time of Titanic's construction in 1909–11. Titanic Belfast's exhibition was designed by London based exhibition designers Event Communications and consists of nine interpretative and interactive galleries, covering the following themes: Boomtown Belfast – the city at the start of the 20th century. In 2005, plans were announced to build a museum dedicated to Titanic to attract tourists to the area, with the aim of completing it by 2012 to mark the centenary of Titanic's maiden voyage. The redevelopment plans included houses, hotels and entertainment amenities plus a maritime heritage museum and science centre. Development rights over 185 acres was subsequently bought by Harcourt Developments at a cost of £46 million, with 23 more acres set aside for a science park. The derelict land was renamed the "Titanic Quarter" in 2001 and was earmarked for regeneration. A number of heritage features were given listed status, including the Olympic and Titanic slipways and graving docks, as well as the iconic Samson and Goliath cranes. Most of the disused structures on the island were demolished. The decline of shipbuilding in Belfast left much of the area derelict. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of Olympic and Titanic. The building is located on Queen's Island, an area of land at the entrance of Belfast Lough which was reclaimed from the water in the mid-19th century. The building contains more than 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq feet) of floor space, most of which is occupied by a series of galleries, plus private function rooms and community facilities. It tells the stories of the ill-fated Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank during her maiden voyage in 1912, and her sister ships RMS Olympic and HMS Britannic. The Titanic was equipped with a steam powered triple screw propulsion system to ensure it moved across the ocean at a respectable pace of approximately 22 knots but the blades were deliberately pitched at such an angle that the ship would not vibrate, discomfort or distract the passengers from the more elegant points of Titanic’s voyage on board when enjoying the smoking and dining rooms.The Hull would measure 882.9 ft in length and 92 feet in width and require at least 59 feet of water to float unobstructed.Titanic Belfast is a visitor attraction and a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter where the RMS Titanic was built. The Funnels were constructed off site and attached after the Titanic had left Dry-dock. As a result, only three of the funnels were functional and the fourth was purely aesthetic. White Star thought it a necessity a ship of such grandeur must possess four funnels. Thomas Andrew’s original design of the Titanic was so efficient that it was originally conceived with only three funnels to service the massive boilers some 150 feet below. With all boilers firing the Titanic produced around 46,000 horsepower.
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