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Maiden voyage-
Last voyage…
Titanic Model
Birth of a legend
The world was on the move at the beginning of the 20th century. The
car, airplane and cinema were among the inventions. Passengers, cargo
and mail could be moved across the Atlantic quickly now. People used
ocean liners to travel across the oceans of the world. These ocean liners
became ever faster, larger and more luxurious to accommodate this
increase in traffic.
At a dinner party in the summer of 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, Managing
Director of the White Star Line, and Lord Pirrie, Chairman of Harland
and Wolf in Belfast, created a plan to dominate passenger travel on the
North Atlantic. They planned to construct three ships, the largest and
most luxurious ever built. Work on two ships was to start immediately.
They would be called Olympic and Titanic.
Lots and lots of changes had to be made at Harland and Wolff.
This enormous steel construction was created in 1908,
especially for the building of the Titanic.
Launch Day
Titanic sailed out of Belfast Lough on the evening of 2nd April 1912.
Earlier that day the ship had been subjected to a strenuous sea trial,
including an order to reverse her engines while at high speed. At 8
p.m., Titanic left the great industrial city of her birth, headed for
Southampton, her massive engines rumbling as she steamed down
the River Lagan and entered the Irish Sea. Throughout the night the
ship maintained a steady speed of 18 knots while her Marconi
Officers finished installing and collaborating the Ships wireless
equipment. Due to freak atmospheric conditions, some of the
Titanic’s transmissions were received as far as 4,800 kilometres
away.
LEAVING BELFAST
Day of Departure
On Wednesday, 10 April 1912 in Southampton, England
there was an air of excitement as the Titanic crew
started to board the mighty ship. Most 2nd and 3rd Class
passengers took the 9:30 train from London that
morning, while the 1st class passengers chose to get the
11:30 train to Southampton where a greeting aboard
awaited them, to the sound of the ship’s orchestra.
With everyone onboard, engines rumbled as the ship left
the docks
LEAVING SOUTHHAMPTON
First Class Travel
Lillian, 16
Charles, 14
William, 11
Jessie, 10
Harold, 9
Baby Sidney
Augusta Goodwin, 43
Frederick Goodwin, 40
R.I.P.
The Goodwin Family
Stella, George, Douglas, Frederick, William, Dorothy, Ada, Constance and Thomas
died
with their Mum and Dad.
R.I.P.
Margaret Devaney, 19, from Sligo, survived the disaster.
She was travelling with two friends, also from Sligo.
Bridget Bradley, 22, from
Co. Cork was travelling in
a large group of seven
friends. Her friend, Daniel
Buckley, was one of a
handful of 3rd class men
who survived. They
escaped in the same
lifeboat, Daniel wearing a
woman’s shawl.
Margaret “Maggie” Madigan
Margaret Madigan led a very
unlucky life, having been lucky
to survive the disaster. She
lost her only child,Alfred,in
a drowning accident. Both her
first and second husband died
at a young age. She struggled
to make ends meet all of her
life. She is buried with both of
her husbands in an unmarked
grave in New York.
Willie Coutts