
National Geographic: Secrets of the Titanic
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It began here in ireiand at the
Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
Three thousand men would labor here
for more than 2 years.
They were building a monster
the largest ship the world
had ever seen.
In the spring of 1909
rise against the sky.
The ship would weigh 66,000 tons
her hull would span 4 city blocks,
each of her colossal steam engines
was the size of a 3-story house.
The huge scale of these things was
a source of delight.
It was a scene out of
Gulliver's Travels when
the ship's anchor
through the streets of Belfast.
Some few observers found
this giant threatening
and wrote of her nightmare scale.
But their forebodings fell short of
the event,
for the fate of this ship still
fascinates the world
and her name is a synonym for tragedy.
In 1910 the huge ship taking shape
in Belfast was a supreme wonder
in world accustomed to miracles.
Every day it seemed something bigger
or better was invented.
Never had so many people been so
prosperous,
never had they taken such delight
in showing off
so this was called, "The Gildde Age."
This was a time when horses
still got most people around.
But things were rapidly changing
thanks to the machines of a new age
everything from rubber bands
to radios
from lightbuibs
to automobiles.
Progress and prosperity
money and machines,
almost anything seemed possible
and often it was.
May 31st, 1911,
the Roual Mail Ship Titanic,
slipped gracefully into Belfast harbor.
It was the largest moving object
ever made by man.
the rich passenger trade
on the North Atlantic.
It was not only the biggest ocean liner
it was by far the most luxurious.
Aboard Titanic it was hard to
remember that this was indeed a ship.
Advertising the delights it offered
the White Star Line called Titanic,
"a floating palace."
So confident were Titanic's builders
that her trial vouage
lasted just 8 hours.
Almost as an afterthought
she was said to be, "unsinkable."
On April 10th, 1912,
Titanic's maiden vouage began.
With their maids
valets and chauffeurs
their mountains of baggage the rich
traveled in a style almost unknown today.
In an age that worshipped wealth
the 325 first class passengers
were an awesome assembly.
Titanic was like a time capsule laden
with the splendors of the gilded Age.
In 1912 these films were shown in
theaters to a public eager
for any glimpse of Titanic
in fact, this is actually Titanic's
smaller sister ship the Olympic.
But the excitement and spectacle
were true to the event
and many people couldn't
tell the difference.
Titanic sailed from
Southampton at noon,
she was expected to reach New York
just 7days,
There are a few authentic pictures
taken aboard Titanic
on her first and last voyage.
A vacationing priest
Father Francis Brown,
caught these poignant snapshots
of his fellow passengers.
Most of them on a voyage to eternity.
The next day Titanic made her last stop
pausing off the coast at
Queenstown, Ireland.
last passengers,
mostly Irish immigrants headed for
new homes in America,
and here the lucky Father Brown
disembarked,
taking these pictures on his way.
Father Brown caught Captain Smith
peering down from Titanic's bridge
poised on the brink of destiny.
twilight zone of legend
she would not be photographed again
for 73 years,
vanished in all but human memory.
The event of Titanic's last hours
have not faded with the passage of time.
The tragedy
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