TITANIC

TITANIC WAS BUILT IN 1911 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST. IN 1912 ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE SHE WAS  NUDGED FROM HER BERTH BY EIGHT TUGS, BUT THE WASH FROM HER PROPELLERS MOVED A SUNKEN BARGE 800 METRES DOWN STREAM AND THE AMERICAN VESSEL 'NEW YORK' WAS TORN FROM HER MOORINGS, A COLLISION ONLY BEING AVOIDED BY THE ACTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING TUGS. SHE WAS TO SINK ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE IN COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG ONLY 90 MILES AWAY FROM  WHERE THE WHITE STAR VESSEL 'NARONIC' NINETEEN YEARS EARLIER HAD PERISHED, AGAIN BELIEVED TO BE DUE TO A COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG. 1503 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN TITANIC SANK.

SOME OF TITANIC'S OFFICERS - CAPTAIN SMITH IS THIRD FROM THE LEFT, FRONT ROW.

THE ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF TITANIC'S RADIO ROOM, ITS VERY SIMILAR TO THE RADIO ROOM ONBOARD 'OLYMPIC' - POSSIBLY HAROLD BRIDE AT THE OPERATING POSITION, BUT THE PICTURE IS DOUBLE EXPOSED AND A BIT BLURRED.TITANIC'S RADIO CALLSIGN WAS ' MGY '