Titanic & Some facts...............
Cover of White Star promotional booklet, published May 1911, describing their new leviathans Olympic & Titanic. White Star’s advertising of the ships projected their huge size and supremacy on the ocean.
Model of the sisterships Olympic & Titanic, built in Harland & Wolff’s model shop c.1911 for promotional display by the White Star Line.
Olympic & Titanic were intended to eclipse rival Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania, on the North Atlantic. They were 1½ times larger and designed to offer ultimate luxury in ocean travel, rather than compete in terms of the highest speed.
Thomas Andrews was Harland & Wolff’s chief designer, a nephew of Lord Pirrie and a managing director of the company.
He had a key role in the design and building of Titanic. In this iconic 1911 photograph Andrews is wearing his everyday working suit and is holding folded plans, possibly of the great ship in which he perished. When Titanic was sinking his chief concern was the safety of everyone but himself.
Harland & Wolff drawing office, 1912
In this photograph naval architects and draughtsmen are working on ship designs. This is where plans of Olympic and Titanic were prepared. The high barrel ceiling and large number of windows made maximum use of natural light. This drawing office and an adjacent drawing office have survived to the present day and will be preserved at Queen’s Island, now incorporating Titanic Quarter.
Two huge new slipways were required before construction of Olympic and Titanic could begin. As Slip No's 2 and 3, they replaced three smaller slips. This 1907 photograph shows the early stages of construction and the filthy working conditions endured by the workers. It also illustrates the dependence of an advanced industrial shipyard on hard physical labour and horse-drawn carts
An enormous steel gantry was erected in 1908 over the two new slipways for the construction of Olympic & Titanic. The gantry was equipped with a system of cranes besides 4 large electric lifts. Supplied by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow, the completed structure weighed almost 6000 tons, with a height of 228 feet to the top of the upper crane.
A reshuffling of the senior officers aboard Titanic saved the life of David Blair, who was first assigned as Titanic's second officer..
J. P. Morgan, owner of International Mercantile Marine, parent company of the White Star Line, canceled his booking aboard Titanic at the last moment.
Ambassador Robert Bacon and his family booked passage aboard Titanic, but their delayed departure saved their lives.
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Clay Frick canceled their booking of cabin B-52 when Mrs. Frick hurt her ankle at Madeira while on a cruise aboard Adriatic.
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