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Photo Collection Documents Launch Of The Titanic

31st December 2014
Photo Collection Documents Launch Of The Titanic

#Titanic - The year won't be complete without sharing this wonderful collection of images from the launch of the RMS Titanic at Belfast Lough in 1911, courtesy of the Belfast Telegraph.

The stunning photographs were taken by John W Kempster, a senior engineer at the Harland and Wolff shipyards, as the ill-fated vessel was moved from her slipway into the lough.

And they were never seen in public before their unveiling in October at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, where they will remain on display till next summer.

Apart from the Titanic, the photo collection also documents the construction of her sister ship the Olympic, on which Kempster and his family sailed to America on her maiden voyage.

The Belfast Telegraph has much more on the story HERE.

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MacDara Conroy

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