An inspiring story from Belfast, Ireland (via New Zealand) about the destination tourism being incurred thanks to it's ship building past...
But of course Belfast didn't just build any ships. It built THE ship. The biggest and most flamboyant of it's age, claimed to be the most decadent and totally un-sinkable. The Titanic...
In Ireland the story is still told how "We built the unsinkable ship. Well, it was unsinkable when it left Belfast, but it had an English captain so it wasn't our fault...."
Although there is currently no Titanic museum in Belfast - or indeed a maritime museum to acknowledge the 3000 other vessels built here - the city has long since come to terms with the notoriety of the great "unsinkable" ship. In fact, after those decades of denial by silence, Belfast is celebrating the Titanic and the city's maritime history with an annual festival in April...
For more on this story, follow http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10609111&ref=rss
Barticus.
But of course Belfast didn't just build any ships. It built THE ship. The biggest and most flamboyant of it's age, claimed to be the most decadent and totally un-sinkable. The Titanic...
In Ireland the story is still told how "We built the unsinkable ship. Well, it was unsinkable when it left Belfast, but it had an English captain so it wasn't our fault...."
Although there is currently no Titanic museum in Belfast - or indeed a maritime museum to acknowledge the 3000 other vessels built here - the city has long since come to terms with the notoriety of the great "unsinkable" ship. In fact, after those decades of denial by silence, Belfast is celebrating the Titanic and the city's maritime history with an annual festival in April...
For more on this story, follow http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10609111&ref=rss
Barticus.
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