Also within Titanic Quarter is a Premier Inn, which is located approximately 5 minutes' walk away from the Titanic Belfast building.

But at least Britannic had an excuse – she had been requisitioned as a hospital ship and hit a mine ferrying wounded soldiers home from the war in Europe. So I was initially taken aback by it being a thin book of pertinent details about the ship, before and after passengers boarded, and everything that happened before, during and after Tiantic collided with the iceberg. It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage.People who were to board the day of its launching suddenly felt the need to either decide upon a longer stay or another passage on another ship. As the band played on deck, 1,500 men, women, and children were swept into the ice-cold water of the North Atlantic. Ward’s book, which became a Sunday Times bestseller, inspired a Discovery Channel documentary, Titanic: The Aftermath, which tells the story of Jock’s short but daring life, not unlike that of Jack Dawson in the film, T itanic. There are many myths surrounding the ship, ranging from supernatural warnings of danger through to the belief that all women and children were offered places on the lifeboats first.

Watch the drama unfold as ordinary people became unsung heroes and the supposedly unsinkable ship became an underwater wreck. There were about a thousand on board Britannic when she foundered, many of them wounded, but remarkably only 28 people died – the warm water of the Aegean and Britannic’s proximity to the Greek island of Kea saving their lives. A definitive account of the three sister ships Olympic, Brittannic, and Titanic, from the events that shaped their construction to the present-day movie and salvage of the Titanic's wreck.The Titanic Disaster Omens, Mysteries, and Misfortunes is an interesting read for those who are interested in omens and mysteries associated with the sinking of the Titanic.

Personally, I am not and have never been a sceptic, so I took everything I've read as if that was the absolute truth and had a great time. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Before boarding Titanic, she had already had one lucky escape five months earlier on Titanic’s other ‘twin’, Olympic, which collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke as she left Southampton on her fifth voyage since launch. The hotel is operated by Harcourt Developments; an international property development company with over 50 years experience restoring and renovating listed heritage buildings.Inside the pages of this children's educational book about the Titanic, you'll experience the tragic tale of the world's most famous ship.

Based on the series of events that led up to the sinking, the book goes on to record the experiences of those who survived.Through the power of visual aids and diagrams, this masterpiece by illustrator Ken Marschall presents a new way of educating today’s youth about a poignant event from the past. The ship sank on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg that had gone unnoticed.