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It\u2019s Titanorak-heaven at the moment in the TQ!\u00a0 I\u2019m having the time of my life…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Next Tuesday is a big big day in Titanic history – the 100-year anniversary of the day Titanic was launched as an empty metal shell from the slipways behind the drawing office.\u00a0 Imagine the sight – 800-plus-feet, thousands of tons, of riveted metal sliding down the angled slipway under the massive Arrol gantries, picking up speed as she slid into the waiting waters of Belfast Lough.\u00a0 Sixty-two seconds from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Preparations are well underway to mark the occasion with music, prayer, readings and a 62-second cheer at precisely 13 minutes past 12 – the exact anniversary.\u00a0 The Dock team are right in the middle of it all – so you\u2019ll get all the updates right here over the next few days!<\/p>\n

As part of the anniversary celebrations, the SS Nomadic (the Titanic\u2019s tender, built right here in Belfast alongside Titanic itself) has been opened up for hard-hat tours for just a couple of days.\u00a0 You might remember that back in Feb 2010 I was pretty much the last person on board Nomadic before it was closed for refitting (watch the movie here<\/a>).\u00a0 So imagine my geeky joy at being back on board 15 months later, standing on the incredibly evocative decks where some of Titanic\u2019s most famous passengers once stood, watching the beautiful old girl being nursed (well, drilled, riveted and welded) back to health.<\/p>\n

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I just can\u2019t express how shiver-down-the-spiney it is to stand on board.\u00a0 At various points in history, that same metal has been under the feet of the Titanic\u2019s first-class passengers (like the unsinkable Molly Brown), first-world-war troops, movie stars like Douglas Fairbanks, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, groovy French gourmets dining out in style on the River Seine… and the colony of rats who commandeered the ship when it was rusting slowly into extinction, unloved and forgotten. \u00a0 Yet beyond that century of use and misuse, the craftsmanship of the Belfast builders still shines through, original and strong.\u00a0 The metal panels (the same kind of metal as Titanic) and the clusters of rivets (the same kind of rivets as Titanic) have stood the test of time and wear – these were well-built ships. \u00a0History to be proud of.<\/p>\n

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