{"id":7888,"date":"2014-04-16T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2014-04-16T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:52:58","slug":"nights-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/nights-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Nights To Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently heard someone say that after all the fuss of 2012, we’ve forgotten about Titanic again… Well – not on my watch!<\/p>\n

\"BkPRA6DIQAAgfwr\"<\/a>The last few weeks have seen a host of different, creative, moving, inspirational ways to remember the Titanic story.<\/p>\n

Back on 2nd April, we held an event to mark ‘She Was All Right When She Left Here Day’, walking through the Titanic Quarter and through the entire geography of Titanic’s creation – the places where she was designed, built, launched and fitted out.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>The rain poured – I mean really, really poured. \u00a0You had to be a serious Titanorak to stand at the end of the Thompson Dock and squint into the grey murk of Belfast Lough to imagine the Titanic steaming off into the distance 102 years ago. \u00a0But we were there!<\/p>\n

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\"Bkh1XBNIgAAUfui.jpg-large\"<\/a>Then last Sunday, our evening service on board SS Nomadic looked at the stories of the 8 band members who so famously played until the very end as the ship sank – at first keeping the mood light with jazz and show tunes to stave off panic, and then, in the moment everyone remembers, playing hymns as the ship went down.<\/p>\n

We looked at the various hymns and tunes that may or may not have been played – the eyewitnesses (and later the historians) disagreed, so we can’t be sure! \u00a0Even the films contain different tunes to the hymn ‘Nearer My God To Thee’. \u00a0We watched the version presented in the peerless black-and-white film ‘A Night To Remember’:<\/p>\n