Comments on: TIS Convention 2008 New York site online today http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/ Maritime and Titanic News Around the Globe Sun, 18 May 2008 11:05:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: titanicinternational http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-52 titanicinternational Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:50:11 +0000 http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-52 Donn- Thanks for your email. Actually the ship on the masthead of this site is not Titanic, but rather the old Mauretania and so smoke coming from the fourth funnel is okay! The stacks are Cunard red-orange with the black banding around them. /Administrator Donn- Thanks for your email. Actually the ship on the masthead of this site is not Titanic, but rather the old Mauretania and so smoke coming from the fourth funnel is okay! The stacks are Cunard red-orange with the black banding around them. /Administrator

]]> By: Belfast Titanic Convention http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-51 Belfast Titanic Convention Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:08:37 +0000 http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-51 PRESS RELEASE BEGIN Belfast Titanic Convention 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention The 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention will take place from 27-29 March 2008 at the W5 in Belfast, Northern Ireland overlooking the slipway for the Titanic. Following a successful inaugural convention that included delegates from Scandinavia, the USA as well as the Republic of Ireland and the UK, 2008 will feature world renowned Titanic expert G Michael Harris, tours of Titanic heritage sights in Belfast, ex shipyard workers sharing their experiences and a gala dinner at the Belfast Harbour Commissioners. The delegates will experience the wonders of the birthplace of the famous liner through: tours of Drawing Offices where the design and detailed drawings for Titanic & Olympic were formulated and produced. The Thompson Titanic Trial, taking in Thompson Dock and Pump House used to paint the Titanic’s hull, install the boilers, fit the propellers, along with some of the final fixtures and fittings Titanic expert G. Michael Harris who has spent the last 25 years cultivating his research, knowledge and exploration of Titanic and led the largest expedition to the Titanic wreck site to date in August 2000, salvaging over 1,800 new artefacts. He has made more than 8 dives to the site. The return of the popular discussions with ex-shipyard workers. Their experiences will be recorded for posterity. Supported by the Belfast City Council and the Titanic Made in Belfast festival, Titanic Quarter Ltd and the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, the convention provides international exposure to the rich heritage of Northern Ireland. For delegates wishing to expand their Titanic and Northern Ireland experience, a package of tours throughout the province will be available. For more information and registration go to www.titanicconvention.com or e-mail info@titanicconvention.com The Belfast Titanic Convention is supported by: END For more information, pictures and interviews please contact Anne Doherty, Belfast Titanic Convention Director at Happening on (+44) 28 90387476 or email info@titanicconvention.com PRESS RELEASE
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Belfast Titanic Convention
2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention
The 2nd annual Belfast Titanic Convention will take place from 27-29 March 2008 at the W5 in Belfast, Northern Ireland overlooking the slipway for the Titanic.
Following a successful inaugural convention that included delegates from Scandinavia, the USA as well as the Republic of Ireland and the UK, 2008 will feature world renowned Titanic expert G Michael Harris, tours of Titanic heritage sights in Belfast, ex shipyard workers sharing their experiences and a gala dinner at the Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
The delegates will experience the wonders of the birthplace of the famous liner through:
tours of Drawing Offices where the design and detailed drawings for Titanic & Olympic were formulated and produced.
The Thompson Titanic Trial, taking in Thompson Dock and Pump House used to paint the Titanic’s hull, install the boilers, fit the propellers, along with some of the final fixtures and fittings
Titanic expert G. Michael Harris who has spent the last 25 years cultivating his research, knowledge and exploration of Titanic and led the largest expedition to the Titanic wreck site to date in August 2000, salvaging over 1,800 new artefacts. He has made more than 8 dives to the site.
The return of the popular discussions with ex-shipyard workers. Their experiences will be recorded for posterity.
Supported by the Belfast City Council and the Titanic Made in Belfast festival, Titanic Quarter Ltd and the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, the convention provides international exposure to the rich heritage of Northern Ireland. For delegates wishing to expand their Titanic and Northern Ireland experience, a package of tours throughout the province will be available.
For more information and registration go to http://www.titanicconvention.com or e-mail info@titanicconvention.com
The Belfast Titanic Convention is supported by:

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For more information, pictures and interviews please contact Anne Doherty, Belfast Titanic Convention Director at Happening on (+44) 28 90387476 or email info@titanicconvention.com

]]> By: Donn M Searle http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-44 Donn M Searle Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:54:07 +0000 http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/tis-convention-2008-new-york-site-online-today/#comment-44 Enjoying your site, having navigated to it from an online ET article. Like many if not most of those fascinated by the sinking of RMS Titanic and of that watershed time in history, my interest was awakened by reading Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember". As an 8 year-old boy visiting relatives in Bronxville, N.Y., I vividly remember as the most frightening sight of my life, being driven by the blackened, smoldering liner Normandie, capsized in her berth, the day after the 1942 fire that eventually reduced that once-beautiful liner to scrap. I never forgot that image and many years later, saw for the first time, how she appeared before the fire -from a scale model of Normandie in a ship's library. Since then, I have researched the building and short life of the liner, along with it, captivating history surrounding the fire: The influence of the New York crime syndicate on suspected sabotage and by extension, the US campaign in Sicily during World War II. Thus does the single event of Titanic beckon us to examine life at the turn of the century and place ourselves on deck during that night to remember, to try to know who we really are in crisis. By the way, I note in the painting of Titanic on your website (http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/), smoke coming from the fourth stack. As you know, that stack was non-functional, having been added for aesthetic reasons. Enjoying your site, having navigated to it from an online ET article. Like many if not most of those fascinated by the sinking of RMS Titanic and of that watershed time in history, my interest was awakened by reading Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember”.
As an 8 year-old boy visiting relatives in Bronxville, N.Y., I vividly remember as the most frightening sight of my life, being driven by the blackened, smoldering liner Normandie, capsized in her berth, the day after the 1942 fire that eventually reduced that once-beautiful liner to scrap. I never forgot that image and many years later, saw for the first time, how she appeared before the fire -from a scale model of Normandie in a ship’s library. Since then, I have researched the building and short life of the liner, along with it, captivating history surrounding the fire: The influence of the New York crime syndicate on suspected sabotage and by extension, the US campaign in Sicily during World War II. Thus does the single event of Titanic beckon us to examine life at the turn of the century and place ourselves on deck
during that night to remember, to try to know who we really are in crisis.
By the way, I note in the painting of Titanic on your website (http://titanicinternational.wordpress.com/), smoke coming from the fourth stack. As you know, that stack was non-functional, having been added for aesthetic reasons.

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