Outside the Titanic Museum

Since it is within walking distance the kids and I went to enjoy the displays outside the Titanic Museum.  It is such a busy place that you have to make an appointment to see the inside.  We have been told you have to book two weeks in advance.  The kids want to wait and see if Grandma can come over before we go.  They would like to see it with her.

A lot of thought and stuff to look at was put into the outside of the Titanic Museum we have been there twice and still find things that we did not see the first time.  The Museum was built on the slipway for the Titanic and its sister ship the Olympic.  Yesterday we were shown that in the cement there is a light strip that marks out the exact width and length of both ships.  Sarah walked around both of them.  Inside the perimeter of the Titanic are outlines of lifeboat, smokestack and bridge locations.  The perimeter of the Olympic has a visual aid of how many passengers lived and died by class.  Using decking (lived) and grass (died) they have marked all the classes.  This is what it looks like.

First Class 325 aboard, 201 survive

Second Class 284 aboard, 118 survive

Third Class 708 aboard, 178 survive

Crew 908 aboard, 216 survive

The Third Class and Crew grass areas are larger than our front lawn at home.  It really grabs you.

Arrol Gantry Cranes.  They are now marked by the rusty upright beams

interesting facts about water pollution. lol

from the end of the slipway Titanic's bow would have almost touched the Museum.

survivors of the Titanic tour

A hairy fish, my boy

Another cool thing we discovered was in the cement paving stones around the museum.  They created a map of the world completely surrounding the museum.  The continents are done in darker paving stones.  They are recognizable even though every thing is built with big squares.  Then they have marked the course of the Titanic's short maiden voyage.

2 April 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials in Belfast Lough

4 April 1912 Titanic arrives in Southampton, receives more crew, cargo, coal and passengers

10 April 1912 Titanic stops at Cherbourg, France.

The waters were to shallow for the Titanic to dock at Cherbourg so the tender vessel and sister ship SS Nomadic and the SS Traffic were used to transport passengers and baggage to the ship.

SS Nomadic built at the same time as Titanic with the same interior trimmings.  It is being retro fitted now.

11 April 1912 Titanic leaves Queensland, Ireland.  Now called Cobh bound for New York, USA

line through the sea

14 April 1912 final resting place of the Titanic

The rest of the journey was taken on the Carpathia.

18 April 1912 Carpathia docks in New York with 713 survivors.

Our Social Studies lesson for the day.  It is a amazing exhibit.  People still connect with the disaster.  Movies have added some interesting touches and myths.  It was funny to watch a family get a picture taken doing the flying  pose that Rose did in the newer Titanic movie.  They were positioned on the bow right there in the cement.   It was kind of sweet the teenage boys really did not want to be doing that but they did it for their mom.