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The Titanic
was built at the Harland & Wolff Shipyard in Belfast,
Ireland.
It took more than three years from the time
her first keel
plate
was laid in March of 1909 until she was turned over to the
White
Star Line in April of 1912. At the time of her maiden voyage,
the
Titanic was the largest man-made object afloat,
and the most
luxurious.
The photographs on this page will give you some
idea
of the gargantuan scale of the White Star Line's Olympic-Class
liners
and the impression which they must have made
upon the people
who
built them and who observed their construction.
The keel
of the Titanic was laid at the specially built gantry at the
Harland
and Wolff
shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, in 1909, several
months
after the keel
of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic was
laid.
The photo above right shows
the keel and the photo above left
shows
the Titanic and the Olympic,
side by side, in the huge gantry
shortly
before the Olympic was launched
in 1910.
During
her construction,the Titanic towers over the shipyard in
Belfast.The
building
of such a huge ship
attracted visitors during her
construction.It
took 20
draft horses to draw one of the Titanic's
anchors
through the streets of Belfast
to the construction site (below
left).
The forging of theship's heavy
anchor chain
can be seen below
right.
Each link on that anchorchain weighed 175
pounds!
Then
on May 31, 1911, the Titanic was launched.
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