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0:35:50 > 0:35:57.

0:36:07 > 0:36:10It would have been the mid-'70s, I would reckon, and I,

0:36:10 > 0:36:14at that time, worked in number two shipyard drawing office

0:36:14 > 0:36:16at Harland and Wolff, and down in

0:36:16 > 0:36:18the bottom of the filing cabinets,

0:36:18 > 0:36:20I found the Titanic drawings,

0:36:20 > 0:36:22and I was amazed.

0:36:22 > 0:36:27I joined Harland and Wolff in 1956, as an apprentice draughtsman,

0:36:27 > 0:36:29and Titanic was never mentioned.

0:36:29 > 0:36:32It was as if they were ashamed of her.

0:36:32 > 0:36:36When I see the particulars of the vessel, the length, the beam,

0:36:36 > 0:36:40the draught, I can establish that it was a very fine shape water line.

0:36:43 > 0:36:46They were always drawn by hand.

0:36:46 > 0:36:50That was a skill inherited through years of experience.

0:36:50 > 0:36:53Titanic was a thing of beauty,

0:36:53 > 0:36:57and the DNA for Titanic will be buried in this particular drawing.