:00:12. > :00:16.Good evening and welcome to Belfast, the city in the midst of the huge
:00:16. > :00:21.commemoration for the most famous ship ever built. The Titanic. More
:00:21. > :00:24.than 25,000 people applied to be part of tonight's event, in which
:00:24. > :00:28.we will remember the many hundreds who perished, and those who
:00:28. > :00:33.survived, but whose lives were changed forever by the events which
:00:33. > :00:36.took place exactly 100 years ago tonight. Here, at the Waterfront
:00:36. > :00:41.Hall in the heart of Belfast, just over a mile from where she was
:00:41. > :00:44.constructed, you will see a series of short documentaries, here I
:00:44. > :00:49.witness accounts of that fateful journey and see performances from,
:00:49. > :00:52.among others, Bryan Ferry, Joss Stone, Nicola Benedetti, Alfie Boe
:00:52. > :01:02.and Maverick Sabre, in an event which we hope will be a fitting
:01:02. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:46.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:01:46. > :01:51.tribute. Live from the city where 100 years ago today, a passenger
:01:51. > :01:55.liner called Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic, 400 miles
:01:55. > :01:58.south-east of Newfoundland. The great liner was on route to New
:01:58. > :02:04.York, during its maiden voyage. A ship described as practically
:02:04. > :02:08.unsinkable by its owners, the White Star Line, took two hours 40
:02:08. > :02:15.minutes to fill with water and sink, with the loss of more than 1500
:02:15. > :02:23.souls. Remarkably, more than 700 people survived what was to become
:02:23. > :02:27.the most famous disaster in maritime history. There was peace
:02:27. > :02:32.and the world hadn't even tenor to its way. Nothing was revealed in
:02:32. > :02:37.the morning, a trend of which was not known the night before. It
:02:37. > :02:42.seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event that not
:02:42. > :02:46.only made the world rabbit's eyes and awake, but will kick with a
:02:46. > :02:53.start. Keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever
:02:53. > :03:03.since. With less and less peace, satisfaction and happiness. To my
:03:03. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:09.mind, the world of today awoke 15th April, 1912. The news of the
:03:09. > :03:14.Titanic disaster was received with almost disbelief. There are stories
:03:14. > :03:19.of grown men actually in tears in the street. Here was the greatest
:03:19. > :03:24.ship in the world. This was a maiden voyage. She was unsinkable.
:03:24. > :03:33.She hits an iceberg. You have a very wealthy and the very poor. To
:03:33. > :03:37.some degree nature overpowered them all. I think fundamentally, Titanic
:03:37. > :03:43.is a signifier for the inevitable failure of The Wanted technology.
:03:43. > :03:53.The fragility and fallibility of human ambition. And also, the
:03:53. > :04:15.
:04:15. > :04:21.# Long afloat on shipless oceans # I did all my best to smile
:04:21. > :04:30.# 'til your singing eyes and fingers
:04:30. > :04:38.# Drew me loving to your isle # And you sang
:04:38. > :04:48.# Sail to me # Let me enfold you
:04:48. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:10.# Here I am # Did I dream you dreamed about me?
:05:10. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:21.# Were you hare when I was fox? # Now my foolish boat is leaning
:05:21. > :05:31.# Broken lovelorn on your rocks, # For you sing, touch me not, touch
:05:31. > :05:32.
:05:32. > :05:42.me not, come back tomorrow # O my heart, o my heart shies from
:05:42. > :05:42.
:05:42. > :06:48.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:06:48. > :06:58.# I am puzzled as the newborn child # I am troubled at the tide
:06:58. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:10.# Should I stand amid the breakers? # Should I lie with death my bride?
:07:10. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:28.# Hear me sing, 'swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you
:07:28. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:06.# Here I am, here I am, waiting to The Edwardian age in which Titanic
:08:06. > :08:10.was built is an Era synonymous with social change. It was a time of
:08:10. > :08:14.great opulence for some, but a harsh, tough life for most. For
:08:14. > :08:18.people of every class, though, Titanic offered the chance to
:08:18. > :08:24.travel to Weylandt defined by its optimism. The United States of
:08:24. > :08:29.America. The North Atlantic crossing in the early 20th century
:08:29. > :08:32.was the most profitable steamship routes in the world, with British
:08:32. > :08:37.ships competing with French, Belgian and especially German
:08:37. > :08:41.liners for passengers. Scores of ships crossed and recrossed the
:08:41. > :08:45.Atlantic, carrying everyone from the rich and famous in first class,
:08:45. > :08:49.to emigrants in steerage class, hoping to start a new life in the
:08:49. > :08:55.land of opportunity. The United States was a magnet for the largest
:08:55. > :09:00.number of European immigrants in the 19th century and into the early
:09:00. > :09:07.20th. Because it was the hottest, most dynamic economy in the world.
:09:07. > :09:12.It was the place where growth was exponential. At last I was going to
:09:12. > :09:19.America, really, really going at last. The boundaries burst, the
:09:19. > :09:23.arch of heaven sword. A Million Suns shone out for every stop. The
:09:23. > :09:33.winds rushed in from outer space, roaring in my ears - America,
:09:33. > :09:37.America! New year of -- New York had exploded in size over the last
:09:37. > :09:42.80 or 90 years. It had become one of the world's great cities. It was
:09:42. > :09:45.immensely rich. Fifth Avenue at that time was the greatest
:09:45. > :09:50.millionaire's row the world has ever seen. We were building
:09:50. > :09:55.buildings like Grand Central and the public library. It was a very
:09:55. > :09:59.vibrant and assertive City at that time. This was the age of the
:09:59. > :10:03.Carnegies and the Astors, the plutocrats who got rich in the
:10:03. > :10:08.gilded age. The wrist -- the richest of them all, John Pierpoint
:10:08. > :10:18.Morgan, who dominated American industrial finance. His library,
:10:18. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:24.built of pink marble from Tennessee, still stands in midtown Manhattan.
:10:24. > :10:29.JP Morgan was probably the most powerful banker who ever lived. He
:10:29. > :10:33.was a formidable figure. There is no banker today who has 1% of that
:10:33. > :10:38.power and prestige that JP Morgan had. Keen to have a slice of the
:10:38. > :10:44.lucrative North Atlantic liner business, Morgan bought the British
:10:44. > :10:49.company White Star Line in 1902 for $32 million. The equivalent today
:10:49. > :10:56.of $837 million. His business plan for the White Star Line was
:10:56. > :11:00.basically to build not a monopoly, but more or less a cartel. Where he
:11:00. > :11:03.would dominate the transatlantic travel business, and to cook it up
:11:03. > :11:10.with railroads, so you could have a through trip from Chicago, taking
:11:10. > :11:14.you all the way to Paris. White Star Line's main competitor, Cunard,
:11:14. > :11:20.had great success with their new liners, which had been designed for
:11:20. > :11:28.speed. For his plan to work, Morgan needed to build three supersize
:11:28. > :11:32.luxury liners. The idea was they would be half as large again as the
:11:32. > :11:36.Cunard liners. They were not to be the fastest ships at sea, but they
:11:36. > :11:42.would offer superlative standards of accommodation and comfort and
:11:42. > :11:45.with high standards of safety. Morgan, along with White Star
:11:45. > :11:48.Line's managing director, Bruce Ismay, thought that the race for
:11:48. > :11:53.the North Atlantic was as much about fashion and comfort as it was
:11:53. > :11:56.about speed. They knew that to attract the rich elite used to
:11:56. > :12:01.wining and dining in the luxury Hotels of the age, the shipper's
:12:01. > :12:08.own accommodation needed to be equally lavish. This was an attempt
:12:08. > :12:14.to provide the best service, a floating hotel. They wanted to make
:12:14. > :12:16.sure that their impact was of the biggest, best ship. The ship
:12:16. > :12:22.haven't been built before people were talking about this gigantic
:12:22. > :12:25.ship that was the most luxurious ever. In that sense, the world was
:12:25. > :12:30.already so - not already expecting something incredible from the
:12:30. > :12:35.Titanic before it had even set sail. The contract to build the ships
:12:35. > :12:38.went to Harland and Wolff in Belfast. The year was 1908. Work on
:12:39. > :12:48.the Olympic, Britannic and the most luxurious of them all, Titanic,
:12:49. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:16.# Oooh oooh, New York # Grew up in a town
:13:16. > :13:22.# That is famous as a place of movie scenes
:13:22. > :13:32.# Noise is always loud # There are sirenes all around
:13:32. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:41.# If I could make it here # I could make it anywhere
:13:41. > :13:50.# That's what they say # Seeing my face in lights
:13:50. > :13:54.# Or my name in marquees found down Broadway
:13:54. > :13:57.# Even if it ain't all it seems # I got a pocketful of dreams
:13:57. > :14:04.# Baby, I'm from # New York, concrete jungle where
:14:04. > :14:10.dreams are made of # There's nothing you can't do
:14:10. > :14:17.# Now you're in New York # These streets will make you feel
:14:17. > :14:24.brand new # Big lights will inspire you
:14:24. > :14:28.# Hear it for New York, New York, New York
:14:28. > :14:36.# On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew
:14:36. > :14:45.# Ladies work so hard # Such a melting pot on the corner
:14:45. > :14:49.selling rock # Preachers pray to God
:14:50. > :14:57.# Hail a gypsy cab # Takes me down from Harlem to the
:14:57. > :15:01.Brooklyn Bridge # Someone sleeps tonight with a
:15:01. > :15:10.hunger # For more than from an empty
:15:10. > :15:13.fridge # I'm going to make it by any means
:15:13. > :15:18.# I got a pocketful of dreams # Baby, I'm from
:15:18. > :15:28.# New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
:15:28. > :15:30.# There's nothing you can't do # Now you're in New York
:15:30. > :15:36.# These streets will make you feel brand new
:15:36. > :15:43.# Big lights will inspire you # Hear it for New York, New York,
:15:43. > :15:46.New York # One hand in the air for the big
:15:46. > :15:49.city # Street lights, big dreams, all
:15:49. > :15:52.looking pretty # No place in the world that can
:15:52. > :15:58.compared # Put your lighters in the air
:15:58. > :16:07.# Everybody say yeah, yeah yeah # New York, concrete jungle where
:16:07. > :16:14.dreams are made of # There's nothing you can't do
:16:14. > :16:19.# Now you're in New York # These streets will make you feel
:16:19. > :16:29.brand new # Big lights will inspire you
:16:29. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:07.Belfast News Letter, 21st October, 1910. It is a matter of real
:17:07. > :17:13.gratification to all of us in Belfast that the Olympic and the
:17:13. > :17:17.Titanic should be built here. In undertaking the construction of
:17:17. > :17:23.vessels of such enormous proportions, it is felt that
:17:23. > :17:28.Harland and Wolff are maintaining their own splendid tradition, and
:17:28. > :17:32.at the same time, indicating the right of the bolster capital to be
:17:32. > :17:42.reckoned as one of the greatest shipbuilding centres in the world -
:17:42. > :17:47.- Ulster. Belfast in the 1900s was a vibrant, industrial, it had grown
:17:47. > :17:53.rapidly in the past 100 years. It was bursting with some confidence
:17:53. > :17:58.and pride. It was unlike any other city in Ireland. More like the
:17:58. > :18:03.industrial cities of Britain. Its wealth was based on the production
:18:03. > :18:09.of linen, engineering and shipbuilding. In March, 1909, the
:18:09. > :18:15.building of Titanic began in Hollande and Wolff shipyard. She
:18:15. > :18:20.was to be built alongside her sister ship, Olympic. This was the
:18:20. > :18:25.biggest shipyard in the world but it needed to be expanded to build
:18:25. > :18:32.what would become the largest moving objects on the planet.
:18:32. > :18:36.was a major shipbuilding challenge to construct a ship as biggest
:18:36. > :18:43.Titanic. A huge steel gantry was built over the slip ways that were
:18:43. > :18:46.laid down. It was a huge investment in infrastructure. Built up by the
:18:46. > :18:53.chairman, Lord Pirrie, this was the most sophisticated shipyard in the
:18:53. > :19:03.world. Lord Pirrie had served his time 3D shipyard man and boy. He
:19:03. > :19:10.began as an apprentice, and then became a partner. He worked his way
:19:10. > :19:14.up. He was the archetypal visionary, businessman from Belfast. When
:19:14. > :19:20.Titanic was being built, 15,000 people poured through the gates of
:19:20. > :19:26.Harland and Wolff every day. build a ship like Titanic requires
:19:26. > :19:30.a huge number of specialist shipbuilding trades from riveters 2
:19:30. > :19:37.platers two painters and plumbers, as many traits as you could think
:19:37. > :19:40.of were required. You were building a floating town. Many thousands of
:19:40. > :19:48.people were dependent on the shipyards for employment but not
:19:48. > :19:54.all of them could secure full-time A lot of people would be casually
:19:54. > :19:59.employed. They would go down every day to get picked on. It was a
:19:59. > :20:04.rather demeaning experience. They would all be at that big gates and
:20:04. > :20:11.the foreman would come to the gates and he had infinite power to save
:20:11. > :20:17.you, you, you -- to save you. drawing offices with the vision
:20:17. > :20:21.that the ship was conceived now lay empty. In 1909 dozens of
:20:21. > :20:28.draughtsmen worked in these offices, drawing sections of the ship to
:20:28. > :20:34.scale. They were overseen by Thomas Andrews, the ship's designer and
:20:34. > :20:41.nephew of Lord Pirrie. Outside these windows, those paper plans
:20:41. > :20:44.were being transformed into ships of steel. The steel hull had to be
:20:44. > :20:53.erected on the ship away and it had to be plated and the whole
:20:53. > :20:57.structure was held together by steel pins. Millions of rivets were
:20:57. > :21:01.used. There was a relatively small amount of electricity being used in
:21:01. > :21:06.those days but the shipyard was ahead of the time and it had its
:21:06. > :21:11.own generating station to provide electricity for machinery and for
:21:11. > :21:18.lighting the entire site. Harland and Wolff dominated the landscape,
:21:18. > :21:21.and they could visibly see the signs of shipbuilding. The shipyard
:21:21. > :21:25.cranes and countries were visible at the end of every street other
:21:26. > :21:31.prisons of the shipyard loomed over our little working-class houses --
:21:31. > :21:36.and the presence of the shipyard. Belfast impresses you as being very
:21:36. > :21:40.rich and bezique and out of the water, beyond the Custom House,
:21:40. > :21:46.rose some huge shapeless things, which I found to be a shipbuilding
:21:46. > :21:51.yard, where rink 10,000 men were hammering iron and steel for a
:21:51. > :22:00.great ocean liners. The noise of wheels, who has, cracks, spindles
:22:00. > :22:04.and steam hammers filled my ears and made my head ache. The working
:22:04. > :22:11.conditions 100 years ago were like nothing we could tolerate today.
:22:11. > :22:16.You did physical, heavy, dirty, dangerous work, all day.
:22:16. > :22:21.Particularly a riveter, going up sometimes et feet onto scaffolding,
:22:21. > :22:26.he would go up at 5 o'clock in the morning and the planks would be
:22:26. > :22:32.covered with ice, the droppings. Injury was accepted and death was
:22:32. > :22:40.not uncommon. During the building of the Olympic and Titanic, a
:22:40. > :22:45.report listed 246 accidents, of which eight were fatalities.
:22:45. > :22:49.great grandfather was a riveter, Robert James Murphy. He was the
:22:49. > :22:53.riveter who fell to his death on the Titanic. His son up with the
:22:54. > :22:58.same name had fallen to his death on the scaffolding six months
:22:58. > :23:08.earlier on the Olympic. An extraordinary coincidence. I just
:23:08. > :23:08.
:23:08. > :27:55.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:27:55. > :28:05.# Dream. # You have to dare to dream.
:28:05. > :28:14.
:28:14. > :28:19.The taking of the ship's Hall to the water for the first time was an
:28:19. > :28:23.important stage in the construction of the ship. She's moving into the
:28:23. > :28:27.water and is a float for the first time and it marks the transition
:28:27. > :28:35.from an inert mass of steel to a living and floating vessel on the
:28:35. > :28:44.When Titanic was launched, she became the largest moving object on
:28:44. > :28:52.the planet. She was 882 ft and nine inches long. Fitting out the most
:28:52. > :29:02.luxurious ship in the world took another 10 months. On April 2nd,
:29:02. > :29:06.
:29:06. > :29:11.1912, Titanic sailed to Southampton Large numbers of people did come to
:29:11. > :29:15.see the Titanic leaving Belfast. This was a ship the size that
:29:15. > :29:20.people could not imagine and of course it generated a huge amount
:29:20. > :29:30.of interest. People knew people who had worked on it and there was a
:29:30. > :29:40.
:29:40. > :29:44.great excitement about its setting Titanic's arrival in Southampton
:29:44. > :29:51.marked the start of the huge operation of preparing the ship for
:29:51. > :29:59.the voyage to New York. Cargo, post, food and drink had to be loaded in
:29:59. > :30:04.great quantities and the crew had to be interviewed. There was 900
:30:04. > :30:06.crew on the Titanic, 300 in the engine department, but 500 were to
:30:06. > :30:12.look after the passengers, including stewards and things like
:30:12. > :30:17.that. Nearly 700 of the crew who were taken on from the maiden
:30:17. > :30:21.voyage came from Southampton. Titanic represented state of the
:30:21. > :30:25.yacht technology in every way. She had electric cranes for handling
:30:25. > :30:31.package, 10,000 electric light bulbs, elevators powered by
:30:31. > :30:34.electricity, and these wonders true passengers to the ship. A dedicated
:30:34. > :30:39.boat train brought many of the first class passengers directly
:30:39. > :30:44.from London Waterloo to the quayside in sup Hampton. People
:30:44. > :30:48.getting on board the Titanic would have come from all walks of life so
:30:48. > :30:53.Southampton Docks would have been a massive confusion of noise and
:30:53. > :30:56.bustle, he people with large trucks and people with facts on their
:30:56. > :31:02.backs with all their worldly possessions, so there would have
:31:02. > :31:06.been confusion but also excitement. And then in the middle of all the
:31:06. > :31:10.commotion, the boat train arrives with more passengers and they have
:31:10. > :31:15.to be taken inside quickly. Once you make sure your luggage was on
:31:15. > :31:19.board, you would then walk up the main reception areas and waiting
:31:19. > :31:25.for you would be the band, playing one of a number of songs as part of
:31:25. > :31:30.the official welcome to this wonderful ship. That was your first
:31:30. > :31:34.experience of the Titanic. Music, lot of people waiting with drinks,
:31:34. > :31:39.giving you canapes. It was all part of this experience, that you were
:31:39. > :31:43.part of an exclusive party setting sail on a big adventure. Dear Mrs
:31:43. > :31:47.Burbidge, you cannot imagine how pleased I was to find your
:31:47. > :31:55.exquisite basket of flowers in the sitting room on the steam a four-
:31:55. > :31:59.star but what a ship! So huge and so magnificently appointed! Our
:31:59. > :32:09.rooms are furnished in the best of taste and most luxurious! Very
:32:09. > :32:13.
:32:13. > :32:17.The passengers would have expected a huge range of music. Musical
:32:17. > :32:23.numbers, ragtime, an early form of jazz. The musicians have to know a
:32:23. > :32:27.huge amount of music. First-class passengers would be given a music
:32:27. > :32:33.booklet that simply had titles and numbers next to the titles. Someone
:32:33. > :32:43.she would shout out, number one, the Barber of Seville overture by
:32:43. > :32:44.
:32:44. > :32:47.There were more than 352 tunes on the White Star Line's list of music.
:32:47. > :32:52.And it was the responsibility of the bandleader, Wallace Hartley, to
:32:52. > :32:58.ensure that his fellow musicians knew every one of them by heart.
:32:58. > :33:03.Hartley was just 33 years old, from Colm, in Lancashire. He worked on
:33:03. > :33:07.miners before. The band would have played in various parts of the ship.
:33:07. > :33:12.They wouldn't always played together, they'd split up. A trio
:33:12. > :33:16.might go to the Cafe Parisian and play as a Palm Court trio. It was
:33:16. > :33:22.known as a Palm Court real because they tended to be concealed by
:33:22. > :33:26.potted palm trees. A quintet would play in the reception room in first
:33:27. > :33:31.class, or it might play for dancers after meals. The tables would be
:33:31. > :33:36.pushed back, the parquet flooring exposed, perfect for waltzing. The
:33:36. > :33:46.band would strike up, and sometimes the band would play in the second-
:33:46. > :33:46.
:33:46. > :35:02.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:35:02. > :35:08.class saloon. He would not play for My dear, the ship is like a palace.
:35:08. > :35:14.There is a exercise DEC, a swimming bath, gymnasium and squash racket
:35:14. > :35:17.court. A huge lounge and surrounding verandas. My carriage -
:35:17. > :35:23.- cabin is ripping. Hot and cold water, a comfy bed and plenty of
:35:23. > :35:33.room. Please write and tell me how you are getting on. One letter a
:35:33. > :35:33.
:35:33. > :37:04.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:37:04. > :37:09.week ought not over Tai Yu. Your A maiden voyage in Southampton was
:37:09. > :37:15.always an exciting thing. But on this day, 10th April, 1912, it was
:37:15. > :37:20.more exciting than ever. Lightoller, Titanic's Second Officer, described
:37:20. > :37:30.Titanic as a nest of these. But he said on a sailing day she was like
:37:30. > :37:36.
:37:36. > :37:39.Titanic's captain for this maiden voyage was captain Smith, defection
:37:39. > :37:45.at a known as E-Day, he was regarded as the millionaire's
:37:45. > :37:53.captain. He was witty, charming and sophisticated. Everyone wanted to
:37:53. > :37:56.sail with Captain Smith. The first stopping point for the Titanic's
:37:56. > :38:01.maiden voyage was a Cherbourg. This was part of the grand strategy to
:38:01. > :38:05.have the greatest and best people on board. This is where Europe's a
:38:05. > :38:10.lead bordered the Titanic. People from high-society in Paris and
:38:10. > :38:14.other parts of Europe as well, making up a large proportion of the
:38:14. > :38:18.27 nationalities you can count on the ship's list. The people
:38:18. > :38:23.travelling on the Titanic were a mixed bag of people, a Noah's Ark.
:38:24. > :38:27.They were American multi- millionaires, like John Jacob Astor
:38:27. > :38:32.IV, and his brand new wife. They were people like Isador Straus, who
:38:32. > :38:36.owned Macy's. They were businessmen travelling back from business trips
:38:36. > :38:42.to Europe. There were more than 30 millionaires on board Titanic - so
:38:42. > :38:47.many that the press called it the millionaire's special. For it to be
:38:47. > :38:51.known bet you were on his maiden voyage was part of not only society
:38:51. > :38:57.gossip, but also part of a larger public knowledge of what you were
:38:57. > :39:01.up to. After race six-week holiday in Italy, the silent screen star
:39:02. > :39:07.Dorothy Gibson was returning to New York on Titanic to shoot a new
:39:07. > :39:13.movie. She was the highest-paid film actress in the world. One of
:39:13. > :39:21.more than 301st class passengers who'd paid up to �512 for a parlour
:39:21. > :39:28.ticket - the equivalent in today's money of �45,500. But the majority
:39:28. > :39:33.of passengers on board were in third, or steerage class. One could
:39:33. > :39:38.say that the steerage class in the Titanic represented all resembled
:39:38. > :39:45.life in New York or Chicago or any of the large American cities. It
:39:45. > :39:49.was a polyglot mixture of the many peoples of Europe. Many of the
:39:49. > :39:56.people were almost fleeing their former lives. There is one case in
:39:56. > :40:00.particular, Michel Navratil, and his two sons, Michel Junior and
:40:00. > :40:04.Edmond. He recently separated from his wife, and unbeknown to her,
:40:04. > :40:08.he'd put them on board the Titanic to take them from America. In many
:40:08. > :40:13.ways, he was stealing the children away from his former wife. After a
:40:13. > :40:19.Cherbourg, the final port of call to pick at -- to pick up passengers
:40:19. > :40:22.and Mail was Queenstown in Ireland. One of the loveliest and most
:40:22. > :40:27.fascinating passengers on the Titanic was Father Browne. He was
:40:27. > :40:32.booked in on a pleasure trip from Southampton to Cherbourg and then
:40:32. > :40:38.to Queenstown. Father Brown, a keen amateur photographer, captured some
:40:38. > :40:43.of the photographs of light on board Titanic to survive. Including
:40:43. > :40:48.guests enjoying the first-class dining saloon, the biggest room a
:40:48. > :40:51.float. Before we disembarked at Queenstown, Father Browne captured
:40:51. > :40:58.these images of third-class steerage passengers waiting to get
:40:58. > :41:04.on board. A total of 2.5 million people sailed from here during the
:41:04. > :41:09.19th and early 20th centuries. Some 30,000 emigrated to America in 1912
:41:09. > :41:15.alone. The people who were ready to board the Titanic in Queenstown
:41:15. > :41:22.would have been prepared to leave their lives behind and to emigrate
:41:22. > :41:26.for a new life in America. This was nothing new in Ireland. For many
:41:26. > :41:32.people there were limited job opportunities. The choice for many
:41:32. > :41:40.was obvious. Lead and make a new life for themselves overseas.
:41:40. > :41:48.well as taking on 120 passengers at Queenstown, Titanic loaded 1385
:41:48. > :41:53.mailbags. At 130 on April 11th, Titanic cast her moorings in
:41:54. > :41:58.Queenstown and steamed out into the Atlantic. There were 2235 people on
:41:59. > :42:08.board. Father Brown captured these last images of the ship as she set
:42:09. > :42:41.
:42:41. > :42:51.# I know it doesn't seem that way. # But maybe it's the perfect day.
:42:51. > :42:59.
:42:59. > :43:07.# Even though the bills are piling. # And maybe Lady Luck ain't smiling.
:43:07. > :43:11.# But if we'd only open our eyes. # We'd see the blessing in disguise.
:43:11. > :43:18.# That all the rain clouds are fountains.
:43:18. > :43:28.# Though our troubles seem like mountains.
:43:28. > :43:34.
:43:34. > :43:44.# There's gold in them hills. # So don't lose heart.
:43:44. > :43:56.
:43:56. > :44:00.# Give the day a chance to start. # Every now and then life says.
:44:00. > :44:05.# Where do you think you're going so fast.
:44:05. > :44:15.# We're apt to think it's cruel but sometimes.
:44:15. > :44:23.
:44:23. > :44:31.# And if we'd get up off our knees. # Why then we'd see the forest for
:44:31. > :44:41.the trees. # And we'd see the new sun rising.
:44:41. > :44:42.
:44:42. > :44:52.# Over the hills on the horizon. # There's gold in them hills.
:44:52. > :45:01.
:45:01. > :45:07.# So don't lose faith. # Give the world a chance to say.
:45:07. > :45:17.# A word or two my friend. # There's no telling how the day
:45:17. > :45:22.
:45:22. > :45:32.might end. # And we'll never know until we see.
:45:32. > :45:32.
:45:32. > :46:30.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:46:30. > :46:36.# That there's gold in them hills. From the moment she had left
:46:36. > :46:39.Queenstown, Titanic made excellent progress averaging his speed of 22
:46:39. > :46:49.knots. As the good weather continued, she covered more than
:46:49. > :46:51.
:46:52. > :46:56.500 miles a day. Titanic was The finds of shipbuilding has
:46:56. > :47:01.reached a degree perfection in its highest form, which has put wind
:47:01. > :47:05.and water almost at defiance. It has not only worked the see of its
:47:05. > :47:13.terrors but it has imposed on its surface comforts and luxuries of
:47:13. > :47:18.travel, surpassing anything on land. There was great emphasis at the
:47:18. > :47:22.time on the safety arrangements of the ship and in promoting this, the
:47:22. > :47:28.White Star Line used the term that the ship would be practically
:47:29. > :47:33.unsinkable, and they were referring in particular to the system of
:47:33. > :47:36.watertight compartments in the ship, and in the promotional literature,
:47:36. > :47:40.the White Star Line were saying that the captain, by pressing a
:47:40. > :47:45.button, could electronically close the watertight doors in the event
:47:45. > :47:53.of an accident, practically making Bishop unsinkable, and of course
:47:53. > :47:58.the inference in saying that was tantamount to saying that it was
:47:58. > :48:03.unsinkable. The problem was there was no effective plan B and there
:48:03. > :48:13.was a complacent failure of regulator, shipbuilder and ship
:48:13. > :48:13.
:48:13. > :48:17.owner in not providing sufficient By the evening of April 14th,
:48:17. > :48:21.Titanic was over half way across the Atlantic. We all knew perfectly
:48:21. > :48:30.well that we were just about entering the region where icebergs
:48:30. > :48:34.might be seen and had taken There had been the usual wireless
:48:34. > :48:40.messages reporting the weather and I spokes, but as none of those I
:48:40. > :48:44.spoke late on our course, it did not directly concern us. It then
:48:44. > :48:49.came out but one vital message had never been delivered to the bridge.
:48:50. > :48:54.That message came from a ship called the Musaba, warning all
:48:54. > :49:04.ships of heavy pack ice, icebergs and field ice in an area lying
:49:04. > :49:10.
:49:10. > :49:16.right ahead of the Titanic and what The collision took place at 11:40pm,
:49:16. > :49:23.ship's time. About midnight, it was realised that the vessel could not
:49:23. > :49:33.live and about five past 12, but order was given to uncover the
:49:33. > :49:40.
:49:40. > :49:43.boats underneath. -- the order was On Sunday night, we were thrown out
:49:43. > :49:48.of our bed bungs by the shock of the collision but we were not at
:49:48. > :49:53.all afraid because everything was silent, the lights burned brightly.
:49:53. > :49:58.We had no cause for alarm. But outside our door, we heard a rising
:49:58. > :50:06.clamour and we went out and found the passages and corridors full of
:50:06. > :50:13.running people. In a few moments, I felt the engines slow and stop. The
:50:13. > :50:17.dancing motion and the vibrations ceased suddenly after being part of
:50:17. > :50:21.our very existence for a few days and that was the first hint that
:50:21. > :50:27.anything out of the ordinary was happening. I called out to my
:50:27. > :50:31.daughter, Marjorie, as she was in her nightgown, with a blanket
:50:31. > :50:35.around her. I started out of the door and my husband followed
:50:35. > :50:40.immediately behind. Neither of us took any of our belongings from the
:50:40. > :50:46.cabin and I remember that he even left his watch lying on the pillow.
:50:46. > :50:51.We did not doubt an incident that we would return. -- for an instant.
:50:51. > :50:55.The boat deck was running with people. Many women and children had
:50:55. > :51:01.to be forced into the boats. They've got much more safe on the
:51:01. > :51:07.deck of the big liner than enough small boats, 90 ft over the water
:51:07. > :51:12.line. I had my husbands say, go, for God's sake be brave and go, I
:51:12. > :51:17.will get on another boat! I stumbled to my feet. I saw over
:51:17. > :51:27.their heads my husband's back as he walked steadily down the deck and
:51:27. > :51:29.
:51:29. > :51:39.disappeared among the men. His face was turned away. So that I never
:51:39. > :52:03.
:52:03. > :52:13.saw it again, but I know he went # God on high.
:52:13. > :52:22.
:52:22. > :52:31.# Hear my prayer. # He is young.
:52:31. > :52:41.# He's afraid. # Let him rest.
:52:41. > :52:45.
:52:45. > :52:55.# Heaven blessed. # Bring him home.
:52:55. > :53:03.
:53:03. > :53:10.# He's like the son I might have known.
:53:10. > :53:15.# If God had granted me a son. # The summers die.
:53:15. > :53:24.# One by one. # How soon they fly.
:53:24. > :53:34.# On and on. # And I am old.
:53:34. > :53:36.
:53:36. > :53:46.# And will be gone. # Bring him peace.
:53:46. > :53:46.
:53:47. > :53:56.# Bring him joy. # He is young.
:53:57. > :54:03.
:54:03. > :54:13.# He is only a boy. # You can take.
:54:13. > :54:13.
:54:13. > :54:23.# You can give. # Let him be.
:54:23. > :54:25.
:54:25. > :54:35.# Let him live. # If I die.
:54:35. > :54:43.
:54:43. > :54:53.# Let me die. # Let him live.
:54:53. > :54:53.
:54:53. > :55:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:55:40. > :55:44.# Bring him home. The bottom of our boat slapped the
:55:44. > :55:48.ocean as we came down, with a force that I thought must shock us
:55:48. > :55:58.overboard. We were drenched with ice-cold spray but we hung on and
:55:58. > :55:59.
:55:59. > :56:03.the men wrote us rapidly away from At midnight, 20 minutes after the
:56:03. > :56:09.collision, it became clear to Captain Smith that the ship was
:56:09. > :56:13.sinking. He called for all the boilers to be shut down and the
:56:13. > :56:22.wireless operator was told to send the first distress call for
:56:22. > :56:32.assistance. Orders were given to uncover the lifeboats and get
:56:32. > :56:35.
:56:35. > :56:43.passengers and crew ready on Dec. - It seems that the band, just past
:56:43. > :56:46.midnight, went to the boat deck and people wondered what was going to
:56:46. > :56:52.happen but already broom up was beginning to spread that something
:56:52. > :56:58.had happened to the ship -- rumours were spreading. The band decided,
:56:58. > :57:03.in a really heroic spirit, to play cheery tunes. I think Jock Hume,
:57:03. > :57:11.the violinist, said, we are going to cheer them up a bit with music
:57:11. > :57:15.because they did not want the At 12:20pm, but order was given to
:57:15. > :57:19.start loading the lifeboats with women and children first. It
:57:19. > :57:24.quickly became clear that there were enough lifeboats for only half
:57:24. > :57:30.of those on board. On the boat deck, the band played to keep everybody
:57:30. > :57:33.calm. Some people when they are frightened, they run and panic and
:57:33. > :57:39.others retreat to what makes them feel safe and what makes them feel
:57:39. > :57:44.Duman, and for musicians that do music for the love of it, music is
:57:44. > :57:49.what makes you feel safe -- feel safe and what makes them feel human.
:57:49. > :57:53.I imagine playing was not only a comfort for the other people but a
:57:53. > :57:57.huge comfort for them at a time when they did not know whether they
:57:57. > :58:02.were going to live. It seems likely that the band leader, Wallace
:58:02. > :58:10.Hartley, had not been ordered by the captain to play music. It was a
:58:10. > :58:13.decision taken by him and his After finding her danger was the
:58:13. > :58:18.situation was, he probably caught his men together and began playing.
:58:18. > :58:22.He often said, music was a bigger weapon for stopping disorder than
:58:22. > :58:28.anything on earth. He knew the value of the weapon he had and I
:58:28. > :58:35.think he proved his point. The band played for more than two hours. The
:58:35. > :58:40.ship's lights went out at 2:18 in the morning. All the lifeboats had
:58:40. > :58:49.left, but there was still more than 1500 people on board the thinking
:58:49. > :58:59.ship. Dashed sinking ship. Some survivors accounts describe how
:58:59. > :59:00.
:59:00. > :59:03.Wallace Hartley dismissed his band Wallace Hartley had told a member
:59:03. > :59:09.of the band with whom he had played on another ship that if disaster
:59:09. > :59:14.were to strike, he was likely to play Nearer My God To Thee. It was
:59:14. > :59:19.it him that meant a great deal to him. It was eight tune that his
:59:19. > :59:24.father, as choirmaster of Bethel Chapel in Colne, had introduced to
:59:24. > :59:28.that chapel. If you think that they had done their best to calm down
:59:28. > :59:32.passengers and now the moment had come, there were no lights, the
:59:32. > :59:38.lights had gone off, the water was coming around him, some passengers
:59:38. > :59:42.who survived threat that it was circling around his knees. He is
:59:42. > :59:52.playing his own requiem, he is playing that tune that he sang as a
:59:52. > :59:52.
:59:52. > :02:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:02:33. > :02:43.It was about 2am when the Titanic finally sank. There were two
:02:43. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:48.terrific explosions and several large screens as she went down.
:02:48. > :02:53.watched the lights go out one by one and the huge ship sliding to
:02:53. > :02:58.her grave on the starlit water. And so the last, long, slow death
:02:58. > :03:07.struggle of the pride of Queen's Island. The greatest and newest
:03:07. > :03:16.ship in the world. When the Titanic took her final punch, there was a
:03:16. > :03:23.noise I shall never forget. Shouting, screaming and explosions.
:03:23. > :03:27.100,000 fans at a cup final could not make more noise. We were too
:03:27. > :03:30.far away from the Titanic when it went down to see those that had
:03:30. > :03:36.leaked or those that had been washed into the sea. But we could
:03:36. > :03:45.hear them for some time after. Then all was still and we knew that the
:03:45. > :03:52.last of them had perished. Those who love them call them gone. But
:03:52. > :04:00.they live on with the virility immortal. The courage of 1500 souls
:04:00. > :04:08.who quietly gave their lives for others floods an entire world and
:04:08. > :04:18.makes us humbly eager to give tribute by living no other lives. -
:04:18. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :07:32.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:07:32. > :07:37.MUSIC - Shostakovich - The None of us in the life world's knew
:07:37. > :07:42.whether any rescue ship had been reached by the Titanic's radio. All
:07:42. > :07:51.during the light -- night we saw lights all around us, but they
:07:51. > :07:55.proved only to be the flashlights The distress signals sent by
:07:55. > :08:05.Titanic were received at the Marconi radio station at Cape Race
:08:05. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:11.Newfoundland early in the morning From here, they were sent on or
:08:11. > :08:16.around the world. They were also picked up directly by ships,
:08:16. > :08:19.including the Cunard liner Carpathia. A captain responded
:08:19. > :08:29.immediately and turned her course to sail for steam to the aid of
:08:29. > :08:35.Titanic. She was just 58 miles away, but with a top speed of 17.5 knots,
:08:35. > :08:42.she wouldn't arrive before Titanic had slipped beneath the waves.
:08:42. > :08:46.Carpathia reached the scene at dawn. And over the next four hours,
:08:46. > :08:50.picked up 712 survivors. sinking of the Titanic was probably
:08:50. > :08:53.the first global news story, simply because of several factors. Firstly,
:08:53. > :08:59.communication was much quicker than it ever had been before. Even as
:08:59. > :09:03.the reports of the ship had sunk, it was wired out across the world.
:09:03. > :09:07.But I think the expectations surrounding the making Boyd had
:09:07. > :09:11.helped seed this terrible tragedy of becoming interested to everybody.
:09:11. > :09:15.Such fanfare had gritted its departure. And no one thought
:09:15. > :09:21.anything could go wrong. So when the news started to break, everyone
:09:21. > :09:26.was in complete shock. In America, the New York Times was the first
:09:26. > :09:31.paper to report the sinking, dedicating 12 pages to the disaster
:09:31. > :09:34.the following day. At first, details were sketchy and White Star
:09:34. > :09:40.Line's offices were besieged with the relatives demanding news of
:09:40. > :09:44.their loved ones. In London, the saddest places of all were the
:09:44. > :09:49.offices of the White Star Line. It was a tragic scene. And as a
:09:49. > :09:52.heartbroken inquirers groped their way out of the Doors, the golden
:09:52. > :09:58.spring sunshine which flooded Trafalgar Square only emphasise the
:09:58. > :10:02.contrast between life and death. It was the women awaited. But the only
:10:02. > :10:10.news of those sales were that the majority were women and children
:10:10. > :10:13.that were saved. There was no news of the men. Only silence.
:10:13. > :10:19.Belfast it was received with disbelief that a ship which had
:10:19. > :10:24.been so recently at the heart of the city was now lying on the
:10:24. > :10:30.bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. There was an immediate sense of public
:10:30. > :10:34.grieving and a huge loss of life - match at the huge loss of life. You
:10:34. > :10:42.can only imagine how they must have felt when they heard that news.
:10:42. > :10:46.There are stories of grown men actually in tears in the street.
:10:46. > :10:48.But there were few details of what had happened on the night of the
:10:48. > :10:53.sinking. The only reliable information was that there were
:10:53. > :11:00.more than 700 survivors on the Carpathia, and the world's press
:11:00. > :11:05.was desperate to hear their stories. After three days' sailing, but
:11:05. > :11:10.Carpathia finally reached New York. The competition awaiting the
:11:10. > :11:14.Carpathia to get exclusive stories was intense. When the Carpathia was
:11:14. > :11:17.first sighted, the press immediately rushed into action. A
:11:17. > :11:22.number of reporters had already chartered tug boats and they
:11:22. > :11:26.assembled as a flotilla. They followed the Carpathia along
:11:26. > :11:30.towards pier 54. Once they got close enough, the reporters were
:11:30. > :11:40.said to have been shouting back at the passengers, trying to get any
:11:40. > :11:40.
:11:40. > :11:47.I shall never forget the night the Carpathia got in. The great peer
:11:47. > :11:51.was packed with people. They were very quiet. There was no noise. No
:11:51. > :11:57.confusion. They were admitted by ticket only and the police
:11:57. > :12:04.regulations were perfect. I saw the red lights of the Carpathia turning
:12:04. > :12:11.in, bringing with her what sad and dreadful news. There was an ominous
:12:11. > :12:21.stillness as the gangway was made fast. And then, as the people came
:12:21. > :12:26.
:12:26. > :12:30.off, such scenes as no one could Once ashore, the survivors gave
:12:30. > :12:36.their accounts of the disaster. Not only did the personal stories come
:12:36. > :12:44.out, but now there was a definitive list of those who'd survived. It
:12:44. > :12:48.was confirmed that oboe 1500 people have lost their lives. -- over 1500
:12:48. > :12:57.people. Included in the list were some of the richest, most prominent
:12:57. > :13:03.people of the day. In total, 48 % and 80 % of the men on board were
:13:03. > :13:12.unaccounted for. Nowhere was the wait for news more agonising than
:13:12. > :13:16.in Southampton, home to 700 of the This morning the first for news
:13:16. > :13:20.that has taught at Southampton for three days was at last assuaged. At
:13:20. > :13:23.7 o'clock, a clerk came out of the White Star Line officers in the
:13:23. > :13:27.docks and placed on the huge blackboard outside the list of the
:13:27. > :13:31.saved among the crew. At that time there was no one about except the
:13:31. > :13:36.women, who have waited there in the street almost without moving. None
:13:36. > :13:41.of them certainly have slept since Tuesday night. But as the names
:13:41. > :13:46.appeared, printed in big, blue letters, the dreadful gasp of
:13:46. > :13:56.apprehension was heard. And the women pressed up close, eager and
:13:56. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:05.Of the 700 crew from the city, more than 500 had died. It was said that
:14:05. > :14:13.there was hardly a street in Southampton that haven't lost
:14:13. > :14:17.someone on the ship. -- that had and lost someone on the ship.
:14:17. > :14:22.My dear mother and all. I don't know how to write to you Wallwork
:14:22. > :14:28.to say. I feel I shall go mad sometimes but as much as my heart
:14:28. > :14:34.aches, it takes for you, too. For he is your son and the best that
:14:34. > :14:44.ever lived. I have not given up hope till today that he might be
:14:44. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:16.found. But I'm told all boats are # I never see the clouds fall on
:15:16. > :15:21.you. # Baby tell me how.
:15:21. > :15:29.# Is it what you do. # When the sun shines through the
:15:29. > :15:33.rainbow. # I know the truth.
:15:33. > :15:38.# Baby all my life I'll wait for you.
:15:38. > :15:44.# At the boat yard we've been waiting.
:15:44. > :15:53.# To the coast guard we've been waving.
:15:53. > :15:59.# Hoping that the rumours are true. # I hope you'll come through.
:15:59. > :16:08.# And I'll never lose you. # I never see the clouds fall on
:16:08. > :16:13.you. # Baby tell me how.
:16:14. > :16:18.# Is it what you do. # When the sun shines through the
:16:18. > :16:24.rainbow. # I know the truth.
:16:24. > :16:34.# Know that all my life I'll wait for you.
:16:34. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:46.# Sharp winds are cold and scathing. # No matter how long I save it.
:16:46. > :16:52.# Knowing, trusting and praying. # I know you'll come through.
:16:52. > :17:01.# And I'll never lose you. # I never see the clouds fall on
:17:01. > :17:05.you. # Baby tell me how.
:17:05. > :17:12.# Is it what you do # When the sun shines through the
:17:12. > :17:22.rainbow. # I know it's true.
:17:22. > :17:34.
:17:34. > :17:41.# Baby all my life I'll wait for # Will you come through.
:17:41. > :17:51.# Will you be true. # God I miss you.
:17:51. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:15.# I see your face. # Empty space. # I am never leaving this place.
:18:15. > :18:25.# I never see the clouds fall on you.
:18:25. > :18:31.# Baby tell me how, is it what you # And when the sun shines through
:18:31. > :18:41.the Rainbow. # I know the truth.
:18:41. > :18:44.
:18:44. > :18:54.# I will wait for you. # I will wait for your thoughts.
:18:54. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :19:05.# Baby. Baby, won't you tell me how.
:19:05. > :19:05.
:19:06. > :19:14.# Tell me how! # I'll never see the clouds falling
:19:15. > :19:23.on you. # Baby, tell me how, tell me how.
:19:23. > :19:32.# Is it what you do? # I know the truth.
:19:32. > :19:39.# I know that all my life, a weight see you.
:19:39. > :19:49.-- I will wait for you. # I never see the clouds fallen you.
:19:49. > :19:57.
:19:57. > :20:02.In the aftermath of the disaster, the people of New York took pity on
:20:02. > :20:08.the survivors and left money and clothes for the 212 crew members
:20:08. > :20:14.whose pay had been stopped when Titanic sank. On 20th April, the
:20:14. > :20:23.crewmen were taken back to England. But in New York there still
:20:23. > :20:28.The great mystery in the immediate aftermath of the Titanic is two of
:20:28. > :20:31.these two children who do not have any parents? They get labelled the
:20:31. > :20:37.Titanic orphans and their photographs are reproduced in
:20:37. > :20:42.newspapers around the world. To try to find out who they were. The two
:20:42. > :20:48.boys, who spoke only French, were being looked after by a first-class
:20:48. > :20:54.passenger at her home on West 83rd Street. Eventually their identity
:20:54. > :20:57.was discovered. The two Navratil boys have lost their father in the
:20:57. > :21:00.tragedy and it was only by chance that their mother had read the
:21:00. > :21:06.account of their arrival in New York and suddenly realised these
:21:06. > :21:13.were her children, so of course she jumped on the first ship, headed
:21:13. > :21:19.over and was reunited with her lost The grim task of recovering bodies
:21:19. > :21:24.from the North Atlantic was given to their crew of Mackay Bennett,
:21:24. > :21:29.chartered by White Star Line so. She recovered 306 bodies, including
:21:29. > :21:36.that of John Jacob Astor. In his pocket he had $3,000 in cash, the
:21:36. > :21:39.equivalent today of 70,000. Dressed in evening wear, the corpse of the
:21:39. > :21:49.band leader Wallace Hartley was reported to be found with his music
:21:49. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:53.Wallace Hartley's body was brought back to Liverpool. It was taken by
:21:53. > :22:00.train all the way to Colne and there, a memorial service was held.
:22:00. > :22:05.The crowd number was estimated at nearly 40,000. Dependents of the
:22:05. > :22:09.band were not entitled to any compensation. The band had actually
:22:09. > :22:15.gone on board a second class passengers. They were employees of
:22:15. > :22:20.the agency in Liverpool, not of White Star Line, so White Star Line
:22:20. > :22:25.scores thought they owed them no compensation. -- of course.
:22:25. > :22:29.days after the funeral, the orchestral Association organised a
:22:30. > :22:34.memorial concert for the musicians at the Royal Albert Hall.
:22:34. > :22:37.musicians from many different orchestras arrived at the Royal
:22:37. > :22:42.Albert Hall. They had an extraordinary array of conductors,
:22:42. > :22:46.Elgar was one of them. The proceeds from the concert was to help the
:22:46. > :22:50.families deal with their loss. There was a tremendous outpouring
:22:50. > :22:55.of public Greece and this was the beginning of the Titanic memorial
:22:55. > :23:00.industry -- public grief. Entrepreneurs sensed a ready market
:23:00. > :23:04.and produced mementoes of the disaster. The most readily
:23:04. > :23:08.available were postcards but there were also songs and music produced
:23:08. > :23:13.all round the world, and for the first-class passenger and from star
:23:13. > :23:18.Dorothy Gibson, the Titanic was an opportunity to turn tragedy into
:23:18. > :23:23.profit. Within four weeks, she had released a film about the disaster
:23:23. > :23:30.starving herself, wearing the dress she had worn at night. -- starring
:23:30. > :23:38.herself. In Belfast, life returned almost to normal. At the Harland
:23:38. > :23:45.and Wolff shipyard, which had lost nine men, work continued on
:23:45. > :23:53.Britannic, the third in the trio of giant ships. But the scars of
:23:53. > :23:56.Initially in Belfast there was a certain measure of embarrassment
:23:56. > :24:01.that this had been made in Belfast and it was not something people
:24:01. > :24:05.wanted to be associated with. I think over time that has changed.
:24:05. > :24:08.People have become more interested in the Titanic, people see it more
:24:08. > :24:15.as a recognition that something great was achieved and what it
:24:15. > :24:21.means that the place where it was actually born. The Titanic, to so
:24:21. > :24:24.many people in different ways, it represented a dream for the wealthy
:24:24. > :24:28.owners it was the dream of dominance of the shipping route,
:24:28. > :24:33.for the immigrants it was a dream of a better life, for my great
:24:33. > :24:43.grandfather it was a dream of the next meal, food on the table, as do
:24:43. > :24:47.
:24:47. > :24:51.the job. Everybody had their own As a result of those events 100
:24:52. > :24:57.years ago, maritime regulations were changed. Ships had to carry
:24:57. > :25:02.enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew. Bigger vessels had to be
:25:02. > :25:07.equipped with a permanently manned Marconi set and an international
:25:07. > :25:12.ice patrol was established, which runs to this day, but the thinking
:25:12. > :25:18.of the Titanic did not deter the shipping yards from their quest to
:25:18. > :25:24.build ever better and better ships. Just two months after Titanic sank,
:25:24. > :25:31.a German ship took the title of the world's largest vessels, 52,000
:25:31. > :25:36.tonnes. Modern passenger liners can be four times bigger. And what of
:25:36. > :25:40.Belfast 100 years on? Queen's Island is once again thriving. On
:25:40. > :25:46.the Hollande and walls site is a new exhibition commemorating the
:25:46. > :25:51.Titanic -- Harland and Wolff. As the City braces her legacy and the
:25:51. > :25:54.extraordinary achievements of the Edwardian shipbuilders. That
:25:54. > :26:01.exhibition serves as a reminder of the human endeavour that built the
:26:01. > :26:06.Titanic, the tragedy that befell her, the bravery of those on board,
:26:06. > :26:10.and the souls who were lost that night. I hope that tonight we have
:26:11. > :26:14.made a modest contribution to the legacy of the Titanic. From
:26:14. > :26:24.everyone here in the Waterfront Hall and the thousands watch him in
:26:24. > :26:33.
:26:33. > :26:43.Belfast, good night. -- watching in # I'll sing it one last time for
:26:43. > :26:44.
:26:44. > :26:52.you. # You've been the only thing that's
:26:52. > :27:01.right. # In all I've done.
:27:01. > :27:11.# And I can barely look at you. # But every single time I do.
:27:11. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:28.# I know we'll make it anywhere. # Light up, light up.
:27:29. > :27:38.# As if you have a choice. # Even if you cannot hear my voice.
:27:39. > :27:50.
:27:50. > :28:00.# Louder, louder. # And we'll run for our lives.
:28:00. > :28:00.
:28:00. > :28:10.# I can hardly speak, I understand. # Why you can't raise your voice to
:28:10. > :28:13.
:28:13. > :28:23.# To think I might not see those eyes.
:28:23. > :28:24.
:28:24. > :28:34.# Makes it so hard not to cry. # And as we say our long goodbyes.
:28:34. > :28:40.
:28:40. > :28:50.# Light up, light up. # As if you have a choice.
:28:50. > :29:02.
:29:02. > :29:12.# Even if you cannot hear my voice. # Louder, louder.
:29:12. > :29:12.
:29:12. > :29:22.# And we'll run for our lives. # I can hardly speak, I understand.
:29:22. > :29:37.
:29:37. > :29:43.# Why you can't raise your voice to # Light up, light up.
:29:43. > :29:53.# As if you have a choice. # Even if you cannot hear my voice.
:29:53. > :30:01.