Titanic Centenary

:00:47. > :00:51.Good morning. We are here at the Titanic Belfast Visitor Centre to

:00:51. > :00:59.commemorate the sinking of the famous liner, Titanic, 100 years

:00:59. > :01:04.ago today. It sailed from here into history, into tragedy. A journey so

:01:04. > :01:08.horrific, at first no one could believe the death toll. More than

:01:08. > :01:13.1,500 perished in the North Atlantic when this huge vessel sank

:01:13. > :01:18.on its maiden voyage us to New York. It was the most luxuriously liner

:01:18. > :01:22.in the world and it was built it right here. This morning we will be

:01:22. > :01:28.reflecting on the enduring impact of the tragedy. We will be talking

:01:28. > :01:33.to many of those who have links to the ship and we will be bringing

:01:33. > :01:39.you two memorial services. One from Belfast and one from the Atlantic

:01:39. > :01:42.from the spot where she sank on this day in 1912. We will be

:01:42. > :01:52.broadcasting until 10 am this morning.

:01:52. > :01:58.

:01:58. > :02:07.We will be talking to Robert Ballard, the explorer who

:02:07. > :02:13.discovered the Titanic. And then to be service at city hall where a new

:02:13. > :02:18.memorial garden will be unveiled. But let's remind ourselves about

:02:18. > :02:24.the story of the Titanic. Titanic was built in Belfast when

:02:24. > :02:27.the city was at the height of its industrial powers. It was one of

:02:27. > :02:32.three Lima's designed of Olympic class, designed to be the biggest

:02:32. > :02:37.and most of curious of all transatlantic ships. The Titanic

:02:37. > :02:44.left Belfast at the beginning of April in 1912, bound for

:02:44. > :02:48.Southampton, the start of its first and last voyage. After calling at

:02:48. > :02:53.Cherbourg and Cobh, it steam towards New York with more than

:02:53. > :03:01.2000 passengers and crews. Four days into the crossing, not long

:03:01. > :03:09.before midnight, she hit an iceberg. Over the next two two 1/2 hours,

:03:09. > :03:14.she filled with water and sank. More than 1,500 people died. Just

:03:14. > :03:19.over 700, mainly women and children made it to safety in the lifeboats.

:03:19. > :03:25.They Titanic was reported to be unsinkable, so what happens shocked

:03:25. > :03:32.the world. Over the next 100 years, this I can make symbol of ambition

:03:32. > :03:39.and expertise never released its grip on the public's imagination. -

:03:39. > :03:42.- iconic. Some of the pictures became from

:03:42. > :03:47.Upholland and Wolf collection, courtesy of National Museums

:03:47. > :03:53.Northern Ireland. If you would like to find out about more aspects

:03:53. > :03:58.about the Titanic, we have a special website. With us all

:03:58. > :04:03.morning, we have William Blair from National Museums Northern Ireland.

:04:03. > :04:09.He chore rated its major Titanic exhibition and is head of human

:04:09. > :04:14.history. We are in a building that has been built to commemorate the

:04:14. > :04:19.100th anniversary. We have exhibitions, museums and plays,

:04:19. > :04:25.what is it about this tragedy that still touches people?

:04:25. > :04:34.Fundamentally, it is an incredibly powerful story. As a story it has

:04:34. > :04:38.everything. Elements of great tragedy, over-confidence, nemesis,

:04:38. > :04:44.retribution stop but it is an incredibly powerful human story. It

:04:44. > :04:50.was a microcosm of the world at that time. We can seek lots of

:04:50. > :04:54.human stories being played out. We make an emotional and imaginative

:04:54. > :04:59.connection to those stories. Different aspects of the story

:04:59. > :05:04.affect different people in different ways? Certainly, there

:05:04. > :05:10.are families locally who have a personal connection, in terms of

:05:10. > :05:16.their antecedents who were on the ship. One of the features of

:05:16. > :05:20.Titanic is, people globally can connect with the story. It is an

:05:20. > :05:27.incredibly powerful and in many ways, a cautionary tale. It carries

:05:27. > :05:34.all sorts of meaning for us then, and now. What about in 1912? What

:05:34. > :05:39.was the reaction to the disaster, given this was a ship that it was

:05:39. > :05:46.reported to be unsinkable? reaction at the time it was one of

:05:46. > :05:52.disbelief. An enormous shock. Titanic happened in an age when we

:05:52. > :05:57.had a mass media. It was really the first global story of that kind of

:05:57. > :06:03.significance and impact. The ripples went across the world.

:06:03. > :06:08.Certainly Europe and America. People were simply stunned and

:06:08. > :06:15.there was a tremendous outpouring of sorrow and grief at the time.

:06:15. > :06:21.People could not get enough news in their appetite, they wanted to

:06:21. > :06:25.understand every aspect of the story and the news media at that

:06:26. > :06:32.time sought to meet that interest. Can you compare it to a modern

:06:32. > :06:39.tragedy? The scale of the impact on people internationally? In many

:06:39. > :06:45.respects it is almost reminiscent in what you might as term the Diana

:06:45. > :06:50.effect. People made an emotional connection to the story. They felt

:06:50. > :06:57.the terrible plight of those who perished at the time. Those

:06:57. > :07:03.emotions, in many respects were very real. Of course, at the time

:07:03. > :07:09.so sense of loss was so personal when there are so many grieving

:07:09. > :07:14.families as well. It was an incredibly powerful story and one

:07:14. > :07:18.which really made a huge impact. More of which we will explore this

:07:18. > :07:24.morning. William will be staying with us all morning to share his

:07:24. > :07:30.knowledge about the Titanic. During this special programme, we will be

:07:30. > :07:32.bringing you to Southampton, Cobh and the Atlantic. But first let's

:07:32. > :07:38.go to Marks and son at Belfast City Hall.

:07:38. > :07:42.The stage is set for what promises to be an emotional morning right in

:07:42. > :07:47.the heart of Belfast outside Belfast City Hall. With the

:07:48. > :07:52.official opening of the new Titanic memorial garden. It is due to have

:07:52. > :07:59.been just after 9 am and we will bring it to you live, a special

:07:59. > :08:05.service attended by more than 300 people. They are coming to remember

:08:05. > :08:10.the 1512 victims of the disaster, which happened 100 years ago. They

:08:10. > :08:14.are being remembered in bronze, a brand new memorial is being

:08:14. > :08:21.unveiled on the East side of Belfast City Hall. The names are

:08:21. > :08:25.listed, not in terms of rank or class, but in alphabetical order.

:08:25. > :08:31.Everyone was equal and they all died that night at 100 years ago,

:08:31. > :08:37.almost to the hour we are speaking out. A big morning in Belfast, as

:08:37. > :08:42.it is across the world. It is a morning, despite the romance

:08:42. > :08:51.surrounding the Titanic, the people of Belfast will gather here to

:08:51. > :08:55.remember the reality of the tragedy. I am in Cobh in County Cork. The

:08:55. > :09:02.people here feel this time has a very special link to the Titanic

:09:02. > :09:08.because this was its last port of call before it headed to America.

:09:08. > :09:12.123 passengers joined the ship from here. Most of them were Irish and

:09:12. > :09:16.travelling in third class, and most of them were leaving this country

:09:16. > :09:21.for good and emigrating to a new life. But Nelly two thirds of them

:09:21. > :09:27.did not make it. Late in the programme I will be reflecting on

:09:27. > :09:32.how Cobh is remembering both them and the ship itself. I will also

:09:32. > :09:38.have details of a story, the owners of the Titanic did not want you to

:09:38. > :09:44.know. But for now, from the place that was once called Queenstown, it

:09:44. > :09:48.is back to Queen's Ireland in Belfast.

:09:48. > :09:53.The parish of Addergoole in County Mayo lost more people on the

:09:53. > :10:00.Titanic than any other parish in Ireland. Francis Gorman has been to

:10:00. > :10:05.see how local people are commemorating.

:10:05. > :10:11.Afters relive the parts of local actors who left these parts 100

:10:11. > :10:16.years ago today. They are known as the Addergoole 14, 11 women and

:10:16. > :10:21.three men on their way to America on the Titanic. Only three of them

:10:22. > :10:29.got there, Annie Kelly, and the MacGowan and Billy McDermott.

:10:29. > :10:33.would have been an large group from any one area to leave. The fact

:10:33. > :10:38.that 14 from one village left where there was already a small community

:10:38. > :10:42.at the time, and the fact 11 of them went down with the ship and

:10:42. > :10:46.only three survived was a massive loss to the village. Hundreds of

:10:46. > :10:51.people, including the former President, Mary Robinson have come

:10:51. > :10:57.to the village for a titanic Festival week. It is a chance for

:10:57. > :11:04.some to re-enact the experience of their ancestors. It is a chance of

:11:04. > :11:09.for some transatlantic family reunions. Are you Paul? I am.

:11:09. > :11:17.you when you were a little boy. This is the man this family and

:11:17. > :11:23.remembering. Pat Canavan. I am the niece of Patrick Canavan who

:11:23. > :11:31.perished on the Titanic. He was the younger brother of my father,

:11:31. > :11:37.Thomas, who left here with my mother. I had two will the sisters

:11:37. > :11:42.who have now passed. This is the new, permanent memorial to the

:11:42. > :11:48.Addergoole 14. Nothing is known about thousands of Irish immigrants,

:11:48. > :11:55.but those who left his village on the Titanic will never be forgotten.

:11:55. > :11:59.We will be crossing to the Atlantic to the memorial voyage, which is

:11:59. > :12:08.now at anchor over the site. Joining me is a man who knows what

:12:08. > :12:14.it is like to arrive there. You went to dive into 1005 on Titanic.

:12:14. > :12:20.When you arrive, what was it like? It was very, very strange.

:12:20. > :12:26.Everybody is expecting the moment. But when we drifted to a halt,

:12:26. > :12:31.nobody said anything, but are we knew we were vert. I remember

:12:32. > :12:35.looking out at the beautiful sides, but I could not believe my eyes,

:12:35. > :12:41.because there were grown men leaning over the side of the ship

:12:41. > :12:48.and crying. People were very upset about knowing that below was was

:12:48. > :12:52.the Titanic. And in this beautiful Ocean, people had died. All the way

:12:52. > :12:59.through the trip is did stay with you that we were on a hallowed site,

:12:59. > :13:04.if you like. It suddenly hits you and you realised you were there and

:13:04. > :13:09.it is in many senses, terrible place to be. And when you start to

:13:10. > :13:14.the diet, that stayed with you? feel like you are a voyeur, looking

:13:14. > :13:19.out of the tiny port holes of the submarine. And you do ask the

:13:19. > :13:23.question, do I have a right to be there. So for me, being able to

:13:23. > :13:28.tell first story from the wreck site, telling the public, helped me

:13:28. > :13:32.get over it. This is a replica of the staircase

:13:32. > :13:37.there would have been on the Titanic. They would have been used

:13:37. > :13:42.by first class passengers. It gives you some idea of the opulence of

:13:43. > :13:46.the liner. The rich and famous of 1912 were on the ship, 30

:13:46. > :13:52.millionaires were on board. But we are remembering all of the people

:13:52. > :13:55.on the liner, all of those who perished. Overnight on the airline

:13:55. > :14:05.tick in the Memorial crews, they have held a special service to

:14:05. > :14:13.

:14:13. > :14:17.Welcome to our memorial service on this very historic occasion. We

:14:17. > :14:23.have come together in the spirit of Remembrance at to give thanks to

:14:24. > :14:29.God, for the lives of over 1,500 men, women and children, lost to

:14:29. > :14:35.the freezing Atlantic waters 100 years ago tonight, when the Titanic

:14:35. > :14:40.met its end under the stars and on this very spot. The presence of

:14:40. > :14:45.relatives and descendants of those on board, we mourn their loss and

:14:45. > :14:49.take comfort in the developments of safety at sea which followed.

:14:49. > :14:55.Darkness was on the face of the deep. We remember the families torn

:14:55. > :15:01.apart by this tragedy. Mothers separated from their children,

:15:01. > :15:05.husbands ball from their loved ones as calamity struck. We remember

:15:05. > :15:10.with pride, the acts of courage, inspired selflessness and sacrifice

:15:10. > :15:20.of those that gave their lives that others might live. Amidst the

:15:20. > :15:26.

:15:26. > :15:31.sorrow, we find confidence in our Our reporter, Chris Buckler, has

:15:31. > :15:37.been on the Balmoral since it left Southampton a week ago. We can join

:15:37. > :15:41.him there now. Here in the middle of the Atlantic,

:15:41. > :15:46.people have gathered to remember. For days, they have been travelling

:15:46. > :15:51.at sea tracing that route taken by the Titanic in 1912 and they have

:15:51. > :15:59.come to this spot where thousands of metres below the wreck of that

:15:59. > :16:09.famous ship now lies. You can see that above the ship there is a flag

:16:09. > :16:13.

:16:13. > :16:20.flying. It's the flag of the White Star Line. That flag was taken down

:16:20. > :16:27.to the wreck of the Titanic around ten years ago. Now it's been

:16:27. > :16:37.brought back here for this, a service, to mark 100 years since

:16:37. > :16:40.

:16:40. > :16:47.the ship sank. Three wreaths will be cast out into the sea to

:16:47. > :16:52.remember all of those who died on the Titanic. 1,500 victims who died

:16:53. > :17:01.in the freezing waters of the Atlantic and, tonight, people have

:17:01. > :17:06.gathered to remember each and every one of them. The three wreaths that

:17:06. > :17:16.will be cast into the sea will follow a memorial service which

:17:16. > :17:41.

:17:41. > :17:47.will be led by the Reverend Hugh Mossford and Commodore Ron Warwick.

:17:47. > :17:52.It's a calm night as it was a century ago. Some have called it

:17:52. > :17:57.eerily quiet. As you look out from the ship the only thing you can see

:17:57. > :18:07.are the distant lights of another vessel. The Balmoral, of course,

:18:07. > :18:11.

:18:11. > :18:16.has traced the exact route of the Titanic. Coming from Southampton,

:18:16. > :18:26.stopping at Cobh, and then travelling on to this point in the

:18:26. > :18:31.Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years ago. Among the passengers are

:18:31. > :18:41.those who had relatives on board the Titanic, some who died, some

:18:41. > :19:14.

:19:14. > :19:21.The service now begins on board the On your Order of Service, as we

:19:21. > :19:28.remember on this night 100 years ago over 1,500 people perished as

:19:28. > :19:33.the Titanic succumbed to the depths of this ocean. Tonight, we remember

:19:33. > :19:40.each and every one of them. We give thanks for those who showed courage

:19:40. > :19:46.and faith in the face of adversity. For those who give their lives so

:19:46. > :19:55.that others might be saved and for their relatives and descendants in

:19:55. > :20:02.whom their memory lives on. Oh Lord, lead us not into temptation, but

:20:02. > :20:07.deliver us from evil. All your fountains of waters bless the Lord.

:20:07. > :20:17.All you seas and waves bless the Lord. Our help is in the name of

:20:17. > :20:24.

:20:25. > :20:34.the Lord. Lord, heed my prayer. The Lord be with you. Shall we say

:20:35. > :20:35.

:20:35. > :20:42.together a portion of Psalm 107? Those who go down to the sea in

:20:42. > :20:48.ships and occupy their business in great waters, these are the works

:20:48. > :20:57.of God and his wonders in the deep. For he speak and raise the stormy

:20:57. > :21:03.wind and it lifted high the waves of the sea. They go up to the sky

:21:03. > :21:11.and down again to their depth. Their courage melts away in the

:21:11. > :21:19.face of disaster. They cried to the Lord in their distress and he took

:21:19. > :21:25.them out of their trouble. For he made the storm decease so that the

:21:25. > :21:33.waves of the sea were still. Then they were glad because they were

:21:33. > :21:41.quiet and he brought them to the haven where they longed to be. Let

:21:41. > :21:45.us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, Father of incomprehensible

:21:45. > :21:52.Majesty, whose invisible power can be glimpsed from your visible

:21:52. > :21:59.creation, oh God whose spirit hovered over the waters in the

:21:59. > :22:04.beginning of the world grant to us your servants that as often as we

:22:04. > :22:11.behold with our bodily eyes, the mighty water swelling out in

:22:11. > :22:17.billows on the heavenly horizons, we may be enraptured in

:22:17. > :22:22.contemplation of your hidden mysteries. Let such a sight and the

:22:22. > :22:29.thought it arouses prompt us to invoke and to glorify with due

:22:29. > :22:36.praise your Holy Name and to render to you to whose Empire, all

:22:36. > :22:41.creatures are subject the homage of our minds in true humility and

:22:41. > :22:47.devotion through Christ our Lord. Lord, who said in the sweat of your

:22:47. > :22:52.brow you shall eat your bread. Kindly heed our prayers and bestow

:22:52. > :23:02.your blessing upon the sea and these wreaths. May we remember

:23:02. > :23:03.

:23:03. > :23:10.those who lost their lives and may the God comfort you in your hour of

:23:10. > :23:20.need with light, hope and peace. May God bless these wreaths. In the

:23:20. > :23:23.

:23:23. > :23:27.name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. In a

:23:27. > :23:34.moment's silence, these deck boys will take the wreaths to their

:23:34. > :23:42.positions and then the whistle will blow and the wreaths will be

:23:42. > :23:52.launched. So in a moment's silence, we recall all who perished this

:23:52. > :23:52.

:23:52. > :24:52.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:24:52. > :25:01.As the ship's whistle sounded, the wreaths were cast into the water

:25:02. > :25:05.from three separate points at the back of the stern.

:25:05. > :25:09.We will be returning to the Atlantic later in the programme. We

:25:09. > :25:15.will also be bringing you the memorial service from Belfast City

:25:15. > :25:19.Hall. Now, 100 years after the Titanic sank, it will be hard to

:25:19. > :25:23.imagine any new stories emerging from the tragedy. When the BBC

:25:23. > :25:30.reported on the dive to the wreck by Mike McKimm and Rory Golden, no-

:25:30. > :25:35.one knew what was going to happen next. Mike McKimm set in sequence a

:25:35. > :25:42.remarkable discovery. He takes up the story.

:25:42. > :25:48.This grave was shown in a documentary about Titanic. Over 120

:25:48. > :25:54.of the bodies found after the sinking are buried here. William

:25:54. > :26:00.was a stoker. When news of the tragedy broke, his family were led

:26:00. > :26:04.to believe he was lost at sea. The evening paper reported he had a

:26:04. > :26:08.sailor's grave along with many of his colleagues. With no internet,

:26:08. > :26:16.telephone or access to the outside world, the family had no way to

:26:16. > :26:25.find out more and accepted their assumed he was one of the missing.

:26:25. > :26:35.They didn't realise he was lying in the Titanic graveyard in Nova

:26:35. > :26:35.

:26:35. > :26:39.Scotia. The bodies of the 22 other citizens of Belfast were not

:26:39. > :26:44.recovered. His granddaughter rang the BBC and told us her story.

:26:44. > :26:54.Until the programme, no-one in the family knew his body had been found.

:26:54. > :26:55.

:26:55. > :26:59.All the relatives knew he was lost at sea. Some of your family went to

:26:59. > :27:03.their graves not realising that William was buried in Canada?

:27:03. > :27:09.That's correct. They have all passed away. Not one of them knew.

:27:09. > :27:19.A few months later we took her to visit the grave in Halifax, the

:27:19. > :27:26.first of the family ever to do so. This is your granddaughter,

:27:26. > :27:32.Marjorie. We have found you at last. Excited and emotional. The thing

:27:32. > :27:41.that excites me the most was seeing his name on the headstone. All the

:27:41. > :27:46.emotion come out. It's sad. It is very sad. I'm lucky, I've found my

:27:46. > :27:56.grandfather. There are others out there who don't know that these

:27:56. > :27:56.

:27:56. > :28:02.could be their relatives. Goodbye, granddad. There is a curious twist

:28:02. > :28:07.to the story. The official Titanic Inquiry heard from a ship's crew

:28:07. > :28:14.member called Johnson. He had a problem with the ropes on the

:28:15. > :28:18.lifeboat. He called out for a knife. A ship's fireman handed him a

:28:18. > :28:28.shaving razor of the cut-throat variety and said, "Give it back to

:28:28. > :28:29.

:28:29. > :28:36.me at Southampton." There was no- one aboard Titanic by that name.

:28:36. > :28:40.When the body was found, there was a fireman union book which

:28:40. > :28:45.identified him. But there was no razor. Was William the man who

:28:45. > :28:49.handed over the razor 100 years ago and helped save the lives of those

:28:49. > :28:56.in the endangered lifeboat? It is one of those mysteries that will

:28:56. > :29:01.never be sold. The story one of one of those who perished. Not everyone

:29:01. > :29:05.died on the Titanic. 705 people escaped with their lives. The BBC

:29:05. > :29:15.has recorded interviewed with some of those survivors. One of the most

:29:15. > :29:18.

:29:19. > :29:26.vivid accounts came from Frank We had orders to get the lifeboats

:29:26. > :29:32.out. It was just for women and children. The first boats did not

:29:32. > :29:38.have many passengers on board, they were afraid to go down, it was a 74

:29:38. > :29:45.to drop to the water. They did not think she was going to sink. I met

:29:45. > :29:50.a young couple. It was a Mrs Clark. They had spent their honeymoon in

:29:50. > :29:55.France and we had picked them up at Cherbourg. She was having trouble

:29:55. > :30:02.with her life belt. I fix that on to her and said, I think you had

:30:02. > :30:07.better get into a lifeboat. I think there is one on the port side. She

:30:07. > :30:12.said she did not want to leave her husband. It is just a precautionary

:30:12. > :30:21.measure, you get in and your husband will follow later on. I

:30:21. > :30:27.thought I had done all I could, help them all I could. Now I will

:30:27. > :30:34.go up on the deck. I was getting higher and higher. I thought now I

:30:34. > :30:37.will go, I dropped in and I hit the water with a terrific crack.

:30:37. > :30:43.Luckily and did not hit anything when I dropped in, there were

:30:43. > :30:48.bodies all over the place. Then I looked up at the Titanic. The

:30:49. > :30:54.propellers were out of the water and I could see the bottom. And

:30:54. > :31:04.then gradually, she glided away and that was that, the last of the

:31:04. > :31:05.

:31:05. > :31:15.Titanic. And by the grace of God, I came across a lifeboat and they

:31:15. > :31:15.

:31:15. > :31:22.pulled me in. I sat on a seat, and I sat next to Mrs Clark. The lady I

:31:22. > :31:28.had put into a lifeboat. The first thing she said, have you seen my

:31:28. > :31:34.husband? I said, they haven't, but I suspect he will be all right. I

:31:34. > :31:39.was in a pretty bad way then, as you can imagine, frozen solid

:31:39. > :31:43.almost. She had some sort of blanket or a coat and she wrapped

:31:43. > :31:53.me up in it. Might think she probably saved my life, I don't

:31:53. > :31:54.

:31:55. > :32:02.know. But I saved Hirst, at least I think I did. And she saved mind. --

:32:02. > :32:06.mind. William Blair is with me again. Stories of the survivors are

:32:06. > :32:13.so compelling. Survivors of all classes, which may surprise some

:32:13. > :32:17.people? One of the features of Titanic's story which makes it so

:32:17. > :32:22.compelling is we wonder what our chances of survival would have been.

:32:22. > :32:27.There is the apparent injustice in why so many first-class passengers

:32:28. > :32:34.survived, in relation to the other classes of passengers. It is ironic

:32:34. > :32:38.in many respects, even after the sinking, the pecking order on board

:32:38. > :32:45.seemed to be reflected in how those who perished were treated it when

:32:45. > :32:49.they were recovered from the water. In what sense? Not all of the

:32:49. > :32:54.bodies of the third-class passengers were recovered from the

:32:54. > :33:00.water and buried on land, was that just a privilege of the first

:33:00. > :33:07.class? The most important body to be retrieved was that of John Jacob

:33:07. > :33:13.Astor. His body was contained in a special casket. Most first class

:33:13. > :33:19.passengers, their bodies were kept him wooden coffins. It was the

:33:19. > :33:23.third-class passengers whose bodies were kept in cambers body bags. And

:33:23. > :33:30.many of them were buried at sea before the rescue ship got back to

:33:30. > :33:36.Nova Scotia. In a way, Titanic was a reflection of society on land at

:33:36. > :33:42.that time. And ironically, the hierarchy continued right through

:33:42. > :33:47.as the tragedy unfolded. Let's go back to the dream of the Titanic.

:33:47. > :33:55.It was the second of the Olympic class liners. So when it was

:33:55. > :34:02.launched it did not have the blaze of publicity its sinking had?

:34:02. > :34:05.is one of the ironies of the story. The Titanic was the middle sister

:34:05. > :34:12.and the White Star Line took a bold decision to Commission three

:34:12. > :34:22.identical ships. The first was a Olympic. The construction arm

:34:22. > :34:23.

:34:23. > :34:27.Olympic started six about six to eight months ahead of Titanic. But

:34:27. > :34:32.Olympic enjoyed enormous publicity at its launch and there were

:34:32. > :34:38.special efforts are made for a limpet and there was the Titanic.

:34:38. > :34:42.It is one of the ironies, given the focus is so much on Titanic when

:34:43. > :34:48.the Olympic, at the time was the bigger story. So because of the

:34:48. > :34:54.disaster, Olympic we would no more as a name to do with the shipyard,

:34:54. > :34:59.as opposed to Titanic? This disaster overshadowed all the rest?

:35:00. > :35:04.It did, it is important to remember with Titanic we recover at the

:35:04. > :35:08.stories of Olympic and Britannic. They were also remarkable ships

:35:08. > :35:12.with remarkable stories. When we look at the Olympic we see what

:35:12. > :35:17.Titanic could have been and probably would have been, had it

:35:17. > :35:23.not met its tragic fate. And of course, Britannic, which is the one

:35:23. > :35:28.that is very much forgotten had its own remarkable story. It was

:35:28. > :35:32.ultimately sunk when it hit a German mine in the Aegean Sea

:35:32. > :35:37.during the First World War, it was a hospital ship and never entered

:35:37. > :35:42.service as a liner. It was remarkable in its own right, it was

:35:42. > :35:48.the largest British built at line until the Queen Mary was launched

:35:48. > :35:53.in the 1930s. We must also remember in the building of these ships,

:35:53. > :35:56.people died. People died even before the Titanic was launched.

:35:56. > :36:01.The shipyard did not have the health and safety measured it would

:36:01. > :36:06.have today and other shipyards would have? Absolutely, in many

:36:06. > :36:11.ways it was a very dangerous place to work. The only thing that

:36:11. > :36:18.mitigated against that danger was the degree of skill of the

:36:18. > :36:25.employees, which often they were engaged in very dangerous work.

:36:25. > :36:29.River to us, people working in high pantries. A symbol of industrial

:36:29. > :36:34.accidents in Ulster at that time a concentrated on the shipyard. In

:36:34. > :36:38.some ways it is remarkable there weren't even more accidents and

:36:38. > :36:45.that is a testament to the scale of the workers. We will have more from

:36:45. > :36:51.the later, but for now, William, find you.

:36:51. > :36:55.You had just joined us, welcome to Titanic Belfast Visitor Centre

:36:55. > :37:01.where we are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic 100 years

:37:01. > :37:05.ago today with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. We are reflecting

:37:05. > :37:10.on the enduring impact of the tragedy, talking to many of those

:37:10. > :37:18.with links to the ship and later we will be bringing you a memorial

:37:19. > :37:23.service from Belfast City Hall. One of the few floating links with

:37:23. > :37:30.the Titanic is here, The Nomadic was built in Belfast by Holland and

:37:30. > :37:34.Wolff and based in Cherbourg. Its job was to ferry first and second

:37:34. > :37:39.class passengers out to the White Star Liners calling at the port,

:37:39. > :37:43.including the Titanic. But it has had a chequered history and a

:37:43. > :37:49.torturous route back to Belfast as Julian O'Neill explains.

:37:49. > :37:55.This is a piece of Maritime history being restored to its former glory

:37:55. > :38:01.after 100 years. The Steam Ship, a nomadic was built by Holland and

:38:01. > :38:05.Walsh -- Harland and Wolff and launched into 1011 for the White

:38:05. > :38:10.Star Line. It took French passengers on board the Titanic

:38:10. > :38:14.which was too large to berth at Cherbourg. A during both world wars

:38:14. > :38:19.it saw service as a troop carrier for Allied forces would continue to

:38:19. > :38:24.be used as a tender until being sold into private ownership in the

:38:24. > :38:30.1960s. Six years ago, The Nomadic was in danger of being lost for

:38:30. > :38:35.ever. Its appearance had changed. The upper deck and Funnell had been

:38:35. > :38:41.removed to enable it to pass under the bridges of Paris, were its last

:38:41. > :38:44.roll had been as a restaurant. The scrapyard beckoned until then

:38:44. > :38:50.Ireland -- Northern Ireland Executive bought The Nomadic and

:38:50. > :38:55.transported to Belfast for a restoration job, now in its final

:38:55. > :39:02.stages. The purchase price was 250,000 euros, but the bill for

:39:02. > :39:07.removal and emergency repair pushed the outlay to around seven figures.

:39:07. > :39:11.We spend nearly the best of �1 million between purchase,

:39:11. > :39:18.transportation and some restoration. Does it feel like a good

:39:18. > :39:22.investment? Of course, you cannot put a value on your heritage,

:39:22. > :39:26.particularly your Maritime heritage. As this is the last White Star Line

:39:26. > :39:33.vessel in the world, it has been very good value for money. Since

:39:33. > :39:37.then, the costs have multiplied but the change has been dramatic. The

:39:37. > :39:42.funnel, upper deck and superstructure transformed The

:39:42. > :39:49.Nomadic which arrived from France in 2006. The interior still needs

:39:49. > :39:55.refurbish, and there is a job of work is still to do, and around �6

:39:55. > :40:02.million has been spent so far. He now sits in Hamilton dry .com or

:40:02. > :40:08.its permanent resting place of away from the Titanic exhibition.

:40:08. > :40:13.Still within the ship were a lot of the original wall panels. We can

:40:13. > :40:20.trace them back and they are original. As well as that, we have

:40:21. > :40:26.managed to get back a lot of the original panels that were stripped

:40:26. > :40:31.out in the 1960s and 70s. We have been recording them, drawing them

:40:31. > :40:38.up, measuring them and putting back the jigsaw puzzle. And the missing

:40:38. > :40:42.pieces, we have to make you to fit in with that. But in the first

:40:42. > :40:45.class area, a large proportion of what people will see will be the

:40:45. > :40:52.original panelling from the ship and that is what makes it special

:40:52. > :40:57.and interesting. The idea is to connect paying customers to an age

:40:57. > :41:02.when Belfast was shipbuilder to the world. We were very lucky with the

:41:02. > :41:06.doors because there were no real records of what they were like. But

:41:06. > :41:11.when the ship was converted into a restaurant, a lot of the panelling

:41:12. > :41:16.was taken off and put into storage. That was found and handed back to

:41:16. > :41:23.the trust. Amongst the panelling was one of the original doors that

:41:23. > :41:32.we were able to copy and recreate it. It has been done by specialist

:41:32. > :41:38.would workers. The original port holes were cast by brass and were

:41:38. > :41:44.by a company in England. They were reported to have the original mould

:41:44. > :41:47.for the portholes. Some of the port lights in the lower deck were

:41:47. > :41:53.stoned when the ship was in France being converted into a restaurant.

:41:53. > :41:57.They will have to be converted during the next phase. For nomadic

:41:57. > :42:03.is about a quarter of the size of Titanic and the restoration has

:42:03. > :42:07.largely been paid for with grants. �2 million of European funds we

:42:07. > :42:12.used to pay for the external facelift, carried out by Harland

:42:12. > :42:19.and Wolff. The final phase will be covered by �3 million from the

:42:20. > :42:24.Heritage Lottery funds. This is the most substantial bit of Titanic

:42:24. > :42:31.Heritage, other than the Titanic, which is at the bottom of the ocean.

:42:31. > :42:37.But this is as good as it gets as far as Belfast is concerned. It

:42:37. > :42:42.gives a chance for you to touch an original bits of Titanic heritage

:42:42. > :42:46.that is not in a museum, they can come and enjoy it. The lottery

:42:46. > :42:51.grant it will be split evenly between its interior and the dry

:42:51. > :42:57.duck where it is believed the ship was fitted out a century ago. The

:42:57. > :43:01.idea is to create a dockside of 1912 and give visitors a snapshot

:43:01. > :43:06.of the Titanic itself. With me now is Denis Rooney from

:43:06. > :43:11.The Nomadic Charitable Trust, a man who has been involved from the

:43:11. > :43:15.start. What a transformation? years ago, The Nomadic came here

:43:15. > :43:20.and we have worked hard, particularly in fundraising. We

:43:20. > :43:25.have got her to the stage where we can see the end product. We can get

:43:25. > :43:32.a superstructure on and she looks wonderful from the outside. Over

:43:32. > :43:36.the next six months we are involved in the restoration and refined work

:43:36. > :43:41.to the time when she served the Titanic. It is hard to believe this

:43:41. > :43:48.is the last White Star vessel in existence and it was going to be

:43:48. > :43:51.sold for scrap? It was a courageous decision by the Department for

:43:51. > :43:55.Social Development at the time. In some ways they did not know what

:43:55. > :43:59.they were taking on but they appointed the trust. People have

:43:59. > :44:04.criticised us for not being ready at this point in time, but these

:44:04. > :44:07.restoration projects take a long time. This has been quite a fast

:44:07. > :44:12.one. But it will be finished towards the end of the year and it

:44:12. > :44:18.will be a wonderful attraction for Northern Ireland. You mentioned it

:44:18. > :44:22.costs a lot of money to get this far, is it �6 million in grants?

:44:22. > :44:29.it has been over �80 million to get it to this stage. It is in line

:44:29. > :44:32.with the original estimates. -- �8 million. It is not just the funding

:44:32. > :44:37.and the money, it is getting permission and going through audit

:44:37. > :44:41.processes and so on. Nothing easy about restoration on heritage

:44:41. > :44:45.projects. He said it will be open later this year, are you thinking

:44:46. > :44:50.November? The project will be finished in November and we will

:44:50. > :44:54.have to make a call as to whether it is the right time to open it. We

:44:54. > :44:59.might hold off until early next year, but the drive is to get it

:44:59. > :45:04.finished and get it ready. For anybody who has been to it so far

:45:04. > :45:10.has loved it and the experience. What do you do with a dry doctor

:45:10. > :45:15.afterwards? It is space scheduled monuments. We think it is going to

:45:15. > :45:20.enhance the visitor experience. The dockside, we will create a time

:45:20. > :45:26.capsule, 1911 time capsules. When visitors come on to The Nomadic,

:45:26. > :45:29.they will walk on to the 1911 duck, go on to the last White Star vessel

:45:29. > :45:39.which is beautifully restored and it will get the nearest, physical

:45:39. > :45:43.

:45:43. > :45:45.Were there any plans to refloat the Nomadic? Yes, we wanted to keep all

:45:45. > :45:55.eventualities possible. But realistically, I think the way she

:45:55. > :45:59.is now, in a dry dock, that is probably more likely where she will

:45:59. > :46:03.stay. The project has been dogged by criticism. It was not ready for

:46:03. > :46:08.the opening and for the centenary. Do you think you have won your

:46:08. > :46:12.critics over now? I think we have won most of them over. I think

:46:12. > :46:21.really we will win them over when we open her up at the end of this

:46:21. > :46:30.year, early next year. How much will it cost? We will do joint

:46:30. > :46:37.ticketing with the other projects so it is very important that people

:46:37. > :46:43.can get the whole range of experiences. The tickets probably

:46:43. > :46:47.will be around �6-�7. This has been a labour of love for you? It's been

:46:47. > :46:53.a frustrating journey at times. When you invest so much in a

:46:53. > :46:57.project - we have a great team. When people get involved in a

:46:57. > :47:03.project like this, it does grab them. They get really deeply

:47:03. > :47:09.engrained in it and it becomes part of your DNA. What are your

:47:09. > :47:14.sentiments now at this time? I mean, I think probably what watching the

:47:14. > :47:19.concert last night - we are all getting a sense today more of the

:47:19. > :47:23.human aspect of it. Perhaps we have been so focused in trying to

:47:23. > :47:31.deliver a tourist attraction. Today is a day of reflection. From

:47:31. > :47:41.tomorrow on, we can look forward to really what we are providing for

:47:41. > :47:45.the people of Belfast. Thank you. This is a BBC Northern Ireland News

:47:45. > :47:50.programme live from Belfast reporting on the commemorations on

:47:50. > :47:55.the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. We welcome

:47:55. > :48:00.viewers now from BBC Breakfast to Titanic Belfast, the new

:48:00. > :48:06.interpretive centre in the city's shipyard area. Coming up: We will

:48:06. > :48:10.be crossing to the North Atlantic where a memorial cruise liner has

:48:10. > :48:17.been making its way across the ocean following the route of the

:48:17. > :48:22.fateful maiden trip. At 7.45am, we will be hearing from the family of

:48:22. > :48:28.Thomas Andrews, he went down with the ship. We will be live at

:48:28. > :48:34.Belfast City Hall, Southampton and Cobh. Now, the fascination with the

:48:34. > :48:37.wreck of the ship happened more or less immediately when the liner

:48:37. > :48:43.sank in the North Atlantic four kilometres down below the memorial

:48:43. > :48:47.service that was held today. It wasn't discovered until 1985 and

:48:47. > :48:53.that was because of technological and cost difficulties. I will be

:48:53. > :49:00.talking later to one of those who led that expedition in 1985. In the

:49:00. > :49:05.dives since, there have been many. One in particular was in 2005 and

:49:05. > :49:11.in the mini-sub was pro-diver Rory Golden and BBC correspondent, Mike

:49:11. > :49:19.McKimm. I will be speaking to them in a few minutes. First, Mike takes

:49:19. > :49:23.us on a remarkable journey. To dive to the depths of Titanic

:49:23. > :49:26.you need special equipment - a mini-submarine capable of

:49:26. > :49:33.withstanding the pressures that exist at the bottom of the Atlantic.

:49:33. > :49:43.This is what I have got to get into. It is an amazing piece of equipment.

:49:43. > :49:46.

:49:46. > :49:55.It is very small. It's a submarine deployed from a Russian ship.

:49:55. > :49:58.Everything has to work. After every dive, the submarine is serviced by

:49:58. > :50:04.specialist Russian engineers. On the surface, these pipes have to

:50:04. > :50:10.keep pressure in at up to 600 pounds per square inch. They have

:50:10. > :50:17.to keep pressure out at the bottom of the Atlantic. So it is a

:50:17. > :50:27.delicate engineering balance. When boarding the sub, there's the

:50:27. > :50:31.

:50:31. > :50:36.ritual of removing our shoes. The Russians launch their submarines

:50:36. > :50:45.over the side of the ship. They say it makes it easier to recover the

:50:45. > :50:51.vessel in bad weather. Storms are a real fear for divers. If the

:50:51. > :50:55.weather is bad, the sub's surface time may be delayed. Remember, this

:50:55. > :51:02.is far out in the North Atlantic, so night-time recoveries are

:51:02. > :51:11.commonplace and very spectacular. Finding the wreck needs special

:51:11. > :51:15.technology. These are transponders - there's four of them. The subs

:51:15. > :51:25.use them for reference to find out where they are in relation to the

:51:25. > :51:28.

:51:28. > :51:36.wreck. This is very -- space is very limited inside. Three people

:51:36. > :51:43.share this space for up to 12 hours. Not everything works perfectly. It

:51:44. > :51:49.is a very harsh environment. The red light was a water in craft

:51:49. > :51:53.warning. Thankfully, the water was just our sweat on the inside of the

:51:53. > :51:59.submarine and running under the floor. The interior lights failed,

:51:59. > :52:03.too, leaving us in semi-darkness. Our cameras could see more than we

:52:03. > :52:09.could. On the seabed, you have to find the ship. What looks like

:52:09. > :52:13.rocks are lumps of coal that fell from one of the coal bunkers. Watch

:52:13. > :52:18.very carefully. We managed to hit the bottom three times before we

:52:18. > :52:24.could level the sub. Anxious moments and not the best thing to

:52:24. > :52:28.do at this depth. It's pitch-black and lights can only manage to

:52:28. > :52:34.illuminate a few dozen metres. With oxygen and battery power limited,

:52:34. > :52:42.time can't be wasted looking for the wreck. But then our underwater

:52:42. > :52:48.sonar picks up an astonishing sight - the bow of a ship.

:52:48. > :52:54.Let's talk to Mike and Rory. You know the ship in ways that so few

:52:54. > :53:00.of us can even imagine. You have been within inches of the Titanic.

:53:00. > :53:05.Take us through from top to bottom of the Titanic then? When you come

:53:05. > :53:09.to the ship, we approach the ship coming up to the bow because it is

:53:09. > :53:16.the safest area. There's not much wreckage there. As you approach it,

:53:16. > :53:21.you are seeing the bow and you think that is Titanic. You can not

:53:21. > :53:26.make a mistake. Then we went up high. You can see the bow and all

:53:27. > :53:32.the bits and pieces hanging from it. The railings are still in

:53:32. > :53:40.remarkable condition. Just above us, there is a huge crane that is used

:53:40. > :53:46.for lifting the Spain anchor. Then we move past that. -- Spare anchor.

:53:46. > :53:55.Then we move past that. We are looking at the winches that would

:53:55. > :54:00.have hoisted goods. This is the main mast. It fell right over when

:54:00. > :54:05.the ship sank. Remarkably, we are about to see something that brings

:54:05. > :54:12.back the memory of what happened on the evening. Now we are approaching

:54:12. > :54:16.the crow's nest where the lookout saw through the dark at the last

:54:16. > :54:21.minute the iceberg and picked up, rang the bell three times, picked

:54:21. > :54:26.up a telephone and you can probably see the cable there - that is the

:54:26. > :54:31.cable from the telephone - he rang the bridge and said, "Iceberg right

:54:31. > :54:38.ahead!" Then the whole sequence of events happened and 30 seconds

:54:38. > :54:45.later the ship sunk. We follow the mast on through. The red bit is all

:54:45. > :54:49.that remains of the crow's nest. It fell on to the wheel house. In this

:54:49. > :54:55.shot, you can see these plaques leaning against a piece of wood -

:54:55. > :55:01.that is one of the few pieces of wood left and it was part of the

:55:02. > :55:06.wheel house. The ship's wheel would have been fastened to that. That is

:55:06. > :55:13.the plaque that I left in the summer of 2000 from the people of

:55:14. > :55:18.Cobh and Queenstown. Remarkably, in the summer of 2005... If you look

:55:18. > :55:23.across, we put the plaque down from the people of Belfast. It fell over.

:55:23. > :55:33.You can see the hand turning the twisting from the sub. We spent 20

:55:33. > :55:41.minutes tries to put that plaque back up again. You travelled across

:55:41. > :55:48.the top from the officers' quarters? Yes. Rory? When you leave

:55:48. > :55:55.the bridge area, you can see down here - remarkably, you can see some

:55:55. > :55:59.of the windows are open. This whole area has different levels of

:55:59. > :56:05.preservation and deterioration. It is quite good-looking there. Some

:56:05. > :56:12.of the areas, you can see holes in the roof. This is - a lot of this

:56:12. > :56:17.is natural decay. She is 100 years old. The water pressure and the

:56:17. > :56:25.tiny microorganisms that are eating the steel - remarkably, you can see

:56:25. > :56:29.a crab there. There is life down there at that depth. This is a tiny

:56:29. > :56:33.crab crawling across the deck of the ship. We see life down there.

:56:33. > :56:41.the ship. We see life down there. We see plants. Now we are going

:56:41. > :56:47.back towards the bridge area. We are looking at Captain Smith's bath.

:56:47. > :56:56.There were very few baths on the ship. That is the white portion?

:56:56. > :57:04.Yes. We are back on to the wheel house. This is an expansion gap.

:57:04. > :57:12.Titanic had a number of these. This is ten inches across. It was at one

:57:12. > :57:19.of these gaps that the stern of the ship broke. This is where we had

:57:19. > :57:25.the grand staircase. A replica we have hear? Yes. We had two

:57:25. > :57:32.submarines - one lit it while we went up at 45 degrees. Way down...

:57:32. > :57:38.It is very eerie. You can see six decks down - the pipes, the girders,

:57:38. > :57:46.the wires. It was a very dangerous area. You are looking into the

:57:46. > :57:51.centre of Titanic. Just out of sight, some chandeliers. You could

:57:51. > :57:57.only see 30 feet at a time. You don't really understand what the

:57:57. > :58:01.ship is about. Then we started to move on across the ship to the side.

:58:01. > :58:08.This gives you an idea of the amount of wreckage around the ship.

:58:08. > :58:13.amount of wreckage around the ship. This makes diving very dangerous.

:58:13. > :58:19.The most recognisable part of the ship is the bow, but the side has

:58:19. > :58:24.become recognisable. It has a story to tell. It has. We dropped down

:58:24. > :58:29.the side of the ship and at one stage, we had a bit of a power

:58:29. > :58:35.failure. We were dropping down the side of the ship. While things were

:58:35. > :58:40.going on there, we were going down. What we didn't realise that the

:58:40. > :58:46.cameras were running all the time. We got a remarkable shot along the

:58:46. > :58:50.side of the ship. We are looking at the promenade deck looking in at

:58:50. > :58:57.the open area where the first-class passengers would have walked along.

:58:57. > :59:04.You can see a buckle, when the ship hit the bottom she bent back. Again,

:59:04. > :59:08.we are looking at the side. It is remarkable to see what's happening

:59:08. > :59:12.there in terms of the condition of there in terms of the condition of

:59:12. > :59:20.the ship. You can see the rust. It is very sad. I mean, she's a ship

:59:20. > :59:29.that is dead. But she is dying more. Just moving along there brings the

:59:29. > :59:34.tragedy to you. These rusticles are the output of tiny micros that are

:59:34. > :59:43.eating the steel structure of the ship. You can see in this picture

:59:43. > :59:47.where the top deck has fallen on to the deck below. The ship is

:59:47. > :59:51.collapsing down all the time. It is very sad when you get towards the

:59:51. > :59:58.back of the ship because that is where a lot of the damage was

:59:58. > :00:03.caused. You can see just at the end of it, the pulley block, they are

:00:03. > :00:13.all gone. This is one of the dangers. We nearly hit that. You

:00:13. > :00:17.

:00:17. > :00:26.can only see a few degrees out of We are actually rising back up the

:00:26. > :00:35.side of the ship. It gives you in indications on the scale. Did you

:00:35. > :00:43.see the light? That was a very scary moment. We are now creeping

:00:43. > :00:48.back up the side of the ship again. It is in remarkable condition. Then

:00:48. > :00:54.finally to the engines. This is the back part of the ship, it had

:00:55. > :01:02.broken in two. Bishop imploded it on the way to the bottom. It is

:01:02. > :01:10.very badly damaged. -- this ship imploded. We don't like going to

:01:10. > :01:15.this part of the ship, because there are so many snags. When the

:01:15. > :01:21.captain said, it is time to go I thought we had been short-changed.

:01:21. > :01:29.But we had been there about five hours. It is an indelible mark on

:01:29. > :01:34.your memory? It won't go away. bits of me was saying, you

:01:34. > :01:41.shouldn't be here, you are invading people's space. But the Russians

:01:41. > :01:45.who were there, all had the same feeling. It was total respect. And

:01:45. > :01:48.being able to do this today helps pay that back. Thanks for sharing

:01:48. > :01:51.your journey. your journey.

:01:51. > :01:58.So many victims on the Titanic, those who died came from

:01:58. > :02:03.Southampton. A third of the victims came from that city. Robert Hall is

:02:03. > :02:08.there for us this morning. Morning from Southampton. Another

:02:08. > :02:13.City with strong, emotional links to the Titanic and those who were

:02:13. > :02:18.lost on board. You don't have to walk very far in Southampton to

:02:18. > :02:23.find a memorial to those who were lost. This commemorates the

:02:23. > :02:26.Engineer officers on board Titanic. A few hundred yards away is another

:02:26. > :02:36.to the musicians, who we know played to the passengers leaving

:02:36. > :02:40.the ship. Several hundred people gathered in the docks were Titanic

:02:40. > :02:46.sailed to lay flowers and remember those who never returned. The Jean

:02:46. > :02:51.Legg, your father was on board, what was he doing? He was 18, a

:02:51. > :02:56.trainee Stuart and he was serving on the Olympic first of all. One of

:02:56. > :03:01.the crew who was selected to go on to the Titanic. Your experience was

:03:01. > :03:07.hearing his voice talking about it. Did he tell those stories at home?

:03:07. > :03:12.He told them many times to his family. I had not heard his voice

:03:13. > :03:19.since he died in 1983. So to hear his voice this week was quite

:03:19. > :03:24.emotional. I want people watching to know a tiny bit of the story,

:03:24. > :03:29.about 30 seconds, but the most dramatic point of his escape from

:03:29. > :03:35.the ship. I was seeing the water coming up

:03:36. > :03:41.the bridge like that. I thought, it is time to leave. I was up to my

:03:41. > :03:46.knees in water, I jumped over the rail and into the water. I had no

:03:46. > :03:53.work to swim to, but I had to get away from the suction of the vessel

:03:53. > :03:59.which would have taken me down. In the distance, I could see something

:03:59. > :04:04.black. This one to that and it was an upturned lifeboat.

:04:04. > :04:08.The Titanic Society is all about keeping memories like that alight.

:04:08. > :04:14.What has struck you most of all this week? The various ways we

:04:14. > :04:22.commemorate. If you want to remember Titanic, there is a

:04:22. > :04:27.roller-coaster of emotions, the joy of the ship and the hope that this

:04:27. > :04:31.ship would sail and then it all turning to dust out on the Atlantic.

:04:31. > :04:36.We should remember the whole thing, the people and the various places

:04:37. > :04:42.in the UK and around the world that have a link with Titanic. We are

:04:42. > :04:48.talking about an emotional week but people are saying it is a long time

:04:48. > :04:53.ago. There are pieces of paper from little children remembering great

:04:53. > :04:58.grandad. There is still that emotional bond which seems to go

:04:58. > :05:02.through the generations? It does indeed and I go round talking to

:05:02. > :05:06.schoolkids and give them a Titanic day and they do a project. The

:05:06. > :05:12.greatest thing may get out of it, is when teachers tell me that

:05:12. > :05:18.children, who had no interest in history, the spark has been lit by

:05:18. > :05:24.Titanic. The interest in Titanic will go on for generations. Just a

:05:24. > :05:28.final word from you, you sat on the quayside, listen to the words and

:05:28. > :05:35.it all came back, listening to your father. This must have been a

:05:35. > :05:39.difficult week for you? It has been a mixed, emotional week. The

:05:39. > :05:44.celebration on Tuesday when it was the launch with the hopes and

:05:44. > :05:49.dreams of people on board. And then today, the commemoration, the

:05:49. > :05:53.tribute to all of those on the boat, to those who perished and I think

:05:54. > :06:03.it will go down in history for ever. But it from Southampton for now, we

:06:03. > :06:09.will be back later on, but let's now go to Cobh.

:06:09. > :06:16.123 people travelled from all over Ireland to join the Titanic here.

:06:16. > :06:21.Then this place was Queen's town, it did not become Cobh until after

:06:21. > :06:26.Ireland gained independence. Those travellers would have gathered at

:06:26. > :06:32.this building, the original White Star Line ticket office. Today it

:06:32. > :06:39.is a museum, but in 1912 it was the gateway to a new life in America.

:06:39. > :06:44.Here they are, the 123 people who joined the Titanic from Cobh.

:06:44. > :06:49.Mostly Irish, mostly travelling in third class, most of them never

:06:50. > :06:53.made it to their destinations. Yesterday, their relatives

:06:54. > :06:59.travelled out to the Atlantic to hold a remembrance service at the

:06:59. > :07:04.exact place they would have boarded the ship 100 years ago. It has a

:07:04. > :07:14.profound effect on us and we are very grateful that Cobh had laid

:07:14. > :07:14.

:07:14. > :07:20.this on for us. It is just a mountain top experience, if I can

:07:20. > :07:25.say that, one I will never forget. I am so glad to be here. Back on

:07:25. > :07:30.land and the mood was more upbeat. The Titanic is something this town

:07:30. > :07:37.has been marketing for many years. And this year, they had stepped it

:07:37. > :07:44.up a gear. 2012 is the centenary year and we want people to know

:07:44. > :07:50.that Cobh was the last port of call and it is very important to us. In

:07:50. > :07:54.1912, when ships like the Titanic came, it looked exactly the same

:07:54. > :07:58.except for the cathedral did not have a Spider on it. At the

:07:59. > :08:07.Heritage Centre, they have added a few new exhibits to their Titanic

:08:07. > :08:13.collection. Like this letter found washed up in a water bottle from

:08:13. > :08:22.19-year-old Jeremiah Burke, a man from Cork, who died in the tragedy.

:08:22. > :08:27.It simply says "from Titanic, could buy all". For the families

:08:27. > :08:31.travelling down here, they can step in the footsteps of their ancestors.

:08:31. > :08:37.They can see what their last sight of Ireland was. And for the people

:08:38. > :08:44.of the town, it is such a way of paying homage and respect and

:08:44. > :08:51.remembering those who died. It is going to be a very sombre day

:08:51. > :08:56.in Cobh. Later in the cathedral there will be a memorial service

:08:56. > :09:06.and then down to the waterside were flowers will be laid. John Carney

:09:06. > :09:13.takes trips out to the tide tannic were it was moored. Just behind us,

:09:13. > :09:19.those passengers left 100 years ago and in Cobh it was a special

:09:19. > :09:28.occasion. To have the Titanic visits Fakir, you had quite a lot

:09:28. > :09:35.of visitors trouble here at the time. -- visit Cobh. It was a new

:09:35. > :09:43.life for a lot of the 123 people who left Cobh 100 years ago.

:09:43. > :09:48.did Cobh mock their departure? lighting fires along the heavens

:09:48. > :09:51.for stomp there is a lot of watch out towers along the coast. That

:09:51. > :09:56.will be the last point of land before they headed across the

:09:56. > :10:02.Atlantic. So the fires that Willetts, they could see and that

:10:02. > :10:06.was their mark of respect. It is a very emotional time, but also

:10:06. > :10:13.emotional this week. You have been meeting a lot of relatives on boat

:10:13. > :10:17.trips out to where the Titanic was anchored? Yes, listening to their

:10:17. > :10:25.stories and the experiences their relatives had. It was very moving

:10:25. > :10:32.this week, to feel what went on. It was very special for them to come

:10:32. > :10:38.here and visits and lay them mark of respect. That was very

:10:38. > :10:44.beneficial to them, I think. reporter, Chris Buckler has spent

:10:44. > :10:47.the last week on a memorial voyage carrying descendants of Titanic

:10:47. > :10:53.passengers and enthusiasts on a route of the maiden trip. This

:10:53. > :11:02.morning, people on board came out to hold a service at the precise

:11:02. > :11:08.moment the Titanic went down. Chris. We are standing hundreds of miles

:11:08. > :11:14.from land. As you mention, the passengers travelled to be at the

:11:14. > :11:18.exact point of Titanic's wreckage to pay tribute to those who died.

:11:18. > :11:25.1,500 victims, and they were remembered in a special service on

:11:25. > :11:29.the ship. Make God bless these reeds, In the

:11:29. > :11:39.Name Of the Father, and in the name of the Sun, and of the Holy spirit.

:11:39. > :11:42.

:11:42. > :11:49.Amen. In a moment's silence, the flowers will be taken and then

:11:49. > :11:59.there were sold well below and they will be launched. So, in a moment's

:11:59. > :12:00.

:12:00. > :12:10.silence, we recall all who perished this night, 100 years ago. Take

:12:10. > :12:39.

:12:39. > :12:43.Stay there. You need to go up there. You need to go up there, don't you?

:12:43. > :12:48.They were cast into the water as a sign of remembrance for those who

:12:48. > :12:53.perished on the Titanic. On board, the passengers, some of them who

:12:53. > :12:58.had relatives he did die in the disaster, and also others who have

:12:58. > :13:01.come because they really believe in the story of the Titanic. With meat

:13:02. > :13:08.are Valerie Bankend Boyd from County Down. Give me a sense of

:13:08. > :13:18.what it was like, when the flowers were cast into the water? I felt

:13:18. > :13:19.

:13:19. > :13:26.very emotional. I believe that those who went down would have felt

:13:26. > :13:30.a presence. You could feel everybody's a motion. They were

:13:30. > :13:37.going to cry like me! You could feel the emotion, I think everybody

:13:37. > :13:44.did. I have never felt anything like that before. He very calm,

:13:44. > :13:51.still night and it adds to the emotion? It does so. Everybody

:13:51. > :14:00.overlooking the scene, the surface -- service was very well laid out

:14:00. > :14:04.as well. It does not end for the passengers at this spot. So they

:14:04. > :14:09.will be going to Halifax and Nova Scotia, where the graves of many of

:14:09. > :14:16.those who died are still there. Then they will go to New York, the

:14:16. > :14:21.destination Titanic never reached. The Titanic was built in Belfast

:14:21. > :14:26.and in a way, the fate of the ship for told the fate of the city. This

:14:26. > :14:33.area has just recently recovered from decades of decline, but in

:14:33. > :14:38.1912, Belfast was booming. It was at the height of its industrial

:14:38. > :14:47.prowess. We explain that a wife in the Titanic era, this was a boom

:14:47. > :14:56.Belfast 1912. This is what it looked like and this is what people

:14:56. > :15:05.were listening to. # It's a long way to Tipperary... #

:15:06. > :15:13.They were travelling from further afield to get work in Ireland's

:15:13. > :15:20.biggest city. Despite the prosperity, cracks were already

:15:20. > :15:27.beginning to show. Belfast was in many ways a divided city and the

:15:27. > :15:33.political temperature was rising in 1912. You had support for and

:15:33. > :15:41.opposition to home rule and that was the political fault lines in

:15:41. > :15:46.the city that were clearly defined. It did create - the atmosphere was

:15:46. > :15:52.becoming more tense. These divisions spilled over into places

:15:52. > :15:56.like the shipyard which was beginning to get a bit of a

:15:56. > :16:06.reputation. Catholics did work here, many thousands of Catholics did

:16:06. > :16:07.

:16:07. > :16:15.work here. My generation might have believed this was a Protestant

:16:15. > :16:24.shipyard - it wasn't. The fact is you couldn't be evicted from

:16:24. > :16:27.somewhere unless you were employed here. Nearly one million people

:16:27. > :16:33.were leaving Europe each year to make a new life in the United

:16:33. > :16:40.States. There was a demand for bigger and better ships. Ships like

:16:40. > :16:45.the Titanic. A record-breaking piece of engineering that people of

:16:45. > :16:48.Belfast could be proud of. The most famous ship in the world soon

:16:48. > :16:57.became something this city and shipyard wanted to forget about.

:16:57. > :17:03.There was not so much shame as shock and dented pride. It wasn't

:17:03. > :17:10.talked about in the yard, or by the people of Belfast. We are not very

:17:10. > :17:18.good at blowing our own trumpet. Here we have a global icon which

:17:18. > :17:24.belongs to Belfast. We are taking pride in that. We must never forget

:17:24. > :17:28.that over 1,500 people died. That is the only reason why we are

:17:28. > :17:38.talking about it. Let us use the hook of Titanic to bring people, to

:17:38. > :17:40.

:17:40. > :17:48.bring new life to this area which was the Cape Canaveral of its time.

:17:48. > :17:52.This building will bring life back to what was a hiving place in 1912.

:17:52. > :17:57.Harland & Wolff remained a hiving place for many years. The First

:17:57. > :18:03.World War brought big orders for new ships and the yard remained one

:18:03. > :18:09.of the main employers in Belfast. It's a different story today. While

:18:09. > :18:15.once there were 30,000 people working here, now there are around

:18:15. > :18:20.700. Looking down from one of the great cranes that stands here you

:18:20. > :18:25.can see just how much this place has changed in the last century.

:18:25. > :18:31.Although the company still carries out ship repairs, it hasn't built a

:18:31. > :18:36.ship in nearly ten years. Unlike many of its contemporaries, it has

:18:36. > :18:41.survived although in a different guise now making wind turbines. But

:18:41. > :18:47.it will always be famous for shipbuilding and it will always be

:18:47. > :18:56.famous for building one ship. It has taken 100 years for us to

:18:56. > :19:00.accept that this is something to be proud of.

:19:00. > :19:08.William Blair is still with us and we are joined by Dr Margaret

:19:08. > :19:15.O'Callaghan from Queen's University. We heard in that report Cape

:19:15. > :19:24.Canaveral of its day! Why was it such a hub of injury? Well, Belfast

:19:24. > :19:28.was a global player at that time in 1912. It had - the industries were

:19:28. > :19:38.competing on global markets and why that was, it is an interesting

:19:38. > :19:40.

:19:40. > :19:44.question. I think one of the reasons is that a lot of our

:19:44. > :19:48.leading industrial families were very interconnected and there were

:19:48. > :19:55.social networks where it was easy to do business. I think access to

:19:55. > :19:58.capital is an important part of it. We had our own local banks. There

:19:58. > :20:05.was lots of liquidity in the economy. A lot of the wealth

:20:05. > :20:11.created in Belfast stayed in Belfast. That helped. We can't

:20:11. > :20:18.ignore the fact that Belfast had a sectarian division at that time as

:20:18. > :20:23.well? It had sectarian divisions but it had political divisions, too.

:20:23. > :20:27.In 1912, the big issue is home rule. What is going to happen? Is Ireland

:20:27. > :20:32.going to remain within the United Kingdom? Obviously, the kind of

:20:32. > :20:36.networks that William is talking about, the wealth of Belfast, they

:20:36. > :20:42.see themselves as having won within the Union with Great Britain, they

:20:42. > :20:51.are loyal to the Union. A city like Belfast has grown massively in the

:20:51. > :21:01.second 50 years of the 19th Century. Limerick was in recession and going

:21:01. > :21:04.

:21:04. > :21:09.nowhere. It's on all those main routes and it wins and it booms

:21:09. > :21:15.through the Union. Belfast itself, of course, is a highly

:21:15. > :21:20.sectarianised city. It mirrors the divisions between the loyal and the

:21:20. > :21:26.disloyal or the Irish Nationalist. Belfast books a flashpoint for

:21:26. > :21:34.those years from 1912 to 1914 because of changes to the

:21:34. > :21:38.Parliament bill. It's - home rule has been possible since 1886. It's

:21:38. > :21:43.passed in the Commons. It can be passed year after year but it is

:21:43. > :21:47.always blocked by the Lords. Lord George has removed the veto of the

:21:47. > :21:54.House of Lords through the Parliament Act. These are pressure

:21:54. > :21:59.cooker years for Belfast from 1912 to 1914. What is going to happen to

:21:59. > :22:03.Belfast? What will be excluded from the home rule settlement? How did

:22:03. > :22:09.that division manifest itself in this particular area, in the

:22:10. > :22:18.shipyard, which had Protestants working in it predominantly? Well,

:22:18. > :22:23.politically, in those years, 1912 to 1914, you could say there was a

:22:23. > :22:32.lack of sectarianism but in certain occupations and categories, there

:22:32. > :22:37.are of course Catholics. James Connolly, Jim Larkin, big union

:22:37. > :22:43.organisers coming in. The shipyard workers see this as their territory,

:22:43. > :22:48.their world. They feel threatened by home rule, Irish Nationalism,

:22:48. > :22:58.manifest in the Catholic working- class. Not all of the

:22:58. > :23:02.industrialists were anti this form of home rule? Lord Perry was a

:23:02. > :23:09.supporter of home rule. The majority of his workforce wouldn't

:23:09. > :23:14.have agreed on that point. Perry was a leading light in the Ulster

:23:14. > :23:19.Liberal Association. He was instrumental in organising a famous

:23:19. > :23:29.public meeting in 1912 when Winston Churchill was invited to Belfast

:23:29. > :23:39.and he shared a platform with John Redmond. It did make him unpopular.

:23:39. > :23:42.

:23:42. > :23:47.But it does show the shipyard wasn't a complete monolith.

:23:47. > :23:53.Margaret and William, thank you for sharing your thoughts on that era.

:23:53. > :23:58.And also the time when it was politically divided.

:23:58. > :24:08.Thank you for that. Now, in over an hour, a new

:24:08. > :24:13.

:24:13. > :24:17.memorial garden will be unveiled at Belfast City Hall. It is being

:24:17. > :24:23.billed as the first memorial to provide a definitive list of those

:24:23. > :24:28.who died. Mark Simpson is there. We are about to get our first look at

:24:28. > :24:33.this new Titanic Memorial Garden. You can see it now for the first

:24:33. > :24:38.time right behind me at the moment. It's simple, it's dignified, it is

:24:38. > :24:47.colourful and it is quite powerful as well. The first time anywhere in

:24:47. > :24:51.the world that all 1,512 victims are remembered on the same monument

:24:51. > :24:58.in alphabetical order. Finishing touches are being made for this

:24:58. > :25:04.service which begins shortly after 9.00am. Those names are etched in

:25:05. > :25:10.bronze, underneath the blue cloth on the plinth. The plinth is nine

:25:10. > :25:12.metres long. So many names and so many tragedies. With me is the Sinn

:25:12. > :25:17.Fein Lord Mayor of Belfast. You have had a chance to look around.

:25:17. > :25:23.What do you think? You summed it up well when you said it is very

:25:23. > :25:33.simple but very appropriate. This is the only monument anywhere. It's

:25:33. > :25:36.

:25:36. > :25:41.become known as the Belfast List. They are not based on class or

:25:41. > :25:45.grouping. So it is very appropriate we are remembering those who died.

:25:45. > :25:49.The truth is that Belfast has been a divided city over the years and

:25:49. > :25:55.Titanic was built mainly by Protestants. Do you get the sense

:25:55. > :26:01.that it's becoming more of a shared history now? There's shared

:26:01. > :26:05.potential in this story. I think what we are about trying to do as

:26:05. > :26:09.political leaders is about writing a new history for all of our people.

:26:09. > :26:14.It is appropriate that the human tragedy is remembered and I think

:26:14. > :26:18.we are doing that well this morning. Thank you very much. The Lord Mayor

:26:18. > :26:23.talks about the human tragedy. There are reminders for a lot of

:26:23. > :26:28.families this morning. A lot of the descendants of those who died are

:26:28. > :26:34.coming here, including my own extended family. My distant

:26:34. > :26:38.relative Dr John Simpson was one of those 1,512 victims. Talking to

:26:38. > :26:43.some of the families who have been arriving here this morning, it is

:26:43. > :26:47.clear they have mixed emotions, sadness yes, a sense of grief and

:26:47. > :26:52.mourning. But also a sense of pride at what Belfast is finally doing

:26:52. > :26:58.for all of the victims of this disaster which happened 100 years

:26:59. > :27:04.ago. From Belfast City Hall, it is back to Titanic Belfast and Sarah.

:27:04. > :27:09.Thank you. For many, the Titanic is a story of heroes and villains, of

:27:09. > :27:13.cowardice and of bravery. One of the acknowledged heroes was Thomas

:27:13. > :27:18.Andrews. The young naval architect from County Down helped design the

:27:18. > :27:23.Titanic and then perished as she sank. He left behind a young wife

:27:23. > :27:31.and a child. I have had unique access to some of this family's

:27:31. > :27:37.archives. He became the hero of all Titanic's

:27:37. > :27:44.heroes, gallant to the end. Once he realised the ship was doomed,

:27:44. > :27:51.Thomas Andrews met his fate bravely, giving up his own life to save

:27:51. > :27:59.other men's lives and children. His own wife slept oblivious to the

:27:59. > :28:04.horror unfolding that night. never spoke about it. She never

:28:04. > :28:09.mentioned the tragedy but on one occasion I was talking to her and

:28:09. > :28:16.she said that she hoped that the wreck would be left as a memorial

:28:16. > :28:25.to all the people who died on the ship. 100 years on, I have come to

:28:25. > :28:28.meet her youngest child. Now in her 80s, Vera Morrison can reveal

:28:28. > :28:31.wonderful memories and stories ability the woman who not only

:28:31. > :28:41.captured the heart of Thomas Andrews but also her father's.

:28:41. > :28:41.

:28:41. > :28:47.Another giant in the world of shipbuilding, Henry Harland of

:28:47. > :28:55.Harland & Wolff. I am sure as when she was young she would have been

:28:55. > :29:02.very, very amusing, she was witty, she had a great sense of humour. I

:29:02. > :29:06.am sure she was great fun. Nelly couldn't decide on which suitor to

:29:06. > :29:11.marry until her mother made her choose. Nelly picked Thomas.

:29:11. > :29:15.foupbgd it hard to believe that the -- I found it hard to believe the

:29:15. > :29:22.story that my grandmother locked her up in her bedroom and told her

:29:22. > :29:27.she wasn't allowed out until she made up her mind which of her

:29:27. > :29:35.suitors she would marry. I found this very hard to believe. Her

:29:35. > :29:41.choice was a true love match. Friday, the 24th March 1906, Thomas

:29:41. > :29:46.proposed. By all accounts Nelly was stunned into silence and didn't

:29:46. > :29:56.give him the answer he was hoping for. My dear Nelly, I cannot tell

:29:56. > :30:04.

:30:04. > :30:09.you how much it grieves me to find out... I would never have placed

:30:09. > :30:13.you in such an awkward position as I did. Don't think I was annoyed

:30:13. > :30:21.with you last night for not giving me an answer. You acted wisely when

:30:21. > :30:30.you had any doubt. I am alone to blame. Your ever affectionate and

:30:30. > :30:38.loving friend, Thomas Andrews. quite sure that it was a love match

:30:38. > :30:43.but maybe he took her by surprise. It gives you goosebumps when you

:30:43. > :30:53.read how romantic he was? Very much so. Eventually, Nelly got over her

:30:53. > :30:58.

:30:58. > :31:08.This is my mother's engagement ring. This is a priceless when it comes

:31:08. > :31:08.

:31:08. > :31:14.to sentimental value. I think so. Two years after their wedding they

:31:14. > :31:24.had a baby. Although Thomas was walking long hours at the shipyard,

:31:24. > :31:31.

:31:31. > :31:41.too much time as far as Nellie was concerned. They had to let to male

:31:41. > :31:42.

:31:42. > :31:50.or female during the winter months, the Starr Board Honour's room, Orly

:31:50. > :31:54.those of a restful disposition need apply. The that is the sort of

:31:54. > :32:02.thing that she would write, as a joke. That is wonderful to have her.

:32:02. > :32:06.I never knew whether anyone would find it. However, little did either

:32:07. > :32:11.of them know that very soon there have the world would come to an end,

:32:12. > :32:18.shattered by Titanic and Thomas's loss. Nellie was heartbroken, but

:32:18. > :32:28.chose not to focus on her own grief but on the grief of others. She was

:32:28. > :32:31.

:32:31. > :32:40.totally devastated. Thomas's parents, she described them as

:32:40. > :32:49.being her second mother and father. She was trying to console them.

:32:49. > :32:54.was left with a two-year-old child, as well. Yes. Their child died in a

:32:54. > :33:00.car accident in the 70s. But, the story does not end there, and

:33:00. > :33:05.despite a broken heart, five years after the death of Thomas, nearly

:33:05. > :33:10.would marry again to none other than our old Sotho, Henry Harland,

:33:10. > :33:14.and they went on to her four children. It was only as an adult

:33:14. > :33:20.that she began to realise the important connection to Titanic and

:33:20. > :33:28.to her mother's first husband, Thomas Andrews. It was really

:33:28. > :33:35.talked about, but one story sums up the kind of man that Thomas was.

:33:35. > :33:45.The other thing that comes out so often is, his real affection for

:33:45. > :33:48.

:33:48. > :33:51.the workers as was described in his notes. He told Nellie that when

:33:51. > :34:01.they were driving at of the shipyard together, the workers were

:34:01. > :34:02.

:34:02. > :34:09.all coming out and he was so very popular, Dili loved by so many

:34:09. > :34:13.people. It is her grandchildren who loved to hear of the connection to

:34:13. > :34:19.the man who built Titanic and to his great love for Nellie. Their

:34:19. > :34:25.marriage lasted for years, but, like the story of Titanic, the tale

:34:25. > :34:29.of their romance would be told for generations to come. Our sincere

:34:29. > :34:33.thanks to Vera Morrison for that wonderful interview and insight

:34:33. > :34:39.into the private world of Thomas Andrews. William Blair is with me

:34:39. > :34:42.now. As Vera Morrison said, Thomas Andrews was loved by so many people.

:34:42. > :34:48.The at very much appears to be the case. That is one of the features

:34:48. > :34:52.of the story of Titanic that many of the people that were painted as

:34:52. > :34:58.either hero or villain, sometimes unfairly, but with Thomas and his,

:34:58. > :35:04.he was genuinely a hero, someone of whom we can be very proud. He

:35:04. > :35:08.conducted himself in an exemplary manner as the tragedy unfolded. Of

:35:09. > :35:14.course, has loss was not simply terrible loss for the and his

:35:14. > :35:19.family, but also a loss for the shipyard. It is quite possible that

:35:19. > :35:24.Thomas Andrews would have gone on to succeed William Perry as

:35:24. > :35:29.chairman, so the loss of Thomas Andrews was a grievous blow, not

:35:29. > :35:34.just on a personal level but also for the shipyard itself. Andrews

:35:34. > :35:38.did come from one of Northern Ireland's most prosperous families.

:35:38. > :35:44.And if we look at the passenger list on the Titanic, it e was a

:35:44. > :35:49.good snapshot of society at that time, all classes were there.

:35:49. > :35:55.was in many respects a perfect mirror reflection of society at

:35:55. > :36:00.that time. You see the complex social hierarchies very much

:36:00. > :36:07.reflected in the passengers and in the way in which the ship was

:36:07. > :36:12.physically designed. We are standing here on a first class

:36:12. > :36:18.staircase. It is interesting to note that, on Titanic, you could

:36:18. > :36:23.upgrade, you could effectively travel first class plus. You could

:36:23. > :36:30.dine in the dining room as part of your ticket for the whole voyage

:36:30. > :36:40.with the absolute cream of society, the Guggenheims, the past ors. But

:36:40. > :36:40.

:36:40. > :36:44.you would pay for that privilege. - - Astors. You watching a BBC

:36:44. > :36:48.Northern Ireland new special live from Belfast commemorating the 100

:36:48. > :36:52.anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Coming up and the next

:36:52. > :36:58.hour, we will be speaking to marine explorer, Robert Ballard, one of

:36:58. > :37:01.the leaders of the expedition that found the Titanic. At around 8:40am

:37:01. > :37:06.will be looking at how the Titanic story has been told and toured

:37:06. > :37:13.again. Then be cross to Belfast City Hall for his service of

:37:13. > :37:20.remembrance and the unveiling of a new memorial garden. The wreck of

:37:20. > :37:24.the Titanic was finally found in 1985. It was a French-American

:37:24. > :37:31.expedition at one of the leaders, Professor Robert Ballard, joins us

:37:31. > :37:40.this morning. Was it like finding a needle in a haystack? Yes, it there

:37:40. > :37:48.was a very large search your rear of 150 square miles -- search area.

:37:48. > :37:53.Normally, you would search with sonar, but it was hiding in a

:37:53. > :37:59.canyon, so we searched for the debris, and that is what led us to

:37:59. > :38:04.find the Titanic. Initially it was for scientific reasons? Initially

:38:04. > :38:09.we had a military operation at the time to draw the public's attention

:38:09. > :38:14.away from us rather work. I was a naval intelligence officer during

:38:14. > :38:19.the Cold War, so I had a double mission on the expedition. Even

:38:19. > :38:23.though it was that sort of expedition, there must have been a

:38:23. > :38:30.point at which there was an emotional attachment. I did not

:38:30. > :38:35.expect to be emotionally tied to it. Let us have a look. The thing about

:38:35. > :38:45.this the visitor centre is that we can see some of the pictures. When

:38:45. > :38:50.you saw that, did you're heart stop? The air were two people

:38:50. > :38:56.inside me that morning, first person was the person trying to

:38:56. > :39:00.find it. My initial reaction was of joy and satisfaction. Somebody look

:39:00. > :39:06.at the clock and it was to o'clock in the morning, and she had sank at

:39:06. > :39:12.2:20am. My secondary reaction was as a person, and I felt embarrassed

:39:12. > :39:18.that I was celebrating, almost, the loss of the Titanic. It was a mood

:39:18. > :39:24.change. From professional excitement to personal sorrow, and

:39:24. > :39:32.when I saw the shoes and the bodies of the people, after the ship sank,

:39:32. > :39:38.people were struggling to survive, but the water was so cold, if they

:39:39. > :39:48.were not in a life at best they which had fallen to the ocean floor

:39:49. > :39:54.

:39:54. > :39:58.-- a life best. -- vest. What went through your mind at that time? I

:39:58. > :40:03.know that other companies have salvage the wreck. Did you think it

:40:03. > :40:08.was appropriate to leave it as it was? We made a promise, the moment

:40:08. > :40:15.we found the Titanic, that we would leave the site as we found it. It

:40:15. > :40:22.was like going to a cemetery. We have some other sides in America

:40:22. > :40:26.like at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. We wanted to treat the

:40:26. > :40:33.Titanic, and when we found the Bismarck, we treated it, the same

:40:33. > :40:38.way. It was not an archaeological site. When we talk to the British

:40:38. > :40:44.Museum at the Smithsonian, both of them said that if we brought up

:40:44. > :40:48.after facts they would not display them. And here, in Belfast, those

:40:49. > :40:54.who went aboard representing Harland and Wolff, they all feel

:40:54. > :40:59.the same. Those closest to the Titanic, not in it for the money,

:40:59. > :41:05.but because they want to make a memorial of what happened, all

:41:06. > :41:10.stand in the same place. Many people would argue they would like

:41:10. > :41:14.to see the artifacts in a museum or whatever. Going back to your

:41:14. > :41:19.discovery, was there anything that surprise you when you found the

:41:19. > :41:25.wreck on the seabed, four kilometres below the surface?

:41:25. > :41:30.high state of preservation. I was quite surprised. It did not look

:41:30. > :41:35.like a wet you would see in shallow water, covered with choral, almost

:41:35. > :41:40.to the point where you cannot recognise it. We were able to ride

:41:40. > :41:46.the manufacturers' names on things. You could ride things, first-class

:41:46. > :41:50.entrance, for crew use only. The deeper you went into the ship, the

:41:50. > :41:56.more preserved it was. Light fixtures are still hanging from the

:41:57. > :42:02.ceiling. You can look in mirrors, it is very much and museum and a

:42:02. > :42:08.our goal is to protect the ship. As of today because it is 100 years

:42:08. > :42:13.old, it falls under a UNESCO heritage site, so now that it has

:42:13. > :42:17.survived 100 years, it has more protection, as of today. Because

:42:17. > :42:24.you were in that privileged position to see the shipwreck up

:42:24. > :42:29.close, do you now have the impetus to do other expeditions of ships

:42:30. > :42:35.that are not quite so famous? the Titanic we found the German

:42:35. > :42:44.battleship, the Bismarck. Even more recently we have been working in

:42:44. > :42:52.the Black Sea, where we have found a tremendous number of ancient

:42:52. > :42:57.shipwrecks. We found one, last summer, that sank in 500 BC, and it

:42:57. > :43:02.is still there. We are finding ships that are 2500 years old. The

:43:02. > :43:08.deep sea because of his great pressure and cold temperatures and

:43:08. > :43:14.darkness places things in suspended animation. Thank you for joining us

:43:14. > :43:19.today. We wish you luck in your Next Endeavours. Chris Buckler has

:43:19. > :43:24.spent the last week on a memorial voyage tracking the final route of

:43:24. > :43:34.the Titanic. Those on board came on deck to hold a memorial service at

:43:34. > :43:36.

:43:36. > :43:43.the precise moment that the ship It has been a long journey to the

:43:43. > :43:47.spot in the Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years ago. This

:43:47. > :43:54.sees were extremely calm, reflecting perhaps what happened

:43:54. > :44:00.100 years ago when the condition seems pretty much the same. It felt

:44:00. > :44:04.almost eerie when people look out to sea and reflected on what it

:44:04. > :44:09.would turbine like to be Warden to those icy waters and a light boat

:44:09. > :44:15.and to reflect on those who died. Coming back to this but, today,

:44:16. > :44:21.what has it meant to you? I have asked you what it would mean to you,

:44:21. > :44:24.so what does it like standing here? It was like having a funeral

:44:24. > :44:28.service for my great grandfather, Tommy, whose body was never

:44:28. > :44:34.recovered. His name is on the memorial at Belfast City Hall. But

:44:34. > :44:44.that is as good as it gets. In a way, this is like saying goodbye to

:44:44. > :44:44.

:44:44. > :44:48.We saw three wreaths being cast off the back of this ship. 100 years on,

:44:48. > :44:53.that gesture is quite important, isn't it, particularly to those who

:44:53. > :45:02.don't have graves to go to? Definitely. What was good about

:45:02. > :45:10.tonight was that there were 23 or 24 families represented who have

:45:10. > :45:18.had people lost or people who have survived. I saw flags from Ireland,

:45:18. > :45:21.South Africa, the Danish and Swedish flags. We were united in

:45:21. > :45:28.common purpose. The other thing that struck me in terms of the

:45:28. > :45:32.people here - all ages - we had children and babies, pensioners - a

:45:32. > :45:38.real reflection of every part of society? I know. Those children,

:45:38. > :45:45.some of whom were dressed in Victorian costume or Edwardian

:45:45. > :45:54.costume - they don't probably think much about it now but they have

:45:54. > :46:00.been involved in an historic moment. The period costumes - is that

:46:00. > :46:04.appropriate? There has been a lot of dressing up during this voyage.

:46:04. > :46:08.But tonight did feel different? There has been a celebration of

:46:08. > :46:14.Titanic and what life would have been like on board Titanic. That's

:46:14. > :46:19.fitting, that is fine. She was the most magnificent ship in the world.

:46:19. > :46:25.Definitely, as night fell, there was an eerieness, the fact that the

:46:25. > :46:29.stars were so bright and it was calm. It was like what it would

:46:29. > :46:33.have been like 100 years ago. spoke to some of the relatives in a

:46:33. > :46:37.private meeting this week. It was a chance to talk about what this

:46:37. > :46:47.meant to you but to try and make those connections. What was that

:46:47. > :46:48.

:46:48. > :46:52.like as a conversation? It was strange. We were of common mind.

:46:52. > :46:56.Some had been first-class, some had been third class, some had survived,

:46:56. > :47:02.some had not. We wanted to make sure that this was special, that we

:47:02. > :47:10.had a chance to pay tribute to those people who were on board 100

:47:10. > :47:15.years ago. And to just share our stories. It was like an off-loading,

:47:15. > :47:18.really. For the first time they were opening up. It was incredibly

:47:18. > :47:23.special. Somebody said to me they were looking to try and make

:47:23. > :47:33.connections because they knew so little? Some people don't have

:47:33. > :47:33.

:47:33. > :47:40.photographs of the relative that was lost here. Even now, although

:47:40. > :47:44.this service is over, there are people still wanting to sit and

:47:44. > :47:47.have conversations inside? Definitely. We have shared an

:47:47. > :47:55.incredibly moving experience. It is like a funeral where people don't

:47:55. > :47:59.want to break it up. What was the best bit for you? These people will

:47:59. > :48:03.be up until dawn discussing what happened here earlier this morning.

:48:03. > :48:07.Thank you very much. As you can imagine, for a lot of the people,

:48:07. > :48:11.they are still taking in what did happen here today. But to be part

:48:11. > :48:16.of this event meant an awful lot to them. Those families are continuing

:48:16. > :48:22.to have this conversation as they will do right to Canada where they

:48:22. > :48:28.are going to go and visit some of those graves. But tonight has been

:48:28. > :48:32.special for them. A ghostly feeling. But at the same time one that was

:48:32. > :48:38.incredibly important to these families.

:48:38. > :48:44.It took three years to build the Titanic and three years to build

:48:44. > :48:49.this new visitor centre in Belfast. There's so many references to the

:48:49. > :48:54.ship and the White Star Liners here inside. Titanic's last port of call

:48:54. > :49:00.was Cobh in County Cork where more than 100 passengers boarded. Julie

:49:00. > :49:06.McCullough is in Cobh for us this morning.

:49:06. > :49:12.Thanks. One of the passengers that came here looking for a new life in

:49:12. > :49:17.America was Patrick Ryan. He was heading to New York to become a

:49:17. > :49:22.police officer but like so many others, he didn't make it. Now his

:49:22. > :49:26.story sounds no more remarkable than any other story. However, as a

:49:26. > :49:33.result of his death, his father took a case against the owners of

:49:33. > :49:38.the Titanic, sued them for negligence and won. With me are two

:49:38. > :49:44.relatives. I have Fiona and Cormack and BBC Newsline has been following

:49:44. > :49:51.this special story for a programme. Tell me what is it you have learned

:49:51. > :49:55.over this time about your great- grandfather and your great uncle?

:49:55. > :49:59.We have learned how a small farmer went to London to take on the

:49:59. > :50:04.biggest shipping company in the world at the time. And the courage

:50:04. > :50:09.and determinationed he showed to see things through to get justice.

:50:09. > :50:15.He won the case which was remarkable. What I found most

:50:15. > :50:20.remarkable is the fact he thought of taking the case. He was a small

:50:20. > :50:24.farmer. He had no idea of going to London or anything like that. How

:50:24. > :50:31.it came into his head to do it, I don't know. I presume it must have

:50:31. > :50:35.been a lot of grief and anxiety over the loss of Patrick. Your

:50:35. > :50:39.family knew nothing about this story. What a thing to discover?

:50:39. > :50:44.Yeah. An amazing thing to discover. We hadn't a clue ourselves, apart

:50:44. > :50:50.from the fact that the Titanic went down and one of our relatives was

:50:50. > :50:55.on it. We didn't know much about it until last year until my dad

:50:55. > :51:03.started blurting out the story which started a new train of story.

:51:03. > :51:09.It turned out to be an amazing thing. We found out so much about

:51:09. > :51:15.our family. It was a huge story that took legs. It has been an

:51:15. > :51:19.amazing journey for us. It's also been an emotional journey. You

:51:19. > :51:25.mentioned your dad there. We had hoped your dad would be involved in

:51:25. > :51:30.this programme. But sadly he passed away since then. What has that been

:51:30. > :51:36.like for you, Fiona? I suppose it has been an emotional rollercoaster.

:51:36. > :51:40.It was a very difficult time for us. He had passed away so quickly. He

:51:40. > :51:50.would have loved to have finished this journey and would have loved

:51:50. > :51:55.

:51:55. > :51:59.to have got to the end of it. And the other side of it, we would have

:51:59. > :52:03.loved to have had him here with us. He would have just, he would have

:52:03. > :52:09.had a great time with this. He was so proud of his family. I imagine

:52:09. > :52:13.he was so proud of his grandfather and his uncle for all the courage -

:52:13. > :52:18.and I think that courage has come down the line. My father was a

:52:18. > :52:26.courageous and determined person. It didn't fall too fall from the

:52:26. > :52:36.tree. Finally, what does Titanic mean to you now? Titanic means a

:52:36. > :52:38.

:52:38. > :52:44.whole lot Mr -- a whole lot more to me than it did six months ago. It

:52:45. > :52:53.is a fabulous story. It's a true story. It's given our family a huge

:52:53. > :53:00.sense of pride. It is fantastic. Thank you for that. You can watch

:53:00. > :53:06.Ryan Versus The White Star Line on Tuesday night at 10.30pm on BBC One.

:53:06. > :53:10.There is a radio drama next Sunday at 1.30pm. For now, it is goodbye.

:53:10. > :53:17.It is over to Southampton, the city that suffered the greatest loss of

:53:17. > :53:20.life on the Titanic. There for us is Robert Hall.

:53:20. > :53:23.Good morning again from Southampton. Again, the family theme has been

:53:23. > :53:28.something running through the whole broadcast this morning, certainly

:53:28. > :53:33.something that I have been acutely aware of this week. You have to

:53:33. > :53:39.look at some of the tributes here to see that in place. A couple of

:53:39. > :53:46.tributes there from Ella and Charlie remembering their great-

:53:46. > :53:52.grandfather. Another wreath was laid while we were waiting. Later

:53:52. > :53:57.today, there will be a more formal Service of Remembrance at St Mary's

:53:57. > :54:02.Church in Southampton. Jonathan Frost is the Bishop of Southampton.

:54:02. > :54:08.The pictures from the Times illustrate that - there was a sense

:54:08. > :54:14.of despair and frustration when the casualty lists were coming in?

:54:14. > :54:22.pictures of the families waiting at the White Star office were really

:54:22. > :54:26.moving. One of our schools, over 200 children lost their fathers.

:54:26. > :54:29.You can see the extent of the impact. I have only learnt this

:54:29. > :54:34.morning and this whole commemoration which has been

:54:34. > :54:40.beautifully done in the city, beautifully done, understated, very

:54:40. > :54:49.moving, we are all learning. Today, I learnt that over 50,000 gathered

:54:49. > :54:53.when this memorial was dedicated and offered. 50,000 in 1914. It

:54:53. > :55:02.gives you some indication of the deep communal sense of grief that

:55:03. > :55:07.struck when the Titanic went down. One needs to say and Mark Cisco

:55:07. > :55:13.joins us. This is felt in so many communities, not just the big

:55:13. > :55:22.cities? Absolutely. This is felt widely in the New York City area,

:55:22. > :55:30.the area I am most familiar with. One of the people ma they be our

:55:30. > :55:34.next Mayor is -- that may be our next Mayor is a descendant of

:55:34. > :55:40.somebody that survived the Titanic. People here were scrawling the

:55:40. > :55:45.names on bits of paper? In some senses, it was one of the first

:55:45. > :55:50.times we had real communication of a natural disaster. In New York

:55:50. > :55:54.City there were all kinds of putting out the news and people

:55:54. > :56:03.were gathering and they gathered around waiting to see what was

:56:03. > :56:11.going to get off the Carpathian when it arrived. Jonathan, the

:56:11. > :56:16.service you are having today, you are drawing together all the

:56:16. > :56:20.strands. What will people take from it? I am hoping it will be one of

:56:20. > :56:26.those culminating services which brings together the strands. The

:56:26. > :56:30.city has done remarkably well. Southampton City Council, the

:56:30. > :56:35.education team, the schools, the involvement of children and young

:56:35. > :56:43.people has been staggeringly good and effective. I think many will

:56:43. > :56:48.remember the two children at the opening of the Sea City Museum. We

:56:48. > :56:53.- as the church in this place, we want to be alongside the city and

:56:53. > :56:59.in the midst of it. We are very privileged and thankful for a place

:56:59. > :57:04.and a part. But it's a part alongside a city that gives thanks

:57:04. > :57:09.for its rich heritage. This is a marvellous city to be part of. The

:57:09. > :57:13.port is at the heart of our life and economy here. It is a forward-

:57:13. > :57:17.looking city. We are part of that. I hope the service will reflect

:57:17. > :57:20.that, too. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Mark, thank you for

:57:20. > :57:27.coming out on a cold British morning. That is it from

:57:27. > :57:32.Southampton for now. Let's re-join Mark Simpson at Belfast City Hall.

:57:32. > :57:37.What you are looking at now is the existing memorial here at Belfast

:57:37. > :57:41.City Hall. You can maybe hear Brian Kennedy rehearsing for the memorial

:57:41. > :57:48.service which is due to begin in just about 40 minutes' time. If you

:57:48. > :57:53.look at that memorial, you can see the fourth name down there, Thomas

:57:53. > :58:01.Millar, one of the Belfast men who died 100 years ago. This is the new

:58:01. > :58:11.memorial garden that we are looking at. Isn't it splendid? Here to talk

:58:11. > :58:13.

:58:13. > :58:19.about it are two people, Una Reilly and the granddaughter of Thomas

:58:19. > :58:27.Millar. What are your emotions this morning? Very mixed. Very mixed. My

:58:27. > :58:33.grandmother died and my grandfather decided to - he left and he moved

:58:33. > :58:39.to the White Star and he started work on the Titanic. He then went

:58:39. > :58:49.out on Titanic, leaving the two boys at the Quayside waving him

:58:49. > :58:51.

:58:51. > :58:59.goodbye. My father went to live and one day he was sailing a paper boat

:58:59. > :59:05.on the river. The boat hit a stone and sank. And Aunt Mary came along

:59:05. > :59:12.and said, "You see that little boat that has just sunk? You remember

:59:12. > :59:19.the big boat that your father went out on?" He said, "Yes." "Well,

:59:19. > :59:26.that had sunk as well." My father turned round and said, "Where is

:59:26. > :59:31.his gold watch?" Isn't it dreadful what children say? My father, that

:59:31. > :59:39.was it, he went on to be a playwright, poet and an author. And

:59:39. > :59:44.that is the story of the twopennys that he left with the boys as the

:59:44. > :59:50.boat sailed off and asked them to keep these twopennys until he came

:59:50. > :59:54.back again. -- two pennies until he came back again. What a wonderful

:59:54. > :59:59.story. Una Reilly, the world is watching Belfast today. You are the

:59:59. > :00:06.chair of Belfast Titanic Society. This began with a couple of dozen

:00:06. > :00:09.people and here we are and this is happening? What do you think?

:00:09. > :00:19.a wonderful day for Belfast. It's a day when we remember all of those

:00:19. > :00:23.who died in the disaster. It is only fitting that this should be

:00:23. > :00:28.the only place in the world, the city that gave birth to this ship.

:00:28. > :00:38.As we compete with Brian Kennedy, it is a day of celebration as well

:00:38. > :00:41.

:00:42. > :00:45.Today is for the families. They finally have somewhere to come with

:00:45. > :00:50.all of the names on it because when the original memorial went up in

:00:50. > :00:55.Belfast some of the names were left off, but we not only have that

:00:55. > :01:00.addressed, we are remembering all those who died, and it doesn't

:01:00. > :01:07.matter whether they were first, second, third class or crew, they

:01:07. > :01:17.girl remembered in Belfast today. The splint stretches nine metres

:01:17. > :01:17.

:01:17. > :01:22.long, such was the vast loss of life. -- this plinth. You will see

:01:22. > :01:28.the name of your grandad in a few minutes' time on it. What will you

:01:28. > :01:34.be thinking? Very proud that a man who worked on Titanic and who

:01:34. > :01:41.sailed on it and died on it, I am very proud of Rhyl, it is very sad.

:01:41. > :01:46.And what about what Belfast is now doing for the victims? It is

:01:46. > :01:49.wonderful. It is about time. When I was a little girl, I knew nothing

:01:49. > :01:55.about this because my father died before he had time to tell me the

:01:55. > :01:59.story, and one day, I was walking in Belfast with my mother, and she

:02:00. > :02:05.brought me to the memorial, and I saw this name, and I said, that is

:02:05. > :02:11.my name, and she said, that his your grandfather, he went out in a

:02:11. > :02:16.big boat, caught the Titanic, and it sank, and we do not want to talk

:02:16. > :02:20.about it. And that was the way that it was. Things are different now. I

:02:20. > :02:30.will let you take your seat for the memorial service which is due to

:02:30. > :02:30.

:02:30. > :02:38.begin, shortly after 9 o'clock. Back now to Belfast Titanic, and

:02:38. > :02:43.Yes, will come back to the visitors' centre in the docks area

:02:43. > :02:48.of the city. I am inside for the special commemorative programme,

:02:49. > :02:53.marking the sinking of the Titanic, 100 years ago today. At the moment

:02:53. > :03:01.I am standing on the replica staircase made famous in the movie,

:03:01. > :03:06.Titanic, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. It was just 29

:03:06. > :03:10.days after the disaster that the first film appeared, his silent-

:03:10. > :03:17.movie that featured one of the actual survivors. Over the years,

:03:17. > :03:23.the story of Titanic has been told again and again, in film, in books

:03:23. > :03:28.and on TV. Natasha Sayee looks back at our that story has been told in

:03:28. > :03:38.the past, and she looks at how it is inspiring a new generation of

:03:38. > :03:40.

:03:41. > :03:45.artists. Look! A Night To Remember. More than 50 years since it was

:03:45. > :03:52.made and it is still praised by historians and film critics as the

:03:52. > :03:57.best and probably most accurate movie about the Titanic. The

:03:57. > :04:03.legendary ship has also inspired some very strange films, like this

:04:03. > :04:13.Nazi propaganda movie. They saw the sinking of the Titanic as a

:04:13. > :04:15.

:04:15. > :04:21.metaphor for the decline of the So we have had the good and the

:04:21. > :04:25.ugly. Then there was just the downright bad. So on thing has

:04:25. > :04:33.happened. There is a tsunami headed south and the Atlantic and it is

:04:33. > :04:37.going to reach your ship in a matter of minutes. Titanic II is

:04:37. > :04:42.one of these films we should not talk about because it was so

:04:42. > :04:47.appallingly bad. The idea behind it is that there is supposed to be an

:04:47. > :04:57.exact replica of Titanic and, lo and behold, it happens to encounter

:04:57. > :05:01.an iceberg. Then there is the Titanic movie, James Cameron's

:05:01. > :05:05.blockbuster which brought the story of the vessel to a new generation

:05:05. > :05:15.and that has happened again, because it has been re-released, in

:05:15. > :05:15.

:05:15. > :05:19.3D. It does not end there. This is the latest Titanic movie, filmed in

:05:19. > :05:23.a documentary-drama style with a local actor in the lead role. Why

:05:23. > :05:28.does he think the big ship has had such an influence on the big

:05:28. > :05:32.screen? It is the horror of imagining yourself, what would you

:05:32. > :05:36.have done if you were there, that is why there is an ongoing legacy,

:05:36. > :05:40.a fascination about what happened that night, the shock of it at the

:05:40. > :05:50.time, that the sting was supposed to be unsinkable, and it was a

:05:50. > :05:55.reminder that man cannot beat Major. -- nature. All this mad talk, do

:05:55. > :06:00.you think that it ever leave you behind? More on that theme, from

:06:00. > :06:05.cinema to stage, where it seems that every actor of treading the

:06:05. > :06:08.boards in Belfast is performing something Titanic-related. Here at

:06:08. > :06:12.the Metropolitan Art Centre they are rehearsing a play that is

:06:12. > :06:18.unique for many reasons. Did you exercise discretion as to whether

:06:18. > :06:22.the board should go back or not? told you, yes. It has been

:06:22. > :06:27.specially written for the opening of the city's new theatre and it is

:06:27. > :06:34.a very different take on the story of the Titanic. The play that we're

:06:34. > :06:38.doing is the court inquiries after the accident happened. Which I love,

:06:38. > :06:42.because there was a lot that is quite shocking that went on but

:06:42. > :06:47.there are some parts that are quite funny as if they had been written

:06:47. > :06:52.to be funny those of it was just what normal people said and they

:06:52. > :07:00.were naturally funny characters, some of the characters, and we have

:07:00. > :07:07.to constantly remind ourselves that these were will people. -- real

:07:07. > :07:11.people. The tragedy of what happened to those real people as

:07:11. > :07:19.inspired music as well, like Requiem for the lost souls of the

:07:19. > :07:25.Titanic by Belfast composer, Philip Hammond. All those, too, are

:07:25. > :07:29.tapping into the Titanic legend. was writing a children's book set

:07:29. > :07:33.on a huge, modern cruise ship and I thought, the Titanic was the

:07:34. > :07:39.biggest share of its day, what would happen if they built a new

:07:39. > :07:46.Titanic in Belfast and needed the most modern ship ever built?

:07:46. > :07:50.Everybody has heard of the Titanic. Bishop has inspired artistss and

:07:50. > :07:55.sculptors. Here, close to his birthplace, a monument to those who

:07:55. > :07:59.built the Titanic. For at, and history and myth have been written

:07:59. > :08:05.together and will always be written together, about the sea and the

:08:05. > :08:13.Titanic. It is sad but it is inspirational, as well, but people

:08:13. > :08:17.were saved on the Titanic, too. From the traditional to this, a

:08:17. > :08:21.very modern 3D light show cause of the Titanic has inspired the arts

:08:21. > :08:29.for more than 100 years, and it looks as though it will continue to

:08:29. > :08:35.do so. And that old movie, and night to remember, is being shown

:08:35. > :08:45.on BBC Two this afternoon at 3pm. With me here on the staircase Apley

:08:45. > :08:46.

:08:46. > :08:50.rates, and a documentary maker and critic. You have a moody coming out,

:08:50. > :08:57.about the apprentices are built the Titanic. What is it about the

:08:57. > :09:01.Titanic that inspired you, as a rider? Belfast. I was asked by

:09:01. > :09:07.Belfast City Council to write something about the Titanic for a

:09:07. > :09:12.festival and I thought, no, there have been two movies and lots of

:09:12. > :09:19.documentaries, what could I add to it? But they convinced me to try

:09:19. > :09:26.and I did the research and it I found some stuff that I did not

:09:26. > :09:32.know Larbert. Nine men, including Andrew's, four apprentices to were

:09:33. > :09:38.selected a couple of weeks before, to go on the ship from Madrid

:09:38. > :09:42.street and the normal road, young boys, aged 18-21, and it brings the

:09:42. > :09:47.story right back to Belfast. Thus the story is the genuine Belfast

:09:47. > :09:53.story and I am delighted about that because it brings the story of the

:09:53. > :09:58.ship home. Your story, White Star of the North, is about immigration,

:09:58. > :10:08.as well. Can you take poetic licence, as a rider, or do you have

:10:08. > :10:11.

:10:11. > :10:15.to be authentic and true to the story? -- as a rider -- writer. I

:10:15. > :10:22.fictionalise and invent my characters. It just gives me more

:10:22. > :10:28.freedom. It is more restrictive if you use historical characters.

:10:28. > :10:32.There have been some real corkers of movies over the years. A few

:10:32. > :10:36.good ones. It was interesting looking at some of the social media.

:10:36. > :10:42.Some people believe that the Titanic was not real, but that it

:10:42. > :10:48.was in the movie with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. What is your

:10:48. > :10:53.favourite, and why? We it has to be an night to remember. It was as

:10:53. > :10:58.much documentary as it was drama. The producer of the film was from

:10:58. > :11:02.Belfast. He had washed the ship being launched in 1911. He then

:11:02. > :11:06.takes a book which is based entirely on eyewitness accounts.

:11:06. > :11:11.There are no fictional characters in and Night to Remember, because

:11:12. > :11:18.the drama of the night itself was dramatic enough. It was a wonderful,

:11:18. > :11:23.thrilling story. There are so many facets to the story, drama, sadness,

:11:23. > :11:28.romance, even. It has an enduring quality for people in the arts

:11:28. > :11:35.world. It was a life-and-death situation, so instantly you have

:11:35. > :11:40.got the material for drama, and it had a population of the world in a

:11:40. > :11:47.microcosm from the very rich to the very poor, so that you cannot get

:11:47. > :11:54.material as a rider in that situation, then you are dead.

:11:54. > :11:59.People say that there is too much coverage of Titanic, although we

:11:59. > :12:03.know that 20,000 people wanted to go to the BBC Concert last night

:12:03. > :12:09.and there were only 1,000 tickets. But do you think people will ever

:12:09. > :12:14.get tired of hearing about this disaster? I don't think so, there

:12:14. > :12:20.is Titanic fever at the moment. There are so many angles around it,

:12:20. > :12:27.the Ulster Covenant, as well. It is not only in Belfast. It is so rich,

:12:27. > :12:33.the surroundings in Belfast. If you wanted to make a bit of money on it,

:12:33. > :12:40.it has all been done now, you have got the James Cameron movie, in

:12:40. > :12:44.Muri terms, it is finished, is it not? It is never faced. You take a

:12:44. > :12:51.subject like the Second World War, it is never finished. What the

:12:51. > :12:56.Titanic movie did, James Cameron's film, is two fascinating things.

:12:56. > :13:05.They dived down to the ship itself. So you see Titanic. That was

:13:05. > :13:09.breathtaking. And the staircase that is here, they set Romeo and

:13:09. > :13:13.Juliet on the Titanic. I love the story of the priest who was on

:13:13. > :13:21.board Titanic and to go off and pick those wonderful photographs. I

:13:21. > :13:28.think it is an amazing film. isn't it amazing that that would be

:13:28. > :13:34.filmed here? He has, and if you look at that James Cameron Muri, it

:13:34. > :13:41.took $1 billion a round the world in every country around the world.

:13:41. > :13:51.Last night, our cameras were at the first performance of that Titanic-

:13:51. > :14:07.

:14:07. > :14:11.related piece that we mentioned This was the scene at St Anne's

:14:11. > :14:21.Cathedral in Belfast where the requiem for the lost souls of that

:14:21. > :14:25.

:14:25. > :14:30.Titanic was sung -- Requiem for the Those attending then moved on to

:14:30. > :14:34.Belfast City all. Senior politicians joined the Dean of St

:14:34. > :14:44.Anne's Cathedral to address the crowd and called for him and it was

:14:44. > :14:50.

:14:50. > :14:55.Matt was silence. -- for a minute's The composer of The Requiem for the

:14:55. > :15:03.Lost Souls is Philip Hammond. Niall Blaney caught up with him to ask

:15:03. > :15:06.him about his inspiration. started off with the idea that the

:15:06. > :15:12.Titanic Commemoration had to be celebratory and it had to remember

:15:12. > :15:17.the people who died. My idea was that he would commemorate the

:15:17. > :15:23.people who died and not really to concentrate on the ship at all, but

:15:23. > :15:28.to take a much wider idea of what happened 100 years ago.

:15:28. > :15:34.described this work as your most ambitious to date. Why? It is going

:15:34. > :15:41.to involve 250 people and there will be choirs at that end and at

:15:41. > :15:46.that end and there will be two brass bands at either end, there

:15:46. > :15:49.will be a choir down the middle, and there's three conductors.

:15:49. > :15:59.That's ambitious! It is somewhat different to many people's

:15:59. > :16:03.

:16:03. > :16:08.perception of a requiem. What can people expect? In between the

:16:08. > :16:15.choral items, a CD will be given out and a programme. Apart from

:16:15. > :16:22.that, all the words are from the original Latin and it will be done

:16:22. > :16:26.the next day in St Peter's Cathedral as part of a requiem mass.

:16:26. > :16:32.What is the idea behind having it in both cathedrals? Well, it is to

:16:32. > :16:37.prove the fact that the Titanic is not belonging to one or any other

:16:37. > :16:47.religion, it belonged to everybody in the world. The fact I am

:16:47. > :16:49.

:16:49. > :16:53.dwelling on the Lost Souls giving it a wider spiritual view. The fact

:16:53. > :17:00.that it is in the Roman Catholic cathedral and in a Protestant

:17:00. > :17:04.cathedral, I thought that puts the idea across clearly. James

:17:04. > :17:08.Cameron's film Titanic drew a new audience to the events of 1912, to

:17:08. > :17:14.the key people on board and the roles they played on the night of

:17:14. > :17:20.the sinking. One of these was the ship's owner, Joseph Bruce Ismay.

:17:20. > :17:26.He was vilified for taking a place on a lifeboat when others perished.

:17:26. > :17:29.His family say that decision would haunt him forever.

:17:29. > :17:33.Newspaper headlines announced to the world that the unthinkable has

:17:33. > :17:43.happened and for the American press in particular, there was one man

:17:43. > :17:43.

:17:43. > :17:49.from whom they wanted answers. Joseph Bruce Ismay, or J Brute

:17:49. > :17:59.Ismay. The chairman of the white start line was branded a coward --

:17:59. > :18:00.

:18:00. > :18:10.the White Star Line was branded a coward. There has to be a goody and

:18:10. > :18:13.

:18:13. > :18:19.a baddie. He wasn't the man that was portrayed. We as a family are

:18:19. > :18:28.intensely proud of the White Star Line and what the Ismays did to

:18:28. > :18:32.build it. Ismay's actions became cause for endless speculation.

:18:32. > :18:36.There is no evidence to contradict his testimony at the Inquiry that

:18:36. > :18:43.he only entered one of the last lifeboats after helping load other

:18:43. > :18:47.boats and checking there were no more women or children nearby. He

:18:47. > :18:51.was a broken man by the time the lifeboat was rescued and reports

:18:51. > :18:56.show that he spent the entire journey to New York in the doctor's

:18:56. > :19:03.cabin. However, enraged by his silence, the American press needed

:19:03. > :19:08.someone to blame and Joseph Bruce Ismay was the perfect scapegoat.

:19:08. > :19:16.This maritime historian and Titanic expert believes the vilification

:19:16. > :19:24.was down to a previous falling out with the US newspaper magnet

:19:24. > :19:29.Randolph Hirst. If you watch James Cameron's film, if you watch A

:19:29. > :19:36.Night To Remember, the portrayal of Joseph Bruce Ismay as a coward is

:19:36. > :19:41.the picture that was painted by Hirst. It's remained with us.

:19:41. > :19:48.Joseph Bruce Ismay was not in charge of the Titanic, Captain

:19:48. > :19:51.Smith was. He drove his ship at full-speed into an iceberg. Joseph

:19:52. > :19:55.Bruce Ismay wasn't in charge of navigation, that was Captain

:19:55. > :20:00.Smith's responsibility. Yet our picture today is completely

:20:00. > :20:05.reversed. We paint Captain Smith as the hero and there's Joseph Bruce

:20:05. > :20:12.Ismay, always portrayed as the villain. Apart from being labelled

:20:12. > :20:17.a coward, he was quizzed at the Titanic Inquiry over the speed the

:20:17. > :20:20.ship was travelling and over the shortage of lifeboats. He was

:20:21. > :20:24.exonerated by the American and British inquiries. Despite being

:20:24. > :20:30.cleared of any personal wrongdoing, his decision not to go down with

:20:30. > :20:33.the ship and public reaction to the disaster would haunt him forever.

:20:33. > :20:39.Publicly little is known about what happened to Joseph Bruce Ismay

:20:39. > :20:45.after the events of 1912 as he chose to live out of the spotlight

:20:45. > :20:51.until his death 25 years later. What impact did Titanic have on him

:20:51. > :20:56.privately? I have come to Scotland to meet his great-grandson to find

:20:56. > :21:05.out more. Although he never knew his great-grandfather, the maritime

:21:05. > :21:10.links are obvious. A passion for the sea and ships is revealed.

:21:10. > :21:19.you imagine he had died and been the hero, that is how I and I think

:21:19. > :21:25.the rest of our family see him because what happened afterwards

:21:25. > :21:28.wasn't the truth and it's - he was victimised. After Titanic, a

:21:28. > :21:32.culture of silence prevailed through the generations of this

:21:32. > :21:36.family. Joseph Bruce Ismay never talked about what happened but

:21:36. > :21:41.there was no doubt he was traumatised. The fact he was

:21:41. > :21:47.getting letters from strangers asking them about what he knew

:21:47. > :21:53.about their relatives, it must have been very difficult for him in

:21:53. > :21:57.those days after the disaster. And longer term, I think he must have

:21:58. > :22:02.looked back on it and wished he had never been there. Malcolm is in

:22:02. > :22:07.possession of thousands of documents all revealing a very

:22:07. > :22:12.different side to Joseph Bruce Ismay. Exhausted by events, Joseph

:22:13. > :22:18.Bruce Ismay retreated to Scotland to await the outcome of the British

:22:18. > :22:25.Inquiry. A telegram arrived with the result. This is a telegram,

:22:25. > :22:31.probably the first that he heard about the result of the inquest.

:22:31. > :22:41.Which congratulates you, it finds excessive speed, Captain not

:22:41. > :22:41.

:22:41. > :22:46.negligent, your presence nothing to do with speed or navigation...

:22:46. > :22:52.Letters also exist from Joseph Bruce Ismay's son and daughter.

:22:52. > :22:55.There are letters of support, including one from an American

:22:55. > :23:01.survivor, appalled at his vilification. There's also a moving

:23:01. > :23:11.letter of thanks from the husband of an Australian stewardess on the

:23:11. > :23:12.

:23:12. > :23:22.Titanic who was saved by Joseph Bruce Ismay. This as you said you

:23:22. > :23:31.

:23:31. > :23:38.are all winning now... He saved her. Yes. Today Malcolm is taking me to

:23:38. > :23:44.meet his father, the son of Joseph Bruce Ismay's daughter. Ismay died

:23:44. > :23:51.when John was a young child. But he does remember his grandmother,

:23:51. > :23:57.Florence. While the family talked about many things, one subject was

:23:57. > :24:02.always out-of-bounds. grandmother, she would hardly speak

:24:02. > :24:12.about it. My mother didn't say a great deal either. I do know that

:24:12. > :24:13.

:24:13. > :24:19.what she did say was that it absolutely - yes, shattered his

:24:19. > :24:23.life. John too finds it difficult now to take the vilification of his

:24:23. > :24:27.grandfather. It is very hard to hear. I just have very little

:24:28. > :24:31.respect for people that say these things. I don't think they know the

:24:31. > :24:37.truth. However, the family are keenly aware of the devastation

:24:37. > :24:43.caused by the loss of life on the Titanic. These descendants share a

:24:43. > :24:48.collective sense of grief for all those who died and their families.

:24:48. > :24:56.It's particularly poignant to remember all those people who

:24:56. > :25:02.perished in that disaster. And we sincerely pray that no such thing

:25:02. > :25:08.will ever happen again in the same sort of circumstances.

:25:08. > :25:12.Joseph Bruce Ismay died at the age of 74. His White Star dream over;

:25:12. > :25:16.his reputation in tatters. A century on, his descendants are

:25:16. > :25:22.speaking out to try and clear his name and to try and restore pride

:25:22. > :25:26.in what the Ismay family achieved. Without Joseph Bruce Ismay and his

:25:26. > :25:31.father before him, the tens of thousands of jobs created in

:25:31. > :25:35.Belfast by building ships for the White Star Line wouldn't have

:25:35. > :25:41.existed. I think the Ismay's connection with

:25:41. > :25:47.the White Star Line is the story that has probably not been told and

:25:47. > :25:53.the Titanic would never have been built without Joseph Bruce Ismay,

:25:53. > :26:00.almost certainly, and he wasn't the man that he is portrayed and I

:26:00. > :26:05.think he deserves some justice now 100 years after the accident.

:26:05. > :26:09.this 100th anniversary, there is a great opportunity to memorialise

:26:09. > :26:14.and recognise the great influence that Joseph Bruce Ismay is and was

:26:14. > :26:21.in the Titanic story and it is not just about a disaster, it is about

:26:21. > :26:26.one man's achievement and the Titanic was an extraordinary

:26:26. > :26:29.engineering enterprise. No other shipping company had attempted such

:26:29. > :26:39.a gigantic project and Joseph Bruce Ismay brought it off. The time is

:26:39. > :26:40.

:26:40. > :26:47.right for us to properly memorialise the man.

:26:47. > :26:51.I am delighted to be joined now by the great-grandson of Joseph Bruce

:26:51. > :26:55.Ismay and maritime historian, Paul Louden-Brown. How does it feel

:26:55. > :27:01.being here today for the centenary, given everything your great-

:27:01. > :27:07.grandfather went through? I think it's - it brings back a lot of

:27:07. > :27:11.memories of what it was like 100 years ago and what kind of happened.

:27:11. > :27:15.I don't know what he would have thought of the continued interest

:27:15. > :27:19.in this and possibly the way he's been portrayed in the last 100

:27:19. > :27:24.years. Do you feel you have the opportunity now to right the

:27:24. > :27:28.wrongs? Yes, there is a big part of the story that's not been told. I

:27:28. > :27:32.think that he's been represented by a lot of different people in a lot

:27:32. > :27:38.of different ways. None of them have been particularly nice and

:27:38. > :27:44.none of them particularly truthful. Paul Louden-Brown, you have written

:27:44. > :27:50.about the White Star Line and the importance of the Ismay connection

:27:50. > :27:54.to shipbuilding. Thomas Ismay was made a freeman of Belfast? That's

:27:54. > :27:59.right. That was in recognition of his contribution to the prosperity

:27:59. > :28:05.of Belfast. Without the Ismays Belfast would be completely

:28:05. > :28:14.different today. You are calling for some kind of memorial. What do

:28:14. > :28:24.you think, maybe Ismay Street? should put up a plaque up for his

:28:24. > :28:27.contribution. We talk about victims today. There were 1,512 who died.

:28:27. > :28:32.One person was destroyed by what happened to his creation, to the

:28:32. > :28:36.friends that he lost, but he was never allowed to mourn. He was

:28:36. > :28:45.always treated as the villain. He was just as affected as everyone

:28:45. > :28:49.else that survived. Yet he was forgotten. His creation sank, his

:28:49. > :28:53.vision for the future of shipping. And without him Titanic would never

:28:53. > :28:56.have been constructed. Malcolm, when I was talking to you in

:28:56. > :29:01.Scotland, you told me you hadn't realised the important connection

:29:01. > :29:04.to Joseph Bruce Ismay because of that generation of silence that

:29:04. > :29:10.prevailed afterwards through the family. Was it a feeling of shame?

:29:10. > :29:14.I don't think it was shame. I think they decided a long time ago they

:29:14. > :29:19.weren't going to talk about it and it carried on for probably too long,

:29:19. > :29:27.through the generations. And when I started finding out about what

:29:27. > :29:34.happened, I realised there was no shame in what he did and there

:29:34. > :29:42.should be some kind of memorial to him. We are very proud of both of

:29:42. > :29:49.them. You think a plaque would be fitting? I was thinking a street in

:29:49. > :29:56.the new Titanic Quarter? That would be good. I think they have done a

:29:56. > :30:01.ships that the White Star Line built here and the employment

:30:01. > :30:11.brought to this area is huge. Belfast would be a very different

:30:11. > :30:17.

:30:17. > :30:26.Have it is hard to believe that the the Nomadic was the last White Star

:30:26. > :30:32.liner in existence. He has, and that same dock built at the World's

:30:32. > :30:35.first true ocean liner, the oceanic, in 1869. Every single passenger

:30:36. > :30:41.liner and cruise ship on the Ocean's today has a little bit of

:30:41. > :30:48.DNA, that raises itself back to Belfast, Harland and Wolff, and

:30:48. > :30:55.White Star, even the Marco Polo, that was here last night, these are

:30:55. > :30:59.a reflection of the ships that were designed and built by Harland and

:30:59. > :31:03.Wolff. It is a remarkable connection. Does it feel very

:31:04. > :31:11.emotional being here representing the Ismay family? It is a privilege

:31:11. > :31:15.but I feel quite a responsibility. I wonder what they would have

:31:15. > :31:21.flocked to see the changes in Belfast, compared to what it was

:31:21. > :31:26.like then. Many people thought he was an arrogant man, but you take a

:31:26. > :31:34.different picture. He is probably similar to you, gentle, quiet, and

:31:34. > :31:38.does not court publicity. Sometimes, people that are shy find it

:31:38. > :31:44.difficult to express themselves so sometimes are classed as arrogant,

:31:44. > :31:49.win probably the opposite is true. He took a place in the lifeboat in

:31:49. > :31:56.the last minute before the Titanic sank. Nowadays, do you think that

:31:56. > :32:04.cowardice binmen is the same as it was perhaps in 1912? -- cowardice

:32:04. > :32:08.in men - would you call Amman aka Word, for doing that now? Everyone

:32:08. > :32:15.on board had a responsibility to try and survive even though some of

:32:15. > :32:19.them did not have much of a chance. He could have ended up on an uptown

:32:20. > :32:25.lifeboat, and he would have tried to save himself, as well. It is not

:32:25. > :32:30.the fact that he saved himself, if he had stood on the deck and helped

:32:30. > :32:35.lots of people into the lifeboat, and if he had not got into the

:32:35. > :32:45.lifeboat, he would probably have died a hero, and that step that he

:32:45. > :32:45.

:32:45. > :32:51.took into the lifeboat changed his life for a long time. I thank you

:32:51. > :32:55.for joining us. Descendants of those on board the Titanic are

:32:55. > :33:00.among the hundreds of people gathering at Belfast City Hall for

:33:00. > :33:05.a commemorative service that is due to begin shortly, and the unveiling

:33:05. > :33:10.of a new memorial garden. Mark Simpson is there for us. Belfast

:33:10. > :33:15.City all has witnessed many historic events in its 106-year

:33:15. > :33:20.history and it is about to witness another, the new Titanic memorial

:33:20. > :33:26.garden is about to be officially opened. Bother us time we can see

:33:26. > :33:31.that darkened and the memorial that it is built around. The memorial is

:33:31. > :33:38.currently under the blue cover, but it will be revealed shortly.

:33:38. > :33:45.Written underneath this memorial are the names of the 1512 victims

:33:45. > :33:50.of the Titanic disaster. The men, women and children who perished on

:33:50. > :33:57.this day, exactly 100 years ago, will be remembered shortly, at the

:33:57. > :34:02.ceremony. Their names are etched in bronze, one by one, side by side,

:34:02. > :34:08.on the memorial plinth, which stretches for nine metres. Surely,

:34:08. > :34:14.that shows the enormity of the tragedy. What is going on here on

:34:14. > :34:19.the east wing of Belfast City Hall, the sunny side, and appropriately,

:34:19. > :34:24.it is quite sunny here this morning, and this commemoration Service will

:34:24. > :34:29.shortly begin. The master of ceremonies will be our own Noel

:34:29. > :34:35.Thompson, from the BBC, and he will be joined on stage by a number of

:34:35. > :34:38.guests. There are a large number of people in the audience, as well, on

:34:38. > :34:43.the left-hand side is Gillian Wicklow, their, in the glasses,

:34:43. > :34:49.talking to her friend, the granddaughter of one of the victims

:34:49. > :34:55.of the Titanic, the granddaughter of Thomas Muller. There are people

:34:55. > :34:59.here from the world of politics, music and entertainment, as well as

:34:59. > :35:05.the relatives of some of those who died on board the Titanic on that

:35:05. > :35:12.freezing night in 1912. Later, everyone here will have a chance to

:35:12. > :35:17.look at a new memorial and logo of these flowers, it is, after all,

:35:17. > :35:21.not just a memorial, but a memorial garden and among those flowers are

:35:21. > :35:27.forget-me-nots. How appropriate. These plans have been chosen very

:35:27. > :35:35.carefully. The cholera scheme is mainly blue and white, -- the

:35:35. > :35:41.colour scheme, to represent water and ice. And to try and create a

:35:41. > :35:45.sense of peace and calm, however this make the hard, in the capital

:35:45. > :35:52.city of Northern Ireland, in its centre, but the architects have

:35:52. > :35:58.created some seats for people to come and sit in this garden, and

:35:58. > :36:03.contemplate what happened 100 years ago on the Titanic, or to think

:36:03. > :36:08.about peace, and to think about the journey that this city has been on

:36:08. > :36:13.and the journey that those survivors were on 100 years ago.

:36:13. > :36:18.What we're looking at now is the original Titanic memorial in

:36:18. > :36:22.Belfast. This has the names of the Belfast men who died on that

:36:22. > :36:31.fateful maiden voyage, including Tommy Miller, that we were talking

:36:31. > :36:37.about, and the other men who died 100 years ago. This monument was

:36:37. > :36:41.unveiled in 1920. I don't know if any of the viewers remember, but

:36:41. > :36:45.that memorial was originally in the centre of the city, near the main

:36:45. > :36:55.road, but when the traffic began, they had to move it elsewhere. On

:36:55. > :36:57.

:36:57. > :37:03.the left-hand side, you can see the names. These Belfast men who gave

:37:03. > :37:08.an awful lot of time, many hours of their time for the Titanic and of

:37:08. > :37:14.course they died on the Titanic, exactly 100 years ago and they will

:37:14. > :37:17.be remembered this morning. One of the reasons why this service is

:37:17. > :37:26.taking place here is because there were missing victims. There was

:37:26. > :37:31.everyone else who died, 1512 people died. I suppose the world was a

:37:31. > :37:38.smaller place, back in 1920, when the original memorial went up, so,

:37:38. > :37:43.today, it is a chance for Belfast to remember everyone who died. Men,

:37:43. > :37:51.women, children, people of all ages, people of all religions and, in

:37:51. > :37:57.that the audience, people, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims,

:37:57. > :38:03.people of no faith, not just from Belfast but from right across the

:38:03. > :38:10.city, we are looking at some of the VIPs, there is another minister,

:38:10. > :38:14.Alex Attwood, and I am told, although I have not seen her, yet,

:38:14. > :38:18.on the guest list is the actress from the X Files, Gillian Anderson,

:38:18. > :38:25.who happens to be filming in Belfast at the moment and wanted to

:38:25. > :38:30.be here. So, the stage has now set. The world is watching Belfast, as

:38:30. > :38:36.Belfast remembers the people who died all those years ago. And this

:38:36. > :38:41.morning is a chance for Belfast to pay tribute to the victims, to pay

:38:41. > :38:46.tribute also to the enormous feat of engineering that it was in

:38:46. > :38:52.Belfast. We all know that many people here found it difficult to

:38:52. > :38:57.talk about their relatives. My own relative was on board, Dr John

:38:58. > :39:07.Simpson, at my father never told me, it was something of a tight tannic

:39:07. > :39:11.taboo subject -- Titanic. The ceremony is about to begin. We know

:39:11. > :39:17.that with all the hype around Titanic it is easy to forget the

:39:17. > :39:23.reality of the tragedy. But that is what we're going to hear about now,

:39:23. > :39:33.as the ceremony, with master of ceremonies, the BBC's Noel Thompson,

:39:33. > :39:35.

:39:35. > :39:39.as Belfast remembers those who died Ladies and gentlemen, good morning

:39:39. > :39:42.and welcome to Belfast City all those of 100 years after the

:39:42. > :39:46.tragedy of the Titanic, we will unveil a memorial to the people

:39:47. > :39:50.lost their lives on that bitterly cold Atlantic night. There has been

:39:50. > :39:54.a commemorative statue on the site since 1920 remembering only the

:39:54. > :39:59.victims who came from this city. The beautiful garden opening this

:39:59. > :40:04.morning will display the name of every one of the 1512 men, women

:40:04. > :40:09.and children who perished. Families or the victims are with us, and it

:40:09. > :40:13.is with them that our thoughts will concentrate as the service imports.

:40:13. > :40:17.Members of two male voice choirs closely associated with the Harland

:40:17. > :40:21.and Wolff shipyard will be here. The Belfast Youth Orchestra of the

:40:21. > :40:25.year, the performance in song and speech will express the emotions

:40:25. > :40:30.that continue to echo down the generations. Let us begin with the

:40:30. > :40:40.Mariners him that was sung in the closing hours of the Titanic,

:40:40. > :40:40.

:40:40. > :41:23.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:41:23. > :41:33.Whose arm hath bound the restless wave. Who bidd'st the mighty ocean

:41:33. > :41:43.deep. Its own appointed limits keep. # Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee.

:41:43. > :41:56.

:41:56. > :42:06.# For those in peril on the sea! # O Christ! # Whose voice the waters

:42:06. > :42:16.heard. # And hushed their raging at Thy word. # Who walked'st on the

:42:16. > :42:16.

:42:16. > :42:26.foaming deep. # And calm amidst its rage didst sleep. # Oh, hear us

:42:26. > :42:39.

:42:39. > :42:49.when we cry to Thee. # For those in peril on the sea! # Most Holy

:42:49. > :42:49.

:42:49. > :42:59.Spirit who didst brood. # Upon the chaos dark and rude. # And bid its

:42:59. > :43:01.

:43:01. > :43:11.angry tumult cease. # And give, for wild confusion, peace. # Oh, hear

:43:11. > :43:24.

:43:24. > :43:34.us when we cry to Thee. # For those in peril on the sea! # O Trinity of

:43:34. > :43:34.

:43:35. > :43:44.love and power. # Our brethren shield in danger's hour. # From

:43:45. > :43:47.

:43:47. > :43:57.rock and tempest, fire and foe. # Protect them wheresoe'er they go. #

:43:57. > :43:59.

:43:59. > :44:09.Thus evermore shall rise to Thee. # Glad hymns of praise from land and

:44:09. > :44:24.

:44:24. > :44:33.It is my pleasure to invite The Lord Mayor of Belfast to offer his

:44:33. > :44:40.welcome and his reflections on the centenary and the new garden.

:44:40. > :44:46.Minister, Members of Parliament, distinguished guests, ladies and

:44:46. > :44:50.gentlemen, 100 years ago on 15th April 1912, the world's most famous

:44:50. > :44:58.ship sank in the icy cold waters of the Atlantic. Just two weeks

:44:58. > :45:02.earlier, the people of this city had gathered on the shores of

:45:02. > :45:08.Belfast Loch for it was there hands, their skills that had crafted this

:45:08. > :45:12.giant of ships, Titanic. By every measure, she was a remarkable feat

:45:12. > :45:17.of engineering. Over the coming days as the city settled into the

:45:17. > :45:20.satisfaction of a job well done, the smiles were replaced by shock

:45:20. > :45:25.and tears as news of the disaster reached us. It is hard to imagine

:45:25. > :45:32.the impact of that news. It wasn't just our hard work, our pride, but

:45:32. > :45:42.it was also our people. 28 Belfast men, including men which formed the

:45:42. > :45:50.

:45:50. > :46:00.guarantee group, were on board - fitters, joiners and draftsmen. All

:46:00. > :46:03.

:46:03. > :46:11.men perished. 1,512 people died. In the days, weeks, months and years

:46:11. > :46:14.to come, the tragedy became unspeakable in this city. Belfast's

:46:14. > :46:18.rightful place was barely acknowledged by the people of this

:46:19. > :46:25.city. The human stories of those who built the ship and those who

:46:25. > :46:31.lost their lives were set aside, the memory was too painful. Then on

:46:31. > :46:36.Sunday 1st September 1985, the healing began when Dr Robert

:46:36. > :46:40.Ballard and his team discovered Titanic's resting place. I am

:46:40. > :46:47.delighted to welcome Dr Ballard to Belfast this morning. In the years

:46:47. > :46:52.since, we have come to terms with the tragedy. As we approach the

:46:52. > :46:58.centenary of the launch and sinking, we realised two things should

:46:58. > :47:04.happen. I think we have got that balance

:47:04. > :47:09.right. In terms of celebration, a couple of weeks ago Titanic Belfast

:47:09. > :47:15.opened its doors, the largest Titanic tourist attraction in the

:47:15. > :47:21.world. Its role is to tell the story of how the ship was conceived,

:47:21. > :47:25.designed and built. The craftsmanship and the skills of our

:47:25. > :47:31.people are celebrated. Today is about commemoration and we do that

:47:31. > :47:34.here. We remember those who died in the peaceful setting of this

:47:34. > :47:39.memorial garden. The splendid Titanic Memorial Garden will be the

:47:39. > :47:47.only place in the world which all those who perished are named. Here

:47:47. > :47:52.they are not just numbers, here they are remembered as individuals

:47:52. > :47:55.with different stories to tell. There are a number of people I wish

:47:55. > :48:02.to thank. I spoke of the guarantee group and I wish to thank their

:48:02. > :48:12.families and the others from Belfast who are in attendance today.

:48:12. > :48:16.

:48:16. > :48:24.Sincere thanks to Harland & Wolff, too. Over the past decade the

:48:24. > :48:30.Society has organised a range of activities across the city. It is

:48:30. > :48:34.also fitting to recognise its support for various departments in

:48:34. > :48:42.their delivery of this programme. As a member of Belfast City Council,

:48:42. > :48:47.I am proud of the part played in the development of this garden by

:48:47. > :48:51.the parks department. I think it is particularly important to pay

:48:52. > :48:59.tribute to Kelly and Una Reilly of the Titanic Society for their work

:48:59. > :49:03.which went beyond the call of duty. Finally, I wish to thank all the

:49:03. > :49:11.contributors and performers who will take part in this morning's

:49:11. > :49:15.service. I want to thank all of you for attending our uplifting

:49:15. > :49:20.experience. As Lord Mayor, as someone who grew up in the shadow

:49:21. > :49:26.of the shipyard, I am proud of how far Belfast has come since 1912. I

:49:26. > :49:31.am proud of the way we as the sit stens of Belfast are commemorating

:49:31. > :49:41.-- citizens of Belfast are commemorating the 1,512 souls who

:49:41. > :49:48.

:49:48. > :49:57.lost their lives 100 years ago Thank you, Lord Mayor. So we come

:49:57. > :50:03.to our first solo performer, an actor and writer who was brought up

:50:03. > :50:09.in the shadow of the great cranes, the boat factory which has been

:50:09. > :50:15.performed in schools and prisons, church halls and orange halls all

:50:15. > :50:24.over Northern Ireland. Dan Gordon will read the words of John

:50:24. > :50:31.Parkinson, himself a man of the yard.

:50:31. > :50:35.I was born in January 1907, my father was a joiner and he was

:50:35. > :50:39.employed by Harland & Wolff. I was thrilled when my father said to me,

:50:39. > :50:45."Tell your Sunday School teacher that you won't be present in class

:50:45. > :50:51.next Sunday. I am taking you to see the Titanic." I can well remember

:50:51. > :50:56.the hulk of steel and held in position by the dozens of staging

:50:56. > :51:02.props, a fantastic sight. My father explained the next week they would

:51:03. > :51:08.take the big props away and the boat would slide into the water.

:51:08. > :51:15."How can that big boat stay up?" He answered, "That ship will always

:51:15. > :51:21.stay in the water! It will never go down." Titanic was launched with

:51:21. > :51:26.great ceremony. The vessel glided into the waters, the shipyard men

:51:26. > :51:33.got the day off without pay to see the launch and the whole harbour

:51:33. > :51:37.was packed. The following year, on April 2nd, 1912, I was taken to see

:51:37. > :51:46.the Titanic going away. Thousands upon thousands of spectators lined

:51:46. > :51:52.the shores of Belfast Loch. We travelled by tram car and got an

:51:52. > :51:58.excellent view, others watched from elsewhere. We at last saw the great

:51:58. > :52:05.ship heading up the loch. She was being pulled along by a dozen tug

:52:05. > :52:10.boats and black smoke belched from the funnels as the engineers stoked

:52:10. > :52:16.feverishly to get up steam. When the ship reached the mouth of the

:52:16. > :52:21.loch we heard the propellor blades swishing around. The Titanic was on

:52:21. > :52:27.its way. Boilers and engines were working, sirens and horns sounding,

:52:27. > :52:33.off across the sea to start its maiden voyage. We sang Rule

:52:33. > :52:37.Britannia and we waved our flags. It will did any of the spectators

:52:37. > :52:41.think that it was goodbye. When news of the sinking came through,

:52:41. > :52:49.people couldn't take it in and they wouldn't believe it. I can well

:52:49. > :52:52.recall seeing the Belfast Telegraph newsboy rushing up our street,

:52:52. > :52:57."Titanic sunk!" My father bought the one-sheet edition and he cried

:52:57. > :53:03.like a child. What a tragedy. It seemed impossible that this could

:53:03. > :53:13.happen. My father just never got over it. And the memories lived

:53:13. > :53:16.

:53:16. > :53:20.with him for the rest of his life. Dan, those images are vivid today

:53:20. > :53:25.as they were 100 years ago? Absolutely. It is a very poignant

:53:25. > :53:31.time. The fact they built the Titanic was a tribute to Belfast.

:53:31. > :53:36.We remember that they built 1,700 other ships as well. We were the

:53:36. > :53:41.centre of such excellence. The yard very much in your blood. If they

:53:41. > :53:49.hadn't stopped building ships, you would have been working there?

:53:49. > :53:54.Indeed. My grandfather quaim over from the Clydi. -- came over from

:53:54. > :53:58.the Clyde. Your thoughts about the garden? I think it is remarkable.

:53:58. > :54:02.World-class event we have had here, the opening of Titanic Belfast. All

:54:02. > :54:12.those names on that and it is quite remarkable when you see how many

:54:12. > :54:13.

:54:13. > :54:18.there were. Thank you very much. Our next guest, another Belfast man,

:54:18. > :54:23.whose music has marked the big occasions in the city, Brian

:54:23. > :54:28.Kennedy. Brian will perform one of his own songs, Life, Love and

:54:28. > :54:38.Happiness. He sings "Will you walk with me and will you never let me

:54:38. > :54:54.

:54:54. > :55:04.# Will you walk with me # Through this world

:55:04. > :55:05.

:55:05. > :55:13.# And never let me down, oh listen # Can you hear a sound

:55:13. > :55:23.# Look what we have found # Another day ends peacefully

:55:23. > :55:24.

:55:24. > :55:32.# Oh # Now tell me

:55:32. > :55:39.# Is this the way it's gonna stay # Oh

:55:39. > :55:47.# Don't let go again # It's your life

:55:47. > :55:57.# Love # Your happiness

:55:57. > :55:57.

:55:58. > :56:04.# When you sleep tonight # Will you dream

:56:04. > :56:14.# About a brighter life, oh it's gonna last

:56:14. > :56:17.

:56:17. > :56:24.# And we hope for more # But my heart is so unsure

:56:24. > :56:32.# Another day is # Over

:56:32. > :56:40.# So tell me # Is this the way it's meant to be

:56:40. > :56:47.# Oh # Don't let go again

:56:47. > :56:55.# 'Cause it's for life # Love

:56:55. > :57:04.# And happiness I'm thinking of # No

:57:04. > :57:09.# Don't give up again # 'Cause it's your life

:57:09. > :57:19.# Love # And happiness

:57:19. > :57:22.

:57:22. > :57:25.# Don't go # I'm remembering

:57:25. > :57:33.# The time of joy # And of love

:57:33. > :57:39.# Oh # Don't let go again

:57:39. > :57:49.# 'Cause it's for life # Love

:57:49. > :57:49.

:57:49. > :57:54.# And happiness I'm thinking of # No

:57:54. > :58:04.# Don't give up again # 'Cause it's your life

:58:04. > :58:12.

:58:12. > :58:15.# Your love # Your happiness

:58:15. > :58:22.# And we hope for more # My heart is so unsure

:58:22. > :58:32.# Will you walk with me # And never let me down. #

:58:32. > :58:39.

:58:39. > :58:44.Thank you very much. APPLAUSE Thank you, Brian. The Titanic now a

:58:44. > :58:48.name with global recognition, but until recent years, it wasn't so

:58:48. > :58:55.fated in its own birthplace. A few years after the discovery of the

:58:55. > :59:00.wreck by Robert Ballard, Una Reilly was one of the founders of the

:59:00. > :59:05.Titanic Society. The Society has done much to encourage interest in

:59:05. > :59:12.the ship across the world. I am pleased to welcome Una to join me

:59:12. > :59:17.now. Good morning. Good morning. Tell me

:59:17. > :59:24.what this memorial means to you? Well, we have been working towards

:59:24. > :59:28.it for 20 years. It gives me great pleasure everyone on such a sad

:59:28. > :59:31.occasion to be -- even on such a sad occasion to be standing here,

:59:31. > :59:35.Titanic has come home. You have talked about Titanic being

:59:36. > :59:40.regretted by the world as a tragedy. It is a ship in which Belfast can

:59:40. > :59:45.take great pride. That is just starting to happen now? It is. We

:59:45. > :59:51.have picked up again the pride in the ship that the men who sent it

:59:51. > :59:58.away 100 years ago had at that time. It got lost. There was never shame.

:59:58. > :00:04.It was shock. How could this have happened to us? We were never

:00:04. > :00:10.ashamed of building that ship. you say yourself, people say to you,

:00:10. > :00:16.t "What do you find -- as you say to yourself, "What do you find to

:00:16. > :00:24.talk about?" Will interest ever run out? No. We meet ten times a year.

:00:24. > :00:30.What else can you talk about? It is a fascinating story. Even after all

:00:30. > :00:36.this time, I am never bored. thing is, stories continue to

:00:36. > :00:44.emerge all the time. It moves on all the time. All the time. Just

:00:44. > :00:47.recently, we have discovered someone who we had been looking for

:00:47. > :00:52.for some time. Today we have the family with us who have never been

:00:52. > :00:55.here before and they have come forward. There are more families on

:00:55. > :01:05.that memorial. We want to find their connection. We are all proud

:01:05. > :01:10.of this ship. What happened was a Do you hope that the garden will

:01:10. > :01:15.serve as a focus for the sitters from around the world, to Belfast?

:01:15. > :01:25.They think that the focus of the world is on Belfast just now, and

:01:25. > :01:31.

:01:31. > :01:37.we are doing a proud. -- her proud. Thank you very much. More from the

:01:37. > :01:40.two choirs so closely tied to the shipyard that built the Titanic. It

:01:40. > :01:45.was in 1944 that someone suggested to a group of men singing lustily

:01:45. > :01:49.at work that they should form a quiet, and it overcame the

:01:49. > :01:52.hardships of water in working to achieve notable success. There

:01:52. > :01:57.conductor is John Little Teds of the Queen's Island Choir takes its

:01:57. > :02:00.name from the land upon which the shipyard stood. An amalgamation of

:02:01. > :02:05.two choirs born in Harland and Wolff, one of them born in the year

:02:05. > :02:10.that the Titanic sale. It has a busy schedule of concerts around

:02:10. > :02:16.Northern Ireland, many of them for charity and enjoys a high

:02:16. > :02:26.reputation. Its conductor is Alastair Macaulay and he will lead

:02:26. > :02:45.

:02:45. > :02:55.them singing Carmen is the seat. -- # Calm is the sea.

:02:55. > :02:55.

:02:55. > :05:12.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:05:12. > :05:20.# The lights of heaven are shining Beautiful. I would like to ask

:05:20. > :05:30.Brian Kennedy to join us to sing that most popular of songs that is

:05:30. > :05:50.

:05:50. > :05:59.based on the Londonderry Air, you # When I am down and, oh my soul,

:05:59. > :06:03.so weary. # When troubles come and my heart burdened be. # Then, I am

:06:03. > :06:13.still and wait here in the silence. # Until you come and sit awhile

:06:13. > :06:17.

:06:17. > :06:24.with me. # You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains. # You raise

:06:24. > :06:34.me up, to walk on stormy seas. # I am strong, when I am on your

:06:34. > :06:34.

:06:34. > :07:17.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:07:17. > :07:22.shoulders. # You raise me up. # To # You raise me up, so I can stand

:07:22. > :07:32.on mountains. # You raise me up, to walk on

:07:32. > :07:43.

:07:43. > :07:53.# I am strong, when I am on your # You raise me up.

:07:53. > :07:55.

:07:55. > :08:05.# To more than I can be. # There is no life - no life without its

:08:05. > :08:11.

:08:11. > :08:19.hunger. Each restless heart beats so imperfectly. But when you come

:08:19. > :08:29.and I am filled with wonder. Sometimes, I think, I glimpse

:08:29. > :08:36.

:08:36. > :08:44.eternity. # You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains. # You raise

:08:44. > :08:54.me up, to walk on stormy seas. # And I am strong, when I am on your

:08:54. > :09:15.

:09:15. > :09:25.shoulders. # You raise me up. # To # You raise me up. # To more than I

:09:25. > :09:51.

:09:51. > :09:54.Brian Kennedy. Tim, now, for reflection and prayer. Lottery, the

:09:54. > :09:58.chairman of Harland and Wolff as a member of the congregation of the

:09:58. > :10:03.charge, that was the family Joshua Thomas Andrews, the Titanic were

:10:03. > :10:12.O'Neill architect, who lost his life in the sinking and his

:10:12. > :10:17.memorial service was held in Cumber. The annual memorial service has

:10:17. > :10:27.taken place at the City all since 1992. So it is fitting that the

:10:27. > :10:39.

:10:39. > :10:43.Reverend William Galton should lead Some words from the Taj Chapter of

:10:43. > :10:50.the Wizard Of Solomon as contained in the Apocrypha. The souls of the

:10:50. > :10:57.righteous Arona hands of court, and no torment sure touch them -- the

:10:57. > :11:02.hands of God. In the eyes of the police they seemed to have died,

:11:02. > :11:09.and their departure was accounted to be there how it, and their

:11:09. > :11:19.journey away from us to be their ruin, but, they are in piece, their

:11:19. > :11:20.

:11:20. > :11:27.hope is full of immortality, and, having borne a little chastening,

:11:27. > :11:37.they shall receive great good, because God made pride, and found

:11:37. > :11:39.

:11:39. > :11:46.them were the, of himself. -- worthy. Let us pray. Loving,

:11:46. > :11:54.heavenly Father, we come together, to remember this day in history,

:11:54. > :12:01.the foundering of RMS Titanic, with such tragic loss of life. The loss

:12:01. > :12:11.of more than 1500 men, women and children of diverse nationalities

:12:11. > :12:12.

:12:12. > :12:20.and backgrounds. Today, we, too, of diverse nationalities and

:12:20. > :12:30.backgrounds, come together, united in a single, common purpose, that

:12:30. > :12:32.

:12:32. > :12:39.of solemn remembrance. We remember those whose vision, whose dreams,

:12:39. > :12:48.were of the largest ocean liner the world had ever seen. We remember

:12:48. > :12:53.those who, by their skills, and who, through their Schumann Lieder,

:12:53. > :13:02.transformed -- their human a labourer, transformed a vision into

:13:02. > :13:08.reality. As we are gathered here, we call to mind the excitement and

:13:08. > :13:14.anticipation of all who took passage on Titanic's maiden boy

:13:14. > :13:22.aged -- maiden voyage. Of how, with tragic suddenness, everything

:13:22. > :13:30.changed, and changed utterly. This morning, we reflect upon the

:13:30. > :13:39.bravery and heroism of so many, who did all they humanly crude, to help

:13:39. > :13:48.others to safety - bass humanly could. All those, whose display of

:13:48. > :13:57.self-sacrifice epitomised the words of Jesus. Greater love has no man,

:13:57. > :14:07.than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend. They were each

:14:07. > :14:08.

:14:08. > :14:17.alike, heroic, unto death. As we behold the Titanic memorial, and

:14:17. > :14:27.the memorial garden, we remember all those who perished and whose

:14:27. > :14:27.

:14:27. > :14:31.names are he won his private -- herein inscribed. Men, women and

:14:31. > :14:38.children who loved, and were laughed, their loss, still

:14:38. > :14:48.poignantly felt by their descendantss. In the permanence of

:14:48. > :14:49.

:14:49. > :14:54.granite, marble and stone, may there be impermanence in our

:14:54. > :14:59.remembrance, in the diversity and colour and fragrance of the flowers

:14:59. > :15:08.of the more remote -- memorial garden, may there be acknowledgment

:15:08. > :15:15.of the diversity of human kind. We ask that our commemorative service

:15:15. > :15:25.this day shall indeed be a fitting tribute to those in whose memory we

:15:25. > :15:32.

:15:32. > :15:36.are gathered. In Jesus's name, Thank you. It is time for the

:15:36. > :15:39.centrepiece of our ceremony, the opening of the garden. Could I

:15:40. > :15:49.please ask The Lord Mayor and represents of the Titanic families

:15:50. > :15:50.

:15:50. > :18:31.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:18:31. > :18:41.With everyone in place, Lord Mayor bronze on five sections of granite

:18:41. > :18:41.

:18:41. > :18:51.each weighing five tonnes. On the plinth, on the plaques, the names

:18:51. > :18:59.of all the victims of the Titanic 100 years ago today. Now listed in

:18:59. > :19:09.alphabetical order, not by class or creed, simply all the names of all

:19:09. > :19:29.

:19:29. > :19:35.the people from many nations who by The Lord Mayor, by Jack Martin,

:19:35. > :19:41.who is the great-grand nephew of Dr John Simpson, a doctor on board the

:19:41. > :19:51.Titanic, whose name is on the original Belfast Memorial. And a

:19:51. > :19:53.

:19:53. > :19:59.third wreath laid by David McVeig on behalf of Harland & Wolff. Three

:19:59. > :20:03.wreaths, the same numbers as were dropped into the Atlantic Ocean

:20:03. > :20:08.this morning at 6.45am from the decks of the Balmoral which has

:20:08. > :20:16.been tracing the course of the Titanic and ended up this morning

:20:16. > :20:20.on the exact spot where the Titanic went down 100 years ago. Ladies and

:20:20. > :20:25.gentlemen, could you please stand to observe a minute's silence in

:20:25. > :20:35.memory of the 1,512 people who lost their lives on the Titanic 100

:20:35. > :20:36.

:20:36. > :21:44.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:21:44. > :21:48.their own floral tributes and we encourage all our visitors today to

:21:48. > :21:52.look over the garden. We can reflect on the enduring legacy of

:21:52. > :21:56.this great ship which survived only two weeks at sea from launch to

:21:56. > :22:01.sinking but which has made an indelible impression around the

:22:01. > :22:04.world. Belfast mourns its loss but can celebrate the achievement of

:22:04. > :22:07.building the ship and this garden can serve the purpose of

:22:07. > :22:12.celebration and commemoration for the many visitors who are expected

:22:12. > :22:17.in the years ahead. We close our ceremony with the haunting hymn

:22:17. > :22:23.which has gone down in legend as the last tune played by the band as

:22:23. > :22:33.the Titanic dived to the depths - Nearer My God To Thee. From Belfast

:22:33. > :22:33.

:22:33. > :23:36.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

:23:36. > :23:46.# Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

:23:46. > :23:49.

:23:49. > :23:59.# E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,

:23:59. > :24:04.

:24:04. > :24:14.# Still all my song shall be, # Nearer, my God, to thee;

:24:14. > :24:22.

:24:22. > :24:32.# Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

:24:32. > :24:34.

:24:34. > :24:44.# Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,

:24:44. > :24:45.

:24:45. > :24:55.# Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;

:24:55. > :25:01.

:25:01. > :25:11.# Yet in my dreams I'd be # Nearer, my God, to thee;

:25:11. > :25:17.

:25:17. > :25:27.# Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

:25:27. > :25:29.

:25:29. > :25:39.# There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;

:25:39. > :25:42.

:25:42. > :25:52.# All that thou sendest me, in mercy given;

:25:52. > :25:56.

:25:57. > :26:06.# Angels to beckon me # Nearer, my God, to thee;

:26:07. > :26:17.

:26:17. > :26:22.# Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer As this service draws to a close,

:26:22. > :26:27.it is time to leave Belfast City Hall and the new Titanic Memorial

:26:27. > :26:31.Garden, but what a wonderful service this was, solemn but

:26:31. > :26:36.uplifting, dignified but dynamic, powerful but colourful, too. It was

:26:37. > :26:41.of course in Belfast that Titanic's maiden voyage began 100 years ago,

:26:41. > :26:47.sadly it ended in the North Atlantic and that is where we go

:26:47. > :26:53.now to our correspondent, Chris Buckler, who is there. Chris?

:26:53. > :26:58.Mark, here you can see behind me that we are sailing away from the

:26:58. > :27:01.site where the Titanic sank and where the wreckage still lies.

:27:01. > :27:06.Earlier this morning, there was a point where we had a service that

:27:06. > :27:10.echoes a lot of what we have just heard at Belfast City Hall, ending

:27:10. > :27:16.with the same service and with the same sentiment behind it, that idea

:27:16. > :27:19.of loss, but also hope out of that loss, those who survived went on to

:27:19. > :27:26.form families that tried to come together here on this ship in some

:27:26. > :27:30.cases to talk about what had happened to their ancestors. Also

:27:30. > :27:36.those whose families had relatives who died on that disaster. The

:27:36. > :27:42.Titanic, as we leave it behind, is something that really still

:27:42. > :27:47.captivates so much attention. Many of the passengers had come because

:27:47. > :27:52.they were obsessed with the story and wanted to share in that moment

:27:52. > :27:59.as memorial wreaths were thrown from the side of this ship. Thrown

:27:59. > :28:03.into the water as a mark of respect. Today was about sombre reflection

:28:03. > :28:07.after moments of excitement. This has been a long journey that began

:28:07. > :28:12.a week ago. There was excitement as people left Southampton and talked

:28:12. > :28:18.about the trip to come and also as they arrived in Cobh, the final

:28:18. > :28:23.port of call for the Titanic where people gave the passengers here a

:28:23. > :28:29.warm welcome. After the sombre events of today, these passengers

:28:29. > :28:33.will continue on to Halifax to visit some of the graves of those

:28:33. > :28:37.who died and then on to New York. That is incredibly important for

:28:37. > :28:41.some of these passengers. They say they want to complete the journey

:28:41. > :28:46.for the relatives that never managed to make it to that city and

:28:46. > :28:51.never managed to start the new life they had hoped for.

:28:51. > :28:55.Back to you. Chris Buckler. Now we have marked

:28:55. > :29:01.the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic with the memorial services,

:29:01. > :29:06.what now as we look to the future? What now Titanic and Northern

:29:06. > :29:08.Ireland? With us we have Tim Husbands, the Chief Executive of

:29:08. > :29:18.Titanic Belfast and Susie McCullough from the Northern

:29:18. > :29:20.

:29:20. > :29:24.We have this fabulous visitors' centre that celebrates the building

:29:24. > :29:29.of Titanic and commemorates all those who died. How does this

:29:29. > :29:32.building take us forward? combines both the past and the

:29:32. > :29:37.future. It signifiers Belfast reclaiming its heritage, telling

:29:37. > :29:42.the story that has been told in 100 years in the most appropriate place

:29:42. > :29:45.where it was designed, built and launched. Going forward, it will

:29:45. > :29:50.provide a platform for international growth, economic

:29:50. > :29:57.benefit through tourism, and it will act as a major Ankara project

:29:57. > :30:01.for the wider development of Titanic quarter, a �7 billion

:30:01. > :30:07.quarter, changing the former shipyard site into a vibrant,

:30:07. > :30:11.maritime community. The job of the minister is to sell Northern

:30:11. > :30:17.Ireland and to sell the Titanic story, but after all, it is a

:30:17. > :30:21.disaster - can you continue doing that? When you see Titanic, the

:30:21. > :30:25.world knows what you're talking about. What -- for us, what has

:30:25. > :30:30.been missing is that they did not realise that Belfast had a link to

:30:30. > :30:35.it, so through the festival we have had bombing and other events we're

:30:35. > :30:39.reclaiming our heritage and telling the world, the ship was built here.

:30:39. > :30:44.Only in Belfast can you get the authentic experience right through

:30:44. > :30:48.from the past to the future. There is global interest. We have had

:30:48. > :30:54.thousands of John the lasts and visitors wanting to find out how

:30:54. > :30:57.Belfast is telling the story of Titanic. The centre has cost almost

:30:57. > :31:03.�100 million. A lot of hard work and attention to detail has gone

:31:03. > :31:07.into getting this ready. Yes, a huge programme of construction work,

:31:07. > :31:11.11 months of fitting out and many hours of dedication from the people

:31:11. > :31:17.that built it, and 50,000 people have already come to see the

:31:17. > :31:23.visitor attraction, coming from China, India and Australia, very

:31:23. > :31:30.far upfield. How can you take the attention that we have got, lot of

:31:30. > :31:33.visitors in Belfast attracted to all things Titanic, how can you

:31:33. > :31:39.spread that across Northern Ireland, so there are other places that are

:31:39. > :31:43.looking for that business can take this on? Titanic is the new global

:31:43. > :31:46.icon for Northern Ireland. Every city and country needs it. It is

:31:46. > :31:50.about repositioning Northern Ireland on the world stage which

:31:50. > :31:54.will attract the visitors to Belfast who will ultimately go

:31:54. > :32:03.throat and Northern Ireland. It is the start of this titanic 2012

:32:03. > :32:07.Festival. We have lots more coming, right across Northern Ireland, so

:32:07. > :32:11.it really is about driving business for the whole of Northern Ireland.

:32:11. > :32:15.The when you think that this is the sight of the old Harland and Wolff

:32:15. > :32:19.shipyard, tens of thousands of workers used to be here, it is now

:32:19. > :32:24.known as Titanic order, and you have lots of new businesses coming

:32:24. > :32:31.in now, so it is about creating a bright future. The creative

:32:31. > :32:35.industries are here in Titanic Quarter. It is providing jobs, it

:32:35. > :32:42.is providing economic benefit, and you will see a community being

:32:42. > :32:46.created over the next 15-20 years. How much coverage is Northern

:32:46. > :32:50.Ireland getting abroad in relation to tourism in Island, not just

:32:50. > :32:56.about Titanic but in terms of what Northern Ireland in general as to

:32:56. > :33:02.offer? 2012 has been the year that the Pit Tourism in Northern Ireland

:33:02. > :33:06.on the map in Great Britain and across the world. Next week we have

:33:06. > :33:10.150 international tour operators coming enacted a workshop here in

:33:10. > :33:15.Titanic Belfast, but we have amazing plans throughout the year,

:33:15. > :33:22.so now is the time that Northern Ireland is confident in the then on,

:33:22. > :33:26.and we are confident in telling the world about it. -- in moving on.

:33:26. > :33:33.This 100 anniversary has sparked new interest in those who built

:33:33. > :33:36.Titanic and sailed on it. The sinking was a catastrophe, but not

:33:36. > :33:41.just an 13th April 1912, but for the decades and generations that

:33:41. > :33:46.followed. It was an international disaster. All classes, all tweeds,