2012年6月4日星期一

"Titanic" come back after 150 years


Last month, to commemorate the Titanic shipwreck centuries, the Belfast landmarks"Titanic Belfast" open to the public. The museum is the construction of the dock on the basis of year to build the "Titanic".

"Titanic" was the birthplace of British Northern Ireland capital of Belfast specific to the 15th, to unveil a memorial park monument is inscribed the names of more than 1,500victims.

This is the first one piece monument engraved the names of all victims.  At 0:27 on the 15th, Halifax fell silent, wasreceived in honor of Canada, the last one from the bottom of the "Titanic" wireless telegraphy. Subsequently, four churches rang the bell, to help the flame into the air.

Attend the ceremony, Wendy Burkhart tells the story of ancestors to escape the doom and gloom: "My grandmother and her grandparents originally booked a 'Titanic' ticket totheir original plan to go to Canada to start a new life, where but the family disagreement, they cancel the trip, intend (1912) the fall of longer follow. "

Has witnessed the 105-year-old "Titanic" into the water Cyril Quigley recalls: "When I was4 years old and a half, the parents took me to look at 'Titanic' set sail."

The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago, as the distance from the harbor of thisshipwreck, Halifax, Canada, sent several ships involved in search and rescue and theremains of 150 victims of the fall was buried in the city cemetery.

The evening of 14 people gathered in the city of the Atlantic Museum, and participate inthe centennial ceremony of the "Titanic" sank. Memoriallandscape architect Joy Hutchinson said, the basic tone of the memorial is "blue, silverand green, symbolizing the sea and the iceberg", and "We're trying to make people feelcalm, deep in thought".

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