A Month to Remember Begins - Laying the Keel
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To kick off the month, we begin where Titanic once began...
Titanic was comprised of many thousands of steel structural elements, but all of that rested upon a keel which had to be built before everything else. The very first pieces of the keel that had to be laid down in the Arrol Gantry were the keel bars, long slabs of steel some 9.5x3 inches thick that formed the very bottom and center of the ship.
And so, 115 years ago today, the first piece of the keel was laid for Harland & Wolff’s 401st ship on a cold slipway in Belfast. Humble beginnings for a 46,000-ton ship that will one day captivate the world.
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Comments (6)
I like the look of the Arrol Gantry with the green paint. Was it green at one point then painted red later?
Remember they build all this 100 years ago based on handmade blueprints !
I am sure young people marvel at things being made from paper drawings but older folk like me left school and started work when everything was built that way. Whole manuals 2 inches thick would contain all the information required to build a train, for example and we thought nothing of it, it was just the way things were done before CAD was around.
"Humble beginnings for a 46,000-ton ship that will one day captivate the world." I absolutely love that wording.
Thanks! - James
I see what you did there