RMS Titanic over 1,600 ships being built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in 1995. Once a sensitive story, "Titanic" is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August 2018, several groups were vying for the right to purchase the 5,500 "Titanic" relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. Eventually, "Titanic" Belfast, Titanic Foundation Limited and the National Museums Northern Ireland joined with the National Maritime Museum as a consortium that was raising money to purchase the 5,500 artifacts. The group
Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic the company's shipyard in Belfast's bay was located in almost exclusively Protestant East Belfast—through which few Catholics would travel—or a mixture of both, is a matter of dispute). In fact, RMS "Olympic" and "Titanic" were assigned the yard numbers 400 and 401 respectively. At the time the "Titanic" sank, the 1 May 1912 issue of "The Popular Magazine", an American pulp magazine, was on the news stands. It contained the short story "The White Ghost of Disaster," which described the collision of an ocean liner with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, the sinking of the vessel, and the fate