Titanic Belfast interactive galleries, covering the following themes: The first gallery recreates scenes from Belfast at the time of "Titanic"s construction in 1909–11. It illustrates the city's major industries before leading through an original set of gates from the Harland and Wolff shipyard into an interactive floor presenting "Titanic"s construction plans, along with original drawings and scale models of the ship. The second gallery is dominated by a steel scaffold standing , which alludes to the Arrol Gantry built to aid the construction of "Titanic" and "Olympic". The actual gantry was four times the height of the gallery's representation. A lift carries
RMS Titanic in popular culture Archibald Gracie's "The Truth about the Titanic". Beesley started writing his book shortly after being rescued by the RMS "Carpathia" and supplemented it with interviews with fellow-survivors. It was published by Houghton Mifflin within only three weeks of the disaster. Gracie carried out extensive research and interviews, as well as attending the US Senate inquiry into the sinking. He died in December 1912, just before his book was published. "Titanic"s former Second Officer, Charles Lightoller, published an account of the sinking in his 1935 book "Titanic and Other Ships", which Eugene L. Rasor characterises as an apologia. Stewardess Violet Jessop