RMS Titanic with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the "Titanic" disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS "Titan", a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. And like the "Titanic", she sinks after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats. Only recently has the significance of "Titanic" most notably been given by Northern Ireland where it was built by Harland and Wolff in the capital city, Belfast. While the rest of the world embraced the glory and tragedy of "Titanic", in its birth city, "Titanic" remained a taboo subject throughout the 20th
Titanic Belfast visitors to the top of the gantry, where scenes of shipbuilding are displayed through audio and images. The visit continues on a six-seater car which takes the visitor on a ride through a recreation of a shipyard which moves through a scale replica of "Titanic"s enormous rudder. The Launch gallery portrays scenes from the Spring day when "Titanic" was launched into Belfast Lough, watched by 100,000 people. It overlooks the slipway from which "Titanic" was launched and a window enables visitors to see the slipways and docks as they appear now. The fourth gallery presents a large-scale model of "Titanic"