![]() The benches represent the position of Titanic’s lifeboats. At night, blue light illuminates the outline to indicate the scale of the gantry and the Olympic-class sister ships. Standing there, gazing up to the sky, I felt like I was poised next to the great ship, looking up along her massive hull. Embedded into the slipway in white stone are two life-sized outlines of the main decks of the Titanic and Olympic. In fact, the steel plates and rivets are identical to those used to build Titanic. When Robert Ballard visited, he said that this is exactly what Titanic looked like when he found her resting on the ocean floor. The metal is rusted and cracking on the surface. Our guide turned our attention to the huge steel gate behind us when we reached the floor. It’s the only place I’ve ever been that truly gave me a sense of the Titanic’s size. ![]() Walk down the very slipway where Titanic was constructed and explore a life size plan of Titanic's Promenade Deck which is inlaid in white stone. The dock is 850 feet long and 44 feet deep. Above: Titanic (left, on slipway 3) and Olympic (right, on slipway 2) under construction beneath the giant gantry at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic Belfast stands at the head of the historic slipways where Titanic and Olympic were built and from where these famous ships were first launched into the water. ![]() Making it even trickier is that the caisson gate only measures 96 feet wide, leaving 1 foot 9 inches of margin on either side as Titanic and Olympic came into dock. Maneuvering her in must have been careful, tricky business. When Titanic docked here, she only had 2 feet of clearance on either side at her widest point. ![]() The Titanic Belfast attraction is located in front of the slipways where. Abercorn Arc Public Realm and the refurbishment of the former Titanic & Olympic Slipways. The dock measures 100 feet wide at the floor. 1 Olympic Way, Queens Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT3. Client, Titanic Quarter Ltd & Belfast Harbour Commissioners. ![]()
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