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Titanic: The Rise, the Fall and the Birth of a Legend

While her days were numbered from the outset, Titanic was a legend during her own lifetime, and has become increasingly immortalised ever since. In this article, we take a look at the famous liner’s origins, from the abandoned Drawing Office and slipways of Harland & Wolff to the murals of east Belfast and the awesome Titanic Quarter that is rising from the dereliction.

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Top 10 Posts So Far

Never fear! Unlike bands this “Best Of” post is not a swan song, but more a look at the first three months of Urban Ghosts Media and the most popular posts to date. Is there a pattern? What do readers most enjoy reading? Come on in and browse the list for a breakdown of the Top 10 articles so far!

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The World’s Most Famous Slipway

The RMS Titanic is without doubt the most famous ocean liner in history and everyone knows how the story ends in 1912 – at the bottom of the North Atlantic, several hundred nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland. But few know the story of the Olympic class liner’s birth, or that the Titanic began life on the rather sorry looking concrete slipway, pictured above, in a Belfast shipyard.

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