Two ships side by side
Harland and Wolff built Titanic and her sister Olympic side by side on Queen’s Island in Belfast. Titanic’s keel was laid on 31 March 1909, and she was launched on 31 May 1911.
SS Nomadic
Nomadic was built by Harland and Wolff and launched on 25 April 1911 as a tender, carrying passengers between Cherbourg and liners too large to dock there. On 10 April 1912 she took 274 passengers out to Titanic. After years in France, latterly as a restaurant in Paris, she came back to Belfast on 18 July 2006.
Remembering the voyage
Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage, and more than 1,500 of the people on board died. A century later, on 31 March 2012, Titanic Belfast opened on the slipways where she was built.



