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Page 702 - Volume Challenge - Belfast, Northern Island

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Belfast sounds like it has a rich and colorful history

September 13, 2016

Like how you included the timeline and brochure

September 11, 2016

NIce you included the timeline and additional history to your page. I'm learning so much.

September 11, 2016

it is an interesting timeline. a floating entertainment complex in Paris for 25 years - I'd like to have see it then.

September 08, 2016

Happy for you that the port surprised you with all it had to offer! Would love to see the Titanic t-shirts!

September 08, 2016

thanks for the timeline

September 07, 2016

September 07, 2016

September 07, 2016

Great timeline

September 07, 2016

love the timeline

September 06, 2016

It does have an interesting history. Used as an entertainment complex in Paris is surely different! I am glad that she was brought back and restored.

September 06, 2016

Page 702 - Volume Challenge - Belfast, Northern Island

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I think the timeline for the Nomadic is interesting:

1911 – Leaves Belfast for Cherbourg where she will tender White Star Line Trans-Atlantic Liners

1912 – Tenders RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage carrying 172 first and second class passengers

1917 – Requisitioned by French Government and served as a troop carrier during WWI

1934 – Cherbourg harbor deepened, Nomadic sold to Cherbourg towage and Salvage Company

1940 – Used as a rescue ship to evacuate soldiers from Cherbourg in WW2

1952 – Tendered to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth

1968 – Last journey as a tender before being sold to a French businessman

1974 – Transformed into a floating entertainment complex in Paris and moored beside the Eiffel Tower for twenty-five years

1999 – Considered unsafe and she is closed to the public

2003 – Impounded in Le Havre and put up for auction

2006 – Purchased by the Department of Social Development at auction and
brought back to Belfast for restoration

As the tour continued we went through the neighborhoods that once had so much violence in the struggles between the Catholics and the Protestants – I could have spent a lot more time here too. The fence dividing the two is still partially standing and a mural runs along the lower part of the fence with graffiti and painting all along it. There is even one part with President Bill Clinton's message and signature.

I really would enjoy having this for a port day on another cruise. I really underestimated all there was to see and do in Belfast. I regret not being better prepared for this port – it had a lot to offer and I really missed so much of it.

We did find some really nice Titanic t-shirts. Bill bought matching t-shirts for us that have a big “Titanic Boarding Pass” on the front and under that, “Belfast” and the date. He also bought another Titanic t-shirt for me so we got back on the ship with two new Titanic t-shirts for me and one for Bill!

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