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Riveters fixing one of the hull's 3 million rivets
Titanic steaming across the Atlantic
View of Belfast
Molten steel being formed into the keel

Titanic Logo with the skeleton of the hull rising up from the scaffolding

“The skeleton within the scaffolding began to take shape, at the sight of which men held their breath. It was the shape of a ship, a ship so monstrous and unthinkable that it towered there over the buildings and dwarfed the very mountains by the water... with a rudder as big as a giant elm tree, with propellers the size of windmills.”

 

ITV has used the very latest computer technology to bring this story to life. The programme took us back in time to recreate the remarkable technological achievement of the Titanic, the impact of her construction on Belfast and the stories of the people who built her.