On the 15th April 1912 RMS Titanic sank with the loss of 1517 lives. In 1912 the Titanic was the world's largest and most modern passenger ship and was considered to be unsinkable. She was launched from Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard on May 31st 1911. On April 10th 1912 she set sail from Southampton with some 2223 passengers and crew on board. There were many wealthy passengers on board as well as hundreds of people leaving their homelands to start a new life in America. At 2.20am on April 15th 1912 the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
One century on the loss of this magnificent ship continues to intruige and beguile people. If you are interested in the Titanic come along to the Library to look at the information on display or borrow one of the books about this terrible disaster.
For a new Titanic adventure thriller why not try Titanic 2020:Cannibal City by Colin Bateman. A new, huge unsinkable ship (remind you of anything??) is launched but things go wrong very quickly! The world as we know it is wiped out by a plague but among the survivors are Jimmy and Claire who were on the new Titanic when the plague struck. But althouth the Titanic is fabulous - everyone wants to steal it! Can Jimmy and Claire survive and can they save the new Titanic?
