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The Titanic Memorial, Belfast. Memorials and monuments to victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic exist in a number of places around the world associated with Titanic, notably in Belfast, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom; Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada; and New York City and Washington, D.C. in the United States.
Flowers and candles adorn the Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial on April 15, 2012, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Dedication of Straus Memorial, April 15, 1915. Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street.
The memorial was intended originally to commemorate all 32 engineers who died in the sinking of Titanic on 15 April 1912. [1] Liverpool was the Titanic port of registry, as well as the home of the ship's owner, White Star Line. Construction was funded by international public subscription. [2]
The Titanic has gone down in history as the ship that was called unsinkable. [a] However, even though countless news stories after the sinking called Titanic unsinkable, prior to the sinking the White Star Line had used the term "designed to be unsinkable", and other pre-sinking publications described the ship as "virtually unsinkable". [16]
This page is a list of Titanic museums, not memorials, across the world. This list is definitive and should not be considered to be entirely accurate. This list may also feature travelling exhibitions, in which their locations will be updated as necessary.
Memorials to the RMS Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912. Pages in category "RMS Titanic memorials" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Titanic Memorial Lighthouse Dedication plaque on the Lighthouse. The Titanic Memorial is a 60-foot-tall (18 m) lighthouse at Fulton and Pearl Streets in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was built, in part at the instigation of Margaret Brown, to remember the people who died on the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. [1]
Colne (/ k ɒ l n / [2]) is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England.The town is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Nelson, 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Burnley and 25 mi (40 km) east of Preston.