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Southampton's maritime museum was originally housed in The Wool House on the edge of Town Quay which included a small exhibition about the Titanic. To mark the centenary of the Titanic ' s voyage a larger exhibition, "Southampton’s Titanic Story", has been developed for a new £15 million museum in the city centre.
The modern era in the history of the Port of Southampton began when the first dock was inaugurated in 1843. After the Port of Felixstowe, Southampton is the second largest container terminal in UK, with a handled traffic of 1.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [1]
Local history & maritime digital archive - a collection of over 10,000 items reflecting the merchant shipping connections of Southampton and its port. [6] [7] "Titanic Voices" oral history collection. [8] A collection relating to this ship which departed from Southampton on its final voyage, extracts from which were published in book form in ...
The building was restored by Southampton City Corporation and adapted to house the Southampton Maritime Museum, which opened in June 1966 and moved to SeaCity Museum in January 2012. [1] It is a Grade I listed building. [2] A plaque on the wall of The Wool House records its history: The Wool House plaque
Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England.The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location, on a major estuary on the English Channel coast with an unusual double high tide, and by its proximity to Winchester and London; the ancient and modern capitals of England.
Oliver Green, writing in Museums Journal welcomed the new building, comparing it favourably to Southampton Maritime Museum's former home at The Wool House, which he described as being "completely unsuitable for telling the story of 20th century Southampton". Green praised the use of multimedia as "creative but restrained", and highlighted their ...
1966 – Southampton Maritime Museum opens in The Wool House. 1967 - Southampton takes in part of the Nursling and Rownhams parishes. 1968 – The Southampton Boat Show begins. 1969 Southampton Technical College is established. Television Centre is built, and it then closes in 2008. 1971 – The university's Southampton School of Medicine opens.
George III in HMS Southampton reviewing the fleet off Plymouth, 18 August 1789. In 1772, Southampton – at the time commanded by the capable John MacBride, destined for a distinguished naval career – was sent to Elsinore, Denmark, to take on board and convey to exile in Germany the British Princess Caroline Matilda, George III's sister, who had been deposed from her position as Queen of ...