Picture No | 10512315 |
Date | 31st May 1911 |
Description | Titanic launched at Belfast; Lord and Lady Pirrie |
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The launch of RMS Titanic, at Belfast on the joint birthday of its builder and his wife, Lord and Lady Pirrie, whose portraits are inset. Lord Pirrie, head of shipbuilders Harland & Wolff, and Lady Pirrie (nee Margaret Carlisle) were present at the launch along with Mr J Pierpont Morgan, American financier, whose company financed the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic.
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Source | The Bystander, 7th June 1911, page 482 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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