This weekend there is a very interesting and informative conference on the Titanic, its links with Queenstown, and other aspects of the maritime history of Cork Harbour. The following extract from Cobh Edition gives a taste of what to expect: "On Friday 20th and Saturday 21st of April a conference on the Titanic and other aspects of the Maritime history of Cork Harbour will take place in the Jack Doyle Room, Commodore Hotel. On Friday at 7:30pm the keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor John Wilson Foster, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and honorary research fellow at Queen's University, Belfast. Professor Wilson Foster has published three books on RMS Titanic and twelve other books on Irish, English, and American literature, natural history and culture. His lecture on Friday evening is entitled 'RMS Titanic - History or Heritage?' An engaging and informative speaker, this lecture is a must for anyone with an interest in Titanic.On Saturday from 10am the attention will shift to focus on a range of other topics related to the maritime history of the harbour with lectures on the Royal Cork Yacht Club, ship building in Passage, Cork Harbour in art, the wreck of the Celtic, the Great Famine and the US naval ship Jamestown, the Lusitania, U-boats, and the American Navy in Cork Harbour.
If you want to learn more about the maritime history in Cork Harbour this is a conference not to be missed. Bookings can be made by contacting Marita Foster at 086 0667529 or by registering at the Commodore Hotel on Friday evening or Saturday morning. Conference fee is €15 (standard), and €10 (unwaged, senior citizen, student)."
For those who would like to stay in Cobh overnight the Commodore Hotel are doing the following special rates:
Standard B&B: €37pps per night
Seaview B&B: €44.50pps per night
2BB+1D Standard: €89pps
2BB+1D Seaview: €104pps
To book ring Mary on 021-4811277 or book online at www.commodorehotel.ie
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:
Friday 20th April
7:30pm Keynote: Professor John Wilson Foster, 'RMS Titanic - History or Heritage?'
Saturday 21st April
10:00am: Dr. Alicia St. Leger, 'The Royal Cork Yacht Club: sailing across the centuries'
10:45am: Peter Murray, 'Statio Bene: Cork Harbour in Art'
11:30am: Dr. Colman O'Mahony, 'A Lost Industry - Ship Building in Passage West from 1830s to the 1920s'
12:30pm: Lunch
1:15pm: Optional Titanic Trail walking tour with Dr. Michael Martin, departing from the Commodore Hotel (separate fee of €9.50 payable on the day).
2:30pm: Dr. Larry Geary, 'The Great Famine and the American relief ship Jamestown, Cork Harbour, April 1847'
3:15pm: Marita Foster, 'The wreck of the Celtic, Cork Harbour, December 1928'
4:00pm: Dr. John Borgonovo, 'Lusitania, U-Boats, and the American Navy in Co. Cork'
5:00pm: Those attending the conference have the option of visiting Cobh Museum to view an exhibition entitled 'Titanic - Reflections and Reactions - Queenstown 1912'
Would have been easy avoid the Titanic´s sinking, ship design with all compartments not only with doors, but also with watertight all compartments a horizontal door movible at top in ceiling, and then the water cans not go from one another. Lesson for future, make ships really insumergibles..
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