We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers. Pixels is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints. Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames. All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails. Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.īring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. To visit and know more, you can take our Giant’s Causeway and Titanic tour ( from Dublin or from Belfast).Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of the. Most prominently however, is the Titanic Belfast, a monumental visitor centre constructed in the angular form of the ships’ prow. The SS Nomadic, the only surviving vessel of the White Star Line, can be viewed from the Hamilton Graving Dock, nearby. The Harland and Wolff Drawing Offices, where the designs for the Titanic were first drawn up, can be viewed from here.
Samson and Goliath, towering, twin yellow cranes stationed in the shipyard of Harland and Wolff, push-up the skyline. There are numerous monuments associated with the “virtually unsinkable” passenger liner in Belfast, most of them situated within the Titanic Quarter, which stretches along the east side of the River Lagan. Of the 2224 passengers on board, only 710 survived, less than one third. Those who fell in the freezing water died within minutes from hypothermia.
Those lucky enough to find room on the lifeboats (seats were allocated in accordance to the strict policy of “women and children first”) arrived at their destination on the RMS Carpathia three days later. Within three hours the ship was altogether submerged in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. On route to New York City, the Titanic famously collided with a colossal iceberg (of roughly half its size) on its starboard side, ripping through five of its watertight compartments in the process. It contained eight, class-based passenger decks and allowed for a total capacity of 3,457 people (including an 892 capacity for crew members).ĭespite the fact that it was launched from Belfast and safety tested in Irish waters, it took its first and last commercial voyage from Southampton in England, on April 14, 1912. On completion, the mighty ship measured 882 feet in length, 92 feet in breadth and 104 feet in height. 246 people were injured and nine killed, overall, in the building of the Titanic. 15,000 men slaved for 26 relentless months on the two ships (construction of the RMS Olympic began simultaneously) in arduous and dangerous conditions. An ambitious budget of £3,000,000 was contracted to Harland and Wolff, whose trusty relationship with White Star Line dated back to 1867, the letters of agreement signed and authorisation given for the immediate construction of the Titanic.įor Queen’s Island to accommodate construction on such an awesome scale, three of its major slipways were destroyed and two, much larger (the largest ever created) and exacting slipways were carved-out. Inspired by the competition, plans for the ship would promptly swell to unprecedented proportions. The intention was to out do Cunard, which had just developed the two fastest passenger ships in the world, the RMS Lusitania and the RMS Mauretania. Conceived in 1907, it was one of two ships made to replace the SS Teutonic and the SS Majestic, then the oldest ships still in operation with White Star Line. The RMS Titanic was in its time the largest ship ever built. Belfast remains especially proud of its industrial heritage, and yet its proudest and probably historically defining moment is also its biggest failure.
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