The Real Stories From Those Who Built The Titanic | Titanic: Legend Born In Belfast | Timeline

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ancient city on the doorstep of europe where industry and commerce flourished for centuries today it's better known as a city recovering from almost four decades of political violence the world has been all too familiar with the tragic images that became synonymous with the name of belfast however almost a hundred years earlier belfast was to be linked with a very different tragedy the memory of which was to haunt the city for much of the 20th century in this film we will hear the voices of local people who witness the construction of the victorian era's greatest maritime accomplishment and the experts and enthusiasts who are determined to embrace the legacy of the rms titanic and give her back to the city that gave birth to her [Music] tell me that drunk i said of you did you not think times was hard enough without you spending what money would do you have one beer find your way tonight have great news logic tell me they're building two new ships in the yard the olympic and the titanic and they're local men to work on the titanic do you think our willy could get a job the snowballer the lads are saying there's loads of apprenticeships going i'll probably sammy has great news it was really busy i mean this was the probably the biggest output of tonnage in the united kingdom at that time there were two shipyards here at the time uh harland and wolf and a smaller shipyard called workman clark harland wolf would refer to as the big yard while working clark were referred to as the way yard but in those days i mean in 1912 for example there were 12 ships launched that year in harlem and wolf and really as soon as one ship was launched the slipway was cleared and the kale was laid for the next ship that was going to be constructed so this really was in belfast here the centre of shipbuilding for the united kingdom and for the world as well belfast was unlike any other irish city it was a major industrial center manufacturing engineering and of course shipbuilding and shipbuilding was the really the most important industry in belfast at that time it had expanded quite rapidly from the from the mid-19th century and by the time olympic and titanic were built uh harlan and wolf employed about about 15 000 people and the shipyard had become the largest in the world the conditions for the workforce were really hard at that particular time they were required to start for six in the morning working through to about half past five in the evening and in fact if they didn't get in for six o'clock the gates were shut and they were locked out for an hour and not allowed until seven o'clock and then had their wages docked by an hour for the loss of that hour but basically there were three ways of gaining employment in the shipyard in titanic's time one was as a premium apprentice and that's where your your family would pay the shipyard to train you up as a gentleman apprentice and you would really become a master of no trade you'd become a jack of all trades and after that you'd be given a position as a junior manager and work your way up through that the other way was then to come in and do the standard apprenticeship where you would come in and do five six or seven years of an indentured towards an apprenticeship and again your parents would have to pay a fee to ireland wolf for you to come into the shipyard and the last way and i always think a very cruel way of gaining employment was the casual labour scheme that was square in the morning you'd find several hundred labourers standing outside the yard the foreman would come out knowing that he needed maybe 50 or 60 men for the day and would pick those men that he needed and if you didn't get work at that particular time there was no state benefits so there was no money coming into the house there was no food on the table so it was quite a hard way to work at that particular time my father was a joiner who worked in harlem with all his lifetime he had a great pride as many others had in the building of this great ship and i used to see pictures in the newspapers and as we fella used to draw we pictures of the titanic with the four phones and the smoke coming out but i was all thrilled in one occasion he said to me johnny i'm going to take you down on sunday afternoon to see the titanic i couldn't wait until sunday arrived and we went down in a town car to the queens road there he took me through the gates of the great shipyard and justin looking to the right i saw this big to me it looked like a big hulk of steel it looked so tall it seemed to reach the sky and it looked so long it seemed to be no end to it i took great interest in everything that was happening around me particularly the great ship the titanic and this ship was being built by ulster people who had no coal and no iron but their elsa people were extremely able and the ship rose and they brought in the anchors and rays which were drawn by 20 horses and they i couldn't imagine how this ship was going to get into the water my dad started explaining to me he says you noticed line at a slope and it's been propped up with all those loose logs now and a few weeks time he said men called stagers will come along and they'll take all those logs away and the ship will slide down into the water because there's grease below it on may the 31st 1911 titanic rolled down at slipway to meet with the sea for the first time my father took me to the launch and it was a lovely day sunshine brilliant sunshine and the smell of the sea and the shipyard and the thousands of workers and people waiting for the great event and all the ships lying off waiting for the launch and suddenly a flare flamed into the sky and the chocks were knocked away and the hydraulic rams give the gentle push and 30 seconds later it was in the water and made a huge splash and the sound of the withholding chains dragged along it was terrific and then the chairs broke out the titanic's a very a very evocative name it's it's been with me all my life right in childhood i my father actually worked on a titanic he came out of his time when the titanic was launched and he became a full from being an apprentice he became a german metalworker my father told me again i'm going to take you down to see the titanic and this time it looked more like a boat to me because it was in the final preparation stages that were going away it had the four funnels the captain's bridge the moss the light boats and the gangways were all placed on it and the workers were going up and down carrying furniture on board and all sorts of electrical fittings and i thought it was wonderful just to see it all there it was and all this grandeur the ship building at the height of its at the height of its powers in belfast and those beautiful staterooms all those finishing trades and all the marvelous staircases inside the ship and everything something that the city would have been and should have been proud of they had to do in ireland with the sea trials for the vessels and titanic's was was scheduled for the first of april 1912. they arrived down early in the morning very early in the morning and got getting the ship ready to go for the sea trials when the weather was so bad that they waited and waited and waited and finally late afternoon or early evening they made the decision that they couldn't do the sea trials because the weather was so bad and it was abandoned for the day they then came back on the second of april and decided to do a shortened sea trials normally whenever harlem wolf did their sea trials they came out of belfast lock and headed north towards glasgow but for titanic they came out and sailed south towards the isle of man taking a lot a lot shorter route they left early in the morning returned back in around about six o'clock in the evening where the ship was turned around at around about eight o'clock at night titanic white anchor and started on our voyage over to southampton going out of belfast look i watched the trials up and down belfast law it was a huge ship and it was so big it made the lock it made it look quite tiny it was a remarkable thing but i was entranced by this and eventually i watched you go off on the second of april [Music] what's kept in here we're gonna be late you're gonna miss them this should be a pride there there's someone sailing on a titanic not everybody gets a chance to get it sammy i'm just worried about him is my wee son going that big ship he's 17. and anyway the census service ship's ever been built he'd be all right suppose you're right he's a lucky boy going in that ship i'll go and get my coat that was some occasion there were thousands and thousands of people and we saw the titanic coming up being towed by by the tugboats as they were called this is one of my favorite pictures of the titanic being towed up the belfast lock they were still doing the cosmetic details in it they were still painting it and cleaning it in fact i spoke to one gentleman some years ago whose father uh painted the ship and traveled on titanic over to southampton still painting away at the vessel and really i think the whole thing was if you saw anything that looked wet don't touch it in case the paint hadn't dried yet even when they arrived in southampton uh there was a change made on the ship on on both sides of the ship and the internal decorations of it and still right up until the last moment they were practically working on the ship my friend raul friars who passed away and i was with him at the time the last thing i collected from him and he had rolled it up and he'd written my name on it and it was a beautiful drawing he'd done for the titanic society and it's a marvelous view of the ship going up the log and you you drew in the lock sides at each side where you can see see it going out and in the foreground what raul loved about it was he said this is before the tragedy he said it was a cause for great celebration so all his characters in the foreground are cheered and roared and thinking bottles of stout and wave and that's typical overall this wasn't a tragedy this was a celebration the tragedy happened later it was something that the city was so proud of the shipyard men were so proud of when it got to about bangor all of a sudden you could have heard the swish of the propellers and the tub boots would release themselves on the titanic steamed away through southampton and of course we all waved at goodbye with our handkerchieves and the sang rude bretagna little did we think it was sadly and did goodbye on april the 15th 1912 four days into her maiden voyage from southampton to new york the titanic struck an iceberg the wound to her hull would prove too great to survive sings over a thousand lives lost belfast presents an iceberg latest news of survivors oh no i'm not willing i can remember well the the day the news came that the titanic was sunk and these we pivot boys were running up the streets with the newspapers under their arm and a weak poster in front of them with two significant words i'm sure you could guess them titanic chunk and my father came out to the door and he just broke down and cried like a child there were 36 people on board titanic from this part of ireland went to set sail and sadly 28 of those were to die in some ways it was very sad that it was nearly forgotten about in belfast i mean at one stage whenever the news came through in belfast grown men were seen standing crying in the streets but sadly quite quickly the news of titanic was put to one side and forgotten about and really wasn't talked about for many many years to come titanic really was the world in miniature we had rich and poor workers laborers managers officer class all on board and when the ship sank it was assumed the whole world had upended itself in belfast there was profound shock and grief at the loss of titanic not so much for the loss of the ship but for the belfast people who had gone down with her and in the shipyard they the sense of grief was for the loss of their former friends and colleagues who would not return another titanic could be built indeed was built as her sister ship britannic um but that the lives which had been so tragically lost could never be replaced on that night there were really so many heroes um but one that really stands out was thomas andrews the chief naval architect he was traveling on board the ship in charge of the harlem wolf guarantee group he was seen advising others to get warm clothing on and get as quickly as they could to the lifeboats and he was actually seen at one stage near the end making no attempt to save himself whatsoever he went down with the ship that he helped create the one thing about titanic was it happened over such a long period of time compared with other other disasters i mean the ship had the iceberg on on the evening and it wasn't a sort of 20 to 20 to 12 in the evening and it wasn't until 20 past two the next morning that the ship sank these people knew what was ahead of them when you think of things like the herald of free enterprise if you think of like the twin tars which happened within a couple of hours if you think of the challenger disaster as well which happened really in front of our eyes and on the television set they didn't have a chance to question what was happening or going on but here for about four hours nearly they would be able to question that the ship was sinking there was nobody near them to help them the nearest ship was 60 miles away that was coming to their assistance and they were very much on their own with a limited number of lifeboats it would have been a terrible position to have been in everybody called the titanic the the unsinkable ship and everybody that prayed was hurt the father especially when they heard that it sunk and not only because it was sunk with all the great grandeur on it or the beautiful workmanship but all the lives that were lost it was very very sad and that's when it became the shadow over the city and the shadow over the over the ship and all the men felt a sense of uh the fact that it was a ship that they built went down with all that loss of life wasn't their fault at all of course they couldn't believe it they just never got over it and they they and i i think they felt the sort of that somehow there would be a collective blame that nobody would be able to ever get to the bottom of it was a ship that they built titanic was not the only ship in harlinger at that time the yard was on expansionist boom and there were seven or eight other ships being built simultaneously with titanic they're actually known by their numbers olympic titanic sistership was 400 and titanic was number 401 when that olympic was was actually brought back to belfast and fitted with sufficient lifeboats her double bottom was raised in fact they tried to make her actually unthinkable when the inquiries were over in 1912 especially the british inquiry harlan's were quite content that they had done nothing wrong that the ship was a perfectly good ship and they were more or less exonerated by the inquiry so but they were reluctant right up until maybe 1970s to open up this debate again because there would be a lot of in and for all informed uh opinion which is almost impossible to answer because these questions just still keep coming and no matter how logical harlan's response would have been that would not have satisfied the people i think that it has more been some kind of shadow has been connected to us for some time that we didn't like to talk about it however what that is important to know is of course that the rules to which the ship was built is still the rules that are covering the world today nothing have changed in connection with how the ship was built the only thing that has changed that is a number of lifeboats so there's now a seat for every passenger that is of course a little bit strange to look back in time and see that was not the case at that time but otherwise the way the ship is designed today is exactly the same way as titanic was built at that time really i think it was just the shame of such a perhaps a large loss of life at that particular time and that happened but really belfast had nothing to be ashamed about here we had built not just titanic i mean she was one of thousands of ships built here in belfast but built up the best best steel the best rivets by the best workmen in the yard leaving belfast the biggest and best ship in the world really we had nothing to be ashamed about in belfast what happened was a disaster really titanic the ship wasn't since that fateful night in 1912 titanic has become a fascination for many whose lives have been touched by her legacy not least belfast naval architect david livingston who dived two miles below sea level to see the wreck up close the first thing i saw my cousin we arrived at the bar and the bar was looming up out of the mud and out of the darkness and you had to be pretty close before you could actually see it it looked absolutely immense because you were right down the seabed and that was looming over you when you moved along the the foxhole deck saw the windlass the anchor arrangement the chains which are still there the little doubts for the chains and then you'll move down the hull you could see the plating you could see the rivets see the number of rivets that were the number of rows of rivets and how how they were put together was really quite an impressive sight we sat on the bridge for a little while uh we're putting down some experiments to try and um see what the what the rusticles were doing because they're living organisms it was really just at the front of the bridge just in front of where the wheel would be the foundations of the bridge were still there about which is about the only only bit of wood that you would see on the ship and you had got a wonder that about what the last people who are walking on that bridge what they were thinking about as they more or less knew that the ship was doomed and this beautiful ship on this maiden voyage was going no further however the whereabouts of titanic's wreckage had remained a mystery since she met with the seabed in nineteen twelve until in 1985 a former u.s naval officer made a sensational discovery when we found the titanic we were naturally excited elated because it had been a hard-fought battle to track her down she'd she put up quite a resistance to all the previous expeditions so we were celebrating but then someone in in the control room looked at the clock and said she sinks in 20 minutes because it was two in the morning and she sank at 220. and that innocent comment was we were embarrassed that we were celebrating anything and it was like someone took our mood and turned on a wall switch and we went from being the professional that was excited about their accomplishment to the human who realized that we were at that spot we had we were where it all happened and and it spoke to us it was like the ground speaking to us and so we went into a very somber mode and someone had brought a harlem wolf flag and we went out on the stern of the ship and raised the flag it was two in the morning and had a quiet moment and the mood never changed from then on out it was just serious documentation very somber model maker ronnie hope devoted his free time to creating lifelike models of titanic from the actual ship's plans she was the ship the number one ship in the world at that time and then to to have gone down on her maiden voyage before she'd even completed her first flight it was tragic really tragic and not to my mind when i'm building this thing and it's never far away from my mind it's a great pity indeed to the harlem wolf workers themselves who took such pride in making it and then to have the thing go down within a few days must have been a terrific shock to them and i can't understand i can't imagine really how they would feel about it i mean not haven't worked on the thing myself but i haven't worked on this model i cannot i can feel for them you know they they must have must have been a terrible shock you can imagine them the people running down the the decks and the promenade in the boat to try and get to the ship and see that the water gradually coming up forward it has an emotional occasion when you're working at it [Music] no i can't do it before long before kate and leo cavorted on the titanic's prow belfast filmmaker the late bill mcquitty made what many consider to be the definitive movie about the doomed liner walter law's book took 20 years to write and he interviewed the survivors and he knitted everybody in the ship together so that he knew what any particular person was doing by knowing what they were talking to somebody else they were cross-referenced through the thing when i got the book and i went to john davis for the money to make the film he said bill it's just another shipwreck and besides being done before you know there's been lots of shipwreck films and i said john this is not just another shipwreck it's the end of an era and he said none of your irish planet what do you mean and i said well in the memorial to the titanic and city hall and the war memorial the war memorial was 1914 and the titanic model was in 1912 and on the titanic memorial the names of the dead are in order of importance and on the war memorial they're an alphabetical order and that was a change it was an end of an era no one ever thought the same again it wrecked victorian arrogance my film had 200 speaking parts it had just as much attention to the third class passengers and the second-class passengers of the first class it involved them all in it because they felt everyone in the theater had a connection through one or other of the people on the ship that was similar i had alexander waginski who was the best set man in in the world and i said we need to build a third of the ship the center third which will have two funnels and four lifeboats and will be the right size and he had the blueprints and so for him it was straightforward but everything was absolutely correct and when edith russell came to see me she was a terrific lady and full of energy and very much involved with the titanic i said edith i'd love to have you advising us you can be at my side and tell me if you think we're going wrong and i took her onto the ship eventually and she walked around the deck and she stood where she was when it went down and she said to me bill you've done a wonderful job this is exactly your got the ship absolutely right but you still need me because i know what happened in the lifeboats and at the time they had to lure the lifeboats into the water and i had this in the shore several line on there turned around in the docks of london and they'd agreed and i had big lighters with huge lights on and i'd i had hundreds of extras already for the lowering sequence and this was to start on friday on the weekend had to do friday saturday sunday and then they wanted the ship back again but suddenly the port captain rang me up and very upset and said that the chairman of the source our mind refused to allow me to do this they felt it was bad for business and i i had to think very quickly i went to the piano they refused point blank and then i took a plane i went up to the clyde and i found the ship breakers uh wh ward and they were breaking up their series which was churchill's flagship it was white i got the glasgow art college to paint the ship black i had the proper davits and the proper knife boots i said to the chairman i said i only want to shoot this at night you can go on breaking up your side that they were working on and you leave my side to me at night for 10 days how much to recharge and he said a hundred pounds he's delighted to do it and i said well can you give me a contract for that because i think there may be eruptions so he gave me that and sure enough i got a telegraph and the next more day they don't have anything to do with mcquitty we spoke on the telephone and i sent me a lovely christmas card which said that the ripple from my ship my titanic had gone round the world and this was one of the repercussions that had come up he used my film and it was to get the thing accurate but he would never let that interfere with the love story his film had about eight speaking parts and it was about two young lovers and in order to make the thing more dramatic he sank the ship vertically instead of horizontally because there's no excitement in water creeping up like a thermometer slowly slowly and of course when you're dealing with the love story it's a different mata and in the um iceberg thing that the loving couple are not only in the bars but they're standing on the rails and they're going 23 knots through subzero thing and their hair their hair is blowing in the wind and they've been frozen and the lookouts instead of watching for life perhaps you're watching them canoodling you see and suddenly and they look up there's the act better than the feliz ash and rings the bell but this is good for love stories not all titanic love stories are fictional there was a titanic convention held in belfast and in was lord mayor at the time and i met him through the convention which ended in city hall with a banquet and a number of strange events led to me being left completely alone that evening so i ended up dancing the rest of the evening away within so in a strange way the titanic brought us together i saw this beautiful young woman who was like a vision and to have her associated in any way with the titanic was wonderful to me i was brought up in the little village of conleague just outside newt norris and near cumber and it was there that lord purry spent his boyhood and he was a great hero to me in my youth he was the man who really thought of the titanic and built the titanic so that the titanic was something to me that was very very special and when i saw this wonderful girl in this room which was almost like the great rooms in the titanic it was just like a vision to me my relatives had actually worked on the titanic and had come up from conley to work there and some stayed in belfast so i had a link with the titanic that way but there were other sort of relationships with the titanic over the years which i thought were very interesting andrews who was the child who designed the titanic was the nephew of prairie and his mother came from conley as well so therefore you it was seemed to me full of con like characters the titanic my grandmother went up to see the titanic on the on the maiden voyage but as many people did in those days so that all in all the titanic to me as it still was was the most important thing to ever come out of ireland and certainly the the most well-known thing uh to be associated with belfast and so i've loved the whole story of it over the years we decided for honeymoon that we would take the titanic route so to speak and we traveled to southampton to catch the qe2 and travelled to new york passed over the spot where the titanic went down didn't we we did we had it completely authenticated that we were over the side of the titanic and it was funny it was announced over the ship's radio internally that we were passing in all the different languages german and japanese and french which was very interesting and people started to talk and chat around about the titanic so it really is a very well-known theme carrie was actually in a book of harland and wolff you know where whole lineage since kerry is is actually collaterally descended from all the main characters here she's the sum total that is left really of of of thomas andrews who who who designed a titanic and of the prairies who built them and of many of the other great commercial people of the day so that you know really the the past the present and perhaps the future will bind up nicely together and carry yourself certainly for me [Music] today belfast is a very different city a vibrant and busy cultural center enjoying the economic benefits of a decade of peace as our people work to put the political differences behind them they are now also ready to embrace the legacy of titanic [Music] i love this yeah [Music] newfoundland and the atlantic ocean so did it get to new york no no we can get to new york 2012 we'll see the centenary of the great ship's completion and belfast is now a city that wants to celebrate her we're unique in some ways in belfast that we can look and celebrate titanic the rest of the world commemorate titanic but we can certainly celebrate the ship i think it's fine to be celebrating the building achievement of titanic has become in a way a symbol of regeneration but of course for the world it's the it's the great symbol of disaster so they're different sides to titanic but i think in belfast i think what we all almost we must have is the the perspective of commemoration of the loss of titanic not just the loss of the the great machine but what we must commemorate at the loss and remember the loss of of all those people on board who died in the most appalling circumstances imaginable my great-grandfather was a cabinet maker and we have a titanic chessboard which he had made off cuts of titanic wood so it's always been in my family lord titanic was there the chess board was there and then in 1985 when ballard discovered the wreck of the titanic the rest of the world got terribly excited but there was nothing happening here so myself and a few others thought right why should we not have a titanic society here because they're all over the world but not here and the place where she was longer than anywhere else apart from where she now lies i mean given the titanic was only in the world scene from the second of april 1912 when she left here until she sank in the fifth 13 days and yet is probably the most famous ship in the world apart from the arc perhaps but how many people know she was built in belfast she's got liverpool across the back of her and she left from southampton so what i felt most strongly is that we have to place belfast in our correct position in the titanic story and forming a society was a step in the right direction we've had the table about 10 years it was in a store in ireland wolves they offered it to us if we wanted to put it on show and as we have the public and so on through here on occasions we thought it'd be something very nice for them to come and look at it was built actually for the titanic in 1912 it was built by harlemwood's own tradesmen and it sometimes happens in this part of the world it wasn't quite ready on time for the uh for the vessel sailing um so the story has it that it was actually sent to southampton to await the return of the ship but we all know what happened on this maiden voyage and apparently then the table was eventually sent back to harlem wolves and it remained in harlem until it was displayed here i think historically there's always been a sort of a thwarted pride in in titanic uh the great lost ship but attitudes have changed over the years but today belfast has appropriated titanic much more as the international brand fusing profit and pleasure and memorialization yes we are standing here talking about titanic because she sunk but yet let's use her as a hook to attract visitors to this other pride maritime history that we have that we haven't told the world about before even to come into this room now you know you get the impact of this room it's a beautiful building it is going to be restored to its former glory and it's the whole heart of the story this is where the dreams that were in izmi's head were put down on paper and just out that window is where those plans of paper became a ship of steel [Music] the dockland spaces where titanic took shape for years left for wasteland and our hive of energetic construction as belfast prepares to remember [Music] the area even has a new name the titanic quarter eric cooney is the architect commissioned to design the quarter's showpiece titanic signature project titanic belfast celebrates over 250 years of astonishing shipbuilding history that only belfast owns around the entire world but the iconic nature of the building itself is inspired by water crystals icebergs the white star of the white star lines but most importantly for us it's inspired by the great hulls of the ships that were actually built on this shipyard oh yeah of course perfect all right well then you've already got the detail excellent all right well we're good to go once we tapped into the magnificent architecture of the scaffolding and the arrow gantry and the building of the ships themselves you don't have to look anywhere else for such majesty and the idea of the ship's halls representing the four eras of shipbuilding in belfast timber iron steel and aluminium all of it fell into place and the clear crystal that nestles between each of those hulls is inspired by the derricks and the scaffolding and the hoarding that was built to build these great ships and out of that crystal aligned with the center of the very shipyard and gangways where the titanic and the olympic were built together you can stand and see where all of this happened when belfast owned the center of invention and innovation in ship building back in the early part of the 20th century the location of the titanic belfast building itself is at the end of the double slipways where the titanic and the olympic were built side by side it actually sits on the ground to the old plating works from view out of the very drawing office where all the drawings were being created that actually allowed the ship to be built so that intersection of the drawing office the location of the plating works and standing at the head of the bow of the ships on the old slipways is a perfect location to tell the story of the richness of all that this part of belfast has had to offer this is just absolutely spectacular it's a it's perfect titanic is going to shout to the world about the genius of engineering innovation that belfast owned the strength of this building as the largest titanic exhibition in the world will teach the world about all of the artisans all of the shipbuilding magnets all of the great leaders of shipping around the world that was concentrated in belfast this is going to restore belfast as the centerpiece of one of the finest areas of shipbuilding all over the planet it really is the biggest thing in the in the whole titanic world at the moment so it can't put help place belfast right at the forefront of the whole interpretation of the ship my personal feeling is that i would prefer this as a shipyard with a lot of sparks a lot of hammering a lot of industry going on a lot of people working at jeopardy people will be able to come and see smell feel and touch shipbuilding where the ship was constructed herself and i think we should be very proud of ourselves in belfast to bring this and have this here so people will come and see the true titanic city finally we have something that is saying to the world we built titanic okay it was a disaster and we must never forget that over 1500 people died in it but it was a tragic accident you cannot blame anything it was a coming together of circumstances but it's about time belfast picked up its place in the titanic story and that this city becomes known as a titanic city [Music] as belfast mends its broken heart and builds an optimistic future so too do we mend the name of rms titanic one of the greatest feats of engineering of the 20th century and despite her tragic end a ship that we can rightly be proud of a ship whose brief life has taught us many lessons her legacy is finally coming home to the place where she was born [Music] i see a broken leg

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