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Titanic: Titanic Memorial
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The Women’s Titanic Memorial in Washington, DC, like the iconic Titanic Engineer’s Memorial in Southampton, is a powerful yet poignant symbol of the disaster. Sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney executed the Titanic Memorial and called it a gift from “the women of America.” Inscribed on the back of the pedestal: “To the young and the old, the rich and the poor, the ignorant and the learned, all who gave their lives nobly to save women and children.”
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The official commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy will go ahead as planned, Belfast City Council has said. A service is held at the Titanic memorial at the City Hall every April to remember the 34 NI victims. The council is due to consider an application to extend the popular Big Wheel's stay in Belfast. However, it said that this would not affect the annual commemoration marking the 1912 sinking of the Titanic.
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Ballard's book, Return to Titanic, published by the National Geographic Society, includes photographs showing the deterioration of the promenade deck and damage caused by submersibles landing on the ship. The mast has almost completely deteriorated, and repeated accusations were made that it had been stripped of its bell and brass light by salvagers. Ballard's own original discovery images ... clearly show that the bell was never actually on the mast - it was recovered from the sea floor. The French submersible Nautile allegedly is responsible for crashing into the crow's nest and causing it to fall from the mast. Even the memorial plaque left by Ballard on his second trip to the wreck was alleged to have been removed; Ballard replaced the plaque in 2004. Recent expeditions, notably by James Cameron, have been diving on the wreck to learn more about the site and explore previously unexplored parts of the ship before Titanic decays completely.
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