Titanic Exhibition

On Thursday Karla, LeeAnn and I got a bus to Saggart in Dublin to the City West Hotel so that we could tour the Titanic Artefact Exhibition. It was really amazing and really moving. Unfortunately I was unable to take photos in the exhibition. It was incredible what they have pulled up from the ocean floor. A neat part of the tour is that each person gets an authentic boarding pass boarding pass replica. Each pass has the name of an actual passenger, who they were traveling with, what class they were in, where they were from, where they were going, and other information about the passenger. Once you get to the end of the tour you can check to see if your person survived or not.

My passenger was Mrs John Morgan Davies (or Elizabeth Agnes Mary White) who was 48 years old, sailing from Southampton on 10/April/1912 with her two sons Joseph Nicholls and John Davies Jr. (10 yrs) and 2 female friends. She came from St. Ives Cornwall England traveling to Hancock Michigan. She was in 2nd Class. Her reason for traveling was after being widowed twice, Agnes decided to take her younger children to Northern Michigan and live with her eldest son, who had established himself there. In order to raise the money for the tickets on the Titanic, Agnes sold all of her belongings. At the end of the tour I searched the wall of 2nd Class passengers. Agnes and her youngest son John both survived, along with her two friends traveling with her. Her son Joseph did not survive.

Karla was a 1st Class passenger and she and all of her companions survived (199 1st class survived, then something like 120 or so 2nd class passengers survived and just over 100 3rd class passengers survived. 200 out of 900 crew also survived.)

LeeAnn's was a 3rd class passenger. She and her daughter did not make it. It was very sad and very moving.

I saw all sorts of artefacts, including jewelry, like the elephant broach, and cookware and clothes and beds and money. There was a set up of money that was common in the US like the horse blanket bills, which were larger notes than we have today and were discontinued in 1934.

There were videos of the artefacts being taken by large machines off the ocean floor. We saw quotes and personal stories or people who made and it people who did not.

The way the museum was set up was really cool cuz as you walk around in dark spaces, only lit by low lights, you could hear the rumbling of the engines. You felt like you were really on the ship.

There were 2 deluxe quarters out of the 1st class quarters, and they cost over 61,ooo pounds in todays currency. Even the 3rd class tickets were expensive, costing over 500 pounds, and that got the passenger in a small room with 4 beds, where strangers got put together.

You will notice the black and white actual photo of me, Karla and LeeAnn with the actual captain... (tho there's a chance we may have been photoshopped into the picture with him...)