If you could board the Titanic...would you?
By palonghorn
@palonghorn (5479)
United States
March 28, 2012 8:47pm CST
I did, and it was awesome. The Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee! You are given a boarding pass, of one of the actual passengers on-board the Titanic's maiden, and only voyage! You travel through time, learning of the people that built her, the people that worked aboard the great ship, or one of the passenger's from 1st class to 3rd. You can actually experience the 28 degree water that those people were plunged into, I stuck my hand in and only lasted 5 seconds before I could feel the effects of it! At the end, you enter the memorial room, and there are the lists of those that survived and those that perished that night. And until April 1st, you are asked to pick a rose petal from a huge glass bowl, and place into a special container, that will be taken to the location of the sinking on April 10th, and the rose petals will be dropped overboard at the location! Actually being involved in the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
And for those that are wondering, 'my name' was Annie Canton, 50 years old, and 'I' worked in the lavish Turkish bathes on board.
And, yes, I was one of the ones picked up by the ship Carpathia, I lived until 1949!
If you are traveling to Pigeon Forge, Tenn. and/or Branson, Mo. it is well worth the money to go through the museum.
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
29 Mar 12
That sounds to be an interesting interactive extra dimension to the "Titanic" Story,as we approach the Centennial of Her sinking..So Everyone on the tour gets to put themselves in the place of Someone who was on the Ship that night,someone whose fate you only discover as the tour progresses?
I worked and lived in Belfast for a time,where the Ship was built..There has been a Memorial development built near the Shipyards of Harland and Wolff where She came from called "The Titanic Quarter",part of which is a Building having elements representing Titanic's Bow..One of the last surviving "White Star" line Ships,built to ferry passengers out to the Liner,was being renovated for the Centenary event here..
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
30 Mar 12
The "Nomadic" was the White Star ship I mentioned (Now the last surviving White Star Vessel),which was purpose built to work with the Titanic and Her sister Ships..Nomadic brought the First and Second Class Passengers out from Cherbourg to Board Titanic on Her fateful trip..
Here's a Link to the Nomadic renovation project.
http://www.nomadicpreservationsociety.co.uk/index.asp
I took a look at the "Titanic Quarter" Development website too..there's a cool little CG movie of a birds eye "flight" around the site,circling in onto that central themed building..
http://www.titanic-quarter.com/index.php
Thanks for the best response !
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
30 Mar 12
thanks for sharing the links, I am soooo interested in the Titanic now, after going through that museum lol
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 12
It is really awesome, and you only learn the fate of that person at the end of the museum, in the Memorial room. It peaked my interest so that I have done additional research on the person whose boarding pass I hold. I have seen the pictures from the shipyard, would love to go there too.
@Faith1118 (112)
• Philippines
29 Mar 12
Yes, if given the chance to board the Titanic and experience everything they were able to experience back then definitely YES. I love that ship a luxurious and the biggest ship ever made in the world. I would like to see how the ship is really made of, I know it was portrayed in the movie but still I would really like to know as to the lifestyle and how people back then conduct themselves. I love the idea of the old England.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 12
The tour through the museum is at the pace you chose, and it begins with the building of the Titanic, from the first 'idea' to how she was built and launched. The main idea of the museum is the people of the Titanic, the builders, who worked around the clock to get her built to the passengers and employees of the ship. It gives a new perspective to the Titanic, not just the artifacts that have been recovered. There is also a room dedicated to the movie, manuscripts, costumes, the director's chair, etc.
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
29 Mar 12
I was lucky enough to know one of the passengers who was on the Titanic. When I knew him he was an old man working in a photography shop. It was fascinating to hear him tell his story. He was a young boy traveling with his parents His mother survived but he lost his father.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 12
How lucky you were to have known him and hear his stories. There were so many families that were broken up that night. I think one of the most interesting is that of the Straus' she would not leave without her husband and put her maid on the life boat in her place.
@musicman6 (2407)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Yes, I would board it also, it sounds like it is very interesting and exciting p.a.L., I've always had an interest in the past! Sometimes I feel that I can transport myself to another time, and feel a connection to the past!
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@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
29 Mar 12
Hi palonghorn: Thanks for sharing with us your experience. It looks like a nice trip not only for entertainment reasons but I think we could learn a lot about the Titanic disaster coming to that museum. I would love to go there and see all these history details and experience how it must be to travel on the Titanic ship. Thanks for sharing. Happy Mylotting.
ALVARO
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 12
It was awesome, their focus is more on the people that were on the Titanic rather than the artifacts that were recovered.
@Marvz18 (106)
• Philippines
29 Mar 12
Cool... I have watched the movie and was dragged by it. It appears to be an unforgettable experience. I would love to go on through time to experience what really happen that time. Although even thinking what happen scares me it still I think worth the experience. Nice... :D
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@ElicBxn (63638)
• United States
29 Mar 12
That is so cool!
I was wanting to go to Knoxville this April, but a number of things have kept it from happening. 
It would be my uncle's 90th birthday and I wanted to go, but since I didn't work for 3 months, the roomie had to take most of 3 weeks off to help get house ready for the new roommate and my client isn't able to not have more help than a "temp" aide can give her, it just isn't going to happen.
It would be my uncle's 90th birthday and I wanted to go, but since I didn't work for 3 months, the roomie had to take most of 3 weeks off to help get house ready for the new roommate and my client isn't able to not have more help than a "temp" aide can give her, it just isn't going to happen.@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Hopefully, you can work things out to go sometime, it is awesome, I love that area of Tenn.
