TITANIC Museum- Evidence of the Aluminium Shipbuilding Revolution
The Titanic Museum is symbolic of the way aluminium is taking over older industries, including shipbuilding.
The Titanic Museum design is totally reliant on the versatility, strength and durability of modern aluminium.
TITANIC MUSEUM, BELFAST, NI
The Titanic Museum stands at 126 feet (38 m) high, the same height as Titanic’s hull. It has a very distinctive profile; four hulls surround the five storey central atrium. These four hulls are clad in 3000 silver anodised aluminium panels housing nine galleries. Located on the site of the shipyard where the ill-fated ship was built, the building was designed to reflect the history of the site as well as being inspired by water crystals, ice, and the White Star Line’s logo. The museum opened in 2012, 100 years after the ship sank and is the centrepiece of the recently regenerated area of Belfast known as The Titanic Quarter.
International Naval and Nuclear Engineering Consultant
3 年Your headline suggesting synergy between ‘aluminium shipbuilding’ and the Titanic Museum in Belfast is INCREDIBLE and strongly suggests, you have been in Belfast for a chat with Team Resolute and Infrastrata, who acquired the H&W business from the liquidators 2 years ago for circa ￡6m and Appledore for circa ￡7m a few months ago. Not bad for a company with a mere capital value of ￡21 million and by coincidence ?? in the middle of the fleet soldid support (FFS) competition. The only symbolic thing about the Titanic Museum is “how not to build ships” so I don’t understand your “aluminium shipbuilding connection” unless you are making reference to the SEACAT Ferries that suffered from serious dealumification and required constant weld repairs by Cammell Laird. As Chief Operating Officer at Cammell Laird for a couple of years until last month, I hope you weren’t giving Team Resolute any secrets about CL and of course I now understand why you spent to much time on the Fincantieri stand at DSEI in London a few weeks ago. Perhaps it was you who suggested H&W should position their stand next to Navantia. Is this British shipbuilding at its best, for it makes me sick thinking about it and your suggestion FFS should built in Aluminium.