On board Titanic's Little Sister

On Sunday, which is the only day that dh can spend the day(well,most of it!)with us I decided it would be fun to do something exciting.
So,I had read about a boat trip you can go on in Belfast around the Titanic quarter,where Titanic was built.We set off for the 3:30pm sailing but it was not to be.Firstly we ran into lots of roadworks which made us late,then we couldn't find the dock where the boat trip left from,then we found it and no-one was there(wrong side!),then we couldn't find a car park nearby,and when we finally did we just spotted the ship pulling out! TOO LATE.
Just as tempers were getting frayed and all seemed lost dh spotted another bigger ship,- S.S.NOMADIC docked at the harbour.So we went for a look.It is actually the sister ship of the Titanic,built at the same time, by the same men and launched on the same day.She was designed to carry the wealthy upper classes out to the waiting liners(of which one was Titanic).During the great war & WWII she served as a troopship,then from 1968-1999 when she had retired she became an exclusive restaurant on the Seine in paris.
They had an exhibition on board of Titanic artefacts and some things used in the film,so we had a look.(slideshow above)It was very interesting,as this is the last surviving 'White Star Line'ship in the world.The dept for social development here plan to fully restore the ship to her former glory by 2012,the money raised from people visiting the onboard museum will go towards doing this.
So there was a silver lining to this cloudy sunday after all!