Town set to embark on Titanic project

“As one saw her steaming slowly, a majestic monster floating it seemed irresistibly into the harbour, a strange sense of might and power pervaded the scene. She embodies the latest triumphs in mercantile engineering...”

The purple prose of a Cork Examiner reporter describing the arrival of the Titanic into Queenstown, as Cobh was then known, a century ago.

Shortly before noon on April 11, 1912, the Titanic arrived at Queenstown where seven people disembarked and 123 boarded the magnificent vessel to journey to the new world. Within two hours she was again on her way with Queenstown being the ship’s final port of call. When Titanic lifted its anchor off Roche’s Point at the mouth of Cork harbour, few would have contemplated that three-and-a-half days later a tragedy of epic proportions would unfold.