Twenty-fifth Index Card

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• The Titanic was built at the Harland & Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
• It took more than three years from the time her first keel plate was laid in March of 1909 until she was turned over to the White Star Line in April of 1912.
• At the time of her maiden voyage, the Titanic was the largest man-made object afloat, and the most luxurious.
• The keel of the Titanic was laid at the specially built gantry at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, in 1909, several months after the keel of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic was laid.
• During her construction,the Titanic towers over the shipyard in Belfast.
• The building of such a huge ship attracted visitors during her construction.
• It took 20 draft horses to draw one of the Titanic's anchors through the streets of Belfast to the construction site.
• Each link on the anchorchain weighed 175 pounds!