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Titanic Hull Divot
Titanic Hull Divot
Titanic Hull Divot
Titanic Hull Divot
  • Titanic Hull Divot, 1912
  • Inv: 401R.2019.003
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The loss of the Titanic was felt throughout the world, but perhaps most acutely in the city of Belfast, Ireland. The men of the Harland & Wolff Shipyard had spent months pouring their blood and sweat into her construction and to have her ripped away so quickly was, to some, akin to losing a child.

Over the coming days shipyard workers wandered out to the gantry where hull #401 was constructed, and where pieces of scrap still sat. Motivated by a desire to memorialize their loss, some workers used this scrap to create pieces of folk art.

This divot - created during the hydraulic punching of a rivet hole - is one of those pieces. Punched from one of Titanic's hull plates, it was decorated by a shipyard worker with the ship's name, the date of her loss, a star motif, and a series of Irish shamrocks encircling the sides.

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