In
South Australia’s wine district of the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide, is a
3D model of the fated passenger liner, the Titanic. The exhibition is in the Barossa Weintal Hotel Motel.
RMS Titanic, the British ship that
sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg
as she sailed from Southhampton in the United Kingdom to New York City. Over
1,500 of the 2,224 passengers and crew drowned.
The
mini-exhibition includes newspaper articles of the day, as well as a silver
serving bowl and coffee pourer from the passenger liner, Olympic (1911-1934). RMS Olympic was in the same White Star
Line liner fleet as the Titanic and the Britannic. She was the largest ocean
liner in the world from 1911-1913, until the Titanic briefly usurped the title.
Britannic also sank, striking a mine in the Kea Channel on November 21, 1916,
killing 30 people. The Olympic had a long career, with 257 round trips across
the Atlantic, until her retirement on April 5, 1935. Her fittings were
auctioned before she was scrapped and demolished.
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