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On Sunday, April 15, 2012, it will be 100 years since the tragic sinking of RMS Titanic. To commemorate the significant century anniversary since the sinking of RMS Titanic, six hundred miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will broadcast the Titanic's original wireless transmissions in real time on Twitter.
Ten years prior to Titanic's sinking, the first wireless transmission to cross the Atlantic from North America was sent from the Marconi station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Much like the short messages we send today via text, instant messaging or Twitter, wireless transmissions bridged distances between people and made it possible to share information across the world.
As the largest and grandest ocean liner of her time, the Titanic was equipped with the latest in modern wireless technology at the time, technology that proved invaluable in saving many passengers lives. Experience the magnitude of the Titanic disaster through the same wireless messages operators received in 1912.
This year, starting at 11:55 pm Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) on April 14, follow the hash tag #TitanicMMA and experience the magnitude of Titanic through the same wireless messages operators received in 1912.
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The hash tag for the 2012 real time account on Twitter is #TitanicMMA and communications will be tweeted from 11.55pm Newfoundland Standard Time on April 14 (12.55pm April 15 Sydney time) to mimic the time of communications one hundred years ago from the time of iceberg collision to tragic sinking.
Prior to the start of the real time account eight iceberg warnings that preceded the sinking in 1912 will also be posted on Twitter. Experience the RMS Titanic wireless messages in real time
Important notes for 2012
- The hash tag for the 2012 real time account on Twitter is #TitanicMMA.
- The real time account of the disaster will begin at 11:55 pm NST.
- Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) will be used because of the ship’s geographic location at the time of the sinking
- Prior to the start of the real time account, eight iceberg warnings that preceded the sinking in 1912 will be posted on Twitter.
Canada's Oldest and Largest Maritime Museum
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| Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is the oldest and largest Maritime Museum in Canada. The original concept of the Museum can be credited to a group of Royal Canadian Navy officers who envisioned a maritime museum where relics of Canada’s naval past could be conserved.
Starting with a small space at the Halifax Dockyard in 1948, the museum moved then moved to quarters in the Halifax Citadel in 1952, and became the Maritime Museum of Canada in 1957.
Floods and fires in the early 1960s caused temporary relocations to a variety of sites until 1965, when a home was found in a former bakery building at the Navy’s Victualling Depot. The Museum became the Marine History section of the Nova Scotia Museum in 1967.
The exhibits remained on Citadel Hill while the offices, library and some of the collection moved to the new Nova Scotia Museum building on Summer Street in Halifax in 1970. Through the 1970s, a long search for a permanent home ensued.
Finally, in 1982, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic was established on the site of the Robertson & Son Ship Chandlery and A.M. Smith and Co. Properties on the Halifax Waterfront. It opened on January 22 of that year. Since then, more than 4 million people have visited the Museum.
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The Museum is a valuable historical, cultural and educational institution. It is the largest site in Nova Scotia that collects and interprets various elements of Nova Scotia’s marine history. Visitors are introduced to the age of steamships, local small craft, the Royal Canadian and Merchant Navies, World War II convoys and The Battle of the Atlantic, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and Nova Scotia’s role in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster.
For more information visit the Maritime museum of the Atlantic's website http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mmanew/en/home/whattoseedo/Titanic/titanictwitter.aspx
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