Titanic Walking Tours of Liverpool
In this the centenary year of the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic, why not take a guided walk around her spiritual and official hometown: Liverpool, if you are a group visiting the city? Although built in Belfast and sailing from Southampton, she was very much a Liverpool ship in every other way.
If you’d witnessed the Titanic sinking, just before she went
under to her watery grave, you would have seen the name “Titanic” on her stern
and underneath the proud word “Liverpool.”
Her owners, the White Star Line had their headquarters in Liverpool and
she was registered as a ship in the Port of Liverpool Building, today part of
the UNESCO World Heritage Site along the waterfront. Moreover, in 1912 one in
seven of the world’s ships were registered in Liverpool and, despite the line’s
express services now leaving from Southampton, it was considered very prestigious to be
registered in Liverpool.
For convenience, many of the basic staff may have been
recruited from Southampton but the planning for her maiden voyage and the
appointment of her main officers was directed by White Star’s Marine Superintendent
in Liverpool. The Captain, Edward Smith and his Chief Officer, First Officer
and Second Officer lived or had lived in Liverpool as did the Chief Engineer
and most of his senior engineers as well as the Chief Electrician, Chief
Steward and Purser. The famous orchestra who went down with the ship were
recruited by Liverpool music agents. Even the china used on board and the huge
ovens were manufactured in the city.
On our Liverpool city centre walk we will see sites associated with
the above such as the Headquarters of the White Star Line, the Memorial to the Titanic Engineroom workers who sacrificed their lives to keep the ship's light burning and many more sites associated with the Titanic.
White Star Line HQ Balcony from which news of sinking was announced Memorial to Engineroom Workers
Or why not take the extended 3 hour tour which additionally includes the
memorial to the orchestra who went down with the ship and visit the Anglican Cathedral (both subject to
opening hours) to see the memorial window to Captain Smith and the Ismay window
amongst other reminders of the tragedy.
We also offer a guided walk of the Crosby and Waterloo area
to view the houses of White Star Managing Director J Bruce Ismay’s and Captain
Smith’s as well as other crew members’ residences.