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Jeg fik lidt fri fra
fotograferingen, for det var helt forbudt indenfor, hvor vi skulle
hen i dag, og så må jeg jo ævle i stedet for.
Titanic-museet i Branson er
verdens største, og det er en virkelig interessant oplevelse.
Selve museet er bygget som en model af Titanic, og ved indgangen
får man udleveret en pladsbillet med navnet på en
virkelig passager fra Titanic.
Og det var lige det, der skulle
til, for at April blev helt bidt af det hele....
April var Lucy Noël Martha
Dyer-Edwards, komtesse af Rothes, født den 25. december, 1878
i Kensington, London, og 33 år gammel, da Titanic forliste.
Indenfor i museet var
udstillingen bygget, som om man gik rundt på skibet. Der var
meget information om de individuelle passagerer, så man kunne
gå rundt og holde udkig efter sin person. Man kom gennem
kabinerne, op ad den store trappe, op på broen, ud på
promenadedækket, og så videre. I det sidste rum kunne man
se listerne over de døde og de overlevende, og April var meget
lettet over at finde ud af, at hun klarede den. Komtessen blev sat i
en redningsbåd, og senere sagde en af matroserne om hende, at
"hun havde en masse at skulle have sagt, så jeg satte
hende til at styre båden". |
I got a day off from
photography, since it was banned inside where we went today, but I'll
be happy to rant for you instead.
The Titanic Museum in Branson is
the world's largest, and it is truly an interesting experience. The
museum itself was built to resemble the Titanic, and at the entrance
you are given a boarding pass with the name of an actual Titanic passenger.
Which was all it took for The
Spud to get really, really into it....
April was Lucy Noël Martha
Dyer-Edwards, Countess of Rothes, born December 25, 1878 in
Kensington, London, and 33 years old, when the Titanic shipwrecked.
Inside the museum the exhibits
were arranged as though you're walking around the ship. There was a
lot of information about individual passengers, so you could keep an
eye out for your person. You go through the cabins, up the large
stairway, up to the bridge, out onto the promenade deck, and so on.
In the last room were lists of the dead and the survivors, and April
was very relieved to see that in the end she had made it. The
Countess was put into a lifeboat, and later one of the seamen said
about her that "she had a lot to say, so I put her to steering
the boat". |
