Day One
Our Tour started mid-morning on the 16th. We took a "Q" train from Sheepshead Bay to deKalb Avenue in Brooklyn and changed for an "N" train to Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. We crossed the street and, after a short wait, boarded a Staten Island ferry. The trip across New York Harbor takes about twenty minutes. This picture of the Statue of Liberty was taken on the return trip to Manhattan. It's pretty much the same view the Titanic's passengers would have seen had the ship arrived after daybreak on Wednesday morning.
The discovery Channel's production of TITANIC: Anatomy of a Disaster
Cunard Building....The Cunard Line which first opened a New York Office in 1??? occupied this building on its completion in 19??
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ADJOINING THIS SITE WAS THE FIRST DUTCH FORT ON MANHATTAN ISLAND, KNOWN AS FORT NEW AMSTERDAM. THE FIRST HOUSE WAS ERECTED HERE BEFORE 1664. IN 1771 CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD KENNEDY BUILT HERE HIS RESIDENCE WHICH WAS USED IN 1776 BY GENERAL WASHINGTON AS HIS HEADQUARTERS AND LATER BY GENERAL HOWE DURING THE BRITISH OCCUPATION. IT WAS LATER USED AS A HOTEL. TORN DOWN IN 1882, IT WAS REPLACED BY THE WASHINGTON BUILDING WHICH WAS TRANSFORMED IN 1920-21 INTO THIS BUILDING FOR OCCUPANCY BY ITS OWNERS THE INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY AND KNOWN AS NO. 1 BROADWAY |
ERECTED IN MEMORY OF WIRELESS OPERATORS LOST AT SEA AT THE POST OF DUTY
JACK PHILLIPS | S.S. TITANIC | APRIL 15, 1912 | ATLANTIC OCEAN
The plaque reads:
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LONGITUDE 50° 14' WEST APRIL 15, 1912
IN JULY 1968 THE SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE MOVED TO ITS PRESENT QUARTERS AT 15 STATE STREET. THAT YEAR THE TITANIC MEMORIAL LIGHTHOUSE WAS DONATED BY THE KAISER-NELSON STEEL & SALVAGE CORPORATION TO THE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM. IT WAS ERECTED ON THIS CORNER AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MUSEUM COMPLEX IN MAY 1976 WITH FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE EXXON CORPORATION.
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