Exactly 100 years ago today the Daily Echo carried an announcement from Harland and Wolff's shipyard in Belfast that work would begin on two new mammoth White Star liners in the new year.
It was anticipated the ships would take about 30 months to build and would be named Olympic and Titanic.
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