A True British Greeting
Men, women, and children gather around the gates of the Belfast shipyard to greet the Titanic survivors as they return home. Survivors who wished to return to Britain had to board another boat and travel across the Atlantic. After everything they’d been through, it’s understandable that the survivors were wary of boats. T
In Belfast, a large crowd assembled, but in New York City, an even larger crowd gathered. On April 18, 1912, tens of thousands of New Yorkers waited for the survivors to arrive at their pier.