Flagship to Flowership - RMS Titanic to HMS Buttercup
Thirty years after Titanic made history, Winston Churchill ordered forty Flower Class Corvettes for the war effort.
From Flagship to Flowership - RMS Titanic to HMS Buttercup
A special exhibition by Lagan Legacy.
Date: Saturday 22 March - Saturday 29 March 2008
Time: 11am - 4pm
Venue: MV Confiance, (The Dutch Barge) Lanyon Quay, Belfast. (Beside the Waterfront Hall)
Tickets: Free admission – no ticket required.
HMS ARABIS. A BELFAST BUILT FLOWER (courtesy Flower Class Corvette and WWII Royal Navy Forums)
The exhibition follows a theme that Lagan Legacy has been promoting since the organisation's inception – “The Greatest Story Never Told”.
It is a sad fact here in Northern Ireland that everyone, indeed everyone in
the world, knows about the Titanic, but knows little else about Belfast's absolutely amazing maritime past. So Lagan Legacy attempts to promote the rest of the River Lagan's nautical history - the other 3,000 ships, tens of millions of tons of them - and all the other related industries.
In this unique exhibition we're telling the story of Belfast's Flower Class Corvettes.
Thirty four of them were built from a total of thirty nine ordered by Churchill himself. They were: HMS:
Abelia Alisma Anchusa Armeria Arabis Bergamot Broom (became Vervain) Bryony Buttercup Calendula Camellia Chrysanthemum Clarkia Cowslip Eglantine Fritillary Freesia Genista Gentian Gloxinia Heartease Heather Hibiscus Kingcup Mallow Orchis Peony Periwinkle Picotee Pimpernell Rhododendron.
THIS IS A GREATEST STORY NOT TO BE MISSED.