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(BBC Newsline 6.30 - 31/03/2009 / Reporter: Mike McKimm) On the hundredth anniversary of laying the Titanic keel, a special ceremony is held to mark the event.
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One hundred years after the keel was laid to begin the building of the Titanic, a special ceremony is performed on the same slipway beside the Lagan. Wooden keel blocks were stacked up, and a heavy steel plate rested on top- just as they would have done one hundred years earlier.

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