The French Titanic Society's petition

(Association Française du Titanic)

to save the S/S NOMADIC

(former tender of the Titanic)

quickly raises interest all over the world

 

 

In order to save the S/S NOMADIC, the tender that ferried the passengers of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912, the French Titanic Society (Association Française du Titanic A.F.T.) organized an "on line" international petition: www.petitiononline.com/NOMADIC

In just a few days, the petition became an international coalition.

 

Harland & Wolff, the Belfast based shipyards who built the RMS Titanic and the S/S Nomadic, and their sales manager Mr. David McVeigh strongly support the Association Française du Titanic's petition, publishing on the front page of their Internet site www.harland-wolff.com (see the "News") the commitment and efforts of the Association Française du Titanic in order to save the S/S Nomadic.

 

Titanic societies all over the world, such as the Belfast Titanic Society www.belfast-titanic.com , the Canadian Titanic Society www.canadian-titanic-society.com and the Scandinavian Titanic Society www.scandtitanic.com  join the Association Française du Titanic and are ready to act and help to save the S/S Nomadic. Other Titanic societies are just about to join the group.

 

The international petition opened on 16 Dec. 2004 and already gathered over 500 signatures from all over the world (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, USA, Brazil...) and hundreds of messages were received to support the action.

 

The Association Française du Titanic was founded in 1998 (officially registered by the "Journal Officiel" on the 21 March 1998) by a group of people who were very interested in the RMS Titanic and her owner the White Star Line. One of the aims of the group, added to the effort to save the S/S Nomadic, is to research, save and promote the memory of the links between the RMS Titanic and France: her French passengers and crew members, famous people who boarded in France, but also ships and places linked to her story in France.

 

In the end, the Association Française du Titanic is an international group!

 

 

Read the story of the S/S Nomadic

on www.nomadic.fr.st and http://a.f.t.free.fr

 

 

Press contact

Thierry Dufournaud

th.d@... and thd_paris@...

Mobile phone (00 33) 6 85 59 69 08

(Documents and pictures of the S/S Nomadic sent on request)