Why would Honour be recording Time? What has Time, rather than itself being extolled and praised, got to do with Honour and Glory?īut now we look at Glory. With such great work in hand, no wonder Glory fans her brow. This is Honour with her annals, recording great deeds, those that shall live forever more. This then, is not the Honour bright of the virgo intacta. We see that she is busy taking careful note. Glory wafts a palm frond over Honour-s head, but Honour seems almost to have a frown of concentration. Olympic's surviving Honour and Glory with superimposed clock Angels come in thrones, powers and dominions, all shapes and sizes, but they are also enumerated in Virtues. The two supporters on either side of the clock we see are angels. Old Father Time, stooped and wizened with scythe and sand-glass, was certainly never attended to, never fussed about, in such a manner. What is it about Time, that it should need to be honoured and glorified? What does it mean? This is just the first of many questions that could usefully be asked. Because for nigh on a century, ever since the same creation was installed on the Olympic, it has stood as an emblem of the class of super ships that was once new, but became ever associated with loss. It may be worth a moment's pleasant pause to survey the scene depicted. They appear as heraldic supporters to the clock located in the alcove atop the Titanic-s Grand Staircase.Īre they just pleasant carvings, or could the whole panel actually symbolise-encapsulate, even-the White Star Line-'s corporate attitude? Grand Staircase WE KNOW well the allegorical figures of Honour and Glory.
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