Billionaire to Build Titanic II

[alfaman]

Jimbeaux said:

I hope that the "exact replica" part is modified to exclude the later-discovered design flaw that aided the sinking of the original.

Edited by Jimbeaux on Monday 30th April 20:24

hopefully modern ships no longer use "easy-zip" riveted hulls

[Negative Creep]

Triumph Man said:

PW said:

Streps said:

got to love Bonkers billionaires
Reminds me of :

Yes! Comets! The Icebergs of the sky...

"Here's a course with some chest hair!"

"Comets - the icebergs of the sky. By jacknifing from one to another at breakneck speeds, we might just get some sort of gravity boost. Or something"

[Pints]

davepoth said:

LukeSi said:

Actually Titanic was faster than modern cruise liners

QM2 can go a fair bit quicker - 30kts vs. Titanic's 24. By the end of the Atlantic liner period they were doing some pretty daft speeds - SS United States averaged the transatlantic crossing at 35.59kts, which is around 40mph.

Pfft.
That ain't so quick.

Even my Golf goes faster than that.

[williamp]

If its a rivert-for-rivet recrfeation I think a lot of people will be very dissappointed at the standard of accommodation

[UncleRic]

Titanic 2, cool! I'd be interested to see pictures of what they plan to make it look like!

[Jimbeaux]

alfaman said:

Jimbeaux said:

I hope that the "exact replica" part is modified to exclude the later-discovered design flaw that aided the sinking of the original.

Edited by Jimbeaux on Monday 30th April 20:24

hopefully modern ships no longer use "easy-zip" riveted hulls

That and the watertight walls didn't go "all the way up", or some sort of thing like that.

[Jimbeaux]

UncleRic said:

Titanic 2, cool! I'd be interested to see pictures of what they plan to make it look like!

A "replica" would allude to it looking like Titanic 1.

[thinfourth2]

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

[Jimbeaux]

thinfourth2 said:

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

Agreed; reconstructing a ship famous for sinking in a country that builds crap. This sounds like a formula for a self fulfilling prophecy.

[AJS-]

Great idea. Shame it wasn't ready for the 100th anniversary, really.

[alfaman]

williamp said:

If its a rivert-for-rivet recrfeation I think a lot of people will be very dissappointed at the standard of accommodation

I doubt the 3rd class bunk rooms with shared loos and 1 shower allowed per week would get many customers .

Oh wait .... There is always the student market

[hollydog]

Don't you meen the olympic 2 . It wasn't the titanic that sank. lol. That if you believe the conspiracy theory.

[andymadmak]

thinfourth2 said:

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

I'm not sure that your last statement is 100% accurate these days..

[andymadmak]

Berlin Mike said:

Shouldn't it really be built in Belfast? Or is there no more room in the dry docks at Harland and Wolff?

H+W have a nice big dry dock available. Biggest dry dock in Europe I believe. Sadly they don't have the skills available now to build a new Titanic.

[dandarez]

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

Agreed; reconstructing a ship famous for sinking in a country that builds crap. This sounds like a formula for a self fulfilling prophecy.

Ambiguous!

It wasn't famous for sinking in China.


As for the 'builds crap' bit, I'll add:

...which the rest of the world buys!

[Jimbeaux]

dandarez said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

Agreed; reconstructing a ship famous for sinking in a country that builds crap. This sounds like a formula for a self fulfilling prophecy.

Ambiguous!

It wasn't famous for sinking in China.


As for the 'builds crap' bit, I'll add:

...which the rest of the world buys!

It was famous for sinking, full stop. As to buying their crap, yes, but not things like ships and planes; those things kill too fast if crap.

[jbi]

China is overtaking Korea these days in terms of high end ship building.

The chinese yards are becomming very accomplished... Just look at the latest warships coming out of them

[dandarez]

Jimbeaux said:

dandarez said:

Jimbeaux said:

thinfourth2 said:

The most insane part of this plan

Building it in China

Korea maybe but not china

China still turns out total crap on the shipping front

Agreed; reconstructing a ship famous for sinking in a country that builds crap. This sounds like a formula for a self fulfilling prophecy.

Ambiguous!

It wasn't famous for sinking in China.


As for the 'builds crap' bit, I'll add:

...which the rest of the world buys!

It was famous for sinking, full stop. As to buying their crap, yes, but not things like ships and planes; those things kill too fast if crap.

True. But give it time (sadly, there is a market for everything if the price is right).


I'm a avid searcher for the ambiguous, especially if amusing.

My favourite in a PH vein:
'He was cut from the wreckage of his racecar with a broken arm and collarbone.'
Amazing what rescue services carry with them!

Back to topic.

[M3333]

Hope they order enough Lifeboats.

[wolves_wanderer]

I look forward to somebody building The Herald of Free Enterprise 2 in a few years so we can enjoy all the fun of maritime disasters without having to go as far as The Atlantic