Billionaire to build Titanic replica
Discussion
ker lights! Brilliant! 
Wail link (sorry) but some plans and interior renders are released -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287163/Th...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287163/Th...
Dalmahoy said:
Another piece of Chinese crap floating around the oceans!
(I've spent the last 6 months trying to fix a new Chinese oil rig - complete pos)
That's down to whoever specified it; the chinese are perfectly capable of producing hardware to rival the Koreans, but if you don't specify and pay for quality you don't get it.(I've spent the last 6 months trying to fix a new Chinese oil rig - complete pos)
Zaxxon said:
I wonder how many lifeboats it will have.
It would be terrific to experience a trip, mush as it would to fly on a Helium filled R101 or Hindenberg. But I bet H&S / design constraints would mean that it would look completely wrong.
I would prefer to see a SS Normandie though.
ISTRC that Hindenberg was designed to use helium as lift gas, it just never got filled with it. Which was a shame.It would be terrific to experience a trip, mush as it would to fly on a Helium filled R101 or Hindenberg. But I bet H&S / design constraints would mean that it would look completely wrong.
I would prefer to see a SS Normandie though.
AnotherClarkey said:
Zaxxon said:
I wonder how many lifeboats it will have.
It would be terrific to experience a trip, mush as it would to fly on a Helium filled R101 or Hindenberg. But I bet H&S / design constraints would mean that it would look completely wrong.
I would prefer to see a SS Normandie though.
ISTRC that Hindenberg was designed to use helium as lift gas, it just never got filled with it. Which was a shame.It would be terrific to experience a trip, mush as it would to fly on a Helium filled R101 or Hindenberg. But I bet H&S / design constraints would mean that it would look completely wrong.
I would prefer to see a SS Normandie though.
hidetheelephants said:
MiseryStreak said:
What company do you work for where the BBC website is forbidden but you can happily browse Pistonheads and the Daily Mail?!
A company which provides me and my shipmates with gratis interwebbing but strictly nothing with video content(no BBC, youtube etc) and no social media, as these activities absorb expensive satellite bandwidth like a gigantic sponge of banality. The IT stasi let us use ebay, online newspapers and various forums presumably because it 
Shame gaming is out as well, Satellite net is absolutely useless at that too!
Another program about the cause of the Hindenburg Ch4 Thursday. Looked like fun with the large models.
And yes, USA wouldn't let Eckener have the He in case the ship was used for military purposes.
(Everyone thinks the Hindenburg was destroyed almost on it's first voyage, but it made over 17 trips without incident in the previous year on the South American route. The Zepp you want to recreate should be the Graf 2 which had more technical development)
And yes, USA wouldn't let Eckener have the He in case the ship was used for military purposes.
(Everyone thinks the Hindenburg was destroyed almost on it's first voyage, but it made over 17 trips without incident in the previous year on the South American route. The Zepp you want to recreate should be the Graf 2 which had more technical development)
Olympic II?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic
The original dining suite is currently installed in a hotel in my hometown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic
The original dining suite is currently installed in a hotel in my hometown.
One of those funny situations where you think "if only we could go back to 1934 and not scrap Olympic" 
I've got mixed views on this. On one hand, I think it's in pretty bad taste. People tend to forget the tragedy of the event and focus on details. I remember my wife saying she went to a 'museum' in the USA, and you got given a ticket with a passengers name on as you entered; at the end you went to see if you survived
If he wants to recreate a feeling from a different era, he could have called it Olympic anyway. I was going to suggest Brittanic, but that didn't end well either!
On the other hand, I'd love to see (in the flesh) this replica, just purely in terms of scale. These days it's not that big I know, but I'd love to be able to physically behold it having seen so many different images/films/documentaries etc. I'm a bit of a buff on the subject, and being brought up in Southampton you can't help but be affected by it.
My great-grandfather was a fireman on Titanic (Olympic and Brittanic too for that matter), so there's a part of me that has a massive interest purely from a self-centered point of view...how it (very) nearly affected my existence!
I've got mixed views on this. On one hand, I think it's in pretty bad taste. People tend to forget the tragedy of the event and focus on details. I remember my wife saying she went to a 'museum' in the USA, and you got given a ticket with a passengers name on as you entered; at the end you went to see if you survived
If he wants to recreate a feeling from a different era, he could have called it Olympic anyway. I was going to suggest Brittanic, but that didn't end well either!
On the other hand, I'd love to see (in the flesh) this replica, just purely in terms of scale. These days it's not that big I know, but I'd love to be able to physically behold it having seen so many different images/films/documentaries etc. I'm a bit of a buff on the subject, and being brought up in Southampton you can't help but be affected by it.
My great-grandfather was a fireman on Titanic (Olympic and Brittanic too for that matter), so there's a part of me that has a massive interest purely from a self-centered point of view...how it (very) nearly affected my existence!
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