Save your money: Titanic semi-replica to set sail in 2018

[Roadrunner]

Here's a link to a Titanic forum. Who knew.    http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/forums/forum.php

There's also a forum related to the Titanic specifically, and Olympic class in general, and includes large areas for modeling subjects.

TRMA

Edited February 29, 2016 by Roadrunner

[Roadrunner]

Actually, even though Titanic had way too few lifeboats on board, it actually had more lifeboats than the law at the time required!

Right. To slightly exceed minimal, was still insufficient. I guess that was my point. I can see their perspective at the time, as no one expected that a problem or group of compounded problems, would ever sink the ship. Sad stuff. I also recall that two? of the propellers were never designed for reversing, or that in itself might have assisted and perhaps even helped avoid the collision in the first place.

[Harry P.]

As far as I know, the center propeller could not be reversed, but the outer two could.

[Roadrunner]

As far as I know, the center propeller could not be reversed, but the outer two could.

OK, I couldn't remember which was which. I have several really nice books on the ship, but didn't feel like looking through them just now.

[Harry P.]

Same here. I have several books, an avid interest in the ship, but certainly am no "authority" on it. 

[Harry P.]

Here's something interesting... the dinner menu for April 14, 1912. The last Titanic dinner menu...

[sjordan2]

Here's something interesting... the dinner menu for April 14, 1912. The last Titanic dinner menu...

I would assume the meats have been well-brined by now.

[slusher]

Actually, even though Titanic had way too few lifeboats on board, it actually had more lifeboats than the law at the time required! So I can't fault Titanic's designers or the White Star Line. They met the requirements of the day and then some.

Now, the cheap rivets, on the other hand...

Harry what ever happened to the White Star Line..?

[CometMan]

The White Star Line is "technically" still in business Carl, they were bought out/merged with Cunard in the mid-30s due to declining sales caused by the depression and the emergence of air travel. There has been several attempts at this idea over the years,but the idea of using the Titanic name has met resistance from Cunard because they still owned the rights to the name. Maybe this project has gotten off the ground because Cunard has something to do with it, or have sold the rights to use the name.

[slusher]

The White Star Line is "technically" still in business Carl, they were bought out/merged with Cunard in the mid-30s due to declining sales caused by the depression and the emergence of air travel. There has been several attempts at this idea over the years,but the idea of using the Titanic name has met resistance from Cunard because they still owned the rights to the name. Maybe this project has gotten off the ground because Cunard has something to do with it, or have sold the rights to use the name.

Wonder if they own the relic being brought up all the time...?

[CometMan]

Wonder if they own the relic being brought up all the time...?

No, but the Lloyds of London, who are also still in business, who insured the ship and everyone on board, usually try to say they do when things are brought up because they paid all of the insurance claims.

[CometMan]

This is Titanic's younger sister His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic during WWI. She was to have been named Gigantic in following with the mythology names of the other ships in the Olympic class, but had name changed after Titanic disaster, and to give it a more patriotic sound during the war. She hit a mine and sank in Nov. 1916 off of Greece, having never made a passenger crossing. She is only 400ft. down, is often used as a stand in for Titanic when details are needed.

[Atmobil]

You think that there would be nostalgic interest in Wilhelm Gustloff 

Andrea Doria

or General Slocum

replicas?

So, the Andrea Doria wreck. How about a model of a Chrysler Norseman?

[Harry P.]

I would assume the meats have been well-brined by now.

I wouldn't want to see the eclairs at this point...

[CometMan]

So, the Andrea Doria wreck. How about a model of a Chrysler Norseman?

There is a very high-end recent issue die-cast of the Norseman, can't remember who made it but is in the $200-$300 range if I remember correctly.

[SSNJim]

It seems there's more interest in maritime disasters than I thought there would be here. There's a website called www.lostliners.com that covers many of the sunken ocean liners and cruise ships, along with their operators.

[Joe Handley]

I was kinda surprised that about a year or so ago, footage related the Eastland Tragity in Chicago was discovered.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[Atmobil]

There is a very high-end recent issue die-cast of the Norseman, can't remember who made it but is in the $200-$300 range if I remember correctly.

Maybe it is Minichamps 1:18 you are thinking about?
https://ck-modelcars.de/en/eur/p/25011/chrysler-norseman-year-1956-light-blue-metallic-1-18-minichamps/107143320/

another titanic fan here.

how about Violet Jessop, there's a girl who should have bought a lotto ticket!

was working on the Olympic when it got into a collision with a cruiser & got some holes punched in it.....was working on the Titanic when it went down....was a nurse on the Britannic when she struck a mine & sank.

she's the real "unsinkable molly brown" lol

Wow! So what happened to her later on?

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 10, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[Joe Handley]

Well, at least it was age that got her, not tragity!

[Joe Handley]

Just found this looking for another thread, wonder if they ever got started on building the ship

[SSNJim]

Looks like a dead project to me. The last update on the website in the first post was September 2013, where they did some hull model testing .

Interesting reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II

[SSNJim]

Here's a link to the model test:

 

[426 pack]

On 2016-02-27 at 6:51 PM, Harry P. said:

Another interesting factoid... (yeah, I'm sort of a Titanic afficionado)...

Titanic was thought to be "unsinkable" because of the design of the ship. The hull was divided into a series of bulkheads from stem to stern, each bulkhead considered "waterproof," so if one of the bulkheads was compromised, the rest would hold strong.

But the walls that separated the bulkheads only reached part way up to the deck! If one bulkhead was compromised, it would fill with water, and then the water would splash over the top of the bulkhead wall into the next bulkhead... and so on! Which is exactly what happened and why Titanic sank.

What were the designers thinking???

They might have been better drilling holes in the floor so the water could drain out