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Titanic II to set sail in 2022, retrace the route of the original ship
WNEP ^ | October 22, 2018 | Tribune Media Wire

Posted on 10/23/2018 7:00:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode

A replica of the Titanic will set sail in 2022, retracing the original ship’s planned route, Cruise Arabia & Africa reports.

The project was first announced in 2012, but was halted due to financial problems. Now, with the issues resolved, Blue Star Line has announced that construction has continued on the vessel.

The ship will have “the same interiors and cabin layout as the original vessel, while integrating modern safety procedures, navigation methods and 21st century technology,” said Clive Palmer, chairman of Blue Star Line.

The ship will sail from Dubai to Southampton, England, and then to New York.

The original Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after sideswiping an iceberg while traveling from Southampton to New York.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badidea; badmovie; bluestarline; titanic; titanic2; titanicii
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To: EdnaMode

I’m building one of those too. To prove it I got a teenager to make a 3D video. Totally. It will be sailing in 2021. Buy your tickets now.


21 posted on 10/23/2018 7:17:22 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: EdnaMode

next up; the hindenburg ii.


22 posted on 10/23/2018 7:19:26 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Pontiac

-—If it is a true replica I would imagine that it would be very expensive and uncomfortable. ——

In a way, yes. I’d assume you’d know what you were getting when you bought a ticket.

They could make steerage cheap to push the authenticity up another notch. I’d sail in a steerage cabin if it was relatively inexpensive, just for the experience of doing it.

It’s not a traditional cruise, so a lot of people would be attracted to the “once in a lifetime” factor.


23 posted on 10/23/2018 7:21:18 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: JohnBrowdie; Joe 6-pack

They would need a huge manatee.


24 posted on 10/23/2018 7:22:46 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: EdnaMode

Will it have enough life boats for all the passengers? Or will it have the same number as the original Titanic?


25 posted on 10/23/2018 7:23:08 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Larry Lucido

I love that film. So underrated.


26 posted on 10/23/2018 7:25:16 AM PDT by Borges
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To: A_Former_Democrat

With all the naming rights licensing for sports venues such as “Guaranteed Rate Field” and so on, why not sell the name as
Democrat Party Titanic II.

Works for me.


27 posted on 10/23/2018 7:25:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger ("End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: jalisco555
Also hope the quality of material in the hull is much better.

It was discovered in the Nineties that the steel used on Titanic had a high sulfur content. It wouldn't have even made for good rebar. The hull was already brittle enough without the freezing water temperature wrecking further havoc with it.

Had the steel been up to standard, Titanic might well have made it to port safely.

28 posted on 10/23/2018 7:26:01 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: EdnaMode

Will they have a replica iceberg?


29 posted on 10/23/2018 7:26:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C210N

“Might put a Rose and Jack on board,”

10:1 there will be a group of cosplay folks in period garb on this voyage.


30 posted on 10/23/2018 7:28:54 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: EdnaMode

And will they have coal fired boilers? If so, they will have to survive the anti-coal protesters and probably pay premium wages to whomever they can find to shovel the coal from the storage bunkers into the boiler furnaces.


31 posted on 10/23/2018 7:31:22 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: EdnaMode
Those fools! Did they not see "Rescue from Gilligan's Island"?


32 posted on 10/23/2018 7:31:24 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: GreyFriar

-—And will they have coal fired boilers?-—

My assumption is that the areas of the ship passengers get to see are vintage authentic, while crew and other areas are modern. That includes the engine room, I’m guessing. lol


33 posted on 10/23/2018 7:34:14 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: EdnaMode

Hopefully they will only retrace the horizontal portions...


34 posted on 10/23/2018 7:35:21 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: EdnaMode

I think I’ll just wait for the Hindenburg 2 before I make my first transatlantic crossing... Such a difficult decision though... Freezing to death in the Atlantic, or burning to death in New Jersey.


35 posted on 10/23/2018 7:36:23 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: EdnaMode

I’d bring 497 1/2 feet of rope along just in case...


36 posted on 10/23/2018 7:37:07 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EdnaMode

Should be renamed Titanic III. The title of Titanic II belongs to the unending Crooked Hillary presidential campaign.


37 posted on 10/23/2018 7:37:13 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: EdnaMode
Titanic II to set sail in 2022, retrace the route of the original ship

Can we guy up all the tickets and GIFT them to some selected dems?

38 posted on 10/23/2018 7:37:21 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: EdnaMode

A few years ago while in Las Vegas, we went to the Titanic Exhibit. They had mock-ups of the various cabins. A first class cabin/state room that the Astor’s were assigned to was about the size of a second bedroom in most normal houses and the bed was only a full size. I remember the plaque saying that room would cost a passenger over $20,000 of today’s dollars.

It doesn’t make any sense to replicate those in a modern cruise liner...


39 posted on 10/23/2018 7:37:23 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: nickedknack

LOL. That’s very true. :D


40 posted on 10/23/2018 7:38:54 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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