Titanic rebuild?

In alt.history.ocean-liner.titanic Karl Kluge wrote:
: (Fred) writes:

: "Sgt. Pete" ? wrote in message . ..
: Check this one out!
: http://www.worldcity.com/
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: "William R. Cousert" wrote in message
: . ..
: Back in '98, at least a dozen companies announced that they were
: going to build a replica of the Titanic. It even made the cover of
: Popular Science

Actually,it was Popular Mechanics

: magazine. Today, all the links are dead. Is anyone still planning
: to build a new Titanic? URL's would be greatly appreciated.
:
: Is the Freedom Ship for real, or is it some elaborate hoax? It looks
: interesting, but so far, nothing seems to be happening with the project.
:
:
: -Bill Cousert
:
:
: moderator of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-sharp-programming
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: Economics stand in the way. There have been quite a few proposals to
: build full-size replicas of Olympic class ships that retain to maximum
: extent possible the "look and feel" of the Edwardian originals while
: being fully compliant with modern SOLAS standards. While it is quite
: feasible to build such a ship, the economics simply don't play out.
: It probably would cost $400 - $500 million to build a full-size Olympic
: replica but doing so would mean the owners might end up with servicable
: North Atlantic express liner, but there isn't much of a market there.

I don't think so...comparing a Titanic replica to the QE2 or
QM2 (today's/tomorrow's North Atlantic benchmarks) you get a
smaller,more crowded ship.

: Such ships wouldn't be well suited for the warm-water cruise market and
: would pale badly compared to the new mega-liners the cruise-ship operators
: have or are abuilding. Such a ship might garner limited bookings for
: North Atlantic crossings during high season, but it is unlikely that
: it would ever provide much of return on its investment. Jet aircraft
: killed off the North Atlantic express trade in the late 50's and while
: an Olympic class replica might garner bookings based on Titanic "chic,"
: it is unlikely that it would ever pay off.
:
: .......Orange

: Frankly, I think a more economical alternative would be to build a
: reconstruction of the 1st (and perhaps 2nd) Class portions of the ship
: inside a stationary replica of the hull as a lake/sea-side hotel
: somewhere.

: A really big problem for any attempt at a faithful reproduction (at least
: from the point of view of American customers) is the lack of private
: bathroom facilities for many (if not most) of even the 1st Class cabins.
: IIRC, all the cabins forward of the Grand Staircase and all the inboard
: cabins aft of it lacked private baths. Even the outboard cabins had them
: in pairs. If you go with that arrangement, then you're limiting your
: customers to those willing to accept accomodations on those terms.

: Karl

I have just today done another update of http://www.put.com/gigantic/
which I have maintained for over five years,tracking the plans to build
a new ship...as you can see,they have generally faded into nothingness
as their lack of financing became clear.

I have also today done another update of http://www.put.com/~gigantic/
about the ship I would like to see built.Reproduce the spirit,not the
body!

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