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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/ : : "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 : : 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! -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed. |
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