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[tunnie]

I think he's going to have it built in China and not at Harland & Wolff in Belfast though!    That really would be something if it was built at the original shipyard using the original blueprints!! 

Although profit is the motive, jobs will be created and I'm sure it'll be popular!!    Not sure I'd fancy the maiden voyage though!!! 

Harland & wolf shut down years ago.My dad worked there many years ago (worked on the Canberra) when 35,000 people worked there.
The old site is now the Titanic quarter,where there are exhibitions,museums etc. to amuse the tourists.

P.S. There was nothing wrong with the ship.Just an idiotic captain.

Are you sure? did the, now proven, cheapskate quality of some items not show to be it's downfall, had quality parts been used the story may have had a very different outcome......

Yup I remember seeing that too, the water tight bulk heads in principle were a great idea and should have worked. It was the standard of the rivets that were the issue, if they had been better it could have been a different story.

Thing is although it was a huge disaster, it changed shipping for the better. Sooner or later it was going to happen 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Plus Titanic is a pretty small vessel by modern day standards

[Rods2]

I think he's going to have it built in China and not at Harland & Wolff in Belfast though!    That really would be something if it was built at the original shipyard using the original blueprints!! 

Although profit is the motive, jobs will be created and I'm sure it'll be popular!!    Not sure I'd fancy the maiden voyage though!!! 

Harland & wolf shut down years ago.My dad worked there many years ago (worked on the Canberra) when 35,000 people worked there.
The old site is now the Titanic quarter,where there are exhibitions,museums etc. to amuse the tourists.

P.S. There was nothing wrong with the ship.Just an idiotic captain.

Are you sure? did the, now proven, cheapskate quality of some items not show to be it's downfall, had quality parts been used the story may have had a very different outcome......

Yup I remember seeing that too, the water tight bulk heads in principle were a great idea and should have worked. It was the standard of the rivets that were the issue, if they had been better it could have been a different story.

Thing is although it was a huge disaster, it changed shipping for the better. Sooner or later it was going to happen 

Except they did not go right to the top, so as the ship sunk, they were progressively breached by water flooding over the top of them. There was also a problem that in their hast to re-coal in Southampton, the coal was not sufficiently damped which caused a fire in a coal bunker that had to be put out, but the heat from this seriously weakened the forward boiler room bulkhead which eventually gave way. There was a real battle to stop the flooding of the forward boiler room as once this flooded they knew the ship was lost.