Titanic 100th anniversary

[mmntech]

April 15th, 1912, the ship of dreams sank off the Grand Banks at 2:20am, after striking an ice berg. 1,517 people lost their lives.

We've had plenty of threads about the movie in the last couple of weeks. Time to discuss the ship and the disaster itself.

One cool thing I found was a set of high resolution deck plans, being hosted on the Discovery Channel. I've seen these before in books, but they're usually low quality. This is the first high quality set I've seen available for free. Too bad their web app doesn't go fulls screen.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/titanic/explorer/explorer.html

 

[Crono]

Still an impressive and luxurious ship design even 100 years later.

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to have seen it actually enter the New York harbor. I've seen a larger ship there (the Queen Mary 2) but the Titanic is a bigger part of history.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i'm more interested in the conspiracies surrounding it.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Uhhh... Titanic came out in 1997, guys.

 

[mmntech]

Still an impressive and luxurious ship design even 100 years later.

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to have seen it actually enter the New York harbor. I've seen a larger ship there (the Queen Mary 2) but the Titanic is a bigger part of history.

It's a shame they didn't preserve the Olympic as a museum ship. Mind you I doubt the fascination with the Titanic was strong enough in 1937 when they scrapped it.

I have seen at least one vessel from that era. They have the CSS Acadia on display at Halifax, which was actually constructed in 1912. It looks like a baby Titanic. It was closed for the season when I saw her so I didn't get to go inside. There was steam and smoke coming out the funnel so I assume it still runs.

The QM2 is by far more luxurious than the Titanic. And far cheaper for even the best rooms. Heck, even my house is more luxurious than what the 1st class were used too, even if it's not a great manor. We've come a long way both technologically and socially in the last 100 years.

 

[McLovin]

i'm more interested in the conspiracies surrounding it.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07

I am a believer!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've always been intrigued by the Titanic, lot of interesting TV shows lately about it. It's cool that they've preserved the original launch site too, had no idea.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Uhhh... Titanic came out in 1997, guys.

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