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SAILING IN 2018:
TITANIC II
by Dion Greg Reyes
Photo Source: Rdaldia
A
ll thanks to Australian billion-
aire Clive Palmer, owner of Blue
Star Line, a replica of the Titanic
will soar the seas come 2018.
But here’s to hoping the fate of
the original Titanic will not be
replicated

The new ship is almost 300 yards long
and 57 yards high, with 9 floors and 840 cabins
enough to hold 2,400 passengers and 900 crew
members. It will sail at a maximum speed of 24
knots.

Titanic II will mirror the aesthetics of
the original Titanic with the grand first class rooms
and comfortable third class accommodations, but
with the additional safety standards that the old
one didn’t meet. It will have welded hull, instead of
riveted, about your yards wider; and a diesel-elec-
tric propulsion system instead of steam engines;
and stabilizers.

It will also have more life boats, presum-
ably, to ensure that in case it will follow the same
destiny in 1912, passengers will not perish in the
cold.

Apart from that, the new Titanic will
ensure passenger safety and security by having
modern evacuation procedures, satellite controls,
digital navigation and radar systems, and all else
that can be found in modern ships.

Unlike the original Titanic that voyaged
from Southamption to New York, this one will take
the Jiangsu, China to Dubai route.

CSC Jinling Shipyard in Jiangsu China
will recreate the said ship with an unofficial price
tag at £300million to £400million.

The project was already announced in
2012 and supposedly launch in 2016. There were
rumors on the abandonment of the project in 2015,
until confirmed this year that the ship will sail by
2018. 
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