Titanic II Set To Sail In 2022

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by Glenn R. Geist

For many years there’s been talk of bringing back the dirigible airship. After all, the use of the inert gas Helium and modern ultra-light, ultra-strong materials would make a far safer and more practical aircraft, but in all these decades I’ve yet to hear a suggestion that it be called the Hindenburg.

But ever since the 1997 movie Titanic, there’s been a plan to build an exact reproduction of the doomed ship and to use the same name we also associate with disaster in general. Of course, one hopes the word exact isn’t all that exact and it won’t be. The Titanic II will be welded, not riveted and doubtless will use better and stronger steel. I’m sure we can expect watertight compartments that are really watertight as well!  Passengers will have adequate lifeboats when it sets out on its maiden voyage from Dubai to New York in 2022.

It will, of course, have radar and GPS and autopilot and satellite communications rather than a Marconi Spark Gap radio restricted to Morse code. SOS went away with ‘phone’ and the emergency call is now Mayday.   As with the modern cruise ships I’ve seen, it probably won’t have that iconic ship’s wheel for the helmsman to stand at.

The retro look with its tall funnels and low superstructure is vastly superior, in my opinion, to that tall and boxy look of today’s cruise liners designed to cram as many people into a box as possible, but at a mere 883 feet, will the Titanic II be as comfortable in heavy seas as  perhaps the Queen Mary II? It remains to be seen, but I’m guessing it will cost much more to board than Cunard’s ships – although, to residents of Dubai, it may not matter.

I’m rather sure that to the disappointment of some passengers, no one will be allowed out on the prow to play “king of the world.”  They wouldn’t have been in 1912 either.

From what I’ve seen, accommodations in 1912 seemed almost squalid and far less opulent in comparison to what Queen’s Grill passengers on the QM II are accustomed to for instance, but would I make the trip anyway? If you’re paying, you bet!

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Glenn Geist

Glenn Geist lives in South Florida and wastes most of his time boating, writing, complaining and talking on the radio
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Diane G
5 years ago

My Dad was a sea captain in the Merchant Marines…One day he & Mom were talking to a couple of friends of theirs who were going to celebrate their anniversary with a trip to Europe. “I’d love to go by ship, but George refuses to, because he can’t swim,” the wife remarked.

Dad: “Can he fly?”

Admin
5 years ago

I loved the movie, and watched it like 10 times, with three times in the theater, taking my mother, and various friends. As to the replica, I will definitely try to cruise on her, maiden voyage probably not, but after YES! Can’t wait.

jess
5 years ago

But but would the doors be large enough to fit two people, when it goes down, these are the questions that must be answered. You know damn well that door could have held Kate Winslet and Leo both, so he did not need to die at the end…ooops spoiler alert. AYUP, still bitter from my teenage film watching years about this movie 🙂 do not even get me started on the theme song for it, that was nightmare fuel.

Glenn R. Geist
Reply to  jess
5 years ago

At that time I so loathed the man I was glad to see him die even though it wasn’t real. I’ve liked him in subsequent roles so I’m glad it was only a movie. What irritated me was that they made it all about a hundred year later denunciation of social snobbery. It was about needless death and shabby engineering.

Rockync
5 years ago

I have always had a romantic dedire to sail on a bona fide steam ship like Titanic or the Queen Mary. But it will remain a pleasant daydream because the age of steamers is long gone and I know I would be vastly disappointed by these Disney-esque replicas. There would be no magic.

Glenn R. Geist
Reply to  Rockync
5 years ago

The only thing better than steam is sail and you can still do that. I’ve done two cruises on the Star Clippers and they were two of the best travel experiences I’ve had.

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