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Titanic II to set sail from Southampton in 2016 according to Australian billionaire Clive Palmer
12:12pm Thursday 4th October 2012 in Shipping
By Keith Hamilton, Shipping & Heritage Reporter
The original Titanic
Titanic II, the multi-million pound replica of Southampton's ill-fated liner, will set sail from the city on her maiden voyage in 2016.
The date was announced by the Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, who is funding the construction of the ship, when he revealed that detailed plans and designs for the vessel will be made public in New York in a few weeks time.
Mining magnate, Palmer, said: “The first voyage remains set for 2016, with the ship due to sail from China, where she will be built, to Southampton ahead of her maiden passenger crossing to New York.''
The businessman intends to hold a gala dinner on the retired aircraft carrier USS Intrepid in New York harbour on Tuesday, December 4, where guests will be treated to a dinner from the same menu as Titanic passengers on the day she sank in April, 1912.
At the event further features of the new ship will be disclosed although it is already known the vessel will mirror her predecessor's dimensions, measuring 885 feet long, and more than 173 feet high, and weighing 40,000 tonnes.
Titanic II will have 840 cabins and nine decks and retain the first, second and third-class divisions of the original White Star liner, which sank, 100 years ago, with the loss of 1,500 lives after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
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Comments(28)
George4th
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1:20pm Thu 4 Oct 12
sarfhamton
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1:20pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Saintcosser
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1:42pm Thu 4 Oct 12
georgetheseventh
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1:43pm Thu 4 Oct 12
sarfhamton wrote:Ha ha..I wont be on it.
what poor taste
Mind you..the ice cap should have melted by then....
georgetheseventh
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1:45pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Saintcosser wrote:Silly Billy..its also coming here to visit its original home..didnt you know..silly billy.The place where it was 'conceived'..silly billy you.
Read it and weep Liverpool!
georgetheseventh
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1:51pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Saintcosser wrote:Do you think maybe you should 'lose' the C out of your title Saintosser ?.
Read it and weep Liverpool!
But then again..maybe there will be tears on my pillow tonight..tears of joy as I await my little cruise..not long now.
And I only have to travel two miles with my luggage..Yippee.
Saintcosser
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1:52pm Thu 4 Oct 12
georgetheseventh wrote:Surely it was conceived in Belfast silly billy.
Saintcosser wrote: Read it and weep Liverpool!Silly Billy..its also coming here to visit its original home..didnt you know..silly billy.The place where it was 'conceived'..silly billy you.
Saintcosser
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2:00pm Thu 4 Oct 12
APR
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2:53pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Something tells me that this will never happen. The building of the ship that is.
Paraletic
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2:57pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Dasal
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3:03pm Thu 4 Oct 12
The original went down well................
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Shoong
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3:09pm Thu 4 Oct 12
georgetheseventh wrote:Tears on your pillow eh?
Saintcosser wrote:Do you think maybe you should 'lose' the C out of your title Saintosser ?.
Read it and weep Liverpool!
But then again..maybe there will be tears on my pillow tonight..tears of joy as I await my little cruise..not long now.
And I only have to travel two miles with my luggage..Yippee.
Well, hopefully he's not that rough on you, just sort out a safety word before hand.
Scrutinizer
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5:43pm Thu 4 Oct 12
wossit
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5:59pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Dasal wrote:Very good :)
Don't see why it shouldn't be successful.
The original went down well................
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wossit
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6:01pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Washed down with copious amount of sea water
wossit
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6:09pm Thu 4 Oct 12
sarfhamton wrote:why a 747 can crash and they still build new one's. Whats the differance !!!
what poor taste
OSPREYSAINT
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6:42pm Thu 4 Oct 12
wossit wrote:Plenty of ice with the drinks?
"The businessman intends to hold a gala dinner on the retired aircraft carrier USS Intrepid in New York harbour on Tuesday, December 4, where guests will be treated to a dinner from the same menu as Titanic passengers on the day she sank in April, 1912"
Washed down with copious amount of sea water
peachy1
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11:09pm Thu 4 Oct 12
I bet she won't have British crew and built in CHINA oh yes that country that is synonymous for ship building
NOT
peachy1
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11:09pm Thu 4 Oct 12
I bet she won't have British crew and built in CHINA oh yes that country that is synonymous for ship building
NOT
peenut81
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11:23am Fri 5 Oct 12
Please Daily Echo readers if you don't know something then just shut up and keep your prejudices and ignorance to yourself you make our city look so neandaethal
twarland
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11:54am Fri 5 Oct 12
arizonan
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3:04pm Fri 5 Oct 12
LIVERPOOL.
Scrutinizer
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5:14pm Fri 5 Oct 12
arizonan wrote:...or to be PROPERLY authentic, the stern of the ship should really read: 'TITANIC II - THE CONCEPT OF AN IGNORANT AND INSENSITIVE AUSTRALIAN TW@T'.
To be totally authentic, the stern of the ship should read, TITANIC LIVERPOOL.
I doubt - certainly I hope not - that the city authorities will want to have anything to do with this ship. Actually, I have a hunch that she will not get permission to visit here in the end.
Also, and interestingly, I've heard that the growing 'word' amongst the guys working in the docks, is that they won't have anything to do with this vessel either.
Scrutinizer
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6:11pm Fri 5 Oct 12
peenut81 wrote:peenut81, Ok, so I know where you're coming from regarding this. However, please don't slag off the Neanderthals in this way! They really do not deserve to be continually cited as an example of something inferior, in a derogatory way. They were an advanced human species/sub-species of Homo sapiens, sapiens (ie us!). It is thought that they formed quite complex socially organised groups, similar to Homo sapiens, sapiens. Also, that they made highly advanced (for the time) tools of stone (and without doubt of other materials too) ;-)
Peachy1, only in your limited and closed worldview is China not associated with ship building. In the 15th century the Chinese built a fleet with approx the same tonnage as the rest of the world put together and sailed to S.America, Australia, S Africa, Greenland and the Caribbean. 60 Years before Colombus. 100 years before Magellan, The Mongols had previously built a huge fleet which they attempted to take Japan with. Please Daily Echo readers if you don't know something then just shut up and keep your prejudices and ignorance to yourself you make our city look so neandaethal
Inform Al
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7:43pm Fri 5 Oct 12
Scrutinizer wrote:I bet that, like the Chinese, they didn't build many ships made of steel.
peenut81 wrote:peenut81, Ok, so I know where you're coming from regarding this. However, please don't slag off the Neanderthals in this way! They really do not deserve to be continually cited as an example of something inferior, in a derogatory way. They were an advanced human species/sub-species of Homo sapiens, sapiens (ie us!). It is thought that they formed quite complex socially organised groups, similar to Homo sapiens, sapiens. Also, that they made highly advanced (for the time) tools of stone (and without doubt of other materials too) ;-)
Peachy1, only in your limited and closed worldview is China not associated with ship building. In the 15th century the Chinese built a fleet with approx the same tonnage as the rest of the world put together and sailed to S.America, Australia, S Africa, Greenland and the Caribbean. 60 Years before Colombus. 100 years before Magellan, The Mongols had previously built a huge fleet which they attempted to take Japan with. Please Daily Echo readers if you don't know something then just shut up and keep your prejudices and ignorance to yourself you make our city look so neandaethal
Scrutinizer
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9:06am Sat 6 Oct 12
Inform Al
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9:19am Sat 6 Oct 12
Scrutinizer wrote:This neanderthal ex pleb is in agreement.
None actually. But if they had, I bet they'd at least have had the intelligence to have put enough lifeboats aboard...
wossit says...
1:05pm Thu 4 Oct 12