Well that's one way of getting a ship unstuck!
That would be a fantastic setting for a movie.I think she still looks beautiful.
She looks old, tired, but at the same time, dominating the landscape, and reminding us of The Age of The Liner.
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Also, this is one hell of a picture.
Kudos to whoever took it, it's perfect.
I was going to say it looks like a billionaire's superyatch but they probably wouldn't have the taste to have such a classic looking vessel, beautiful lines.View attachment 591160
The Funchal, the last of the portuguese liners.
It was extensively restaured, and then failed to sell for 10% of the price of the restauration. I believe it's going to be sold again, so if you know any billionaire with good taste that wanst to convert it to a super yatch givehim/her a callI was going to say it looks like a billionaire's superyatch but they probably wouldn't have the taste to have such a classic looking vessel, beautiful lines.
There'll definitely be a merger – there simply isn't enough business for both of them – although I'm not fully decided on which, at the moment I'm leaning more towards our timeline's takeover rather than a true merger as you put it. If I want a sister ship for Mauretania I'll probably have to use part of the government loan to finance it, which in turn means Cunard needing to be in a slightly better position financially beforehand. Not wholly sure how to achieve that, best idea so far is their reading the runes regarding coming interwar US immigration reforms and manage to position themselves correctly. As such it likely means many of the White Star ships still end up being sent to the ship breakers.Does this Cunard take over White Star or is it a true merger under better economic conditions?
Probably the easiest way to get the Oceanic beyond the keel is to have the debate about what propulsion to use for her be settled earlier then in OTL.The possibility that interests me is always White Star actually launching Oceanic alongside Queen Mary such that the merger achieves two express ships. I can see a few paths to this, but the two that come to mind are simply an earlier Oceanic project, possibly pushed by a different distribution of German ships post-war, or Oceanic being prioritized over Georgic such that there are two paused ships under construction at the time of the merger, which somewhat depends on the government having a source for additional funding.
On a completely unrelated note, a thread a while back about the possibility of earlier containerization has me contemplating the possibility of CP being able to do it between the wars in the persuit of attracting European through traffic to an overland service through Canada. The gist of that discussion was that a lot hinges on a company being positioned such that they can break the unions by building their own terminals. Given CPs corporate ties to the UK, existing ocean/rail integration and the project being as much about the railroad as ocean shipping I suspect it's more plausible for them than other firms.
Given how things went that night, I honestly don't think they would've been able to get out more given how quick they got 18 boats lowered during the OTL sinking (remember the two collapsibles near funnel 1 were never launched)10. The Board of Trade regulations changing to ensure 'space for all' - Titanic may have carried more boats, but how much difference would have have made in the time to evacuate?
But once you're sailing upside down, wouldn't the wind blow the other way? ;-)The sheep forward, the passengers aft (think about the likely direction of the wind across the deck...).
No, no, no...you're thinking of this ship...Here, I was under the impression that that smell was an aprodhisiac to that people.
Murdoch really didn't have time to think about such nuances. The iceberg was there, he acted, and it almost worked.Titanic Question:
If the orders had been:
Hard a starboard
Port propeller full ahead
Starboard propeller full astern
Would the ship have swung enough to clear the iceberg or opened less compartments?
If not what sort of orders might have opened less compartments or missed the iceberg completely please?
Without time travellers fore knowledge or smashing head long into the iceberg (not an option).