And a straight replica at that, apart from modern technological refinements. One hopes too that this one will have more lifeboats...
The cost has been estimated at more than US$200 million, but for Australian mining mogul Clive Palmer that is a drop in the ocean...
NZ Herald article and vid
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Mr Palmer has named his company Blue Star Line, totally unrelated to the original company which was owned by the Vestey family and only ceased as a shipping company in 2002 after nearly 100 years. As to whether this venture will prove a sucess remains to be seen,will we see other great liners emerge as replica from China? One thing about the Titanic, there has been a strong theory that White Star Line switched the ships and it was in fact the sister ship Olympic which sank, as she had had severe damage caused by a collision a year or two earlier to her stern and shafts and the Line was facing bankruptcy, so used the older vessel for what was meant to be a maiden voyage, with full intentions of causing the accident at sea. There are lot more clues to this which suggest it could well be the biggest deception in maritime history.
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