Titanic compared to modern-day liners.

[PaulB]

Bit of a difference there, you think?

 

[rugby bloke]

Its probably just me but I cannot help seeing modern day cruise ships as absolute monstrosities. But then again I've never been on one so I'm only speaking from my default position of ignorance and bias.

 

[benrogers101]

This image amazes me. I never thought about it from that perspective. The cruise ship behind the titanic is HUGE. I've never been on a cruise ship but the idea sure does sound appealing to me. One day!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

On board one of those modern ships you'd never know you were at sea. Might as well pitch up at a hotel

 

[Brandane]

I would much rather sail on the Titanic than the modern day floating apartment blocks. Titanic's tragic fate apart, obviously.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I would much rather sail on the Titanic than the modern day floating apartment blocks. Titanic's tragic fate apart, obviously.

You could have sailed as far as Cork like one lucky Priest/Minister did (people forget that once leaving Southampton, the Titanic then stopped at Cherbourg and Cork, before heading west).
He was to go to from Southampton to New York, but got called back at the last moment at Cork, therefore surely avoiding a watery grave.

He also took pictures on board which are now considered historical as, well, how many other pictures taken onboard the maiden voyage survived?

All in all, a very lucky man!

 

[snorri]

Might as well pitch up at a hotel

Yebbut where will you find a hotel with a front entrance opening on to a different city every morning?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4367402, member: 259"]Yebbut the Titanic was a liner, the fastest way across the Atlantic, not a poncy cruise ship.
Ahem..[/QUOTE]
Got to the draw before me. The march of technology is relentless.

Here is a Titanic era state of the art aeroplane

Airbus A380 anyone?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Got to the draw before me. The march of technology is relentless.

Here is a Titanic era state of the art aeroplane

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Airbus A380 anyone?

Is that a picture of Ryanair's newest plane?

 

[mickle]

.... *Titanic's tragic fate apart, obviously.

*Olympic shirley??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ahem, Mort, what was Titanic's fastest time across the Atlantic?

I don't know the exact timings, but surely it was when that awful Celine Dion song was released and flew over the Atlantic (the opposite way round probably, which is ironic), and hit us all quicker than an outbreak of flu?

 

[subaqua]

*Olympic shirley??

Meh. too many non facts in both stories.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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"Urgh, Jack, is that a boner again?"

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That's not funny, Doug

Much

 

[Piemaster]

There was a lot of the Titanics volume taken up by the stuff that kept it moving, boilers, engine room, coal bunkers. I suspect there is less % taken up by modern ships machinery (despite more amenities and stuff like massive air conditioning plant, kitchens, sewage treatment and the like) leaving more room for cargo.
Modern crews more likely to be serving drinks than shovelling coal now too.