Titanic II ? Unsinkable? Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer Has Big Plans

Just like this, but not so sinkable

On the heels of the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has announced his plans to build a 21st-century replica of the Titanic and sail it from England to New York accompanied by the Chinese navy by the end of 2016.  And this time, the ship will be unsinkable.  Palmer is quoted as saying, “It is going to be designed so it won’t sink…  It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn’t happen.”  Like the Costa Concordia, perhaps?   I am struck by how similar Palmer’s statement is to the White Star brochure describing the original Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic.  “… these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable.”  

Palmer’s ship, if built, will not be the first Titanic II.  See our previous post: The Name Should Have been a Hint – Titanic II Sinks on Maiden Voyage.

Australia billionaire to launch “unsinkable” Titanic

Palmer said his new shipping company, Blue Star Line Pty Ltd, had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese state-owned company CSC Jinling Shipyard to build Titanic II. The original ship was operated by the White Star Line.

The design work had started for the new Titanic, which will have the same dimension as its old version with 840 rooms and nine decks.

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Titanic II ? Unsinkable? Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer Has Big Plans — 5 Comments

  1. EVERY SHIP WOULD SINK!!! A big cruise ship from the Royal Caribbean International cruise line carried 5,400 passengers and sank for hitting a big rock in bahamas…!!! the new titanic ii will have evacuation and safety systems and it is 56,000 tons as her tonnage. But that oasis sister ship of oasis and allure previously cannot remember what it is named, sank by colliding with a big rock stuck in the shallow port of the bahamas!!! and the cruise liner was 225,000 TONS!!!!!!!!

  2. If calling a ship or ocean liner as “unsinkable” our God will sink it absolutely right after a few days or a while during the maiden voyage, and everyone will see… Since Mr.palmer and the main designers or builders of the Titanic ii Replica seems that they said it’ll be “unsinkable”, I’m never going to be on this maiden voyage and everyone else would be either surviving or perished according to the fake titanic as copying Thomas Andrews…

  3. The oasis class ship which sank previously wasn’t even called “Unsinkable”

    God just gave it the order to sink, who dies and who lives..
    All up to god.