Only last June, the media were reporting the project to build a near-replica of RMS Titanic was dead. The Daily Echo was typical, writing: The highly ambitious plan to build a replica of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has apparently sunk without even getting off the drawing board. Now, the Titanic II project appears to have been revived. Reports are that the near-replica of its ill-fated namesake will be delivered in 2018 and that its maiden voyage will be from Jiangsu in Eastern China to Dubai. The original Titanic never completed her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912, due to an unfortunate brush with an iceberg leaving 1,500 dead. Let’s hope the Titanic II does better.
While it is unclear if any steel has yet to be cut, through the wonder of 3D modeling, renderings of the interior spaces intended to look like the original have been released.
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In the late 60s and early 70s, hovercraft ferries were the ships of the future. 
On Friday, more 4,000 longshoremen walked off the job shutting down piers and container terminals in New York and New Jersey. 
If you are in the New York area come help celebrate Lilac, America’s only steam-powered lighthouse tender at a Maritime Mardi Gras fundraiser on Fat Tuesday, February 9th from 6 – 8 PM on 79 Walker Street on the 6th floor, (one block south of Canal between Layfatte and Broadway), in Manhattan. Let the good times roll with cocktails, light appetizers, and a silent auction.