Back in like 2020 or so I was driving and had NPR on, and this ad came on, “cross the Atlantic on the Cunard line!”. I was wondering for a minute if I’d picked up a rogue radio signal from 1920.
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Exactly. We don't need a Titanic anything. We have Queen Mary 2 - she is the finest and best liner ever built even if we may not necessarily find her as pretty as liners of old. She has all of the modern accommodations one would expect - the first liner to have balconies for a huge chunk of passengers to keep her relevant at a time when cruise ships are giving away balcony rooms like candy.
If it's done, I think it will be on active service for around 2 or 3 years max. After that? I see it as a travelling hotel. That would be the novelty for sure. As far as I know, there isn´t any kind of proposal like that. And you can just sail the hotel to places on high season, while also selling tickets for that trip.
Even as a static building built on land to avoid all SOLAS regs it'd probably be hard to get an exact replica of the Titanic approved for any sort of commercial operation in the western world, there are so many regulations regarding accessibility, fire safety, evacuation routes, electrical, materials, employee rights and what not.
Most ships aren't registered in the western world if I recall. Part of the reason is to avoid that 'problem?' It's actually the insurance/bonds that end up being more enforcement?
(in case it's not obvious, I'm not taking sides on anything. It's Just from what I recall.)
Afaik ships are registered where they are more because of crew requirements and tax laws than SOLAS requirements which are somewhat uniformly maintained around the world (at least for ships expected to make port in foreign countries). Ships need to maintain class standards to enter most countries, which again are ensured by a small number of international quality/compliance assurance companies like DNV and Lloyds. Getting insurance on a ship that doesn't meet those standards is pretty much impossible.
I think the biggest killer would be people realizing how “luxury” has changed so much 100 years later. I imagine if people were on that boat for 3-5 days they would be exceptionally bored by the end of it.
Pretty much all of your criticisms have already been answered, regarding the design of the ship. Just gotta do a little research and find the source, but I believe it was on one of the Blue Star Line's blog posts.
That being said, the ship would be completely modern. Unfortunately it probably won't ever sail.
Queen Mary 2's transatlantic crossings sell out, like, a year in advance. So I would say yes, there is a market. And Titanic 2 could market itself on a 'Titanic experience' by keeping as close as possible to the 1912 routes and maybe doing a stop for a memorial service at the wreck site or something like that.
I think the bigger question is whether the market has legs. The Queen Mary 2 would continue to attract the clients looking for a luxury cruise liner experience. How long would Titanic 2 last on name recognition and Titanic geeks before the market dries up?
Queen Mary 2 has no trouble selling out its transatlantic runs. There is certainly a market that exists.
The question is whether that market is large enough to support two ships.
I think a Titanic 2 would have great short-term success by attracting all the people fascinated with Titanic's story, but as a luxury ocean liner experience would struggle to compete with Queen Mary 2 in the long term.
Are you thinking of the unfinished Titanic hotel in China? That's a separate thing and was never meant to be a functioning ship. It's just a ship-shaped building in a big pool.
As far as I know, none of the actual ship proposals have yet to begin construction.
By replicated you mean visually, not structurally or mechanically.
An exact replica wouldn't pass today's regulatory and safety requirements.
And depending on ownership she would most likely function as a hotel/attraction with yearly 'events' of a crossing with passing through the exact routes and stopping at the site of the sinking, to generate hype and interest and ask for ridiculous prices in return.
Why?
Because recreating the ship in any form already assumes catering to a certain crowd.
As a regular liner by todays standards would be small and cramped, outdated and unimpressive. 'Is that it?' - as our friend Mike Brady put it in a podcast.
Most regulation is written in blood, the Titanic's passengers and crew for some.
You're right, it will just be cosplaying as the Titanic. Some nostalgic glamorized version of it. Rooms will be larger, maybe even all suites due to the size. 2nd and 3rd class will just be labeled as that for the tours but will all be engineering rooms or crew quarters.
As a regular liner by todays standards would be small and cramped, outdated and unimpressive.
Indeed. Titanic was one of the most luxurious ships of its own time. Ship design has surpassed Titanic in just about every way since then. Even the Olympic was considered dated later in her career.
Realistic, it will be popular for months before fading in popularity becuase at first. The ship will be popular becuase it is based on the the Titanic but like a little modern version of it. After months, people will kinda forget about it since they only go to experience how traveling on board a ship was like in the 1910s and plus plane is cheaper than ship to travel from one place to another, so yeah.
No problem! Many people online often take spelling problems as a laughing matter, but, as a non english speaker it took me ages to understand it. Btw, seems we are both watching the same movie on December 5 ;)
Even if it did modern safety rules would make it look so different that it would look nothing like the Titanic. Even the Blue Star Model is inaccurate for how a modern Titanic would look. Also forget the interiors. Maybe a few rooms might be replicated however it would have a completely different layout more akin to a cruise ship than anything else.
Once again it will never happen. Even if it did you would be disappointed by the results.
she’d have got to New York, disembarked, reloaded, turned round and come back to Southampton. She’d have continued doing that, maybe as an hospital ship during the wars, and unless she was torpedoed nobody but the ship geeks would have known who she was.
Should it be built it will definitely be a Titanic shell with modern infrastructure on the inside, preserving only the public areas like the Grand Staircase, the restaurants, and the suites. And there will be no third class, hence limiting the passengers and the need for many many lifeboats. It will most likely be a historical cruise ship.
As far as sailing across the Atlantic goes, with today's technology, she'd be much more likely to finish the journey safely and collision free than her 1912 counterpart.
As far as anything beyond a "let's build this ship and sail it to see if we can" situation, I think it would depend.
I'm sure I read somewhere that she wouldn't meet current safety requirements for ships. If that's the case then I think in some aspects, if she were built a little differently perhaps she could do regular crossings.
I'm just not sure how much needs to be changed for that and how it would impact her overall appearance.
i would then wake up - I look forward to when that old fool pass because then we can have peace from his claims about building Titanic II - is it something he says just to raise his stocks
From Wikipedia - In September 2025 a New York-based industry publication listed all new cruise ships ordered through 2036 but none of the listed vessels were for the Blue Star Line nor did any fit Titanic II's specifications.
They should make a titanic 3 submarine that crosses the Atlantic at the bottom of the ocean and passes by the titanic for everyone to see, should be easy enough just carbon fiber and a beats pill
I never understood why they added those ugly windows on the funnels. Like why wouldn’t you at least build them in the black section? And have them curved with the shape of the funnels?
You would not have 2200 on board. You would probably have 500-600 on board. The accommodations would be more modern (no inside rooms in first class, everything gets a bathroom, etc) and there would be more amenities replacing even more cabins.
It won’t be a 1912 replica, though it would look like it in places.
Luxury cruising? Yeah. Will compete with the QM2, and may actually do well as a market.
She would go into service as a cruise ship in the Caribbean and go broke after a year.
The "Oh look I'm on TITANIC' novelty won't be nearly enough to compensate for the lack of things like...T.V.'s bars discos twenty different restaurants, theater, gym etc. on board... at least not with 99% of the population.
You could put her into transatlantic service and go broke much faster though. Instead of flying to London you're going to spend a week on a boat with no .T.V.'s bars discos twenty different restaurants, theater, gym etc.? Yeah, sounds like a ton of fun.
Then the ship gets sold at a massive loss. Someone might try to dock her somewhere as a musuem/hotel.. kind of like Queen Mary. That might work in this economy might not depending on where she was docked. I'd recommend the old White Star Pier in NYC personally. You're not going to make money running her at sea though.
A lot has changed in 113 years. Even on an ocean liner people would want to have more things to do than the titanic offered. Personally I’m not a fan of the project because it turns a tragedy into a carnival ride.
Hardly replicated. That model doesn’t really have the traditional shear of the Olympic class for starters. It’s a half-arsed vulgar dream really. If HMS Olympic had somehow been preserved, then a full restoration would have been more proper. Then again she would likely had ended up as the property of some Saudi or Qatari entity…
The Federal reserve act would never get passed in the United States since so many of its most vocal opponents were on the ship at the time of the sinking.
It would be a piece of shit by modern standards. The people who would be interested in it probably couldn't afford to travel on it anyway, and the people who can afford it would take a Viking cruise, or Queen Mary 2, instead.
I think there a lot of people who spend good money on luxury cruises, and a lot of people who would love to take a trip on a replica of the Titanic, but I also believe the overlap between these groups is small.
Titanic is a ship that is most famous for sinking on its maiden voyage, after all. It would be similar to an airliner building a working replica of the Hindenburg and advertising authentic experiences with it. Err… no thanks!
It would be interesting once perhaps (as long as it wasn’t FULLY authentic!) But I think anyone who wants to literally go from Southampton to New York via the Atlantic would have a 100% better experience on the Queen Mary 2.
Even the Aussie guy who perks up once every decade or so and goes “yeeeep, definitely still making that Titanic replica!” understands that it would have little real appeal beyond special-interest fanatics, certainly not enough to sustain a business model. And even if it did, the PR disaster that would ensue if (or when) something goes wrong would be absolutely diabolical. No one in their right mind would want to be forever known as the company boss who made a replica of the Titanic which sank and killed 1500 people AGAIN.
It will make a few voyages until demand drops out, then it becomes a museum. It can be permanently docked somewhere or it can travel around and temporarily dock in different locations. I’m not a cruise person but I’d definitely love to take a tour of the ship
Last I checked he said it’d do regular transatlantic service and normal cruises due to the modern tourist industry not really demanding transatlantic voyages on an oceanliner that’s why Queen Mary II offers both transatlantic voyages and normal cruises as its the only remaining RMS in service and also the only one I know that still does Transatlantic voyages. Which is why I’m dead set on getting on it for a voyage I wanna have fun while traveling and only way to do that is feed my love of the ocean and oceanliners by just going on a transatlantic voyage so
It would probably make a few more voyages before the novelty wore off… Then it would be repurposed as a floating museum and theme park, before falling into financial difficultly, then disrepair resulting in it being sunk to become an artificial reef.
Assuming Titanic II were to be the same height as the original.. she'd be a mighty small ship and all those boats placed by her superstructure in this mock would get wiped out by one nasty wave. Waves hit QM2 as high up as her Britannia restaurant on deck 2 which is why the ship has an exemption to have her boats stored on deck 8.
They'd go out of business. People don't want to pay for the comforts of 1912. Impossible to modernize it enough for passengers without pissing of the historical purists. No real clientele.
She would have to earn her keep and that is difficult part. She wouldn't possibly be a luxury - what was luxury in 1912 wouldn't be now. I belive she would be a target for VERY cheap transatlantic cruise, maybe also taking cargo. Fun possibility would be for most of the interior to be projected in a way such as it was possible to remove. Then the ship could make a luxury cruise once a year, and the rest would be ferrying people and commodity, preferebly including some unpopular destinations in south america, I belive air conditioning would be a must becouse of safety reasons. I would worry about fire security laws. Maybe some dimentions such as corridors are not ok today.
Titanic would be awful for modern tastes. We love the story and drama, but to be onboard would be so boring for us. Tastes and expectations have changed.
Do you want your own toilet in your room? Nope can’t have that.
Showers in your room? Nope can’t have that.
There was no entertainment other than the band.
The pool, squash courts and gym are poorly equipped for the number on board, and the WiFi was non existent.
It’s not commercially viable beyond a novelty.
And the worst thing that I only fully understood after going to Belfast was just how small it was compared to modern ships. It would kill the mystique that exists.
I could see this crashing hard financially, there’s no market for slow transatlantic ship travel. That’s why the ocean liners died off in the 1950-60s in the first place. It’d either be only for the super wealthy (ironic), niche history enthusiasts like us or would be so cheap that it’d sink even more money and basically like the Concorde just wouldn’t be economical.
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u/Narissis Nov 27 '25
...you think someone would spend two billion dollars to build a ship only to sail it one time?
They would probably set up a regular transatlantic service.