Here I am wondering it it'd be possible to make a new sister to Titanic. I mean, they were a fairly efficient design for the era on fuel - about 2/3rds of what Mauretania burned but a ship a third larger.
You can't build steam reciprocating engines anymore , so you'd have to go with diesel, but then your boiler rooms can be replaced with other 'modern' machine spaces like auxiliary generators, air conditioning, laundries, waste processing and larger entertainment venues. Those big slow-rolling marine diesels are incredibly efficient of fuel and burn anything black and liquid that'll inject. Centre engine is electric, driven by the main generators.
As a modern ship, you'd have to run plumbing to all the cabins - not just the first class - and the high quantity of interior cabins would not be popular with modern cruisers, but the Three-Class layout gives you public areas of the ship with distinct character - with 'Third' class being more like a buffet and a low cost bar, second class being a casual restaraunt that's comfy but informal , and first-class areas having a fancy dresscode and shit for the nights you want to be glamourous.
You can't panel the interior with timber - hello Morro Castle - but veneers may be possible to at least replicate the effect and the decor of the 1912.
Lifeboats - you can get an exemption (QM2 has it) to the 15 meter maximum limit. You have to have enough for everyone, but that's already possible.
But modern ships are less class-driven - most areas and amenities are available to most passengers. The difference between first, second and third class now being the amount of time you spend in public spaces on the ship. Third class cabins are beds with shitters and showers, with the expectation that you spend most your time in public areas of the ship (Like a car ferry cabin), and first class cabins are spaces where you can spend time privately and - in theory - never actually leave your cabin (Like Grills suites on QM2). Second class are sort of, in between, like Britannia class on the QM2
And maybe, second and third class, some amenities are extra charge - or the fancy restaraunt is an extra cost that needs booking for a night or two.
I mean, maybe people would get a kick on sailing on an imitation of an early 20th century ocean liner. And, fully packed, she'd be more environmentally friendly that an equivelant quantity of flights which might be a big thing in the near futures.
Taxes on aviation may make ocean travel viable once more.
Find a billionaire. Cook up some bullshit. Get 'em to build it.
You can't build steam reciprocating engines anymore , so you'd have to go with diesel, but then your boiler rooms can be replaced with other 'modern' machine spaces like auxiliary generators, air conditioning, laundries, waste processing and larger entertainment venues. Those big slow-rolling marine diesels are incredibly efficient of fuel and burn anything black and liquid that'll inject. Centre engine is electric, driven by the main generators.
As a modern ship, you'd have to run plumbing to all the cabins - not just the first class - and the high quantity of interior cabins would not be popular with modern cruisers, but the Three-Class layout gives you public areas of the ship with distinct character - with 'Third' class being more like a buffet and a low cost bar, second class being a casual restaraunt that's comfy but informal , and first-class areas having a fancy dresscode and shit for the nights you want to be glamourous.
You can't panel the interior with timber - hello Morro Castle - but veneers may be possible to at least replicate the effect and the decor of the 1912.
Lifeboats - you can get an exemption (QM2 has it) to the 15 meter maximum limit. You have to have enough for everyone, but that's already possible.
But modern ships are less class-driven - most areas and amenities are available to most passengers. The difference between first, second and third class now being the amount of time you spend in public spaces on the ship. Third class cabins are beds with shitters and showers, with the expectation that you spend most your time in public areas of the ship (Like a car ferry cabin), and first class cabins are spaces where you can spend time privately and - in theory - never actually leave your cabin (Like Grills suites on QM2). Second class are sort of, in between, like Britannia class on the QM2
And maybe, second and third class, some amenities are extra charge - or the fancy restaraunt is an extra cost that needs booking for a night or two.
I mean, maybe people would get a kick on sailing on an imitation of an early 20th century ocean liner. And, fully packed, she'd be more environmentally friendly that an equivelant quantity of flights which might be a big thing in the near futures.
Taxes on aviation may make ocean travel viable once more.
Find a billionaire. Cook up some bullshit. Get 'em to build it.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.