RMS Carpathia (2018)

The lovely White Star monarch gets her official ref sheet! I've never made one of these before, but it was a fun project and toss between legitimate facts and fictitious parts of the design I've made for her. The color palette was the hardest to tack down - never really thought of it, well, officially before!

more info... RMS Olympic: Titanic's Unsinkable Sister (film) RMS Olympic | White Star History Atlantic Liners - RMS Olympic

What’s ur favorite boat. I want a picture of the boat too.

My favorite is the RMS Olympic. She may look like her younger sister RMS Titanic, but with a keen eye, you can tell them apart. She's my favorite for a couple reasons. First of all, I like her exterior. I like the proportions of her funnels, and her hull shape. I also like the relatively square superstructure at the bow. Her interiors are also an excellent example of the edwardian era decor. I MIGHT prefer the Mauretanias interiors a bit more, but the Olympic wins overall because of her exterior and career. Oceanliner Designs has a 3 part series on her career I would recommend because it's too much to get into here, but one of my favorite stories involves her time as HMS Olympic during World War 1. She was serving as a troop ship and she was being targeted by a German U-Boat. She actually managed to swing herself around and ram the U-Boat, sinking it in the process. She also survived a torpedo strike on a separate U-Boat encounter (it was a dud). While Olympic is my favorite, I have a list of my top 19 ocean liners. The only things that remain consistent is that Olympic is always #1, and the Mauretania, Queen Mary, and SS United States all always occupy the top 4 (although the positions change.) Also, I have a 1 ship per class rule, so among the Olympic, Titanic, and Brittainic, I had to only pick 1.

#1) RMS Olympic (1911)

#2) RMS Queen Mary (1935)

#3) SS United States (1951)

#4) RMS Mauritania (1907)

#5) RMS Oceanic (1899) 

#6) RMS Aquitania (1914)

#7) RMS Adriatic (1907)

#8) RMS Majestic (1889)

#9) RMS Carmania (1905)

#10) SS Bremen (1938)

#11) MV Georgic (1931)

#12) SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1937)

#13) RMS Umbria (1884)

#14) City of Paris (1888)

#15) SS Conte di Savoia (1932)

#16) SS Andrea Doria (1953)

#17) SS Atlantic (1871)

#18) Queen Elizabeth 2 (1967)

#19) RMS Queen Mary 2 (2004)

Time Jump [Repost]

Give me a time machine and let me travel through history, re-living certain moments of my childhood or simply witnessing or experiencing a time when I didn’t exist. Let’s take the journey together through the spaces of time. Let’s begin with the early 1900s, right in the prime of the Edwardian era. Why? Curiosity of course. I also happen to be a fan of the grand old ocean liners of the period.…

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OLYMPIC AND TITANIC; THE SCHEDULE...

In the days before commercial, mass market air travel, ocean liners were literally the only means of transport between continents.

Their schedules became sacrosanct. In theory, they were meant to slow down in any kind of adverse circumstances. Bad weather, fog, heavy seas, ice fields. But, in fact, often as not they simply rode their luck and carried on at near full speed ahead.

Board meetings, family reunions, even high society weddings were just a few of the events that would be arranged around the liner schedules. Any ship that gained a reputation for bad timekeeping cost her owners in terms of money, prestige and reputation, alike.

Like most other companies, the White Star Line sought to run a reliable, weekly service between Europe and New York. The technological constraints of the Edwardian era meant that this required a minimum of three, roughly comparable ships.

White Star's original plan was for this to be operated, initially at least, by the Olympic, the Titanic, and the smaller, older Oceanic. She would be replaced in turn by the third Olympic Class liner- the eventual Britannic- when she was delivered from Belfast.

The schedule called for one ship to sail westbound at noon each Wednesday. She would call in at Cherborg that evening, and at Queenstown on Thursday. Crossing the Atlantic, she would then arrive in New York the following Tuesday.

Leaving New York on the Saturday, another ship would reach Southampton the following Friday, sailing via Plymouth and Cherbourg. Four days later on Wednesday, the next westbound crossing would begin again.

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Here she is, the preorder link and cover reveal for The Midnight Call. Did you guess correctly the event I was going to write about? ★•.¸.•**•.¸.•**•(¸.•*´`*•.¸)**•.¸.•**•.¸.•★ April 1912. Helen Harrington has aspirations of being a schoolteacher, a dream shattered by the untimely death of her mother, an event that she blames herself for. To support her younger siblings, Helen abandons her fantasy and appeals to her mother’s former employer, White Star Line, for their help in securing work. Begrudgingly, White Star appoints her to a new stewardess position on the line’s newest ship, the RMS Titanic. Filled with insecurities and regret, Helen does not look forward to the voyage and the responsibilities that come with it until she crosses paths with a fellow crew member. Having risen steadily up the company ladder, John Phillips is pleased to find himself appointed as the Titanic’s senior wireless operator. Phillips expects an uneventful voyage, but when he meets a young stewardess, he begins to question everything he had thought was right. As Titanic steams towards disaster, Phillips finds himself in an impossible situation. But when given a chance to escape it, will he take it or give his life for others? Blending fiction and historical fact, The Midnight Call tells the story of one of the Titanic’s most critical tales of bravery, courage, and sacrifice. mybook.to/MidnightCall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60424207-the-midnight-call

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Thomas and Alexander Carlisle concede to Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie and their wish to keep as much space open on the boat deck as possible -- for passenger comfort and luxury. You have to understand that at the time, the Board of Trade's lifeboat regulations required that all ships over 10,000 tons must hold 16 lifeboats. Titanic, therefore, exceded the required number coming in with 20 boats including the cutters and the Englehardt Collapsibles.

So confident where the chairmen of Harland & Wolff and White Star in the design of the Olympic class liners, with their water-tight bulkheads, and superior craftsmanship, that they viewed the lifeboats good PR. They would never need lifeboats on an unsinkable ship.

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Favorite History Books || Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster ★★★★☆

The Titanic’s story, however, has lost none of its sheen. On the eve of its centenary it remains what Walter Lord, the author of A Night to Remember, once labeled “the unsinkable subject.” It has inspired hundreds of books, movies, and websites, and one hesitates to launch another craft into such crowded sea-lanes. Yet in most accounts of the disaster, the Titanic is the protagonist and her passengers merely supporting players, identified with tags like “millionaire John Jacob Astor,” “crusading journalist W. T. Stead,” and “fashion designer Lady Duff Gordon.” Yet who were these people? And what had brought their lives to this fateful crossing?

To Lily May Futrelle, her fellow travelers were “a rare gathering of beautiful women and splendid men.” A rare gathering it was—liner historians report that no other passenger list of the period ever featured quite as many celebrated names. For Lady Duff Gordon, the Titanic was “a small world bent on pleasure.” And it was indeed a smaller world than ours—the populations of the United States and Canada were a third of what they are today (and Great Britain’s a third less), and wealth and influence were concentrated in much tighter circles. Those who made ocean crossings regularly usually found acquaintances on the first-class passenger list.

But “bent on pleasure”? There was certainly a contingent of the transatlantic leisured rich on board, a recently evolved class of Americans who kept homes in Paris or regularly made the crossing for the winter “season” in London or on the Continent. But many of the liner’s first-class cabins were occupied by hardworking high achievers. The artist Frank Millet, for example, was on his way to Washington to help decide on the design for the Lincoln Memorial. His friend, White House aide Archie Butt, was heading home to prepare for a grueling presidential election campaign. Railroad president Charles Hays was returning to Canada for the opening of his company’s new Château Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. Lady Duff Gordon herself was a leading British couturiere who had urgent business to tend to at her New York salon. Within their lives and those of others on board can be found a remarkable convergence of the events, issues, and personalities of the age, forming what Walter Lord called “an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian world.”

In America, the Titanic is often described as a cross-section of the Gilded Age, an era of rapid industrialization and wealth creation in the United States that began in the 1870s and ended with the introduction of income taxes in 1913 and the outbreak of World War I the following year. Her sinking is sometimes viewed as the warning bell for a complacent society steaming toward catastrophe in the trenches of the Western Front. As the poet and actress Blanche Oelrichs observed, it was “as if some great stage manager planned that there should be a minor warning, a flash of horror” before the greater calamity to come.

RMS Olympic

Olympic was an Edwardian Era ocean liner, known best for her relation to fated RMS Titanic. She served from 1911 till 1935 where she was lastly scrapped on the Tyne.

She is also MY favourite ship!

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🚗 Mode of transportation

Jackson is the kind of guy to lean toward magical forms of transportation over Muggle ones. As soon as he could Apparate, he used it to his advantage quite frequently, loving that he would never have to worry about complex time tables again. He often uses the Floo Network or flying carriages when he can't Apparate to a location. When his magical forms of transport are exhausted, he will still occasionally catch a Muggle streetcar or train.

Ru -- appropriate to a magical water horse -- finds boats interesting, particularly Muggle ocean liners, which were very fashionable in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Ru found the idea of a boat so large that it could be almost its own pleasure island at sea, while still always moving to its destination, kind of insane. Insane, but interesting.

Carewyn loves broom flying. Although she wasn't really able to stay on the Slytherin Quidditch team for long at school, she's always been enchanted with the idea of flight. She also is rather comfortable traveling on Muggle planes too, when she has to.

🎢 Theme park ride

Jackson would be much more into shows than rides, by and large. Parades in particular are fun for him because he always enjoys the artistry of the floats and costumes. Rides-wise, he would be all up for a thrill ride or two, as well as the carousel.

Ru would also be more into shows, particularly fireworks shows and other nighttime entertainment, even if the pictures would never turn out to his satisfaction. That being said, if there were any scary rides or attractions in the park he went to, they'd be all up for trying it out -- Ru doesn't scare easily, and they think it's funny when people get scared of what they view "stupid things."

As mentioned in the previous answer, Carewyn is enchanted with the idea of flight, so her favorite rides would be ones that simulate that feeling, whether literally in Ferris wheels or "skyway"-type rides or virtual simulators like the Disney Parks' Star Tours or Soarin'.

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I don't know if I've ever talked about this on here before, but I am absolutely fascinated by the story of the Lusitania. I've known I would write a novel about it since I was 15 and had a dream about visiting the shipwreck in a big bubble you could take an elevator down to and tour (This was back before I found out that the British Navy used it for torpedo target practice during WWII and that there are unexploded torpedoes on the wreck) and met the ghosts of a family that died there and fell in love with the son. Yes, it was a wild dream. Lol.

After my divorce in 2018, I started collecting and reading every book I could find on the Lusitania and other old ocean liners of the Edwardian era (including the Titanic, yes). I even invested in copies of letters sent by the mother and brother of victim Richard Preston Prichard to survivors to find out what his final days were like. (Prichard's body was never recovered). The letters are heartbreaking, but also a look into some first-hand accounts of the experiences of the survivors. Through my research, I decided to build a novel centered on actual people on the ship, including Prichard.

So, this is my wall of Lusitania books, including a postcard from the ship, purchased and mailed in the year after she set sail, 1907.

If you're ever curious about the story of the Lusitania, send me an ask! I love to talk about it and the stories of the people on board!

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Titanic Alternatives

Titanic Alternatives: The what-ifs of the most famous disaster at sea.

Titanic. It’s a name that conjures up images. The grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era caught up in fate and circumstances on its maiden voyage. A ship full of the rich and famous, as well as those hoping for a new life. All of their lives intertwined when the vessel hits an iceberg in the mid-Atlantic. And without enough lifeboats to save them all from the freezing water around them. It’s a…

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Alright, I want your opinions. Entertain me if you please! 1. Do you think German liners beyond Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosser and Bremen/ Europa don't get enough recognition for all their (especially) luxury "firsts" (elevator, cover charge restaurant, winter gardens, lidos, those Vienna Cafes)? 2. What era of liner decoration is your preferential movement? And a prime example of this for you would be? 3. Conte di Savoia's Salone Colonna - Beautiful room, but in the wrong ship and they just should have gone full modern with Rex being a wonderful period piece against it? Or do you think it was right do a Lloyd's of London/Bowood House arrangement? *sorry*

1. I do think that the German liners tend to be unfairly overlooked. I think people tend to focus a bit too much on Cunard and White Star. Don't get me wrong, I adore them and their ships, but I think other lines and countries deserve some more attention. I'm particularly a fan of the Imperator class of ocean liners.

2. My favorite era would probably be the Edwardian/ pre-war stuff. My favorite is probably a tie between the Olympic, Oceanic, and Mauretania. Other examples include The Big Four, Lusitania, and the plans for what the Britannic would have looked like had she survived the war. A close second would be the art deco ships, but I'm specifically referring to the Cunarders here. I'm really not a fan of the Normandies interior design, for example. In terms of the exterior of ships, I would say my favorites are from 1930 to the mid-50s. My favorites are the MV Georgic, Bremen, the planned but unbuilt RMMV Oceanic, and SS United States. The Big U definitely has my favorite exterior. 

3. I do think it would have been nice for the Rex to contrast the Conte di Savoia (especially considering the Rex was the last ocean liner that had a clipper stern), but it's also important to remember that they were originally being built by two different companies and intended to be rivals. They became running mates purely by accident when the companies merged. I'm not sure how far along in the building process they were when the merger happened, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't think it would be worth it to swap around the interior decor after installation. 

4. Why are you apologizing? I love questions like these! Thank you so much!

“MORE THAN 1,500 PERISH AS THE GREAT TITANIC SINKS.” This is the headline from the April 16th, 1912 issue of “The New York Tribune.”

This is my latest display and one that I find to be very historical and very somber. The dress and hat are both from ca. 1912. For the display I picked out a wide brim Edwardian Era hat that would’ve been the correct choice for Spring, a jet beaded necklace, and a newspaper from the day after the famous ocean liner, Titanic, sank into the Atlantic Ocean. This outfit is what a woman might’ve been wearing the afternoon of April 16th while walking past a newsstand in town and seeing the unbelievable headline.

Reminder that this AU will be taking place in the Edwardian era, which is about 1900-1920.

If you would like some visual clues, here is a list:

Gibson girls

Model Ts

Art Nouveau

the Titanic and ocean liners

Tiffany lamps

garden parties

big floppy hats

top hats

monocles and handlebar mustaches

women’s suffrage

the machine age

smog and smoke-covered cities

the very beginnings of animation and film with kinetoscopes and line-art animations

moulin rouge

downton abbey

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang/Mary Poppins

The Wind in the Willows

WWI

hot air balloons

Lady and the Tramp

I also have a pinterest board that I’m gonna be updating pretty much constantly! It should give you a pretty good overview of the feel of the era if you’re not familiar with it! (I tried to include LGBT and genderfluid examples of clothing as well!)