#ocean liners

[coloursteelsexappeal]

[plaiesancier]

Wheelhouse

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Art Deco poster for the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen line sailing from Europe to America, 1925.

Photo: Alamy

[hatsalad]

Looking at pictures of ocean liners and then looking at pictures of modern cruise ships is like looking at the comparisons of bad selective breeding in dogs over 100 years.

Beautiful. Elegant. Regal.

Vs

Evil. Overbred. Disfigured and dying young of inherited heart conditions.

[ivx2810]

Fun fact: RMS Mauretania is roughly the same weight as 115,627,163 pigeons

[your-resident-boat-person]

Trans icon

(the RMS Berengaria (she/her) was formerly the SS Imperator (he/him))

[aloneinthedark-eagle]

Dream journey 🚢

[rms-mauretanic]

This is my favorite piece of “evidence” for the Titanic switch conspiracy. I genuinely lose my mind laughing whenever I look at it.

At first glance, the issue is obvious, right? The ship in the top picture is Titanic, mislabeled as Olympic. Titanic had an enclosed A-deck promenade while Olympic’s was left open. They just switched the names and called it “evidence.”

That’s silly enough as it is, but it gets better. See how the ship in the second picture doesn’t have any funnels?

Titanic wasn’t launched in her final configuration - originally, her A-deck promenade was open, just like her sister’s, and was enclosed later on during the fitting-out process. This is what she looked like right after launch (we know this is Titanic and not Olympic because Olympic was painted light grey for her launch):

Yeah, that’s right. Both of those pictures are of Titanic.

They switched the Titanic with the Titanic.

[postingcards]

real photo postcards of cunard's greyhounds on their sea trials ca. 1907

[hullbreachavoc]

The sunken Oceanliner, Dredge

[oceanlinersmodeller]

"A Well-Known Subject at Southampton" By artist Bernard Finnigan Gribble (1872–1962) Southampton City Art Gallery

This is a painting I fell in love with, depicting RMS Olympic on the floating dry dock in the 1930s.

[coloursteelsexappeal]

HMT Olympic, 1918

[rayenigma]

The urge to draw a boat so I just pull an entire poster out of nowhere because I'm obsessed with the vintage ones. I love you, SS Andrea Doria

[rmsfranconia]

Reblog if you think Olympic is goated

[newyorkthegoldenage]

So you think the customs lines at the airport are bad? This was the scene at the pier as the S.S. Manhattan came in, September 7, 1939.

Photo: John Rooney for the AP

[ivx2810]

Ever wanted to see genuine coloured images of your favourite ocean liners?

BOOM

Let me reiterate that these aren't black and white photos that were colourised by someone. They were actually taken in colour. The Olympic one is with a coloured photo technique patented in 1903 called "autochrome", and to be honest I'm not sure about the Mauretania (feat. olympic) one. But still. COOL