#oceans liners

[plaiesancier]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)

[silver-frog]

You are the Sunshine of my life.

Enfin, presque tous les jours.

[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.

[thatsbelievable]

[lonestarbattleship]

View of the large missing section of Titanic's railing from the recent dive to the wreck.

Photographed in July 2024.

Photo from the BBC and the Titanic Expedition 2024 website: link, link

[plaiesancier]

Wheelhouse

[postingcards]

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

[hullbreachavoc]

The sunken Oceanliner, Dredge

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Last look at New York—passengers on the deck of the SS Queen of Bermuda, 1932.

Photo: Irving Browning via the NY Historical Society

[scavengedluxury]

The ocean liner RMS Aquitania on the Atlantic between Liverpool and the USA, 1929. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.