Titanic II

Submission 14,803

Overview

The Titanic II refers to a replica of the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner which sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean in April of 1912. The ship's maiden voyage is scheduled for sometime in the year 2022.

Background

In April 2012, Blue Star Line chairman Clive Palmer announced the cruise company was working on creating a replica of the RMS Titanic.^[2] The construction was planned to take place before the end of the year and to launch the replica in 2016. In September 2018, following years of delays, Blue Star Line published a press release announcing that construction of the vessel had been resumed.^[3]

Developments

On October 21st, 2018, the @tictoc Twitter feed posted a video announcing that Blue Star Line was creating a replica of the Titanic set to travel from Dubai to Southampton, where it would follow the route of its predecessor to New York (shown below). The ship is

On October 23rd, a post about the Titanic II voyage was submitted to /r/news^[1] by Redditor nerdy_J. That day, a Twitter^[4] History page was created titled "News of a Titanic II voyage is being met with skepticism" was created, highlighting various reactions to the announcements. Also on October 23rd, the Dictionary.com Twitter feed replied to a tweet about the Titanic II with a link to the definition of "foreshadowing" (shown below, left). Meanwhile, The Daily Dot^[5] published an article highlighting other notable tweets.