Titanic II, an exact replica of the original ship, will set sail in 2018
An Aussie billionaire is building a fully-function replica of the Titanic that will set sail in 2018. Australian billionaire Clive Palmer’s fully-functioning replica of the Titanic will be launched in 2018, two years later than initially planned. A spokesman for the tycoon said that the project had merely been delayed and not abandoned. Titanic II will look virtually identical to the Belfast-built luxury liner which sank on April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, but the ship will have some modern improvements. The ship will be four meters wider in order to meet today’s maritime safety regulations, and the hull will be welded, not riveted, the Belfast Telegraph reports. "The new Titanic will of course have modern evacuation procedures, satellite controls, digital navigation and radar systems and all those things you'd expect on a 21st century ship," said James McDonald, the global marketing director of Palmer's company Blue Star L...