Earlier in the year Blue Star Line Chairman Professor Clive Palmer announced the impressive project of replicating the famous Titanic cruise ship in all of its original grandeur. Today, May 28, Professor Palmer has announced that Blue Star Line has appointed Sweden’s Tillberg Design as the interior architects and designers for the Titanic II moving the exciting project forward.

Blue Star Line Chairman Professor Clive Palmer’s mission is to bring back to life the beautiful ship.

In honor of Titanic’s 100 year anniversary Professor Palmer’s vision is to replicate the ship with all of the original luxuries. The Titanic II is being built as if a full scale working model of the first Titanic. Finland’s Deltamarin is the designer for the new ship and CSC Jinling Shipyard of China is building the Titanic II. The dream interiors are now set to be designed by Tillberg Design.

Titanic II will be dressed in the finest of the original plus paired with modern conveniences and technology.

Beyond the grand beauty of the Titanic that the Titanic II will be designed to reproduce, it will also have the comforts of this century with air conditioning and the most up-to-date safety systems. The design mission is to build a replica of the Titanic to recreate the grand experience of the original period.

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Tillberg Design is to design all of the staterooms for the first, second and third class accommodations as well as the smoking room, first class lounge, Café Parisian and the grand staircase. They are also designing for the incorporation of the newest of safety necessities for the safety deck. Also to be included on the Titanic II will be a theatre, casino and the best of safety with the necessary amount of, and top-of-the-line, lifeboats.

The Titanic II is set to be completed in 2016.

The beautiful ship is aiming for completion in 2016 with thousands of people already registering to get tickets in order to take part in the maiden six day voyage set to leave England and follow the same route as the Titanic. Just as with the original Titanic, passengers will have a choice of purchasing tickets for the three different classes of staterooms as well as the option of dressing up in 1912 costume in order to achieve the ultimate experience.

The Titanic

Share in the experience by taking a 3D virtual tour and browsing the image gallery on the Blue Star Line website. View what the new Titanic II interiors will look like compared to the original. For those who will be setting sail on Titanic II this is sure to be an exciting opportunity to take an actual step back into history.

As much as the world moves forward it is important to appreciate the beauty of the past. Perhaps it is time to bring back some grandeur and take a rest from the techno world in order to slow down, relax and appreciate all that has brought the planet into this century.

Dress up in yesteryear’s ballroom’s finest attire and never be afraid to dance!

One of the most chilling stories to come out of the sinking of the Titanic was the band who played on on the ship deck even as it went down, determined to enjoy their music one last time, til the bitter end. Led by violinist and 25-year-old bandleader Wallace Hartley, the group scored pathos to the passengers’ doom.

According a wireless radio operator who witnessed it, they played a hymnal called “Autumn.” The story inspired composer Gavin Brays to write “The Sinking of the Titanic” to recall tho whole ordeal.

But the story continues: Seven years ago a violin was discovered that claimed to be the same violin Wallace Hartley played as the ship went down.

The theory goes that after playing it until the very end, he wrapped the violin in a leather case and carried it with him in his life jacket made of cork and linen, and that it would have stayed upright even as he floated out to sea and died, his body recovered from the freezing ocean 10 days later.

Titanic violin

The leather case and life jacket supposedly helped protect it against the sea water for 10 days, and the violin was eventually returned to Hartley’s fiance.

After she died in 1939 it made its way into a Salvation Army, where it was purchased by someone shortly thereafter and its history speculated about but never really known for sure.

Seven years ago the auction house Henry Aldridge and Son came into the violin, and they’ve been looking for evidence to verify whether it is actually Hartley’s violin ever since.

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Now they’ve done a comprehensive CT scan and examined the inside of the violin using 3D rendering technology to explore its constructions, glue holding it together, and any other telltale markings, and they’ve verified that it is indeed the violin from the Titanic. It even has salt water remnants left in the wood.

“We’ve spent the last seven years gathering evidence and we’re confident that ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ this is Wallace Hartley’s violin,” said a spokesman for Henry Aldridge and Son.

The violin will be auctioned off next year, after touring the U.S. for displays, and will probably made ungodly amounts of cash for Henry Aldridge and Son.