Titanic follies

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   For some reason an Australian with a lot of money is threatening to build a copy of the Titanic.  There are immediate peculiarities in this.  The first being that even with first class staterooms the Titanic's cabins did not all have private bathrooms.   People then had different standards.  Apparently he means the overall shape of the ship and the public spaces with the same arrangement of corridors, excepting steerage class.
   The ship will undoubtedly have diesel engines.  The Titanic, as built, had 4 funnels, but only 3 were functional.  The 4th was added to make the ship look more balanced.  In the replica 33 out of 4 would be useless deadweight. They were also built tall to disperse coal ash, which is unnecessary with diesel fuel.
    The Titanic's rudder was undersized and it had a peculiar arrangement of 3 propellor shafts.  Obviously, the copy would be built with 2 shafts and either 2 rudders or electric engines that can pivot.

   The Titanic's bow was built with a straight stem, apparently insurance companies at that time insisted on it.  Maybe that was supposed to minimize damage in collisions.  The problem is that it produces a very strong singularity as the bow hits water, producing unneeded drag.  A more angled
bow reduces the singularity as bow hits peaceful water and reduces fuel consumption.
   It really was not much of a ship and there is no reasonable cause to copy it.