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I ONE UP YOU.

Some slightly-stale homemade ocean liner memes I've had saved to my desktop for a while and felt the need to share:

Not to mention she was a BEAUT TOO

what are some underrated boats that you dont think get enough love or appreciation and why?

sincerely,

#1 sailboat fan ⛵

For me, I'd say White Star Lines SS Germanic. She was 455 feet long and 5,008 Gross Registered Tons. She was delivered to the White Star Line in 1875 as the sister of the SS Britannic. These ships were largely considered to be a scaled up version of the Oceanic class from 1870, but her career is what makes her interesting to me. She had 1 propeller powered by compound steam engines, and a service speed of 16 knots (30 km/h, or 18 mph). At this speed, she and her sister won back the Blue Ribband for the White Star Line. Like the Oceanic class, she was rigged as a barque with sails in case of emergency, which came in handy when in January of 1883 her propeller shaft sheared at sea, and she had to make the rest of the journey by sail. She was the last White Star liner to be constructed primarily out of iron. After her, all of their ships were made from steel. In April of 1885, she encountered a rogue wave, which struck her and caused substantial damage. Six lifeboats had been torn away, the skylights to her engine rooms were smashed, and her pilot house was crushed. Water flooded into the boiler and engine rooms, a hole was torn into the side of the reading room, which quickly flooded (followed by the saloon and staterooms), and 13 people were injured, with one sailor being washed overboard. On 13th of February 1899, she was caught in a massive blizzard at her pier in New York. An estimated 1,800 Tons of snow and ice fell atop her superstructure. This added weight was enough to make her list enough that water could enter her open Coaling ports. She sank at her pier. She was refloated, repaired, and resumed service three months later. Starting around 1904, she changed hands numerous times, until finally landing in the Ottoman empire, and being renamed Gul Djemal / Gülcemal. She served as a troop transport until 1920, when she became a passenger ship again. She was retired from service in 1937, but wasn't scrapped until 1950. There were plans to convert her into a floating hotel (like the Queen Mary would be in 1970) but this never came to fruition. Having been in service for 75 years, she is the second longest serving ocean liner, behind Cunard Line's SS Parthia. She survived both World Wars (even though she played no part in the second World War). Her sister ship Britannic was scrapped in 1904, after serving in the Second Boer War as a troop ship.

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If I told you I had a degradation kink would you stick this on my forehead? 🥺

WHERE DID YOU GET SUCH DRIP

ANSWER ME

TIME TO SHOW OFF MY COLLECTION OF OCEAN LINER SHIRTS (part 1 because only 10 images per post)

In order from top to bottom,

1) The RMS Lusitania/RMS Mauretania

2) The RMS Majestic

3) The RMS Queen Mary

4) The SECOND RMS Aquitania Shirt

5) RMS Clickbait

6) The ONLY Olympic shirt I could find that wasn't primarily focused on Titanic as well

7) The V-Break illustration (haunts my dreams)

8) The FIRST Aquitania shirt (probably my favorite)

9) The Harland and Wolff logo

10) The RMS Oceanic

If I’m correct that’s the SS Anne right??? Been a while since I’ve seen the 97 series but I do recall that it didn’t go well for the Anne…..

IS THAT A CUNARD FUNNEL IN THE POKEMON ANIME?!?!?!?!.!.!?!?!

Got an old Cunard Line sailing schedule from a 1895 Newspaper off EBay a day or 2 ago.

Bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey Barbecue Sauce™ scale.

Silly little meme I made

I don’t mean to be that guy but the 3rd one doesn’t show the Majestic, it instead shows either the SS Pittsburgh, Regina, Laurentic, or Doric.

NEW BOAT SHIRTS BAYBEE

1) RMS Titanic Advertisement

2) Olympic Class Blueprint/side profile

3) A generic White Star Line Advertisement (although, the ship depicted is the RMS Majestic)

4) A generic Cunard Advertisement (Although the ship depicted is the RMS Mauretania)

5) The Olympic Class Trio (not sure if you can tell by the Pic, but the jpeg artifacts are CRISPY)

6) A Generic Advertisement for the Canadian Pacific Line (Although the ship depicted is the RMS Empress of Britain)

7) A duplicate of my Queen Mary shirt, but in

PURPLE

(Parts 1 and 2)

https://www.tumblr.com/your-resident-boat-person/745618216697626624/most-of-them-are-from-a-website-called-teepublic?source=share

Mauretania (1906) appreciation post. I’ve always preferred Mauri’s bridge design over Lucille’s.

Our beloved RMS Aquitania, not long before she was scrapped, December 1949. She was the culmination of the four stacked liner.