A work depicting the White Star 'fleet that never was'. RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and RMS Gigantic as they might have appeared in the Atlantic for a publicity rendezvous around 1920. Fate intervened to prevent this fleet from eventuating...
Titanic, as we all know, sank with large loss of life after striking an iceberg in 1912.
Gigantic was renamed during construction to RMS Britannic (following the Titanic disaster). Britannic was sunk in 1916 whilst being used as a hospital ship.
Olympic survived the First World War and operated across the North Atlantic for many years, being scrapped in 1934. Few people today know that this nearly identical sister ship to Titanic operated in the early part of the last century. As it was scrapped, a lot of the interior fittings and fixtures survived for use elsewhere, and thus many survive to this day.
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I used the largest sized digital canvas available in Bryce 7 and the highest anti-alias settings to make the image, which took 30 hours to render. It has been printed on canvas over 3 feet wide. Next year is the centenary of Titanic's sinking...
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