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Nectar Gan

Construction has started on a life-sized replica of the Titanic in a rural part of southwest China, with the backers hoping to eventually give tourists a taste of the thrill – and eventual horror – that passengers aboard the ocean liner experienced more than 100 years ago.
A keel-laying ceremony was held in a rural town in Daying county in Sichuan province on Monday, China News Service reported.
Chinese firm to replicate the Titanic for 1 billion yuan for inland theme park
The replica will measure 270 metres in length, 28 metres across, use 26,000 tonnes of steel and cost an estimated 1 billion yuan (HK$1.12 billion, US$145 million), according to West China Daily and the construction company, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group.


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The Titanic has held a grip on the popular imagination ever since it struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, on April 14, 1912, killing more than 1,500 people.
The replica going up in Daying, part of a larger visitor attraction, will feature exact reproductions of the interior and exterior of the original vessel – from lamps, door handles to toilets, West China Daily reported last year.

Visitors can take part in period-correct parties and games, and even the banquet menu would be “exactly” the same as it was a century ago.
With the aid of a high-tech simulation re-enactment, visitors can experience some of the horror the passengers must have felt when ocean liner began its decent into the north Atlantic.
But the project has fallen behind schedule. The replica was announced in 2013 and slated to open next year, but construction is expected to take another 2 ½ years, according to a report published on Monday on the government website of Suining, the municipality overseeing Daying. 
The “Unsinkable Titanic” is part of the larger Romandisea Seven Star International Cultural Tourism Resort, aimed at luring China’s expanding middle class and their burgeoning spending power.
The least expensive price for a night on board is 3,000 yuan, while the most luxurious option will cost several hundred thousand yuan.

Full-sized replica of Titanic begins taking shape in landlocked southwest China

Tourist attraction aims to recreate the thrills and horror of doomed voyage

Belfast Southampton Cherbourg Queenstown Titanic Centenary Steering Gear Compass Wheel House Chart Room Captain's Bridge Crow's Nest (Lookout) Boiler Room 1 Turbine Engine Room Provisions 1st Class Smoke Room 2nd Class Smoke Room 3rd Class Smoke Room 2nd Class Library 2nd Class Dining Saloon 3rd Class Dining Saloon Restaurant 1st Class Galley Reading Room Grand Staircase 1st Class Lounge Triple Expansion Engine Room Boiler Room 2 Boiler Room 4 Boiler Room 3Boiler Room 5 Boiler Room 6Squash Court Pool Marconi rooms Gymnasium Turkish Bath Coal First class areas Second class areas Third class areas Cargo holds Stores Crew quarters RMS TITANIC SPECIFICATIONS Length Beam Tonnage Total horsepower Service speed Top speed 46,000 21 knots 23-24 knots 270m 28m 46,329 Passengers and crew: 2,201Casualties: 1,490 1st class 2nd class 3rd class Crew 706 / 528 885 / 673 325 / 122 285 / 167 (38%) (59%) (75%) (76%) TIMELINE Mar 31, 1909: Work starts on Titanic. The 46,000-tonne ship is largest moving ob

Labourers work at the construction site of the replica of the Titanic at a theme park in Daying county, Sichuan province. Photo: Reuters

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Chinese firm to replicate the Titanic for 1 billion yuan for inland theme park

Bernard Hill, 3rd from right, actor of captain Edward Smith in the 1997 movie "Titanic", poses with Su Shaojun, second from right, CEO of Seven-Star Energy Investment Group during a news conference in Hong Kong January 12, 2014. Photo: Reuters

An artist's rendering of the proposed cruise ship Titanic II, provided by the Blue Star Line as Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans for his dream ship during a news conference in New York February 26, 2013. Photo: Reuters

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Tourist attraction aims to recreate the thrills and horror of doomed voyage
