Digital animation showed the famous Titanic in cross-section (12 photos + 2 videos)

American animator Jared Owen published an animated video on YouTube showing the Titanic from all sides and in cross section. This is exactly what the most famous ship in history looked like when it sank during its first and only voyage across the ocean.





The video shows the Titanic as it looked before sailing from Southampton 112 years ago.

The video may be useful to Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, who has promised to recreate the famous ship. The cost of creating a replica is estimated at £1 billion.



The video shows a cross-section of offices, cabins, storage compartments and other rooms of the Titanic.

Titanic II, due to be ready by 2027, will exactly replicate the characteristics of the original ship, but will be equipped with modern navigation and safety systems.



Jared Owen, who has a YouTube channel with 3D animations showing how things work, describes the Titanic as "the most famous ship in history."

“When they finished building the Titanic, it was the largest ship in the world,” he says in the video. — The ship was designed and built more than 100 years ago. This means that there were no computers or 3D design programs. It was all designed by hand; to me this is incredible engineering and craftsmanship.”

In creating the video, Owen relied on numerous sources, including National Geographic, the Encyclopedia Titanica reference site, and the Haynes Manual book series Titanic. He then used Blender, an open-source 3D content creation program, to digitally recreate the Titanic.

His video shows all 10 decks of the Titanic, including the boat deck at the very top, where most of the ship's lifeboats were located.





You can see interesting interior details that are often overlooked, from second-class accommodation (pink beds) to ship machinery



The Titanic sailing from Southampton on April 10, 1912. The ship will never return from this first voyage



Part of the reason the Titanic did not have enough lifeboats was that the designers did not want to clutter the boat deck and block the view of the Atlantic for first class passengers.

“As we all know, not having enough lifeboats was a very bad idea,” Owen says.

Immediately below the boat deck was Deck A, also called the promenade deck, which was also exclusively for first class. The promenade deck, stretching the entire length of the ship, provided more space for outdoor exercise. At the very bottom was the deck where the engines and boiler rooms were located, and it was this deck that was the first to be flooded when the ship collided with the iceberg.

Owen also reveals some secrets about the ship's design, including a little-known fact about the fourth and final iconic black-tipped funnel.

“Only three pipes were used; the fourth was added mainly for appearance,” he says. — The builders decided that with a fourth pipe the ship would seem more powerful; however, the fourth pipe still helped with ventilation below.”



Another interesting fact: the Titanic actually had two grand staircases, both of which were for first class passengers only. The “bow” ladder was located closer to the front, between the first and second pipes, and the “stern” ladder was closer to the rear, between the third and fourth pipes.

The forward grand staircase had an ornate carved oak panel with a clock in the center



Pictured is the forward grand staircase of sister ship RMS Olympic, which is believed to be identical to that on the Titanic. There are no photographs of the Titanic's grand staircases.

The largest and grandest of these was the front grand staircase, which contains an ornate carved oak panel with a clock in the center - the meeting place of Jack and Rose in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film.

Right next to the front grand staircase was a gym equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for the time, such as a rowing machine and mechanical bicycles.

The Titanic also featured luxuries such as squash courts, a Turkish bath, a gym, a hair salon, and, for the first time on a ship, a swimming pool.

The aft grand staircase on RMS Olympic, believed to be identical to that of the Titanic



The passenger ship, owned by the White Star Line, set off on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 10, 1912.



Pictured: Café Parisien on board the Titanic

Built by Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff between 1909 and 1912, RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat of its time.



Owen discovers something that even many Titanic experts don't know—what "RMS" stands for in the ship's official prefix.

The Titanic was a "Royal Mail Steamer", meaning that it was legally commissioned by the British Monarchy to carry letters and parcels. According to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, the Titanic carried between six and nine million pieces of mail destined for New York.



The sinking of the Titanic: Lifeboats sail away from the still-lit ship on April 15, 1912, as shown in this British newspaper sketch

Of course, all the mail was lost when the ship sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912—about two hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg. The tragic shipwreck killed 1,517 of the 2,224 people on board, of whom just over 700 were third class passengers.

Now the wreckage of the Titanic lies 650 km southeast of the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, at a depth of 3800 meters



The fragile debris breaks down so quickly underwater that it could disappear completely within the next 40 years.