Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Swiss, U.S. To Build New Titanic > > BASEL, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss and American businesses > are joining forces to build a new Titanic, a Swiss > newspaper reported Sunday. > > The partners hope to recreate history in launching the > ship from Southampton on April 10, 2002, almost 90 years > to the day after the original vessel set sail on its one > and only voyage across the Atlantic, Zurich's weekly > SonntagsZeitung reported. > > The 900 foot-long ship will have places for 2,000 people > and will be built to the same scale and detail as its > predecessor - although with 21st century technology, > said the report. > > It will cost between $400-600 million to build, the > report said. > > ``We want this to be the crowning glory of the Titanic > euphoria,'' Walter Navratil, European spokesman for the > U.S. partners, is quoted by SonntagsZeitung as saying. > > The partners are calling themselves White Star Line > after the company which operated the original ship, it > said. > > On the Swiss side, the sole shareholder is Basel-based > G-and-E Wirtschaftsberatung and Treuhand AG. The Titanic > Development Corporation, founded in Las Vegas at the > beginning of the year, is the other partner, the report > said. > > It is not yet clear sailing for the venture. Harland and > Wolff, the Belfast-based shipbuilders who hold the > original plans for the ship, have not yet said whether > they will allow a new version to be built, according to > SonntagsZeitung. > > The partners are optimistic, saying they have contacted > shipyard officials and are awaiting a meeting with them. > > On its maiden voyage on April 14, 1912, the Titanic > struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean south of > Newfoundland and sank, taking more than 1,500 of the > 2,200 passengers on board with it. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
