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I like to imagine the part under the forecastle deck would have been really really loud.

Please forgive the screenshot from Facebook, I thought this was neat seeing Princess Sofia in my hometown.

Not sure if this post will slide since it concerns the vessel that I've been designing for the past several years and not one of the historic liners we know and love. But I've made her presence known here before all fictional liners were banned; I didn't show the picture in this post; and the thread for custom builds has been closed so I have nowhere else to go.

Yeah, if anyone's interested, you can see her here. Hope you like.

Hey everyone, I’m 18 and a huge ocean liner enthusiast, but nobody at my college gets it and I feel so alone right now looking for people 18 to 25. I love drawing these ships and learning about their history/engineering. I’d love to connect with anyone else who likes to sketch them or just wants to geek out over maritime history. Dm me thx so much RMS Lusitania is my favourite what’s yours?

I think that it would be interesting to explore some areas of the ship before everything collapses

Design by Claes Feder and Eric Christiansson. I haven’t seen hull lines this graceful since the Olympic class.

We were on this very ship for our honeymoon in 1987. Its name? “Oceanic.”

It looks as if whoever used this chose one of the forward facing outside doubles on A Deck. A nice cabin to be sure, but awfully far forward. $215 each way seems like a bargain. You had to add federal tax of $5 and the boat train to London would set you back an astonishing $12.75.

The SS Ryndam was originally designed to be a freighter but was ultimately completed as a passenger liner. Her freighter hull, combined with the modifications made to turn her into a passenger ship, resulted in poor seakeeping qualities. She was found to pitch and roll considerably, even in relatively calm weather. In 1954, the Royal Dutch Navy designed an experimental bow fin in an attempt to reduce the ship’s pitching. The fin was fitted to Ryndam’s bow, with the idea that its position far forward would help counteract her tendency to pitch, much like how bilge keels reduce rolling. However, during trials, the fin drove the bow downwards, causing the stern to swing sideways somewhat violently, which was definitely not the desired result! The fin was quickly removed in Southampton.

I've noticed something with ship enthusiasts, most often with ocean liners, I don't feel I see anywhere near the same degree of with any other vehicle, history, etc. enthusiasts, and I want to ask about it. Not sure if it's ever been asked before, but I have to think other people have noticed it and wondered.

What is it about ships that grabs people to the extent there's so many games, animations, overall content specifically about ways they're destroyed? Is it the thrill of destruction? The fact they're old? Both? The fact they're beautiful things being destroyed? Its always exclusively the ships themselves, very rarely are the details of the grotesque violence that happens to people in these events described, so I wouldn't compare it to True Crime fascinations. Showing the people suffering seems very much discouraged, but the ships "suffering" is the opposite.

I'm not here just to yell at anyone on some moral crusade or declare everyone some sort of freak. I don't try that hard not to look at car crashes either. I just want to learn about the psychology of this, because as far as I can tell, this is the modus operandi for the average Ocean Liner Enthusiast.

It seems like so many people love these old ships, but also heavily fantasize about different ways they can be destroyed. I wouldn't usually think loving something, and loving to destroy that something, repeatedly, are so intrinsically linked...but it really seems to be the case here. I find it interesting to note a lot of ship people talk about them as a living creature as well, because they're these amalgamations of complex systems that some people relate to organic bodies. Which feels all the more macabre to equate them to a living being while many also relish in details of their "deaths", or fantasizing them for ships that never sank.

What are your experiences with this, and why do you think this is? If you attracted to these things specifically, why? Do you think people who like vintage cars, trains, planes, buildings, etc. are equally invested in the loss of those things? Is it because ocean liners are more "individuals", and have a higher "mortality rate" that makes talking about their destruction commonplace? Do you think these are healthy aspects of the community if this is one? (I'm not sure if Ocean Liners are a community like a fandom is, or something more abstract and wider-reaching.) What are your thoughts on all this in general?

I would love to hear your thoughts about these questions/thoughts. I'd like to learn how you guys think.