Work has recommenced on Titanic II, a cruise ship designed to look like the original Titanic.
The new ship is being built in China, rather than Ireland, where the original was made. The $500-million project was first announced in 2012, but construction was halted in 2015 because of a financial dispute with China, according to USA Today.
Fortunately, the new ship will make use of modern safety procedures, navigation methods and 21st-century technology, according to Blue Star Line, the Australia-based company building the replica. The new Titanic will be stocked with plenty of lifeboats ― and will have a welded, not riveted hull, USA Today reported.
The replica will also be 13 feet wider than the old ship, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, though it will carry almost exactly the same number of passengers (2,400) and crew members (900) as the original.
Titanic II is set to make its first voyage from Dubai to Southampton, England, sometime in 2022. It will then head to New York along the North Atlantic route the original ship took before sinking in the early morning of April 15, 1912, less than three hours after hitting an iceberg.
There’s no word yet on when tickets will become available, but USA Today predicts the bow will be crowded with people trying to relive the famous “I’m king of the world” scene from the 1997 blockbuster.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Titanic sank on April 12, 1912.
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In this April 10, 1912 file photo, the liner Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City.
Five days into her journey, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people.
The Titanic leaves on her maiden voyage in this 1912 file photo.
In this April 1912 file photo, crowds gather around the bulletin board of the New York American newspaper in New York, where the names of people rescued from the sinking Titanic are displayed.
As a 2-month-old baby, Millvina Dean was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic. Dean died in 2009.
This is an undated photo showing the bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland.
This April 2, 2010 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows the bow of the RMS Titanic on the ocean floor during an expeditions to the site of the tragedy.
"Rust sickles," icicle-like structures of rust show the effect the years, underwater, have had as they obscure two portholes of the R.M.S. Titanic.
This is a view looking down on the deck of the R.M.S. Titanic between the number 2 and number 3 stack where the deck suddenly hinges downward at right towards the tear, at which point the stern separated from the rest of the ship.
Large icicle-like structures hang from the side of the Titanic.
Pipes and the captain's bathtub are shown in this July 2003 photo, of what remains of the captain's cabin on the Titanic more than two miles underwater in the north Atlantic.
Plaques left behind by visiting expeditions, seen in this July 2003 photo, are positioned near the telemotor on the deck of the Titanic more than two miles underwater in the north Atlantic.
The giant propeller of the sunken Titanic lies on the floor of the North Atlantic in this undated photo. The propeller and other portions of the famed ship were viewed by the first tourists to visit the wreck site in September 1998.
This September 12, 2008 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows one of the propellers of the RMS Titanic on the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy.
This September 1, 2009 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., shows a ships telegraph from the Titanic on the ocean floor during an expeditions to the site of the tragedy.
These lifeboat cranes were used to hoist the ship's wooden lifeboats over the side and into the water during Titanic's sinking. Many of the boats launched soon after the sinking were not close to full, as passengers refused to believe the seriousness of the situation.
Debris litters the hull of the Titanic's stern, peeled outward by the force of the great ship's destruction.
Dr. Robert Ballard, best known for his discovery of the Titanic, is speaks at the Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Conn. in 2004.
A bollard is illuminated by Alvin on the submerged hull of the sunken Titanic in 1986. Alvin is a manned submersible vehicle used during the exploration of the wreckage.
These portholes on a portion of the ship's hull looked into first class cabins on Titanic's C deck are a part of the "Titanic:The Artifact Exhibition" at the Metreon in San Francisco.
A gold plated Waltham American pocket watch, the property of Carl Asplund, is seen in front of a modern water colour painting of the Titanic by CJ Ashford at Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, England Thursday, April 3, 2008.
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Wearing period costumes, Bpassenger Jacki Free holds her daughter, name not given, as the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship sails from Southampton, England.
Carl Grant, 11, raises his hat to the media as people gather at Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland to a attend a religious service at the exact spot were the Titanic was launched 100 years ago.
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