One of a series of three works depicting the White Star 'fleet that never was'. RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and RMS Gigantic as they might have appeared in the Atlantic for a publicity rendezvous. Fate intervened to prevent this fleet from eventuating... Titanic, as we all know, sank with large loss of life after striking an iceberg in 1912. Gigantic was renamed during construction to RMS Britannic following the Titanic disaster. Britannic was sunk in 1916 whilst being used as a hospital ship. Olympic survived the First World War and operated across the North Atlantic for many years, being scrapped in 1934. ==== This work is part of a series that I have posted to my Flickr.com arts pages here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maleny_steve/ This scene took over 30 hours to assemble. Bryce 6 was crawling by the end, with around 30 seconds of waiting after every mouse click... All the smoke trails are custom for each funnel, as are the wakes of the vessels (made using terrains). There are vast numbers of polygons involved, over 1000 separate objects, and a few poser figures make an appearance on the bridge wings. Hope you like it, comments appreciated.