Titanic: Honor and Glory

'Titanic: Honor and Glory' is a video game set aboard a fully detailed and complete recreation of the R.M.S. Titanic, utilizing Unreal Engine 4. It is a work in progress, being developed by Vintage Digital Revival. Follow us if you're interested in...

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112 years ago today, RMS Titanic departed Southampton, England to begin her maiden - and only voyage. This iconic moment has been recreated time and time again in films, TV shows, musicals, paintings, video games, and elsewhere. In memory of those aboard and those yet to board in Cherbourg and Queenstown, we submit this animation to join the collection.

To borrow words from one of the great departure recreations:

“Farewell, farewell. Godspeed, Titanic.”

Be sure to join us this Sunday for our 112th Anniversary Livestream featuring our first ever Real-Time Sinking IN-PERSON/online live event only on YouTube (@TitanicHG) starting at 9pm EDT.

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TITANIC NEWS...

"RMS Titanic, Inc., the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck site, will soon be conducting a research-focused expedition using remotely operated vehicles to capture high-resolution images of the wreck site and surrounding debris field. As part of our partnership with RMST, we are excited to announce that our team of researchers, 3D artists, and Titanic enthusiasts will be providing our assistance to this incredible endeavor.

RMST has graciously included our team in the planning process for this expedition and has asked for a list of recommendations to work into their dive schedule - recommendations that may aid our ongoing effort to recrate Titanic in a virtual world. Being that so much of Titanic remains a mystery to this day, this is an opportunity of a lifetime for our team.

But we hope to make this an opportunity for our community as well.

During our April 14th Real-Time Anniversary Livestream, we will announce how our community can participate in the upcoming expedition to Titanic. We will provide an email address to which Titanic enthusiasts everywhere can send their ideas and their most pressing wreck site questions. We will then sift through these ideas and submit our favorites to the expedition team. Who knows, your curiosity may lead to discovery!

So join us on April 14th for our Real-Time Anniversary Livestream and have your ideas ready to submit! The stream begins at 9:00PM EDT only on YouTube @TitanicHG.

We are so appreciate of RMS Titanic, Inc. and their genuine desire to expand our community's knowledge of Titanic and we look forward to working with them in the North Atlantic!"

For more information on this announcement and a look at our newest update to the TITANIC: PROJECT 401 Demo, join us for one of our other livestreams TOMORROW (April 6th) at 4:01pm EDT at youtube.com/@TitanicHG

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112 Years Ago: Titanic was dressed in her signal flags to greet the people of Southampton on her first day in port. This occasion is often assumed to be a celebration of Good Friday but has since been confirmed as taking place on Thursday, April the 4th.

Join us tomorrow for our next major event in our A MONTH TO REMEMBER! For a look at the full schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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112 years ago tonight, Titanic arrived at Berth 44 in Southampton, England where she would stay for 6 days before her maiden departure.

Over the course of the week, she would be further fitted out with extra furnishings, fresh paint and even ivy for the walls of the Cafe Parisien.

Join us all month long for new Titanic animations, announcements and livestreams including our first ever Real-Time LIVE EVENT. For the full schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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112 years ago today: April 2nd, 1912, after 2 years of construction and 10 months of fitting-out, Titanic leaves Belfast for the first and last time for her sea trials and voyage to Southampton. Her trials were scheduled the day before, but high winds prevented it them from happening. The trials consisted largely of basic maneuvers and turns, testing the engines, and adjusting compasses. Once in Southampton, she would spend a week being prepared for her maiden voyage. The preparations include a mad dash to bring aboard things that didn't make it before leaving Belfast, like additional furniture and fittings.

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Folks! We're posting on this blog after 2.5 years because a lot of things have been happening, and this April will be a good one for Titanic Enthusiasts. With that being said...

Welcome to “A MONTH TO REMEMBER.” 31 days of Titanic animations, announcements, documentaries, lectures and livestreams brought to you by TITANIC: HONOR AND GLORY and our partners.

To kick off the month, we begin where Titanic once began...

Titanic was comprised of many thousands of steel structural elements, but all of that rested upon a keel which had to be built before everything else. The very first pieces of the keel that had to be laid down in the Arrol Gantry were the keel bars, long slabs of steel some 9.5 x 3 inches thick that formed the very bottom and center of the ship.

And so, 115 years ago today, the first piece of the keel was laid for Harland and Wolff’s 401st ship on a cold slipway in Belfast. Humble beginnings for a 46,000-ton ship that will one day captivate the world.

Join us all month long for everything Titanic including our first ever Real-Time LIVE EVENT. For the full month schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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Not much privacy or personal space in these crew quarters!

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"I got my way down to the Mail Room and I got down as far as the Sorting Room, all the mail clerks were there pulling letters out of the racks. I was standing on top of a companionway from the Sorting Room down to the Handing Room and I saw a bag floating by. I instinctively stooped down to try and pick it up, I just couldn't reach it, I realized then that it was serious." Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

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"I was lying in my bunk when I felt the slight jar, not any sense of collision, but more a kind of shiver that ran through the ship. Anyway, it was enough to bring me out of my bunk in one jump. Out on deck I ran over one side and then to the other, but there wasn't a trace of anything we'd struck, so back I went to my bunk and just waited." Second Officer Charles Lightoller

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"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. In all my experience I've never been in any accident, or any sort worth speaking about." Captain Edward J. Smith

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"You don't notice anything of the movement of the ship. On top deck there are 20 boys marching around and singing, others are playing cards and dominoes. Some reading and some writing. Everything is quite different to what we thought to see at sea." - Second Class passenger, Henry P. Hodges

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During the night of the sinking, passengers and crew were able to look over the railing of the Grand Staircase and see water at the bottom once it reached the E Deck level. This must have been a scary sight as the water grew closer and closer as it reached each level of the staircase landings.

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Located on the Stern Docking Bridge at the time of the collision with the iceberg, Quartermaster Rowe thought the iceberg was the passing sails of a 'Windjammer', which is a type of sailboat. It wasn't until he saw a lifeboat in the water he telephoned the bridge and was told of the situation and to bring up the distress rockets with him.

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Even on the biggest ship at the time, there's not much wiggle room in these corridors!

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Happy July 4th to all of our friends in the US! We hope everyone stays safe and has a great day!

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Located on F Deck next to the Turkish Baths, the Swimming pool, or Swimming Bath gave the First class passengers a unique experience at sea. Filled with heated sea water, the pool was described as being "refreshing". This room remains sealed off by a watertight door on the wreck today.

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Happy Father's Day from your friends at THG! We hope everyone has a great day with your friends and family.