Clive Frederick Palmer (born 26 March 1954) is an Australian businessman and politician.
Palmer has iron ore, nickel and coal holdings. In 2016, the BRW magazine “Rich 200” list estimated his wealth at A$600 million and by 2019 his estimated wealth had increased to A$4.09 billion*.
Titanic II
In February 2013, at a press conference in New York, Palmer announced plans to build a modern-day replica of the liner RMS Titanic. It was planned that Titanic II would be built in China and would make its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City in 2016 (later postponed to 2018).
Palmer hoped to recreate the Titanic as closely as possible with its familiar external and internal appearances. According to Palmer, the Titanic II would be 883 feet long, weigh 55,800 gross tons and carry 2,435 passengers and 900 crew.
Palmer said the Titanic II would honour the memories of those who died and survived on the Titanic. The Titanic was operated by the White Star Line and Palmer’s cruise company is named Blue Star Line.
During the first half of 2015, evidence accumulated strongly suggesting that the project had been abandoned. The Blue Star Line trademark was listed as “abandoned”. No construction had been ordered in the Chinese shipyard identified as the likely building site with the workers highly sceptical that the project would ever move beyond the proposal stage.
In May 2016 it was reported by the administrators for an insolvent Palmer company, Queensland Nickel, that no significant money had been spent on the development of Titanic II in over two years.
On 27 September 2018 the Blue Star Line, in a press release on their official web site, announced that work on the project would recommence.
(Text edited from Wikipedia)
*Malcolm says: That’s plenty enough to build a replica Ocean liner!
Below: Mr. Palmer’s Houses
Below: Mr. Palmer’s Yacht
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