This version also features waves, weather, day/night time transitions, damage to vessels, and new boats and ships. It contains 7 ports and 8 open sea environments.
Ship Simulator 2008 released in July 2007 in Germany and the UK. This is an expansion pack with 6 additional ships and extra features such as ship walk-throughs. The Official Ship Simulator 2006 Add-On was released in February 2007. The game has a built-in scenario editor to create new missions. Users can also design their own missions, and share with others. A game element is added to the simulation by means of 40 "missions" which have to be completed as fast or as accurately as possible.
The user can steer various ships, amongst others a Rotterdam water taxi, a container ship and even the ill-fated RMS Titanic, in various weather conditions and in 3 real life harbours, which are Rotterĭam, Hamburg and Phi Phi Islands in Thailand, plus a fourth harbour, New York City was later released as a free download. Every April 15th, all Cunard ships raise the White Star flag in honor of the sinking of the Titanic.The first version of Ship Simulator was released in 2006 and was titled Ship Simulator 2006. The last surviving White Star Line ship is the Nomadic, which is to be restored with help from Harland & Wolff and Nomadic Preservation Trust. On the two rivals merged, creating Cunard White Star Limited and by 1949, the line reverted to using the name Cunard. By 1933, both the White Star Line and Cunard Line were in serious financial trouble. The onset of the great depression hurt the shipping fleet. In 1927, the White Star Line was purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The Olympic also served in WWI, but earned the nickname “Old Reliable” as it was reported to have carried up to 201,000 troops and other personnel. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in April of 1912 and the Britannic was used as a British hospital ship in WWI and in 1916 she sunk after hitting a mine. Of the three Olympic class ships, only one, the Olympic, was profitable. There was still money to be made in transporting the Royal Mail, so White Star Line Olympic class ships became R.M.S. They set their plans to create the Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic (later renamed Britannic) which would be ready 1911, 1912, and 1913 respectively. After the dinner, the two planned to create the most luxurious ships in the world.
Bruce Ismay, and senior partner and chairman of the shipyard Harland and Wolff, Lord Pirrie, conspired to build a ship bigger and more luxurious than its rival company, The Cunard Line. The managing director of White Star Line, J.
In this competitive climate, on a warm summer evening in 1907, a plan was hatched. The sister ships brought the Blue Riband back to the company and re-established Cunard as the preeminent shipping line in the North Atlantic. In 1907, the Cunard Line unveiled the Lusitania and Mauretania. The shipping line received £2.6 million in exchange that the ships could at any time be used by the Royal Navy, carry Royal Mail, and be able to maintain an average speed of 24-25 knots. Cunard Lines approached the British government in order to compete with White Star Line and NDL. Morgan bought the White Star Line for 32 million dollars. In 1902, another blow to the shipping pride of Britain occurred when J.P. This greatly aggrieved Cunard and all other British shipping lines. Blue Riband was passed among different companies, all British owned, until 1897 when German shipping line Norddeutscher-Lloyd (NDL) set new speed records. It was a matter of great prestige for any shipping line that held the Blue Riband ship.
The Blue Riband was an honor for ships it allowed the ship that achieved the fastest crossing of the Atlantic to fly a blue pennant from her mast. When White Star Line launched its first ship, Oceanic, in 1870, Cunard Lines already had two dozen passenger and cargo vessels and held the Blue Riband.Īs early as 1840, Cunard held the Blue Riband with its ship Britannia. It was the first to introduce electric lighting and wireless communication onboard. The Cunard Line, at the time, was known as the most innovative and respected line in the world. White Star Line’s greatest competition was the Cunard Line. This spurred competition between shipping lines. Ismay decided to focus on providing shipping services in the North Atlantic. In 1868, Thomas Ismay purchased the bankrupt White Star Line shipping company. At the turn of the twentieth century, major advances in transatlantic travel were being made.