| I enjoy building ocean liners - ships which once ruled the Atlantic Ocean from the 1860's to 1950's. Unlike cruise liners, their main purpose included comfortable trans-continental transportation. Before the advent of the Steam Age, sailing vessels carried millions of immigrants from the 1600's to mid-1800's across the Atlantic Ocean. Most of them were English, French, or Spanish ships; the ships of this time were notoriously unhygienic and uncomfortable.
The first ocean-going steamships arrived in the 1830's. Their spacious and warm interiors slowly dwindled out traditional sailing vessels. By the 1880's, sailing vessels vanished from the Western World. Ocean liners were now being equipped with electric lights and ventilation, refrigeration machinery, and centralized heating. Steel also superseded iron during the 1880's, which improved fuel efficiency by reducing weight.
The most famous ocean liner, R.M.S Titanic drastically changed maritime law when she sank on April 15, 1912 after an iceberg collision. The International Ice Patrol and the International Convention for Safety for Life at Sea were established in 1914. However, the first years were rough as World War I broke out in August, 1914. Many ocean liners were lost from U-Boats, naval mines, or scuttling (the deliberate sinking of one's ship to avoid capture from enemy navies). The R.M.S Oceanic, S.S Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, H.M.H.S Britannic, and R.M.S Lusitania were the largest ocean liners sunk during World War I.
I desire to create a Lego ocean liner representing the 1910's era without showing too much influence from the R.M.S Titanic.
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