New ship: RMS Baltic

This cruiser ship is based in the RMS Baltic (1903), which is the second ship with that name belonging to the White Star Line. She was the largest ship in the world until 1905 with 23876 gross tons, and she could accommodate 425 first class, 450 second and 2,000 third, with a crew of 560. She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross tons, dubbed The Big Four (the other three being RMS Celtic, Cedric, and Adriatic).

She was launched on 21 November 1903 by Harland and Wolff at Belfast and sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 29 June 1904 with Captain Edward Smith in command. On 17 February 1933, she sailed for Osaka, Japan where she was scrapped.

The real specifications for this ship are (taken from wikipedia.org):

• Length: 227,7 m
• Beam (~"width"): 23,1 m
• Draught (~"height"): N/A m
• Gross tonnage: 23876 gt
• Max. speed: 16 kn (~30 Km/h)
• Engine power: N/A

See some pictures at greatships.net

After a bit of work using blender, these are some results:

Blender renderized output

Simutrans screenshot

This ship has been coded into Simutrans as an old ocean liner, which provides massive passenger transport by sea between 1900 and 1933.

Simutrans object data

Type	Ship
Name	RMS Baltic
Freight	Passagiere
Capacity	1200 psg
Max.Speed	29 Km/h
Intro Year	1903
Retire Year	1933

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For more information on this ship check the following links:

• Wikipedia
• greatships.net