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Dan Pollack ’64 makes a Titanic replica for his grandsons

September 27, 2020

Dan Pollack emailed:

In addition to building model planes for my grandsons, I just completed this 30-inch replica of the Titanic.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking one of modern history's deadliest peacetime commercial marine disasters.

RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster.

• Beam: 91 feet 10 inches
• Displacement: 52,310 tons
• Draught: 34 feet 5 inches
• Keel laid: March 31, 1909
• Launched: May 31, 1911
• Length: 883 feet

Grandsons from left to right: Luke, age 16, 6' 4"; Max, age 18, 6' 6"; Jake, age 13, 5' 10"

Later, in October, Dan outdid himself by building a replica of the Queen Anne's Revenge, an early-18th-century ship.