List of ocean liners Puns

1. It has a welded hull.
2. It is steam-powered, but it burns vegetable oil.
3. It has modern technology like sonar.
4. Parts of the ship like the Grand Staircase are made of cork instead of wood. This is because cork is more fire resistant.
5. Instead of the lifeboats you find on modern cruise ships, the ship in my story has 56 aluminum replicas of the lifeboats used on the original Olympic-class ocean liners. That being said, it has electric gantry davits like Britannic.
6. It has a pipe organ like Britannic.
7. Each cabin has its own private rest room and other modern amenities.
8. While parts of the ship like the Grand Staircase are made to look as authentic as possible, the rest of the ship has a more retro modern look that that mixes 1910's design with interior design based on The Cheesecake Factory.
9. It lacks a bulbous bow and horizontal stabilizers.
10. It lacks a modern propulsion system in favor of one similar to Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic.

What part of this list can result in my character ending up in the court room? Also, what sentence would my main character be given depending on severity of the violation and what would the fate of his ship be?

This particular liner is the 3rd in a class of 4 (At the time of her construction was the last one) The first liner of her class was finished in 1912 and this one was finished in 1914. What are things I should keep in mind when building it? I would love to have open discussions with anyone who has incite to the topic

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I forgot what it was called, but I remember seeing it in a bookstore, the cover had two ocean liners (Aquitania and the Queen Elizabeth) photoshopped in, and I vaguely remember reading the synopsis and I remember it was kind of a Romeo-And-Juliet-type of story?

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Weirdly specific question I can't find the answer to online. I read in an LA Times article that the original RMS Queen Mary "bows in the middle, so all the furniture in the hotel rooms has to be custom-made". I have figured out through researching online that this curve is called sheer and is intentionally built into ships for structural reasons. However, the Queen Mary at the time of the article (1990) was no longer an oceangoing vessel and was instead used moored as a hotel. It seems possible to me that the furniture was made this way for the Queen Mary because the ship was built in 1936 and could have sagged a bit due to a combination of age and remaining stationary at dock.

So the question is this: is/was it customary in ocean liners, particularly those from the first half of the 20th century like Cunard or White Star ships, to make custom furniture to account to the curvature in the floor resulting from the sheer? Would, say, the Titanic (laid down 1909) or more recent Queen Mary 2 (laid down 2002) have also had furniture customized with this in mind?

Bonus related question: if this used to be the case in shipbuilding but is no longer, why is this and when did this shift occur?

Edit: Fixed a hyperlink because I'm not as smart as the text editor.

If I can find okay plans for the ships, I will likely build them in the order of most to least votes.

I am currently searching for hull and deck plans of Erturia/Umbria and a Big Four Class ocean liner. Any plans for these ships are greatly appreciated!

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I have a question that is probably very trivial: When I look at the Titanic, but basically all golden age era ocean liners, I can see that the ratio of crew to passagers seems to be 1 to 2-3. A ship with 2500 passagers will have a 1000 crew members, let's say. That seems extremely economically unbearable - these weren't cruises where everyone pays for luxurious stay, I would think that a third class passager has a lower average income than crew member, co you can'much overprize there. And then you need energy, maintenance... What must a ship like the Titanic do to make money? I don't have a real knowledge about 1912 prices, I must admit...