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Eddie-Sand — RMS Chimera
Published: 2012-12-14 22:11:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 3157; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 30
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The RMS Chimera. I haven't drawn a good liner in a while, and I've been dabbling on and off with this one. Originally she was going to be a two stack pocket liner ala Canadian Pacific practices...but she got bigger.Just for kicks.
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She's beautiful. No wonder Capt. Star called her the Jewel of the Seas. I always felt sorry for her sad end.
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Have you listened to TUGS Audio Productions: Chimera?
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Just scroll down unto you see Chimera.
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Why yes. I have indeed. This is actually my own imagining on what the Chimera looked like.
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Sweet. Hey from the sound of things, do you think anyone on the Chimera survived the whole thing?
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I have no idea. I'm still attempting to figure out exactly what happened to that ship to cause her to be abandoned. Lol
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Why not re-listen to the audio production and maybe you can piece together what happened. From what I can guess, a bolt of lightning started the whole thing.
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That's the thing. The "way" it happened doesn't make any sense.
For starts, was that why she was abandoned? But if it was, then she should have been a burned hulk.
Secondly, the physics Don't Make sense. Coal dust in the bunkers would need far more then a bolt of lightning to make them explosive. Combustible maybe, but not explosive. Add to it, that is a lot of steel to flash through to even reach the bunkers.
Plus, if she was built like all liners at the time, she would have had a lightning rod in both her masts. That's been common since the 1880s.
I just think the reasons why she met her fate could have been better thought out.
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Do you think she may have been carryin' explosives?
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In reference to the Chimera from Ghost ship's original Script or entirely your design? (either way this is awesome! 
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Inspired perhaps by the TUGS Audio Drama episode of the same name, over on the Sodor Island Fansite? I only say so because the appearance is quite similar to the description of that story's ghost ship: Pre-First World War, three funnels, roughly 700ft long?
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She's a beauty of Titanic proportion! I'm sure Sir William Cornelius Van Horne wouldn't mind having her in the Fleet.
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Or at least a similar profile if not quite as large
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VERY good rendition of a beautiful vessel. I love how I know the backstory behind this.
Twin screw?
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Yep, twin screw. Shes really not that big of a steamer.
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Hopefully she also has a mini Carnegie Library and Hall inside there!
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Ship Ahoy! All Ahead Full! Do tell about her boilers and engines please!
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They go chuff-chuff-chuff.
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And Stoke Them Right Up Them Bloody Boilers!
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They burn on BABYIES
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THEY DO THEY DO
I ENGINEERED THEM COMBUSTION CHAMBERS.
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Hold Everything! Save the kiddies! I wouldn't have any such cruel child labour on my ship.
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THE BURN CHILDREN MINED FOR THE PORPOISE OF COMBUSTION!
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BLARGARAGGLEFRAGGLE GET OFF MA SHIP! *chucks overboard*
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I'll be back with my steam battleship! You scurvy enslaving pirate! 
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