S.S. Athinai (as R.M.S Titanic) Poster
Its the TITANIC! Well not really, it is actually the Greek cruise ship ATHINAI partially mocked up to look like the rusting hulk of the ill fated ocean liner after being raised from the seabed in the 1980 movie Raise the Titanic (based on the novel by Clive Cussler).
She was originally launched in 1932 as the ocean liner SANTA ROSA, one of four sisters built for the Grace Line and designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later go on to design the SS AMERICA and SS UNITED STATES. Sold to the Typaldos Lines of Greece in 1961, and would cruise the Mediterranean for the next several years.
Unfortunately the company would close down in late 1960s following the SS HERAKLION disaster and the ship was laid up at Kynosoura, near Piraeus.
In the late 1970s, the producers of the upcoming movie ‘‘Raise the Titanic!’’ were looking for a suitable vintage ship to use for their new film and, after inspecting many of the laid up vessels in Greece, they settled on using the ATHINAI.
After nearly a decade of abandonment, she was in a pretty poor shape. Her lower hull was heavily encrusted in marine growth, paint was flaking and she had a list to starboard from rain water leaking through the superstructure and collecting down below.
Many film sets and modifications were built onto the ship, her main mast was removed and a few areas were sprayed in concrete to give appearance of a ship that had spent nearly 70 years at the bottom of the Atlantic.
After filming wrapped, she was abandoned in the bay of Elefsina and later scrapped at Aliaga in 1989.
Its the TITANIC! Well not really, it is actually the Greek cruise ship ATHINAI partially mocked up to look like the rusting hulk of the ill fated ocean liner after being raised from the seabed in the 1980 movie Raise the Titanic (based on the novel by Clive Cussler).
She was originally launched in 1932 as the ocean liner SANTA ROSA, one of four sisters built for the Grace Line and designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later go on to design the SS AMERICA and SS UNITED STATES. Sold to the Typaldos Lines of Greece in 1961, and would cruise the Mediterranean for the next several years.
Unfortunately the company would close down in late 1960s following the SS HERAKLION disaster and the ship was laid up at Kynosoura, near Piraeus.
In the late 1970s, the producers of the upcoming movie ‘‘Raise the Titanic!’’ were looking for a suitable vintage ship to use for their new film and, after inspecting many of the laid up vessels in Greece, they settled on using the ATHINAI.
After nearly a decade of abandonment, she was in a pretty poor shape. Her lower hull was heavily encrusted in marine growth, paint was flaking and she had a list to starboard from rain water leaking through the superstructure and collecting down below.
Many film sets and modifications were built onto the ship, her main mast was removed and a few areas were sprayed in concrete to give appearance of a ship that had spent nearly 70 years at the bottom of the Atlantic.
After filming wrapped, she was abandoned in the bay of Elefsina and later scrapped at Aliaga in 1989.
Its the TITANIC! Well not really, it is actually the Greek cruise ship ATHINAI partially mocked up to look like the rusting hulk of the ill fated ocean liner after being raised from the seabed in the 1980 movie Raise the Titanic (based on the novel by Clive Cussler).
She was originally launched in 1932 as the ocean liner SANTA ROSA, one of four sisters built for the Grace Line and designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later go on to design the SS AMERICA and SS UNITED STATES. Sold to the Typaldos Lines of Greece in 1961, and would cruise the Mediterranean for the next several years.
Unfortunately the company would close down in late 1960s following the SS HERAKLION disaster and the ship was laid up at Kynosoura, near Piraeus.
In the late 1970s, the producers of the upcoming movie ‘‘Raise the Titanic!’’ were looking for a suitable vintage ship to use for their new film and, after inspecting many of the laid up vessels in Greece, they settled on using the ATHINAI.
After nearly a decade of abandonment, she was in a pretty poor shape. Her lower hull was heavily encrusted in marine growth, paint was flaking and she had a list to starboard from rain water leaking through the superstructure and collecting down below.
Many film sets and modifications were built onto the ship, her main mast was removed and a few areas were sprayed in concrete to give appearance of a ship that had spent nearly 70 years at the bottom of the Atlantic.
After filming wrapped, she was abandoned in the bay of Elefsina and later scrapped at Aliaga in 1989.