Though the ocean liner had been scheduled to return Monday at 6 a.m. to Galveston, "as time went on we realized that they weren't going anywhere, " he said.
Gibbs' obsession with creating the perfect ocean liner has now transformed into his granddaughter's obsession with saving it.
In February, he announced that construction will soon commence in a Chinese shipyard on a replica of the famously doomed ocean liner Titanic that could set sail in 2016.
Even lovers gazing over the rail of an ocean liner were usually smoking.
The world has never seen their like:huge, lightweight vessels sporting lots of sail, plus all the comforts of an ocean liner.
The original Titanic was the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912.
Romance at the captain's table on some swank ocean liner, champagne socialites dancing in speakeasies -- the boys knew all that stuff from picture shows.
"Although 95 years have passed since the world's most famous luxury liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, there continues to be an endless demand for information regarding Titanic - whether it be facts, legends or myths, " he said.
The ruins of the Bibi Khanum mosque (1399) rise up over the city like the hulk of a wrecked ocean liner.
All of this was bundled up in the cocoon of a bright-white ocean liner that provided a moving home base.
"The analogy we have is this is like turning around an ocean liner, " he said.
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