Who created them and why?

The team behind the project Titanic: Honor and Glory needed to copy old, original, and damaged hand-drawn plans of SS Olympic, the sister ship to Titanic.

Executive producer and modeler Matthew DeWinkeleer decided not only to translate the plans to a new medium but to research changes and modifications

Titanic would have gone through to help the entirety of the team as they worked on the multiple projects at Vintage Digital Revival.

It wasn’t a simple drawing, and compiling years’ worth of material took many of the team’s researchers.

No artificial intelligence (AI) was used in any means during the creation of the deck plans.

Aren’t there already redrawn Titanic plans available?

Yes, and it is wonderful that they exist!

Titanic is always a living, breathing, and evolving subject as such new material on Titanic will keep coming out with new research.

Years from now, discoveries might be unearthed after the final version of these plans have been released.

Future generations of Titanic enthusiasts and artists might need to draw new deck plans.

What's the difference in the deck plans between each of the ships?
Weren't Olympic and Titanic identical sister-ships?

Indeed the base of Olympic and Titanic (and to some degree Britannic) were iron plans used by Harland and Wolff, which were identical.

Still, when modifications were made, it was because design improvements were discovered by trial and error.

As Olympic came first, any mistakes and corrections needed were implemented into Titanic — if they found time to do so.

These included eliminating the large B Deck promenade to extend the First Class staterooms, enlarging the reception room and restaurant,

and other factors to make the ship more financially viable. But it goes further than that. Tiny quality-of-life changes were implemented into Titanic before her maiden voyage

thanks to the time spent and recommendations on Olympic. Most of these changes eventually found their way to Olympic when she entered a refit after Titanic's loss.

But Olympic at her maiden voyage was a completely different ship than Titanic when she began her maiden voyage.

The Victualling department's working areas were wholly distinct. Ventilation needed to be more utilized and more significant.

And the Turkish Baths were overdone and not as well designed as imagined.

Britannic was designed to fix all the problems and epitomize the Olympic-class. She was to be the flawless combination of passenger amenities, comfort, and safety.

The knowledge and experience of two earlier sister ships were utilized to perfect the design.

While the outside hull and shape mainly stayed the same, many of her interiors were re-organized and configured — a brand new ship with different rooms, new styles, and surprises.

If only the war never took her…

What details have been included
on all of the plans, and what isn’t?

These plans were drawn originally with the intention to be only used for the team behind the
Titanic: Honor and Glory project — as a main reference to be shared as the foundation.
Therefore, lots of minute details were drawn and positioned on the plans along with notes and text.
But to keep them clean and orderly for publication some smaller details have been omitted.

For the first time on a commercial Titanic plan the “Top of Houses” deck is included.
This is the deck on top of the Boat Deck deckhouses where Collapsible Boats A and B were stored,
the grand staircase dome, the funnels, many ventilators, and other crew-only areas were located.

Ventilators and fans, lavatories and bathrooms, and many more rooms and items, are all numbered. Hydrants, Jacob’s ladders, columns, curtains, and railings are indicated.

What is omitted and not included are horizontal ventilation trunks, the arrangement of (most) pipes, the location of electrical fittings such as outlets,
distribution and fuse boxes, and dimensions (to keep the plans clean.)

Every plan has a scale, however, allowing for the viewer to take their own measurements!