Welcome to Full Steam Ahead!

We hope you will feel right at home here.

Full Steam Ahead showcases the hand-drawn artwork, specifically ship profiles and deck plans by Maritime Draftsman, Historian, and Consultant, Christopher Andrew Mulholland.

It is an artist's portfolio, and an archive for various projects, publications, demonstrations/presentations, and travel.

Use the navigation bar to access current projects and project updates.

For commissions, book contributions, and article contributions, please visit the Commission the Draftsman page.

To learn more about Christopher, visit "About the Draftsman
and Historian."

Fair winds and following seas!

Handcrafted plans honoring Maritime marine history

Saving the
RMS Olympic Piano

Documentary courtesy of
Tom Lynskey and HFX Studios

Olympic and Titanic
1911 Deck Plans

Hand drawn by Christopher A. Mulholland 2022-2023

"The Big Piece" as seen in Breaking Titanic:
Analysing RMS Titanic's Hull Fracture, by
Eugene Nesmeyanov

"The Big Piece" hand drawn by
Christopher A. Mulholland, 2025

RMS Olympic Steinway Association

As you will read on the next page, part of Chris's work as a Maritime Historian involves sitting on the Executive Board of Directors of the RMS Olympic Steinway Association as Deputy Vice President. The Association's main goal is to purchase, preserve, and display the Steinway piano that was installed in Olympic's A La Carte Restaurant during the 1912-13 winter refit (Chris is pictured with this very piano on the left).

To assist with this endeavor, Austrian musician and President of the RMS Olympic Steinway Association Patrick C. Vida founded The White Star Line Quintet in October 2024. Since the Quintet was formed, several pieces of music from Titanic's era have been recorded. In The White Star Line Quintet section below, you will have a taste of what they have been working on this past year. Get ready for a big treat!

For more information about the RMS Olympic's Piano and how you can assist them in reaching their goal, please visit their website.

RMS Olympic Steinway Association Website

The White Starline Quintet

About the Quintet

The White Star Line Quintet is presented to you by the RMS Olympic Steinway Association to support their ongoing endeavor to purchase and preserve the Steinway piano from Olympic's A La Carte Restaurant.

Founder Patrick Cornelius Vida has been a Titanic enthusiast for around 30 years and is a lover of the early 20th century era and its music. For too long there has been no “tangible” ensemble specializing in the repertoire of the White Star Line, which at the time comprised at least 360 pieces of music. The quintet would like to fill this gap in order to bring the elegance and exhilaration of the era of ocean voyages back to life for people all over the world.

To read more about The White Star Line Quintet, please visit their website.

The White Star Line Quintet Website

Titanic: Music to Remember- Featuring The White Star Line Quintet.

The first episode of an introduction-free, narration-free series featuring the music of the Quintet. The original performance recordings are overlaid with beautiful visuals -- artistic, photographic, and computer animations by our friends at HFX Studios, so that they can be enjoyed in either video or audio-only format. These episodes will also be collected into a new playlist that will be available on YouTube Music.

This episode features:

That Carolina Rag (Violinsky) (Rosenheim Recording)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin) (Rosenheim Recording)
Elite Syncopations (Joplin) (Rosenheim Recording)
In The Shadows (Finck)

Text and video courtesy of The Steam and Splendor Network.

If you enjoyed this video, please click on the link below for more recordings.

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The Steam and Splendor Network Playlists

Website created and operated by: Christopher A. Mulholland 2025-2026.

Deanna M. Ryan-Meister; Consultant.

Welcome to Full Steam Ahead!

Saving the RMS Olympic Piano

Olympic and Titanic 1911 Deck Plans

"The Big Piece" as seen in Breaking Titanic: Analysing RMS Titanic's Hull Fracture, by Eugene Nesmeyanov

About the Quintet

Titanic: Music to Remember- Featuring The White Star Line Quintet.

Saving the
RMS Olympic Piano

Olympic and Titanic
1911 Deck Plans

"The Big Piece" as seen in Breaking Titanic:
Analysing RMS Titanic's Hull Fracture, by
Eugene Nesmeyanov