Stuart, on the positive side, I love the quality of the pictures, especially the fine detail on the grand staircase. Photos of the relics of
Olympic are as near as we'll get to quality colour photos of
Titanic. This job is well worth doing.
On the negative side, you are making basic errors in designing your site. You are using graphics to do the work of text and very big graphics at that. If you really want to insist on using graphics for your menu on the second page, you should reduce them to little thumbnails of around 2KB each. One of yours is 77Kb. Personally, I dislike sites that have a home page that is mere eye-candy but carries an "Enter" link. (Even that is 10Kb!) I suggest getting rid of the "Enter" graphic and putting a purely text menu on the home page. You can use a table to make it neat and can make it pretty with a style sheet.
I won't say my own home page is perfect, but note that I have more than 30 links on it. There are a few little graphics. Note how quickly it opens.
http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/
A tip I heard recently is to make an exception and use a graphic for your e-mail address link. It makes it harder for the spammers who trawl the web for addresses. I must do it myself. I hope I've been constructive.
