agreed, tho those rarely-mentioned bits of history are some of the most interesting, imo. people need to eat, so seeing how, where, and what food was prepared is super neat (and I just fittingly misspelled "super" as "supper")
As a fun dabble, I actually used those plan views you showed, spending a year to create a 'scale' Titanic in Minecraft where 1 block = 1 meter. It became an insane puzzle that miraculously all fit together. Of course it created a ship that could only represent the real thing if the Titanic's walls were coated in box-spring mattresses, but all the rooms (all but the smallest closets) matched up perfectly. One could really get a feel for moving around inside. Watching your illustrations of casings was surprisingly close to walking in my model. So many surprising spaces are not very obvious from just looking at plans, anchor winch, chain locker, escape passages, various cargo hold accesses, funnel case accesses, up and down fireman's spiral stairs, that little galley passage tucked under boiler 1-2 funnel. Even moving around the various passenger spaces, from dining areas, sleeping quarters, via hallways, 1st and 2nd-class elevators to the Turkish baths, pool, racket ball court felt akin to spelunking. I found any Bostwick gates were placed such that they were easily avoided. You really never know a thing unless you build or draw it. To your point of being knit-picked over details, I know the feeling and suspect anyone who visited my site would have a field day for knit. Thx for the effort in making, what one can only imagine, more real.
Actually you can see that the hospital was completely separated and sealed off from the kitchen. To access the hospital you had to come in from the promenade near 2nd class entrance (or the hallway outside the doctor's quarters) on C deck above, so you never even knew you were near the kitchen. I also found it interesting how one must travel a tunnel of a corridor winding down over the engines to get to where the engineers quartered. One thing I could never figure completely is how to access all the storage spaces aft of the P water-tight bulkhead, standing above the stern peak tank. I assume it must be an uncharted hatch in room 135 on D-deck. The spiral staircase over the turbine engine casing actually starts on D-deck in the 1st-2nd class galley, encased through C-deck, through B-deck with access to the restaurant galley, encased through A-deck, and emerges, terminating through a door on the raised deck above the smoke room. It looks like a kitchen servers passage for access to the promenades (very difficult to make in minecraft).
@@sergeydubovyk9268 yeah that would be cool. I have lots of images during my build (all done in survival mode). Don't know how I'd do it though. I'm not really compy savy.
Im working on a similar project in minecraft, I'm 1.5 years in and still working on it. I've finished it up to D deck so far. Its actually on my TH-cam channel, but that's an outdated version of the project since it got corrupted, and i started a new version.
I am again delighted by your enthusiastic review of Titanic. I am a retired architect, but I never worked on anything as complicated as this ship. Just the logistics of scheduling the design and drafting of the plans is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for bringing to light the skill required - at all levels - of liner design
I shouldn't be, but I am absolutely stunned and amazed at the sophistication that went into this ship, and in 1912 no less! I learned this lesson years ago but I keep learning it again over and over: NEVER underestimate the sophistication and the intelligence of the old-timers, they'll fool you every time. It's humbling really.
@@SteamCrane Believe it or not the subject of some kind of electrical device to "sweep" the areas in front of a ship for any obstacles and provide a warning to the bridge crew was brought up after the Titanic disaster but the technology just wasn't there yet. An early form of radar wouldn't come on the scene until the mid-1930s.
My father was a student on HMS Conway. He loved serving in the merchant navy & was obsessed with all things naval. Mike Brady, I wish he’d lived long enough to watch your channel. He’d have loved it.
Potatoes need somewhat controlled conditions to be stored. You don't want light getting onto them. You need to keep a certain level of humidity and you also need to divide up the potatoes into separate piles. There is a kind of rot that can get going in a pile of potatoes that will spoil them all in about a week. When my father was a child, he went to the UK and back with his parents by ship. He mentioned that there were some sort of unmarked doors here and there. They were where the very well dressed crew would appear from and disappear into. It seems that there was a narrow stairway down to the kitchen area and a storage room or two.
Potatoes absolutely need to be stored properly, or they can kill you. Two large green or rotting potatoes can have enough solenine to kill a grown man. And for those with potato cellars and enclosed areas, rotting potatoes can release solenine into the air, creating a poison gas that can kill you very quickly. There's a story within the past decade where a young girl's entire family was killed in this manner, one person went into the cellar and didn't return, and each subsequent member tried to go see what was wrong and also didn't return. The solenine gas in that root cellar became so concentrated without ventilation that it killed them very quickly.
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I just want you to know that I LOVE the fact you talk about lesser known areas of the ship. I've always looked at the deck plans and loved wondering about the engineering skylight, the little round staircase going all the way from the bottom of the ship up to the 4th funnel, the storage area for all of the food, the hospital kitchen etc This definitely scratches that itch to see the hidden in-depth stuff nobody really thinks about, so thank you!
I too have decades of Titanic wonder and appreciation. . I would like to recommend a special edition of "National Geographic" magazines featuring early dive photos and more of the "Titanic". I believe that particular issue was released mid to late 80's. My favorite part was the multi page fold out of RMS Titanic viewed from above. I'm sure it's easy to locate. Cheers!
I am an aviation person, but these videos of RMS Titanic have shown me an aspect of ships I was woefully ignorant of. These all are absolutely fascinating....she was a magnificent ship, and obviously the loss of life was THE tragedy, but the loss of the ship herself was in a different way a tragedy as well. Lost before a history could be written. All we can do is speculate, and your videos are a wonderful source of information. I am not as ignorant as before . Well done, well done indeed.
The THG guys are absolutely brilliant; I am dumbfounded by their abilities every single time I see how well they brought Titanic back to life. Honestly, their project never gets old to me and I can personally walk around the ship for hours without becoming bored.
This reminds me of the series of well-illustrated books, aimed at a young readership, that I wished we'd had in our (boring) history lessons at school. They showed how castles, for example, really worked and answered the questions that kids will always ask. Not just which monarch followed another, but how did they live, what did they eat and, of course, where did they poop!
Just want to say how much I appreciate these videos. The quality and level of detail while uploading so frequently is honestly incredible. Thanks Mike!
Recently found this channel and have been making my way through all your videos, the quality of every video is incredible! And your upload schedule is amazing. Love the vids and thank you for your effort Mike All the best from 🏴
If you go read my comment above one of the most recent, I tried to paint a picture with words so that people might read it and go see for themselves and possibly open the rabbit hole 🕳️ 😮🤙🏻🙌🏻
The potato room was very interesting and brought back a memory from 1983 when my wife and I sailed on the QE2 to New York when we were returning from 4 years in Germany. The ship had a mechanical problem so we ended up spending an extra day at sea. Now my wife didn't care for the metallic tang of the water at the meals so she would ask for either a lemon to squeeze into her glass. On the either the last night or morning at sea, when she asked for the lemon, the waiter told her she had gotten the last one on board! I can imagine a room full of lemons, limes and other citrus fruit being almost totally empty after the extra day at sea.
My grandmother was a six year old girl living in the UK at the time of the sinking. She told me stories when I was young about her recollections of the days the news broke, seeing the newspaper boards announcing it and the news sellers with arms full of papers. She recalled how the loss featured in the conversations between her parents and friends for quite some time.
11:17 Although the 4th funnel was not connected to the boilers, it carried smoke from the smoking room fireplace, from the stoves and ovens of the galley on deck D, and the kitchen of the A la Carte restaurant. There are photographs and newsreels of Olympic that show smoke coming from the 4th funnel
This is absolutely the most fascinating and informative video I have ever seen on the Titanic, and would probably be in my Top Ten on any subject. Outstanding work. Thanks so much for creating it.
Great, now I need a Potato room in my house. The padded cell may not be a bad idea either... My grandfather was on a Battleship in the Pacific and used to tell me all kinds of stories about it. When you mentioned the Machine Shop I remember him telling me one time how much it was used. Anytime they were anchored with carriers, they would get flooded for spare parts for the aircraft since the carriers machine shops would have trouble keeping up at times. They also did work for the Marines, making parts for firearms, replacement parts for vehicles, etc... But, as far as I've been able to tell, Alabama didn't have a "Potato Complex". So I guess the UK won this round.
I've been studying the Titanic over 30 years, and I still can't wrap my mind how they managed to fit so many people and so many functions on such a little space. Same thing with aircraft carriers - it just seems like people would literally live on top of each other.
I have learned more from watching your channel over the past year since I have discovered your videos, that I have my whole life about Titanic and other ocean liners. I was in 7th grade in 1997 when the movie came out and we had a good few weeks out of one of the semesters talking and learning about the Titanic, and we went to the museum that was located in Memphis TN on a field trip. I loved learning about it then and have always had a passing interest in Titanic but your videos have sparked and fueled that flame exponentially.
The potato peeler brings me memories of the school kitchen. The potatoes were washed and dropped into a central rotating peeler section as the skin was removed by sharp side blades. The belt-powered ones were common in the Titanic period as by 1920 they were without belts using dynamo motors from my research in home appliance, and farm tool research.
Wow! I was totally captured by your presentation. I am a multi-discipline Engineer of over 40 years and seeing the plans of the Titanic/Olympic was fascinating. It has been a desire of mine to go on a cruise sometime and talk the Engineer into giving me a "real" tour of the ship. The mechanical's, the real working part of the ship. Alas, 911 has pretty much made that an impossibility these days but seeing the Titanic from the "inside out" was a thrill. Thanks so much for the work you put into your presentation!
Watching your videos about Titanic, I have gained an appreciation for the level of sophistication and the amount of engineering that went into this amazing ship and ships like her! It truly was a marvel of its day! Thanks for sharing!
Just love the detail in these videos. There are things here I'd never heard of before about Titanic. It all goes to show how a passion for something yields amazing detail that most overlook.
I started with some other tragic ship losses, inevitably I was offered a Titanic video by yourself and of course 11+ Titanic videos later here I am! (again)
A really interesting video, thank you for making it. A good watch. The potato room, the padded room, and the ash disposal were the things that caught me by surprise.
Thank you! I have used just such a potato peeling machine. It was a vertical drum with something like absurdly coarse sandpaper on the inside. The spuds bounced around inside as water washed them and the abrasive pretty much polished the potatoes clean. No home should be without one!
I am impressed with the amount of effort and accuracy that has gone into the plans, as wll as your own renderings, Mike Brady. As a dabbler in Titanic lore, I have found a huge amount of new information!
Wow - padded room and double-potato rooms; everything I think I've heard everything about the Titanic, you teach me something more. Love it! As for the Clipper stern; beautiful stern for a ship. I think that was such an elegant looking way to end the ship. Modern ships look rather ugly - especially the ones that just drop right off to a squared off stern.
The potato room really made me smile, I don't know if its the you say or just thinking about the potato room, now it's my favourite room on the ship. Also, I really like the engine room info on your other videos. Everyone goes on about the state rooms, but I love to hear about the engines This is a great channel
Incredible detail went into this beautiful ship. I never realized the machine shop even had a lathe in it. What a testament to the attitude of the time of repairing everything, where profit and money wasn't the priority at all times like today.
Another awesome video mate! When we were looking over the hospital area, I thought to myself “if my friend Mike Brady doesn’t talk about the padded room, I’m going to lose it and need to be put into it!” You didn’t disappoint 😂
Mike there's always something new to discovery about the Titanic and other ships for that matter. Another fantastic video once again, a pleasure to watch.
Good video. The hospital, although adjacent to the kitchens was sealed off and entirely apart, and the infectious wards had separate ventilation extraction from the rest of the ship. Access was only from above so most likely food had to go up, then down again. Curious about the emergency door from the aft steering room. The beveridge plans show the door in the smoking room. The THG plans have it in the common room, where Olympic had hers. For a variety of operational reasons the smoking room makes more day to day sense. Interested in thinking behind why its shown on different sides on two high quality plans.
Mike that photo of your grandad is absolutely award winning! If I had to think of a caption it'd be something to the effect of 'There are 2 types of Irishmen'. I love seeing your sense of humor peek through in some of these vids, keep it up 👍🏻
I have the plans for all three sisters. I love looking at the blue colored sheets with the detail in white. As a Titanic rivet counter, I can confirm that THG has done an amazing job with these plans and want to get the trumpeter model that they collabed with to ensure that the details were as correct as possible.
Along with millions of others I'm sure, I've always felt that I must have been on Titanic in a previous life (indeed, the padded room seems oddly familiar) because it's an endlessly fascinating story. What a great series, filled with superb research and hosted so well by Mike!
30:10 - regarding the champagne room: "What I would give to have just 10 minutes that room". Mike, you are a man after my own heart! I was literally about to say the same thing!
love this channel you're passion for your chosen subject matter shines through and is a key factor in making your videos so unique, entertaining and engaging!
Love this video. As a Titanic enthusiast for most of my life, I had no idea that Titanic had a padded room. Seeing all the stuff laid out on these plans for the lower stern decks, it gives a person a much grander view of what was lost when the ship broke apart and the stern imploded on the way down.
Dear Mike, your video is definitely one of the highlights of my day! (: When you told the fact about the potatoe-peeling-machine I remembered a children's book I had many years ago about Titanic, back in the 1990s, in which the experiences of Jack Thayer were described and he actually wrote about this very machine! Very informative. Thank you as always, looking forward to many new videos! Greetings from Austria!
Love all your videos Mike, and this is a superb one!! I'd love to see a video on Titanic's (and indeed, ocean liners in general) fitness and health facilities. I'm a Titanic nut and a bodybuilder, and I'm fascinated by early fitness and health trends and devices. Always had a fascination with Titanic's gymnasium, squash court, swimming pool, Turkish Bath - even the dog walking facilities! Plus the barber shops, hospital, and especially the galleys. Luxury isn't about upholstery and gold trim - luxury comes from all the behind-the-scenes operations like food preparation, facilities, and customer services. Would love to learn more about all these cutting-edge customer services aboard!
Thank you Mike for taking the time to tour our plans of Titanic. You give both a fun and enlightening perspective (even though I have wandered the ship with you before, which is always a pleasure) on something I've literally spent hundreds of hours working on to the point of my causing my eyes to bleed! :)
The music in your background was perfect...great video Mike! Thank you as always for sharing your love and knowledge of these ships...especially Titanic!
In our region it's common for the village houses to have a special potato room or compartment in the cellar. The floor under the potatos is made out of clay. I think it's helping the potatos to stay fresh longer. And the place is often in the darkest part of the cellar so the potatos don't start to sprout.
"My third favourite room, behind the potato room and the padded cell..." I don't know why but, that sentence struck a chord with me. Maybe it's because I'm Irish but, that sounds like the end of a great night out. Add in the bacon, ham and cheese room and it sounds like a night out back in the late 90's when I was in college. I didn't drink all that much (I know, shock horror, an Irish woman that didn't drink herself silly) but man, did I love the bacon and cheese chips at the end of a night out and then falling asleep at 6am against a wall or on the floor of a friends house, and you were so tired that it felt like you were lying on a cloud (or padded room). Those were the days !
WOW, When I stated watching your video, (which is beautifully presented, as usual, I could listen to your calming voice all evening), there were 1600 likes including mine. After I'd finished watching; with a few going back and re-watching; there were 2400 Likes. Wonderful.
Hello Michael, there are actually many details that distinguish Titanic and Olympic from each other. Titanic was a ship in which some flaws were corrected, improved and rearranged with the experience gained from Olmypic. It included many innovations, from the simplest pilothouse to the cabin layout on C deck, from the luxury cabins on B deck to the added cafe parisien, and improvements on the lower decks. Titanic had a number of updates, including a better and improved ventilation system and a Marconi room with more powerful Marconi telegraph equipment. If it had not gone down, these changes would probably have been implemented in the same way at Olympic later. But her sinking the Titanic, forced Olympic to change her hull design during her 1913 refit. All these changes completely affected Gigantic, which would later be known as Britannic.
Britannic was never officially known as "Gigantic". That was just a press release pre-launch of Britannic. No H&W or White Star document ever called Britannic Gigantic.
Even the layout of the Turkish Baths was altered. The famous cooling room was adjacent to the hull on Olympic, but moved inwards on Titanic (according to the plans shown). I also remember reading that the 1st Class Reception Room was enlarged by moving one wall by four frames due to its popularity on Olympic. And the relative disuse of the Ladies' Room is why the alcove was removed on Britannic, replaced by cabins below a children's playroom opposite the Gymnasium. The sheer complexity of these Edwardian liners is a reason for building one on dry land as a hotel/museum (as well as the primary reason Titanic: Honor and Glory is doing such spectacular work). The details are amazing, what they thought of and how they solved problems on such a scale, while simultaneously working to make passengers forget they were on a ship with the level of elegance and the deft covering of mechanical components.
what a fascinating ship. I would love to have been able to spend a day or two wandering around and checking out all the cool stuff in ships like those. You could probably spend weeks exploring and still not see it all.
What a thoroughly fascinating show, Mike. As someone who does 2-D CAD for a living, I have always wanted to see actual drawings and I too was spellbound by the tiny odd rooms tucked away rather than the better-known spaces. This is one set of drawings I always wished I could have produced - the challenge would be formidable. (Other buildings I wuld have liked to have drawn would have been Rivendell or even Hogwarts Castle!!). Yep, great, great show.....thanks.
I’m always wondering how the steering and windlet engine rooms look like from the inside in the wreck. Everything in the fantail of the stern section seems to be in a relatively good shape, the aft end of the poop deck still being attached. I could imagine that the massive rudder gear and the reciprocating engines are still in place. Also on the bow section, the forecastle appears to be in a very good condition, hence I suppose that the engines and winches below are also in good shape, but you can’t find any diving imagery of these areas.
I find all of your videos so informative and entertaining, all at the same time! These have answered questions that I have had about this ship (and her sister ships) for ages. Keep them coming, and keep up the great work!
The difficulties of handling coal and the need for large numbers of personnel to handle it was likely the principal reason the Olympic was converted to burn oil in the 1920's.
I enjoy your enthusiasm and detail. Titanic, obviously (in)famous for her sinking, but you make the seemingly mundane features of the liner extremely interesting. Thank you!!
This was so cool! Ice cream room, padded room, curvy floor cabin... so many things that wouldn't come to mind off the bat. Something I noticed while reviewing the bridge plan, and I don't recall this being covered before (my apologies if it was)... how exactly did the expansion joints be constructed and work?
As I understand only the superstructure had expansion joints - so that when the hull flexed over the waves it could do it without stressing the superstructure (which would have otherwise been stretched and compressed much more than the hull itself) which was only intended to carry its own weight. So it basically was a mostly rigid, but somewhat flexible hull, and on top of it were built three structurally separate sections of superstructure with some gaps in between - when the hull flexed inward (bow and stern up, middle down) those gaps shrank and when the hull flex outward they stretched. Of course you couldn't have just gaps there - so they were "bridged" with expansion joints - I don't know how they were built on a Titanic, but typically in bridges and other structures those are built out of few layers of steel plates on both sides that can slide in or out between each other, in a way that the gap is always covered. (and on a ship they were probably also connected with some elastic seals so that the weather couldn't penetrate the interior). But yeah, it would be nice to see how they were actually designed in 1912 - and most importantly - kept out of the passengers view.
Awesome...Champagne room...then head to play with the spud peeler and then I get back in my padded cell...or head back to one of those carved floor wall 3rd class state rooms. Its kind of amazing How much needs to be designed on the ship...That someone has had to raise in a meeting or just know we need a place to convert the ash into sludge, Incredible plans that you have brought to life very vividly!
Titanic is one of the only ships i admire because of what it was and how they accomplished the size and manufacturing of the ship in 1912 still boggles me to this day RIP those who lost their lives on the ship
Call love our friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner designs. Keep us informed and educated and his voice rocks us to sleep at night. Don’t lie you know you love it too.
As fascinating and well crafted as this, or Any of your ship interiors are, I cannot help but wonder what they all were like tossing back and forth on the waves during Actual Travel. It would put the design and architecture into a whole New perspective!
As a long time Titanic enthusiast, most of these details are known to me, but this was such an relaxing & interesting overview. Top work as always. More of this content would be welcomed!
Thank you for always finding new information on the Titanic to share with us. Amazing that a ship what didn’t even make a complete voyage still holds so many captive for over 100 years. Mike, what was the use of the SILENCE ROOM besides the Marconi room?
I love the short break for the sneaky none-sneeze 😂 thank you for leaving it in, i chuckled at that. I hate when they sneak up on ya, and then dont happen 😂
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I learned about the capstan engines and the firemen's galley.
I learned that I am not the only one who has the issue of having to sneeze, but having it not happen. That has earned you a like!
I find funny the fact that the titanic was equipped with a room dedicated to potatos. Probably the best room on all the ship
PO -TAY-TOES! Boil'em, mash'em, stick'em in a stew! You'd know she was an Irish-built ship, eh?
"Potatoes" being the literal name of the room design is the 1910s equivalent of an MRE's "lean against rock or something"
agreed, tho those rarely-mentioned bits of history are some of the most interesting, imo. people need to eat, so seeing how, where, and what food was prepared is super neat (and I just fittingly misspelled "super" as "supper")
TWO potatoes rooms. And they appear pretty darn big.
Chips with everything 😊
The sneeze clip 😂😂 definitely was a video with alittle fun
As a fun dabble, I actually used those plan views you showed, spending a year to create a 'scale' Titanic in Minecraft where 1 block = 1 meter. It became an insane puzzle that miraculously all fit together. Of course it created a ship that could only represent the real thing if the Titanic's walls were coated in box-spring mattresses, but all the rooms (all but the smallest closets) matched up perfectly. One could really get a feel for moving around inside. Watching your illustrations of casings was surprisingly close to walking in my model. So many surprising spaces are not very obvious from just looking at plans, anchor winch, chain locker, escape passages, various cargo hold accesses, funnel case accesses, up and down fireman's spiral stairs, that little galley passage tucked under boiler 1-2 funnel. Even moving around the various passenger spaces, from dining areas, sleeping quarters, via hallways, 1st and 2nd-class elevators to the Turkish baths, pool, racket ball court felt akin to spelunking. I found any Bostwick gates were placed such that they were easily avoided. You really never know a thing unless you build or draw it. To your point of being knit-picked over details, I know the feeling and suspect anyone who visited my site would have a field day for knit. Thx for the effort in making, what one can only imagine, more real.
Actually you can see that the hospital was completely separated and sealed off from the kitchen. To access the hospital you had to come in from the promenade near 2nd class entrance (or the hallway outside the doctor's quarters) on C deck above, so you never even knew you were near the kitchen. I also found it interesting how one must travel a tunnel of a corridor winding down over the engines to get to where the engineers quartered. One thing I could never figure completely is how to access all the storage spaces aft of the P water-tight bulkhead, standing above the stern peak tank. I assume it must be an uncharted hatch in room 135 on D-deck. The spiral staircase over the turbine engine casing actually starts on D-deck in the 1st-2nd class galley, encased through C-deck, through B-deck with access to the restaurant galley, encased through A-deck, and emerges, terminating through a door on the raised deck above the smoke room. It looks like a kitchen servers passage for access to the promenades (very difficult to make in minecraft).
Nice! Any link (or how to find) some screenshots of that?
@@sergeydubovyk9268 yeah that would be cool. I have lots of images during my build (all done in survival mode). Don't know how I'd do it though. I'm not really compy savy.
@@MT-it9qt Theres also a way to upload the entire thing as a workshop file, then we could all enjoy your creation?
Im working on a similar project in minecraft, I'm 1.5 years in and still working on it. I've finished it up to D deck so far. Its actually on my TH-cam channel, but that's an outdated version of the project since it got corrupted, and i started a new version.
Titanic H&G is probably one of the greatest virtual projects ever. Bringing that beautiful ship back to life.
Yes but when can we expect the game? It is now 12 years after first announcement, techniques and hardware have completely changed.
15:32 "they sit up on the poop deck, don't laugh. " it was the "don't laugh" that indeed, made me laugh.
I am again delighted by your enthusiastic review of Titanic. I am a retired architect, but I never worked on anything as complicated as this ship. Just the logistics of scheduling the design and drafting of the plans is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for bringing to light the skill required - at all levels - of liner design
I shouldn't be, but I am absolutely stunned and amazed at the sophistication that went into this ship, and in 1912 no less! I learned this lesson years ago but I keep learning it again over and over:
NEVER underestimate the sophistication and the intelligence of the old-timers, they'll fool you every time.
It's humbling really.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Except for radar. That would have been good.
@@SteamCrane Believe it or not the subject of some kind of electrical device to "sweep" the areas in front of a ship for any obstacles and provide a warning to the bridge crew was brought up after the Titanic disaster but the technology just wasn't there yet. An early form of radar wouldn't come on the scene until the mid-1930s.
My father was a student on HMS Conway. He loved serving in the merchant navy & was obsessed with all things naval.
Mike Brady, I wish he’d lived long enough to watch your channel. He’d have loved it.
Potatoes need somewhat controlled conditions to be stored. You don't want light getting onto them. You need to keep a certain level of humidity and you also need to divide up the potatoes into separate piles. There is a kind of rot that can get going in a pile of potatoes that will spoil them all in about a week.
When my father was a child, he went to the UK and back with his parents by ship. He mentioned that there were some sort of unmarked doors here and there. They were where the very well dressed crew would appear from and disappear into. It seems that there was a narrow stairway down to the kitchen area and a storage room or two.
Our house has a potato cellar. Hasn't been used in many years.
Potatoes absolutely need to be stored properly, or they can kill you. Two large green or rotting potatoes can have enough solenine to kill a grown man. And for those with potato cellars and enclosed areas, rotting potatoes can release solenine into the air, creating a poison gas that can kill you very quickly. There's a story within the past decade where a young girl's entire family was killed in this manner, one person went into the cellar and didn't return, and each subsequent member tried to go see what was wrong and also didn't return. The solenine gas in that root cellar became so concentrated without ventilation that it killed them very quickly.
You also want to keep potatoes in relative cold. But not too cold as otherwise its starch will be degraded into sugar.
Can’t be pitch black either or the potatoes will think there in the ground and start growing roots.
I'm sitting here at the place I stay between work shifts in Chicago. It's -21c outside with -32c wind chill. I'm soaking in some American whiskey and watching MOAR Titanic content from Oceanliner Designs, and I could not be more relaxed. Cheers
one. two. Mike Bradey is coming for you......
three. four. better lock then door😨😨
I just want you to know that I LOVE the fact you talk about lesser known areas of the ship. I've always looked at the deck plans and loved wondering about the engineering skylight, the little round staircase going all the way from the bottom of the ship up to the 4th funnel, the storage area for all of the food, the hospital kitchen etc
This definitely scratches that itch to see the hidden in-depth stuff nobody really thinks about, so thank you!
I have been fascinated by the Titanic for nearly 40 years.
33 or so for me. I have loved the ship ever since Bob Ballard discovered the wreck😊
Sure thing, Old Man. Sorry, I had to as that what the wireless operators called each other back in the day. No offence meant.
Thanks for sharing.
Incredibly interesting.
I too have decades of Titanic wonder and appreciation. .
I would like to recommend a special edition of "National Geographic" magazines featuring early dive photos and more of the "Titanic". I believe that particular issue was released mid to late 80's. My favorite part was the multi page fold out of RMS Titanic viewed from above.
I'm sure it's easy to locate. Cheers!
I am an aviation person, but these videos of RMS Titanic have shown me an aspect of ships I was woefully ignorant of. These all are absolutely fascinating....she was a magnificent ship, and obviously the loss of life was THE tragedy, but the loss of the ship herself was in a different way a tragedy as well. Lost before a history could be written. All we can do is speculate, and your videos are a wonderful source of information. I am not as ignorant as before . Well done, well done indeed.
Well said
Me too!
I want to compliment you on always dressing with such class. We need more of this in the world. It really elevates your channel.
Mike, you have the gift of making exploring and learning fun ! Thank you so much for your ongoing efforts, they are well appreciated !
The THG guys are absolutely brilliant; I am dumbfounded by their abilities every single time I see how well they brought Titanic back to life. Honestly, their project never gets old to me and I can personally walk around the ship for hours without becoming bored.
Passenger states they dislike potatoes. Gets stuffed in padded room.
Uhh I Don't actually like potatoes 😅
How does this not have a ton of likes?!
An irish passenger saying they don’t like potatoes? Wild 😅
@@jamesb7906 I actually Aren't Irish I'm from Balkan
@@Random_dudeYT441 didnt say you were - replying to main comment
This reminds me of the series of well-illustrated books, aimed at a young readership, that I wished we'd had in our (boring) history lessons at school. They showed how castles, for example, really worked and answered the questions that kids will always ask. Not just which monarch followed another, but how did they live, what did they eat and, of course, where did they poop!
Oh my god I remember that series! It’s part of what got me interested in history in the first place
Sounds like the horrible histories TV programme
I remember an interview with an astronaut and he said the most common question he gets from kids and adults is how pooping in space works.
Just want to say how much I appreciate these videos. The quality and level of detail while uploading so frequently is honestly incredible. Thanks Mike!
These giant ships are endlessly fascinating.
You, young man are keeping history alive and making it fun and interesting!! ❤
Please keep making this content!! I love it!! 🇮🇪
Recently found this channel and have been making my way through all your videos, the quality of every video is incredible! And your upload schedule is amazing. Love the vids and thank you for your effort Mike
All the best from 🏴
His work most def stands out :)
@@corycollier it's league's above the rest
If you go read my comment above one of the most recent, I tried to paint a picture with words so that people might read it and go see for themselves and possibly open the rabbit hole 🕳️ 😮🤙🏻🙌🏻
The potato room was very interesting and brought back a memory from 1983 when my wife and I sailed on the QE2 to New York when we were returning from 4 years in Germany. The ship had a mechanical problem so we ended up spending an extra day at sea. Now my wife didn't care for the metallic tang of the water at the meals so she would ask for either a lemon to squeeze into her glass. On the either the last night or morning at sea, when she asked for the lemon, the waiter told her she had gotten the last one on board! I can imagine a room full of lemons, limes and other citrus fruit being almost totally empty after the extra day at sea.
My grandmother was a six year old girl living in the UK at the time of the sinking. She told me stories when I was young about her recollections of the days the news broke, seeing the newspaper boards announcing it and the news sellers with arms full of papers. She recalled how the loss featured in the conversations between her parents and friends for quite some time.
11:17 Although the 4th funnel was not connected to the boilers, it carried smoke from the smoking room fireplace, from the stoves and ovens of the galley on deck D, and the kitchen of the A la Carte restaurant. There are photographs and newsreels of Olympic that show smoke coming from the 4th funnel
Mike's next video: "Converting my office into a potato room."
This is absolutely the most fascinating and informative video I have ever seen on the Titanic, and would probably be in my Top Ten on any subject.
Outstanding work. Thanks so much for creating it.
Great, now I need a Potato room in my house. The padded cell may not be a bad idea either...
My grandfather was on a Battleship in the Pacific and used to tell me all kinds of stories about it. When you mentioned the Machine Shop I remember him telling me one time how much it was used. Anytime they were anchored with carriers, they would get flooded for spare parts for the aircraft since the carriers machine shops would have trouble keeping up at times. They also did work for the Marines, making parts for firearms, replacement parts for vehicles, etc...
But, as far as I've been able to tell, Alabama didn't have a "Potato Complex". So I guess the UK won this round.
I've been studying the Titanic over 30 years, and I still can't wrap my mind how they managed to fit so many people and so many functions on such a little space. Same thing with aircraft carriers - it just seems like people would literally live on top of each other.
I just love the details of anything like this. The large concepts are extensively covered. The details are where life is lived.
I have learned more from watching your channel over the past year since I have discovered your videos, that I have my whole life about Titanic and other ocean liners. I was in 7th grade in 1997 when the movie came out and we had a good few weeks out of one of the semesters talking and learning about the Titanic, and we went to the museum that was located in Memphis TN on a field trip. I loved learning about it then and have always had a passing interest in Titanic but your videos have sparked and fueled that flame exponentially.
The potato peeler brings me memories of the school kitchen. The potatoes were washed and dropped into a central rotating peeler section as the skin was removed by sharp side blades. The belt-powered ones were common in the Titanic period as by 1920 they were without belts using dynamo motors from my research in home appliance, and farm tool research.
Wow! I was totally captured by your presentation. I am a multi-discipline Engineer of over 40 years and seeing the plans of the Titanic/Olympic was fascinating. It has been a desire of mine to go on a cruise sometime and talk the Engineer into giving me a "real" tour of the ship. The mechanical's, the real working part of the ship. Alas, 911 has pretty much made that an impossibility these days but seeing the Titanic from the "inside out" was a thrill. Thanks so much for the work you put into your presentation!
I’ve been building Titanic in Minecraft at a 1.5 to 1 scale and this really helps explain what some of the parts are in the blueprints. Thank you
let me know if you find a way to access the storage spaces above the stern peak tank, and behind the blanket storage. GL on your build.
Good luck this is wat life is about.. wasting time making dum stuff in Minecraft
I’ve been building the Titanic Minecraft too. The layout on the decks are a bit messed up though on my build which is slightly infuriating
Watching your videos about Titanic, I have gained an appreciation for the level of sophistication and the amount of engineering that went into this amazing ship and ships like her! It truly was a marvel of its day! Thanks for sharing!
Just love the detail in these videos. There are things here I'd never heard of before about Titanic. It all goes to show how a passion for something yields amazing detail that most overlook.
I started with some other tragic ship losses, inevitably I was offered a Titanic video by yourself and of course 11+ Titanic videos later here I am! (again)
A really interesting video, thank you for making it. A good watch.
The potato room, the padded room, and the ash disposal were the things that caught me by surprise.
Amazing that, after all these years, there is still so much fascinating stuff to learn about the Titanic.
also many lies are spread around. Don't forget that
Thank you!
I have used just such a potato peeling machine. It was a vertical drum with something like absurdly coarse sandpaper on the inside. The spuds bounced around inside as water washed them and the abrasive pretty much polished the potatoes clean.
No home should be without one!
I am impressed with the amount of effort and accuracy that has gone into the plans, as wll as your own renderings, Mike Brady.
As a dabbler in Titanic lore, I have found a huge amount of new information!
Wow - padded room and double-potato rooms; everything I think I've heard everything about the Titanic, you teach me something more. Love it!
As for the Clipper stern; beautiful stern for a ship. I think that was such an elegant looking way to end the ship. Modern ships look rather ugly - especially the ones that just drop right off to a squared off stern.
It is evident by your voice that you truly enjoy talking about these great ships. It makes listening all that much more enjoyable. Happy Trails
The potato room really made me smile, I don't know if its the you say or just thinking about the potato room, now it's my favourite room on the ship. Also, I really like the engine room info on your other videos. Everyone goes on about the state rooms, but I love to hear about the engines
This is a great channel
Every room is the most interesting room. All these plans, all those images. THG is truly an incredible feat.
Fun fact, I was eating roast potatoes when you were declaring your love for potatoes! As ever, top video from my favourite TH-camr ❤
I love potato salad. Enjoy different varieties of.
Incredible detail went into this beautiful ship. I never realized the machine shop even had a lathe in it. What a testament to the attitude of the time of repairing everything, where profit and money wasn't the priority at all times like today.
Thank you for including the central anchor description! I had requested that information in a previous comment.
hi Mike! it's your friend here, youtube viewer, huge respect to the amount of work you put in, and your dedication to the waist coat.
Another awesome video mate! When we were looking over the hospital area, I thought to myself “if my friend Mike Brady doesn’t talk about the padded room, I’m going to lose it and need to be put into it!” You didn’t disappoint 😂
Mike there's always something new to discovery about the Titanic and other ships for that matter. Another fantastic video once again, a pleasure to watch.
Thanks Paulie and I loved you in Sopranos :)
@@OceanlinerDesigns
Haha 👍
Good video. The hospital, although adjacent to the kitchens was sealed off and entirely apart, and the infectious wards had separate ventilation extraction from the rest of the ship. Access was only from above so most likely food had to go up, then down again. Curious about the emergency door from the aft steering room. The beveridge plans show the door in the smoking room. The THG plans have it in the common room, where Olympic had hers. For a variety of operational reasons the smoking room makes more day to day sense. Interested in thinking behind why its shown on different sides on two high quality plans.
Mike that photo of your grandad is absolutely award winning! If I had to think of a caption it'd be something to the effect of 'There are 2 types of Irishmen'. I love seeing your sense of humor peek through in some of these vids, keep it up 👍🏻
I have the plans for all three sisters. I love looking at the blue colored sheets with the detail in white. As a Titanic rivet counter, I can confirm that THG has done an amazing job with these plans and want to get the trumpeter model that they collabed with to ensure that the details were as correct as possible.
Along with millions of others I'm sure, I've always felt that I must have been on Titanic in a previous life (indeed, the padded room seems oddly familiar) because it's an endlessly fascinating story. What a great series, filled with superb research and hosted so well by Mike!
30:10 - regarding the champagne room: "What I would give to have just 10 minutes that room". Mike, you are a man after my own heart! I was literally about to say the same thing!
love this channel you're passion for your chosen subject matter shines through and is a key factor in making your videos so unique, entertaining and engaging!
Love this video. As a Titanic enthusiast for most of my life, I had no idea that Titanic had a padded room. Seeing all the stuff laid out on these plans for the lower stern decks, it gives a person a much grander view of what was lost when the ship broke apart and the stern imploded on the way down.
Thank you Mike @OceanlinerDesigns what a brilliant and fascinating tour of this magnificent ship.
Thanks for that hidden room. COOL.
Dear Mike, your video is definitely one of the highlights of my day! (: When you told the fact about the potatoe-peeling-machine I remembered a children's book I had many years ago about Titanic, back in the 1990s, in which the experiences of Jack Thayer were described and he actually wrote about this very machine! Very informative. Thank you as always, looking forward to many new videos! Greetings from Austria!
15:25
"They are on the poop deck.
Dont laugh"
A bit too late, Mike
Again a superbly presented video on the Titanic. You have certain elegance in doing the narration. Thanks for this one, and greetings from Germany!
Love all your videos Mike, and this is a superb one!! I'd love to see a video on Titanic's (and indeed, ocean liners in general) fitness and health facilities. I'm a Titanic nut and a bodybuilder, and I'm fascinated by early fitness and health trends and devices. Always had a fascination with Titanic's gymnasium, squash court, swimming pool, Turkish Bath - even the dog walking facilities! Plus the barber shops, hospital, and especially the galleys. Luxury isn't about upholstery and gold trim - luxury comes from all the behind-the-scenes operations like food preparation, facilities, and customer services. Would love to learn more about all these cutting-edge customer services aboard!
Love learning about Titanic, my great grandfather was a crewman and survivor of the disaster.
Thank you Mike for taking the time to tour our plans of Titanic. You give both a fun and enlightening perspective (even though I have wandered the ship with you before, which is always a pleasure) on something I've literally spent hundreds of hours working on to the point of my causing my eyes to bleed!
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The music in your background was perfect...great video Mike! Thank you as always for sharing your love and knowledge of these ships...especially Titanic!
This was such a nice guided tour. Thanks, Mike!
The level of thought they put into this ship is just amazing to behold and makes me think that building Titanic was the easy part.
In our region it's common for the village houses to have a special potato room or compartment in the cellar. The floor under the potatos is made out of clay.
I think it's helping the potatos to stay fresh longer. And the place is often in the darkest part of the cellar so the potatos don't start to sprout.
Our house has one, beneath the front steps, ie partly outside the house.
"My third favourite room, behind the potato room and the padded cell..."
I don't know why but, that sentence struck a chord with me. Maybe it's because I'm Irish but, that sounds like the end of a great night out. Add in the bacon, ham and cheese room and it sounds like a night out back in the late 90's when I was in college. I didn't drink all that much (I know, shock horror, an Irish woman that didn't drink herself silly) but man, did I love the bacon and cheese chips at the end of a night out and then falling asleep at 6am against a wall or on the floor of a friends house, and you were so tired that it felt like you were lying on a cloud (or padded room).
Those were the days !
Mike, I'm Irish also - so LOVED hearing about the potato rooms. Thank you for sharing this with us!!!!
Well done, sir. That brought back memories of when I was a kid staring at pictures, wondering where everything was.
Epic overview of the plans!
WOW, When I stated watching your video, (which is beautifully presented, as usual, I could listen to your calming voice all evening), there were 1600 likes including mine. After I'd finished watching; with a few going back and re-watching; there were 2400 Likes. Wonderful.
Hello Michael, there are actually many details that distinguish Titanic and Olympic from each other. Titanic was a ship in which some flaws were corrected, improved and rearranged with the experience gained from Olmypic. It included many innovations, from the simplest pilothouse to the cabin layout on C deck, from the luxury cabins on B deck to the added cafe parisien, and improvements on the lower decks. Titanic had a number of updates, including a better and improved ventilation system and a Marconi room with more powerful Marconi telegraph equipment. If it had not gone down, these changes would probably have been implemented in the same way at Olympic later. But her sinking the Titanic, forced Olympic to change her hull design during her 1913 refit. All these changes completely affected Gigantic, which would later be known as Britannic.
Britannic was never officially known as "Gigantic". That was just a press release pre-launch of Britannic. No H&W or White Star document ever called Britannic Gigantic.
Even the layout of the Turkish Baths was altered. The famous cooling room was adjacent to the hull on Olympic, but moved inwards on Titanic (according to the plans shown). I also remember reading that the 1st Class Reception Room was enlarged by moving one wall by four frames due to its popularity on Olympic. And the relative disuse of the Ladies' Room is why the alcove was removed on Britannic, replaced by cabins below a children's playroom opposite the Gymnasium.
The sheer complexity of these Edwardian liners is a reason for building one on dry land as a hotel/museum (as well as the primary reason Titanic: Honor and Glory is doing such spectacular work). The details are amazing, what they thought of and how they solved problems on such a scale, while simultaneously working to make passengers forget they were on a ship with the level of elegance and the deft covering of mechanical components.
what a fascinating ship. I would love to have been able to spend a day or two wandering around and checking out all the cool stuff in ships like those.
You could probably spend weeks exploring and still not see it all.
The padded room was used to incarcerate any time traveler that attempted to went back and warn them about their fate! (Just kidding)
I love plans and 'cutaway' diagrams of any kind. Many thanks for another fascinating episode!
What a thoroughly fascinating show, Mike. As someone who does 2-D CAD for a living, I have always wanted to see actual drawings and I too was spellbound by the tiny odd rooms tucked away rather than the better-known spaces. This is one set of drawings I always wished I could have produced - the challenge would be formidable. (Other buildings I wuld have liked to have drawn would have been Rivendell or even Hogwarts Castle!!). Yep, great, great show.....thanks.
Just out of curiosity, who uses today still 2D CAD?
Been fascinated by this ship since I was a kid ❤️
I’m always wondering how the steering and windlet engine rooms look like from the inside in the wreck. Everything in the fantail of the stern section seems to be in a relatively good shape, the aft end of the poop deck still being attached. I could imagine that the massive rudder gear and the reciprocating engines are still in place. Also on the bow section, the forecastle appears to be in a very good condition, hence I suppose that the engines and winches below are also in good shape, but you can’t find any diving imagery of these areas.
I find all of your videos so informative and entertaining, all at the same time! These have answered questions that I have had about this ship (and her sister ships) for ages. Keep them coming, and keep up the great work!
The difficulties of handling coal and the need for large numbers of personnel to handle it was likely the principal reason the Olympic was converted to burn oil in the 1920's.
Padded room wow never knew that existed. Always learning about our beloved ship. ❤
Excellent job as usual!
I enjoy your enthusiasm and detail. Titanic, obviously (in)famous for her sinking, but you make the seemingly mundane features of the liner extremely interesting. Thank you!!
This was so cool! Ice cream room, padded room, curvy floor cabin... so many things that wouldn't come to mind off the bat. Something I noticed while reviewing the bridge plan, and I don't recall this being covered before (my apologies if it was)... how exactly did the expansion joints be constructed and work?
As I understand only the superstructure had expansion joints - so that when the hull flexed over the waves it could do it without stressing the superstructure (which would have otherwise been stretched and compressed much more than the hull itself) which was only intended to carry its own weight.
So it basically was a mostly rigid, but somewhat flexible hull, and on top of it were built three structurally separate sections of superstructure with some gaps in between - when the hull flexed inward (bow and stern up, middle down) those gaps shrank and when the hull flex outward they stretched.
Of course you couldn't have just gaps there - so they were "bridged" with expansion joints - I don't know how they were built on a Titanic, but typically in bridges and other structures those are built out of few layers of steel plates on both sides that can slide in or out between each other, in a way that the gap is always covered. (and on a ship they were probably also connected with some elastic seals so that the weather couldn't penetrate the interior).
But yeah, it would be nice to see how they were actually designed in 1912 - and most importantly - kept out of the passengers view.
Awesome...Champagne room...then head to play with the spud peeler and then I get back in my padded cell...or head back to one of those carved floor wall 3rd class state rooms. Its kind of amazing How much needs to be designed on the ship...That someone has had to raise in a meeting or just know we need a place to convert the ash into sludge, Incredible plans that you have brought to life very vividly!
Titanic is one of the only ships i admire because of what it was and how they accomplished the size and manufacturing of the ship in 1912 still boggles me to this day RIP those who lost their lives on the ship
A good look at what we can accomplish when driven to do so.
Then she was given a tiny, little rudder.
@sillyone52062 only one was small the rest were quite big
Call love our friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner designs. Keep us informed and educated and his voice rocks us to sleep at night. Don’t lie you know you love it too.
i like ships
As fascinating and well crafted as this, or Any of your ship interiors are, I cannot help but wonder what they all were like tossing back and forth on the waves during Actual Travel.
It would put the design and architecture into a whole New perspective!
As an Irishwoman, the most important room to me in Titanic is most definitely the potato room, magic comes from in there
As a long time Titanic enthusiast, most of these details are known to me, but this was such an relaxing & interesting overview. Top work as always. More of this content would be welcomed!
Glad you enjoyed even if you knew about most of these points :)
FINALY IM THE FIRST
33:40 "Every house needs a potato room." And, I would add, every house needs an Ice Cream Room! 😊
Thank you for always finding new information on the Titanic to share with us. Amazing that a ship what didn’t even make a complete voyage still holds so many captive for over 100 years.
Mike, what was the use of the SILENCE ROOM besides the Marconi room?
I love the short break for the sneaky none-sneeze 😂 thank you for leaving it in, i chuckled at that. I hate when they sneak up on ya, and then dont happen 😂
Another m great video from MY friend mike Brady, from ocean liner designs