1931 “ THE ELECTRIC SHIP ” OCEAN LINER SS VIRGINIA GENERAL ELECTRIC EDUCATIONAL FILM XD49814
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Dating to 1931, "The Electric Ship" is part of a series of "Marvels of Science" films made by General Electric. It was produced by John Klenke and photographed by Palmer Miller. It was made with the co-operation of the Panama Pacific Line. SS Virginia was launched on October 18, 1928 and delivered to American Line early in December, and made her maiden voyage on December 6, 1928. At the time it and sister ships were the largest ships that had turbo-electric propulsion, allowing them to sail without noise or vibration. The steamship had oil-fired furnaces heating its boilers to power two steam turbo generators that ran at a constant 2,800 RPM. These supplied current to their 18-foot (5m)-high General Electric propulsion motors, which had a combined rating of 2,833 NHP or 17,000 SHP. Virginia was sold and re-christened SS Brazil in 1938, and after 1941 became a United States Army Transport ship. She re-entered passenger service post war before being scrapped in 1964.
The electric ship SS Virginia, largest ship ever built in America at the time, slides down the ways (1:13) at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock shipyard. People ready to board (2:15). Luggage moves by conveyer belt (2:37). People walk on and off boat (2:44). Passengers wave (2:55). “All ashore's going ashore” (2:58). Large group disembarks (3:02). Closeup: steam (3:20). Sailor by telegraph (“full / half / slow” etc.), operates controls, indicators, meters, steam (3:24). People wave as ship departs (3:36). Crowd on deck (bow) (3:55). Tugboat (4:00). Closeup: steam. Captain / sailors operate controls (4:13). Ship viewed from shore (4:30). Ship passes other ships, barges (4:46). Passengers on deck; shuffleboard (4:55). Woman plays mini golf (small crowd) (5:13). People in formal attire get out of elevator, descend stairs (5:38). Formal seated dinner with waitstaff in bow ties (5:50). Couple, private table at formal ship dinner; he smokes (6:08).. Other dinner tables, closeups: female diners. Table, woman cuts birthday cake. Young couple at private table looks over (6:59). Chef preparing food: cutting sandwiches, meats (7:08). Salad (7:28). Chef by electric stove in kitchen (pots) (7:38). Bread oven, baking. Woman (short hairdo) tells man to wait in room, touches up makeup at mirror (8:09). They get up, leave together. Men swing woman by hands / legs into pool, jump in; viewers from upper deck; men and women in swimsuits waiting in line (closeups); deck pool from above (8:42). “Back of all the fun and pleasure” (9:10). Sailors on deck look through sextants (9:14). Bow (zoomed out) (9:29). Sailor looks through window of control room (9:32). Boiler room of ship (9:55). Closeup: generator (10:24). Various dials / meters. “Electric light, heat, and auxiliary power are furnished by four of these small turbine-generators” (10:59). Sailor enters, quickly adjusts part, exits (11:08). “Motor-driven blowers provide ventilation” (11:19). Ship wake (11:39). Aerial: ship in motion (11:52). “Our children have great fun…” (12:04). Children toss hacky-sacks on deck (12:08). Young child sits in deck chair (12:12). Children on rocking horses, at table, hanging out (12:13). “We grown ups have a play-room, too” (12:30). Women on mechanical horse / riding machines (12:35). Overweight woman in leotard uses vibrating exercise belt (12:48). “An ocean voyage DOES work wonders.” Vibrating belt in use again. Shot fades to same scene but skinnier woman using belt (weight loss implied). “Los Angeles” (13:12). People view LA harbor from deck. Smokestacks / trains at port (13:15). “Los Angeles” / “Steamship” signs visible (13:38). Ship docked (13:40). Los Angeles city street, big sign: “Chinese” (13:45). Radio towers (13:59). Ships on water at port (13:09). Passengers on upper deck as ship moves near port; waving. (14:17). “We pass electric ships of the Navy - airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington…” (14:29). Passengers on Virginia’s deck, aircraft carriers in distant background (14:45). Passengers on deck chairs enjoying sun (14:59). “Then one day - the Golden Gate and journey’s end…” (15:10). View from ship (bow) approaching San Francisco harbor (15:24). City from the bay (panning, “Wellman Coffee”) (15:35). Passengers disembark Virginia (ramp), luggage unloaded (16:05). Wake at sea (16:44). “A General Electric Picture” (16:55).
“The voyage is done. Regretfully we leave the ‘Virginia’ - happy to have known her and convinced that she marks a new era in ocean travel - the era of the Electric Ship.” (16:14)
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Can we appreciate the fact that to film the opening sequence, the camera and operator were tied to a crane dangling from the scaffoldings upper support beams? It was a bold move. We are used to aerial shots, but it was a novelty back then.
I was wondering how they got that shot before drones were invented?
From Wikipedia: SS Brazil was a US turbo-electric ocean liner. She was completed in 1928 as Virginia, and refitted and renamed Brazil in 1938. From 1942 to 1946 she was the War Shipping Administration operated troopship Brazil. She was laid up in 1958 and scrapped in 1964.
Her sister ships SS Uruguay [California] and Argentina [Pennsylvania] shared the same history and fate, as aircraft took over most passenger travel.
Yes, Edison passed away in Oct of '31 but half way through this film I got a mental picture of him watching this film over and over like Howard Hughes would watch his own some 45 years later.
I like the cigar smoker at the dinner table
Why?
Soundtrack is stellar
A cool episode about a electronic ship ocean liner from 1931 showing actual footage of the inner workings and how the dining rooom. And how they prepared food on the ship and how the people dressed and how they socialize with other in 1931
"Electric"....not electronic.
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@@raybin6873 haha we got a smartie. Buzzkill.
@@trainrick1 But Ray’s comment is correct👍
@@janvisser2223 you are right. ... I read it wrong. My bad... Hey Ray my bad. Seems I am the buzxkill typo. Usually I don't open my yap. . ..
Actual info on the electrical nature of the ship starts at 9:45
you are my savior .
Just enjoy the lovely music and relax. Thanks Periscope Films .
Had to mute it; that music gets annoying as heck after just a couple of minutes...
This is not the first ship to use Turbo Electric Drive, The USS Langley (CV-1) (SS Jupiter) was using Turbo Electric way back in 1913. Very nice video! Thanks!!
Didn't realize the Langley was electric drive. Thanks for the info.
As well as the USS California (BB-44)
@@MikeB3542 That is so hard to believe that they were using that level of technology more than a century ago. (That ship had one hell of a history.) This has been a surprising. Thank for the info.
My entire house is electric right now and you don’t see me telling everyone about it.
Yes but where are your massive heavy turbines? And your steam engine? Not forgetting the boiler, fuel, various gearing and drive shafts? Your missing out on so much progress!
lol!!
Am I missing the point here? How is a 'coal burning - steam generating - electrically' powered ship considered better than a 'coal burning - steam' powered ship? Aren't they simply making change for change's sake without really changing anything?
Power is more responsive, as they didn't need to wait for the steam to reach the right level to go the desired speed. The electric motors were ready to go at whatever speed they wanted.
@@texaswunderkind No , you still have to wait for the water to produce steam at the right pressure for the turbine
All they are doing is replacing coal with oil to produce steam . It's a lot less labour intensive so cheaper overall for the owners. End of the day it's just another way to produce steam fir turbines with drive generators
Electric drive let the designer put the boilers almost anywhere they wanted and place the drive motors nearer the propellers so that the space in the ship was used more efficiently. Steam turbine powered ships also had issues with the efficiency of the turbines at different speeds, sometimes running two sets of turbines for low and high speed running. One way they got around this problem was putting in massive reduction gears for the turbines, electric power was another attempt to solve the problem as the generators ran at a constant (ideal) speed even with a varying load.
Electric propelled ships included the French liner Normandy, which was a challenger to the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in 1940 for the "Blue Ribbon" speed record to New York. Several US Navy Battleships (Tennessee, Colorado, California, Maryland and West Virginia) were electric as well as the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. The electric propulsion system fell from favor as the navy had second thoughts about the prospect of salt water leaking into the engineering areas and coming in contact with the electrical equipment.
@@keithstudly6071 Good information, THANKS!
I’ve always wondered - in the days before television where were these types of films shown? I can’t imagine anyone heading to a theater to see them. Just for classrooms and such?
It is interesting that they don't include footage of passage through the Panama Canal.
I wondered the same thing , it would have been one of the most interesting parts of the trip
Well spotted eagle eyes. Occam's Razor suggests the most likeliest reason we don't see or hear anything to do with the canal, is that It simply didn't exist at the time this boat actually made this voyage. This sailing must be pre- August 1914 when the Panama Canal is said to have been completed.
Yes, I have been through back in about 1974 ish, would gave been interesting to see what it was like back in 1931 , all quite new
Perhaps they decided to take the electric ship around the Horn, like honest to goodness "Put your feet up on the dinner table' sailors. The captain was probably from the days of "The ships were made of wood, and the men of steel", and wanted to test her out in some real seas.
@@straybullitt 😂 , I have a feeling the passengers would not gave appreciated that to much , rough as hell down there
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Sailing through the Golden Gate without a bridge to pass under.
Molto interessante !!!
Electricity? Why thats crazy talk or witchcraft or both!
I wonder how they would level the power curve? Batteries or heat sinks?
Neither. When the generator has less load you’ll see higher steam pressure at the turbine inlet. You don’t need to dump excess electricity, but you will need to reduce fuel input to the boilers - else you’ll be venting steam.
@@jacksons1010 So no batteries included Jon? (I really am asking a question!) Please excuse the following question if it's a bit duh! Why isn't the same generated electric that powers the craft, used to heat the boilers and generate steam? Admittedly a battery capable of 'initiating' the heat exchange process would be needed but aside from that ?
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I adore the music 🎶
Electric Glide, Thomas Edison, would be proud.
This must have been real interesting back in those days of travel when a new vessel like a electric ship you didn't have to smell the coal ash and smoke coming from the stacks and it was much quieter with the Machinery down below decks .
It's still steam powered.
You would still have the smell from the furnaces creating the steam , no smell of coal , oil instead .
'' Quieter with the machinery below decks '' , ?, where do you think they kept it before ??, its always been down there apart from on paddle boats
@@UserUser-ww2nj of course I know where they keep the Machinery down below decks but just think back then instead of hearing reciprocating engines that are like three to maybe five stories tall going Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump....
@@garyquail4996 Back then the ships engines were not that tall , move on about 50 or 60 years and they would be . Piston driven ships of that size were not around back then , it was all steam driven . This film is 19 years on from the Titanic
@@UserUser-ww2nj that part I know about when they made this silent film .
Nice to see a cook handle soon-to-be-consumed sandwiches with his BARE HANDS!
I guess cleanliness and sanitation wasn't a thing back then. I used to work in a kitchen myself, and there was ALWAYS that batch of workers who didn't wash their hands, or even kitchen staff who USUALLY wash their hands but they sometimes forget, or they are in a hurry due to tight time constraints. Even if that cook's hands WERE clean, that knife, or even other surfaces or equipment that the cook would have touched or handled could easily have been touched or handled by someone who DIDN'T wash their hands! That's called cross-contamination.
I bet nobody died. We are so freakish about bacteria now. Lets all live in a bubble. Thanks to the current craziness, that will be manditory.
" Hey you, Get back into your bubble.!".
What planet or alternate reality do you live in. Here in a western nation I live in most sandwiches are made with bare hands in stores. No one dies. Maybe you live in an ar** wipe nation where everyone is diseased and no one washes their hands.
Probably because modern disposable gloves did not come onto the market until the mid 1960's.
And just think General Electric is nothing now.
Isn't this similar to how non nuclear submarines work & have since subs were invented? A diesel
powered engine creates energy to recharge the electric engines! So, how was this innovative?/p.s.
My father worked for the Edison Co. since 1929 & was working there the day that Thomas Edison
died in 1931, the year this film was made!
well, I find this very interesting ,but commentary would really Help!
please do a remake 🙏 😭 😫
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There burning coal to make steam ,to make electricity, HOW IS THAT A TOTAL ELECTRIC SHIP?
"There" where? _They're_ burning coal. As in _they are_ burning coal. 🙄
@@coloradostrong There burning oil
They're, I said it :-)
@@coloradostrong community college karren. Excuse me!
Where does it say *TOTAL* ELECTRIC SHIP?
So this is just like the electric car, you have to burn fossil fuel to charge the battery's.
Nah. You could use solar panels to charge em. Look at the rest of it.