The Evolution of the White Star Line Fleet
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The White Star Line's fleet between 1870 and 1934. This video profiles each ship individually, showing imagery of them - at times rare images - and giving a cursory overview of each vessel's career and connection to the White Star Line, as some ships weren't initially built for the company.
If you haven't already, be sure to watch The History of the White Star Line, which gives the company's story and details from its inception in 1845, through the acquisition by Thomas Ismay, to the merger with its rival Cunard in 1934, and beyond.
• The History of the Whi...
Chapters are organized by what class is being prominently talked about, but there are other ships from outside that class mentioned within those classes, if those ships were put to sea during that time period. For example, the Big Four continue being launched will into The Athenic Class chapter.
0:00 - Introduction
1:58 - The Oceanic Class
7:12 - The Britannic Class
9:09 - The Coptic Class
13:01 - The Teutonic Class
16:23 - The Naronic Class
20:52 - The Jubilee Class
25:28 - The Big Four
26:25 - The Athenic Class
29:46 The New England Class
35:24 - The Laurentic Class
38:23 - The Olympic Class
42:28 - The War Era
53:32 - The Britannic II Class
55:45 - Conclusion
The one that makes me smile most is the Nomadic 2. I think it's quite incredible that a little tender has managed to survive 113 years and 2 near misses with the scrappers.
Now we need a video on the history of the Cunard Line and also the evolution of the Cunard Line fleet.
That would sick!
True!
"its ok, just pretend its a Cunard, you can do this" -The captain on Olympic before striking the german U-boat
lol, he mist've hated cunard at that point
i meant must've
@@aninkytheorist1133 you know how to edit comments right.
Cunarder *
“She was the apogee of the steamship, the apotheosis of the ocean liner. Even considering her eventual fate, officials today at Harland & Wolff believe the Titanic to have been, without a doubt, the firm’s finest achievement.” Wyn Craig Wade, from his book “Titanic: End Of A Dream”
Poor Ignored Olympic
@@NGCAnderopolis olympic deserved better
Funny they should mention Harland & Wolf, because the ship building company distanced themselves so hard from The White Star Line after the Titanic disaster, we had to rediscover the fact they’d built the ship in the first place. Yeah, for a period of time we had completely forgotten what company had built her, until someone poured through some old records and found it was Harland & Wolf. And for a time they would deny ever being involved with the ship or the shipping company. If I had to guess why they openly embrace it now? Well, on top of the disaster being a hundred years old, the public has a very romantic view of the ship and tue disaster now, so… no reason to avoid it.
@@Nikolai_The_Crazed When was the time that its builder wasn't known to be Harland and Wolf?
Well it did have design flaws, though not clear they were unique for the time. Maybe if White Star hadn't crashed the thing into an iceberg at top speed and ground half the starboard side along it lengthwise. Or various other borderline mentally challenged procedures like not having the key for the binocular case because some officer made off with the only one when disembarking.
I'm willing to grant HW their due share of the design errors of the day, but White Star managers & the ship's officers seemed criminally negligent by comparison.
The White Star Line never actually intended to end all their ship names in "ic". The people in charge always drank too much wine before the naming ceremony and had bad cases of hiccups.
Lol
Lol
Lol
Underrated comment
Then why did Cunard end all their ship names with “ia”?
You should make a “soothing music from the 1870’s to 1930’s” video with all the white star ships sailing by in order. Like lofi but with ocean liner music.
Thought about something like this, actually
please do it, it’d be cool
@@PartTimeExplorer plz do it
That would be fantastic and must I say-- very creative of you to think that up. The nice clean switch through music from each era would be perfect for a clean overview of each passing by.
Music a little too loud. Hard to hear voice.
Olympic and MV Britannic 3, two ships I can never learn enough of, would’ve been great to have sailed on them!
Middle Child Syndrome: Titanic is perhaps the _hardest_ aversion of that trope in, perhaps, all of history.
Yes, but: Queen Elizabeth I
Well yeah titanic was one of the worst sinking in history
People get off the ship off the starboard side is listening so hard please believe we will release in the Life Foods please get on please get away know we ain't going to get away we trying again the lifeboats no get away now look at the sun why isn't over Verizon and 20 am at 5 p.m. in the morning all messed up his hero was a wife in New York in 20 hours before it got seen it. Seeing when it was a wise and New York book at 11 p.m. 2011 when it hit this truck and see mine at 9:20 a.m. that's it freaking ass hole
The song peacefully and quietly Once Upon Century with Solutions, I take OSS sleigh to West full night dreams I hold my life or wishes and behold by not the truth and the End of Time music face makes I wish
I will miss Carpathia. Build in 1900 and did you know about the alness Titanic south of the strike and Ice book 1 p.m. look dude if you don't know this you have to look on the line of the Titanic wrote letter if you don't know the Titanic Lego it's time for you to go to Georgia and know the Titanic little and that was sad and that was sad the hospital ship Britannic with salmon and the GMC off of Grease the Costa Concordia song after striking underwater sea mine it flipped on its top with side could not get the lifeboats out immediately and an assault rifle strike in the morning at 8 a.m. a white I will see you at 11:45 oh I I will see you at 12:12 but science class you got to come here at 8 a.m. in the morning please be here on time don't be sitting around on the couch playing video games playing blah blah it is you ain't going to do that in front of the whole class cuz if you try to do that in front of the class you will get counted absent so
"She spent most of her career being a total bro to the other ships on the Atlantic". Saved for quote book.
I remember watching this video on the H&G channel and I loved watching it again! I’m still amazed at all the different ships and history tied to each one. Great work, Tom!
Fun fact: Francis Pegahmagabow, the famous Native-Canadian Sniper with over 300 confirmed kills, was first transported to France among other Canadian troops on the Laurentic.
UNDER FIRE
As always, I was mesmerized by this video. The animations were breathtaking and I wished all over again that I had a time machine so I could do my due diligence and learn which sailings ended in disaster ; ) and then zip back to book passage on some of these beauties. Your videos have done such an honorable job to bring them to life! Thanks, again. Now, back to bingeing!
It makes me sad that no ocean liners from pre 1920 still exist. They were such a deeply engrained part of Western culture, pride, and the building of modern America.
Also, the fact these liners were built solely with human ingenuity and hard work makes them so much more impressive as well.
The nomadic from 1911 still exists today tho, u can go inside it at belfast I think
@@joenest7769 it a tender ship not a ocean liner
@@abidmohammad9093 yea, I didn't read the comment perfectly
Queen Mary truly is the closest we have
IMO still exist tho it is in a wrecked state
Me: how many accidents have happened to the ships of this shipping company?
White Star Line: Yes(ic)
LMAOOOOI
I guess 1 out of 3 ships have accident while 1 out of 5 ships were sunk,
But it was 34 out of 89 but technecly 5 out 89 lost
@@Doyle- And alot got scrapped
Well the amount of ramings and stuff is rly commen plenty of other company's had worse
It’s back! By far my favorite video, wonderful to listen to on car trips, while studying or anything else! Thanks Tom!
I really like the looks of the M/V Britannic (III). The last White Star Liners had such a sleek, elegant look to them. It's a shame they never built that 1,000 ft Superliner, that artist's rendering is gorgeous!
I actually was on the Nomadic, having visited the Titanic Museum in Belfast! Her and the Museum have been done really well and I would recommend visiting both of them should you find yourself in Belfast.
The “jeez” at 10:08 is priceless 😂
I noticed, lol.
43 years ago? cool.
How the f u c k is this 43 years ago this vid is a month old
@@MrGw1982 It's part of the channel's name.
Can’t wait till this comment is actually from 43 years ago.
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Excellent video!
You should get more likes since your a fairly big channel for ocean liners/cruise ships
All of them looked majestic and awesome
Great work Tom, Glad to see your still on youtube making awesome videos!
This video is actually genuinely underated and damm.
the "jeez" at 10:07 is my favorite thing.
[in 1930s American newscaster voice]:
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I really enjoyed reading this lol
You’ve done a lot of great work Tom, but this is by far my favorite video of yours. Happy it’s back!
4:46 when you hit a random person with a car and then both walk to the hospital together
What an incredible video.
Thanks Tom.
Love this stuff and fascinated with the time period.
Up here on Lake Champlain we had a number of amazing steamships.
In the Shelburne Museum one of those ships, The Ticonderoga, which was preserved on land when she stopped running in the 1950's.
She is presented as she was in the 1920's.
Loved this video back when it was on the other channel; thanks for reuploading it so we can continue to enjoy it!
Will you do a similar documentary about other lines, like Cunard, Hamburg-America or the French Line?
"She was scrapped..." is quickly becoming my least favorite sentence I reckon.
Well, if we start telling cruise lines what we want, small ships, more design, and less modern design and we stop voyaging they would probably consider.
@@ernshaw78 Eh I prefer larger ships. It’s better for the environment and cheaper. Or atleast in theory it is. Two small ships have more friction force than one big ship and thus less fuel needed. Its cheaper because two ships always need atleast two copies of a service for example the two ships will need a casino each while a big ship can make do with only one so the ship can do more with lesser fares since they can carry more. Also, I don’t think those big black fumes from the funnels are very good either. Sure they look nice but you know…
@@DanksterPaws Big brain
@@DanksterPaws I disagree, smaller ships move faster because of the lower carry weight! A bulbous bow helps with fuel consumption as well as speed, because somethings larger doesn’t mean it’s better for the environment, in fact it’s the complete opposite. With the case of Titanic, the sheer mass of the ship is peanuts to a modern cruise ship, believe it or not the Olympic (Titanic’s sister ship) and the Titanic were amongst the largest ships of the time! I actually prefer smaller ships, but that doesn’t mean anything… I understand your making a statement but your logic kinda fell apart!?
@@DanksterPaws and smaller ships are cheaper. Two ships the size of Titanic is barely more expensive than a modern cruise ship!
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Thank you, Cruiser Chris!
Thank you for a comprehensive look at early ocean liners. I am obsessed with these ships!
10k! Congrats, my friend! I'm pumped for you, Tom!
Excellent history of ships!
I like the "Regina" 😅 and the
Britannic
18:10 “she was one of the first liners to go through the Suez Canal but kept getting grounded” hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Now where could we have possibly heard that before....
@Enzedder Enterainment lol
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Oh hello guys it is me the dream
Too bad nobody uses the railway across the Suez Peninsula instead.
As a Belfast native, I'm oddly proud (and amused) that this city produced one of the Halifax Explosion ships 😤
White Star Line: How much times do you want the SS Gothic to be transferred to your company?
Red Star Line: *YES*
Your channel is a gem. I had no idea how much I like maritime history until I ran across it. Subbed.
They lost 5 ships, and collided with about 50 lol.
Everybody did back than no radar means the only way to see other ships is with human eyes and when night, fog and heavy seas hit bad things happen.
Heck modern ships still "play bumper boats" in narrow/congested water ways with modern radar, AIS and radio-telephone communications. Back in the day where the "mk1 eyeball" was second only to the "mk2 eye ball" (binoculars) reduced visibility and darkness it was very common sea travel has always been dangerous its just less so now. White Stars track record was about average for the time.
@@jaysonlima9271 *Dona Paz and Andria Doria PTSD*
@@brianstabile165 Better the Andrea Doria than the Dona Paz.
It’s not funny
Good report as always sir
15:06 The "Nomadic" is an excellent name for a vessel. Kinda ironic it was intended to be a livestock transport, though, as nomads didn't have livestock by definition.
Look up Nomadic Pastoralism.
@@sorrenblitz805 I guess that was pretty silly of me to say. Thanks for not being insulting in your correction.
Yet another classic! Wonderful to see it again!
That must be amazing work, Tom! Can't wait to find time to watch it and analyze it!
2:48 - The Narrator may be referring to the SS Portland which sank on November 27th, 1898 by a rogue wave caused by an intense storm in the Atlantic Ocean. Everyone on board including Captain Hollis H. Blanchard perished. The disaster marked the end of side-wheeled ships.
40:17 - That survivor was Eric Munday, a Sapper for the Royal Engineers. He was captured by the Germans when rescued and became a P.O.W. until 1945. By the way, the German Sub that sank the Ceramic was U-515.
The wreck he referenced is confirmed by the SS _Atlantic_ documentary to be the French Liner SS _La Bourgogne,_ which sank on the 4th of July of that year after colliding with the British sailing vessel _Cromartyshire._ Of the 722 aboard, 549 perished.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_La_Bourgogne
If the White Star Line was around today, we'd have the Damnboishethic.
And maybe rmmv oceanic 3
Also what danmboishethic
@@MrGw1982 lol read it clearly, it says damn boi she thic
LMFAO
SS Steppic
I throughly enjoy all of your documentaries I’ve seen. You’ve an interesting and informative way of presenting your facts. Ty
Always thought it was interesting how in a book the teutonic got a mention for having 2 propellers placed so close to eachother but were saved by one being infront of the other
idk how many times ive watched this but i dont wanna stop
I’ve seen it so many times, I can’t even count.
Maybe a better name for the Germanic, after sinking and being re-floated --- twice -- would be the Yo-Yo...
YOLO? Yooooo...
Nah Germanic is pretty accurate if you think about the Germany's history
No not the yo yo the yo yic
@@SuperGamefreak18 that is actually pretty true! 2 world wars and germany loses both of them, but still came back through the other side of it just barely alive... the germanic sank and refloated 2 times! GENIUS!!!
@@SuperGamefreak18 oh, clever..
Brilliant ,I didn’t realise that they had so many ships in the fleet
You can only wonder the amount of people,Ships,Cargos, and all within,
Thanks for your Documentary ,Thanks🛳🛟⚓️🙏
I am not really into ship history, however, I love history information and all your Productions are so interesting and well presented.
Can we give it up for the white star line for having some of the unluckiest ships in history
that is kinda true... i mean 1 ship gets into 4 collisions?!? that's gotta mean something right?
@@aninkytheorist1133 No, that was pretty standard.
Unlucky? That company was focused on looks and prestige gain. They knowingly put an inadequate amount of life boats on the Titanic because the company thought that more would obscure it's beauty.
@@dbsti3006 The thing is, they actually put more lifeboats on the Titanic than regulations called for at the time.
@@dbsti3006 Before the Titanic, lifeboats we’re supposed to be used to carry people from ship to ship. They were confident that a ship would always be near by and answer the Marconi radio
Other White Star Line name ideas:
- Aquatic (hello!)
- Stoic
- Melodic
- Mosaic
- Poetic
- Cosmic
- Idyllic
- Empiric
- Dynamic (hello!)
- Harmonic
- Beatific
- Athletic
- Historic
- Heraldic
it's astonishing how often ships used to crash into one another. especially in open waters. Thank God For GPS. These ships today basically sail themselves.
Yes exactly right ✅. As vast as the ocean is, you'd think they could avoid colliding with one another! 🤯🤯
I'm very happy to see this reuploaded. Thanks Tom!
I was goin' through some of my grandparents old papers, and apparently my great grandfather immigrated to the US (or Hawaii, that part of the travel papers was a bit damaged) aboard the Doric before she was renamed to the Asia.
Well then, Whiite Star Line certainly has a track record of literally almost all of their ships sinking..
The company that made another ship that had more deaths than the titanic, Dona Paz also had track record of most or some of thier ships sinking
@@seardadsdasd What about the Wilhelm Gustloff?
@@paullim8491 I know willhem gustloff exsits but it's the worst WARTIME disaster that's why i never included it
@@paullim8491 And it's about the company that made the dona paz thier other ships also kept sinking.
@@paullim8491 Dona Paz is the worst peacetime disaster not wartime PEACETIME but depending if you don't include wartime or peacetime yes indeed Willhem Gustloff is the worst ship disaster after the dona paz
This was awesome. Thank you. Would love one on Cunard liners as well
Awesome video Tom, very interesting! I can only imagine how much scripting and recording went into this
Excuse me:
SHE FINALLY WENT DOWN AFTER 6 FREAKING TORPEDOES?!!! She had to have been a tough one
Final boss of ocean liners
I guess they reinforced the hulls as a precaution due to the fact that White Star Lines ships loved to ram into ships
@@patrickracer43
I noticed that. I swear they damn near always ram into other ships.
@@Rebelheart1985 Krombopulous White Star: here I go rammin again
Titanic: come at once the engine room is flooding, it's filling up to the boilers!
Carphia: trying to squeeze every knot of speed!
You could probably just make a sandbox VR game with all these liners and I’m sure it would do well. I mean I would buy it no matter the cost! Either way every video you make is fascinating, funny, and overall great.
What an amazing video! Loved everything about it. Thank you!
Yes! You reuploaded it!
As a part-time Bay Area resident, when I discovered that S. S. Oceanic collided with the S.S. city of Chester, I was surprised that no photographs were taken. I honestly wasn't expecting to hear that Oceanic used San Francisco, CA as a port of call, or how she sailed there in the first place. Maritime History is full of surprises.
I loved this, when I was in middle school I tried to learn everything I could about the WSL. Everything about this video is so pleasant to watch and listen to, I just love the simulated ships and the music. Very entertaining, well done!
Can I ask what the songs were that you used as well?
Edit: lol I saw the song names at the end, sorry I must have missed that one on the first view. Great work, I'm enjoying your other videos, too.
My favorites of them liners are of course. TITANIC, NOMADIC, OLYMPIC, BRITANNIC and Queen Mary. ❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
I think it's interesting that a ship was named after the city I've lived in most of my life (Regina); and going by the ships named Albertic and Calgaric (Alberta and Calgary), I'd say it's a pretty good chance that it's the pronunciation of the city :)
Small world, same here.
I really enjoyed this. You should do the same for The Evolution Of The Cunard Fleet. I realise there's already a couple of vids on this subject though they are short.
Another Top Notch Video Tom!!!!
Olympic: sending service message sending service message
Carphia: don't you hear the Olympic's calling you?
Titanic: cannot hear over rush of air and noise of steam
Tom could you please do a video on the history of the ship builders. With all these ships in that time getting bigger and faster. I wonder what it was like for the actual craftsmen, their pay, job safety, the hours etc. thank you !
Love this video, keep coming back to it!
I'd love to see a Cunard ship rundown, I think that would be cool...
Woke up in the middle of surgery just to watch this video.
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Did the surgeon watch it with you?
I have no words
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Such a fantastic video. Listening to it for a second time while I make dinner
Why has it taken me this long to realize that all of White Star's ships *end in freaking "ic?"*
Tradition
Tradition or coincidence
One of my favourites!
Bravo Tom!
My great grandmother sailed over on the Teutonic as a single woman from Ireland at age 19. I can’t imagine how brave she was.
Did it sank and she survived you mean?
@@antroplegia915 the ship that she was on did not sink. She was on the Teutonic in 1906 (not the Titanic). Both ships were White Star Line though .
My german side of the family came over on the Kasier Wilhem De Groose IV. My english side, who knows but my great great grandfather was a survivor of the Lusitania. Its amazing to think how many generations in America can trace their roots back to a lot of these wonderful ships
@@tinypoolmodelshipyard I’m not surprised Americans can trace their ancestors back to these ships considering they’re all immigrants 🙄🤦🏽♂️
@@connoroneill9406 oh yeah i forgot we left the salty ones on that side of the pond.
Thanks for reposting!
It's funny to see all these ships sailing parallel to each other based on how many that had collisions in their history, seems the safest place to sail is next to a White Star ship. (:
You should do a video like this for the Cunard line
fitting that they had a ship called the afric because that's what so many white star captains said moments before disaster
They had ship collisions like we have car accidents. I like the Celtic.
The Adriatic has a higher kill count than the Bismark
so a ocean liner not designed to hurt anybody from 1870 killed more people than a giant battleship?
This is a amazing video! I loved it!
Is it me or does anyone else think that, the most beautiful ships met the saddest end?
hour long video of white star line fleet. instant sub
Tom, something about the Emo I found out while researching it is that photo of the wreck from today you used isn't actually the Emo. It's another ship called Gouverneur in Antarctica. Apparently, Emo wreck isn't visible above the surface.
Yeah, I got those mixed up unfortunately. They’re near each other, similar wrecks, and I had read that the IMO was renamed the Gouverneur. I wish I had thought to correct that when I reuploaded
Funny there wasn’t a Crashic as often as they were playing bump cars
I know this channel really is all about the white star line but do you think it would be possible to do a Cunard one?
I hope to do a Cunard one, but there are three times as many ships. You'll find far more than just the White Star Line on my channel though - there are Queen Mary videos, and several others about obscure and forgotten wrecks, as well as ghost towns.
Excellent historical account. Love this stuff.
Good to know white star has at least a couple ships that didn't sink,run aground or just frickin disappear.
This was very well done and fascinating to watch.
Can you do the history of Cunard's fleet with a similar time window
I had to go back and relisten to "In 1911, the _Doric_ ran aground off China and was then looted and burned by locals. ... Jeez." about three times before the giggles subsided.
In the 1880s when ships docked where tugboats used and if not how did they do it? Thanks for all the great information also
I honestly think that you should do a video just like this one for the Cunard Line. And by the way what is the name of the second song in this video if anyone knows please tell me👇🏻
Hey Tom! You should make a documentary on the Halifax explosion when you can great videos!
@TheImperialShipster thanks I watch them and I didn’t know they made it!
Amazing Video!