Hey yall, I have now realized I used the wrong photo of Mauretania and misspelled Aquitania! Please recognize I am an idiot with a microphone, not an expert. The song used for the background is "Emperor's Waltz" by Strauss. There is a strong possibility more mistakes will be found in this video by myself and the people in the comments, so stay tuned. Thanks!
Also the lifeboat rumor you declared fact in stead of what was actually fact also titanic or an Olympic class liner in general never was by law at the time had to have 48 boats fact: titanic had two more boats than Required by the law at the time before the sinking
The thing about the lifeboats though, is that they weren't originally intended to be used to evacuate ALL passengers and crew members at once. The idea was to utilize them to ferry passengers and crew between the doomed ship and any rescue ships in the area. Conversely, lifeboats from any rescue ships could be sent to the crippled vessel to keep the transporting of crew and passengers in rotation. Thus, an ocean liner wasn't required to have enough boats to accommodate every single person on board.
YESS!!!! FINALLY! Titanic gets way too much attention and Olympic is alright but come on! Britannic is literally the improvement on the improvement of the Olympic! So glad she's finally getting mentioned.
Sadly, no matter how well built she may have been and much improved over her ill-fated sister, if people disregard the Captain's orders and leave so many port holes open, well....ignorance can be bliss and they create their own paradise!
The RMS/HMHS Britannic is my favorite White Star ship, or just favorite ocean liner in general. It's just a shame that we never get to see her in civilian service. Rest in Peace, you beauty
Wow, this was a really nice video and representation of Britannic's unfortunate life. She was lost at a very early age in her life (as was Titanic, clearly), and the world was robbed of yet another beautiful Olympic Class liner. The paintings were all beautiful.
Harland and Wolff denied she was called Gigantic because they never used that name for her. Her name in the Harland and Wolff records is shown as Britannic in 1911. Gigantic was something the press came up with.
@@Titanic_401 it's pretty common knowledge the white star line used the term "gigantic" for multiple vessels, in orders for parts and such. That doesnt mean they actually intended to name the ship that way, but it definitely wasnt a newspaper invention.
@@hugoslr I want to say I heard somewhere they also used the name "Gigantic" when ordering parts for the Oceanic of 1899 I haven't been able to confirm.
What’s funny is that the actor who played Bruce Ismay in the 1996 “Titanic” television miniseries actually DID appear on “Law & Order” as a murderer. 😂
This video is phenomenal man. You have such good quality, the pictures and the commentary are both awesome. I just became a huge fan. Notifications are on, I'll be watching!!!
$15 dollars on Steam gets you a fantastic Britannic sinking sim that puts you on deck while things get rather watery. It also lets you inside select sections inside the ship, and getting to see what Britannic was intended to look like inside and out as well as its war fittings. Brought to you by the wonderful Titanic Honor & Glory people so it's first rate.
Yeah, "Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean" actually blew my mind a bit. I honestly had not expected the Britannic to have such deep, dark, rich colors surrounding the forward grand staircase area. Obviously, her war fittings were atrocious, but the THG guys did a damn good job regardless, especially in showing what the Britannic was meant to be.
00:45 FUN FACT : The white blob to the right of Capt. Smith is intentional as when the Titanic sank there was very little footage of the ship on film / photographed. Therefore the news outlets (and documentary makers) of the time would present a clip / image (usually containing Capt. Smith) as being the Titanic however they would often scratch the film (resulting in a white blob) so as to disguise certain features i.e a name plate e.g the Britannic / Olympic etc and pass off the clip as it being the Titanic which you will often see in other clips of the time.
@@richardcline1337 It is also evident that much if not all of that footage was taken in New York, to say nothing of the captain wearing a summer white uniform.
1000 points to you, I am and have been a huge Olympic and Lusitania class and well all ocean liners, thought I had learned all I could but you had some more unique facts and the way you do it was so funny I love it, cant wait to see more.
Man I wish Britannic had survived, would have been interesting to see how her service would continue, who knows maybe White Star might have had more power in the negotiations with the merger of it and Cunard. Keep uo the good videos.
I thought it was pretty good, a lot of info I was thinking about and then was mentioned...plus, just enough hint of snarkiness to keep one entertained. And very good to mention the two members of White Star to suffer through and survive all three ships' worst days. Violet Jessop is deserving of the title "Miss Unsinkable." Of course, the lifeboat question still warrants one bit of address here. It was not just aesthetics. The safety standards of that time allocated the number of available lifeboats according to the overall tonnage of the ship, not the number of people it carried. And Olympic and Titanic were actually in compliance with those safety standards, even exceeded them; they were required only 16 lifeboats based on their weights, and they carried 20. Of course, Titanic demonstrated that those safety standards were woefully inadequate, and the presumptions behind those standards were disproven. All the standards in place today, including how to address ice floes, were a result of Titanic's sinking. I know there is a separate video for Olympic, but I still think it appropriate to use a twist on the blasphemous boast that doomed Titanic ("God Himself could not sink this ship," which we all know God proved wrong). Where Olympic was concerned, God Himself could very easily have sunk that ship; He just chose not to.
H&W records show this ship was named Britannic from the time she was ordered in June 1911. As built, Olympic & Titanic could stay afloat with 2-4 watertight compartments flooded. (4-6 after post-Titanic changes) This made them very safe expect under the most unlikely circumstances. 64 lifeboats for Olympic/Titanic was never a serious proposal. Ships back then did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone onboard. There is no evidence White Star slowed Britannic's construction due to financial issues. (IMM made White Star stand on its own and raise $$$ for ship construction itself) Limited liability laws reduced White Star's losses on Titanic to manageable levels. No evidence a smoking room was put on the Poop Deck to make her look bigger. Evidence for a mine sinking Britannic is very high.
I forget where, but I did find a website with images from a Britannic documentary that was cancelled because of the death of Carl Spencer. They even visited the known mine field and had images of some remains from detonated mines. Very interesting
Forgot to mention in my comment about the whole Britannic was her intended name all along thing, so thanks for pointing it out. As for all the other stuff, most of which I didn't know, you know a lot. :)
Negative. When the three ships were first planned, they were named Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic. I have books with pictures of the advertisement posters from the White Star Line with those exact names. The sister ships were the biggest and most grandeur so of course all three were named to reflect their size and strength. Why would they name two of their ships such pretentious names and give the third a more subdued one later? Because after Titanic sank sheer size wasn’t enough of a playing card to draw people in. After the keel was laid, and due to the Titanic’s sinking, they decided not to tempt fate again and gave her a more subtle name. But her original name was in fact Gigantic. Had Titanic not sunk she would have retained her original name.
@@Kaidhicksii no it wasn’t. Her original name was Gigantic. Her name, along with Olympic and Titanic, was to convey their enormous size and sheer strength, as the trio of ships were to be the largest ever built. The name was changed following Titanic’s sinking since they didn’t want to tempt fate again.
@@mindyschocolate Wrong. H&W plans still exist of the construction of Hull #433. As early as February 1911 - before Titanic was even launched - the name of the third ship was intended to be Britannic. Need I say more? Those posters you've seen of the third ship being called Gigantic were a media creation: not an official White Star promotion. If it were, it would've had their name on it. There were letters between H&W and other contractors who were delivering parts such as the anchor. Those contractors referred to the third ship as Gigantic, but again, it was never official. At most, it was a name that was considered - likely for the reason of the Greek myths and the portrayal of great size - but ultimately never used. And as for Gigantic being a name that White Star had planned to use for some of their previous vessels, I do not have the source with me right now, but I will get back to you when I find it. In short, Gigantic was nothing more than a conceptual name that White Star considered using for the third ship. 3 months before the Titanic was launched, the name was settled as being Britannic. The Gigantic name ended up getting into the media, which then proceeded to blow it out of proportion, as they have done and continue to do with many things. Remember, it was they who said that the three new ships the White Star Line had ordered would be 1,000 feet long. At the end of the day, they didn't even touch 900.
This is a good lesson in how you can’t engineer your way out of every eventuality. “If only this, if only that” goes out the window when the right circumstances align
14:08. There’s a video suggestion: MV Britannic which would become the last White Star liner in service (1930-1960), and her sister MV Georgic the last ship built for White Star (1932-1956).
With the uncertain futures of the few remaining true ocean liners (QM, QE2, US) and the impending collapse of the most significant wrecks (Titanic, Lusitania, Andrea Doria, etc.), it's not too difficult to envision a world in say 50 years where Britannic is the best (and possibly only) preserved example of a classic ocean liner.
Loved the video but just a quick bit of trivia, even if Titanic had enough lifeboats it still took them 10-15 and sometimes 20 minutes to even launch one. So in my opinion the end result would've still been the same. Honestly great video, laughed alot lol
I'd like to add that even though there definitely weren't enough lifeboats on the Titanic, they weren't able to get the lifeboats away that they already had. (A and B had to be floated off the deck, not launched.) More lifeboats may have made a difference but I personally doubt they would have done anything but provide hassle and get in the way of the crew, who were barely trained in using them. EDIT: The Britannic was a beautiful ship and it's such a shame that she never got to become the ocean liner she should have been. Not to mention how much of a miracle it was that the ship wasn't full of the ill or wounded at the time of the accident- I don't want to imagine how many people would have died then.
2:00 is a myth as old as the Titanic herself. The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats (16 regular + 4 collapsible). The crew were able to load and launch 18 of them (with the last two floating off the ship, one upside down and the other swamped). So, even if the Titanic had carried 64 lifeboats, the crew still would only have had time to load and launch 18 of them.
Wow, a Ringo Starr reference from his 1973 album “Ringo.” I didn’t expect that but knowing your sense of humor and detailed information, I am not surprised either. Incidentally, George Harrison wrote “Sunshine Life For Me” The more you know ⭐️ Keep up the great work dude
@@NauticalStudy great album for sure! I kinda figured you listen to that album because it’s just too obscure to come up any other way. I got the reference immediately and had to replay it to make sure I saw what I saw. Very cool of you to show some love to Ringo. What other Ringo stuff appears in your arsenal of auditory arousal? (Thought I’d throw in a little alliteration for you there) (oops, I did it again)
You should do a video about the SS Princess Sophia disaster, which is sometimes described as the "unknown Titanic of the West Coast." The story largely got buried because it happened near the end of World War I, but it's a tragic story of the ship and rescuers being caught in a lose-lose scenario that still inspires debate over a century later about what actions could have been taken to save the passengers.
Your humor and enthusiasm are infectious. Of note, though: Same mistake twice; mentioning raising Britannic and Olympic's water-tight doors. You mean bulkheads.
As a footnote about Hospital Ships: Sadly the Geneva convention wasn't observed by the Japanese, as a submarine torpedoed the Centaur off Queensland's Coast. Fully lit at night, a painted White ship, Green horizontal band and,,, the famous Red crosses.
I think, but not sure, persons was A-more common as a plural back then and B-merriam webster states there's a slight preference to using people when it's a coherent collective group and persons for a large number of individuals with no real connection, as in persons who happen to be on the same ship but not a people as sharing a certain trait. It also states the preference for people for indeterminate numbers and persons for determinate number of.. well, persons. People has become preferred as the general plural over time.
In regards to what was said at 1:46 about the Titanic: James Cameron did an interesting experiment proving that more lifeboats wouldn't have made a difference; Due to how long the crew waited before they started loading, there literally wasn't any time left to launch any more than they did when the ship finally sank. So, saying the lack of lifeboats was the primary reason for the amount of lives lost isn't exactly valid. Had the crew started loading people into them sooner, regardless of how empty or full they were being loaded, yes, more lifeboats would have definitely made a difference because there would have been more time available to launch them but, unfortunately, that wasn't the case. Cameron did multiple things on this TV special and he was also able to prove (through multiple experiments and simulation data from the US Navy) that he got the final sinking scene in "Titanic" wrong in regards to the angle at which the stern came up, when the ship ultimately split, how she split, and so forth. I don't remember the name of the program on which he did all of this but it's on multiple TH-cam channels and is definitely a great watch. I'd spent my life thinking that more lifeboats would have meant more lives saved and it turns out that it just isn't true.
Britannic have Many Nicknames for her best Olympic class ship, Biggest ship Sank in WW1, Biggest ship Sank by Naval mine, biggest ocean liner on the sea floor, only Ocean liner as Hospital ship, Titanic Tragic sister, White Swan, Hospital ship queen , Ocean liner of Kea
Page 40 - 42 of “On A Sea Of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic” discusses the lifeboat arrangement situation more clearly. I don’t believe aesthetics or passenger deck space played that big of a part in the lack of lifeboats. Good video, btw. :)
I've heard of half-baked plans to try and recover the Titanic before, but not of the Britannic. There isn't much reason now, but were there ever any plans in the past that gained any sort of traction?
The Germans also sank two other hospital ships that I know are glenart castle and Llandovery castle . Glenart castle was most brutal because out of all the lifeboats launched , only one survived . The others either pulled a lusitania or got attacked by the u boat that torpedoed them
White Star Line: hah, now the icebergs aren't as big of a threat anymore, we won't loose this ship German mine: I've got news for you and they ain't good
More lifeboats wouldn't have helped it took to long to fill them so more boats would be able to hold more people but they wouldn't have time to load them
I just realized something about the Olympic class: all but one sank... Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the freezing Atlantic ocean, Britannic was either struck by a mine or torpedo and sunk in the warn Mediterranean sea, and the Olympic was struck by the HMS Hawk and had a long career as both a passenger and military ship. Also, I guess the Britannic got a bigger engine because they wanted, to quote Donut Media, *MO POWA BABEH!* Edit: just the box of Red Baron pizza going across the screen at 6:55 makes me laugh, even though World War 1 was both the dumbest conflict in history and just war crimes galore, I mean seriously, name a war crime and everyone involved in the conflict committed it Edit 2: 7:44 ever see a ocean liner with the same amount of drip as prime Ric Flair?
![[안방1열 풀캠4K] 베이비몬스터 'DRIP' (BABYMONSTER FullCam)│@SBS Inkigayo 241110](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AQ4RIghEvUs/mqdefault.jpg)
Hey yall, I have now realized I used the wrong photo of Mauretania and misspelled Aquitania! Please recognize I am an idiot with a microphone, not an expert. The song used for the background is "Emperor's Waltz" by Strauss. There is a strong possibility more mistakes will be found in this video by myself and the people in the comments, so stay tuned. Thanks!
Also the lifeboat rumor you declared fact in stead of what was actually fact also titanic or an Olympic class liner in general never was by law at the time had to have 48 boats fact: titanic had two more boats than
Required by the law at the time before the sinking
Sorry but so much misinformation I personally do not think I can trust what you say in this video do research
@@prehistoricliners6717 le fuk? Titanic had 20 life boats
That's way below what you say was supposed yo be on titanic, forget him, I don't trust what YOU are saying
@@ivangenov6782 yes 20 lifeboats and Britannic had 48
Man such a perfect balance of humor and knowledge, great video man
Persons is " P.C." talk for People.
Go figure.
Watch oversimplified
@@hans7500 I do man, that's why I probably like this
The thing about the lifeboats though, is that they weren't originally intended to be used to evacuate ALL passengers and crew members at once. The idea was to utilize them to ferry passengers and crew between the doomed ship and any rescue ships in the area. Conversely, lifeboats from any rescue ships could be sent to the crippled vessel to keep the transporting of crew and passengers in rotation. Thus, an ocean liner wasn't required to have enough boats to accommodate every single person on board.
Yeah presumably the idea of being in a rowboat in the North Atlantic waiting for another ship to pass by wasn’t too appealing at the time.
@@Daz912 Especially a open top. Modern lifeboats are usually enclosed, probably because most people don't find wind and ocean spray very appealing.
This!
YESS!!!! FINALLY! Titanic gets way too much attention and Olympic is alright but come on! Britannic is literally the improvement on the improvement of the Olympic! So glad she's finally getting mentioned.
Too much attention? People died, you should pay some respect bro
@@leoborn4013 oh sure, people milking the titanic tragedy isn't disrespectful if you ask me
Sadly, no matter how well built she may have been and much improved over her ill-fated sister, if people disregard the Captain's orders and leave so many port holes open, well....ignorance can be bliss and they create their own paradise!
Titanic sank and many people died I would pay some attention to the titanic too
@@leoborn4013 it's the titanic being called the RMS Clickbait not the disaster
The RMS/HMHS Britannic is my favorite White Star ship, or just favorite ocean liner in general.
It's just a shame that we never get to see her in civilian service.
Rest in Peace, you beauty
She is also my favorite is also sad she was not passenger ship.but at list the only hospital ship that makes her more special
Rest In The Stars, HMHS Britannic
Wow, this was a really nice video and representation of Britannic's unfortunate life. She was lost at a very early age in her life (as was Titanic, clearly), and the world was robbed of yet another beautiful Olympic Class liner. The paintings were all beautiful.
Britannic should get more recognition
Yes
So should Olympic.
Hard to achieve when your middle sister is the most famous ship of all time :/
Harland and Wolff denied she was called Gigantic because they never used that name for her. Her name in the Harland and Wolff records is shown as Britannic in 1911. Gigantic was something the press came up with.
I thought you sank
The name Gigantic is used on anchor orders though...
@@hugoslr And the name Britannic is used as early as June 1911. I doubt they'd change it to Gigantic and then back to Britannic.
@@Titanic_401 it's pretty common knowledge the white star line used the term "gigantic" for multiple vessels, in orders for parts and such. That doesnt mean they actually intended to name the ship that way, but it definitely wasnt a newspaper invention.
@@hugoslr I want to say I heard somewhere they also used the name "Gigantic" when ordering parts for the Oceanic of 1899 I haven't been able to confirm.
What’s funny is that the actor who played Bruce Ismay in the 1996 “Titanic” television miniseries actually DID appear on “Law & Order” as a murderer. 😂
1997*
@@Boypogikami132 *1996. The miniseries came out around thanksgiving of 1996, I’m not talking about the James Cameron version.
@@ezilyt The miniseries came out in November of 1996. The James Cameron film came out 11 months later.
This video is phenomenal man. You have such good quality, the pictures and the commentary are both awesome. I just became a huge fan. Notifications are on, I'll be watching!!!
$15 dollars on Steam gets you a fantastic Britannic sinking sim that puts you on deck while things get rather watery. It also lets you inside select sections inside the ship, and getting to see what Britannic was intended to look like inside and out as well as its war fittings. Brought to you by the wonderful Titanic Honor & Glory people so it's first rate.
Yeah, "Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean" actually blew my mind a bit. I honestly had not expected the Britannic to have such deep, dark, rich colors surrounding the forward grand staircase area. Obviously, her war fittings were atrocious, but the THG guys did a damn good job regardless, especially in showing what the Britannic was meant to be.
00:45 FUN FACT : The white blob to the right of Capt. Smith is intentional as when the Titanic sank there was very little footage of the ship on film / photographed. Therefore the news outlets (and documentary makers) of the time would present a clip / image (usually containing Capt. Smith) as being the Titanic however they would often scratch the film (resulting in a white blob) so as to disguise certain features i.e a name plate e.g the Britannic / Olympic etc and pass off the clip as it being the Titanic which you will often see in other clips of the time.
I once read some outlets even went so far as to pass off footage of her launching as genuine footage of her sinking.
That is much in evidence of the clips of the Olympic being pushed by tugs but the clip claimed it to be the Titanic.
@@richardcline1337 It is also evident that much if not all of that footage was taken in New York, to say nothing of the captain wearing a summer white uniform.
I like this channel, it’s just good when it comes to ocean liners.
Feb 26, 1914 , H.M.H.S. Brittanic.
1000 points to you, I am and have been a huge Olympic and Lusitania class and well all ocean liners, thought I had learned all I could but you had some more unique facts and the way you do it was so funny I love it, cant wait to see more.
I truly appreciate the sense of humor you bring to one of my favorite topics. Please stay feisty.
Man I wish Britannic had survived, would have been interesting to see how her service would continue, who knows maybe White Star might have had more power in the negotiations with the merger of it and Cunard.
Keep uo the good videos.
White stare should have gotten more german liners after the war that probably would have set them up for a decent profit in the 20s
They made the ship better and the mother fker still sank
@@icy9478 Not out of poor design the ship might have survived had the nurses not violated the captain's order of keeping the portholes open.
@@Hardcase_Kara true
@@Hardcase_Kara plus the fact that the bulkheads weren't closed
4:35 The new shelter deck actually provided shelter; I wouldn't have guessed!
What did the original shelter deck claim to do I wonder... 🤔
I love that all 3 ships have such interesting stories
ty for making this type of content. Its really enjoyable with your added touch of humor!
I thought it was pretty good, a lot of info I was thinking about and then was mentioned...plus, just enough hint of snarkiness to keep one entertained. And very good to mention the two members of White Star to suffer through and survive all three ships' worst days. Violet Jessop is deserving of the title "Miss Unsinkable."
Of course, the lifeboat question still warrants one bit of address here. It was not just aesthetics. The safety standards of that time allocated the number of available lifeboats according to the overall tonnage of the ship, not the number of people it carried. And Olympic and Titanic were actually in compliance with those safety standards, even exceeded them; they were required only 16 lifeboats based on their weights, and they carried 20. Of course, Titanic demonstrated that those safety standards were woefully inadequate, and the presumptions behind those standards were disproven. All the standards in place today, including how to address ice floes, were a result of Titanic's sinking.
I know there is a separate video for Olympic, but I still think it appropriate to use a twist on the blasphemous boast that doomed Titanic ("God Himself could not sink this ship," which we all know God proved wrong). Where Olympic was concerned, God Himself could very easily have sunk that ship; He just chose not to.
Thank you I like facts instead of misinformation he should have actually researched this topic before telling people untrue statements
Totally enjoying your sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek delivery.
Must say, this is quite an amazing video! To combine humor with history is a hard thing to do, and you did it just right! ❤️
I absolutely f**king love your channel and videos bro! 😍
H&W records show this ship was named Britannic from the time she was ordered in June 1911. As built, Olympic & Titanic could stay afloat with 2-4 watertight compartments flooded. (4-6 after post-Titanic changes) This made them very safe expect under the most unlikely circumstances. 64 lifeboats for Olympic/Titanic was never a serious proposal. Ships back then did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone onboard. There is no evidence White Star slowed Britannic's construction due to financial issues. (IMM made White Star stand on its own and raise $$$ for ship construction itself) Limited liability laws reduced White Star's losses on Titanic to manageable levels. No evidence a smoking room was put on the Poop Deck to make her look bigger. Evidence for a mine sinking Britannic is very high.
I forget where, but I did find a website with images from a Britannic documentary that was cancelled because of the death of Carl Spencer. They even visited the known mine field and had images of some remains from detonated mines. Very interesting
Forgot to mention in my comment about the whole Britannic was her intended name all along thing, so thanks for pointing it out. As for all the other stuff, most of which I didn't know, you know a lot. :)
Negative. When the three ships were first planned, they were named Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic. I have books with pictures of the advertisement posters from the White Star Line with those exact names. The sister ships were the biggest and most grandeur so of course all three were named to reflect their size and strength. Why would they name two of their ships such pretentious names and give the third a more subdued one later? Because after Titanic sank sheer size wasn’t enough of a playing card to draw people in. After the keel was laid, and due to the Titanic’s sinking, they decided not to tempt fate again and gave her a more subtle name. But her original name was in fact Gigantic. Had Titanic not sunk she would have retained her original name.
@@Kaidhicksii no it wasn’t. Her original name was Gigantic. Her name, along with Olympic and Titanic, was to convey their enormous size and sheer strength, as the trio of ships were to be the largest ever built. The name was changed following Titanic’s sinking since they didn’t want to tempt fate again.
@@mindyschocolate Wrong. H&W plans still exist of the construction of Hull #433. As early as February 1911 - before Titanic was even launched - the name of the third ship was intended to be Britannic. Need I say more? Those posters you've seen of the third ship being called Gigantic were a media creation: not an official White Star promotion. If it were, it would've had their name on it. There were letters between H&W and other contractors who were delivering parts such as the anchor. Those contractors referred to the third ship as Gigantic, but again, it was never official. At most, it was a name that was considered - likely for the reason of the Greek myths and the portrayal of great size - but ultimately never used. And as for Gigantic being a name that White Star had planned to use for some of their previous vessels, I do not have the source with me right now, but I will get back to you when I find it.
In short, Gigantic was nothing more than a conceptual name that White Star considered using for the third ship. 3 months before the Titanic was launched, the name was settled as being Britannic. The Gigantic name ended up getting into the media, which then proceeded to blow it out of proportion, as they have done and continue to do with many things. Remember, it was they who said that the three new ships the White Star Line had ordered would be 1,000 feet long. At the end of the day, they didn't even touch 900.
This is a good lesson in how you can’t engineer your way out of every eventuality. “If only this, if only that” goes out the window when the right circumstances align
Remember me when this channel hits 500k subs.
Not gonna lie: I’d say Olympic is the veteran.
Indeed.
I totally agree you deserve more likes
Yep. Olympic was the one who was fitted to war. Britannic was not, I mean it wasn’t meant for combat.
Yes
Uhhh Wut?
*Titanic's War Hero of a sister* fixed it for you lol. I have so much respect for her and her crew. Her story inspires wonder and admiration.
"tea at 4.30pm" is like a light meal, not just a cup of tea. We still say we're having tea at XYZ times in the UK even now
Great work . Seriously great work. And i especially love the use of highly technical terms I'm most familiar with ... "thingies". That made my day.
Wow, you sir, are criminally underrated!
14:08. There’s a video suggestion: MV Britannic which would become the last White Star liner in service (1930-1960), and her sister MV Georgic the last ship built for White Star (1932-1956).
"woman am I right" made me chuckle
With the uncertain futures of the few remaining true ocean liners (QM, QE2, US) and the impending collapse of the most significant wrecks (Titanic, Lusitania, Andrea Doria, etc.), it's not too difficult to envision a world in say 50 years where Britannic is the best (and possibly only) preserved example of a classic ocean liner.
Loved the video but just a quick bit of trivia, even if Titanic had enough lifeboats it still took them 10-15 and sometimes 20 minutes to even launch one.
So in my opinion the end result would've still been the same. Honestly great video, laughed alot lol
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
I'd like to add that even though there definitely weren't enough lifeboats on the Titanic, they weren't able to get the lifeboats away that they already had. (A and B had to be floated off the deck, not launched.) More lifeboats may have made a difference but I personally doubt they would have done anything but provide hassle and get in the way of the crew, who were barely trained in using them.
EDIT: The Britannic was a beautiful ship and it's such a shame that she never got to become the ocean liner she should have been. Not to mention how much of a miracle it was that the ship wasn't full of the ill or wounded at the time of the accident- I don't want to imagine how many people would have died then.
i definitely agree.
2:00 is a myth as old as the Titanic herself. The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats (16 regular + 4 collapsible). The crew were able to load and launch 18 of them (with the last two floating off the ship, one upside down and the other swamped).
So, even if the Titanic had carried 64 lifeboats, the crew still would only have had time to load and launch 18 of them.
2:26 LOL JUDGE JUDY MY MOM LOVED THAT SHOW AHAHHAA
07:20 - AQUITANIA, not AQUATANIA. Ship shown there is RMS MAURETANIA...
Greetings from Brazil.
“You come back to see your wife pregnant and youre getting that promotion.”
PLEASE 😂
what do you mean by... oh Oh OH OOOOOOOOOO MY GOOOOOOOOOOOO-
7:44 that drip 😩
Bwahaha
Wow, a Ringo Starr reference from his 1973 album “Ringo.” I didn’t expect that but knowing your sense of humor and detailed information, I am not surprised either. Incidentally, George Harrison wrote “Sunshine Life For Me”
The more you know ⭐️
Keep up the great work dude
Well RINGO is my favorite album so I thought I'd throw that in there
@@NauticalStudy great album for sure! I kinda figured you listen to that album because it’s just too obscure to come up any other way. I got the reference immediately and had to replay it to make sure I saw what I saw. Very cool of you to show some love to Ringo. What other Ringo stuff appears in your arsenal of auditory arousal? (Thought I’d throw in a little alliteration for you there) (oops, I did it again)
I laughed my ass off when I saw the Red Barron pizza box.
*oh hell yeah im subscribing to this channel*
Hey! I love the look of the big davits on Brittanic
agreed
The Olympic class sisters had it tough.
You owe me a new monitor. I shot Jack Daniel's outta my nose when you said "Dumpster fire that was the Galipoli campaign."
"The Kaiser Wil- not hesitate (to sink ships)"
I love the part where pictures and the classical music (ride of the valkeryies) play along as the idiotic and needless mistake that was WW1 started
The only ship youtuber who doesn’t sound dead
You should do a video about the SS Princess Sophia disaster, which is sometimes described as the "unknown Titanic of the West Coast." The story largely got buried because it happened near the end of World War I, but it's a tragic story of the ship and rescuers being caught in a lose-lose scenario that still inspires debate over a century later about what actions could have been taken to save the passengers.
14:29 the some of the paint is still visible in the wreck of the Britannic.
Your humor and enthusiasm are infectious. Of note, though: Same mistake twice; mentioning raising Britannic and Olympic's water-tight doors. You mean bulkheads.
Haha, this is amazing well done!
She was the White Swan....
Hey you got yourself a new subscriber. Great video.
never seen the thumbnail pic of britannic in color before. nice video!
09:14 - Ship shown there is the real AQUITANIA. This one is correct.
I learned something new again today 😅
As a footnote about Hospital Ships: Sadly the Geneva convention wasn't observed by the Japanese, as a submarine torpedoed the Centaur off Queensland's Coast. Fully lit at night, a painted White ship, Green horizontal band and,,, the famous Red crosses.
Olympic had an extra bulkhead added too
I think, but not sure, persons was A-more common as a plural back then and B-merriam webster states there's a slight preference to using people when it's a coherent collective group and persons for a large number of individuals with no real connection, as in persons who happen to be on the same ship but not a people as sharing a certain trait. It also states the preference for people for indeterminate numbers and persons for determinate number of.. well, persons. People has become preferred as the general plural over time.
‘’Keep in mind however the Kaiser WILL NOT HESITATE- ah shit wrong video".
In regards to what was said at 1:46 about the Titanic:
James Cameron did an interesting experiment proving that more lifeboats wouldn't have made a difference; Due to how long the crew waited before they started loading, there literally wasn't any time left to launch any more than they did when the ship finally sank. So, saying the lack of lifeboats was the primary reason for the amount of lives lost isn't exactly valid. Had the crew started loading people into them sooner, regardless of how empty or full they were being loaded, yes, more lifeboats would have definitely made a difference because there would have been more time available to launch them but, unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
Cameron did multiple things on this TV special and he was also able to prove (through multiple experiments and simulation data from the US Navy) that he got the final sinking scene in "Titanic" wrong in regards to the angle at which the stern came up, when the ship ultimately split, how she split, and so forth.
I don't remember the name of the program on which he did all of this but it's on multiple TH-cam channels and is definitely a great watch. I'd spent my life thinking that more lifeboats would have meant more lives saved and it turns out that it just isn't true.
Your editing is way too good for the amount of subs you have
the only reason people think that the hospital livary was "drip she was disighned to sport" is becouse we never got use to her in her normal livery.
I wonder how differently history would be if Aquitania took Britannic’s fateful voyage like intended.
we would’ve had a superior ship sailing in the 20s.
DANG he said "it's drip she's fit to wear"
It was indeed a mine because there are the logs from U-73 which show the Mine Barrier
She is not forgotten anymore
Fun fact: after the titanic left belfast it went to cork (both in Ireland) for more passengers
Titanic went from Belfast to Southampton, then to Cherbourg and finally Cobh. (then Queenstown.)
Oh my goodness
Britannic have Many Nicknames for her best Olympic class ship, Biggest ship Sank in WW1, Biggest ship Sank by Naval mine, biggest ocean liner on the sea floor, only Ocean liner as Hospital ship, Titanic Tragic sister, White Swan, Hospital ship queen , Ocean liner of Kea
Hey can you please make a video of the uss Wolverine(or its original name seeandbee)
Page 40 - 42 of “On A Sea Of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic” discusses the lifeboat arrangement situation more clearly. I don’t believe aesthetics or passenger deck space played that big of a part in the lack of lifeboats.
Good video, btw. :)
For y'all who don't know what HMHS it means
"Her majesty's hospital ship"
your welcome
But back then in ww1 it was his majestys hospital ship
“Law and Order Candidate” - I cackled.
At this point all the changes to all this on olympic and britannic oh boy titanic missed out in all of this
Can you make a video on Arthur John Priest pls
Hey great video!
What is the song at 1 minute called?
Maybe Johann Strauss' "Tales from the Vienna Woods"?
The song I use is "Emperor's Waltz" by Strauss. Thanks!
Vilop Jesop fractured her skull and kept having headackes so around I think it was 1950 she went to a doctor and tolled her her head was fractured
didnt know that my dude.
6:56 RED BARON PIZZA LOL
Finally someone who said something
I laughed so hard at 7:44
I've heard of half-baked plans to try and recover the Titanic before, but not of the Britannic. There isn't much reason now, but were there ever any plans in the past that gained any sort of traction?
The Germans were the first to put up the law of unrestricted submarine warfare however. After a few of their u boats were sank.
their enough research and pics to do white star lines cancelled OCeanic III?
Maybe as a short video. We shall see!
@@NauticalStudy sad it never got past the keel layed down. would have rivaled the queen mary and normandie.
The binoculars was a Disaster For sure.
Nice vid and u earned a new sub
Didn’t the bulkheads extend up to E deck on titanic and Olympic?
The Germans also sank two other hospital ships that I know are glenart castle and Llandovery castle . Glenart castle was most brutal because out of all the lifeboats launched , only one survived . The others either pulled a lusitania or got attacked by the u boat that torpedoed them
And by “ pulling a lusitania “ I mean the lifeboats capsized during lowering , like the lusitania . Get it ?
Ok I admit it’s a bad joke
@@sbc9127don’t joke about tragedies. It’s not cool
It was a mine though, you know that, right
@@lochlanmuir2291 what was a mine ?
She also survival Olympic HMS hock Titanic Britannica and Olympic she was very good at survival 4 ships her friend told her to join white ster line
2:45 noooooooooo that name Never was go to be Gigantic the Britannic Original name is Britannic
What about the queen Mary
Excellent job fellows!!🥰🥰🥰🏁😎
I was having good time with the passenger
White Star Line: hah, now the icebergs aren't as big of a threat anymore, we won't loose this ship
German mine: I've got news for you and they ain't good
YEA MY FAVORITE SHIP
More lifeboats wouldn't have helped it took to long to fill them so more boats would be able to hold more people but they wouldn't have time to load them
Hey could you do the dona paz and wilhelm gustlof
I just realized something about the Olympic class: all but one sank... Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the freezing Atlantic ocean, Britannic was either struck by a mine or torpedo and sunk in the warn Mediterranean sea, and the Olympic was struck by the HMS Hawk and had a long career as both a passenger and military ship.
Also, I guess the Britannic got a bigger engine because they wanted, to quote Donut Media, *MO POWA BABEH!*
Edit: just the box of Red Baron pizza going across the screen at 6:55 makes me laugh, even though World War 1 was both the dumbest conflict in history and just war crimes galore, I mean seriously, name a war crime and everyone involved in the conflict committed it
Edit 2: 7:44 ever see a ocean liner with the same amount of drip as prime Ric Flair?
its pretty much comfirmed now that britannic was sunk by a mine.
@@TravisaInc which makes sense as I don't think Brittanic was in a combat situation when it sank
@@patrickracer43 agreed