Lusitania, Titanic, France, Aquitania…. their names have entered legend. In 1897 the German merchant marine changed everything when North German Lloyd introduced the four-stacker ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. or the next fifteen years the world’s great shipping companies vied with one another to introduce bigger and better ships and this maritime ‘arms race’ resulted in the creation of some of history’s greatest ships including RMS Olympic, SS France, RMS Titanic, HMHS Britannic, RMS Lusitania, RMS Mauretania, RMS Aquitania and more. Today we’ll explore the history of the four-funnelled ocean liners – where they came from and how their service and careers weren’t all smooth sailing…
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GXi-vIVDM0
Music performed by
The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra @ParagonRagtimeVideos
Rick Benjamin, Director
www.paragonragtime.com
Written by Sarah Brenneman and Michael Brady
Animations by Jack Gibson
Aquitania, France and Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 3D models by Lucas Gustaffson
Olympic, Titanic and Britannic 3D models by Titanic Honor and Glory @TitanicHG
Production music from Epidemic Sound
Archival footage from Getty Images
Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history’s most famous ocean liners and machines!
#titanic #lusitania #history #documentary #ship #engineering #design #evolution
0:00 Introduction
4:25 Lusitania and Mauretania
16:23 Olympic
22:00 Titanic
27:44 France
36:00 Britannic
39:35 Aquitania
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Who is Lori Brenneman?
Hi Mike, I enjoyed this interesting documentary. Very professionally made, congratulations. Best regards from Belgium, Albert
This channel is one of the best ones in this platform. Seriously.
Of the liner designs that I have seen on this video my favorite is the Olympic class.
Great video!!! Detailed research and brilliant CGI!!!! Thank you Mike!
I think these two videos are the best thing you and your team have produced. Such high-quality content! It's really appreciated.
25:37 "Here Is The Steamer Titanic Which Carried 1350 People To Their Death"
(Looks closely…)
Nope! That is a picture of the Olympic. Which carried 0 people to their death.
I wonder if anyone had an ocean liner with 5 stacks. Just because.
23:50 The futures so bright I gotta wear shades.
Nice video mate!
Bit like airlines today.I have read that they rake more in from First and Business Classes than they do from Economy.Although I don't know how Premium Economy fits in to the revenue giggling?
Finally this amazing channel covered my most favourite ocean liner- SS France (1910). Great job! Thank you!
My Greatgreatgrandpaparents were passengers on "France" before the Great War.
This is the third time i have watched this and it is briliant. The narrative is superb, the music is brilliant and totally ìn line with the time period. I could rave on about it for a lot longer. You have hooked on this ,so i am going to order the model Titanic and any other liners that i can find. Vert well done and MORE PLEASE.
Please make a video about Cospatrick's disaster
Truly such a sad story of Titanic and her complement of crew and passengers. I fell under the spell of Titanic 34 years ago when I was six years old and I've been wandering through all of the facts and myths ever since. So many men had toiled for years to build and fit Titanic, only for her to meet her fate on the night of April 14th-15th, 1912. Then, they all got together to build #433 (RMS Britannic) with lessons learned from the sinking of her sister Titanic and operating issues with Olympic, only to have it lost to war actions in 1916 while serving as a hospital ship. I couldn't even imagine how the people of Harland and Wolff, let alone the residents of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland must've felt having lost two of their most beautiful creations pretty much back to back. Those men created some truly amazing liners that were both technological marvels, but while one was killed by a combination of weather and some truly ignorant decisions of her crew, exacerbated by the belief that the ship was infallible, but then to lose the next ship in the class to war actions must've been truly demoralizing. I mean, I LOVE Titanic and her crew and passengers, but if Titanic had simply rammed the iceberg head on she would've been severely damaged, but would've been able to limp to New York with a substantially lower death toll. History would've been significantly changed, but the results of Titanic's loss would've come around at some point regardless. I am not psychic 😂😂😂, but I am a dreamer and a realist at the same time.
This video is a masterpiece!!!
Hey mike u know what would be funny? If someone bought the rights to the white star line and made it Cunard best competition again
Love the sneaky recreation of the "Million Dollar Shot" from Titanic that you used on the Lusitania, and the fact I noticed that confirmed that I'm a ship nerd 🙂
"Gregorian style" ???😂
Do the animations are amazing you definitely have my support also I would like to see a little more of Mauritania and Lusitania even in recent years the popularity has been growing I don't think they've been given enough attention I especially thank you for the attention of aquitania
Turbinia! She’s on display in The Discovery Museum in my hometown. She’s bloody gorgeous 😄
Mike, your presentations are simply beyond description! I have never seen documentaries this brilliant on any of the so-called documentary channels here in the U S. Your presentations make those of Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic Channel, etc. pale in comparison. Congratulations!
It really hurts seeing Britannic as the ocean liner she was intended to be. It's one of the great things about Honor and Glory's "Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean" mini-game's features that allows you to explore her interiors as well as exteriors as an ocean liner instead as a hospital ship and see many of the things that might've been. And while most of it is pretty straight-forward or was already there on her sisters, there's a number of unique differences that make her stand out, such as the deck housing added to the stern to expand the 3rd class smoking room, the children's nursery, and the addition of the German-made pipe organ on the A-deck landing of the forward grand staircase, as well as bathrooms for nearly every cabin. Had she not been sunk in WW1, she would've been a force to be reckoned with on the trans-Atlantic run.
The beauty and the grace of the old liners quite the opposite of the new ships. They’re quite ugly.
Titanic honor and glory looks too clean to be realistic.. more rough surface area is needed
Awesome video Mike. But I missed my favorite part in all your videos; " hello again, this is your friend Mike Brady."
This is an amazing documentary! You work so hard and put your efforts into these juicy videos for us! That must be a pain but it’s always worth it! Keep up the Extraordinary work, Mike! Suggestion: You should remake if Titanic never sank and make if Olympic sank!
Great film!
Anything new on the Titan Submersible Disaster…? Post debris recovery… , "transcript" etc…? I figure you may have a line on inside info… Nothing new generally…
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Boy, those cgi sequences are looking pretty… pretty… darned… good… Amazing, even… Thanks.
26:38 Olympic remained in service another 6 months after the Titanic disaster
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!
35:12 Olympic and Titanic had been planned to replace just the two oldest members of the fleet, Teutonic and Majestic, which despite numerous refits had lost their luster. By this point the pair were more than 20 years old.
I wish there was more on the early German 4 stackers like you covered the 6 British ones. Would be interesting to see the technology they had given they sailed 15 years before Titanic. Also the fates of the German 4 stack liners would be interesting to hear about as I think one actually fought with guns with a British Cunard liner. I think it's wreck is still out there somewhere.
My son (3 years old) is really fond of this channel (no more 20 minutes per day). Unlimited for me. Thank you Mike for your work and professionnal explanations. Salutations from France.