This was the pilot video for this channel and I decided to remake it. Here is part 1 of the remake: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5qh0dafmK-cl6g.html

Started out in the Edwardian era and almost made it to the Jet Age. Amazing!

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

2 жыл бұрын

She did make it to the jet age, the de Havilland Comet first prototype flew in 1949 which was the first passenger jet liner that went into production

My great-grandmother came to the US on the Aquitania in 1920. There’s a story in her diary that there was a fire onboard during the voyage.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Either way, it must have been exciting (if not a bit intimidating) to travel to a new country aboard such a huge and famous liner. Was she traveling alone?

@bravo795mp

4 жыл бұрын

wow ... how interesting; and probably terrify for her.

@cunard61

3 жыл бұрын

The event in 1920 wasn't really a fire onboard. It was an incident that occurred during her first crossing as an oil burning ship. During that crossing, and having just left Queenstown, Ireland, a pressure control valve on one of the boilers blew off and it hit and killed a third engineer apprentice, whose last name was Barkway. He was buried at sea shortly after the incident.

I actually have a 1925 Aquitania passenger list, well two of them. One of them was for passengers embarking at Cherbourg for the same voyage as the main passenger list.

@chrisd3969

4 жыл бұрын

That's cool.

She's gorgeous. So heartbreaking these ships aren't preserved theme park style.

@elhombredeoro955

4 жыл бұрын

They didn't know ocean liners are going to disappear.

@GeeCoach35

3 жыл бұрын

The SS United States is the last of the ocean liners and is docked here in philly. They don't seem to know what to do with it. A museum would be great.

@chucklittle1180

3 жыл бұрын

Ranch Dressing if they were then it would probably be a repeat of jurrasic park (that’s a joke if they were alive!)

@awesomeaiden5218

3 жыл бұрын

GeeCoach35 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE QUEEN MARY?

@goldenstateaviation2861

3 жыл бұрын

IJN Yamato most likely talking about liners built pre 1930s

Other people: It must be the Titanic. Me: You fools! That is the Aquitania.

@Reksio-yz1eg

4 жыл бұрын

literally every person that sees a 4 funnel ship says it's the titanic which is annoying, i was watching a Normandie documentary and my parents said it was the Titanic

@potatopants4691

4 жыл бұрын

@@Reksio-yz1eg that sounds even worse...didn't Normandie only have 3 funnels?

@anormalcommentor9452

4 жыл бұрын

@@potatopants4691 Yep

@award3007

4 жыл бұрын

@@anormalcommentor9452 And she was alot more good looking!

@anormalcommentor9452

4 жыл бұрын

@@award3007 IMO, I hated the clean bow but other than that, Beautiful!

Aquitania's history is second to none, and it more than makes up for the minor shortcomings in her exterior design. I really think THAT'S why this great Cunard Liner is growing on you. It's why she became my favorite.

Wow, I’d heard of this ship before, but didn’t know her full story - being involved in both world wars and surviving both is amazing. It’s funny, when I think about ships at war, I always imagine the great battleships or aircraft carriers, but it’s so interesting to see the important role ocean liners played as well. Thanks so much for making these informative videos and sharing the history of these great machines!

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

I also think it's very interesting that ocean liners were used to help the war efforts. Thanks for watching!

@BlueEyedCubTN

4 жыл бұрын

Many liners were used throughout both wars as armed merchant cruisers, hospital ships and troop carriers. A huge number were destroyed by submarines and aircraft.

@ih302

3 жыл бұрын

Their greatest defense was speed.

Aquitania exist: KZread: thats bad lets blur this 0:37

@STORMTROOPER-vo1wn

3 жыл бұрын

so youtube did the blurring?

@Oystein87

3 жыл бұрын

It was a painted picture of Meuritania...

@Major_Bomber187

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oystein87 Never heard of Meuritania, is it another sister of the Cunard ships?

@Oystein87

3 жыл бұрын

@@Major_Bomber187 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIKcz5mkZczQpKw.html

@luisorellana2080

3 жыл бұрын

0:35

Aquitania... What a Great Name for a Ship, at least one big ship served a long and meaningful life without getting sunk.

My great grandmother travelled from England to Halifax aboard the Aquitainia in October 1946. She was 18 years old and it was just one part of her journey from Holland to Canada where she would reunite with her husband whom she just married 6 months prior. He was a Canadian soldier stationed near her home. He returned to Canada a week after their wedding to prepare for her arrival in 6 months. She left everything behind, she took a train to Rotterdam, from there she boarded the Lady Rodney to England and then the Aquitainia to Halifax, and finally another train from Halifax to Alberta. Where my family still lives:))

Literally every ship from the first half of the twentieth century: Exists Millennials: oh yeah that’s the titanic

@nightlock-cf3br

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr! I show a picture of an ocean liner to my best friend and he says "oh, it's the Titanic" and I'm like, no NO, NO ITS NOT

@AndyHappyGuy

4 жыл бұрын

I showed my classmate a picture of Lusitania. They said it was Titanic.

@MeltedToast84

4 жыл бұрын

AndyHappyGuy oof lol

@pablo14109

4 жыл бұрын

Nemesis Dylan not me I love the britannic

@AndyHappyGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@pablo14109 **mauretania as a hospital ship** Oh YeAh ThAt's BrItAnNiC

As a huge fan boy of the Golden Age of Transatlantic Liners, I so appreciate this channel.

@TheGreatBigMove

2 жыл бұрын

A remake of this particular video is in the works, so stay tuned. This was my pilot video and I don't think it's up to par with the rest of my videos (especially the more recent ones).

I sailed, from England to Canada, on this beautiful liner in 1948; very close to the end of her illustrious ‘career’!

@elaineculbert8594

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBabybelle1 - Why would anyone lie about that. I have a card given to me at the end of the voyage recording the weather conditions each day. 🤷‍♀️ On the flip side of the card is a picture of the ship. The most amazing and moving moment was … as the ship was being guided away by the tugboats, someone on the dock started to sing “Now is the Hour”. Everyone on the dock suddenly started to join in and tears soon followed on both sides (the dock and the ship). That moment will stay with me forever!

@ladyvictoria3000

Жыл бұрын

My mother also travelled on this same ship, from Southampton to Halifax, on July 27, 1948. Onward from there, by train to Toronto, where she met up with her fiance, my Dad. Nice memories.

@elaineculbert8594

Жыл бұрын

@@ladyvictoria3000 - My mother and I did the same in late September 1948.

Aquatania's design is far more pleasing than those top heavy pieces of junk that ply the Caribbean these days.

@Apple-mq5by

4 жыл бұрын

Litearly bricks on the Sea

@milesprower2944

4 жыл бұрын

Don't be such a prick

@josephhardwicke6344

4 жыл бұрын

@@milesprower2944 what's the problem?

@edin5317

4 жыл бұрын

True, although the Costa series of cruise ships are a bit stylish

@aileenp.5218

3 жыл бұрын

@@edin5317 and disney lol

I spoke with some war brides who sailed on the Aquitania. They told me the inside of the ship was tired and worn, like a metaphor for Britain after WWII. It's incredible how a ship could still perform so reliably after facing the North Atlantic waves for over three decades.

My most favorite four funneled ship among the Big Three of Cunard. Excellent narrative voice.

Is everyone gonna ignore the way my mans said Gallipoli?

@cameronsteele7289

4 жыл бұрын

Gally poley

@jac4423

4 жыл бұрын

I picked that up straight away, Ive always pronounced it Gal-Lip-all-lee

@ShortArmOfGod

3 жыл бұрын

Or the dates he got wrong.

@nottiification

3 жыл бұрын

Also cant stand the way he says Britain. Theres a "t" in Britain you know.

@lawrieflowers8314

3 жыл бұрын

@@nottiification 'There's a "t" in Britain you know.' Yes, this is an excellent series of documentaries, bringing back to vivid life the golden age of transatlantic travel, but it would be the icing on the cake if the 't' that has disappeared from a number of words, could make a re-appearance.

being a huge fan of the Aquitania, I highly appreciate videos dedicated to a forgotten Gem (especially considering the fact that I can't find a full documentary on the liner) keep making great videos!

My dad served on the Aquitaine from 1916 to the end of WWI, On the trip to Europe he was a steward and from Europe to America/Canada he was a surgeons assistant because on that run it was a hospital ship. Dad joined the British merchant marine in 1915 when he was 13. In 1916 when he was 14 he was taken into the Royal Navy aa an able seaman,

@CarolAnn-gh9fl

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Orman isn’t that incredible. My grandfather was from Newfoundland and he served in the British Navy during the Great War. He was only 15 but had his parents hand written permission slip when he arrived on the dock, so they put him on the boat to go to England. I think of how young my children or myself were at 15. The very idea of one of us leaving home to go to sea during wartime? That’s ‘crazy talk’ as they say.

@fredorman2429

4 жыл бұрын

My dad was from Southampton England. He was 13 in 1915 when he went to sea aboard the Ulrica, a small channel steamer that worked the channel ports carrying war supplies. In 1916 he joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman. On the eastbound run he was a steward and westbound the Acquitania was a hospital ship and dad was rated as a surgeons assistant. In 1912 my granddad took the family to the Southampton docks to see the Titanic sail. When the war started textiles

@mylesgarcia4625

4 жыл бұрын

My dad crossed the Pond on the Aquitania in either 1936 or 1937 after his studies in the US.

@cmplx6114

3 жыл бұрын

Its aquitania not aquitanine

Beautiful elegance of this liner remained always kind of a kickside player in the majestic North Atlantic epic liners stage. She deserves this video and many others. Thanks for your work.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Yes she does and thank you for watching!

Kinda sad that they just cut up a ship that lived through 2 world wars. Seems like it would've been better used as a floating museum or something. Such a waste I think.

@ControlRider

4 жыл бұрын

Im more sad about olympic

@Clanngabang

4 жыл бұрын

Ronald Schmal D:

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

A museum ship would have been great, a bit of history everybody could go and see.

@emperorryanii

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, very sad

@konac6610

4 жыл бұрын

@Joe there was, onto a meeting below I think

My grandparents and uncles immigrated to Canada in 1948/49 on the Aquitaina before the ship was broken up. Thanks for the History!

@elaineculbert8594

2 жыл бұрын

@James … Do you know what month? I did the same thing in the Fall of 1948.

7:17 I've never seen this photo before. It's sad but still really cool to see.

l came with my War Bride mother from England to Canada in 1946. It's lovely to know Aquitania 's history thank you

@waysidetavern

3 жыл бұрын

Barbaranne, Where in Canada did you arrive in 1946? My aunt sailed on RMS Aquitania in 1947 as a War Bride from Liverpool to Canada and I never asked her which port she arrived in. She did tell me that the Aquitania was still painted in her war-time anti-dazzle paint. Christopher

@barbaranneboyer4796

3 жыл бұрын

@@waysidetavern sorry for the delay . Pier 1, August 1946 Halifax,Nova Scotia .😷🇨🇦😀

@waysidetavern

3 жыл бұрын

@@barbaranneboyer4796 Better late than never Barbaranne! Thank you for your reply. She was well nick-named "The Ship Beautiful". That's a good "Claim to Fame" you have! Christopher x 👍

My late father was one of the many thousands of troops carried overseas to serve during WW2. He often spoke affectionately about Aquitania as "the old tub", probably because he was one of the very few who didn't get seasick, even while pitching and rolling in the Great Australian Bight. Col, NZ

My father sailed back from Europe as a Canadian soldier after the war, and my mother and I, born in Belgium, sailed on her to Halifax in the winter of 1945. I was six months old. I don't know if this is where I got my love of sailing, but my parents' stories of their experiences on the Aquitania certainly contributed. I have visited the Queen Mary in California, have sailed on the Queen Elizabeth ( the first one) and the Queen Mary2 for many transatlantic crossings.Hope to do so again soon. Loved this short history of a great ship. Thank you. .

Captain will turner! I see he quit being a pirate and became a ocean line captain

@milesprower2944

4 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment is underrated

@jamessouth4776

4 жыл бұрын

I thought someone would notice boot straps bill

@indridcold8433

3 жыл бұрын

He is not a pirate. He is the captain of the Flying Dutchman. He is still the captain of the Flying Dutchman today. The Dutchman must always have a captain.

Sailed on the aquitania from southhampton,to Halifax in 1949. My mother was a war bride.Remember getting hell from room steward for pulling my toy fire engine down the hallway with its bell ringing .Sailed on the Carinthia, and back to New York in 1956. on the Queen Mary ,It was a rough trip and did not find the ship as nice as the Carithia.

When britanic and this ship were side by side, that was a beautiful pic!

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know that Britannic and Aquitania were ever photographed together. You might be thinking of a photograph where HMHS Aquitania is in the background and Olympic in the foreground.

@lyndafall8818

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove you might go right. It did look like britanic white ship with the red crossed on its side. Yes i do beleive i saw Olympic also in the video

I usually don't like history but when it includes liners and so, I like it. This is a very good Video.

It's interesting that Aquitainia had a reputation for having an ugly exterior. She was considered way too boxy because the superstructure appeared too big for the ship, and her decks appeared cluttered because of all the vents.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

I've always thought that Aquitania was relatively unattractive (compared to most of the other 4- and 3-funnel liners). Like I said at the end of the video, though, her aesthetic has grown on me. Thanks for commenting!

@th8257

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove no problem! I read somewhere that Aquitainia looked even more boxy than it was because it didn't have a "raised forecastle" like the Olympic class liners had, which made them look more lean despite being a similar size.

@milesprower2944

4 жыл бұрын

I find that ironic given what she was nicknamed later on and also what most ocean liner fans think about modern ship designs.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

@@milesprower2944 She's still attractive in her own way and far more attractive than most modern ships.

@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices

4 жыл бұрын

I never thought that Aquitania was too boxy, or that her superstructure as too high, but her bridge and vents always annoyed me for some reason.

a friend of mine was a passenger on her last east bound crossing and had fond memories of this ship.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

She was one of the great ships!

@wannaplaythisdavid

3 жыл бұрын

so you both are now like seniors?

@Nathan-jq1uw

3 жыл бұрын

My Scottish mother came to Canada (disembarked at Halifax) in 1949 on the Aquitania on what I was told was the ship's final voyage.

Germans: lets not torpedo the Aquitania she is too majestic to sink.

@baconboinated3241

3 жыл бұрын

jelly boy LOL

@baconboinated3241

3 жыл бұрын

NOW THATS FUNNY!!

@awesomeaiden5218

3 жыл бұрын

jelly boy Oof Oof Oof Oof

@25Erix

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't stop them from sinking Lucy.

@natesantos1359

3 жыл бұрын

Lusitania: wtf germans im majestic too

I've recently discovered your videos, and I absolutely love them! These old ships were nothing short of amazing! Please, PLEASE do a video of my favorite ship of all time, the Great Eastern! She was an amazing ship, and definitely deserves your attention!

@TheGreatBigMove

3 жыл бұрын

I will definitely be doing Great Eastern at some point!

Did he say that Aquitania's WW2 service began in "1914" instead of "1940"?

@cunard61

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I noticed that too. He kept getting the decade she entered service confused with her trooping service during World War 2. By the way, Aquitania actually began her World War 2 duties in late 1939, when she made the first troop crossings of the Atlantic with Canadian troops carried over to Gourock Scotland.

@TaDarling1

4 жыл бұрын

I heard him say that also but I assumed it was a mistake. He also said the ship underwent massive renovation in 1932 and that Cunard had planned to retire her in 1914...eight years later. I'm assuming what he meant was that Cunard had planned to retire her in 1940, which would have been eight years after her 1932 renovation.

@wild2570

4 жыл бұрын

Aquitania was way ahead of it's time.

@mcguire2038

4 жыл бұрын

7:10 he says 1915 when I think he means 1950.

@sebastianathiememorial520

3 жыл бұрын

1913-1950 pacetime,ww1 and ww2

"nO tHaTs tHe tItAnIc"

@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices

4 жыл бұрын

Once I showed someone a picture of the QE2 and they asked "Is that the Titanic?"

@azt6379

4 жыл бұрын

@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices lol

@chucklittle1180

3 жыл бұрын

Blazing FireFlair I HATE YOU

@azt6379

3 жыл бұрын

@@chucklittle1180 What? You know I was doing a joke.

@chucklittle1180

3 жыл бұрын

Blazing FireFlair oh

She was probably the most beautiful and elegant looking liners of them all! I would have loved to sail on her!

@hawkeyeten2450

4 жыл бұрын

She seems to have been much safer too, than the White Star Line ships. Olympic had like 5 collisions, and most probably know what happened to the other two (Titanic and Britannic). Too bad they didn't save Aquitania for a hotel or something.

@milesprower2944

4 жыл бұрын

@@hawkeyeten2450 Olympic was still very lucky compared to her sisters though.

@luke7497

4 жыл бұрын

Titanic was most beautiful and elegant liners. It sunk tho. Calling an ship unsinkable actually makes it sink xD.

@raymondhutchinson7156

3 жыл бұрын

RMS Titanic and RMS Aquitania were the most beautiful Edwardian era Ocean Liners. RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie were the most beautiful art deco Ocean Liners.

@raymondhutchinson7156

3 жыл бұрын

@@hawkeyeten2450 In White Star Lines Defense: The issues with RMS Olympic was with smaller ships. Her size cause many smaller vessels that got to close to collide with her . The most famous being the collision with HMS Hawke in 1911. HMHS Britannic was a tragedy but was far safer that RMS Titanic. Both Olympic and Britannic had huge overhauls in safety measure after the sinking of Titanic ( more lifeboats , new electric davits that could launch lifeboats faster, a new double hull, changes to their expansion joints ,and higher water tight compartments). even during Britannic's sinking , all but 30 of her passengers were saved (over 1000 saved). It a shame because Britannic would have been the White Star Lines equivalent of RMS Aquitania . She was the largest of the three sisters ,yet never saw service as an Ocean Liner, thus never proving herself. You really cant use Britannic as a bad example when so many others sank during ww1.

She was technically the 3rd Largest ship in the World as RMS Olympic still had higher gross tonnage. Granted she was longer than Olympic.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Yes--if I recall (without looking it up again), Olympic was larger than Aquitania in terms of GRT by some tiny amount. Perhaps something like 200 GRT. I think the difference between Olympic and Titanic was greater which is interesting.

@BlueEyedCubTN

4 жыл бұрын

Britannic was even bigger, but she never saw commercial service. She was completed as a hospital ship, then struck a mine during WWI and sank quickly.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlueEyedCubTN Yeah, Britannic was significantly modified from her original design and the result was that she was by far the biggest of the Olympic class ships and even bigger than Aquitania.

@davidbaldwin8390

3 жыл бұрын

The Aquitania had aft decks that ran almost to her stern. Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic did not have this feature.

@NashmanNash

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove GRT are a weird way to measure anyway...Want more GRT...add some enclosed sheds on open decks.. Granted...simply adding a bunch of sheds that serve no purpose would´ve been a hillarious way to make a ship "bigger"

My great great uncle was in the Royal Canadian artillery. He took Aquitania in 1917 to France and then home in 1919.

Even though you have a re-make of this video, I still love this video.

She should of been preserved because of her service 🙏. RIP

@leerogish7223

3 жыл бұрын

No if any ship from that era should have been preserved it should have been the olympic as a floating hotel. They could have filmed titanic onboard and it would have been a huge money maker after the movie came out

Love Aquitania, thanks for making this

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Your absolutely right it is heartbreaking. more were not preserved.

Thank you for such professional, and thorough history lesson video. Good job! Great narrative voice, too!

@chandlerpablo6784

2 жыл бұрын

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@pedrotucker191

2 жыл бұрын

@Chandler Pablo i use Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

@jesseliam3717

2 жыл бұрын

@Pedro Tucker Yup, been watching on FlixZone for years myself :D

@chandlerpablo6784

2 жыл бұрын

@Pedro Tucker thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) Appreciate it !

@pedrotucker191

2 жыл бұрын

@Chandler Pablo Glad I could help xD

Thank you so much for this thought provoking content! I have learned so much from your channel since i discovered it. My only regret is not discovering it earlier. Keep it up!

What an awesome ship!

I have got two new favorite ships from your channel Ill de France and Aquitania

Great video. It means a bit more to me now since I just found out from my brother that our father crossed on the Aquitania from NY-to-Southampton sometime 1936-37 when returning home after his studies in Colorado. My dad never talked much about it.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

While that's very interesting to us, back then it was just a way of life! Granted, many people did appreciate the grandeur and adventure of crossing on a liner, particularly the large and famous ones like Aquitania.

Another excellent video, thank you. I’m subscribed.

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed excellent video.

Lovely looking ship.Great documentary😎👍!

Super rad and thank you for posting this great information and well informing! It has increased my devotion to these lovely four stack vessels.. Bring em back!!

Thank you, I have never heard of the grand old lady, I learned something new today, please keep up the great work. M

Excellent video!!! Well enunciated making it a pleasure to listen to. Those ships were from an age of grandeur such as we will never see again.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Dennis Challinor Thank you! I appreciate your feedback.

@dennischallinor8497

4 жыл бұрын

Most welcome. Well earned!!!

Very nice! Good details; interesting. Thank you for the research & instruction!

Interesting how successful the Aquatania was in the interwar period, even set against more modern and faster rivals.

My great grandad went to Gallipoli on this ship. William Weedon, landing in Gallipoli August 7th 1915!! He was one of the lucky one's who returned.

Great video!

The ship definitely had an extraordinary career.. and even though I'm not a huge fan of Cunard ships because I personally think white star ship's just look better.. This ship definitely kicked ass its Olympic even though Olympic didn't serve in world war II.. Awesome video..

@raymondhutchinson7156

3 жыл бұрын

Ironically ,both companies eventually merged in 1934 due to economic losses in the great depression. After that point you see ships like the RMS Queen Mary , MV Britannic, MV Georgic , etc.. Olympic was scrapped in 1934 because of her aging infrastructure and potential costs to upgrade her. an example would be the fact that both 2nd and 3rd class only had two communal bathrooms (with only two bathtubs ) in each class. This being a time where most new ships had on suit bathrooms. This not to mention most ships at the time switched over to oil burning boilers which were more efficient and cost saving than coal.

My dad sailed in this ship just after the war. He was called up for the Royal Navy, but entered service just after the war ended. He served on minesweepers cleaning up allied mines along the Irish Sea. Then he was on a minesweeper as it sailed to the USA as part of the return of lease lend ships. His return to the UK was in Aquitania from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He told me of seeing German names etched into the decks by German POWs in the area where he slept. Dad would have enjoyed your video, but he passed away in 2007.

Thanks for this informative & interesting video on "The Ship Beautiful". My compliments to you Chap! 👍👍

@TheGreatBigMove

3 жыл бұрын

I'll likely be doing a revised, enhanced version of this video in the future. This was my first video (a pilot, if you will), so the quality is not on par with my more recent videos. Glad you enjoyed it, though.

@waysidetavern

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove I look forward to your "revised" version...

A well-done wonderful video, thumbs up and I have subscribed.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! See you on the next video! Next up is Olympic one week from today, April 2nd.

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove I will be here buddy.

I'm a Titanic nut, but never heard of this ship!

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

Aquitania is probably one of the last major liners I learned about. Great ship, though, on par with Olympic.

@AutumnLoki

4 жыл бұрын

Same I love Titanic and all the other boats but I haven’t even heard of this one.

@ulyssesgrant4324

4 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of under rated ships

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

@@ulyssesgrant4324 100%

@Quasihamster

4 жыл бұрын

This is impossible.

Well done, subscribed based on this alone

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

So did I Francisco Quinones. :)

That's a Resume 👌 should have been kept as a museum, ocean liner, gunner, military transport. A legend. I wonder: when the ship was repurpose as military transport, and then again as ocean liner , what happened with all the interior decoration, tables, etc?

@ih302

3 жыл бұрын

That stuff would normally be sold at auction...

My grandma immigrated to Canada from Ukraine on this ship back in 1943. I never knew the history of the ship

@polishspytank09

2 жыл бұрын

Really

Thank you for touching on the different functions of cruise ships and liners. That subject sparks hateful debate.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

If you haven't seen it already, I have an entire video on the differences between ocean liners and cruise ships. Check it out on my channel if you're interested.

These four stackers were beautiful I wish these shipping companies saved one to show us how beautiful they were

0:18 look at the size of that ship! wow ship posters back then were way off. even the humans look like large Ants!

I wish we still lived in the days of the great liners God they where beautiful

So good I watched this twice!

@TheGreatBigMove

3 жыл бұрын

I cringe when I re-watched this video. Maybe that's a good sign that I've been improving, but it's still hard to watch my older content. Glad you like it, though.

@mrpeel3239

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove the narrative is very informative and complete. Ps how a video on famous shipbuilders?

@TheGreatBigMove

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrpeel3239 I'm looking into a doing a video on Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I just need to read up some more on him first.

I love how you talk of ocean liners as you would a person

Ships like her should have been made floating docked hotels

@raymondhutchinson7156

3 жыл бұрын

The only issue with that is a ships continued maintenance after retirement. The RMS Queen Mary (1934) has been used as a hotel since the late 1960s when she was retired. She has largely been neglected to the point where engineers believe that if nothing is done , she may soon sink and collapse within the next decade. It would take a few million dollars at this point to do a full restoration. She should have been dry docked rather than just docked. Keeping her in water is only doing her hull damage.

Titianic is my favourite ship

Near the end of his life, my Gran's third husband told my brothers and me the story of how he and a friend were able to sneak aboard the Aquitania. They were fifteen, and she was moored in Southampton with no visible attendants. On a whim they ran up the gangway and got into the ship. They got as far as a smoking lounge before they were apprehended by stewards. Old Ralph still smiled at the memory... it more than made up for the trouble he and his friend got into!

@hayate142

2 жыл бұрын

That's rather funny. Do you remember when they did it?

Your channel is really awesome! I hope you get more subs soon!

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

I agree poki atgoogle.

This channel is everything 11 year old me needed.

@heyitshuttz3705

3 жыл бұрын

RamblerClassicMan same!

Me: *shows picture of estonia* *_IS THAT TITANIC?_*

@nightlock-cf3br

3 жыл бұрын

How the hell did they screw that up...?

The pictures at 3:21/3:25 are actually Aquitania during WWII. Her bridge, criticised by her officers for being too low to see over her bow, was raised up one deck in her 1919-20 refit.

My father immigrated to the US on the Aquitania. He boarded at Cherbourg.

It's funny how u said that in the end I always found Aquitania quite ugly myself but was great watching and learning so much about her. Served in both World Wars

Ah, my dad has asked me why I’m so great at ship history is because of the great big move and searching up and watching videos :D

7:27 *This picture sums it up: RMS Aquitania. Maybe a newspaper photographer. Thanks. Sutt Yooooot, as we say here in Thailand*

A legend says Aquitania has been refitted and is carrying the troops in WW3.

She was the last four funnel ocean liner

The saddest endings to a ship I’ve heard of are Normandie and RMS Queen Elizabeth

@ih302

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, Aquatania's career brings to mind the Hunter S. Thompson quote “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

What a career!

I still think the Aquitania should've been saved and preserved as the last four funnel ocean liner. :( They should've given her the Queen Mary treatment. I lowkey hope one day four funnel ship designs make a comeback in a more retro-modernist fashion.

Å very pleasing design than those big squares that we call cruise ship

At the QE2 museum i think they also have aquitania’s bell

I can't particularly say it's any uglier or more beautiful than most other ships of its size and time, however I can see how people find her beautiful with that white and gold interior, it's stunning and elegant! Certainly the most gorgeous interior of a ship period imo

You need more subs and more ocean liner videos.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

More ocean liner videos are on the way, so stay tuned. Share with your friends!

@baronvonjo1929

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove YES

@ShipsoftheOceans

4 жыл бұрын

I will be back to check them out.

A few of my family sailed on her in the 1920s. Not sure who, but I believe they must have been some of my grandmother's aunts and uncles with their parents. Found an old photo album with several cool photos of the ship.

I'm pleased you emphasise the difference between cruise ships and passenger liners. You could emphasise the difference by saying that liners don't necessarily carry passengers: cargo liners, as with passenger liners, are ships that are engaged on line voyages i.e. regular voyages between two ports, usually calling at other ports en route to load or discharge cargo.

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

I have an entire video on the difference between ocean liners and cruise ships. I know most people aren't interested in maritime or ships, but it's always a surprise to me that people can't use common sense to realize the difference.

Excellent documentary - and thanks for not wrecking the story with disruptive music...

Mark Chirnside's book about RMS Aquitania has extensive interior shots. The single berth First Class cabins made a hospital ward look luxurious. Even the Regal Suites looked sharply cramped with too small rooms and too much furniture. I was surprised at how claustrophobic the interiors appeared. I certainly would've booked RMS Olympic's single berth First Class over RMS Aquitania's. Also, the width of the latter was still narrower than the Olympic class, meaning she was a greyhound at sea, rolling, bobbing, and pitching. The one amazing thing about RMS Aquitania was the substanial space and amenities devoted to Second Class! I don't think I've ever seen such a variety of public rooms. Even the dining room had a musician's balcony.

@DerpyPossum

2 жыл бұрын

i guess they devoted more luxury to the public rooms. :I

@RomulanCommander

2 жыл бұрын

Aquitania was not a greyhound, only designed to be marginally faster than the Olympic class, and was also known to be a very stable ship. I have Chirnside's (excellent) book as well; personally I don't see overmuch difference in the size of First Class single berths, but perhaps that's just me.

It really sucks, the Aquitania was a magnificent ship, it sucks even more that they scrapped the Olympic, she was a beast during WWI, and would’ve been such a great part of the Titanic Museum

@TheGreatBigMove

4 жыл бұрын

I'm always hesitant to say that a ship should have been saved. At the time, the romance around ocean liners was still there, yes, but not the nostalgia since they were still being built. I will say that it would have been more likely that Aquitania would be saved than Olympic since Aquitania was scrapped in the '50s when WWI, the Great Depression, and WW2 were int he rear-view mirror.

My favourite ship

I miss the old ships the ocean liners..

Aquitania was great ship last 2 wars