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It cost just $12million in today’s money to decorate and furnish the entire interior of the Lusitania.
8:02 James Charles💀🙏
Coal dust is extremely flamable..
Some passenger liners were designed with four classes. The Willem Ruys, for example, originally had four classes. Later, when acquired by Flotta Lauro, as the Achille Lauro, second, third and fourth classes were amalgamated into a single Tourist Class. I travelled on the Achille Lauro in 1967, in what had been, originally, a fourth class cabin. Of course all of the public rooms of Tourist Class were available.
Unbelievable apathy and incompetence from Lord and his crew. As sailors, they would have jnown the dangers faced by a sinking ship. Can i be the only one who wonders whether the real reason Lord didnt go to rhe rescue is cowardice?
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Didn’t James Ross drill the last spike?
Its sad that a ship(carpathia)that was 58 miles away from titanic came to there rescue but a ship(California) that was 15 miles did not they were the closes ship to the titanic
I watched this video in its entirety. But, couldn't help but to think, are we in a cruise ship based on the outside looks? I thought that the most important things above external looks were amenities, view from your cabin, and other menial things like food, cost, etc.
This video isn't necessarily for a mainstream audience or even an average cruise line customer. This is primarily a maritime history channel, so the audience of this channel generally does care about the outward appearance of ships.
@@TheGreatBigMove I see.
Maritime History is so fascinating, Ocean liners were so majestic and played a crucial role in those days
The best thing you can say about Lord and his officers is they had a quite remarkable lack of curiosity about what was happening around them. Lord did not bother walking a few steps to his own bridge to see for himself and nobody thought to wake up the radio operator to listen to the radio traffic. A good example of sleeping at the wheel if ever there was.
Absolutely insane they managed to get a 19th century ship like that up to the equivalent of 20mph. That would have felt like a bullet train to them compared to any other means of transportation that was available.
Coolest ships?
The officer on watch on the California should have asked the Marconi operator to wake up and check for a distress signal. That would have taken maybe 15 minutes. Then they could have woken the captain and then made best speed towards Titanic. If they were 10 miles away and could travel at 10 knots then they most likely would have got there before the Titanic fully sank. It would have made a difference.
They all suck .
The thing i like about p&o iona and Arvia is the upper and lower promenade decks were you can walk all the way around the ship, not many cruise ships have this.
I think carnival sunshine and her twins sunrise is nice tho😅
If Aquitania never meet that storm she could have hit the mine.
I've often wondered if a row boat with a strong crew could of gotten to the California ang asked for help ???
My great great uncle was in the Royal Canadian artillery. He took Aquitania in 1917 to France and then home in 1919.
All the Californian had to do was wake up their wireless operator and they would have known what was going on within minutes. Said the crew on watch, "Maybe they're company rockets. Maybe they're signaling for something else. Maybe they're setting off fireworks for the passengers." Said nobody, unfortunately, "Hey, maybe we should turn on the radio and find out for sure, since that's why we have one in the first place."
Great video! Just found out that My grand parents travelled on this ship in 1955 and now your video brought me back in time to see part of what they saw and experienced on this ship. Thank you.
The lack of pvt toilets on Olympic was one factor in the decision to scrap the ship in 1935. Yes, she had undergone several upgrades over the years and more private toilets were added but more modern ships had these in every cabin.
1:35 for #9 Carnival Sunshine. She was the only cruise ship that took the title of the worlds largest passenger ships until 1998.
So interesting
A video about my favorite ship
I assume you didn't classify liners as cruise ships, otherwise the QM2 would be way up this list. Also Pinnacle class aren't bad looking
No, QM2 was not considered for this list.
Knowing what was behind the actual sinking of the Titanic, 3 of the richest people, plus 1 certain person who cancelled his own, ticket and took a later ship. Then put into effect the Federal Reserve act. I'm not sure how easy it would be to start the ship's engines, or why shut them off in the first place. It doesn't seem like a wise choice especially when there are icebergs in the area. You need some control over the movement of the ship. He definitely dropped the ball, ships firing off flares don't do it for grins and giggles.
Knowing what was behind the actual sinking of the Titanic, 3 of the richest people, plus 1 certain person who cancelled his own, ticket and took a later ship. Then put into effect the Federal Reserve act. I'm not sure how easy it would be to start the ship's engines, or why shut them off in the first place. It doesn't seem like a wise choice especially when there are icebergs in the area. You need some control over the movement of the ship. He definitely dropped the ball, ships firing off flares don't do it for grins and giggles.
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I come from the point of view of capacity. Californian had room for a few hundred passengers. If you cram as many people as it could be considered safe as possible on Californian, you could MAYBE get to 1000, most likely 500. The lifeboats didn't have enough capacity nor Californian combined so save everyone to point blank, people were going to die regardless.
Well, the Californian could’ve at least held a great majority of those people on board until the other ships that came dashing to the rescue arrived.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY It's one of those hindsight in 20/20 situations. They technically didn't break any laws or procedures and only found out afterwards that they screwed up. I think their inaction is what helped change the laws and procedures for naval aid.
Aquitania: Since I was damaged by the storm, why not send Mauretania instead. She also had a similar navigator and not sail into the booby trap.
Let's get the true facts. At the time of the collusion, CALIFORNIAN was hove to (that means stopped on the other side of the massive pack ice field). She was, by plotting the three fixes taken by prifessional officers, some 25nm from TITANIC to the South East. She was NEVER closer than 20nm. Other ships were in the general vicinity and we are pretty certain of the identify of the ship underway sighted about 5nm from TITANIC, going by the standard distance for a port side light. Lord had been on the bridge for almost 24 hours navigating the increasing ice pack and icebergs and effectively collapsed in his day cabin. The officer of the Middle Watch and Apprentice sighted white flares (TITANIC was not carrying red distress flares as someone forgot to load them). White flares were not emergency flares but used to hail other ships of the same line or ships nearby. The Apprentice reported the sighting to Lord who asked the colour. As white was not a distress flare, he could ignore them. The Apprentice also stated that they seemed to be from a ship beyond the one underway - the same ship TITANIC saw. Lord instructed him to call him if necessary. Next day, when the ship received the message TITANIC had sunk, Lord had steam raised and got underway. It took CALIFORNIAN more than FOUR hours to traverse the pack and she then headed for the wreck site where CARPATHIA was recovering the survivors. Lord asked if he could assist but CARPATHIA said they didn't need any help. At the COI, Lord stated that even had he known of the disaster, had he tried to navigate the ice tyat night, he "would probably have joined TITANIC on the bottom." I agree his decisions. He was responsible for the safety of his own ship and the tradition that rescue of ships in distress involves 'everyone', that does not mean risking your own safety as circumstances indicate and possibly adding to the emergency. In short, like Ismay, a competent ship's Master is pilloried by media and false claims that he deliberately ignored a distress warning. As I have said elsewhere, in the 1990s (I dont have the date to hand), he was exonerated by a BOT BOI comprising a professional Master. Oh, if anyone still wants to run the bs, I suggest you go either to those waters or look at footage of pack ice, growlers and bergs. This aint a skating rink.
ARRRRRRRGH MY EYES
Plus back then I believe men and women were strictly sexually segregated in their use of bathrooms. Now we see men invading women's spaces and people who are supposedly civilized peeing and pooping on the street in front of other people. (I lived in San Francisco until quite recently).
the Great Eastern is rolling in her grave with her double hull
id like to imagine the Great Eastern as iphone miraculously invented in the 70s
Who thinks its the titanics 's radio operates fault only if he listened
My then 6 year old husband sailed on her about 1954 when he and his mother were joining his father in England. He remembers walking up the gangplank with his teddy bear and watching their new Studebaker being lowered into the hold. We started watching "The Last Voyage", and at a scene in the dining room he suddenly shouted "I sat right there!" We had to stop watching when the destruction started, too painful .
agree with some but that funnel on Carnival Spirit bloody awful.
I found out not long ago that a distant relative was on the Adriatic in first class
Norwegian Prima: "looks like the Airbus Beluga" Icon of the Seas: exists
As tall as these modern ugly ships are, do they roll a lot in rough seas??
U PUT MSC WORLD EUROPE IN THE 3RD UGLIEST SHIP (get a life, it’s perfect in every way)
both... He could have made the wireless officer double check
That prank in Sydney Harbour is fantastic. The stones required to pull that off especially at the height of the Boer War are such you need them to generate gravity
The Californian wouldn't have arrived before she sank, at all. But would have likely gotten there within the hour of Titanic fully collapsing to the ocean. The temperatures of the water meant that many of those in the water (without being on top of any floating debris) would have still died. However, those who were on debris, those in collapsible boats, etc may have had better chances. So many things went wrong with Titanic, but the biggest thing was believing that steel and iron were more powerful than nature. They didn't build the bulkheads all the way up, they didnt have enough boats due to aesthetics, they didn't do drills, they didn't fully load boats, didn't slow down, etc. The only good that came from this tragedy is safety for future vessels. We have more than enough lifeboats, lifevests, we have a mandate that someone is on communications all the time, we have muster stations and drills. It is safe to say that the results of this disaster saved more lives than she took with her into the Atlantic.
I think more of the blame should be out on Titanics wireless operators. Have they conveyed the last message they received then there's a good chance the Titanic would never have hit that iceberg. There is plenty of blame to go around for that tragic event but a big majority of that blame should be put on the wireless operators
Not for nothing, while I'm not entirely familiar with early 20th century shipping procedure, how can one not see twelve rockets being fired from a ship and not think that this is clearly a distress signal!!!