A Complete Guide to Titanic's Engines 

Yay, bonus video! That’s some amazing dedication to accuracy right there. You’re great, mate.

Nice one, I fully understand how something can weigh on your mind if you're not happy with it. Glad you got the chance to revisit it. You've done awesome work this year, I hope next year is just as great!

Aaaaah Mr. Brady I had a feeling you'd end up doing this after the corrections video appeared. This is one of the things that really sets you apart is being driven enough to fully redo something rather than let it stand with corrections elsewhere. Great work!

And all the best to u and yours!

Great to see the effort taken to improve upon prior errors

Agreed

Look up "Titanic: Honor and Glory" "Project 401" and prepare to be amazed. Those guys have done incredible work recreating Titanic.

I suppose I should have stated to look them up on RU-vid. They have their own channel.

You’re a horrible person stop

Exactly… And I’m pretty sure there were no women or transgenders on the payroll

Amazing

the fact that he remade it and still didn't put in the fact that it was the Olympic that sank and not the Titanic, shows that his research was not very thorough, either that or he got paid something on the side to keep the lie going.

@@Turbo_Tastic OH MY GOD. You are one of those. I'm not even going to entertain your stupidity.

​@Turbo_Tastic I'm sorry (not), but you sound so stupid with what you just said.

@@Turbo_Tastic Crazy how there is 0 evidence that Olympic and Titanic was switched. The whole thing is made up with zero evidence to back it up.

@@Turbo_Tastic You aren't serious...right?

Right! The level of sophistication of shipbuilding of the time is downright astonishing. Especially when you consider 50 years before Titanic the overwhelming majority of oceangoing vessels were still wood-built and sail powered. Columbus could have captained a ship from 1860 but not one from 1910, he'd have been overwhelmed.

Why

@@EnjoySackLunch Think about it. A ship from 1860: Wood, canvas, sails, wind-propelled. The configuration would have been different from a 15th Century caravel but the principles would be the same. A ship from 1910: Steel, steam, electricity, size. Aside from the principles of navigation which wouldn't be too much different the ship handling and propulsion and internal systems would have been alien to Columbus. Not that he couldn't learn of course, but I'm speaking of theoretically dropping him on the bridge cold. Get it?

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 I wasn’t talking to you

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 They will be. Size do matter A LOT in ships, so these bigger ships might experience problems never experienced by smaller ones (like being a gigant magnet to ships moving near it). Speed also gone up a lot, so its a gigant brick, moving at incredible speed with no ability to easily change direction or speed, compared to even biggest ships of the previous era.

No they dont.

So you don’t like climate controlled buildings, electricity, self moving chairs (aka cars) etc?

And mechanics make it work and keep on working 🦾

@@monkey6841 God made this world livable, all those things you listed are measly luxeries we dont need.

​@@WorldsBestFisherman152And yet here you are blessing us with your nonsense via the use of electricity, radio communication etc. why don't you just go ahead and throw your phone and car in the sea you ingrate. I'm sure god would approve.

even better technology existed over 12,000 years ago, but you will never hear about that, just like you also won't hear that it was the Olympic that sank and not the Titanic

I bould put in 308 and still keep warm. CHRISTINE SAID 8OO OR 1200 ...I THINK 1200

@@Turbo_TasticWhat difference does it make which of the two sank?

@@jan_777 it goes towards providing supposedly factual information on the Tittanic; if he doesn't even realize what ship sank how can the engine information be accurate? Plus it goes towards the fact that almost everything we are taught is a lie. If you are just enjoying your slavery in the matrix, yes then facts make no difference, enjoy not being alive.

​@@Turbo_Tastic💯My man @3:27 was a 1912 29 year old...A rougher 29 than my man in MIB was! Shout out to him!

he made the biggest mistake of all, the Titanic never sank, it was the sister ship Olympic that was sunk on purpose; maybe do some digging next time Mike and not just regurgitate propaganda?

@@Turbo_Tastic It’s been proven several times that it was in fact Titanic that sank and not Olympic. There are visual differences on the wreck, you can see the yard number 401 on the outboard propellers, and they couldn’t have switched the two around in the short amount of time Olympic returned to Belfast.

@@PainHurtss proven by who? anyone interested go watch this documentary and decide for yourself: The Best Titanic Conspiracy Documentary (2012)

@@PainHurtss for anyone intersted go watch The Best Titanic Conspiracy Documentary (2012). youtube won't even let me post this in a response, going to check to see if my comment gets deleted

@@PainHurtss proven; nothing can be proven, they can provide evidence that makes something likely or unlikely. The video seems to be well done, but he may as well be analyzing Santa's Sleight or the Star Ship Enterprises's engines, it is all fiction if he doesn't even know what ship it was.

MM2 on 3 ships, all in the Engineroom, this is a great training video.

The heat , the sweat , that was REALLY a few hour ' s GRAFT !

Being a regular ol' computer engineer having watched this video as well, I fully endorse this great comment 🙃!

Pretty bad for the environment, isn't it

​@@ttm2609agreed, fuck coal

Titanic never sank. it was it's older sister ship for the sake of insurance money.

​@pureblood9477 I believe it now. Greed has always been the root of evil.

@@tims_always_fishing7117 Larry silverstein did the same thing with the towers. The ethnicity that his last name signals is truthfully the root of all evil.

@@pureblood9477 The Titanic was also insured, obviously 🙄

@@pureblood9477 Aliens took the Olympic

i love machinery! i've made it my life near five decades now. To be around the engines you have would be the biggest treat for me -

I am totally in all of the massive scale of these engines. What also, amazed me were the conditions that the firemen worked in. I have been in 47° heat and had to quickly go inside. These men worked in 49° heat for four hours. Can you imagine the massive strain😂 that this would’ve had on their bodies.

I like the Ransome Rapier walking dragline. Well done for saving this unique, for Victoria, machine.

Hi, I’m also in Melbourne , Where are these engines located,I would love to go and view them, A reply would be most appreciated, please and thank you

@@artinconstruction9070 Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club, Ferntree Gully Road Scoresby next to the Eastlink Tollway.

There are books in the library that you can consult, if you can be bothered

Books are for people with no life.

integrity by promoting propaganda that the Titanic sank when anyone who has dug into knows it was the sister ship the Olympic that was sunk

What, the bunks you shared?

Yes, this is all about you.

@@stupidhead9117🤨

In WW2 the USN was said to run on black oil and coffee. If you can't go, well, you are where you are.

I rewatched it on my 3d 100" Mega high Def 9 channel atomic tv.

Honestly, same. The whole ship is such a technological wonder that every part (toilets included) is fun to learn about, especially from Mike Brady!

Creepy

Nor me either. Tozzpot seems intent to prove me wrong no matter what I say. So, I'm dropping this entire conversation.

My original post was about how easy it would've been to avoid the collision. But the entire post seems to have morphed in toilets from my point that the ship struck the berg on the side it was easiest to avoid it.

Matt deWinkleer has one on his channel if you're that keen on it, although his is only about ten minutes.

Had a regiment of US infantry aboard, who later sent a bronze plaque to Olympic commemorating her feat. I think that plaque still exists today, though I don't know where. It read: “This tablet presented by the 59th Regiment United States Infantry commemorates the sinking of the German submarine U-103 by the Olympic on May 12th, 1918 in latitude 49 degrees 16 minutes north longitude 4 degrees 51 minutes west on the voyage from New York to Southampton with American troops."

Also as much a testament to Captain Bertram Hayes and his skill as a mariner. Every sailor in every military division of the whole British Empire was taught to attempt that procedure when facing a U-boat, but IKS SM-U103 was the only one that didn't manage to escape.

@@DistractedGlobeGuy Indeed!! In fact, in his autobiography, Sir Hayes says they actually sunk TWO submarines; according to him, the submarine they hit got basically sliced in two, with both halves going vertical before sinking. He says the U-103 is the one that was spotted behind them, which they opened fire on and damaged enough that it eventually sank, although a portion of that crew survived (including the U-boat commander). Honestly it makes a bit more sense to me! The events with a single u-boat never were very clear, in terms of HOW it was hit. Hayes acknowledges that most say he only sank one, but he also basically said he already got a pretty big honor out of it and wasn't going to press the issue, lol!

You are a Class Act!

You are right

Shifting that weight is not as dramatic as it sounds, but would have been in such awful conditions. At 14 years old I regularly loaded/moved 8 tons of straw bales in a day, and at 62 I can still easily load 1/2 ton of coal from my van to the bunker in 25 minutes. I am quite large but remain far from exceptional amongst the people I have known!

The casting is pretty impressive, but at the end of the day you're still just heating up a bunch of metal and making it into one big lump. I'm really impressed by the machining of it, cutting such massive parts to the precision needed for efficient and reliable operation. Even today that would be difficult, and we have the advantage of advanced materials for cutting tools, digital readouts for machine tool positioning, electric or hydraulic servo drives, and eventually CNC control. As a machinist, I find it fascinating that something so large and powerful could be machined, at a time when high-speed steel was still mostly a laboratory project rather than a commercial product.

​@@thedubwhisperer2157We don't use bale thrower wagons, just stack it behind the baler on flat wagon. About 150 bales a load, assume each is 40 lbs gives 6000 lbs or 3 tons a load. Takes about 45 minutes minutes per load so you're moving 4 tons an hour. Keep that up for several hours a day. So Tennessee Ernie Ford's "you load 16 tons, another day older" is entirely realistic. Except shoveling deep in a coal mine is a far worse job than farming.

Yeh 3 tons of coal isn't much at all really although the conditions would've made it much harder Conditions had much improved for the boiler men by 1912 Personally when I was a labourer I would easily mix 15-20 tons of sharp or ballast into screed or concrete in a day It was a busy day and had to work quickly so we didn't over run but I wouldn't say it was particularly daunting

🤷‍♂️ There is a full length video on it.

Not just the genius of the designers but also the skill of the craftsmen. Imagine fabricating the patterns for the molds, the skill of the foundry men in pouring the molten steel into them at the right temperature and speed to ensure it flows into very part of mold without leaving any weakening voids. The experince of the machinists in machining the faces of the castings to fine tolerances and then the other tradesman in marking, and drilling hundreds of hole so everything would assemble together. In any one of those steps one mistake would have cost thousands of pounds and put back delivery of the parts, possibly. by weeks

And it SUNK.

Thanks so much :)

Well, there are lots of books on the subject of ship propulsion.

If the condenser temperature is low enough and the steam system is closed to the environment, you can expand steam below ambient pressure.

​@@NaNlinear Mike actually addressed this in the other video. It's 9 PSI Absolute, as referenced by Harland & Wolfe records and writings.

That was an old principle in 1912. It was developed by James Watt around 1800.

Running in the North Atlantic would've helped in this regard, as pulling such frigid water through the condensers would have increased vacuum on the steam side. It's a bit funny that taking in colder water and deliberately dumping heat (the main product of a coal fire) into the ocean actually improved system efficiency, but the engines work on a pressure difference, rather than temperature. To illustrate this, consider that at sea-level atmospheric pressure, water changes to steam, and vice-versa, at 212°F. At higher altitudes, like in the Swiss Alps, water can boil at only 195°F. Titanic's boilers were producing 215 PSI steam at around 400°F. By the time it left the reciprocating triple-expansion engines, the steam was down to 188°F - but because the pressure was so low, it was still steam! After leaving the turbine, it was colder than a cup of tea at around 100°F... but STILL a gas! It wasn't until the condensers dropped the steam to 60°F that it finally returned to water. It was good engineering but not a new concept at the time. The Industrial Revolution started about a century and a half prior, but these concepts go back to the late 1600s and early 1700s: A lot of work is credited to Denis Papin, who, also known for essentially inventing the autoclave, pressure cooker, described a piston steam engine working on these principles in 1690.

Fascinating

1/10th scale - only 60 tons a day & free water-skiing! (I know, a slight scaling malfunction : )

You're not wrong, the central prop is turning the wrong way.

Thank you - I was going to ask this same question, but thought I should search first, and I found your comment! This is truly awesome video!

That’s not even remotely interesting

Oh, it absolutely is interesting!

@@EnjoySackLunch Then why did you bother commenting?

@@MarinCipollina to share my opinion, which is contrary. I am sorry this has rattled you.

@@EnjoySackLunch Not at all rattled.. Just pointing out your irrationality.. I do this for fun 🙂

They used their brain??

So true

Have you seen the shit modern ships have on board? Yes ship building then, and engineering in general was brilliant, but the advances in technology since then is astounding. They weren’t smarter, they just worked harder and used their brain and muscle power more because of the lack of computers, and they did more with less than we have now, but they didn’t know any different.

How did Lightoller manage all that? I'll tell you, adrenaline and command responsibility. Both can keep you going longer than you might think. Trust me, I know from personal experience. (But not like Lightollers!) Lightoller stayed alive, functioning, and providing leadership because somebody had to and that somebody was HIM. Sometimes that's all there is to it.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 It is amazing. He reportedly boarded Carpathia around 8:30 in the morning, meaning he was wet for 6 hours. Others were wet, too, and lived, but some died in the lifeboats. He was part of the "small boats" that crossed the Channel to rescue the B.E.F. at Dunkirk. Quite a guy. I sent this idea in over a year ago, and our friend Mike Brady replied that he was interested. Now, just crickets. Oh well, LOL

@@msz5543 Mike might still be interested (Although obviously I can't speak for him!) but I'd guess the problem for him would be finding the source materials and photographs and putting it together in an interesting manner. Can't be easy. One thing I should have mentioned about Lightoller (but forgot to) was as soon as it was "Abandon ship! Every man for himself!" Lights could have done just that, looked out for himself and himself alone, but he didn't. Even drenched in freezing cold water and narrowly escaping with his life he still took command and brought order out of the chaos of the overturned collapsable boat. Quite a man.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Mike puts out fantastic material. I watch and rewatch it all the time.

You'd sink in the water from escaping air as ship sinking,not sucked under.

Reciprocating engines were already outmoded on every metric by the end of _Olynpic's_ career (that was part of the reason she was scrapped rather than being given another overhaul). By that time, turbine drive systems had become more powerful *and* more fuel efficient, and all with fewer potential points of failure. Hull 400's engines would have been disassembled and melted down to be recycled.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_of_the_Titanic Summarized: 3 of 8 lead firemen survived. 45 of 163 stokers survived. 20 of 73 trimmers survived. 4 of 33 engine greasers survived. Other engineering crew, of which none survived: 25 engineering mechanics 2 boilermakers 8 electricians.