The Incredible Career of RMS Lusitania 

Thank you so much for all of your astoundingly kind comments! A lot of you seem to enjoy the music in particular so please enjoy this playlist of the soundtrack :) ru-vid.com/group/PLxVUnfwCfa4ZRHyFOSP8KNetSjtD3SVNE

The quality of these productions is just breathtaking. Better than anything I have seen on TV. Just amazing.

"Britain not only rules the waves, but waives the rules," is solid gold.

Our friend, Mike Brady, is such a legend!

This is more than a RU-vid video. It rivals large scale productions by major media companies. I am simply amazed.

That animation of Lusitania sailing in the storm at night is awesome.

These videos are truly so much better than any documentary you would find on Netflix or TV. Mike and the Oceanliner Designs team deserve so much credit for this amazing work.

This can compete with any broadcast production. You, and your team, should be immensely proud.

I didn’t realize how much I love ocean liners until I stumbled across the Titanic videos. Then I realized I really wanted to see Lusitania covered because I once wrote a screenplay about it out of boredom during world history class after becoming fascinated by it because I was already into war history (especially the First World War). This has awoken a passion that has been dormant for 20 years. I really think the Lusitania deserves more love and recognition.

Hey! It’s our friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs!

Came because I’m interested in Titanic, stayed because I have now developed an interest in all oceanliners. Thank you, our friend Mike Brady 🫡

I get so stumped at the sheer quality of your videos these days. They look and sound so incredibly marvellous. Just as these beautiful ships deserve to be remembered.

I’ve just checked into a hotel for the night. Looking for something to watch before I sleep and up pops this beauty. Thank you, our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs.

The man the myth the legend, but most importantly, our freind Mike Brady is back with another banger.

Mike... what an awesome job on this! Was nice to see something on this beautiful girl about her history, not just one day of it. I'm booked for my 3rd trans-Atlantic next March, and I remember my first, thinking what it must have been like back then, to see England slipping away and nothing but ocean ahead for a week. Granted, the QM2 is a totally different beast, but the feeling was there. Sailing into NY harbor at 4am, seeing the Statue of Liberty lit up... it was emotional, to think of the millions of people who did this trip, not for vacation, but for a new life... these classic ladies deserve the honor you've been giving them, not just because of tragedy, but because of the new world they helped create.

Lusitania has always been one of my favorite liners. I love to see her getting so much attention again. Everyone at Oceanliner Designs has done such an amazing and fantastic job of bringing this beautiful ocean liner back to life. ❤😊

God I love this channel SO MUCH!!! 😩🥲

I love oceanliner history and historical ships. 1915 was when my people, the Armenians were going through a genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire (Germany's ally) and April 24 marked the first day of the organized crime. Just a month before Lusitania sinking and the killings would continue until 1918, roughly. My great-grandfather, who was a survivor, had traveled on the Oceania in 1910 to visit America for the first time, then returned back to Armenia (Aintab). He became a hero, fighting alongside the French, against the Turks. This is a very dark period for me, obviously and watching this, I can't help to think of everything our homeland was going through. We lost 75% of our population and 90% of our lands.

Thank you for telling the story of how she lived, rather than focusing on her tragic death. The graphic of the torpedo hit and the single scene of flooding was more than sufficient and allowed this wonderful presentation to maintain its largely uplifting feel.

How does our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs keep consistently pumping out videos of such quality? What a legend

My son and I have a tradition of watching your videos while we work on our Lego projects! He calls you 'the nice ship man' - which is a giant leap forward from the grainy VHS tapes I watched at his age. Thanks for making this content so engaging and accessible. Keep up the great work!

this ship is close to home my grandmother was born in 1895 and when she worked in the hotels she was called on to wash the bodies from the Lusitania, she told my father once about it and never spoke of it again her name was Rebecca Longwill

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This is such a beautiful and engrossing production ❤

The opulence of the Lusitania's interior is truly something to behold. What a special ship she must have been to sail on.

No other author has gone into such detail as Mr Brady just did with this video. Absolutely brilliant writing and CG. Thank you for sharing your amazing talents with us.

Thank you so much to Mike and the dream team . I have been so looking forward to seeing this masterpiece , bringing the Lusitania back to life .

My grandfather emigrated on this ship. We have his trunk with the shipping label still on it.

BLOWN AWAY by not only the actual stock footage and photos but the VIDEO quality you produced to make it look like it's currently in the ocean glistening in the sunlight / moonlight. All the narrative details just a big BRAVO to you for bringing the past so nicely into present! 🤩 or taking us viewers into the past.

Thank you very much for making this tribute to this magnificent ship. When I was 8 years old, one day while reading an article about the Titanic, they mentioned it and when I researched it and saw its beautiful design, I fell in love with it. For some reason I like its design, history and interiors more than those of the Titanic. I am currently 23 years old and I am still fascinated with it, with each passing year I learn something new about its magnificent history and legacy. It is a shame that it does not have the recognition it deserves, thanks to people like you with these projects that give such a magnificent ship the honor and recognition it deserves. Although she will never be as famous as the Titanic, one thing I am sure of is that she will always be my favorite ship in the world. Excellent work!

Our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs delivered a formidable piece of work!

My friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs, you put out the BEST content., production, and most informative on everything associated with ships, exceeding anything on TV or any other media. I'm 53 and have learned so much in the past 3 year's then the previous 50. Thank you for all that you do in expanding the knowledge for 100's of thousands people.

Looking at the interior pics it’s just so hard to imagine such a beautiful place being destroyed, seeing all those spaces being filled with water

Mike. Your work is a gift and a highlight every week! Well done sir and thank you!

Another epic video. Very proud of another Melburnian having one of the best maritime channels on RU-vid!

An hour long video from our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs? Fantastic!

My husband came across your channel a couple of weeks ago when he was looking up the Titanic. He showed it to me and now I can't stop watching your videos; they are so engaging and the production quality is just excellent . Never knew I'd be interested in learning about oceanliners so thank you so much for sharing your passion with us.

The gorgeous greyhound has returned with our friend Mike Brady

I have to say this production is probably one of the best I’ve seen of a maritime documentary the likes of which I haven’t seen since peak Discovery Channel

This documentary might be the best event of this May. Such a beautiful and colorful graphics, great narrative and deep knowledge of the events. Thank you for this masterpiece. Can't wait for the second part!

Just breathtaking, the level of professionalism is a total credit to you Mr Brady. And was great to see Max Miller from Tasting History giving you a shout out recommending your work here. These productions deserve to be seen on mainstream TV.

Absolutely incredible work! The renderings of Lusitania do her beauty such perfect justice! Here’s one of Lusitania and Mauretania’s quirkier innovations I’ve always found interesting: they were the first liners to offer Second Class passengers the same dining schedule as Saloon, meaning a casual mid-morning breakfast, a light midday meal (‘luncheon’), and a large multi-course ‘dinner’ later in the evening, as was only customary in affluent households. Up until after the war most other liners, including the other Cunarders, offered Second and Third Class a dining schedule familiar to a working class household: a small breakfast served early in the morning, a large late morning ‘dinner’, a light ‘tea’ in the early evening and a late evening ‘supper’. This is mentioned in a number of brochures as a means to appeal to fashionable urban middle class travellers who couldn’t quite afford first class on other ships but expected a higher standard of service than second class usually afforded. You could kind of think of Second on the L and the M as being the original Business Class.

These videos are so interesting and yet so peaceful and straight-forward. I might be the only one…but I listen to these on repeat while I play video games and it’s such a comfort, especially when I’m up late or not feeling well

Idk why, but “speed queens into vicious hunters,” scratched my brain just right. Something about this episode is just *chef’s kiss, truly. Loved the addition of the German language whispers - I felt the urgency there. So good.

Huge props to whoever did the music for the part where Lusitania takes her first voyage. Absolutely breathtaking.

This is the best oceanliner channel on RU-vid! The best graphics, storytelling, and narrating! Well done to you and your team, Mike!

Hands furiously wringing in anticipation of part 2

There is a media presenter and documentary narrator in my language who is legendary for his dark, soothing and listenable voice that keeps your attention no matter what he talks about. Everyone my age in my country will immedeatly recognise his voice... I think Mike Brady is a serious contender to his Throne - and he Talks about my favorite topic 😃

I've been waiting for something like this for eternity

I've been OBSESSED with ships since I was 5 and when I heard about Lusitania (when I was 7) I jumped up and immediately sprinted to watch videos, read books and search Google. I didn't find many videos and many books but then I found your channel which I am heavily grateful for because I can trust you to give solid research and true statements and due to your channel I have found so many more ships to research thanks to you, thank you P.S.Whenever I click on your videos I get so happy to hear that iconic " hi it's me Mike Brady from ocean liner designs" which I usually enjoy with a nice cup of tea

The quality of these videos is getting pretty damn serious. I have watched 'proper' TV documentaries with less research, worse visuals and less professional 3D graphics. Top quality job here Mike, and if someone isn't looking to employ you to do this professionally, they damn well should. The whole team here deserve high praise.

That was a terrific account of Lucy's early life, Mike, thank you! I especially liked the telling of her encounter with the rogue wave. That must have been terrifying for everyone on the bridge. She looks positively wicked in dark gray (40:25).

Mike is an absolute legend and a treasure

This was such a good episode absolutely stunning and deserves to be on tv.thanks mike and the researchers

Hey! It's our special friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs! Haha, the best time from my week, Greetings from Brazil my friend! 🇧🇷

Normally watch your videos from the Central Coast of NSW but am on holidays and watching from Gdansk in Poland @Oceanliner Designs

The fact that she survived a head on with a rogue wave with what amounted to minor damage is near unbelievable! Those waves are enough that modern vessels still don't always come of as lightly

How can anyone NOT give this video a 'like'? Congratulations to all concerned. Outstanding. Absolutely outstanding. What would we all do without a friend like Mike Brady??

These videos just get better and better.. dare one say - unbeatable?

My favourite liner. ❤ Ever since it was love at first sight, courtesy of Dr. Ballard's exploration in 1993, when my age was still in single figures, the 'Lucy' has been the top liner for me. Graceful, elegant and fast, I always considered her the loveliest of all the early 20th century liners. I was on the Old Head of Kinsale on May 7th, 2015, for the centenary. Even got talking to Capt. Turner's grandson, himself elderly. I laid flowers on the graves of victims in the graveyard of Kinsale church. I was in Cobh (formerly Queenstown) for the evening commemoration where dozens of boats, all covered in lights, slowly processed into the harbour, representing the returning flotilla that raced out to do what they could.😢 The flotilla was watched over by Cunard's representative, the liner Queen Victoria, the only one of the fleet still with an 'ia' ending to the name, marking the occasion by an overnight visit on her latest cruise. In 2019 I proposed to my then-girlfriend beside the Lusitania's propeller in Liverpool, having just had a meal at the top of the former HQ of White Star Line, across the road from the Cunard Building. She was delusional or stupid enough to say "yes." 😂 And in 2022, having delayed our marriage due to Covid, we finally had our honeymoon...aboard the Cunard liner Queen Victoria, who I had seen in Cobh those years before. To say that the Lusitania has been a rather integral part of my life in some odd ways is putting it mildly! 😂 Thank you, Mike, for a lovely look back at nearly a decade of a successful career before a tragic ending. The lovely Lucy deserves to be remembered for what she was before May 7th, 1915, as much as she is for that terrible afternoon. 😊

Mike...I've wanted for so long to tell you how much I enjoy your videos and their quality. I don't know how you and your team are able to put together such high-quality content. Your narration makes the videos come alive and makes an old landlubber like me feel like I'm on the ship. Let me compliment you once again and thank you for all of the dedication, research and hard work you put into each one of these videos.

Bravo to you, our friend Mike Brady and crew! Absolutely magnificent!!

Merci beaucoup from France !

Was waiting for this. Makes work days go by much smoother.

Mike this was truly breathtaking in its totality. You create the very best historically accurate yet fully dignified to the souls lost cinematography in my humble opinion. Thank you for being our friend Mike Brady and may you always be. A truly wonderful human being.

Thrilling! The best of your digital work thus far! And thanks for reintroducing the beauty of Lusitania: sleek, graceful, truly the "greyhound" of the Atlantic!

I have listened to a bunch of episodes and this one i believe is my favorite. I wish i could have been alive during this time to ride one of these beauties.

Yay! Lusi gets her own documentary by Mike Brady himself!

Our friend Mike Brady back with another masterpiece

Thank you for covering the career of Lusitania, she has been one of my favorite Oceanliners since I was 5.

Dammit, Mike, theres no popcorn in the cupboard- could you just hold on while i nip down to the store?

These productions should be on television....they are that good!

Many thanks for this...an acquaintance from many years ago revealed his grandparents were on Lusitania on her fatal voyage and, luckily survived. Fascinating stories and great production values by Mike Brady..always a joy to watch!!

This is Top Notch Documentary !!

Michael this is an amazing video, thank you for writing and producing it. Animation is stunning. Sometimes we (I) forget the amount of hard work you all put in to bringing the best videos for the liner community and I may make stupid critiques frivolously -- ignore them, but they come from a place of ❤❤❤❤❤❤

This is a story about a legendary ocean liner wich always will be in my heart

Holy heckers! Mike! You and the team have done the most amazing job on this doco! Blown away. Lost for words. The music, the animation, the actual film and pics, the WORDS/script. Gosh! Thank you so much.

The sickening thud as that torpedo hit the Lusitania filled me with terror as if I myself was onboard about to fight for survival! You outdo yourself with every new video Mike love it!

This documentary is absolutely stunning! Kudos to you Mike!

It’s such a small detail but I absolutely love Lusitania’s navigation lights, they look decorative and functional.

I have visited the Lusitania’s propellor on display at Liverpool docks and it always gives me such a stir of emotions. Another beautiful video

This is a Great channel. This and Shipwreck Sunday are favorites.👍

Another amazing video Mike, the animation just looks beautiful. I can't wait for part 2.

Night shots from Lusitania's maiden voyage departure are a chef's kiss 🤌

Yes! Any day Oceanliner Designs uploads is a good day.

Happy to have Mike Brady’s last name as my first, it’s an honour.

Hey, thats my friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs! Thanks for another great video! I can't wait to watch it!

Nooo... I thought this is an old video and Part 2 is already available. I can't wait to watch it. Awesome production!

Mr.Brady! What you and your team do is top-notch. Like audibles with visuals. So well spoken with enthusiasm that just can't be faked. You love what you do, and it shows in everything you do. Thank you friend!

Hello my friend, Mike Brady. Thank you for such a first class video. I felt like I was on the Lusitania. It’s almost like time travel. I’m amazed and impressed once again.

It's content like this that makes our friend Mike Brady a cut above the rest. Absolutely stunning stuff.

My gods, six minutes in and it is already haunting and alive all at same time. Shivers me timber! Splendid work y'all!!

Amazing production...simply amazing

Titanic will always be my number 1 favourite oceanliner, but if I had to pick a 2nd favourite who comes close to Titanic, it's Lusitania. She had a beauty unique to her. Thanks for a great documentary, Mike. 👍

It's our homeboy, Mike Brady. Some of the greatest videos ever. Thank God for you man

@HISTORY get this man a contract please and thank you. Stunning work, sir. Absolutely stunning!

One of the best channels on RU-vid

Maury may have held that record for 20 years, but Lucy certainly made her work for it. It took the Maury two full years to wrench that record away from her sister, something I find greatly amusing.

It is unfortunate that I can only like a video once... Well done, informative and kept me tuned in from start to finish.

I have to say, I love when folks like yourself put out long form videos like this. I feel like I am watching The History Channel, Discovery Channel, or The Learning Channel back when they were still good sources of knowledge. Not "reality" TV and dribble as they are today. And I thank all of you for these efforts. With technology where it is today, you also have much better visuals than those channels as well!