agreed, tho those rarely-mentioned bits of history are some of the most interesting, imo. people need to eat, so seeing how, where, and what food was prepared is super neat (and I just fittingly misspelled "super" as "supper")
As a fun dabble, I actually used those plan views you showed, spending a year to create a 'scale' Titanic in Minecraft where 1 block = 1 meter. It became an insane puzzle that miraculously all fit together. Of course it created a ship that could only represent the real thing if the Titanic's walls were coated in box-spring mattresses, but all the rooms (all but the smallest closets) matched up perfectly. One could really get a feel for moving around inside. Watching your illustrations of casings was surprisingly close to walking in my model. So many surprising spaces are not very obvious from just looking at plans, anchor winch, chain locker, escape passages, various cargo hold accesses, funnel case accesses, up and down fireman's spiral stairs, that little galley passage tucked under boiler 1-2 funnel. Even moving around the various passenger spaces, from dining areas, sleeping quarters, via hallways, 1st and 2nd-class elevators to the Turkish baths, pool, racket ball court felt akin to spelunking. I found any Bostwick gates were placed such that they were easily avoided. You really never know a thing unless you build or draw it. To your point of being knit-picked over details, I know the feeling and suspect anyone who visited my site would have a field day for knit. Thx for the effort in making, what one can only imagine, more real.
Actually you can see that the hospital was completely separated and sealed off from the kitchen. To access the hospital you had to come in from the promenade near 2nd class entrance (or the hallway outside the doctor's quarters) on C deck above, so you never even knew you were near the kitchen. I also found it interesting how one must travel a tunnel of a corridor winding down over the engines to get to where the engineers quartered. One thing I could never figure completely is how to access all the storage spaces aft of the P water-tight bulkhead, standing above the stern peak tank. I assume it must be an uncharted hatch in room 135 on D-deck. The spiral staircase over the turbine engine casing actually starts on D-deck in the 1st-2nd class galley, encased through C-deck, through B-deck with access to the restaurant galley, encased through A-deck, and emerges, terminating through a door on the raised deck above the smoke room. It looks like a kitchen servers passage for access to the promenades (very difficult to make in minecraft).
@@sergeydubovyk9268 yeah that would be cool. I have lots of images during my build (all done in survival mode). Don't know how I'd do it though. I'm not really compy savy.
Im working on a similar project in minecraft, I'm 1.5 years in and still working on it. I've finished it up to D deck so far. Its actually on my RU-vid channel, but that's an outdated version of the project since it got corrupted, and i started a new version.
I too have decades of Titanic wonder and appreciation. . I would like to recommend a special edition of "National Geographic" magazines featuring early dive photos and more of the "Titanic". I believe that particular issue was released mid to late 80's. My favorite part was the multi page fold out of RMS Titanic viewed from above. I'm sure it's easy to locate. Cheers!
Potatoes need somewhat controlled conditions to be stored. You don't want light getting onto them. You need to keep a certain level of humidity and you also need to divide up the potatoes into separate piles. There is a kind of rot that can get going in a pile of potatoes that will spoil them all in about a week. When my father was a child, he went to the UK and back with his parents by ship. He mentioned that there were some sort of unmarked doors here and there. They were where the very well dressed crew would appear from and disappear into. It seems that there was a narrow stairway down to the kitchen area and a storage room or two.
Potatoes absolutely need to be stored properly, or they can kill you. Two large green or rotting potatoes can have enough solenine to kill a grown man. And for those with potato cellars and enclosed areas, rotting potatoes can release solenine into the air, creating a poison gas that can kill you very quickly. There's a story within the past decade where a young girl's entire family was killed in this manner, one person went into the cellar and didn't return, and each subsequent member tried to go see what was wrong and also didn't return. The solenine gas in that root cellar became so concentrated without ventilation that it killed them very quickly.
I am again delighted by your enthusiastic review of Titanic. I am a retired architect, but I never worked on anything as complicated as this ship. Just the logistics of scheduling the design and drafting of the plans is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for bringing to light the skill required - at all levels - of liner design
I shouldn't be, but I am absolutely stunned and amazed at the sophistication that went into this ship, and in 1912 no less! I learned this lesson years ago but I keep learning it again over and over: NEVER underestimate the sophistication and the intelligence of the old-timers, they'll fool you every time. It's humbling really.
@@SteamCrane Believe it or not the subject of some kind of electrical device to "sweep" the areas in front of a ship for any obstacles and provide a warning to the bridge crew was brought up after the Titanic disaster but the technology just wasn't there yet. An early form of radar wouldn't come on the scene until the mid-1930s.
I'm sitting here at the place I stay between work shifts in Chicago. It's -21c outside with -32c wind chill. I'm soaking in some American whiskey and watching MOAR Titanic content from Oceanliner Designs, and I could not be more relaxed. Cheers
I just want you to know that I LOVE the fact you talk about lesser known areas of the ship. I've always looked at the deck plans and loved wondering about the engineering skylight, the little round staircase going all the way from the bottom of the ship up to the 4th funnel, the storage area for all of the food, the hospital kitchen etc This definitely scratches that itch to see the hidden in-depth stuff nobody really thinks about, so thank you!
I am an aviation person, but these videos of RMS Titanic have shown me an aspect of ships I was woefully ignorant of. These all are absolutely fascinating....she was a magnificent ship, and obviously the loss of life was THE tragedy, but the loss of the ship herself was in a different way a tragedy as well. Lost before a history could be written. All we can do is speculate, and your videos are a wonderful source of information. I am not as ignorant as before . Well done, well done indeed.
My father was a student on HMS Conway. He loved serving in the merchant navy & was obsessed with all things naval. Mike Brady, I wish he’d lived long enough to watch your channel. He’d have loved it.
This reminds me of the series of well-illustrated books, aimed at a young readership, that I wished we'd had in our (boring) history lessons at school. They showed how castles, for example, really worked and answered the questions that kids will always ask. Not just which monarch followed another, but how did they live, what did they eat and, of course, where did they poop!
The THG guys are absolutely brilliant; I am dumbfounded by their abilities every single time I see how well they brought Titanic back to life. Honestly, their project never gets old to me and I can personally walk around the ship for hours without becoming bored.
The potato room was very interesting and brought back a memory from 1983 when my wife and I sailed on the QE2 to New York when we were returning from 4 years in Germany. The ship had a mechanical problem so we ended up spending an extra day at sea. Now my wife didn't care for the metallic tang of the water at the meals so she would ask for either a lemon to squeeze into her glass. On the either the last night or morning at sea, when she asked for the lemon, the waiter told her she had gotten the last one on board! I can imagine a room full of lemons, limes and other citrus fruit being almost totally empty after the extra day at sea.
Just want to say how much I appreciate these videos. The quality and level of detail while uploading so frequently is honestly incredible. Thanks Mike!
My grandmother was a six year old girl living in the UK at the time of the sinking. She told me stories when I was young about her recollections of the days the news broke, seeing the newspaper boards announcing it and the news sellers with arms full of papers. She recalled how the loss featured in the conversations between her parents and friends for quite some time.
11:17 Although the 4th funnel was not connected to the boilers, it carried smoke from the smoking room fireplace, from the stoves and ovens of the galley on deck D, and the kitchen of the A la Carte restaurant. There are photographs and newsreels of Olympic that show smoke coming from the 4th funnel
Recently found this channel and have been making my way through all your videos, the quality of every video is incredible! And your upload schedule is amazing. Love the vids and thank you for your effort Mike All the best from 🏴
If you go read my comment above one of the most recent, I tried to paint a picture with words so that people might read it and go see for themselves and possibly open the rabbit hole 🕳️ 😮🤙🏻🙌🏻
The potato peeler brings me memories of the school kitchen. The potatoes were washed and dropped into a central rotating peeler section as the skin was removed by sharp side blades. The belt-powered ones were common in the Titanic period as by 1920 they were without belts using dynamo motors from my research in home appliance, and farm tool research.
I've been studying the Titanic over 30 years, and I still can't wrap my mind how they managed to fit so many people and so many functions on such a little space. Same thing with aircraft carriers - it just seems like people would literally live on top of each other.
Great, now I need a Potato room in my house. The padded cell may not be a bad idea either... My grandfather was on a Battleship in the Pacific and used to tell me all kinds of stories about it. When you mentioned the Machine Shop I remember him telling me one time how much it was used. Anytime they were anchored with carriers, they would get flooded for spare parts for the aircraft since the carriers machine shops would have trouble keeping up at times. They also did work for the Marines, making parts for firearms, replacement parts for vehicles, etc... But, as far as I've been able to tell, Alabama didn't have a "Potato Complex". So I guess the UK won this round.
A really interesting video, thank you for making it. A good watch. The potato room, the padded room, and the ash disposal were the things that caught me by surprise.
This is absolutely the most fascinating and informative video I have ever seen on the Titanic, and would probably be in my Top Ten on any subject. Outstanding work. Thanks so much for creating it.
I have learned more from watching your channel over the past year since I have discovered your videos, that I have my whole life about Titanic and other ocean liners. I was in 7th grade in 1997 when the movie came out and we had a good few weeks out of one of the semesters talking and learning about the Titanic, and we went to the museum that was located in Memphis TN on a field trip. I loved learning about it then and have always had a passing interest in Titanic but your videos have sparked and fueled that flame exponentially.
Wow - padded room and double-potato rooms; everything I think I've heard everything about the Titanic, you teach me something more. Love it! As for the Clipper stern; beautiful stern for a ship. I think that was such an elegant looking way to end the ship. Modern ships look rather ugly - especially the ones that just drop right off to a squared off stern.
Thank you! I have used just such a potato peeling machine. It was a vertical drum with something like absurdly coarse sandpaper on the inside. The spuds bounced around inside as water washed them and the abrasive pretty much polished the potatoes clean. No home should be without one!
Wow! I was totally captured by your presentation. I am a multi-discipline Engineer of over 40 years and seeing the plans of the Titanic/Olympic was fascinating. It has been a desire of mine to go on a cruise sometime and talk the Engineer into giving me a "real" tour of the ship. The mechanical's, the real working part of the ship. Alas, 911 has pretty much made that an impossibility these days but seeing the Titanic from the "inside out" was a thrill. Thanks so much for the work you put into your presentation!
I am impressed with the amount of effort and accuracy that has gone into the plans, as wll as your own renderings, Mike Brady. As a dabbler in Titanic lore, I have found a huge amount of new information!
I started with some other tragic ship losses, inevitably I was offered a Titanic video by yourself and of course 11+ Titanic videos later here I am! (again)
The potato room really made me smile, I don't know if its the you say or just thinking about the potato room, now it's my favourite room on the ship. Also, I really like the engine room info on your other videos. Everyone goes on about the state rooms, but I love to hear about the engines This is a great channel
Just love the detail in these videos. There are things here I'd never heard of before about Titanic. It all goes to show how a passion for something yields amazing detail that most overlook.
Good video. The hospital, although adjacent to the kitchens was sealed off and entirely apart, and the infectious wards had separate ventilation extraction from the rest of the ship. Access was only from above so most likely food had to go up, then down again. Curious about the emergency door from the aft steering room. The beveridge plans show the door in the smoking room. The THG plans have it in the common room, where Olympic had hers. For a variety of operational reasons the smoking room makes more day to day sense. Interested in thinking behind why its shown on different sides on two high quality plans.
Another awesome video mate! When we were looking over the hospital area, I thought to myself “if my friend Mike Brady doesn’t talk about the padded room, I’m going to lose it and need to be put into it!” You didn’t disappoint 😂
Incredible detail went into this beautiful ship. I never realized the machine shop even had a lathe in it. What a testament to the attitude of the time of repairing everything, where profit and money wasn't the priority at all times like today.
Mike there's always something new to discovery about the Titanic and other ships for that matter. Another fantastic video once again, a pleasure to watch.
In our region it's common for the village houses to have a special potato room or compartment in the cellar. The floor under the potatos is made out of clay. I think it's helping the potatos to stay fresh longer. And the place is often in the darkest part of the cellar so the potatos don't start to sprout.
Mike that photo of your grandad is absolutely award winning! If I had to think of a caption it'd be something to the effect of 'There are 2 types of Irishmen'. I love seeing your sense of humor peek through in some of these vids, keep it up 👍🏻
Dear Mike, your video is definitely one of the highlights of my day! (: When you told the fact about the potatoe-peeling-machine I remembered a children's book I had many years ago about Titanic, back in the 1990s, in which the experiences of Jack Thayer were described and he actually wrote about this very machine! Very informative. Thank you as always, looking forward to many new videos! Greetings from Austria!
I have the plans for all three sisters. I love looking at the blue colored sheets with the detail in white. As a Titanic rivet counter, I can confirm that THG has done an amazing job with these plans and want to get the trumpeter model that they collabed with to ensure that the details were as correct as possible.
Love all your videos Mike, and this is a superb one!! I'd love to see a video on Titanic's (and indeed, ocean liners in general) fitness and health facilities. I'm a Titanic nut and a bodybuilder, and I'm fascinated by early fitness and health trends and devices. Always had a fascination with Titanic's gymnasium, squash court, swimming pool, Turkish Bath - even the dog walking facilities! Plus the barber shops, hospital, and especially the galleys. Luxury isn't about upholstery and gold trim - luxury comes from all the behind-the-scenes operations like food preparation, facilities, and customer services. Would love to learn more about all these cutting-edge customer services aboard!
love this channel you're passion for your chosen subject matter shines through and is a key factor in making your videos so unique, entertaining and engaging!
Along with millions of others I'm sure, I've always felt that I must have been on Titanic in a previous life (indeed, the padded room seems oddly familiar) because it's an endlessly fascinating story. What a great series, filled with superb research and hosted so well by Mike!
WOW, When I stated watching your video, (which is beautifully presented, as usual, I could listen to your calming voice all evening), there were 1600 likes including mine. After I'd finished watching; with a few going back and re-watching; there were 2400 Likes. Wonderful.
30:10 - regarding the champagne room: "What I would give to have just 10 minutes that room". Mike, you are a man after my own heart! I was literally about to say the same thing!
Hello Michael, there are actually many details that distinguish Titanic and Olympic from each other. Titanic was a ship in which some flaws were corrected, improved and rearranged with the experience gained from Olmypic. It included many innovations, from the simplest pilothouse to the cabin layout on C deck, from the luxury cabins on B deck to the added cafe parisien, and improvements on the lower decks. Titanic had a number of updates, including a better and improved ventilation system and a Marconi room with more powerful Marconi telegraph equipment. If it had not gone down, these changes would probably have been implemented in the same way at Olympic later. But her sinking the Titanic, forced Olympic to change her hull design during her 1913 refit. All these changes completely affected Gigantic, which would later be known as Britannic.
Britannic was never officially known as "Gigantic". That was just a press release pre-launch of Britannic. No H&W or White Star document ever called Britannic Gigantic.
Even the layout of the Turkish Baths was altered. The famous cooling room was adjacent to the hull on Olympic, but moved inwards on Titanic (according to the plans shown). I also remember reading that the 1st Class Reception Room was enlarged by moving one wall by four frames due to its popularity on Olympic. And the relative disuse of the Ladies' Room is why the alcove was removed on Britannic, replaced by cabins below a children's playroom opposite the Gymnasium. The sheer complexity of these Edwardian liners is a reason for building one on dry land as a hotel/museum (as well as the primary reason Titanic: Honor and Glory is doing such spectacular work). The details are amazing, what they thought of and how they solved problems on such a scale, while simultaneously working to make passengers forget they were on a ship with the level of elegance and the deft covering of mechanical components.
I’m always wondering how the steering and windlet engine rooms look like from the inside in the wreck. Everything in the fantail of the stern section seems to be in a relatively good shape, the aft end of the poop deck still being attached. I could imagine that the massive rudder gear and the reciprocating engines are still in place. Also on the bow section, the forecastle appears to be in a very good condition, hence I suppose that the engines and winches below are also in good shape, but you can’t find any diving imagery of these areas.
Love this video. As a Titanic enthusiast for most of my life, I had no idea that Titanic had a padded room. Seeing all the stuff laid out on these plans for the lower stern decks, it gives a person a much grander view of what was lost when the ship broke apart and the stern imploded on the way down.
Titanic is one of the only ships i admire because of what it was and how they accomplished the size and manufacturing of the ship in 1912 still boggles me to this day RIP those who lost their lives on the ship
Call love our friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner designs. Keep us informed and educated and his voice rocks us to sleep at night. Don’t lie you know you love it too.
What a thoroughly fascinating show, Mike. As someone who does 2-D CAD for a living, I have always wanted to see actual drawings and I too was spellbound by the tiny odd rooms tucked away rather than the better-known spaces. This is one set of drawings I always wished I could have produced - the challenge would be formidable. (Other buildings I wuld have liked to have drawn would have been Rivendell or even Hogwarts Castle!!). Yep, great, great show.....thanks.
The music in your background was perfect...great video Mike! Thank you as always for sharing your love and knowledge of these ships...especially Titanic!
This was so cool! Ice cream room, padded room, curvy floor cabin... so many things that wouldn't come to mind off the bat. Something I noticed while reviewing the bridge plan, and I don't recall this being covered before (my apologies if it was)... how exactly did the expansion joints be constructed and work?
As I understand only the superstructure had expansion joints - so that when the hull flexed over the waves it could do it without stressing the superstructure (which would have otherwise been stretched and compressed much more than the hull itself) which was only intended to carry its own weight. So it basically was a mostly rigid, but somewhat flexible hull, and on top of it were built three structurally separate sections of superstructure with some gaps in between - when the hull flexed inward (bow and stern up, middle down) those gaps shrank and when the hull flex outward they stretched. Of course you couldn't have just gaps there - so they were "bridged" with expansion joints - I don't know how they were built on a Titanic, but typically in bridges and other structures those are built out of few layers of steel plates on both sides that can slide in or out between each other, in a way that the gap is always covered. (and on a ship they were probably also connected with some elastic seals so that the weather couldn't penetrate the interior). But yeah, it would be nice to see how they were actually designed in 1912 - and most importantly - kept out of the passengers view.
As fascinating and well crafted as this, or Any of your ship interiors are, I cannot help but wonder what they all were like tossing back and forth on the waves during Actual Travel. It would put the design and architecture into a whole New perspective!
This channel is so good that it has caught my imagination, for someone that not just had little interest in all things nautical (and engineering in general). When watching, for example, WW2 documentaries, the naval battle episodes I found the least interesting and I'd pretty much just scoot past them. So, I'm a total convert thanks to our mutual friend, Mr. M. Brady. Great work, Mr. B(!)
The difficulties of handling coal and the need for large numbers of personnel to handle it was likely the principal reason the Olympic was converted to burn oil in the 1920's.
Thank you for always finding new information on the Titanic to share with us. Amazing that a ship what didn’t even make a complete voyage still holds so many captive for over 100 years. Mike, what was the use of the SILENCE ROOM besides the Marconi room?
Your videos are always interesting and informative. "Saving the Titanic" showed crewmen climbing that ladder in funnel #4. It was during the sinking and unfortunately they didn't show the scene from the crewmen's perspective. Keep up the good work! Oh by the way, God bless you!
I enjoy your enthusiasm and detail. Titanic, obviously (in)famous for her sinking, but you make the seemingly mundane features of the liner extremely interesting. Thank you!!
Awesome...Champagne room...then head to play with the spud peeler and then I get back in my padded cell...or head back to one of those carved floor wall 3rd class state rooms. Its kind of amazing How much needs to be designed on the ship...That someone has had to raise in a meeting or just know we need a place to convert the ash into sludge, Incredible plans that you have brought to life very vividly!
I find all of your videos so informative and entertaining, all at the same time! These have answered questions that I have had about this ship (and her sister ships) for ages. Keep them coming, and keep up the great work!
Thank you Mike for taking the time to tour our plans of Titanic. You give both a fun and enlightening perspective (even though I have wandered the ship with you before, which is always a pleasure) on something I've literally spent hundreds of hours working on to the point of my causing my eyes to bleed! :)
what a fascinating ship. I would love to have been able to spend a day or two wandering around and checking out all the cool stuff in ships like those. You could probably spend weeks exploring and still not see it all.
What an excellent video! And the set's back! Great! You make ME want a potato room! Imagine, if you will, all the construction similar to this that had to go into royal palaces and such structures. We love dedicated spaces!
There was a room for the "Coffee man and assistant Coffee man" and a room for the "Wine bottler", Imagine being the Assistant Poultry man! )) Would love another video looking in depth again at these great plans.
