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Man, three boat people videos in a week? And they are all incredibly high quality? This is excellent! Imperator getting a full video documentary is definitely needed, and now the only Imperator class ship left for you to do is none other than White Star Line’s Majestic.
Just over the last few days we've gotten two Big Old Boats uploads, two Ocean Liner Designs uploads, and a Part-time Explorer upload. We eating good this week.
So sad about Albert Ballin's death. He took an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving behind a note that read, "Better an end with dread, than dread without end." He was fearing that revolutionaries would torture and imprison him. He was also heartbroken to see his dream, his fleet of beautiful liners, being damaged and destroyed (just like Brad said).
I miss ocean liners. Today, cruise ships look like floating hotels and while they seem to be really fun, I think they're aesthetically undesirable. A ship to take passengers on should look like a ship. Not a box that is being floated on top of a foundation. Ocean liners are absolutely gorgeous and i wish they'd go back to this design. This ocean liner is absolutely beautiful.
But with 1 bad omen, The German Giant Ship = The SS Imperator, must be related To Chicago's Smaller Eastland, because both ships Leaned to 1 side or the other side!
The Ballin trio ships are some of my favorite liners of all time. Their size and spacious interiors made them noteworthy and allowed them to have great careers. While researching them for my MC builds I truly understood how magnificent these ships once were and soon became one of my favorite trio of liners.
My great-grandfather immigrated to the US on the Imperator in October 1913. I greatly enjoyed learning more about it. Loved all of the pictures and stories.
Thank you for putting the spotlight on the SS Imperator, whose story remains largely relegated to the backwater of ocean liner lore. She never had much time in the sun, being close on the heels of Titanic, overshadowed quickly by Vaterland, and then again by the First World War. Her stability issues have often been highlighted in the few vignettes that feature her and the footage you kindly shared illustrating this are fascinating. That, and those responsible for her rather unfortunate nom de guerre, "Limperator." Her marvellous interiors and comparison with the Olympic and Lusitania Classes of ships are so informative, as was the wiring issue shared by Bismarck/Majestic and not the SS Leviathan - William Francis Gibbs would never let a vessel go to sea without safety features so extreme that they are rarely even seen on vessel today. Having a First Class dressing stand from one of the Ballin Trio, I can attest to the gorgeous craftsmanship that went into these vessels. For those visiting Hamburg, Germany, the home port of these three stunning vessel, a visit to the Ballin Museum would be a must and is very much on my list. Many thank for yet another brilliantly crafted featurette on a great liner.
Excellent video. I really love the old footage that you find to accompany your stories. I haven't heard the story of this vessel before. It's rather sad. I have to go and watch this again now! Thanks so much.
Touching and beautiful. Great footage, photos, and narration, condensing a great deal of research into clear statements. And you're looking better than ever.
I am so glad I found this channel...I absolutely love the way you narrate this videos...it gives this stories emotion and makes makes me really feel for the history of this old ships
Yes! Another winner from Big Old Boats! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these excellent documentaries. I've loved ocean liners for decades but a lot of the footage here was new to me. --- Something that viewers may find of interest is that the Berengaria was to have remained in service until 1940 then be replaced by the Queen Elizabeth. In 1938 a fire broke out aboard the Berengaria while she was docked in New York. Her certification to carry passengers was revoked and the Berengaria returned to England without passengers, never to serve again as a passenger liner but was scrapped. --- Someone else may know more about this and can add a comment, but I believe Winston Churchill tried to prevent the scrapping of the Berengaria and maybe the Olympic also, knowing that the two liners would be of great value in the event of a war that appeared to be and actually was not far off.
Good lesson in shipbuilding. The three HAPAG sisters met each other at least one time in one harbour, but already under their new names, i/e 'Berengaria', 'Leviathan' and 'Majestic'. The meeting can be seen on a picture by F. O. Braynard. The 'Leviathan' ex 'Vaterland' was great love of the artist; he wrote her whole story in six volumes. ♍
The tendency to heel over and stay there that Imperator showed on her sea trials is probably actually a loll. This is a result of her being very slightly unstable in the upright condition, but becoming stable as she heels over a little and immerses more of her hull. It’s a very bad sign, because ships like that will require much less energy to capsize than a ship that is properly stable. If they hadn’t modified her after her first season, the severe storm in her second season probably would have capsized and sunk her.
I'm not a boat person, particularly, but I'm grateful to whatever algorithm popped you into my feed, as I am always entertained and informed by your videos. Excellent research and writing, and such a pleasant voice.
I appreciate that while they had some safety issues, like the list, they actually did tests of safety features like the water tight compartments. Havent heard of that happening in many old ships.
Ballin sure was ballin' at the height of his career, that's for sure. Disregarding whoever was on the right side of history for a minute, this is why we can't have nice things, because dumb, stupid people provoke and then cause an outbreak of war between basically every major superpower in the world. Imagine if there was no WW1, or WW2, and what it would've been like if this trio of trios, the Three Kings as I like to call them, got to sail as intended under their native flags? Rather than having stunted potential from being sold off to foreign lines who had no clue how to operate them as prizes of war, it is clear to me that they probably would've been the champions of the Atlantic. What a shame, but an epic job well done once again. This is the best retelling of Imperator's story that I have ever seen.
But..but I liked the name Imperator! Excellent video as usual. It’s so sad that Herr Ballin took his own life but maybe, considering what was to come for Germany, it was a blessing in disguise. The eagle on the bow was, imo, gauche but I’ve always thought of the Kaiser as a bit gauche, anyway. I loved that you included a clip from “The Navigator.” Keaton is my all time favorite. I will be looking forward to the next once we’re through Thanksgiving. I hope you have a nice holiday. 😊
You omitted Imperator's excruciating maiden voyage entry into New York Harbor took 18 tugboats and 4 hours to dock her. As one paper put it. "The most difficult tie up in good weather this harbor has ever seen". Not to mention swamping and almost sinking a barge.
Interesting footnote: One of her funnels, her wheel and other assorted fittings adorned a 2000 seat theatre called the Berengaria built in the shape of a ship at the Middleton Tower Holiday Camp in the UK and survived until it was demolished in the 2000s.
From John Maxtone-Graham's essential The Only Way to Cross: "Peacetime service resumed in the twenties was essentially unchanged, apart from a welcome absence of coaldust. British transformation of their ex-Germans was largely cosmetic: a new flag at the masthead, a new name across the stern, new funnel colors and a new berth on the Hudson's eastern shore. In the Berengaria's working spaces, her German origins had disappeared; plates identifying switches and valves had been reversed and inscribed in English. But in the cabins, the bathtub drains were still marked AUF and ZU and ashtrays bore the legend ZIGARREN.. The playroom's little rocking boat was still there but with a new name painted on the side."
I finally found some time to watch this. How sad he felt suicide was his only option. Although it was his decisions that that brought ruin to his dream company. I hope he found peace in eternity.
Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge wrote in his memoirs that the Berengaria was one of those ships he found difficult to love, describing her as "clumsy and difficult to handle, and it was not uncommon to have up to three fires break out daily." He served onboard her as a junior officer early in his career.
Another banger of a watch..... Your intro reminds me of the 1936 movie "Things to Come." Old B&W footage is fine as is CG images of ocean liners, but just imagine what it must have been like to be at the launching of a new liner going down the slipway. Lots of information an great narration.
Watching these videos and seeing how quickly the ships became "outdated" shocks me. It's no wonder that airplanes so quickly took over. Not only are they much faster but they don't fall out of favor nearly as quickly as these massive ships and such provenance isn't given to whatever plane you arrive on.
Well, to be fair the technology of ocean liners was constantly evolving and improving. So it was naturally hard to keep up with when ships took years to build and release, only to he outdated a couple years layer.
@@EarlTheWhiteNinja It's also what saddens me, like the existing passenger ship lines were trying their best to signal the public to slow down. Yet the ocean liner gets swept away.
A random question crossed my mind during this video: when ships burn coal or oil, they spew it out with smokestacks. But how do submarines let out their exhaust if they can't have smokestacks?
As a matter of facts, its wrong to talk about the Imperator with female pronouns. The Imperator was named after Kaiser Wilhelm the second and was refered to as „Der Imperator“ - In fact it was the only male ocean liner to ever exist as far as I know. Thank you for such a nice video!
English customarily treats ships as female, even if the ship is named for a man or its name is an explicitly masculine noun like 'Imperator'. (For some reason Great Lakes freighters are sometimes an exception.) For example, Royal Navy ships have always been referred to as 'she' even if the ship is named for a King of England. But German and Russian customarily treat ships as male. Whether to carry the original language's gendering of ships across in translation or to use the custom of the target language is one of those very fine points of translation that translators get very exercised over precisely because the issue is so small and there are valid reasons to take either course. But generally, that's only an issue when actually translating. When simply speaking in a given language, one generally follows the custom of the language one is speaking in.
Great video, Brad! I’ve got to say I’ve never quite been as big of a fan of this trio of ships as I am of the White Star and Cunard liners, but you told the story well. Now the important question, is that a Stratocaster behind you? If so, which one?
Oh my goodness I cannot freaking tell you how overjoyed I am to see another video from you!!!!! Thank you so so so much for all you do. Your videos are incredibly well made and researched, and I really appreciate it
Very interesting and well-presented! That's quite a poignant photo at the end of the three 'sisters' together in their different company liveries. In my opinion, Majestic was the pick of the bunch aesthetically; Berengaria and (to a lesser degree Leviathan), while certainly grand, have a lugubrious look to them.
A ship that size with such a pronounced list has an achievement of error that needs to be researched all by it's self. Albert Ballin how is that possible. They should of saved that ship for research and a museum for people to explore ship building it was an amazing ship. Truely a history of questions.
Sorry, slight error. The Berengaria was NOT the first Cunarder named after a person. I think that honour goes to Caronia. Named after (from memory) the Cunard line's New York rep's daughter. Happy to be corrected. But I reckon I'm right! Great video. Thanks.
I read somewhere that Kaiser Wilhelm personally requested that a Hamburg-Amerika ship be referred to with male pronouns rather than female ones, but I forgot which ship it was.
20:46 "Ash Ejectors"? Hmmm, I'd never even given that subject a thought, but obviously burning coal = ash. A thoroughly interesting video, well researched, and with video clips that show the actual ship that is the subject instead of random steam ship clips. Well done!
I enjoy all the informative videos...I am terrified of big ships only for the fact I get seasick in the bathtub and I would become a lost soul if anything happened!
I love the idea of ocean liners but I'm afraid of cruise ships. They just look like floating hotels waiting to be hit by a rogue wave. Even though the Poseidon adventure was technically an ocean liner and not a cruise ship, I'd feel much safer on an actual ocean liner. I think the idea of luxurious cruises is really attractive but I feel like you're taking a huge risk. I visit them after they're retired like the qm2 and ss united states 😂
Much safer to visit then when they're already docked. I think they're trying to make the qm2 into a floating hotel that will stay docked. I know Disney purchased it a few years back and renovations have been done. Might be worth a look if you're the type that likes them but doesn't want to actually go out to sea.
Thank you for covering this important chapter of oceanliner history. I think that german ships in general and Albert Ballin and his work in particular are too often glossed over by english-speaking media and RUclips channels.
It‘s a great documentary, thank you so much! But one thing is wrong. The Imperator was the only ship how was a „male“ ship, not a „female“ one. This order was given by Kaiser Wilhelm himself. It was his wish, this ship should be a „man“, just like him. In german, Imperator is an other word for Kaiser. The ship „Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria“ was named by his wife and the „Victoria Luise“ was named by his daughter. Greetings from germany😊
I second the motion! I love ocean liners, but I would have avoided the Imperator. I wonder how many people who might have known a little more about ships and stability than other people or who just gave the matter a little more consideration actually did stay away from the Imperator. I wish I could remember it better or find it elsewhere, but I've read that Albert Ballin said something about the Imperator being a good hotel in a bad ship.
It's sad to think about these old beauties being scrapped because the newer, shinier models came along. I know I, for one, would pay good money to sail on one of those old, floating palaces if it were an option.
Albert Ballin was a hero who, with the help of Kaiser Wilhelm II, saved many thousands of Russian Jew's lives prior to the first world war . The cause of the military naval build up was not some grandiose ego contest - it was instead a reaction to the Boer War and the rapacity of the financial and industrial elites who ran the British Empire . The Kaiser supported the Dutch Boers in the defense of their homeland - the British subsequently threw up a naval blockade which cut off the aid to the Boers. The British Army rounded up 28,000 Boer women and children and 14,000 black farm workers put them in concentration camps where they were starved to death. The Kaiser saw that this could be done to Germany as well and was proven correct by subsequent events.
Wonderful videos, such as this, ram home again how tragic it is that ocean travel is now only on floating apartment blocks (in an unholy marriage with the Oscar ceremony). Thanks very much for reminding us of what was once graceful, special and elegant.
Now that would cause a 'covid outbreak.' I remember seeing politicians at BLM riots then the next morning going back to applauding the arresting families for attending funerals not held over zoom.
Overall, it seems while the passengers enjoyed the ship and her crews did not. Listing, fires, stability it would nice to hear what the men really said about her over a few pints.
Great vid, but wasn't the France the first major liner to have a maiden voyage into NY after Titanic sank? Her maiden voyage was 5 days after the sinking.
Love your work yay you for being brave, i hate doing camera.... well anything. As a historian you taught me something ! What a beautiful ship, shame it wasn't preserved.
Just a minor comment on what is a great video. The place Jarrow is pronounced with a soft G sound as in Juice/Jerry, not a Y as in Johan. Hope it helps for future. Keep up the great work.
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Thank you for watching! What are your thoughts on that eagle?
I like the eagle as a representation of sheer length
Nationalism & Might to go along with Size Matters would have given passengers a sence of security and pride
I have u
Man, three boat people videos in a week? And they are all incredibly high quality? This is excellent! Imperator getting a full video documentary is definitely needed, and now the only Imperator class ship left for you to do is none other than White Star Line’s Majestic.
May I know which channels you speak of so I may see them?
Christmas came early for ship nerds!
Maybe it's....something in the water 😂
Definitely giving thanks for that!
What are the other 2? I'm assuming one is Part time Explorer
Just over the last few days we've gotten two Big Old Boats uploads, two Ocean Liner Designs uploads, and a Part-time Explorer upload.
We eating good this week.
I know. I enjoyed all of them!
We eating good this week
I’m so glad I’m not the only one watching all those channels! 😂
Now we just need Historic Travels to upload a video!
I see we're all on the same RUclips algorithm
Oh man, we are on the same wavelength. I have a video on the Ballin trio coming out this weekend! Good stuff BoB!
It's bound to happen every now and then! I can't wait to watch!
Two of my favorite oceanliner channels in a single comment.
So sad about Albert Ballin's death. He took an overdose of sleeping pills, leaving behind a note that read, "Better an end with dread, than dread without end." He was fearing that revolutionaries would torture and imprison him. He was also heartbroken to see his dream, his fleet of beautiful liners, being damaged and destroyed (just like Brad said).
I miss ocean liners. Today, cruise ships look like floating hotels and while they seem to be really fun, I think they're aesthetically undesirable. A ship to take passengers on should look like a ship. Not a box that is being floated on top of a foundation. Ocean liners are absolutely gorgeous and i wish they'd go back to this design. This ocean liner is absolutely beautiful.
I completely agree with you!
Could not agree more ...I've had great times on the old style liners ..real ships
But with 1 bad omen, The German Giant Ship = The SS Imperator, must be related To Chicago's Smaller Eastland, because both ships Leaned to 1 side or the other side!
..., 😔🥺, you know there will eventually be a 20,000 to 40,000 death shipwreck on one of these.., 😔- Behemoths. , 🥺😔😔😐
@@fredklemaster3687honestly, 🤔.
"So, should we fix that list?"
"We tried. The girl just likes to dance. Let her dance."
Nah, she always looks drunk for some reason.
The Ballin trio ships are some of my favorite liners of all time. Their size and spacious interiors made them noteworthy and allowed them to have great careers. While researching them for my MC builds I truly understood how magnificent these ships once were and soon became one of my favorite trio of liners.
Ocean liner designs and big old boats in one day, wooo!
And part time explorer
My great-grandfather immigrated to the US on the Imperator in October 1913. I greatly enjoyed learning more about it. Loved all of the pictures and stories.
Thank you for putting the spotlight on the SS Imperator, whose story remains largely relegated to the backwater of ocean liner lore. She never had much time in the sun, being close on the heels of Titanic, overshadowed quickly by Vaterland, and then again by the First World War. Her stability issues have often been highlighted in the few vignettes that feature her and the footage you kindly shared illustrating this are fascinating. That, and those responsible for her rather unfortunate nom de guerre, "Limperator." Her marvellous interiors and comparison with the Olympic and Lusitania Classes of ships are so informative, as was the wiring issue shared by Bismarck/Majestic and not the SS Leviathan - William Francis Gibbs would never let a vessel go to sea without safety features so extreme that they are rarely even seen on vessel today. Having a First Class dressing stand from one of the Ballin Trio, I can attest to the gorgeous craftsmanship that went into these vessels. For those visiting Hamburg, Germany, the home port of these three stunning vessel, a visit to the Ballin Museum would be a must and is very much on my list. Many thank for yet another brilliantly crafted featurette on a great liner.
You write such beautiful, eloquent scripts, and you narrate them so warmly. Well done, and thank you.
Excellent video. I really love the old footage that you find to accompany your stories. I haven't heard the story of this vessel before. It's rather sad. I have to go and watch this again now! Thanks so much.
Touching and beautiful. Great footage, photos, and narration, condensing a great deal of research into clear statements. And you're looking better than ever.
I like that you acknowledged that third class and steerage were not synomyms.
I am so glad I found this channel...I absolutely love the way you narrate this videos...it gives this stories emotion and makes makes me really feel for the history of this old ships
Yes! Another winner from Big Old Boats! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these excellent documentaries. I've loved ocean liners for decades but a lot of the footage here was new to me. --- Something that viewers may find of interest is that the Berengaria was to have remained in service until 1940 then be replaced by the Queen Elizabeth. In 1938 a fire broke out aboard the Berengaria while she was docked in New York. Her certification to carry passengers was revoked and the Berengaria returned to England without passengers, never to serve again as a passenger liner but was scrapped. --- Someone else may know more about this and can add a comment, but I believe Winston Churchill tried to prevent the scrapping of the Berengaria and maybe the Olympic also, knowing that the two liners would be of great value in the event of a war that appeared to be and actually was not far off.
Rest In Peace Albert Ballin, history thanks you for your fantastic creations.
I did not know about Mr. Ballin's end. That is so sad. Thank you for the video, it was wonderfully produced!
Good lesson in shipbuilding. The three HAPAG sisters met each other at least one time in one harbour, but already under their new names, i/e 'Berengaria', 'Leviathan' and 'Majestic'. The meeting can be seen on a picture by F. O. Braynard. The 'Leviathan' ex 'Vaterland' was great love of the artist; he wrote her whole story in six volumes. ♍
The tendency to heel over and stay there that Imperator showed on her sea trials is probably actually a loll. This is a result of her being very slightly unstable in the upright condition, but becoming stable as she heels over a little and immerses more of her hull. It’s a very bad sign, because ships like that will require much less energy to capsize than a ship that is properly stable. If they hadn’t modified her after her first season, the severe storm in her second season probably would have capsized and sunk her.
I'm not a boat person, particularly, but I'm grateful to whatever algorithm popped you into my feed, as I am always entertained and informed by your videos. Excellent research and writing, and such a pleasant voice.
I appreciate that while they had some safety issues, like the list, they actually did tests of safety features like the water tight compartments. Havent heard of that happening in many old ships.
Ballin sure was ballin' at the height of his career, that's for sure. Disregarding whoever was on the right side of history for a minute, this is why we can't have nice things, because dumb, stupid people provoke and then cause an outbreak of war between basically every major superpower in the world. Imagine if there was no WW1, or WW2, and what it would've been like if this trio of trios, the Three Kings as I like to call them, got to sail as intended under their native flags? Rather than having stunted potential from being sold off to foreign lines who had no clue how to operate them as prizes of war, it is clear to me that they probably would've been the champions of the Atlantic. What a shame, but an epic job well done once again. This is the best retelling of Imperator's story that I have ever seen.
creators like this are what make RUclips so amazing
The transatlantic shipping era will always amaze me
But..but I liked the name Imperator!
Excellent video as usual. It’s so sad that Herr Ballin took his own life but maybe, considering what was to come for Germany, it was a blessing in disguise. The eagle on the bow was, imo, gauche but I’ve always thought of the Kaiser as a bit gauche, anyway. I loved that you included a clip from “The Navigator.” Keaton is my all time favorite.
I will be looking forward to the next once we’re through Thanksgiving. I hope you have a nice holiday. 😊
You omitted Imperator's excruciating maiden voyage entry into New York Harbor took 18 tugboats and 4 hours to dock her. As one paper put it. "The most difficult tie up in good weather this harbor has ever seen". Not to mention swamping and almost sinking a barge.
Interesting footnote: One of her funnels, her wheel and other assorted fittings adorned a 2000 seat theatre called the Berengaria built in the shape of a ship at the Middleton Tower Holiday Camp in the UK and survived until it was demolished in the 2000s.
Do you know if they were saved?
@@johnking1381 A local journalist asked the same question and came up with nothing, so I'm assuming most or all of it got trashed. 😟
That's a shame. Thankyou
From John Maxtone-Graham's essential The Only Way to Cross:
"Peacetime service resumed in the twenties was essentially unchanged, apart from a welcome absence of coaldust. British transformation of their ex-Germans was largely cosmetic: a new flag at the masthead, a new name across the stern, new funnel colors and a new berth on the Hudson's eastern shore. In the Berengaria's working spaces, her German origins had disappeared; plates identifying switches and valves had been reversed and inscribed in English. But in the cabins, the bathtub drains were still marked AUF and ZU and ashtrays bore the legend ZIGARREN.. The playroom's little rocking boat was still there but with a new name painted on the side."
I finally found some time to watch this. How sad he felt suicide was his only option. Although it was his decisions that that brought ruin to his dream company. I hope he found peace in eternity.
I wasn't aware it was Ballin's decision to start WW1.
Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge wrote in his memoirs that the Berengaria was one of those ships he found difficult to love, describing her as "clumsy and difficult to handle, and it was not uncommon to have up to three fires break out daily." He served onboard her as a junior officer early in his career.
An outstanding piece of work! Thank you for such an excellent presentation. Congratulations
Another banger of a watch..... Your intro reminds me of the 1936 movie "Things to Come." Old B&W footage is fine as is CG images of ocean liners, but just imagine what it must have been like to be at the launching of a new liner going down the slipway. Lots of information an great narration.
Another fascinating story. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into these videos for us.
Watching these videos and seeing how quickly the ships became "outdated" shocks me. It's no wonder that airplanes so quickly took over. Not only are they much faster but they don't fall out of favor nearly as quickly as these massive ships and such provenance isn't given to whatever plane you arrive on.
Well, to be fair the technology of ocean liners was constantly evolving and improving. So it was naturally hard to keep up with when ships took years to build and release, only to he outdated a couple years layer.
Despite the fact that airplanes are double-butt ugly and uncomfortable inside, they do become obsolete rather quickly.
@@EarlTheWhiteNinja It's also what saddens me, like the existing passenger ship lines were trying their best to signal the public to slow down. Yet the ocean liner gets swept away.
Very well done video. No hype, just history. Cheers frm Toronto.
A random question crossed my mind during this video: when ships burn coal or oil, they spew it out with smokestacks. But how do submarines let out their exhaust if they can't have smokestacks?
As a matter of facts, its wrong to talk about the Imperator with female pronouns.
The Imperator was named after Kaiser Wilhelm the second and was refered to as „Der Imperator“ - In fact it was the only male ocean liner to ever exist as far as I know.
Thank you for such a nice video!
I believe her sisters or his brothers I mean were the same as they were named Vaterland and Bismarck
french liners were referred to as He rather than She, mainly because they were not built as sisters in the strict sense of the word.
English customarily treats ships as female, even if the ship is named for a man or its name is an explicitly masculine noun like 'Imperator'. (For some reason Great Lakes freighters are sometimes an exception.) For example, Royal Navy ships have always been referred to as 'she' even if the ship is named for a King of England.
But German and Russian customarily treat ships as male. Whether to carry the original language's gendering of ships across in translation or to use the custom of the target language is one of those very fine points of translation that translators get very exercised over precisely because the issue is so small and there are valid reasons to take either course.
But generally, that's only an issue when actually translating. When simply speaking in a given language, one generally follows the custom of the language one is speaking in.
Thank you so much for doing these videos. I throughly enjoy them!
Amazing! Keep this up, and you will be the h.i. Sutton of, as you say, old boats!
Great video, Brad! I’ve got to say I’ve never quite been as big of a fan of this trio of ships as I am of the White Star and Cunard liners, but you told the story well. Now the important question, is that a Stratocaster behind you? If so, which one?
Wake up everyone, Big Old Boats just dropped a new banger
That hideous eagle. Thank god the oceans were merciful enough to remove that abomination.
Oh my goodness I cannot freaking tell you how overjoyed I am to see another video from you!!!!! Thank you so so so much for all you do. Your videos are incredibly well made and researched, and I really appreciate it
“So they put her on the Berengaria. Locked up in her stateroom like a wild animal.”
so happy to see a video dedicated to Imperator!! always a favorite, mostly because of the bow decoration and the look of the stern!
Very interesting and well-presented! That's quite a poignant photo at the end of the three 'sisters' together in their different company liveries. In my opinion, Majestic was the pick of the bunch aesthetically; Berengaria and (to a lesser degree Leviathan), while certainly grand, have a lugubrious look to them.
A ship that size with such a pronounced list has an achievement of error that needs to be researched all by it's self. Albert Ballin how is that possible. They should of saved that ship for research and a museum for people to explore ship building it was an amazing ship. Truely a history of questions.
After loving your videos for years, it was great to see your face! Handsome devil!!
Now I’m really hooked!!
Sorry, slight error. The Berengaria was NOT the first Cunarder named after a person. I think that honour goes to Caronia. Named after (from memory) the Cunard line's New York rep's daughter. Happy to be corrected. But I reckon I'm right! Great video. Thanks.
I read somewhere that Kaiser Wilhelm personally requested that a Hamburg-Amerika ship be referred to with male pronouns rather than female ones, but I forgot which ship it was.
20:46 "Ash Ejectors"?
Hmmm, I'd never even given that subject a thought, but obviously burning coal = ash.
A thoroughly interesting video, well researched, and with video clips that show the actual ship that is the subject instead of random steam ship clips. Well done!
This is creepy, I just happened to see a book called "the last ships from hamburg" about this guy and his partners.
I enjoy all the informative videos...I am terrified of big ships only for the fact I get seasick in the bathtub and I would become a lost soul if anything happened!
I love the idea of ocean liners but I'm afraid of cruise ships. They just look like floating hotels waiting to be hit by a rogue wave. Even though the Poseidon adventure was technically an ocean liner and not a cruise ship, I'd feel much safer on an actual ocean liner. I think the idea of luxurious cruises is really attractive but I feel like you're taking a huge risk. I visit them after they're retired like the qm2 and ss united states 😂
Much safer to visit then when they're already docked. I think they're trying to make the qm2 into a floating hotel that will stay docked. I know Disney purchased it a few years back and renovations have been done. Might be worth a look if you're the type that likes them but doesn't want to actually go out to sea.
Thank you for covering this important chapter of oceanliner history. I think that german ships in general and Albert Ballin and his work in particular are too often glossed over by english-speaking media and RUclips channels.
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Immediately know it’s gonna be a masterpiece
I like the retro Jazz funk.
Who else was dancing the Charleston in the kitchen?
Amazing, great justice to these highly underated Albin trio. Just so brilliantly made!
Great Video! Great Work!
Did Albert Ballin ever sail in any of his own ships? J. Bruce Ismay sailed on the Titanic.
Hi - great video as always. I live gery close to Jarrow where she was scrapped. Just to let you know that the J is pronounced like the J in July.
Incredible documentary, very well produced thank you
"Корабль "Император" застыл, как стрела. Поручик Голицын, а может, вернёмся?.."
Thanks for all the great docos and your professional research, well done 👏
One of your best yet!
It‘s a great documentary, thank you so much! But one thing is wrong. The Imperator was the only ship how was a „male“ ship, not a „female“ one. This order was given by Kaiser Wilhelm himself. It was his wish, this ship should be a „man“, just like him. In german, Imperator is an other word for Kaiser. The ship „Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria“ was named by his wife and the „Victoria Luise“ was named by his daughter.
Greetings from germany😊
When the ship keeps listing, that's a BIG PROBLEM
I second the motion! I love ocean liners, but I would have avoided the Imperator. I wonder how many people who might have known a little more about ships and stability than other people or who just gave the matter a little more consideration actually did stay away from the Imperator. I wish I could remember it better or find it elsewhere, but I've read that Albert Ballin said something about the Imperator being a good hotel in a bad ship.
It's a bit odd but 2nd class always had the least number of passages on ships back then but I wonder if that is because the middle class was so small?
Man keeps making me cry over majestic(ly flawed) old boats.
The trio that made 3 stackers fashionable
It's sad to think about these old beauties being scrapped because the newer, shinier models came along. I know I, for one, would pay good money to sail on one of those old, floating palaces if it were an option.
Albert Ballin was a hero who, with the help of Kaiser Wilhelm II, saved many thousands of Russian Jew's lives prior to the first world war . The cause of the military naval build up was not some grandiose ego contest - it was instead a reaction to the Boer War and the rapacity of the financial and industrial elites who ran the British Empire . The Kaiser supported the Dutch Boers in the defense of their homeland - the British subsequently threw up a naval blockade which cut off the aid to the Boers. The British Army rounded up 28,000 Boer women and children and 14,000 black farm workers put them in concentration camps where they were starved to death. The Kaiser saw that this could be done to Germany as well and was proven correct by subsequent events.
Wonderful videos, such as this, ram home again how tragic it is that ocean travel is now only on floating apartment blocks (in an unholy marriage with the Oscar ceremony). Thanks very much for reminding us of what was once graceful, special and elegant.
Bravo! Your videos get bette and better.I just love this channel.
@ 19:34 wasn't it the treaty of versailles that forced german to relinquish ships? treaty of Paris was in 1783?
Correct. Every video has one dumb mistake somewhere 😫
dam i feel bad for spotting it now 🤦♂Still a great video, keep it up! @@BigOldBoats
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Does anyone know this song
Back when historical events required crowds of people...
Now that would cause a 'covid outbreak.' I remember seeing politicians at BLM riots then the next morning going back to applauding the arresting families for attending funerals not held over zoom.
Overall, it seems while the passengers enjoyed the ship and her crews did not. Listing, fires, stability it would nice to hear what the men really said about her over a few pints.
I wish you would have spoke more about the Majestic. My Great Grandparents came over from England to America on her.
Love your channel!! Keep up the good work handsome.
My favorite ocean liner of all. thank you 👍
Jarrow is pronounced like Arrow with a J sound, I grew up in Newcastle (home of the Turbinia) and Jarrow is nearby!
So sad that this amazing story fell under the tragedy of Titanic. Rip Ballin.
Amazing video ! Thanks for the information !
Great work, a fascinating ship for sure.
Was the third funnel fake, like Titanic's fourth?
Truly enjoyed this piece of history!
I'm a student of the German Empire and I've never seen the fantastic parade footage at 18:26 and 18:36! Is there any way I could get a source on that?
Great vid, but wasn't the France the first major liner to have a maiden voyage into NY after Titanic sank? Her maiden voyage was 5 days after the sinking.
That's a very good question. And I'd like to know the answer myself.
Love your work yay you for being brave, i hate doing camera.... well anything. As a historian you taught me something ! What a beautiful ship, shame it wasn't preserved.
"Sadly it was never replaced." Really? I think the only person that was sad to see that monstrosity go was the Kaiser 😉
So, what with thinking up the cruises during winter months aboard SS Augusta Victoria, did Ballin basically invent cruise ships?
Albert Ballin - 15 August 1857 - 9 November 1918
61 years old.
i think those "wings" like on the QM might have helped this ship a lot.
crazy how titanic would have only been the largest ship in the world for only a couple months if she didnt sink
Just a minor comment on what is a great video. The place Jarrow is pronounced with a soft G sound as in Juice/Jerry, not a Y as in Johan. Hope it helps for future. Keep up the great work.
It must have been quite the project to rewire these large ships.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Been working at sea for 25 years so far. I can honestly say I love my job.