Titanic’s Twin: The Britannic Disaster | Declassified

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  • Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
  • Sift through the puzzling history of Titanic’s forgotten twin sister, Britannic, a massive ocean liner turned World War I hospital ship. Join hosts Kate Humble and Andy Torbet as they dive deep into the mystery of why Britannic sank into anonymity.
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  • @davinp
    @davinp Месяц назад +19

    Nurse Violet Jessop was on a 3 ships - Olympic, Titanic and Brittanic when disaster struck and she survived them all

    • @ikkelimburg3552
      @ikkelimburg3552 5 дней назад

      Imagine being Violet on the Brittanic. After surviving the Titanic I would immediately after the first suspicious sound be like ‘F this, I’m out’ 😂

  • @Napp28
    @Napp28 Месяц назад +9

    I've often wondered why there aren't more images of the Britannic wreck as she rests in only 400 ft of water; Now I know, Simon Mills owns it and thus it is a Private Shipwreck (and I guess he doesn't like to share much). As a young person I bought many of his ocean liner books so, glad I was able to help him (in a small way) to buy this shipwreck! lol .
    This documentary has sparked my interest over how much of the Britannic's interiors were already set as a passenger ship when she was called to duty. The chair piece (which the owner and hostess constantly hold upside down) is from the chairs in the Ritz A La Carte Restaurant. The piece shown in this video is of the LOWER back bottom of the chair .... and hence, as I said, they're holding it upside down!
    So, if an A La Carte Chair was onboard the ship; was the Restaurant already furbished as it would've been for her ocean liner career? Or did a chair or two somehow just remain on board when her interiors were removed?

  • @davinp
    @davinp Месяц назад +7

    The explosion probably jammed the water tight doors open. They were opened earlier that morning. If all the doors and portholes been closed, Brittanic probably would not have sunk

  • @mikacossey1319
    @mikacossey1319 Месяц назад +12

    olympic was the only one out of the three that was unsinkable and she was built first

    • @johnmacdonald5670
      @johnmacdonald5670 Месяц назад +6

      You mean she’s the only one that didn’t sink. No ship is unsinkable

    • @kennybeck5519
      @kennybeck5519 Месяц назад +5

      She's made of iron sir! I assure you she can!

  • @jparsons233
    @jparsons233 Месяц назад +10

    The beginning why don’t they ever mention Olympic? She deserves some love as well.

    • @darebear2001
      @darebear2001 28 дней назад +2

      I was wondering the same thing. They talk about the drydock being used to build TWO of the biggest ships the world had ever seen... Um... there were three of them. And they were the "Olympic Class" on top of it all.

    • @doctorbohr1585
      @doctorbohr1585 26 дней назад

      Olympic was the best, but least romantic, of the three. She had a longer career, she was the biggest ship in the world for a longer time than her siblings, and she became the only troop ship to sink a uboat.

    • @jparsons233
      @jparsons233 26 дней назад +1

      @@doctorbohr1585 yes true but still deserves recognition

    • @doctorbohr1585
      @doctorbohr1585 26 дней назад

      @@jparsons233 yes, that is what I'm saying. All those achievements, and Olympic doesn't even get a mention.

    • @catface3473
      @catface3473 25 дней назад

      It didn.t sink...what's so noteworthy about that ?....of course i.m being sarcastic..😢

  • @G2theS
    @G2theS Месяц назад +7

    Wait… so a pedestrian owns the Britannic 🤯😧😵‍💫

  • @NewNightmare115
    @NewNightmare115 25 дней назад +1

    0:30 Titanic had a near identical sister, which suffered a near identical fate.
    Olympic, Titanic, Britannic - Three sister ships. Well they did both sink, but one was an iceberg, the latter was a sea mine. The Olympic survived until her scrapping in 1937.

  • @jasondrinovsky7962
    @jasondrinovsky7962 Месяц назад +9

    Why does no one mention Olympic? In my opinion she's the real hero of the 3. She had a long successful career, served in World War 1, and survived. And Violet Jesup worked on all 3 Olympic class liners. I know this video isn't about the Olympic, but it's not about Titanic either.

    • @Gabriel_Rojas_Arena
      @Gabriel_Rojas_Arena Месяц назад +3

      She didn't sank plus the only Fames Olympic had was being rammed by the HMS Hawke and she sunk a U-Boat while they're getting ready to fire, but it malfunctioned.
      Titanic & Britannic have more infamy

    • @shaunkolly7113
      @shaunkolly7113 Месяц назад +1

      And if they didn’t sink they could of gone on to do great things

    • @jasondrinovsky7962
      @jasondrinovsky7962 Месяц назад

      @shaunkolly7113 Like what? Once the Brittanic was done being a hospital ship it was being returned to Belfast to be refitted to be a Transatlantic ocean liner, just like Olympic. Titanic would have probably also served in WW1 just as Olympic and would have also been refitted back to a Transatlantic liner. Olympic was refitted back in Belfast after surviving the war and had a long career. I don't know why people think the other two would have been so great, especially Titanic. They would have had the same career duties as Olympic, had they survived.

    • @jasondrinovsky7962
      @jasondrinovsky7962 Месяц назад +1

      @Gabriel_Rojas_Arena It also plowed over the Nantucket too in 1934. But I really wish Olympic would have had the same destiny as the Queen Mary, a floating museum from a piece of White Star Line history.

    • @Gabriel_Rojas_Arena
      @Gabriel_Rojas_Arena Месяц назад

      @@jasondrinovsky7962 but the Queen Mary gained more infamy of sinking the battleship Curacoa during WW2, both just evading enemy u-boats but poorly timed

  • @davinp
    @davinp Месяц назад +3

    After Titanic sank, construction was halted on Brittanic to make safety changes

  • @J.R.in_WV
    @J.R.in_WV 20 дней назад +1

    The lack of any mention of the Olympic in many of the talking points here is kind of disappointing. She was basically White Star’s last real big success and would turn out to be a grand, reliable ship that lasted over 24 years and succumbed not to disaster at sea but to economic depression and the torches at the scrap yard.

  • @davinp
    @davinp Месяц назад +15

    Titanic had sank in icy freezing waters, but Brittanic sank in warmer water, so no one froze to death

    • @reneedailey1696
      @reneedailey1696 Месяц назад +2

      And the safety measures put in place following Titanic's sinking helped a great deal- Despite sinking in just under an hour, they managed to get everybody off the ship, and most of the fatalities were because crew went against the captain's orders.

    • @lagresomadsl
      @lagresomadsl 20 дней назад +1

      Right. 30 was killed by the propellor

    • @sharynkhan1104
      @sharynkhan1104 13 дней назад

      Cold or warm people died.
      Freezing cold water is a killer, but so is drowning.
      So sad for the engineers who died.

  • @lorrietsaoussis5168
    @lorrietsaoussis5168 Месяц назад +1

    That must be very hard for the one guy who was one of the titanic look outs seeing britainic must be like looking at titanic all over again i have no idea how he even got on it i would of had panic attacks

    • @reneedailey1696
      @reneedailey1696 Месяц назад

      Probably made better when she was refitted as a hospital ship, for sure.

  • @mattt233
    @mattt233 28 дней назад +1

    The blast from the mine warped the bulkheads so the watertight doors couldn't close. Thus why the Britannic sank.

  • @farinshore8900
    @farinshore8900 24 дня назад +1

    What the hell was an iceberg doing in the mediteranian ?

    • @Kasaidy
      @Kasaidy 22 дня назад +2

      Apparently you haven't watched this documentary...

  • @farinshore8900
    @farinshore8900 24 дня назад

    I had never heard that there were two sister ships. This is amazing

  • @anthonylowder6687
    @anthonylowder6687 20 дней назад

    They won’t see the damage from the mine because Britannic lies on her starboard side where the mine struck also the ripped off bow was not a result of the mine but she struck the bottom and twisted while sinking ripping her bow almost completely off.

  • @rosadallago9543
    @rosadallago9543 Месяц назад +1

    How does one buy a ship wreck? And from whom? Also why? So many questions.

  • @joseedgarmaat8497
    @joseedgarmaat8497 14 дней назад

    Titanic and Britannic was same different on their tragic fate but Olympic has longer old fated than 2 sister ships on their longer and shorter service maiden voyage.👍👏😢💔🚢🚢🚢

  • @adrianrobertson1478
    @adrianrobertson1478 24 дня назад

    Lovely narration, fantastic photography, excellent content!

  • @woods42
    @woods42 28 дней назад

    I hope this channel starts getting traction!! Definitely worth some views and subscriber's!

  • @yours2injesus2
    @yours2injesus2 Месяц назад +1

    HOW SAD

  • @johncaldwell-wq1hp
    @johncaldwell-wq1hp 27 дней назад +1

    Perhaps it's good-thing some-one "owns-it"--because the Chinese,would have cut-up & GONE-in an Instant,-& could not care less--about "Heritage"-out here in the Pacific,-nearly all the W.W.2-are dissapearing Fast,-thanks to them .

  • @paulanthony5274
    @paulanthony5274 26 дней назад +1

    Missing the point in this video TITANIC was such a famous tragedy because she sank on her maiden voyage amongst other things. So yes it happened again but also no it didn't.

  • @jimjoe9945
    @jimjoe9945 Месяц назад +1

    1:06 re-engineered to be even more unsinkable!😂. Is this one of thoses oxymoron's?

    • @lagresomadsl
      @lagresomadsl 19 дней назад

      No. They were top of the line naval architects of that era.
      When olympic, Titanic, and Britannic were built they was at the time one of the biggest ships to roam the oceans.
      Up until 1912 no ship has ever gotten into a situation with iceberg collision on such an extent, or a mine.
      When Olympic and Titanic was built, it was just up scaled big8 four class ships, a
      Which was highly successful, but getting small in comparison to Cunards new ships.
      The incorporated measures to Britannics Hull was designed to withstand the damage occurred on Titanic, and in a similar damage Britannic would probably stay afloat with a massive part of the Hull being flooded.
      The watertight bulkheads on Titanic was designed in such a way that 4 compartments filled with water would still leave the buoyancy intact.
      But the damage sustained was much larger then to be contained within 4 compartments.
      So all the calculations White Star did to improve Britannic was factual and even if this idea of bigger ships is better, we need to understand how and what the means of travel was. Queen Mary to day is our time Titanic. A symbol of a naval achievements.
      Up until 1950 ships was a nations symbol and pride.
      Italy had Andrea Doris, France with the latest ss France and SS Normandie.
      UK and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Canada and empress ships,
      To answer your question. They were not oxymorons. They was proud ships architects and builder, giving nations the finest and at the time of building the most sophisticated and highly technological masterpieces.

  • @user-xx8qo9ov5w
    @user-xx8qo9ov5w 28 дней назад

    And the Oscar goes to. This is perfect horrible at the same time Bravo 👏.

  • @user-xx8qo9ov5w
    @user-xx8qo9ov5w 28 дней назад

    Does anyone own the Titanic wreck now?

  • @robertjones-eb4xo
    @robertjones-eb4xo 26 дней назад +1

    Spoilt as always by a Drama Queen Commentator. What ever she was.

  • @bjorklive2379
    @bjorklive2379 Месяц назад

    This documentary is misleading in alot of ways. It's well done,but a bit patronising with lots of missing info.

    • @creech847
      @creech847 23 дня назад

      like the munitions it was carrying in the hold.

    • @bjorklive2379
      @bjorklive2379 23 дня назад

      @@creech847 confusing it with the lusitania

  • @KevinBarrowclough-ct2fm
    @KevinBarrowclough-ct2fm 28 дней назад

    the Olympic should never have been scrapped and used as a dry Dock hotel like they had done to the queen Mary now a dry Dock hotel in San Francisco. the Queen Mary. the Olympic was more luxurious than the titanic.why they scrapped it was may be to cover up titanic and Britain's weaknesses?

  • @mikemurphy8905
    @mikemurphy8905 Месяц назад +2

    First

  • @bar10ml44
    @bar10ml44 29 дней назад

    Wouldn't you think that the life boats should have been lowered immediately and orders given to abandon ship. If this is accurate I'm not impressed with the captains lack of actions.

    • @LilyRose37.
      @LilyRose37. 28 дней назад +1

      No they have to see what damage the ship has taken first

  • @johnlangdon7576
    @johnlangdon7576 Месяц назад +2

    Another insurance job ?

    • @reneedailey1696
      @reneedailey1696 Месяц назад +3

      Not sure how striking an iceberg or hitting a mine is an "insurance job".

    • @TitanicHorseRacingLover
      @TitanicHorseRacingLover 27 дней назад +1

      no

    • @Cyberdyne-kg8ku
      @Cyberdyne-kg8ku 10 дней назад

      Stupid comment. Neither was an insurance job. Do some research instead of quoting endless conspiracy b.s.