Ships are often measured by how much water they displace. It's funny how when it comes to launches, people sometimes forget about that word "displace." 😁
That's what I was thinking... The 44,000 tons is the water it will displace and they were surprised by the water going over the bank from the Queen Mary?
Since the mini tidal waves got brought up, fun fact: The Japanese battleship Musashi, Yamato's sister ship, actually caused a mini tsunami during her launch which flooded the streets of Nagasaki
Edmund Fitzgerald had itself an... eventful launch too, involving a delayed launch for stubborn keel blocks, soaking spectators with a wave, and hitting the opposing pier
So enjoy your polished and dignified (without being stuffy) delivery! I also like how you manage to end almost every video on an upbeat note! Also like how your background accentuates the quiet dignity of your presentations!
My dad was in the Navy....Thank you for your service, and I admit, the Navy is my fave, with the SeaBees at the top (Dad was a SeaBee). Bless you & best to you! ❤
I've just spent the last several days binge watching all of your videos. Until last year, this is probably something I never would have thought to do as I'm afraid of the ocean as well as boats. But last year I experienced my first cruise ship (11 day cruise up the east coast from Baltimore to Quebec City), and now, for some reason, I'm obsessed with ships. I've enjoyed every one of your videos and am looking forward to more. Since last year, I've visited several ships in San Diego, Long Beach, Baltimore, Boston, and I even had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Amerigo Vespucci when she was in town. Amazing ship. I just wanted to tell you how interesting and informative your videos are (as you already know) and I'm learning so much. Thank you.
This channel , along with Part-Time Explorer , are two of the nicest history channels on YT . The quality of presentation puts many television documentaries to shame . Thanks for your hard work , Mike .
@@beneddiected Oh my gosh, thank you for telling me. There are such good people in this world who will leave no stone unturned to learn what happened to these poor souls and to search out where their final resting places are. That was very emotional to watch. The lone daisy growing beside the mother & daughter's gravesite was so touching & beautiful. 🌹🌼🌹
Yeah, her keel is still buried in a beach somewhere. Gotta say... I'm impressed that the ship not only survived a boiler explosion, but... just... kept going without it. Enh, I guess when you have several boiler you might not need all of them?
Technically the Vasa sunk on her maiden voyage, not at launch. She at least made it past the fitting out stage even if she didn’t quite make it out of the harbor.
"More guns!" insists the boss. Naval engineers: "But the physics says that'll make it top-heavy and prone to turn over!" Between the bosses and the engineers, guess who got their way. #DunningKrugerEffect
@@MinnesotaGuy822 Vasa got heavy and it's lowest gun ports become submerged and allowed water to get in and flood the ship. And thus the ship sunk to the bottom of the bay.
I agree! I loved the Sunday buffet(pre covid-19) and wondering around the ship after the tour. The feel of the paneling on the walls of the “hotel” staterooms is amazing. I also love the tributes to Sir. Winston S. Churchill and his bar. Yes, everyone should visit. I ALSO HAVE TO THANK THE QUEEN MARY for bringing my Dad home from Europe at the end of WWII.
My launch story doesn't have anything going wrong but it may still be of note. My Scottish grandfather (he was, of course, an engineer) worked at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard during World War 2. He took my mother to a launching of one of the corvettes built there in 1944. I worked as a technical writer at Williamstown Naval Dockyards in the 1990s, although the dockyards were then AMECON. In February 1992 HMAS Melbourne (FFG05) was commissioned at Port Melbourne, while Nuship Newcastle (she wasn't yet a naval ship, later FFG06) was launched at Williamstown. I put together the Order of Service for the launch and took all of my family along, which meant that 4 generations of my family attended launches there.
Mike, thank you (and I mean this genuinely) for making your thumbnails representative of the actual content and not adding bright, ugly looking text all over the screen. I understand the appeal of doing such a thing, so, I commend you. That is what I appreciate most about content creators, when they are genuine and engaging. Needless to say, do keep it up! Thank you, our friend Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs. (Edit: it’s really cool that you make videos about obscure things you would never find in documentaries, i.e. “Why did Titanic have 2 bells”, and so on. I think that’s epic.) ❤ from Ohio!
Mr Brady's channel has such high class from how well he does what he does and also from how he does not do all the gaudy and annoying things so many other channels are doing. Mr Brady knows what he's doing.
Recently, the good folks over at the Battleship New Jersey channel did a drydock set of videos, one of which was from the remains of the actual slipway NJ was launched from in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. According to them, NJ was launched and went clear across the Delaware river (Crossing the state border) to touch the other bank, and the State of New Jersey, before being brought back under control. She just wanted to touch home.
A fun note is that the navy thought she was so heavy, she may not slide on the slipway at all. As such, 100,000 lbs of lard were slathered on the slipway to help it slide...far too well, as it flew clean past the tugs on standby to catch her to eventually slam into the opposite bank. To be fair, that is one way to bring a ship to a stop.
Visited the Queen Mary at Long Beach. Couldn't stay on her as she was fully booked. But I did have dinner at their first class restaurant. Quite a pleasure.
@@RandomStuffUploaded245 sending positive energy and much strength your way! Hope things resolve well for you. I don’t normally recommend one channel on another, but having been in your situation, I’ll break that rule here - with appropriate apologies to our friend! If you enjoy learning about submarines as well there is a channel called Sub Brief that goes into great detail about the different classes of Soviet submarines in the past. Aaron has a great deal of personal knowledge having served as a sonar man in the US Navy himself, as well as many sources in the community who provide him with info on the Soviet era subs. The content can be gripping (these subs were not well built and I really honor the men who were brave enough to serve on them), and I managed to get lost for hours at a time in his streams. I suggest giving it a shot if you’ve ever been even vaguely interested in how submarines work and life aboard them. You have to go into his past streams, many way back to find them - Victor class, Echo class, Kilo, any like that. He’s covered them all long ago so you don’t have to wait for new videos, can watch them any time you like!!!!
My father worked at Electric Boat in Groton Ct for years. He took me to see the USS Columbia launch. According to him , it was the last one that was going to slide down into the water. It’s motto was “Last to Slide First in Pride.” It’s amazing to be near something like that as it moves by you into the water.
Of course I enjoyed this episode along with all your other presentations. You speak eloquently. The graphics and videos are perfect. Your efforts here are commendable. Looking forward to your next one. 👍
At 3:58 you have a black and white "photograph" depicting the Thames in 1898 which includes The London Eye which opened in 1999! You didn't think you could slip that past us did you? Come on man - there must be hundreds of real photos of the Thames from that period! PS I enjoyed the video - very interesting!
I think he uses modern photographs because he's diligent about licensing. Old photographs should be public use just like old movies and news reels...but you never know.
I went to a haunted ship night on the Queen Mary in the late 90's in soCal. I was too young to truly appreciate the history but what an impressive vessel!
Awesome video man! Two that I can think that went wrong were the Titanic’s launch, which resulted in one fatality, and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which again, created a massive wave, resulting in a man having a heart attack and died. 17 years later she would plummet to the bottom of Lake Superior, taking 29 men with her.
The stress of the Great Eastern probably contributed to Brunel's death, although he saw the ship in the water, he didn't live long enough to see it sail. As many probably know, only one piece of the Great Eastern survives, the Top Mast, which to this day is outside Anfield, the home ground of Liverpool Football Club
At Burrell's Wharf on Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs, the building site of GE can be seen, what's left of it. The nearby housing complex covers Scott-Russel's yard (a plaque can be seen).
I am suprised HMS Formidable wasnt listed since she was known as "The Ship that Launched Herself" as her support cradle collapsed and she rush down the slipway. And yes, there was a fatality and 20 injured.
I was at work when this video popped up in my notifications. I giddily exclaimed "oh, a new Oceanliner Designs video! But I'll have to watch it later 😞" in front of my client.
I got to attend the launching of a tugboat back when I was in high school lol. My father was attorney for a company that owned half of the tugs in the Port of Houston and he told me about all the pretty girls in sundresses who would be there so that’s why I went, a couple years later I spent a summer working on that tug.
Good vid, thank you. Another fascinating launch that went wrong was HMS Ramilies at Beardmores yard on the Clyde. Too heavy she grounded in the mud & damaged her rudder & skeg. Was towed to Liverpool & dry docked to get sorted, after fitting out. The tugs had a right ol game getting her there. Formidable was a rough one, folk were killed & injured & trapped under timber baulks when she went off on her own accord. Vid on YT of that one.
The sound design choice of sticks rattling together right after you say “and a man was killed by falling timbers” during the SS great eastern segment fuckin sent me bro, lmfao
Queen Mary actually ran aground on a bend in the Clyde on her journey down after completion, on a falling tide. Only the Captain's fast actions with tugs prevented the disaster of a broken back.
I visited the Queen Mary at her position in Long Beach California. It was a fun tour, and I could imagine sailing across the Atlantic on the great ship.
Mike Brady, after watching a few of your videos I subscribed to your channel and continue to enjoy your productions . . Very well prepared and your presentation is excellent! It was from your videos that I learned why the famous tug of the Titanic had its named scratched out in the film footage! Thanks for answering a question I wondered about for a long time.. Well done mate!
Sometimes a ship is stubborn about taking to sea to the first time, but some are eager about it. This passage from Ian W. Toll's book "Six Frigates" details the launching of the original frigate USS United States in Philadelphia: "A few minutes after one o'clock, at the very height of the tide, Humphreys [the shipbuilder] ordered the restraining blocks removed from under the keel. Almost at once, prematurely, the 1,500 ton mas of oak, iron and copper shifted and began to move towards the river. Spectators let out a cheer and the militia fired an abortive salute. At that instant Humphreys grasped that there was nothing he or any mortal being could do to arrest the launch - the frigate wanted to go, and she WAS in fact going... The men on deck, understanding that the launch was underway, sprinted with their axes to cut away the lashings. About thirty workmen were stationed under the keel blocks- they lay down and hugged the ground as the great shape of the hull rumbled over them. None were injured. The frigate plunged into the river, pushing a wave of water out into the stream, and the spectator boats must have heaved and strained at their moorings. Humphreys announced that he was delighted with the launch. After going aboard and taking measurements, he found, to his "unspeakable satisfaction", no more than 1 1/4 inch hogging- far less than the two feet common for ships of that size. His report did not mention - and indeed, the spectators apparently did not notice - that the frigate had indeed struck the riverbed on launching, severely damaging her keel and rudder braces."
I was at the launch of the Qe2 at Clydebank in Sept. 1967. My father worked on the ships construction as a joiner and some of my pipework was installed in her from J&T Laurie pipe fabrication shop next to John Brown shipyard. I also went round her before her trials in 1968. Gavin Coyle
Gavin, that must have been good! My Dad used to take us down to Inchinnan to see progress on the build of the "Q4" from across the river. He himself had done the same as a kid, to watch the building of the "534". I remember in Primary school, the launch was played live on the radio over the school's tannoy system, so that we could all hear it and learn what its name would be! I can't see kids nowadays being excited about a ship launch on the radio!
As a 16 year old I remember the launch, and the wave created, of Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1968 from John Brown’s in Clydebank. The ship dwarfed everything, the river Clyde itself too narrow without using the river Cart estuary diagonally opposite, just as the Queen Mary did 34 years before. Sadly only the Titan crane remains to mark the site of the famous shipyard.
Hello! You forgot to mention that R.M.S. Queen Mary hit the opposite bank of the Clyde and stuck. There was a real risk of her back breaking, as the tide was falling. Fortunately she was straightened out in time and all was well. Peter of Portree.
Fun and fascinating video Mike, good job. I love these mini-documentaries, focusing on a very specific element of nautical history. No one does them better than @OceanlineDesigns. 👏👏👏👏👏
Just ran across this channel....fascinating! I'm a marine biologist who spent some time (not nearly enough!) at sea, & ships fascinate me. I even love watching those short vids that show the big ships sliding sideways off the slip for launch, & they're just a teeny bit of this! Subbed --I'll be back! Addition: I would reeeeally love to know how in the world they forgot to add the ballast on the Principessa, or if there's a hydro-physical (to coin a term) reason for them launching it in a way that sorta guaranteed it'd turn over. Wonder if they picked some random, powerless scapegoat to blame...that'd be the modern way.
Thirty years of my life were spent in the Los Angeles, USA area, most of it in Long Beach, a neighboring city. The Queen Mary is there and it made me feel so good to hear about and see her.
i Love The Way You Can Make Even Very Sad Story's of Loss of Life And Such, Sound Fun And Interesting, Yet Your Voice Is So Calming And Your Always Calm And Cool i Love Your Videos, There Like Sam's (Brick Immorter's) Videos, But Somehow Much More Soothing To watch And Listen To Hope You Have a Nice Week Mike
Concerning the last ship, I'm sure I read somewhere that a Journalist that was supposed to report the launch, decided to miss it and sent in the report saying how well it went, not realising what actually happened.
Another winner Mike. There is a urban legend of a ship the Japanese ordered from a British shipyard just before WWII. The Japanese cancelled the order once they had the plans. Attempted to build the ship themselves. But the Brits tweaked the plans just enough so the ship capsized at launch. Any truth to this?🤔
Thanks for the video! I see a noticeable improvement in quality and i greatly like it! Also i think i would like to add that there is a superstition about ship's overall luck when her launch goes wrong or bottle of champaigne does not shatter on impact.
After about 15-20 seconds of your dialog, I realized real quick that this vid was gonna go dark. Real dark…real quick. 😳😎👍 Stuff. Happens! Thanks Mike! Great stuff as normal! ❤
Thank you for the great story-telling. But you're going down the path of inserting too many and often irrelevant clips and sound effects into the video. Please don't! They are distracting and irritating (e.g. shot of a calculator to illustrate the words "complex calculations"). Also it's often unclear whether you are showing an image of the ship you are talking about, or a different ship. Your presentation skills don't need such gimmicks!
Just found you. Just subbed. You make the subject matter thoroughly enjoyable by your knowledge and delivery and charisma. And I especially like your period attire, subtle but distinctive, that is so appropriate to the topics of discussion.
found your channel today. Brilliantly interesting & entertaining. my father in law was a marine architect whom took a job at Whangeri in the mid 1990s. I’m guessing NZ is your accent ! 😁👍from nr Bournemouth
Ships are often measured by how much water they displace. It's funny how when it comes to launches, people sometimes forget about that word "displace." 😁
LOL!💦🛳💦
That's what I was thinking... The 44,000 tons is the water it will displace and they were surprised by the water going over the bank from the Queen Mary?
Like being in the splash zone when Shamu jumps.
@@ethanedwards7557 Lol!
Don't be frontin on displace dog!
Since the mini tidal waves got brought up, fun fact: The Japanese battleship Musashi, Yamato's sister ship, actually caused a mini tsunami during her launch which flooded the streets of Nagasaki
Technically, that's not a tsunami as a tsunami involves underwater plates shifting.
Technically that's not a "tsunami" and not a "mini tidal wave". Just a wave of water
Im comfortable with the word tsunami , Dont be farkin pedantic lol
@@PersephoneDaSilva Tsunamis are not strictly due to tectonic plate action, some can be caused by landslides like in Lituya Bay
@@bigpumpkin22 We're not. We're being factual. Stop crying.
My cat shoved himself between me and the screen to touch noses with Mike on the screen. He too is excited to see our friend Mike Brady.
😂hi cat!
awww
I see your cat is also a man of culture
@@OceanlinerDesigns You look more like Bobby Brady!
Kitty❤
Edmund Fitzgerald had itself an... eventful launch too, involving a delayed launch for stubborn keel blocks, soaking spectators with a wave, and hitting the opposing pier
if u find the launch exciting wait untill u find out about the end of the story
A man also had a Heart attack and died during the launch
@@julianmuller6541 The end of the story was, indeed, very dramatic. I've made 2 diorama's of said ending
It was as if the Fitz was built with bad luck
*someone died from edmund fitzgerald syndrome*
So enjoy your polished and dignified (without being stuffy) delivery! I also like how you manage to end almost every video on an upbeat note! Also like how your background accentuates the quiet dignity of your presentations!
Seems I am not the only person here with a crush 😍
It's that curved collar I tell thee..
Thank for that Debra. You’re spot on about our friend Mike Brady.
thanks mum
he has a very youthful yet refined voice
It’s always a good day when our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs uploads a new video.
You say this every single time he uploads a video, like we heard you the first 15 times
@@OriginalCoalRollers well, at least he's consistent!
This guy got such good energy about him. And is always dressed like a gentleman.
@@OriginalCoalRollerswell he says this every single time as well and its great
@@JacobSzukalski Mike Brady is first class all the way.
I've worked in a shipyard. We'd always get quiet when you'd be moving these things. We all knew there was potential for things to go badly.😮
Do your tie up proporly please it ruins the look ?? Good video though.
Gravity vs. Big Things. Gravity wins...
@@stevec898 Learn to spell "Properly" Imbecile
Laws of gross tonnage apply always. That is my rule to live by. Captain Earl R.Dixon ll.
And perhaps blamed?
Retired Navy mechanic here and a lifelong history buff. LOVE your presentations young man! Thank you for your hard work here.
My dad was in the Navy....Thank you for your service, and I admit, the Navy is my fave, with the SeaBees at the top (Dad was a SeaBee). Bless you & best to you! ❤
I've just spent the last several days binge watching all of your videos. Until last year, this is probably something I never would have thought to do as I'm afraid of the ocean as well as boats. But last year I experienced my first cruise ship (11 day cruise up the east coast from Baltimore to Quebec City), and now, for some reason, I'm obsessed with ships. I've enjoyed every one of your videos and am looking forward to more. Since last year, I've visited several ships in San Diego, Long Beach, Baltimore, Boston, and I even had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Amerigo Vespucci when she was in town. Amazing ship. I just wanted to tell you how interesting and informative your videos are (as you already know) and I'm learning so much. Thank you.
This channel , along with Part-Time Explorer , are two of the nicest history channels on YT . The quality of presentation puts many television documentaries to shame . Thanks for your hard work , Mike .
Spot on! Well, I haven't see the other one but I really like Oceanliner Designs. Thank you for the recommendation.
@@isabellind1292Part-time Explorer did a spectacular documentary on SS Atlantic
@@beneddiected Oh my gosh, thank you for telling me. There are such good people in this world who will leave no stone unturned to learn what happened to these poor souls and to search out where their final resting places are. That was very emotional to watch. The lone daisy growing beside the mother & daughter's gravesite was so touching & beautiful. 🌹🌼🌹
Nicely presented well spoken and very interesting 👍
i wholeheartedly agree
Mike, so good to hear a REAL, non AI voice. Your diction and presentation are excellent (majored in speech 50K years ago...)
this right here, I'm not huge into maritime lore but mike's such a pleasure to listen to I'm showing up for it anyways.
💯 facts!
50k years ago?
@@johnrichardson7629 Yes. I'm also known as Father Time.
@@tomperkins5657 Ha!
To be fair : when it comes to the Great Eastern, her launch was just a warm up of things to come with her...
Yeah, her keel is still buried in a beach somewhere. Gotta say... I'm impressed that the ship not only survived a boiler explosion, but... just... kept going without it. Enh, I guess when you have several boiler you might not need all of them?
I was expecting you to mention the Vasa, that launch is quite (in)famous
Technically the Vasa sunk on her maiden voyage, not at launch. She at least made it past the fitting out stage even if she didn’t quite make it out of the harbor.
I went to see the Vasa as a child,and still vividly remember it ❤
"More guns!" insists the boss. Naval engineers: "But the physics says that'll make it top-heavy and prone to turn over!"
Between the bosses and the engineers, guess who got their way. #DunningKrugerEffect
@@MinnesotaGuy822 The ones who don't know what they're talking about.
@@MinnesotaGuy822 Vasa got heavy and it's lowest gun ports become submerged and allowed water to get in and flood the ship. And thus the ship sunk to the bottom of the bay.
Mary of Teck is not allowed to launch anymore ships.
Not unless it's a Ghost Ship. 🙄
Ghost ship has a mishap and reincarnates the ghostly spectators caught up in the accident.
Created her own kind of Teck-nical issues.
_"Thank you and try the veal!"_
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I was honestly hoping to see the launch of Hms Formidable aka the ship that launched herself.
Me too
how did she launch herself? I must know!
@@zombiedoggie2732 one of the wooden support blocks broke and she slid right into the ocean. The clip of it is on RUclips.
@@darkusblader ruclips.net/video/rAx6OCzzoPU/видео.html&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9
The bottle was smashed and she wasn’t damaged.
I hope you're able to keep doing this channel for a long time man. As a dude who beforehand didn't know much about ships, I always enjoy your content!
I feel so lucky to live only 30 minutes away from the Queen Mary, we have taken the tour many times --- well worth the time and money.........
I was 2 when she made her last trip to her home. We were out on the bluffs of Costa Mesa. She was a few miles offshore.
I agree! I loved the Sunday buffet(pre covid-19) and wondering around the ship after the tour. The feel of the paneling on the walls of the “hotel” staterooms is amazing. I also love the tributes to Sir. Winston S. Churchill and his bar. Yes, everyone should visit. I ALSO HAVE TO THANK THE QUEEN MARY for bringing my Dad home from Europe at the end of WWII.
@@nanabutner She, the Queen Mary, also took my uncle to and from Europe.
I live around a 15 minute walk away from the former John Browns Shipyard in Clydebank
@@bankyboy So much history, so little time.......
My launch story doesn't have anything going wrong but it may still be of note. My Scottish grandfather (he was, of course, an engineer) worked at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard during World War 2. He took my mother to a launching of one of the corvettes built there in 1944.
I worked as a technical writer at Williamstown Naval Dockyards in the 1990s, although the dockyards were then AMECON. In February 1992 HMAS Melbourne (FFG05) was commissioned at Port Melbourne, while Nuship Newcastle (she wasn't yet a naval ship, later FFG06) was launched at Williamstown. I put together the Order of Service for the launch and took all of my family along, which meant that 4 generations of my family attended launches there.
Boring AF
Mike, thank you (and I mean this genuinely) for making your thumbnails representative of the actual content and not adding bright, ugly looking text all over the screen. I understand the appeal of doing such a thing, so, I commend you.
That is what I appreciate most about content creators, when they are genuine and engaging. Needless to say, do keep it up!
Thank you, our friend Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs.
(Edit: it’s really cool that you make videos about obscure things you would never find in documentaries, i.e. “Why did Titanic have 2 bells”, and so on. I think that’s epic.)
❤ from Ohio!
Mr Brady's channel has such high class from how well he does what he does and also from how he does not do all the gaudy and annoying things so many other channels are doing. Mr Brady knows what he's doing.
@@onemoremisfit Indeed! This man must be protected at all costs.
Recently, the good folks over at the Battleship New Jersey channel did a drydock set of videos, one of which was from the remains of the actual slipway NJ was launched from in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. According to them, NJ was launched and went clear across the Delaware river (Crossing the state border) to touch the other bank, and the State of New Jersey, before being brought back under control. She just wanted to touch home.
A fun note is that the navy thought she was so heavy, she may not slide on the slipway at all. As such, 100,000 lbs of lard were slathered on the slipway to help it slide...far too well, as it flew clean past the tugs on standby to catch her to eventually slam into the opposite bank. To be fair, that is one way to bring a ship to a stop.
Visited the Queen Mary at Long Beach. Couldn't stay on her as she was fully booked. But I did have dinner at their first class restaurant. Quite a pleasure.
Ive been sick for some time now, Always cheer up when you upload. I love to learn more about ships.
@@RandomStuffUploaded245 sending positive energy and much strength your way! Hope things resolve well for you.
I don’t normally recommend one channel on another, but having been in your situation, I’ll break that rule here - with appropriate apologies to our friend! If you enjoy learning about submarines as well there is a channel called Sub Brief that goes into great detail about the different classes of Soviet submarines in the past. Aaron has a great deal of personal knowledge having served as a sonar man in the US Navy himself, as well as many sources in the community who provide him with info on the Soviet era subs. The content can be gripping (these subs were not well built and I really honor the men who were brave enough to serve on them), and I managed to get lost for hours at a time in his streams. I suggest giving it a shot if you’ve ever been even vaguely interested in how submarines work and life aboard them.
You have to go into his past streams, many way back to find them - Victor class, Echo class, Kilo, any like that. He’s covered them all long ago so you don’t have to wait for new videos, can watch them any time you like!!!!
Thanks Mike! Excellent video as always!
My father worked at Electric Boat in Groton Ct for years. He took me to see the USS Columbia launch. According to him , it was the last one that was going to slide down into the water. It’s motto was “Last to Slide First in Pride.” It’s amazing to be near something like that as it moves by you into the water.
Excellent video. Well worth the time and outstanding storytelling, Mike.
Of course I enjoyed this episode along with all your other presentations. You speak eloquently. The graphics and videos are perfect. Your efforts here are commendable. Looking forward to your next one. 👍
Happy to see you all here, today! Stay safe and happy, crew! ❤
You Sir got the best informative youtube channal in the whole internet. Greatings from a Norwegian faithful follower😊
Love the old tab collar, welcome back to the edge of time. Billy Joel ❤
Another great video from Oceanliner Designs. Thank you!
I can't imagine spending years to build a ship, only to find on launching day the damn thing tips on its side and takes water 😭
I was sort of expecting the Vasa to be mentioned, but then, she did make it some distance (about 1,400 yards) between launch and sinking.
It's our friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!
Nothing better to calm down from a very awful day at work to see a nice new video about ships!
@DrMoriarty-sees-all But he says he's our friend!
Always a great day when I see a new video from our friend Mike Brady
At 3:58 you have a black and white "photograph" depicting the Thames in 1898 which includes The London Eye which opened in 1999! You didn't think you could slip that past us did you? Come on man - there must be hundreds of real photos of the Thames from that period!
PS I enjoyed the video - very interesting!
I think he uses modern photographs because he's diligent about licensing. Old photographs should be public use just like old movies and news reels...but you never know.
The perils of AI image generating. Meh, only 1 of the 4 numbers off by 1. Good enough.
How about the SS Daphne at 10.14 is also the SS Principessa Jolanda at 12:44.
I went to a haunted ship night on the Queen Mary in the late 90's in soCal. I was too young to truly appreciate the history but what an impressive vessel!
I always like paying a visit to my friend Mike Brady.
Awesome video man! Two that I can think that went wrong were the Titanic’s launch, which resulted in one fatality, and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which again, created a massive wave, resulting in a man having a heart attack and died. 17 years later she would plummet to the bottom of Lake Superior, taking 29 men with her.
Good video.
Based on these stories, I feel like ship launches are one of those things best observed from a long way off, or via TV. :)
Oceanliner Designs & a coffee, always an educational and entertaining way to start the day.
same here
Say NO to drugs
I love that no matter the era you're discussing, the haberdashery comes from the Edwardian era. Say... circa 1912?
The stress of the Great Eastern probably contributed to Brunel's death, although he saw the ship in the water, he didn't live long enough to see it sail. As many probably know, only one piece of the Great Eastern survives, the Top Mast, which to this day is outside Anfield, the home ground of Liverpool Football Club
At Burrell's Wharf on Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs, the building site of GE can be seen, what's left of it. The nearby housing complex covers Scott-Russel's yard (a plaque can be seen).
Stand back from the launching ships...got it 😂
I am suprised HMS Formidable wasnt listed since she was known as "The Ship that Launched Herself" as her support cradle collapsed and she rush down the slipway. And yes, there was a fatality and 20 injured.
I guess she was just very impatient
I was at work when this video popped up in my notifications. I giddily exclaimed "oh, a new Oceanliner Designs video! But I'll have to watch it later 😞" in front of my client.
I got to attend the launching of a tugboat back when I was in high school lol. My father was attorney for a company that owned half of the tugs in the Port of Houston and he told me about all the pretty girls in sundresses who would be there so that’s why I went, a couple years later I spent a summer working on that tug.
Good vid, thank you.
Another fascinating launch that went wrong was HMS Ramilies at Beardmores yard on the Clyde. Too heavy she grounded in the mud & damaged her rudder & skeg. Was towed to Liverpool & dry docked to get sorted, after fitting out. The tugs had a right ol game getting her there.
Formidable was a rough one, folk were killed & injured & trapped under timber baulks when she went off on her own accord.
Vid on YT of that one.
The sound design choice of sticks rattling together right after you say “and a man was killed by falling timbers” during the SS great eastern segment fuckin sent me bro, lmfao
Awesome video Mike
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Queen Mary actually ran aground on a bend in the Clyde on her journey down after completion, on a falling tide. Only the Captain's fast actions with tugs prevented the disaster of a broken back.
Well done Mike, over 1/2 million subscribers! I am so pleased to see channels like these thrive.
I visited the Queen Mary at her position in Long Beach California. It was a fun tour, and I could imagine sailing across the Atlantic on the great ship.
Appreciate every single time you post anything. Thank You Sir.
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Uh oh…. Our friend, Mike Brady, from OceanLiner Designs is back in my walls again…
Awww, where's the "Hey, its our friend 2006 Honda Civic from Ocean Liner Designs" comment gone?
That was the best I've seen on any of these videos
Mike Brady, after watching a few of your videos I subscribed to your channel and continue to enjoy your productions . . Very well prepared and your presentation is excellent! It was from your videos that I learned why the famous tug of the Titanic had its named scratched out in the film footage! Thanks for answering a question I wondered about for a long time.. Well done mate!
Sometimes a ship is stubborn about taking to sea to the first time, but some are eager about it. This passage from Ian W. Toll's book "Six Frigates" details the launching of the original frigate USS United States in Philadelphia:
"A few minutes after one o'clock, at the very height of the tide, Humphreys [the shipbuilder] ordered the restraining blocks removed from under the keel. Almost at once, prematurely, the 1,500 ton mas of oak, iron and copper shifted and began to move towards the river. Spectators let out a cheer and the militia fired an abortive salute. At that instant Humphreys grasped that there was nothing he or any mortal being could do to arrest the launch - the frigate wanted to go, and she WAS in fact going... The men on deck, understanding that the launch was underway, sprinted with their axes to cut away the lashings. About thirty workmen were stationed under the keel blocks- they lay down and hugged the ground as the great shape of the hull rumbled over them. None were injured. The frigate plunged into the river, pushing a wave of water out into the stream, and the spectator boats must have heaved and strained at their moorings.
Humphreys announced that he was delighted with the launch. After going aboard and taking measurements, he found, to his "unspeakable satisfaction", no more than 1 1/4 inch hogging- far less than the two feet common for ships of that size. His report did not mention - and indeed, the spectators apparently did not notice - that the frigate had indeed struck the riverbed on launching, severely damaging her keel and rudder braces."
I was at the launch of the Qe2 at Clydebank in Sept. 1967. My father worked on the ships construction as a joiner and some of my pipework was installed in her from J&T Laurie pipe fabrication shop next to John Brown shipyard. I also went round her before her trials in 1968. Gavin Coyle
Gavin, that must have been good! My Dad used to take us down to Inchinnan to see progress on the build of the "Q4" from across the river. He himself had done the same as a kid, to watch the building of the "534". I remember in Primary school, the launch was played live on the radio over the school's tannoy system, so that we could all hear it and learn what its name would be! I can't see kids nowadays being excited about a ship launch on the radio!
You know, I'd forgotten about my childhood hyperfixation on ships until siacovering your channel. Thanks for reigniting my obsession~
As a 16 year old I remember the launch, and the wave created, of Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1968 from John Brown’s in Clydebank. The ship dwarfed everything, the river Clyde itself too narrow without using the river Cart estuary diagonally opposite, just as the Queen Mary did 34 years before. Sadly only the Titan crane remains to mark the site of the famous shipyard.
Love this!! More in depth on this please! More!!
Hello! You forgot to mention that R.M.S. Queen Mary hit the opposite bank of the Clyde and stuck. There was a real risk of her back breaking, as the tide was falling. Fortunately she was straightened out in time and all was well. Peter of Portree.
I went to the queen Mary in Long Beach as a kid a few times what an amazing ship we take our modern travel for granted for sure
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Taking a three month old infant to a thousands-of-viewers crowd ... ..ship launching ! GAD!
Fun and fascinating video Mike, good job. I love these mini-documentaries, focusing on a very specific element of nautical history. No one does them better than @OceanlineDesigns. 👏👏👏👏👏
Nice video and well presented👍
Fabulous historic footage. Thank you for the video!
I always enjoy Mike Brady.
Just ran across this channel....fascinating! I'm a marine biologist who spent some time (not nearly enough!) at sea, & ships fascinate me. I even love watching those short vids that show the big ships sliding sideways off the slip for launch, & they're just a teeny bit of this! Subbed --I'll be back!
Addition: I would reeeeally love to know how in the world they forgot to add the ballast on the Principessa, or if there's a hydro-physical (to coin a term) reason for them launching it in a way that sorta guaranteed it'd turn over. Wonder if they picked some random, powerless scapegoat to blame...that'd be the modern way.
Hello, Mike Brady, greetings from southern Illinois USA!
Thirty years of my life were spent in the Los Angeles, USA area, most of it in Long Beach, a neighboring city. The Queen Mary is there and it made me feel so good to hear about and see her.
Very interesting and entertaining
i Love The Way You Can Make Even Very Sad Story's of Loss of Life And Such, Sound Fun And Interesting, Yet Your Voice Is So Calming And Your Always Calm And Cool
i Love Your Videos, There Like Sam's (Brick Immorter's) Videos, But Somehow Much More Soothing To watch And Listen To
Hope You Have a Nice Week Mike
Concerning the last ship, I'm sure I read somewhere that a Journalist that was supposed to report the launch, decided to miss it and sent in the report saying how well it went, not realising what actually happened.
The SS Daphne features in at least two museums in Glasgow - Riverside and Fairfield ( just up from Linthouse)
Another winner Mike. There is a urban legend of a ship the Japanese ordered from a British shipyard just before WWII. The Japanese cancelled the order once they had the plans. Attempted to build the ship themselves. But the Brits tweaked the plans just enough so the ship capsized at launch. Any truth to this?🤔
I would have been so disappointed if the Principessa wasn't here. Also yay Great Eastern mention.
What a fun,comprehensive look at ship launches! Well done.
As usual our great friend mike brady gives us amazing video and all for free we don’t deserve this man
Thanks for the video! I see a noticeable improvement in quality and i greatly like it!
Also i think i would like to add that there is a superstition about ship's overall luck when her launch goes wrong or bottle of champaigne does not shatter on impact.
I already knew what #1 was gonna be haha, how could it not?! Great vid, Mike!!
As shipbuilders, Italians make good chefs.
Great Eastern was originally to be called Leviathan, the difficulties of the launching led to a nickname, Leave-Her-High-and-Dry-athan.
Thank you for sharing all your information with us. You make learning fun even for a 73 year old!
After about 15-20 seconds of your dialog, I realized real quick that this vid was gonna go dark.
Real dark…real quick.
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Stuff. Happens!
Thanks Mike!
Great stuff as normal!
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I kinda expected the Vasa to appear in this list. Although not the launch itself was the problem, but the few meters afterswards.
I Always Enjoy Your Videos. Seems Like There Would've Been More Dry Docks Back In The Day. Thank You.
I did enjoy the video, very much! Thank you for teaching me something
You've got a good voice for voice-overs.
Thank you for the great story-telling. But you're going down the path of inserting too many and often irrelevant clips and sound effects into the video. Please don't! They are distracting and irritating (e.g. shot of a calculator to illustrate the words "complex calculations"). Also it's often unclear whether you are showing an image of the ship you are talking about, or a different ship. Your presentation skills don't need such gimmicks!
Agreed. In the lead up to the QM launch there are shots of men standing on Canadian Pacific freight cars to illustrate poor economic times......
Just found you. Just subbed. You make the subject matter thoroughly enjoyable by your knowledge and delivery and charisma. And I especially like your period attire, subtle but distinctive, that is so appropriate to the topics of discussion.
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The movie images that was see under the Queen Mary. Are in fact the images of the launch of The Willem Ruys in 1946 in vlissingen in the netherlands.
Wonderful video, Mike. As usual. You're a champion! Many thanks!
found your channel today. Brilliantly interesting & entertaining. my father in law was a marine architect whom took a job at Whangeri in the mid 1990s. I’m guessing NZ is your accent ! 😁👍from nr Bournemouth
Thank you for another great video Mr. Brady. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
I genuinely enjoy this channel.
love your content, been binge watching everything, keep up the great work! happy that i can learn from you