Yes, it was Violet Jessop, who miraculously survived despite being in one of the lifeboats caught in the propeller. She jumped into the water, but was pulled under and repeatedly hit in the head by a heavy object. (She couldn't tell what it was, but believed it to either be a piece of lifeboat wreckage or even the propeller itself, crediting her survival to the thick bun she had tied her hair into) She then felt a hand grab her and pull her to the surface, but to her horror found that she had been "rescued" by a headless corpse floating on the surface.
It is encouraging to know that Titanic's fate did, in some ways, contribute to saving lives of her sister ship. If people are going to make mistakes, it is best to learn from them. That being said, a lesson to be taken from Britannic: "Don't panic."
@@treefrog1018 To be fair, they disobeyed orders and the captain was close enough to land where he had a reasonable chance of beaching the ship. If the watertight doors hadn't jammed it likely would have stayed afloat but... mines do that.
Fun Fact, the wreck, even though it was only in 400ft of water, was not discovered until 1975. Jacques Cousteau was the discoverer. Jacques Cousteau was also famous for his exploration of the wrecks of Truk Lagoon.
Fun Fact: being 400 feet deep, Britannic is a diving site, also given its depth, its in much, much better condition than Titanic. kinda crazy to think that, if your skilled enough, you can literally dive to an Olympic class liner.
No, you'd need completely different equipment than a normal dive. You'd need to be tethered with oxygen and hot water continously pumped into your suit. Even with Nitrox you could only go 110ft commercially. I'm a dive master. Regular suit, regulators, and tanks would not be sufficient to make such a dive.
When you said that the captain stood on the bridge as the ship went down, I imagined Jack Sparrow stepping off of the Jolly Mon on to that jetty at the beginning of the first Pirates movie 😄
A lot of that is because of where it sank. The area of the ocean it sank in is far different from the area that Titanic sank. It also helps that it's in such relatively shallower water. You can actually dive to the Britanic which is something that's impossible to do with the Titanic.
@@pyrerock well you can't free dive or scuba dive down that deep. You can only dive around 130ft, whereas the ship sank around 400ft. But it is a lot easier to get to for sure.
Hmm.. by " bow tear " do you mean how the front of the bow is cut off from the rest of the wreck? So it's technically correct to say both the Titanic and the Britannic split. Titanic split between the 3rd and 4th funnels Britannic, at the surface, was intact and then at the ocean floor its bow broke off..
Technically speaking, Britannic is probably the world's 4th best-preserved major ocean liner - after Queen Mary, QE2 and United States. Are there any other survivors I'm missing?
Jeeze didn't the Olympic class of liners have a rough time of it....despite all the safety improvements after Titanics sinking Britanic sank ever so quickly Thanks Sam , great content as ever.
The olympic class did have a hard time but the Olympic herself had one hell of a career, she garnered the nick name "Old Reliable" by Canadian troops, in Halifax they have the Olympic garden named after her. she has a Submarine kill to her name, she rammed it with her bow first then her Prop did the rest. she saved sailors of the French ship Provincia. the captian was critized for the move since stopping the ship to take on survivors with enemys in the area was dangerous. a large ships best defense is their speed.
Yeah, Olympic only had a full life but even she had incidents. They found years later that when she was a troopship she was hit by a torpedo that failed to detonate.
I have a video idea, What if you did a video on the first days on the Titanic before it hit the iceberg, like what a normal day on the ship was for different classes?
I always had a more mild interest in shipwrecks. Then about a week or so ago my husband introduced me to these videos and now I've been binging them all week. Love your channel!
Wow....look at those numbers compared to the Titanic's death toll, and in less than half the time it took to sink. White Star does deserve credit for updating safety so much that had this been the same sinking situation as Titanic, almost no lives would have been lost. That's kind of incredible.
Thanks for this video Sam. I’ve been a big Titanic fan since I was 6 years old, and a Britannic fan since I was 7 and a half. Even when I was 7-8 my peers would have no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned Britannic and how it was the sister ship of the Titanic , but would know about the Titanic. Just one thing to mention is that right before Britannic struck the mine there was a crew change in which the watertight doors were to be opened for several minutes to allow engineering staff to easily walk from certain places of the ship to the other. Then Britannic struck the mine with all the watertight doors open, which allowed water to flood into the first 4 compartments. Afterwards the crew shut the watertight doors but as you stated the watertight door between Boiler Room 5 and 6 warped so it didn’t close. If the crew change happened earlier, if the hull didn’t warp, or if those portholes on the lower decks were closed, Britannic likely would have made it to Kea. Things just happened at the absolute worst time for them.
The Titanic is a great example of how important a good story is. The Britannic and Olympic were the same as the Titanic, but Titanic has such a powerful story tied to it that most people never ever hear about it's triplet sisters. Still, it's a HUGE shame that after Britannic and Titanic sank and Olympic survived EVERYTHING, that it was scrapped. It's a tragedy that ship was tossed away like that.
It was the Great Depression and the trans-Atlantic trade was winding down for these "older" ships. The newer ships at that time (in the 1930s) were faster and more elegant/practical. The Olympic was probably worth more to the White Star Line as scrap than she was as an ocean liner, or siting at a dock somewhere. You can find pieces of her all over the world though as a lot of her furniture and fixtures were sold off before she saw the scrappers torch. I believe the cruise ship Celebrity Millenium has a restaurant onboard that is finished with wood panelling from the Olympic.
@@elspoocho4637 the era, the behavior of the people, the heroism of the individuals, the ship's construction, the series of events that led it to it's demise, life and seafaring after Titanic, stuff like that
So with the portholes closed and all engines stopped from the moment the mine hit. it would probably have survived. Poor Britannic, it's such a sad story for what could have been the ultimate ocean liner.
Yes probably. Some claim the captain made mistakes, i doubt that. He made decision to run for the beach wich is the most logic thing to do and stopped when it turned out to be wrong. In my opinion he would have made it if he did not need to stop because of the first launches and stop.
I watched the real time sinking and in my mind, she looked pretty stable, until the engines restarted, when the bow was a bit over water. Probably she would have sunk anyways but she got pretty instable and it could have saved time. Thanks for the video
@@manuelhuber194 captain did what he thought bestin the crisis. He was probably un aware of all the open portholes. Thise caused a massive amount of water rushing in. It was all a matter of unfortunate events.
@@manuelhuber194 it is sad how the old ships rust away but seeing it realistic, maintaining them is a financial nightmare and basicly just a money pit no returns. Sad but true.
IMO I believe not much would change except for the amount of people onboard saved, seeing she had more lifeboats. The sinking would last longer seeing the bulkheads had been moved, because the Titanic didn’t have such a list. Thats my beliefs, I have no proffesional knowledge about the ships.
@@svuntekarlberg In a previous video it was mentioned that having a coal bunker fire actually partially helped keep Titanic afloat for much longer due to the ships crew having moved the coal to the opposite side, therefor keeping the Titanic stable while she sank instead of listing.
It would of stayed afloat and not sunk. Brittanics improvements allowed for 6 compartments flooded Titanic had 5 so the bow would of dipped down a bit but wouldn't of sunk.
My guess would be that the titanic would eventually sink, but it would take here much longer to do so, with the extra lifeboats and gantry davits everyone could have been evacuated and the carpathia may have shown up with time to give aid.
The improvements made to the Britannic's design after the sinking of the Titanic makes me wonder, what would have happened if the ships had traded sinking scenarios. In other words, what would have happened to the Titanic if she had struck a mine, and what would have happened to the Britannic if she had struck an iceberg?
So, scenario: Titanic strikes a mine in a warm, shallow sea... then few people would've died, not 1,500 Britannic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, many many succumb to hypothermia... Then, logically put the Britannic would've received the fame - it would be the other way around, HMHS Britannic is more famous today, Titanic gets no credit, goes crying in the corner... * Meanwhile, RMS Olympic, enjoying a vacation in the Irish coast before the scrapping.
@@danieldoo1821 actually due to Britannic being refitted to survive more compartments flooding, if Britannic hit the iceberg even the exact same way it would've been crippled but the ship would've been able to limp to port. Titanic would've had its B Royally F'd by the mine that Rocked Britannic. Weirdly enough Olympic probably wouldve shrugged off both like "What is there something on my face? Is my hair messed up or something?" This of course uses both Titanic and Britannic, respectively as exactly how they were structurally and mechanically the days they sank.
@@danieldoo1821 the britannic was basically better in every single way than the titanic. I believe if the britannic sank like titanic, everybody on board would have survived, mainly due to the fact that the britannic just had plain better davits and more life boats
My great-great grandfather was a stoker on board the Britannic, & he was injured in an accident on-board. Sent back to his Army base to convalesce, that is probably the reason I exist. Great video!
It's chilling to think that this could have been so much worse- imagine if this had happened when they were on their way back from Gallipoli, the ship filled with wounded who may not be able to evacuate themselves... It's awful that anyone died but it's amazing that so few did.
Britannic was on her way to the Dardanelles to pick up wounded soldiers from Gallilopi. It was a good thing she sank before picking up those wounded men, because they would have all died below decks, turning Brittanic into a tomb. The only souls lost were those in the lifeboats that launched before the engines were shut down and were pulled into the propellers. It's amazing how well preserved Britannic is compared to Titanic, she is for the most part in one piece other than the bow. Rusticles have not destroyed much of her steel plates like Titanic, and all of the ship lies in a small area.
There were a couple of people who survived the wrecks of all three of the sister ships. Sometime in the future, you need to do a story on them. They are fascinating.
Olympic didn't wreck, it just had a major collision (actually quite a few, including intentionally ramming and sinking a submarine). It's unfortunate that the ones that wrecked are better preserved then the one that lasted long enough to be scrapped during the depression.
Thank you for making this video. I didn’t know that the captain tried those engines twice in order to try to beach it and I always wondered how the whole bow of the ship basically broke off. This is super cool to learn all of this!
It was titanic that sparked the interest in ships Britannic was one reason I continued learning about them. Amazing video you made dude, it’s people like you how continue the story of history.
I knew how the Britannic was sunk (hit a mine) but didn't know about how the fatalities occurred or how it sunk! So glad I found this channel! I've learned more over the last few days about the "Cursed Sisters" than I've known in my nearly 5 decades!
Why does the Titanic look and feel so much grander than any other ship, even the much larger ones of today? There is a romance and majesty about it that seems unique
I mean, credit where it's due! Only losing 30 people out of over 1,000 is phenomenal, especially when the majority of those 30 came from people who defied Captain's orders and essentially got themselves killed unnecessarily. The quick decision making on trying to beach the ship wasn't half bad either.
I had heard of the Britannic just because my brother is really into the stories of ill-fated ships but I wasn't aware of everything that happened with it
Brilliant video as always, concise and to the point. Even with the research I’ve done on Britannic myself, I’d never heard about her rudder being damaged like that. Goes to show that every day is a school day! Please keep up the wonderful work and kind regards from England.
@@Kumi12341 yeah same, who else has ever wanted to go on the last Olympic liner? she was the oldest one, I think, it would be really cool to go on the first Olympic liner and on the REAL one. I still want to go on and on about it, lol why am I literally talking about going on the RMS Olympic?! I wish I were born after the Britannic, then we could go on the Olympic! also, if I were born then, I could go on the fastest steam train in the world (the Mallard)! I'm still loling my head off because I don't think this has anything to do with the topic...lol
The Olympic was the unsinkable. My favorite of the three sisters. Even when sent to a scrap she went under her own propultion. I wish they spared her. Imagine the fame she would have today. Titanic will dissapear completely in less than 15 years. I wonder if they can salvage the Britanic.
Even when I think I have a good general knowledge of a topic that you cover, I still learn something new. I never knew the Britannic had a shot at staying afloat if it weren't for the open windows and forward momentum.
In my opinion, Britannic was a stunning ship, especially with its original paint. It’s sad that human hatred & war destroyed such a beautiful ship. Imagine the stories we could’ve heard had the Olympic & Britannic lived on for decades.
@@Band-maid-fan101 was asking cause you scared jumped when he pulled out the scale model. Just thought you were one of those persons that jumpsscres when pulling the shower curtain a d seeing someone in the mirror, just to realize it was you 😂😂😂
@@jetstreamdefalpha5411 I didn't know he had a giant sized model of titanic and didn't know he was gonna show it right close to camera it's the not knowing is what gets you, if he had it in the background and brought it out that way it wouldn't have got me because I knew what it was, where it was and how he was going to present it
Currently listening to this while playing on the Island of Mykonos, Greece in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. I thought it was funny that the Britannic sank right around the area I'm playing.
this was a great video, i already knew about the lifeboats chopped up but i did not exactly know which propellar actually hit them, this video also made know much more about britannic
Weren't other watertight doors also open due to a crew change. I also heard that the latest findings on the wreck find the open portholes didn't play as big as role as was first thought.
The Britannic was a tragedy of coincidences. Everything that could have been done right had already been done. The ship was designed to save itself from the same situation that killed her sister, but that wasn't the situation it found itself in. And the captain did everything he could to save lives, the only questionable decision on his part was to restart the engines, though his intentions were good. But no lives were lost on account of incompetent design or the Captain's decisions, unlike the Titanic. The lives that were lost were tragic coincidences that nobody could have anticipated
Anything on the _Britannic_ is amazing to watch. Those gantry davits, despite what people say about them, are really cool. Something not brought up was that, if a funnel wasn't blocking a gantry davit, it could theoretically pick up a lifeboat from the other side of the ship. It's a shame the only other ships that used them (As far as I'm aware) were the RMS _Arundel Castle_ and the RMS _Windsor Castle._ The only major error made in this video is justified, as it is a common mistake: Captain Bartlett did not know of the lifeboats getting sucked into the propellers, and only coincidentally stopped the ship, according to his testimony, when water began flooding Boiler Rooms 5 and 6. A more minor detail, which, admittedly, is nitpicking, is that Captain Bartlett and Assistant Commander Dyke didn't so much as leap overboard, so much as they walked off the ship as she sank out from under them. I leave you with this quote, which summarizes a more personal reason why Captain Bartlett tried so hard to save his ship: _"I had supervised over the construction and launch of the_ Britannic. _I skippered her. And I watched her founder. To have been able to witness a vessel her whole life, from birth to death, is surely a unique circumstance."_ -Captain Charles Bartlett, HMHS _Britannic,_ 21st of November, 1916.
Yes! My Britannic Video Lesson! (Yes I learn a lot from these, I thank historic for some of my titanic and history facts.) (This is an edit, I forgot to add this part.) Claim your “Before Premier Ticket” here.) Edit 2: Historic is my new History teacher lol
Damn I just watched a video where you so Damn excited about getting 100 subs now you’ve got damn near 23K! Awesome man keep up your work I love vegging out and falling down the RUclips rabbit hole of all of your stuff.
Fun fact! Violet Constance Jessop survived the Titanic, and Britannic! A lot of people started to call her "Ms. Unsinkable" she also survived the RMS Olympic! For more info about her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop Happy reading :)
the upside with the britannic. is if it didnt sink, it owuld have been scrapped. so we have a nicely preserved olympic class ocean liner still with us today.....welll under 400 feet of water but some day someone will raise it
No nobody will raise it. It is well preserved yes but shes brittle. She will fall apart the moment someone attempts to move her. Lets not forget she is also in two pieces
Hi, I love your videos, they never fail to pique my interest. I do want to know, where do you buy your ship models? I would love to buy one for display.
no, atcually all the three Olympic-class ships' rudder were not small if you compare them to the other giant ocean liners in their time, like RMS Mauretania, RMS Aquitania. Titanic's rudder was pretty big
The explosion also inflicted a lot of interior damage higher up in the ship. The shockwave resonated through her keel and travelled up and down her entire length, rattling the vessel for upwards of 5 minutes until it expelled all of its energy. The testimony of one nurse, who was helping prepare the dining room for breakfast, mentioned how she watched the wave travel up the ship towards them, shattering glass and plates and knocking over anything not secured down before it reached them, the force of the wave knocking them over as it proceeded to the stern. A few seconds later, they heard and felt the wave thundering past them in the opposite direction, inflicting further damage to the area they were in. This continued for as long as she could remember.
When I was young, I've read books that revolved around topics of Titanic. Watching your videos sparks strong childhood memories of mine. I admire your videos. Keep up the good work, Sam! And what is the music that you use for your videos?
Love your videos & humility. Excellent work as always. A video on the successful history of The Olympic aka “Old Reliable” would be fantastic. She had a 24-year career that included WW1 service & sinking a U-Boat. She was living proof that Titanic & Britannic were not poorly built.
Have you considered doing a video on the Berengaria (Cunard), Majestic (White Star) and Leviathan (US Line). These were requisitioned German liners. It is a shame they were scrapped in the 1930s since they would have been of great use during WW2 in carrying troops across the oceans fast. Another topic - Normandie and the United States looking forlorn in Philadelphia.
Boy did they get the movie wrong! My 6 year old son is fascinated by both the Titanic and Britannic sinkings and I’ll have to show him this video. He thinks the Britannic was sunk by a torpedo because that’s kind of what they show in the movie. Very interesting. Thanks mate!
I hope he does this ship (Bismarck) another ship's first time at sea with tragic consequences. It's one ship despite being over 15,000ft (much deeper than Titanic) deep and having nearly 3,000 shells fired at it that is absolute remarkable condition and sitting upright leading to prove it was scuttled by its crew. The captain , ( Otto Ernst Lindemann ) opting to go down with his ship. Incredible piece of history.
White Star: We are now going to improve on our mistakes with Titanic! Our ship is now iceberg proof! Random person: What about war mines? White Star: Fire that guy!
A point to consider why they had a better evacuation was also that they were all crew. While on the titanic, the crew told third class to wait in their decks.
I never really knew of the Britannic. I learned of the Titanic and then the Lusitania sometime afterward. The Britannic is a pretty impressive ship, especially with the safety enhancements that it had compared to the Titanic.
The conditions were no where near as bad as they were for the Titanic. It was day time (a huge factor), in the warm Mediterranean, not far from land. The crew were military and medical personnel, not passengers, and they’d most probably drilled for evacuation in case of war time attack. And the much improved safety features saved a lot of lives too. More people died on the Costa Concordia, a modem cruise liner.
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A nurse who was also on Olympic and Titanic managed to escape one of those lifeboats
I think her name was Jessop. And I think she survived 3 different sinkings. I feel like she also was on the Lusitana but I could be wrong.
@@Kumi12341 I’m pretty sure it was the Olympic instead of Lusitania
Yes, it was Violet Jessop, who miraculously survived despite being in one of the lifeboats caught in the propeller. She jumped into the water, but was pulled under and repeatedly hit in the head by a heavy object. (She couldn't tell what it was, but believed it to either be a piece of lifeboat wreckage or even the propeller itself, crediting her survival to the thick bun she had tied her hair into)
She then felt a hand grab her and pull her to the surface, but to her horror found that she had been "rescued" by a headless corpse floating on the surface.
@@Kumi12341 she's both the most unlucky and luckiest woman alive
@@emily-bd1lq nope it was Olympic
It is encouraging to know that Titanic's fate did, in some ways, contribute to saving lives of her sister ship. If people are going to make mistakes, it is best to learn from them. That being said, a lesson to be taken from Britannic: "Don't panic."
Don't panic AND turn off the damn boat before lowering life boats. 😖 I was today years old when I learned how badly that could end.
@@treefrog1018 one she was a ship and not boat
@@treefrog1018 To be fair, they disobeyed orders and the captain was close enough to land where he had a reasonable chance of beaching the ship. If the watertight doors hadn't jammed it likely would have stayed afloat but... mines do that.
That is really inspiring and important. Many people did in fact say don’t panic aboard the vessel. Respect to you
Killed by giant propeller would suck!
Fun Fact, the wreck, even though it was only in 400ft of water, was not discovered until 1975. Jacques Cousteau was the discoverer. Jacques Cousteau was also famous for his exploration of the wrecks of Truk Lagoon.
Also a little known fact about him is that he is the inventor of scuba equipment.
Fun fact. Scuba stands for...
Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
wasn’t he also one of the first to go down into the mariana trench?
@@alexiadler no I think that was Jacques Piccard
Only 400ft…
Fun Fact: being 400 feet deep, Britannic is a diving site, also given its depth, its in much, much better condition than Titanic.
kinda crazy to think that, if your skilled enough, you can literally dive to an Olympic class liner.
Now I really want to be a skilled scuba driver to see my favourite ship.
No, you'd need completely different equipment than a normal dive. You'd need to be tethered with oxygen and hot water continously pumped into your suit. Even with Nitrox you could only go 110ft commercially. I'm a dive master. Regular suit, regulators, and tanks would not be sufficient to make such a dive.
@@yamahakid450f Also isn't the wreck a protected site.
And pretty soon it will be the only one left.
@@poodtang2104 I believe so, that it falls under the rules about warships, where those wrecks still belong to their country of origin.
When you said that the captain stood on the bridge as the ship went down, I imagined Jack Sparrow stepping off of the Jolly Mon on to that jetty at the beginning of the first Pirates movie 😄
I'm going to hell for laughing at this.
@@Kumi12341 same
I also thought of that but instead I thought of jack at the wheel of the black pearl.
Other than the bow tear, the wreck of the Britannic is in remarkably good condition otherwise.
A lot of that is because of where it sank. The area of the ocean it sank in is far different from the area that Titanic sank. It also helps that it's in such relatively shallower water. You can actually dive to the Britanic which is something that's impossible to do with the Titanic.
@@pyrerock well you can't free dive or scuba dive down that deep. You can only dive around 130ft, whereas the ship sank around 400ft. But it is a lot easier to get to for sure.
Hmm..
by " bow tear " do you mean how the front of the bow is cut off from the rest of the wreck?
So it's technically correct to say both the Titanic and the Britannic split.
Titanic split between the 3rd and 4th funnels
Britannic, at the surface, was intact and then at the ocean floor its bow broke off..
Technically speaking, Britannic is probably the world's 4th best-preserved major ocean liner - after Queen Mary, QE2 and United States. Are there any other survivors I'm missing?
@@christophersargeant4545 I'm talking about shipwrecks. And out of the 1,065 people aboard Britannic, there were 1,035 survivors.
Jeeze didn't the Olympic class of liners have a rough time of it....despite all the safety improvements after Titanics sinking Britanic sank ever so quickly
Thanks Sam , great content as ever.
Didn't the olympic ram a sub and didn't stop like a boss? 😎
@@daa589 yup
The olympic class did have a hard time but the Olympic herself had one hell of a career, she garnered the nick name "Old Reliable" by Canadian troops, in Halifax they have the Olympic garden named after her. she has a Submarine kill to her name, she rammed it with her bow first then her Prop did the rest. she saved sailors of the French ship Provincia. the captian was critized for the move since stopping the ship to take on survivors with enemys in the area was dangerous. a large ships best defense is their speed.
Olympic was the least refined because she was the first one. She was the one who got to sail off into the sunset.
Yeah, Olympic only had a full life but even she had incidents. They found years later that when she was a troopship she was hit by a torpedo that failed to detonate.
I have a video idea, What if you did a video on the first days on the Titanic before it hit the iceberg, like what a normal day on the ship was for different classes?
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Cool
he already did.
He already did, and so did many other people
She might be the forgotten sister but she’s not forgotten the memory RIP the 30 souls that died by the way this was a great video 👍
they died because they got into the lifeboat without permission and the propellers suck the lifeboats in
@Raynee Bruggeman, Not everybody died just from screws 🙄
@Chara Cumming I mean the person's name is "kiddlogicc" so it makes sense why he thinks that.
True.. she’s my favourite ship! RIP to the 30 people who perished that morning.
@@mr.megalodonmegalodon758 I’ve heard that some people died from the mines explosion
_The people who watched “Britannic Tribute” videos with Nightwish’s “Sleeping Sun” in the background_
*Oh I Didn’t Forget...*
oh my GODDDD
hell yea remember watching that yrs ago
Damn
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
So did i
I always had a more mild interest in shipwrecks. Then about a week or so ago my husband introduced me to these videos and now I've been binging them all week. Love your channel!
Wow....look at those numbers compared to the Titanic's death toll, and in less than half the time it took to sink.
White Star does deserve credit for updating safety so much that had this been the same sinking situation as Titanic, almost no lives would have been lost.
That's kind of incredible.
Thanks for this video Sam. I’ve been a big Titanic fan since I was 6 years old, and a Britannic fan since I was 7 and a half. Even when I was 7-8 my peers would have no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned Britannic and how it was the sister ship of the Titanic , but would know about the Titanic.
Just one thing to mention is that right before Britannic struck the mine there was a crew change in which the watertight doors were to be opened for several minutes to allow engineering staff to easily walk from certain places of the ship to the other. Then Britannic struck the mine with all the watertight doors open, which allowed water to flood into the first 4 compartments. Afterwards the crew shut the watertight doors but as you stated the watertight door between Boiler Room 5 and 6 warped so it didn’t close.
If the crew change happened earlier, if the hull didn’t warp, or if those portholes on the lower decks were closed, Britannic likely would have made it to Kea.
Things just happened at the absolute worst time for them.
The Titanic is a great example of how important a good story is. The Britannic and Olympic were the same as the Titanic, but Titanic has such a powerful story tied to it that most people never ever hear about it's triplet sisters. Still, it's a HUGE shame that after Britannic and Titanic sank and Olympic survived EVERYTHING, that it was scrapped. It's a tragedy that ship was tossed away like that.
It was the Great Depression and the trans-Atlantic trade was winding down for these "older" ships. The newer ships at that time (in the 1930s) were faster and more elegant/practical. The Olympic was probably worth more to the White Star Line as scrap than she was as an ocean liner, or siting at a dock somewhere. You can find pieces of her all over the world though as a lot of her furniture and fixtures were sold off before she saw the scrappers torch. I believe the cruise ship Celebrity Millenium has a restaurant onboard that is finished with wood panelling from the Olympic.
Especially considering that she also rammed and sank a U-Boat.
@@captainpharaoh exactly, that boat is a legend
what is so great about titanic's story exactly?
@@elspoocho4637 the era, the behavior of the people, the heroism of the individuals, the ship's construction, the series of events that led it to it's demise, life and seafaring after Titanic, stuff like that
So with the portholes closed and all engines stopped from the moment the mine hit. it would probably have survived.
Poor Britannic, it's such a sad story for what could have been the ultimate ocean liner.
Yes probably.
Some claim the captain made mistakes, i doubt that. He made decision to run for the beach wich is the most logic thing to do and stopped when it turned out to be wrong.
In my opinion he would have made it if he did not need to stop because of the first launches and stop.
I watched the real time sinking and in my mind, she looked pretty stable, until the engines restarted, when the bow was a bit over water. Probably she would have sunk anyways but she got pretty instable and it could have saved time. Thanks for the video
@@manuelhuber194 captain did what he thought bestin the crisis. He was probably un aware of all the open portholes. Thise caused a massive amount of water rushing in.
It was all a matter of unfortunate events.
@@mightress Anyways sad. But in my opinion it is really sad, how united states is rusting away in philadelphia.
@@manuelhuber194 it is sad how the old ships rust away but seeing it realistic, maintaining them is a financial nightmare and basicly just a money pit no returns. Sad but true.
Video Idea: How would the Titanic sinking have gone if it had been equipped with the improvements they made to Britannic?
IMO I believe not much would change except for the amount of people onboard saved, seeing she had more lifeboats. The sinking would last longer seeing the bulkheads had been moved, because the Titanic didn’t have such a list. Thats my beliefs, I have no proffesional knowledge about the ships.
Given why the improvements occurred the end result would be she wouldn't sink obviously
@@svuntekarlberg In a previous video it was mentioned that having a coal bunker fire actually partially helped keep Titanic afloat for much longer due to the ships crew having moved the coal to the opposite side, therefor keeping the Titanic stable while she sank instead of listing.
It would of stayed afloat and not sunk. Brittanics improvements allowed for 6 compartments flooded Titanic had 5 so the bow would of dipped down a bit but wouldn't of sunk.
My guess would be that the titanic would eventually sink, but it would take here much longer to do so, with the extra lifeboats and gantry davits everyone could have been evacuated and the carpathia may have shown up with time to give aid.
The improvements made to the Britannic's design after the sinking of the Titanic makes me wonder, what would have happened if the ships had traded sinking scenarios. In other words, what would have happened to the Titanic if she had struck a mine, and what would have happened to the Britannic if she had struck an iceberg?
So, scenario:
Titanic strikes a mine in a warm, shallow sea... then few people would've died, not 1,500
Britannic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, many many succumb to hypothermia...
Then, logically put the Britannic would've received the fame - it would be the other way around, HMHS Britannic is more famous today, Titanic gets no credit, goes crying in the corner...
* Meanwhile, RMS Olympic, enjoying a vacation in the Irish coast before the scrapping.
@@danieldoo1821 actually due to Britannic being refitted to survive more compartments flooding, if Britannic hit the iceberg even the exact same way it would've been crippled but the ship would've been able to limp to port. Titanic would've had its B Royally F'd by the mine that Rocked Britannic. Weirdly enough Olympic probably wouldve shrugged off both like "What is there something on my face? Is my hair messed up or something?"
This of course uses both Titanic and Britannic, respectively as exactly how they were structurally and mechanically the days they sank.
@@danieldoo1821 should’ve saved the old reliable imo…imagine how famous she would be today being the only Olympic class ocean liner left
@@managed9348 or at least she could have been used as an exact replica of Titanic for a museum.
@@danieldoo1821 the britannic was basically better in every single way than the titanic. I believe if the britannic sank like titanic, everybody on board would have survived, mainly due to the fact that the britannic just had plain better davits and more life boats
My great-great grandfather was a stoker on board the Britannic, & he was injured in an accident on-board. Sent back to his Army base to convalesce, that is probably the reason I exist. Great video!
It's chilling to think that this could have been so much worse- imagine if this had happened when they were on their way back from Gallipoli, the ship filled with wounded who may not be able to evacuate themselves... It's awful that anyone died but it's amazing that so few did.
I really appreciate when you show what happened. It explains so much. Every Vlog is a learning experience.
13:00 wow Britannic is actually still in pretty good shape! It's hull is still recognisable (besides the bow being sliced off)
Britannic was on her way to the Dardanelles to pick up wounded soldiers from Gallilopi. It was a good thing she sank before picking up those wounded men, because they would have all died below decks, turning Brittanic into a tomb. The only souls lost were those in the lifeboats that launched before the engines were shut down and were pulled into the propellers. It's amazing how well preserved Britannic is compared to Titanic, she is for the most part in one piece other than the bow. Rusticles have not destroyed much of her steel plates like Titanic, and all of the ship lies in a small area.
There were a couple of people who survived the wrecks of all three of the sister ships. Sometime in the future, you need to do a story on them. They are fascinating.
Olympic didn't wreck, it just had a major collision (actually quite a few, including intentionally ramming and sinking a submarine). It's unfortunate that the ones that wrecked are better preserved then the one that lasted long enough to be scrapped during the depression.
Without a doubt the best concise explanation of the wreck of the Britannic i've come across.
Thank you for making this video. I didn’t know that the captain tried those engines twice in order to try to beach it and I always wondered how the whole bow of the ship basically broke off. This is super cool to learn all of this!
It was titanic that sparked the interest in ships Britannic was one reason I continued learning about them. Amazing video you made dude, it’s people like you how continue the story of history.
Estonia next? im swedish so this is near and dear to my heart 😭
I also hope this will be the next video :)
Hi Sam how’s it going? Love the content the copyright strikes is just a bump in the road keep it up!
You should cover the Empress of Ireland too. Because it happened in 1914, it is often a forgotten tragedy!
I knew how the Britannic was sunk (hit a mine) but didn't know about how the fatalities occurred or how it sunk! So glad I found this channel! I've learned more over the last few days about the "Cursed Sisters" than I've known in my nearly 5 decades!
An Iceberg would have nothing on a weapon of war specifically designed to sink ships...
Why does the Titanic look and feel so much grander than any other ship, even the much larger ones of today? There is a romance and majesty about it that seems unique
I mean, credit where it's due! Only losing 30 people out of over 1,000 is phenomenal, especially when the majority of those 30 came from people who defied Captain's orders and essentially got themselves killed unnecessarily. The quick decision making on trying to beach the ship wasn't half bad either.
I had heard of the Britannic just because my brother is really into the stories of ill-fated ships but I wasn't aware of everything that happened with it
Why didn't you look it up? Instead of hoping the RUclips algorithm sorts you out
Brilliant video as always, concise and to the point. Even with the research I’ve done on Britannic myself, I’d never heard about her rudder being damaged like that. Goes to show that every day is a school day! Please keep up the wonderful work and kind regards from England.
I always admire your store of knowledge, but please learn the correct grammar "had GONE down" not "had went down"
Do the Olympic. It had a pretty long and successful career.
I'm still pissed that she was scrapped instead of someone coming along to save her like the Queen Mary.
@@Kumi12341 yeah same, who else has ever wanted to go on the last Olympic liner?
she was the oldest one, I think, it would be really cool to go on the first Olympic liner and on the REAL one.
I still want to go on and on about it, lol why am I literally talking about going on the RMS Olympic?!
I wish I were born after the Britannic, then we could go on the Olympic!
also, if I were born then, I could go on the fastest steam train in the world (the Mallard)!
I'm still loling my head off because I don't think this has anything to do with the topic...lol
The Olympic was the unsinkable. My favorite of the three sisters. Even when sent to a scrap she went under her own propultion. I wish they spared her. Imagine the fame she would have today. Titanic will dissapear completely in less than 15 years. I wonder if they can salvage the Britanic.
@pack4 if she was gonna be bankrupt im pretty sure belfast will never let that happen she's the last 1900s super liner
The true unsinkable one of the three.
You need to have t-shirts made that say "You see..." and a picture of Titanic sinking underneath.
Even when I think I have a good general knowledge of a topic that you cover, I still learn something new. I never knew the Britannic had a shot at staying afloat if it weren't for the open windows and forward momentum.
you should continue getting progressively larger Titanic models for reference :)
Hey Sam how about a video on one of the ships lost at Pearl Harbor. Your choice of course. I love your videos keep em coming
In my opinion, Britannic was a stunning ship, especially with its original paint. It’s sad that human hatred & war destroyed such a beautiful ship. Imagine the stories we could’ve heard had the Olympic & Britannic lived on for decades.
Mines don't discriminate between enemy ships or hospital ships.
a series as extensive as the titanic videos for the britannic would be super interesting, i find both equally interesting and fascinating.
I love that barely anybody died from it. That is such an incredible amount of life saved.
Am I the only one that got a slight jump scare when you brought out the giant titanic model ?
Do you flinch when you see your reflection on the mirror?
@@jetstreamdefalpha5411 kind of a stupid question I know I'm real, I know my position, I know when I'm going to look myself in the mirror.
@@Band-maid-fan101 was asking cause you scared jumped when he pulled out the scale model. Just thought you were one of those persons that jumpsscres when pulling the shower curtain a d seeing someone in the mirror, just to realize it was you 😂😂😂
@@jetstreamdefalpha5411 I didn't know he had a giant sized model of titanic and didn't know he was gonna show it right close to camera it's the not knowing is what gets you, if he had it in the background and brought it out that way it wouldn't have got me because I knew what it was, where it was and how he was going to present it
@@Band-maid-fan101 hey m8, I apologize if I angered you, my grammar is pretty ,,,,,"like I say on gta5" 'dog water'!😂
What an education. Many, many thanks. I fully understood the sinking for the very first time!
Currently listening to this while playing on the Island of Mykonos, Greece in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. I thought it was funny that the Britannic sank right around the area I'm playing.
the Island of kea
Historic Travels is by far one of my favorite ship history channel!
this was a great video, i already knew about the lifeboats chopped up but i did not exactly know which propellar actually hit them, this video also made know much more about britannic
The port side propeller.
@@korbyntaylor8089 Ok, because i heard that the starboard propeller also hit
Well they were only using the middle and port side propeller to steer the ship to kea will the starboard propeller was turned off.
But still those poor people
Of course 21 people died on the first lifeboat that got chopped up and 8 died on the second lifeboat.
The one I’ve been waiting for!!! Really great video! Keep em coming
Weren't other watertight doors also open due to a crew change. I also heard that the latest findings on the wreck find the open portholes didn't play as big as role as was first thought.
I dont leave many comments on RUclips, but I love the sunken ship videos you do, im fascinated by this topic for some reason
hi sam! just know we appreciate all the work you put in your videos
Bro you deserve AT LEAST 2 million subscribers, I love your videos
It's always the smaller youtubers that are better
Really enjoying your videos. Quick question though... how did you get into my grandmother's attic?? She had the same desk too 👍
The Britannic was a tragedy of coincidences. Everything that could have been done right had already been done. The ship was designed to save itself from the same situation that killed her sister, but that wasn't the situation it found itself in. And the captain did everything he could to save lives, the only questionable decision on his part was to restart the engines, though his intentions were good. But no lives were lost on account of incompetent design or the Captain's decisions, unlike the Titanic. The lives that were lost were tragic coincidences that nobody could have anticipated
Anything on the _Britannic_ is amazing to watch. Those gantry davits, despite what people say about them, are really cool. Something not brought up was that, if a funnel wasn't blocking a gantry davit, it could theoretically pick up a lifeboat from the other side of the ship. It's a shame the only other ships that used them (As far as I'm aware) were the RMS _Arundel Castle_ and the RMS _Windsor Castle._
The only major error made in this video is justified, as it is a common mistake: Captain Bartlett did not know of the lifeboats getting sucked into the propellers, and only coincidentally stopped the ship, according to his testimony, when water began flooding Boiler Rooms 5 and 6. A more minor detail, which, admittedly, is nitpicking, is that Captain Bartlett and Assistant Commander Dyke didn't so much as leap overboard, so much as they walked off the ship as she sank out from under them.
I leave you with this quote, which summarizes a more personal reason why Captain Bartlett tried so hard to save his ship:
_"I had supervised over the construction and launch of the_ Britannic. _I skippered her. And I watched her founder. To have been able to witness a vessel her whole life, from birth to death, is surely a unique circumstance."_
-Captain Charles Bartlett, HMHS _Britannic,_ 21st of November, 1916.
pausing to say thankyou ive never seen someone so good at explaining and keeping me watched :)
Yes! My Britannic Video Lesson! (Yes I learn a lot from these, I thank historic for some of my titanic and history facts.)
(This is an edit, I forgot to add this part.) Claim your “Before Premier Ticket” here.) Edit 2: Historic is my new History teacher lol
Damn I just watched a video where you so
Damn excited about getting 100 subs now you’ve got damn near 23K! Awesome man keep up your work I love vegging out and falling down the RUclips rabbit hole of all of your stuff.
Fun fact! Violet Constance Jessop survived the Titanic, and Britannic! A lot of people started to call her "Ms. Unsinkable" she also survived the RMS Olympic! For more info about her:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop Happy reading :)
The Britannic is in really good condition underwater. Taking a sub down there will give you a full perception of how big the Titanic was
you don't need a sub to see the Britannic's wreck at 400 feet
the upside with the britannic. is if it didnt sink, it owuld have been scrapped. so we have a nicely preserved olympic class ocean liner still with us today.....welll under 400 feet of water but some day someone will raise it
No nobody will raise it. It is well preserved yes but shes brittle. She will fall apart the moment someone attempts to move her. Lets not forget she is also in two pieces
@@Mabidemonstrations tractor beam
These ship sinking stories while tragic are very entertaining due to the fascinating information you learn.
Hi! What about a video about the Sindia? Its story is one that fascinates me, and it’s fairly lesser-known. Love your videos! Keep it up!
100% underrated Channel keep doing it man
Hi, I love your videos, they never fail to pique my interest. I do want to know, where do you buy your ship models? I would love to buy one for display.
Love your content bro, as a Maritime Historian myself i love people who post this content. Titanic is my all favorite to learn about since 2001.
Video Idea: Was Titanic's rudder too small? P.S. I enjoyed this video, Thank You for making it.
no, atcually all the three
Olympic-class ships' rudder were not small if you compare them to the other giant ocean liners in their time, like RMS Mauretania, RMS Aquitania. Titanic's rudder was pretty big
If her rudder was too small, surely _Britannic's_ rudder would have been made bigger...right?
I’ve been a Titanic student since I was a little kid, and still am. I was 13 when it was found.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the lady that survived the titanic and the britannic
The explosion also inflicted a lot of interior damage higher up in the ship. The shockwave resonated through her keel and travelled up and down her entire length, rattling the vessel for upwards of 5 minutes until it expelled all of its energy. The testimony of one nurse, who was helping prepare the dining room for breakfast, mentioned how she watched the wave travel up the ship towards them, shattering glass and plates and knocking over anything not secured down before it reached them, the force of the wave knocking them over as it proceeded to the stern. A few seconds later, they heard and felt the wave thundering past them in the opposite direction, inflicting further damage to the area they were in. This continued for as long as she could remember.
The 3 dislikes are from the little punks that tried to copyright strike you
@Lego Guns & Games Look at the date. 1 month ago it was 3 1 month ago, read the dates pls
@Lego Guns & Games bro it does it used to be 3 one month ago
Not many people knows about the Britannic, but personally I find Britannic's fate more intriguing and misterious.
As for video suggestions...please keep doing your amazing work. Would love if you make vids on the big 4 and cunards 3 liners.
Which means the britanics captain did everything On point. How amazing to learn about history
When I was young, I've read books that revolved around topics of Titanic. Watching your videos sparks strong childhood memories of mine. I admire your videos. Keep up the good work, Sam!
And what is the music that you use for your videos?
This guy is the definition of wholesome
I’m so stoked for this one 😍
Watching your channel grow makes me so happy!
britannic survives the explosion of the mine and tries to save itself to Kea as it can handle the amount of damage
Desteny: O B S E R V E
Love your videos & humility.
Excellent work as always.
A video on the successful history of The Olympic aka “Old Reliable” would be fantastic.
She had a 24-year career that included WW1 service & sinking a U-Boat.
She was living proof that Titanic & Britannic were not poorly built.
Have you considered doing a video on the Berengaria (Cunard), Majestic (White Star) and Leviathan (US Line). These were requisitioned German liners. It is a shame they were scrapped in the 1930s since they would have been of great use during WW2 in carrying troops across the oceans fast. Another topic - Normandie and the United States looking forlorn in Philadelphia.
the Normandie was berthed in New York for conversion to the USS Lafayette when she caught fire and burned at her pier
Boy did they get the movie wrong! My 6 year old son is fascinated by both the Titanic and Britannic sinkings and I’ll have to show him this video. He thinks the Britannic was sunk by a torpedo because that’s kind of what they show in the movie. Very interesting. Thanks mate!
I can’t wait for this!
Thanks also for that ship info as I never knew. So sad for white star line.another nightmare with the oress!
Another excellent video, mate. Really cool to see you covering lesser known ships too. Any chance you could cover the Bismarck soon?
I hope he does this ship (Bismarck) another ship's first time at sea with tragic consequences.
It's one ship despite being over 15,000ft (much deeper than Titanic) deep and having nearly 3,000 shells fired at it that is absolute remarkable condition and sitting upright leading to prove it was scuttled by its crew.
The captain , ( Otto Ernst Lindemann ) opting to go down with his ship.
Incredible piece of history.
My grandfather was in WW1. He sailed to Europe on the Olympic and sailed home on the Aquitania.
you thinking covering the Oceanos sometime?
I've found myself down the rabbit hole of your videos. I love ships now haha.
this is the ship where a life boat full of people got chopped by propeller
White Star: We are now going to improve on our mistakes with Titanic! Our ship is now iceberg proof!
Random person: What about war mines?
White Star: Fire that guy!
I love ur vids and I love ships and vid idea: can u make a vid on the History of the Mauritania or Mauritania II?
A point to consider why they had a better evacuation was also that they were all crew. While on the titanic, the crew told third class to wait in their decks.
Ahhh watching at 02:45 in Wales. Feeling another watching binge coming on. May have to call in sick to work tomorrow...again 🙄🤷🏾♂️🤦🏽♂️
So grateful you share your knowledge with us!! Thank you!
I never really knew of the Britannic. I learned of the Titanic and then the Lusitania sometime afterward. The Britannic is a pretty impressive ship, especially with the safety enhancements that it had compared to the Titanic.
At least the Olympic had a full life. Sold for scrap sometime in the 1930's. Some of the interior was used for a Hotel in England somewhere.
1937
The conditions were no where near as bad as they were for the Titanic. It was day time (a huge factor), in the warm Mediterranean, not far from land. The crew were military and medical personnel, not passengers, and they’d most probably drilled for evacuation in case of war time attack.
And the much improved safety features saved a lot of lives too.
More people died on the Costa Concordia, a modem cruise liner.
Well done young Sam! I learnt something new tonight! 😃
Britannic: we can stay alot with 6 compartments flooded, thanks to the new safety features
Open portholes: im about to end this man's whole career