@@Madhouse_Mediain a wrold where Olympic was saved could have been in New York servering 3 reasons a museum of Olympics history a past of ocen linerns and to show New York closes thing to titanic to show em the size of it and what they never got
You've also got to take into account. When both of these ships were scrapped, they created much needed work, also put food on the table in desperate times. Also for new ships Cunard needed finance so selling for scrap helps new build liners. Canard had to live in the real world not the fairly land world.
Ah, the Queen Mary. Sailed on her in 65' if I remember right, I was only about 12. My Aunt. Came over to the USA after the war as what was called a GI Bride. Which were English women who fell in love with GI's from America,married then came over to be with them. My Aunt & Uncle were married for 50 years until my Uncle passed away. My father followed & then my grandparents. We went back to England on the gorgeous Queen Mary in 65' to visit relatives and my 2 cousins and I got to know the rest of the family. A 3 month awesome time! That ship will always mean a lot to me that I will never forget. I still have the copy of the "log" we were given. The experience was and always will be one of my most unforgettable times of my life, if only we could time travel. One of the reasons that I love this channel is the in depth telling of stories of all these ships! You tell them with heart. Thank you and may you tell many more. ❤😊
Ships simply don't last forever: that's just how it is. No ship can be kept in service forever, even as a drydock specimen, and old ships can't legally or practically be preserved, rebuilt, or recreated. This is because time marches on, and shipbuilding needs to evolve with it, making everything, in the end, obsolete. Ships therefore have "lives" with definite births and deaths, just like we do, and like all of us, they're only here in the world for a very short time.
We gotta do a grand Cunard vs White Star mash up someday! Maybe bring in couple of youtubers on like Mike from oceanliner designs and have each shell out for their respective companies of choice, you know lets make a great sort of historical debate about it, could be loads of fun!
That is a brilliant idea!!! The guy from part time explorer has done a bunch on liners including about the Collins line. I hadn't heard of them before. Your idea is brilliant.
My family stayed in the Queen Mary in Long Beach some time between 2010 and 2014 (or in that range). We were visiting Southern CA with plans to visit Disneyland and my daughter is a huge fan of ghost tours and such so I booked us one night on the Queen Mary with a Ghost Tour. Since we cruise on Disney ships it was quite a difference in design and very interesting but even then the ship was beginning to need repair and meant of the people on the tour were not staying on the ship.
Fleet Admiral Little, SIR! Really nice series of videos. Thank You! I'm one who visited The Queen Mary in around 2005 out of reverence for my mother's World War II troop transport journey on her route to England. (Army Nurse Lt. Jean Eivers. Later she and the nurses she called "my 12 girls" nursed the 8th Army Air Corps and the D-Day and European war casualties.) The Queen Mary WAS a great ship. Now all she is just a sad old rust bucket. These "Gouls" profiting from her downfall are just scum. I don't believe in "haunted places" or ships. I have been stationed aboard ships where there were unfortunate deaths. Some very rich someone should honor The Queen Mary by purchasing her, removing any artifacts and preserving them, and then allowing the ship itself to slip slowly beneath the waves for use as an underwater reef and dive spot. A fitting remembrance. Was it Churchill who said, "Ships have a soul."? The Queen Mary is weeping. Or, just have The Queen Mary towed to Pier 82 in Philidelphia. Moor her next to The SS United States and have idiots pick her clean (just like The SS United States) and let her rot away. The United States does a fabulous job of preserving historic warships. I have read that something like one quarter of the registered ships in the US Navy are museum ships. But, for some reason it seems that the USA has no real feelings for Ocean Liners. Just my opinion, SIR! Melka J F B55-1853 Boilerman 3rd Class
I have a liking for Aquitania. Yes, she was just an “in between” ship. She was a larger 4 stacker. She was the last 4-stacker. She had beautiful appointments in her interior. She survived late enough to serve in WW2, be returned to passenger service, and have color film of her.
Aquitania was my favourite of the vintage liners, also their first Queen was technically Berengaria (ex-Imperator). Im lucky to have had the pleasure to stay on QM in Long Beach and QE2 in Dubai - both great old ladies full of atmosphere and charm.
Waauw.. the beginning reminds me of Startrek Enterprise.. i think the episode was 'through a mirror...darkly' it looks amazing like usual...👍 thank you for the video's 🙂🌻
I have a cut through plan of the Caronia. A full colour lithograph which I found in a copy of Boys own journal. It clearly shows the deck guns mounted. Also an original Canadian brochure for the Coronia and the Caramina .The litho shows Cabin interiors even down to hams hanging in the ships stores.
The Queen Mary is still a gorgeous old lady, her library is not exactly stripped, its shelves just turned into merchandise displays. The current management invested a lot of work into renovating the ship, her brass is shining and wood veneers look great. Every Tuesday there's retro live music, people show up dressed in vintage. First class dining room, observation bar, main hall all look very similar to what they did in the 30s. It's an absolutely ginormous ship and even though a lot was removed still a lot remains.
I know that I've said this many times before, but my wife and I spent our honeymoon on the Queen Mary back in 2007 and our room was $350 a night (we stayed 3 nights). Even back then they had a Titanic exhibit and The Ghosts and Legends Tour. We spent alot of time on the ship, but we also went fishing around the harbor, we went to Gameworks to go bowling in Long Beach, but we had alot of fun. We still should've gone to the Bahamas...but it was a dream of mine.
"Herr Admiral! The Cap Trafalgar has been sunk by an enemy Armed Merchant Cruiser!" "I don't understand. How could the enemy have seen through her disguise?! It was perfect!
I was trying to find a movie based on the Great Lakes, idk, there's got to be one. But I said well, I can watch a documentary. I thought it would be a little boring, maybe with too many technical details, but I ended up hanging on every word, and I've got to hand it to you, because you're storytelling style makes everything fascinating!
@bigoldboats would you mind going through the holland/ Dutch ships during this era? They have incredible stories! And also my grandma sailed over to the USA on the veendam
Imagine buying titanics sister ship for scrap prices, digging in the archives and finding evidence that the name swap did happen so Boom! you are literally able to offer tours of the titanic....but obviously not the ship that sank.
Do you have a PO box? I wanna send you something cool to keep and maybe do a video on if you want. Mainly to keep because it's really cool and unique in its own way.
its hard to choose my favorite cunard liners but i think my top would be like this i think nr 1 queen mary nr2 queen elizabeth 2 nr3 carpathia nr4 lusitania nr5 britannia paddle steamer nr6 aquitania nr7 queen elizabeth n8 carmania nr9 mauretania nr10 coronia
I guess the only real thing haunting the Queen Mary is the debt she has. My grandfather Elias R. Calbillo helped to build the elevator tower next to her.
my last name is thorneycroft, that qe2 where it got fitted out, you said it was from someone thorneycroft, id love the spelling please so i can look them up as everything i try doesnt bring anything up
@@gilbydog7350 omg thankyou so much!!! after searching it just now they are the thornycroft without the ey where my family is thornEycroft so unfortunatly no relation but amazing and fascinating and thanks so much for the info!!
It's terribly sad that liners with a rich history weren't saved as museums or the like. However what we can see through recent history, when liners were retained as exhibits, like the Queen Mary or even the SS United States, their preservation hasn't been great. The ongoing cost to up keep them is phenomenal. Whilst I long to see them preserved and fantasized about having vessels like the Olympic saved, it's just not feasible. If you look at the SS United States for example, she retains none of her original fittings, and whilst there are endeavours to eventually restore her, it isn't going to happen any time soon. The other thing, order ships just don't meet modern safety regulations, even docked as a museum. The Queen Mary for example needed substantive alterations to even function as a museum / hotel, then the price to view them becomes too high. It's better to imagine these ships in their former glory rather than regret they weren't saved. Also, there was an ambitious plan by Australian mining mogul and politician Clive Palmer to build a replica of the Titanic named Titanic II. However this had never got off the ground. Some of the challenges they have faced in the planning stages is that they can't build a replica to modern day standards and have it look authentic. Either they build a non seaworthy ship that looks the part, but won't generate a profit or compromise on authenticity and have something that kinda resembles the Titanic but not really
Imagine if we had the maurentania or Olympic as museums today. Would be so amazing
There were people at the time who wanted to save the Olympic as a museum ship. Of course it never happened but yes, that would be amazing.
@@Madhouse_Mediain a wrold where Olympic was saved could have been in New York servering 3 reasons a museum of Olympics history a past of ocen linerns and to show New York closes thing to titanic to show em the size of it and what they never got
@@Madhouse_Media not witht he great depression. and people at the time looked at those ships like we do with old airplanes. obsolete and old.
You've also got to take into account. When both of these ships were scrapped, they created much needed work, also put food on the table in desperate times. Also for new ships Cunard needed finance so selling for scrap helps new build liners. Canard had to live in the real world not the fairly land world.
@@lizlawrence4553 imagine if white star line had the bigger share, we could have had the ultimate white star liner. the Oceanic III
Ah, the Queen Mary. Sailed on her in 65' if I remember right, I was only about 12. My Aunt. Came over to the USA after the war as what was called a GI Bride. Which were English women who fell in love with GI's from America,married then came over to be with them. My Aunt & Uncle were married for 50 years until my Uncle passed away.
My father followed & then my grandparents. We went back to England on the gorgeous Queen Mary in 65' to visit relatives and my 2 cousins and I got to know the rest of the family. A 3 month awesome time!
That ship will always mean a lot to me that I will never forget. I still have the copy of the "log" we were given. The experience was and always will be one of my most unforgettable times of my life, if only we could time travel.
One of the reasons that I love this channel is the in depth telling of stories of all these ships! You tell them with heart. Thank you and may you tell many more. ❤😊
So glad you put the compilation together. Sometimes I just need some good background to avoid politics 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Ships simply don't last forever: that's just how it is. No ship can be kept in service forever, even as a drydock specimen, and old ships can't legally or practically be preserved, rebuilt, or recreated. This is because time marches on, and shipbuilding needs to evolve with it, making everything, in the end, obsolete. Ships therefore have "lives" with definite births and deaths, just like we do, and like all of us, they're only here in the world for a very short time.
People just like living in the past, romanticising it, and being deluded by nostalgia. It really wasn't that great for most people.
@@Gecko....”Nostalgia” isn’t what brings me here, it’s the history that does :-)
These people sure did have challenging lives.
Except for the Constitution.
We gotta do a grand Cunard vs White Star mash up someday!
Maybe bring in couple of youtubers on like Mike from oceanliner designs and have each shell out for their respective companies of choice, you know lets make a great sort of historical debate about it, could be loads of fun!
That is a brilliant idea!!! The guy from part time explorer has done a bunch on liners including about the Collins line. I hadn't heard of them before. Your idea is brilliant.
somebody already done that, but i can't remember where i've seen it... It was like comparison of both companies fleets along the years.
i would truly love to see a team up with our friend Mike Brady! that would be so cool.
Babe the new episode of big old boats come quick !
Just got back in my stateroom from a rough shift of complete shit weather. Then I found your new upload!!!
Thank you!!
20 mins in... and I realised this is NOT a disaster video 😂
My family stayed in the Queen Mary in Long Beach some time between 2010 and 2014 (or in that range). We were visiting Southern CA with plans to visit Disneyland and my daughter is a huge fan of ghost tours and such so I booked us one night on the Queen Mary with a Ghost Tour. Since we cruise on Disney ships it was quite a difference in design and very interesting but even then the ship was beginning to need repair and meant of the people on the tour were not staying on the ship.
Fleet Admiral Little, SIR!
Really nice series of videos. Thank You!
I'm one who visited The Queen Mary in around 2005 out of reverence for my mother's World War II troop transport journey on her route to England. (Army Nurse Lt. Jean Eivers. Later she and the nurses she called "my 12 girls" nursed the 8th Army Air Corps and the D-Day and European war casualties.)
The Queen Mary WAS a great ship. Now all she is just a sad old rust bucket. These "Gouls" profiting from her downfall are just scum. I don't believe in "haunted places" or ships. I have been stationed aboard ships where there were unfortunate deaths.
Some very rich someone should honor The Queen Mary by purchasing her, removing any artifacts and preserving them, and then allowing the ship itself to slip slowly beneath the waves for use as an underwater reef and dive spot. A fitting remembrance.
Was it Churchill who said, "Ships have a soul."? The Queen Mary is weeping.
Or, just have The Queen Mary towed to Pier 82 in Philidelphia. Moor her next to The SS United States and have idiots pick her clean (just like The SS United States) and let her rot away. The United States does a fabulous job of preserving historic warships. I have read that something like one quarter of the registered ships in the US Navy are museum ships. But, for some reason it seems that the USA has no real feelings for Ocean Liners. Just my opinion, SIR!
Melka J F
B55-1853
Boilerman 3rd Class
I have a liking for Aquitania. Yes, she was just an “in between” ship. She was a larger 4 stacker. She was the last 4-stacker. She had beautiful appointments in her interior. She survived late enough to serve in WW2, be returned to passenger service, and have color film of her.
Thank you so much for this compilation video Brad! I'm bored at work so this will certainly help!
Aquitania was my favourite of the vintage liners, also their first Queen was technically Berengaria (ex-Imperator). Im lucky to have had the pleasure to stay on QM in Long Beach and QE2 in Dubai - both great old ladies full of atmosphere and charm.
for sure cunard is my favorite company of them all
Waauw.. the beginning reminds me of Startrek Enterprise.. i think the episode was 'through a mirror...darkly' it looks amazing like usual...👍 thank you for the video's 🙂🌻
I have a cut through plan of the Caronia. A full colour lithograph which I found in a copy of Boys own journal. It clearly shows the deck guns mounted. Also an original Canadian brochure for the Coronia and the Caramina .The litho shows Cabin interiors even down to hams hanging in the ships stores.
I love the music at the beginning! It's very dramatic and perfectly fits the subject!
This is absolutely a first rate production! Thank you!
Have you thought about a Queen Mary video?
Ove 2.5hrs of ocean liners.....gonna be a great video
Brad, this is such a great watch. Will finish tomorrow. Thanks ahead of time for your time, work, "Great Narration" and posting.
What a nice treat for a Saturday morning! Really enjoyed this! Thanks
I'm going to binge this so much. Thank you!
Thanks for the video and talking about the Q3.
The Queen Mary is still a gorgeous old lady, her library is not exactly stripped, its shelves just turned into merchandise displays. The current management invested a lot of work into renovating the ship, her brass is shining and wood veneers look great. Every Tuesday there's retro live music, people show up dressed in vintage. First class dining room, observation bar, main hall all look very similar to what they did in the 30s. It's an absolutely ginormous ship and even though a lot was removed still a lot remains.
I know that I've said this many times before, but my wife and I spent our honeymoon on the Queen Mary back in 2007 and our room was $350 a night (we stayed 3 nights). Even back then they had a Titanic exhibit and The Ghosts and Legends Tour. We spent alot of time on the ship, but we also went fishing around the harbor, we went to Gameworks to go bowling in Long Beach, but we had alot of fun. We still should've gone to the Bahamas...but it was a dream of mine.
Another great video, thank you Bradley x
First!!!! Thanks for the video!!!
4th, np
That was an excellent episode.
Thank you for your awesome content.
thank you for your outstanding work filling in the historical background that is hard to find.
Another fantastic show...great work
"Herr Admiral! The Cap Trafalgar has been sunk by an enemy Armed Merchant Cruiser!"
"I don't understand. How could the enemy have seen through her disguise?! It was perfect!
Wonderful .
You should do a collaboration with ocean liner designs
I was trying to find a movie based on the Great Lakes, idk, there's got to be one. But I said well, I can watch a documentary. I thought it would be a little boring, maybe with too many technical details, but I ended up hanging on every word, and I've got to hand it to you, because you're storytelling style makes everything fascinating!
There's an amazing Beauty when it comes to the Cruise ships of old.
It is very sad that most of these liners were lost, but they are still very lovely ships!
@bigoldboats would you mind going through the holland/ Dutch ships during this era? They have incredible stories! And also my grandma sailed over to the USA on the veendam
Love the channel, but the typo in the channel name is irksome. It clearly should be “Big Ole Boats”
These ships are so Victorian intricate, and ornate, you will probably never see this architecture again!
Imagine buying titanics sister ship for scrap prices, digging in the archives and finding evidence that the name swap did happen so Boom! you are literally able to offer tours of the titanic....but obviously not the ship that sank.
Do you have a PO box? I wanna send you something cool to keep and maybe do a video on if you want. Mainly to keep because it's really cool and unique in its own way.
its hard to choose my favorite cunard liners but i think my top would be like this i think
nr 1 queen mary
nr2 queen elizabeth 2
nr3 carpathia
nr4 lusitania
nr5 britannia paddle steamer
nr6 aquitania
nr7 queen elizabeth
n8 carmania
nr9 mauretania
nr10 coronia
Can anyone identify the song playing 37:48 during the chapter change? It’s in several videos and it always gives me chills.
First thanks for video!
My favorite vids to edge to
16:32 Очень, очень интересный перевод от ядексовской нейросети.
I guess the only real thing haunting the Queen Mary is the debt she has.
My grandfather Elias R. Calbillo helped to build the elevator tower next to her.
Do you think you could talk about the Alpena and her descendant the Alpena. I feel like naming a newer ship after a wreck is bad luck.
I'm visiting Queen Mary today 😍🫣
I cannot find the name of the narrator? Is this Alex? Great documentary.
What's the name of that opening organ piece?
Omg, German doesn't have silent E's!😃 Words like Grosse and Elbe are pronounced basically like "grosa" and "Elba".😁
my last name is thorneycroft, that qe2 where it got fitted out, you said it was from someone thorneycroft, id love the spelling please so i can look them up as everything i try doesnt bring anything up
It's Vosper Thorneycroft.
@@gilbydog7350 omg thankyou so much!!! after searching it just now they are the thornycroft without the ey where my family is thornEycroft so unfortunatly no relation but amazing and fascinating and thanks so much for the info!!
hi yes hello, that was the hardest intro i have ever seen.ok bye.
108:10 "You would Never Sleep in a cold bunk!" ..GROSS! but this is sort of normal on couped up submarines.
It's terribly sad that liners with a rich history weren't saved as museums or the like. However what we can see through recent history, when liners were retained as exhibits, like the Queen Mary or even the SS United States, their preservation hasn't been great. The ongoing cost to up keep them is phenomenal. Whilst I long to see them preserved and fantasized about having vessels like the Olympic saved, it's just not feasible. If you look at the SS United States for example, she retains none of her original fittings, and whilst there are endeavours to eventually restore her, it isn't going to happen any time soon. The other thing, order ships just don't meet modern safety regulations, even docked as a museum. The Queen Mary for example needed substantive alterations to even function as a museum / hotel, then the price to view them becomes too high. It's better to imagine these ships in their former glory rather than regret they weren't saved. Also, there was an ambitious plan by Australian mining mogul and politician Clive Palmer to build a replica of the Titanic named Titanic II. However this had never got off the ground. Some of the challenges they have faced in the planning stages is that they can't build a replica to modern day standards and have it look authentic. Either they build a non seaworthy ship that looks the part, but won't generate a profit or compromise on authenticity and have something that kinda resembles the Titanic but not really
Was never a fan of 1960s building or ship interior designs. Everything is so industrial/spaceship and sterile looking. Pretty souless.
The word is too WOKE to smoke while cleaning carpets with gasoline!!
besides the queen the ss united states is in serious trouble she needs just as much money as queen Mary
Love The Titanic❤
Go to speech therapy and get rid of the sssssssss your speech. After this, I’ll subscribe and recommend your overall thorough content.
Go to manners school and get rid of the pretentiousness in yours first.
You should make a video about the White Star Lines ships, like Olympic, Georgic, MV Britannic, and maybe Adriatic?
He did Olympic and MV Britannic already
@@CJODell12 I know, but put them in a compilation