This is professional-grade, documentary-length, documentary-QUALITY work, for which RUclips can't compensate you enough. Bravo. This should be airing on television, or in classrooms around Australia.
Titanic may have casted an unfortunate shadow on the ocean liner for decades, but, strangely, she is the reason why so many people now know, and want to learn more, about these giants.
This is so true. I remember learning about it for the first time in 7th grade, 1997, and I felt bad for the ship and I wanted to know more about it. That lead me into WW2 battleships, which are my favorite warships, besides submarines. I wish that WW2 style battleships still sailed. I would love to see, hear and feel a battleships guns fire, I bet it would be amazing in person.
My dad served in the US Navy during WW2 and told me he remembered seeing the Aquitania and how massive it was. He also mentioned it was pretty old at the time.
As it was said during WW2, the venerable Aquitania (by this point the only true four-funnelled liner still sailing) was often older than the majority of her passengers, and yet she was loved by most who sailed on her.
Mike, I am rapidly running out of superlatives for this channel. You have truly realised the Edwardian era of ship design, not just by these stunning visuals, but now also by the soundtrack too. This feature is a (re) creation of beauty. Ships of legend streaming into sunsets of purple and gold, the sunlight glinting between the Lusitania's funnels. I'm blown away! You and your team are working miracles.
Seeing the Olympic and Aquitania (Two of my favorite Ocean Liners of all-time!) in UE5 is something I never thought I would. But of course, Lucas, THG, and Jack created/animated these gorgeous ships so eloquently! Loved this doc Mike, please keep these coming. They’re so informative and beautiful! 💙🙏🏻✌️🏻
My son (3 years old) is really fond of this channel (no more 20 minutes per day). Unlimited for me. Thank you Mike for your work and professionnal explanations. Salutations from France.
We can't thank you enough for this valuable collaboration. Together you manage to tell the story of the ocean liners the way I always imagined it as a child. It's so good to see these legends in motion, which brings their design and story to life.
PART 1: ruclips.net/video/dc0Tm95vplA/видео.html&ab_channel=OceanlinerDesigns PART 3: ruclips.net/video/zxQunfsqn3M/видео.html&ab_channel=OceanlinerDesigns HUGE thankyou and shoutout to our musical partners, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra whose delightful tunes you can hear dotted throughout this video! @paragonragtimevideos And a big thankyou to my team who make the execution of these videos possible including writer Sarah Brenneman, animator Jack Gibson, researcher and modeler Liam Sharpe, modeler Lucas Gustaffson. Thankyou too to the Oceanliner Designs Patreon patrons and RUclips crew members! Your support makes this all possible. :) Support the channel channel on Patreon www.patreon.com/oceanlinerdesigns Or become a RUclips channel member here for all kinds of perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCsE8PTncfn2Vga48jH46HnQjoin
Well done 👏 Mike. I literally just caught the very end this live, but was more than happy to go back and enjoy your film. Thanks again for the hard work 🎉❤😊!
Thanks, I must be having an off day. I appreciate you and all you do for us ocean liner history fans. Also, your Chusan video is still my all time favorite. I love everything about it, but especially the music. Only wish I knew the names of the particular songs so I could find them
The quality of these videos is just absolutely outstanding. Ocean liners are a part of history that are so often overlooked so it's amazing to be able to learn from such beautiful vidoes - from the quality of the models/animations to the presentation itself by Mike. 10/10.
The gradual build-up of tension at the mid point (Titanic) was chilling. You spend a good 2 minutes building up how splendid she was, how H&W would need to really pull out the stops for Britanic... Then the sudden cut to black and the bell, just BEAUTIFUL
It's honestly such a shame Britannic never sailed as a passenger ship. She would've been the finest ship ever built, and maybe there would be a chance for her to have survived to the present day.
Some people say the gantry davits make Britannic a bit cluttered looking, but to me, it shows she's prepared and capable to take priority in an emergency. Following the loss of their sister, she and Olympic were made stronger and truly unsinkable. Well, that's how it should've been for Britannic, but WW1 thought otherwise. Britannic did fight to the end, though, and thanks to her extra lifeboats, almost all on board her got off unharmed. The Olympic class were meant to be Britain's last word in size and luxury, but ultimate tragedy and blood ridden conflicts took two of them away, with one left alive. Alone. Olympic should NEVER have been scrapped. Think of how popular she would be as a floating hotel today.
@@allidragon7041agreed. Olympic & Mauretania should have been preserved. People would come from all over the world to see Titanic & Lusitanias surviving sisters
That fly-over of the Lusitania was spectacular at 8:10. It's very similar to James Cameron's Titanic as she heads out to sea. Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Always a joy to see and learn so many things ocean liners from you.
My grandfather sailed on the RMS Aquitania during ww2 as a troop ship. It took them 17 days to go from the United States to Italy which is where they landed. That is why Aquitania is my favorite 4 stacker.
That's a strange reason, to like a ship. You could argue, that it did it safely in u-boat infested waters, but i would most likely prefer the ship, that brought him home.
Wow! Mike, this is the most professional video of yours yet! I've watched through it all, and i am absolutely shaken! This is genuinely the best ship-related video i have EVER seen! You deserve much more recognition for this work. Mostly because this video is fully three-dimensional! Over 40 minutes of pure delightfulness.
I'm thinking we will indeed see more installments. The three-stackersvwere something of a brief interlude between the four and two-stackers, but some of the greatest and most iconic ships had three funnels...Normandie; Queen Mary; the "Imperator Class" in both original German form and later American and British guise; Empress of Britain; Île de France... Of course, the "deux- cheminée" liners were many and there were no shortage of great ships among them.
Really neat to see a good look at Britannic in her peacetime livery. She's almost synonymous as being a hospital ship, rather than a luxury liner, so nice work on her appearance. Also, definitely noticed the huge improvement in background music. Well done 👍
I absolutely adore that million-dollar shot for Lusitania, awesome video Mike, are you going to make a part 3 with ships like Queen Mary and Normandie?
I like that in these productions there is not a jump cut every one or two seconds. He allows the viewer to linger on the images and take them in, as if one were at a museum, instead of bombarding us with scenes too rapidly. This is very rare these days and is to be commended.
It really hurts seeing Britannic as the ocean liner she was intended to be. It's one of the great things about Honor and Glory's "Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean" mini-game's features that allows you to explore her interiors as well as exteriors as an ocean liner instead as a hospital ship and see many of the things that might've been. And while most of it is pretty straight-forward or was already there on her sisters, there's a number of unique differences that make her stand out, such as the deck housing added to the stern to expand the 3rd class smoking room, the children's nursery, and the addition of the German-made pipe organ on the A-deck landing of the forward grand staircase, as well as bathrooms for nearly every cabin. Had she not been sunk in WW1, she would've been a force to be reckoned with on the trans-Atlantic run.
Thanks, Mike, the amount of Work you put into these Videos.. I was waiting for my final and most important grade to finish my Engineering degree. I was extremely nervous the hours before. The only thing that was able to distract me, was watching your amazing videos. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
I really enjoyed this documentary. It's very well-made, good job! The period between the 1890s and the early 1920s was the golden age of the ocean liners. For me personally, this documentary means a lot- my favourite ocean liners in general are the four-stacker ones. My favourite ocean liner is also a four-stacker- the RMS Aquitania. Her career and look, especially her interior, both really fascinate me! Can't wait for part three!
For me 4 funnel ships are the pinnacle of ocean liners in general. They're the pinnacle oand transition of 19th century to 20th century technology but also they are the most beautiful ships ever. Oh sure other ships afterwards were gorgeous as well but I don't think they can ever truly stand up to the beautiful artwork both inside and outside of 4 funnel ships. I'm loving this series so far and can't wait to watch part 3 talk about the war time service and the after effects of said war. Though your channel and many others have talked about it quite a bit but is still wonderful to hear about them and watch these CGI recreations of a bygone era Thank you as always Mike Brady keep up the great work made your videos truly make my day.
Beautiful is an understatement. Have you seen some of the tacky shite that passes for 'cruise ships' these days? Dear God the Carnival ships with that vile red whale-tail of a funnel 🤢
Since I have just left a Titanic Museum, this video came out at a perfect time. The animations already look gorgeous. Thank you for your high quality videos Mike!
Which museum location did you go to? I went to the Orlando one about 2 weeks ago and it was fascinating seeing all the artifacts and walking through the exhibit!! Great video Mike you never fail to amaze us with your work!!
The animations are just beyond fantastic. It truly brings these ships to life and takes the viewer on an amazing journey as if they were onboard. ❤ your documentaries
You do amazing work! Thank you… I thought I only liked sci-fiction ships, but you proved I just love the engineering of all ships. (Excluding air ships )
I think the best thing about this documentary is how you built up the feeling over the ships that people would have felt. Advancements, safety, size, ships were going up and up. It felt like everything was going up and up. Then the feeling is shattered.
Enjoying this with my morning coffee. Never thought I'd find the history of oceanliners to be so interesting. The detailed visuals of the ships take it to another level. Bravo and well done! Much appreciated!
I don't remember where I heard it, but after world war II, RMS Aquitania was sailing near Italy, and from the mainland, the marines radio'd the ship saying "Unknown Four-Stacker, identify yourself." to which the captain cheekily said "We're the only four-stacker left in the world." and just thinking about that exchange makes me laugh to this day. Excellent video, a great time capsule explaining the golden age of the ocean liner. Also I must say that French pronunciation was very good. Looking forward to the next video!
When it comes to documentary-style videos on 19th and 20th century steam ships, you set the world standard for quality, accuracy, and visuals. Well done on all of your videos!
Lovely moving footage of some of the great (but often overlooked) early ocean greyhounds starting at 3:32. Looks like one of the HAPAG there-stackers from the early 1890s backing out of the New York pier. Although those were fairly modest ships size-wise, this one looks a half mile long! They were so low and sleek and elegant. The footage of the bow of the Lucania right after is equally impressive! It's a shame that not more motion picture footage from that era has survived, there was likely a whole lot in its day but the material just didn't last. In many ways, those liners from just before the turn of the last century hold a very special fascination for me...
Turbinia is on display in a museum in my home city of Newcastle in England. Also on display is the letter E from the name plate of the Mauretania which was also built in the city, together with a large model of the ship.
This really is unbelievable content, I can't explain how happy I am to have stumbled upon this channel a few months ago. Mike and team, thank you for all that you do, and I can't wait to see your continued success!
Wow. You knocked it out of the park again. Clear, concise, with amazing animations. 10/10 on production. This is a great easily digestible video about this era in shipbuilding. 🎉🎉🎉
Loved the line about inebriated first class passengers navigating back to their rooms! Top stuff as always, lovely to see Mauritania in the spotlight, Newcastles finest!
Your wonderful narration style and the stunning visuals of the ocean liners make this a top tier documentary. Channels and videos like this are the reason why I love RUclips.
So glad you are back! I was worried about you (after you had to go offline due to legal problems) when you don’t have regularly appearing videos. I love your new videos and understand they are much more involved to make, but I still worry! Your channel is so entertaining and informative that selfishly I want it to keep going as long and frequently as possible! “THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!”
I'm actually building a custom-made model of a fictional Cunard four-stacked named the RMS Cappadocia. It's basically a carbon-copy of the Lusitania and/or the Mauritania but a bit bigger and more luxurious than its sisters. (1st-class being odored with opulent Ottoman architecture). I'm basically kitbashing from various model kits and custom making parts out of styrene for the desired result. I had a friend 3D print some 1/400 Cunard funnels for me and the ship's hull is from a 1/400 Titanic kit. Parts of the superstructure are being made by hand and borrowed from a 1/350 Titanic kit, also.
So how did you get on? Because that is - authentically - something I'd like to see, WIP or otherwise. Sounds like a genuinely interesting passion project. Thanks! 😀
This was spectacular. The quality of the animation, the narrative, your reassuring voice. And it's interesting to me that having seen much of your work, you have made me feel that you are genuinely our friend. Thank you!
Ever since you teased this video a few weeks ago, I’ve been looking forward to this with bated breath. Excellent work, Mike, your truly are a master at your craft. May you continue to rise. Truly remarkable work by you and your entire team.
Time flies when you're having fun - that was the fastest 48 minutes I've had on RUclips in a long time! Thanks for an amazing documentary. Your graphics are incredible, your scripts informative, and your voice over style is so easy to listen to.
No, don't. The content would be watered down, political messages would be shoehorned into the narrative, and besides, who watches broadcast TV these days?
My paternal grandmother came to America from Poland on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse - we have the record someplace, but I think it was a short time prior to 1910. Love these liners - keep up the great work!
That was a wonderful documentary. Both animations and narration were top notch. Thank you for a very enjoyable Sunday morning and keep up the great work!
The music used for this video is on-point, just perfect for the ocean liners depicted not to mention that the ships themselves look absolutely beautiful
This channel's explaining and animations are... simply to put, amazing. I cannot tell you how real and great this looks Mike! I always listen to videos like this every single time i am doing something on my pc. THATS how relaxing it is. Thank you so much for delivering those amazing videos to us!
Hey Mike, this video was such a treat on a rainy and miserable Sunday evening. It wa so interesting and so well made. I think Aquitania may just be my favourite of the 4 funnel ships, how gorgeous was she! ❤
Mike, I have to say, this documentary series is so incredibly well done, I've never seen production quality like this on RUclips. I don't know of any documentaries that are as well scripted or produced on any Oceanliners like your content. Your channel is genuinely my favorite channel on all of RUclips. Keep up the fantastic work, man!
These models look SO SO elegant, they almost look like they're real and they're sailing today! What I'd give to go back in time and marvel at these absolutely breathtaking ocean liners.
Mike, this video was absolutely amazing! I mean, all your videos are amazing, but WOW. This one was truly impeccable. Maybe it’s because I love the four stackers beyond words, but man... Serious props to you Mike, and the Oceanliner Designs team for this wonderful video, as well as to Jack for these beautiful animations. Cheers to my friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs! Never a dull video. Keep up the amazing work, I know you will, and rest assured that the hard work and dedication doesn’t go unappreciated.
Young man! You are amazing! I have been studying Titanic for 55 years! Read every book, met 5 survivors, a member of the Titanic Historical Society. I have been to Belfast, Southampton, Halifax and lived in NYC. Over 100 books but you have educated me more then Ken Marschall and Don Lynch. Thank you! Smooth seas forever. Beatles Forever
Mike could you please release the music in this video, its absolutely gorgeous. This is a tremendous video, It's crazy to think only a few months ago you started jumping into 3D animation for your videos and now it's hard to imagine an Oceanliner Designs video without it. You've brought these liners back to life, the embodiment of a bygone era, lost in the struggle of war. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos, I've been subscribed for about a year now and I'm still blown away by how awesome these are :)
Mike, your presentations are simply beyond description! I have never seen documentaries this brilliant on any of the so-called documentary channels here in the U S. Your presentations make those of Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic Channel, etc. pale in comparison. Congratulations!
Just today, taking shower, I tried to remember all four-stackers, and then this video came out! Perfect timing, and perfect video. You know how to captivate public, your videos interesting to watch, it's not like dry summary from Wikipedia. And animation of course delight for the eyes!
Always look forward to your latest videos and have been itching to see this one. It did not disappoint! There's something about 4 funnels on a ship that cant quite be described - it just looks 'right', and for me the Olympic Class will always be on top with their silhouette. Thanks for such a brilliant documentary and I look forward to the next one! 🙂
The music was so good! The visuals amazing as always, the information so clear and easy to understand, the history ahhhhh I just love this channel so much!
Mike, another great watch. So much information, and top-notch narration. Speaking of safety, the most dangerous way to travel is by motor vehicle and the safest is by passenger plane figuring deaths per passenger mile, not much information on early 20th century ocean liners but today cruise ships have a good record of deaths per passenger mile. Thanks again for this fine watch........
This is professional-grade, documentary-length, documentary-QUALITY work, for which RUclips can't compensate you enough. Bravo. This should be airing on television, or in classrooms around Australia.
100%
Ditto! This should be on television as a documentary...it's that good!
Oceanliner Designs and Summoning Salt are the only youtubers that i will watch every new video without hesitation
Hear! Hear!
Great job Mike, quality piece of work, your passion shines through 😊
Titanic may have casted an unfortunate shadow on the ocean liner for decades, but, strangely, she is the reason why so many people now know, and want to learn more, about these giants.
A tragedy of this scale strikes the imagination.
@@jayive34
Indeed it does
If she hadnt sunk, there'd be like 19 people today who knew anything about her. Instead, today theres more _conspiracy theories_ about her than that.
This is so true. I remember learning about it for the first time in 7th grade, 1997, and I felt bad for the ship and I wanted to know more about it. That lead me into WW2 battleships, which are my favorite warships, besides submarines. I wish that WW2 style battleships still sailed. I would love to see, hear and feel a battleships guns fire, I bet it would be amazing in person.
@@wolfinhiding7857YOU FIRST LEARNED ABOUT THE TITANIC IN 7TH GRADE!?!? That’s so late
My dad served in the US Navy during WW2 and told me he remembered seeing the Aquitania and how massive it was. He also mentioned it was pretty old at the time.
As it was said during WW2, the venerable Aquitania (by this point the only true four-funnelled liner still sailing) was often older than the majority of her passengers, and yet she was loved by most who sailed on her.
Titanic 2 engine cylinder engineering room
Mike, I am rapidly running out of superlatives for this channel. You have truly realised the Edwardian era of ship design, not just by these stunning visuals, but now also by the soundtrack too. This feature is a (re) creation of beauty. Ships of legend streaming into sunsets of purple and gold, the sunlight glinting between the Lusitania's funnels.
I'm blown away! You and your team are working miracles.
Amen!
He’s brilliant, isn’t he?
Seeing the Olympic and Aquitania (Two of my favorite Ocean Liners of all-time!) in UE5 is something I never thought I would. But of course, Lucas, THG, and Jack created/animated these gorgeous ships so eloquently!
Loved this doc Mike, please keep these coming. They’re so informative and beautiful! 💙🙏🏻✌️🏻
My son (3 years old) is really fond of this channel (no more 20 minutes per day). Unlimited for me. Thank you Mike for your work and professionnal explanations. Salutations from France.
Thankyou and kind regards from Australia, so glad you both enjoy it :)
We can't thank you enough for this valuable collaboration. Together you manage to tell the story of the ocean liners the way I always imagined it as a child. It's so good to see these legends in motion, which brings their design and story to life.
Quit kissing his ass…
When will be part 3
PART 1: ruclips.net/video/dc0Tm95vplA/видео.html&ab_channel=OceanlinerDesigns
PART 3: ruclips.net/video/zxQunfsqn3M/видео.html&ab_channel=OceanlinerDesigns
HUGE thankyou and shoutout to our musical partners, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra whose delightful tunes you can hear dotted throughout this video! @paragonragtimevideos
And a big thankyou to my team who make the execution of these videos possible including writer Sarah Brenneman, animator Jack Gibson, researcher and modeler Liam Sharpe, modeler Lucas Gustaffson.
Thankyou too to the Oceanliner Designs Patreon patrons and RUclips crew members! Your support makes this all possible. :)
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Where is part 1? I can't find it.
@@OrionSlaveGirlUWU Here you go;
ruclips.net/video/8GXi-vIVDM0/видео.html
Well done 👏 Mike. I literally just caught the very end this live, but was more than happy to go back and enjoy your film. Thanks again for the hard work 🎉❤😊!
@@OceanlinerDesignsthank you so much, I must be having an off day. I appreciate you and all you do for us in the community
Thanks, I must be having an off day. I appreciate you and all you do for us ocean liner history fans.
Also, your Chusan video is still my all time favorite. I love everything about it, but especially the music. Only wish I knew the names of the particular songs so I could find them
The quality of these videos is just absolutely outstanding. Ocean liners are a part of history that are so often overlooked so it's amazing to be able to learn from such beautiful vidoes - from the quality of the models/animations to the presentation itself by Mike. 10/10.
Ocean liners are obsolete. They were replaced by passenger jets
@@jamesholton2630 Yes...that's why I said part of history.
The gradual build-up of tension at the mid point (Titanic) was chilling.
You spend a good 2 minutes building up how splendid she was, how H&W would need to really pull out the stops for Britanic... Then the sudden cut to black and the bell, just BEAUTIFUL
It's honestly such a shame Britannic never sailed as a passenger ship. She would've been the finest ship ever built, and maybe there would be a chance for her to have survived to the present day.
Some people say the gantry davits make Britannic a bit cluttered looking, but to me, it shows she's prepared and capable to take priority in an emergency. Following the loss of their sister, she and Olympic were made stronger and truly unsinkable. Well, that's how it should've been for Britannic, but WW1 thought otherwise. Britannic did fight to the end, though, and thanks to her extra lifeboats, almost all on board her got off unharmed.
The Olympic class were meant to be Britain's last word in size and luxury, but ultimate tragedy and blood ridden conflicts took two of them away, with one left alive. Alone. Olympic should NEVER have been scrapped. Think of how popular she would be as a floating hotel today.
I like her more outside as hospital ship and inside as Ocean liner
If she did survive i think she would've been scrapped like the olympic.
@@Garry46977yes and she will be gone for ever she is Still in Kea Chanel
@@allidragon7041agreed. Olympic & Mauretania should have been preserved. People would come from all over the world to see Titanic & Lusitanias surviving sisters
That fly-over of the Lusitania was spectacular at 8:10. It's very similar to James Cameron's Titanic as she heads out to sea. Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Always a joy to see and learn so many things ocean liners from you.
My grandfather sailed on the RMS Aquitania during ww2 as a troop ship. It took them 17 days to go from the United States to Italy which is where they landed. That is why Aquitania is my favorite 4 stacker.
Wow! Your grandfather might know the aquitania very well!
That's a strange reason, to like a ship. You could argue, that it did it safely in u-boat infested waters, but i would most likely prefer the ship, that brought him home.
@@gehtdianschasau8372 yeah I wish I knew the ship that brought him home. He was fond about the time he had on Aquitania and he loved to talk about it.
Wow! Mike, this is the most professional video of yours yet! I've watched through it all, and i am absolutely shaken! This is genuinely the best ship-related video i have EVER seen! You deserve much more recognition for this work. Mostly because this video is fully three-dimensional! Over 40 minutes of pure delightfulness.
I hope there's gonna be a part 3 to this. A shift from the Four Funneled Liners to Three Funneled Liners.
I'm thinking we will indeed see more installments. The three-stackersvwere something of a brief interlude between the four and two-stackers, but some of the greatest and most iconic ships had three funnels...Normandie; Queen Mary; the "Imperator Class" in both original German form and later American and British guise; Empress of Britain; Île de France...
Of course, the "deux-
cheminée" liners were many and there were no shortage of great ships among them.
His videos are the most well done documentary videos made by only one person. Great work!
Better than Discover Channel :)
He does not make these by himself.
He literally thanks his team in his comment 😂😂😂
You troll much 🤔
@Part134 in a video he said he scripts, voices and edits videos by himself but maybie he has some animation team helpers
@@electrozaplt8171 Writer Sahara Bereneman
You have really outdone yourself with this Mike . Absolutely superb. So very proud of you and congratulations.
Really neat to see a good look at Britannic in her peacetime livery. She's almost synonymous as being a hospital ship, rather than a luxury liner, so nice work on her appearance.
Also, definitely noticed the huge improvement in background music. Well done 👍
I absolutely adore that million-dollar shot for Lusitania, awesome video Mike, are you going to make a part 3 with ships like Queen Mary and Normandie?
Q.M. lay on the stocks uncompleted, just a builder's number for years till the government stepped in and then Queen Elizabeth was built too.
Blown away. In respect of documentary makers, you're in a league of your own.
I like that in these productions there is not a jump cut every one or two seconds. He allows the viewer to linger on the images and take them in, as if one were at a museum, instead of bombarding us with scenes too rapidly.
This is very rare these days and is to be commended.
To be fair, even cassette-based museum audio-guides can still be pushy rushy wankers
Wow Mike, your team's animations have become works of art. I love the flyovers.
So happy you finally covered the *S.S. France.* Highly underrated liner.
Brilliant writing and production, Mike! The quality of this documentary series surpasses anything I've seen on TV.
It really hurts seeing Britannic as the ocean liner she was intended to be. It's one of the great things about Honor and Glory's "Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean" mini-game's features that allows you to explore her interiors as well as exteriors as an ocean liner instead as a hospital ship and see many of the things that might've been. And while most of it is pretty straight-forward or was already there on her sisters, there's a number of unique differences that make her stand out, such as the deck housing added to the stern to expand the 3rd class smoking room, the children's nursery, and the addition of the German-made pipe organ on the A-deck landing of the forward grand staircase, as well as bathrooms for nearly every cabin. Had she not been sunk in WW1, she would've been a force to be reckoned with on the trans-Atlantic run.
Thanks, Mike, the amount of Work you put into these Videos.. I was waiting for my final and most important grade to finish my Engineering degree. I was extremely nervous the hours before. The only thing that was able to distract me, was watching your amazing videos.
Thanks again and keep up the good work.
WHY NO COMMENTS
@@vrikt0r427Yours is a comment, correct?
8:10 The 1997 Titanic film overhead deck shot with the Lusitania is amazing
I'm playing this on my TV. Your animations are so good. You've come so far and deserve so many more followers! I'm actually in awe
I really enjoyed this documentary. It's very well-made, good job! The period between the 1890s and the early 1920s was the golden age of the ocean liners. For me personally, this documentary means a lot- my favourite ocean liners in general are the four-stacker ones. My favourite ocean liner is also a four-stacker- the RMS Aquitania. Her career and look, especially her interior, both really fascinate me! Can't wait for part three!
For me 4 funnel ships are the pinnacle of ocean liners in general. They're the pinnacle oand transition of 19th century to 20th century technology but also they are the most beautiful ships ever. Oh sure other ships afterwards were gorgeous as well but I don't think they can ever truly stand up to the beautiful artwork both inside and outside of 4 funnel ships.
I'm loving this series so far and can't wait to watch part 3 talk about the war time service and the after effects of said war. Though your channel and many others have talked about it quite a bit but is still wonderful to hear about them and watch these CGI recreations of a bygone era
Thank you as always Mike Brady keep up the great work made your videos truly make my day.
Beautiful is an understatement. Have you seen some of the tacky shite that passes for 'cruise ships' these days? Dear God the Carnival ships with that vile red whale-tail of a funnel 🤢
4 stackers are just gorgeous and the peak of ship design. Not too cluttery, easy on the eyes. Just beautiful
Mike Brady you deliver once again! Another amazing video, you truly feed my passion for ocean liners. Bravo again my friend!
Since I have just left a Titanic Museum, this video came out at a perfect time. The animations already look gorgeous. Thank you for your high quality videos Mike!
Which museum location did you go to? I went to the Orlando one about 2 weeks ago and it was fascinating seeing all the artifacts and walking through the exhibit!! Great video Mike you never fail to amaze us with your work!!
@@nicoleking7620 The one at Pigeon Forge. I’ve been to it, Branson, and Orlando.
The animations are just beyond fantastic. It truly brings these ships to life and takes the viewer on an amazing journey as if they were onboard. ❤ your documentaries
Easily one of the best videos I've ever watched on youtube.
You do amazing work! Thank you… I thought I only liked sci-fiction ships, but you proved I just love the engineering of all ships. (Excluding air ships )
I think the best thing about this documentary is how you built up the feeling over the ships that people would have felt. Advancements, safety, size, ships were going up and up. It felt like everything was going up and up. Then the feeling is shattered.
Enjoying this with my morning coffee. Never thought I'd find the history of oceanliners to be so interesting. The detailed visuals of the ships take it to another level. Bravo and well done! Much appreciated!
I don't remember where I heard it, but after world war II, RMS Aquitania was sailing near Italy, and from the mainland, the marines radio'd the ship saying "Unknown Four-Stacker, identify yourself." to which the captain cheekily said "We're the only four-stacker left in the world." and just thinking about that exchange makes me laugh to this day. Excellent video, a great time capsule explaining the golden age of the ocean liner. Also I must say that French pronunciation was very good. Looking forward to the next video!
That’s a great story haha
When it comes to documentary-style videos on 19th and 20th century steam ships, you set the world standard for quality, accuracy, and visuals. Well done on all of your videos!
Lovely moving footage of some of the great (but often overlooked) early ocean greyhounds starting at 3:32. Looks like one of the HAPAG there-stackers from the early 1890s backing out of the New York pier. Although those were fairly modest ships size-wise, this one looks a half mile long! They were so low and sleek and elegant. The footage of the bow of the Lucania right after is equally impressive! It's a shame that not more motion picture footage from that era has survived, there was likely a whole lot in its day but the material just didn't last. In many ways, those liners from just before the turn of the last century hold a very special fascination for me...
I've watched this like 6 tines and often fall asleep to this playing
Turbinia is on display in a museum in my home city of Newcastle in England. Also on display is the letter E from the name plate of the Mauretania which was also built in the city, together with a large model of the ship.
I like that they saved the E of all letters instead of the M
Time to dive to the bottom of the ocean to find the 'L' of Lusitania
@@pocketmarcy6990indeed! God knows why. I'm guessing someone else had got their hands on the M.
@@carltonleboss probably rusted away at this point
I think these two videos are the best thing you and your team have produced. Such high-quality content! It's really appreciated.
They were so beautiful. That long bow and the carefully crafted rear end and funnel design were magnificent!
This really is unbelievable content, I can't explain how happy I am to have stumbled upon this channel a few months ago. Mike and team, thank you for all that you do, and I can't wait to see your continued success!
Wow. You knocked it out of the park again. Clear, concise, with amazing animations. 10/10 on production. This is a great easily digestible video about this era in shipbuilding. 🎉🎉🎉
The visuals of Olympic in this documentary are stunning! Gorgeous Mike well done! 👏
Loved the line about inebriated first class passengers navigating back to their rooms!
Top stuff as always, lovely to see Mauritania in the spotlight, Newcastles finest!
Your wonderful narration style and the stunning visuals of the ocean liners make this a top tier documentary. Channels and videos like this are the reason why I love RUclips.
So glad you are back! I was worried about you (after you had to go offline due to legal problems) when you don’t have regularly appearing videos. I love your new videos and understand they are much more involved to make, but I still worry! Your channel is so entertaining and informative that selfishly I want it to keep going as long and frequently as possible! “THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!”
Thanks for sticking with me! It’s good to be back :)
Wait, what legal issues?
@@CaptainColdyron222 There were some copyright issues on some material.
I'm actually building a custom-made model of a fictional Cunard four-stacked named the RMS Cappadocia. It's basically a carbon-copy of the Lusitania and/or the Mauritania but a bit bigger and more luxurious than its sisters. (1st-class being odored with opulent Ottoman architecture). I'm basically kitbashing from various model kits and custom making parts out of styrene for the desired result. I had a friend 3D print some 1/400 Cunard funnels for me and the ship's hull is from a 1/400 Titanic kit. Parts of the superstructure are being made by hand and borrowed from a 1/350 Titanic kit, also.
Cool.
So how did you get on? Because that is - authentically - something I'd like to see, WIP or otherwise. Sounds like a genuinely interesting passion project. Thanks! 😀
This was spectacular. The quality of the animation, the narrative, your reassuring voice. And it's interesting to me that having seen much of your work, you have made me feel that you are genuinely our friend. Thank you!
Ever since you teased this video a few weeks ago, I’ve been looking forward to this with bated breath. Excellent work, Mike, your truly are a master at your craft.
May you continue to rise. Truly remarkable work by you and your entire team.
You really outdid yourself with this one, Mike! 48 minutes of perfection! And that scene at 19:48 may be one of the finest I've seen yet!
Pine coffins
Time flies when you're having fun - that was the fastest 48 minutes I've had on RUclips in a long time!
Thanks for an amazing documentary. Your graphics are incredible, your scripts informative, and your voice over style is so easy to listen to.
This was absolutely stunning. Can't wait for part 3.
Get this man a Documentary Show on TV
No, don't. The content would be watered down, political messages would be shoehorned into the narrative, and besides, who watches broadcast TV these days?
@@phaasch Well a show similar to Oceanliner Designs isn't called 'Great British Ships', do check it out sometime it's by a Man named Rob Bell
SS France is absolutely beautiful. Gotta give it to her and her designers
So much style and grace. I love the four funnel look. Some others are beautiful but four tunnels ones are special to me.
My paternal grandmother came to America from Poland on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse - we have the record someplace, but I think it was a short time prior to 1910. Love these liners - keep up the great work!
8:11 The fact the Mikey recreated the Titanic One Million dollar shot with the Lusitania is absolutely amazing
That was a wonderful documentary. Both animations and narration were top notch. Thank you for a very enjoyable Sunday morning and keep up the great work!
Thanks so much Bruce, really glad you enjoyed it!
The animation is top notch! 👌🏻😍
The music used for this video is on-point, just perfect for the ocean liners depicted not to mention that the ships themselves look absolutely beautiful
This channel's explaining and animations are... simply to put, amazing. I cannot tell you how real and great this looks Mike! I always listen to videos like this every single time i am doing something on my pc. THATS how relaxing it is. Thank you so much for delivering those amazing videos to us!
Hey Mike, this video was such a treat on a rainy and miserable Sunday evening. It wa so interesting and so well made. I think Aquitania may just be my favourite of the 4 funnel ships, how gorgeous was she! ❤
Mike, I have to say, this documentary series is so incredibly well done, I've never seen production quality like this on RUclips. I don't know of any documentaries that are as well scripted or produced on any Oceanliners like your content. Your channel is genuinely my favorite channel on all of RUclips. Keep up the fantastic work, man!
Amazing Documentary about 4 funnel liners they will always be one of the most Elegant liners ever
Another Masterful production...your videos keep getting better and better. I simply can't find a better to describe you're work.
bro the freaking animation is so good✨✨✨
These models look SO SO elegant, they almost look like they're real and they're sailing today! What I'd give to go back in time and marvel at these absolutely breathtaking ocean liners.
Mike, this video was absolutely amazing! I mean, all your videos are amazing, but WOW. This one was truly impeccable. Maybe it’s because I love the four stackers beyond words, but man...
Serious props to you Mike, and the Oceanliner Designs team for this wonderful video, as well as to Jack for these beautiful animations. Cheers to my friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs! Never a dull video. Keep up the amazing work, I know you will, and rest assured that the hard work and dedication doesn’t go unappreciated.
This is just fantastic, its a really professional quality documentary that should be on tv, fantastic work
Young man! You are amazing! I have been studying Titanic for 55 years! Read every book, met 5 survivors, a member of the Titanic Historical Society. I have been to Belfast, Southampton, Halifax and lived in NYC. Over 100 books but you have educated me more then Ken Marschall and Don Lynch. Thank you! Smooth seas forever. Beatles Forever
These are some of the best animations I've ever seen, my compliments old chap!
Yet another incredibly crafted video.
Mike could you please release the music in this video, its absolutely gorgeous. This is a tremendous video, It's crazy to think only a few months ago you started jumping into 3D animation for your videos and now it's hard to imagine an Oceanliner Designs video without it. You've brought these liners back to life, the embodiment of a bygone era, lost in the struggle of war. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos, I've been subscribed for about a year now and I'm still blown away by how awesome these are :)
This never gets old. Its more amazing each time i watch it
Mike, your presentations are simply beyond description! I have never seen documentaries this brilliant on any of the so-called documentary channels here in the U S. Your presentations make those of Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic Channel, etc. pale in comparison. Congratulations!
Finally this amazing channel covered my most favourite ocean liner- SS France (1910). Great job! Thank you!
Beautifully produced. So good to see the SS France get some love, too. She's sadly overlooked.
I want to jump into these photos and stay on the ship forever.
Fantastic work, Mike! This is quite the series you have created for us.
I never thought about how the aquatainia was supposed to compete with the olympic class in terms of size and luxury. but now it just makes sense.
This is the man to come to you when you require information about ships !
Always on point
Just today, taking shower, I tried to remember all four-stackers, and then this video came out! Perfect timing, and perfect video. You know how to captivate public, your videos interesting to watch, it's not like dry summary from Wikipedia. And animation of course delight for the eyes!
Great stuff as usual. Thank you
Always look forward to your latest videos and have been itching to see this one. It did not disappoint! There's something about 4 funnels on a ship that cant quite be described - it just looks 'right', and for me the Olympic Class will always be on top with their silhouette. Thanks for such a brilliant documentary and I look forward to the next one! 🙂
there is nothing better than this guy's skill at making videos and his video quality.
Wow Mike ...what can i say ?
You have really outdone yourself this time . Brilliant .....
Well done !!!!
Amazing, well put together video. Congratulations, Mike!
Got to say you folks have done a amazing job.. Honestly can say that is one of the best films I have ever seen about ocean liners
I Can't wait for the second part, thank you ❣.
Absolutely brilliant as always, Mike. It's a true joy watching your content. Thank you so much, mate!
Incredible job, and very well put together! cheers Mike and PRO
"And she was named.. RMS Olympic." Sent chills up and down my spine, so badass. (love your content man, keep pushing it out.)
These documentaries are a joy to watch/listen to. A lot to learn.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
The music was so good! The visuals amazing as always, the information so clear and easy to understand, the history ahhhhh I just love this channel so much!
Mike, another great watch. So much information, and top-notch narration. Speaking of safety, the most dangerous way to travel is by motor vehicle and the safest is by passenger plane figuring deaths per passenger mile, not much information on early 20th century ocean liners but today cruise ships have a good record of deaths per passenger mile. Thanks again for this fine watch........