Heroes of the Titanic (Part 2) Thomas Andrews

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  • Опубликовано: 13 апр 2022
  • In this video we tell the story of the one of the lead designers of the Titanic and explain what he did on the night the Titanic sank in order to save as many lives as possible.
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  • @Dani-xz1uw
    @Dani-xz1uw 2 года назад +71

    I've always felt sorry for Andrews. I imagine he spent his last minutes thinking of how he could've made the ship safer. To see your masterpiece go down with such an enormous loss of life must be devastating.

  • @avidreader70
    @avidreader70 9 месяцев назад +11

    I'm from Northern Ireland and it's worthwhile knowing - while not important to the fate of the Titanic - that Thomas Andrews was also a great gentleman. At a time when Catholics were ill-treated and discriminated against in the north of Ireland he was against sectarianism and treated both Protestant and Catholic workers equally and with respect. He was well admired by both sides of the community which was a very rare thing indeed at that time. A hero and a gentleman.

    • @kaliope1234
      @kaliope1234 6 месяцев назад +1

      I love and am passionate about Irish history, Thomas Andrews and the Titanic. And I would love to know a lot more about Thomas Andrews and his wife.
      In Colombia there is a great historian and chronicler who has a podcast on RUclips and Spotify, where she tells the history of Ireland and the Titanic in detail. This historian is called Diana Uribe.
      And in his story he talks about the plantation of Ulster. Irish history is fantastic and there is a lot to learn from it. GREETINGS FROM COLOMBIA

    • @melissasheppard6674
      @melissasheppard6674 3 месяца назад

      @@kaliope1234 the channel Part-Time Explorer has a video on Thomas Andrews - search Retracing their Footsteps: Thomas Andrews

  • @maxonite
    @maxonite 2 года назад +175

    While I respect Thomas Andrews greatly, the biggest heroes to me personally are the workers who stayed inside the depths of the Titanic to keep the electricity on for as long as possible. They knew they had no chance of survival and yet the kept the lights on until the titanic eventually sank

    • @5capsfilms152
      @5capsfilms152 Год назад +11

      At least he did not use his power to get into a life boat

    • @randyrobertson4686
      @randyrobertson4686 Год назад +5

      Was it true that the band members really played some soothing music on the deck of the ship even as it was going down ? Because regardless of the significance of this, if true, I’m sure that the sound of the instruments soothed the atmosphere to some extent.

    • @maxonite
      @maxonite Год назад +4

      @@randyrobertson4686 Yes its true. They played, among others, Nearer My God To Thee, a common church song at the time. A lot of people actually thought the situation wasn’t too serious because of the band playing

    • @colinmack8655
      @colinmack8655 Год назад +7

      @@randyrobertson4686Eva hart who was seven talked about this. She and her mother survived. Her views are amazing for years she claimed the ship broke in half as it sank and was told that was not true as it was impossible yet when they found the wreck it was split.

    • @mattwilliam5522
      @mattwilliam5522 Год назад

      It was so erotic to see this

  • @TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer
    @TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer 2 года назад +219

    Bruce Ismay: "But this ship can't sink!"
    Thomas Andrews: "She's made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can. And she will." That line from the James Cameron film still gives me chills to this day. Rest in peace, Mr. Andrews! If any one man deserved a lifeboat on Titanic, it was this man.

    • @garygilligan7017
      @garygilligan7017 2 года назад +9

      100% true

    • @randomrazr
      @randomrazr 2 года назад

      I feel like Andrew’s should have jumped into the lifeboat. You think he would so he could make sure this doesn’t happen to Olympic for Britannic

    • @connorredshaw7994
      @connorredshaw7994 2 года назад +30

      Captain Smith: how much time?
      Thomas Andrew's: an hour Two at most
      Captain Smith: and how many aboard Mr Murdoch?
      Murdoch: 2,200 souls onboard sir
      Captain Smith: well I believe you'll get your headlines Mr ismay.
      That dialogue and scene also sends chills down my spine knowing no matter what they do the ship will sink and if they can't get help in time half the people onboard will die.

    • @ChairmanPaulieD
      @ChairmanPaulieD 2 года назад +4

      I would have tried to stop Ismay from boarding the lifeboat or at least call him out about it .. I most likely would have been like Tommy Ryan “Bastard there are women and children down here” 😡🤬

    • @donw3912
      @donw3912 2 года назад +1

      Amen.

  • @brandonpierce9868
    @brandonpierce9868 2 года назад +107

    Also worth noting that Andrews likely could have used his power at any time to get himself into a lifeboat. But he chose to stay behind and save lives instead.

    • @Truecrimeresearcher224
      @Truecrimeresearcher224 2 года назад +1

      Not really. He was considered a passenger meaning he had no power to force himself into a boat

    • @Dani-xz1uw
      @Dani-xz1uw 2 года назад +13

      @@Truecrimeresearcher224 Technically, yes, but both crew and passengers knew very well who he was. He could've made it in one of the last lifeboats if he really wanted to, but he must've felt responsible for the fate of his ship.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 2 года назад +6

      Yeah, he could've pulled a 'Bruce Ismay.'

    • @Frosty98206
      @Frosty98206 2 года назад +1

      The Charcter of a True Hero.

    • @Orly90
      @Orly90 Год назад +4

      @@skyden24195 ismay was put into the boat by Murdoch

  • @IrishTechnicalThinker
    @IrishTechnicalThinker 2 года назад +8

    I had lunch in Mr. Andrews drawing room in Belfast today, our city has a special place in it's heart for her and all her crew.

  • @ScatteredCollector
    @ScatteredCollector 2 года назад +23

    3:39 Thomas Andrews Jr wasn’t exactly relaxing in his cabin (A-36), he was going over his notes he wrote throughout the voyage in what he was going to improve on the ship upon its return to Belfast

  • @Monicalia
    @Monicalia 2 года назад +32

    The way he was described in ''Sea of Glass: the life & loss of rms titanic'' made him sound like a really great, caring man respected by anyone who worked with or for him. This made me even more emotional when I remembered his death on Titanic, especially since he kept talking about his family (his wife was unwell at that time, if I remember correctly) and wishing to see them again. Ahh, RIP you wonderful, wonderful man.

  • @clairefunnell8481
    @clairefunnell8481 2 года назад +16

    Agreed. Captain Smiths body was never found either. It's tonight. Yikes. I'll probably cry. I will never forget Titanic.

  • @GR3G921
    @GR3G921 2 года назад +58

    You forgot to mention that Thomas Andrews yelled at 2nd officer Charles Lightoller for launching the lifeboats half full.

    • @craigmergenthal9291
      @craigmergenthal9291 2 года назад +32

      "RUBBISH! These boats were tested in Belfast with 70 MEN! ..FILL THESE BOATS!" Great line in the 97 movie.

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 2 года назад +5

      yes but did that actually happen?

    • @Truecrimeresearcher224
      @Truecrimeresearcher224 2 года назад +5

      @@MrChickennugget360 he probably yelled at then for not filling the boats. But we won't know exactly what he said

    • @jadsmvs8651
      @jadsmvs8651 2 года назад +8

      @@MrChickennugget360 we know he bailed up a few officers and told them their concerns about weight were not valid but we don't know what he said or exactly who he was talking to.

    • @jkephart4624
      @jkephart4624 4 месяца назад +3

      "But Mr Andrews most the passengers on that life boat are fat chicks"
      Thomas Andrews-" oh,well captain Smith didn't mention that part"

  • @js3599
    @js3599 2 года назад +79

    I think you should do much more then just 3 episodes in this "heroes of the Titanic" series. There were so many heroes that night that deserve to be recognized. I don't think this project should dominate your time or channel, just drop in a new video or two here and there, whether regularly scheduled or even just whenever you have time to do it, and then and move on to other projects of interest, and come back later on, with more stories of the heroic deeds on the Titanic. Multiple short stories per video would be fine.

    • @robvangessel3766
      @robvangessel3766 2 года назад +3

      Just over the last year or so I learned abt the stokers and electricians below deck, who gave every last possble second for passengers to get off the ship. Their story beats the hell out of movie fictionalized accounts, esp. Cameron's idiotic chick flick.

  • @chrittonscott
    @chrittonscott 2 года назад +20

    Thomas Andrews was the Paul Revere of the Titanic, had he not been the one to raise the alarm there’s no telling how long it would have taken to learn she was sinking

    • @heatherlynsey3092
      @heatherlynsey3092 2 года назад +5

      I’ve thought about how long it would’ve taken someone to come to the grim conclusion had it not been the maiden voyage. Having him on board was really a blessing, as sad as it is that he lost his life too.

  • @TheCombatWombat0
    @TheCombatWombat0 2 года назад +17

    Crazy to think that here we are 110 years later, still remembering and honoring the memory of the heros, crew, passengers and Titanic herself. May they never be forgotten and that they rest in peace. Keep telling their stories and making videos. 🕊

  • @jetsons101
    @jetsons101 2 года назад +15

    Thomas Andrews was a seen hero, but I feel for all the unseen crewman that stayed below decks that keep the lights on and the pumps going to help slow down the sinking, if only my minutes. Great watch Sam, thanks for your time and work...

    • @littlegamer00
      @littlegamer00 2 года назад +1

      Do you really think he dose not know about the men who stayed bellow decks?

    • @jetsons101
      @jetsons101 2 года назад +1

      @@littlegamer00 ????? Are you angry? Of course I know that he knows, it's called "posing a thought" for others to think about.

  • @chelseameade3521
    @chelseameade3521 2 года назад +20

    The postal workers were last seen trying to drag the mail up the stairs. They thought Titanic had about 8 hours even though it had less than 3

  • @self-advocacychampions1117
    @self-advocacychampions1117 2 года назад +80

    Today is April 14, It is the anniversary of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic.

    • @simonbaker2501
      @simonbaker2501 2 года назад +3

      Titanic did not deserve to sink rip titanic 😢

    • @simondman3233
      @simondman3233 2 года назад +5

      No she ran into the iceburg today she sank april 15.

    • @simonbaker2501
      @simonbaker2501 2 года назад +3

      Titanic sank in 1912 we are in 2022

    • @simonbaker2501
      @simonbaker2501 2 года назад +2

      @UCfBjxD4wEyCbLxi2oGKUEnQ I suppose if Titanic hit the iceberg head on instead of going a sideways it would have survived do you agree

    • @PinkPatriot
      @PinkPatriot 2 года назад +3

      Technically she sank on April 15th 😉 but that’s just me being not-picky. 😂 RIP beautiful ship and all those poor souls on the ship.

  • @edenmoon8275
    @edenmoon8275 2 года назад +13

    Thomas Andrews was most certainly the biggest hero and I can only imagine how devastated he was, it must have been surreal seeing knowing his work was going to be no more. I always think about him when I think about the Titanic

  • @ellennewth6305
    @ellennewth6305 2 года назад +26

    Andrews' knowledge of the ship, as well as his courage throughout the disaster is to be commended. His insistence on filling those lifeboats meant many people were saved who otherwise would have perished. May this heroic gentleman R.I.P. Excellent vlog, Sam!

  • @dwood78part23
    @dwood78part23 2 года назад +12

    Great video. & just in time for the 110th anniversary of it's sinking!
    RIP, Andrews, Captain Smith, & the 1500 others who didn't survive.

  • @LDDavis911
    @LDDavis911 2 года назад +8

    Given the conditions, the crew performed admirably.

  • @SezFrancis1
    @SezFrancis1 2 года назад +37

    Well done, Sam! You brought Thomas’s story true justice here! Thomas’s story that most people hear is based from romanticism and while some bits are true, a lot of the reality can sometimes be cruelly snatched away or covered up. But the truth is that reality can be just as fascinating too; and people can still be heroes no matter what people hear or believe. Thomas Andrews was truly a great man and a hero, without a shadow of a doubt 🙂

    • @TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer
      @TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer 2 года назад +3

      Hello, Sez! I saw part one of your documentary, Titanic: Titan of the Sea and I thought it was very well done!

    • @sftrkrt07
      @sftrkrt07 2 года назад +1

      The mic drop heard around the world.

    • @SezFrancis1
      @SezFrancis1 2 года назад +1

      @@TheSuperSaiyan4Gamer thank you so much Dork n’ Beanz glad you enjoyed it 🙂

    • @SezFrancis1
      @SezFrancis1 2 года назад +2

      @@gregmorgan7281 okay you need to take the swearing down a notch, mate

    • @sftrkrt07
      @sftrkrt07 2 года назад

      @@gregmorgan7281 should say Greg Moron

  • @NegiTaiMetal011
    @NegiTaiMetal011 2 года назад +18

    It's nice to see you did do Thomas Andrews. Really admirable of his actions to the last.
    Hopefully the wireless operators and some more story of Frederick Barrett will be next?

    • @renehoude96
      @renehoude96 2 года назад +4

      To me Frederick Barrett he is also a hero. He was down lower in the boilers room , managing the operation, so they tried get steam for getting electricity, for the lighting and the Marconi. Of course these guys were not in the upper deck to be seen by the passengers.

    • @thecomedypilot5894
      @thecomedypilot5894 2 года назад +1

      I really think he should do the wireless operator. I mean, he's the reason why all the survivors survived.

  • @donw3912
    @donw3912 2 года назад +4

    He did indeed design a beautiful ship and the design was sound as Olympic served her full life with a couple of tweaks along the way...most after Titanic. Rest in peace sir.

  • @TheLoneWolf_andCoyote
    @TheLoneWolf_andCoyote 2 года назад +4

    I bet Thomas Andrews 'Sh_t a Brick' once he discovered the Fourpeak, 3 cargo holds, boiler room 6+5 were busted. Especially when he pushed the Harland & Wolff motto "she's practically unsinkable". Just imagining a brand new vessel was turned from a magnificent floating palace into scrap metal in only 8 seconds. The story of the Titanic will live forever I wrote a report about it for school back in 1986 I remember pulling books from the library and combing the cart catalog. Jeez I'm a dinosaur but I remember reading 2 books about the construction of the Harland & Wolff Olympic class liners the photographs were amazing and the manpower outstanding for the beginning of the industrial revolution. 110 years already and the story never gets old.

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 2 года назад +1

      Its Amazing the world we live in today- When i was a kid the best i could hope for was a new book from the Library with new cutaway drawings. Now they have full sized Digital models so you can walk though the ship end to end and explore the whole thing- Or it is to be hoped they soon we will. My Child Self could only imagine.

  • @zottffss
    @zottffss 4 месяца назад

    Andrews and the engineers deserve equal credit for their heroics. The engineers provided as much time as possible for the ship to send distress signals and stay alive. Andrews was the first to confirm and acknowledge his "unsinkable" masterpiece would founder, and then he tried to save as many peeps as possible by sending them to safety in the lifeboats. He did everything he could, and, probably feeling severe guilt for his "failure" to build a safe, strong vessel, went down with the ship. He definitely deserved to live longer though. He treated every human he encountered with incredible respect as well. He was well-liked by almost anyone who came across him.

  • @MyukiChan
    @MyukiChan 2 года назад +8

    Would be nice a video about Murdoch, since he saved a lot of lives and ended up being shown as a corrupt officer that shot passengers on Cameron's movie.

  • @PinkPatriot
    @PinkPatriot 2 года назад +3

    Today is the 110th anniversary since the Titanic hit the ice burg. At 2:20am the following day, April 15th, she went beneath the seas. Truly gut-wrenching. At least we all still cherish and honor her 110 years later. Never forget

  • @musicjoe7217
    @musicjoe7217 2 года назад +14

    Awesome man! I’ve loved Thomas Andrew and are very familiar of what he did during the Titanic’s story. The 1997 film portraits him really well and is one of my favourite characters. Keep up the good work Sam!

  • @BDavis820
    @BDavis820 Год назад +2

    I LOVE Thomas Andrews, pre the movie, from the moment I became a Titanic buff. Thank you for this. I agree with others that the crew were real heroes and the guys who kept the lights on. But my gosh, Tommie has my heart. He must have felt so responsible and yet he must have been thinking about leaving his wife and baby Elba. He tried to save as many people as he could.

  • @matthewalker
    @matthewalker 2 года назад +17

    I can't imagine spending the last hours of your life not only knowing you were doomed but possibly also feeling the guilt of so many lives. Maybe he felt he had to redeem himself as much as possible.

  • @josephconnor2310
    @josephconnor2310 2 года назад +2

    Great point about Thomas andrews saving all the lives he did.

  • @stevenwade7466
    @stevenwade7466 2 года назад +9

    Mr Andrew's would not of gotten into a lifeboat if any other person was still on board the ship .

  • @douglasgriffiths3534
    @douglasgriffiths3534 2 года назад +4

    Yep, Mr. Andrews truly was one of the greatest heroes in the disaster. He saved a lot of people. I also have the book "On a Sea of Glass", and am still reading it. Great video as always, Sam. (Jan Griffiths).

  • @MoochSama
    @MoochSama 2 года назад +6

    Another awesome video Sam. But yeah, Mr. Andrews is certainly a hero for doing everything that was in his power to save as many people as possible.

  • @darrylwellman1839
    @darrylwellman1839 2 года назад +2

    Great story facts . Thomas Andrews .. yes a Hero . RIP .

  • @joshwilkinson947
    @joshwilkinson947 2 года назад +22

    Yeah, see, as intense as Titanic story is, and how tragic and horrifying the death toll was, its crazy to think how much 'worse' it could have been. Sure, there could have been more lifeboats, and sure, they could've been filled to a higher capacity, but I've learnt from watching your videos Sam that its actually a miracle EVERY lifeboat actually got launched in time. A lot of things went wrong that night, but also some things went right in that dire situation, allowing the amount (albeit a relatively small percentage) of people to actually survive. Thanks for the great content.

    • @heatherlynsey3092
      @heatherlynsey3092 2 года назад +4

      I agree. If the ship sank any faster, they wouldn’t have been able to save near as many as they did.

    • @MikaelLV
      @MikaelLV Год назад +2

      Among non Titanic-enthusiasts it's a very far spread misconception that more lifeboats would have made a huge difference that night. The ship was 20 minutes or so away from sinking when the last lifeboat was launched from the davits. The collapsible boats barely made it off minutes before the final plunge.
      It would have given more people a chance to survive, but most of the extra boats would have gone down with the ship anyway.

  • @joemotes
    @joemotes Год назад +1

    Sam, another great documentary. Thanks.

  • @lindagoodswin9519
    @lindagoodswin9519 2 года назад +2

    Hi sam thank you so much for doing Thomas Andrews, My hero from the Titanic i would love to have met him.

    • @BDavis820
      @BDavis820 Год назад +1

      He was soooo cute. I would have loved to have met him and just listened to him talk about shipbuilding.

  • @haloguru2552
    @haloguru2552 2 года назад +2

    The engineers and electricians knowingly sacrificing themselves to keep the lights on to the last second is just as if not more heroic.

  • @tahlerhill3027
    @tahlerhill3027 2 года назад +1

    As a child I was fully fascinated with the titanic, now at the age of 30 you have once again got me hooked and I am watching every video you have done on the ship. The content is amazing, please keep the videos coming! Take care and sending love from Sheffield UK

  • @thesealsharkproductions9780
    @thesealsharkproductions9780 2 года назад +1

    I’m doing Thomas andrews for a living wax museum, thanks for a 110th anniversary of the R.M.S. Titanic, thanks

  • @Electriceye1984bySam
    @Electriceye1984bySam 2 года назад

    Always intriguing Sam!
    Thx! More! More!

  • @frasermcgeough
    @frasermcgeough 2 года назад +3

    Today I went to the Titanic museum in Belfast and it was sad and awesome, The Nomadic was awesome it was so cool! Soon I will be posting my vlog like video

  • @chaoticXmisfit
    @chaoticXmisfit 2 года назад +2

    Crazy to think how much worse that disaster would've been had he'd not been on that ship that night. Bless him

  • @rtyuu999
    @rtyuu999 2 года назад +2

    At 11pm, I told my brother 110 years ago right now Titanic hit the iceberg. And then just now at 5am, I told my parents and sister who woke up that 110 years ago right now the Titanic survivors could see the rescue ship (The Carpathia) coming to rescue them

  • @kaneki-ken96
    @kaneki-ken96 2 года назад +2

    Tonight, in my Spanish time zone, I'll be awake from 23'40 until 2'20 remembering the tragedy 😢🚢

  • @randomrazr
    @randomrazr 2 года назад +7

    Imagine the weight in andres shoulders. He knew full well if another ship didn’t come help, half the people were expected to die . No wonder he gave second officier huge shit for not filing the lifeboats

  • @GachaticStudios
    @GachaticStudios Год назад +1

    Everything I see Victor Garber In Any Film, I instantly shout out "Mr. Andrews!".

  • @davidhackett3079
    @davidhackett3079 2 года назад +3

    Sam I had a question that I have never seen asked by anyone.
    Due to the coal bunkers moving coal to Port side of Titanic I believe quite a bit was moved, it caused the Titanic to list slightly to port.
    When the iceberg hit the Titanic the hull on the Starboard side was raised up more so that they iceberg scraped the lowest part of the hull rather than higher on the hull which caused more water to fill compartments faster.
    Had berg sliced compartments if ship was even keel then maybe damage would not have been as much below water line.
    Your thoughts???

  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 Год назад

    MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo.

  • @ascal2877
    @ascal2877 2 года назад +2

    While he died heroically, he was still on the deck and had a chance, the engineers below had zero chance. They died trying to keep power on and pump water out.

    • @Dani-xz1uw
      @Dani-xz1uw 2 года назад +4

      I read somewhere that some engineers were seen standing together on the upper decks towards the end of the sinking. Sadly, all lifeboats were gone by the time they left the engine room. Brave men, all of them.

  • @Benjiro382
    @Benjiro382 2 года назад

    Sup dude! I just wanted to thank you for the content.
    I am an autistic person and in times of shutdown, the titanic subject is something that makes me feel good, thank you very much for your dedication in bringing all this information.

  • @randyrobertson4686
    @randyrobertson4686 Год назад +1

    So the scene portrayed in the movie of Andrews rolling out the blue prints and announcing ,with much confidence… that would undoubtedly command attention and respect due to the fact the present company understood his knowledge of Titanic, was a work fiction?? Him stating , after an individual comments that Titanic is unsinkable, that “She is made of iron and steel and I assure you she can and will sink”. I may have botched the quote a bit but it has been over 15 years since I seen the movie, however I always remembered that moment in the film, whether fact or fiction ,and thought about how this man must have felt when the realization of the gravity of the situation fully came to fruition. He seemed to be extremely humble but one can imagine a man with such high expectations for the behemoth of a ship that he realized and drafted, along with others, but I can’t help but think that he felt like he let everyone down. Because he was incapable of saving the ship…and of course in the state it was in nobody could, and I am truly just speculating but I believe that he felt that way in some sense. Apparently he never even sought refuge on a life boat…that is truly admirable and something I question whether I could have done the same.

  • @connorredshaw7994
    @connorredshaw7994 2 года назад

    Great video today can't wait for part time explorers 110 anniversary real time sinking stream tonight even though I'm in Tenerife for another four days great to see you doing a great video on Thomas Andrew's and his involvement during the evening and morning of April 14th and 15th 1912 may he never be forgotten and may he forever rest in peace

  • @AtheAetheling
    @AtheAetheling 2 года назад +8

    I recall one of the inaccuracies of the Titanic movie was that they gave Andrews the completely wrong accent; he would have had a Northern Irish accent, or an Anglo-Irish 'English' accent depending on certain factors (I lean towards the first personally), but they gave him a Southern Irish brogue for some reason; I wonder if this was a mistake or something to suit audience expectation.

    • @laylaleannejepson7
      @laylaleannejepson7 2 года назад +1

      I remember thinking that he didn't sound Irish in the film 😕

    • @AtheAetheling
      @AtheAetheling 2 года назад +1

      @@espressobongo9975 Yeah, he definitely considered himself British, as many in Northern Ireland did and do, of course.
      We have to guess at what his accent was to a certain degree... but the recording of his brother, and the fact that the family wasn't part of the nobility but part of the affluent Northern Irish middle classes make me lean heavily towards a Northern Irish accent. But we know for sure what his accent was NOT, and that would have been a Southern one.
      You know, I don't really want to claim the movie as anti-British in any way, but with things like Andrews' accent, the Murdoch scene that rightfully caused huge outrage, etc...It does sort of feel as though the movie wanted to appeal to a certain 'Stuffy British people bad' mentality common in movies at that time.
      Come to think of it, did they even given Murdoch a Scottish accent? I don't remember. He was from a long line of very proud Scottish sailors.

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 2 года назад +5

      @@AtheAetheling its funny but accents of Britian and Ireland are a bit of a mystery to Americans. Give Bruce Ismay a Cockney accent, Capt. Smith a Welsh accent and of course Mr. Bell a Scottish accent (no matter wear he is from he works in an Engine Room and thus to Americans must have a Scottish Accent since he has to Yell to the Capt. "I haven't got the Power" )

  • @punchgod9922
    @punchgod9922 2 года назад +2

    It hurts me every time I hear Andrews and Smith went into this state of shock. they knew what was ahead and they knew if they couldn’t get everyone off the boat they’d more than likely have to go down with the ship smh kills me

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for the new items on Captain smith and Andrew's! When they went over smith had no lifebelt so omce the cold got him pretty quick and he just went down to the bottom of the ocean. Andrew's had his lifebelt on why his body was not found is a mystery. The cold water killed him ten or 15 minutes later. The labordur current must have taken his body away down the ocean like others. Well 705 servived
    out of 1500 people. Which means no lifebelt they just went to sleep and went down into the ocean while the rest went with Thomas Andrews. Once in the cold water they just like went to sleep on 10 to 15 minutes. Maybe more should have drank alcohol like the Baker did as vodka does not freeze in the freezer.

  • @Starbeamers
    @Starbeamers 2 года назад +3

    I followed Sam’s advice a while ago and got a copy of « On a Sea of Glass ». I highly recommend it to you too!

  • @dishsoap1
    @dishsoap1 2 года назад +1

    I’ve been holding off buying On a Sea of Glass, cause I really want it in hardcover.

  • @DukeOfCoolburg
    @DukeOfCoolburg 2 года назад +2

    i have a *REALLY* weird idea for a video
    Do a skit as a passenger or crew member on the RMS Titanic while sinking and attenpting to survive

  • @frasermcgeough
    @frasermcgeough 2 года назад +1

    Your videos are so cool! You sound like somebody in a documentary!

  • @danhenry8163
    @danhenry8163 2 года назад +2

    110 years ago today wow

  • @shannonmcnalley8380
    @shannonmcnalley8380 2 года назад

    Hey Sam thanks for recommending this book. I finally got me a copy of it about 2 to 3 weeks ago give or take

  • @brennanorca3630
    @brennanorca3630 2 года назад +2

    Thomas is definitely my top favorite hero's of titanic
    Also
    Hey sam did you know 110 years ago today a ship ran out of alcohol this all happened and get this one man caused this to happen

  • @ThomasWilde3003
    @ThomasWilde3003 2 года назад +1

    Me and my friends are going to the Titanic museum tomorrow, in Orlando, Florida.

  • @rileybridgham1963
    @rileybridgham1963 2 года назад

    I love your videos.

  • @Timemachine-vd2vu
    @Timemachine-vd2vu 2 года назад +1

    I love you the titanic so much today is the anniversary of the RSM titanic sad day to day 😢

  • @laylaleannejepson7
    @laylaleannejepson7 2 года назад

    I love how you have your mum's books on display among your white star line/Cunard stuff 🙂

  • @ayanghosh7597
    @ayanghosh7597 2 месяца назад

    I have always wondered if Thomas Andrews and Captain Smith were swimming in the water and saw the breakup of Titanic and its final sinking, given the last sighting of Andrews and Smith jumping from the bridge was minutes before the Titanic took its final plunge. That would have been soul-crushing for both men, one who built it, and one who was in charge of its safety at sea. Such an utterly heartbreaking moment it must have been for both.

  • @mattobrien7794
    @mattobrien7794 2 года назад +1

    Thomas Andrew's the true vip

  • @alexjaep6396
    @alexjaep6396 Год назад +3

    Quick Question. If Thomas Andrews and his team were not on board, would the crew have known the ship was doomed? Or would the crew have erroneously believed the ship was too well built?

  • @gailwatson4927
    @gailwatson4927 2 года назад

    Thanks Sam

  • @phillips2683
    @phillips2683 2 года назад +3

    It didn’t matter who they had onboard, they didn’t have enough LIFE BOATS!!!

    • @PelsckoPelesko
      @PelsckoPelesko Год назад +1

      More like they didn’t have enough TIME, did you see Collapsible A and B? They barely made it off, before 4 minutes later, the ship had split

    • @chuckschafer942
      @chuckschafer942 Год назад

      @@PelsckoPelesko THEY WERE NOT LAUNCHED THEY FLOATED THEM OFF

  • @brookierafter7651
    @brookierafter7651 2 года назад +2

    Hi! I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I really enjoy them! I have an idea for a series of videos. Maybe you could do videos on different passengers, like history videos of them and if they survived the disaster or not. I also think a video on titanic’s unknown child would be interesting! Have a nice day!

    • @ChairmanPaulieD
      @ChairmanPaulieD 2 года назад

      The UNKNOWN child was decades later identified as Sidney Goodwin the ONLY victim of the Goodwin family who’s body was found. His siblings and parents bodies we’re NEVER recovered from the Mackay Bennett two days after the sinking

  • @davinp
    @davinp 2 года назад +6

    A lifeboat drill was scheduled for the morning of April 4, 1912, but Captain Smith cancelled it for unknown reasons. Maybe he thought it was too cold or that he didn't want to interrupt Sunday services. As a result, the officers didn't have experience to lower the lifeboats that night. They were not lowered completely full. If all the lifeboats were filled to capacity another 300 lives could have been saved.

    • @PelsckoPelesko
      @PelsckoPelesko 2 года назад +2

      400*

    • @thomasackerman5399
      @thomasackerman5399 2 года назад +1

      @@PelsckoPelesko 473, at minimum, actually given the total capacity of 1,178. It's possible given the calm seas that overfilling the boats slightly might've been possible.
      The big problem remains boats A and B up on the rooftop of the officers quarters and getting them down off of it in anything resembling a reasonable amount of time and then getting them to davits for launch.

    • @thomasackerman5399
      @thomasackerman5399 2 года назад +2

      As usual, you're more wrong than right, and omit a lot of information in favor of some upvotes. There had already been a boat drill at Southampton and more had been done:
      www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/the-forgotten-drills-aboard-titanic.html
      All 14 of the clinker and the 2 cutter boats (16 total) were lowered and six went into the water all the way, the rest were partially lowered just before Titanic departed Belfast for Ireland and then a drill using two boats was conducted on the day the ship set sail but before departure at Southampton.
      So while it might've been helpful, it wasn't as if the crew and officers had no experience whatsoever.

    • @littlegamer00
      @littlegamer00 2 года назад

      I'm not sure about this. However, I do belive most officers would have done a boat drill on a different ship before

  • @juano305
    @juano305 Год назад

    What a legend🌹🌹🌹

  • @TwistedTattoo.WarShorts
    @TwistedTattoo.WarShorts 2 года назад

    Very interesting Sam👍🇬🇧

  • @saylorschnase9868
    @saylorschnase9868 Год назад

    my fav chartor it thomas andrews

  • @thefuriousgamer2553
    @thefuriousgamer2553 2 года назад +1

    110 years later at 11:40PM history was changed, forever…

  • @lloydknighten5071
    @lloydknighten5071 2 года назад +6

    I did my annual, April 14th viewing of A Night To Remember today. I first saw it 45 years ago; and I am still impressed by it today, Although everyone loves Titanic (1995) for it's stunning special affects and the "love story, " A Night To Remember was the Gold Standard for Titanic movies. William Mc Quittie, with the technology they had in 1958, did a very credible job with the models, historically accurate sets, and special affects. I, personally feel that A Night To Remember was an apology for that awful Titanic (1955) starring Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwick, and Robert Wagner.

    • @ChairmanPaulieD
      @ChairmanPaulieD 2 года назад +1

      that’s the film I’m wanting to watch again

    • @babirhussain8361
      @babirhussain8361 2 года назад +2

      1997

    • @lloydknighten5071
      @lloydknighten5071 2 года назад +1

      @@babirhussain8361 Thanks for the correct year

    • @douglasgriffiths3534
      @douglasgriffiths3534 2 года назад +4

      I have both movies, and watched them both----A Night to Remember on the 14th, and Titanic on the 15th. I love both movies equally. (Jan Griffiths).

  • @CH-gr7tn
    @CH-gr7tn 2 года назад +1

    I hope you try to make one of Bruce Ismay, Wallace Hartley, or The Strausses.

  • @nicholaschouinard8083
    @nicholaschouinard8083 2 года назад

    #HistoricTravels you should do a video about the Princess sophia a ship witch sank around the west coast of BC/Alaska very interesting story!

  • @suzannezethner8180
    @suzannezethner8180 2 года назад

    I absolutely 💯 agree.

  • @lexitdn
    @lexitdn 2 года назад +1

    Hey Sam I have fully built my Lego Titanic and it tuck me 9days to do 🚢

  • @joeyblurton6196
    @joeyblurton6196 2 года назад +1

    An interesting fact that people have forgotten overtime the the taken the birth of a legend documentary documentary they mentioned the original designer Alexander Montgomery Carlisle.
    In the documentary he wanted 64 lifeboats In the documentary he wanted 64 lifeboats. So after he didn't get what he wanted he was decided to quit that was the last shift he ever designed I suggest to anyone who has never seen the documentary a Titanic birth of legend it's right in the documentary itself.

  • @laylaleannejepson7
    @laylaleannejepson7 2 года назад +2

    I will be watching James Cameron's Titanic on Friday 15th April. ♥️

  • @joew6277
    @joew6277 2 года назад +1

    It’s almost as if the ship being built to resist sinking may have cost more lives. Unless of course it also did help delay sinking enough. If it was known to sink no matter what, they would have boarded boats sooner but also probably went down quicker so I guess it’s hard to say.

  • @jaredpatterson1701
    @jaredpatterson1701 2 года назад +1

    I wonder if they could've somehow sailed back to the berg to use it in propping the ship up in some way

  • @hallenpark
    @hallenpark 2 года назад +1

    Hey Sam, I love ur videos! Great work. Sam where can I get those cool Titanic models. I am looking for a wooden style. I am redecorating my study and the titanic model would look great. Many thanks. Sam perhaps you should offer a series of models on you mech page .. Just a thought..

  • @Marc-dj5fk
    @Marc-dj5fk 8 месяцев назад

    In Titanic they never actually depicted him staying in the smoking room until the end. That was just when the movie's main characters last saw him.

  • @iiKolin
    @iiKolin 2 года назад +1

    Tonight’s the night boys

  • @owengifkins995
    @owengifkins995 2 месяца назад

    I am pretty sure that Thomas Andrews only noticed the engines stopping and not the collision. His cabin which was on the A deck level inside the aft grand staircase was pretty far back and on the port side. I doubt I could have ever felt the collision. He likely left when he felt the engines stop.

  • @SpiderMan-xg1bj
    @SpiderMan-xg1bj 2 года назад +2

    Ah man it’s the anniversary of the titanic sinking

  • @starrsmith3810
    @starrsmith3810 2 года назад

    I got far too excited when I saw the name of this video 😂

  • @easternyellowjacket276
    @easternyellowjacket276 Год назад +1

    Kind of would have been important for Andrews to live. He could have relayed much vital information on the sinking which most probably would have further positively impacted maritime safety going forward. Him not surviving and taking that knowledge with him served no advantage to anyone.

  • @elisekehle8520
    @elisekehle8520 4 месяца назад

    For those wondering, the "you see" is at 10:32

  • @HuskieFan321
    @HuskieFan321 2 года назад

    Hey historic travels can you do a video if the titanic should have hit the ice burg dead on instead of turning?

  • @kineuhansen8629
    @kineuhansen8629 2 года назад

    funny how andrew actor went from titanic to netflix flash tv series and now he an admiral in orville

  • @Vincent5482
    @Vincent5482 2 года назад +2

    for all that died on the night of April 14th 1912 and to the steamer R.M.S TITANIC of the white star line and to all that died at sea past and future they may be dead but they are still here

  • @ThomasWilde3003
    @ThomasWilde3003 2 года назад +1

    Nice shirt BTW bro...