If anything she was over shadowed by Olympic then Olympic was over shadowed by Titanic while Britannic is just left sitting in he corner

After the Titanic sank, 3 safety laws were passed: 1) Enough lifeboats for all; 2) Wireless must stay on 24 hours and 3) Lifeboat drills required

This is why middle siblings have a hard time been noticed. Even when they are noticed more than their older and/or younger siblings, people question "why?"

This was a great video, but if I may correct a fact that you got wrong in the begging, the fourth funnel of the Olympic class did in fact operate, however rather than venting smoke from the boiler rooms, it vented foul air from the hospital, kitchens, and smoking rooms from the ship. This is why when you look at films of Olympic, you can still see smoke venting from it, just not as much as three forward funnels. Also, as for the QM turning the wheel the wrong way, back in those days ships used tiller commands, which basically meant to turn the opposite way that you were ordered. They used these commands because of the old tiller ships which required you to turn the tiller left in order to turn right.

In the movie when Murdoch says hard to starboard he was using a tiller command, which is basically left is right right is left. It refers to which direction the rudder turns not the wheel.

Most people: My favorite ship is Titanic, whats yours?? Me: O L Y M P I C.

1:53 It's recently been revealed that the 'burn area' was in actuality a reflection of the Titanic's hull's shining coat of paint.

"Closest we'll get to a recreation of the sinking" *Sad Titanic: Honor and Glory Noises*

This was a rare instance where I've missed a premiere.

"Thankfully, i've never come across anyone who's asked: 'wait, the film is based on a real boat?' " Me: *remembering that facebook post about a random guy who says that Canadians are stupid for believing the Titanic was real* thankfully..

Oooh, didnt know you also had a passion for this fine ship, good taste i see

1:32 Actually the Doña Paz only has the highest death toll from a ship sinking during PEACE time Meanwhile the sinking of the MV Whilhelm Gustloff costed the lives of around 9,000 people.

Teacher here - One of my students literally said in a lesson 'wait the film is based on a real ship?' ...i literally face palmed

I must say, I love the thumbnail with those buff funnels topped off with top hats. Top Hat certainly can't compete with that.

This video was one of the best videos on your channel, maybe one of the best ship or Titanic vids ever! Please do more.

In my opinion, there is no disrespect in salvaging items from the Titanic. This is the way we will always be connected to this beautiful ship and the lives that were lost. We can always remember her in her glory when we see these artifacts on display. She

This guy: The Dona Paz was the worst maritime disaster Russia: Laughs in Wilhelm Gustloff

Titanic: is great Britannic: comeing out of a corner Olympic: still in the corner RIP everyone on the Titanic

"Some of which didn't even sink" Aquitania: (in the back) _say it again_

Outstanding as always! I for one remember watching the Titanic 1912 Crash a number of times...

Lovely video! I also recently had thought about why Titanic was much more famous or had more of a legacy then her sister did, and you gave a really great answer!! Nice work on this!

16:24 the order for “hard a starboard” actually meant turn left, “hard a port” meant turn right, this is because of the tiller commands since ships still used them at the time so they they didn’t actually make a mistake to turn away from the iceberg

I find her story and the fate of her sisters is what makes her so famous. I actually got interested in the Titanic when I watched a NOVA episode talking about Britannic, and Ballard trying to find evidence for what sank her over and over again. While Titanic was just a foot note in that episode, the musical score, the narrator's tone, it just intrigued me with how sad and disastrous her sinking was with such a large loss of life for her time. She's a beautiful ship, the hubris surrounding her building, and how she was, I suppose, the first story if a disaster unfolding in realtime that wasn't on some country. Kinda like hearing Apollo 13's issues and knowing that safety is so far away, hearing this disaster unfolding and being unable to do anything to help. The story of the ship who saved her is also kinda interesting. The Carpathia almost broke her engines trying to race to Titanic. Allegedly she wasn't able to go near her top speed after that night. Cunard ships are pretty nice even if they are not as grand as the White Star.

Holy cow I didn't realize this is from terrierstepney until the end of the video. I thought someone else made it. Good job!

Excellent video. I liked the museum footage: I’ve been to Belfast and Southampton but not Cobh, so I’ve added it to my destination list.

I'm actually really happy to see this video. Like most everyone, I started out a fan of Titanic, but if you take away the tragic disaster, the ship itself was relatively unremarkable. I hear all too often that Titanic is or was "the best" but there are other ships out there worth learning about. I myself would say RMS Queen Mary is my favorite.

Amazing video as usual, and very informative. I also LOVE the TATMR jab, HILARIOUS!

For anyone interested, Titanic used the customary ‘Tiller Commands’ for directions. Before wheels, they used tillers to control the rudder (like a leaver directly connected to the rudder - still used on rowing boats etc). The short of it being you move the tiller in the opposite direction that you want the bow to turn. The direction ‘hard to starboard’ meant turn the bow hard to port - directing the helmsman to turn the wheel fully to port. The film is correct. Hope that makes sense. :)

A Moment of silence for Top Hat that can't be an ocean liner. But anyway, great video max, I really loved it :)

Amazing video, though you brought up a question that I hope to answer. The reason Quartermaster Hitchens turned the ship to port when First Officer Murdoch ordered "Hard to starboard" was because, at the time, ships used tiller commands: Pushing the tiller one way would cause the ship to turn the other way. This was changed with the advent of modern rudders in 1923. Surprisingly, even as a kid, I understood the concept of tiller commands. Now, for the obligitary notes on errors in the video, which aren't many. I mean no disrespect to you, but hope to clear things up: The _Olympic_ was launched on October 20, 1910, and the _Titanic_ on May 31, 1911, less than a year later. The reason why there weren't enough lifeboats would not be to save deck space, but because no one could think of such circumstances happening, and even if they did, the end result could have been like the RMS _Republic,_ which took _so_ long to sink that photographs of the damaged area were taken. It would have been a logistical nightmare if the _Titanic_ had enough lifeboats, as the newspapers would no doubt have noticed, and most, if not every ship of the WSL, if not every ocean liner, would have to be withdrawn to put enough lifeboats on board. And while you could knock out that middle section to put more lifeboats, there's nowhere else to put lifeboats in place without stacking them and making the evacuation _more_ complicated. And the last two lifeboats on the actual _Titanic_ had to be floated off as there was no time to launch them. Even the new regulations put in place after the disaster sometimes did more harm than good, as is the case with the SS _Eastland,_ which capsized in port in 1915 due to being too topheavy, ironically partially because she had too many lifeboats. Alright, that's every error I could find, though I do have one final note: I recreated the _TUGS_ liner SS _Vienna,_ as well as the _TTTE_ ship SS _Roxstar_ in MS Paint; I hope to show them off someday.

One thing, the Queen Elizabeth’s sister Queen Mary is now a museum ship in Long Beach, California, USA if you would like to visit.

It does in my opinion, but the other ships like Junyo Maru and Wilhelm Gustloff need more attention.

At 16:29 in terms of tiller command, starboard means to turn the ship port

Nice one, Max. Looking forward to you taking on the movie 😉

Quick thing on the steering. Steering orders where given as tiller commands not wheel commands. I've you imagine a small boat, the tiller is the stick that sticks out the front of the rudder to turn the rudder. To turn to port, you need to push the tiller to starboard. When ships got wheels, you turned the wheel port to turn port but you are still moving the tiller starboard, so the order is given as starboard. Nowadays you give commands to the direction you want to turn rather than tiller commands

Your channel is just my cup of tea (sssiiiiippppp ahh) I love Thomas and steam engines, I love model railways and many years ago I was obsessed with the titanic and sea fairing vessels in general. So this is going to be fun. All That’s needed to complete this is my passion for military equipment!-Das Mann

Great work Max. I too am a Titanic and Lusitania Enthusiast.

Thank you for making this video it's so cool

Excellent video as usual Max and at 20:52 Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine

Britannic and Olympic are so criminally underrated. Olympic had a long and eventful career, surviving the first world war and many different accidents before it was finally scrapped in the 30’s. Britannic could arguably, be considered a miracle of the First World War, due to the fact they were going to pick up wounded rather than drop off wounded, and the large majority of people were able get off the ship(30 deaths due to some frightened Crewman launching the boats to early causing the boats to be sucked into the propellers and torn to shreds). This could have been a much worse result had they had picked up the Wounded before hitting the mine. Ontop of that; there’s also the Lusitania. A ship with arguably a worse fate and a more fucked up story behind its fate, Britain using it as a target to get the US into the war by putting ammunitions on the ship, being taken down by a Torpedo causing two explosions and sinking in 18 minutes, where as Titanic and Britannic had 1 Hour and roughly 2.5 Hours respectively. Don’t even get me started on the Wilhem Gustloff. Does the Titanic deserve to be famous? Yes. But we need to recognize more ship disasters that were arguably worse, and the stories behind them and the Titanic as well. Stephney, Not sure you have seen them, but I recommend you take a look at the Building the Titanic and the Saving the Titanic Documentaries, along with Lusitania Terror at Sea and Britannic 2000. I think you’d love them.

Thank you so much! Finally some other people in the overall trains fandom which cares about ocean liners. I must admit I think Titanic is very over popularized and the actual story has been manipulated by the media but at least its remembered. My favorite liner is Mauritania without a doubt but Olympic is probably in my top ten somewhere. Thanks for a great video, I really enjoyed it!

I remember hearing on a documentary somewhen that there was actually a ship near enough to the Titanic. In those days you had to wind the radio apparatus, the man operating it forgot to do this and so went to bed thinking all was okay. Had he wound the apparatus they would have received the message from the Titanic and more lives could have been saved.

I kinda think of the Lusitania than the Titanic. Because the latter was just a matter of hubris and outdated maritime safety regulations. The Lusitania incident was an intentional attack that changed the rules of war forever.

You are excellent ....... I enjoyed. Thank you for this beautiful movie review.

I am a ship and train enthusiast and I dislike titanic's popularity. I don't hate the ship itself but I think people need to shed light on other ships like RMS Britannia, SS Sirius, SS Great Western, SS Archimedes and the North River Steamboat. Britannia being the first in the cunard fleet, Sirius making the fastest transatlantic voyage of her time, 1 day ahead of the Great Western, Great Western was the first steamship to be built for transatlantic voyages (Great Western is named after the Great Western Railway), Archimedes being the first ship to successfully be driven by a screw propeller and the North River Steamboat was the first commercially successful ship.

I really appreciate this, it almost made me tear up

"Why couldn't I be a liner I wonder." -Tophat

Olympic deserves a lot more recognition

Right now the wreck of the ship is slowing disappearing but her sister ship britannic is still in fine shape though her bow was broke when she impacted on the ocean floor

Not typical video for this channel and watching this in my non-trains channel! Anyways for me Titanic is one of the reason why I continue to be intrested in Ocean liners and transportation in general.

16:28 is historically accurate though. In 1912, tiller commands were still being used. So the commands were kind of switched. Yes, Starboard and Port were still right and left. But the commands Hard a Starboard was giving the command to turn the ship left, and vise versa.

wow, never knew you knew so much about the titanic! and im pretty sure you learned about it faster than me!

That was quite a nice change from steam engines, you know what they say a change is as good as a rest. this opened up a whole lot of stuff to me, I didn’t even come close to knowing half of the of the stuff in this video, so I feel very educated right now thank you. Also I can name 5 boats off the top of my head right now too. Titanic Ten cents Theodore SS Willie Bulstrode

Excellent synopsis / Appreciated your Take...Narration

Honestly, I agree with everything in this video, nice job with the video!

Do you plan on doing a video at some point in the future showcasing the characters from tugs and talking about the type of tugboat or vessel that they're based on

This was amazing! You did a great job. What do you think about making a video about when the steam locomotives were just invented (Steam engine Industrial Revolution)

what can i say! You have done another great video Max! IMO i'd say Titanic, Lusitania and Mary rose are most famous.. Cant wait for the next one!

Me: Hey guy’s do you like my yacht? My friends: OMG IS THAT THE TITANIC?!?!?!?!!??

I missed it I didn't have notifications on :( Also, good job max

Mr. Andrew: YES TALKING ABOUT MY SHIP!!!

32:07 Can you do a video please on the particulars of the World's Dot Contest?!

I love all the little jokes for the Titanic nerds :) The burns, the biggest ship, the novel "The Wreck of the Titan", CoNsPiRaCiEs GaLoRe... . . . .

Man this was spectacular loved how you mentioned the conspiracy theories but like also ignored them it was fun to watch, but I just want to say something: When she struck the berg Andrews first theorised she would capsize since she had got a heavy starboard list, but because of the coal fire (yes it did happen but in no way had effect during the sinking), they had to move coal from the starboard bunkers to the port bunkers and actually helped level out the ship and saved lives, but then Scotland Road on E deck flooded and the ship gained a port list. Also the reason the quatermaster turned it the wrong way was because of tiller command's, you turn the helm to port the ships turns to starboard turn the helm to starboard the ship turns to port so really he steered it the correct way lol.

To put a long story short, she's famous for the wrong reasons. That said considering the story, yeah: she deserves to be remembered. She should be remembered. As Winston Churchill once said: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Love me my trains and Thomas, but thank you for giving Titanic her due this past week. My respect and love for you and your channel has grown even more than it already has. :)

Awesome dude that’s amazing absolutely astounding

Fact is: the passengers have become famous, or were extremely famous at the time. There were heroes and villains, it was a complete story, and a terrible tragedy. There was a reason that tragedies captivate humans: because we learn. She was an utterly beautiful ship.

22:59 Look! It's Sunshine form TUGS!

the background music reminds me of a game i played as a kid

very different from your normal stuff, but still quite good!

i guess this should be interesting, i here'd it a few times, but this time, i'm just gonna skip it since i have other plans to do.

Two inaccuracies I saw in the film: Captain smith dying in the bridge, false he was seen jumping off the bridge wing with Thomas Andrews No port list

13:56 Are there more pictures of the wooden Titanic model?

RMS Titanic will be alive forever ♥ RIP Every one who died on Titanic And the ship itself You all will be missed...😔🙁😟😥☹😭😔😩😓😢😦

Titanic was the 3rd ship I ever found out about but is by far my favourite due to its design and story

I’d say Titanic is so famous because it has one of the greatest irony ever: An unsinkable ship, sinks on its first journey. If that brag wasn’t made, I think it wouldn’t be so talked about. I always enjoy videos of just you talking! Keep it up!

18:43 Geneva Convention? More like Geneva Suggestion...

Right on the Anniversary of the sinking too! Who here likes ships?

A lightship that serves as the inspiration for Lillie Lightship from Tugs and actors as the namesake for the Notorious tramp steamer Nantucket

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That was great in honour of Today Max!

im in that stage of my life being obsessed with the titanic, good video tho

I went there in 2019 and good to see the tweezers still on the bow around 8 mins in hahaha

16:28 they were using tiller commands- so if you wanted to go to the starboard side, you’d turn the wheel to the left. So yes they were right in the movie.

Is that image from The ulster Train museum near Belfast Northern Ireland if so I been to the place

Fun fact: When a u.s. senator inquired on behalf of American passages on board the ship. Ismay the president of white star line tried to send a coded message to basically get him the hell away by encoding his name as Yamsi... yea sooo stealthy. Unfortunately the u.s. Navy intercepted the message and the senator basically ordered him to the inquiry.

Thumbs up for the music.

22:59 sunshine only good for day work is he -tophat 1989

0:18 can you make a story of the rms tayler

Hard of starboard refers to the rudder direction - not the direction of the wheel necessarily.

Hard to starboard command meant turn the tiller to starboard side... so the ship could turn to port and vice versa

Great video. The Olympic really should have been preserved IMO. The design of the Olympic class is the best of it’s era I think.

Hard to starboard, as its a tiller command, means turn the tiller handle to starboard, which turns the ship to PORT

16:33 ship's with sails turns different and that is why they are turning left even if they say right because he is a veteran of a ship with sails Example On sail ship's direction Left=right Right=left

Hard a-starboard means to turn to port. Titanic had no tiller and so to turn to port the wheel must be swung over to port, where once it would have been put hard to starboard.

My mom's coworker is closely related to the violin player that stayed on the ship as it sank.

Will you ever do a review of the Titanic movie?

I like how to hat is in the corner of the thumbnail. hey wait a minute there are top hats on the titanic smoke stacks, what’s really going on here max?

Seeing another Thomas / railway fan be so invested in Titanic is so awesome to see.

When I think of ship disasters, I think of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Indisputably the most nightmarish and tragic ship sinking in human history. 6 times as many souls went down on that ship compared to Titanic, the vessel was filled 5 times over capacity so you can imagine the panic inside, the lights and electricity died instantly, it sank twice as fast as Titanic, began to capsize so few lifeboats could be launched, and it was during a violent storm also in freezing waters.