How A Luxury Ship Gets Built In 6 Months - Part 1 | Britain's Greatest Ships

How A Luxury Ship Gets Built In 6 Months - Part 1 | Britain's Greatest Ships | Spark

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4 жыл бұрын

The Queen Elizabeth will be one of Britain’s greatest ships. The new pride of the Cunard Line is being built at a cost of £350 million. This documentary gives privileged access to the construction of an exciting new generation of ocean-going liners; a 92,000-tonne ship designed to double as a transatlantic express and a cruise ship. Our cameras were there at the laying of her keel; we follow the building of her superstructure, the installation of the massive engines, the fitting out of sumptuous staterooms, recruitment of exceptional staff - from the captain down. This is a story of great engineering endeavour, brought alive by unique archive film of the first Queen Elizabeth and the legendary Queen Mary. It will intrigue and fascinate those who love tales of the sea; of giant ships and of maritime engineering and of the human side of creating and manning one of the world’s greatest ships.
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@olivierl72 4 жыл бұрын

This ship is not an ocean liner, but a cruise liner. It is the sister ship of other Carnival ships. Only Queen Mary 2 is an ocean liner and the only one in service since the retirement of Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969) in 2008.

@patrickbrookings 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing to watch! Waiting impatiently for Part 2 ;)

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Patrick Brookings its on KZfaq.

@DavidWorthington-sc5je Ай бұрын

(?XhD?😊 of! By by😊 mean too my love . 25:06 25:06 my de@@TheCed5000 as in

@zhubajie6940 4 жыл бұрын

I miss the QE 1. Use to visit, several times, when she was at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

@woody41165 4 жыл бұрын

@33:38 the artist says he wanted to be an engineer but his maths ability is virtually nonexistent. That may be the case as he claims but his artistic painting skills certainly make up for any shortfall in his mathematical ability. His paintings are exceptional.

@kenolsen1845 4 жыл бұрын

Five days, WOW !

@bryce4589 2 жыл бұрын

Does the voice sound like Carson from Downton Abbey??

@pearyo7085 3 жыл бұрын

My father had sailed with the QE2 for almost 10 years before the ship's sold to a dubai company and my dad said it was an honor

@deeremeyer1749 3 жыл бұрын

All by himself?

@pearyo7085 3 жыл бұрын

Wrong grammar im gonna edit it

@pearyo7085 3 жыл бұрын

I just put with

@monsterkillsports3499 4 жыл бұрын

Fincantieri is the biggest shipbuilder in Europe.. Cruises.. Military Vessels And Mega Yachts.

@cats0182 4 жыл бұрын

Don't really give a damn. The US had shipyards that built American ocean liners. Britain had the Harland and Wolfe yards that built the Cunard Liners.; the remains of that yard apparently are still around. British and American workers building their "national flag" ships. And let's not forget British and American crews manning their national flag ships.

@monsterkillsports3499 4 жыл бұрын

@@cats0182 same for the italians.. SINCE 1492 D.C..

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Cats01 Fincantieri owns US shipyards too

@OrnumCR Жыл бұрын

At 31:10, there’s a painting of the three German giants of Hamburg-Amerika at Southampton Docks in 1922. I believe one of the only times the three great sisters were seen together in the one place. By this time though, they’d been appropriated by the Allies as war reparations. Originally the three great sisters-all much larger than the Titanic and her Olympic Class sisters-were (nearest in the painting to furtherest away) USS Leviathan of the United States Lines ex Vaterland, Cunard’s RMS Berengaria ex Imperator and lastly White Star’s RMS Majestic ex Bismarck. Each was larger than the last. Imperator was the first of the class, and the smallest followed by Vaterland and lastly Bismarck. Hamburg-Amerika’s Albert Ballin, their sponsor and builder, was so heartbroken at losing his three great ships to the Allies at the cessation of hostilities at the end of World War One, that he ended up taking his life over it. A man truly committed to his ships, and quite a lovely colour painting of a famous photo…

@pozspeakerau 4 жыл бұрын

In fact QE2 was actually christened "Queen Elizabeth the Second" (II), by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which was not what Cunard wanted, her majesty named the after "herself", Cunard to save face, apparently, coined the name QE2, and she's need known as Queen Elizabeth 2, ever since. You can Google the launch of QE2, and see the launch...

@shaded076 Жыл бұрын

0:08 we can immediately notice a lack of knowledge about which is a cruise ship and which is an ocean liner (superliners count as those)

@angelacenac7341 2 жыл бұрын

6 months to build a ship.....WOW

@giovannirastrelli9821 3 жыл бұрын

This documentary really enjoyed cropping all over the original Queen Elizabeth.

@lfranco1975 2 жыл бұрын

Is the comentator, Jim carter, the buttler "Mr. Carson" from the "Downton Abbey" series?

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

Mmm. No, he just happens to speak English. That's why you can understand him.

@richardeasther2569 3 жыл бұрын

If the world’s resources aren’t limitless then why as everything else on earth limitless?

@alexanderkleinschmidt9944 4 жыл бұрын

Part 2?

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Alexander Kleinschmidt its there.

@keithnewton8981 4 жыл бұрын

She not a cruise liner she s cruise ship, a liner has a very different hull configuration. Liners are stronger than cruise ship. The QM2 is a liner

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Keith Newton The QV AND QE were built with extra steel in the hull. If you look the GT between the HAL and Costa ships is different.

@giovannirastrelli9821 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCed5000 The freeboard is also higher than on other Vista ships. QV and QE are basically hybrids.

@rodneyalicaway1438 2 жыл бұрын

Titanic next please 🙏

@Zifiron 3 жыл бұрын

I can hear Darth Vader narrating this

@heathcox1286 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the guy from Downton Abbey

@shadowraith1 4 жыл бұрын

Not that it matters. Not being built in Britain will always be a black smudge on the ship.

@tobyw9573 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps BREXIT and a reduction in the welfare state will change business conditions for the better.

@Edgetravelguy 2 жыл бұрын

She not an ocean liner- but a cruise ship. She cannot cross the Atlantic in 5 days- no way!

@ryanmarshall8925 4 жыл бұрын

Its British buuuut its built in Italy, well its a British company, buuuuut the company is owned by Americans, well we have a bunch of British artists decorating it... ItS bRiTiSh!!!

@sebwilkins 3 жыл бұрын

So shouldnt it be british-american-italian

@user-xh3gs8jq8g 2 жыл бұрын

日本語入力おねがい

@SDU1969 3 жыл бұрын

It should be called italy's greatest ships.....

@stevefox3763 4 жыл бұрын

if the build quality is anything like Italian cars, it will fall apart in 6 months.

@monsterkillsports3499 4 жыл бұрын

All the Cruises ship of P&O,Carnival,Aida,Costa Crociere,Msc & Cunard are made by Fincantieri ..+ Military Vessels And Mega Yacht.. This Is Fincantieri World

@touraneindanke 4 жыл бұрын

Wass Leyland Italian? Y must be a green jealous litle monster💋

@stevefox3763 4 жыл бұрын

@@touraneindanke I never said British cars were good ether lol, all our cars other than the prestige brands have sucked hard.

@touraneindanke 4 жыл бұрын

Steve Fox ,and that sucked but other than learn from it what can we do but move on?

@giovannirastrelli9821 3 жыл бұрын

Well, she’s been around for more than a decade so far.

@robertbarnier45 2 жыл бұрын

Shame Margaret Thatcher closed down British manufacturing This is an Italian ship

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

Margaret Thatcher had the good common sense to realize that British workmanship (well 90% of it) became a joke after 1945. Blame your bolshie unions. British Manufacturing on a profit basis became untenable. The price was too high and the product was cr@p. Plus, unlike many other nations....the UK was paying millions to the USA for another 50 years....The USA invested that money in Germany & Japan. Plenty on YT that explains it all........ Get off yer socialistic flat-tired-bike! Do some fact finding.

@fredliperson9171 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to you Britian?

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

The trendy lefty destroyed it. Be afraid. Very afraid. Wherever you are.

@_iLLuSiv3_ 4 жыл бұрын

What is British about it being built in Italy?

@raphaelzanardellivinceesga7201 4 жыл бұрын

The only thing that I don't like about Cunard, is the fact that this company repeat the names.

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Raphael Zanardelli Vince Esgalha repeating names is the best.

@raphaelzanardellivinceesga7201 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCed5000 Teu cu.

@mimoslavija 3 жыл бұрын

She doesn't have poop deck

@kevinm3751 4 жыл бұрын

Robert says he is not for the wishy washy and likes the technical? His idea of proportion and balance could use one hell of a lot of help and he has NO room to talk about wishy washy artists!

@jimsmith3204 2 жыл бұрын

Just hype

@AmericanBullet92 2 жыл бұрын

So it's just Queen Elizabeth and not Queen Elizabeth 3?

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

Surprised you didn't suggest "Queen Elizabeth Jr" as an alternative! (Or whatever is the PC title of a woman being the daughter of a similarly named woman....Yawn.)

@abdullahmaddox7498 4 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥 🏁🏁🏁you have to look all the way🏎️🏎️🏎️ 1:43 💜💚💘 👇 👇💞

@andrewcumming8402 4 жыл бұрын

Fucking disgusting that a British(ha ha) ship gets built in Italy whilst we shipbuilders lose our jobs.Disgusting shame..

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

Andrew: Do some research.....the reality will soon become apparent. Simple fact: Clyde Ship Builders cannot build a ship of this size due to natural constraints. Then there is the capability to supply the relevant materials, in any time frame. Oh! And remember... a certain politician [with Scottish roots] declared that all the youth need today was a plastic diploma from a plastic university...that panned out well, eh? (Must be the most underpaid "graduates" in the western hemisphere flipping burgers.......) Then combine that with the fact that THIS Italian shipyard is heavily subsidized by its Government....which in turn is subsidized by the EU..... But for how long? The Italians are likely to be the next to do an Italian Job on that membership..... ITEXIT (?) Closely followed by France I would wager. Then, where will THEIR capacity be to compete ...on a level playing field? The hardest workers & innovators in the EU are getting rather miffed at their recompense..... compared with some members who pay little, yet get maximum benefits. It Ain't Working. Is it? The EU has become a parody of the old USSR..... Great for some members....terrible for others. Both systems are proving unworkable. (Look where that has got the world, 2023.....Ukraine.)

@Thunderworks 2 жыл бұрын

"we built Queen Mary 2" You mean the French built Queen Mary 2. And the"British experience" when you talk about Art Deco. Dude, just like the Queen Mary 2, Art Deco is from France.

@cats0182 4 жыл бұрын

Where the hell is this ship being built? Obviously NOT in Britain. Why aren't building facilities available? Because Britain let them founder. Cunard is no longer a British company. It's part of Carnival Cruise Lines. It's a G-D awful mishmash.

@patrickbrookings 4 жыл бұрын

Did you even watch it? It's was built in Italy.

@TheCed5000 4 жыл бұрын

Cats01 Cunard wouldn’t exist without the merger into Carnival. Cunard before the merger could not afford to build a new ship.

@TheCed5000 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Carnival Coro they built QM2... Mickey Arison bought Cunard to built it. Then the success of the Spirit with CCL/Costa led to the very successful Vista of HAL. Had the design for Victoria and Elizabeth...

@henrik8463 4 жыл бұрын

Made in Italy, i would never board that ship, my life is to precious! looking at facts, you can not build at ship like that, so fast, without cutting corners,, cutting corners= risk of loss of lifes in an emergency!

@drawingroom 3 жыл бұрын

I have had two voyages on this fine ship - in 2013 and 2019. There is nothing unsafe about it at all. It is also one of the most attractive ships (I mean the interior not the exterior!) I have been on. We have booked to go back again in 2022.

@pantherplatform 4 жыл бұрын

This video will eventually get more thumbs down than thumbs up. I threw up when I saw the painting of the kween.

@LauraLutz-mv6ci 3 жыл бұрын

Brit jobs lost. Too bad Cunard is American like Budweiser being Danish or wherever it went.

@robertbarnier45 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly service on British ships is not good. I prefer the American ships for service

@patagualianmostly7437 Жыл бұрын

Oh dear.!...Did the crew not bow down to the almighty YANK ..... and his presupposed position in the world? Perhaps a little tact & some respect would have got you the "service" you felt was yours by right. Mmm? Money does not buy respect. Never In My Book. Respect is a two-way-street. Money is always suspect. (And kindly explain what an "American Ship" is.... Canadian.... Honduran... Panamanian....Colombian?.... Buy an atlas: Maybe one called "Kiddies Guide To The World." You'll thank me later.... Take care.