"here, watch this multimillion dollar movie" "Nah, im good." "Hey, heres a video of Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs talking in front of some old pictures of ships" "AWWWWEEEEEW YEAH"
I just _have_ to say, that, I just love how much _our friend Mike Brady loves ships_ ... His excitement and enjoyment is palpable... Don't you think?👍❤🇭🇲😊🏴❤🇬🇧🤭🖖
The "sea of hats." I love it. I never leave the house without a hat on my head. They protect from the sun in summer, and from the rain in winter. I live in Portland Oregon, so we see a lot of rain. An umbrella leaves you with one hand... Bless those who put out to sea. I keep you all in my prayers, and wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓
My dad worked on Station Pier in the late 50s and early 60s as a Customs Officer. He loved the ships. Taught me to swim in the nearby beaches as a toddler. I wish he was here to see your videos. Mum and I still watch, for him. ❤
1:07 looks more like he is waving with both hands to all the people on the ship that are waving.. idk, but zooming in and trying to find interesting details like that in old photos is awesome
I have loved ships and ocean liners all my life, Mike . I feel like a flower that has been watered every time i watch one of your new vids . Very well done 👏
That was delightful! I love looking a old pictures too, to try to see what I can learn from them, or sometimes just to admire the subjects. Watching you nerd out on ocean liners made my day.
There's something about the way how the older ships look at least compared to ships of today, that they have their own unique look and character in some ways.
I just got to say that I love your videos ..UA-cam videos on stuff that nobody's really heard about like in terms of shipwrecks and whatnot. i'm a fan! I also know quite a bit about ships and wrecks and whatnot keep making these awesome videos... Titanic videos is pretty much my specialty for watching but most of the different stuff that you put out is pretty refreshing to see.,. keep it up man
Lines could never turn a profit with ships like that today. The cruising public wants huge floating theme parks and port excursions. There's no real sense of being at sea, as they travel from port to port at night.
Content Idea Suggestion: Have you ever considered doing videos on the history of the shipping lines themselves? While some companies like Cunard & White Star have books available documenting their history most do not or are very hard to find. The Ward Line. The Union Castle Line. The French Line. The Dollar Line. And many others. I think it would be fun to see how these lines started and then fell into decline and oblivion. Documenting their successes, failures, & disasters would be great content in my opinion.
At 14':53", this interesting endeavor, was nowhere loooong, enough!!! Thanks Mike, for the insight on the small little details, that the rest of us, would never see. Let's admit it here, that we're all 'Shippers' (new word, I just made up), and find this, highly entertaining😁!!!
I would love to see a video on the SS Orontes! My grandfather travelled to Australia when he was a 8 year old boy on that ship. He just turned 80! Would love to show him a video on that!
Because of this channel I became interested in what ship my grandfather had traveled aboard in his migration to the US. It was the RMS Carmania, and he sailed the same year the Titanic sank. Thank you for your preservation of the memory and history of all ships, not just the newsworthy ones.
I really enjoyed this video! The photographs were great and your commentary and explaining of technical aspects made it all wonderful. I would really enjoy seeing more videos like this. As an ocean liner enthusiast this is one of my favorite channels.
As a former merchant mariner (1980s and 90s) I am salivating at all those break bulk freighters you've pictured. Those multi-hold ships with mid-ship superstructures were such a joy to sail. I do question whether or not you are correct about those being diesel versus steam. Though diesel has been around since the early 20th century, it wasn't until the oil crunch of the 1960s that it became advantageous to switch from steam. (Steamships burn considerably more fuel - like a lot more. When oil was cheap, the cost could be rolled into the freight rates easier, and the ship needed much less maintenance. I sailed on many steamships that were built in the 60s.
5:50 - this is a 3D image intended to be viewed in a stereoscope (old victorian technology - two cameras next to each other take a photo at the same time, one for each eye)
My paternal great-grandfather sailed from Liverpool to Castle Island, NY, NY, USA in Spring 1868...aboard S.S. City Of Boston of the Inman Line (apparently a competitor of Cunard in the day). My maternal grandmother sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Summer 1913 aboard S.S. Cincinnati of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. Thanks ever so much for these beauties and their design histories. I enjoy your videos.
Quibble-time - LOVE the photos! 1) He's waving. He's not holding-up planks of wood, they're on the pile behind him (you can see a gap between the planks and his hand) 2) Grammar! "THE HMAS..." should just be "HMAS" as you wouldn't say "the His Majesty's..." Sorry; just a long-standing gripe... 3) The cargo steamers may indeed be steamers, they have steam funnels; sadly, too late to find out anymore. Containerships were the death of classical tramps, as they're much harder for longshoremen to pilfer from the cargo. 4) Cruiser vs Clipper stern - I believe the difference was because on sailing vessels (i.e., clippers), the helm was at the rear; you can see it. A wave rolling up from astern that "pooped" the helm could put the ship in serious trouble almost instantly if it swept-away the helmsmen; once a sailing vessel is swept beam-on to a heavy wind and swell, it could be capsized very quickly. The Clipper stern would supply a big sloped surface for the wave to lift-against, to push the stern up, whereas by the time the cruiser stern came along, ships were steered from the bridge. This is from my "interested-amateur" ponderings only, but there's a tragic footnote here; the most famous tea-clipper race of all was between Ariel and Taeping in 1866, wherein they left Fuzhou on the same tide and arrived in London within half-an-hour of each other. Ariel was lost with all hands on a subsequent voyage; former crewmen said Ariel's fine lines, the better to speed on its way, left the vessel prone to being pooped by following waves. - And as a further cynical note to the Ariel-Taeping race, an auxiliary steam-engine equipped sailing ship left Fuzhou two weeks after Ariel-Taeping, and arrived in London with "the year's first tea" a week before them - and it must have followed the same route because the Suez Canal would not open for another three years. 5) Wanganella was indeed built by Harland & Wolff - and the low funnels give-away that it's a MS instead of an SS. This was fashionable at the time - when Bremen came out in 1929, it also sported very low funnels to ape a motorship, and they deposited so much soot on the afterdecks that NDL doubled their height in a subsequent refit. And Wanganella's vent fans - it is a tropical ship... "Port Out, Starboard Home!" 6) I believe the semaphore platform is also the compass platform. When repeater compasses came out, they liked to place the compass receiver on a wooden platform like that, to provide a bit of isolation from the ship's metal hull and superstructure. And no point putting it up a mast - that's metal too.
I adore browsing old ship photos like this. Had a lovely time in Auckland's Maritime Museum doing similar, but they also had some gorgeous models commissioned.
A wonderful selection of photographs. Thank you for bringing them to our attention. That first ship looks very much the same as Shaw Saville Line's "Corinthic" (1902) and her sister ships, which several of my great aunts and uncles sailed to NZ in early 1900s. Could it be same builder - Harland and Wolff? I saw you on British TV a few weeks ago. I hardly believed it was you - no tie and waistcoat! Mr Brady are your standards slipping?
one of my favorite ship photoes is of the 3 biggest ocean liners in new york where we see queen mary queen elizabeth and normandie next to one another i cant imagine how that would have looked liked
My friend Mike, I’ve been to your home state and absolutely loved it. My parents and I visited some friends in 2005 and they put us up in their home in Altona. We enjoyed feeding the magpies raw meat from our hands!! P.S. that bridge over the harbor is TALL!!!
Hey Mike! There was a steam ship built in the 20s for the Hudson River day line named the PS Alexander Hamilton. I think you’ll actually kind of enjoy the oddness yet beauty of her. It caught fire hit shore and was dragged to the Earl Naval base in New Jersey were it sank and still sits today. You can actually google earth it and make out the ships outline in the water. I’d love to see a video on it one day!
Wild love to see you do a collaboration with Mark “Hyce” Huber, you love things from the same era, are active in history, and whether steam locomotives or steam ships, I bet you two would have fun working together! You have mentioned each other on your channels as well, so it would be a good fit!
Dear Mike Brady (I understand this is a comment section, but still) I am building the SS Strathnaver in Minecraft, and I will be using your drawing like I did with my Lusitania. Would you like to see the ship when it is finished, if so I know this sounds weird but would you review it?
Very enjoyable video, Mike. I believe the first image you show is the MEDIC. Later, the 3/4 bow view of the CERAMIC is amazing. It's photos like that which make one appreciate B&W. Maybe the most surprising thing about her is that she carried only Third Class passengers and in the same type of cabins found in OLYMPIC's Third Class. Public rooms were more like second class on the N.Atlantic. I suppose the reason for Third class only was the potential cost of a First Class ticket on such a long journey?
As you say Mike, they don't make 'em like that anymore! When I first went to sea forty five years ago, there were still a few of the old style cargo ships with derricks around but they were rapidly being phased out in favour of ships with deck cranes or more commonly container ships. Derricks were surprising fast at loading / discharging break bulk cargo, but obviously nothing was going to compete with the speed and convenience containerisation. Many of the cargo ships and even some bulk carriers I served on ended up carrying containers at least some of the time, even empty ones. Even though none of the ships I sailed on had any passenger accommodation it was surprising how many enguiries about buying a passage that were recieved, even into the early nineteen nineties. Regarding the raked back funnels on some of the old liners, I read somewhere that part of the reason they did this was to give the illusion of speed, as was the inclusion of extra "dummy" funnels.
Hello Mike, I've been watching your videos for almost 2 years now. Really enjoy your content. You may already know this, the SS United States is going to become a reef off of Oskaloosa County Florida. Keep up the great work. 👍
Not to mention a section of Titanic's port side railing falling off. I'm hoping he does a video on that, as well as what the role of the center anchor and crane was.😀
Thank you for another interesting video Mike. I'm surprised you haven't done a recent video on the eviction of the SS United States from its pier. A news report today said it would most likely be sunk off the Florida coast to create a reef.
I love your Tasmanian/Victorian accent. Also, from here in the deep interior of North America (Colorado) most of us will never get a chance to experience the ocean/sea . thank you
The Royal Collection has a really great collection of photographs of the various Royal Yachts and battleships over the years and you'd probably love them.
After doing a lot of online ancestry research, I found out that my family came over from Denmark on the ship Lammershagen! I didn't even know they were from Denmark. It might be possible to find the ship your family was on, with some research.
@@emmakleinhans7449 how fun! I’ve tried through Ellis island records, but they didn’t note their ship and the crucial date part of the record is illegible. So frustrating but I will keep trying to find a clear copy of the records. So glad you found that info! 😊
The great pix of Ceramic sent me to the first volume of Mark D.Warren's wonderful 1995 reprint of period articles from The Shipbuilder. Have you seen it, Mike? The Shipbuilder's 1913 article on Ceramic runs a dozen pages of details including interior photos, exterior photos (a close-up of that Sirocco Fan!) and the schematics for the engine/boiler rooms as well as elevations and deck plans. Mostly 2 and 4 bed interior cabins plus several others for 6 or 8, probably for large families. Titanic lovers alert: The Oct 1913 text notes that Ceramic's 12 transverse watertight compartments extend to the Upper Deck and discreetly remarks: "These bulkheads are carried much higher than has been the usual practice in times past ..." More about the Australian and trans-Pacific service ships, please.
There’s an amazing maritime history here in the Great Lakes of the US. You may have a good time researching some of the excursion liners that plied the lakes! Of particular note is the Eastland disaster…
"here, watch this multimillion dollar movie"
"Nah, im good."
"Hey, heres a video of Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs talking in front of some old pictures of ships"
"AWWWWEEEEEW YEAH"
I am also hooked!! I am a fan...❤😊
James Cameron eat your heart out.
I turned down The Crow, the new one, to watch this! ❤
Absolutely me.
It's wild how little I stream TV or movies these days. 😂
I love casual Mike. No script, just him sitting with his glasses and whatever hes excited to show us next
100%
@@ChickVicious237 Enjoying the pics
It's from a live stream.
"Casual Mike" he's wearing a dress shirt, tie, and vest
wheres his mustache?
Petition for a collab between ocean liner designs and big old boats,again
Hear, hear!
Yessssss. That would be amazing. I keep dropping hints on BOBs channel
This has to happen!
YESSIR
and for perhaps a bit of naval flavour add Drachinifel too
I just _have_ to say, that,
I just love how much _our friend Mike Brady loves ships_ ... His excitement and enjoyment is palpable...
Don't you think?👍❤🇭🇲😊🏴❤🇬🇧🤭🖖
I love people who love their expertise and want to share it with everyone!
The "sea of hats." I love it. I never leave the house without a hat on my head. They protect from the sun in summer, and from the rain in winter. I live in Portland Oregon, so we see a lot of rain. An umbrella leaves you with one hand...
Bless those who put out to sea. I keep you all in my prayers, and wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓
I’m north of you in Vancouver, Canada. It rains so much we’re basically amphibious.
Agreed! Been wearing hats since I was 10 or so. Comfort, shade, rare is the day I don't wear one when leaving the house.
My dad worked on Station Pier in the late 50s and early 60s as a Customs Officer. He loved the ships. Taught me to swim in the nearby beaches as a toddler. I wish he was here to see your videos. Mum and I still watch, for him. ❤
May he R.I.P.
Love ur devotion to them ❤
More photos pls, and longer vid pls,is so lovely to listen to you dude.such a chillout channel you have here.
Agreed! 👍
Agreed second that 50 minutes minimum I'll have to look for more videos after this short
1:07 looks more like he is waving with both hands to all the people on the ship that are waving.. idk, but zooming in and trying to find interesting details like that in old photos is awesome
I do it all the time with old photos. rather than focusing on the main picture, I always look at what people are doing haha
I have loved ships and ocean liners all my life, Mike . I feel like a flower that has been watered every time i watch one of your new vids . Very well done 👏
That was delightful! I love looking a old pictures too, to try to see what I can learn from them, or sometimes just to admire the subjects. Watching you nerd out on ocean liners made my day.
Thanks! Your channel is among the best on UA-cam.
Brother you seriously need to host your own podcast! I’d never stop listening! ❤
That clipper stern style just makes those ships so beautiful. A nice elegant touch!
6:10 for those of us who don't know what the middle of the ocean is like, we can compare it to our experiences on the moon
You could read the phone book and I’d listen 😂
wait till he gets to the name Beard and Bird then it will get crazy
There's something about the way how the older ships look at least compared to ships of today, that they have their own unique look and character in some ways.
huge fan of these simple but insightful videos of just you and a mic and some amazing period photography. you da best Mike!
Mike, that outboard corvette (J234) is the HMAS Latrobe. She was decommissioned on 13 Mar 53 and scrapped in 1956.
I just got to say that I love your videos ..UA-cam videos on stuff that nobody's really heard about like in terms of shipwrecks and whatnot. i'm a fan! I also know quite a bit about ships and wrecks and whatnot keep making these awesome videos...
Titanic videos is pretty much my specialty for watching but most of the different stuff that you put out is pretty refreshing to see.,. keep it up man
Beautiful old ships Mike, even the Plain Janes. They sure don't build 'em like that anymore. Oh well, maybe they just can't.
Thanks for posting!
Lines could never turn a profit with ships like that today. The cruising public wants huge floating theme parks and port excursions. There's no real sense of being at sea, as they travel from port to port at night.
@@mikeprevost8650 You're 100% right. They don't build ocean liners anymore (with one exception) they build cruise ships. Not the same thing.
@@mikeprevost8650 Plus the hull designs would be rather inefficient, and that would be unprofitable.
Content Idea Suggestion:
Have you ever considered doing videos on the history of the shipping lines themselves?
While some companies like Cunard & White Star have books available documenting their history most do not or are very hard to find.
The Ward Line.
The Union Castle Line.
The French Line.
The Dollar Line.
And many others.
I think it would be fun to see how these lines started and then fell into decline and oblivion. Documenting their successes, failures, & disasters would be great content in my opinion.
At 14':53", this interesting endeavor, was nowhere loooong, enough!!! Thanks Mike, for the insight on the small little details, that the rest of us, would never see. Let's admit it here, that we're all 'Shippers' (new word, I just made up), and find this, highly entertaining😁!!!
Rare photos are always so interesting. Sometimes it's the only frame of that event that has ever and will ever exist
Amazing photos Mike. Thx for sharing 💪
Loving these old photos. It's always fun to step back in time. Thanks a lot for sharing these Mike.
Guys, it's Mike's evil moustacheless twin Ekim!
He doesn't even acknowledge he's our friend, see?
I would love to see a video on the SS Orontes! My grandfather travelled to Australia when he was a 8 year old boy on that ship. He just turned 80! Would love to show him a video on that!
Mike Brady is one of the best history youtubers ever
100% agree!
It's our friend, Mike Brady with Oceanliner Designs! A new one to add to my binge queue.
Because of this channel I became interested in what ship my grandfather had traveled aboard in his migration to the US. It was the RMS Carmania, and he sailed the same year the Titanic sank. Thank you for your preservation of the memory and history of all ships, not just the newsworthy ones.
I really enjoyed this video! The photographs were great and your commentary and explaining of technical aspects made it all wonderful. I would really enjoy seeing more videos like this. As an ocean liner enthusiast this is one of my favorite channels.
Great to see old photos like this should do more.!
Part of the reason I like your channel and similar channels is being able to see rare photos of old ships
Cool video. I like looking at all of the neat little details on various ships, and this scratched the itch.
As a former merchant mariner (1980s and 90s) I am salivating at all those break bulk freighters you've pictured. Those multi-hold ships with mid-ship superstructures were such a joy to sail. I do question whether or not you are correct about those being diesel versus steam. Though diesel has been around since the early 20th century, it wasn't until the oil crunch of the 1960s that it became advantageous to switch from steam. (Steamships burn considerably more fuel - like a lot more. When oil was cheap, the cost could be rolled into the freight rates easier, and the ship needed much less maintenance.
I sailed on many steamships that were built in the 60s.
5:50 - this is a 3D image intended to be viewed in a stereoscope (old victorian technology - two cameras next to each other take a photo at the same time, one for each eye)
I'm very picky with what I watch but with your channel I watch anything you throw at me
Thanks Mike. All the best from Sydney
You gave up on the stache already! I was curious about how far you would go. 😂 Jokes aside, loved the video. Another banger as usual.
How cool to hear you can trace your family history back to know these particular details- and what great pictures too. Awesome video, Mike
My paternal great-grandfather sailed from Liverpool to Castle Island, NY, NY, USA in Spring 1868...aboard S.S. City Of Boston of the Inman Line (apparently a competitor of Cunard in the day). My maternal grandmother sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Summer 1913 aboard S.S. Cincinnati of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. Thanks ever so much for these beauties and their design histories. I enjoy your videos.
Mike you're the best! Always informative!
Enjoyed that video Mike thank you
unscripted Mike is lovely! your laughter is contagious man
The knowledge you have on your videos just makes them even more impressive to watch.
You are a true master of your trade good sir!
Love the pointer and your fantastic explanations, makes it all fun.
Pics are amazing! I could at these for days
Everyone talks about the big 4 stackers, I think the dinky single stackers like ceramic and carpathia have a beauty all their own.
Something that I really want to experience is a voyage during the early 1900s
Me too
Love the photos ❤
Love your content Mike.
Our friend Mike spreading positive vibes 👏👏
Mike, I love your stories! The history and pictures just interest me. Please don't stop.
Neat photos. Thanks so much for sharing! :-)
Very cool video. Love the old ships.
Your genuine chuckles as you observe thes people, makes me laugh, too😂🥰🥰😂
Quibble-time - LOVE the photos!
1) He's waving. He's not holding-up planks of wood, they're on the pile behind him (you can see a gap between the planks and his hand)
2) Grammar! "THE HMAS..." should just be "HMAS" as you wouldn't say "the His Majesty's..." Sorry; just a long-standing gripe...
3) The cargo steamers may indeed be steamers, they have steam funnels; sadly, too late to find out anymore. Containerships were the death of classical tramps, as they're much harder for longshoremen to pilfer from the cargo.
4) Cruiser vs Clipper stern - I believe the difference was because on sailing vessels (i.e., clippers), the helm was at the rear; you can see it. A wave rolling up from astern that "pooped" the helm could put the ship in serious trouble almost instantly if it swept-away the helmsmen; once a sailing vessel is swept beam-on to a heavy wind and swell, it could be capsized very quickly. The Clipper stern would supply a big sloped surface for the wave to lift-against, to push the stern up, whereas by the time the cruiser stern came along, ships were steered from the bridge. This is from my "interested-amateur" ponderings only, but there's a tragic footnote here; the most famous tea-clipper race of all was between Ariel and Taeping in 1866, wherein they left Fuzhou on the same tide and arrived in London within half-an-hour of each other. Ariel was lost with all hands on a subsequent voyage; former crewmen said Ariel's fine lines, the better to speed on its way, left the vessel prone to being pooped by following waves.
- And as a further cynical note to the Ariel-Taeping race, an auxiliary steam-engine equipped sailing ship left Fuzhou two weeks after Ariel-Taeping, and arrived in London with "the year's first tea" a week before them - and it must have followed the same route because the Suez Canal would not open for another three years.
5) Wanganella was indeed built by Harland & Wolff - and the low funnels give-away that it's a MS instead of an SS. This was fashionable at the time - when Bremen came out in 1929, it also sported very low funnels to ape a motorship, and they deposited so much soot on the afterdecks that NDL doubled their height in a subsequent refit. And Wanganella's vent fans - it is a tropical ship... "Port Out, Starboard Home!"
6) I believe the semaphore platform is also the compass platform. When repeater compasses came out, they liked to place the compass receiver on a wooden platform like that, to provide a bit of isolation from the ship's metal hull and superstructure. And no point putting it up a mast - that's metal too.
That old-fashioned Orient liner reminds me of the Ormonde on which I travelled from Tllbury to Bermuda in 1947.
These are so interesting! I hope you share pics like this again in the future :)
As a Melbourne I love its maritime History
I adore browsing old ship photos like this. Had a lovely time in Auckland's Maritime Museum doing similar, but they also had some gorgeous models commissioned.
Wonderful ships and great information.
A wonderful selection of photographs. Thank you for bringing them to our attention. That first ship looks very much the same as Shaw Saville Line's "Corinthic" (1902) and her sister ships, which several of my great aunts and uncles sailed to NZ in early 1900s. Could it be same builder - Harland and Wolff?
I saw you on British TV a few weeks ago. I hardly believed it was you - no tie and waistcoat! Mr Brady are your standards slipping?
the first picture, whoever didnt make their bed had to empty all the crappers and haul the waste up there for disposal.
fascinating! How very cool that you can download photos from state libraries Iif I understood you correctly)
Great photos!! Mike never disappoints... looks like the lad at the beginning was just waving, looks like hes holding up wood... optical illusion...
one of my favorite ship photoes is of the 3 biggest ocean liners in new york where we see queen mary queen elizabeth and normandie next to one another i cant imagine how that would have looked liked
Really surprised to see you out of everyone that has not done any video on the new titanic images
Love watching my friends enjoy their hobbies. ❤️✨🥹🚢
My friend Mike, I’ve been to your home state and absolutely loved it. My parents and I visited some friends in 2005 and they put us up in their home in Altona. We enjoyed feeding the magpies raw meat from our hands!!
P.S. that bridge over the harbor is TALL!!!
Hey Mike! There was a steam ship built in the 20s for the Hudson River day line named the PS Alexander Hamilton. I think you’ll actually kind of enjoy the oddness yet beauty of her. It caught fire hit shore and was dragged to the Earl Naval base in New Jersey were it sank and still sits today. You can actually google earth it and make out the ships outline in the water. I’d love to see a video on it one day!
Thank you for your very good videos. UK
Wild love to see you do a collaboration with Mark “Hyce” Huber, you love things from the same era, are active in history, and whether steam locomotives or steam ships, I bet you two would have fun working together! You have mentioned each other on your channels as well, so it would be a good fit!
Would love to see a video (or series) about the oldest surviving warships. Older than 1950.
As a kid I remember seeing the Wanganella in doubtful sound c. 1970 ish It was being used as accommodation for the guys who built the power station.
Dear Mike Brady (I understand this is a comment section, but still)
I am building the SS Strathnaver in Minecraft, and I will be using your drawing like I did with my Lusitania. Would you like to see the ship when it is finished, if so I know this sounds weird but would you review it?
Very enjoyable video, Mike. I believe the first image you show is the MEDIC. Later, the 3/4 bow view of the CERAMIC is amazing. It's photos like that which make one appreciate B&W. Maybe the most surprising thing about her is that she carried only Third Class passengers and in the same type of cabins found in OLYMPIC's Third Class. Public rooms were more like second class on the N.Atlantic. I suppose the reason for Third class only was the potential cost of a First Class ticket on such a long journey?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Greeting from Across the Pond!
These are some amazing photos I think the clipper stern style is the most beautiful looking 🥰
As you say Mike, they don't make 'em like that anymore! When I first went to sea forty five years ago, there were still a few of the old style cargo ships with derricks around but they were rapidly being phased out in favour of ships with deck cranes or more commonly container ships. Derricks were surprising fast at loading / discharging break bulk cargo, but obviously nothing was going to compete with the speed and convenience containerisation. Many of the cargo ships and even some bulk carriers I served on ended up carrying containers at least some of the time, even empty ones. Even though none of the ships I sailed on had any passenger accommodation it was surprising how many enguiries about buying a passage that were recieved, even into the early nineteen nineties.
Regarding the raked back funnels on some of the old liners, I read somewhere that part of the reason they did this was to give the illusion of speed, as was the inclusion of extra "dummy" funnels.
The stache came in so hot and was jarring and now that it is gone I miss it!! 😅
my god, mike brady's done it again
Hello Mike, I've been watching your videos for almost 2 years now. Really enjoy your content. You may already know this, the SS United States is going to become a reef off of Oskaloosa County Florida. Keep up the great work. 👍
Not to mention a section of Titanic's port side railing falling off. I'm hoping he does a video on that, as well as what the role of the center anchor and crane was.😀
at 5:20 ish, we can see the rolled up rope ladder where you are pointing out the lifeboats
Aw, I remember this one, I think! It was fun!
Those White Star pictures that are doubled are what's known as Stereo-graph images, an early attempted at 3D.
So many beautiful ships.
"eye-achingly beautiful" ~ Your Friend Mike Brady-09/04/2024
Thank you for the amazing photos and content and for ditching the moustache.
Hey it’s my friend Mike Brady with Oceanliner Designs! 😊
Having cruised many times I love these photos
Thank you for another interesting video Mike. I'm surprised you haven't done a recent video on the eviction of the SS United States from its pier. A news report today said it would most likely be sunk off the Florida coast to create a reef.
It's my friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!
I love your Tasmanian/Victorian accent. Also, from here in the deep interior of North America (Colorado) most of us will never get a chance to experience the ocean/sea . thank you
The Royal Collection has a really great collection of photographs of the various Royal Yachts and battleships over the years and you'd probably love them.
I wish there was a way to find out what ship brought my family to America from Sweden back in late 1800s. Beautiful photos and commentary Mike❤
After doing a lot of online ancestry research, I found out that my family came over from Denmark on the ship Lammershagen! I didn't even know they were from Denmark. It might be possible to find the ship your family was on, with some research.
@@emmakleinhans7449 how fun! I’ve tried through Ellis island records, but they didn’t note their ship and the crucial date part of the record is illegible. So frustrating but I will keep trying to find a clear copy of the records. So glad you found that info! 😊
Not only did you not reassure us of your friendship, Mike, but the glasses are way to big😂
Everything else is great, and thank you!
Sorry, too big!
Hey! Its my friend Mike Brady! From Oceanliner Designs! How neat!
The great pix of Ceramic sent me to the first volume of Mark D.Warren's wonderful 1995 reprint of period articles from The Shipbuilder. Have you seen it, Mike?
The Shipbuilder's 1913 article on Ceramic runs a dozen pages of details including interior photos, exterior photos (a close-up of that Sirocco Fan!) and the schematics for the engine/boiler rooms as well as elevations and deck plans.
Mostly 2 and 4 bed interior cabins plus several others for 6 or 8, probably for large families.
Titanic lovers alert: The Oct 1913 text notes that Ceramic's 12 transverse watertight compartments extend to the Upper Deck and discreetly remarks: "These bulkheads are carried much higher than has been the usual practice in times past ..."
More about the Australian and trans-Pacific service ships, please.
There’s an amazing maritime history here in the Great Lakes of the US. You may have a good time researching some of the excursion liners that plied the lakes! Of particular note is the Eastland disaster…