14:56 do we know anything about the radio operator on the Californian? It couldn't have been easy coping with that for the rest of your life. Presmuably EVERYONE on Titanic would have survived had he not switched it off?
I am crying the two boys are so young and working so hard .they are just about my grandsons age .how horrible for Jack Phillips family ,his mother my heart goes to her .they are real heroes.
He actually never sent that “quit jamming” part to the Californian. What he said was actually banter jargon between Marconi operators of the time. The Californian operator actually testified to this at the British inquiry. Bride never sent an angry message. It wasn’t angry. It was joking.
Yesterday was the 85th anniversary since Hindenburg caught fire and crashed. Today is the 107th anniversary since RMS Lusitania was lost. RIP to all those who died in this tragedy.
I wonder if Jack was in a state of shock. The lack of sleep could have exasperated his symptoms. I've seen people in shock before and it's extremely similar to what you're describing. People do funny things when their in dire situations. Some people freeze, some people work through it.
There was a proclaimation about Titanic's survivors made by the public after she sank-"Those who were saved were saved by one man, Mr. Marconi.". However the two men on the spot, Phillips and Bride were instrumental in effectively using Marconi's creation. They especially used great personal initiative by repairing the shorted coil in the wireless the night before against company policy. If this repair wasn't made, the range of the radio on battery power alone would cut the range to 50 miles instead of the 4-500 miles maximum. With the limited 50 mile range they might not have even reached the Carpathia in time.
On the flip side they wouldn’t have been so busy with the backed up messages with cape race and may have been able to logically react to the ice warning from the Californian
@@KingdomHeart556 That's a good point. However, the primary business focus of the novel Marconi wireless was in making money by sending messages for the wealthy passengers, not as a navigational aid. Taking messages to the bridge didn't make any money. It was discovered that years earlier wireless communications were useful to the maritime industry by providing information on relaying weather, hazards, schedules and emergencies as was demonstrated in 1909 with the sinking of the RMS. Republic, another White Star vessel when it's Marconi operator became a hero by summoning help that resulted in everyone surviving the evacuation who weren't killed in the collision. Relaying navigational messages to the bridge in ships at that time was a company courtesy, not the norm. Even if Phillips and Bride weren't backed up with messages, it's doubtful that the ice warning messages would have received any priority by the operators or the Titanic's officers. One of the early critical essages that Captain Smith received he gave to Ismay who then put it in his pocket and it was forgotten about. At the inquiries that followed, Bride testified that he couldn't even remember who the officer was he delivered the last critical ice warning to. It was most likely Second Officer Lightoller because Bride delivered the message earlier in the evening and "Lights", as he was known, was the officer on watch. No one could be certain what the mood or priorities would have been that last evening even if the wireless set had been working normally. I'm sure though, Phillips would have still blown off the Californian's operator Evans when he cut in and almost blesw Phillips' ears off with the report that his ship was stopped by ice nearby even if he wasn't backed up with messages as most people would.
You should do a video on how Harold Cottam’s work saved those lives too! He was just in the process of getting ready for bed when he picked up the Titanic’s distress call and his decision to awaken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and inform him that the Titanic was in trouble is what got the Carpathia into action to arrive at the Titanic’s sinking location hours before any other ship and rescue the survivors. He was also good friends with Harold Bride and Jack Phillips and I can’t imagine how Cottam and Bride must’ve felt to have been seeing each other again after the tragedy and about how their work is what got the Carpathia into action to save all of those lives. It was also great of Bride to have been working together with Cottam to transmit official messages about the Titanic’s sinking during their journey to New York City, even though he had badly injured his feet in the disaster.
I stumbled across your channel by accident and I'm glad because your a true historian Sam. I'm from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪. I've always been fascinated by the Titanic. I decided to take a trip down to Cobh, Co Cork Ireland last month. This was the last stop for the Titanic, queen's Town as it was named at the time. I urge you come here and sample the atmosphere, there is a neat Titanic exhibition and many land marks. Keep up the great work. Thanks
Please make a hero’s video on Lighttoller! He was a fascinating guy!! 2nd officer on the titanic, captain of a patrol/attack boat in WW1, and took part in the civilian evacuation of Dunkirk in WW2!! Fascinating!!!
11:24 those 2 images, I just cannot get over how mighty and majestic this ship was. It's what hooked me all those years ago and it's what keeps me coming back. It might be a perfect visual specimen of a seafaring vessel.
I agree, the Titanic, as well as her sister ships, Olympic and Britannic, were just incredibly beautiful ships, both with their very yacht-like outside appearances and their insanely luxurious interior appointments. It is an absolute shame that the Olympic was not preserved as a museum ship.
Yeah you are absolutely definitely right first offer Willam McMaster Murdoch he has been my favourite office since I have know about the unsinkable RMS Titanic and it's from 1992 I was only 5 years old and of today I am 35 years old
Another thing I've always wondered but this is probably silly: couldn't a boat have attempted to row to the nearby ship and sound the alarm or was this not possible? I assume it was not.
Absolutely astounding job. I love your explanations, it really expands a lot of important details. Such as the extremely loud steam venting, which would have been a huge impediment to communication on the deck.
Harold Bride Lived With His Uncle, Cousins and Harold Cottom. Bride Would Have Nightmares On and Off For the Rest of his Life sometimes staying up all night Saying “I’m So Sorry Phillips” Bride would also mistake family members as Phillips but Bride would eventually get over the Titanic.
I don’t think Harold Bride really lived with Harold Cottam, but they were friends from their days of training together and were happy enough to have been seeing each other again on the Carpathia and worked together to do all of the great message relaying during their journey to New York City following the disaster and stayed in contact for the rest of their lives.
Wasn’t it the case that the radio operators at the time were a small club who all knew each other and gave each other good natured ribbings? As in he wouldn’t have taken offense to Phillips?
@@ryanfisher4213You can see on videos with channels on what happned that night and which ship titanic contacted and you can see they use the acronym “OM” which stands for Old Man which is basically the early 20th century version of saying “Hey Bro”. I like to use Old Man with my friends who are intrested with ships aswell
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As a software engineer it is quite wild to imagine what life must have been like back then for wireless operators. After all given today's general knowledge even their marconi wireless, primitive as it was, could have been used for so much more than just transmitting morse code messages. Kinda insane to think about how far this technology had already advanced just 61 years after the sinking when the first wireless network was established.
Bride and Phillips were true ham radio operators; had they not done all that work fixing the radio, who knows how many more lives would’ve been lost that night? I’m not too good at it myself, despite being an amateur radio operator, but my dad (also a ham) is very good at troubleshooting and fixing his radios. Hell, most hams I know are pretty good at doing that too.
Another important tidbit about the wireless system, was that there were no 'channels' or frequencies. Everyone had to basically share a 'party line', transmitting and receiving on the same 'channel'. So you can imagine all these ships all trying to transmit ice warnings, ship to ship and ship to shore communications, personal messages from passengers, etc all over a single shared frequency. It must have been absolutely insane.
I also would like to know what would of happened if the men didn’t fix the radio. Would titanic have lost everyone? When would people realize the ship was missing? What would they have done with no position to report to etc
@@tula1433 They had a secondary radio but it wouldn't reach Cape Cod. The reason they fixed the primary radio was so they could keep sending paid messages. Or as Jack Phillips told Californian "I'm working".
Sam, if you want an example of how much of a difference the distance radio transmissions can be heard during the nighttime vs distance heard during the daytime, listen to AM broadcast radio. I live in NC and during the day I can only receive stations in my immediate area. At night, however I can receive AM broadcast stations that are in Atlanta, Pittsburg, and even Albany NY (my hometown). I suspect that the Marconi wireless system was using frequencies in the same range of the frequencies AM broadcast radio uses today
Big fan . Sub when you had under 5k . Love this page. I got to meet Dr. Robert Ballard back in 1987 . Few years after find the titanic. And there's a titanic historical museum near me. With jj actors wife's life vest . And other artifacts that were not recovered from the wreck
In fairness, Jack Philips' response to Californian may have just been how Marconi operators talked to each other. Oceanliner Designs made a video about this: m.ua-cam.com/video/CvLWcP_bD4w/v-deo.html
Very interesting vids, thanks for your insight and info! If you're ever looking for vid ideas on less known wrecks, the Lakes Freighter S.S. Carl D. Bradley would be a cool one to see.
I what to thank you I learned a lot from you I always been a titanic fan I been doing a project on it since hi school you really help in lock down you fantastic
If they hadn't bronken the rules and had not fixed the Marconi wireless the day the ship sank, there's a good chance that a lot more if not all the passengers and crew would have died. A reminder of even for back then sea travel could be very dangerous.
Or if they had followed the Marconi instructions and not fixed the radio, captain smith would not have got the ice multiple warnings on April 14 which lead him to take a more westerly course hitting the ice berg. Original path titanic was taking was safe. It was too many ice warnings that put her on a deadly collision course. Radio going offline on April 13 might be a godsend to stop the Titanic from hitting the iceberg.
Worsham! Congrats on the subs. That's so awesome and so are your videos. If Jack and Harold hadn't fixed the radio, there would have been No survivors that night. They are heroes. Like the idea of the video you said. Be neat.
There also would’ve been no survivors that night if Jack and Harold’s Carpathia radio operating friend Harold Cottam hadn’t worked later than usual and worn his headphones while in the process of getting ready for bed.
Can you do a video for the people that kept the lights on the titanic because if it wasn’t for them people would’ve not been able to get to the life boats and been a lot more deaths
Centering on an occasional hero, Is a GOOD idea🤔, Sam!!! There's nothing wrong, with creating a certain topic (as long as it's interesting), and keeping it going with periodical, information!!!
What you said at 5:24 was not exactly correct: "The Marconi wireless system also had another use, that wasn't for official purposes. This use was to be used by the Titanic's passengers." Actually that was the MAIN use of the wireless system. Philips and Bride were employees of the Marconi company, they were not employees of the White Star Line company. In the ship's list they were second class passengers. Their MAIN duty was to receive and send the so called "Marconigrams" between the passengers, that's what they were paid to do. The communication between the ships was additional job for them, sometimes ANNOYING additional part of the job. The priority were the messages of the passengers, so any message from and for a ship had to be labelled, to get prioritized. The amazing thing in the story of the Titanic is that there's no main villain, just few people (some of them are considered heroes) made some very small mistakes. They didn't even know that they were doing mistakes, they were doing something pretty usual for them. Something that they've done many times before, without any consequences. But this particular time these small mistakes added up with some misfortune, and that's how the impossible happened: the most advanced, safe, beautiful (and so on) ship in the world sank in her maiden voyage. It's incredible that the main characters in the story were heroes and villains at the same time. They made small mistakes that lead to the collision, and after that they did the best they could do to save as many lives as possible.
Hey sam, Just wondering if you could do a history episode on the battle of midway, love your history covers, and thanks for the content you produce for us.
The tragedy happened, of course, because the Titanic did not slow down despite the known presence of icebergs ahead. As I understand it, the general thinking by Smith was that they would spot a berg in time to avoid it; which they almost did. However, the lack of moonlight, and of surf against the berg (s) due to the unusually calm ocean, worked against this; but Smith should have taken these factors into consideration, and ordered half-speed until dawn. The question is, would he have slowed down had he received the Californian's final warning? Likey not, but we'll never know.
Yup and then decided to split up which was the last time they saw each other as Jack Phillips died in the tragedy while Harold Bride survived with great difficulty on a lifeboat that wasn’t properly launched.
Congrats on 70k subs. My family and I are going to the Titanic museum in Orlando later this month. Do u have any advice or interesting things to look for?
Harold Bride’s misfortune continued even though he survived. The men on Collapsible Boat B spent hours balancing themselves in ankle-deep water before they were picked up by another lifeboat. Bride suffered severe frostbite to his feet. He had to be lifted up onto and carried off of The Carpathia.
@@claytonelofgren the story of Collapsible B is featured more prominently in “A Night To Remember”. 2nd Officer Lightoller, Harold Bride, Col. Gracie, Jack Thayer and Chef Charles Joughin are a few famous names who survived on Collasible B.
@@zuitsuit80 very interesting. I’m more curious too what happened with the person from the radio room who survived and also the owner survived what their life looked like afterwards and how much blame they got
@@claytonelofgren With injured feet, 2nd Operator Harold Bride helped The Carpathia’s operator send messages to New York about the sinking and survivors. He married, served in WWI, moved to Glasgow, had 3 children and became a salesman. Died of lung cancer and cremated in 1956. Bruce Ismay (the chairman of White Star)was taken to the Carpathia’s doctor’s cabin and given opiates for his shock. The inquiry cleared him of any wrong doing as he was technically a passenger and not crew. However, the newspapers and the public were not as kind. Ismay resigned White Star in 1913 and retired to Ireland. His family never spoke of Titanic. Diabetes later failed his health swiftly and he died in 1937.
@@claytonelofgren There’s a great book called “The Story of The Titanic”. It’s actually four books in one. Testimonies. Each written by a survivor. 3 of them from Collasible B. Charles Lightoller (2nd Officer) Harold Bride (2nd Wireless Operator) Colonel Gracie (1st Class) Lawrence Beesley (2nd class)
Much of this video is taken from another same topic covered on another persons channel - even the video excerpts. I’ve seen all the filmed segments on the channel of the person that created it.
Yeah, sure. They save 700 lives. But they also killed over 1,500. Don’t exactly balance out, does it. If they would have taken the Californian seriously and reported the ice field warning to the bridge instead of telling the Californian to ‘shut up’ then perhaps the wreck wouldn’t have happened.
Hello Sam you are one of my favorites UA-camrs love your videos whatever I want to know something about a ship that sank I turn to you you have videos almost about every ship But I have a question what if the titanic Never sink how would that impact the future hey what would’ve been completely different what can you sync would’ve happened if the titanic never Sink at all how would things completely change I wander
@19 minutes, you're right. I served in three steam powered ships and those things you say are true. I watched a boiler nearly explode a couple of times. Venting residual steam is a thing that sometimes happens. We say that if it's black smoke, two minutes to correct it or pull fires. White steam is even worse . . . pull fires in one minute.
Yeah, he badly injured his feet and was so sad Jack Phillips died in the disaster. The most comfort he received after that was from Harold Cottam, the Carpathia’s radio operator whom he was already friends with from his training days.
Cant remember name of UA-cam channel, but its a great channel like yours. The gist of what he said was that it was common practice to say things like the "keep out keep out, shut up" and this talking shit was a friendly banter that all marconi operators did.. his information came from some book by a Commodore of White Star Line... You always so informed, was curious if you ever heard this information? Seems from this video you have not... I hope its true... it makes that incident seem less bad on Phillips
Here's a what if, what if they had followed protocol and went to the emergency backup. Hear me out, they would not have been too tired from staying up all night trying to fix the radio. That Sunday depending on where they were they would have had time to deliver ice warnings to the bridge since they would not be working cape race. When the Californian radio'd that they had stopped for the night due to ice they would not have dismissed their operator and maybe have even kept him online for awhile. Also they would have had time to relay this message to the bridge.
Why did not Herold or Jack ask Carpathia to relay the CQD distress signal and let them try to find another ship closer to the Titanic ?Carpathia had a fully working radio gear didn't it.
No one else was closer. Californian was close but the wireless operator was asleep. Mount Temple was close too. It operator was awake but it was directly in the field of ice and h he would have had a hard time maneuvering through the ice. Only the Carpathia was close enough to get there without obstruction. Actually, there was another ship according to lore, the Samson, that was only 7 miles away from the Titanic. It seems this may be the mystery ship that the Californian saw that day. The reason the Samson wasn't heard of much is because they were illegally fishing and didn't want to be caught having dead seals in the vessel so they were ignoring the Titanic's distress call.
What if everyone had moved to the stern with their luggage and offset the sinking bow? Would that have worked? What if the crew had closed all the doors, even the non-water-tight doors, in the lower decks? Would that have significantly slowed the sink rate?
My thoughts are about what my great great grandfather said about it. He helped do repairs on the Lusitania right before its ill-fated maiden voyage and as he worked on it, he saw how poorly prepared it was which made it a death trap which he was right about. I also have great thoughts about George William Beauchamp. He worked as a stoker on both the Titanic and Lusitania and amazingly survived both of their tragic sinkings.
There were several things that led to the fatal outcome…Officers on board told passengers that the ship was fine when in fact it was sinking…People were fearful to get onto the life boats as there was a significant danger in lowering them…people believed that rescue ships would arrive before the ship sank as proven by previous experiences…the port side officer would only let women and children onto the ship while male passengers were led to believe they were more likely to survive if they went to the port side, and pure hubris in thinking that the ship was unsinkable…
Harold bride is my great grandfather im so proud of you Harold bride im his geart grandson just found when was in college 2011
14:56 do we know anything about the radio operator on the Californian? It couldn't have been easy coping with that for the rest of your life. Presmuably EVERYONE on Titanic would have survived had he not switched it off?
I am crying the two boys are so young and working so hard .they are just about my grandsons age .how horrible for Jack Phillips family ,his mother my heart goes to her .they are real heroes.
He actually never sent that “quit jamming” part to the Californian. What he said was actually banter jargon between Marconi operators of the time. The Californian operator actually testified to this at the British inquiry.
Bride never sent an angry message. It wasn’t angry. It was joking.
You watched ocean liner designs
@@MrCites1I read the British Inquiry transcript 22 years ago, and yes, that's what it says.
@@egm8602 you trans?
Yesterday was the 85th anniversary since Hindenburg caught fire and crashed.
Today is the 107th anniversary since RMS Lusitania was lost.
RIP to all those who died in this tragedy.
I wonder if Jack was in a state of shock. The lack of sleep could have exasperated his symptoms.
I've seen people in shock before and it's extremely similar to what you're describing. People do funny things when their in dire situations. Some people freeze, some people work through it.
There was a proclaimation about Titanic's survivors made by the public after she sank-"Those who were saved were saved by one man, Mr. Marconi.". However the two men on the spot, Phillips and Bride were instrumental in effectively using Marconi's creation. They especially used great personal initiative by repairing the shorted coil in the wireless the night before against company policy. If this repair wasn't made, the range of the radio on battery power alone would cut the range to 50 miles instead of the 4-500 miles maximum. With the limited 50 mile range they might not have even reached the Carpathia in time.
On the flip side they wouldn’t have been so busy with the backed up messages with cape race and may have been able to logically react to the ice warning from the Californian
@@KingdomHeart556 That's a good point. However, the primary business focus of the novel Marconi wireless was in making money by sending messages for the wealthy passengers, not as a navigational aid. Taking messages to the bridge didn't make any money. It was discovered that years earlier wireless communications were useful to the maritime industry by providing information on relaying weather, hazards, schedules and emergencies as was demonstrated in 1909 with the sinking of the RMS. Republic, another White Star vessel when it's Marconi operator became a hero by summoning help that resulted in everyone surviving the evacuation who weren't killed in the collision. Relaying navigational messages to the bridge in ships at that time was a company courtesy, not the norm. Even if Phillips and Bride weren't backed up with messages, it's doubtful that the ice warning messages would have received any priority by the operators or the Titanic's officers. One of the early critical essages that Captain Smith received he gave to Ismay who then put it in his pocket and it was forgotten about. At the inquiries that followed, Bride testified that he couldn't even remember who the officer was he delivered the last critical ice warning to. It was most likely Second Officer Lightoller because Bride delivered the message earlier in the evening and "Lights", as he was known, was the officer on watch. No one could be certain what the mood or priorities would have been that last evening even if the wireless set had been working normally. I'm sure though, Phillips would have still blown off the Californian's operator Evans when he cut in and almost blesw Phillips' ears off with the report that his ship was stopped by ice nearby even if he wasn't backed up with messages as most people would.
You should do a video on how Harold Cottam’s work saved those lives too! He was just in the process of getting ready for bed when he picked up the Titanic’s distress call
and his decision to awaken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and inform him that the Titanic was in trouble is what got the Carpathia into action to arrive at the Titanic’s sinking location hours before any other ship and rescue the survivors. He was also good friends with Harold Bride and Jack Phillips and I can’t imagine how Cottam and Bride must’ve felt to have been seeing each other again after the tragedy and about how their work is what got the Carpathia into action to save all of those lives. It was also great of Bride to have been working together with Cottam to transmit official messages about the Titanic’s sinking during their journey to New York City, even though he had badly injured his feet in the disaster.
I stumbled across your channel by accident and I'm glad because your a true historian Sam. I'm from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪. I've always been fascinated by the Titanic. I decided to take a trip down to Cobh, Co Cork Ireland last month. This was the last stop for the Titanic, queen's Town as it was named at the time. I urge you come here and sample the atmosphere, there is a neat Titanic exhibition and many land marks. Keep up the great work. Thanks
Phillips was too young to die 😢
(25 years old)
These guys helped save so many lives at the risk of their own
And one of them survived, but with great difficulty and ended up with badly injured feet.
Please make a hero’s video on Lighttoller! He was a fascinating guy!!
2nd officer on the titanic, captain of a patrol/attack boat in WW1, and took part in the civilian evacuation of Dunkirk in WW2!!
Fascinating!!!
Lightoller wasn't a traditional hero. He made the situation far worse before making it better.
11:24 those 2 images, I just cannot get over how mighty and majestic this ship was. It's what hooked me all those years ago and it's what keeps me coming back. It might be a perfect visual specimen of a seafaring vessel.
I agree, the Titanic, as well as her sister ships, Olympic and Britannic, were just incredibly beautiful ships, both with their very yacht-like outside appearances and their insanely luxurious interior appointments. It is an absolute shame that the Olympic was not preserved as a museum ship.
Please can u do a video on titanic second officer Lightoller?
Amazing video man! Congratulations on 70k+ subs! 🎉
all these details can make a new titanic movie. your a great story teller. this is the best youtube video i seen from along time.
Congrats for 70k subs! You absolutely deserve this, you doing amazing job! Also, I'd love a video about Murdoch, he's my favourite Titanic officer
Murdoch*
@@PlanesGamingReactions Right, sorry, have dyslexia
Yeah you are absolutely definitely right first offer Willam McMaster Murdoch he has been my favourite office since I have know about the unsinkable RMS Titanic and it's from 1992 I was only 5 years old and of today I am 35 years old
Thank you so much for teaching us this amazing stuff about the Titanic and other ships! You're the best
Another thing I've always wondered but this is probably silly: couldn't a boat have attempted to row to the nearby ship and sound the alarm or was this not possible? I assume it was not.
Absolutely astounding job. I love your explanations, it really expands a lot of important details. Such as the extremely loud steam venting, which would have been a huge impediment to communication on the deck.
Thank you Sam, another great educational video.
Harold Bride Lived With His Uncle, Cousins and Harold Cottom. Bride Would Have Nightmares On and Off For the Rest of his Life sometimes staying up all night Saying “I’m So Sorry Phillips” Bride would also mistake family members as Phillips but Bride would eventually get over the Titanic.
That’s actually so sad :(
I don’t think Harold Bride really lived with Harold Cottam, but they were friends from their days of training together and were happy enough to have been seeing each other again on the Carpathia and worked together to do all of the great message relaying during their journey to New York City following the disaster and stayed in contact for the rest of their lives.
I think Phillips had a tremendous amount of guilt which contributed to his breakdown even when the wireless was clearly not working anymore
I share the same opinion.
I think so too. He never heard from the Californian again and he wondered what would have happened if he hadn't blown off the Californian's operator.
Wasn’t it the case that the radio operators at the time were a small club who all knew each other and gave each other good natured ribbings? As in he wouldn’t have taken offense to Phillips?
@@ryanfisher4213true
@@ryanfisher4213You can see on videos with channels on what happned that night and which ship titanic contacted and you can see they use the acronym “OM” which stands for Old Man which is basically the early 20th century version of saying “Hey Bro”. I like to use Old Man with my friends who are intrested with ships aswell
I just subscribed to you this morning. I've been enjoying listening to your podcasts all the time lately, especially while I'm at the gym like I am right now, listening to your amazing podcasts, Keep up the good work
As a software engineer it is quite wild to imagine what life must have been like back then for wireless operators. After all given today's general knowledge even their marconi wireless, primitive as it was, could have been used for so much more than just transmitting morse code messages. Kinda insane to think about how far this technology had already advanced just 61 years after the sinking when the first wireless network was established.
You have a great, interesting, educational channel. Keep up the good work.
Bride and Phillips were true ham radio operators; had they not done all that work fixing the radio, who knows how many more lives would’ve been lost that night? I’m not too good at it myself, despite being an amateur radio operator, but my dad (also a ham) is very good at troubleshooting and fixing his radios. Hell, most hams I know are pretty good at doing that too.
Congrats on 70K.
Another important tidbit about the wireless system, was that there were no 'channels' or frequencies. Everyone had to basically share a 'party line', transmitting and receiving on the same 'channel'. So you can imagine all these ships all trying to transmit ice warnings, ship to ship and ship to shore communications, personal messages from passengers, etc all over a single shared frequency. It must have been absolutely insane.
Great point
I also would like to know what would of happened if the men didn’t fix the radio. Would titanic have lost everyone? When would people realize the ship was missing? What would they have done with no position to report to etc
@@tula1433 They had a secondary radio but it wouldn't reach Cape Cod.
The reason they fixed the primary radio was so they could keep sending paid messages.
Or as Jack Phillips told Californian "I'm working".
Another great vid sam
Sam, if you want an example of how much of a difference the distance radio transmissions can be heard during the nighttime vs distance heard during the daytime, listen to AM broadcast radio. I live in NC and during the day I can only receive stations in my immediate area. At night, however I can receive AM broadcast stations that are in Atlanta, Pittsburg, and even Albany NY (my hometown). I suspect that the Marconi wireless system was using frequencies in the same range of the frequencies AM broadcast radio uses today
Big fan . Sub when you had under 5k . Love this page. I got to meet Dr. Robert Ballard back in 1987 . Few years after find the titanic. And there's a titanic historical museum near me. With jj actors wife's life vest . And other artifacts that were not recovered from the wreck
I would love for this series to keep going !!
Great job sam 👍
In fairness, Jack Philips' response to Californian may have just been how Marconi operators talked to each other. Oceanliner Designs made a video about this:
m.ua-cam.com/video/CvLWcP_bD4w/v-deo.html
Very interesting vids, thanks for your insight and info! If you're ever looking for vid ideas on less known wrecks, the Lakes Freighter S.S. Carl D. Bradley would be a cool one to see.
This was actually very very informative well done video
I what to thank you I learned a lot from you I always been a titanic fan I been doing a project on it since hi school you really help in lock down you fantastic
Love this great job
thx for your work
If they hadn't bronken the rules and had not fixed the Marconi wireless the day the ship sank, there's a good chance that a lot more if not all the passengers and crew would have died. A reminder of even for back then sea travel could be very dangerous.
You should do a video on all the ships that were near the Titanic the night of the sinking
I love you’re content so much :) thanks for the amazing videos
Or if they had followed the Marconi instructions and not fixed the radio, captain smith would not have got the ice multiple warnings on April 14 which lead him to take a more westerly course hitting the ice berg. Original path titanic was taking was safe. It was too many ice warnings that put her on a deadly collision course. Radio going offline on April 13 might be a godsend to stop the Titanic from hitting the iceberg.
I didn’t believe he would even get to 100k subs. He probably will. He deserves WAY more subs.
Yes, keep this series going! Love it
Sweet. Keep it up!!!
Great video
great story telling! gj
Sam just started watching. You're a star 🌟
Worsham! Congrats on the subs. That's so awesome and so are your videos. If Jack and Harold hadn't fixed the radio, there would have been No survivors that night. They are heroes. Like the idea of the video you said. Be neat.
There also would’ve been no survivors that night if Jack and Harold’s Carpathia radio operating friend Harold Cottam hadn’t worked later than usual and worn his headphones while in the process of getting ready for bed.
Can you do a video for the people that kept the lights on the titanic because if it wasn’t for them people would’ve not been able to get to the life boats and been a lot more deaths
Centering on an occasional hero, Is a GOOD idea🤔, Sam!!! There's nothing wrong, with creating a certain topic (as long as it's interesting), and keeping it going with periodical, information!!!
10:33 you mean 13th right?
God bless them both - a couple of true heroes.
What you said at 5:24 was not exactly correct: "The Marconi wireless system also had another use, that wasn't for official purposes.
This use was to be used by the Titanic's passengers."
Actually that was the MAIN use of the wireless system.
Philips and Bride were employees of the Marconi company, they were not employees of the White Star Line company. In the ship's list they were second class passengers.
Their MAIN duty was to receive and send the so called "Marconigrams" between the passengers, that's what they were paid to do.
The communication between the ships was additional job for them, sometimes ANNOYING additional part of the job.
The priority were the messages of the passengers, so any message from and for a ship had to be labelled, to get prioritized.
The amazing thing in the story of the Titanic is that there's no main villain, just few people (some of them are considered heroes) made some very small mistakes. They didn't even know that they were doing mistakes, they were doing something pretty usual for them. Something that they've done many times before, without any consequences. But this particular time these small mistakes added up with some misfortune, and that's how the impossible happened: the most advanced, safe, beautiful (and so on) ship in the world sank in her maiden voyage.
It's incredible that the main characters in the story were heroes and villains at the same time. They made small mistakes that lead to the collision, and after that they did the best they could do to save as many lives as possible.
Congrats on 70,000+
Can you make Sinking of Carpathia
could you do what if captain didn't shut down the engines/propellers?
The man who tried to steal the life jacket probably saved Harold Brides life without even knowing it.
Hey sam, Just wondering if you could do a history episode on the battle of midway, love your history covers, and thanks for the content you produce for us.
GREAT .thank,s
The black and white scene starting at 10:11 what movie is that scene from?
It’s from a low budget UA-cam film about the marconi operators called the last signals
Yay well done Sam! ❤️
This video is one of my favourites,because I watched The Last Signals way to many times
I love the idea
congrats man!
The tragedy happened, of course, because the Titanic did not slow down despite the known presence of icebergs ahead. As I understand it, the general thinking by Smith was that they would spot a berg in time to avoid it; which they almost did. However, the lack of moonlight, and of surf against the berg (s) due to the unusually calm ocean, worked against this; but Smith should have taken these factors into consideration, and ordered half-speed until dawn. The question is, would he have slowed down had he received the Californian's final warning? Likey not, but we'll never know.
Jack Phillips and Harold Bride left the Marconi Wireless Room at 2:07 am.
Yup and then decided to split up which was the last time they saw each other as Jack Phillips died in the tragedy while Harold Bride survived with great difficulty on a lifeboat that wasn’t properly launched.
Congrats on 70k subs. My family and I are going to the Titanic museum in Orlando later this month. Do u have any advice or interesting things to look for?
19:05 Woow! I did Not know Modern Ships run on "GAS" 🤣🤣 I knoow I knoow, You meant Gasoline hahaha 👍 But its still funny
Harold Bride’s misfortune continued even though he survived. The men on Collapsible Boat B spent hours balancing themselves in ankle-deep water before they were picked up by another lifeboat. Bride suffered severe frostbite to his feet. He had to be lifted up onto and carried off of The Carpathia.
I didn’t know that. Collapsible B is interesting they pulled that off it is shown some in the movie
@@claytonelofgren the story of Collapsible B is featured more prominently in “A Night To Remember”. 2nd Officer Lightoller, Harold Bride, Col. Gracie, Jack Thayer and Chef Charles Joughin are a few famous names who survived on Collasible B.
@@zuitsuit80 very interesting. I’m more curious too what happened with the person from the radio room who survived and also the owner survived what their life looked like afterwards and how much blame they got
@@claytonelofgren With injured feet, 2nd Operator Harold Bride helped The Carpathia’s operator send messages to New York about the sinking and survivors.
He married, served in WWI, moved to Glasgow, had 3 children and became a salesman. Died of lung cancer and cremated in 1956.
Bruce Ismay (the chairman of White Star)was taken to the Carpathia’s doctor’s cabin and given opiates for his shock. The inquiry cleared him of any wrong doing as he was technically a passenger and not crew. However, the newspapers and the public were not as kind. Ismay resigned White Star in 1913 and retired to Ireland. His family never spoke of Titanic. Diabetes later failed his health swiftly and he died in 1937.
@@claytonelofgren There’s a great book called “The Story of The Titanic”. It’s actually four books in one. Testimonies. Each written by a survivor. 3 of them from Collasible B.
Charles Lightoller (2nd Officer)
Harold Bride (2nd Wireless Operator)
Colonel Gracie (1st Class)
Lawrence Beesley (2nd class)
I think doing heros in history is a great idea!
That feeling when Sam does a regular upload, but not a premiere...
something isn't right here
Much of this video is taken from another same topic covered on another persons channel - even the video excerpts. I’ve seen all the filmed segments on the channel of the person that created it.
@@xr6lad link?
Sam do you think if all of Titanics pumps were moved into the 5th compartment she would of been able to stay afloat ?
it's a wonderful tribute to RMS Carpathia could you do a documentary on Chief Officer Wilde?
It’s the 107th anniversary of the Lusitania
Yeah, sure. They save 700 lives. But they also killed over 1,500. Don’t exactly balance out, does it.
If they would have taken the Californian seriously and reported the ice field warning to the bridge instead of telling the Californian to ‘shut up’ then perhaps the wreck wouldn’t have happened.
Hello Sam you are one of my favorites UA-camrs love your videos whatever I want to know something about a ship that sank I turn to you you have videos almost about every ship But I have a question what if the titanic Never sink how would that impact the future hey what would’ve been completely different what can you sync would’ve happened if the titanic never Sink at all how would things completely change I wander
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@19 minutes, you're right. I served in three steam powered ships and those things you say are true. I watched a boiler nearly explode a couple of times. Venting residual steam is a thing that sometimes happens. We say that if it's black smoke, two minutes to correct it or pull fires. White steam is even worse . . . pull fires in one minute.
I felt really bad for Harold Bride, given everything he went through the night of the sinking.
Yeah, he badly injured his feet and was so sad Jack Phillips died in the disaster. The most comfort he received after that was from Harold Cottam, the Carpathia’s radio operator whom he was already friends with from his training days.
If I'm not mistaken, it went out around 4:20
Looks like the mast on the model behind you is in tention and looks like its either gonna snap or deform
Cant remember name of UA-cam channel, but its a great channel like yours. The gist of what he said was that it was common practice to say things like the "keep out keep out, shut up" and this talking shit was a friendly banter that all marconi operators did.. his information came from some book by a Commodore of White Star Line...
You always so informed, was curious if you ever heard this information? Seems from this video you have not...
I hope its true... it makes that incident seem less bad on Phillips
Dear Sam, I have a what if question.
What if - collapsible B fell from officers quarters to boat deck NOT upside down
It would have crushed harold bride
I imagine its fate would’ve been the same as the fate of Collapsible A.
😢
Imagine if they had to relay steamy messages to lovers back home. 'thinking of you. Stop. I'm not wearing a corset. Stop.
21:08🤕😂😂
Have you made a video about tge mystery if Harold and Jack killed a stoker who try to steel their life vest just like in the Night To Remember?
Here's a what if, what if they had followed protocol and went to the emergency backup.
Hear me out, they would not have been too tired from staying up all night trying to fix the radio. That Sunday depending on where they were they would have had time to deliver ice warnings to the bridge since they would not be working cape race.
When the Californian radio'd that they had stopped for the night due to ice they would not have dismissed their operator and maybe have even kept him online for awhile. Also they would have had time to relay this message to the bridge.
The captain already knew about the ice field earlier in the day. The captain was confident he avoided the ice field and that's why they continued on.
8:54 when not following directions saved lifes
Is your thumbnail the book cover from “I Survived The Sinking Of The Titanic 1912”?
I’d love to see the rest of the stories of the Lusitania. As well as the story of the Andrea Doria
Have you ever seen the movie about the Lusitania? It shows its story very well!
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY sadly, no. But I’ll look for it
@@brave_jedi9437 Well, it’s called “Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea” and you can watch it for free on UA-cam.
Would love to see a video about White White Star's SS Naonic and what you believe the chances are of it being found one day!
Why did not Herold or Jack ask Carpathia to relay the CQD distress signal and let them try to find another ship closer to the Titanic ?Carpathia had a fully working radio gear didn't it.
No one else was closer. Californian was close but the wireless operator was asleep. Mount Temple was close too. It operator was awake but it was directly in the field of ice and h he would have had a hard time maneuvering through the ice. Only the Carpathia was close enough to get there without obstruction.
Actually, there was another ship according to lore, the Samson, that was only 7 miles away from the Titanic. It seems this may be the mystery ship that the Californian saw that day. The reason the Samson wasn't heard of much is because they were illegally fishing and didn't want to be caught having dead seals in the vessel so they were ignoring the Titanic's distress call.
Do the story of the Bismarck
What if everyone had moved to the stern with their luggage and offset the sinking bow? Would that have worked? What if the crew had closed all the doors, even the non-water-tight doors, in the lower decks? Would that have significantly slowed the sink rate?
Absolutely not. Do you have any idea how much an iron ship full of water weighs?
@@RichieD_21 Yeah, thanks. Back to overunity.
The lusitania sunk today, what are your thoughts?
My thoughts are about what my great great grandfather said about it. He helped do repairs on the Lusitania right before its ill-fated maiden voyage and as he worked on it, he saw how poorly prepared it was which made it a death trap which he was right about.
I also have great thoughts about George William Beauchamp. He worked as a stoker on both the Titanic and Lusitania and amazingly survived both of their tragic sinkings.
There were several things that led to the fatal outcome…Officers on board told passengers that the ship was fine when in fact it was sinking…People were fearful to get onto the life boats as there was a significant danger in lowering them…people believed that rescue ships would arrive before the ship sank as proven by previous experiences…the port side officer would only let women and children onto the ship while male passengers were led to believe they were more likely to survive if they went to the port side, and pure hubris in thinking that the ship was unsinkable…