5 Most Asked Shipping Questions Answered!
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Have you ever wondered why ships don't have headlights or why they're painted red?
In this video, we dive into the top 5 most asked Ocean Liner questions, uncovering the history and the mysteries behind ships at sea.
Enjoy five of our most popular ship fact videos back-to-back in this Oceanliner Designs episode marathon!
00:00 | Intro
1:28 | 5. Why are ships painted red?
10:54 | 4. Why don't ships have headlights?
22:02 | 3. What is a bulbous bow?
31:02 | 2. How do lifeboats work?
45:52 | 1. Why are ships called SS?
56:32 | Outro
Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels- from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!
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Our best friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!!!!!!!!!
Indeed it is
It's him!
My day is much better now
It's a happy day when Mike releases an episode lasting almost an hour . Very well done Mike .
Always makes me smile to hear from my friend Mike Brady at Oceanliner Designs.
This man singlehandedly kept my interest in maritime history alive.
Thank you Mike for such amazing videos
Thanks mate!
Single-handedly? You’re missing out on a boat load of channels then.
@@NicolaiAwesome Mike's channel was the first one I watched, but now I watch multiple
An hour with our friend Mike Brady talking about ships? It's a good day.
It really is!
I'm a simple girl.. I see my friend Mike Brady drops a new video and I watch
You're a hoor
Me too! I love this channel and I’m not remotely involved in any ship or ship related stuff.
Thank you, Mr. Brady!
@@queenbelle5903 Youre a hoor
I never thought that a man who says with sincerity, "I'm you're good friend Mike Brady" would be taken seriously. Well I apologize. Your content is fantastic & combined with knowledge, a classy wardrobe and a wonderful disposition makes for a truly great experience. Thanks ever much '
Yes, he seems very genuine. He also seems to take great pride in putting out quality videos. Honestly, I think he'd have fit right in on some massive ship at the turn of the 20th century.
Mike Brady is not only our friend.....
He's a damn Legend 🙌 🚢 🧠 👔
@@jessicalypsojessicakyliemc9879Would make a pretty friendly pirate too.
Dont forget the charming accent.
Our friend Mike singlehandedly making curved-collar, titanic men's shirts trendy again.
In the Navy, we painted it "once for dust and twice for rust"
Third before muster, fourth for bluster.
The land equivalent is: If it's on the ground, pick it up; if it moves, salute it; if it doesn't, paint it!
Came for Titanic content and stayed for Mike and his other great content.
Mike Brady is single-handedly responsible for UA-cam still being worth using.
Honestly
oh my god is that an hour long mike brady video?????????????????
this is the best day of my life
57 minutes of Mike Brady? 🤤 ❤
Hi cutie
@@rafaliciousbmx💀bro's desperate
@@rafaliciousbmxbro simps in my friends 'Mike Bradys from oceanliner designs' comments💀
@@tripwire3992 I was bored 🛳🤤
@@Pheo0811 better than having an anime profile pic 💀
I am still waiting for the part 4 of Ocean Liner evolution
My good friend, Mike, I could listen to you talk about ships for many many hours at a time. These videos are a treat every time they show up and I feel like I learn something new every time. I have had interest in ocean liners ever since I was 3 years old, bc thats the year they found Titanic, and you've managed to restoke that flame many times over.
Tomorrow in fact, I'm going to the Titanic exhibit at Cosi in Columbus Ohio and I cannot wait.
Thank you for sharing your interest with us every time, cheers! and until next time!
just got back from visiting the titanic museum in belfast, it was brilliant and i knew a lot about the ship already thanks to this guy. still learned loads from the museum though
Awesome!
Was our friend Mike Brady given an honourable mention anywhere there?
Fun fact: HMS Belfast and SS Nomadic are the only two ships built by Harland & Wolff that are still in one piece, not counting shipwrecks.
@@jamesgroccia644 SS nomadic is actually in a graving dock in belfast and you can tour it, one of the rooms even has the original 1912 panelling in one of the rooms. Very cool experience to be on that.
@@geurk I said "in one piece", not "afloat" specifically. Bel is the only H&W ship left that can fit this title, just like how Massachusetts is the only Fore River battleship still afloat (she was the *only* battleship built by the shipyard, but that's besides the point).
@@jamesgroccia644 oh I knew what you meant it's ok. I was just mentioning that I got to tour it which was a really cool experience and i wasn't sure if you knew that it was there. Although based on your username I assume you did.
Have to appreciate a guy that puts effort into his appearance for his audience. What a champ!
Mike Brady loves ocean liners so much that when he takes a bath, he insists on calling it sea trials!
Love u man!
That's surprising.
Ordinarily in those circumstances, it would have been presumable to suppose that he'd have called it a "lighthouse" instead.
Our Good Friend Mike Brady makes these long form videos look effortless. What dedication this man has!
Titanic is how I discovered this channel, but I enjoy all of the other content as well.
Tbh, thought about most of these questions. But I still enjoyed learning the answers.
(Tho' I could have done without the close up pic of the ship worm! 😂)
Mike - Your channel is fantastic! The highest compliment I can pay you is that you’re the Mark Felton of all things ships and the sea! Thank you!
As a career US Navy sailor, it is nice that I understand all of the technical and maritime terms. Really enjoy your channel!
As a former Navy helmsman, i really enjoy your videos and had quiet some laughs when you explained what the SS etc stands for! Thank you for this
On vacation, still rocking the 3 piece suit.
Eeeyyy! Mike Brady! The man who came into my life and changed the course of it! 🎉
Have quit my forensics course and took up a master degree in history instead. With a dissertation on Titanic 🎉
Yes. It's our friend Mike Brady from oceanliner designs
It's nice to come home from work and see a new Oceanliner Design video up with my friend Mike Brady!
I hope you enjoy your vacation.
Mike Brady is just frigging AWESOME!
I think Mike Brady’s voice could soothe the tensest of men
Ahhh, that iconic Cunard look is so nice. I love how one of the old buildings in downtown Edmonton has a faded Cunard office ad on the old brick. Never really noticed it until I started watching this channel!
Hey! It's my friend Mike Brady from Ocean Liner Designs!
Every time I hear " Im your friend, Mike Brady," I always think about the Brady Bunch. Mike Brady was the dad 😅
It'll be easy now to send this video to people who ask me questions, so that they can just watch this instead of 5 separate videos!
Thanks for the recaps, Mike! Hope you enjoy your vacation!
Hey. It's my friend, Mike Brady. You know, the oceanliner designs guy😊
Mike Brady, the dapper mariner!
Ships started it, and today we still use it almost everywhere. Red-left, green-right, white tail (backward) is the standard navigation/position lights on all aircraft. Even if aircraft do have landing and taxi lights at the front, sometimes even recognition lights that even flash.
You and your friends at OceanLiner Designs did it again, Mr. Brady... I can't believe how fascinating you made it to learn about the "simple" evolutions of ship building... I am such an idiot, but you always make me feel wiser! Thank you, again!
Mike, you are so wholesome... "Nice lemonade, or ice coffee". Whilst I'm sat here like a savage, drinking a nice, cool beer! 😅
Keep them videos coming mate!
I worked on a towboat pushing barges up and down the Mississippi. At night we were required to wear headlamps to see what we were doing, and the boat itself was equipped with two large spotlights the captain could control from the wheelhouse. Half of the time we kept them off, most nights you could work solely off the moonlight. They were there for those moonless nights, and for when we were to far off in the swamp that the trees blocked out any light. Those of us on the deck crew hated the spotlights for the sole fact that some captains would put them on you "in regards to safety", blinding you and drawing out every mosquito in the state to your location
That free falling lifeboat is wild!
I have no idea how UA-cam suggested one of these videos to me, I am not interested in maritime history, but my goodness, what a quality channel! Fun and informative. I do feel I have a good friend here! Thanks so much.
I think your videos are a rare treat, and I never fail to enjoy them. I know these programs don't just happen, so I'd like to thank you for all your hard work.
Part of making my Tiny Metal Trees is concealing the glue by sprinkling miniature rocks (gravel) on it. I recently started going to the beach to harvest gravel myself (+ maybe shells and sea-glass) which I clean and partially sort by color to use in this way on different colored rocks. One component of the dark colored gravel assortment is bits of slag from steamships' burners which was just dumped overboard as waste. It is mostly black and vitreous with varied discolorations and textures depending on whatever gunk had not been completely burned. It looks kind of like a lava-rock crossed with a meteorite, but is really neither. I just opened the can of this color blend of gravel to use it, right at the very moment that our friend Mike Brady said "steamship"!
To be fair, some of the material probably managed to make it's way from locomotives too, but there was a good chunk of time where the harbor would have been relatively full of steamships and nobody exactly considered this convenient disposal pollution, except probably the fish.
Now, some tiny bits of this stuff get sold to tourists and are once more making their way around the world. We're a cruise-ship port so some of the bits are even going by sea again!
This was a very appreciated video!!!! I will watch it again!!! Thanks.
I got to say man if no one else has said it, your current intro is awsome!!!!!!!!
Thanks Mike... Now I know that MV stands for Motor Vessel, and not, as I had previously thought (though, I dont know why!!) Marine Vessel. I was thinking of the MV Communicator which was anchored (?) somewhere of the South of England, or maybe, in the North Sea (?) and held a pirate radio station during the 1980''s. Charlie Wolf was one of my favourite DJ's on that ship, and we used to write to each other about music (and cookery, what meals they cooked and ate at sea etc) !! Fun times!! ❤⚓☠️🚤🚁🛥️🎶🤭🎧🎵😊🏴♥️🇬🇧🎵🙂🖖
I love going to the top deck of a cruise ship and seeing the running lights of all the other ships
I had wondered why since I was little seeing the boats at the shop yard, all red from the water line. This is very interesting! Thanks
We came here for ships but we stayed for our friend Mike Brady from oceanliner designs!
Before Mike answers the question about the red color, I'm going to say what I've always been told: it is a red lead coating for anti-barnacle fouling. Wooden ships initially used copper sheathing for that.
Thank you Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs
Thank you, Friend Mike. I'm especially fascinated by the modern lifeboats
I'm Irish, I was at hay and turf all day, I went on the beer after, I'm mad drunk and I love your stories and this one will put me to sleep , cheers buddy (west of Ireland)
We need SS Ile de France to be featured in a vid :>
Them: You don't have any friends!
Me: Mike Brady is my friend from Ocean Liner Designs 😊
I always love these videos because its a topic I know very little about, putting on Maritime content has been my go to while I complete work and I'd say that your channel takes priority over the others. Great work as always!
This fella has become one of my favorite content creators. From one creator to another, keep up the great work sir!
The headlight section is old. I saw it a few years ago. I've sailed in a lot of darkness, sailed my boat back to its slot on moonless nights. I also know all about night vision (takes the human eye about 7 minutes to fully readapt to darkness.) Headlights would be good. When we motored back into the harbor on the 4th of July in darkness, I stood on deck with a powerful LED flashlight.
The entire issue of headlights is exactly the same as for cars: Don't travel faster than your headlights. This means that you should only travel as fast as you can safely stop when something appears in your headlights. Same for ships. The issue is of course ships can take a couple of miles to stop or radically change course. Also for crew spotters. If there are more than three people on board, one of them can be night vision, another can be the spotlight user. Headlights or a spotlight on a ship doesn't have to be on all the time. The standard for binoculars for boating are 7 x50. The magnification is high enough to see more than your eyes, and the 50 - size of the front element gathers enough light to be useful at night. I also have 14 x 40 stabilized binocs. Terrific during the day, far superior than the 7 x 50s, but at night of little value. For night sky viewing I have 10 x 150s, not expensive but large these at night can see more than your eyes. the 10x and the weight makes them difficult to use on a moving deck. 7 x 150 would be really great.
One of the higher quality DSLRs like my Nikon D850 is incredibly sensitive. It sees more than the nigh sky binocs.
Iron oxide is just a great pigment. Never fades. I painted the bungalow I was sharing with the owner. He was an architecture student, so every afternoon for two weeks he and his school friends would get together and discuss not only what color, but what shade of that color to paint the house.... The second week was all splitting hairs. I told them that any mixed color they chose would be fugitive and would inevitably fade. It did within two weeks and continued to look worse and worse. Mixed colors use aniline dyes -- these are inherently fugitive -- meaning they fade from sun, UV, oxidation, pollutants... iron oxide being the color of a very stable chemical compound, never fades. It would take a chemical reaction.
The bungalow next door was owned by someone else. She asked me to paint hers. What color? "Oh just barn red." I painted it the week I got married in 1985. When I later revisited her house 18 years later that paint was still great, but the white window trim had needed to be repainted. The other bungalow? It had been repainted a couple of times.
I have a sailboat and the issue with repainting the bottom is to use a strong biocide or not or ablative - where layers slough off. I also pay $80/month to have the marine growth scraped off. It takes a diver about an hour to do this. Biocides and copper based bottom paint are banned in some places because they kill marine life including coral.
Only our good friend Mike Brady would drop an almost hour long video while on vacation 😂 hope you and your family are having a good vacation
Very much appreciated that you’re willing to do a video while on vacation but go out and enjoy yourself. Alternatively would love for you to head out to Michigan in the US and come enjoy some of the largest fresh water lakes in the world and tell us about how the Great Lakes can be some of the most treacherous waters of the world
Hey, it's Mike Brady, my friend over at Oceanliner Designs.
Compilation or not, I'll gladly rewatch for our friend, Mike Brady😎
Another great video by our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!
Sleep deprived and working double shifts for the past week, listening to Mike's voice is better than advil right now
I don’t care that this is a compilation of videos I’ve seen before. My friend Mike Brady uploads, I watch.
(PS - Hope you’re enjoying your vacation!)
It's 108°F where I am today! You have such polite man
nerisms, Mike!
I hoped to be a barnacle scraper as a kid! Sadly, here in Idaho, there's not much need for barnacle scrapers!
Great post, Mike!
Thanks
An hour of our friend Mike Brady, just before going on holiday, could you ask for more?
Traditional red hulls are really deeply ingrained into ship culture. This year when the battleship New Jersey went into drydock they found that when her hull was last painted in 1991 it was painted all black. During the drydock this spring they went back to the red hull with black boot topping. It's not anti-foul paint but it is the right colors again.
Many years ago a cargo into icey flow waters, the ice would clean "her bottom" and we gained a couple of knots. Great upload sir..
Thank you Mike for all those subjects! All the best from Sydney
Mr Brady, your videos are so informative, interesting, professional and so well done. Keep up the great presentations and sail on!
Another epic, informative video from our friend, Mike Brady 😎 the man who is not a myth, but a legend in maritime history.....and we are all better off because of it
I might be over a day late, but I’m still happy I got to it before I was a week late. It happens to me all too often.
Hope you’re having a great vacation, Mike! Thanks for the video, can’t wait to watch on my lunch break 😊💖
Lol, this is one of the few channels that almost every other video i check to make sure im subscribed. If i had more money id do more to keep the channels i enjoy goin but for now its all i can do. Getting to see this dude talk about boats is one of the few reasons to enjoy being alive in the present time lol great content🙌🙌
entertaining and informative video, the acronym part was funny in places.
Thanks for putting out a video while you're on vacation! I appreciate you and your content!
you forgot MV (Merchant Vessel)... But still a very entertaining video. Learned a few new things! Thanks
As always, an amazing video with interesting topics
We used to call anti-fowling pain, "red lead". I don't know if this term, is still in use.
Thank you, Mike. I have always loved all things Titanic. Thanks to you, there's a whole world of interesting sea faring studies. Thanks for making an informative, interesting video once again.
Love the infomative videos you make, keep up the great work.
A thing that i was wondering, what has changed in funnels from 1850 to today? I'm not talking about the number of funnels but to their structure. Previously, since ships began to be moved by steam, the funnel was just a large pipe to expel smoke, but now the funnel is made up of many small pipes placed together, why this? What has changed? Isn't it enough to have just one pipe for everything?
We love you Mike Brady!!!!
N.S. Savanah would make an interesting video.
Or the MV Astoria. Yes, the ship that sank the Andrea Doria in the 1950s ran all the way until 2020😲 The beer bug finally took her out, and almost took out the Queen Mary as well.
20:17 there is another tech now in use to see vessels around you: AIS (Automated Identification System). It transmits your (WAAS/SBAS-augmented) GPS location, vessel name, and course digitally over the VHF. This is far more affordable for sailboat owners than a radar setup. They can sound an alarm if a ship is headed in your direction. Useful to also just see who's out there. If doing some blue water sailing in the open ocean and a ship is going in the opposite direction, they can provide useful condition information about the waters ahead.
I thoroughly enjoy the new introduction, Mike!
Awesome video Mike well done
On a cruise around South America in 2023 I noted another use for the bulbous bow: In dock near Lima, Peru, a large cargo carrier was moored near our boat, and on its bulbous bow there a seal, peacefully sleeping the day away.
Our friend Mike Brady has a really relaxing voice. Stories are told in a way that it keeps me interested. ❤
Great content as always, Mike. You always do your research, and present it entertainingly.
Another great vid with great info Mike. Top notch as always. Cheers.
Hey it's our friend Mike Brady from ocean liner designs! Keep it up Mike!
Man what I wouldn't give to be able to take a cruise on a proper Ocean Liner...they just had CLASS. Cruise ships to me look too...busy. I know the point of that is because they don't have a set schedule to adhere to like liners did since ships like RMS Titanic or Olympic were also mail carriers (hence the abbreviation RMS-royal mail ship) but still...I wish they'd take a page out of Titanic's book and be a bit more...streamlined.
I mean, you technically can get on an ocean liner still
I love how u makes your video, and how easy it is to understand your english for non english speaking people (norwegians,swedes and so on). I love u dont use slang in your english. U makes great videos and u learn people alot without being "wiseguy". Keep up your good work and i finds your videos very interesting.
I’ve been retired for nearly 6 years. After going to sea for over 40 years, I still find I am able to do most of my activities in the darkness. I live in a city, so nothing absolutely completely dark.
Absolutely love your work!! in the future, would you be able to cover the subject of shipping between the mainland & Tasmania? maybe not for this channel but...
Costume historian here, what's your source for the use of iron oxide in British military uniforms? My understanding is that they were mostly done in vegetable dyes, like madder, or using cochineal in a pinch. It's not my area of expertise, so I ask out of curiosity rather than slapping it down.
We told Mike this before but I guess he never saw those comments. Yes the redcoats were madder, cochineal or similar. Mike has no knowledge of fabric dyes. Luckily he's cute. 😊
@@nian60 Maybe there was a mention of iron as a mordant somewhere? I think that's usually for black though.
Hi Mike Brady. I have never met you personally but I kinda like it that you introduce yourself as my friend.
Hello new friend Mike Brady! Got addicted to your channel over the last few days thanks to all the Titanic videos. Lovely to be here!
Absolutely love your channel and shows!! My young son and I watch one every night and now he looks at me and asks “daddy are we going to watch the show about big boats?” Keep it up!!
Thank you, OFFOD Mike Brady!
"A lemonade or a nice iced coffee."
[me, with my can of Monster Zero Ultra] Good enough.
Good stuff as always, my friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs! 😁