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The British did the same thing in Peru aswell. The SS Ollanta (1931), SS Coya (1893) and SS Yavari (1861) were all re-assembled on Lake Titicaca and are mercifully all still preserved in beautiful condition. South America has some of the best and rarest surviving examples of 19-early 20th century shipbuilding
the same thing was done on other african lakes. illala (lake malawi)and victoria(lake vic) are still in traffic. both lakes had a history of ships being built in uk then knockdown and rebuilt at the lake. as did lake albert which had a fleet of uk buil paddle steamers. was pretty common.
do you know if ollanta is servicable? shes owned by peru rail which is run by the bellmond pullman people and they had big plans to overhul her and use her for cruises. but although some painting seems to have been done ive seen zero evidence that shes in traffic.
About to mention this - one of them was featured years ago on a BBC travel documentary 'Great Railway Journeys of the World'. Edit - Found it ! 48'45'' in. ua-cam.com/video/Y3tfnK8WrYk/v-deo.html
I have heard this story a few times, but not as well presented as your work Mike. You do a brilliant job of both narrating and history. This channel should go far.
This is absolutely fascinating! What a remarkable undertaking, the imagination, skills, logistics and sheer scale of the project, particularly at that time makes the entire thing even more incredible! Thank you for telling this story, and doing it so well.
Absolutely incredible story Mike! Who would have thought there was a surviving ship from Kaiser Bill's navy, and on Lake Tanganyika no less! You know, there could have been one more. Trapped in the Mediterranean when the war broke out in 1914 was the German cruiser SMS Goeben. Goeben was transferred to the Turks who renamed it Yavuz Sultan Selim, and Yavuz served the Turkish Navy until 1969. The Turkish government offered it back to the West German government however the Germans refused the offer. So it was scrapped. The Turks saved one of the propellers as a memorial. What a loss. Thanks for posting!
8:14 You got me. I was so thrown by the sight of the mustache I wasn't able to tell that was you until you mentioned it. In my defense, it's just British enough (read: crazy) to be true.
Hahaha! Thank you for the laugh - ". . . I couldn't find a photograph, so we'll just use this one." 😆😆😆 The recreation of historical events is a wonderful addition to that! And even more laughs after that, along with great details about the British ships transported to, and assembled at, Lake Tanganyika.
What a fantastic story and so well told! This is how history ought to be told and lots of it. You had my full attention through the whole piece. Thank you!
Not quite. There is one more survivor of the Kaiserliche Marine still afloat today. This is the Count Dracula, the former admiral's barge of the commander of Germany's High Seas Fleet, Franz von Hipper. When the High Seas Fleet was surrendered to the Allies in 1918, she was aboard SMS Hindenburg. When the Hindenburg was scuttled, along with the rest of the High Seas Fleet, at Scapa Flow in 1919, the barge was saved by one of the Hindenburg's sailors, who set her free as the ship was sinking. After a couple of years, the British Admiralty sold the barge to private ownership, who gave the barge her present name, and removed the original steam engine in favor of a diesel engine. The Count Dracula gained fame during World War 2, when she participated in Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation, making several round trips to and from the beaches evacuating scores of British, French and Belgian soldiers. Today she is still around, having just completed a full restoration, and expected to return to the water, one of the last surviving ships of the Kaiserliche Marine, the last survivor of the High Seas Fleet, and a proud member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, the association
Wait.... What...... At 8:22 I saw a SUV and another car----1915 ???? Really enjoyed the humor along with the story. Thanks to Oceanliner Designs for posting......
A fascinating telling of the WWI tale of the von Goetzen from the (bizarre) British side is the book "Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure" by Giles Foden (also author of "Last King of Scotland"). Stories like this just couldn't be made up-yes also inspired C. S. Forrester "African Queen".
I know it's unrelated to your "unboxing video," but you've inspired me to rewatch The African Queen. I had no idea that ships could actually be disassembled, boxed and transported to be reassembled elsewhere like that. There was a Mickey Mouse cartoon short from the 1930s in which Mickey, Donald and Goofy build a boat called, The Queen Minnie. The boat came boxed up in wooden crates and the keel and ribs of the boat unfolded out of the box like an accordion. It's not quite the same as the Graf von Goetzen, but maybe the concept inspired Walt Disney for the cartoon. Also, your self insert (in the historical context) in this video was cute. The costume and fake moustache made me laugh.
I have heard of a guy COMPLETELY taking apart a house and shipping it in crates to another town to rebuild it because the moving costs were a teensy bit too steep for him... I bet the delivery service thought it was dollhouse... Until they noticed the order form said "600 boxes." 😁😂
In Mwanza Tanzania on the shore of Lake Victoria there is a hotel called The Tilapia they have an old river boat permanently scuttled on the waterfront that they have converted into hotel rooms, the boat is called The African Queen and they claim it's the boat from the movie The African Queen staring Bogart and Hepburn, but official sources say that while two boats were used to make the film one is now in Key Largo and the other is in Jinja Uganda which is where the Nile River flows out of Lake Victoria. I've been to both of these places I spent several years working in Mwanza staying in the Hotel Tilapia I've even stayed on the boat a few times (it leans to one side its terrible if you have had a few too many in the hotel bar).
@@ats-3693 The S/L Livingstone or the African Queen from the film is in Florida with the other one in Uganda, but the Hotel Tilapia's "African Queen" is the tug boat Buganda which was built for the Uganda Railways and operated on Lake Victoria. Either way, it's still pretty cool that that old tug is still around. I also see that the hotel has a collection of antique cars. I would love to stay there one day.
Fascinating and interesting story about a very historic ship- amazing that it was still running, at least until recently. Hope she gets to sail again, but even if not, still had quite a career. Also, love your mustache!
You are mostly correct in that it originally inspired C. S. Forrester (Horatio Hornblower, Sink the Bismarck, etc fame) book "African Queen" thence the movie.
The Meyer Werft in Papenburg is still in operation, building mostly cruise-liners. They have now the opposite problem, having trouble getting the up to 330m long ships via the river Ems to the North Sea. That river has to be held back temporarily, to increase its depth enough to accommodate the huge ships.
There were a pair of river liners Delta Queen & Delta King that were built by William Denny & Brothers in Scotland and reassembled in Stockton CA. They were designed for the Sacramento to San Francisco route on the Sacramento River. Both predated the Bay and Golden Gate bridges for roughly 10 years or so. They are now hotels in Sacramento CA and Chattanooga TN.
The SS Sir Walter Scott, also from Dennys' is still in service on Loch Katrine (source of much of the water supply for Glasgow): it too was assembled on site.
The "Maid of the Mist" , a tour boat service at the base of Niagara Falls, features vessels that originally came in pieces and were assembled on site right there, because it is impossible to sail a ship up or down the Niagara River to the Falls.
they sunk the goetzen so the british couldn't take the vessel, just for the british to come and refloat it to use in their fleet a few years later the goetzen has such a strange but cool history, i hope i'll be able to sail on the vessel before it's inevitably pulled from service
in 2019 i went from alexandria to cape town and my aim was to sail down the sailable bits. so; -aswan-whadi halfa by the ferry -kisumu-mwanza by mv victoria -kigoma-mpulunga by mv liemba -chilumba-monkey bay by mv illala the liemba and the victoria(another boxed ship as was ilala) were out of traffic. since then victoria has re entered service. but liemba has as far as im aware been sat out of service in kigoma since early 2019.
Sir, you really nailed it! A beautiful, engaging overview that tantalizes enough that I'll go down the rabbithole for details. I first became aware of the theater when I was a kid and a very elderly neighbor told me bits and pieces about von Lettow-Vorbeck's response to the Nazi Party's courting and his strategy and conduct in Africa. That, of course, led me to the Lake operations as well as the scanty aerial endeavors.
Quite an exciting unboxing video! But I'm curious: what happened to the other British ships on the lake? That Halloween picture is delightful, as is the section with the British admiral. What a quote. Thanks for the video!
I had a vacation in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1960, and the lake had some elegant Edwardian paddle steamers prefabricated in 1906. The were transported overland in pieces to the lakeside where they were reassembled and launched. I'm not sure where they were originally made or how much longer they were in service after I'd seen them.
they were made in winterthur which is near zurich. they scrapped loads in the 60s/70s but have a lot left. august this year i travelled on 12 of them this august and theres 4 others still in traffic. -5 each on geneva/lucerne. 2 on zurich. 1 each on thun, brienz, neuchatel,bodensee. in addition thun has a screw steamer just re entering traffic. if big collections of steamships are what you want switz and sweden are the place to go.
This just seemed like a crazy Monty Python sketch! All the costumes and ridiculous fighting between the countries over the lake. It really did seem like a plot from Monty Python it was just so nuts. The idea of making, disassembling, transporting then reassembling the ship was a brilliant idea. You could say that this was the first ever self-assembly product. I just hope there were no pieces missing like the usual self-assembly goods you get from Argos etc. Brilliant bit of acting there. So authentic with the outfit and the bush and the car in the background.
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That was quite an interesting story and the mind boggles at the ability of man given the right incentives. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us.
very interesting ship, but I heard that she was completely laid up 3 years ago because the engine issues cant be fixed anymore. If that is true I hope she will not be scrapped. The most interesting thing to me about her is that she was build at the Meyer Werft which is one of the largest shipyards now
@@davidknowles2491 it hasnt sailed for 3 years. its still technically in service under overhaul. i was doing cairo-cape in 2019 and went to kigoma to go chimping and to see the liemba. but i was aware it wasnt running. i got a look around the boat with the mate. and it was under repair. but nothing seems to have happened since then and they have ordered a new boat. all the travel forums etc went quiet on liemba so im pretty confident she still hasnt re entered traffic
Amazing. My crappy Kia dad-mobile isn't even a decade old and it's falling apart... yet a ship built before WW1 is still going strong. I need a Tanzanian mechanic!
Now THAT is an "unboxing" video I would gladly watch, no matter how long it took ! Certainly beats a box of make up or fancy clothes sent to modern-day influencers 😆
[10 minutes later] "It appears I don't have the needed slipway parts, and the company that sent it said they are too busy to send me one due to some sort of international bar fight or something. Guess I'll just have to figure something else out."
A friend of mine was brought up in Dar. She reminisced that the German-built infrastructure in the city was still operating and was the only thing enabling the city to continue to function.
In Mwanza Tanzania on the shore of Lake Victoria there is a hotel called The Tilapia they have an old river boat permanently scuttled on the waterfront that they have converted into hotel rooms, the boat is called The African Queen and they claim it's the boat from the movie "The African Queen" staring Bogart and Hepburn, but official sources say that two boats were used to make the film one is now in Key Largo and the other is in Jinja Uganda which is where the Nile River flows out of Lake Victoria. I've been to both of these places I spent several years working in Mwanza staying in the Hotel Tilapia I've even stayed on the boat a few times, it leans to one side it's interesting if you have had a few too many in the hotel bar.
Great vlog as always! In Norway we have the oldest steamship in the world. The «Skiplander» She came in boxes too. I think it was from Sweden. She has been serving Lake Mjøsa since 1854!
...og Brandsnes, heisan, du!! Mjøsens hvites svane, Skibladner, ja, ble bygd ved Motala (den ellers så verdenskjente radiobyen), og de gikk med henne fra Motala og ned til Södertälje og ut Södertäljekanalen, ned langs den svenske Østersjø-kysten, opp Øresundet og Kattegat og like inn til Kristiania, der hun ble demontert i mange smådeler, kjørt på toget opp til Minnesund, der hun endelig ble satt sammen igjen!! Det har ved utallige anledninger spøkt for Svanen, da skumle krefter rett og slett har villet bli av med henne!! MEN, du vet, ikke sant?? Ukrutt forgår ikke så lett, gjør det vel? Alt godt, Brandsnes!! Jacob Hansen, Kanebogen i Nord-Norge...
Seems like this type of thing would be much easier to accomplish today with most shipbuilding already being modular. All you'd need on this (or any other) lake would be a simple graving dock. Bring the modules in via rail, assemble in the graving dock then flood it. The graving dock could also be used for repairs.
Since you´re doing lake steamers, have you checked out D/S Skibladner in Norway? It´s the oldest paddle steamer in the world and is still in operation. It´s not a huge ship but last time I sailed on her, I realised that the ship was 70 years old when the Titanic sank. Built in the mid 1800´s. It´s absolutely worth looking at, and there are not many English speaking videos on UA-cam about her:) Great videos btw.
Wow you came to my part of the world! Well..kind of. I'm a Brit based in Rwanda which was under the Germans at that time. Lake Kivu, though, has no such boats and o don't know of any on Lake Victoria although they may exist.
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How come the Brits didn't consider torpedoes?
The British did the same thing in Peru aswell. The SS Ollanta (1931), SS Coya (1893) and SS Yavari (1861) were all re-assembled on Lake Titicaca and are mercifully all still preserved in beautiful condition. South America has some of the best and rarest surviving examples of 19-early 20th century shipbuilding
This would make a great video!
the same thing was done on other african lakes. illala (lake malawi)and victoria(lake vic) are still in traffic. both lakes had a history of ships being built in uk then knockdown and rebuilt at the lake. as did lake albert which had a fleet of uk buil paddle steamers. was pretty common.
do you know if ollanta is servicable? shes owned by peru rail which is run by the bellmond pullman people and they had big plans to overhul her and use her for cruises. but although some painting seems to have been done ive seen zero evidence that shes in traffic.
About to mention this - one of them was featured years ago on a BBC travel documentary 'Great Railway Journeys of the World'.
Edit - Found it ! 48'45'' in.
ua-cam.com/video/Y3tfnK8WrYk/v-deo.html
And the BAP Puno (1861), still in service as a hospital/search and rescue ship!
Mike is the best actor in history, deserves an oscar
Wouldn't that be an oskar?
The Volkswagen in the foreground truly sells the burgeoning pro-German sentiment among the locals.
fr tho
As a Brit with many German friends, I often wonder who is more "Bonkers", and this video doesn't answer that question :D Great video, thank you.
Such a happy ending. I'm glad that this ship still exists. I thought Humphrey and Katherine had sent her to the bottom. Love your videos!
The African queen sent the Louisa to the bottom.
@@Richard-zc1cj The names of some ships have been changed to protect the innocent.
"based on a true story"as they say.
Your *recreation of historical events* is a game changer Mike
Laughed out loud a few times while watching this. Bravo my friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs.
I did too! Especially adding in the scream, the MGS alert sound and the ships' names. 😂😂😂
I liked the Wilhelm Scream at 10:17.
I have heard this story a few times, but not as well presented as your work Mike. You do a brilliant job of both narrating and history. This channel should go far.
This is absolutely fascinating!
What a remarkable undertaking, the imagination, skills, logistics and sheer scale of the project, particularly at that time makes the entire thing even more incredible!
Thank you for telling this story, and doing it so well.
This made me chuckle more than any other of your videos I've seen so far. Interesting story, fun narration.
Absolutely incredible story Mike! Who would have thought there was a surviving ship from Kaiser Bill's navy, and on Lake Tanganyika no less!
You know, there could have been one more. Trapped in the Mediterranean when the war broke out in 1914 was the German cruiser SMS Goeben. Goeben was transferred to the Turks who renamed it Yavuz Sultan Selim, and Yavuz served the Turkish Navy until 1969. The Turkish government offered it back to the West German government however the Germans refused the offer. So it was scrapped. The Turks saved one of the propellers as a memorial. What a loss.
Thanks for posting!
BEST actor ever mike deserves a trophie
8:14 You got me. I was so thrown by the sight of the mustache I wasn't able to tell that was you until you mentioned it.
In my defense, it's just British enough (read: crazy) to be true.
I appreciate the added production value on this. Excellent story telling!
Hahaha! Thank you for the laugh - ". . . I couldn't find a photograph, so we'll just use this one." 😆😆😆 The recreation of historical events is a wonderful addition to that! And even more laughs after that, along with great details about the British ships transported to, and assembled at, Lake Tanganyika.
"Lee approached the British Admiralty with a plan that can only be described as "insane".
Excellent.
I like it already.
What a ride this story is! Thanks Mike!
What a fantastic story and so well told! This is how history ought to be told and lots of it. You had my full attention through the whole piece. Thank you!
So technically this makes her the only surviving ship of Kaiserliche Marine still floating!
Not quite. There is one more survivor of the Kaiserliche Marine still afloat today. This is the Count Dracula, the former admiral's barge of the commander of Germany's High Seas Fleet, Franz von Hipper. When the High Seas Fleet was surrendered to the Allies in 1918, she was aboard SMS Hindenburg. When the Hindenburg was scuttled, along with the rest of the High Seas Fleet, at Scapa Flow in 1919, the barge was saved by one of the Hindenburg's sailors, who set her free as the ship was sinking.
After a couple of years, the British Admiralty sold the barge to private ownership, who gave the barge her present name, and removed the original steam engine in favor of a diesel engine.
The Count Dracula gained fame during World War 2, when she participated in Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation, making several round trips to and from the beaches evacuating scores of British, French and Belgian soldiers.
Today she is still around, having just completed a full restoration, and expected to return to the water, one of the last surviving ships of the Kaiserliche Marine, the last survivor of the High Seas Fleet, and a proud member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, the association
Now that's the world's biggest model kit.
FreeTime is taking pre-orders.
Wait.... What...... At 8:22 I saw a SUV and another car----1915 ???? Really enjoyed the humor along with the story. Thanks to Oceanliner Designs for posting......
British technology…ahead of its time! 😏
@@richardnedbalek1968 Well it was the British that first put a steam turbine in a ship, a long long time ago......
Kudos on your historical reenactment, it's like I was right there!
A fascinating telling of the WWI tale of the von Goetzen from the (bizarre) British side is the book "Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure" by Giles Foden (also author of "Last King of Scotland").
Stories like this just couldn't be made up-yes also inspired C. S. Forrester "African Queen".
I was wondering if there was a connection to the African Queen. 👍
I know it's unrelated to your "unboxing video," but you've inspired me to rewatch The African Queen. I had no idea that ships could actually be disassembled, boxed and transported to be reassembled elsewhere like that. There was a Mickey Mouse cartoon short from the 1930s in which Mickey, Donald and Goofy build a boat called, The Queen Minnie. The boat came boxed up in wooden crates and the keel and ribs of the boat unfolded out of the box like an accordion. It's not quite the same as the Graf von Goetzen, but maybe the concept inspired Walt Disney for the cartoon. Also, your self insert (in the historical context) in this video was cute. The costume and fake moustache made me laugh.
I have heard of a guy COMPLETELY taking apart a house and shipping it in crates to another town to rebuild it because the moving costs were a teensy bit too steep for him... I bet the delivery service thought it was dollhouse...
Until they noticed the order form said "600 boxes." 😁😂
@@largol33t1 I bet it's a Craftsman house. People used to order them through the Sears Catalogue and the kit would be delivered by freight train.
In Mwanza Tanzania on the shore of Lake Victoria there is a hotel called The Tilapia they have an old river boat permanently scuttled on the waterfront that they have converted into hotel rooms, the boat is called The African Queen and they claim it's the boat from the movie The African Queen staring Bogart and Hepburn, but official sources say that while two boats were used to make the film one is now in Key Largo and the other is in Jinja Uganda which is where the Nile River flows out of Lake Victoria. I've been to both of these places I spent several years working in Mwanza staying in the Hotel Tilapia I've even stayed on the boat a few times (it leans to one side its terrible if you have had a few too many in the hotel bar).
@@ats-3693 The S/L Livingstone or the African Queen from the film is in Florida with the other one in Uganda, but the Hotel Tilapia's "African Queen" is the tug boat Buganda which was built for the Uganda Railways and operated on Lake Victoria. Either way, it's still pretty cool that that old tug is still around. I also see that the hotel has a collection of antique cars. I would love to stay there one day.
Great work Mike! Fascinating story of a fascinating ship.
Fascinating and interesting story about a very historic ship- amazing that it was still running, at least until recently. Hope she gets to sail again, but even if not, still had quite a career. Also, love your mustache!
Okay this story was kind of hilarious i could imagine the way it would be seen as just a marvel of battle and blatantly entertaining to watch
Brilliant video! Great to learn about such a fascinating little ship.
Excellent story Mike!
This must have influenced the motion picture "The African Queen" back in the 1950's
That's what I'm wondering ... must be some relation.
You are mostly correct in that it originally inspired C. S. Forrester (Horatio Hornblower, Sink the Bismarck, etc fame) book "African Queen" thence the movie.
@@kennethhanks6712 You mean C.S. Forester? He wrote the Hornblower novels. I checked, they decorate my bookshelf along with a miniature naval gun :)
@@221b-l3t My mistake, you are quite correct!
That IKEA ship has really held up well, far better than my bookcase. If a movie hasn’t been made about this, it should be.
The Meyer Werft in Papenburg is still in operation, building mostly cruise-liners.
They have now the opposite problem, having trouble getting the up to 330m long ships via the river Ems to the North Sea.
That river has to be held back temporarily, to increase its depth enough to accommodate the huge ships.
Greetings from Papenburg 🤭
@@cattythecat9161 🤦
I wonder if they still have blueprints from that ship or similar ones...
There were a pair of river liners Delta Queen & Delta King that were built by William Denny & Brothers in Scotland and reassembled in Stockton CA. They were designed for the Sacramento to San Francisco route on the Sacramento River. Both predated the Bay and Golden Gate bridges for roughly 10 years or so. They are now hotels in Sacramento CA and Chattanooga TN.
delta queen shut as a hotel and is supposedly under overhaul to operation.
The SS Sir Walter Scott, also from Dennys' is still in service on Loch Katrine (source of much of the water supply for Glasgow): it too was assembled on site.
The book, movie and documentary is excellent Mike along with your recreations scenes...lol
The "Maid of the Mist" , a tour boat service at the base of Niagara Falls, features vessels that originally came in pieces and were assembled on site right there, because it is impossible to sail a ship up or down the Niagara River to the Falls.
I hear that a pair of Pennsylvanian office workers were once married on her.
they sunk the goetzen so the british couldn't take the vessel, just for the british to come and refloat it to use in their fleet a few years later
the goetzen has such a strange but cool history, i hope i'll be able to sail on the vessel before it's inevitably pulled from service
hasnt sailed for 3 years and they have ordered new tonnage...
This is the best unboxing video I've seen.
This was awesome! I love a good history lesson that’s well told! Great Halloween pics btw!
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in 2019 i went from alexandria to cape town and my aim was to sail down the sailable bits. so;
-aswan-whadi halfa by the ferry
-kisumu-mwanza by mv victoria
-kigoma-mpulunga by mv liemba
-chilumba-monkey bay by mv illala
the liemba and the victoria(another boxed ship as was ilala) were out of traffic. since then victoria has re entered service. but liemba has as far as im aware been sat out of service in kigoma since early 2019.
Sir, you really nailed it! A beautiful, engaging overview that tantalizes enough that I'll go down the rabbithole for details.
I first became aware of the theater when I was a kid and a very elderly neighbor told me bits and pieces about von Lettow-Vorbeck's response to the Nazi Party's courting and his strategy and conduct in Africa. That, of course, led me to the Lake operations as well as the scanty aerial endeavors.
Quite an exciting unboxing video!
But I'm curious: what happened to the other British ships on the lake?
That Halloween picture is delightful, as is the section with the British admiral. What a quote.
Thanks for the video!
9:47 I’ve never felt more patriotic.
Uploaded 2 minutes ago! Nice.
Hello maritime
I had a vacation in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1960, and the lake had some elegant Edwardian paddle steamers prefabricated in 1906. The were transported overland in pieces to the lakeside where they were reassembled and launched. I'm not sure where they were originally made or how much longer they were in service after I'd seen them.
they still drive today :)
they were made in winterthur which is near zurich. they scrapped loads in the 60s/70s but have a lot left. august this year i travelled on 12 of them this august and theres 4 others still in traffic.
-5 each on geneva/lucerne. 2 on zurich. 1 each on thun, brienz, neuchatel,bodensee. in addition thun has a screw steamer just re entering traffic.
if big collections of steamships are what you want switz and sweden are the place to go.
This just seemed like a crazy Monty Python sketch! All the costumes and ridiculous fighting between the countries over the lake. It really did seem like a plot from Monty Python it was just so nuts.
The idea of making, disassembling, transporting then reassembling the ship was a brilliant idea. You could say that this was the first ever self-assembly product. I just hope there were no pieces missing like the usual self-assembly goods you get from Argos etc.
Brilliant bit of acting there. So authentic with the outfit and the bush and the car in the background.
You've heard of "If you look that shit up", now get ready for "Scheiße!" 11:15
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..... I'm waiting for Moo moo 😄I love the humour snippets in this video, as well as historically informative and well put-together!
That was quite an interesting story and the mind boggles at the ability of man given the right incentives. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us.
At 8:13 I went "damn that looks like Mike!" and then I got to the punchline lmao! Also, the Rule Brittania fucking SENT me
Thank you for another great video!
Great video, Mike!
11:15 The word "fuck" was said in an oceanliners design video.
as a german this was very pleasing to hear
Fun video, thanks for the great content.
This is a super Amazing Story!
The thought of that guy pulling the trigger and landing in the water is gold .
That was awesome; history at its best, thank you.
The whilhelm scream seams fitting for this video lol
very interesting ship, but I heard that she was completely laid up 3 years ago because the engine issues cant be fixed anymore. If that is true I hope she will not be scrapped. The most interesting thing to me about her is that she was build at the Meyer Werft which is one of the largest shipyards now
Latest info I can find is from 2021, when the Tanzania Times said it was still operating, but may soon be replaced by a bigger ship.
@@davidknowles2491 it hasnt sailed for 3 years. its still technically in service under overhaul. i was doing cairo-cape in 2019 and went to kigoma to go chimping and to see the liemba. but i was aware it wasnt running. i got a look around the boat with the mate. and it was under repair. but nothing seems to have happened since then and they have ordered a new boat.
all the travel forums etc went quiet on liemba so im pretty confident she still hasnt re entered traffic
Mimi, tutu, and fifi...love the British dry sense of humor
“Hey guys, welcome to my new unboxing video-“
Love all your videos!👍👍
Great video. Maybe your best to date.
Great content; the african theatre during WWI is really interesting.
Great story and lovely to see she is still sailing today.
Very cool!
This was a fun video. Thank you for sharing this.
Cool story! Thanks for telling that ships story.
Good video so far
Riveting tale, Mike. Many thanks!
I enjoyed the heck out of this one. Reminds me of the movie The African Queen
Fantastic story; !! Thanks for uploading;!
Fantastic story!
Amazing. My crappy Kia dad-mobile isn't even a decade old and it's falling apart... yet a ship built before WW1 is still going strong. I need a Tanzanian mechanic!
Love your videos especially the what if’s!
That recreation of historical events : dead on 😂
Now THAT is an "unboxing" video I would gladly watch, no matter how long it took ! Certainly beats a box of make up or fancy clothes sent to modern-day influencers 😆
"today on the ship building channel we will be unboxing and assembling a ship! It's coming from Germany and I already have everything ready"
[10 minutes later] "It appears I don't have the needed slipway parts, and the company that sent it said they are too busy to send me one due to some sort of international bar fight or something. Guess I'll just have to figure something else out."
UA-cam content. "hello guys, today were gonna be unboxing a ship!"
What a most excellent tale, thank you again.
A friend of mine was brought up in Dar. She reminisced that the German-built infrastructure in the city was still operating and was the only thing enabling the city to continue to function.
Thank you for another great video
"Hi! It's your friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs! Today we're doing something a bit different. An unboxing video."
Germans trying to compete in the satisfying unboxing competition with Apple fr
In Mwanza Tanzania on the shore of Lake Victoria there is a hotel called The Tilapia they have an old river boat permanently scuttled on the waterfront that they have converted into hotel rooms, the boat is called The African Queen and they claim it's the boat from the movie "The African Queen" staring Bogart and Hepburn, but official sources say that two boats were used to make the film one is now in Key Largo and the other is in Jinja Uganda which is where the Nile River flows out of Lake Victoria. I've been to both of these places I spent several years working in Mwanza staying in the Hotel Tilapia I've even stayed on the boat a few times, it leans to one side it's interesting if you have had a few too many in the hotel bar.
Great vlog as always! In Norway we have the oldest steamship in the world. The «Skiplander» She came in boxes too. I think it was from Sweden. She has been serving Lake Mjøsa since 1854!
...og Brandsnes, heisan, du!! Mjøsens hvites svane, Skibladner, ja, ble bygd ved Motala (den ellers så verdenskjente radiobyen), og de gikk med henne fra Motala og ned til Södertälje og ut Södertäljekanalen, ned langs den svenske Østersjø-kysten, opp Øresundet og Kattegat og like inn til Kristiania, der hun ble demontert i mange smådeler, kjørt på toget opp til Minnesund, der hun endelig ble satt sammen igjen!! Det har ved utallige anledninger spøkt for Svanen, da skumle krefter rett og slett har villet bli av med henne!! MEN, du vet, ikke sant?? Ukrutt forgår ikke så lett, gjør det vel? Alt godt, Brandsnes!! Jacob Hansen, Kanebogen i Nord-Norge...
Were you trying be imitate the late great British actor Terry-Thomas for this video Mike? I love it!
"No Ships Can Sail Forever"
MV Liemba:About That
This sounds like something Ikea would do
Insert Rivet A into hole 3 in piece B and connect with hole 4 in piece C via Tab D.
when it says "assembly required"
Seems like this type of thing would be much easier to accomplish today with most shipbuilding already being modular. All you'd need on this (or any other) lake would be a simple graving dock. Bring the modules in via rail, assemble in the graving dock then flood it. The graving dock could also be used for repairs.
The problem now is most ships these days are much much larger.
A lot of the Superyachts are significantly bigger…
Correct for the bigger ones.
Might still be easier for smaller ships, though.
Since you´re doing lake steamers, have you checked out D/S Skibladner in Norway? It´s the oldest paddle steamer in the world and is still in operation. It´s not a huge ship but last time I sailed on her, I realised that the ship was 70 years old when the Titanic sank. Built in the mid 1800´s. It´s absolutely worth looking at, and there are not many English speaking videos on UA-cam about her:) Great videos btw.
I like building model kits but that sounds like fun......
As a British person I feel that these impersonations are painfully accurate!
Wow you came to my part of the world! Well..kind of. I'm a Brit based in Rwanda which was under the Germans at that time. Lake Kivu, though, has no such boats and o don't know of any on Lake Victoria although they may exist.
This video is fantastic I love your videos
I very much enjoyed your presentation.
I still find it wild that this ship is still sailing today!
African industry isn’t good enough
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Beautiful looking ship, I love this era 👍🇬🇧
8:15 I love your British colonialist cosplay! 😂
That some kind of another unboxing video ;-)