I just found a reference of this boats, in one of the original version of "Scouting for boys" by Baden Powell. He mentions going with his brothers, in childhood (this book is written in 1908, so he clearly reffers to 1880 aprox.) with "a small folding canvas boat·" so I got into google to find out what were they using back then, and found this wonderfull video.
I just came from Sam’s channel Historic Travels, and he’s been covering the sinking of the Titanic and retrofitting of the Olympic, so I wanted to see how the collapsible lifeboats worked. I bet the people of the Titanic were panicking not just because of the sinking, but having to put together the two collapsible lifeboats while doing so.
Thank you very much. Being a museum piece I would have thought you would have balked at moving it about, but I am thoroughly pleased to see how the operation works.
What an excellent design, really very clever indeed! I would be concerned at having many loose, individual pieces which might be lost in the hurry of trying to set up this emergency lifeboat. The separation of inner and outer ribs was a very neat touch, as was the double fabric hull.
@@thewhistleblower8531 I was actually wrong, Lusitania didn't have any Berthon Collapsibles aboard, I was thinking of Empress of Ireland. The Ireland had Berthon and Engelhardt Collapsibles, as well as 16 steel main lifeboats Lusitania had 22 clinker-built main lifeboats (capacity 68 each) 20 Chambers collapsibles (54 each) 12 Mclean-Chambers collapsibles (49 each) 2 Henderson collapsibles (43 each) 14 liferafts carrying 20 to 40(?) each Unfortunately I've never been able to find any pictures of any of these types of collapsibles or rafts except the Henderson type, which is pretty similar to an Engelhardt, just with a wider gunnel.
No, but her sister ship, Olympic, had a few of these installed in April 1912 following the disaster. They were only temporary boats to make sure passengers weren't scared of sailing onboard her. The boats were removed when Olympic underwent a refit in October 1912, she had new lifeboats installed and the Berthon boats were no longer needed.
According to Sam over on Historic Travels, Titanic had two collapsible lifeboats that were used. Were they this type of collapsible lifeboat, I don’t know.
I just found a reference of this boats, in one of the original version of "Scouting for boys" by Baden Powell. He mentions going with his brothers, in childhood (this book is written in 1908, so he clearly reffers to 1880 aprox.) with "a small folding canvas boat·"
so I got into google to find out what were they using back then, and found this wonderfull video.
I just came from Sam’s channel Historic Travels, and he’s been covering the sinking of the Titanic and retrofitting of the Olympic, so I wanted to see how the collapsible lifeboats worked. I bet the people of the Titanic were panicking not just because of the sinking, but having to put together the two collapsible lifeboats while doing so.
what a great little boat! thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much. Being a museum piece I would have thought you would have balked at moving it about, but I am thoroughly pleased to see how the operation works.
Good demonstration. I always wondered how they worked.
What an excellent design, really very clever indeed!
I would be concerned at having many loose, individual pieces which might be lost in the hurry of trying to set up this emergency lifeboat.
The separation of inner and outer ribs was a very neat touch, as was the double fabric hull.
Where these used in the Titanic?
No, Titanic had four Engelhardt Collapsibles. I believe the Lusitania had some of these onboard though.
On a different note what type of lifeboats did Lusitania have?
@@thewhistleblower8531 I was actually wrong, Lusitania didn't have any Berthon Collapsibles aboard, I was thinking of Empress of Ireland. The Ireland had Berthon and Engelhardt Collapsibles, as well as 16 steel main lifeboats
Lusitania had
22 clinker-built main lifeboats (capacity 68 each)
20 Chambers collapsibles (54 each)
12 Mclean-Chambers collapsibles (49 each)
2 Henderson collapsibles (43 each)
14 liferafts carrying 20 to 40(?) each
Unfortunately I've never been able to find any pictures of any of these types of collapsibles or rafts except the Henderson type, which is pretty similar to an Engelhardt, just with a wider gunnel.
No, but her sister ship, Olympic, had a few of these installed in April 1912 following the disaster. They were only temporary boats to make sure passengers weren't scared of sailing onboard her. The boats were removed when Olympic underwent a refit in October 1912, she had new lifeboats installed and the Berthon boats were no longer needed.
According to Sam over on Historic Travels, Titanic had two collapsible lifeboats that were used. Were they this type of collapsible lifeboat, I don’t know.
......LIFEboat or just boat?
If my life depended on putting this Ikea Boat together, I'm a gonner😂