What if RMS Britannic Didn't Sink in 1916? | Titanic's Sister, Alternate History
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- In November 1916 the third Olympic class sister ship of the White Star Line, the Britannic, struck a mine in the Kea Channel off Greece - but what if she didn't sink? In this video, the second in a trio of alternate-histories of the Olympic Class, we examine a 'what-if' history of Britannic if she'd survived her encounter with the mine - a historical fiction grounded in as much historu fact as possible!
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0:00 Intro
0:47 Britannic the wonder ship
3:07 Hospital Ship Britannic
5:56 Troopship Britannic
8:28 Britannic in the 1920s
12:08 The Great Depression
16:25 WW2 Breaks Out
19:43 The sinking of HMS Resolute - Розваги
Britannic was a brilliant ship when first sailing as a liner in 1921. Those interiors could rival that of almost all the great ships before and after combined, imo! Shocking how there weren't many photographs taken of them.
I'm thankful to have many photographs of the ship in my personal "Britannic" collection; the pride and joy of which being a signature dresser from the ship, still labeled "S.S. 433". It was removed by a relative of mine back in '39, who also went around the ship filling out his sketchbook with artistic documentation of its beautiful decor, which we still have.
Shame about its inevitable sinking as "Resolute". Absolute tragedy, even.
Thanks for bringing this important ship to light here :]
*(In all seriousness though; my goodness was this video amazing! The quality of the animations and the overall believability of your alternate history stuff is impeccable! Also that ending was creepy as hell and I love it. You're a fantastic content creator and are endlessly talented. Please, don't ever stop doing what you do!👍)*
Si los interiores son mejores a los de los cruceros de hoy
I remember when James Cameron's expedition found the Britannic wreck while prepping to film Titanic back in 1995. The tie-in features leading up to Titanic's release about the search and discovery were awesome.
@@matthewbowen5841 james cameron never found britannic?
@@THEMENPRODUCTIONS are you a idiot? He is supposed to play in with this universe
The wreck was discovered on 3 December 1975 by Jacques Cousteau. Cameron visited the wreck in mid 1995.
Fun fact, Stewardess Violet Jessop, a Titanic survivor, also served on Britannic during her time as a hospital ship. Can only imagine the relief on her face when she found out in Nov 1916 that a mine hit the ship but failed to explode. Imagine surviving Olympic's collision with HMS Hawke, THEN Titanic, THEN the sinking of the Britannic. Lol thatd be crazy
She did in fact survive all 3
@@volpixrossi3589 Pretty sure that's why they wrote it like that, friend ;)
@@thisherehandleIdospout They wrote it that it would be interesting if she did survive all 3.
@@volpixrossi3589 its called playing into the alt history in this video
@@volpixrossi3589 r/woosh
What if the entirety of the Olympic class survived into the 1930s?
None of them would exist in any form today, scrapped in the 30's or at the latest at the outbreak of World War II.
Good idea
Yeah, I’d like to see a world where the Olympic class never sank.
They probably would have good careers into the 1930's but then as Mike suggested both Olympic and Titanic's obsolete interiors and age (Remember most ships weren't expected to be in service more than 25 years) would have caused their retirement. Brittanic might have held on a bit longer. How White Star might have fared without the loss of Titanic (which they never completely recovered from) is anyone's guess.
Always would have loved to see that on UA-cam
Jesus, these endings are like a punch in the gut.
I keep getting so engrossed in the story that I completely forget her actual fate. When Britannic sinks in the story and the big "don't be sad it's ending, be glad that it happened" theme comes out, you sit there with this false sense of joy as Britannic is seen steaming ahead during the peak of her career.
Then the transition hits, the music echoes, and reality creeps in. It didn't happen.
Her sinking was, fortunately, much less deadly in our reality
My grandpa was on the Britannic when it sank in 1942, he said that it was the most horrifying experience he ever had! Man, he went through a lot!
bro it sank it 1916 so your gandpa was 100 years old
@@kenkenyu23squad6he’s joking
Hes prkbably talking about the OTHER britannic
@@kenkenyu23squad6BRO THE TITLE DUMMY
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Thanks for this. The Britannic has special meaning in our family as not one but two sailed on her. My Grandfather was repatriated from Egypt aboard her after WWI, and then in 1942, my Father sailed on her from England to North Africa - all the way around Cape Hope. I cried when Ballard found her in 1991.
What the brittanic sank
@@UncleRoger66 there was another Britannic built in the 1930s (different design of course) with a sister ship called Georgic, Both of these ships were some of the last ships that White Star operated before they were bankrupt
@@UncleRoger66 did you not watch the video?
This has to be one of the greatest maritime what if videos on UA-cam.
Crazy to think that 30 deaths in 1916 could have increased to 6,348 in 1942.
Anyways, keep it up!
hey maritime H! didnt expect to see you here! one day we will beat you on sams stream....
@@pagmonreal Hahaha! I watch Mike's videos too.
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A great "What if?" story Mike! Sure it's fiction, but who doesn't enjoy a bit of fiction now and then? Especially when there's just a bit of "grain of truth" to make it plausable.
Thanks! Loved it!
My Great Grandparents met on Britannic in 1923. It still chills me to think that had it not been for a broken mine, I might never have been here.
😂 🎉
Bro Don't Know History Of Olympic Class 💀
@@JeffWayneTWOTWFan1322it’s a joke
@@JeffWayneTWOTWFan1322Bro didn't watched the video 💀
@@JeffWayneTWOTWFan1322my man have you watched the video, people are playing into this universe
My grandpa once saw the Britannic when he visited New York in 1936. He said it was the most beautiful ship he had ever laid eyes on, often joked he hoped to earn enough money to be on her one day. Sadly, he never got the chance.
My grandpa rode on titanic in 1940 after he was injured in war.
These what if videos are great, really makes you wish the Olympic Class had never suffered the way it did.
I agree! A world in which all three sisters survived and sailed alongside each other is almost unimaginable!
I love how you create fiction that is still so engaging and captures the mind of those who know of her true fate, and those who dont. Britannic deserved a story of success and longevity, even if just a fictional legend.
Well-said.
and according to some parts of the multi-verse theory by creating it in our plain it has become a reality in another
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Violet Jessup had returned to service in WWII and was reassigned to a special nurses corp in North Africa. She was traveling aboard the Resolute when it was torpedoed. She was actually trapped in an aft section of the ship that quickly went under water, and she had to swim through several of the open water-tight compartments to get to a part of the ship above water. Fortunately she had become a champion swimmer after her three previous close calls on White Star Liners and had amazing breath control. She would jump from the ship and cling to floating debris until brought into a lifeboat with an interesting assortment of passengers. After the war, she took jobs on the Andrea Doria and SS Poseidon.
Mike, you are absolutely brilliant. This is a masterpiece. I fear many people will watch and believe this to be actual history. Bravo!!!!
Violet Jessup was the Chuck Norris of her day.
Violet Jessup truly unsinkable
In 1926 the Brittanic had a very eerie terrifying close call only 4 miles from where the Titanic went down. She grazed an iceberg and severely damaged her propellers. The crew tried to calm the passengers down but violence broke out on deck and took nearly 2 hours to quell. When passengers finally realized the ship was not sinking they calmed. Sadly 2 people were trampled by the raging crowd and a young boy fell overboard. Luckily for the boy he could swim very well and it was mid summer. A life jacket was thrown to him and he was rescued by second officer Terry Hawkins. The two people badly injured survived but with serious injuries. 3 men were arrested and sentenced to 3 years in prison for instigating a riot.
Tempting to build a scale "HMS Resolute" as some sort of fan-art. Somehow you've crossed my imagination with realistic and interesting "What -if" stories and I hope to see more of it!
If he has a full artwork for the Titanic Dazzle paint I’d probably do one as a neat “what might have been” plus the Academy 1/700 kits are cheap
@@johnbeauvais3159 What a display that would be wouldn't it. All 3 sisters in wartime service
@@guitarbro1969 I’m currently doing the 1918 paint scheme for Olympic, it’s beautiful even in miniature
Would LOVE to see that if you ever get around to it!
@@OceanlinerDesigns if the wreck at the end is the resolute then there is a error, she has gantry davets
Great video as always!
Here's some "what if?" Ideas:
What if the entire Olympic class of ships survived
What if the queen marry was sunk during WW2
What if Olympic sank instead of Titanic
What if Olympic was a hospital ship instead of a troop ship
What if the Lusitania survived
What if Mauritania sank instead of Lusitania
What if Carpathia never sank
What if Britannic was a troop ship instead
What if white star line took over more of cunard star line instead of cunard
What if white star was still around
What if Olympic was never scrapped
What if Mauritania was never scrapped
What if the Olympic class was never built
What if the Lusitania class of ships were never built
What if Titanic was built before Olympic
What if Britannic was built before Olympic and titanic
What if Britannic was torpedoed instead of hitting a sea mine
What if cunard built the Olympic class and white star built the Lusitania class
What if the titanic had enough lifeboats for everyone
What if more Olympic class ships were built
There's some "what if?" Ideas, these are just suggestions, and you don't have to do these if you want to.
Some of these don't make sense
@@stevengaming3689 Maybe not, but they'd sure keep Mike busy! Assuming he didn't have a nervous breakdown trying to cover them all!
@@stevengaming3689 The "What if Titanic had enough lifeboats for everyone," question is pretty stupid. You'd have to first cover a disaster that was inquired by the British Board of Trade to modify regulations regarding lifeboats, which I can't think up of any, except the La Bourgogne, even though it was a French liner. Even if it was, it was at the time the deadliest disaster on the Atlantic, so maybe.
One I’d like to see is if Oceanic 3 was built
"Brittannic hits a landmine" sounds about right
It sucks that RMS Britannic/HMS Resolute never got to live longer than the Aquitania, scrapped in 1950.
Aquitania was the only four stacker to serve in WW2. I met a veteran who sailed on her from New Zealand to the Middle East.
He ended up at the battle for Monte Casino in Italy. I remember him telling me that you didn't want to be anywhere near the USA artillery, not anywhere the USAAF was bombing, because their accuracy was worse than the enemy's.
huh, i thought it was sunk by alien tripods
I absolutely loved this video! It feels crazy seeing Britannic live a full and proper life.
I’d love to see a ‘what if Oceanic was completed?’ video in the future.
Watching this that just what I was thinking tpp
Fascinating! Bravo, another great video, and I LOVE an alternative ocean liner history. John Maxtone-Graham does this with Normandie with his book "Crossing to Cruising" and imagines if that fire never happened. While here Britannic still meets an untimely and tragic end, it's delayed a few decades. QM and QE were fortunate never to have been sunk while trooping, this is a sobering look at what might have occurred with the sinking of a great troopship.
QM and QE did have the advantage of being able to make 30+ knot speeds so the danger from U-Boots was considered minimal. Brittanic was designed for MAYBE 25 knots at maximum, normal cruising would have been in the 22 to 24 knot range. So Mike's supposition of Brittanic being a U-Boot victim is entirely plausable.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Well really, it's any ship that was incapable of making any greater than 18 knots (which is the fastest a U-Boat can travel on the surface, and since they're generally not going to be sailing on the surface where they can be seen, they'll be sailing under water, where they can't go any faster than 8 knots max) that are most vulnerable to U-Boats. So technically speaking, ships like Britannic and Lusitania, with their much higher top speed, should be alright. The only conceivable way a U-Boat could get in line with one of these liners (and even ones which are still larger and faster like the two Queens) and nail a perfect shot is if they are in position in advance and the liner comes within perfect vision of the periscope, as was the case with Britannic in this AU, or Lusitania irl.
Wait: Crossing to Cruising had an AU? Now THAT I'm definitely going to need to read. :D
@@Kaidhicksii Certainly a U-Boot couldn't catch Britannic either surfaced and definately not submerged, but it wouldn't have to. Follow me on this.
Britannic might have gotten away with sailing alone at a high speed during WW1. For a good shot a U-boot would have had to be in point-blank range like the one that got the Lusitania, I think it was about 500 yards from the ship, and if it wasn't that close a U-Boot captain would have had to do the math in his head as to where to aim the sub and fire the torpedoes and then keep his fingers crossed he'd got it right.
But by WW2 things were different. Submarines had electro-mechanical computers that when fed the range, bearing, and approximate speed of the target a firing solution would be provided to the captain for a MUCH more accurate shot than a WW1 sub would have. All things considered range from the target wasn't a problem anymore, within reason of course.
At any rate it would have been reckless and irresponsible to allow a ship of Britannic's age with 6000+ men on board to sail unescorted during WW2.
But this is all fictional anyway so there's no point in getting hung up on the subject.
This was oddly satisfying. It’s kind of nice to imagine Britannic actually getting to serve as a loner instead of as a foot note in the list of ships lost in ww1
Don't mind me. Am just here for the furious comments correcting Mike that Britannic didn't make it through WWI 🤣
watching what if videos like this makes me feel like I'm in an alternate universe. Great video as always!!
Damn, Mike, you really went ALL IN with this one. Until the end I thought...YAY, our girl finally gets the ship life she deserved until...that alternate way of her sinking and so many more lives lost. So heartbreaking.
Mike, another wonderful video, however, when I heard the intro, my first thought: “Wait, is Mike about to kill my grandfather?” (Short answer, no: my grandfather traveled on a liner-turned-troopship to Britain from the US in June or July of 42 - before being sent to Gibraltar in November of 42 to pick up a Spitfire and fly into theater.) It really is amazing what service the great liners gave during the war and that so many troops were safely carried across the oceans. I watched the final moments of this film in horror at what could have easily occurred.
And thank you for not killing my grandfather. I’m rather glad to be here to watch your videos.
I got literal chills when I saw the three of them sailing together at the start of the video! An amazing piece of work Mike, thanks for all the good work.
This is a fantastic video Mike, you gave this ship an amazing "What if" story. I would like to see a "What if" all three Olympic class liners had survived.
Id like AT LEAST ONE to make it to present day.,
@@SlidTossedPissed that would be impossible
I think The Olympic Class Ship That will make it to present Day is
Titanic
@@randombelugaman2/3’s of the Olympic class liners are still recognizable, one of them no longer exists
@@pocketmarcy6990 i wish that one was around
This might be your best one yet, so many beautiful animations and the last few minutes were really heavy. Those metallic sounds always get me. Gorgeous video, Mike well done.
Thanks so much CV! This was a fun one to make because I got to play fast and loose with history and touch on another of my favourite subjects; WW2 history :)
@@OceanlinerDesigns make one where Britannic doesn’t sink ok
@Oceanliner Designs Mike I have a question that has been itching in the back of my head for a while now. What if cunard never bought white star? Would cunard white star line be a thing and then the companies would separate again or would it remain as the joint cunard-white star line?
Great writing, research, and art! Unbelievable amount of work went into this video. Thank you very much!
7:41 Lower Manhattan skyline with the SINGER BUILDING. The detail of this animation is pretty much accurate 👌 ❤
I love these, rewritings of history. These new time lines, and “cause and effects” are brilliant. Very entertaining. Thanks Mike Brady
probably my favorite video on the channel thus far. great storytelling, always love the "what-if" videos you produce
This video is everything I love about your channel! You are an incredible story teller, that cold open was perfect, all the details make sense, and I like how you made it all feel so real with the pictures and animations. It was a cool choice to have the ship sink from the rear instead of from the bow was we're familiar with. I wish you didn't have to make its demise such a tragedy, but it's still a plausible choice and I suppose wasn't technically even the Britannic at that point. It really is heartbreaking to think what could've been had history gone differently. The shot you ended on, fading to the actual wreck, was perfect too. I really think you have the best big boat channel on UA-cam 😊
My gosh, that ending was so emotional, like a dream cut short by the truths of reality. Incredible "what if?" story man! If you're thinking of doing more like this I would so recommend the SS Normandie! That would be fascinating, seeing her actually serve along side the Queens ect
Wait,... What???
A brilliant narrative, very carefully and thoughtfully composed. I would have bought it hook, line, and stinker if I wasn't already a fan of the Olympic class ships.
Thanks for a fascinating tale!
omg i've been waiting for this ever since your Titanic video!
Amazing video! Keep up the good work and you will reach 100k subs soon! Every video gets better! ❤
The way you convey this exquisite What If scenario made me think twice at the end if it actually didn't happen like this for real! Exceptional quality video once again Mike.
Absolutely love the longer videos Mike! Such a ship as Britannic deserves a story in passenger service
My favourite video of yours yet! Love these "what if" stories. Keep up the fantastic work!
Oh, Mike, you've done it again. Marvelous video. I love these what if? scenarios.
I'd love to see a "what if all three Olympic Class liners served a full service life?"
Me too! In my head I just merged his 'What if Titanic hadn't sank' video with this one.
@@cardiffgiant9406 Agreed! Perhaps a better topic would be "What if the three German liners didn't become war reparations?" How would a 4th option to Cunard, WS, and the French Line look after WW1? Would Germany have built their own super liner in the late 30s to match the Queens and Normandy?
@@91_C4_FL All great questions! I am currently building 3 trumpeter kits to be radio control and a tribute to how Ismay visioned the Olympic class sisters.
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With these two videos merged, it would be this:
Olympic: 1910-1935
Titanic: 1911-1930
Britannic: 1914-1942
I feel like, if Britannic had never sunk, she would have had a very similar career to Aquitania, Cunard's response to Britannic and her direct competition. Down to surviving the Cunard-White Star merger and serving in both wars, like the video demonstrates.
I discovered this channel about a week ago and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos.
The last one I watched was on the Carpathia and it’s rescue mission (I highly recommend the video, there was a lot of information I didn’t know!)
But the transition at the end of this video is insane
This is the video I've been waiting for
Fantastic job! 👍
Wonders just a wonder your animations and story telling has improved so much keep the good work up. Also first!!!!
This story does sound great! Though, if the ship did survive World War 2 somehow, would it have just been scrapped right away afterwards?
I agree with another comment I seen here, I'd like to see a what if video about what if the Titanic and Britannic both survived, so that the Olympic Class ships didn't sink.
Though they'd likely have not made it past the 30s, it could be interesting to speculate what would have happened if all 3 did somehow make it past the 1930s.
aquatania was
What if Britannic had survived 1916?
Her life would have mirrored that of her older sister, Olympic, and she would not have survived the Cunard/White Star merger, and been retired and scrapped in the late 1930s.
That’s not true she will be a hotel
@@michaeldemarco9950 idk man her high number of private state rooms would’ve meant that she would still be a earner. Also she was cheaper to run. Though had she made it into ww2 and survived she would’ve been scrapped by about 1948 after finishing service of transporting war brides.
@@randomuser9883 I think she would probably have been converted to a migrant ship had she survived WWII, as even the most unsuitable ships were pressed into that service.
Hi Mike.
I've now watched both your alternate histories for Titanic and Britannic, respectively They're both incredibly creative, and imaginative. Your both a great story teller, and and informative historian. I've really enjoyed both of these wonderful presentations... Thank you.
These videos keep getting better every single upload!
In 1984, roughly a year before Titanic was found, Robert Ballard accidently stumbled on Britannic's wreck andmisidentified her at first, though it was quickly corrected. It sparked interest the ship enough that James Cameron made a sequel of sorts to his blockbuster hit Titanic in 2005 with the premise being Rose having a son that served aboard and fell enlove with a stowayay nurse from Germany. Sadly it didn't become as much of a hit, but it's still a great film with lots of period accurate sets!
real talk, that would be a great movie though…
Interesting that the loss of life was almost identical to the loss on the Lancastria in 1940. The Admiralty kept that real and horrific loss a secret for a long time after the sinking as well.
Quite right cunard61! The Lancastria disaster was a source of creative inspiration for this video.
@@OceanlinerDesigns hey Mike there is a error in the video, if the wreck at the end is the resolute then she has gantry davets
@@OceanlinerDesigns I was thinking the same thing! It would have been in the realm of possibility that, had it not been for the Britannic's loss in the Great War, that the Lancastria disaster might have befallen her instead. You did a great job weaving the Britannic's alternate history into the real world of European ocean liners in the 1920s and '30s!
Mike job well done. It kept me interested the whole way through. Well written and well presented. Your drawings as always looked fantastic.
Been waiting for this!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love these what if stories of ocean liners! it's so rare to see in the first place. love your work!
Heya mike! there's this book called "timewreck titanic" by Rhys B. Davies. it's about a what if scenario; a bunch of ships in an alternate timeline rescue the titanic. don't have to make a video on this, it just sounds like a cool read. i've never seen any video or mention about this, but the concept of the story sounds good. didn't know where else to share this, i don't have much friends interested in ocean liners lol.
What if all three Olympic class had long careers?
I love it when you do videos like this! From one of your first subscribers, I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with your content. Thank you for everything you do!
Amazing! Thanks for coming along for the ride Patrick!
I really admire the effort put towards your “What If” videos! Everything you put forward sounds logical and you can tell how much research you put into it to make it sound that way. I also love the fact that you don’t even acknowledge Britannic’s sinking in 1916 and act like this story really happened. Super clever! Hope to see more content like this!
We could only imagine what would have happened if the Resolute, formerly known as Britannic survived World War 2. Would she have run with Aquitania together as Trans-Atlantic running mates or cruise voyages?
Imagine if you made a fiction video about how Queen Mary 2 gets turn into a hospital ship along with others, because of the large scale of Ukraine's war and the lack of electricity and hospital service in Ukraine itself. Or you could make a video about a fiction ship such as Artanic. It has a long lifespan of eight years now, lots of background story to this ship. Still a very great video about Britannic. Its always interesting to work out scenarios about 'What if...', the 'What if Titanic didn't sank' was also a very great video! Thank you!
Man, what a delightful story! I love these videos, and this one's just excellent!
I wish that Britannic had gotten a real career. Perhaps not to this extent, but geez. Just a bit of real service would be great.
I think the obvious next steps are:
"What if Lusitania didn't sink?"
"What if the Olympic trio stayed afloat?"
"What if British shipping lost no ships in WWI?"
And, of course:
"What would ocean shipping be like if WWI never happened?"
That last one's different because the German liners were taken from Germany; in that scenario, they would stay with Germany, and things would be drastically different.
I am loving this! I hope you continue it as a series on other lost liners. 2 personally I would love to see are the Normandie & the Empress of Britain. Thanks again!
Great alternate history of the Brittanic Mike Great work keep it up ❤
“What if the MV Oceanic III was finished and never abandoned?” I want this to be in a reality in which the Queen Mary was still built, and the two super liners served the Cunard-White Star alongside each other.
The endings to both this and the what if for Titanic with the transition from the ship sailing to a view of the wreck are simply haunting. Good stuff.
Love your work, Mike! Keep it going!
Amazing vid Oceanliner Designs. A fascinating what-if vid.
Britannic was such a great ship, she's my favorite liner.
I really enjoy your "what if" videos! Great work once again!!
Another excellent "what-if" scenario, Mike. The scenario you came up with for Britannic feels even more plausible than the one from your "What If Titanic Never Sank?" video. Do you plan on uploading the profiles you made of Britannic to your website the way you did with the profiles you made of Titanic and/or making them available for purchase in your store?
What If Lusitania never sank
Truly amazing alternate history scenario!
Quality content every time
Absolute fantastic story & had me hooked all the way through! Love these alternate stories.
What if scenario:
Olympic is the one that sinks and Titanic and Britannic survive
RMMV Oceanic was built and saved WSL
Oh, Mike, you killed her off again! Couldn't she have just ended up as a sea-side attraction in Brighton?
it would be nice. like they could have put Olympic somewhere as a museum since it survived where the other two didn't. brittanic was a result of war so that one couldn't be helped. titanic well we know that story
Tha animations in your videos are superb and a great aid in telling the stories. Thank you.
I became so involved that when it was over I questioned the title of the video. I had forgotten it was historical fiction. Well done!
I’m fascinated by these videos! What do you think would have happened if it was either of the Olympic class survivors docked off California instead of the queen Mary?
*Great videos mate. I'm shocked James Cameron has not dived the Britannic given it's mostly intact*
He made a Documentary about the Bismarck and the Titanic. By the way, the Bismarck was in the White Star Line too. So why James Cameron shouldn't make a Britannic documentary.
The Bismarck I know of was a German battleship in WW2, sunk handily by having a critical weak point on its rudder. Still, she did make the HMS Hood explode by detonating her magazine, so her extremely brief time at war was not wholly unproductive for the Nazi regime.
@@browncoatkevin there was liner called, SS Bismarck, u smartypants
Love the alternate history video Mike keep at it
I'm already a fan, but I must say:
You, sir, are brilliant!
Thank you once again, Mr. Brady.
Amazing video! I have a suggestion, and it’s What if Oceanic II never sank. It may seem like not much would have changed, but I feel like it may result in White Star being a dominant company during the Cunard merger.
I wish this was reality
Absolutely fantastic videos. Only discovered this weekend but have watched loads already. Thankyou 🙂👌
Amazing video as always!
*It was a huge mistake scrapping the Olympic. Imagine if you could visit or stay on the Olympic like you can the Queen Mary*
I wish it hadn't happened but then again, it did create jobs during the depression I guess
It takes big, BIG money to preserve a ship, especially one almost 900 feet long, and they just weren't thinking that way back in the 1930's. No-one had the money either.
A more plausable scenario would have been preserving the bridge as a walk-through museum display of the Olympic class ships and MAYBE one of the engines.
There's no way of knowing if the Olympic would survive service through WW2, but there's no question she would have been taken over for military duty if she were still in existence in 1939.
@@cunard61 it be surprising if both Olympic and Mauretania were spared the scrapping to only see service in ww2.
Wonderful. A realistic story with all the highs and lows. Thank you for making this.
Just love your work with this it made me cry just a great work/job you do ocean!!!
This is a wonderful alternate history, detailed well researched and most enjoyable.
Your visuals and story telling skills improve each time, well done!
What a wonderfully told alternate history, keep up the good work!!!!!
Alternate history is one of my favorite excursions, especially when it is plausibly tied to world events. Very well done.
This was awesome. Very well done! I enjoyed this bit of alt history alot
*MIND BLOWN*
Ive had some time to think this video out and its really blown my mind.
1. FOR YEARS, Ive been trying to figure out what role the Brittanic played as the Sister ship and how she got brought into the war.
2. I never knew Olympic was THAT fast.. sure Titanic had power "Id guess"... but we never saw that demonstrated. I didnt know that Olympic wasnt a Red Cross ship... and that Brittanic was. I also never knew about Olympic's Dazzle Paint job.
Dude..
HATS off to you. I gotta find some dough to give to you. I definately gotta scounge up some dough for one of your prints for Xmas.
Your animations, drawings.. videos are top notch. Factual, interesting... I mean damn.
Now, Great GOOGILY MOOGILY!!!!
Ya give the Brittannic a, "Get out of The BREAKERS Yard free" card... but ya put her in a line of sight with some NazI U-Boat carrying 7,000 souls?!
DAMN.
I gotta watch this again... this sounds almost FEASIBLE!
P.S
Initially.. I thought Cunard (being the one who comes out ahead) and White Star "merged" because Cunard had more ships. Is it even possible for White Star to still be around... even with that scenario? What scenario would have to exist.. for ONE of the Sisters to still be around AND have a lasting effect on society as a whole?
Also..
I think it was you or Titanic Honor and Glory who mentioned H and W. I tore through that book like I was ON FIRE. If you look at the blueprints of the property going back to 1930... and you see the mess of consumer shit in the area NOW, its mind blowing.
Dude.. you are DAMN ON POINT~! NOICE JOB!
I'm enjoying these alt histories and you are making quite an art of them.
YES! I was hoping someone would do this!
That is an incredibly story of what if ships, Mike!!!!
You deserve way more subs and views! These videos are top class! Just the same or even better production than most channels with more than 1million subs. Stay at it!
Thanks Nils!
How has youtube only just recommended this channel??? Awesome content lad
I really like how immersive this alternate universe is. From the video and the comments, it all feels 100% authentic.
Thanks as always Mike!
AMAZING VIDEO! TOTALLY MAKES SENSE!
Another amazing video i love how these videos are presented
Fantastic tale! I'm a newer subsciber, but I've steamed though a great deal of your show at Full Ahead speed. I hope you continue to Captain the Oceanliner "Designs" for many more voyages to come! (I would gladly see you off on your great Atlantic adventures, but I would remain on firm ground. You see, as a wee lad I watched "A Night to Remember" and have been "scarred" ever since!
Oddly enough, I have no problem with Air or Train travel. Well done, Skipper! \m/
Thanks so much shipmate!
I get Goosebumps just listening to this, and it's entirely fictitious.
Great narration.