Have Time To Kill And Are Into Mechanical Stuff? Titanic's Driveline...

[monkeyswrench]

May be a Vin. Pretty impressive pics and cgi. If you're a history dork and a mechanical type, cool stuff. It's a long vid, but really cool. Massive castings and machine work, and also didn't know she was a "hybrid"
About all I got for boating content to submit

 

[ltbaney1]

its always impressive to me what they did with the tooling, technology and materials at hand.

 

[OLDRAAT]

I've been also watching that along with the restos of the Battleship Texas and New Jersey. History related videos on YouTube are one of my addictions.

 

[rrrr]

Mike Brady's Oceanliner Designs videos are all really interesting. He documents the history of the passenger ship trade worldwide, with specific videos about icons of the past like Queen Mary, Mauretania, United States, and others.

His videos also explore the industry as a whole, like his latest about Harland & Wolff, builders of the three huge White Star liners Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic. Photos of the shipyard and its activities are amazing. The complexity of these and other ships built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast at the turn of the century is astounding.

Link to the Oceanliner Designs YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/@OceanlinerDesigns?si=3upz78S6NxZbUutg

 

[jetboatperformance]

Finally .............They need more thrust space between the back side of the props and the prop strut , no wonder it sank

 

[SBMech]

Mike Brady's Oceanliner Designs videos are all really interesting. He documents the history of the passenger ship trade worldwide, with specific videos about icons of the past like Queen Mary, Mauretania, United States, and others.

His videos also explore the industry as a whole, like his latest about Harland & Wolff, builders of the three huge White Star liners Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic. Photos of the shipyard and its activities are amazing. The complexity of these and other ships built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast at the turn of the century is astounding.

Link to the Oceanliner Designs YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/@OceanlinerDesigns?si=3upz78S6NxZbUutg

I really love the fact that when they decided to do something, cost was not a factor, nor was a "return on the investment" considered...it was totally overkill to "AWE" the passengers of these vessels that were so cutting edge that they displaced the Waldorf and The 4 Seasons as kings of creature comforts when built.

The scope of engineering and forging/casting/fabrication advancements made while under construction and pushing the known scope of ability is incredibly mind-blowing!

Forget about the Taj Mahal and The Great Wall etc...these were truly in their time the "Marvels of the World" IMO.

These Olympic Class Ocean Liners were so fucking huge it's amazing they even floated...at 882 feet in length and weighing in at a svelt 53,310 tons...they were floating skyscrapers!

 

[Racey]

May be a Vin. Pretty impressive pics and cgi. If you're a history dork and a mechanical type, cool stuff. It's a long vid, but really cool. Massive castings and machine work, and also didn't know she was a "hybrid"
About all I got for boating content to submit

This Guy's entire youtube channel is awesome

 

[rrrr]

The castings for the Olympic class ships were huge. I didn't know something that large could be cast in steel.

This is thé casting for the intermediate cylinder of the main engines. The two low pressure cylinders were about 50% larger.

The number 400 on the casting indicates this piece was meant for Olympic. Titanic's build number was 401.