Titanic's Plans: A Look Inside the Great Ship

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Published 2024-01-14
Did you know Titanic had a potato room? What about a padded cell? Today we'll explore the brilliantly detailed plans of Titanic crafted by Matthew DeWinkeleer and the team over at ‪@TitanicHG‬ This gorgeous set of drawings shows Titanic in exceptional detail including the placement of furniture on the decks. We'll explore the various spaces and some lesser-known areas that rarely see attention at all.

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www.titanicdeckplan.com

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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All Comments (21)
  • @sirjanin
    I find funny the fact that the titanic was equipped with a room dedicated to potatos. Probably the best room on all the ship
  • @MT-it9qt
    As a fun dabble, I actually used those plan views you showed, spending a year to create a 'scale' Titanic in Minecraft where 1 block = 1 meter. It became an insane puzzle that miraculously all fit together. Of course it created a ship that could only represent the real thing if the Titanic's walls were coated in box-spring mattresses, but all the rooms (all but the smallest closets) matched up perfectly. One could really get a feel for moving around inside. Watching your illustrations of casings was surprisingly close to walking in my model. So many surprising spaces are not very obvious from just looking at plans, anchor winch, chain locker, escape passages, various cargo hold accesses, funnel case accesses, up and down fireman's spiral stairs, that little galley passage tucked under boiler 1-2 funnel. Even moving around the various passenger spaces, from dining areas, sleeping quarters, via hallways, 1st and 2nd-class elevators to the Turkish baths, pool, racket ball court felt akin to spelunking. I found any Bostwick gates were placed such that they were easily avoided. You really never know a thing unless you build or draw it. To your point of being knit-picked over details, I know the feeling and suspect anyone who visited my site would have a field day for knit. Thx for the effort in making, what one can only imagine, more real.
  • @dangerdoberman
    Titanic H&G is probably one of the greatest virtual projects ever. Bringing that beautiful ship back to life.
  • @fastfiddler1625
    I'm sitting here at the place I stay between work shifts in Chicago. It's -21c outside with -32c wind chill. I'm soaking in some American whiskey and watching MOAR Titanic content from Oceanliner Designs, and I could not be more relaxed. Cheers
  • @kensmith5694
    Potatoes need somewhat controlled conditions to be stored. You don't want light getting onto them. You need to keep a certain level of humidity and you also need to divide up the potatoes into separate piles. There is a kind of rot that can get going in a pile of potatoes that will spoil them all in about a week. When my father was a child, he went to the UK and back with his parents by ship. He mentioned that there were some sort of unmarked doors here and there. They were where the very well dressed crew would appear from and disappear into. It seems that there was a narrow stairway down to the kitchen area and a storage room or two.
  • @IntrepidMilo
    I have been fascinated by the Titanic for nearly 40 years.
  • @stevenwilgus8982
    I am an aviation person, but these videos of RMS Titanic have shown me an aspect of ships I was woefully ignorant of. These all are absolutely fascinating....she was a magnificent ship, and obviously the loss of life was THE tragedy, but the loss of the ship herself was in a different way a tragedy as well. Lost before a history could be written. All we can do is speculate, and your videos are a wonderful source of information. I am not as ignorant as before . Well done, well done indeed.
  • @barrya8981
    I am again delighted by your enthusiastic review of Titanic. I am a retired architect, but I never worked on anything as complicated as this ship. Just the logistics of scheduling the design and drafting of the plans is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for bringing to light the skill required - at all levels - of liner design
  • @LegacyUser
    Passenger states they dislike potatoes. Gets stuffed in padded room.
  • @ruatnec66
    15:32 "they sit up on the poop deck, don't laugh. " it was the "don't laugh" that indeed, made me laugh.
  • @caleb12naruto
    I just want you to know that I LOVE the fact you talk about lesser known areas of the ship. I've always looked at the deck plans and loved wondering about the engineering skylight, the little round staircase going all the way from the bottom of the ship up to the 4th funnel, the storage area for all of the food, the hospital kitchen etc This definitely scratches that itch to see the hidden in-depth stuff nobody really thinks about, so thank you!
  • My father was a student on HMS Conway. He loved serving in the merchant navy & was obsessed with all things naval. Mike Brady, I wish he’d lived long enough to watch your channel. He’d have loved it.
  • @jus10lewissr
    The THG guys are absolutely brilliant; I am dumbfounded by their abilities every single time I see how well they brought Titanic back to life. Honestly, their project never gets old to me and I can personally walk around the ship for hours without becoming bored.
  • @wingmanjim6
    Mike, you have the gift of making exploring and learning fun ! Thank you so much for your ongoing efforts, they are well appreciated !
  • @MCP53
    This reminds me of the series of well-illustrated books, aimed at a young readership, that I wished we'd had in our (boring) history lessons at school. They showed how castles, for example, really worked and answered the questions that kids will always ask. Not just which monarch followed another, but how did they live, what did they eat and, of course, where did they poop!
  • @Charkunt.d5
    You, young man are keeping history alive and making it fun and interesting!! ❤ Please keep making this content!! I love it!! 🇮🇪
  • My grandmother was a six year old girl living in the UK at the time of the sinking. She told me stories when I was young about her recollections of the days the news broke, seeing the newspaper boards announcing it and the news sellers with arms full of papers. She recalled how the loss featured in the conversations between her parents and friends for quite some time.
  • 11:17 Although the 4th funnel was not connected to the boilers, it carried smoke from the smoking room fireplace, from the stoves and ovens of the galley on deck D, and the kitchen of the A la Carte restaurant. There are photographs and newsreels of Olympic that show smoke coming from the 4th funnel