#britann

[thisisnot-an-original-name]

i miss her (ship that sank decades before my birth)

[your-resident-boat-person]

ever play ultrakill? there's an ocean liner on stage 5-2. do you think it was based on any known ocean liner? if it's nothing obvious, what do you think a close comparison could be?

Howdy! Unfortunately, no, I haven't played ultrakill.

This is the ship you're referring to, yes?

The ultrakill wiki refers to it both as a cruise ship and a ferry. I'm not sure if there's another source that says it's an ocean liner, but for the sake of this post, let's assume it is. It's difficult to get a sense of scale from the photo or gameplay footage, so it's difficult to discern how big it is. Zooming in on the photo, it looks like the hull is made from wood? The largest wooden sailing ship ever built was the Wyoming, a 6-masted schooner measuring 450 feet long, and she sank because the wood she was made from, combined with her size, made her prone to sagging and hogging, which likely made her snap in the middle. Ships of that size just can't be made from wood. It's not strong enough (*cough* *cough*, Noah's ark... I'll get to you another day...) in terms of funnels, it has 2 which are very close together, and they appear to be red, with a black top (likely to mask the stains from the smoke and dust). The funnels look to most closely resemble the French line? I think? It's difficult to tell... in terms of a wooden hulled 2 funnel liner? My closest match is the SS Adriatic of 1856, belonging to the Colins line.

But as you can see, there isn't much of a resemblance... especially considering she has a friggin paddlewheel and rigging for sails

The ship looks considerably more modern. If it were real, judging by the superstructure, I'd be shocked if it predated the 1960s. But those round cylindrical funnels were WELL out of date by then, with may companies beginning to get creative:

The funnels are also pretty far back. On most Ocean Liners, the boilers, engines, and other heavy machinery were kept towards the middle of the ship, to ensure it would remain stable. We only started putting engines on the back of ships of this size relatively recently. For example, the SS America had 2 funnels, but only one was functional. It rests in almost the exact middle of the ship

And judging by the ultrakill ship, the funnels are pretty far back. They're REALLY close together, not unlike the SS Brittanic and Germanic of 1874

The bow also features a VERY prominent rake backwards. One of the earlier examples of this was the RMS Queen Elizabeth of 1938, but the rake wasn't very prominent.

The SS United States of 1952 featured a MUCH more prominent rake akin to that of the ultrakill ship

So in short... I dunno! It's kinda a mishmash of a lot of things! Thank you so much for the question, and if you need clarifications for anything I'm referring to or any of the vocabulary I use, feel free to ask! I can kinda forget sometimes that most people don't know a lot of these Nautical terms, and I love talking about this, so I don't mind explaining! :3

[teilzami]

Olympic-class ships! Olympic, Titanic and Britannic

I'm the Titanic fan since primary school. So I gonna draw ships

They also were in my video on YouTube

[lonestarbattleship]

Stern view of RMS Britannic with Lord Pirrie and large group of Belfast Harbour commissioners.

Date: January-February 1914

National Museums of Northern Ireland: HOYFM.HW.H1954

[rms-mauretanic]

Some slightly-stale homemade ocean liner memes I've had saved to my desktop for a while and felt the need to share:

[rubyonyxred]

Sisters

As a tribute to my latest obsession, and because I am terrible at drawing mechanical objects, have the Olympic Class Sisters!

From L to R:

Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic

I likely should have looked up what a 1910s nurse would have looked like for Britannic, however, I really wanted her to look as glamorous as her sisters. I may do a second painting for both she and Olympic later

[himmelheim]

If I see one more person comparing that ACME shitty homemade "sub" to the RMS Titanic I will genuinely murder somebody. Especially if you're taking the movie as truth (lovely movie, but it is innacurate). Know why?

Because that millionaire wacko didn't give a shit, but the poor workers that built the three Olympic class sisters? Those men did their damn best and actually gave a shit even thought of sailing there themselves, and comparing that shit ass sub with discount materials to 3 massive, premium ships that took YEARS of planning and work is disrespectful as fuck.

Even the fucking White Star Line didn't put the passengers on danger with full intention (and knowingly charged them for it btw) because they genuinely didn't think what happened was going to happen. And I can't blame them, honestly:

Titanic's design wasn't perfect, but it was good for her time (highlighting time because 1900s class divisions and American immigration segregation laws were shit but it's not like the engineers are to blame for those) and she was made by very skilled poor workers who would show the work on Sundays to their families and were very proud of her.

She also exceeded safety regulations of her time (not the design's fault that said regulations were absolute shite), her 3rd class accommodations were the best, actually (not her fault class system and USA immigration law was shitty in the 1900s) and her and her reinforcer little twin sister HM Hospital Ship Britannic sank because of genuine bad luck (she struck a German mine meant for military ships. Her watertight doors twisted but held however the medical staff left the portholes open to air the rooms and that's what did her in).

Meanwhile, her older twin sister RMS Olympic got rammed by a military ship HMS Hawke and survived BEFORE Titanic's sinking (after which she was reinforced along with Britannic) when the design was new and at its weakest, and after she got reinforced she fucking rammed an U-boat and. kept going. She survived the war, all that shit and then instead of turning into a beautiful museum ship she was sent to the scrap yard after the Great Depression ended the White Star Line, her company.

[hatsalad]

I am, once again, emotional about the HMHS Britannic

[glittergroovy]

Strangers • Ethel Cain

[sunshinelady813]

Happy birthday Olympic!! 🎊🎉

[lombardie-colorings]

The HMHS Britannic was the last in the White Star Line's Olympic class of ocean liners, laid down in 1911 and launched three years later in 1914. As a sister ship to both the Olympic and the Titanic, she was intended to be used as a transatlantic ocean liner, though the outbreak of World War I necessitated her refitting as a hospital ship; it was under this designation that she spent the majority of her life, ferrying wounded soldiers across the Atlantic. On November 21, 1916, she struck a German sea mine and sank off the coast of the island of Kea near Greece, with the loss of 30 of her 1,066 passengers and crew. In 1975, her wreck was located and explored by maritime explorer and oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau. Currently, she is the largest intact passenger liner on the seabed, where she rests under 400 feet of water.

Photographed by Allan C. Green, sometime between December 1915 and October 1916.

Colored by Lombardie Colorings.

[mercury-lynx]

Me and my very normal special interests 🐛⛴️🪳☢️🐟🚢🪲

Wanted to post about these cause they are all very near and dear to my heart :3 most of these have been with me since child hood, I think the only one that hasn’t is the manhattan project (I’m interested in the science of it, not the actual weapons). I can talk about any of these give topics for HOURS on end <3

My field of expertises:

Ocean liners (specifically 1900s to 1950s)

Bulk cargo carriers (specifically roll on roll off classed vessels)

American nuclear power history (specifically three mile island and the anti nuclear movement)

Nuclear science (I only care about energy production)

Chemistry and quantum physics

Three mile island incident (all)

Renewable energy (nuclear reactors, wind farms, and dams)

Bugs :3 (any and all)

Other arthropods and crustaceans

(Mostly) fresh water fish (salmon, trout, sturgeon, catfish etc.)

Note: this doesn’t include my fixations, these have been with me my entire life (bugs, fish, ships, renewable energy, white star line), they have only gotten more specific with age :3

Im willing to talk about any of these with anyone, I get so happy sharping my knowledge and other fun facts related to these topics!! I would be cool to make friends with people that share my passion in any one of these fields 💕����

[your-resident-boat-person]

Hi! I saw your post about your top ocean liners! If you're still answering questions, what do you know about the Adriatic? Feel free to include another ship as I'm trying to learn more about ocean liners!

So, the Adriatic occupies a strange position in the Ocean Liner community. If you were to ask someone which of the Olympic class was their favorite, you'd get various answers, including the Britannic. However, very few people would say they picked Britannic because "she's the best version of the Olympic class". Most people would discuss her building, or her World War 1 service. Meanwhile, most people who I have spoken to about the Big 4 prefer the Adriatic because "she's the best version of the big 4". And, I mean, they're right, but its strange. She's the largest, the fastest, and the most luxurious. She was the first ocean liner to feature a swimming pool and Turkish bath, and all of her accommodations were generally a significant upgrade from her predecessors. But it's strange to me how THAT is the reason everyone prefers her. I mean, it's why I prefer her. She's the ultimate ship of the Big 4. But like I said earlier, very few people who prefer Britannic over Olympic and Titanic hold that opinion because she was (planned to be) more luxurious.

Anyway, here are some cool facts for you.

1. The Big 4 was almost the Big 5.

After Titanic sank, White Star apparently put in an order with Harland and Wolff for "A new Adriatic class ship". This is VERY strange considering the Big 4 had since been superceded by the Olympic class. As far as I know, no company EVER ordered a new ship from a previous generation like this, other than this instance. The ship was to be named RMS Germanic, after the SS Germanic of 1874, from the Britannic class. She presumably would have followed and improved upon Adriatics design, just as the Adriatic improved on the design of her predecessors. RMS Germanic had her keel laid down right around when World War 1 started, but the war delayed her construction, and she was eventually canceled.

2. The name

Like the Germanic, The RMS Adriatic was named after another White Star ship, the SS Adriatic of 1871. The SS Adriatic was the 5th ship in the Oceanic class, White Star's first class of ships. Like the RMS Adriatic, the SS Adriatic was an enhanced version of her predecessors. However, the SS Adriatic was later improved upon by the SS Celtic. The RMS Celtic of the Big 4 was named after this ship.

3. The Specs

The third ship of the Big 4, the RMS Baltic (named after the SS Baltic from 1871, also from the Oceanic class) was significantly larger than the previous two ships. However, Harland and Wolff left her engines unmodified. This meant that she was slightly slower than her predecessors. The Adriatic was even larger than the Baltic, but Harland and Wolff made her engines significantly more powerful. This meant that the largest of the Big 4 was also the most powerful, and the fastest. Her fastest crossing time was 7 days and 6 minutes. Also, her top speed was around 17 knots.

4. Coal consumption.

The Lusitania and Mauretania were the fastest ships in the world. From 1907 to 1929, their speed was unrivaled. The Mauretania specifically held the record for 19 uninterrupted years, and even beat her own record once. This, however, came at a cost. The Lusitania and Mauretania consumed 1,000 tons of coal PER DAY. The Olympic, only a few knots slower, only consumed 650 tons per day, despite being nearly 10,000 GRT larger than both of them. I actually discussed this in more detail in a previous post. Anyway, the Adriatic, by comparison, only consumed 260 tons per day. Now, she was nearly 10 knots slower than the Mauretania, but you can see how much more economical it made her by comparison. Because this was before late stage capitalism, these savings were passed on to the consumers. Tickets for the Adriatic (and by extension, the rest of the Big 4) were SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER than other competing ships, even the Olympic, and the RMS Oceanic, the predecessor to the Big 4. Also, after the first World War, most Ocean Liners like Olympic and Mauretania were converted to burn Oil instead of coal. This had several advantages.

1) Oil made the refueling process several magnitudes easier and shorter.

2) Burning Oil instead of Coal made the ship marginally faster (the Olympic was 1/10th of a knot faster after the conversion).

3) Burning Oil made the ship produce much less smoke, increasing the air quality in EVERY PORT THESE SHIPS WENT TO.

4) Because fluid takes the shape of its container, you were able to store MUCH more of it, greatly extending the ships range.

However, an unintended consequence of this was the Stokers. Generally, a ship like the Olympic had 350 men stoking the boilers with coal. After being converted to Oil, this number dropped to 50 or 60. Also, because Coal and Oil boilers were so different, coal stokers would need to be completely reeducated to work on these new ships (contrary to popular belief, stokers were considered skilled labor at the time, and required very specific and specialized knowledge and training. It wasn't just a matter of finding a strong guy and handing him a shovel.) As a show of good faith to their employees, White Star didn't convert any of the ships of the Big 4 to burn oil, to help ensure that the coal stokers could maintain employment. This was especially appreciated once the Great Depression hit in 1929.

🌟~B-B-B-BONUS FACT~🌈

The RMS Adriatic was launched on the same day as Cunard's RMS Mauretania. Because of this, as well as the fact that the RMS Lusitania was launched earlier, the Adriatic was the only member of the Big 4 to not hold the title of "largest ship in the world".

⚓️🛟🚢 - BONUS B O N U S FACT - 🚢🛟⚓️

The longest trip the RMS Adriatic did was her voyage to be scrapped in Osaka Japan.

Now that I've infodumped all over your dash, here's a disclaimer:

90% of this was from memory. I occasionally checked some sources for specific numbers like speed and coal consumption, but otherwise this was all stuff I just knew off hand. Before you use ANY of this information ANYWHERE, I'd reccomend fact checking it to make sure I didn't get anything wrong.

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out and ask! This is my favorite thing in the world.

[teilzami]

Not twins, but friends - Britannic and Aquitania Not HMHS Britannic as someone could expect (don't worry, she'll become one soon)

New "bestest liners" are not as self-confident and narcissistic as their predecessors. The reason is... Titanic. While Aquitania is just calm and a bit shy, Britannic is an alarmist, who's afraid of everything and everyone, so tries her best to avoid any troubles

After Titanic's wreck Lusitania and Mauretania couldn't leave Olympic alone with dark thoughts. Slowly, but they became friends. If they didn't do that, Aquitania and Britannic wouldn't meet each other too!

[northadawn]

Hoping For Doves + Down With The Sun (Anniversary Revisit)

TW // Wounds

On this day 108 years ago, HMHS Britannic struck a mine in the Kea Channel and sank. 30 people lost their lives in the sinking.

I did a small revisit to my two most recent drawings of Britannic for the anniversary! I know that many people probably wonder why I don't draw her more often despite her being my favourite ocean liner, and to be honest, I sometimes wonder the same thing.

I hope you enjoy this mini throwback revisit! More new original art soon!

[ivx2810]

I don't believe in curses but there was something going on with the Olympic class ships