Aquitania: Life of the "Ship Beautiful"

[@azadahmedkhan]

She serve a lot of decades than other ships. Salute to her

[@Darrigrande]

She was long lived , the "SHip Beautiful"

[@johntracy72]

We will never ever again see such beautiful ships like Aquitania, Olympic, Mauretania, Lusitania and Titanic. Those are the top five most beautiful ships man has ever made.

[@carlosiiideespana3712]

john tracy and britannic

[@jeremycollins1660]

@@carlosiiideespana3712 i think your forgetting the most beautiful of them all,the mighty normandie

[@globial5329]

SS France, SS United States

[@josephhardwicke6344]

@@globial5329 pre or post neglected United States?😞

[@globial5329]

@@josephhardwicke6344 pre

[@iainmorrison7302]

The 'ship beautiful' indeed and the ship blessed - longest lasting of the great four stackers sailing in peace and then war twice. Few can match her for her grace and beauty. Brilliant tribute to one of the greatest of them all.

[@sgtcrab1]

My Mom, a British War Bride, and I sailed to Halifax on the Aquitania.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

An excellent production! If we could go back in time and see people dancing the Charleston aboard the Aquitania. I'm glad that there are color photographs and footage of this very special ship.

[@BLWorks1982]

Aquitannia is my favorite liner. I'm in the bringing stages of building a 6ft model of her.

[@adamriffe3520]

+BLWorks1982 Could you make some videos of it?

[@MsjEsUsFrEaK73]

'Ship Beautiful' indeed! Shocks me how this beautiful, powerful ship that survived both World Wars, outlived her sisters and the Olympic class ships wasn't perserved like the Queen Mary. She deserved it after everything she had done.

[@Sugerloadedgirl789]

My second favorite vessel tied with Titanic and only outclassed by Lusitania, her older half sister. The ship beautiful. She's such a pretty liner and she is a very rare liner to have experienced both World Wars and survive both.

[@shipmand]

A new aquitania video my favorite ship :)

[@Cheerfultitanic1]

Happy to see a new video! Truly amazing music and footage, which you seem to complement your videos so well with!

[@gvevers1]

Absolutely fantastic! What a great liner!

[@bradc002]

Always love your films. Great to see a new one from you.

[@wornormy2]

Fantastic little movie,great work

[@thegoldencunard7527]

Finally! New video! Great job keep at it! I loved your videos since 2010.

[@eyestoenvy]

A gorgeous creation of man that served during not one but both BOTH world wars? She should have been spared and preserved for generations ahead. Who we are, is who we were ....

[@paulheenan9098]

She was due for replacement in 1940 by the QE, the war meant she got to stay around a bit longer. However, she was heavily outdated and on her last legs by then. Her decks had rotted to the point that a piano fell through a ceiling, her funnels were heavily rusted and about to collapse and her bulkheads were full of sizeable holes, along with her pre WW1 design not conforming to modern safety and fire regulations. The expenses of preserving her sadly wouldn't have been justified.

[@thejagotishow]

The piano story is a bunch of baloney, it never happened

[@tylerfrederick246]

The Aquitania was indeed The Ship Beautiful. The most beautiful Cunard ship ever built, match only by Queens Victoria and Elizabeth.

[@seanfulk9908]

Wow beautiful. She served well she deserved a good retirement old girl. I love old ocean liners💓💓💓🚢🚢

[@michaelwalker4022]

The Aquitania regal Beautiful graceful and very elegant they should never have scrapped her she should have been preserved unlike the rubbish they throw together now! dreadfully sad 😔

[@johnson11b]

Thank you so much for making this video happen

[@fendiandprada5543]

R.I.P me I didn’t deserve to be scrapped The day I headed for the scrapping yard was the worst and saddest day of my life :(

[@jamessidebottom5868]

such a beautiful elegant and majestic ship!! fitted out like a palace with craftsmen and workmen ship unlike the rubbish they build or should i say throne together now for eg: like the queen Mary two nothing like the original looks like a floating office block! so very sad they scrapped the Aquitania in 1950 thank goodness the Americans saved the original queen Mary which has been preserved and will be enjoyed by future generations! sadly the world will never see such beautiful ships from a elegant era like the Aquitania , OLYMPIC, Mauritania, sale the seas again or ever built, so sad we lost these as a nation and our ship building industry!

[@germanname1990]

Good to see more from you again. ^_^

[@eemo1873]

You can see why she was called the 'ship beautiful'

[@diogomagalhaes6562]

it was ans it stil be the most amazing ship that survived for long time to give confort to the pasangers and make the motherland proud to have a capable ship of such a task

[@mariocisneros911]

You know her legacy is survived , in all the soldiers and war brides she sailed to their to their safe destinations. The children produced is her legacy. Thank You AQUITANIA .

[@Oxurus]

fantastic work!!!

[@shadow21gaming10]

I like her wartime gray livery with traditional Cunard funnels

[@jayombreVEVO]

She is beautiful. ::)

[@Waiting_to_Exhale_era]

My favorite ship. 2nd United States. Third MV brittanic

[@THECRISSCRUZZ]

hubiera sido increible ver a todos los colosos juntos mauretania,lusitania,aquitania, britannic,olympic,titanic

[@asylumlover]

See my fresh comment above.

[@rubyxoxo2964]

I wish guard and white star line was still a company and made more boats today

[@Titanic_401]

Great video! :D

[@adamriffe3520]

I like the transition into WW1

[@91_C4_FL]

Were the party clips actually filmed aboard the Aquitania?

[@Mgaffo222]

She should have been preserved

[@ChrisArchieMOV]

Welcome Back!

[@jakedriggers5987]

Olympic WS what is your favorite ship?

[@aminutehistories2347]

jake driggers mine is MS Estonia,RMS Titanic,SS Pasteur,and the favorite of all MV Dona Paz

[@sebastianathiememorial520]

MV Goya RMS Armenia and HTM Aquitania

[@riccardod441]

Aquitanna rest in pest 1916-1950 R.I.P

[@riccardod441]

Sorry I mean 1914

[@adamriffe3520]

+riccardod441 You were thinking Britannic when you said 1916 right?

[@riccardod441]

+fatty hamster no

[@1940limited]

Was the 4th funnel on this a dummy same as Titanic?

[@wimspreeuwenberg2516]

g bridgman no only olympic class liners was the 4 funnel a dummy

[@1940limited]

Thanks for the information!

[@zeddeka]

While her interiors were clearly very beautiful, her exterior design got a lot of criticism. She was thought to be way too "boxy". The unusual decision not to have a raised forecastle made the superstructure look too big for the hull from certain angles. The use of all of those vents gave her decks a cluttered look. The Olympic class liners, whom many people thought the Aquitainia was based on, didn't have that boxy appearance and used the fourth funnel for ventilation, removing the need for so many vents on deck and giving them a much cleaner look.

[@galaxywonders5165]

The last four stacker to sail the ocean blue.............

[@gilbertpadpad8506]

That xNeOn The 3 last 4-3 Stackers is Queen mary 2,Olympic and Aquitania But Olympic and Aquitania Scrapped and QUEEN MARY Is the last ship

[@herlastvoyage]

Queen Mary is not a four-stacker

[@galaxywonders5165]

Gilbert Padpad Yep. It looks like The Titanic2 project is dead. And if they were to launch her, she would sadly not be a true four stacker

[@joemancini327]

The titanic 2 project is still on hold she may become a ship but possibly

[@OrnumCR]

Never could work out how she scored the moniker of 'Ship Beautiful'. She had none of the lean grace of the 'Olympic Class' trio with her heavy and boxy superstructure. What is true is she was the only four-stacker to survive service through two world wars. For that reason, she should have been preserved. Would be fascinating to step aboard a liner of that vintage these days.

[@shuichiboy]

Is Aquitania considered, at all, part of the Lusitania class? Or is she in a class of her own? Definite similarities but also striking differences. I'm not sure where the line is for that sort of thing.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

No, totally different ship. Cunard decided to follow White Star Olympic class vessels but used four quadruple propelled propulsion design. She was one only in the whole fleet and very lucky plus most admired ship in British merchant Navy.

[@sebastianathiememorial520]

Yes Aquitania Lusitania Class

[@Wanamaker1946]

No, Aquatainia was build 7 years later and hasn’t a sister ship. She was way later by 400 feet than the Lusitania&Mauratania, two hundred feet, longer than Titanic, and far more well appointed. She really looked like an English Country house inside.

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

The fact that it survived until the 50s is crazy. Too bad it couldn't be saved from mankind's myopia

[@bartoszp1513]

1:31 - Aquitania had these engines , the engines are type liners olympic

[@theevilplaguedoctor6464]

Bartosz Piekarz I would think all ships from that time period had massive reciprocating engines

[@billg3969]

The Olympic class liners had reciprocating engines, but the Aquitania was driven by four steam turbines.

[@sebastianathiememorial520]

No

[@joemancini327]

Sucks that her age prevented her from being scraped I guess having holes in the funnels and bulks heads and foul water leaking through the rotting floors can really make a piano fall through it just would had been nice to see it as a museum wouldn't it.

[@qe2836]

Her condition wouldn't have made a restoration impossible. The SS Great Britain (1845) was in a worse condition, she didn't even had a superstrucure anymore. Look at her now! Money was (as always) the problem, not Aquitania's condition. And I believe that people didn't see as much historical value in her almost 70 years ago as they do now.

[@adamriffe3520]

music?

[@adamriffe3520]

I know a lot about them to.

[@selmateacher7]

Nice

[@kyledixon7096]

Can you please do the ship ms Estonia 20th anniversary Awsome channel sank sept. 28 1994

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

She had a long career served in both world wars ocean liner and now she a car or something

[@kevinmcgarrigle2539]

I turn the music off in these videos, it’s too much

[@seaboardairlineproductions7185]

Aquitania looks more like Queen Mary's little sister in - law.

[@joemancini327]

4:42 nice moves

[@jonathanher1280]

At 5:34 tell me someone that's the Queen Mary cuz that ship is a three Stacker

[@baronvonjo1929]

That's the Il de France

[@unknownuser8849]

Old story is sad :v

[@gtb2009b]

The Olympic has a better layout and more streamlined with out the intake cones

[@cliff9685]

gtb2009b I agree. The Olympic was very streamlined and more pleasing to the eye. Titanic built on the Olympics design and in my opinion, Titanic was THE perfect ship in layout and design. Truly beautiful. A lot of other ships seem heavy and not balanced. The super structures look packed and over filled with ventilators. Titanic was sheer perfection.

[@gtb2009b]

cliff9685 yes the size of the ship compared to other of her time they were much larger i was surprised that the four funnels of the other ships only came to the third on titanic it was that much bigger every thing in front of the bridge of the titanic was the difference of length that a lot more space. The layout of the cabins and two staircases were so modern and traffic flow was so well thought out. I think most modern ships are copied from Olympic and titanic. Going through the 3D virtual tours of the titanic I really felt it was designed like you were on a hotel on land and not on a ship at all. Looked to be the best cross of the Atlantic there ever was. If the 3 ships ever had survived it would of been a monopoly for Atlantic travel I totally see what they were doing two ships at dock in England and New York and one in the Atlantic on it way to either side would of been the most predictable and constant turn around you could plan a trip with White star and come back after only a week in Europe

[@cliff9685]

gtb2009b I think that’s a great comparison that the Olympic and Titanic were designed as floating hotels, while the other ships were more ship like. The virtual reality you were talking about, is that Titanic Honor and Glory? That is magnificent isn’t it! That really shows the beauty of that ship that old black and white photos just don’t convey! The grand staircases and Ala Carte restaurant were simply breathtaking!

[@aminutehistories2347]

OlympicWS how to copy videos and resized it for my new video

[@qe2836]

Her condition wouldn't have made a restoration impossible. The SS Great Britain (1845) was in a worse condition, she didn't even had a superstrucure anymore. Look at her now! Money was (as always) the problem, not Aquitania's condition. And I believe that people didn't see as much historical value in her almost 70 years ago as they do now.

[@paulhoulihan315]

QE2 Apparently the ship suffered from severe rust. I read somewhere that a grand piano fell through the deck because the floors had rotted so bad. Still it’s a shame they couldn’t preserve it.

[@sedevacante8840]

She Is Waiting

[@samuelschut3297]

she was still used in the sixties

[@xavierlauzac5922]

samuel schut no she wasn’t, she was scrapped in 1950

[@bensintes3745]

I find it very sad, all they seem to build these days are tin dormitories, with tacky add on/s, These ships were in a class of their own, real class,! Always remembered....

[@johntracy72]

Ben Sintes You're so absolutely right. These grand old ladies were labors of love. So much blood, sweat and tears went into building these works of art.

[@jimcrawford5039]

The only thing is, we could never afford to travel on them! We can today with en-suite staterooms and all the creature comforts for a fraction of the cost. They did’nt have air-con, stabilisers, tv in every room , great games room for kids, live shows etc. I could go on. Beautiful ships yes, I agree, I worked on some of them.

[@jonathanher1280]

1914 was WW1 start and ended 1918