Lesson 2: How Many Toilets were on Titanic?

[@TitanicUniversity]

Foolish me! I forgot that twelve cabins on C deck did NOT share their bathrooms! This doesn't change the outcome of the number of toilets, but this does mean that A36 and A37 weren't the only cabins with their own private baths. These C Deck cabins would still be required to pay to use the bathrooms, or they would be locked.

[@Cenindo]

You are forgiven.

[@Buynlargeinc]

I think, that you forgot about apartments for millionaires. B-52,54,56 and B-51,53,55 also had their our bathrooms and toilets

[@TitanicUniversity]

@@Buynlargeinc nope! As they technically each had their own bathrooms, the two cabins per suite had to share it.

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Perticular C-73 Carson's cabin from TAOOT.

[@jamesodom4980]

Titanic University, it’s ok. You still delivered an epic video.

[@supportlestore8277]

These are the questions that keep me up at night

[@2ndarmoredhellonwheels106]

Yeah I lost so much sleep wondering how many shitters were on titanic. Now I can sleep again lol.

[@ScatteredCollector]

Yeah same

[@KirbyMan12]

I got a new one. How many people either died due to the immense pressure in the ship, died due to lack of oxygen, or died from the impact of the ship to the floor while trapped in their cabin. Have fun with that.

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

Well at least we NOW KNOW there were plenty of commodes

[@wyattpeterson6286]

You too?

[@brandonsavitski]

My great grandfather proudly told us how he dropped a duece in one of the toilets on the Titanic. He helped furnish the ship. This was when it was being fitted and well before it set sail.

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

Brandon Savitski You serious? Must be lucky to be related to someone who has seen the Titanic

[@shantolion1576]

so the poop just fell off the side of the ship...

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

Shanto Lion 💩 falling from the 💩 deck lol 😂 😆 😝

[@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad]

*THE ABSOLUTE LEGEND*

[@Dallas_K]

@@shantolion1576 It was ejected out waste pipes along the waterline. After all, we must remember how early in the game these ocean liners appeared on the scene. It would be the 1920s when the next leaps into modern design would advance. 1912 was a primative time by today's standards, but it was inventing everything we now take for granted.

[@guyk768]

This was an interesting video. And wash your damn hands. - Matt Dewinkeleer 2020

[@MisoElEven]

Funny how now people are panicking about buying food and cleaning their damn hands when they hear about a dangerous virus everywhere but they werent doing it a month ago when we knew many covid viruses before...sars, mers etc. and we knew that they are common in hospitals.. humans are weird.....

[@blakegriplingph]

@@MisoElEven As what the main THG channel put it, it's caused by yellow journalism.

[@lyndafall8818]

Isntead of juat.washing hand, was your whole body. Some people are nasty! No wonder there's a Damn virus going around.

[@ormapa1206]

A very interesting question I didn't think about this question.

[@christopherjace2157]

This is the best titanic content I could ask for

[@RezaChity-G]

*You stink* *Your dog stinks*

[@DerpyPossum]

@@RezaChity-G thanks, industrial revolution!

[@doniotte681]

Yeah same here

[@sharpisharp]

after all these years of loving the titanic, I actually never thought about toilets on titanic. till today.

[@historyarmyproductions]

This is strangely interesting

[@trydar]

amazing, over a 100 years later and all 285 toilets still hold water! 🤭

[@STARDRIVE]

The passengers even bothered to flush, despite the calamity. No turds in sight. Or maybe they actually held on to ANYTHING that floats..

[@petet5490]

🙄

[@livingglutenfree4815]

@@petet5490 😄😄

[@chriswakefield9538]

Cringe

[@RickysRabbits]

Spoiler warning lmao

[@kck9742]

Victorians DID bathe... they were the ones who brought back baths (which had become less frequent after the Black Death of the 14th century). Most people generally had a full bath on Saturday nights in a tin tub; Families probably usually all bathed in the same water. Hair was washed but not very often (about once a month, with Borax or some egg and alcohol concoction). Underclothes were washed regularly, but you're right about outer clothes, they were often just brushed). The wealthy who had plumbed in bathtubs bathed daily. Bathing once a week was normal for most until the end of WWII, when the soldiers brought home better hygiene habits -- bathing and brushing teeth every day became the norm.

[@claasfanboy1314]

@@mgenigma5 idk didnt still have good hygiene

[@claasfanboy1314]

@@mgenigma5 i would say only 2nd and first had good hygiene

[@claasfanboy1314]

@@mgenigma5 I say there would be a whole corridor full of third class going for the two baths lol

[@cliff9685]

43,000 views for toilets on Titanic! Yes, this is where I belong! I have found my people!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

"... and wash your DAMN hands!" That is so appropriate even more so today! Great job on this video, well done!

[@kjfish2706]

Thank you for this! I work as a docent at a titanic exhibit and I get a lot of questions about the plumbing, toilets, bathtubs and such. This really helps me out as I was having troubles finding reliable sources on the matter. :)

[@Oberkommando]

Professor 🙋🏻‍♂️ I have a question? Where did the clean water for sinks and toilets come from?

[@TitanicUniversity]

She had a fresh water supply, but the water for the toilets came from the sea.

[@tonystark4434]

how is this comment from 103 years ago

[@Oberkommando]

@@tonystark4434 well, i wrote it while i was on Titanic

[@tonystark4434]

Andi Goldberger • 103 years ago oh ok

[@tonystark4434]

Andi Goldberger • 103 years ago that makes sence

[@titanicman9329]

When I saw this thumbnail, my kind drifted back to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation where Eddie was dumping the waste in the storm drain and said "Shitter was full."

[@Napp28]

What I find so fascinating about the washrooms on board the Titanic is how oddly public they were. At a time when privacy was so valued (both in the sense of social privacy and bodily prudishness) the passengers on the Titanic must've been quiet public when they used these facilities. It is hard to imagine Edwardian first class passengers wearing a bathrobe while walking down the cabin hallways in search of the nearest lavatory. On the RMS Queen Mary, privacy was so important that no first class cabin doors opened directly to the hallways but, rather there were small side halls that had the doors on either side (so that if walking down a main corridor you couldn't see into someones cabin). How different things changed from 1912-36. When that Australian chap was attempting to make a replica of the Titanic, I thought to myself that his venture was doomed to fail if he didn't alter the cabin and bathroom arrangements.

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

The award for the most random Titanic fact possibly imaginable goes to-

[@captainAlex258]

I love that last part "and wash your damn hands!" on point

[@lenardclowry2242]

I must admit, the figure of 145 bathtubs is considerably higher than I had assumed. Well done video!

[@aKitti234]

Now this, THIS is EXACTLY the kind of content I signed up for

[@rothgamez]

I'm so on board with this channel. Can't get enough.

[@katiemichelle]

This channel is amazing. Thank you so much for this kind of content, Matt. You're doing a wonderful job with it already.

[@cbechstein9347]

Wonderful so many photos i have not seen , thank you so much. As an old retired plumber ,wonderful to see so much lead plumbing expertly installed , thank you .

[@TheCAFProduction]

Dang! Sound like Titanic had the largest waste in the world! Well... largest that is aside from the old Great Eastern. 😆

[@rickygarrett6508]

Poor floating billboard

[@patrickgomes2213]

I know this is only the second video (after the introduction video, of course) but I'm really enjoying them so far. Thank you!

[@ormapa1206]

Great channel waiting for more videos.

[@michaelhinz8428]

Interesting video! Would you tell us everything you know about the first class corridors? I always thought they were over 120 cm wide, because I found some auction details of double doors from the Olympic which were each 58 cm wide. But your fantastic game shows the corridors much smaller... Thank you for your great work. Greetings from germany. 😊

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

What a properly timed video

[@GrumpyMeow-Meow]

Now I can sleep tonight....lol! Thank you, very interesting!

[@blakegriplingph]

Imagine having a serious case of Montezuma's revenge on board the Titanic. She would've gone down in history for a wholly different reason. :P

[@vincentr.6109]

I seldom actually LOL at a comment, but LOL!.

[@HappyRoach1]

@Mr. Chuco , they should have, would have been better then what I saw on Titanic's menus.

[@thomasackerman5399]

"A hole in the ground" LUXURY!

[@kimmer6]

3:49 So cool....the bathtub came with a laptop. I wonder if it had Windows........or portholes.

[@danijelujcic8644]

The all new Portholes 12 OS. Bundled with the latest release of Steampunk 1977.

[@Alex-nf1jy]

lol am i that bored in quarantine now that im watching a video about bathrooms on the titanic LMAO ? YES IVE GONE CRAZY LMAO

[@dorkylaur5458]

Never thought I needed to know this, but I did. Thank you!

[@Keikimainecoon]

Not a question I ever asked but fascinating nevertheless

[@kevinroy1277]

Loving this makes my day seeing your videos

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

Very interesting video! And thanks for showing us what the lavatories on Titanic looked like...can't recall ever seeing pics of Olympic's before. Sad she couldn't be refitted to survive longer; if only Britannic's life had taken a different path! And the bit about the stewards on Olympic made me cringe, but it's understandable for the time. Can't wait for the next video!

[@rainbowpony8216]

Props for making the spread sheet📄📑👏👏👏 "Wash ur Damn hands"😂🚽🛀🚿🚢

[@LordAmerican]

"Now speaking of ships; they were not a happy place to be back then, full of sickness and disease..." So I see not much has changed since then except that they started making ships fugly for whatever reason.

[@WintersWar]

and the required casino.

[@DerpyPossum]

and had a crap-ton of balconies because reasons.

[@thetitanjon]

Really great editing! Super interesting vid!

[@Titanic19127]

Wow much better than I thought

[@humbertothebeliever2443]

The building I live in is over 100 years old. My apartment still has the original bathtub. Looks exactly like the ones in the Titanic!!

[@johnready630]

Passengers must please refrain from using toilets while the train is standing in the station, But on a ship it doesn't matter cause it makes the fishies fatter , Moonlight always makes me think of you . :D

[@lewisdoherty7621]

Many people notice in the drawings of old wooden ships the the netting hung on the front and don't even think why is it there? One major item left out in the evolution of maritime toilets in this video is indicated by the term which is even used today in the navy, "Going to the Head" for using the restroom. One would go to the front/head of the ship and sit down on the netting and go into the ocean. The best way to keep a ship sanitary is to have an outhouse actually outside of the ship itself. Because the netting was rained upon and was in the sun and spray, the toilet was largely self-cleaning. It could be lowered into the water if need be.

[@christidavinci4329]

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Keep 'em coming! I love seeing more images of the in-game model too!

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

Regarding the lack of private bathrooms being one of the reasons Olympic was retired, according to Mark Chirnside in the book *Olympic, Titanic, Britannic*, that's a myth, as by the 1930's, loads of first class cabins aboard the ship had their own private bathrooms installed (particularly the cabins forward of A deck and B deck). Even though not every first class cabin was given a private bath, by the late 20's/30's, so few people were sailing that people traveling in first class didn't have much issue getting a cabin with a private bath. If you look on plans of Olympic's first class accommodations from 1934, you can see the cabins that were given private baths. EDIT: That being said, of course, the video is still extremely well researched/put together, keep up the great work!

[@Dallas_K]

The simple fact is that by the 1930s the Olympic was horribly outdated--a relic of the Victorian/Edwardian age. Had she been built ten years earlier or ten years later it likely would have been a longer service life. Her time, unfortunately for her, saw major developments in technology and social standards coming on at a rapid pace.

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

@@Dallas_K Not the case. She was still one of the largest ships even by 1935, and her refits kept her up to snuff. In 1933, a member of a band that was invited aboard the ship described the staircase as one of the most breathtaking sites he'd ever seen. She was a very well regarded ship even by the end. When her (and Mauretania's) retirement was announced, people asked that she (and Mauretania) be preserved. The fact is, it was the depression and US immigration quotas that sealed her (and many other ships') fates.

[@brycetomecek5065]

The *Titanic* video I never knew I wanted.

[@caribbeancarchannel2]

Thank you so much for publishing this essential part of life. before watching this I knew there was missing something essential n my life

[@stevewilson111]

Good report, stunning indeed.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

4:56 ahh what a beautiful da- *squelch*

[@davidimhoff2118]

That's right wash yer damn hands. I have no idea why I watched this particular video. I love Titanic stuff so this is right up my alley. Spreadsheet was impressive lol. Nice photo ;) @Titanic University

[@fourlittlebirds6166]

“You stink, your dog stinks, I stink, everything stinks! 😂😂😂

[@DerpyPossum]

Thanks, Industrial Revolution…

[@thebunkerparodie6368]

Also really liking this channel too

[@steveferguson8275]

Thanks for the info. Hudge Titanic fan since I was in kindergarten.

[@ivechanged8069]

"It was a miracle that I survived, the water felt like 1,000 knifes stabbing me." "So, um, how many toilets were on there?"

[@Dallas_K]

Don't type "um".

[@Drumdudeexplosives]

“Oops, somebody left the water running...”

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

Love that line from the movie 😂

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

this man is askin' the real questions

[@twilatharp3386]

Other people will remember this too - public toilets in England where you went to spend a penny. The spend a penny was money given to a lady with a very large cloth who wiped the toilet seat before you used the toilet. I assume she refreshed the cloth via disinfectant. Those public toilets were much cleaner than they are today. But using the same rag/cloth on each toilet seat does not seem like a great idea regardless of disinfectant, which might have been Dettol, still around today. But that was before the days of products like Kleenex.

[@blembree1]

I love this new channel!

[@AlexxO9]

Amazing video :D great job and too much information about Olympic Class 👏🏽

[@timhutchinson3264]

I just came across your channel via this video and thoroughly enjoyed it! Very informative and well-presented. Thank you!

[@puterboy2]

I want to see how many telephones were on board. Or some info on the Master At Arms.

[@InterLinked1]

I would also be greatly interested in this. In the 1997 movie, there is a ringdown phone from the crow's nest to the bridge, but that's also I noticed. As a telephone enthusiast, I'd be interested in official numbers. What kinds of telephones, what kinds of telephone switching equipment? Were there operators? Was it automatic dial? Ringdown? etc. Also, a feature on the bridge's engine order telegraph would be great.

[@titanictinker2832]

InterLinked Good questions. I’m waiting for the answers👍

[@ssoozee]

Oh, my gosh, you are crazy-awesome! And all that work to add up and categorize bathroom accommodations. I’m a happy new subscriber!

[@brianbommarito3376]

I either heard or read somewhere that Captain Smith’s bathtub is no more because the floor under it finally collapsed because of the steel-eating bugs. Is this true?

[@TitanicUniversity]

It seems the roof has fallen on it more than anything else, but it is still there. Better footage and exploration might be required to find out.

[@brianbommarito3376]

Titanic University, that’s right, thank you Titanic University crew, I remember now. It was the Roof of the officer’s quarters that collapsed, the general area where Colonel Gracie said in his account he was washed to by a wave when the bow plunged and the bridge rapidly submerged. This was also the general spot where the last collapsible lifeboats “A” and “B” were stored and washed off.

[@TheDuglas63]

Thanks Mathew that was awesome and dam boy if that was you in pic your cute too lol, thanks again.

[@LDDavis911]

Thank you TU. Your fascinating content has kept me engaged during the pandemic thus reducing the likelihood of my wife of 43 years stabbing me in the forehead.

[@connorpusey5912]

It’s a largely embellished myth that Victorians stunk. Yes, London was pretty dirty, but so was New York in the 70s and 80s and many today as well. And you really shouldn’t bathe every day, even if you do sweat a little in the day. Usually every 3 days if you’re not a dirty person. And nobody should wash their clothing after one use or a couple. Most clothing is perfectly fine after multiple usages, jeans and some pants especially. But clothing was washed relatively often back then. Hence washboards and wash tubs. But the thing is, people today over wash things because the widespread availability of plumbing has made them falsely believe they need to wash everything and anything every single day in order to remain sanitary.

[@richardsmith2879]

People who could wore clean linen every day, and it was this that was washed frequently. You are correct that outer garments don’t need washing all the time, or at all if they are used infrequently. And bodies that aren’t doing sweaty work don’t need daily washing either, as long as the linen is clean. I take my personal hygiene from Queen Elizabeth the first, who had a bath every month, ‘whether she needed it or no’. In fact I never have a bath, as I like a shower now and again.

[@shantolion1576]

i cannot live without a good shower everday and in summer even up to 3 showers. its a nice fresh feeling

[@connorpusey5912]

Shanto Lion I don’t think 3 showers a day is good for you. And the “fresh feeling” is only psychological. Unless of course you are dirty or have been sweaty.

[@connorpusey5912]

@Iron chef not usually. I work like a partially blue collar job. So I shower either every day in the warm months or every 2 days in winter, depending on how cold it is.

[@soniyaislam6628]

Titanic university: WASH YOUR HANDS Me: OK OK *while dying in laughter in **6:10** of the video*

[@DutchDeLorean]

I love the way you present in this, keep it up!

[@danielito750]

You're doing a great job!

[@freddied4848]

Love this channel FIRST!!! ❤️❤️

[@rad2886]

Loving these videos and the channel. Thank you!

[@sallykohorst8803]

Thank you!!

[@Quasihamster]

Washing hands at this stage is pretty much like the bilge pumps on the Titanic: It can buy us time. But days, only. But you'll have beautiful hands, you know?

[@seymoorepoone9512]

That's actually a lot of luxury for that era. Even for Third Class. I bet Cunard's Lusitania and Mauritania couldn't compete.

[@DerpyPossum]

oh, they definitely could.

[@danielito750]

oops! Somebody left the water running...

[@SQUAREHEADSAM1912]

Danielito ...

[@danielito750]

@@SQUAREHEADSAM1912 he said it! Read the description u.u

[@wolfwolff6238]

Informative video , and at the same time very funny . Congratulations !

[@bibliotecadoeric9546]

Suggestions for the next one: From were came Titanic's First Class Suites decoration styles?

[@Quasihamster]

Harland & Wolff.

[@bibliotecadoeric9546]

@@Quasihamster No, I mean what's the origins of these styles

[@Quasihamster]

@@bibliotecadoeric9546 Various. British and American grand hotels of the time, French palaces, Greek mythology...

[@bibliotecadoeric9546]

@@Quasihamster but that it's a great theme for a video

[@AJBeals1212]

That was very interesting Matt. Thanks for sharing!

[@YgorCortes]

This was freaking PERFECT! The ending was spot on! Haha 👏

[@PierceLoftin]

really cool matthew. cant wait to see this project finished! ;)

[@maerzen77wellcome]

I'd like to see you do the same kind of investigations for Brunel's extraordinary "Great Eastern". There's not much information to find about her facilities for daily life...

[@g_8623]

Where and how did they get all the fresh water needed for drinking, cooking, bathing, ect? How much was needed for the voyage for everyone on board?

[@DerpyPossum]

they reloaded the fresh water in port, i’d assume.

[@PorkChopJones]

I'm thinking about those wooden toilet seats they used although they to appear to be very decorative, sitting on wooden seats would surely leave a ring around ones backside! Which means that the food back in those days must have been very high in fiber. So when you had to take a crap, you were done inside of 3 minutes! Less you behind would become a permanent fixture!!! You cut a few logs 4:24 allow to air dry for a few seconds,then in no time your up and Adam and back on the top deck playing horse shoes and gin rummy smoking Camel cigarettes. Albeit with a slight itch, where the sun don't shine, you smile and announce Gin!

[@UtahTabby]

*"up and at them" (from get up and get at doing your chores)... not up and Adam.

[@plum_bit]

Who spends more than 3 minutes shitting? Your diet must be terrible

[@DATAK2084]

Great video!!! Can’t wait for the next one

[@conniethomas4753]

Love the sign off soo much & thanks :-)

[@nolan4259]

No one: My KZbin recommendations: How many toilets were on the titanic

[@onemoremisfit]

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[@ShawnieP512]

I just noticed something... at 3:21 The vid shows a double wash stand next to a wall. The stand is level and the wall is slanted. Looks like that's where the sheer of the ship is. Interesting. You don't see that much.

[@F-Man]

Where was the fresh water stored? I know that there were several fresh water tanks on the orlop deck/tank top, but was all that water actually pumped up all the way through the ship? Obviously, for ballast and weight distribution, it makes sense to store water as low as possible, but it surely couldn’t have been the most efficient way to distribute fresh water through the whole ship. Can you explain?

[@sydnei5567]

Can I kindly ask for you to slow down a bit in the next videos. It was really difficult to keep up with your pace of talking . Very interesting video I have to say. Cheers

[@wi.llclay]

Impressed again! Can’t wait for more 😊

[@TruckingShooter]

Didn't realize this was a question I needed to know the answer to, until I saw this... interesting.

[@pauljd86]

Awesome video!

[@grayace4556]

Okay. The fact that people never washed their bodies and hair or washed their clothes is false. Absolutely false. It just didn't happen *daily*. I know his a lighthearted look at the information, but come on! :-)

[@sean.furlong1989]

I always thought a weekly full bath was the norm (on Saturdays) with basic wash downs the rest of the week.

[@DerpyPossum]

did you even watch the video?

[@sendastunt]

Talking about toilets, anyone know how James Cameron and his team do during their dives ?

[@toothless7849]

Bottles. Large bottles with angled necks.

[@Just_Charly]

@Leroy Allen Diapers

[@chrisd3969]

@Leroy Allen in hats.

[@Titan52berg]

Good point! Since his quintessential version of Titanic's sinking idea went right down the crapper!

[@TheFarmerfitz]

I think now days they have black water holding tanks... lol

[@deanhouldey6101]

Thanks Matt. So although the communal lavatories and bathrooms were more of the thing back then, they used more or less the same things we do now. Well, a part from a few third class passengers. It seems to me the Titanic is often described as a floating hotel, but was more like a floating stately home in first class. With the lounge, smoke room, ur servant(s) not too far away, and u had to share bathrooms and lavatories. The only down side is those wash basins and folding lavatories in people's cabins, I'd have used all of the water in a second and third class cabin in like 2 mins, and if they emptied into a tank it's not like u could get a jug of water from somewhere else and use that in there, cus then the waste water will no doubt overflow! I am curious to know if the lever for the toilets was a mechanism like a modern flush on a toilet where u just had to turn it, or like a tap where u had to turn it to flush and then turn it back the other way after ur business had flushed away to turn the water off?

[@Richardsonprincess00]

How about staterooms (suites) in Titanic, of how many of them on decks?

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I'm sure that White Star/Cunard could've refitted the Olympic with plenty of baths but given the ship's age and that they were in the Great Depression decided it wasn't cost effective.

[@DerpyPossum]

the space was extremely limited, and getting the plumbing under control would’ve been a nightmare!

[@ohlawdy6855]

I'm honestly surprised they never upgraded Olympic's bathrooms. I suppose by that time, installing all the extra plumbing would've been too much trouble for a ship already almost 25 years old. Makes you think that if it were Britannic in that position, how much longer would it have lasted since it had more modern facilities. Maybe could've pulled an Aquitania and survived to partake in WWII

[@karachokater402]

What I'm asking myself: As far as I've studied the deck plans of Titanic, it seems that there are no specific restrooms in context of public spaces like the dining salon or other facilities; places that we today would expect to provide their own easy-to-reach toilets for present passenges. What would a passenger do if he or she needed to go to a toilet? Would he or she need to have an onerous walk through the ship to the toilet in/near their own cabin? Or did I just miss public restrooms on the deck plan?

[@stevewilson111]

Chamberpot.

[@Daz912]

What’s your definition of onerous? The whole ship is only 270m front to back

[@Dallas_K]

@@Daz912 When Nature is calling that distance could seem like ten miles.