The Britannic Houses

We all know that large portions of the interior of the RMS Olympic still survive in places like the White Swan in Alnwick, England, but did you know that many of the fittings built for the Britannic also survive, mostly across Ireland? We had the privilege of visiting and surveying these places in April, 2018, and want to share with you how these artifacts are helping us keep our Titanic recreations authentic.

[@samueldoering7692]

When you've finished Titanic Honor and Glory, I think you should write a book that compiles your journey during the game construction and all of historical research you've come across. Have you ever considered this?

[@KiTbG]

I would definitely buy it. ^^

[@samueldoering7692]

KiTbG Same here!

[@samueldoering7692]

Extractor - It hasn't started - it was merely a random suggestion

[@samueldoering7692]

Extractor - The game has started

[@samueldoering7692]

Extractor - Possibly next year or 2020

[@cliff9685]

I had no idea Britannic’s interiors exist today! Wow!

[@cliff9685]

Seeing these panels and woodwork is mind blowing. This intricate carving and woodwork just does not exist on ships today. Even the Queen Mary dies not have detail and woodwork like this! Would be amazing to be on a liner from this time period today. No one alive today has experienced that kind of luxury at sea.

[@albertpintor3522]

I think titanic's first class cabins look far better than the ones on the oasis class ships even though I love those ships too

[@sir.phillip2697]

You could probably still buy them off people for really cheap from people who dont know how to price them

[@YyTA711]

Olympic's first class Lounge still is around.

[@TheTransatlanticExchange]

We cannot thank you enough for the extreme thoroughness you have put into the whole Titanic: Honor and Glory project and all the accompanying research segments with it, including this one. As the Titanic, her sister ships and the White Star Line have all but disappeared from living memory and with other historians and experts marching on with time, this new and emerging team of experts bring all this breathtaking work to others across the Millennial and future generations. The baton is being passed to you and, based on your continuing extraordinary work, with complete, total and deserved trust.

[@cliff9685]

Bruce B Chin I grew up with Ken Marschall, and Don Lynch etc. as THE Titanic experts. It is wonderful to see the Titanic’s as well as the Olympic class legacy continue through the generations. I really feel this is an important moment in Titanic history. It is beyond words to see that the Titanic will be preserved virtually like this and that the THG team seem to be the new forefront of Titanic history.

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

Can houses go back to looking like this? I don't like living in white boxes

[@anonymous-he4sg]

Yeah same haha

[@maryrafuse2297]

Interesting that you say this. Their are so many beautiful Anglican Churches in Atlantic Canada, built by ships carpenters, with stunning wood work. All are threatened because of disappearing church attendance. Some will become private homes but others will simply be destroyed by the weather when they are abandoned and the heat is turned off.

[@aaronbonatz9485]

Lets also build ships like this too with this beautiful interior.

[@philipthomey7884]

@@maryrafuse2297 Catholic churches too. Indeed.

[@CupidFromKentucky]

Houses today have no soul or character. Everyone wants everything to be white.

[@TheJd195555]

Great to see ocean liner history being preserved. Thank you for sharing.

[@harvestercommander3250]

I always wanted to see what the interior of the Britannic actually looked like. Thanks for posting this video. The style isn’t much different compared to the Titanic which makes sense because they’re sisters.

[@Stiff_Kitten]

Absolutely amazing to see what was anticipated for the Britannic. These homes are basically small museums, fantastic work.

[@Blue-Star-Line]

Very interesting to see the interiors that were barely ever seen before.

[@EpicLuigi24]

Great interesting video! One suggestion I have is cutting back on the jump-cuts. They become very distracting when too close together

[@CronosDarth]

I think there's also something of Britannic's paneling inside the Crown Liquor Saloon at Belfast.

[@everything9137]

Hallo cronos :)

[@CronosDarth]

hallo

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

CronosDarth your ships are amazing.

[@hoe1601]

It must be weird to have two Titanic fetishs in your house

[@CronosDarth]

thank you very much

[@40ounce58]

Very awesome video! The paneling and the hand carved fixtures are beautiful. The Britanic has always been overlooked Olympic class liner because of the Titanic. Imagine if the Olympic was never scrapped.

[@50Street21]

This video is brilliant and the people involved in the investigation are thorough and extremely knowledgeable as to where the different parts of the paneling were located on the ship and how they were reassembled. I was honoured to have been able to see how the wood was reincorporated into other homes. Thanks for posting this video. Darryl

[@ByteGuy]

Gorgeous woodwork I just don't know how 3 huge liners where completed in that time with all that hand carved wooden pannels

[@raymondhutchinson7156]

A lot of people worked on these ships (14,000 +). Working hours were also longer back then since there were no laws that could limit a persons workday to 8 hrs. back then. They also had more traditional craftsman back then vs today where the trade has almost entirely died out. The ships were also built over a couple of years. Titanic's construction as an example began in 1909 , launched in 1911, then fitted out by 1912.

[@SkyKing58318]

Sir, you're living my dream to find and experience all of this neat stuff! How did you trace all of this (without revealing the addresses..

[@timbaker1428]

Loved this! I'm so glad to see someone, like Matt, who's so detail-oriented...modeling the interiors. You're lucky to have him on the team.

[@thwb4661]

I am certain that Rose and Jack's wood plank in the movie came from the 1st Class Lounge.

[@cebzcity]

theres probably gonna be that one person who yells how britannic was hit by a torpedo.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

No is was a mine not a torpedo

[@cebzcity]

you didnt understand my statement lol

[@brianbommarito3376]

Many of the Britannic survivors believed they were torpedoed, it was anticipated and everything happened so quickly. It was only after Britannic’s wreck was discovered and explored by Jacques Cousteau (and much later, by Robert Ballard) that it was determined based on the evidence of the wreck and reexamining survivor testimony, that HMHS Britannic ‘almost certainly struck a mine.’

[@cebzcity]

wow thanks for the explanation, that's really good.

[@matthewgriffin7857]

Cebzcity ROBLOX no no no, Brittanic was sunk by space aliens! Or a mine... Hahaha

[@andrewbrendan1579]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL THIS! Your knowledge of the Olympic-Class liners is amazing and I say that as someone who has been an ocean liner enthusiast for over 40 years. I think it was in John Maxtone-Graham's "The Only Way to Cross" that there was a mention of Britannic interiors being sold but I've never heard of anything more specific. I deeply appreciate being able to see so much beauty and craftsmanship and how you've documented and preserved it in video form. The interiors of the Britannic would have been elaborate but not gaudy.----Also I have a question for you: Do you think it's true that the Britannic was to have been called Gigantic or that Britannic was always the intended name?

[@markportwood4045]

Matt’s knowledge is incredible.

[@tjfSIM]

You guys are doing a fantastic job with your research. So many people have tried to recreate Titanic in the past, but I can't imagine many have matched your enthusiasm, thoroughness and eye for detail. Your project really deserves to be a success because all your hard work will is bringing so much accurate information and detail to everyone. Keep up the great work.

[@mattkaustickomments]

This so cool! And refreshing to see young people so enthusiastic on the subject of Golden Age ocean liners.

[@Brock_Landers]

I can't even begin to thank you all for filming and posting the videos of the beautiful interiors of these amazing work of art ships. I have been researching the Olympic Class ships for the last 30 years and never got down to the level that you all have, so I never even knew these houses existed. Just amazing.

[@notaugustus2076]

To bad the Britannic would not be build as originally intended. The lifeboats... I mean I get it, but it is a luxury liner... Not an U-boat construction site...

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

NotJustinY. Those extra lifeboats were for the safety of the passengers. Without them far more than 30 would have died when Britannic sank. They were gantry davits, designed to hold massive amounts of lifeboats.

[@andrewjames3908]

they were ugly though, olympic managed perfectly well her whole life with the welwyn quadrant type as used on T

[@notaugustus2076]

Paddeling the iron with white wood without the grid would have done it... Just the horrible texture...

[@Assasin2]

Andrew James Nobody gives a shit if lifeboats are “ugly”, they exist to save lives. I’m sure you’d love to be onboard a sinking ship, only to be told you’re probably going to die because there aren’t enough lifeboats for everyone left

[@edienandy]

Assasin2 even if Titanic had had enough life boats for everybody aboard the crew would not have been able to launch all of them in time. They had to float the last two off of the deck ffs.

[@nazirhunter4065]

It's gorgeous and beautiful

[@lightdreamer_]

okay, that was simply amazing

[@firstname2835]

I have one question..... Is Thomas andrews's book of plans..can still be seen?

[@AtheistOrphan]

First Name - Yes and no: The ‘book’ you refer to was a film prop and never existed in real life. I suppose it still exists in some Hollywood storeroom. The REAL Titanic plans were on large-scale blueprints and are still kept at the Harland & Wolf offices. They are occasionally shown in U.K TV documentaries.

[@brycetomecek5065]

Incredible that you can figure this out almost a century after the fact.

[@ImperatorGI]

Titanic: Honor And Glory: DLC "Britannic' coming soon...

[@AhmetOzanalp]

well it is....

[@thelegendaryjermo]

Not a dlc

[@DerpyPossum]

welp! got some news for you! :)

[@wolfeSti]

love the demo. looks amazing, I cant wait for the hole game

[@cslkenny]

The Britannic House in Belfast is great, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of years ago. Wonderful hear more detail about the various panels.

[@DarqeDestroyer]

Man, you came to Ireland one month too early. It looks freezing when you're walking outside at 8:49. Right now it couldn't be more different from that, Ireland is under a heatwave with 30 C / 86 F basically every day for the past week.

[@fergoossens6495]

wait so somewhere in the world is stil a grand staircase. that is amazing

[@Omega4Productions]

I do love me some historical "the-more-you-knows".

[@JeffAM1986]

Love your work, and as a fellow naval architecture and white star line history geek your works are priceless. As a young gay man however I must say, the Honor and Glory Interior Modeler Chris Daley is one handsome man, like damn. Cheers

[@Ravenbolt]

Both of the guys in the video are so super cute! especially the short haired one!

[@joemancini327]

Titanic Honor and Glory your Lego Lusitania video was found

[@TheGeezzer]

Nice to have been the 3464th person to have digitally seen this since 1916 or whenever.

[@timmis15]

I really do like and appreciate how you guys are so into update and project videos and have a real conversation with the community. Please keep it up

[@caseywagner8656]

That blew my mind. just think if that wood was installed in the Britannic it could have been lost to history when she sank

[@bdtthbnchrtnfevr8442]

As usual, great video, full of history.

[@cynthiaklenk6313]

Oh my! Thank you once again - your dedication is beyond words.......

[@serpentine1084]

Yes! I remember reading about this years ago

[@YgorCortes]

Incredible! I hope the Titanic community gets to see more parts of Britannic soon!

[@LexLucario7922]

I can't believe that some of these panels were removed from these houses and auctioned off, if I see any panels cut up like the panels from Olympic when they were removed from Haltwhistle, making them into smaller sections so more people an get peices is fine but making panels into tiny little keychains and one person even going as far as to MAKE GUITARS OUT OF THE PANELING! I will not be happy if the same mistreatment of Olympic's panels happens to Britannic's panels

[@patrickryan6065]

I wish we knew more about the craftsmen that did all these carvings in the Harland & Wolff workshops. Unfortunately we will probably know nothing of them.

[@briandd27]

Wow! It's so cool that those pieces survived. You guys are so knowledgeable about the Titanic and her sister ships. Keep up the good work!

[@mylesgarcia4625]

I want those houses . . . yesterday!! Did you hear the story about the interior decorator who tore off a few panels of the Titanic; and then floated on them until he was picked up by the Carpathia; took the panels onboard - and got off with them in New York (or was it Halifax)?

[@robrtarnold]

Matt seems to be enjoying every minute of it! ❤ I would too! 😆

[@kermitthemutantlevitatingf7836]

I've never been so interested in pieces of wood

[@skeeterstix]

THIS IS AMAZING!

[@sir.phillip2697]

This is unrealated but will you guys make titanic and brittanic 3d printed sinking models that sink split and the funnels pop off

[@denisdesvergnes7032]

J'aimerais beaucoup pouvoir admirer de mes propres yeux, les magnifiques boiseries d'un des paquebots de la classe olympique ! Merci, pour cette vidéo 🇫🇷🙏🤗😘

[@christianpatriot7439]

Did HW use the styles/furnishings that were on White Star's Olympic class ships ever used on any other class of ships or on anything built for another company? If so, could any of the components get mixed up?

[@JOEM747]

Great video just gotta eliminate the jump cuts when people are talking.

[@aliabudayya4957]

The Britanic was a cool ship but how did she look before she was a Hospital?

[@Napp28]

I've been interested in the RMS Titanic since I was in Grade 3! I am most anticipating the 2nd class sections of the ship in Honour & Glory because I find these sections are least documents. In all my research I think I have only seen 3 pictures of the second class dining saloon.

[@Legitcar117]

I literally found pictures of this stuff a few days ago, and then you guys make this video, good timing👍

[@brentholt1458]

Many fittings were left aboard liners during war. There are photos of Aquitania serving as a hospital ship with her public rooms intact.

[@JamesBond-lj6ms]

I wish another update video would come out

[@mykekagan5289]

Wow!!!! This is truly incredible! Thank you so much for all of the hard work y'all are doing!

[@RaccoonKCD]

10:48 ...does this man have a Hitler stache?

[@robbicu]

Absolutely stunning! Thanks guys for the tour!

[@neilbain8736]

This is so exciting. A truly amazing video. There must have been a lot of detective work going on too. The wood is in far better condition, being in private hands than much in The White Swan, Alnwick, which is of course, a public building using woodwork that had already seen public service for about 24 years and has been in a public setting all its life. The attention to style given by the team is also great, as without mentioning these nuances would be totally lost on us. That's the sort of detail that I like.

[@philipthomey7884]

Cool to see your partners, Chris & Matt, the Interior modelers.

[@thelegendaryjermo]

I wonder if there is titanic houses

[@tunneltrance]

that one guy had a badass bar in his house, how crazy is that.

[@countalucard4226]

Made a $15 donation and feel honored to have helped to see this project finished, even if it is a drop in the Atlantic Ocean were Titanic sleeps.

[@Jackuves]

What about Olympics grand staircase that's in a hotel now

[@DerpyPossum]

the railing is, but not the staircase itself.

[@danielito750]

Hey, the guy with Matt.. what's his name?

[@matthewdewinkeleer3384]

Chris Daley- modeler and Titanic researcher for the project.

[@danielito750]

OMG!

[@QWERTY-ri5yw]

whats that accent.. where is he from?? its bugging the hell out of me!!

[@Mabidemonstrations]

So lucky! I wish I could have that privilege!

[@everything9137]

A lot of editing in matts voice

[@angieroxy7550]

This is so Surreal ~!

[@TheGreatBigMove]

I never fully understood why the furnishings needed to be removed from liners before they were requisitioned. Thank you!

[@MasterGamer-lp2fj]

This might sound stupid but you should make a game about britannic

[@sir.phillip2697]

Also will honer and glory include the brittanic,olympic and normadic it already looks like a buet

[@RichieGregory]

Fascinating! Thank you so much for posting. I just wish we knew what happened to the cherubs- did they ever exist, or were they never casted? Same with the Olympic, one can only presume they were exclusively sold off privately, or were scrapped.

[@smiley_facered9114]

What happened to R.M.S Olympics smoking room or R.M.S Britanics smoking room??? There’s so many things from these ships that are sort of missing what happend to them surely people diddent just thro them away?

[@cptoscar]

Thank u for this

[@Ravage001]

Thank you for sharing this, lads.

[@jamestulk5111]

I couldn't help noticing the scarf. GO BOMBERS.

[@conorsarsfield7158]

There also used to be a cinema in dublin city that had britanics furnishings, unfortunatly it was demolished 1972

[@zombiemom6701]

They didn’t salvage the Britannic out of it first?? I’ll never understand that!

[@conorsarsfield7158]

@@zombiemom6701 I’m not sure if they salvaged it, there’s also a pub here with Mauretania’s panelling

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Tom mentioned a theatre was torn down and the wood was installed in the second house they visited

[@graemestewart7752]

Until the 90s there was a bar restaurant in Belfast above the Crown bar called the Britannic with original Britannic wood panelling. It probably went to auction after the Titanic movie came out.

[@cosmincraciun2]

We love you and we will always support you! Keep it up!!!

[@alessandrom2206]

I think that houses need to be converted on BRITANNIC’s sanctuary

[@resetplayz53]

Where's the grand staircase? You said it was auctioned off!

[@Lewis-rq3of]

Beautiful I love britannics interior and britannic before the hospital ship

[@therandomizer9943]

Even after all the research, this guy still can't get the name right. Its the RMS britannic. Like seriously, c'mon. The irony of it just baffles me.

[@bobbybobby7943]

No, you are wrong. IT IS THE HMHS Britannic, because she never got in contract with the royal mail. She ONLY was an hospital ship. Is this enough for you?

[@therandomizer9943]

@@bobbybobby7943 I know that, but it bothers me that the Olympic class doesn't get the full respect

[@bobbybobby7943]

@@therandomizer9943 they call her as she was called, her real name. As she never was a RMS, there id no reason to call her rms. They could at most say "SS", but never RMS.

[@therandomizer9943]

@@bobbybobby7943 well the britannic is part of the Olympic class and the reason why she's a Royal Mail Streamer ship as well as the titanic and the Olympic but the britannic never became a passenger liner cuz she was needed for immediate service as a hospital ship.

[@bobbybobby7943]

@@therandomizer9943 thats not how that works. The "Royal Mail" is a contract that a ship can have, or not. Its not "ah yeah, its a british ship so its royal mail". It is only if they have a contract. Which she didnt have.

[@Titanic19127]

I thought this stuff was removed after they transformed it into a hospital ship?!

[@AZITHEMLGPRO]

I misread the title as "the birdemic houses "

[@sifridbassoon]

oh wow! So interesting. Please thank the house owners for giving up their privacy!

[@isaachoward8766]

Why could thay have not just rebuilt the brtannic or rebuilt it but with a different name

[@Tiffany.1970]

Brittanic never carried a paying passenger at all

[@trippyzircon7271]

Very interesting! I hope to visit there, in the future.

[@Terkzorr]

So many cuts whenever Matt speaks. :)

[@RiDER-RHYTHM]

Terkzorr What do you mean cuts when Matt speaks?

[@Terkzorr]

Those video cuts. He must be really nervous whenever he speak in front of the camera and I can totally relate. :D

[@pineapple7056]

Yeah he seems like a shy person but I can relate to I'm not a people person.

[@RiDER-RHYTHM]

Terkzorr I think he was just very passionate, had a lot of knowledge and they had to cut it down

[@danielito750]

Matt is my husbando..leave him alone

[@Ashokkumar31082]

If I was the owner I wouldn’t take of the interior bec at the time it would take time and military don’t like to waste time and it would be easier and today we can see it (the actual rooms were not took in of they fancy fittings were)

[@SoggyCroissants]

Poor britannic and titanic

[@brianbommarito3376]

The course of History itself was changed when these two ships met with such tragic fates. For one thing, the White Star Line might have supplanted Cunard as the pre-eminent merchant line, and might today exist as a cruise company. None of the many books and movies would exist if Titanic had never sank. Titanic and Britannic would probably have been successful like their sister ship Olympic, and their names and reputations would be synonymous with the reliable Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. I doubt they would have survived to the present age, but they would certainly have honored segments in books like John Maxtone-Graham’s “The Only Way to Cross” and John Malcolm Brinnin’s “The Sway Of The Grand Saloon.” As it is, they are mentioned in those books only in the circumstances of their short lives and terrible destructions.

[@yeahbrowhatsupaustralia3400]

Brtitanic Look Like a Titanic

[@DerpyPossum]

Britannic looked like Titanic which looked like Olympic.

[@Horizon344]

These guys are **really** into this, aren't they .....

[@mvp5668]

kcirdrab ikr he is dressed really proper but I like it

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

TheRealMVP4Life Go to places like London and you'll see it's really not that uncommon. People still wear full double breasted suits, cravats, etc morning coats in some cases

[@jj-falloutelderscrolls2605]

where is britannics grand staircase now

[@samighidini7070]

Jackson Tv bottom of the Aegean I would assume

[@LexLucario7922]

Sami Ghidini correct, the railings of the grand staircase were actually installed, and they remained installed during its conversion to a hospital ship, there's actually one photo of it. This is the same for the britannics domes, if you look at footage of wreck Dives you may come across people looking at that Dome, it's shattered but it still has wrought iron and it's still where it was... or close to where it was... but wall paneling is somewhere in a house....

[@Tressie13]

Can you please provide me some diving video where I can see the Britannic's dome?

[@LexLucario7922]

Tressie if I can find it I will

[@LexLucario7922]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJaQnpmNrtuWsNE They show drawing visuals and then explore a small portion of the Grand Staircase at the 4:07 mark and you see the actual dome at the 5:22 mark, sorry for the wait I almost forgot about it.

[@RB-747]

Can I just say it's HMHS Britannic not The HMHS Britannic (considering that would mean "The His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic")