Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "The Canceled 'Super Titanic' - RMMV Oceanic" video.

it sounds like Lord Kylsant (Owen Philipps) was an early version of Alan Bond. Bond was a chap who financed his loan repayments by taking out more loans, and moving money around in circles between his companies to create an illusion of things going well. He came unstuck when he ran out of banks to borrow vast sums from. But bond was smarter. Each time he moved money from one of his companies to another one, he charged a commission on the transaction, which he spirited away to where the authorities couldn't find it.
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Some unusual minor mistakes in Mike's otherwise excellent presentation. E.g, at 11:42, despite talking about gearboxes later, he said that steam turbine drive the propellor shaft directly. Since turbines need to rotate at thousands of RPM for efficiency, they cannot drive the prop shaft directly and must go via a reduction gear box. Propellors good for more than a couple of hundred RPM are not practical in large ships. mike also said that turbines cannot go in reverse. This is true only of the first generation of steam turbines. later, he said that diesels drive a ship by "brute force'. Don't all propulsion systems do that?
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@williamneale7238 ; No. The Mauretania's turbines were geared down. The Titanic's turbine was also geared down. On YouTube and elsewhere illustrating the Titanic power plant you can see the gearbox. The Titanic was a bit of an odd transition design in that it was basically a two engine triple reduction reciprocating engine system driving 2 propellors directly, with waste steam from these engines being piped to a turbine feeding a third propellor via a reduction gearbox, instead of the waste steam going direct to the condensors. The turbine would have contributed almost nothing to forward speed had it run at propellor RPM. With a gearbox, all three engines contributed about the same power. Only the very earliest, essentially experimental, turbine ships had no reduction gear. Routine use of steam turbines in ships had to wait until suitable gearboxes were developed, but gearbox reliability was not a problem - a reduction gearbox is essentially the simplest and ruggedest of machines. The Titanic's turbine and gearbox combination was built by Harland & Wolf under license from C A Parsons Co. who promoted geared turbines. The main reason for the hybrid reciprocating/turbine system in Titanic was cost, though vibration in Mauretania later known to be due to propellor interaction may have been a factor in their choice. The Mauretania's turbines were Parsons turbines but the reduction gearboxes were made by Beardmore Co..
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