Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

  1.  @quangtruongle7823  Safety valves would have limited pressure to the design maximum. Some early steam locomotives exploded when their safety valves were screwed down, so it was engineered that no such thing could be done. Would have been the same for ships too.
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  2. Pampanito in San Fran is way bigger than the UK one at Gosport (I've seen inside both) and the German ones of which I've seen only pix.
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  3. Odd then that Mike does not mention the fault line and attempts at rectification.
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  4. How the ship was repaired and returned to service would surely make an interesting video? Did the captain 'retire' after this event . . . ?
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  5. BC and AD define the years of Our Lord. Reject "common era" stuff (CE & BCE
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  6. Naval shipyard at Hiroshima . . . . yet bleeding-heart liberals still condemn Tibbets' attack as being against "innocent civilians" . . . !
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  7. They would have wrought havoc, not wreaked it . . .
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  8. RAF was independent from April 1918 . . .
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  9. The steam engines of the day, usually triple expansion, boilers using high-grade coal, were anything but 'primitive'.
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  10. * Was Titanic Actually Unsinkable? * Considering she sank, that does seem a daft question . . .
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  11. Twenty-five years ago, I stayed in New York for a few days, at the hotel / hostel in which Titanic's surviving crewmen were accommodated. A small newspaper cutting related the tale of them. On Jane Street, near the river, it may have been fine yet not sumptuous in 1912 but was very basic and somewhat run-down when I visited. Is it still there? Still, it was an evocative place to stay. The 9/11 disaster was cleared away but had left a "hole in the sky" in that part of Manhattan. Sad events to muse on.
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  12. At Burrell's Wharf on Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs, the building site of GE can be seen, what's left of it. The nearby housing complex covers Scott-Russel's yard (a plaque can be seen).
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  13. On Jane Street, near the East River. I spent a few nights there in 2002. It had either 'seen better days' or must have been pretty grim, eighty years before . . .
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