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Would You Have Gone on the First Cruise Ship?

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Today we’re used to cruise ships - the cruise tourism industry has absolutely exploded into a multi-billion dollar empire. All the time newer and bigger ships are being added to the fleet - the biggest, at the time of recording, is an incredible 248,000 gross registered tons and nearly 1,200 feet long. But, not all that long ago, the phrase “cruise ship” didn’t even exist, and not long before that the concept of “tourism” was a total flight of fancy.

But just where did cruise ships even come from? Which were the first amazing ships to do it - and, most importantly of all, what was it even like to be on the first cruise ships? Here are three amazing, pioneering ships and their stories; SS Tagus - the early days, a tiny Victorian paddle steamer that proved people could go to sea for fun. Then - a German genius introduces two absolute world-beaters. The first proper, dedicated ticketed pleasure cruise gets underway aboard SS Augusta Victoria - and soon it proves such a success that an utterly spectacular floating palace is built for the job, the gorgeous SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise.

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

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@OceanlinerDesigns Creator 14 hours ago (edited) Pinned

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@jackpayne4658 7 hours ago

Cruise ships are top of my anti-bucket list - things I would avoid, however long I lived.

@Jonathan.Holland 9 hours ago (edited)

30:40 “Sky is cold and clear, and ice drifts past Steubenhöft pier” genuinely great rhyme

@seanobrien7169 9 hours ago

13 inches of Shaq...😵‍💫 You may want to rephrase that...

@bonedust82 4 hours ago

Aside from the beer my husband bought me and the brownies baking in the oven, these two videos from my friend Mike Brady (and team) are a fantastic 44th Birthday gift! Thanks for the goodies.🎈

@1stDragonlord 5 hours ago

I came for the Cruiseships, I stayed for Albert Ballin. Thank you for shining more of a spotlight on him and his achievements.
Honestly this really puts something into the foreground I have longed for, for a while now.
Documentaries in your style about these people in the shipping industry. Ballin being the one I am the most interested about as person from and living in Hamburg, I am very much attached to the harbor, so hearing stories of my home city and the people and ships that called it home in this time is just always a treat.

@Tantalis77 9 hours ago

my god, mike brady's done it again

@FlatcapHobbit 6 hours ago

Imagine poor Mr. Cook getting dropped onto one of the Margaritas Ville cruises….he’d have an aneurism!

@usaturnuranus 11 hours ago

Thanks Mike. This is a fascinating look at the distant roots of today's pleasure cruise industry, another of the many social and technological changes that took place in the decades leading up to and following the turn of the 20th century. Well done as always, sir.

@Moonwalker2358 9 hours ago (edited)

1:36 “Hey your friend mike brady from oceanliner designs” love it and classic

@nunyabidness674 5 hours ago

Re: Shaq vs Bunk... perhaps this could be best explained with the Napoleon response of "Average height for the time!"

@iancooper8777 7 hours ago

That drawing of a Charles Dickens cabin seems moderately luxurious compared to some Youth Hostels I stayed in as a boy!

@cheesyllama 10 hours ago

Mike Brady has been busy this morning, uploading both Airliner (crashed, burned...) and Oceanliner goodies this morning!!!! ✈️🛩️🚢⛴️

@Gubagoo109 5 hours ago

I like that you talk about the accommodations on Britannia and how ship technology and accommodations improved over the late 19th century and beyond. I think it really frames the context well and also connects really well with the Titanic and explaining the reasons why people held such confidence in the safety standards of their ships by that time. People nowadays look back at that stuff and wonder how people could be so confident in the safety of their ships but they’re often lacking that context. In the span of basically a person’s lifetime ships had improved from modest paddle steamers with poor accommodations and wooden hulls to enormous steel hulled ships with compartmentalization and telegraphs and incredible power and luxury and accommodations. It’s no wonder that people were so shocked in 1912 when one of the greatest ocean liners at the time had sunk with such catastrophe. It was a painful reminder that despite enormous progress there were still risks at sea and still a lot of room for improvement on safety standards. This is kind of an off-topic tangent but a connection that I think is interesting to think about.

@Tirani2 4 hours ago

My only real cruise was in 2002 for my honeymoon. We were on a Celebrity ship that I have unfortunately forgotten the name of, and it was absolutely delightful. That week is one of my fondest memories of traveling, once I got over the ocean sickness. I would absolutely do it again if I had the money to.

@plokoon1912 11 hours ago

This was such an nice video! I didn't know that there were cruise like voyages in the 1800s, every day you learn something new. Honestly Ballin is one of the historical figures that makes me proud to be from the same country as them, together with people like Johannes Gutenberg or Martin Luther.

@terikronberg8291 13 hours ago

The beginning of the cruise ship, yay. I'm glad I got up early!😊

@Daniel_Huffman 9 hours ago

Remember, ladies and gentlemen, he's not your friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs, or my friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs, he's our friend, Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs.

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To be fair to those early bunks, (As fair as you can be when the only things smaller than them that people slept in were coffins) people in the mid-19th century were a lot smaller than they are today. Even during the Edwardian era, people were a lot smaller, as anyone who has seen a lifebelt from the Titanic in a museum can attest.

Also, there is a particularly tragic irony to Albert Ballin putting emphasis on developing Hamburg's immigration facilities to appeal to European Jews when fifteen years after his death, Germany would become the last place they would want to go.