What If The Titanic Never Sank?
Key Moments
Editorial Summary
The creator explores an alternative history where the Titanic avoids its famous disaster and completes a full career. The video details how the ship, part of the Olympic class trio, successfully navigated a near-collision with an iceberg during its maiden voyage in 1912. Following this, the creator describes the ship's various roles during World War I, including service as a troopship and later as a hospital ship known as the HMHS Titanic. The narrative covers the vessel's transition into the 1920s, where it catered to traditional passengers with its original timber paneling while its sister ship, the Olympic, was modernized. Despite its longevity and the safe transport of hundreds of thousands of passengers, the Titanic faced several minor collisions and mechanical issues. The creator concludes that the ship eventually faced retirement due to the economic pressures of the Great Depression and mechanical cracks, leading to its final voyage to a breakers yard in Scotland in 1930.
Written by TripBacon from this video's transcript.
How This Review Compares
This review is more critical than the all-time creator consensus.
Source: Our analysis of the creator's lived experience, based on what they said in this video.
Creator's Key Takeaways
titanic and olympic were built side by side at harland wolf and it was olympic which was completed first and sailed on a maiden voyage in june 1911.
the olympic class were designed from the outset as a trio of ships as it was obvious that three massive steamers would be required to maintain a regular weekly schedule across the atlantic.
it's really easy to think of titanic today in between all of her incidents and accidents during and after the war as an unlucky ship but it's well worth thinking back to the start of her career way back on her maiden voyage when she encountered that iceberg late at night.
Questions This Creator Answers
Topics Covered
Port Highlights
Scale: 0–5 strips in half-step increments. 0 = “meh”, 5 = “bacon bliss”. Aggregated from creator-review sentiment, weighted by channel expertise.
About our Bacon Score methodologyVideo content sourced from the creator's original upload. Watch on YouTube