Could You Survive as a Sailor on a Victorian Ocean Liner?

Hope you enjoyed guys! Which job do you think was the WORST aboard a Victorian steamship? 🤔

Captain John Gray simply disappeared during a return voyage. The crew went to awaken him one November morning and he was gone - never to be seen again. When the ship docked back in Liverpool several weeks later, his wife and daughter were waiting for him on the dock, unaware that he'd disappeared, as there was no way for the crew to send the news ahead.

I have always wondered how the early liners were able to cross the Atlantic, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a revolutionary, but the race between the Sirius and Great Britain was such an awesome story. The Great Britain was held up by a storm and Brunel was almost washed overboard, but the Sirius won after being forced to burn ALL of the ship's furniture after the amount of coal loaded onboard was underestimated. Still, Brunel laid the way for SO many great liners that came afterwards. After he built the railroads, then he blazed the way across the Atlantic. I just wish his Great Babe, the Great Eastern had been a better success than it turned out to be...and preferably before his death so he could've seen his dream come to fruition. Brunel was truly a visionary.

The lady managing the logbook is so passionate it’s contagious 😊

Amazing that they managed to rescue this fantastic ship for us all to enjoy today .

feel lucky to see this ship every single day

What a fantastic ship. And a great history. Thank god for Jack Arnold Hayward for paying for her to be raised and repaired enough to be brought back to Britain across the Atlantic. Big Thumbs Up for this video. Thank you. 👍

Imagine climbing that mast in rough weather with the ship rolling side to side and up and down ..... ! .... Yikes ! Took some serious balls to do this work, no joke.

I remember when the empty hull was first returned to the drydock where it was built, it is incredible to see what exceptional talent has done to give us a view of the ship in its heyday.

To the hosts of the show and everyone behind the scenes, keep going, love the content, it must be nerve racking doing the shows bit we all appreciate what you lot do, keep it going👌

I remember an episode of "worst jobs in history" when Tony Robinson climbed up there. He's terrorifed of heights so it took a while but I respect him for doing it at all.

I had the pleasure to tour the SS Great Britain when I lived in England. As an FYI the later SS Great Eastern laid the last of the Transatlantic Cable near my Great Great Grandparents property in Newfoundland. As a Newfoundlander it was also nice to visit the replica of Cabot's Matthew in Bristol. There is another replica in Bonavista, Newfoundland as well. Love the channel.

My great great great grandfather was Sir William Gray (afaik no relation to Capt. John Gray) Hartlepool shipbuilder and first Mayor of the united boroughs. They built mainly cargo vessels from about the 1850s to 1962, among them, the first Oil tanker to traverse the Suez, The Murex, and another, the ship that brought the obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" from Alexandria to NYC in the 1880's. They employed famed steam engine designer Thomas Mudd.

Having done a transatlantic crossing mid-December on the world's only current ocean liner, Queen Mary 2, I can't begin to imagine how much SS Great Britain would've bounced around in a storm.

That SHIP IS SWEET - really nice Steam/ sail 1843 The British really did very good here. A milestone of engineering That is worth much more than most people can imagine. The skill, cooperation, funding, integrity and engineering is off the chart . Really good Sailing around the Baltic Sea and Norway would be the ideal environment for this ship. Never obsolete

I was Able Sailor at the Norwegian Full Rig Christian Radich. We had to climb as fast as we could. The only Safety Gear was a rope with a hook on. An we worked in the Rig in all sorts of weather 50 meters over the Deck. First time I was nearly dead of Anxiety. But after a short time you feel safe, even at the top of the Rig. No one has ever fallen down from the Rig.

I was a Boatswain mate 2 class on a 74 ft landing craft LCM 8 for the USN it was a challenging job. Going through ruff waves getting drenched in the well deck.

Visited this ship two days ago; your video helped me to understand a lot more about the ship, thank you.

The history, workings and people who enabled it all to happen were incredible. Thank you for such a wonderful, informative video.

Wonderful story, it brings to mind the " Swiss family Robinson" stories and helps bring them to life. On a three hour tour ? Passenger travel then was really an adventure. Thx. 👍