As you listen to this piano, you are listening to history. This beautiful Steinway piano was salvaged from the RMS Olympic, sister of the infamous Titanic, when the ship was scrapped.

The RMS Olympic Steinway Association is looking to acquire the piano and preserve it as a public artifact. To learn about how you can support their mission, visit their website at https://www.rmsolympicpiano.com/en/

Follow the association on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553871855155

Few people who were aboard the Titanic have become the subject of as many legends as Thomas Andrews - her shipbuilder, who stood in the Smoking Room as the ship broke apart and slipped beneath the waves. But how much of that is true? Was Andrews the real designer of the ship? Where was Andrews during the sinking? In this documentary, we meet the man behind the legends, and follow his footsteps, recounting the known sightings of Andrews from when he left his home in Belfast for the last time to the last time he was seen as the ship foundered.

Working with the authors and historians behind "On A Sea of Glass" and the forthcoming "Recreating Titanic and Her Sisters: A Visual History", considered by many to be the premier title on the events of the voyage, we aim here to separate the fact from the legend.

Relive the saga of Titanic’s Boat No. 2 from beginning to end with the authors of On A Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic, Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, and Bill Wormstedt. This is the first in a planned series of micro-analyses of various aspects of the Titanic disaster that we plan to collaborate on, so please stay tuned for the next episode in our documentary series.

Lifeboat No. 2 was Titanic's port side emergency boat, located just aft of the bridge wing. It was usually kept on-the-ready in case the ship's crew needed to quickly launch a boat, such as for rescuing somebody who fell over, but ironically it was one of the last boats launched on the night of the sinking. Captain Smith himself assigned Fourth Officer Boxhall to the boat, who and the boat was lowered away as the forward section of the ship was going under.

As he rowed away from the ship, Captain Smith called out to Boat No. 2, among other boats then nearby, with orders to move to the ship's starboard side and retrieve additional passengers. Officer Boxhall’s Boat No. 2 was the only boat to comply with these orders, rowing precariously around the sinking ship's stern and propellers, then making a quick dash to safety as the ship began to plunge. Boat No. 2 was the first boat picked up by Carpathia, and it was Officer Boxhall who delivered the formal confirmation to her Captain and officer corps that Titanic had foundered.

This video features CGI from our real-time sinking animation we produced for this last (2021) anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Our goal in making the animation was for it to be the most authentic sinking animation to date.

This animation aims to show the sinking of the Titanic as it truly happened, using every piece of first-hand testimony available. The depiction is the first real-time animation that worked hand-in-hand with historians from the very outset, weighing existing theories against testimony and forensic wreck evidence to compile what we believe is the most authentic sinking depiction to date.

Working with the authors and historians behind "On A Sea of Glass", considered by many to be the premier title on the events of the voyage, this animation took over three months to put together. While we do believe it's the most authentic out there, we are continuing toward its improvement and hope to fine tune it as we have more time to add details and uncover even further evidence into what transpired that night.

Directed by

Thomas Lynskey

Animation by

Levi Rourke

Historical Director

J Kent Layton

Lead Historians

Tad Fitch

J Kent Layton

Bill Wormstedt

Additional Historical Help from

George Behe

Sam Halpern

Jack Eaton

Charles Haas

Mike Poirier

Bill Sauder

Parks Stephenson

Visual Assets by

Liam Sharpe

Michael Brady

Levi Rourke

Thomas Lynskey

Emma Lynskey

Animated in Unreal Engine 4

The White Star Line is arguably the most famous shipping line in history, but it gets a bad reputation for its high profile sinkings, such as the Titanic, Atlantic, and Britannic, but is this fair? There's so much more to the story of this company than what's commonly known. Let's take an in-depth tour of it, from its inception in 1845 to its merger with Cunard in 1934, to what is left today.

A companion video will follow shortly profiling each ship in the White Star Line's fleet from 1870 - 1934. Stay tuned on this channel, and I'll add it to the description when it's posted.

Special thanks to Levi Rourke for animating various ships of the fleet, and Lucas Gustaffson for providing several of the models.

Francis Rickards Dyke was only 20 years old when his ship, the cable ship Minia, was chartered to join the Mackay Bennett in recovering the bodies of Titanic's victims from the wreck site. His granddaughter shares Francis' story of this life-changing job of his, as well as a handful of artifacts connected to it including a personal letter to his mother and wreck wood from the First Class spaces of Titanic.

Special thanks to Pat Teasdale for her exceptional interview and the Dartmouth Heritage Museum Society for allowing us to film on their premises.