Wall Street Crash / RMS Berengaria

[exeuroweenie]

As a kid I read that during the depression and prohibition,she was nicknamed "Bargainarea".The U.S.sailed her for discount cruises.Apparently something called "near beer" was served in her bars.It couldn't have been any blander than O'Douls.

[kcgrappler]

@exeuroweenie - that's true. And in her days as a German liner, she was called the "Limperator" due to her tendency to list precariously! 

[exeuroweenie]

@kcgrappler Wonder if the list had to do with that kitschy eagle(looked demonic) on her bow.Or was that the same ship?

[kcgrappler]

@exeuroweenie - same ship, first one of three German giants created by Albert Ballin. The list was due to the vertical height of the design rather than the eagle - she was top-heavy.

[kcgrappler]

Same ship - first of three German giants created by Albert Ballin for the Hamburg-America Line. The list was due to a design flaw - the Imperator was notoriously top-heavy. They cut the funnels down and added additional ballast, which helped a little.

[exeuroweenie]

@kcgrappler Ok,thanks.I read the Queen Mary(1) rolled heavily at first,too.And that the Andrea Doria and Cristoforo Colombo were notoriously top heavy.That being before the Doria's accident.

[65delice]

RMS Berengaria she was go to stock market crash

[sbd650]

Many congratullations ! GREAT video !

Best wishes:)

Dejan

[Abricialio]

1:06 The Olympic on the right side I love her so much!

[SuperTitanicfreak]

you know, Berengaria would still be with us if those damn americans did'n't condemn her to death.. to the scrapyard. I hate scrap merchants

[Abricialio]

@SuperTitanicfreak RMS Olympic went also to the scrapyard, nobody had the money for saving her.

[Hendo56]

@Abricialio The British didn't save the Mauretania, either. Not very smart- scrapping potential transport ships when war clouds were brewing over Europe.

[willgonow]

bankers 2day take heed, love the video and the tone,cheers!

[tomitstube]

wow that was great. just swell.

lol, so they handed people loaded guns?

not a good idea.

[ingenuity321]

@tomitstube Yeah that was Groucho Marx just being a smartass I believe.

[tomitstube]

@ingenuity321 ~ i know it wasn't groucho.  someone said eddy cantor.

amazing footage.

[brotmann86]

@tomitstube did they really do that ?!

[tomitstube]

@brotmann86 ~ the gun thing? nah, it's just dark humor.  the best kind. : )

[Darrigrande]

Yes, is the former "Imperator" von Hapag and also the ship fo "The Beautiful and the dammed" from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Oreon207]

After sinking the Lusitania, the Germans lost the Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismark, which were renamed Berengaria, Leviathan and Majestic.

[lukemack]

she is the imperator

[RebuildTheWTC]

The Sister ship of IMPERATOR : )

[barbcard]

What music will "celebrate" the current depression? And so far I've heard no jokes about it. Thanks for the posting/

[bearcub410]

THE VOICE IS EDDIE CANTOR

[HarborGuy]

And now we sit on our sofas watching the TV while the U.S. goes broke again........AT least these people had a good time lol.......

[DC180]

At 02.31 ...... I didn't know they had Wireless back then? Damn!

[beserker1912]

since 1901 wasnt it.

[Shangas]

Wireless had been around for long before 1929. How do you think the Titanic got its distress messages across half the Atlantic ocean?

[gallop24]

what happend to canada then?

[coreyteen13]

Before or after Oct. 29, 1929?

[Riku1135]

some of this footage is from after the great deperssion!!!!

one of the life rings said "Cunard White Star" & that wasnt started untill after the great depression

[manokiller]

Well right, but not much footage was shot before the depression, but he did a good job none the less

[Riku1135]

true, cand dispute with the quality

[manokiller]

Indeed

[coreyteen13]

The worst plummit in New York history.........not anymore...

[Riku1135]

yeah,lol i think were trying to beat it toady, COMPETE FOR EPIC FAILNESS

[rewill17]

69 yrs ago, today we are going back to it.

[simgust]

What is those songs called? I really must know!

[jozefsterkens]

Aaron you are a real artist, the BBC needs a complete staf for making a video like this.

[MaddZzee350]

The market did not get back to normal until 1954...

[mhy249]

wait for the market too crash in 2010,it will happen because of rises in food petrol gas and electric,once america goes down the rest will fall ..

[forestghost7]

BAD? c'mon, well done clever vid! My gramma lived thru this in NYC she actually made money LOL!! she had a hair salon ... women will be women....

[GJOTY]

BAD BAD BAD BAD GOOD SOME TIMES BUT BAD

[CunardProductions94]

0107 Olympic, Aquitania and Bengaria

[Chiswick2]

Never mind I found out what the song is called, it's 'I'm In the Market for You' by George Olsen and His Orchestra with vocals by Fred MacMurray.

[Chiswick2]

What is the song called from 1.07 to 1.42? And who is the composer?

[azzx96]

what is the name of the first song?

[Aaron1912]

I've Found A New Baby

[CunardProductions94]

A woman that lost her money and her money during Wall Street Crash

[BCraven04]

I was all happy at the beginning and then the stocks went bad and I got upset, good video.

[Cristian1929]

Wich is the name of the tune and band in the minute 1.47 to 2.43 of this video????

Newly my congratullations!

[Aaron1912]

Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra playing 'Just A Night For Meditation'

[pierre1920]

superbe !!!!! ^^

[kennyt1230]

Awesome history lessons. Thanks for posting these.

[sigft25]

Hamburg-Amerika Linie built it

[SeaDreamII]

Cunard Built that ship? Look like a white star ship to me. Oh, well.

[TWZ95]

Actually, it's neither Cunard or White Star Line. It used to belong to the German HAPAG Line as the Imperator. After the first world war though, Germany was forced to give it up to Cunard to repair the loss of the Lusitania.

[jozefsterkens]

The same for "Bismarck" (finished 1919) became "Majestic" in 1922 and "Caledonia" in 1936 sold to Admiralty as cadets training ship, burned and sank in 1939.

[xxsimayixx]

What about the loss of Britannic?

[coreyteen13]

She was sunk in 1916.

[sigft25]

No, it was German. Passed to England as war reparation for the Cunard Line

[lanavallee]

it was cunard. all cunard ships ended in "A" and all White star ships ended in "C"

[martinimetford]

Not "All" White Star Line vessels ended in "ic", but the vast majority of them did. Regina, Lapland, Zeeland, Pittsburgh, Poland, Haverford, Mobile, Vaderland, Southland, Armenian, Victorian and Royal Standard are WSL's non "ic" ships.

[jozefsterkens]

Most ships with names ending on "land" belonged tho "The Red Star Line", the biggest liner was the "Belgenland" (Antwerp/New-York)

[HarborGuy]

If the housing and oil markets don't improve we will have an even worse "crash" we are all living on plastic........America is paying for a war with China's money - look out!!