The Dangerous History of Transatlantic Steamship Travel - IT'S HISTORY

If you wanted to take a trip from New York City to Liverpool, all you would need to do is pack your bags, pay for an airplane ticket and board the plane and in less than 24 hours you are on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean on a completely different continent. But it wasn’t always this easy and this fast. In fact, traveling across the Atlantic was often a dangerous task that took months or years if you even survived. As a result, man has always been trying to find new ways to make this journey, faster, safer and more efficient. One example of this was the invention of steamships. These revolutionary vessels ruled the waves just a few centuries ago before becoming obsolete as man found even faster, safer and more efficient ways to travel, trade and fight wars. This, however, begs the question what happened to these transatlantic steamships which used to be the primary form of travel across this vast ocean? Chapters: 3:00 - The History of Transatlantic Steamships 4:45 - The First Transatlantic Steamship - SS Savannah 7:24 - Advancements in steamship technology - The SS Great Western 9:42 - The disappearance of the USS President 12:36 - A ship too big for its own good - The SS Great Eastern 15:02 - Why a crew purposely set fire to its own ship - The SS Baltic 16:51 - The boat that constantly crashed - RMS Adriatic 18:44 - Why a Grand ship became a coal dumpster - SS Frisia 21:24 - Why The sinking of the RMS Titanic changed ship travel forever 26:10 - A shipping...