On the night of April 14 to 15, 2024, 112 years ago, the TITANIC sank. In commemoration of the anniversary, we publish the longitudinal section of the ship, which was prepared by the president of our association, Dr. Tamás Balogh, for the second season of the documentary series "Secrets of Lost Liners", which will be broadcast on April 29, 2024 in Great Britain, on the program of the History Channel. Among the six episodes of the season, the episode presenting the story of the TITANIC will be the first. Below, we present to those interested the latest drawings made for the series and a short overview of the new season.
Fig. 1: Longitudinal section of the TITANIC (drawing: Dr. Tamás Balogh, 2023)
Six episodes of the second season of the documentary series "Secret of the Lost Liners" commissioned by the British History Channel will be broadcast from April 29, 2024. In the preparation of this series Dr. Tamás Balogh, president of the Hungarian Society for Maritime History, Modeling and Tradition, participated at the request of Max Barber, the producer-director of the series, as the creator of the technical drawings and as a specialist for historical and engineering analysis, among others together with renowned researchers of the history of ocean liners such as Mark Chirnside, Richard M. Jones, or Dr. Stephen Payne, the designer of the world's only real ocean liner currently in circulation, the QUEEN MARY 2.
Fig. 2: Season Two TX (Programme Transmission date and time) card.
Secrets of The Lost Liners is a maritime documentary series that takes an in-depth look at the design, service and loss of the world's largest and most famous ocean liners. From the golden age of floating palaces to art deco icons to national symbols, this six-part documentary series showcases the most extravagant ships spanning almost 100 years; those that once pushed the boundaries of planning, but eventually came to a tragic end one by one as a result of war conflicts, accidents, or various human errors. Featuring technical experts and historians, the series presents "The Secrets of the Lost Liners" with unprecedented expertise and never-before-seen footage. The episodes of the first season, broadcast in 2022, are CAP ARCONA, REX, NORMANDIE, QUEEN ELIZABETH, AMERICA and ANDREA DORIA, and the 6 new episodes of the second season, which will be broadcast on April 29, 2024, are TITANIC, ILE de FRANCE, EMPRESS of BRITAIN, ACHILLE LAURO (ex-WILLEM RUYS), OCEANOS (ex-JEAN LABORDE) and COSTA CONCORDIA are presented.
For the series, a set of four drawings was created for each presented ship: 1) side and top views showing the external appearance, 2) general arrangement showing the position of the decks and rooms in relation to each other, 3) color schemes showing the livery and 4) a colored longitudinal section. The number of drawings varied for ships that were significantly rebuilt during their career. In the case of these, drawings showing the results of the rebuilding had to be prepared too, since the original and final state are both included in the documentary series, which covers the entire service history of the ships.
Fig. 3: Overview of the drawings made by Dr. Tamás Balogh.
The first season was broadcast on July 27, 2022, and the first "pitch" about the content of the next season, intended to convince the customer, was already prepared in November. After the channel gave the "green light", the draft of the script was completed by April 3, 2023, and by May 25 the drawings of TITANIC and ILE de FRANCE had already been completed. Half a year later, on September 6, 2023, all the drawings were ready.
Then came the expertise work and consultancy necessary to finalize the screenplay. Among other things, this covered details such as the use of onboard mail planes and their types, or the secrets of disaster film production (in connection with the ILE de FRANCE episode), and development of the location, design and lowering mechanisms of the lifeboats after the tragedy of the TITANIC (in relation to the ACHILLE LAURO, ex-WILLEM RUYS episode).
It was a great feeling when Max Barber, the producer-director of the series, expressed his gratitude for the cooperation in a reference letter with an appreciative tone similar to the one issued in connection with the first season:
Fig. 4: Reference letter written by Max Barber.
In the meantime, the other members of the crew produced the external shots and recorded interviews with the experts who spoke. Between December 20, 2023 and February 29, 2024, post-production, adding graphics, effects and subtitles, and the work to be done in the recording studio (grading, sound design and mixing, voiceover & tech-spec delivery) took place at Directors Cut Films in London. The finished series was handed over to Sky-History on 28 March, which will broadcast the first episode, which will be about TITANIC, on 29 April 2024. Thanks to the entire team at Content Kings, Bossanova Media and Directors Cut Films, and of course the contributors and crew who helped make the second series.
The presentation of the series and the overview of the content of each episode given by the producer-director, Max Barber, can be viewed on his YouTube channel here: Ep1, Ep2, Ep3, Ep4, Ep5, Ep6.
TX dates are the next:
Episode 1 - TITANIC - Monday 29th April 2024, 9pm
Episode 2 - COSTA CONCORDIA - Monday 6th May
Episode 3 - ACHILLE LAURO - Monday 13th May
Episode 4 - OCEANOS - Monday 20th May
Episode 5 - EMPRESS of BRITAIN - Monday 27th May
Episode 6 - ILE de FRANCE - Monday 3rd June
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