Designing a ship is no easy task! Through history simple oversights or mistakes have had a range of impacts - from silly, quirky characteristics to outright deadliness. Today we'll look at three ships, each with inherent design issues; Royal Mail Lines' Asturias and Alcantara, Hamburg America Line's Imperator and Canadian Pacific's Empress of Ireland and Empress of Britain.

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!