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The Monroe Sinks Too Quickly (1914)
The Coast Seaman‘s Journal on May 20th, 1914 published the following: “Why was it that the “Monroe” foundered so quickly after the collision that there was little time to launch the lifeboats? The steamer had six watertight compartments, only one of which was injured in the collision. The damaged compartment was in the forward end of the ship which, nevertheless, sank stern first. Why? The answer will be found in the fact that the “Monroe” was improperly manned and that owing to this the necessary deck work had not been attended to.”
Ship Name: Monroe
Year Built: 1903
Ship Type: Single Screw Steel Hulled Steamship
Nationality: United States of America
Tonnage: 4704
Year Wrecked: 1914
Locatio...
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Видео

The Berlin in View of the Hook (1907)
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The Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian reported on the 22nd of June, 1907: “The departure was made in the teeth of a terrible gale, but there was as much confidence in the ship as there was in the capacity of Captain Precious, the senior captain of the Great Eastern Company’s fleet. Both had weathered many a storm in the North Sea. Rarely, however, has the North Sea seen such a storm as that w...
The Capsizing of the Sand Merchant (1936)
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In his first-hand account of the sinking of his vessel, Captain Maclelland would write: “Everything seemed all right when we left the grounds off of Point Pelee late Saturday afternoon and started for Cleveland. It was blowing fairly hard but we were making out in good shape until about supper time. When I noticed we began to have a tougher time making headway and I wasn’t surprised when John B...
The Fatal Meeting of Liban and Insulaire (1903)
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The Evening Express and Evening Mail reported the following on June 11th, 1903: “Two directors of the Fraissinet Shipping company, to which the Liban belonged, were present. One of them, M. Alfred Fraissinet, came forward and speaking with great emotion, said that this was not the time to discuss the responsibility for the loss of life, but that he courted full inquiry. He could only deplore th...
The Observation in the General Slocum's Wake (1932)
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On March 7th, 1934 the New York Times reported the following: “The observation was built in 1888, Mr Kuzmier said; adding that deckhands would testify that one side of the boat was so rotten that a rope had to be passed over the deck and fastened to the other side before she could be moored. The boiler leaked badly, he continued, and she had a bad list.” Ship Name: Observation Ship Nationality:...
Captain Lonnen Stops with Loch Finlas (1908)
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The Grey River Argus on the 29th of September, 1908 reported the following: “The vessel lost at Cape Portland was the Loch Finlas, bound from Port Pirie to Callao. Residents state that at about 9:30 O’Clock on Saturday morning, a barque was seen coming from the direction of Boobyalla Bay. She struck the reef and within half an hour had disappeared.” Ship Name: Loch Finlas Year Built: 1885 Tonna...
The Long Fight of Le Lyonnais (1856)
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The Weekly Wisconsin on November 26th, 1856 reported the following statement by Le Lyonnais fireman Nestor Fabien: “We heard the concussion, but we did not know what it was. In five minutes time the water came rushing into the engine room, carrying the coal along with it. The fires were put out almost instantly. A number of us were engaged all through the night trying to stop the leak, but all ...
The Castaway on a Shallop (1803)
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The fourth officer of the Europe wrote a letter to his father on September 8th, 1803, disclosing the following information: “we saw a small boat on our starboard-bow, which, upon pearing, we discovered to have only one sail set, and otherwise to be a perfect wreck. No one was observed to be on her deck, until, upon hailing her, a wretched object presented himself, apparently in a most distresse...
The Colima Loses Against the Storm (1895)
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The San Francisco Call on June 7th, 1895 reported the following: “The ship was overloaded, badly loaded, top-heavily loaded - all agree upon that. When the gale struck her she weathered it, but badly. Then she careened. There was a list to starboard, and she did not right again. Men called out to the captain to cut away the deckloading of heavy spars. The captain was obdurate. He knew his busin...
The Dangerous Cargo of the Karang (1911)
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The Straits Times on the 11th of July, 1911 reported the following news from the local magistrate’s court: “The full charge was that, on or about June 9, within the Settlement of Singapore, dangerous petroleum was loaded under deck on the steam vessel Karang, a vessel which was not constructed for the carriage of petroleum in bulk and which had not the confining bulkhead of the cargo holds cons...
The Porpoise and Cato on Wreck Reef (1803)
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On the 9th of September, 1803 Commander Flinders wrote to Governor King of New South Wales a letter that included the following passage: “I think it proper to notice to your Excellency that the great extensions of Lieutenant Fowler and his officers and company, as well the passengers belonging to the Investigator, in saving His Majesty’s stores, have been very praiseworthy; and I judge that the...
The Suffering of the Ville de St Nazaire (1897)
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The New York Times reported the following on the 19th of March, 1897: “Monday found the old iron vessel buffeted about at the mercy of a full gale and turbulent seas. That night the elements broke out in a wild frenzy. The combers made a breach over the decks, they ripped off the hatches, and under their terrific bombardment the doors of the cabin were battered in. Water flooded the saloon, fil...
The Chaotic Collision of the City of Chester (1888)
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In a somewhat fiery interview with the chief officer of the Oceanic to a reporter from the Daily Alta on the 23rd of August, 1888 he issued the following statement to the press: “The men of the Chester,” he said, “say they lowered our boats. Do you think it at all likely that a true sailorman will leave his own vessel, clamber up into a strange ship, and proceed to lower her boats? The men who ...
The Viking in the Pictures (1931)
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The Lethbridge Herald on March 26, 1931, announced the following on its front page: “Marooned on a loose ice-pack in the North Atlantic, surviving members of the crew of an unidentified vessel, believed to be the sealing ship “Viking”, were drifting seaward with the floe off White Bay, it was stated in messages reaching the government from that point today. The vessel had burned to the water’s ...
The Goodwill of the Antelope (1783)
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Peter Barker, second mate on the Antelope wrote in his introduction to his story of the shipwreck: “However fatal and unfriendly the dreadful rocks round the Pelew islands may have proved to the navigators, it does not appear that anyone capable of relating his own misfortunes, with sufficient accuracy to claim public attention, ever before escaped from thence.” Ship Name: Antelope Nationality:...
The Debated Sinking of the Tubantia (1916)
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The Debated Sinking of the Tubantia (1916)
The Gold of the Golden Gate (1862)
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The Gold of the Golden Gate (1862)
The One Thousand People on the Khiva (1893)
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The One Thousand People on the Khiva (1893)
Kapunda Doesn't Take the Usual Course (1887)
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Kapunda Doesn't Take the Usual Course (1887)
The Phoenix in Flames (1847)
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The Phoenix in Flames (1847)
The Failed Evacuation of the Elbe (1895)
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The Failed Evacuation of the Elbe (1895)
The Hsin Wah's Chaos in the Darkness (1929)
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The Hsin Wah's Chaos in the Darkness (1929)
The Islander's Cargo of Gold (1901)
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The Islander's Cargo of Gold (1901)
The Terrible Storm of the Dandenong (1876)
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The Terrible Storm of the Dandenong (1876)
The Long Voyage from the Winterton (1792)
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The Long Voyage from the Winterton (1792)
The Terrible Toll of the Norge (1904)
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The Terrible Toll of the Norge (1904)
The Fragile Home in Pieces (1837)
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The Fragile Home in Pieces (1837)
Still Space on the Ban Lee Guan (1925)
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Still Space on the Ban Lee Guan (1925)
The Only Lady of the Strathmore (1875)
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The Only Lady of the Strathmore (1875)
The Negligence of the Ercolano (1854)
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The Negligence of the Ercolano (1854)

Комментарии

  • @ronjones1077
    @ronjones1077 3 дня назад

    Well done. I had not heard of this sinking

  • @peteranderson210
    @peteranderson210 4 дня назад

    Thanks for another great video!

  • @giannidcenzo
    @giannidcenzo 4 дня назад

    Nice.

  • @mattwilliams3456
    @mattwilliams3456 5 дней назад

    Generous of the theater company to bring all their people back first class after a flop, despite that not really working out well in the end.

  • @chasjetty8729
    @chasjetty8729 5 дней назад

    Thanks again friends.

  • @11pmeade
    @11pmeade 5 дней назад

    Good video!

  • @waynebrookes3154
    @waynebrookes3154 5 дней назад

    Interesting story but awful narration.

    • @felixcat9318
      @felixcat9318 4 дня назад

      The narrator refers to Cabins as Rooms and so horrendously butchers his pronunciation of the word "Dynamo" that it was actually painful to hear, snd worse when he repeated his butchery a second time! Is it really too much to familiarise oneself with the correct terminology of the subject matter you intend to narrate?

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 4 дня назад

      Hello, I would like to add a disambiguation that the people were not only trapped in their cabins but also in spaces like the saloon, hence our use of the word rooms, though I admit it to be an imperfect description. We freely admit the mispronouncing of words, though we would clarify that it is not terminology exclusive and does not reflect ignorance. Our narrator struggles with some words, to the extent that he has dubbed himself the "butcher of names" on our private channel discord. We apologize if this damaged your enjoyment of the stories.

  • @billt6116
    @billt6116 5 дней назад

    Wreck Reef, eh?...Hunh... I Wonder why they call it that?! We Better sail over there, and check it out... Get a good look at it.

  • @naughtiusmaximus830
    @naughtiusmaximus830 5 дней назад

    The whole lifeboat insanity after Titanic didn’t seem to do much for safety. Seems they are very difficult to launch in an emergency.

    • @markcarpenter6020
      @markcarpenter6020 4 дня назад

      Well Titanic was an anomaly. Most ships sank too fast to launch all the lifeboats they had even when they didn't have enough for everyone. It was actually rare(actually it still is rare) for a ship to sink slowly enough to launch all the lifeboats. And after Titanic they actually overloaded boats with additional lifeboats they weren't designed for.

    • @naughtiusmaximus830
      @naughtiusmaximus830 4 дня назад

      @ You really are fcdk out in the open ocean even with a lifeboat. That Atlantic solo survival story where the whale sunk his boat was incredible. He had modern kit too.

    • @markcarpenter6020
      @markcarpenter6020 4 дня назад

      @@naughtiusmaximus830 and cruise ships are the worst. If a ship is gonna sink it usually goes down in under 30 minutes. How long do you think it takes to get hundreds (or thousands for those modern floating resorts) into lifeboats and off the ship? The modern kit is better with radio transponders and GPS tracking, dye packages, etc. But your chances of actually getting on a life boat is not great.

    • @markcarpenter6020
      @markcarpenter6020 4 дня назад

      @@naughtiusmaximus830 and cruise ships are the ones you least want to be on when they sink. Way too many people and way too little time to get them off.

    • @naughtiusmaximus830
      @naughtiusmaximus830 4 дня назад

      @ Water temp would be everything if you can get out. You could probably last two days in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • @dondaper9344
    @dondaper9344 5 дней назад

    This is my new favorite video on RUclips. Thank you The Shipwreck Archives!

  • @mattwilliams3456
    @mattwilliams3456 10 дней назад

    What positively scandalous hand warmers that would have been in other circumstances, but generous and innovative in the moment. I wonder how many people have died due to the mistaken belief that alcohol would warm them up. This was an unusual way that myth caused a death, but with as prevalent as the belief was there must be a significant number of people who died of hypothermia who otherwise would have survived had they not drank.

  • @FinnishLapphund
    @FinnishLapphund 10 дней назад

    I must admit that I usually expect that few or none of the survivors will be female, so it's always a nice surprise for me to hear that there's more than one or two female survivors. Though, obviously, if Captain Sperling's last rescue attempt hadn't been successful, the number of female survivors would've been lowered by 50%. Strange to think about how close it was for those 3 women to also not have survived.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 10 дней назад

      We often refer to a paper where the writer ran the numbers of female survivors of various wrecks based on whether or not there was a "women and children first" policy implemented. What the numbers showed was women didn't survive at all when the policy was not implemented. When it was, it just equalized the numbers. Part of this is that women are statistically smaller than men so it was harder for them to fight for the lifeboat. The other factor was women's fashions of the past, which were extremely heavy. It is indeed always refreshing to have a fair number of women on board survive a wreck.

  • @paulreilly3904
    @paulreilly3904 10 дней назад

    Harwich. Harrich, silent w.

  • @EdmundMCClave
    @EdmundMCClave 11 дней назад

    I have been on the ocean all my life. Mostly private yacht (less then 100 ft) three in crew is all I needed. All hand picked with No mental baggage. Two of my kids are licensed Marine Captain on boats over 100ft With a crew of over 10 people. That is the biggest problem they have people

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 12 дней назад

    An image of the ship from Wikipedia... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Berlin_(1894)#/media/File:SS_Berlin.jpg

  • @naughtiusmaximus830
    @naughtiusmaximus830 12 дней назад

    The water temp would be interesting to know.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 12 дней назад

      Meteorological data of the era is always sadly lacking. I was surprised when the newspapers actually reported the speed of the wind bursts.

    • @naughtiusmaximus830
      @naughtiusmaximus830 12 дней назад

      @ I’m amazed how few people could swim back then. Some of the lake Michigan mass drownings were in luke warm summer lakewater.

  • @DardanellesBy108
    @DardanellesBy108 12 дней назад

    I was getting worried! I look forward to your Tuesday night videos and kept checking. Thought maybe it might not show up tonight. K, now my Tuesday can end on the right note. Time to listen to another ship wreck story.

  • @dondaper9344
    @dondaper9344 12 дней назад

    I love your videos, they have become a favorite comfort watch of mine. I hope you continue making these!

  • @johnlowther4068
    @johnlowther4068 15 дней назад

    Get these guys more subscribers. These are legit well researched videos, and not AI garbage. Throw them a sub!

  • @4chords184
    @4chords184 15 дней назад

    I am confused. The Sao Joao Baptista is one of the LARGEST Portugese Galleons ever built. It was built in 1530 and ended its service in 1550. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_Baptista_(galleon). WHICH ship are YOU talking about?

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 15 дней назад

      There were a couple of ships by the same name. Much in the same way there have been many HMS Tigers.

  • @skuula
    @skuula 16 дней назад

    How does a self unloader self unload?

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 16 дней назад

      This page has some pictures of an old article talking about the launch of the Sand Merchant and it goes into detail about how the Sand Merchant took on and discharged cargo: www.ohioshipwrecks.org/shipwreckdetail.php?Wreck=14

  • @ripwednesdayadams
    @ripwednesdayadams 16 дней назад

    Can’t say it enough but this is truly the best shipwreck channel on RUclips. I don’t understand why Big Ol’ Boats, Oceanliner Designs, Part Time Exploer etc. get so much more attention when this channel is just as good. Don’t get me wrong, i like their channels too. I just really enjoy the fact that you consistently upload shipwreck stories that I have never heard of before which says a lot. Hopefully you get the credit for the great work you do!

  • @NkanduKataya-p8n
    @NkanduKataya-p8n 19 дней назад

    this channel is seriously underrated. love the content. sincere love, respect and support from Lusaka, Zambia.

  • @FinnishLapphund
    @FinnishLapphund 19 дней назад

    Maybe I'm wrong, but to quietly just slip away, makes me think that their minds hopefully was no longer fully aware about their situation anymore. But to tell your father that he should "Try to survive", as you slip away, must mean that the son was fully aware about that he was about to die, which sounds like a worse way of dying, compared to the first.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 19 дней назад

      We had a similar impression. It was the son's first voyage, his father had brought him along, and we could not imagine what that knowledge did to him mentally. It's not much of a surprise that he was in so much shock that he needed to be hospitalized.

    • @FinnishLapphund
      @FinnishLapphund 19 дней назад

      @@theshipwreckarchivesPoor man, the guilt he presumably felt over bringing the son along, must've added to his shock, and trauma.

  • @mattwilliams3456
    @mattwilliams3456 19 дней назад

    Terribly inconvenient when your wet sand gets even wetter at just the wrong time.

  • @bothewolf3466
    @bothewolf3466 19 дней назад

    Good stuff.

  • @dondaper9344
    @dondaper9344 19 дней назад

    Been waiting for the new Shipwreck Archives video to drop. Appreciate your work!

  • @Tal-q3r
    @Tal-q3r 19 дней назад

    is this about the election? 🤣😃

  • @DennisShook-k7w
    @DennisShook-k7w 24 дня назад

    why would they both turn to port when they are supposed to pass port to port 😮

  • @mattwilliams3456
    @mattwilliams3456 26 дней назад

    It’s hard to blame the captain of the Insulaire for not dropping any of her lifeboats if he was legitimately unsure whether his vessel would make it back to shore and may need them for his own passengers.

  • @landoncoats9529
    @landoncoats9529 26 дней назад

    Thank you for all these great stories. I am always looking forward to the next one

  • @davidgaine4697
    @davidgaine4697 26 дней назад

    My Father was in the Merchant Navy and served on the Arctic route to relieve Leningrad through the Baltic Sea in 1942. He stayed in the merchant navy after the war and then retrained as psychiatric nurse. My half brother from my father’s first marriage located his service record. Apparently he sailed all the 4 seas. He died in 1970 after a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily before being returned to Malta where we were living. He was taken straight to hospital when he died from an embolism caused by the rescue. There was an inquiry by Loyd’s Insurance who blamed him for storing cement mix near an open hatch where water ingress caused the ship to overturn. He is buried in the Armed Services Cemetery near Valletta.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 26 дней назад

      We are sorry to hear of your family's loss. It sounds as though he must have been full of incredible stories, thank you for sharing his.

  • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
    @MikeHunt-fo3ow 26 дней назад

    do you remember what ships boiler blew up and landed on a house

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 26 дней назад

      The Omar D Conger. It is definitely memorable.

    • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
      @MikeHunt-fo3ow 26 дней назад

      @@theshipwreckarchives ty its my fave im gonna watch again

  • @jamesgraham6122
    @jamesgraham6122 26 дней назад

    Having had a 17 yr career as a professional yacht skipper, followed by a 35 yr career as a professional pilot (aviation), I'm always puzzled when learning of a tragedy where the captain was not present on deck or in the cockpit at a time of heightened exposure to risk or uncertainty. Until clear of the islands and with open seaway ahead, the captain would have been well advised to delay his dinner.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 26 дней назад

      The newspapers called out that the Captain wasn't on deck when he should have been but strangely the court doesn't seem to have. I did wonder if it was a factor towards the leniency given to the quartermaster though.

  • @Jeremy-mil
    @Jeremy-mil 26 дней назад

    Hi

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 26 дней назад

    For those with access to the New York Times archives, they have front page story on June 8, 1903. What an awful calamity. Memory eternal.

    • @jec1ny
      @jec1ny 26 дней назад

      Oh, never mind. I see you already have the link listed. Excellent video as always.

  • @DardanellesBy108
    @DardanellesBy108 26 дней назад

    This one seemed like a tragic mixture of standard procedures not established, rules that were in place but blatantly ignored, and a bit of incompetence.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives 26 дней назад

      It really was. So many chances for the tragedy to have been mitigated, if not completely avoided, most of them missed.

  • @Tal-q3r
    @Tal-q3r 26 дней назад

    tyvm again 🤟 🇨🇦😁

  • @GordonHouston-Smith
    @GordonHouston-Smith 26 дней назад

    Heartbreaking, I have no other words.

  • @bothewolf3466
    @bothewolf3466 Месяц назад

    Once seen, NEVER unseen, a black left and a white right set of parenthesis. XD

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives Месяц назад

      Not sure how that happened, even less sure how we failed to notice.

  • @stephenbritton9297
    @stephenbritton9297 Месяц назад

    I had the opportunity several years ago to tour the FDNY academy on Randall’s Island. From the top of the training tower, you can see where the SLOCUM and this ship were when they met their fate.

  • @1982kinger
    @1982kinger Месяц назад

    the anchor is displayed along the thames

  • @FinnishLapphund
    @FinnishLapphund Месяц назад

    Imagine if anyone was close to that window, when a/some body parts suddenly came flying through it...

  • @rickylmoe4018
    @rickylmoe4018 Месяц назад

    Interesting and entertaining story, nicely narrated thank you for the upload

  • @mattwilliams3456
    @mattwilliams3456 Месяц назад

    Having 5 bodies rain down on your deck has to violate some old sailors superstition.

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives Месяц назад

      As far as superstitions go, considering the fate of the General Slocum and the Observation, it might be best to just avoid that section of the East River completely. It seems to be very bad luck.

    • @gstoddard1325
      @gstoddard1325 Месяц назад

      ​@@theshipwreckarchives I concur.

  • @Tal-q3r
    @Tal-q3r Месяц назад

    🇨🇦😁

  • @bold810
    @bold810 Месяц назад

    I knew Wolverine had a hand in this. 😮😅😢🎉

  • @bold810
    @bold810 Месяц назад

    When Shipwreck Archives drops New Anchor, I feel like my Ships come in on flush tide, 🎉

  • @bold810
    @bold810 Месяц назад

    Every single time I hear the story of French shipwreck, especially that era, first thing I think of is the Raft Lé Medúse. 😊🎉

    • @theshipwreckarchives
      @theshipwreckarchives Месяц назад

      Fortunately as bad as many shipwreck stories get, few rise to the horrors of Le Meduse

  • @LR-sn9gt
    @LR-sn9gt Месяц назад

    What the hell is going on with the narration these days. Not to mention I am sick to death of hearing American accents for every damn thing that is read. They are the worst at the pronunciation of nouns and.any other name for that matter. How stupid is the rest of the world to let the USA take over everything on the planet. 😡