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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for all these great stories. I am always looking forward to the next one
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.
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.
Heartbreaking, I have no other words.
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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.
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.
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.
It really was. So many chances for the tragedy to have been mitigated, if not completely avoided, most of them missed.
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.
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.
Oh, never mind. I see you already have the link listed. Excellent video as always.
why would they both turn to port when they are supposed to pass port to port 😮
do you remember what ships boiler blew up and landed on a house
The Omar D Conger. It is definitely memorable.
@@theshipwreckarchives ty its my fave im gonna watch again
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