The Greatest, Biggest, Heaviest Ship Ever Built - and it SUNK! Historsea - Episode 7
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- The biggest, heaviest, greatest ship to ever be built! The Seawise Giant, the Happy Giant, Jarhe Viking, Knock Nevis. The greatest shipwreck, ocean frieghter, oil tanker, biggest ship ever made! And it sunk!
For everyone confused about the “sold in 2024,” it was just a quick misspeak. It was actually renamed the Knock Nevis in 2004, and I’m sure that’s what he meant to say ^^
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Dang. I thought I tapped into a source from the future 😁
LOL, IKR, I was on my way to the lottery office!... well I guess it's back to work instead! 😕
I noticed that too. It can be difficult to edit your own work, I’m in edit # 3 on about a 400 page book I’m writing and I bet I still have missed things. Good job overall on this video. Well researched and articulated.
I'm stunned they re-floated this giant after it sank. I'd love to have seen that. Something that big rising from the depths would be frightening.
I am amazed no one recorded it on camera, did people think hey we are raising the largest ship out of the water and no one would like to see that
Raising The Concordia - 2013 - Documentary
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General large ship recovery.
However, the Concordia was less than 1/2 the size & 1/2 the weight of the SG.
CC: 114,500 GT vs. SG: 260,941 GT
@@harlockJC
You must be younger. 😆
In 1982 JVC and Sony officially announced the creation of the “Camera/recorder”, or camcorder. Sony's Betamovie
Beta camcorder used the slogan “Inside This Camera Is a VCR” and came to mainstream market in May 1983.
Just a year later, Kodak introduced the 8 mm format.
Digital cams are a very very, relatively new thing.
The types of storage were also very small.
You see the term "VHS". That's a "video cassett recorder".
These video recorders, recorded to a physical magnetic "tape".
Videos were not in the SS digital (.mpg/ .MP3/ MP4, etc.) format.
The info was based on time.
The video cassettes held roughly 2 hours of audio/ video.
Recording capabilities today are as different as the telegraph to a cell phone.
Forgot to mention they weighed about 20 pounds, had a battery life of 2-3 hours max.,
video quality was about 240p., a full-size "TV" video camera (capabilities of a current cell phone)
couldn't be carried & recorded to an external ("Reel-reel) tape like 2" wide.
Fun Fact: When was the first Microsoft PC?
It was announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows",
but Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985.
Home "Windows" PC's had only existed for less than 3 years, cell phones weren't
a thing & the interwebz didn't even exist.
@@travissmith2056 Your point? They had videocameras even back in 1912 when Titanic went out to sea..😂 So no real reason for the refloating to not be recorded...
Don't confuse the invention of the later products entering the market with the actual invention of the videocamera... We litteralt have video from world war 1 and 2 etc.. The videocamera is pretty old tech..
He thinks posting a wall of text makes him right
I was a ship builder for over five years and for those that have never been on a big ship it's really hard to imagine. I worked on the Edwin H Gott a few times and it's just a behemoth of a ship at 990 feet. But the seawise giant? Over a quarter of a mile long. I can only imagine what kind of twisting and bending this ship did at sea.
Mind boggling man aye.Theres a cause and effect video on here showing "flex in a corridor down the sides of a huge cargo ship noticeable in the movement of the lights in this corridor.Its amazing.
Leave it to the Japanese...they loved their giant ships...
I see the Gott going up & down river (St.Clair River) a few times a year. I was surprised to see it mentioned here.
@@Bronco46tube it's the biggest ship I've personally worked on. It's surprisingly in amazing shape on the inside too. They built that one to last a very long time.
I assume it could only be built out of a certain type of steel to allow it to bend and not break is that assumption correct
This is the first history lesson I’ve had where I learnt about the future sale of a ship in 2024 and subsequent dismantling
Glad you mentioned this, I thought I was missing something there!
I am so confused.
XD Rofl
Is this proof were living in The Matrix????
Yo wait… I think you might be right.
"Until 2024, when she was sold again"
Hold on there, Mr. Time Traveler...
10:30 Yeah a fubar. It was sold in 2004 and renamed the Knock Nevis.
just came to realize I had a VERY rough party skipping an entire year without a memory. Maybe more?
Yeah! I reacted likewise.
@@DNHarris I would not call it a Fubar. That is way worse. Most of this video was very informative and well done. Fubar is short for Fucked Up Beyond Recognition/Repair.
Yes I Had To Repeat that To Make Sure I Heard Correctly
hi. you are right, except for 1 thing. I am an electrician, 30+ years ago I lived 4 years i Norway. We build the TROLL A drilling platform. It is the biggest and heaviest object man has moved. Steel platform 120m-140m on 280m long concrete legs. 24 huge silos as bottom. each silo is so big that a semi truck can enter, unload and get out, without backing reverse. From the silos, 4 concrete legs, 230m holds the steel platform. The silos are SO BIG, when in water they can float, with platform on top. Dragged by tugs out in the Northsea, placed over an oil well, they fill the silos with water. Slowly the silos hit the bottom, and because of a million+ tonnes it sinks many meters in the sand. Divers set a series of explosions, making 1M+ ton sink even deeper. like on the beach, set your foot where waves come, vibrate and your foot sinks a little deeper. As electrician we install A LOT of cables. enough cables to go around the world 1,5 times. Jesper from Denmark
I saw her once. In Sasebo Japan back in the '87. I walked up a mountain road with two shipmates and looked down at the Harbor and realized there was a ship much bigger than our aircraft carrier, which was CV61, worlds first supercarrier. My memories are fading.
Wow. I was so hell-bent on getting in to Sasebo on liberty, I totally missed that.
I served on the USS Ranger too.
I can't even imagine what this ship must look like in person. Grew up sailing in the Gulf of Mexico, on a 34-foot Hunter, and have passed much smaller oil vessels and even these feel intimidating and enormous when near them. However, this ship would dwarf these smaller ones and would be frightening to be anywhere near it out in the ocean, especially at night. You just feel so tiny anywhere near these behemoth structures. Also, they may be slow compared to other boats but when you're on a small sailboat and see one go by it sure looks to be moving fast for their size.
i was on a 300,000 ton tanker and we docked alongside the giant to "lighten it" man felt small compared to it.
I was in the Navy stationed in Norfolk, VA.. I was of the crew aboard AS 36 LY Spear, and she was in dry dock. I got to know the dock Chief and I asked to go down to view the keel.
I was in awe by her size and the first thing I said was, " now I know what an ants point of view looks like. " The prop was massive. That's a lot of brass.
@@firebald2915😅😅😅
size does not mean slower, they can run upto 20 knots for bigger tankers and for containers can run more than 20 knots
Hats off to the guys who said "let's buy it and make it even bigger "
How did they fix the vibration when reversing?
@@tonysheerness2427 Maybe the natural resonance changed.
@@tonysheerness2427 reversing forget about it
Can you imagine all the time & millions building the biggest oil tanker.
Then the customer says nope not buying...
@@stuartd9741 yeah, that's what happened
2024...ummm 2024 has not happened yet
10:24 He can see the future, really 2004🎉
I was like, wait a minute, did I lose a year!?! 😅😅
Big ships pictures in France not sea wise giant.
Also Iran vs Iraq was another American proxy wore. Back when Saddam followed DCs orders. Like zelensky does now. Anyway there's your clue as to who gave the orders to sink this ship and why there's confusion about it. Same as Nordstream and now Kakhovka dam.
Did he mean BCE? 😆
The largest rock ever transported was the " Thunder Stone". Taken by sea from Finland to Russia in 1768. It weighed 1,400 tonnes. It serves as the base for a statue called Bronze Horseman, of Peter the Great.
Interesting.
There are megaliths of that size in Lebanon, allegedly quarried and transported by the Romans. What a crock our history books are.
I love when RUclips comments send me down Google rabbit holes lol, this one got me for about 20 minutes 😂
I was a deckhand on the Seawise Giant, all the way back in the year 2077. I miss those days.
2077 is still 53 years away pal. 😄
@@rocketeerPM2500yeah I was on the seawise in 2100
I did my turn in the 2130s... she was showing her age by then, but the cabins were still really nice. :P
I believe the hull extension installed on the Edmund Fitzgerald years before caused hull "weak points". The combination of the the giant rhythmic waves, the heavy ore load (last one of the year I believe) and the "two sisters" wave formation caused extreme hull flex, and the blown hatches were caused by the hull flexing at their extension induced weak point due to the hull extensions eventually breaking. That is what I think sank her. I do not think for a second there was one single cause. It was a combination of chances taken, chances lost, and mother nature. Unfortunately she broke in half and nose dived. My condolences to their families.
The Fitzgerlad never had her hull extended. It was 729 feet long from the day it was built.
You might be thinking of MSC Carla. Ext plug fitted, hatches blew. Sunk, crew froze in life rafts I believe.
Isn't the wave formation called the 3 sisters?
She broke when she bottomed out on the 6 fathom shoal. Official investigation/insurance did NOT want to admit this as it would mean more insurance payout for the victim's families.
she never had her hull extended....if you ask me the sole cause was sailing superior in November.
Built 2 ships in Singapore alongside her and visited her many times. She. Truly was something to see. Nice piece.
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In 1984, while aboard a large finished product (gasoline, jet fuel) tug and barge, we loaded in Texas and once around Florida, slowed down as brokers ashore negotiated price. Offloaded from Jacksonville to New York. Gas shortages are often contrived.
Manipulated by financial cos.
Thanks for the video ref. Seawise giant. It came as a surprise to me that she started working again after being hit by exocets at Bandar Abbas. It was there that myself as being member of a salvage team from Smit Tak worked on her by pumping out the oil in shuttle tankers. ⚓
Crazy
Oh! come on people i am pretty certain that was a slip of the tongue. Perhaps he ment 2004, First time here and it was excellent, the presentation was great, the flow of information good,and comparison with other ships and buildinge very good. Overall it was most enjoyable to see and listen to, good work, please keep them coming in the same or similar format.
I just Subbed too.
Come on you language Nazi purists. He meant 2004. Stop complaining.
l sailed on a number of Shell VLCC tankers..(Very Large Crude Carriers) in the late sixties/seventies They were very large at the time, 200,000 + tons. Speed wise was about 12-15 knots. We used cycles to get around the deck, plus used walkie-talkie radio to communicate information regarding the progress of either loading or unloading the oil..The ship would flex when in a high swell or heavy sea...Bit disconcerting when one first observe it..
I was a submariner in the 70s and 80s. We saw a lot of crude carriers through our periscopes. One of our COs even reclassified VLCCs and ULCCS with a new acronym FBS. I'll leave it to your imagination what it stood for.
I may have built the fastest boat to sink when I was a kid. Plywood, and we "launched" it in the surf with my little sister in it. The waves quickly filled it up, the back fell off and my sister and I pulled it back onto dry sand. End of my boat building career. A wise move.
Now that was funny! 😂😂😂
@@juancaorsi1805 It's not really a nickname. It's because I read Jules Verne's "20,000 leagues under the sea" when I was a kid in the fifties (yeah, I'm that old") and I thought Captain Nemo was a cool dude. But I'm not cool. My grandkids say I'm the silliest man they know.
I think some highschool classmates of mine might have you beat. We were making cardboard boats lined with tape as part of a project/challenge to see who's boat would last the longest, and one of the groups got stuck with this kid who was an annoying asshole. He did no work, so they made him get in the boat in exchange.
Little did he know, they'd stabbed seven holes into the bottom, and the thing sank the moment he got in the water.
Nemo. Was your ship called Nautilus ?. And sister said , I will never sail in a submarine again !!. 😮😢😅 Regards. Dave
@@negative6442 Some people would call that Karma, some would call it natural selection I call it excellent.
The problem with making very large things is, once you reach a certain size, it becomes too large for the infrastructure used to support it.
Having grown up in the SF Bay Area as the son of an oil refinery technician I know they had dedicated tankers that would go just outside SF Bay to off load ships that were too big to even enter the bay, let alone dock to the structures that existed at the refinery.
This adds a lot to the cost of operating these colossal ships. Sure, you can move a lot of product in one go, but you have to transfer that product to smaller ships at sea. And then there is added risk.
Worked in the Qatar Al Shaheen field back in 2009. Nock Nevis was the FSO there. Found out what it was as the largest tanker ever built. Nice place to stay with large comfy living quarters. Until she was replaced when the contract ended.
Tim, it was a fantastic video. As all of your videos, he teaches quite a bit from the hard work you do, and the vast knowledge you have. Thank you for sharing.
Point of order. Airbags are not filled with oxygen. They are filled with normal air that we’re breathing right now.
And normal air is...... 😂
This video hit the algorithm right in the nuts. Way to go bud. Im here for it. Ship and sea history is probably one of the most interesting subjects on the tube. And i like your story telling style and voice. Keep goin man
Nice to hear a person who can compose and present a good story! Many people are interested in engineering achievements and the seas. I am very willing to overlook some minor glitches to hear what is on the whole an excellent presentation. I'm glad this turned up in my feed.
If i recall the Seawise giant was hit by Exocet missiles launched from Iraqi Mirage F1's that blew her tanks out. Crews who served aboard her even had pedal bikes to get them around her deck which was a 20 minute cycle from stern to bow and back again..
20 minutes? She was only 500 yards long. You could easily cycle that and back in five minutes.
I can cycle miles in 20 minutes, lol. This ship isn't "miles" its feet.
I think you mean to say WALK in 20 minutes. I have seen the ship up close...it definitely is nothing but a humungous floating oil tank! Larger than a US aircraft carrier.
@@josephcernansky1794 My bad. Yeah,i could walk that in 20 minutes too although my memories faded since hearing about her. I would love to have seen her so you're a lucky guy.
@@cgh1060 This is why you should never believe any one source of information. Intentional or not humans make mistakes.
Filled the lift bags with 02..oxygen ? Me thinks not. Great vid son, stay on'er.
Excellent history video. Thank you, I started following you on the Lady 'K' with Candace. Glad you're back. I enjoy your point of view and always learned something about sailing and now history on the Ocean.
*** I was living in St.John's, Newfoundland when the 'Ocean Ranger' went down. I would love to see a factual documentary about it's sinking while drilling in the new Grand Banks oilfields ! Thank you, DK.
Digging the new channel!
Omg what an amazing format! I’d like to sea more about old cargo sail ships or ships that just vanished.
it SANK.......I believe that it had SUNK before reaching its destination
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find that someone had noticed the same thing. "Sank" is the past tense of "sink". "Sunk" is the past participle.
Yup. Or "It was sunk" would also be correct.
Thank you for pointing this out, it hit me as soon as I read it.
WOW! Thank you for learning and sharing this! Who knew ONE boat had all these records?!?!
Very well presented! Great stuff!!! I'm looking forward to learning some more historsea.
I have read that a very important reason for the ship to be scrapped was that no insurance company would insure her since she was a single hull tanker.
Single hulls are also outlawed by early 2000's
I did not know this. Who would have thought that learning about a tanker would be so interesting. Thank you for showing this.
Great video thanks. I remember, as a boy, being at the launch of the Esso Northumbria, the largest tanker of its time (250,000 tons, I recall). My grandfather had been at the Mauritania’s launch as a boy at the same yard, Swan Hunter, Wallsend on Tyne.
The fist steam turbines that powered her was built in my hometown, by the company I now work for. After she was re floated the propulsion system was changed.
Over my long sailing career I’ve delivered a couple of ships to the breaker’s including driving one tanker on to the beach at Chittagong Bangladesh. Interesting experience, done on the highest tide, vessel trimmed to the slope of the beach and running ashore at maximum speed to facilitate dismantling.
I'd imagine that has to be weird... You spend your career AVOIDING ramming your ship onto the beach, and then there you are, with nothing but shoreline dead ahead, and the engines roaring full-ahead...
There is a video about Chittatong being one of the top five most polluted places in the world. One of the other places is in Ghana where countries dump their electronics and batteries so they don't have to dump it in their own country. They wouldn't want their citizens to know the truth about going "green".
This way of scrapping ships causes a lot of damages to the environment and should be banned all over the world!
People who do the job to dismantle beached ships are risking their health and their lives.
That must be a strange experience.
That would be awesome to do at least once !!! Also the love of my life was from Dhaka!!
just recently got into naval history and it's surprising how few people are making content on this subject, great video I learned a lot
The stories about shipwrecks, Shanghai, mutiny, castaways, and just lost sailors are such awesome stories that are even more exciting than fiction.
You are so easy to listen to, very engaging, I had no idea I was so interested in ships til recently, shipwrecks have always interested me but not the actual ships, or at least I didn't think so. I subscribed almost instantly to your channel.
Excellent narrative accompanied this video, best I have listened in the past couple of years. Give yourself the acknowledgement that your RUclips site deserves which will expand its viewer numbers & subscriber numbers.
Well done.
10:34 she really was a remarkable vessel, considering we can know her history a year in the future.
so big it distorts time and space
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I'm missing some temporal inaccuracy joke, aren't I? Can't see it. Please explain, so that I too may laugh.
@@myragroenewegen5426 At 10:34 he says the ship was sold in 2024
@@myragroenewegen5426 Most people on RUclips post the timestamp after the event they are pointing out has happened. I have learned to automatically skip back 10 seconds after clicking the link.
The very first image in this video, the one of the wrecked ship, is of none other than the remains of the S.S. America, a famous passenger liner with a storied history, built in the late 1930's.
Great content ! First time watching instant subscriber ! Best part is the fact of the detail and great speaking pace that's understandable and clear , no swearing and it's great for children as well !! Thank you😊
Same here.
Don't normally sub immediately...
For same reasons.
Hiya new subscriber keep it up great watch I'm interested thanks😊👋
Wow, 24 thousandths subscribers and almost 900,000 views. Impressive.
Pretty good overall history, with a lot of good information, (forget the "2024" lapsus 🙂, probably meant 2014...) He should put notices when we seen pictures of the ship that have the names given at the end of its life. I figured that out only at the end when he mentioned those "new" names. Aside from that this is well researched and documented. Great work (with some more tune-up to follow I guess 🙂)
What would I like to sea here in the future? A video about rogue waves, how they are generated, how frequently they occur, what damage they do, and the engineering of ships to be able to survive encountering them.
Or a vid about how nasty the Southern Ocean is.
I’m not sure anyone know any of that yet.
I'd like to see the futuristic sale of the ship that apparently took place in 2024.
Such waves are build up when one wave swallows another wave, and swallows another and...
I've experienced two such waves on the same tour. What was scary was that in front of the waves, it was like a deep valley. That made the ship to sink down several meters before the waves hit. And they hit hard. The two waves came about four minutes after each other.
This was an amazing experience I wouldn't miss.
In the North Sea, waves have been measured to 30 meter in height.
With a video on Rogue Waves there is always the added tale of the horrifying fate of the Munchen.
NIcely made video mate. Realyl enjoyed this mini documentary! Subscribed and excited for the next one!😎
This is amazing. Thank you sir!
Also, the flotation bags would never be filled with oxygen, nitrogen is the gas that is used, oxygen and oil (even a tiny amount) will result in a disastrous fire
air*
Nitrogen is too expensive they will use air (mostly nitrogen)
@@Anonymous-ru2wk nitrogen is 78 percent of the atmosphere, tire
Shops fill tires with nitrogen, it's not too expensive
You know exactly what the fuck he’s talking about
@@Anonymous-ru2wk you mean atmospheric air
You should also check out the vessel Pioneering Spirit. Basically strapped two massive hulls together and built a factory aft between the two. It was built to decommission oil rigs (and can do a whole lot more - pipe laying etc) by bringing a rig between its hulls and basically sawing of the legs and floating the top section of the rig away. As far as I am aware it currently holds the record for largest displacement by volume, and on an engineering scale it’s mind blowing.
Good lord. It actually doesn’t even leave the legs behind. I honestly think this is the largest vessel ever, if not just currently - ruclips.net/video/Gv9_ez4Ctm4/видео.html
I disagree …. Eventually one of these ocean cruise vessels will hit 450 meters… it’s just a matter of time! I give it about 30 years!
I just watched short video (not a youtube shorts) but a 18 minutes shorterned documentary about the pioneering spirits and both vessels are very impressive. i believe they were and are (due to the seaworthy being scrapped) some of the largest ocean going vessels afloat. that pioneering spirit is a very uniquely built mulit purpose vessel were as the seaworthy giant was more a single purpose driven vessel. very cool you got me on the start of a rabbit hole now im going to do some more research on the vessels. really neat stuff!
@@7.3PSDA2 Happy to be of service! I also rabbit-holed Pioneering Spirit hard when I first found out about it. A truly astounding bit of engineering, at incredible scale.
Awesome video! So informative and engaging.. great!
I used to do a lot of recreational boating on the Mississippi River and when barges would pass it was amazing and intimidating how big they seemed when they're right next to one. I can only imagine seeing this in person.
The tow is big, about a thousand feet long excluding the towboats length or for a northbound tow with empty barges the length can be about 1400 feet.
Facinating video! I didn't know the history of the ship and ive only even known it as the Jahre Viking (pronounced as Yarah Viking btw, with the J pronounced as a Y) and never knew about it's sinking and re-floating etc! Amazing history!! Thanks for the video!
No matter how big a ship, it still is a tiny blip in this vast ocean !
Thats a fact Jack.
-17% charisma
Thank you for sharing the interesting history of this ship.
Ship so massive it hit next year before we did lol. Great video man!
Great intro, subbed!
Hmmm. . .so many good ideas with this subject matter. Two come to mind. You could talk about the sun stones that the Vikings used to navigate the seas and for hundreds of years strike fear into the continent of Europe, and beyond! Or how about the massive Chinese vessels that some folks say made it as far as the Americas across the Pacific or around the horn in Africa to the West Coast of Africa? Anyways, I will be watching for more content, well done!
Very interesting video. Thank you for covering it.
An incredible story! An epic tale of maritime history! Awesome video! Terribly interesting and informational! Great job!🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦!
At 0:05 in this video, largest object ever moved:
The Norwegian Troll A, an offshore natural gas drilling platform off the west coast of Norway. It weighs an astonishing 1.2 million metric tons and stands 471.8 meters (1,548 feet) tall, which is far larger mass and the tallest object that people have ever transported. Troll A is still in operation. (sources: Statoil, Equinor)
I think he said this ship was over 1500ft before they jumboized it making it even longer.
And I’d imagine once full of oil should be considerably heavier then a platform, but could be wrong about that.
But it's not self-propelled as opposed to Seawise Giant.
@@ThisTall Very unlikely. Think Archimedes’ principle (mass, buoyant force). A supertanker floats on the ocean surface, while a Condeep platform is submerged hundreds of meters deep and pressed firmly into the ocean floor by gravity... Fully laden, the displacement of Mont (the ship’s name at end-of-life) was “only” 657,019 mt. But that’s still far from 1.2 million metric tons of Troll A during towing (and even more when sunk and stationary).
Overall length was surpassed by the floating liquified natural gas installation Shell Prelude (FLNG), a monohull barge design 488 m (1,601 ft) long and 600,000 mt displacement. Which is also far less than Troll A.
Mass difference between the much lighter (and buoyant) ships and the vertical concrete colossus is enormous. Troll A was simply so much more matter moved - and it still is in operation, but now stationary as a loaded gravity-based structure.
In fact, another Condeep (same building technique) platform is even heavier, but not taller: the Norwegian Gullfaks C, at 1.5 million metric tons during towing (i.e. with ballast, but without storage reservoirs filled up).
@@STRIDER_503 To point it out, precisely, I gave the correct answer to the first statement/question in the video, which said: “Just what is the largest man-made object to ever move?”. Which isn’t any of the supertankers, but several of the patented Condeep platforms, including the Troll A mentioned. …All of them built and moved by man. And if you verify these events and specs, I think you will agree.
@@norsenomadThe tallest but not the largest, Gullfaks C was heavier.
I've often looked up this ship and wondered about it's history. Thank you for this video, it was very informative!
WOW!!! The engineering to build incredibly large structures is mind boggling. How many man hours did it take to build this monster in the first place. WOW!!!
Nicely explained and presented. Thoroughly enjoyed this
Great episode Tim - loving the new channel.
I'm amazed by all the comparisons added to every measurement. Bridges, Hercules plane, the Empire State Building, pool...
I think the Hercules was,in fact,the Spruce Goose
Very cool information. Thanks for the video!
Great channel, love the history stories, thanks!!
I seriously doubt they pumped the bags full of very reactive oxygen. Air and oxygen are not the same things.
Nice work Tim. I really enjoy all of your videos including the Lady K. You really have a knack for narration, keep up the good work!
Just found Historsea, Excellent story, Excellent channel👍
I just discovered your channel with this video tonight. I’m glad I did. Great job.
As a former US Merchant Marine engineering officer, this is what we would call a BAD DAY.
Good narration and well presented. Gotta like that.
Excellent vid! Thank you VERY much. Beyond fascinating - great work, please keep it up!
Very informative,nice vid
Very well done; informative (on a ship I didn’t even know existed), a “pleasant” presentation style; nice vocal qualities and handsome! ;
Learned something today, thanks. If you're looking for a challenge, the tragic story of the largest death toll in a single ship sinking deserves to be told. The RMS Lancastria story was suppressed by Churchill and has never been fully acknowledged.
If this information was 'suppressed by Churchill', how come you know about it? There is a Wikipedia entry for this ship. Not very 'suppressed'.
@@shanemcdowall A better question might be, how come you didn't know about it?
@@UguysRnuts I did. 'Suppressed by Churchill' my arse.
If you already knew about the sinking of the 'Lancastria' then how come you needed to look it up on Wikipedia?
This from National Museums Liverpool:
"The sinking of the Lancastria caused the single largest loss of life in British maritime history. Coinciding with the fall of France and the possibility of invasion, Winston Churchill issued a ‘D’-Notice, preventing publication of the disaster.
He feared knowledge of the incident would irreparably damage British moral but news eventually reached the British press on 26 July 1940.The initial suppression of information led survivors and their families to feeling forgotten.
They are not forgotten - we remember them."
From The Independent:
IN JUNE next year survivors of the sinking of the SS Lancastria will make their biennial pilgrimage to Saint-Nazaire. This disaster, two weeks after the "miracle" of the Dunkirk evacuation, was hushed up at the time and is still little known.
On 18 July Churchill was to deliver his "Finest Hour" speech to rally the nation as the news broke that France was giving up. He would assure the people that the country could not be invaded while there was still a navy. The last thing he needed was such dramatic evidence of the vulnerability of ships to German bombing.
It was a desperate moment. Ministry of Information reports on national morale spoke of gloom and apprehension. News of the sinking of the Lancastria was suppressed. The press complied. It was not until the American press broke the news, nearly six weeks later, that the story came out in Britain.
Thank you for the research it took to tell this fascinating story.
I would love to see a video about the Piper Alpha disaster. Love the channel, keep up the good work.
The 1970s saw the Suez Canal closed. The only answer seemed to be increasing the size of tanker and container ships to economically sail the long way around the Cape to get to Europe.
It SANK (it did SINK) and now it has SUNK.
Oh man, you must be one of those genies I've been told about, so smart ....
Or it was sunk, and now it is sunken. Language is fun.
@@mikehunt8375 Basic command of the English language.
You have a nice presentation style! Very relaxing :)
It's amazing to me that the welding on an extension, on a Ship of that tonnage and length, is strong enough.
I found the video very interesting.I did an Indentured Apprenticeship
in Shipbuilding,Repairing and Marine Engineering.There is a limit
to the size of a ship to be built.There are many factors that must
be considered.
There is no limit, I have UNLIMITED POWAHHHH!!!
@@joshlower1
I have unlimited sense.
I recently met a guy at a job who was the captain of her when she was the Knock Nevis. Many interesting stories.
The making of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the last voyage is what I want to see. Thanks, I liked this video! Also the Bismarck I'd like to see
Having been a passenger on the 1st leg (just 5 days from New York to Southampton, England) of the final voyage of the SS United States (June 1969)
I'd be interested to know what you know about that grand ship.
Historsea - are you interested? There already are many RUclips articles posted.
Am interested in prehistoric ocean-going ships. Vikings in Newfoundland, Easter Island, NewŹealand, Australia, Inu of Japan, Kennawick Man, extinction of Patagonian Indians, etc...
Good material and warm speech. Subscribed.
You are very good at turning a 5 minute video into a 15 minute one
Yeah it was a hard watch honestly, especially since he barely shows clips of the actual ship
@@saabgarage3574 And waves a lot
You are generous. This warranted 2-3 minutes, at most. I guess this guy really wants his minute count to grow.
At first I was kind of confused with the sale in 2024, and it being only 2023, but chalked it up to being such a large purchase that it wasn’t ‘official’ until 2024.
Then you mentioned that it was scrapped and that’s when my suspicions were confirmed. Just a simple error.
Other than that slip up, very good video with real high quality production.
Very interesting...thanks for the info!😊
Well researched and delivered.
And it SANK!
I wouldn't have thought a ship that big possible!
Well it sunk, so it wasn’t really possible.
@laidtorest387 did you watch the video?
All I can say is wow! The size astounds me!!
…and it SUNK! That kind of tells the whole story about this production. Try it SANK!
Holy cow! When I first went to sea as a British marine engineer in 1962 it was on the Esso Winchester, 36,000tons. The next one I was on was the Esso Exeter, 26,000tons. 60,000 ton tankers were considered huge in those days.
I worked oi the bridge control system for what I understood to be the largest ship built in the UK the Nureka. That was on the Tyne, build a bit then slide into the ogin. 250,000 tons. Engine was Sultzer, 9 cylinders direct drive to the prop, max speed 108 RPM. She carried all the kit to run on 6 if need be and a jury rig propeller. We got 23 starts out of the air tanks at 400psi. On sea trials we tested stopping. by reversing the engine against just turning it off, there was not a lot of difference until the speed was under 7K.There was an aerial picture of her turning in the sea on the staircase of the Maritine Museum at Greenwich.
Three important details A)this ship never sunk. B) you fill air bags with air not oxygen C) iron is a pure metal and is not used in ship building only steel which is an iron carbon alloy.
Iron.
The death of stars.
Nevermind.
Steel is just iron with a tiny bit of carbon in it. Rebar is made of steel. You know what people who work with rebar are called? Iron workers, lol.
*sank
There are only a few job titles that sound so badass that you announce them to someone you just started dating's family with pride. Shipbreaker is probably cooler than astronaut. It's definitely cooler than project manager at Pampers.
Love to
See Viking ships and their battle designs