The Death of Famous Ocean Liners
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2023
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This video attempts to show the fate of history's greatest vessels. Be sure to like and subscribe if you enjoyed my content :)
Credit for Images:
Titanic Painting: Ken Marschall
Lusitania Wreck: Ken Marschall
Britannic Wreck: Ken Marschall
Bremen Camouflage Paint scheme: Earl of Cruises
Bremen Wreck: Earl of Cruises
Paris Wreck: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/284289795212743168
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The Olympic deserved to be saved, considering not only who her sister was, but also her unique looks and admirable service record.
I totally agree! There were some plans to convert her into a museum but the idea simply lacked funds. People just saw it more useful to scrap her because it would provide thousands of jobs during the Great Depression.
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I couldn't agree more with your opinion, but sadly it WAS the Great Depression after all, and some things just couldn't be done. I aswell, think that the Olympic would be an absolutely wonderful museum ship, and potentially a great addition to the present day Titanic Museum in Belfast, with the SS Nomadic
7:45 R.I.P RMS Carpathia thanka for saving the leftover passengers of the RMS titanic
We will always remember you RMS capriata
Oh yeah
Many hundreds of survivors.
@@jadeegan150carpathia*
The Queen Mary II is now the only true ocean liner in service. However, large cruise ships are being scrapped in Turkey and India ...usually when they are at least 25-30 years old.
I have to disagree. There are now no true liners in service. They died with Canberra and QE2.
@@user-pb54 The hull design of the Queen Mary II is specifically engineered for Transatlantic crossings... thus it is a true ocean liner. Cruise ships have a different hull design and are engineered for lower cruising speeds in calmer waters.
@@user-pb54Queen Mary 2 is a ocean liner, her design proves it with thicker steel plate and fine lines
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The Queen Mary 2 isn't the only ocean liner in service (actually, it ended up as a floating museum or something like that). The SS Andrea Doria's killer, MS Stockholm, is not only the second ocean liner in service, it also changed it's form until becoming the current Astoria.
Currently, the Astoria (former MS Stockholm) is in the brink of being scrapped, otherwise, that ship is out of circulation.
"I have died many times, but somehow my love for this world kept me alive. People call me a fool, but I call myself lucky to have made countless memories."- Marcus.
Me too
How did you comment If You Die?????!...
It breaks my heart to see these beautiful ocean liners getting scrapped, destroyed, or sunk. 😢😢😢😢
Look how long the video is in 1912 and it sank on the 14th. Look at the time of the video.
As a child. I saw both the QE 1 and the QM 1 in Southampton at the same time. From the deck of the USNS Maurice M Rose. Was told that only a few days a year they both would be in port at the same time.
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I went to the QM lots of times in California!
My great grandfather crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice onboard the RMS Mauretania in the years just after The Great War. He was going to New York on business. Inverkeithing, in Fife, Scotland is mentioned here. Hundreds of vessels of all sorts were scrapped there. The scrap yard does still function but nothing like it did in the past.
Once Rms Olympic's final remains were scrapped in 1937 she was finally able to reunite with her sister ships Titanic and Britannic in ship heaven, sailing together in peace, forever... 😭
😢 so sad 😭
Thank you for including the SS America at 9:05. She is the subject of my channel and have done many videos about her. Her fate was tragic but she did at least have a long and fascinating life for an ocean liner.
I was fortunate to sail on the Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Mary 1, and the Rotterdam (which wasn’t mentioned) in the ‘60s.
When the Normandie burned and sank at the dock on Manhattan’s West Side, Alfred Hitchcock rushed a film crew to get pictures. He used the images at the end of “Sabotour”, definitely a film to watch if you haven’t seen it. Hitchcock at his best.
wow not once have I seen someone on youtube who was able to be around when a ship sank because nowadays you barely ever hear about a ship tragedy
❤❤❤🎉😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😂:) ;^) I bet a kid is gonna reply that
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Great vid, Thanks for the upload,
Glad you enjoyed it!
RIP Titanic, Britannic, Olympic and Carpathia 😢😢😢😢
The 4 best Ships
I know their my four Favorite ships
Lusitania: what about me 😭😭😭
Re Lancastria, St. Nazaire: The largest single loss of life on a British vessel in history. The Master, Capt. Rudolph Stuart, survived and later went on to command the RMS Laconia. 'The Laconia Incident' was a very noteable event for several reasons:
1. The Kriegsmarine U boats surfaced to save survivors, as was the custom of BOTH sides in the war. Unfortunately, despite them broadcasting in clear ENGLISH, offering free and safe passage for Allied rescue ships and commanding other U Boats to leave them, a squadron of American Army Air Force children pretending to be pilots, bombed the U boat, resulting in it crash-diving and due to Laconia survivors onboard, being too heavy was nearly lost. It re-surfaced and deposited survivors.
2. Admiral Donitz gave 'the Laconia order' in that no German vessel was to stop to pick up survivors.
3. Admiral Donitz was later charged with war crimes for this order.
4. Captain Rudolph Stuart lost his life, being remembered as a true hero who stayed with his ship evacuating people and sadly went down with it.
5. The US Army Air Force were proven to be completely fecking useless.
NB it is arguable that Admiral Raeder should have taken ultimate responsibility for the Laconia Order, but as he was captured by the Russians and the Allies never even made a request for him to attend Nuremburg, no action was taken for this.
10:16 *During Great Eastern's scrapping the remains of a riveter were discovered where he'd accidentally been sealed in the bottom of the double hull during construction*
There are two types of tragedies here, it seems: ones that cost lives like the _Cap Arcona_ , and ones that cost the ship, like _Normandie_ . That one could have been prevented if the NYFD just listened to the designer and the crew.
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The Great Eastern was impressive given her age (pre-Civil War) and size. Imagine if that was preserved. We don't even have that many images of what she looked like inside.
The Great Eastern is a rather fascinating vessel. She was decade’s ahead of her time. So far ahead of her time that her size record wasn’t broken until the next century. She even survived more damage than the Titanic sustained on the night of her sinking. Truly is a shame that the Great Eastern now exists in many separate pieces.
The SS Great Eastern is most noteworthy in the laying of Transatlantic telegraph cable. However, as a passenger ship it has been said that the ship rolled excessively to make passengers seasick, despite her enormous size.
Where SS Great Eastern was broken up her outline is still visible at low tide, some small amount of her keel still exists there too.
*I remember reading a ghost story where passengers and crew reported hearing a tapping noise. During her scrapping the remains of a riveter who was sealed in the double bottom during construction was discovered.*
😢 That is so very sad
I’m actually so sad 😭
No one ever mentions the MS St Louis. And, it was the ignorance of the NY fire department that brought down the Normandie. Even the ships architect tried to advise them on how to save her, but they wouldn't listen to him.
One fact about the Carpathia was that as she was fairly close to New York with the Titanic's survivors the Titanic's shipowner J Bruce Ismay messaged the offices of his company White Star and asked them to hold a ship, the Cedric, until he and the crew came so they could go home to England and leave US jurisdiction as soon as possible before any investigation could be started. He signed his message "Yamsi": Ismay spelled backwards. It was intercepted by the American warship Chester which promptly relayed it to Congress, where a subcommittee to investigate the disaster was quickly formed. Its members, headed by Sen. William Alden Smith, traveled to New York to make it in time for the Carpathia's arrival and serve Ismay with a summons to appear in court - not within a few days, let alone a full week: the following day .
The sinking stories of the SS Arctic and SS Atlantic will always make me shudder. They both sounded particularly traumatic, especially for the women and children
0:20 This breaks my heart
Sad facts 💔
Very sad
I love this old transatlantics
4:31 The shipwreck most people know about.
Britannic and Titanic 😢😢
And the 3rd, the Olympic.
@@zyxw2000the one who born first and died last
I live beside the Rosyth dockyard where the Mauretania was scrapped-Inverkeithing another yard mentioned is just two miles away which also scrapped many famous ships.The furniture and all the inside fitments were supposed to have been removed before these ships reach the dockyard but that's never the case-as a result,hundreds of very ordinary homes in the area have beautiful wood panelling,,carpets and all sorts of interior fittings which the men working in the yard were told they could have as they would just be burned.My own home is a very ordinary semi but the previous owners worked in the yards and fitted the house out as if it were a mansion.better that someone have the benefit of the craftsmanship rasther than everything be consumed by the flames.
😭This just makes me weep that they would waste such glorious and elegant pieces of history. It's super cool that you have a home that has parts of the fastest and most beautiful ship in her days. Really great story, thanks for sharing.
@@Firemarioflower it is sad only if somehow we could have kept them imagine if we had Olympic Maureitania and queen mary that would be pretty cool
Yes. With the fascination of Titanic never ending, Olympic could've provided so much insight@@Megalania1
@@Megalania1 Queen Mary actually exists, it is still docked at Los Angeles harbor and is a floating museum
@@Firemarioflower I know by thanks for telling me I just mean imagine if we had the others to go with her
It's really a shame all those ships sank. All those precious metals lost.
Wonderful video. Morro Castle was another tragedy.
Appreciate the comment! And indeed, another tragedy I failed to mention in this video.
so many ships caught fire!
I kinda saw the RMS Mauretnia and the RMS (HMT for war service) Olympic coming down the pipe. I hope to visit the RMS Queen Mary 1 and 2 at some point in the near future once I have the time and money to do so. I'm a full-time university student with 2 part-time jobs and I'm in the process of earning a degree in maritime history. I hope to find a shipwreck of my own one day. I've been in love with ships like these since I was very young and I hope to discover the stories of even more ships.
Fact: RMS Carpathia saved some of titanic passengers
I Like Your Fact
Many hundreds.
Everybody knows that kinda
great and sad vid... you should add the Cap Trafalgar
Thank you! And you are right, there was even a painting by Charles Dixon that depicted the battle between the Cap Trafalgar and the Carmania that I could’ve added. Sadly I simply forgot to add her in this video. There’s just too many liners to mention.
Poor ships 😥
big respect for the RMS
2:35 - 2:50
The Rms Aquitania was my Favorite Ocean liner and it should have been deserved to be saved
Cool
So many were sunk in wars, never lived out their lifespans. :-(
I wonder why such incredibly expensive and for the time high tech vessels, made of the best materials, had such a short operational life, even without accidents.
Anybody?
Generally speaking, they became considered too expensive to continue to operate, or even to preserve. Otherwise they could have kept so many historic vessels for people to experience today: Forget people's fascination with _Titanic_ , there's _Mauretania_ , _Vaterland_ / _Leviathan_ , _America_ , ... so many that could have still been around if someone just spent the money to preserve them. _Queen Mary_ is now being restored, but _United States_ is sitting there, rusting away. It's tragic to lose a part of human history like that.
@@BNuts It might cost a lot of money to preserve the United States. When I first heard of her it seemed to me that she was built to get the Blue Riband more than anything else.
It was cheaper and faster to fly the Atlantic before she hit the water. Perhaps it will become possible to take a Virtual trip around the ship.
If it can be digitised the metal can be melted down.
One of the big problems is that like computers and phones today, what was high tech when they were built was obsolete in a few years. Both Mauritania and Olympic had cutting edge propulsion systems, Mauritania with her turbines (making her the fastest of her day), Olympic with her hybrid reciprocating engines and turbine (making her the most efficient of that era for her size). Within a few years though, direct drive turbines were replaced by geared turbines which allowed ships to be faster than Mauritania and more efficient than Olympic. There was also the switch from coal to oil, although both ships were updated in that regard, but that was much easier than refitting the whole propulsion system. At the same time what was the latest tech for passenger comfort and amenities became obsolete, as did the décor and the general environment. Add in that the old ships are tiny. Queen Mary and Elizabeth were each bigger than Olympic and Mauritania combined. Finally these ships were worked hard, under the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic. Ultimately it becomes the case that it's cheaper to just scrap the old ships and build new ones instead of keeping refitting.
@@ChrisCooper312 But when it was speed they were selling they lost to aircraft.
@@20chocsaday Right, no one crosses the ocean by ship anymore.
You forgot the Yarmouth castle it was built in 1927, which caught fire and sank in 1965. 90 passengers were killed.
My dad owned that ship before I was born its orig. name was SS Evangeline, doing cruises out of Miami. He sold it to the new Bahamas Cruise Line, they say it's bad luck to rename a ship? Well ...
RIP rest in peace,ships😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I think its crying shame Aquitania wasnt preserved. At the time of he retirement she was one of the last 4 stackers in service. Same with Mauritania and Olympic
My Grandmother sailed on the Aquitania after the 2nd world war.
She didn't appreciate this beautiful ship & stated it wasn't very comfortable and was somewhat cramped & it rocked side to side on the sea. I think she went 2nd class if I remember correctly. I thought it was a beautiful ship in comparison to the likes of Titanic.
Aquitania was not as attractive in her external appearance as Olympic/Titanic but Aquitania had more grand interiors
@@bfv8 Perhaps not however its record for safe crossings & It didn't sink but was scrapped after a long career is what was impressive to me. All of the Olympic class vessels sank Except for The Olympic itself which I wonder about because of the rumor's that it was switched with Titanic before its maiden voyage which if correct, It was the Olympic that sank not the Titanic. I am unsure about this & not sure how credible the video showing the investigation that had been done through deep sea exploration of Titanic's sinking It was claimed that the lettering on the Upper stern showed the letters of the Olympic not titanic, Also Apparently the expansion joints of the believed Titanic that lays on the bottom of the ocean is that of the Olympic, Not titanic as both ships had a different type of expansion joint. Also Titanic had a 30 foot scorch mark on its Starboard side close to the bow where there was a Fire burning in its coal bunker & rumor has it the 2 ships where switched prior to its maiden voyage in a bid to sink the Olympic for insurance reasons. LOTS of rumors but the 2 ships may have looked the same, but both had features that the other did not distinguishing these 2 vessel as esthetically different which would prove the truth upon closer inspection of Titanic's Hull under the ocean. . I don't think they have disproved any of these rumors
@@michaelbressette2599 you just mentioned all the bs conspiracy theories. It tells me you know nothing. And titanic sinking had nothing to do with her looks or design just bad luck, and that same damage would have sunk Aquitania
@@michaelbressette2599they have 🤦♂️🤦♂️
yes,yes they have disproved all of them,@@michaelbressette2599
1:35 RMS Canpania
Rest in peace
A ship idea is the uss United States is was basically a copy of the uss America but a little different,it was scraped in I believe 1953 or earlier or mebay later is would be very cool if you added it and great channel good job
no no the United States wasn't scrapped it's sitting (rusting 😢) in Philadelphia! She served till 1970, I got to travel on her I was 9
As depressing as this is it's also a fortunate Discovery because I'm sick and I have a lot of ships I didn't know about to look up and read about
Thanks
In a perfect world, some of these vessels would be berthed in Long Beach, CA alongside the Queen Mary...
In a perfect work Olympic would have been sent to the place titanic would have completed its maden voyage to have a sister ship that could make people understand what they never got
3:14 SS Cap Arcona
1:52 RMS Majestic
Rest In Peace
Ms Estonia
0:38 Normandie
Took so much to build them back in day
4:34 titanic
1:31 😭
2:52 SS Atlantic
0:30 THE HORROR
The song of mental
I currently live in Long Beach they are currently doing heavy modification to the Queen the refurbishing the whole Queen Mary
Good! I traveled on both Queens 2x each at very end of their service late 60s, I was 6 and 7, remember it like yesterday dude!
HOW IN THE FORK IS THE RMS MAJESTIC SO FLAT
And the SS Wilhelm Gustoff? About 9000 people lost their lives!
It was not an ocean liner. Hitler ordered it to be built as a cruise ship
That ship was forgotten
No because Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship and it was MS not SS
They seem to only be showing ships with videos or photos of their demise.
Sadly, so many incredible ships lost to senseless war.
1:07 RMS Olympic
2:34 RMS Aquitania
It’s so sad to see the titanic’s hero sink just like the titanic did.
😢
Rip Noradade
0:07 MAURETANIA
2:10 SS Rex
Классное видео. Такие исторические кадры... Жаль что нет перевода...
How long would a list of the ships in this league that still remain be?
So pity for Normandie😢
bet the uk wanted those ships back in 40
Oh absolutely, the Ballin trio, Olympic, and Mauretania certainly would’ve shortened the war by a few months at least with their carrying capacity.
Future is hard to predict
titanic is trully the peak of ship design. her beauty last long aside from her functionality and practicality.
This film should put to bed all the claptrap people spout about the Titanic today would be a floating hotel or the like. Had she not sunk, most people wouldn't have heard of her today and she'd have been scrapped in the 30s.
Someone cryed like me?😢😢😢
I hate to see any beautiful ship be scrapped or worse, but sadly it is the way of things. The one that really dumbfounded me was the SS America. It was basically just left to rot. It always infuriated me that no one cared enough to do anything with her before it was too late. I'm sure i'm missing some details as to why, but still, its depressing. The loss of all of these beautiful vessels is sad. I would rather see gorgeous ships like these on the seas today, but I know its just a dream.
i'm sad that the RMS olympic was scraped really sad
1:32 that picture is not the Olympic. Olympic had three screws, not four!
I see Olympic’s 2 three bladed outward propellers in the picture. They just happen to be so massive, it looks like Olympic has 4 propellers. If that were the case though, where are the 2 propellers on the left side of the image? After some research, this is indeed a picture of Olympic and how she looked by 1937.
Rose: I don’t see what the fuss is all about it doesn’t look any bigger than the Mauretania?
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That’s as close as we gonna get a pic close to how titanic was sinking that night
It’s not the tyrannical
@@anthonyscali1000Titanic?
Titanic??😥😢😥😢😥😢😥😢😥😢
@@rosalliemartin what is sad?
@anthonyscali1000 it's a kid on his parents acc
Actually, the Queen Elizabeth was sunk by one of her boilers that exploded and fire
They should make another Normandie she was the prettiest ship ever of her time
Ask Clive Palmer to get that idiotic Titanic 2 out of his head. But if Normandie could be rebuilt- which is technically possible- there are no artists any more around who could accomplish the vast interiors of Normandie. With modern technology it would be impossible to maintain the classic look of the ship for instance the bridge and engine room would be totally different. Yesterday can't be repeated...
My grandpa was on the Montana
olympics my girl
So many of these ships were vicitms of fire😢
Especially the French liners.
Almost every ship was scrapped
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That was a little sad to see and the fact that they scrapped that many ships is ubserd
The crew of the artic is very brutal bc the passengers killed and attacking only the captain and 2 crew survive
9:17 all I want to know about this is where is the other half of it?
It was swallowed up by the waves.
😢 rip titanic britanic olympic carpathia
I've read that the SS Paris was an arson fire.
Ahh that’s interesting. I haven’t done much research into the SS Paris, but it seems like many French liners were victims to flames. But we may never know if those flames were accidental or from arson.
The Titanic didn't deserve his destiny
What if the edmund fitzgerald was raised in the great lakes?
The Queens are dead..., Long live the Queens😢.
9:20 YOU MEAN IT"S STILL THERE!!!??
Today, the former SS America is barely visible at all. She has almost been completely swallowed up by the seas.
@@nboceanlinerhistory Oh. How tragic
It's been sitting in the same spot for nearly 30 years. It was once the whole ship, too. Many people have said they wanted to salvage, or even save, the SS America. However, all of the people that have made such offers either sold off their rights, or backed out of said deals. All that remains of the ship above the water is a little bit of the hull.
Not the most tragic ship story I know of. The easily preventable tragedy of the SS Princess Sophia has taken such a spot for me, because of the bizarre circumstances of the disaster, and just how avoidable the fate of everyone on board was had the captain allowed rescue ships to begin evacuating passengers as they arrived on site.
The thumbnail got The Mauretania and Olympics date wrong, they were both scraped in 1935
Yes while they were both sent to the scrap yard in 1935, the images I added are how they looked in those years. Mauretania was a hulk left on the beach by 1936. Olympic was almost completely gone by 1937. Remember it took a while to scrap these massive ships.
even if not the Olympic, at the very least; they should have saved the RMS Aquitania - she was the only vessel in this list to serve BOTH world wars - her era should have been preserved with her; or many other of these vessels 😢😓
On merutania you FORGOT the blue riband holder
I missed Aqua