Especially around Hatteras, that stretch is infamous. Back in the 00s a friend of mine, a captain by trade, got caught in a storm while relocating a fairly big and very seaworthy yacht. It was heavy and wild going two veteran crewmen got seasick!), then a rogue wave took out two allegedly unbreakable portholes and stripped some fittings and a stretch of rail off. He'd worked off the Oregon coast and around Seattle, he was well-versed in foul weather, but Hatteras was the only time he thought he might lose a vessel and possibly his life. Though relocating yachts was lucrative and usually easy he moved back to the West Coast. The experience really spooked him.
@@mathewkelly9968 Same here. I saw guys get seasick before but I’m sure if they called abandon ship anyone could at least make it topside. Something else must have been going on.
As someone who worked on Trawlers there is no way in hell even if hell had frozen over would I step onto a vessel with such poor hull form and even worse such low freeboard ........... Like when Victoria a Colony bought the HMVS Cerberus they are least had the sense to install some Gunnels on it to get it from England to Australia
That was a harrowing tale, the details you shared were superb, if haunting. Thank you for sharing it. IIRC, I read somewhere that the _Monitor_ had a wooden lower hull fixed to her armored upper hull and deck, and that joint had problems with leaking. Am I remembering right?
ruclips.net/video/NFLHalz7VyM/видео.htmlsi=E5moG7qASpzkcreA I explain the connection between the upper and lower hull at 5:35 in the video I linked. At no point was Monitor's lower hull constructed of wood, it was solely iron. It is speculated that the hull suffered separations at that location because of its weak method of assembly, but it is impossible to verify. Thank you.
Oakum. I haven't thought of that word since I read Hornblower's Adventures as a teen. Thanks again for a wonderful tale.
Love,
David
Very good telling of the end of USS Monitor. Your research and presentation was well done and interesting.
Crazy to try to take such unseaworthy ships into the open sea. Even the smallest waves were a threat.
Especially around Hatteras, that stretch is infamous.
Back in the 00s a friend of mine, a captain by trade, got caught in a storm while relocating a fairly big and very seaworthy yacht. It was heavy and wild going two veteran crewmen got seasick!), then a rogue wave took out two allegedly unbreakable portholes and stripped some fittings and a stretch of rail off.
He'd worked off the Oregon coast and around Seattle, he was well-versed in foul weather, but Hatteras was the only time he thought he might lose a vessel and possibly his life. Though relocating yachts was lucrative and usually easy he moved back to the West Coast. The experience really spooked him.
Great video and good job with the way you put it together.
Good job! Thx.
Wow 😮 what a end to a famous ship
Too seasick to leave a sinking vessel? 😳 f that
The seaman in me thinks you have no business being at sea if you're that much of a lubber
@@mathewkelly9968 Same here. I saw guys get seasick before but I’m sure if they called abandon ship anyone could at least make it topside. Something else must have been going on.
Poor monitor 😕
monitor was a start ........ semper fortis👍🤙👌✌
As many things as I have read over this sinking, I never knew that it was this long drawn out affair.
As someone who worked on Trawlers there is no way in hell even if hell had frozen over would I step onto a vessel with such poor hull form and even worse such low freeboard ........... Like when Victoria a Colony bought the HMVS Cerberus they are least had the sense to install some Gunnels on it to get it from England to Australia
That was a harrowing tale, the details you shared were superb, if haunting. Thank you for sharing it.
IIRC, I read somewhere that the _Monitor_ had a wooden lower hull fixed to her armored upper hull and deck, and that joint had problems with leaking. Am I remembering right?
ruclips.net/video/NFLHalz7VyM/видео.htmlsi=E5moG7qASpzkcreA
I explain the connection between the upper and lower hull at 5:35 in the video I linked.
At no point was Monitor's lower hull constructed of wood, it was solely iron.
It is speculated that the hull suffered separations at that location because of its weak method of assembly, but it is impossible to verify.
Thank you.
Maybe someday I'll make it back to the East Coast and at last see her artifacts.
Just a question, what is oakum?
death trap