More Strange Shipwrecks - Lawn Dart U-Boats to an Aussie Monitor
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- In a follow-up to my previous video on strange shipwrecks, we have three more examples here.
Or, more accurately, six ships total. But only three examples.
From U-Boats stuck in the bottom like giant lawn darts, to two ships from two world wars, resting next to each other. And, of course, one of the very few remaining monitors and the only colonial Australian ship left.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:58 - Submarines
07:51 - Cormoran/Tokai Maru
13:04 - Cerberus
U-3523 would be a horror story if it truly was a crash dive situation without battle damage. The possibility of non-flooded stern compartments, with men in them that were injured from the car crash type impact, stuck in the mud and slowly dying.
Additional interest about the Cormoran is that she is actually "Cormoran II" as she was named after a German colonial gunboat stranded at Tsingtau at beginning of WWI.
Cormoran II was actually originally the Russian passenger/cargo liner Ryazan captured at outbreak of war by the famous Emden, brought into Tsingtau and armed with gunboat Cormorans guns, renamed, and sent out to raid when Emden began her legendary cruise.
Some other interesting wrecks I know about:
USS Astoria: as she sank, her bow broke off (like many US cruisers). However, it remained attached by the anchor chains and just swung backwards and landed on top of the Astoria’s aircraft hanger and is touching the aft turret.
Svärdet: 86-gun ship of the line sunk at the Battle of Öland in 1675. Despite being sunk by a magazine explosion, in 2011 the bow was found intact with guns still on some of the gunports.
Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary: two schooners that collided and sank together off of Boston in 1902. Their wrecks were found in 2002, still locked together.
USS Gilliam: attack transport sunk during Operation Crossroads. Unique as she practically took a direct hit from the Test Able bomb, and the results speak for themselves.
USS Macon: Unique because it is the wreck of a dirigible airship, not a sea-going ship.
Excellent video! The image of HMVS Cerberus rusting away in the very same bay she had guarded all her existence really strikes a poignant chord for someone like me who likes ships.
The indent in the mud around the sub, is caused by the very slight current flow that is diverted round the buried hull. As it is diverted it speeds up slightly and excavates the very soft mud around the sub, causing an apparent indent we see in the sonar.
Off Wake island is a merchant ship that was only found because it was in the area that researchers hoped to find the IJN Hayate, the first destroyer sunk in WW2.
There is a merchant ship that used to have the title of deepest wreck discovered, SS Rio Grande. See if you can find more than one picture of it
In the Mediterranean, there is the Ark Royal and the Danton. She is the only upright dreadnought wreck
Excellent videos brother. Some of these dudes are just making up history for their lack of research. Thank you for not being one of those.
Another U-boat lawn dart you did not mention was U-745, which sits in the Baltic sea, for which I don't blame you because most sources, except for a mildly obscure documentary that aired on NatGeo more than a decade ago, fail to mention that she sits exactly like U-3523 (at 45 degrees, stern pointing up), that documentary is actually on YT and you can find it by searching for U-745
I've actually been on the upper deck of the Cerberus down in Half Moon bay. Went down there with the Cerberus conservation group about 10 years ago. Unfortunately she's past preserving now - before her 93 collapse was the best opportunity to save her, but the chance of a successful recovery or preservation has reduced from small to pretty much zero over the last 10 years.
2 other points on interest on the Cerberus:
1. She was the second ship to ever traverse the Suez canal on her maiden voyage to Australia from her UK shipyard.
2. She was the first military ship built in the UK to completely forgo having a mast structure.
USS Richard Montgomery, maybe the worlds most dangerous ship wreck?
There’s a French submarine off the south coast of France that is also a ‘submarine pawn dart’. It’s the first I’ve ever heard of. Also, there is a French / Italian documentary on RUclips about the U455 off Genoa
Very cool! Thanks for the video!
There are several ships in the English channel that may be of interest, Monarch, Baden, Charybdis, Athabaskan
Interesting film and stories - I knew of the Cerebus as there is / was a paper model on her on the net. I see you've more films on here, so wil look them up. Thanks, cobber.
There are 2 more WW2 wrecks that were discovered recently, Ommaney Bay and Mannet Abele.
USS Sachem history and how it end up in the woods.
Theirs actually a video on that already, I could try to link it here if desired. Not from this guy but someone else though
I saw a documentary called "Sen Toku" several years ago about finding the I-402 off Goto Island. The I-58 was sunk with her and there was film of both subs.
How about the Finnish submarine Vetehinen which is the only submarine to ram another submarine!
You forgot the Royal Navy K class submarines! They went wholesale on ramming!
Always enjoy watching your content! Learned quite a bit from the various vids you post!! As a suggestion, maybe not so much weird as it is sad, the wreck of Tirpitz? For such a grand and powerful ship, her wreck site is fading fast on the shore of the fjord
As for the type 21 u boat, I'm VERY SURPRISED that she was on the surface at all given she had snorkel equipment! Having said that, her capt probably dived hurriedly when the depth xharges went off and the crew list control.
As for the u 455, the capt would have blown ALL tanks, bow and stern trim tanks also to get the bridge to the surface and abandon ship. The idea that the hatch was blown open at such a shallow depth is LUDACREST! the locking mechanisms wouldn't allow it unless it were at a depth of 1000 feet or more.
I've seen Cerberus wreck many times when my family go to the bay and see her
The submarines create a pressure wave in front causing a disruption in sea floor density’s, because the floor is saturated in water as the sub drops down in a moving forward direction after being sunk, causing a wake vortices, so it’s pushing water outwards and during the fall the bottom of the sub is creating a secondary flow over the sides upwards, for an instant is literally liquifying the bottom of sea floor making penetration in easier. That’s why you see it so often, plus the weight plays a major factor as well.
Hope it helps, seen computer modeling that shows the properties in affect making it possible.
There is also the wreck of the Graf Zeppelin, Scharnhorst, and Edinburgh
There was photos of U3523 but they seem to now have disappeared. But I remember it was the most preserved uboat I’ve ever seen. Even the wooden planking was still intact and fishing nets has been caught and were draping the propellers.
It looked like it had just left the factory.
Another interesting shipwreck is the Mara Hope near de coast of brazilian city of Fortaleza. Is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the city.
Hi great episode. My brother and a relative was boating in the lower part of the Hudson River, just north of NYC. Hidden in a couple of coves ,they said were old ww2 carriers, freighters, destroyers. said that the most were pretty well rusted out but you could still stand on them. I tried to look up info on this and couldn't find much at all.
The hudson river reserve fleet was supposed to be completely scrapped by 1971.
There is a ship graveyard near Staten Island but no carriers there as far as I know
Warning…Don’t walk around on ship wrecks. Rusting deck plate can be wafer thin and if you put your foot through will cut you to ribbons!
✋Woohoo Guam🤚. That's where I was born. I forgot about those two ships. Both my parents are 100% America and my dad was in the Navy and took my mom with him there. I was still a baby when my parents brought me state side. So I don't remember anything
I still remember going swimming at Half Moon Bay back in the very early 80s and swimming out to Cerberus - she wasn't in very good shape even then but there was still enough deck and top side to get entirely out of the water so you could dive from her or set up a picnic, assuming you could get all the food and drink out there without getting it all wet.
It's a great thing that they stopped yahoos like me (or at least 18 year old me) from further degrading the wreck, as a piece of Victorian and Australian naval history and one of the last monitors still in one piece anywhere in the world it would be truly amazing if they could bring her back to life.
A few more random ones that don't have enough attention, Akitsushima, Hayashimo, Dimitri Donskoi
I'd like to add that a few other ships from Australia's colonial navies are still around, albeit in worse shape than Cerberus
Ones that come to mind off the top of my head are HMQS Gayundah and HMQS Miner, both having being sunk as breakwaters in Moreton Bay.
Do you think you could talk about USS Chicago (CA-29), I feel that it’s almost never mentioned.
There is a type vii u boat wreck pointing skywards in the Baltic near the Finnish coast
Honda point shipwrecks
Good video. However you might want to pronounce it SUB-marine rather than SUMMER-ine. I was thirty year’s old before I realized that Calvary and Cavalry were two very different things.
Would you be willing to cover submarines from the cold war or the various wrecks turned into diving reefs?
I have real good suggestion can you do the shipwreck Yamato i would love to see that wreck
could you do one of spanish cruiser almirante oquendo from the battle of santiago de cuba
4:10 I don't think that's an impact crater. That looks like a scourhole to me. I could be mistaken.
I don’t believe the impact you speak of caused her to bury this much.The sub would have flooded forward with the bombing damage. Then she would have lain with the bow touching the mud but the stern buoyant. In time the weight of the bow would, and with progressive further flooding would have sunk deeper into the soft mud.
Wonder if any body's are still in u455 sub..
I just want to say I appreciate you reading your scripts yourself vs having some text to speech app read it for you. I didn’t mind drach’s robot voice videos because it was clearly a computer. I just can’t stand the ones that do a decent job of reading but randomly have the wrong tones or inflection. I find it lazy and annoying on behalf of the author.
I remember fondly Drach's robo voice, I always got a laugh when it always butchered names of ships, or locations.
Good Days.
Just my ear but does this narrator sound like the lock pick lawyer?
They need to talk hear it is no shop besides a sub please please❤ save this ship.if you can