4 Ocean Liners that Vanished Without a Trace

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Want to hear about another ocean liner that vanished without a trace? Check out my video on the SS Waratah: • The Strange Disappeara...
Before the days of wireless communication, ships would often disappear. With no way to call for help, if something went wrong, a vessel and the souls on board would be on their own. The isolation of the world's oceans meant that a ship that encountered a problem would often vanish without a trace.
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Chapters:
0:00 The Titanic Mystery
2:21 SS Lord Spencer: A Mystery Ship in the Darkness
5:48 SS Pacific: A Shattering Record
10:59 SS City of Glasgow: Fleeting Innovation
14:16 SS City of Boston: Fire or Ice?
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@BigOldBoats Год назад

Thanks for watching! What's your favorite maritime mystery?

@TBone-bz9mp Год назад

The Waratah, nothing about it makes sense.

@rocketman3863 Год назад

Probably the SS Naronic. It’s a big mystery that still can’t be solved.

@SubTheScribeYT Год назад

The Edmund Fitzgerald. Still gives me chills

@stevebengel1346 Год назад

Mary Celeste

@vibingwithvinyl Год назад

It's not exactly a mystery, but I'd love to know what actually happened on M/S Estonia ferry. I was ~17 when it went down and since I'm a Finn, it was quite close to us. I had even been onboard back when it was the Viking Sally and again as Silja Star.

@carolinem1624 Год назад

I’ve switched from true crime to stories about boats going missing in the ocean so in my head it’s like “the sails were cut off, the anchor was cut off, the rudder was cutoff”

@chendaforest Год назад

😂

@peterlee5535 Год назад

The front fell off!

@petrenkomykola7992 Год назад

@@peterlee5535 you know youre not supposed to build boats out of cardboard

@peterlee5535 Год назад

@@petrenkomykola7992 Are you sure? Is that a regulation?

@zainmudassir2964 Год назад

Good. True crime has become too exploitative

@ExUSSailor Год назад

When you take into consideration just how vast the oceans truly are, it's a miracle there aren't far more unexplained ship disappearances.

@marhawkman303 Год назад

Well, it's more that most of them aren't famous. Ships lost at sea.... well... in the old days? "sending a distress call" didn't happen on the high seas.

@wallykimball8829 Год назад

Until radio existed pretty much every shipwreck was unexplained unless somebody survived.

@Sassymouse88 Год назад

There are probably a lot more unexplained losses. Before radio, if a ship didn't arrive it was literally just considered lost at sea. I don't know if they sent out search vessels either because of the potential to lose them too.

@commodorezero Год назад

There are. Back then every time a ship lost it vanished if no one stumbled across it by chance. Also peacetime shipwrecks were much more common in the pre wireless period as ships were smaller and weaker. Now it takes the perfect storm(pun intended) for ships to sink at all never mind without a trace.

@tigerwoods373 Год назад

Yes oceans are massive but shipping routes usually give a good hint. Plus with an increase in sonar technology and how massive these ships are, it usually only takes some time to find something. They can even change the magnetic fields sometimes giving further clues to their location.

@wallykimball8829 Год назад

It's kind of like if, before radio, when you went sailing you were like Schrodinger's cat. Theoretically both alive and dead. No one knew for sure until you either showed up at port or didn't. They ought to contact those firms that send submersibles out to search. It'd be really cool to find a lot of these old shipwrecks.

@Jedi_Master_Obi-Wan_Kenobi66 Год назад

Everytime I think of a Ocean Liner going missing, I always think of the fictional Italian Ocean liner Antonia Graza (based on the Andrea Doria) from the movie Ghost Ship. The thought of a liner crossing the North Atlantic with over a thousand people on board disappearing without a trace then being found floating and derelict by a salvage team in the Bering Strait decades later without any sign of what happened is haunting

@sorrenblitz805 Год назад

Look up the Baychimo

@kilianortmann9979 Год назад

That was an err very formative movie for me, I was probably a bit young, when I first watched it. Imho the effects still hold up quite well.

@PhantomStella Год назад

I'll forever remember the first scene in that movie

@anthonylowder6687 Год назад

The ship in the movie was lost in the Bermuda Triangle not the Mediterranean

@hithere7382 Год назад

@@sorrenblitz805 There's nothing weird about that one. Nobody died and if any of the people that found it later had been a bit more equipped or luckier with the weather it would have plied the sea lanes again.

@felixcat9318 Год назад

That a huge vessel with 458 people on board could simply vanish without trace is truly horrific! Whilst the 458 people on board knew what befell their ship, none lived to share their tale of horror. Suffice to say that they died terrible deaths, trapped in the sinking, flooding vessel with no hope of escape or rescue. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean was a high risk affair...

@GeoffreyWare Год назад

Indeed it was and I often wonder why people would take such a risk

@Rase-iwnl- Год назад

No they were taken to the center of the earth in a wormhole and live with the greys and nephilim now

@sorrenblitz805 Год назад

@@Rase-iwnl- the Nephilim are extinct lol. The grey's don't live in the Hollow Earth, they're just biological drones, basically they're grown in their ships which are shot off into space much like how we shoot probes into space. Sad thing is their planet is probably long dead now and all that's left is the drones

@randomlyentertaining8287 Год назад

@@GeoffreyWare The same reason people take the risk of leaving their homes at all. They needed/wanted to do it.

@CJM-rg5rt Год назад

The first one is especially disturbing because the crew was probably swamped before they had a chance to make it above deck. They probably woke up in darkness and drowned without time to comprehend what happened, just terror and confusion. I'd like to know even if it meant dying a little slower.

@juliadagnall5816 Год назад

As a note: the rule about operators not being allowed to repair their equipment existed as a way for Marconi to protect his patents and stave off competition. Early electric companies did something similar, they actually owned the lightbulbs installed in private homes and when one died they would send someone out to replace it. Having developed and promoted the technology they wanted to be able to keep profiting off it without having to constantly ward off imitators. In the case of the wireless operators the downside of this was that they were employees of the Marconi company rather than members of the ship’s crew, so they weren’t really integrated into the command structure

@lameesahmad9166 Год назад

This is interesting. I cant quite put my finger on the name of the country, but, I have heard that in one country you have to have a qualified electrician change your light bulbs in your house. I am open to correction but I seem to remember that it us somewhere in Australasia. 🤔 Imagine that. Crazy. It takes the joke about how many people it would take to change a lightbulb to another level. No blondes involved. This is genuine.

@chendaforest Год назад

@@lameesahmad9166 I'm certain that's a myth. Maybe industrial lighting but not domestic.

@briansnyder8016 Год назад

Some of these comments….even if BOB did “steal” Mike’s idea, he talked about 3 different ships, none of which I had heard of. But just looking at the production values of this video it’s obvious that this wasn’t made in 2 days. It’s just a coincidence.

@bold810 Год назад

I thought "BOB" was the monster got Laura Palmer back all them years ago. 🎉

@tlane3641 Год назад

Those comments are almost as funny as the "OMG you're so dumb the Titanic isn't a mystery" comments from geniuses who couldn't be bothered to watch more than the first 30 seconds of the video.

@Ruin3.14 11 месяцев назад

There are always a army of white knights on the internet.

@jonathanpeterson1984 11 месяцев назад

Da fuq does this comment even pertain to?

@baraxor Год назад

In the days before watertight compartmentation, a major breach in the hull from collision, whether with an iceberg or another ship, meant foundering in pretty short order. If you were in the middle of the ocean, out of sight from any other vessel and no time to even launch distress rockets, you were flat out of luck.

@adamalton2436 Год назад

I wonder how different the Titanic story would have been if there were no survivors. Creepy thought.

@Jnglmpera Год назад

On top of it gaining a reputation similar to MH370 over a century later (perhaps the airplane becomes known as "The Titanic of the skies"?), I'm sure James Cameron, Leo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet would've had one less big hitter on their resume.

@zainmudassir2964 Год назад

Maybe find some lifeboats with dead bodies and there would be endless conspiracy theories

@adamalton2436 Год назад

@@zainmudassir2964 I could definitely see that. There were plenty of conspiracy theories even with the survivors.

@willbreckinridge8010 Год назад

Wow, two disappearing ship videos from the two biggest ocean liner channels on RU-vid? Did you and Mike coordinate this? XD

@janithawikramasinghe6777 Год назад

lol yeah seems sus

@DeliveryMcGee Год назад

Yeah, my first thought was "didn't the well-dressed Aussie just do this yesterday?"

@nickblaine12 Год назад

Wow I thought the same exact thing!

@MiniMC546 Год назад

Oceanliner Designs talked about the other three ships but both of them talked about the Pacific of Collins Line.

@mrtrain6118 Год назад

I think they could be copying eachother tbh

@AviationCommercials Год назад

This channel is becoming the Unsolved Mysteries of the nautical world. Great work.

@chendaforest Год назад

Yes, and it's historically accurate too. A lot of the unsolved mystery channels are full of ghost stories and unsubstantiated nonsense.

@gordonhardwick5151 Год назад

We hear about the Titanic so often, yet few people can be aware of the Republic’s sinking, and even fewer of its significance to the Titanic’s designers. That’s an amazing story and brilliantly told. It deserves a million views! Thanks very much.

@furripupau Год назад

A theory about the SS Pacific that was put forward by a patent lawyer named Dickerson was that its engines raced out of control, self destructing, due to a fault in the design of the valve gear, and that this caused the loss of the ship. However, Dickerson was not an engineer (though he claimed to be many times, and made much money off of these claims) and had a vested interest in disparaging engines which infringed or bypassed the patents of his clients.

@Daniel_Huffman 9 месяцев назад

While he may not have been an engineer, Dickerson's theory of the _Pacific's_ engines suffering a catastrophic failure is a pretty plausible theory, though it was ultimately disproven by the William Graham message. It was also speculated that the SS _Naronic_ had suffered such a malfunction, which was proposed by the captain of the SS _Runic._ While the four _Naronic_ bottles can't be easily confirmed, the location of where the ship's lifeboats were found, the ways crew lists were kept in those times, and other specific details make them seem too elaborate to be fakes.

@cardboardempire Год назад

The Titanic's marconi wireless was the McDonald's ice-cream machine of its day.

@chrishickory7907 Год назад

Imagine if that happened to Titanic. The case would've only partially solved in 1985.

@vaclavmacgregor2464 Год назад

I dout it! Without telegraph to report the aproximate location then there would be little chance to find it.

@NS-hs6lt Год назад

Interesting that people had to consider the possibility of trolls even back before the internet. But in the form of messages in bottles. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@antonbrakhage490 Год назад

Having a rule that you can't repair the only means of calling for help while at sea is one of those things that is just so phenomenally stupid its amazing that anyone actually thought it was a good idea. Right up there with not having enough life boats for all on board.

@annohalloran6020 Год назад

Nautical artworks are so beautiful. Thanks for promoting them. It must be quite difficult to achieve the colors of water in the light.

@DeliveryMcGee Год назад

Even when in constant radio contact, large ships can suddenly cease to exist with no explanation, pretty common in the Great Lakes. The WW2 German Kriegsmarine's U-boats , though outside the scope of this channel, definitely hold the record for "assumed lost with all hands but we don't know exactly when, where, or who killed them."

@zsigzsag Год назад

I was thinking maybe they were hit with rogue waves which do occur in the Great Lakes as well as the oceans.

@justinlynch3 Год назад

One the most baffling Great Lakes stories that people still disagree about this day has to be the Edmund Fitzgenerald. One moment the ship is in radio contact and as the captain said "We are holding our own", next moment she's just gone. Official reports claims it was hatch covers, Anderson's captain thinks she may of touch bottom (ifI remember right), others think it was rouge waves in the storm, even heard theories she broke apart then sank. Some say the design of the ship was faulty, others say she was in bad shape in need of serious repairs, etc. It's pretty wild. It's crazy because that's not even a lost ship, her wreck has been found. Yet we still don't know what actually happened to it. All anybody got is theories.

@xcc9162 Год назад

@@justinlynch3 I think she probably struck bottom on the 6 fathom shoal, which according to her past crews wasn’t out of the ordinary. This could have opened up a gash in her hull, leading to rapid flooding. The captain and crew possibly not realizing how bad the damage was, didn’t report it in time. As for her breaking her back, if she had major flooding in her forward compartments when she crested a wave and sagged the huge weight difference between the fore and aft sections could have broken her keel. Either way most people agree that she split up on the surface. Power to her radios and sensors would have been severed by this, resulting in an abrupt loss of communication. The only thing we know for certain is that whatever happened to the Fitz happened fast.

@marhawkman303 Год назад

@@xcc9162 The sinking of the Cyclops is much the same. It's a mystery... because the wreck was never found, and it had a working radio... but never sent a mayday. Well... when you're in a storm in the ocean... the radio might get damaged by the storm. And sinking on the high seas... good luck finding the wreck. Titanic's location wasn't the real issue, it was DEPTH, if it had been shallower waters it'd have been easy. We just don't know the location of the Cyclops accurately enough.

@DeliveryMcGee Год назад

@@justinlynch3 IMO, probably a little bit of everything. Last voyage before a serious refit so not in the best shape, shoaling putting a small hole in the bottom, a bit leaky from the top as well bc leaky hatch covers, cargo shifted due to the water from those causing a bit of a list, then a big wave from a bad angle turned the list into a capsizing/breaking her back.

@sevierno Год назад

Another great video. Reminded me of another passenger liner mystery that you could do in the future. The Adelaide Steamship Company's SS Koombana disappeared during a cyclone of the coast of Western Australia in 1912 and has never been found. It was a fate shared by another ASC ship, the SS Yongala in 1911, which wasn't found until 1958.

@puppywing8693 Год назад

Glad you included two Inman Liners, that company seemed to have appalling luck although not as bad as the Collins Line.

@Brock_Landers Год назад

The SS City of New York and City of Paris were beautiful ships in 1889. I've seen some beautiful color paintings of the SS New York (as it was later renamed, and was the ship that almost collided with the Titanic as she was leaving port) and they're breathtaking with her long bowsprit.

@oriontaylor Год назад

Inman’s City of Rome was an interesting, if unsuccessful, predecessor to those two beauties.

@verilyheld Год назад

Pity it didn't collide. One wonders how many dreadful losses of life have been avoided by a timely accident.

@nicholaskelly1958 6 месяцев назад

Probably the most beautiful ships ever built.

@MiniMC546 Год назад

Others commenting that BOB stole the idea from Oceanliner Designs but Mike Brady talked about SS Naronic, MS Hans Hedtoft, SS Waratah, and Collins Line Pacific. BOB talked about SS Lord Spencer, SS City of Glasgow, and SS City of Boston. Both Big Old Boats and Oceanliner Designs talked about the Collins Line ship Pacific. It would be called stealing if BOB even used Oceanliner Designs' animations without giving him any credit.

@MrOmega7109 Год назад

I personally feel like it has something to do with the algorithm and the information that they both have available to them. There's probably something that tells them both that their viewers want something like this.

@ChickVicious237 Год назад

@@MrOmega7109 exactly my thought

@mbvoelker8448 Год назад

Cool that you and Oceanliner Designs were working on similar videos at the same time. Happened to 2 of the Aviation Disasters channels one time a while back too. RU-vid must be telling you what we like to see.

@JohnDavies-cn3ro Год назад

Fascinating stories; how tragic was the loss of such beautiful ships, and all on board? Just a thought, particularly the one which may have been lost in a winter storm. My late father was a navy gunner, sailing on Arctic Ocean patrols out of Scapa Flow. He said that in very bad weather they had to go round the ship with steam hoses, clearing it of ice otherwise it would grow top heavy, turn over and sink. Could the same thing have happened with any of these?

@RSimpkinuk57 Год назад

White Star's "Germanic" was sunk that way in February 1899: fortunately not at sea, but alongside a New York pier (while loading supplies of coal for her next voyage). And without turning over. When the weather thawed she was pumped out, refloated and repaired to continue a long and interesting career.

@sirtalkalotdoolittle Год назад

Please pardon the length. This is the story of when Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia, was lost at sea. In 1812, when her husband had been elected Governor of South Carolina, her only child, a sturdy boy of eleven died, and Theodosia's health was shattered by her sorrow. In the same year Burr returned from a sojourn in Europe, and his loving daughter embarked from Charleston on a schooner, the Patriot, to meet her father in New York. When Burr, who was left a widower after a long and happy marriage, arrived, he was met by a letter which told him that his grandson was dead and that Theodosia was coming to him. Weeks sped by, and no news was heard of the ill-fated Patriot. At last it became evident that she must have gone down or in some other way have been lost. Burr and Governor Allston wrote to each other letter after letter, of which each one seems to surpass the agony of the other. At last all hope was given up. Governor Allston died soon after of a broken heart.

@Flies2FLL Год назад

I was on the wreck of the Celebrity Xpedition in November 2019. And NO it didn't hit a sandbar, the water was 400 feet deep. We were 1/4 miIe off of Isabella when the engine quit. The boat drifted into the rocks when we were on a zodiac cruise..... Celebrity cruise line treated us VERY well, I highly recommend this group. And it is kind of cool to say that I have something in common with Titanic survivors.

@stevenschnepp576 Год назад

In that "not really" kind of way. I'd leave off that last sentence next time I told that story; it doesn't make you look terribly good. The survivors of the _Titanic_ were haunted by the massive loss of life on that night. Nobody died when the _Celebrity Xpedition_ ran aground.

@Flies2FLL Год назад

@@stevenschnepp576 Noted.

@clarsach29 Год назад

That fact about the Titanic's wireless is really interesting, and presumably not well known....how different history might have been had the wireless operators followed policy and not tried to repair the wireless themselves!

@toolsteel8482 Год назад

I absolutely love these documentaries, thanks for presenting. I especially love that era of ships that had both sail and steam power. Also, I really like the paintings of ships In the midst of heavy seas ; one can almost feel the struggle of the vessel portrayed; I love ship art.

@gregb6469 Год назад

Imagine how many scores (hundreds?) of ships disappeared during the pre-steamer era?

@c.l.freeman7654 Год назад

Been casually studying everything I could find on the R.M.S. TITANIC and unless I got the memory of a gnat, I've never heard about the Marconi system needing repairs or nor working. Learnm something new every day

@seppo532 Год назад

The ocean is dark and full of terrors.

@mikeherren5604 2 месяца назад

Your my favorite for old historical ship wreck n history mystery man is the best for the Great Lakes. Thx guys.

@tammanyfields3583 Год назад

I so enjoy your stories and the way you express them to your listeners. As child, my favorite story and poem has always been the wreck of the Hesperus. You describe as Longfellow did a story that sticks with you. You have the gift of gab.

@boqndimitrov8693 9 месяцев назад

it's interesting how often wretched disasters turn out to be an excuse for insurance scams! even the last merrie celeste run that ended up hitting a reef was like that!

@GeoffreyWare Год назад

Thank you for making this video! I had never even heard of these ships but I'm very pleased to know more about history thank you

@stevesilverman3505 Год назад

The ad timing of this video is spot on. I appreciate it.

@Ayoosi Год назад

I can't help but notice how many of these incidents all state the same issue: heavier than normal icebergs for the season. I can only conclude that the most likely fate of these ships certainly involves such sea ice. The ships must have been steaming too fast for conditions, and been kidnapped and eaten by malicious icebergs hellbent on the taste of human blood!

@verilyheld 10 месяцев назад

There is an event thatas I understand it, has not happened since 1912. Over a century without any known occurrence. That is a ship colliding with an iceberg. The reason for that is the Titanic. After its sinking, it was made mandatory for all vessels traversing the North Atlantic in peacetime (wartime was likely different) to use a more southerly route to better avoid icebergs. Also, the International Ice Patrol was set up. Shame it took the sinking of the Titanic and the massive loss of life to bring those standards in.

@winstonchurchill5791 Год назад

Great video and a bunch of exciting mysteries! Thank you!

@owenpurvis2633 Год назад

Really enjoy your videos. You continue to come up with compelling stories and subjects to delve into.

@harbard642 Год назад

This channel is addictive...well done

@santosh99samuel 9 месяцев назад

One heck of a hook at the start! You're an expert storyteller

@pedenharley6266 Год назад

Another great video! Thank you!

@IntrepidMilo Год назад

This was an amazing video. You're a great storyteller.

@lisadolan689 Год назад

Agreed. He’s great. So relaxing to listen to 😊

@airringtonpresents6367 Год назад

Always a pleasure to watch these videos this is what I wait for every week.Keep up the good work captain.

@GaryDavis-ir6fh Месяц назад

these videos are so exciting i could watch for hours! espesially about the fitz, and the titanic

@davidbrent8031 10 месяцев назад

Big Old Boats' videos are so atmospheric!

@kurdtcocaine0 Год назад

So happy to see so many videos on vanished ships!

@jenniferlevine5406 Год назад

I really enjoy your videos. This one was excellent!

@makkurasami Год назад

What a gripping opening. Wonderful video!

@johnwick-ii6il Год назад

Excellent. I cant help but wonder if any of these have been discovered by later oil and gas surveys or ocean floor explorations. There are some already spotted on sonar, but still remain unidentified.

@ladymeghenderson9337 Год назад

Thank you for this, it was fascinating

@dangerdave138 Год назад

glad to see more excellent content!

@matthewpoplawski8740 Год назад

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Keep up your good work. ✌✌✌✌

@NonsensicalNauticalRambings Год назад

I’ve never heard of any of these, so this should be an interesting watch!

@therealtony2009 Год назад

Always nice to see one of your uploads just after I wake up.

@yankeeclipper4326 Год назад

Good video. I have not heard of any of these tragedies before.

@CultgentlemanJack 8 месяцев назад

Love watching your videos ❤👍

@BigOldBoats 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!

@GloriousSEAGRUB Год назад

amazing video!

@mariuszszymczak3644 Год назад

Love it! I'd love to see a video where long lost ship has been found.

@ladyofmyheart Год назад

This 😢 was so informative but tragic. The ocean is truly the master of all.

@esterherschkovich6499 6 месяцев назад

I am watching all your videos..fantastic channel calm voice too.

@SeaTravelr123 Год назад

Wonderful job. 🎉

@gaius_enceladus Год назад

Great video!

@yup_pea Год назад

Awesome video 👍

@toddgilmore8412 2 месяца назад

Excellent Maritime History and Mystery!

@huntera123 Год назад

Well done. The degree of high safety and reliability of today grew out of hrsh lessons.

@user-gu8qi4me8x 2 месяца назад

This video is actually genuinely underated and damm ❤😂🎉

@Kroggnagch Год назад

Look I know this isn’t related to the content, exactly, but I love the guitar you have playing in the background. I love the dissonant chords, not so loud we can’t hear you tho. Great work.

@LotsofLisa Год назад

The climate and seascape has changed so much over the past 100 years! Icebergs here, there, everywhere. I’ve cruised to Alaska. The ice in the waters were more like… “ice chunks.” The only substantial ice, were full on glaciers. The beauty of it all… I’m working my way to the Arctic…. On a sidenote, poor Mr. Collins. I don’t know how people find the will to live after tragedies that great.

@verilyheld Год назад

Another reason is that after the Titanic sank, the usual route for ships was by government decree moved further south. There would still be icebergs on the new route, but those would be reduced in size, and also there would rarely be enough to surround ships.

@willnill7946 Год назад

Because passenger ships don’t cross the Atlantic in the winter, that’s why you don’t see them

@Relaxingvideos173 Год назад

nice work, new sub

@Nick-oh2ym Год назад

Another great video! I’m curious to know if you have links to more footage regarding the short lighthouse clips at the end? At 17:51 I believe it’s Halfway Rock Lighthouse & at 18:07 thacher island/ cape Ann twin lights Thanks!

@andrewvanrensburg1983 Год назад

A slick, interesting production.

@rebuilt11 Год назад

GREAT VIDEO THANKS 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

@HistoryintheDark Год назад

I think it goes without saying that way more ships have just straight-up vanished than one could imagine. If you think about the history of ocean-going vessels, thousands of years, how many old ships went out and were never seen again? The ocean doesn't mess around.

@vaclavmacgregor2464 Год назад

Glad to see you darkness looking forward to your jensen video. Ps.Missing ships were often in the days of 0-1800 ad and still were though in decline during the 19th century after increases in safety and wireless then the chances of a ship going missing(small to medium) is next to nil.

@devinlewis3096 Год назад

Great vid

@charlesvanderhoog7056 4 месяца назад

Good video! I think landlubbers have no concept of the enormous vastness of the oceans.

@jamest2401 10 месяцев назад

Renaming a vessel is only considered a bad omen, if it isn’t correspondingly rechristened; if I understand the superstition correctly.

@jamest2401 10 месяцев назад

'Part-Time Explorer' channel did a great doc on the SS Arctic sinking. It’s probably one of the worst maritime tragedies that I’ve ever learned of. Disgraceful and frankly, appalling behaviors from some of the passengers and crew. The story stands in stark contrast to the level-headedness, stoicism, resolution to fate, and valor displayed by the vast majority of the victims and survivors of the Titanic Disaster. If you don’t want to be horrified, then by all means, DO NOT go and check it out.

@albertogarcia716 Год назад

I saw a size comparison of the ocean video on RU-vid, The Pacific, I think, and I was shocked. We, humans, are like microscopic specks compared to the oceans. This planet, although, a large planet to us, is just like us in the Milky Way Galaxy.

@Nephalem2002 Год назад

Lord Spencer I think can confirm that Jojo-Actually happened, since Phantom Blood ended on a Steam Fludder ship.

@randomlyentertaining8287 8 месяцев назад

City of Glasglow is the creepy reminder that thousands of ships and the people on them have just disappeared without a trace throughout the centuries. Now the overwhelming majority are just from natural causes but it's still that unsettling notion that these people set out onto the sea to either then die from rogue waves or maybe even worse, be stranded in the middle of the ocean to drift for day or maybe even weeks without ever being found. What else is of note is that the time for finding these older wooden ship wrecks are either gone or nearly gone. Even more modern steel ships will one day rust into nothing, disappearing with nothing but whispers left.

@torgeirbrandsnes1916 Год назад

Great vlog as always! Speaking of wireless. Was it in 1909 when the Scotland yard chased a killer that had fled London for the Americas and Scotland yard manage to catch the killer thanks to wireless communicantion between the two ships. A vlog about What happend?

@cillianUSEDtoupload 9 месяцев назад

just so u know, the back-up emergency wireless machine, they were supposed to use if the main machine malfunctions or breaks at sea, could reach around 50 miles, but the baltic, another ship around titanic, which was through the ice field titanic sank in, was about 45 - 50 miles (i think), they could've relayed this message and picked up by carpathia, although the wireless operator might've been asleep by now, but i might be completely wrong about all this

@TimurQuinton442 Год назад

The Steamship Californian saw the Titanic's distress rockets and did go to the area where she sank that morning. So most likely, she would have responded and found the survivors.

@itsconnorstime Год назад

The actions of Californian on that night is a big can of worms. My personal opinion is that even if the wireless operator had been awoken and the ship had raced to the scene, it would still have not made it in time to rescue any more survivors than Carpathia did. But they should have at least tried.

@sambarker7930 Год назад

I live quite near Campbeltown, and I'm surprised I've never heard of either of the SS City of Glasgows

@haystack_mikey25 Год назад

Heres an idea for ya. How about top 5 or 10 (whichever you prefer) mysterious great lake ship disappearances?

@BigOldBoats Год назад

I really love this idea, thank you!

@haystack_mikey25 Год назад

@@BigOldBoats thank you and your welcome!!!! I love watching your videos. I love learning about ships

@thurayya8905 Год назад

I really know so little about the history of ship design. When you talked about the Glasgow and said she had a single screw design, it seemed strange as I had no idea there had ever been anything different! But, when you talked about there being two paddlewheels in previous ships, that meant two screws, one on each engine?

@jamesbushell7280 Год назад

Theres a fantastic story to be told about the early explorer or Australia - Hamilton Hume. He apparently took a ship from Port Jackson (now Sydney) and headed to South America, never to be seen again. Lots of stories about being held in Spanish prisons in Lima....

@orange-sailor Год назад

Top 5: rms father After a milk crisis in europe rms father volenteered to trade with the other continents until it vanished with traces.

@ifor20got Год назад

WOW JUST FOUND THIS LINK ON NEWS BREAK... CONGRATULATIONS BOB

@ttgamefinder3640 Год назад

Great video , you should do a Collab with maritime horrors

@Changlang458 Год назад

I dread every S or C I like your outro saying tho so you’ve been subscribbled

@DeanStephen Год назад

I think you meant the 19th century regarding the Inman Line.

@matthewedwardbanks Год назад

Hello Big Old Boats - maybe you can help me - I read an article many years ago in The Daily Mail (UK), where an Ocean Liner was spotted one second from the shore (of some far away Country - please don't ask me which) and then it simply vanished from sight, never to be seen again. It was reported that it had been discovered, but not in the position as to where she disappeared. Hope you can help :-)

@pendremacherald6758 Год назад

Imagine if Titanic hadn’t had her wireless set, but Californian had responded properly to the distress rockets?

@gojewla Год назад

I think you wanted to say that the Inman line was one of the largest British lines in the 19th century. Either that, or I already forgot about them!

@bradfry5403 Год назад

Great video, many thanks, I was waiting for the Naronic to get a mention but I'm sure you have already done a video about an her.

@Lanky41 Год назад

If you do another disappearance video can you do the Franklin Expedition?

@vaclavmacgregor2464 Год назад

Ehh thats techincally not really.................. Because they left it when it got stuck They died due to different causes Both ships found they eventually sank