Amazing Sinking Ships Captured on Film 

Horrifying stuff - that much energy is hard to even comprehend!

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@@OceanlinerDesigns Quick note, HMS Valiant was Barham's sister ship, not a destroyer, another of her sister ships HMS Queen Elizabeth was also sailing with the pair.

@@Rilez616 time is funny here. You may hear noises that sound like voices, but those are just the loons up by the lake.

I was just gonna post what you said. A lot of great full color video about the Oceanos sinking.

The RU-vidr Jesse Gillett made an excellent full-length documentary on Oceanos’s sinking, including going through the effort of obtaining interviews with several survivors.

You must not have heard of the costa concordia then if you say that’s modern

Exactly. You beat me to it. I was expecting it at any moment.

@@brileymitchell2632 Or MS Sea Diamond. Mike is bringing some lessor known ships sinking to the surface!

You should look at the film of the Austro-Hungarian battleship that sunk in a similar manner The ship didn’t explode and the crew could swim so luckily there was nowhere near as much deaths

Almost every loss during the war was suppressed by the media to prevent morale damage

just thought i'd mention that the sound effect used isnt the original sound

As someone else said, that was just a stock sound effect, not the real sound. Film cameras usually dont record sound.

And with HMS Hood having been destroyed in May of the same year.

Extra wild twist to that story: her dad was a news commentator in New York who had to report on the sinking while knowing that his daughter was missing and presumed dead. (The NYT had actually already reported her death.) He didn't find out she was still alive until the next day.

she wasn t a little gril, she was a teenager

Agreed!!!! It’s so interesting and incredible

Linda Morgan

​@@vladraduandrei5227she's still a little girl to her father ❤

Or like a child in a room with Joe biden.

yes

Yes especially when you realize what looks like sand pouring over the side of the ship before it explodes, is actually hundreds of sailors running across the side of the ship as it capsizes.

​@BrettonFerguson Also those men were getting carved up on the way down the bottom of the ship because of those damn barnacles

yes, he does an incredible job!! most impressive

I was recently swapping channel recommendations with one of my brothers and mentioned a ship history project I really enjoy. "Wait," he said. "Great animations? Is there an Aussie guy running the show? Good voice for broadcasting and dresses very sharp, always in historic clothing?" (He was already subscribed, lol. Congrats to Mike on his distinctive production and presentation!)

We're being spoiled 👌🏻❤️

@@SPierre-dm4wo Haha that is great! Thanks for watching :)

Here here, great job 👍

Some of this footage has probably never been seen in this quality since it was shot. Most of these look like modern high resolution film scans, much better than blurry re-re-re-encodes of SD VHS captures. I wonder what other gems are waiting in Getty's archives. Hopefully they can be licensed at a reasonable price and shared as well.

big oof with the oceangate mention

how is this comment 6 days old when the video released a few hours ago

​@@turtlesrprettycool3379Pay to watch early shenanigans thanks to YT limiting content creators' income...

How did u post this comment 6 days before this video was posted?

I am dying to go down there !!!

​@@dks13827lmao

​@@dks13827oceangate is looking for paying tourists I hear.

​@@dks13827no, you are going down there to die

That’s a joke in poor taste bro

That’s a great family connection!

​@@OceanlinerDesignsIndeed

Fun fact: the Stockholm still exists

There was a pretty cool concept car that sunk on the Andrea Doria, called the Chrysler Norseman. 51 people died, so that kind of overshadows the loss of the car, but still it was a nice car.

The unimaginable dread of being on a sinking ship is something that helps cement the fascination for me.

@@Xpwnxage I agree. It's easy to say "oh, I'd calmly go to the deck and get in a life boat. Hell, I'm a great swimmer." But in reality, what would really be going through your mind, you know?

@@indiafox5786 I witnessed a semi crash into a store. I was settling in for bed when I heard a loud bang and rushed outside to see the truck a complete wreck inside the store. I was first onto the scene, and I was in PJs, and I wasn't even sure if the driver was alive. The ground was covered in diesel and I had to step through it hoping it wouldn't ignite, and call out to the driver. I didn't hear anything for a few seconds, but began hearing gulping. The driver was alive, but only just. I sat there for what seemed like an hour, but was just 10 minutes talking to the guy waiting for emergency crew. I was telling him he'll make it, even though I couldn't even see him. I could only hear his faint voice coming out from the destroyed truck, the whole truck cabin had caved inward. I believe he was crushed up against the hot engine. I asked his name, and he said Trevor, and I told him mine, and I just tried being a good fellow citizen. Just trying to be his friend in the last moments of his life. Unfortunately he later died in hospital before his family arrived at the hospital. They travelled all night to get there, because he was a long distant truck driver, his family lived a long way away. He died in the early hours of the morning. I was at home still trying to come to terms with the rough night. Never in my mind did I ever expect my night to go that way, but within moments I was in the middle of a diesel hell, I think I did alright, don't you? Considering the circumstance. I was 21 at the time. My point is, people do amazing things when it matters most, and I'm not generally a feelings person.

​@bena8121 I'm so sorry! I'm just now seeing this. I think you did an incredible job. It's really sad that he didn't make it...I'm sure he was grateful that he had someone to be there with him...that reminds me of how the human body can release an unbelievable amount of adrenaline when it's needed. People moving giant boulders that they normally would never be able to on a regular day. I'm really glad you made it out okay as well 🖤

Maybe you just have a natural inclination towards, "something so enormous to be completely swallowed up".

Yeah true I'm a new Zealander too but I live in oalmyt

I mean palmy

I was 2 years old and living in the Hutt, I remember having a piece of one of the lifeboats that was half covered in sand around Pencarrow

I dated someone who was born on April 10, 1968. When she told me her birthday, I said "oh, the Wahine". She said her mum was in labour as things unfolded.

It is amazing stuff and to think they reckon there are 3-6 million ships on the sea floor…. Unreal!

@OceanlinerDesigns that is incredible, and hard to imagine . I remember my grandfather saying how the ocean has no memory and the same gaze across the water (we had at that time) has been the last for so many. Thank you again for putting this together.

⁠​⁠HMS Valiant wasn’t a destroyer. Rather Valiant was another queen Elizabeth class battleship. Other than that nice video

I remember a WW2 US Navy veteran (USS Lexington) telling me "Sailors never cheer when a ship goes down, even an enemy ship. It's one of the saddest things you'll ever see."

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 - that’s so true. Good of you to point that out. I have heard many of the eye-witnesses in the Royal Navy who watched the Bismarck being destroyed and slowly sink. There was no cheering amongst them as they watched the men of the German battleship jump overboard into the cold sea.

I wouldn’t have taken that trip. I disagree with the findings and have always believed the Stockholm was more in the wrong.

@@DeanStephenYou can’t blame the ship herself for the actions of her crew. She actually still sails today (though has been laid up since COVID) and she’s given decades of great service.

Its now called the MV Astoria and is out of service currently waiting to be sold for a few years now in the Rotterdam Yard

@@sirboomsalot4902 She isn't currently sailing anymore. She is waiting to be sold in the Rotterdam Yard

And if I'm right, the Szent István was also the first (battle)ship sinking caught on camera

The detonation of the USS Arizona is also a very dramatic thing to see.

Interestingly the Arizonas' owners intentionally placed it there precisely for that purpose !@@kovacsj7823

The poor guys what would it be if they search for the Barham's

Thanks for the lovely comment :)

Horrible stuff!! That must have been quite a sight seeing the ship wallowing there like that. A very sad story!

@@OceanlinerDesigns yeah Mike, I blame you for making me think about it again! Lol actually, when watching your video I wondered if you would choose the Wahine. I was not disappointed! I did a search about the Wahine sinking and found a few films showing what was happening in Wellington. One even showed the house I lived in. All the best Scott

😂

We were sailing the Hobart waterways about two klm away from the Hobart Bridge when it was struck by the Illawarra ,nasty mess that one.

@@rogerbrown1750my grandfather was on the Hobart did you know a man named Paul Jackson

He felt that bad huh?

Capt. Calamai was of a different ilk than the skipper of the COSTA CONCORDIA!

@@davidmurphy8190 to be a bit fair, Schettino isn't the only one at fault. He was used as a scapegoat

I read that Captain Calamai not only never went to sea after the sinking but choose to live the rest of his life away from it.

The Andrea Doria was seen as a work of art. At dock side, they gave tours to non-passengers to take it all in. My mother went on one of these tours.

Actually the pronounciation is a bit off. The contemporary pronounciation was more like "wa-he-nee".

Its the Kiwi accent that is off. Not his pronunciation@@KathrynDainty

"Wahine" is a Maori meaning "woman". It is typically pronounced "wah - hee - nee".@@adambane1719

His pronunciation is perfect. The way that they say her name in the footage is wrong, because this is a time where Maori was still taboo to be spoken correctly.@@KathrynDainty

Thanks so much Jess!

Good to be back my friend!

Welcome aboard!

Sorry for being a point of distraction 😎

@@OceanlinerDesigns A good distraction. 😉

Other than another wreckage, what have Oceangate contributed to ocean research?

@@jacktaylor8195Keeping up on the condition of Titanic and their scans on the Andrea Doria are two examples I can think of

​​@@jacktaylor8195s he stated in the video, they surveyed the wreck of the Andrea Doria. this is extremely valuable information for those who do dives for research purposes, or even leisure.

@@sirboomsalot4902 Ah yes "Update, Titanic is decaying." what amazing contributions to ocean research well worth the 5 dead people.

They did nothing anyone else hasn't done...until they managed to 5 kill people on a Titanic expedition for the first time in the history of diving to the wreck

Thanks piper! It's a recording of an older white star liner pitched to somewhat match Titanic's, I think it might have been the SS Naronic.

Thanks.

Yes its the Valley of Uncanny. The ship is doing what its not supposed too (sink). I love floating ships but watching one sink makes it to where i cant look away.

@@tinypoolmodelshipyard In a way it reminds me of what American railroad photographer, historian, and steam locomotive fan Ron Zeil wrote about visiting scrapyards in the early 1960s where steam locomotives were being cut up. Ron called them "Terrible, but at the same time fascinating places." Ron also said the torch men cutting up the locomotives weren't happy about it themselves but as the saying goes "A job's a job!"

Priorities 😂

There was a dark mass of bodies towards the middle where the explosion happened. Many didn't even make it off the ship. Very sad.

Thanks Becky :)

Thanks so very much!

Japanese sailors who'd suvived their ships being sunk at Midway were also quarantined on their return to Japan and sworn to secrecy afterward.

Same for those who survived Mutsu exploding at the pier.

It's like Hood. Althought her crew losses here much more tragic, only 3 survivors.

"She said I know what it's like to be dead......"

@@doctorbohr1585 I said who put all that draft in your head?

@@BeenDead you're making me feel like I've never been born 😂

My father was aboard California on Dec 7th. Was quite a day for a new sailor who'd had his 17th birthday the day before...

Hope you feel better soon!!

Same, I can't say I'm not at least a little disappointed he didn't include Szent Istvan, as it was the only battleship whose sinking was filmed during WW1. Not only that, but almost everyone aboard survived since the Austro-Hungarian navy required the crew to know how to swim, which was paradoxically not common at the time in other navies.

I agree, the sinking of the Italian liner SS Rex , during WW2

Correct. Edward Morgan was a well-known journalist and anchor on the ABC Radio Network and went to ABC News on TV and helped cover the JFK Assassination.

Wow!

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