Fun fact. I actually live about 15 minutes away from a Lusitania prop. Is says LH which I assume means port side prop. Weird that it would be in Texas of all places but I’m not complaining. I got to touch a part of Lusitania.
I had no idea the Lusitania’s propeller was in Dallas till I read your comment . I’ll have to go visit it sometime . I own a postcard of the Lusitania , sent out from the Lusitania from 1911. On the backside of the card, the passenger, agrees to an 8:30 train at Penn station . She simply signs it “ Love, Molly .”
LH means counter clockwise rotation, typically followed be the diameter of the wheel, then the pitch of the blades, describing how much forward travel, per one complete rotation. So this screw from Lusitania, must've been one which was switched-out at the yard prior to obviously her fateful final passage and U-boat encounter?
Mike Brady, you're incredible. I watch your channel all the time and your demeanor is something worth admiration. You're not cynical like a lot of RU-vidrs and you keep a positive attitude even dealing with hard subjects. Keep being rad my guy!
And when you factor in the heavy gowns women were obliged to wear, they would have had minimal hope of swimming to the shore, even if they could swim. Even if the weather was not ferocious enough to drown even the strongest swimmers. Your channel is totally amazing. I am so glad to have discovered it. Thank you for the video!
Fascinating stuff Mike. Just shows what there is to see on the beach for those with the eyes to sea. Re sailing times from England - my great great grandmother came out in 1857 on a sip that took 90 days. Later in the century clipper ships could do it in about 60 days.
Love the edits and style of your videos, please keep er goin! Lots of potential! You would really love travelling aound the atlantic coast, perhaps with a chonky metal detector
Great video. Your enthusiasm is captivating. Have you done a video of the wreck of the Speke on Phillip Island? There’s still quite a large part of the bow and sections of hull plating that are accessible at low tide…or at least that was the case 2 years ago when I last visited.
Guess next time I’m by the sea imma watch out for such pieces (I’m not Australian and don’t live by the sea but a man can dream). I would never have realized what some of these are, this taught me a lot.
Before the steam engine became common, sailing ships were truly at the mercy of wind and wave. Wrecks were common. Being caught offshore in a storm with the wind blowing onto the land was often a death knell for sailing ships.
@@OceanlinerDesigns my friend goes to Australia a lot I’ll send him to see it and take photos for me back in America if he’s going this year (he’s been twice so maybe maybe not I’m not sure)
Great content Mike, the Great Ocean Road was my job for 10 years plus, as I was a tour guide on Day Tours along the journey. Telling my passengers all the stories of shipwrecks along the coast.
If you like to identify the wreck, look up wrecksite, make an account and look up the part of the coast you were, almost all ships wrecked are on there
Twas not a good time to be a ship in the Bass Straight Triangle! Tassie's northern coastline is much the same - especially King Island and Flinders Island, which are absolutely littered with wrecks!
Years ago, (1962) my family moved to Australia from the UK to Perth, unfortunately my mother couldn't take the heat so we all moved back, my brother was born in the Perth. Sailed on the Stratheden on the way-out and the Fairsky on the way back.
This is quite amazing, not related in any way to marine history, but at my family's country home I found a lot of forged iron parts, nails, rivets, part of a door hinge, even a squareish screw nut, and stuff from different eras too, the forged iron bits were mostly from 18th and 19th century, but I also found bits of gray masonry, jewellery and a part of a candelabrum, as well as coins, pistol ammunition cases and shell fragments,
“The sea’s coming to get me!” 😂Assistant needs to learn the “never turn your back on the ocean” rule. She’ll get you when you’re not looking. Also, Assistant deserves a pay raise.
Absolutely love all your Ship illustrations! You capture the grandure, the elegance and the sheer power those ocean liners once had very well, Great Job!!! And as of your recent video awesome findings!! I liked the music you choose, Would definitely love if you start famous Shipwreck History/Tour video series !
Mike your videos are light years ahead of “bottom feeding” hum drum videos. Absolutely binge worthy material no matter what the subject I cannot get enough. Several are worth watching over and over. Totally a class act. ❤️👍
Hey, archaeologist here and as someone who's done maritime archaeology, please put everything back where you found it! Donating to the museums is not helpful to the scientific record and in most cases its illegal for the museum to accept stolen artifacts from government/public land. Contact the museum and they should be able to call for a real archaeologist to systematically describe the site and log it with other known sites. Archaeology isn't just digging around, its grids and measurements and cataloging exact locations of all items. This site is very disturbed so I don't think some exploration is bad, but everything needs to stay where it was for us to reconstruct the site as it was before anything was removed. Context is everything.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and there are plenty of shipwrecks in the area, some of which could still be seen today. In fact the Golden Gate was notorious for ships back then because of it's foggy weather, strong currents, unpredictable reefs. And there's even one 'shipwreck' near Fremont CA where I live that was a WW1 era destroyer, USS Thompson DD-305. The navy used it as target practice, and could still see it today.
Omfg this is a hop skip and jump from my grandfolks place. I used to play there or near by when I was a kid and I never knew. Now the name of the place makes total sense.
The metal rigging would help to identify the time period the vessel was wrecked, would it not? A construction or retrofit date of possibly late 19th Century, 1870s or 1880s? If you can, get a sample of any wood that looks foreign or bluestone and try to get it identified by region, from an arborist or geologist. That's how Clive Cussler and his team identified the wreck of Mary Celeste in Haiti.
11 vids into binge-watching your channel and I'm hooked!! I've always been a lover of history, aviation, and especially ships and you got 2 of the 3 boxes checked My good Sir! SUBBED! :)
there is a realy interesting wreck called Halloween owned by Whitehat Willis who owned Cutty Sark I wondered weather if you built acoffer damm around the out line of the wreck the removed the sand you could lift her out of her grave.That one would be worth doing and placing alongside CS in Grenage .I thaught you were American ttfn&ty
Just remember, when you pick up a shitty old nail or ornament from a wooden box for trinkets: "It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless... like the Ark. Men will kill for it. Men like you and me." Belloq from Indiana Jones. It's not the obvious value of an object, but the history attached to it that makes it precious.
Not just voluntary immigrants - I suspect some of the people who died in shipwrecks may have been convicts, punished by transportation. Most of those were petty criminals or political prisoners (e.g. trade unionists). I feel that transportation alone was excessive punishment, but a horrible death by drowning or exposure is so far beyond warranted for these poor people.
Just found this video but loved seeing you explore in real life!!!!! I wish you could go to all kinds of shipwrecks and investigate that would be so fun to watch. Also as usual still have a giant crush on you!! keep up the good work.
You are so incredibly lucky to still have undisturbed coasts like this. In America, every inch has literally been covered with houses and hotels and condominiums except for a few national seashore preserves. In my youth there were still long natural stretches with dunes and tidal pools, but the bulldozers and developers have destroyed all of that.
No one needs to know this, but...today is my birthday! I wanna see how many bday wishes I can get :) Also, amazing vid! I never expected so many parts of a shipwreck to just be lying there.
