RMS Olympic Nantucket Collision 1934 (HD/audio) 

And the older ships had perfect proportions, now ships are too wide and tall

Yo I agree

Don't think they would meet modern safety standards unfortunately.

yeah but olympic was an ocean liner not a cruise ship

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Totally.

A pity she was scrapped soon after this. It was the 1930s, and make-work projects were the priority for many governments.

Maybe just maybe had this collision not occurred, she might not have been scrapped with the world economy beginning to improve at least somewhat just before WWII. I think she was recalled from service soon after this and that definitely hastened the calls to send her to the scrap yard. Then all she’d have to survive to become a museum ship was this little thing called the Battle of the Atlantic...

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actually we are looking at the titanic, the olympic swapped names with the titanic before she set sail , so it was actually the olympic that sank in 1912 , the two ships were almost identical

Daniel Hamilton another one being the titanic

This one was the Titanic ! Think about why we are pay taxes on April 15. also. J.P. set it up that way, so we could pay them.The elites,when did the I.R.S. start and the federal reserve start and how did Morgan get his insurance. money from the sinking of Titanic.Plus the men who did not want the federal reserve were killed. We were so lucky I guess , are just cursed? Was it planned that way?

Jimmy Minter Olympic did not sink... Artifacts recovered best Titanic’s hull number, 401. Every part of the machinery would have to have been replaced to switch them. The only part that bore Olympic’s number, 400, was her propellor blade, unrecoverable due to being half buried and her weight.

Aww Thank You..!

i cant understand why they dint save ship to the future .

This wasn't the end of the Olympic's career. It was close to it sure, but it wasn't the reason for it

+NJP Vlogs The Titanic 2 Project is still in progress, and I believe the Ship will sail in 2018.

It doesn't look out dated to me. it's a hell of a lot better looking than the cruise ships we have today.

@g bridgman: You are absolutely right. True, the sheer size of "modern" ocean liners is impressive, but they just don't have the charm or class of the Olympic class ships.

They don't have the charm of class of any passenger ships from the 60s on back. I understand Maritime Law now requires the bridge to be further forward than it used to be, thus we don't see the long bow ahead of the super structure. I always wondered why the modern ships look so ugly. Now I know. That's one of the reasons. they are engineering marvels, but the older ships were, too, and with a lot more style and grace. It's a shame not one 4-stacker was saved.

titanic 2 is done? there not doing it?

What time stamp?

@@ammedia9870 If you mean the SS Leviathan, it's at 1:48, and 2:22. Also can be briefly seen behind Negley Farson at around 5:28. Interestingly you can see smoke coming out of one of her funnels, she was mothballed in the 30s but saw some service in 1934.

@@Goetterdaemmerung86 thanks !

Shipwright1918 they weren’t gonna let that one sink. She would have punched a hole in Olympic.

There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be.

Ms. Horsetrainer The Captain of the Nantucket wasGeorge Braithwaite not Emro

@@gsmith4679 You are wrong , you don't know all the details for the coverup

Cant blame the ship blame the people operating the ship. But in this case blame dense fog

+fuckher rightinthepussy It was going to be preserved but the mayor of Jarrow outbid and bought it for the depressed city to break down

Ya... Problem is that it was 1935... Mid depression...

White Star Line was a shipping company, not a floating hotel company. The Queen Mary was preserved because another company bought her from Cunard, otherwise she would have been scrapped as well.

yeh but the olympic/titanic was before the queen marry

I thought the Olympic sank!

DSGNflorian A very fine design of the late Thomas Andrews

Awww Thank You!

It's an eternity with regards to technology and societal standards. By the 1930s people didn't do communal bathrooms or sleeping quarters, but in 1911/12, when Olympic was new, just having ANY kind of accommodation for 3rd class (basically "economy" class) was space age. You weren't all in a giant space and disregarded till the trip was over. Fast forward 20 years and the common person was now used to standards that were unthinkable in the prior decades

boy123 321, you should check out Cunard's current fleet of superliners. They are built as traditional transatlantic liners with luxuries and technology that easily surpass their predecessors. These modern ships with waterslides, climbing walls, etcetera are only cruise ships built for leisure cruising, not for traversing the Atlantic in style.

You just think that way because your old

Doesn't the word ship have something to do with why all ships r female

Maritime Law ,Maritime admiralty law.

Know the difference between the elegant ocean liners and the so-called hideous cruisers, old man. Cruise ships don't aim for elegance, they aim for customer service. Appearance don't matter to them, bruh. Only service.

It sounds quiet as he is standing near the stern

caerleon 857 I always thought it would sound a lot deeper...a pitch maybe similar to normandie's....it sounds like a riverboat

CALEB KITTS it has the same whistles as normandie

LegitGaming117 I know but normandie mainly used the tyfon horns....

caerleon 857 Sounds like the Mauritania

+drewb52 You know.....if something like this happened today, someone would be charged with manslaughter probably.

You're not being overly sensitive at all. What you see here is the cold-blooded corporate rehearsal typical following maritime accidents at the time, where the captain of the smaller ship or the ship belonging to the smaller line is always forced to take up a subservient/forgiving attitude towards the captain of the bigger ship or the ship belonging to the bigger line. He is even being goaded, and at one point someone refers to an official tasked with "writing up a report", and by the lightship captain's facial expression you can tell the report is going to be a cover-up and that if he doesn't "forgive" Captain Binks and put a smile on his face while doing it he's going to be fired and blamed for the accident. Well, there is some justice in the world - Captain Binks was pulled off the Olympic a few months after this accident, retired, and died five years later in early 1939. This accident remains the main reason why he was famous, so anyone who knows the name John W. Binks probably knows it mainly because he rammed the Olympic into a lightship.

@@vulpesinculta3238 Don't be making Captain Binks out to be some monster here, he was operating Olympic responsibly. It was an unfortunate accident.

@@vulpesinculta3238 There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

@@vulpesinculta3238 You are exactly right, There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be. Anyone who had a relative on the Nantucket that morning please contact me.

There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be. Any input would be most appreciated.

@@Robabin No you are wrong , it was not.

@@cactusladysouth1000 yes it was

Forced script.

My Gt Uncle died on the Nantucket seaman Ernest Benjamin George from St Helena.

He had sustained severe head injuries. He would die as a result several months later.

I don’t think so, it likely came from a tug alongside her

Well, they're not exactly equal but they're nearly identical. I also feel that.

they did not reinforce the hull

There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

There has been a cover up for all these years, I am the daughter of the commander of the Nantucket that went down that morning and it was not the gentleman shown in the video's with his head wrapped in the bandage. My fathers name is Guy Vernon Emro. That is why the man posing as the captain refused to speak in front of the camera's. I have been seeking the right people for some time now to contact to set the records straight, not sure who that might be. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

@@cactusladysouth1000 Very interesting, you should post this as a public comment rather than a reply to my post so it can be seen by more people who may be able to help. Good luck!

Ms. Horsetrainer Her story is a fabrication, the Captain of LV117 was George Braithwaite.

@@robertcotner8568 I thought I did post this as a reply to your comment.?

Today's ships don't even look like ships. They look like big pieces of welded blobs, with their decks pancaking down on top of each other.

David Aikman Totally agree and I think it's only a matter of time before one of these monsters capsizes with the resulting disastrous consequences!

@@TheVaughan5those ships have many windows etc if something like this sinks many could be pulled into the ship during the sinking or if one of them ever lists this is the absolute nightmare without any escape

Bruh. Be like a ghost coming for you...I think I'd crap myself.

6:53 when he realizes news reels "are talkies now"

The earliest footage yaken of Olympic was in 1910-1911 of her construction and launch.

Some things never change, unsuprisingly they're still like that

Her screws and shafts were cracked and unsalvageable, but the ship herself was intact. The excuse for retiring her was that transatlantic passenger traffic was "waning." Ie, the decision was entirely financial. Her last sailing was in 1935, her final breaking up in 1937.

@@RatPfink66 So the ship was in need of major repairs, I never heard about that problem before. Transatlantic service was definitely waning, but Cunard built the Queens anyway which I believe were profitable until the mid 50s. It would have been nice to preserve the Olympic as a display item, but a monumental task and something I'm sure no one thought about back then.

@@1940limited i heard that they had plans to turn her into a hotel, but because of the great depression they couldn’t go through with it

Sadly it's all business really, better to scrap and move onto the next bigger and better thing rather than preserve the current for the future. You see it all the time, with most things (especially transportation). You also have to remember, who knows what's going to be historically signficant in the future? Really hard to say, and the people in 1935 who made the decision to scrap the Olympic wouldn't have known (or likely cared) that it might be of historical interest in the future - especially nearly 100 years from that point. Think for example of classic cars which after a certain amount of time would have reached the end of their lives, been considered worthless junk and scrapped, but now due to the passing of time would be considered rarities and have finacial/historical value. Same sort of principle really.

Film has higher quality than digital, in most cases, there’s no compression or digital color correction to muck it up

artman40 Olympic sank a U-Boat in World War I so yeah.

artman40 The U-Boat Deserved That

@@rmsolympic6235 yep he sunk your cousin lusitinia. Sorry if your cousins name is wrong spelling

@@nursarrinahdomado8594 there are a lot of u boats and olympic did not sink u 20 it was a deferent u boat

@@mr.juniii5523 it’s a joke bro we know

agreed

He died 5 months after the collision, as a result of the severe head injuries he sustained. He was 69 years old.

Actually he died in 1936 after an unspecified operation

He wasn't the captain, there was a huge cover up, my father was the Captain when it went down. Guy V. EMRO

this is olympic.

Or Lyle is older than he admits

that haircut is typically 1930s. you just had your ears lowered, neck tapered up and usually pomaded the rest.

I noticed it too, something is off about this whole story. They look like they are putting on a show. The irony of ramming into a ship that is supposed to guide you during fog and bad weather and they don't even try to explain why they ran that course or why they failed to see the beacons or what exactly went wrong with the antenna homing navigation.

She was the true unsinkable ship

I agree.

John Ritcher yea it wouldn't have sank then but they would have got shit for not trying to turn from it.

John Ritcher they were far from poorly built.

The bridge crew would have been better served by putting the rudder hard to port (hard to starboard under tiller orders), reversing the port engine only using the full power of the port engine to pull the bow to port and maintaining full ahead on the starboard engine to push the bow to port. The starboard engines exhausted steam would have supplied the central turbine engine with power for the central propeller which would have continued pushing water over the rudder turning the Titanic in half the length that she did. She may have ruined the counter of her stern (fitting iceberg above the waterline) but, she'd have been just fine. Shed have been out of service for a few months having her stern rebuilt but, she would have sank. I've pulled a similar manoeuvre myself to turn in a strong current. Titanic (counter to peoples belief), was actually a very agile ship for her size and old design. Captain Smith did his own mini sea trials with her in the Celtic Sea on the second day of the voyage and she practically turned on a dime. There's an excellent photo of the S turns she made online. Just put Titanic turning in to google. Plus, at a sea temp of -2C she would have split wide open in a head on collision and sank in minutes. Take a look at the very latest evidence. Titanic is getting forgotten lately so the newest evidence isn't as well known as it should be. She wouldn't have just crumpled to the collision bulkhead she would have splintered. It's been found that her hull plating would have shattered like glass in such circumstances. She would have sank like a stone killing everyone on board. Titanic was physically well built in fact she was built like a tank but, her steel contained a lot of Manganese nodules which made it brittle at low temperatures. That's the best the metallurgical technology in 1912 could do.

hittig it head on would warp the whole superstrucutre rendering the water tight doors not so water tight. might have even sank faster with the bow all crushed