Greeks:starts seing the same tjing happening Greeks:lets kill it The ship:no u Greeks again:on second thought lets just leave it alone to do its own thing
It was actually a far more common issue than most people realize. My family historically worked in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne shipyards and in the 1800s and early 1900s most large ships would have one or two welders or riveters being entombed.
@@highfive2935 These ships were very large, in the past there was no method to keep track of how many people were working or where they were. So if you were riveting an inner hull panel and another group of people were working on an outer panel you might not know about each other. The outer guys seal up the hull and now you can't get back out. A shipyard is a very loud environment with lots of banging and shouting, so the chances anyone hears you banging on the inner hull is minimal. It's a truly horrible fate.
@@highfive2935 lack of safety measures, workers not paying attention to markers, faulty equipment has been the case for a few welders & firewatch dying from lack of oxygen. OSHA has done alot to remedy the issues but accidents do still happen even today
It’s what happened on Pearl Harbor, men were stuck in one of the ships, I forgot it’s name, but during the attack, the ship turned over and the men inside were trapped, they were eventually saved but they all could’ve died if no one heard their banging on the hull.
Given the fact that this ship has gone through numerous unlucky events but still manages to survive attacks during WW2 and stay float this whole time, I'd say that the ship is lucky.
Of course someone already pointed it out and I don't notice until after I comment the same... although I used normal English instead of 9 year old kid comment memes..
I think eventually it became a victim of its own reputation as a haunted ship and people just exaggerated stories just to add to its reputation. Obviously not all of them
It's not like they didn't check the electrical connections of the ship while they were servicing it. According to the video, no specific issues were found, but the lights still flickered during operation.
Seriously yeah. If that ship didn't have all kinds of problems by then I would have been amazed. I was in the US Navy and we put ours in for complete overhauls after some years and what it goes thru. I think I never heard of a military ship not seeing the yard for a complete overhaul more than 8 years. Even then after 20 years they look to replace it. And I know the civilian shipping companies will avoid those costs if they can get away with it. So yeah.
@@nathanieldraper3763 Pretty sure there were competions between ship building yards to build Liberty ships as fast as possible. There was a Liberty ship that was built in four days. I beleive it was this ship or another ship that sank after its keel broke.
Its more of yes it hit the mine, but despite that, ship should not break into peaces with just one sea mine. Hole yes but not into peaces and reason for that was never discovered. I'm suspecting tress fractures into seams, what finally snapped due explosive shock wave.
I can reveal the truth about this. Either the ship's structure was too loose or unstable, or maybe the explosion set off by the mine was strong enough to somewhat destabilize the bolting of the ship's parts. Either one of these theories could be correct.
I think it was pretty stupid that they left *one* guy alone. For months. On a seemingly haunted ship. They should have left like a team of people there and had them switch with other groups every week. No man should be left alone in such a large (and malfunctioning) ship. When that part came up, I was getting *ALL* the Shining vibes.
FWIW, that was a cartoon Jack Nicholson lol. But with civilian ships that’ve been beached or otherwise disabled, it’s pretty standard procedure for a single person to be put aboard as a care taker. Their job is basically to keep an eye on the ship and make sure it’s not boarded or stolen. If it starts to sink, they’re there to radio the occurrence, or prevent if if possible.
..this ship wreck is literally 20 minutes away from my suburb, and i had no idea this ship had such a dark and cursed history. thanks simple history, im never going to step foot near this wreckage
Awh...wuss. At least go during the day, take a look. Just for the history. Maybe don't go diving near her...there are inherent dangers with diving near shipwrecks, besides just the ghost thing.
3:46-3:58 the frequent breakdown of the engine kinda explains the flickering lights. The ship's engine provides primary power to the ship. If the engine is shoddy, the electrical supply is likely going to be unreliable.
The ship itself were notorious for being under powered for its sheer mass it could only go about 10 knots normally and thirteen at a sprint and only for short bursts. It was meant for one thing...to provide shipping its about as basic as it got it was ugly and even before wwii the design was british and sixty years old at the time. It was outdated but it got the job done.
staying on that ship alone for months proves he was already crazy. (imagine seeing blood coming from the walls and not quitting your job) edit, I mean if there isn't a logical reason for the blood coming from the walls and its not part of your job description, sorry to offend.
@@speedy01247 he was in the military, quitting isn't as easy as other jobs. you get given orders you have to follow them. you can request to be moved but only if you have a superior to talk to.
At least it wasn’t a former battleship captain stuck for two years under the sea in a missing submarine aircraft carrier. Now where have I heard that before?
A: the alkimos had thousands of sister ships B: A liberty ships had litteraly had 0 protection to the hull and its not even remotely surprising a mine was able to sink one
they had no real protection because they weren't really meant to make more than one successful trip across the Atlantic. after all by the time one group got to England another couple batches were already being made
Truly one of the more eerie legends of the second world war. With all the mishaps and lives lost it's no surprise there's such a sinister aura around it.
If it's so haunted then why is it such a popular diving venue? Since it was officially abandoned there have been no further deaths attributed to the wreck at all.
@@MegaRazorbackalmost like extremely superstitious people (like sailors) perpetuate their own beliefs via a self-induced placebo effect and the "haunted" stories completely vanish when those people are no longer involved
I spent a night on board Eskimos with some friends in 1978,she was a most terrifying ship to be on especially at night,we were all convinced we felt the ghost of Henry especially in the galley.
More like: Alkimos: I'm the most cursed ship in the world. Baychimo, Lyubov Orlova, William D. FRICKING Porter, EVERY OTHER CURSED SHIP THERE EVER WAS: *Are we all a joke to you-*
Originally the ships were welded together and they were prone to suddenly breaking apart and sinking very rapidly. This was corrected when they went back to the standard practice of using rivets.
Incorrect. All Liberty ships were welded - except for those made by Betlehem Fairfield - as riveting would add months to the production time of each hull. The welds were later reinforced with riveted bands, but the ships were welded together, not riveted.
@@unkulunkulu1494 Your post confuses me. The point I was trying to make was the reason this was notable was because the compartments didn't work. After this disaster they reinforced the ships and changed the design. I don't understand what this is trying to say.
the fires could be two things (even both together): 1. sabotage 2. electrical systems problem. The fact that lights were always going on and of and all the static picked up by the radio makes a strong point for the second
@Guy Panzerboss Let's not forget what he said about rumors and such. There's a whole lot of not proven facts in this. Most likely the cold area were either the A/C also glitching on and off, or, and the most probable, it's embellishment after the fact. Also, you can't logically ask people to explain things, when you don't even know if what you want explained even happened.
@Guy Panzerboss Yeah, some did and some didn't. I've read stories about ships that were made for the Atlantic with no ac getting sent to the Pacific. Miserably hot. But no clue if this particular ship did.
Liberty Ships took ten days to build, The Alkimos took an unusually long 6 weeks due to mishaps in construction. I have the book on the Alkimos. Yes, crew did talk about eerie phenomena. When she was taken out of Fremantle harbour it’s was actually an insurance job, not a curse. The first caretaker was Wayne Morgan. He didn’t stay for months, he stayed on board 6 NIGHTS and kept a journal. He did leave and booked into a psychiatric hospital. The plane did crash yes. John Voight was training between Fremantle and Rottnest island and that is where he disappeared from which is no where near the wreck of the Alkimos, yes, his skull was found near the Alkimos. A number of things in this video are not correct.
Okay this is great, my dad used to talk about a ship called the Alkimos when I was a kid and how they tried to assign him to clean the boiler tubes. He said it creeped him out and refused. I never took the time to research it but as soon as I heard you say it's name a spark rekindled. He worked with other Liberty ships and sailed a few times across the Atlantic and Pacifi but remembered the stories of the Alkimos. He said that these omens (and the beautiful woman from Brownsville Texas) was why he came to America.
Differences between technological prowess between West and rest of World. The Indian Navy uses ships from the 60s and 70s and even then has to send them to Russia because only they can fix it
I grew up looking at this wreck on weekends and being warned against going near it. After watching this video I'm glad I listened and kept my explorations to abandoned buildings.
I think if your hastily built war-surplus freighter hits a mine designed to destroy warships, it's not really inexplicable that it would break up afterwards.
"ALKIMOS" a good name for a horror movie, first quarter of the movie about the ships history and disapearances and deads, of people in the distant past, then about the lone caretaker and the second half about a bunch of teens that enter the wreck for fun (yeah i know that she sank, but we need to take some creative liberties with this liberty
@@LovleyLemonade Shahed Gani's right, look at the name. That's about _Ourang Medan,_ another ghost Liberty ship. Look into her, her story's terrifying.
This is probably the best history channel on RU-vid, I mean like he teaches you EVERYTHING about something in like 10 minutes when at a school, it takes like two weeks.
There were a few things that were off, like the part of her that sticks out is her engine, not her superstructure, and the navy sending guys out to measure the propeller makes absolutely no sense because the merchant marines had the prints.
How about IJN Yukikaze "snow wind" it was known she was lucky and cursed at the same time, she was infamous for survivng many hits that would be her fate however whoever was around her also were unlucky, IJN Jintsu sank after a torpedo aimed toward yukikaze but missed, IJN Shinano escorted by yukikaze sank from USS Archerfish, IJN Hatsushimo sank after she struck a navalmine that was japanese along with yukikaze strucking 1 of them too however yukikaze got away, she also participated operation "Ten-go" along with yamato another was that when yukikaze was about to be scrapped, the man who appointed the scrapping of her a day later got hit by a bus and died in the hospital, another curse event was when a bomb was located in yukikaze but it was found out that it was a dud and as soon that they took the bomb out of yukikaze it exploded and kill the people near the bomb but yukikaze was unharmed, its known that any sailor that didnt survived yukikaze were unlucky and it was also very frequent where her job was to rescue sailor and not fight in the battle 10 sailors from yukikaze died and all the captain live up to old age before death. A month after they enshrined yukikaze in the naval academy, japan suffered the worst economical crash in there history
My father served in merchant navy in the 1950's. One of his first ships was an old liberty ship. It was dilapidated but just about seaworthy. It's owners spent no money on it though.
You guys should totally do a video on the *MV Alta* A ship that was Apparently lost in the Bermuda before mysteriously running aground in Ireland earlier this year in February!
The strange idea popped into my head that it was the frantic banging on the hull of the ship by the trapped ship builders that infested the entire ship with fear and horror. People have an energy field around them which affects the molecular structure of everything within range. This is more than likely why 'ghosts' are seen. It is a similar phenomenon to a phonograph record. If the trapped men believed that they had been heard, but ignored, this field would have been very malicious.
Or maybe that story is complete nonsense and the "ghosts" were just imagined by the sailors perpetuating their own superstitions via self induced placebos
No. It was only scary for one time. And that was when the chemicals fell out. Crew killed themselfs because of hallucinstions. +when it was found it exploded because of a broken Light. Killed 3 of the People Who went To check the ship
@@Kissalege Okay, so there's a logical explanation. Tell me, what's scarier: a bioweapon that causes hallucinations frightening enough to warrant suicide, or a haunting? Personally, I think the fact that such a thing was developed and could potentially be used again is infinitely more frightening than a ghost, so yeah, she's still scary.
I heard from one guy about decommissioned ship being used for target practice. Took it a day to sink like the crew was doing was whatever it could to keep the ship alive and that he heard it screaming as she sank
I remember hearing a worker was caught up in the hulls of the Queen Mary and another ship from the 1860s, so either this happened all the time or else it was just a story that floated around. Oddly for a ship to be cursed the curse didn't seem to arise until after WWII when it could have easily have been torpedoed or hit by a mine. Stories do have a chance to be exaggerated and considering how this ship survived it's shelf-life it was amazing it lasted as long as it did.
The animation starting at 5:21 has the ship sailing stern first. Liberty ships had a 3 in 50 cal on the bow, then three holds, the bridge, the engine room, then two holds, and finally two 20 mm and a 5 in 38 cal on the stern.
Might as well call it "The Demon Ship." I know that some of this is rumor and speculation, but if it does, in fact, hold some truth, then I wouldn't want to go near it, either. Then again, it could be interesting to battle the ghosts for control of the conduit.
Yeah most of it is entirely imagined by the sailors, because sailors are almost inherently superstitious and have a LONG history of perpetuating their own superstitions via self included placebos. Especially stories of ghost ships or cursed ships, they LOVE perpetuating those kinds of stories for whatever reason. If a ship goes missing or there's any kind of uncertainty as to what happened, it is immediately rewritten as either a ghost ship or a cursed ship
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
The Greek shipping companies needed cheap ships and big numbers of them, ready to be delivered. They kept them for many more years so they made a lot of money. Today 35% of the world's commercial navy is owned by Greek shipping companies and the beginning was with the Liberty class
A diver went missing 5 kms away from the wreck a few years later his skull was found in the hull of the wreck, it had numerous caretakers before it started to break up and all had felt uneasy, a preist trying to bless it which was unsuccessful due to ghosts on board, he was fishing off the wreck and sinker came flying back at him hitting in the head
Yes the hosepipes do look like eyes without her anchors. But I also know one country that happens to be our neighbour that has big traditional boats with eyes. Apart that they are found almost on all Mediterranean countries.
