The Tragic Sinking of RMS Lusitania 

in the description it says this is part 2 but the link to part 1 goes here

Imagine being trapped in an air pocket, in the dark, with no hope of survival, just a long wait for death without the means to make the end come quickly or easier. A long wait for drowning or suffocation. Now imagine you are 6 yrs old.

⁠the part that particularly terrifies me is when the power fails. Imagine being stuck in a lift, or deep in the bowels of a sinking ship, rapidly filling with water, and all of a sudden everything stops and you’re plunged into complete darkness. Wow, just wow. 😳

What is the name of the song at 1:02:37 ?

23 vessels torpedoed in this area in the past week!!! Well it has to be out of torpedoes by now, right?.

Thanks. I asked about this in my previous comment, believing they had both survived. The original account I read stated that they signed up in New York with a sizeable group of young lads hoping to make passage to Britain to join the Royal Navy. Cliff and Les were the only survivors of this group. Cheers 🍻!

That's a really nice story thanks

Cool story ❤

I really appreciate mike he would be very welcome in Liverpool hope he comes 1 day

You don't even have to be in to ships to appreciate this channel. Mike Brady is an awesome story teller.

I read that something maybe an engine exploded causing even more damage not sure how true it is though

@@Borninthe80s. I don't think an engine exploded most likely a boiler or maybe even two at the same time.

@@connorredshaw5650i thought it was the explosion ignited the coal dust in the boiler room

@@nursestoyland That is possible reason for the second explosion.

Make one wonder how much cargo was classified as munitions?

Agreed❤️

Agreed. I am a new huge fan!!

It does come across. Mr. Brady speaks with authority; the depth of his knowledge is truly remarkable. He also happens to have a wonderful speaking voice, one you can listen to for hours and never tire of. I'm a singer, and I notice these things! I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that Mr. Brady is a one of the finest creators of documentary videos we have today.

Yeah when I heard that the first time I didn't use Lifts for a month. It was good for my health though ;-)

Never a good idea to use an elevator when a disaster is in progress.

@@i.b.640my mom has severe claustrophobia so I grew up never using the elevator when with her. Even now I’m going up a parking garage I’ll walk up 4 floors without a second thought. It’s all about habit. Humans were designed to walk a lot.

It's hard to imagine anything more horrific than being trapped in a lift in a sinking ship.

@@melz6625 Yeah, stairs are basically a free gym.

He wasn’t Lesley Morton was he?

Fascinating. Do you have the name?

William "billyboy" Smith

Especially for those trapped below or stuck in the elevators

@@Borninthe80s. Oh god, it must have been horrifying.

@@uniontrains.8631definitely not something I’d like to experience

@@Borninthe80s. The feel of your lungs being filled with water is comparable to feeling fire in your body or so I have read

Agreed. Especially with the efforts of launching the lifeboats.

Yea but titanic was at night in way colder water right further out at sea. I think I would've rather went down this way least u can see some land and warmer water.

@@relicdad88 Would agree big time

@@relicdad88 Make no mistake, fifty five degree water is still cold, and will take your breath away if you dive into it.

Alot more chaotic on the Lusitania. Seeing how quickly she sank compare to Titanic, the scene must've been terrifying.

@@BHuang92 initially it would have been pretty calm on the titanic however at last 10 minutes or so it would ahve been pure pandemonium, even more than lusitania

how dare you mention that

Well..the Britannic Movie is an early 2000s budget CGI work..

Lol

​@@NashmanNash true, but it should have been better looking at the real life disaster

@@NashmanNash Well, yeah, but Titanic movie was put in with much research, effort, and actual progress, while in the Britannic movie, they barely put effort into it.

how? i don't see any documents

@@eroero830 This is what I've meant. www.loc.gov/item/2023600632/

@@eroero830 It’s more so a cartoon that depicts the sinking, it’s pretty dramatic and exaggerates the damage the torpedo did, it shows the torpedo blowing the 1st and 2nd funnels off and also claims that the 2nd explosion was another torpedo.

​@@eroero830 I think you're confused

@@SMarie-zk9ojthere was a film made starring John Hannah, it was really good.

Thank you for the kind words

@@OceanlinerDesigns My pleasure; very well earned.o7

Sadly the German's didn't consider what it would lead to.

@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg did they had an option? america was technically no involved in the war but supported it from the first day

@@Keckegenkai try typing in English

Less than 300 meters actually, only a few hundred feet.

93 meters 😮

300 _feet_

Not to mention the lifeboats that fell and crushed people below 😢

There are conspiracy theories abound that the UK *wanted* a ship like the Lusitania sunk to use as propaganda.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." It's going on today and, if anything, appears to be on the verge of getting worse.

Since the dawn of time.

You have met humans before, right?

Humans are hunters at heart.

War drives innovations (Pocket watch) and innovation drives war

same

Exactly the documentary that sparked my interest - and love - for the Lucy when I was about 10 years old. Took me years to find out that the music over the intro was 'Shepherd Moons' by Enya. I cannot associate that track with anything else other than the visuals of waves and, I believe, Chrissie Aitken telling her story: "I was with my father, my brother and my brother had his little boy with him, 2 years old. And we were travelling to go to Scotland."

I will never be fully convinced that Lusitania wasn't in some way allowed to be sunk, or at least put in danger. The absolute lack of protection that ship received was staggering.

​@@tomemeornottomeme1864The German embassy in the US even issued a formal warning against boarding the Lusitania. Having hundreds of civilian passengers aboard a ship laden with ammo is insane to me, though the knowledge that a sinking would be a PR disaster for Germany (which it was, despite justified) might've indeed made it an acceptable risk

War is hell. Tradeoffs must be made. It doesn’t not make sense that 1200 civilians were the price for what was unquestionably hundreds of thousands of additional deaths if the US hadn’t entered the war. Lots of people die during war, mostly civilians. The US’s entrance into the war shortened it and unquestionably saved more civilian lives than were lost here.

@@qwerty112311 The Lusitania incident did not cause the US to enter the war. Also, the US messed everything up and laid the groundwork for WW2 with their inept post-war policy. It would have been better for everyone involved if they had kept themselves out of this.

@@qwerty112311WWI wasn’t WWII: it was utterly pointless slaughter where there were no good guys. The US had no business being in it just to bail out the British Empire.

Same thing with me, RIP to all who lost their lives.

Fellow autist here too.

Sleep .

lmao real

Being interested in an interesting topic or piece of history doesn't mean it's an "autistic urge." Thats offensive to anyone that actually has autism, isn't it? Humans are naturally curious. If you start watching something like this, obviously your brain is going to want the whole story. That doesn't make you special, or unique. It just means you have human curiosity. Grow up.

Titanic was an accident that may or may not have preventable, Lusitania was an act of murder.

I just think is simple because this is more infuriating. Titanic as of a disaster as it is, it was a the an of the day an accident. Sure there are some that like to point fingers to some people, very undeservingly I must say, as having some degree of responsibility of the tragedy, but at the end of the day, the fact is that it was an accident and the only culprit was mother nature herself. Lusitania on the other hand was a cruel act of war, the people in the German submarine knew they were firing at men, women, children and elderly people that have nothing to do with the conflict. And I think this is why Lusi may feel sadder than Titanic. This one was indeed cause by human themselves.

I agree. There are actually many bits of oceanliner history that are more sad/tragic than the sinking of Titanic. For example, the people onboard the Titanic had two hours and forty minutes -- with the electricity still powering the lights -- to make it up on deck and fight for their lives, whereas the people onboard Lusitania only had 18 minutes, with many of them being trapped in the darkness of the ship's interior due to the lack of electricity -- as the ship sank quickly -- and they never stood a chance of surviving. Both stories are incredibly sad and horrible, but people being completely trapped inside of a rapidly flooding ship and unable to find their way out seems more horrible, in my opinion. And, unfortunately, that's only one example of many. Titanic being an accident and Lusitania being actual murder makes a hell of a difference, too, but I'm sure people get the point. Unfortunately, Titanic's story is so big and famous, though, that it has completely overshadowed the sinking of all other oceanliners, regardless of circumstances. Had I never become obsessed with the Titanic when I was a kid, I definitely wouldn't have learned about other liners with stories bearing tragic details that actually surpass those of Titanic. I have tried to post this comment 3 times and I'm getting warnings from RU-vid each time, with my comment ultimately being deleted. I've changed the wording as much as possible without taking away from what I wanted to say, so I'm not going to post it again if this attempt doesn't work.

Deep love to you too.

​@Maniac61675 The German submarine also knew about the men, women and children back at home the British were trying to starve with their naval blockade. That, plus the fact that the Lusitania was carrying a whole bunch of military supplies. The German embassy in the US even issued a formal warning for civilians to not board the Lusitania.

As I have said before, our friend Mike creates some of the best content on RU-vid. His writing is exceptional; his visuals impressive; and his narration is a pleasure to hear.

This is why I like being able to block those stupid things, youtube shouldn't be able to post that information especially given how false it often is.

The Germans were not sinking American or neutral ships. If you wanted to be safe travel on an American flagged liner. Apart from transporting rifle caliber ammunition and empty shell cases and cartridges the British had started using Q ships in disguise of neutrals or trawlers to tempt u boats to the surface. Any you got that did this with BS effectively making it impossible for the U-boats to challenge inspect. Finally British shit started mining the neutral waters that Germany used for fishing and transport and they regarded this is equivalent to attacking merchant ships and ocean liners. In addition to the Gallipoli landings the British should used Red Cross ships not to transport patients out but to transport troops in. The result was that the Germans did not trust the British.

You should be furious that the submarine commander didn’t stop the Lusitania and give time to Evacuate like he was supposed to

​@@bigshipsThe Lusitania was registered in Germany as an armed auxiliary cruiser and so he expected to be fired at if he surfaced. I'm not trying to defend Schwieger by any means, but allowing civilians to travel on a ship that carries war material and is therefore a military target is also not too wise.

@@bigships A propagandist assumption. 1 The British were carrying machine gun bullets and shell casing and cartridges. Found on the wreckage despite the ship being used for depth charge practice after WW1. 2 The British were using the passengers of the Lusitania as human shields. 3 The Germans were not attacking American Ocean Liners. If you wanted to be completely safe safe you used an American or neutral ocean liner. 4 The British were using Q-ships pretending to be trawlers or neutral and then would reveal their weaponry to sink the u-boat. In one incident the Baralong incident they machine gunned the German survivors in the water and hunted others down that had swum to a merchant ship and murdered them all. 5 The British had used red cross marked hospital ships not to evacuate and treat wounded but to transport troops ashore at Gallipoli. The Germans didn't trust the British one bit for good reason. 6 The British were mining neutral water in shipping lanes German ocean liners and trawlers used. What's the difference between mining and torpedoing?

@@williamzk9083 no the British didn’t use Q ships, that was the Germans in the second world war

Thank you!

Yes, 9400 passengers and crew were killed, the worst maritime disaster in history 😢