What Caused This 1980 Shipwreck to Tear Apart? 

Google told me it sank on sept 15 but your probably right

The covers on several small forward vents had been knocked off during the storm. Over the course of the next day or so the bowsons store in the bow of the ship slowly filled with water. As the bow started to fill with water the ship started to ride lower and lower in the water until a large wave was able to break directly onto the first hatch cover, collapsing it and filling it with thousands of tonnes of water in a matter of seconds. This dragged the ship underwater whilst a domino effect repeated up the length of the ship. This was all over in no more than 2 minutes.

@@Corey-Goodwin The ship was due in to Kawasaki on the 14th Sept so the search was started on the 15th Sept, but it almost certainly sank on the 9th September, between 09:00 and 12:00 UTC. My father was the Chief Officer, yesterday was the 40th anniversary of his death.

@@simonbayliss5338 Deepest sympathies - a terrible way to go but he didn't die in vain as a lot of lessons were learned and new regulations came into strict force because of this, ensuring better watertightness forward! Many times on ship inspections I would check this out with your father's ship and this terrible event in mind. Kind regards - Capt Wahid

@@Mehranwahid Hi, you are a marine ship captain sir?

If you search RU-vid you can find the full documentary with the answer. It's not good, but at least the families get answers.

The question posed in the title actually asks _what tore the ship apart_ not what caused it to sink in the first place. As the video explains, the explosion was a _result_ of the sinking, not the cause of it.

Probably not. There was a typhoon raging on the surface.

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Nice! 😂

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44 people lost their lives and you come up with a cheap laugh.What a sad individual you are.

I would think it would be instantaneous and painless for both the ship and crew.

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Well you was wrong, how does that feel?

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Yeah but the Dirbyshire was a bulk-carrier so was probably bigger than the Titanic.

@@petert3355 aye, MUCH bigger.

MV Derbyshire: Length: 965 feet Beam: 145 feet GRT: 91655 tons RMS Titanic: Length: 882'9" Beam: 92'6" GRT: 46000 tons.

Both liverpool ships.

@@maxshelltrack9720 Both registered in Liverpool

The Edmund Fitzgerald was American built, didn't stop her from sinking.

The MS Munchen was Belgium-built LASH container ship & owned by the German shipping company,Hapaq-Lloyd. That disappeared in 1978 in similar circumstances,in the Atlantic,with all hands lost.