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The USS Inaugural (AM-242) was an Admirable-class minesweeper of the United States Navy, launched in 1944 during World War II. Designed for detecting and removing naval mines, the ship played a crucial role in ensuring safe passage for Allied naval forces. It served primarily in the Pacific Theater, participating in the clearing of mines from various harbors and sea lanes, which was vital for the U.S. Navy's operations. After the war, the Inaugural continued to serve in various capacities, including as a training vessel, until it was decommissioned in 1947. The ship was later turned into a museum ship in St. Louis, Missouri. However, in 1993, during the Great Flood, the Inaugural broke loose from its moorings, capsized, and partially sank, resulting in it becoming a permanent fixture at the bottom of the Mississippi River near its former display location.
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@ITSHISTORY Месяц назад

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@keithmoore5306 Месяц назад

hey Ryan it's not M K 10 the MK is for mark it;'s mark 10!!

@vinced1246 Месяц назад

Those things never works, you can claim them but you’ll never get them.

@juice6230 Месяц назад

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@lylejames8079 Месяц назад

I was a history major in college and still love history but, to be realistic, we can't save everything, especially if there is little public interest. Just look at the S.S. United States.

@tomsneary5091 Месяц назад

Yeah, it's a shame, look at Enterprise CV-6, 20 battle stars, presidential unit citation, navy unit citation & British admiralty pennant (only non British ship ever) sold for scrap

@1STerminus Месяц назад

It's terrible about the SS United States. I can also recall a lot of other tragic situations like that abandoned submarine near Hackensack NJ (and many more WW2-era ships.) I hope someone saved her plaque and the ships bell. I agree with you. Now that the nation is gone to hell and all the people who fought are passing to the hateful label "boom,er" instead of "hero" . All the people who lived and survived those days are almost gone. I did not mean to preach I don't know how to ever rekindle the public interest you mentioned. Instead it will get worse. As far as the SS United States goes, it is going to take some benefactor to endow a foundation to care for her in perpetuity. Get the ghost of Lee Iacocca. . All Hail the last legions of "boomers" as those born in the 1950s are starting to go as well.

@UBG_Marine Месяц назад

Some stuff is just scrap metal

@inhumanfilth681 Месяц назад

What about all those russian ones they sold to pepsi for scrap @@tomsneary5091

@glhmedic Месяц назад

@@1STerminus and what’s good about the boomers? Not much.

@AnimeJSaysBah Месяц назад

My heart jumped when you mentioned Inaugurals sister ship, The USS Hazard in Omaha, Nebraska. She almost suffered her sisters fate during the Missouri River floods of 2011, fortunately, she was tied down very well.

@SuperMickey57 Месяц назад

I remember seeing the USS Inaugural in high school when our band was going to Washington DC from Muskogee OK in 1982. We had a stopover in St Louis to eat at the floating McDonalds, some of us got in trouble for taking a tour of the arch which delayed the journey a bit. But hey, when you're young and consider you may never be back this way again, the arch tour is understandable.

@glhmedic Месяц назад

I visited that ship a number of times as a kid and still live near the river. Also I don’t think that ship is still there because of scrapers.

@xen84 Месяц назад

Are you sure? I had to double check since I havent been to the site in over a decade, but it's still clearly visible in the latest Google Earth imagery from February.

@johnreep5798 Месяц назад

@@glhmedic We used to visit it too, circa 1970. Very sad to see what happened to it.

@davidjernigan8161 Месяц назад

Minesweepers were not made out of that sturdy of stuff.

@GetFitEatRight Месяц назад

Its 2024, has been sitting in the mud for almost 30 years. Its over 78 years old and still exists... yeah its scrap but that's humanity's fault. What do you own that's still in one piece after 78 years.

@jcdenton6074 27 дней назад

@@GetFitEatRight What are you on about? Do you have experience in shipbuilding? Minesweepers, especially during world war 2, were ships meant to be disposed of quickly after the war. They aren't built like warships.

@xen84 Месяц назад

I got to visit the Inaugural as a kid before she sank. It was really cool, even though it was a relatively small ship. And nearby was the McDonalds restaurant on a barge done up to look like a steamboat.

@xen84 Месяц назад

Also, I've since been to the sit of the wreck once about 10 years ago. If the imagery on this vid is more recent, it's actually surprising how good the wreck still looks. Though I haven't seen it in person since then. Despite me passing the site on a daily basis, you kinda have to go out of your way to see it. If indeed the river is low enough to see it, which it hasn't been lately.

@andrewfischer8564 Месяц назад

the uss ling? a sub currently sinking in a new jersey river

@birbfromnotcanada Месяц назад

@@andrewfischer8564 yeah, the Inaugural is a wreak, the Ling is at least still afloat

@robertf3479 Месяц назад

@@birbfromnotcanada Yeah, pretty much. I just looked at her image on Google Earth and she's not hard to find and is not a pretty sight. She's laying on her port side with the starboard side exposed to the air, and the hull has been opened in (I believe) the area of her engine room. Superstructure appears torn up or crushed and because there is a gravel pathway to her when the river is low I would assume what's left has been either pilfered or vandalized and destroyed. I think the only reasons there would be to salvage her is to clear her as an obstruction or as an "attractive menace" to trespassers on the property of the riverfront owner. In essence she would be cut up and scrapped in place, I don't think she could be refloated because she is so far gone.

@Mika-ph6ku Месяц назад

USS Trent is currently suffering the same fate in New York. No one cares about all of our museum ships anymore... Even the USS Drum was looking rather rough when I last visited it and it's not even in the water!

@robertcooper6853 Месяц назад

Yes, there was a Burger King on a barge on the riverfront. Basically the entire riverfront from the Poplar St bridge (I-55) to the S.S. Admiral at the base of the Eads Bridge was a tourist attraction with several restaurants and the helipad which had tourist flights from it.

@RazingthenRaising Месяц назад

There are at least two major battleships (USS NC and USS New Jersey) that have been getting restoration work. They might be about done by now. But the level of work to save these ships that have been sitting in mud since the 1950's is astounding. You don't really think about what happens to a boat until you see it getting dug out. I think that there is almost no chance of saving this honorable vessel. I just hope it gets a memory location created somehow.

@timothypedregon827 Месяц назад

The Alabama just got her deck replaced and The Texan is in dry dock.

@Nomad8324 Месяц назад

Looking at some more recent photos it looks like the deterioration is getting rather extensive with large sections missing and collapsing.

@jerrystauffer2351 Месяц назад

"The Taco Bell sank quickly ". I never expected to hear that line.

@bnthern Месяц назад

thank you / as a retired sailor, who when on trips visits sites of naval vessels (and often knows more then the tour guides) feels pain when another "HULK" is discarded. in 1966 I had the honor of raising the flag over the remains of the USS Arizona on Thanksgiving moring and wish more were available to teach of our nations past to those whom will becoming the next generation to keep us safe!

@AC-jk8wq Месяц назад

Thank you for your service sailor! 😃

@clanzocu390 Месяц назад

My dad and friends took alot of stuff from the ship after the 93 flood, ended up giving alot to local Amvet posts, I don't think they could ever display the stuff publicly since it was tech stolen but I know they said they would store and honor the ship.

@mr.iforgot3062 Месяц назад

Your welcome Ryan! I'm really glad you made this documentary.❤

@Bikerbob59 Месяц назад

Seems about the same as a corvette of the Canadian WW2 navy. Speed an armament about the same.

@christopherbyrd5818 Месяц назад

I remember this ship.The flood of 1993 destroyed this minesweeper. It's a shame it was never salvaged

@ristube3319 Месяц назад

12:07 flood of 1992 was major when I was a kid.

@aa64912 Месяц назад

I grew up in east St. Louis , Illinois and we used to cross the Mississippi River ( not the Missouri River) all the time. The Admiral and other ships noted here were on the Mississippi River, not the Missouri

@valekofastora1027 Месяц назад

It doesn't look very salvageable as is. Scrap metal =s

@PleasePassTheHammer Месяц назад

"Burger King Flotilla" LOL

@swiderski231 Месяц назад

Love your videos. Keep it up. Can you make a video on Lake Michigan ghost ship by the Port of Chicago that's be docked for like 35 yrs or more..

@SteamWolf320 Месяц назад

That sounds interesting. Maybe send him an email?

@ristube3319 Месяц назад

11:15 How does an oil company go bankrupt?! SERIOUSLY?!

@Starkada Месяц назад

I live downtown St Louis and there is almost no recognizable part of the ship left. You could walk past it right now and never know where it is if it wasn't listed on a map

@majikglustik9704 Месяц назад

Scrap? Try high dollar scrap. Prewar scrap. It was built before the bomb-dity-bomb.

@glhmedic Месяц назад

The Mississippi side of the river? State park ranger? Questionable editing.

@QuadMochaMatti Месяц назад

Clickbait engagement

@NS-hs6lt Месяц назад

That seems like an unnecessarily large crew for its size

@edbrown6985 Месяц назад

The ss United States is an example of people refusing to let ships die.for years they've wasted most of the money they collect on rent rather than renovations , while having dinners for potential donors and auctioning everything of value and leaving it a empty ship which looks like hell.now its fate i s most likely scrapyard or sunk for artificial habitat for fish,and the conservancy objects to this but in the end they did absolutely nothing to save the ship.

@Liddledriver Месяц назад

Most mine sweepers were wooden hulled ships so that magnetic mines wouldn't be attracted to the hull.

@CullenRick Месяц назад

Easiest thing might have been to build a replica hull on land and transfer as much original material as possible.

@Gerhardium Месяц назад

The photo @ 3:30 looks like a handover ceremony with US transferring the ship to the Soviets as there are sailors and officers of both the USN and Soviet Navy.

@ronaldrobertson2332 Месяц назад

The Admirable classdid have steel hulls. U.S.S. Hazard, AM-240 in Omaha is a fine example.

@PotatoBearRawr Месяц назад

BurgerKing and TacoBell did what?! Sounds like something straight out of Ancapistan

@Dauntless2000 Месяц назад

They were floating barges dressed up as riverboats on the side of the river next to the arc. They were nice to have when you are a kid that when to see the arc and you are hungry. We also had a McD's like that as well at the time. They are all gone now thanks to the flood of 93.

@keithmoore5306 Месяц назад

a metal hulled WW2 minesweeper? all the minesweepers from that war i;ve heard of would wood hulled to avoid setting off magnetic mines!!

@BaDArxz 29 дней назад

It’s an insult to consign her to this fate. She deserves better.

@ristube3319 Месяц назад

2:17 Commander Picard?! He was a captain…well…not really. But he has 4 rank pips (captain)

@IndigoSolution Месяц назад

Is World of Warships the new Fortnite with these crossovers? lmao

@curtusw Месяц назад

I am a from Wisconsin it would be cool to get a story about the battle ship Wisconsin

@ristube3319 Месяц назад

Rotted and rusted isn’t salvageable metal.

@PeppersStarLine Месяц назад

I think someone by now would fund an full restoration for the old warship… hopefully

@ethanspaziani1070 Месяц назад

It's so sad how we have treated our history here in America God it makes me so sad

@josephpadula2283 Месяц назад

Did he say Death Charge launchers ? At about 3:20 ? Instead of Depth ?

@QuadMochaMatti Месяц назад

Probably, just like so many other intentional gaffes this presenter seems to continually make, that have been called out by others.

@1234cheerful Месяц назад

Sounded closer to depth charge to me. Listened again, maybe deaf charge.

@kengardner7130 Месяц назад

She had 2 depth charge racks on the stern as well as 2 K GUN depth charge launchers below and behind both 40mm gun tubs when she was built.

@piavmes Месяц назад

Thank you Ryan!

@vincentvillanueva3234 Месяц назад

What if civilians gathered tools ect and tried to fix it / get it to float ?

@gusbuckingham6663 Месяц назад

Oh great. Another ship that's picked up for scrap. What is this, 1946?

@CrisisXofficial Месяц назад

It's not relevant here, I put it here as it will most likely be read. I have watched a few island history videos and would love it if there was an island history playlist.

@PotatoBearRawr Месяц назад

Are we really still in 2024 saying nukes ended the war alone (understood as forced the Japanese to accept unconditional instead of conditional surrender)? And not in conjunction with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria (as the Japanese were allegedly trying to negotiate peace terms through the USSR as an intermediate since late July, but only accepted unconditional surrender, when the Soviets then entered the war)?

@laszynandriy Месяц назад

Come on St. Louis!!! Your slacking

@xen84 Месяц назад

The ship is so far gone that it would cost far too much to save. Unfortunately, if there was ever a point where it would be feasible to rescue it, that window of opportunity definitely closed decades ago.