The Death of Famous Ocean Liners

The Olympic deserved to be saved, considering not only who her sister was, but also her unique looks and admirable service record.

7:45 R.I.P RMS Carpathia thanka for saving the leftover passengers of the RMS titanic

The Queen Mary II is now the only true ocean liner in service. However, large cruise ships are being scrapped in Turkey and India ...usually when they are at least 25-30 years old.

"I have died many times, but somehow my love for this world kept me alive. People call me a fool, but I call myself lucky to have made countless memories."- Marcus.

It breaks my heart to see these beautiful ocean liners getting scrapped, destroyed, or sunk. 😢😢😢😢

As a child. I saw both the QE 1 and the QM 1 in Southampton at the same time. From the deck of the USNS Maurice M Rose. Was told that only a few days a year they both would be in port at the same time.

My great grandfather crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice onboard the RMS Mauretania in the years just after The Great War. He was going to New York on business. Inverkeithing, in Fife, Scotland is mentioned here. Hundreds of vessels of all sorts were scrapped there. The scrap yard does still function but nothing like it did in the past.

Once Rms Olympic's final remains were scrapped in 1937 she was finally able to reunite with her sister ships Titanic and Britannic in ship heaven, sailing together in peace, forever... 😭

Thank you for including the SS America at 9:05. She is the subject of my channel and have done many videos about her. Her fate was tragic but she did at least have a long and fascinating life for an ocean liner.

I was fortunate to sail on the Queen Elizabeth 1, Queen Mary 1, and the Rotterdam (which wasn’t mentioned) in the ‘60s. When the Normandie burned and sank at the dock on Manhattan’s West Side, Alfred Hitchcock rushed a film crew to get pictures. He used the images at the end of “Sabotour”, definitely a film to watch if you haven’t seen it. Hitchcock at his best.

RIP Titanic, Britannic, Olympic and Carpathia 😢😢😢😢

Great vid, Thanks for the upload,

Re Lancastria, St. Nazaire: The largest single loss of life on a British vessel in history. The Master, Capt. Rudolph Stuart, survived and later went on to command the RMS Laconia. 'The Laconia Incident' was a very noteable event for several reasons: 1. The Kriegsmarine U boats surfaced to save survivors, as was the custom of BOTH sides in the war. Unfortunately, despite them broadcasting in clear ENGLISH, offering free and safe passage for Allied rescue ships and commanding other U Boats to leave them, a squadron of American Army Air Force children pretending to be pilots, bombed the U boat, resulting in it crash-diving and due to Laconia survivors onboard, being too heavy was nearly lost. It re-surfaced and deposited survivors. 2. Admiral Donitz gave 'the Laconia order' in that no German vessel was to stop to pick up survivors. 3. Admiral Donitz was later charged with war crimes for this order. 4. Captain Rudolph Stuart lost his life, being remembered as a true hero who stayed with his ship evacuating people and sadly went down with it. 5. The US Army Air Force were proven to be completely fecking useless. NB it is arguable that Admiral Raeder should have taken ultimate responsibility for the Laconia Order, but as he was captured by the Russians and the Allies never even made a request for him to attend Nuremburg, no action was taken for this.

10:16 During Great Eastern's scrapping the remains of a riveter were discovered where he'd accidentally been sealed in the bottom of the double hull during construction

There are two types of tragedies here, it seems: ones that cost lives like the Cap Arcona , and ones that cost the ship, like Normandie . That one could have been prevented if the NYFD just listened to the designer and the crew.

The Great Eastern was impressive given her age (pre-Civil War) and size. Imagine if that was preserved. We don't even have that many images of what she looked like inside.

😢 That is so very sad

I’m actually so sad 😭

One fact about the Carpathia was that as she was fairly close to New York with the Titanic's survivors the Titanic's shipowner J Bruce Ismay messaged the offices of his company White Star and asked them to hold a ship, the Cedric, until he and the crew came so they could go home to England and leave US jurisdiction as soon as possible before any investigation could be started. He signed his message "Yamsi": Ismay spelled backwards. It was intercepted by the American warship Chester which promptly relayed it to Congress, where a subcommittee to investigate the disaster was quickly formed. Its members, headed by Sen. William Alden Smith, traveled to New York to make it in time for the Carpathia's arrival and serve Ismay with a summons to appear in court - not within a few days, let alone a full week: the following day .

The sinking stories of the SS Arctic and SS Atlantic will always make me shudder. They both sounded particularly traumatic, especially for the women and children