The Death of Famous Ocean Liners
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This video attempts to show the fate of history's greatest vessels. Be sure to like and subscribe if you enjoyed my content :)
Credit for Images:
Titanic Painting: Ken Marschall
Lusitania Wreck: Ken Marschall
Britannic Wreck: Ken Marschall
Bremen Camouflage Paint scheme: Earl of Cruises
Bremen Wreck: Earl of Cruises
Paris Wreck: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/284289795212743168
Credit for Audio and Footage:
The Olympic deserved to be saved, considering not only who her sister was, but also her unique looks and admirable service record.
I totally agree! There were some plans to convert her into a museum but the idea simply lacked funds. People just saw it more useful to scrap her because it would provide thousands of jobs during the Great Depression.
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I couldn't agree more with your opinion, but sadly it WAS the Great Depression after all, and some things just couldn't be done. I aswell, think that the Olympic would be an absolutely wonderful museum ship, and potentially a great addition to the present day Titanic Museum in Belfast, with the SS Nomadic
7:45 R.I.P RMS Carpathia thanka for saving the leftover passengers of the RMS titanic
We will always remember you RMS capriata
Oh yeah
Many hundreds of survivors.
@@jadeegan150carpathia*
@Jhonhaloc-tc7jeyou clearly don't know what the RMS carpathia is💀
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... 😭
😢 so sad 😭
I've got a piece of it.
@@amaritineenthusiastwhat do you mean by that?
"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.
Me too
How did you comment If You Die?????!...
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 to disagree. There are now no true liners in service. They died with Canberra and QE2.
@@user-pb54 The hull design of the Queen Mary II is specifically engineered for Transatlantic crossings... thus it is a true ocean liner. Cruise ships have a different hull design and are engineered for lower cruising speeds in calmer waters.
@@user-pb54Queen Mary 2 is a ocean liner, her design proves it with thicker steel plate and fine lines
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The Queen Mary 2 isn't the only ocean liner in service (actually, it ended up as a floating museum or something like that). The SS Andrea Doria's killer, MS Stockholm, is not only the second ocean liner in service, it also changed it's form until becoming the current Astoria.
Currently, the Astoria (former MS Stockholm) is in the brink of being scrapped, otherwise, that ship is out of circulation.
It breaks my heart to see these beautiful ocean liners getting scrapped, destroyed, or sunk. 😢😢😢😢
Look how long the video is in 1912 and it sank on the 14th. Look at the time of the video.
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.
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.
wow not once have I seen someone on youtube who was able to be around when a ship sank because nowadays you barely ever hear about a ship tragedy
❤❤❤🎉😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😂:) ;^) I bet a kid is gonna reply that
Forgot comma
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.
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.
The Great Eastern is a rather fascinating vessel. She was decade’s ahead of her time. So far ahead of her time that her size record wasn’t broken until the next century. She even survived more damage than the Titanic sustained on the night of her sinking. Truly is a shame that the Great Eastern now exists in many separate pieces.
The SS Great Eastern is most noteworthy in the laying of Transatlantic telegraph cable. However, as a passenger ship it has been said that the ship rolled excessively to make passengers seasick, despite her enormous size.
Where SS Great Eastern was broken up her outline is still visible at low tide, some small amount of her keel still exists there too.
*I remember reading a ghost story where passengers and crew reported hearing a tapping noise. During her scrapping the remains of a riveter who was sealed in the double bottom during construction was discovered.*
0:20 This breaks my heart
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*
Thats an urban legend spread to further the bad reputation the GE had. No evidence, newspapers, memorials, articles or anything exists of that happening.
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.
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RIP Titanic, Britannic, Olympic and Carpathia 😢😢😢😢
The 4 best Ships
I know their my four Favorite ships
Lusitania: what about me 😭😭😭
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4:31 The shipwreck most people know about.
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.
Cool
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I went to the QM lots of times in California!
@@emilybugarin8541 f**k you for saying that ... I traveled on QM 1 and QE 1 age 7 (1967, first class), and you'll NEVER EVER have that experience, too bad haha
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.
No one ever mentions the MS St Louis. And, it was the ignorance of the NY fire department that brought down the Normandie. Even the ships architect tried to advise them on how to save her, but they wouldn't listen to him.
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 .
2:35 - 2:50
The Rms Aquitania was my Favorite Ocean liner and it should have been deserved to be saved
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
So many were sunk in wars, never lived out their lifespans. :-(
I live beside the Rosyth dockyard where the Mauretania was scrapped-Inverkeithing another yard mentioned is just two miles away which also scrapped many famous ships.The furniture and all the inside fitments were supposed to have been removed before these ships reach the dockyard but that's never the case-as a result,hundreds of very ordinary homes in the area have beautiful wood panelling,,carpets and all sorts of interior fittings which the men working in the yard were told they could have as they would just be burned.My own home is a very ordinary semi but the previous owners worked in the yards and fitted the house out as if it were a mansion.better that someone have the benefit of the craftsmanship rasther than everything be consumed by the flames.
😭This just makes me weep that they would waste such glorious and elegant pieces of history. It's super cool that you have a home that has parts of the fastest and most beautiful ship in her days. Really great story, thanks for sharing.
@@Firemarioflower it is sad only if somehow we could have kept them imagine if we had Olympic Maureitania and queen mary that would be pretty cool
Yes. With the fascination of Titanic never ending, Olympic could've provided so much insight@@Megalania1
@@Megalania1 Queen Mary actually exists, it is still docked at Los Angeles harbor and is a floating museum
@@Firemarioflower I know by thanks for telling me I just mean imagine if we had the others to go with her
Britannic and Titanic 😢😢
And the 3rd, the Olympic.
@@zyxw2000the one who born first and died last
I’m actually so sad 😭
Sad facts 💔
Very sad
I love this old transatlantics
Fact: RMS Carpathia saved some of titanic passengers
I Like Your Fact
Many hundreds.
Everybody knows that kinda
I kinda saw the RMS Mauretnia and the RMS (HMT for war service) Olympic coming down the pipe. I hope to visit the RMS Queen Mary 1 and 2 at some point in the near future once I have the time and money to do so. I'm a full-time university student with 2 part-time jobs and I'm in the process of earning a degree in maritime history. I hope to find a shipwreck of my own one day. I've been in love with ships like these since I was very young and I hope to discover the stories of even more ships.
😢 That is so very sad
I wonder why such incredibly expensive and for the time high tech vessels, made of the best materials, had such a short operational life, even without accidents.
Anybody?
Generally speaking, they became considered too expensive to continue to operate, or even to preserve. Otherwise they could have kept so many historic vessels for people to experience today: Forget people's fascination with _Titanic_ , there's _Mauretania_ , _Vaterland_ / _Leviathan_ , _America_ , ... so many that could have still been around if someone just spent the money to preserve them. _Queen Mary_ is now being restored, but _United States_ is sitting there, rusting away. It's tragic to lose a part of human history like that.
@@BNuts It might cost a lot of money to preserve the United States. When I first heard of her it seemed to me that she was built to get the Blue Riband more than anything else.
It was cheaper and faster to fly the Atlantic before she hit the water. Perhaps it will become possible to take a Virtual trip around the ship.
If it can be digitised the metal can be melted down.
One of the big problems is that like computers and phones today, what was high tech when they were built was obsolete in a few years. Both Mauritania and Olympic had cutting edge propulsion systems, Mauritania with her turbines (making her the fastest of her day), Olympic with her hybrid reciprocating engines and turbine (making her the most efficient of that era for her size). Within a few years though, direct drive turbines were replaced by geared turbines which allowed ships to be faster than Mauritania and more efficient than Olympic. There was also the switch from coal to oil, although both ships were updated in that regard, but that was much easier than refitting the whole propulsion system. At the same time what was the latest tech for passenger comfort and amenities became obsolete, as did the décor and the general environment. Add in that the old ships are tiny. Queen Mary and Elizabeth were each bigger than Olympic and Mauritania combined. Finally these ships were worked hard, under the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic. Ultimately it becomes the case that it's cheaper to just scrap the old ships and build new ones instead of keeping refitting.
@@ChrisCooper312 But when it was speed they were selling they lost to aircraft.
@@20chocsaday Right, no one crosses the ocean by ship anymore.
Dude the carpathia one made me cry, it’s sad how it was the only ship that reached the location where titanic sank, and 6 years later it is sunken, very sad, very sad.
My Grandmother sailed on the Aquitania after the 2nd world war.
She didn't appreciate this beautiful ship & stated it wasn't very comfortable and was somewhat cramped & it rocked side to side on the sea. I think she went 2nd class if I remember correctly. I thought it was a beautiful ship in comparison to the likes of Titanic.
Aquitania was not as attractive in her external appearance as Olympic/Titanic but Aquitania had more grand interiors
@@bfv8 Perhaps not however its record for safe crossings & It didn't sink but was scrapped after a long career is what was impressive to me. All of the Olympic class vessels sank Except for The Olympic itself which I wonder about because of the rumor's that it was switched with Titanic before its maiden voyage which if correct, It was the Olympic that sank not the Titanic. I am unsure about this & not sure how credible the video showing the investigation that had been done through deep sea exploration of Titanic's sinking It was claimed that the lettering on the Upper stern showed the letters of the Olympic not titanic, Also Apparently the expansion joints of the believed Titanic that lays on the bottom of the ocean is that of the Olympic, Not titanic as both ships had a different type of expansion joint. Also Titanic had a 30 foot scorch mark on its Starboard side close to the bow where there was a Fire burning in its coal bunker & rumor has it the 2 ships where switched prior to its maiden voyage in a bid to sink the Olympic for insurance reasons. LOTS of rumors but the 2 ships may have looked the same, but both had features that the other did not distinguishing these 2 vessel as esthetically different which would prove the truth upon closer inspection of Titanic's Hull under the ocean. . I don't think they have disproved any of these rumors
@@michaelbressette2599 you just mentioned all the bs conspiracy theories. It tells me you know nothing. And titanic sinking had nothing to do with her looks or design just bad luck, and that same damage would have sunk Aquitania
@@michaelbressette2599they have 🤦♂️🤦♂️
yes,yes they have disproved all of them,@@michaelbressette2599
You forgot the Yarmouth castle it was built in 1927, which caught fire and sank in 1965. 90 passengers were killed.
My dad owned that ship before I was born its orig. name was SS Evangeline, doing cruises out of Miami. He sold it to the new Bahamas Cruise Line, they say it's bad luck to rename a ship? Well ...
Wonderful video. Morro Castle was another tragedy.
Appreciate the comment! And indeed, another tragedy I failed to mention in this video.
I think its crying shame Aquitania wasnt preserved. At the time of he retirement she was one of the last 4 stackers in service. Same with Mauritania and Olympic
I think it was actually THE last ship with 4 stackers, I don't remember seeing another ship in photos of 1950 with 4 stackers.
If you dosent know, RMS Carpathia, is sunk in the same day of the death of the last Tsar, Nicholas II and his family where killed
Great vid, Thanks for the upload,
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's really a shame all those ships sank. All those precious metals lost.
In a perfect world, some of these vessels would be berthed in Long Beach, CA alongside the Queen Mary...
In a perfect work Olympic would have been sent to the place titanic would have completed its maden voyage to have a sister ship that could make people understand what they never got
Poor ships 😥
3:14 SS Cap Arcona
1:32 that picture is not the Olympic. Olympic had three screws, not four!
I see Olympic’s 2 three bladed outward propellers in the picture. They just happen to be so massive, it looks like Olympic has 4 propellers. If that were the case though, where are the 2 propellers on the left side of the image? After some research, this is indeed a picture of Olympic and how she looked by 1937.
As depressing as this is it's also a fortunate Discovery because I'm sick and I have a lot of ships I didn't know about to look up and read about
Thanks
The pleasures of being sick include researching oceanliners.
A ship idea is the uss United States is was basically a copy of the uss America but a little different,it was scraped in I believe 1953 or earlier or mebay later is would be very cool if you added it and great channel good job
no no the United States wasn't scrapped it's sitting (rusting 😢) in Philadelphia! She served till 1970, I got to travel on her I was 9
1. USS is only for navy ships.
2. United States still exist.
Rest In Peace
Ms Estonia
great and sad vid... you should add the Cap Trafalgar
Thank you! And you are right, there was even a painting by Charles Dixon that depicted the battle between the Cap Trafalgar and the Carmania that I could’ve added. Sadly I simply forgot to add her in this video. There’s just too many liners to mention.
so many ships caught fire!
big respect for the RMS
the cap arcona was also used in the infamous 1943 german titanic film
And the SS Wilhelm Gustoff? About 9000 people lost their lives!
It was not an ocean liner. Hitler ordered it to be built as a cruise ship
That ship was forgotten
No because Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship and it was MS not SS
They seem to only be showing ships with videos or photos of their demise.
4:50 that’s my favorite Titanic
4:30 who’s looking for this?
Not me
bet the uk wanted those ships back in 40
Oh absolutely, the Ballin trio, Olympic, and Mauretania certainly would’ve shortened the war by a few months at least with their carrying capacity.
Future is hard to predict
Took so much to build them back in day
RIP rest in peace,ships😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
There are still parts of Great Eastern's keel lying in the sand where she was scrapped.
I currently live in Long Beach they are currently doing heavy modification to the Queen the refurbishing the whole Queen Mary
Good! I traveled on both Queens 2x each at very end of their service late 60s, I was 6 and 7, remember it like yesterday dude!
9:17 all I want to know about this is where is the other half of it?
It was swallowed up by the waves.
What if the edmund fitzgerald was raised in the great lakes?
It’s a real big shame that Olympic and Mauretania had to be scrapped
1:52 RMS Majestic
6:32
That’s as close as we gonna get a pic close to how titanic was sinking that night
It’s not the tyrannical
@@anthonyscali1000Titanic?
Titanic??😥😢😥😢😥😢😥😢😥😢
@@rosalliemartin what is sad?
@anthonyscali1000 it's a kid on his parents acc
great video, but also sad
6:38 those 30 people who died actually got off the ship ok, it was the still rotating propeller rising out of the water that hit the life boat and killed everyone on board that specific lifeboat.
That is actually true
The images of the liners getting scrapped are both creepy and sad
1:35 RMS Canpania
3:38 RMS Lusitania
Rest in peace RMS Titanic
I MISS YOU
I imagine some ships like the Mauretania or Olympic would've had a second life coming if they held out until the war. Mauretania would've made an excellent fast troop transport. After the war a lot of migrants were travelling from europe. She might've made it into the 50s
These ships wore out after 20-30 years of Transatlantic service and it did not make financial sense to refurbish them. A new ship was always faster and larger.
@@SpockvsMcCoy What about Aquitania then? Her service was about the same as in my comment. Her plans to be scrapped were delayed when WW2 broke out as she was needed as a troop carrier. After the war she was used as a liner again. I don't see why that couldn't happen to Mauretania or Olympic, which weren't much older.
@@SteffenMeyer101 In order to attract enough first and second class passengers, these ocean liners had to be replaced on a regular basis. There were competing ocean liners from different companies/countries... so passengers could be selective. An ocean liner built around 1912 was terribly dated by the mid-1930s.
@@SpockvsMcCoy Of course they were dated, they were old ships. But as with Aquitania, they were needed during and after the war as troop transports and immigrant ships, for which they were plenty enough. I am only talking about WW2 extending their limited lifespans, not about their use as luxury liners in the 30s. Had WW2 started a few years earlier, these ships wouldn't have been scrapped.
@@SpockvsMcCoy Dated maybe but how much worse could it be to sail with a 1912s liner than with a 1930s one?
Actually, the Queen Elizabeth was sunk by one of her boilers that exploded and fire
The picture for the Carpathia was taken from the Submarine that torpedoed her, before fleeing due to more ships appearing
0:30 THE HORROR
The thumbnail got The Mauretania and Olympics date wrong, they were both scraped in 1935
Yes while they were both sent to the scrap yard in 1935, the images I added are how they looked in those years. Mauretania was a hulk left on the beach by 1936. Olympic was almost completely gone by 1937. Remember it took a while to scrap these massive ships.
4:34 titanic
R.I.P RMS Maurertania 😢
A sad fate, but many of these ships did the world a great final service and provided jobs for scrap yard workers during the Great Depression.
Team saved the ships😢
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All the ships are good but Titanic is The best So I’m liking
Sadly, so many incredible ships lost to senseless war.
9:20 YOU MEAN IT"S STILL THERE!!!??
Today, the former SS America is barely visible at all. She has almost been completely swallowed up by the seas.
@@nboceanlinerhistory Oh. How tragic
It's been sitting in the same spot for nearly 30 years. It was once the whole ship, too. Many people have said they wanted to salvage, or even save, the SS America. However, all of the people that have made such offers either sold off their rights, or backed out of said deals. All that remains of the ship above the water is a little bit of the hull.
Not the most tragic ship story I know of. The easily preventable tragedy of the SS Princess Sophia has taken such a spot for me, because of the bizarre circumstances of the disaster, and just how avoidable the fate of everyone on board was had the captain allowed rescue ships to begin evacuating passengers as they arrived on site.
even if not the Olympic, at the very least; they should have saved the RMS Aquitania - she was the only vessel in this list to serve BOTH world wars - her era should have been preserved with her; or many other of these vessels 😢😓
2:34 RMS Aquitania
titanic is trully the peak of ship design. her beauty last long aside from her functionality and practicality.
2:52 SS Atlantic
0:38 Normandie
Someone cryed like me?😢😢😢
I've read that the SS Paris was an arson fire.
Ahh that’s interesting. I haven’t done much research into the SS Paris, but it seems like many French liners were victims to flames. But we may never know if those flames were accidental or from arson.
Rest in peace
So many of these ships were vicitms of fire😢
Especially the French liners.
HOW IN THE FORK IS THE RMS MAJESTIC SO FLAT
This film should put to bed all the claptrap people spout about the Titanic today would be a floating hotel or the like. Had she not sunk, most people wouldn't have heard of her today and she'd have been scrapped in the 30s.
1:07 RMS Olympic
The Titanic didn't deserve his destiny
Her*
There is thing that most of people don't know that is
If ships hav there first name RMS those ship are beautiful like the Titanic and olympic
The crew of the artic is very brutal bc the passengers killed and attacking only the captain and 2 crew survive
I hate to see any beautiful ship be scrapped or worse, but sadly it is the way of things. The one that really dumbfounded me was the SS America. It was basically just left to rot. It always infuriated me that no one cared enough to do anything with her before it was too late. I'm sure i'm missing some details as to why, but still, its depressing. The loss of all of these beautiful vessels is sad. I would rather see gorgeous ships like these on the seas today, but I know its just a dream.
It was on a sandbar, removing it would have ripped a tonne of the hull off I think.
You're thinking of SS United States which is rotting in Philadelphia ... America wrecked in a storm in Canary Islands
@@forestghost7 whatever
@amaritineenthusiast I think you're right, the more I think on it.
2:10 SS Rex
Surprising the numer of collisions. I had never heard of the one sunk off of St Nazaire. Evacuating British/French troops?
RMS Lancastria? 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.
Yes, she was taking part in operation aerial which was the evacuation of allied forces from France when she was bombed and sank in an bombing raid
@@thomasmccaghrey9888indeed. The irony being that the Master- acting upon advice- refused to leave position until he had a RN escort; had he been better informed of the JU88s operating nearby then he'd likely have made a different decision.
If I had the money I'd seek permission for a specialist dive to the wreck site; just about every major loss of life has been commemorated with a plaque or flag being placed on the sea bed nearby. But lot Lancastria; she was the forgotten casualty of the war.
Rose: I don’t see what the fuss is all about it doesn’t look any bigger than the Mauretania?
0:07 MAURETANIA
Olyimpic was the tru queen the old reliable