Lusitania | 104 Years - A Real Time Sinking Animation
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- 104 years ago today the R.M.S Lusitania was struck by a torpedo form a German U-20 submarine on her starboard side during WW1. She sunk in just 18 minutes with a loss of 1,198 lives. Here I have made a Real-Time sinking animation of those terrifying 18 minutes complete with sound effects to pay my respects to the passengers and crew of the doomed liner. Ive spent weeks making this so I hope you all enjoy it.
Hello and welcome to the biggest fictional shipping line in the world, enjoy...
The poor souls that are trapped after the elevator lifts stopped working. That must be the worst feeling in the world.
Hard to verify now that we're so far removed in time but I've read that the surviving lift operators from the Lusitania said no one was trapped in the elevators. I hope it's true. I've read that 41 years later people were trapped in at least one elevator aboard the Andrea Doria.I hope that ISN'T true.
I dont understand how anyone could think that iut would be a good idea to not have a stairwell.
My thoughts exactly. We wouldn't even allow this in buildings nowadays - standing on solid ground and all. But I think people had a lot of confidence in modern technology back then and not yet quite the same approach to safety precautions. And we still keep on learning from mistakes. It's a human thing.
How on earth did they design a ship without stairs is shocking.
White star line employee 1912.... This ship can't sink!
1915..... This ship can't sink
1916..... This ship can't sink
1918.... This ship can't sink
1921.... I believe this ship could sink
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What's really scary is that the Titanic took 2h 40min to sink.
lusitania took only 18min
And Britannic took only 55 minutes.
Empress of Ireland took 14 minutes.
@@ginnrollins211 hms hood 3 minutes
My hopes and dreams took only a sec to sink
Personally if I were on a ship that was gonna sink I’d want it to go quick (not because I want no chance of survival but because if I knew I had no chance then I’d want it to be over fast) I wouldn’t want it to be slow. I don’t wanna be waiting and wondering if I’m gonna survive or not and the full forced panic happening for hours and watching people die for hours.
I wouldn’t say that I _enjoyed_ this, precisely. But it’s a vivid, engrossing and informative reconstruction of a horrific tragedy. Thank you.
Thank you very much that means alot
It's not a "tragedy", which is a fire, flood, storm, or human error/accident. Rather, it's an "atrocity", which is a willful heinous act at the hands of evil people.
@@danielgolus4600 Whilst that could be considered true, it is quite uncertain who to attribute responsibility for this.
Can you imagine trying to get off this huge ship in 18 minutes?
Getting off is easy, surviving is a whole nother issue
Some were stuck in the bowels of the ship, unable to get up and out. Can you imagine the dread those poor souls felt? Then the lifeboats were not properly loaded, whether from crew not knowing how?, or from passengers panicking. Maybe both. People were killed trying to board the lifeboats.
windstorm1000 the liner is medium sized
The titanic is XXL
elenita javier but it took more than 2 hour to sink
@@kaydenchan7093 When Titanic struck the iceberg, 5 compartments were open, only teeny teensy little scrapes and dots along it which were big enough to let water in, Titanic took around 2 hours because of her huge size and the holes weren't that big, also it took like 2 hours for the bow to finally go under and the other 20 minutes was the rest of the ship going down as well, also the Titanic had watertight doors they were able to close right after impact, Lusitania was struck by a torpedo and it blew a massive hole, I doubt they even had time to close watertight doors considering they even had them. Power went out in around 4 minutes and panic had already surfaced the Lusitania very quickly, of course Titanic sank in 2 hours from her huge size and the iceberg only tearing tiny holes and watertight doors, that was not the case for Lusitania, she had less time to do anything than Titanic had.
Pretty arrogant of the engineers not to design in stairs for people in the lower decks.
The video refers only to the cargo hold, not the lower decks in general. And even the cargo hold would have had either hatches to other parts of the ship, or ladders, or both. There is no way in hell they would design a hold reachable only by electric lift, even with the watertight doors closed. Every compartment had escape ladders.
sgauntt Well back then everyone had a lot of faith in modern technology especially considering a lot of major countries had just finished an industrial revolution
The stairs weren't designed becuase people back then were selfish and dumb #no affence to peoples ancesters
@@Oxman2481961 offense* and people are STILL dumb and selfish to this day. Human nature hasn't changed the slightest since this event.
the doors to the ladders or stairs were probably submerged already
I love the last line. “For only the dead have seen the end of war”. As long as humans are living on Earth, there will be war.
Sadly that's very true.
I'm afraid I can't believe that. It may be unlikely that that wouldn't be the case, but I don't think it's impossible.
Have you watched the 100? that’s a line from it
That quote is in a call of duty game lol
God's great plan for us all.
R.I.P, my husbands great uncle Richard Joseph Danson was on board as a pantry steward, he survived he jumped in the water at the last moment and swam out for a mile to an upturned boat. Great animation
My goodness! What a story that's amazing how he survived. :)
There is no such thing as a great uncle. I think you meant grand uncle.
Well your uncle is a dick
Helen Hines n o
Charles Gentert there is such a thing as a great uncle. If you have a great auntie, great grandfather then you can have a great uncle. I suppose we say things in different grammatical terms in different places
This not only recreated the sinking very accurately, but also explained the historical significance. Nice job!
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aathi KS wtf
Nah she was at a high angle when she dropped
Peacock Poop nah you historian
Who's peacock poop
“People Are Sucked Into The Funnels As They Go Beneath The Waves” That Just Gives Me the Willies.
One survivor said he saw a woman get sucked into a funnel, then was blasted out by a steam explosion, still alive, covered with soot.
And at that time the stern was flooding, almost submerged and only that building on the stern and the mast were dry at that time,
She had not only righted herself, returning to an even keel (only to re-topple to starboard once underwater) but also returned to and plunged almost level..... absolutely horrific.........
@@Tyrunner0097 human cannon
Im impressed that the smoke stacks didn't collapse.
Lusitania should have actually not sailed that day.
The Germans made news that they would sink the Lusitania, but the crew didn't believe what the Germans said, and that is what sank the Lusitania
THE Gaming BOSS did you read the comment like honestly
The british don't care. They sail the lusitania on purposes despite the warning and we already know what happened next.
The English wanted America to join the war, they wanted Lusitania to sink and have as many American deaths as possible
The news papers WARNED of passenger ships sailing in the areas where Uboats were, and Lusi just sailed right into the war zone, ignoring warnings from the German embassy. It was in the paper right before she sailed. So, they were warned.
English: NOTICE!
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or of any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
Washington, D. C. April 22, 1915
6:21 Ships should always be equipped with stairs.
joshua Santos like titanic
elenita javier yah like that... although Titanic was more luxurious, Lusitania should have had stairs, yes
I found that part of the video to be pretty odd as it makes it seem as though the ship did not have stairs, so without the elevators, people were trapped. Of course, the Lusitania, like all other ships of the age, did have stairs. In fact, there were usually staircases immediately surrounding the elevators. There are accounts that some people were trapped *in* the elevators when they lost power, but there were no areas of the ship that were only accessible by elevator as that would have been insane with early 1900's technology, or indeed any technology.
The whole thing seems to be a myth.
@@QWOP_Expert ...ladders!
The Olympic Class is way better
“... why fear death? It is a most beautiful adventure...”
Uhhhh.....
**hears poor souls screaming, sobbing, wailing, grunting, including all innocent babies and small children/remembers there isn’t any stairs, the ship is certainly sinking, reflects on all the people who are trapped down there**
......................................................................
**Looks around one last time, at the horror surrounding us**
“.... perhaps. But what a most terrible way to die.......”
do you anyone with firsthand knowledge?
Watching this made me genuinely sad and distressed. All the components are there. The groaning of tens of thousands of tons of steel, the ruptures in the hull and explosions. The mass of humanity screaming...
Lusitania was a beautiful ship. She didn't deserve such an ignominious end.
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. Such a beautiful ship like the Lusitania didn't deserve the fate given to her
Like with most things, we have man to blame for the destruction of such beautiful things
Well, the Olympic, The Titanic's and Britannic's sister ship managed to survive her service and was scrapped, so better a revered wreck at the bottom of the ocean instead of disassembled and forgotten. It's a shame so many souls were lost on the Titanic and Lusitania though. Both sinkings however led to important events. Titanic brought down the notion of large liners being impenetrable feats of technology that conquered the sea leading to greater safety regulation and maritime restrictions. As for the Lusitania, it sparked outrage among the United States leading to our entry into WW1 and put greater heat on the German government.
And the people that ignored the German warning to ships in the area.
It carried ammunition so it can be sunk. Especially Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare so any ship is a target
I can't imagine being sucked into one of the funnels at the end! Watching this really made me think about the various horrors, thanks for making it!
Apparently some of them were lucky, as a minor steam explosion forced them back out
That guy who got his leg sawed off by a propeller... that's pretty grim. That's why I would never jump off the stern!
Yeah talk about making a bad situation worse. And as large as the funnels are...if they were sucked in, odds are they didnt make it. Horrible..
One person was sucked through one of the funnels and survived.
Tom Y. I’d like to get sucked by the tunnel. Hmmmmm yeah slurp slurp slurp
The fact that people kept killing themselves with lifeboats is extremely ironic
People do dumb shit and panic when they are in a life threatening situation.
It's well known in the Merch that lifeboats have killed more people than they've saved. Honest to god.
Yes and on the Brittanic they were sucked into the propellers. Imagine...feeling like you're safe by getting off the ship and then being helplessly drawn into a propeller.
deathboats
Well, they had like 18 minutes before the ship sunk. Haste makes people do dumb things.
Who the hell designs a ship with compartments that only can be escaped trough electrical means?
The British, of course
British
There were stairs leading upwards from the cargo hold, but they were located in the direction of the brand new hole in the ship and the torrent of water probably made it impossible to reach them.
Apparently the Cunard Line
@@Siddingsby exactly
It immediately started listing after the torpedo hit. Damn.
*she
@@peacockpoop8884
'It' is still acceptable. Ships are objects after all.
Yeah, she flooded instantly.
@@peacockpoop8884 Did you just assume the ship's gender??
Passenger ships dont have anti-torpedo bulges for protection... Battleship Musashi took 16 torp hits before capsizing...
"Too big and too fast to be hit by a torpedo"
Pick one
Are you suggesting that because she was big she couldn't be fast? Some of the records at sea have been set by huge ships.
The ship was big and wasn't fast enough. It was an easy target
@@johnbower7452 I'm pretty sure the point is "Are you too fast to be hit or are you a big target?"
The germans never intended on sinking her. They thought she would get a bloody nose they had no intentions of sinking her
RMS Olympic They did intend on sinking her. The Lusitania was a legitimate target
My gosh, those lifeboats were bigger deathtraps then the submarine.
That's good
I take offense to this
Don't blame the lifeboats it was stupidity.
One way to spot Americans:
They tend to use ‘then’ instead of ‘than’.
There’s a lot of American haters here, damn.
My great uncle was a seaman on the s.s. Centurion, which was sunk by the same U-boat off Ireland the previous day. He survived. Between December 1914 and December 1915 he sailed as crew on 7 ships and signed on for an eighth but did not turn up when she sailed. Of those eight ships, only two made it to the end of the war without being sunk. My great uncle's luck ran out on 1st May 1918. He was lost when the s.s. Era was torpedoed off Algeria. He was 29.
What a story, surviving all that then sadly being lost at such a young age.
Great Britannia Line Damn
Great Britannia Line Damn
I've read quite a few stories lately about people surviving multiple sinkings.
I on the other hand would only survive one.
RIP to your great uncle.
postscript67 ......if only he had 9 lives......
People got sucked into the funnels, that is a brutal way to die
At least some of them were washed right back out, covered in soot, and survived. It's not like they were vacuumed up into the boilers or something.
its caused by a vacuum of the funnels but as said many would of re emerged to the surface
Some managed to survive it though but they came out covered with soot.
Here’s an even more brutal way to go; having your lifeboat sucked into the propellers and be shredded to death, like what happened on Britannic.
Lunar Butterfly
And that’s why you don’t disobey the captain and launch the lifeboats before he orders it I guess
How to escape a sinking ship in 3 ways:
1. Wait for rescue to arrive
2. Board a lifeboat as soon as possible
3. *_Yeet yourself off the deck_*
Michael Benedict but then again... he jumped off where the propellers were, but either way it is a risky move to just yeet yourself. You can break bones from hitting the surface of water, but you can also go towards an area that is closer to the surface of water, but the ship would probably drag you down with it
I would yeet all the fuck up outta there
Don't forget to look out for sharks.
more like YOLO!!!!
The third option wouldn't work out because the water is freezing
After watching this I feel so grateful to be alive, Rest In Peace lovely souls.
have you ever been so bored that you watch a ship sink slowly for 20 minutes
not bored they remind me o ships in the bible a type of the churches ,,, accidents disasters absurd ways endanger all on board losses / captains / preachers saying sail on we wont be hurt just ignore the warnings ...
2.40 as well. Watched the Titanic
This is a real and historic event!
About 1200 people were bored onboard
I just watched the Titanic sink in real time and it took 2:40h
An Irish team dove on the Lusitania in 2006. It was packed full of munitions just like the Germans said. England and the USA denied this for 90 years. This was a violation of the USA's neutrality and also made the Lusitania a legitimate military target. The passengers should have known they were buying a ride on a ship that was full of war supplies and was a target. The German Embassy bought full page ads in all of New York's papers warning civilians not to ride on the Lusitania. The US government blocked the papers from printing the ads.
Then it got to English waters. England had reports of a u boat operating off the Irish coast. They radioed the Lusitania, sent it's escort home, told it not to zig-zag, and rerouted it directly toward the u boats last reported location. The English wanted it sunk, wanted as many American Passengers dead as possible, because they wanted the USA to join the war against Germany. It worked.
It's Cause the then Democrat President was like every other Democrat a Warmonger.
Fenris Vermundr I could say the same for republican presidents
The lucky One321 except you can’t
It worked? The US didn't join the war for another two years.
@@cambs0181 Correct and the Zimmermann Telegram was a far more important precursor to entering the war. It became clear Germany were willing to expand the war to any place of the world if it meant this gave them a bigger chance of winning it. In the end the US entered the war because the war struck hard on US business interest and business partners. At this time the USA wasn't a military superpower but an economic superpower. It made a lot of money selling civilian goods. Unfortunately all the money in the countries at war were spent on military goods. Therefore the war had to be won and when it was the US saw a golden opportunity to establish itself on the European market by offering products and goods the war torn local economies would have had difficulties providing.
It was also a way to secure their investment in the war. If, heaven forbid, the war ended in a stalemate and the Central Powers was still standing then there would have been no way to get the loans back (and their interest). The greatest horror the Americans feared was if the Central Powers managed to seize large parts of Europe and establish themselves as an independent power not being kept in check by the British or French.
The Americans also didn't like the idea of being a gunpoint of several hundreds of German submarines and possibly battleships should Germany stand her ground somehow. Once it became apparent Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare it was clear Germany spared no punches and this made the USA realize they could deal with the Central Powers now and be done with it or stand by and do nothing - and risk far more trouble in the future with who knows how many German subs dictating cross Atlantic trade.
Back in the early 80's I was stationed in Holy Lock, Scotland. I met a guy who was on the Lusitania when it sank. I ask him if there were weapons on board the ship. He said, "Loaded to the teeth."
If he was on the Lusitania and still alive in the early 80's he must have been in his 90's. How do you know he wasn't just some local old drunk or prankster? How did you ever get to meet an old man in his 90's with his wits still with him? Also, suppose it was true that the Lusitania carried arms, how would HE know about it?? The ships carried civilians and those civilians weren't there when the cargo was being loaded and even if they were the crates certainly would't have been branded with "arms" or "ammo" on them. Carrying contraband was nothing unusual but unless he was boatswain, captain or first mate I don't see how he would have been privy to such information.
@@paulallen8109 A freind of mine was married to his granddaughter.
Paul Allen I’ve met many old people in their 90s who still have fully working memories. My grandma was one of them. While 94 y/o, she told me stories of her childhood and the factory she worked in when she was in her 20s. So it’s not entirely impossible a 90 y/o man would have good memory, specially one as impactful as *surviving a sinking ship*
Second, you don’t know this old man from the early 80s. He must’ve been in his 20s at most in 1915. Perhaps he was a member of the crew? Janitor? Repairman? I don’t know, T Hurst would know better than me. If he was indeed an employee on the maintenance area Lusitania, then it’s likely he knew something, or overheard something. I don’t know.
Churchill ordered that. The Germans gave many warning about civilian ships carrying munitions. Churchill is fully responsible for the sinking.
@@jamesa.meadow4711 James, I remember speaking to this guy and he told me he was a young boy at the time of the incident. I did not ask him his exact age when the incident occurred but he was quite old when I met him in the 80's.
who is here after watching titanic and other ships sink?
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The people back then were so arrogant and ignorant when it came to the ships. Thinking a ship can't sink and tons of steel is to fast for a torpedo... how naive these people were. God bless the souls of everyone lost on those ships back then.
This was a few years after Titanic too. Its like fuck, get it in your head! Big boats can sink too!
People weren't ignorant. Try reading the BoT inquiry. The meaning of out running, in this context was the U boat. Since you think it's their ignorance, what about the Costa Concordia? Or was that back then as well?
The same will be said of our time someday in the future.
I don’t find them arrogant just uneducated. The public most likely Hadley no clue how the ships bulkheads worked so they just assumed they were safe. They never promoted the ships as unsinkable.
@@xJusteBx
Ships had been going down for centuries before the Titanic and frequently after it too when Germany first started using U-boats to target shipping lanes. It wasn't a matter of believing the ship was invincible, they believed they could outrun any torpedoes which would've been true if the captain didn't disobey orders and slow the ship due to fog and go in a straight line rather than a zig zag pattern.
Note to self don't ship war material on passenger liners
All it was was bullets. What gave it so much power was the coal dust kicked up from the first explosion. Coal dust is highly explosive mixed with air, and there was a lot of it as Lusitania was at the end of a voyage.
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial "Lusitania was officially carrying among her cargo 750 tons of rifle/machine-gun ammunition, 1250 cases of shrapnel artillery shells with the explosive burster charges loaded but no fuses or propellant charges, and the artillery fuses for those shells stored separately." (Wikipedia)
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial Actually every kind of dust mixed with air is explosive. Throw flour in the air and burn the dust cloud. It just makes boom.
Note to self never go on a Cruise ship.
note to self, don't go to war with the United States and get mad when you lose.
The ship may have sank in 18 minutes but those inside and not on the decks had:
*only 4 minutes until all the lights went out causing extreme darkness*
That's the scariest thing.
@@LITTLE1994 And how about the elevators?
This was a very well made animation, it really captured the terror that was aboard when Lusitania went down.
An unfortunate hammerhead shark I’ll leave you on shore in Iceland: I hear they eat shark.
@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial thats kinda why im unfortunate.
Mediocre animation (e.g., smoke vanishes 60 feet above stacks, only a tiny bow wave). Note that 4th stack, unlike Titanic's dummy, was an active one. No attempt to animate lifeboats being lowered (I don't object to no people animated -- they're difficult). And "soules" is spelled "souls".
I saw "Real Time Sinking" and thought "Oh, that sounds cool."
...then I saw it was only 22 minutes long. I do not want to imagine what it was like to be on that ship or watch it go down so fast, knowing there were still people aboard who were about to die.
@Sam B and 4 of those minutes were used to give us background information
Great Britannia Line, Thinking on this statement by Sam, how long did it take to sink the Hood by the Bismark?
Titanic: We need more life boats!
Lusitania: *getting them destroyed* y’all hear something?
Lafayette Baguette even if the ship WAS actually unsinkable i would still take good safety precautions like plenty more lifeboats etc. stuff can still go wrong
@@Phoebe545 The Captain of the T was not responsible for having only half or less of the boats the davits were designed to hold. That was White Star Line management that made that decision.
Supposedly Titanic was originally going to have a second row of 16 lifeboats inside the outer 16, however it was decided against because it was believed first class passengers would complain about the deck being cluttered.
Billis Lopez and they were supposed to have a lifeboat training session the day before the sinking :/
It was the circumstances of Lusitania's sinking that rendered her lifeboats ineffective. Her heavy list to starboard and the fact she sank in less than 20 minutes meant they were all but rendered useless.
compared to the lusitania, the titanic was definantly unsinkable
ha
Well, it took the Titanic 160 minutes to sink, thrice as long as the Britannic and nine times as long as the Lusitania.
Nikioko what do you think would have happened if Titanic was torpedoed? So many factors here..
@@villevirtanen00 Well, the Britannic ran onto a sea mine which should be very similar to getting hit by a torpedo. So the Brtannic sank three times quicker than the Titanic, due to the larger hole, but also three times slower than the Lusitania. And the Britannic had to problem that the locks didn't shut. Otherwise, she wouldn't have sunk.
So, coming back to your question what would have happened to the Titanic: probably nothing except a hole in the hull that has to be fixed, if the water-tight lock system worked. The Titanic's problem was that the hull breached over several sections along the starboard side an that was too much. One flooded section would have been ok, maybe two as well, but the Titanic had six leaks along the starboard side.
@@Nikioko you liked your own comment didn't you
crew: "oh naaaah, we'll be fine. no torpedo can harm us."
torpedo: "are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you?"
TORPEDO CLOSING ON THE STARBOARD BOW!
"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure that life gives us." Incredible
I can’t begin to imagine what was going through all those people’s minds when this was happening. May they all Rest In Peace.
Lifeboats went through some people's minds. Literally.
this is so haunting though like could you imagine being stuck inside a sinking boat
"A second explosion is heard" - yeah, no shit, with all the weapons onboard, it's a miracle the whole ship didn't explode at once.
Edit: Alright, NO EXPLOSIVES, NO WEAPONS, "only" a shit ton of ammunition. Okay. It looks like this wrong detail left a lot of interesting people vastly unsatisfied (in other words butthurt), so in order to overcome this problem in the future, I hereby declare that I was wrong about this one! Oh my God, the end is near! :D
Probably a steam explosion
@Petidani0330 the torpedo hit the first boiler room which was aft of the cargo room. Also expeditions have shown the munitions to be not blown up. It was most like a steam explosion
@@theluckyone3212 And what munitions that were on board were inconsequential, most likely a coal dust explosion.
To quote 'her cargo had included an estimated 4,200,000 rounds of rifle cartridges, 1,250 empty shell cases, and 18 cases of non-explosive fuzes' so no explosives.
@@mikestrohm3271 If that's an American source, it can't be trusted in this case. I hope I don't need to explain why.
I'm a fan of titanic and lusitania. This was very well done. I have been reading about those ships for over thirty years. I still cant get over how fast she sank, compared to the titanic. R.I.P. to all those souls who perished on the sea, in war and peacetime.
ncc1701chris im a fan of them since the 4th grade my Teacher gave me a Model Titanic Boat to play with in my pool
ncc1701chris I suppose the torpedo of that German sub was designed to do some seriously nasty damage on any ship it struck. Bear in mind torpedoes were designed to punch holes in destroyers, cruisers and battleships - all of which were built using the most durable steel. For a brief time during WWI they had no way to fight the submarines effectively so the subs had a field day and sank any ship they spotted.
ncc1701chris the worst thing is both are owned by two different companies that hated each other.
Dear God what a gruesome event! Hearing all those stories is insane.
Ships can’t sink because
1. We’re too fast.
2. We’re unsinkable
The forsaken phrases in shipbuilding.
@Dawn.whiteley Whiteley At least the titanic sank well. Spending most of her time listing and the front of her bow going under. People had plenty of time to get off and would have if they filled the lifeboats.
Oh gosh! Reading about how unruly everything was with the lifeboats and then watching here how quickly it sank, it must have been absolute chaos. With the ship sinking so fast, the crew never had a chance for a safe and orderly passenger evacuation from the ship. Thanks for the video.
The British were using that ship to supply themselves with ammunition. Despite Germany constantly warning them not to do so. The British government recently confirmed this, unfortunately. I think it's very pathetic of them to put innocent civilians at risk just to smuggle ammo.
RIP to all those who have lost their lives.
I had a book when I was younger, it was published in the first mid of the 1990's and it clearly stated the shop was carring explosives, even the amount
The British don't have the best record when it comes to the lives of non-Brits. Just look at the Irish potato famine. Ireland grew more than enough crops to feed the Irish people, but the British land owners exported all that food instead. Soldiers were even sent to make sure none of those crops reached the starving Irish because profits. The only reason the famine ended was that enough Irish had died or moved to America that there was enough food for those remaining.
Then there was India, which frequently suffered under the British for similar reasons.
@@foxymetroid a little more complex than that...
@@foxymetroid
And where are you from that you can stand high and proud on your national moral high-horse? The 19th century was characterised by extreme greed. The British (Specifically the independent East India Company) conquered India from the Maratha Confederacy, a collection of kings who possessed the kind of wealth that is spoken of in myths and legends and whose subjects lived in obscene poverty. When those subjects were suddenly British subjects, their lives didn't change one jot. Instead of a greedy king, they were ruled by a greed board of directors.
And interestingly enough, the effect of the First Industrial Revolution meant that living conditions for the poor in Britain where many times worse than the poverty in India. And the wealthy elite of London were perfectly happy to ignore those conditions a few miles from where they lived as much as they were to ignore those thousands of miles away.
Just as US citizens were content to ignore the suffering of the blacks, enslaved and emancipated, the Chinese labourers and the Native peoples. As the French and Belgians ignored their colonies, as the Russians to non-Russians in the empire, as the Poles suffered under whoever controlled their lands at the time.
As we in the modern world ignore the fact that our clothes are made by people who are practically slaves, our food grown by people who see a pittance of the profits ultimately made from their crops and ignore all the wars currently raging until they effect us in some way.
@@foxymetroid Absolute twaddle, most of the landowners in the hardest hit areas were Irish, anyway.
“You will understand just how fast those 18 minutes went...” 2:03 that hit hard...
Omag I'll n the feeling of falling down the funnel. And smashing into what ever was down there with water pouring all over you. In darkness seeing the light disappear.
in one case a man was blown back out of the funnel when a boiler exploded, he survived.
What ever was down there are the probably still very hot boilers.
Video: Lusitania
Suggested Wikipedia article: *_t i t a n i c_*
DunaMoose weren’t they ‘sister ships’ ?
@@SomePerson_Online No Titanic was with white star line, Lusitania with Cunard, The sister ships of Titanic were Olympic and Britannic
Dunamoose your right why did they an article of the "titanic" for a lusitania sinking video
DunaMoose BLACKTANIC
"Most of the crew needed for lifeboat launching are in the cargo hold where the only way out is the electric lift..." Facepalm!
Who else is watching all of these ships sink during covid
Yo. Trev. Present and accounted for.
REEEEEEEEE YAS
Me
This appeared in my recommendations
its turning obsessing for me 😯
Titanic Passenger: Can't get much worse than this..
Lusitania Passenger: hold my life jacket
You shouldnt rlly joke about this but yeah ill give you a like its funny af
To soon!!!
You should not make a joke. It’s an big disaster. YOU ASSHOLE. GO ROT IN HELL KID.
That guy who was on the Titanic, Empress of Ireland, and Lusitania at the first explosion: “Oh jeez, here we go again.”
(He survived all three)
(Also note that people have been known to make dark jokes in situations like this so it’s entirely possible he thought something like this)
HOW COULD U MAKE A JOKE ABOUT SUCH A HORRIBLE THING!!! FUCK YOUU
I guess youtube recommendations have brought us all back together again
Yes they have
@@pnksounds its quite nice
". . . too big and too fast to be hit by a torpedo."
My friend, there is no such thing as "too big" to be hit by a torpedo, especially in those days. Too small, maybe, but not too big. Bigger just means a bigger target to hit . . .
Yup
I think it meant too big to be SUNK by a torpedo. These ships were so large it was though they could survive a torpedo blast
Exactly. In fact, larger size gives it an easier chance to be hit.
8:11 What's with all the people release-pin killing people? It happened once, it was horrible, the pin-striker must've felt terrible.
But then watching that, someone thought: Hey I should strike the pin too! Many more gruesome deaths. I guess panic makes people make horrible choices.
Jonathan Allard some people are just waiting for an opplrtunity to kill other people.
Striking the pins was standard procedure. It was to ensure that the collapsible boats would self-launch when that part of the ship reached the water.
@@shane99ca Sorry for killing 24 people, mr the Judge, but it WAS standard procedure to strike the pin in other circumstances!
Judge: Fine then, you're off the hook.
Shane is just telling you what the striking the pin was for, not justifying what happened, you brainlet.
Irrelevant? Dude, the damn pins are of note in the topic, and Shane was just providing some info on them. Your problem was mistaking his simple comment as combative, and in turn you tried to mock a literally non existent argument in a vain attempt at smartassery.
Congratulations, Jonathan: 1, League of Preemtive Strawmen: 0.
Something tells me we sucked at making life boat mounts back then
Nope, the list was so bad... modern ships have - even for such events - methods, in 1914-40 there did not exist a solution. If you think about the italian liner sunk because the captain thought with his dick (wanted to impress his girlfriend), they had the same problem, the list was so bad that they could not launch the boats... and that was 2012 - Costa Concordia...
@@steffenjonda8283 i love that the gash the rocks made on that ship was shorter than the gash the iceberg made on the titanic, yet both of them sank
the concordia would have gone completely under if it wasn't for the shallow water
ships have made no improvements other than simple lifeboat counts, they're still a complete shitshow when anything goes wrong
Not really. The Britannic had superior lifeboat mounts that were specifically designed to be launched even in the event of heavy listing. This, coupled with superior training and enough lifeboats for the entire ship's complement and passengers, meant that only 30 people died on her compared to the thousandths on Lusitania and Titanic.
They are called davits rather than mounts, and they were effective when in the right situations
@@SoldierOfFate
I was just gonna comment this. Idk why those huge, electrical davits (dont know official name) never caught on. They helped compensate for listing quite well.
“Why fear death it is the most beautiful adventure” now that hit me..
The tombstone that says "Death by lifeboat" says it all...
R.I.P those poor souls lost in this tragedy, would they ever think war would end?
I found that fascinating and insightful. Although I knew about the sinking of the Lusitania and knew it was torpedoed, I didn’t know how it sank exactly. I didn’t know about the way in which the lifeboats were launched, and how they killed people. I didn’t know about the man losing his leg or the poor souls being sucked into the funnels. The video in all its simplicity, was incredibly informative and quite moving. You really felt the sadness and panic as the ship slipped beneath the waves. Thank you for making this.
the ship carried 48 conventional and collapsible lifeboats but only 6 were successfully launched.
I also didn’t know Charles Frohman and Alfred Vanderbilt was on it and both perished trying to save infants...
A lot of people believe the munitions caused the second explosion or even coal dust... After several dives to the wreck the cargo hold to the munitions was unharmed. It's believed that the boilers imploded as ice cold water poured in after the torpedo blast. Also the fact that cold water against the hull would have kept the areas around the coal bunkers and boiler rooms damp.
"People are sucked into the funnels as they go beneath the waves" -Great Britannia Line, 2019
Imagine being on this marvelous ship and than you hear an explosion you panic and realized that the ship is sinking and also realize there is no more lifeboats what would you do?
No lifeboats? Hell, no stares to exit the lower decks. The ship lost power four minutes into the sinking trapping nearly everyone below decks who could only exit by elevator. How about the insanity experienced by those trapped in the pitch-black below decks with complete knowledge that the level you were on was your unmarked tomb - forever.
@@tetornow It was the cargo holds that used a lift and I'm assuming any stairwells or ladders were already submerged within the first two minutes of the sinking. The only elevator that passengers could use was in the first class stairwell. So stairways to the boat deck were there, but good luck getting to them either way - it was pitch black below deck once the power went out very early into the sinking, and the ship was flooding incredibly fast, not to mention the list.
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Kunta Kinte Oh no. Let that movie die.
It’s a shame that so many life boats were destroyed.
R/wooooooosh
Hey many lives were taken you only care about the boats bruh
@@controlledby6548 1.its 4 o's
2.y whoooosh the guy though
@@Nylonical_Nonsense72 idk
@@Nylonical_Nonsense72 its just so cringy
20:58 the radio aboard the ship playing all the music for the video finally short circuited in the water. 🙃 (great video by the way, and excellent history lesson!)
The noises....oh god thats terrifying.
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I love your attention to detail. All the other ships and tugs and how you recreated the departure footage. You even added the actual recording of her sister's Mauretania's whistle.
Splendid work.😊
Thanks, I like to add attention to detail so it feels more real, im glad you liked it. :)
I agree. The overlaid real photos and the CG was a very nice touch! Well done!
This animation was so well done.
What a horrific tragedy.
As I have been present at a few sinkings and all being a Marine motor and steam Engineer the sound of the ship creaking is right on but to hear it for real it's almost like the ship is crying out it's very eerie. You have the escaping steam sound right but I believe that it would be a lot louder. You did a fine job with this. I also wonder if the crew on the Uboat could hear the screams of the people as they were dying. It's also hard to fathom the arrogance of the Cunnard lines for thinking that their ship couldn't be sunk.
This was very well done! No like or dislike, a case can be made for either. Such a tragedy on the scale of 9/11. Thank you this, it was very moving... RIP to all the souls
Yeah, I would agree that the way people got trapped in the twin towers was as terrifying as the way people got trapped inside the Lusitania as it sank.
People are comparing the sinking time of Lusitania to Titanic, but fail to remember that neither ship is anything alike. Lusitania is faster, lighter, smaller, but also is divided into longitudinal bulkheads. In the event of a hull rupture, it would cause the bulkhead to fill, and also cause the ship to list. This would normally not be that bad of a problem for the ship, however, there was a second explosion on the ship. This is theorized to be what really sent her down. When you add that together, you get a rapidly developing list, which only gets worse, and exponentially more water flooding in. Once Lusitania hit a certain point, she wouldn't have been able to float any longer, and would plummet. For Titanic, this was after the infamous split, which took place at a much less extreme angle than the James Cameron movie portrayed it as. Also, fun fact, due to Titanic's generators being in the stern, it meant the lights didn't cut out immediately. Rather, they slowly died out, turning to a dim red. It makes it much creepier.
However two or three minutes after the torpedo hit LUSITANIA, her electric ship power died out and because LUSITANIA was an 8 year old cruise ship it was difficult to keep her in preservation as the ship continued sinking.
How come we never hear of this one? It was nearly the same size as the titanic and almost as many people died as well. Should be talked about more
And there are other disasters even less well documented- the Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River,m Canada in 1914 with a loss of over 1,000 lives
The worst single maritime incident in history was the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 with some 9,000 deaths
If you are Chinese, you may know about the 1948 SS Kiangya disaster during the civil war with over 3,000 dead
You slept through your history class on WWI and how the USA was drawn into the war?
Because of the movie.
How come we don't hear of the Bismarck? More tragic than this
@@ang47 A civilian liner sinking with a given loss of life, whether by accident or act of war, is more tragic than a warship with the same loss, simply because civilian liners are not meant to sink. Warships _do_ get deliberately sunk by their adversaries, so such a loss is never totally unexpected (as tragic as it may be to the families of those lost). You're comparing apples and oranges.
The launching of the lifeboats was certainly chaotic, but the consensus is that there was very little passenger-smashing. Colin Simpson's book on the subject is considered overly sensational, beholden to unproven conspiracy theories, and in the main not a very reliable work. This book is perhaps the most lurid account of the tragedy. About the only thing that can be said in its favour is that it attempts to treat the Germans as something other than dastardly Huns. And the British deserved a good measure of the blame for driving Germany to this with a blockade that was literally starving German civilians to death.
Having said that, it's almost as if the Brits have a secret betting pool as to how long they can keep the conspiracy theories going. Many of the official documents are still secret more than 100 years later. The wreck was extensively bombed during World War II; unexploded depth charges and hedgehog bomblets litter the site to this day. (No, it was not the Germans; they did not have hedgehog charges and had nothing to gain by pulverizing an already sunken ship.) Lord Mersey, who conducted the British inquiry into the sinking, remarked at the end of the proceedings that they had been "a damned dirty business," waived his usual fees, and promptly retired.
Was Germany within its legal rights to sink the Lusitania? Yes, if only just; she was carrying war materiél, although she was not armed and carried no troops. However, history judges your actions by more than just whether you were within the law or not. Even Imperial Germany's allies denounced the sinking. The Germans lost far more than they gained-they were unable to get the British blockade raised as a condition of returning to the pre-war Cruiser Rules-so it was not only the wrong thing to do morally, but politically.
"TOO BIG TO BE HIT BY A TORPEDO" howd that go?
Worked for cackling Hillary Clinton!
She was still moving ahead when the bow struck the ocean floor; that and the list made it damned hard to launch boats
Beautiful tribute to the RMS Lusitania and sad to see such a beautiful liner torpedoed and victims who were lost.
Goodness graceous... Lusitana had REALLY bad luck. This is THE fastest cruise ship sinking I had ever seen! I know Titanic had horrible results due to the 1500+ deaths it got through 2h 40min (plus breaking in half), and her unfortunate twin Britannic sunk in only 55min, even though her deaths were only 30, but this one, who was the largest before Titanic took the crown, just EIGHTEEN minutes?! There's no way people in that ship could react and get out in time, especially whoever's INSIDE! Whoever made this did a great job showing the detail of what happened, and I'm happy to see the realism of Lusitana's infamous 18min time, but this tragedy made even Britannic look slow-paced. I've seen all real time videoes, and this, to me, is the saddest.
Truly tragic as it was, she was nevertheless carrying contraband for the allied war effort. It is rumoured, with some foundation, that Lucy was mere 'bait'
Derek Barwise that's very ill informed. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest she was "bait" and if she was for what purpose was she bait for? Also the "allied contraband" was anti submarine weaponry due to Germany sinking many vessels unprovoked so they tried to protect it.
@@harleyokeefe5193 It was confirmed by the Britith Government in the 1980's that the Lusitania did carry ammunition intented for the Allied war effort.
19:50 5th movement of the 6th "pathétique" synphony of Tchaïkovsky.
15:40 Gabriel's Oboe of Enrico Moricone ( for the outstanding movie "the mission" )
2:36. Adagio for strings op 11 of Samuel Barber.
I don't know for the first one, sound great tho..
When I saw Elgar in the compositors in the description I tought There would be a part of his Cello concerto or the Nimrod, litle bit disapointed by youtube... Anyway, the Choice of music was really nice, just the Tchaïkovsky cut at the end was brutal enought.
RIP Titanic, 108 years ago tonight
Can u send me a link for 15:40 song I can’t seem to find it
"sawing off his leg" Okay im just gonna rewind and pretend that never happened.
"This didn't faze the Lusitania's crew". I really doubt that "the crew" had much say in the matter. It is not the crew that decides where the ship will go, when it needs to be there, etc..... The decision to proceed through British waters was made by the company that the Lusitania shipped for. Yes, the captain can decide to take detours and use evasive maneuvers to a certain degree, but they were under orders from the company. There is "historical accuracy" and there is "dramatization of historical events". This comment fits into the latter category.
holy sh-
my god all those lifeboats fell
My heart hurts due to the unspeakable screams and now my ears reign humble afterward. Thank you, mate.
Excellent work, it's fantastic to see people turn their talents towards recreating history. Keep it up!
Just thought about this, being a submarine sunk it, that means they couldve watched from underwater as it sunk....
There is testimony from a U-boat crew member of watching (through the periscope)of the Lusitania's death struggle and the chaos of the passengers...
Walther Schwieger is the German who took the shot. He wrote in his diary about what he witnessed from his periscope. It’s on the internet.
Yeah and they were big pieces of shit for doing it. I get it it was war but this was a passenger ship for fuck sake
Chinese Himmrah A passenger ship that was confirmed, after 100+ years of denial from the US and UK, to have carried war equipment and ammunition. You can't blame the passengers though. They were innocent and oblivious. The fact that the ship was torpedoed was morally wrong, yes. But strictly speaking it was justified due to it being a military target due to its secret cargo. Yet the sinking did more bad than good to germany in the long term
Did the germans know it carried munitions? Wasn’t it supposed to be a secret?
Wow. Great presentation.
For those interested, I just finished Erik Larson’s book Dead Wake, which tells the story of this unfortunate vessel.
Highly recommend.
Excellent book!
Also The Unseen Lusitania, by Eric Sauder. He is a renowned ocean liner historian and accompanied Dr. Robert Ballard to the wreckage as part of the National Geographic Explorer special Last Voyage of the Lusitania. Sauder really knows his stuff.
Guillermo I'm reading that book rn
I just finished Erik Larson’s book Dead Wake, too, and in that book he mentions that only three boilers were in use during the Atlantic crossing, not four as shown here. Reason for just three was to save coal for the British war effort.
I read it to great book
Just think of the undertow pulling you down with the ship after you try to get off it. It’s just sad, if I was in a sinking ship, the undertow would scare me the most, not the ship because the undertow would pull you down. And potentially if it’s strong enough would drag you to the bottom along with the ship.
A sinking ship displaces water, but it does not suck. There is no undertow that pull people down. It is the escaping air from ship. Water that is saturated with billions of air bubbles does not wearing swimming people whose equal specific weight is nearly equal to that of water. Most just think it's undertow, but that's wrong.
you a in more danger of debris shooting up from the sinking boat.
“For only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Beautiful.
"but the Lusitania responded poorly and got stuck in a slow turn"
Ah. So it was the Bismarck before Bismarck was cool.
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@@ElizabethBjarning They mean my username, which has the word Dalek, an enemy in Doctor Who.
“For only the dead have seen the end of war”
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Jeez, 1900’s is a war for ships, because of many ships sinking
Venderookie yeah the early 1900’s sure was a bad period of time for ocean liners. I mean it was a booming time for em cause that’s when they first ocean liners began being constructed and put into operation but it was a bad time for them too.
good time for me tho
It was just a larger amount of sinkings than before because there was a far larger amount of ships at sea than before. When the world war broke out, obviously a ton of ships were torpedoed or mined.
To Meme or Not To Meme yeah, they were reinforced to cary guns and explosives
@@Mr.Obongo "when they first ocean liners began being constructed and put into operation" Listen chump. The birth of the ocean liner came in the 1870's and one could definitely say that the RMS Oceanic (1870) was the first true ocean liner designed for carrying passengers in huge numbers over an ocean. Seriously, be quiet. You know nothing.
A spectacular execution of digital work. It's stunning. Made in 2019, there should be a special Oscar category for this film work.
I never knew that this ship existed until now omg.
it's an emblematic ship
She and many others were overshadowed by the damn titanic
Dum dum >:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
The reason is because white star line was more famous than Cunard so less people know about the Lusitania
Sonic The Hedgehog sit down, you salty ass bitch
13:07 TIME 14 : 20
Imagine. You finally think you’re safe and the life boat you’re in tips and slides face down. That’s a horrible feeling and I had to pause the video, mouth wide open while I stared at my wall for a moment.
This may be one of the biggest ship wrecks that will stick with me, mostly because of the life boats.
May your souls be merry and a final, real farewell after all this time. Rest In Peace for the 1,265 people.
Insane how Lusitania was listing so much just only TEN SECONDS after the torpedo hit...
I feel that the Rms Lusitania was a legitimate military target as it was steaming into what the Germans had declared a war zone carrying munitions and helping the entente war effort. The sinking can be compared with that of the Wilhelm Gustloff which was carrying active military personnel when it was torpedoed in 1945.
this is an insane video. it really helped show me how fast it sank. but it would have been nice to see the lifeboats animated as well.
nice job with it!
These sinking videos are so terrifying yet I can't stop watching them.
The situation after only 2 mins is kinda terrifying
20:33 Imagine being on lifeboat 15 though. You think you might just make it out of life and you have hope. Only to have the lifeboat get caught in the wires. That’s just sad.
Person 123 yeah but that boat survived
This is really amazing. Thank you for making this. I've been showing it to my 8th graders and it really brings the event to life. I could see the future of social studies with virtual reality and putting kids on the deck of the Lusitania with a VR headset...
The saddest part about this is that the Germans warned Cunard and the rest of their allies about their presence in the ocean. And they still proceeded.