Collapsible A was found by the RMS Oceanic 200 miles adrift, about a month later, tragically with three frozen bodies still onboard. The lifeboat was still badly waterlogged. A written account by one of the officers on board the Oceanic describes how when they tried recover the bodies, their arms came off in the hands of the boarding officer. There were also women’s rings in the bottom of the boat from wives and daughters who had become separated and either drowned or frozen in the icy waters. That is a gruesome but harrowing and a sobering insight as to the aftermath of the tragedy
Yeah me too, this channel is great. I just wish he didn't let (bright side) TH-cam channel I think it is. Get him so worked up. I like when people keep their cool even in the face of deceit.
The most remarkable story I learned just over a year ago was that the engineers and stokers were below all that time, dedicated to saving as many passangers above as they could, pumping out water and striving to maintain electrical power till the last possible second. They were down there when the ship broke in half. One of them, I believe, survived and gave testimony in the inquiries. A story that beats the hell out of Jim Cameron's 1990s chick flick.
@@lclnbm Yeah that's another possibility but I can't help think that it would be towed for repairs, continue its service and then be made into an ocean liner again and suffer the same fate as her sister, The Olympic. I just wanna here his opinion on this topic 😊
@@Miguel-ch5ld yeah on second thought they would have most likely attempted to salvage the ship because those Olympic class ships were hella expensive to build.
@@lclnbm Yeah and they were durable too. I mean look at the Olympic. She held on even after crashing. I even believe if an Olympic Class Ship was torpedoed it would be able to keep going since only 1 or maximum 2 compartments would be breached
They easily could have if the crew had been properly trained and people had actually gotten into them. Look at the Britannic. She sank in half the time and all of her lifeboats were successfully launched.
yep.. big misconception people often say.. they could've had 17 or 62.. they didn't have no time! might of helped some people I suppose? if the boats didn't get crushed or sank with it!
Man, the idea of A and B being pulled into the Grand Staircase would have been such a horror show. The amount of destruction caused by those boats being thrown around that interior hardly bears thinking about.
They didn’t really get pulled into there. They just got washed off the ship after accidentally falling onto deck after being detached from their ropes.
Yes, over the weekend I finally rewatched the 1958 b/w Night to Remember Titanic movie. Yes, made much more sense to me. I was so immersed in it that it being b/w and not color didn't faze me.
You should watch the film Saving The Titanic about the men who worked in bowels of the hull - the firemen, the trimmers, the stokers, the electricians, the engineers - it is really a brilliant film. It' s on TH-cam, but after i watched it i had to buy a tangible copy!
I'm glad you gave 2nd Officer Lighttoller some credit. He was a brilliant seaman who not only guided Collapsible B through the night and saved a couple of dozen lives, but he had other seafaring adventures throughout his life. I love James Cameron's Titanic, but it didn't portray Lighttoller well at all.
@@Nebulasecura Is that true? There has always been controversy surrounding whether Murdoch killed himself. I can see where his family might be upset by the portrayal.
@@Nebulasecura I think Lighttoller's family could have demanded an apology, too. If you've read about him, you know he was a brilliant seaman with a long and storied career.
It is amazing how Collapsible B was upside down in the water and yet had more survivors than Collapsible A. I know Charles Lightoller was being tough on people when loading the lifeboats earlier, but at least he had calmed down after diving into the frigid water which he nearly drowned in until he let go of the webley revolver he had in his coat pocket. And on Collapsible B, he did a good job calming and organizing the frightened and shivering men who were on it with him and gave them great guidance to shift their weight with swells to keep that overturned lifeboat floating decently until other lifeboats came back for them.
The FITZ! Now, you're in MY neck of the woods, and I lived through that disaster...I was in high school, but remember thinking how can a modern day ship disappear...on a lake... Well, I had a sailboat on Lake Michigan - another Great Lake, and let me tell you, it acts like an ocean! And, when the Witch of November comes callin'...
Tell me about, I live 1hr at best away from Lake Erie. My school field tripped us there to spend the day on The Good Time II when I was in 3rd grade & I go swimming up there ever so often and Yes for some reason the Great Lakes can become ferocious but I do believe the worst of them all is Lake Superior where the Fitzgerald went down in 1975.
The next video will be about The cargo ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald also, I have a video idea: The story of Jack Phillips And Harold Bride: The wireless operators onboard titanic, I’d love to see your opinion on them
Yeah, I’d love to see that too. How they did their duty was very interesting! It was very sad Jack Phillips died in the sinking and quite interesting how Harold Bride was one of the people who survived on one of those two lifeboats that barely escaped the ship.
@@brettmyrter exactly ! Although I like Murdoch's approach more and I wish he was appreciated more I still respect Lightoller and do think he is a hero still !
1. I’ve been an avid Titanic enthusiast since I was little and have really enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you for the time and effort put in to them as I have actually learned a thing or two from them and I love learning. 2. I know you don’t enjoy covering grim topics but something I’ve never seen much coverage of is what exactly happened to all of the floating debris and bodies and what was it like for the rescue crews coming up on the lifeboats that had survived? There is good documentation on everything for the sinking, a little bit immediately after and then suddenly, they were on the carpathia, I know that you’ve covered some of this but your comment about the lifeboat set adrift with the bodies kind of got me wondering. 3. Thats the Edmund Fitzgerald. I’m looking forward to your coverage of it!
@@HistoricTravels I've always wondered how many froze to death floating with their lifevests, how many fell or were killed by falling debris, how many drowned inside the ship and how many were killed by the pressure as they went down with the ship? Was it the last mentioned that killed the most people or did the majority jump before it was too late not to be submerged with the ship?
Quite regreteful for collapsible A if it was fully loaded with people, it was quite unlucky it couldn't be pushed out in a better way, thus saving more lives. However I definitely agree that what happened to collapsible B was similar to a miracle when you know the situation in details
There is another TH-camr, Caitlin Doughty - Ask a Mortician that talks about how the bodies are still in that ship and that they aren't decomposing! Still I can't wait to see this TH-cam channel talk about that wreck. It's known as the Titanic of the Great Lakes and is the largest ship to have sunk in the lakes.
The original black and white Titanic movie has stuck with me all these years since watching it it when I was a kid. I have always thought how horrible it would have been to be on that ship when it started to list and take on water. The remake of it in the nineties just didn’t have the same impact on me as the original did. Love you informational videos.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee. The lake it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.
@@rde4017 You’re thinking of Collapsible A where only half of the people in it were able to survive. A few on Collapsible B died, but there were 28 still alive on it when other lifeboats came back for them.
And the leadership that was given on Collapsible B was Charles Lightoller's and the faith of that lifeboat was credited "With God, All Things Are Possible".
@@jacksons1010 It was Gordon Lightfoot who wrote & sang the song "The Mighty Edmund Fitzgerald", they say he's legendary for folk/rock music & there was a celebration of his achievements by ppl who admired him etc... Rush band members being one of them. Other than that I have no idea 🤷 lol
@@penprop01 I'm not sure if your aware that Rush didn't write or perform that song about the Fitzgerald but that it was a man named Gordon Lightfoot imj. Unless there's some other reason Rush fits into this whole scenario here & I'm unaware of it & in the case, plz lmk.
Now imagine if the seas was rough and stormy that night instead of calm. It would have been sheer terror for those in the lifeboats. For all the things that went wrong that night for Titanic, this was one of the few things that went their way.
true.. but also consider that if it was stormy or even slightly windy, the sea wouldn't of been so calm, so there would of been a significantly higher chance of the lookouts noticing the iceberg sooner. it was the fact that it was so calm combined with a lack of binoculars of course, that they couldn't hear of see any waves smashing against it that played a large part of it hitting the iceberg in the first place.
@@emmabauer1906 Yeah, it was fortunate that the Titanic didn’t really have to put up with waves other than the ones its sinking had created, but there were some pretty horrendous later ships had to deal with when they sank.
A distant relative of mine was on the Titanic and he survived, he was in 3rd class and was told to go back to his cabin and he decided maybe he should leave when water started gushing in under the door, when he got on deck he eventually got to collapsible B lifeboat, but before it was launched water was already gushing round it so along with some firemen he jumped into the water and then as the lifeboat was washed overboard he grabbed onto it as it floated near the forward funnel, moments later the funnel came crashing down. After that he managed to climb in he was in waist high deep water, he describes how people were pushing people away to stop it from being overwhelmed, now he says in his witness testimony it was others, but my friend keeps telling everyone he was the one pushing people away. Oh and then after that some guy asked how many catholics were on board and all of them started saying the Lord prayer and then hail mary. From your info this would indicate he was in Calapsable A, however in the inquiry he is said to have been on Calapsable B.
These life boats are often forgotten, which they shouldn't be. The Edmond Fitzgerald is a ship I can remember my mom hearing of, from that famous song. She actually has a rule we can't sing that song, because she won't have us making such a wreck be known as a folly in a song. My mom is an amateur historian and looked into it and many small incidents that happened in Maryland. That's also where I learned of the Titanic from her because she watched the news coverage of Robert Ballard finding the ship back in the 80s. My mom has many books on the Titanic (many she won't lend to me since she knows me keeping her books) We definitely must find out more we can about these ships before they're gone. Especially the Titanic. Since that is being eaten away. My question is since this week the Titanic movie is being re released in 3D *Me and my husband saw it made the sinking more intense and heart wrenching. I bawled at Nearer Thy to God every time I see that scene* Also a suggestion if you go to Baltimore Maryland. Explore the USS Constellation. I did it as a child. And I've never forgotten that ship, as long as i live.
U the man. Just subscribing and learning about your channel and your vast Titanic knowledge. i'm 67 and just learning about it. My interest-like a lot of others-wasn't peaked 'til the recent Ocean Gate implosion. Interest has skyrocketed to an all-time high since. Those deceased submersible folk should all get a post-humous medal
I'm so happy I found this channel. Titanic has always amazed me for some reason. I think it is the amount of bravery that went on that night. It was an age of chivalry where to most men, even wealthy pampered ones, it was more important to die with honor than to live as a coward. Ben Guggenheim and Mr & Mrs. Strauss comes to mind. Also the Chief Baker Charles Joughin, and lightoller with the Collapsible boat fiasco. The Marconi wireless operators staying at their post until after they were relieved, the band even playing religious music to calm people.
People always say "Well if they had more lifeboats most could have been saved" ignoring the fact they barely had time to launch the boats they did have.
@@sadvenom7826 assessing the situation because you don't want to start loading people into lifeboats only to realise the ship will be fine and an hour passes quite quickly.
@@sadvenom7826 true, they cancelled a drill because it interfered with Church services but, and I'm not 100%, the crew was still trained for the situation and performed really well in launching them during duress. And from collision they had to inform the captain, assess the damage, assess the speed of the sinking as well as Andrews and Smith travelling all the way down to the mail hold (? I think) to assess it themselves, wake passengers, prepare lifebelts, awaken the crew, consult with the chief architect, inform stewards, reassure passengers, make sure power remained on. An hour to do all that, plus preparing the lifeboats to be launched in the first place. I think the crew performed quite quickly and of course if they started right away more life belts could have helped, but that's just not how it went.
I imagine many died from funnels 2 3 and 4 collapsing as well as they fell onto decks and rolled off. Not to mention those passengers in position hanging onto ships rails when she broke in half
Titanic has always been a real fascination of mine and I thought I knew almost all there was to know but you always manage to teach me new things. I love your titanic videos. Keep up the awesome work.
I love this channel. Not even into ships but totally obsessed with your content. 2 ships you may not know about from Europe. The sea empress disaster, this happened in my country of Wales in the UK. The other being the zebrugge disaster which sank very fast due to a sleeping member of staff.
I would like to mention that around 3:30 in the morning that night, Lifeboat 12 came back and rescued the survivors of the upturned Collapsible B while 10 minutes later lifeboat 4 returned as well and found the remaining passengers of the swamped collapsible A.
Fellow Canadian here, and a huge Gordon Lightfoot fan. I've been lucky enough to see him 4 times in concert, and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is my favourite Lightfoot song. Looking forward to the video!!
" Even if they were in a lifeboat, THEY WERE STILL DEALING WITH THAT FREEZING COLD WATAAA ". * Sigh.. I have so much respect for the engineers of the ship, when they had the option to abandon the depths of the ship and flee to the lifeboat deck, they chose to stay behind and do their best to slow down the sinking. We need more people like that in today's corrupt and dangerous world. Put their life before yours, you deserve a special spot in Heaven..
Yeah, they were just so lucky they were able to hang in there until the RMS Carpathia arrived hours before any other ship thanks to wireless operator Harold Thomas Cottam who picked up the distress signal from the Titanic while in the process of getting ready for bed.
I’m so excited for the Edmund Fitzgerald video!!! I recently found your channel and was going to recommend the Edmund Fitzgerald on your most recent upload, but looks like others had the great idea before I did.
The guy spends the entire night at the radio trying to get everyone help, and the second he goes to leave, he almost gets killed by a life boat.... but because it fell on him, he was able to get in it, and survived. I don’t normally go with divine intervention, but if ever there was an instance of it, this is it.
He may not have had trouble finding it, but he sure had trouble surviving on it because he did fall into that frigid water and was just barely able to keep himself afloat with his badly injured feet on the upturned Collapsible B until other lifeboats came back for him and the other people who survived on it.
How did you know I was planning to watch Titanic tonight? Also, great video. It was a miracle of God that those 2 life boats weren't destroyed and anyone on them survived.
If your wondering why the list straightened out, it's because of a boiler explosion which also helper Charles Lightoller get out of the ventilation pipe.
Did you say Harold Bride was in the wrong place, wrong time when a boat landed on him? I call it perfect timing. It basically means he was in the perfect spot to be one of the first on the boat while there was still enough room.
It sure was perfect timing and that was about the best place he could end up. Even though the Collapsible B lifeboat landed on him, it didn’t injure him and he was able to swim out from under it and climb out of the water, onto its upturned bottom with a couple dozen other people which helped them survive until other lifeboats came back for them.
Charles light troller wow he wow he gives me a surprise every time surviving on coasable B (I can’t spell) but that was just amazing I also never knew that collasple A had less survivors I always thought of B that had less but wow it just Ha. Also I think that clip was the oceanic the ship that sunk during a storm. Also video idea what would happen if William Murdoch said turn to port instead of turn to starboard
Had a thought last night: what about a short spotlight series on other shipwrecks, like the Sweol ferry? Just a thought! Thanks for the awesome content- this isn’t usually my genre, but I really like your commentary- keep it up! :)
According to many sources, John Jacob Astor was killed when one of the funnels fell. His body had extensive trauma and was covered in soot from a funnel.
I did not know most of this! Its pretty cool! And for the record that clip is from the Edmond Fitzgerald which sank in Lake Superior. I recognize the tune of the song played 😅
Your videos make me happy. Ive been suffering bad depression and your videos keep my mind occupied. I’ve binge watched all of them! I love your attention to detail and your happy persona. Not to mention I am obsessed with everything titanic!
happy to help!!!!! Stay safe and keep moving forward! When I get depressed I watch this. th-cam.com/video/jG7dSXcfVqE/w-d-xo.html Helps me get motivated!
@@HistoricTravels loved it!!! Got me pumped up!! Loved the nod to titanic at the end as well. Thank you for your kind words and replying! Fan girling over here now! Haha
thanks for video I read books that don't go into detail about those lifeboats I just heard about the secondary Telegraph Operator just getting on a upside down lifeboat
Video idea Were people really sucked into the grand staircase windows/whirlpool or the holes underneath the first funnel after it collapsed is suggest maybe some survivor stories I really do like this channel!
OK, so I see you having a great job in Broadcast Journalism like 20/20 or 60 Mins Show. Hopefully, you like that kinda thing, as I believe you would be great at it. Obviously, you are working on a story about The Edmund Fitzgerald. (COOL)
2 things 1 I was literally thinking about these two lifeboats today and was going to suggest you make a video on them 2 why are they called collapsible lifeboats what makes them different other then the location they were at
I'm watching Titanic tonight with my sister because you've ignited my interest in maritime disasters. I'm excited, I haven't seen it in a long time. My sister is gonna get annoyed with me trying to sound like I'm suddenly a Titanic expert hahaha
I have watched several of your videos now ( I did subscribe), and I have to say, you do a great job. Very informative and interesting. Please keep up the great work!
The other problem that they had with Collapsible A was that they could not get the skirting up so the boat remained almost flush with the water. The four collapsible boats had canvas sides that were supposed to be lifted up and held in place by hinged struts. Boats C and D were properly launched with their sides up but for some reason, the people in boat A could not work out how to raise the skirts.
Collapsible A was found by the RMS Oceanic 200 miles adrift, about a month later, tragically with three frozen bodies still onboard. The lifeboat was still badly waterlogged. A written account by one of the officers on board the Oceanic describes how when they tried recover the bodies, their arms came off in the hands of the boarding officer. There were also women’s rings in the bottom of the boat from wives and daughters who had become separated and either drowned or frozen in the icy waters. That is a gruesome but harrowing and a sobering insight as to the aftermath of the tragedy
I’m glad I found this channel.
Same I've been binging and obsessed now. Thank you for great educational content.
Yeah me too, this channel is great. I just wish he didn't let (bright side) TH-cam channel I think it is. Get him so worked up.
I like when people keep their cool even in the face of deceit.
The book A Night to Remember follows in detail the efforts of those on collapsable B. It's unbelievable that they made it
The movie does too.
The most remarkable story I learned just over a year ago was that the engineers and stokers were below all that time, dedicated to saving as many passangers above as they could, pumping out water and striving to maintain electrical power till the last possible second. They were down there when the ship broke in half. One of them, I believe, survived and gave testimony in the inquiries. A story that beats the hell out of Jim Cameron's 1990s chick flick.
I've got a video idea!: What if the captain of the HMHS Britannic managed to beach the ship in the shallow waters of Kea like he tried to?
That would have been cool to see. I would imagine it would have met the same fate as the American Star
@@lclnbm Yeah that's another possibility but I can't help think that it would be towed for repairs, continue its service and then be made into an ocean liner again and suffer the same fate as her sister, The Olympic. I just wanna here his opinion on this topic 😊
@@Miguel-ch5ld yeah on second thought they would have most likely attempted to salvage the ship because those Olympic class ships were hella expensive to build.
Cool
@@lclnbm Yeah and they were durable too. I mean look at the Olympic. She held on even after crashing. I even believe if an Olympic Class Ship was torpedoed it would be able to keep going since only 1 or maximum 2 compartments would be breached
Everyone says more people would've survived if the ship had more lifeboats, and I'm like, 'son, they didn't even launch the boats they had!'
They easily could have if the crew had been properly trained and people had actually gotten into them. Look at the Britannic. She sank in half the time and all of her lifeboats were successfully launched.
@@flowerfaerie8931 First of all not all of brittanics boats were launched and the brittanic had different davits
How much cargo is still left on titanic?
@@flowerfaerie8931 Britannic is a bad example, cause it had improvements cause of the titanic disaster
yep.. big misconception people often say.. they could've had 17 or 62.. they didn't have no time! might of helped some people I suppose? if the boats didn't get crushed or sank with it!
Man, the idea of A and B being pulled into the Grand Staircase would have been such a horror show. The amount of destruction caused by those boats being thrown around that interior hardly bears thinking about.
They didn’t really get pulled into there. They just got washed off the ship after accidentally falling onto deck after being detached from their ropes.
I finally re-watched the Titanic last night after a few months, still the saddest movie of all, but so much made more sense thx to Youu, Thank You!
Yes, over the weekend I finally rewatched the 1958 b/w Night to Remember Titanic movie. Yes, made much more sense to me. I was so immersed in it that it being b/w and not color didn't faze me.
im gana watch it now he got me in the mood lol
@@sammott8557 there is a colorized version of it right here on YT
You should watch the film Saving The Titanic about the men who worked in bowels of the hull - the firemen, the trimmers, the stokers, the electricians, the engineers - it is really a brilliant film. It' s on TH-cam, but after i watched it i had to buy a tangible copy!
@@ex-soldier4341 Thx. I never knew. I'll look for it this next weekend.
I'm glad you gave 2nd Officer Lighttoller some credit. He was a brilliant seaman who not only guided Collapsible B through the night and saved a couple of dozen lives, but he had other seafaring adventures throughout his life.
I love James Cameron's Titanic, but it didn't portray Lighttoller well at all.
he saved lives but he was also responsible for some of the casualties, if he had let some men on to the lifeboats more people would have survived
Think that’s bad, Cameron literally had to apologize to Murdoch’s family for his portrayal
@@Nebulasecura Is that true? There has always been controversy surrounding whether Murdoch killed himself. I can see where his family might be upset by the portrayal.
@@rickkinki4624 yep, James has stated a few times now that he has regretted portraying Murdoch killing himself.
@@Nebulasecura I think Lighttoller's family could have demanded an apology, too. If you've read about him, you know he was a brilliant seaman with a long and storied career.
It is amazing how Collapsible B was upside down in the water and yet had more survivors than Collapsible A. I know Charles Lightoller was being tough on people when loading the lifeboats earlier, but at least he had calmed down after diving into the frigid water which he nearly drowned in until he let go of the webley revolver he had in his coat pocket. And on Collapsible B, he did a good job calming and organizing the frightened and shivering men who were on it with him and gave them great guidance to shift their weight with swells to keep that overturned lifeboat floating decently until other lifeboats came back for them.
The FITZ! Now, you're in MY neck of the woods, and I lived through that disaster...I was in high school, but remember thinking how can a modern day ship disappear...on a lake...
Well, I had a sailboat on Lake Michigan - another Great Lake, and let me tell you, it acts like an ocean! And, when the Witch of November comes callin'...
Tell me about, I live 1hr at best away from Lake Erie. My school field tripped us there to spend the day on The Good Time II when I was in 3rd grade & I go swimming up there ever so often and Yes for some reason the Great Lakes can become ferocious but I do believe the worst of them all is Lake Superior where the Fitzgerald went down in 1975.
Inland seas
The next video will be about The cargo ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald
also, I have a video idea: The story of Jack Phillips And Harold Bride: The wireless operators onboard titanic, I’d love to see your opinion on them
Whats this fascination with hearing the same goddamn stories over and over....nothing about the fitz hasnt already been said
Yeah, I’d love to see that too. How they did their duty was very interesting! It was very sad Jack Phillips died in the sinking and quite interesting how Harold Bride was one of the people who survived on one of those two lifeboats that barely escaped the ship.
Could you do a video about what laws the Titanic's Sinking brought and changed? Love the videos! :)
My god, Lightoller was a hero. And a badass too 😂
lol, your right!
"Order here, order i say!"
No. The real hero was Murdoch who actually allowed men on lifeboats when there were enough room.
@@silentgamer2434 all the officers were heroes that night
@@brettmyrter exactly ! Although I like Murdoch's approach more and I wish he was appreciated more I still respect Lightoller and do think he is a hero still !
Absolutely love this series. Your videos are so refreshing.
1. I’ve been an avid Titanic enthusiast since I was little and have really enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you for the time and effort put in to them as I have actually learned a thing or two from them and I love learning.
2. I know you don’t enjoy covering grim topics but something I’ve never seen much coverage of is what exactly happened to all of the floating debris and bodies and what was it like for the rescue crews coming up on the lifeboats that had survived? There is good documentation on everything for the sinking, a little bit immediately after and then suddenly, they were on the carpathia, I know that you’ve covered some of this but your comment about the lifeboat set adrift with the bodies kind of got me wondering.
3. Thats the Edmund Fitzgerald. I’m looking forward to your coverage of it!
ugh that is a rough topic but it is a good idea!!!!
@@HistoricTravels I've always wondered how many froze to death floating with their lifevests, how many fell or were killed by falling debris, how many drowned inside the ship and how many were killed by the pressure as they went down with the ship? Was it the last mentioned that killed the most people or did the majority jump before it was too late not to be submerged with the ship?
Quite regreteful for collapsible A if it was fully loaded with people, it was quite unlucky it couldn't be pushed out in a better way, thus saving more lives. However I definitely agree that what happened to collapsible B was similar to a miracle when you know the situation in details
video ended before i could finish my Live-Stream comment about the "sneak-peak": "the lake it is said, never gives up her dead"
Ship in the last clip is the Edmund Fitzgerald. "The Mighty Fitz"
There is another TH-camr, Caitlin Doughty - Ask a Mortician that talks about how the bodies are still in that ship and that they aren't decomposing! Still I can't wait to see this TH-cam channel talk about that wreck. It's known as the Titanic of the Great Lakes and is the largest ship to have sunk in the lakes.
Nice.
"The Legend lives on from the Chippewa down of the Big Lake they call Gichigumee..."
Excellent! Can't wait!! 🙂
@@randynutt5660 the lake it said, never gives up her dead.
@@Miakel yea Lake Superior
Really someone disliked the video before it even premiered.
It must have been an accident!?
A jealous rival furious at the sky rocketing subscriber numbers perhaps 🤣
prob. Aaron1912 lmfao
The original black and white Titanic movie has stuck with me all these years since watching it it when I was a kid. I have always thought how horrible it would have been to be on that ship when it started to list and take on water. The remake of it in the nineties just didn’t have the same impact on me as the original did. Love you informational videos.
*"Could the Stern section have stayed afloat after the breakup if the bulkheads were intact?"*
That would be interesting
Idk if the bulkheads were intact maybe would love to see a video
@@eltiofresca4998 it's a theory
That would have been interesting to see. What if the stern could have been towed to New York like that?
Yes but the snapping in half compramized the structure
Thanks for making titanic videos this will help me in school if I ever learn it
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee. The lake it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.
Thank you so much for covering this! The fight for survival was so harrowing and haunting. Being in these lifeboats would be so scary.
Collapsable B showed and proved that with strong leadership everyone will survive.
Nowhere near everyone on Collapsible B survived, people were dying and dropping off it all night.
@@rde4017 You’re thinking of Collapsible A where only half of the people in it were able to survive. A few on Collapsible B died, but there were 28 still alive on it when other lifeboats came back for them.
And the leadership that was given on Collapsible B was Charles Lightoller's and the faith of that lifeboat was credited "With God, All Things Are Possible".
As soon as the song started playing, I knew it was the Edmund Fitzgerald. One of my favorite shipwrecks, can't wait for that video!
RUSH FAN 👍🏼
@@penprop01 Hell yeah! 🤘
@@penprop01 I’m missing something. What does Rush have to do with the Edmund Fitzgerald?
@@jacksons1010 It was Gordon Lightfoot who wrote & sang the song "The Mighty Edmund Fitzgerald", they say he's legendary for folk/rock music & there was a celebration of his achievements by ppl who admired him etc... Rush band members being one of them. Other than that I have no idea 🤷 lol
@@penprop01 I'm not sure if your aware that Rush didn't write or perform that song about the Fitzgerald but that it was a man named Gordon Lightfoot imj. Unless there's some other reason Rush fits into this whole scenario here & I'm unaware of it & in the case, plz lmk.
Now imagine if the seas was rough and stormy that night instead of calm. It would have been sheer terror for those in the lifeboats. For all the things that went wrong that night for Titanic, this was one of the few things that went their way.
true.. but also consider that if it was stormy or even slightly windy, the sea wouldn't of been so calm, so there would of been a significantly higher chance of the lookouts noticing the iceberg sooner. it was the fact that it was so calm combined with a lack of binoculars of course, that they couldn't hear of see any waves smashing against it that played a large part of it hitting the iceberg in the first place.
The ocean can put up some horrendous waves. That is a scary thought.
@@emmabauer1906 Yeah, it was fortunate that the Titanic didn’t really have to put up with waves other than the ones its sinking had created, but there were some pretty horrendous later ships had to deal with when they sank.
"Sleep soundly young Rose. I've built you a sound ship , strong and true . She's all the lifeboat you need. "
A distant relative of mine was on the Titanic and he survived, he was in 3rd class and was told to go back to his cabin and he decided maybe he should leave when water started gushing in under the door, when he got on deck he eventually got to collapsible B lifeboat, but before it was launched water was already gushing round it so along with some firemen he jumped into the water and then as the lifeboat was washed overboard he grabbed onto it as it floated near the forward funnel, moments later the funnel came crashing down. After that he managed to climb in he was in waist high deep water, he describes how people were pushing people away to stop it from being overwhelmed, now he says in his witness testimony it was others, but my friend keeps telling everyone he was the one pushing people away.
Oh and then after that some guy asked how many catholics were on board and all of them started saying the Lord prayer and then hail mary.
From your info this would indicate he was in Calapsable A, however in the inquiry he is said to have been on Calapsable B.
These life boats are often forgotten, which they shouldn't be. The Edmond Fitzgerald is a ship I can remember my mom hearing of, from that famous song. She actually has a rule we can't sing that song, because she won't have us making such a wreck be known as a folly in a song.
My mom is an amateur historian and looked into it and many small incidents that happened in Maryland. That's also where I learned of the Titanic from her because she watched the news coverage of Robert Ballard finding the ship back in the 80s. My mom has many books on the Titanic (many she won't lend to me since she knows me keeping her books)
We definitely must find out more we can about these ships before they're gone. Especially the Titanic. Since that is being eaten away.
My question is since this week the Titanic movie is being re released in 3D *Me and my husband saw it made the sinking more intense and heart wrenching. I bawled at Nearer Thy to God every time I see that scene*
Also a suggestion if you go to Baltimore Maryland.
Explore the USS Constellation. I did it as a child. And I've never forgotten that ship, as long as i live.
Could you do a video about first office Murdoch? His roll in the sinking and his fate?
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!
U the man. Just subscribing and learning about your channel and your vast Titanic knowledge.
i'm 67 and just learning about it. My interest-like a lot of others-wasn't peaked 'til the recent Ocean Gate implosion. Interest has skyrocketed to an all-time high since.
Those deceased submersible folk should all get a post-humous medal
I'm so happy I found this channel. Titanic has always amazed me for some reason. I think it is the amount of bravery that went on that night. It was an age of chivalry where to most men, even wealthy pampered ones, it was more important to die with honor than to live as a coward. Ben Guggenheim and Mr & Mrs. Strauss comes to mind. Also the Chief Baker Charles Joughin, and lightoller with the Collapsible boat fiasco. The Marconi wireless operators staying at their post until after they were relieved, the band even playing religious music to calm people.
People always say "Well if they had more lifeboats most could have been saved" ignoring the fact they barely had time to launch the boats they did have.
They sorta wasted 1 hour more or less.
@@sadvenom7826 assessing the situation because you don't want to start loading people into lifeboats only to realise the ship will be fine and an hour passes quite quickly.
@@schizomonika yeah, but they still never did any drills, and they found put pretty quickly that 6 compartments were breached.
@@sadvenom7826 true, they cancelled a drill because it interfered with Church services but, and I'm not 100%, the crew was still trained for the situation and performed really well in launching them during duress.
And from collision they had to inform the captain, assess the damage, assess the speed of the sinking as well as Andrews and Smith travelling all the way down to the mail hold (? I think) to assess it themselves, wake passengers, prepare lifebelts, awaken the crew, consult with the chief architect, inform stewards, reassure passengers, make sure power remained on.
An hour to do all that, plus preparing the lifeboats to be launched in the first place.
I think the crew performed quite quickly and of course if they started right away more life belts could have helped, but that's just not how it went.
*more life boats
Another great video , very interesting "the key to staying alive was to get out of the water !!"
edmond Fritzgerald the gordon lightfoot song gave it away
I imagine many died from funnels 2 3 and 4 collapsing as well as they fell onto decks and rolled off.
Not to mention those passengers in position hanging onto ships rails when she broke in half
Titanic has always been a real fascination of mine and I thought I knew almost all there was to know but you always manage to teach me new things. I love your titanic videos. Keep up the awesome work.
"Nothing short of a miracle" appears to be a common theme across these Titanic discussions.
Edmond Fitzgerald is in that clip.
I love this channel. Not even into ships but totally obsessed with your content. 2 ships you may not know about from Europe. The sea empress disaster, this happened in my country of Wales in the UK. The other being the zebrugge disaster which sank very fast due to a sleeping member of staff.
I would like to mention that around 3:30 in the morning that night, Lifeboat 12 came back and rescued the survivors of the upturned Collapsible B while 10 minutes later lifeboat 4 returned as well and found the remaining passengers of the swamped collapsible A.
Edmond Fitzgerald. I'm a Canadian, and the song was a #1 classic for Gordon Lightfoot!! Good topic to choose!!
Fellow Canadian here, and a huge Gordon Lightfoot fan. I've been lucky enough to see him 4 times in concert, and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is my favourite Lightfoot song.
Looking forward to the video!!
Edmund Fitzgerald, even without the music!
Ikr, Ik it was the Fitzgerald, I just couldn't remember the first name...Edmund.
Thanks, I always love when you upload!
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald..... terrific topic...
the eponymous song takes me back to junior high school in the mid '70s
" Even if they were in a lifeboat,
THEY WERE STILL DEALING WITH THAT FREEZING COLD WATAAA ".
* Sigh..
I have so much respect for the engineers of the ship, when they had the option to abandon the depths of the ship and flee to the lifeboat deck,
they chose to stay behind and do their best to slow down the sinking.
We need more people like that in today's corrupt and dangerous world.
Put their life before yours, you deserve a special spot in Heaven..
Yeah, they were just so lucky they were able to hang in there until the RMS Carpathia arrived hours before any other ship thanks to wireless operator Harold Thomas Cottam who picked up the distress signal from the Titanic while in the process of getting ready for bed.
I’m so excited for the Edmund Fitzgerald video!!! I recently found your channel and was going to recommend the Edmund Fitzgerald on your most recent upload, but looks like others had the great idea before I did.
The guy spends the entire night at the radio trying to get everyone help, and the second he goes to leave, he almost gets killed by a life boat.... but because it fell on him, he was able to get in it, and survived. I don’t normally go with divine intervention, but if ever there was an instance of it, this is it.
He also had to get through the night completely drenched in that cold water exposed to the elements.
@@emmabauer1906 Which he made it through successfully and was rescued sometime near 8:30 that morning with only his feet badly injured.
thank you for pumping these video out like its no tomorrow.
Harold was the only person that night who had no trouble finding a life boat lol
He may not have had trouble finding it, but he sure had trouble surviving on it because he did fall into that frigid water and was just barely able to keep himself afloat with his badly injured feet on the upturned Collapsible B until other lifeboats came back for him and the other people who survived on it.
How did you know I was planning to watch Titanic tonight? Also, great video. It was a miracle of God that those 2 life boats weren't destroyed and anyone on them survived.
If your wondering why the list straightened out, it's because of a boiler explosion which also helper Charles Lightoller get out of the ventilation pipe.
I love these Titanic videos. They're very interesting
Did you say Harold Bride was in the wrong place, wrong time when a boat landed on him? I call it perfect timing. It basically means he was in the perfect spot to be one of the first on the boat while there was still enough room.
It sure was perfect timing and that was about the best place he could end up. Even though the Collapsible B lifeboat landed on him, it didn’t injure him and he was able to swim out from under it and climb out of the water, onto its upturned bottom with a couple dozen other people which helped them survive until other lifeboats came back for them.
I'm really excited to see you do a video about the Edmund Fitzgerald! I'd also be interested to see a video about all the telephones on the Titanic.
Incredible detail. Your channel is amazing.
...when the skies of November turn gloomy...
...With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more...
6:12 I have not seen Titanic in years but I always had in my mind that it was Billy Zane's character that got killed in the funnel collapse.
No, it was Jack's friend Fabrizio. Billy Zane's character, Cal Hockley, survived..
@@rickkinki4624 Correct, I was just saying that I had been misremembering it for the best part of a decade.
Hey @Historic Travels i HAVE A VIDEO IDEA!!! you should do a video on the Titanic’s Tender the SS NOMADIC!
yeah that would be an interesting video.
I suggested that a few videos ago. I would also agree that that would be a good video idea.
Charles light troller wow he wow he gives me a surprise every time surviving on coasable B (I can’t spell) but that was just amazing I also never knew that collasple A had less survivors I always thought of B that had less but wow it just Ha. Also I think that clip was the oceanic the ship that sunk during a storm. Also video idea what would happen if William Murdoch said turn to port instead of turn to starboard
Im really loving all your videos thank you for you hard work. Super interesting
Excellent videos! Keep up the good work!
Had a thought last night: what about a short spotlight series on other shipwrecks, like the Sweol ferry? Just a thought! Thanks for the awesome content- this isn’t usually my genre, but I really like your commentary- keep it up! :)
I have no idea which ship the clip is of, hence I look forward to that one; to hearing you share with us about it.
According to many sources, John Jacob Astor was killed when one of the funnels fell. His body had extensive trauma and was covered in soot from a funnel.
I did not know most of this! Its pretty cool! And for the record that clip is from the Edmond Fitzgerald which sank in Lake Superior. I recognize the tune of the song played 😅
YES!!!! He's gonna do the Fitzgerald!!! Woot!! I remember when the Big Fitz went down.
I Love how you explain things
Your videos make me happy. Ive been suffering bad depression and your videos keep my mind occupied. I’ve binge watched all of them! I love your attention to detail and your happy persona. Not to mention I am obsessed with everything titanic!
happy to help!!!!! Stay safe and keep moving forward! When I get depressed I watch this.
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Helps me get motivated!
@@HistoricTravels loved it!!! Got me pumped up!! Loved the nod to titanic at the end as well. Thank you for your kind words and replying! Fan girling over here now! Haha
@@jillfratis8004 haha dont need to fan girl over me, I am no different then anyone else. :) Happy I could help though :)
thanks for video I read books that don't go into detail about those lifeboats I just heard about the secondary Telegraph Operator just getting on a upside down lifeboat
Love your channel best for history
I have no idea which ship you are going to talk about from the clip you showed. It is quite a miracle that people survived in/on collapsible A and B.
The Edmund Fitzgerald
Hi I'm a new subscriber, I was looking for facts about the Titanic because me and my grandmother watch it alot. But thank you for this fact and story
Video idea Were people really sucked into the grand staircase windows/whirlpool or the holes underneath the first funnel after it collapsed is suggest maybe some survivor stories I really do like this channel!
I love titanic and him doing these videos are awesome because I can here more videos about titanic
The EDMUND FITZGERALD!!! Looking forward to seeing that. Great job on the TITANIC videos!!
Would have been a harder guess on the clip without Gordon Lightfoot 😃
OK, so I see you having a great job in Broadcast Journalism like 20/20 or 60 Mins Show. Hopefully, you like that kinda thing, as I believe you would be great at it. Obviously, you are working on a story about The Edmund Fitzgerald. (COOL)
The tune gave it away for me, The Edmund Fitzgerald
I cant get over your significant channel growth
zero dislikes an 999 likes is how i like it very cool you deserve it.
Ace video as always Sam.
That makes Bride's survival that much more incredible.
Yeah, thanks to Charles Lightoller’s guidance on Collapsible B.
I have an idea for a video a list of all the meals on titanic from 1st 2nd and 3rd classes PLEASE 🙏
That's a great idea.
2 things
1 I was literally thinking about these two lifeboats today and was going to suggest you make a video on them
2 why are they called collapsible lifeboats what makes them different other then the location they were at
Basically Boats A and B are rafts in the shape of the regular boat's bottom. They have canvas sides where they can erect to make it like a boat.
Amazing channel, Titanic has always been my favorite you just got another subscriber
Edmund Fitzgerald...another great in depth video Sam :-)
Thank you for a great video. You’re always so sweet💕
I'm watching Titanic tonight with my sister because you've ignited my interest in maritime disasters. I'm excited, I haven't seen it in a long time. My sister is gonna get annoyed with me trying to sound like I'm suddenly a Titanic expert hahaha
I have watched several of your videos now ( I did subscribe), and I have to say, you do a great job. Very informative and interesting. Please keep up the great work!
This is a legit good channel mate. Great job.
Love these videos! Great information presented very well. Thank u so much!
The Edmund Fitzgerald! As a child of the 70s, I recognized the song!
Love your channel
I hope to be in Southampton October 2022
The other problem that they had with Collapsible A was that they could not get the skirting up so the boat remained almost flush with the water. The four collapsible boats had canvas sides that were supposed to be lifted up and held in place by hinged struts. Boats C and D were properly launched with their sides up but for some reason, the people in boat A could not work out how to raise the skirts.
If i may suggest a video: can you do different break-up theories and their stories behind it?
your videos are starting to become one of the best parts of my day dude!