Four Interesting Shipwrecks - Vertical Wrecks and Walkable Destroyers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- As another experimental video, today's Shipwreck Sunday outing will look at four different wrecks. Or two pairs of similar wrecks, if you want to look at it that way. These range from the two vertical warship wrecks, to two destroyers you can visit without needing to dive at all.
We'll see if I do another one of these or not.
Videos For Rusalka and Victoria:
• Rusalka: Czar's Lost I... (Rusalka)
• Rusalka Extended Dive (Rusalka)
• Dive The Wreck Of The ... (Rusalka)
• Christian Francis Find... (Victoria)
• HMS Victoria (Victoria)
• HMS Victoria Lebanon 2... (Victoria)
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - HMS Victoria
7:21 - Rusalka
12:49 - USS Thompson and USS Corry
Its amazing that Victoria's screws are still there. Those are almost always salvaged or stolen over the years.
It was reported that at the time of HMS Victoria's sinking Adm. Tryon's wife in London was having a small dinner with friends, he walked into the room looked at everybody and then went into his office, his wife was puzzled at his behavior and went into his office, to talk to him, It was empty but the floor, desk and his papers were all soaking wet !!! Adm. Tryon went down with his ship!! I love a good Ghost Story.
That's very interesting to see a ship standing up lol
The stern of HMS victoria is still 70m deep. Thats no easy dive - 30m beyond recreational limits and out of reach for 99.9% of divers.
I watched a documentary on Rusalka a number of years ago and one thing I remember is that the divers cameras in their protected cases keeped fogging up because of the extreme cold of the water.
"Ramming the earth, Her Majesty's Navy tries it!"
I may be wrong here but I do believe it is also rumored that admiral Nelson’s sword is actually likely somewhere in the wreck of the Victoria
I'll bet the second ship being so deeply buried in the mud is in perfect condition!
The parts in the mud anyway!
Smashed flat, but in low-oxygen conditions. You raise a good point..
USS Corey is a popular spot for kayakers in my area. Visiting her is on my bucket list.
I guess I'm not suprised, but its amazing how far the Rusalka burried herself into the seabed
HMS Victoria reminds me of the photo of that B-24 that went down over Germany and ended up perfectly vertical. Keep the bandit salvors away from her.
There is a Uboat in the Baltic, bow buried in the mud, with the stern sticking up almost vertical as well.
There's a U-boat wreck in the Mediterranean Sea that was sunk in over 400 feet of water, and now the bow is lodged in the bottom, the forward compartments are completely flooded. The aft compartments are still dry and that left it sticking up from the bottom at a 45 degree angle. The entire crew perished and is still entombed inside the wreck.
There are some news regarding the carrier wrecks off Midway. The Exploration Vessel Nautilus surveyed the wrecks of Akagi, Kaga and Yorktown just this month, giving us the first footage of the Akagi underwater and the first footage of the Yorktown since she was first discovered 25 years ago.
th-cam.com/video/9s6gGKrmBtQ/w-d-xo.html
Oh my god THEY DID IT
Akagi is also in a lot better shape than anyone expected really.
@@sirboomsalot4902 I didn’t expect this ship to be intact because of the bombs
I’m aware, yeah. Holding off on doing a video update on that until things have been condensed. Right now, it’d be ‘digging through hours of choppy footage to find useful pics.’
If they’re anything like Petrel, they’ll upload (or someone else will) useful pics.
@@sirboomsalot4902 To be fair, Akagi was hit by "only" one bomb, unlike Kaga which got hit by at least four, so it's probably not too surprising that she looks a bit better.
Soryu on the other hand if she's ever found... well, she won't look pretty, let's just leave it at that. Same with Hiryu.
Another "Oddity" for you: USS Garnet [PYc-15] is the "Name-sake" of the former "Ship Ashore Resort" in Smith River, CA. Now about half a mile from the Smith River. She has been a Restaurant, Gift Shop, Museum, Motel Office and more since the Early 1950s.
Lawn darts of the sea
A fun one for my area is the USS Inaugural AM-242 that's in the Missouri side of the Mississippi River.
Good channel.
GREAT VIDEO!!!! Interesting subject matter! I always enjoy your content!!!
I can't believe that the Victoria is not covered in fishing nets like most shipwrecks!!!
Just for your information, check out the HMAS J7, a J class sub transferred to the Royal Australian Navy by the Royal Navy after WW I, and then sunk in the 30's as a breakwater for the Sandringham yacht club in Melbourne. The modern day marina of the club has actually built the mooring pontoons around the wreck and you can walk right alongside and around her as she is now fully incorporated into the marina.
That sounds interesting..
The stern section of the HMS Hood is also vertical.
Could you cover Sachem's wreck next?
The crew of the Victoria might have survived in the engine room. A slow sad end. 😢
I highly discourage walking aboard the latter two wrecks, especially the one in San Francisco.
It's ironic how they named Rusalka after an evil water spirit of a drowned woman that pulls its victims underwater, and then said ship sinks in a storm...
it really couldn't have been any other way
Or like the Greek Sirens, lured the unwary to their deaths.
Are U sure you are not talking about my ex mother inlaw intstead of an evil water spirit? The similarities R uncanny...
Русалка literally translates as Mermaid my dude
@@yakumoyukari4405 huh, that actually makes more sense, thanks.
Amazing story.
when i was in the navy, in the philipeans, south of Luzon, and inside of this bay, that Mc Arthur came a shore there were 4 stackers there sunk. you should do a video about them ..
I remember Subic, MM2 3 ships 12 yrs
HMS Victoria: I say she sank like the world's largest lawn dart, because arrows aren't meant to drop like this, but lawn darts are.
It’s quite ironic that Victoria spent more time to built in dry dock than she was at sea, and for a ship to named after the queen herself, well…
P.S. There’s actually another LNG carrier sunk in Gulf of Thailand that stood vertical but it later settled down.
There is a Japanese Submarine (that is believed to be the I-85) that is currently sitting vertical on the seabed just off the cost of Japan
Well, Thompson and Corry are both within bike riding distance of me (a really long day in the saddle, but feasible). I'd seen Corry previously and had wondered about her. At the time, 30+ years ago, her hull number was sort of visible.
They should really try to recover the Corey. I know there’s not much left and it would be expensive but it’s the last of its kind that’s intact.
In the Great Lakes, the former railroad ferry Ann Arbor No.5 is speared into the lake bottom at a fairly high angle- maybe 70 degrees or so.
There’s a German U-Boat in the Mediterranean that is vertical, bow up.
Hm. Haven’t heard of that. I know there’s U-3523, but she’s not in the Med and is ‘only’ at a 45-degree angle.
Which one is this Mediterranean submarine?
@@skyneahistory2306 not 100 % sure. But I saw it on TH-cam!
Her freeboard wasn’t unusual for the time with traditional “turrets”. Battleships with decent freeboard didn’t turn up till barbettes came along and in turn became “hooded barbettes”. Hooded barbettes then became “turrets” as we know them today
With the released photos and video of Akagi’s wreck we know one a future Sunday video will be about
On your saying that HMS Victoria has more notoriety than the others - I had never heard of HMS Victoria until coming upon this TH-cam Presentation.
I mean technically you could walk on the arizona.......but the navy would take great offense. And you won't see the outside of a jail.
You mean the penalty for walking on the USS Arizona is life in prison w/o the possibility of parole?
Just a part of historical fact the Russian states in the 1900's did have tubed tires on vehicles the tubes mainly came from Japan or Malaysia or thru the USA. Yet they had no way of even knowing how to patch a tire tube.
Victoria had the same amount of Freeboard as the Famed Monitor and we all know what happened to the Monitor because of the amount of it's Freeboard.
There was a key design failure in the monitors though. Basically the armor was an upside down tub on top of the ship, allowing water into the hull relatively easily.
That, quite possibly was because she was a 'first', designed and built in one heck of a hurry. Giver her credit for her achievements, though.@@kentlindal5422
The Victoria had a lot more free board then the literally awash Monitor.
I'm extremely upset there's no 4 stack destroyer anywhere intact we can walk on or God forbid try to sail on..... Still my favorite destroyers besides the fletchers.
I wonder why boilers didn’t blow up on Rusalka and Victoria?
That is an interesting point - cold water hitting hot steam often has 'interesting' consequences like that, yet I've seen quite a few shipwreck pictures where an intact boiler is the only surviving large item. Douglas Reeman, incidentally, mentioned in several of his stories, that ships going down in a steep death dive would often have their boilers tear loose from their mountings and plunge down through the hull, hastening the end.
Hey bro, when will the Atlantic sea floor be explored for the thousands of wrecks from the 2 world wars? Is that just not sexy?
There’s just not enough interest and funding to locate all those cargo ships and U-boats miles below the surface, unfortunately. Similar types have been found in more accessible areas
Given that a rusalka is a mermaid like creature of slavic myth that drowns men her sinking is a bit ironic
Rusalkas either drown their victims, or seduce them.
DD?
U.S.N designation for destroyers.
I guess you'd have to ask yourself how susceptible a rudder would be to moving out of it's last position in a ship's ascent and collision with the bottom in the case of the Russian monitor.
It was inexplicable that the Royal Navy allowed this poorly conceived and executed vessel to be placed in service.
Reminds one of the Mary Rose.
It was an era of great experiment, with all manner of new ideas coming along, thick and fast. Railway engineering, and other fields were similar, and the natural consequence was to think 'looks like a good idea - let's build one, and see if it works....." or not. HMS Captain, which from memory was the first turret equipped RN ship was one such; top heavy and with very low freeboard around her two turrets (a sail assisted steam - or more usually, steam assisted sailing ship) was lost in a squall off the Isle of Wight, for example.
@@JohnDavies-cn3roI mean, you have to give the Navy credit with the Captain. They didn't want it (because of how unstable it would be), but the designer swayed public opinion and forced it on them.
The Rotherhithe Tunnel constructed between 1904 and 1908 by resident engineer Edward H. Tabor and contractors Price and Reeves, at a cost of about £1 million (equivalent to around £115 million in 2021). It was excavated partly using a tunnelling shield and partly by cut-and-cover. Two tunnelling shields were employed.
Wikipedia.
Inept leadership trumped bad design