Lusitania Sinks in REAL TIME | 18 Minutes of Terror
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It amazes me a single teenager is making these as essentially a hobby.
Jack, if you see this, regardless of what ship and what version, you are always improving and making these a watch.
Thank youuu ❤
@@jackganimationshi jack
@@jackganimations Jack, let me suggest similar "clothed" figures for the next Titanic animation if you're crazy enough to do one.
And as aside for your directing tastes... I find your "cosmic horror" type shots - the ship as a speck on an uncaring sea in its final moments with muffled screaming - to be VERY effective. Keep using those.
Done by a 17 year old??? 😮
Truly shocked, 😮 the quality is outstanding, network levels of professional 👏 👌 👍
gen z are really amazing people.
Titanic and Lusitania are such an interesting contrast. Titanic had fewer lifeboats and a relatively poorly trained crew. But she sank in just under three hours and in such a way that almost all the boats were safely launched. Lusitania had plenty of lifeboats. But her sinking was chaotic and many of the boats smashed upon launch.
The most critical difference of many between them is how much water was entering the ship. A torpedo hole plus a secondary explosion is far larger than six slender slits totaling a couple square feet. Had Titanic torn a single 300-foot gash in her side, her sinking would have been perhaps half as long and more difficult to keep on an even keel (like Britannic with hitting a mine - much larger hole, one hour to sink keeled over to starboard).
@@browncoatkevinalso worth mentioning is the experience of the crew. Titanic’s crew had more time and plenty of experience, whereas Lusitania’s were second-hand volunteers who didn’t really know the equipment they were operating.
If Titanic would have sank that fast and most of the lifeboats lost, noone would have demanded more lifeboats or a place for every passenger which would have cost significant more lifes in the long term.
The Lusitania was also carrying ammunition. However, experts argue whether the exploding ammunition caused the ship to sink so quickly or whether it was a coal dust explosion. In any case, the damage must have been enormous. There is not much left of the wreck itself today.
fueron dos hundimientos distintos el Titanic estaba parado y no estaba escorado por el contrario Lusitania se escoró a un lado complicando la maniobra de arriado de los botes y por ultimo seguía navegando en un intento suicida de llagar a la costa y embarrancar el buque este es el camino
God, imagine traveling up in one of those elevators, it's travelling up, then it grinds to a stop, the lights go out, the doors won't open.. terrifying
Huddled in the dark, hoping-praying-that you can somehow escape. And then the water starts to come in. Absolute horror.
God rest their souls.
I thought those early elevators where operated manually, so no electric locking doors
@@TecSanento these were new electric elevators, with electric locks
I worked from 2008 to 2021 for the PANYNJ in their 'headquarters' offices in NYC. Some of the people I worked with were in WTC 1 when it was hit by the first plane in the 9/11/01 terror attacks. One of my co-workers was stuck in an elevator and barely got out alive and to this day is afraid of elevators.
not trying to be rude but who thought it was a good idea to use the elevator during an extreme emergency???
I can't believe that I began watching a video about a historical sinking and a cruise ship ad comes on
😂
Wow the algorithm has a dark sense of humour.
Ça donne envie de prendre l'avion, ça. 😁
@@patricefauvette1651indeed but in that type of year the planes were used for the purpose of the wars
4:09 One aspect of the Lusitania sinking I find the most terrifying is how quickly she started rolling. That explosion absolutely devastated her hull.
Well consider this. There was an initial explosion from 160 kilos of TNT or the like. That would already have created a rather sizeable hole in the hull, even if contained in one watertight compartment. And consider that a hole one square meter in size will allow about 6 to 10 ton of water to enter each second. For one square meter. And just how big is the initial hole? certainly not just a single square meter.
Then a second explosion of greater magnitude occurs to rip an even bigger hole. How many tons is now entering the hull each second is unknown, But we are talking hundreds of tons of water each second. And it occurs so fast that there would not have been enough time to close the watertight doors, let alone all the portholes that were open. And for each open porthole coming under water, an additional jet of water about the size of slightly over a square meter was added to the equation across all watertight compartments.
At 10 minutes in, you might as well have moved a giant metal cutter along the buttom of the hull, and it wouldn't have made any difference by then. Only the holes to higher decks would have limited the amount of water passing on to these at that point, which wouldn't actually help much with all the portholes and entry ways open.
All things considered, even those on open deck at the time of torpedo impact can count themselves extremely lucky to have survived at all.
15 degree list almost immediately from what I remember of TV docs on the disaster. Absolutely terrifying.
Yeah, to me is the scariest part. No other ship sinking I heard listed THAT quickly.
To add to what others said, Lusitania also had coal bunkers running horizontally the length of the ship on each side. This pretty much allowed for the free flow of water and she immediately heeled over. It’s miraculous she didn’t capsize.
@@noahdavidson8733 There's just one little slip up in that. While it is true that the bunkers were present all along the length of the boiler romms the fed, they WERE divided by the watertight bulkheads that compartmentalised the ship lengthwise. So if the bulkheads held up, the water would not move freely through the length of the ship.
The trouble was that the second explosion tore one such bulkhead to pieces over a significant area, allowing water to fill the initial and the next compartment rapidly. And that was enough to ensure that the list exceeded that of the top of these bulkheads so that water could flow over the top and spill into the next compartment and so on.
But what really allowed water to fill her so rapidly was the amount of portholes that had not been closed when the torpedo struck, and once they reached water level, they became huge openings that allowed tons of water to enter the hull very rapidly.
This disaster is a soft and grim reminder as to why you should NEVER take an elevator/lift in case of an emergency.
And to not be panicking as a crewmember
We all hope to be level headed when we’re in shock.
I like how the passengers absolutely refuse to remove their hats
They are going down as gentleman I'm sure they would like a brandy too
"Do you know how much this hat COST?!" - some lady in 1915, probably.
The animation is about the ship. I am sure the people could use a bit of improvement.
If you are promenading, etiquette demands that you continue to do so calmly regardless of hullabaloo or the deck adopting a rakish angle.
I wear a hat constantly, I wouldn’t have even thought to remove my hat in that sinking situation.
Titanic: Enough time but doesnt have enough lifeboats
Lusitania: Enough lifeboats but doesnt have much time
enough time*
even Titanic went down without launching all its lifeboats.
@@diegonatan6301 She did so launch all of them, just not properly.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY Neither of Titanic's collapsible lifeboats had time to be properly launched
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY they were on the ship when it sunk, they were never lauched at all, not even improperly launched, they just floated away.
Crazy how unsuccessful the launching of the life boats was, it's basically safer to stay on the ship and wait it out instead of risking your life in a life boat that crashes down or gets crushed by another
I posted a comment as to why. Due to the war there was a shortage of able bodied seaman (sailor with 2-3 years of experience at sea). The reason was the Royal Navy and then Englands merchant marine had priority which makes sense as those two roles were of national importance. Because of this British staffed liners had an acute shortage of experienced seaman. That might not seem important but this type of man would have a lot of experience in handling lines and life boat drills and a layman crew member would not.
@@tristanholland6445 oh wow, that one fact must have led to way more deaths when lusitania sank, if there were enough skilled sailors the death count probably would’ve been way lower
@@tristanholland6445There was probably also a lack of training and organizing involved. It's not that hard to operate the devices as long as you know what you're doing. I fear they never spoke this through and never tried to operate the boats at least once even through there was time before that.
Staying on the ship is also very dangerous because when the ship goes down there is a HUGE change you go down with her, the reason? While the ship is still filling up with water, if you’re in the path of that water, yes, you could easily get dragged along with it, like an undertow or rip current at the beach. This very thing happened as the Titanic was going down for the final plunge.
@@tristanholland6445 So that's why Titanic launched successfully their lifeboats, the crew staff was highly prepared as the majority of them was in the Royal Navy
The sight of the propeller churning towards the passengers from lifeboat 10 at 10:20 is absolutely gutwrenching. Amazing video!
It’s foreshadowing to a certain hospital ship sunk in 1916
Which is The H.M.H.S Britannic right?
@@JupiterthetankengineYT correct
I can't imagine what those poor people went through in those 18 minutes. Especially those lost in the pitch black corridors or trapped in the elevators.
It may have only taken the Lusitania 18 minutes to sink. But for those onboard, it must have been the longest and haunting 18 minutes of their lives.
Those in the elevators it was even more terrifying, because, when you think about it, elevators back then were more like cages in terms of how the doors were designed and operated. So in other words, they were _literally_ caged inside.
@TheEDFLegacy
And I believe that the elevators stopped in-between decks too, which makes it even more horrifying.
Don't forget the:
1. Sailors trapped in the luggage hold - their only way out was via elevator
2. German spies who were still chained in the ships brig
@@jodij2366 Eep.
@@jodij2366 there were 3 german spies in the ship and no one survived
The fact that there is no voiceover... its chilling...
And therefore the perfect decision... Terrifying though it may be. Great everyone involved!
Imagine getting on a lifeboat, thinking you're safe, and then plunging into the water.
Then imagine you're in line for a lifeboat after watching the 4 before you crashing into the water.
And not only that but theyve crushed the boat (and those on board) that was lowered before that was successful
And (probably) not knowing that several people just had a final meeting with one of the propellers
I'd have chosen to die on the ship.
18:45 I am blown away by how that shot looks so similar to a famous painting depicting this disaster. The way the angle is at, the way the water lightning is.
The angles are purposeful. It is showing respect to original inspiration. It used to be a lot more common before everyone would claim copy right over every little detail. The original painting was done by Ken Marshall. Several of the panoramic shots of the ship are also replicating exterior shots of the ship from “Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic”.
@@InfiniteApollo12 It's really remarkable how good Marshall was at making it look realistic.
@@BDNeon It’s definitely one of the best sinking animations I have ever seen. Incredibly realistic and the kind of creation that younger me yearned for
I love that the anti fouling has green on it, and the water is absolutely gorgeous. The same can be said about literally anything in this animation, but the light of the waters surface reflecting on the U-Boat is what made the deal for me. Phenomenal work to all on the Liner Design team.
Thank you!
This is so amazing. All of the detail, the different perspectives and points of view are so vivid and really bring this to life. Many thanks to you all for creating this.
I used to work on a cruise ship and we got into some heavy seas, that was terrifying enough-I can’t even imagine. Fantastic animation and the attention to detail (like only two funnels puffing smoke), is so appreciated. Impressive. Thank you to all at Oceanliner Designs.!!
It's horrifying that we can have a real-time sinking video that is only 18 minutes long
Now imagine trying to get out of inside the ship in 18 minutes. 😶🫣
The Empress of Ireland vid was even shorter. I asked mike for my money back ;))
@@phaasch How short?
@@bighand1530As short as a small pony.
... it is scary ...
These three Lusitania videos you have put together are absolutely outstanding. The narration on the first two is faultless. The research gone into these has clearly taken time and effort. The animation is just incredible. Well done and thank you to all involved in these three films. A credit to each person involved.
Excellent animation, really capturing how terrifying it must've been. RIP to those who died.
You once spoke of your fans thinking your videos were rather dark. What ever could have given them that idea? Thank you so much for sharing your unique talent with us.
Its a ton of people dying. It really doesnt get much more dark than that man.
Thank you very much!
@@basil9973 it may be a bunch of people dying, but that's why he teaches it. Lusitania, Titanic, 9/11, all the major tragedies must be retold so we never forget them. The saying goes (something along the lines of) "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."
19:00 I see that Ken Marshall reference, really one of my favorite paintings
The sprightly music at the beginning is so appropriate. It's not hard to imagine happy travelers enjoying the lovely spring weather during their last day at sea before reaching port, blissfully unaware of the horror that was about to befall them.
Indeed; when the torpedo hit, second-class was in the middle of the second “lunch” as second-class was so large, they had to split the lunches into shifts.
What music is it?
The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II,
Watching those boats fail is horrible. At some point, you would think you'd just take the risk of jumping overboard after seeing all those boat launches fail.
Beautiful animation ❤
And most people still on deck at that point did just jump overboard with hopes of being able to just stay afloat in the water. It was fortunate that the water wasn’t fatally freezing, those people just needed something to hold onto while hoping the sharks wouldn’t attack them.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACYthe water was still cold enough for hypothermia to set in. Rescue didn’t come for a while so many still died from being in the water too long.
@@nathanviebranz9111 Some died of hypothermia, but more deaths were caused by other things such as drowning, bone injuries, and shark attacks. There really was a decent number of people who were able to withstand hypothermia until help arrived.
@@nathanviebranz9111 Some died of hypothermia, but more deaths were caused by other things such as drowning, bone injuries, and shark attacks. There really was a decent number of people who were able to withstand dying of hypothermia until help arrived.
@@nathanviebranz9111 Some died of hypothermia, but more deaths were caused by other things. There really was a decent number of people who were able withstand hypothermia until help arrived.
Absolutely terrifying. Hats off to Jack and everyone in the team for your great work!
So glad Jack survived the Titanic to bring us this video!
the back to back lifeboat failures... to have made it onto a lifeboat having successfully been launched, only to be crushed by another lifeboat, i- words cannot describe
0:00 full story of lusitania
3:01 u-boat 20 being to fire the torpedo
3:41 lookout spotted the torpedo
3:50 lusitania trun to hard a starboard but is to late
3:53 lusitania hit the torpedo
4:17 unknown explosion rocks of the lusitania
5:00 all funnel is on fire
5:03 first funnel is on fire
5:50 lusitania starboard list°10
6:04 all passengers are on danger
7:02 small fishing boat to rescue lusitania
8:08 u-boat 20 watched lusitania sinking
9:39 lifeboat 12 falls to breaks
9:51 lifeboat 8 is lowered but is falls
10:00 lifeboat 10 is lowered but is falls too
14:54 lifeboat 20 is lowered but is carshing to the sea
15:54 old head of kinsale saw the lusitania of 12 miles form the lusitania
18:42 bow is flooding
19:09 bridge is flooding
19:16 lusitania final plunge
20:34 third funnel is fall
21:22 stern is flooding
21:41 lusitania is gone
22:54 a small fishing boat arrived to lusitania
23:04 all lifeboat saw small fishing boat
23:27 the end
24:17 last photo of rms lusitania
Having not watched the documentary yet, I was surprised to see the third funnel collapse. I was under the impression that had been ruled out by historians, so it’s interesting to see it make a comeback
It's a detail I was unaware of, and I thought I knew quite a bit. It doesn't have much impact on how long the sinking took (subtracting seconds at the very end if that), but it adds to the drama and the chaos.
@@browncoatkevin Yeah. It’s something I had actually heard of before, but I mostly saw it in older depictions of the sinking (including a famous war-time poster), while most newer histories omitted it.
I’ve always been a history buff it was even my major in college but the one aspect of history I found fascinating was not just the grand scale of events but the individual stories. I feel a lot people especially with ship wrecks generalize it but forget about the people tho in some ways the ship is a person. What I’m getting at I love these videos and how they have reenergized my love of history. RIP to those who lost their lives when Lusitania sank..
The ship is a person... yeah... I'm an artist that does that, making human reincarnations of ocean liners and the like. Lusitania was one of the first to get this and she turned into one of my favorite creations... needless to say... she needs a hug... horribly so...
3:41 TORPEDO CLOSING IN ON THE STARBOARD DOW!
Beautifully done! My only criticism is that the captions were hard to read; the white font blended into the background, and/or it changed before I could finish reading it. Overall, this is very impressive!
I agree. They should put a black rectangle behind the white words, so they could be read. The only other criticism is it there is not much of an intro explaining it, nor an ending telling of any rescue work done. Did the fishing boat pick up people from the water?
This would've been a great example of how those lifeboats are supposed to work, if they'd thought to band together and have people grab the hand lines.
A beautiful animation of a tragic event. Great work, team!
The problem was a shortage able bodied seaman due to the war and the Royal Navy and merchant marine getting most of the experienced sailors.
I have worked in the maritime industry before and trust line handling and lowering of a boat is a difficult task that requires several people who know exactly what they are doing.
Some of your best work yet, by the entire team. After seeing your piece on the human side of the tragedy, getting to know the individual passengers and their families and companions, then watching this - with zero spoken commentary - was absolutely chilling.
"Remember the Lusitania!"
This was absolutely horrifying! Jack has truly created a terrifying experience. The Lusitania’s story has always haunted me from the sheer notion of how fast everything was. And this animation truly shows that! Good work as always you guys! 💙🚢💙
For the first 17 minutes I didn’t think anyone was going to get lowered safely in a lifeboat.
It appears very few lifeboats were launched successfully.
The numbers of deaths may not the same as the Titanic and especially Wilhelm Gustloff, but the sinking of the Lusitania is definitely one of the scariest. As SOON as the torpedo it, it was already doomed by that instant list. I cannot imagine getting out from inside when you have only 18 minutes to live.
Yeah, and a majority of those people never made it out of the inside at all.
For me empress of Ireland / AHS centaur is the scariest
Oceanliner Designs & Historic Travels (dynamic duo) have the best respective videos covering the Lusitania on this whole site. Thank you so much for keeping her memory alive. God bless all those who perished that fateful day for actions out of their control..🕊🙏
Amazing as always keep up the good work. You have some of the best animations on youtube! Props to your team
4:01 The metal sound of the Lusitania as it tilts to starboard sounds like trumpets playing.
This really gives a great perspective on just how quickly things went from being completely normal to all hell breaking loose and finally to that massive ship that they were sailing on, along with so many souls that were aboard her, plunging to the bottom of the Celtic Sea...so close and yet so far from shore. 18 mere minutes. Somber.
Kudos Mike, to you and your team.
Excellent video. Really helps to appreciate the horror that those on board went to.
I especially noticed the cut at roughly 22 minutes, from the crying and fear of the passengers, to the calm and peace of the Old Head of Kinsale. It really drove it home how terrifying it must have been, and how alone those in the sea must have felt.
Any chance the captions can be made more bold? I keep having to pause to see them. Love it though ❤
Hats off to this brilliant animation. I can't think of anything more terrifying than the sight of a massive ocean liner being slowly consumed by calm waters into the abyss. This videos captures the sheer terror the passengers went through in those harrowing 18 minutes and leaves us viewers just as terrified and moved at the prospect of how such a marvel as the Lusitania plunged to her death so quickly.
RIP to all those who went down with her. May you find peace knowing you are not forgotten 😢
If I had been on board the Lusitania and had seen the lifeboats crashing into the water like that, I would have refused to even go near them.
Then odd are very high that you would drown which is what happened to most of the people who didn’t get into a lifeboat.
@@tristanholland6445 You would definitely need either a life jacket or something to hold onto in the water to keep you floating while avoiding the sharks too. The Lusitania’s captain was barely able to grab onto a floating chair once he was in the water before passing out and narrowly survived the disaster through this.
Recently found out that my great great grandfather on my dad's side crossed over on Lusitania a year before she sunk, and that info has been living rent free in my mind ever since
19:26 that guy just standing there
I think that's Captain Turner, he was washed away from the port side of the bridge I think
Autism moment
I feel like a Oceanliner Designs documentary on the MV Estonia would be interesting. I have always found it fascinating and relatively unexposed on TH-cam.
I can only imagine the fear and pain those people felt.
I just finished reading Erik Larson’s “Dead Wake: The Last Voyage of the Lusitania”, and I’ll tell you, it is unlike any other Lusitania book or story I have ever read. I am bitten by the Lusitania bug and that’s why I’m here.
I am terrified of the ocean and ships are intimidating but for some reason I can't stop watching these videos.
Still much better chances than something getting wrong in the air.
Weird that I can watch a video of this giant liner sinking in real time and still have 10 minutes left on my lunch break. Still astonishes me how she sank so fast.
100% rewatching this millions of times
Love the use of The Blue Danube and that piano.
Lusitania: I'm sinking, help!
Wikipedia: the Titani-
How chilling is that underwater shot
Titanic is psychological horror, Lusitania is jumpscare horror.
Excellent choices to mention how many people were on lusitania and then seamlessly transitioning to under water with u-20 and how many people died.
One has to ponder if they had just loaded the lifeboats but instead of lowering them, they waited until the sea rose up to them...
Wouldn’t have worked. A boat and it’s passengers was dragged under the ship as it rapidly sank since they couldn’t get the falls to release in time.
This is the best animation of the Lusitania sinking I've ever seen. I saw one animation that was made recently, and I was shocked there are people who think the Lusitania didn't hit the bottom as she sank. Somehow their argument of a 240 meter long ship, sinking in 93 meters of water, and not hitting the bottom on the way down, just isn't mathing.
It would be awesome if you did a cutaway view of the ocean to show how she would have hit the sea floor during her final plunge.
Captain Turner affirmed up until the day that he died that he felt her hit bottom. Unfortunately due to her advanced state of decay, this is something that we’ll never know for sure. The only hints are from testimony and the fact that she’s split from her superstructure to keel amidships
In this situation, I would:
1. Get life jacket.
2. Get to the top deck.
3. Go to the bow.
4. Wait for the bow to go under.
5. Swim as far away from the ship as possible.
6. Wait to get rescued.
The water is cold. Not bone chillingly cold as the North Atlantic, but cold enough where if you stay too long, hypothermia kicks in.
And for God's sake, don't get into an elevator
You would be better off going for a swim to the land.
And don't forgett to drink some snaps before.
That plan would go to heck the second something went wrong.
I think that’s as good a plan as any. Was just saying to my partner if we were on we’d grab a lifebuoy each and jump in to the water and swim away. Better than standing on deck.
You outdid yourself. This is breathtaking … and horrifying
Incredible video.
Thank You!
The second explosion was described by most witnesses as considerably bigger than the first. Rather than a boiler explosion (which is possible) it was more likely a coal dust explosion in one of the boilers. The shock, movement and vibrations from the torpedo explosion would have propagated through the ship and stirred up clouds of cold dust in the bunkers. All it would take was one smouldering fire or hotspot in the coal to set off an explosion. (Dust explosions typically happen a short delay after an initial disturbance). A dust explosion would have several atmospheres over pressure, enough to damage the structure of the ship and greatly increase the flooding.
And it would have punctured the bulkheads between the coal bunkers, instantly dooming the Lusitania no matter how watertight the bulkheads were. I remember reading that it was coal high in bitumen content, thus making the dust more flammable (I think it was in Dr. Ballard's book, though that book does have some major inaccuracies such as claiming there was no ammunition smuggled on board).
It was only 2:10 when the whole thing started, and at the end you show a small sailing vessel coming by at 3:30. The sinking was seen off the coast, so getting vessels out there to pick up survivors didn't take long compared with, say, Titanic. It makes me wonder what actually killed those who weren't killed in the sinking itself or by the jet of debris.
In Titanic's case it was hypothermia, but in warmer waters I could easily imagine treading water for an hour if my life depended upon it.
Water in early May is still very cold round Britain and Ireland. Hypothermia was a factor in many of the deaths. Earlier rescue might have saved many more.
@@philiphumphrey1548 The water the Lusitania sank in still wasn’t as cold as the water the Titanic sank in and most of the Lusitania’s people who ended up in the water were actually able to withstand dying of hypothermia including the captain.
@@puterboy2 The Titanic’s mileage from the Californian was about the same as the Lusitania’s mileage from shore, actually.
As the others have mentioned, the water was still chilly; around 55°. I think the statement is that any drop of more than 5° of human body temperature can be deadly. And there may have been more rescue ships to arrive; due to a tragedy in 1914 involving three destroyers back to back, British ships were prohibited from going to the aid of submarine victims. The sailboats only went because they didn’t have wireless.
Why no mention of the fact that the ship was carrying munitions in the hold which the Assistant Manager of Cunard admitted was a standard practice for the vessel which was listed as an auxilliary warship?
If the US hadn't joined the war, it's pretty likely that WW1 would've ended in a stalemate.
20:36 Did this really happen during the sinking? I thought all of her funnels remained in place through the sinking?
There is conflicting testimony about whether a funnel came off or not; what is known for certain though is that at least one or more of them did remain in place; swimmers were sucked into the open grates as she went under.
@@noahdavidson8733 amazingly terrible
When I heard
The Blue Danube
I knew it was going to be a great watch............
4:59-5:24
20:30-20:43
That explains why there is a poster of Lusitania sinking with her third funnel spewing out flames as it fell over.
10:22 People went into the props?? 😰
It's cool but brutal detail
Like a giant food processor for fishies.
Watching this and what pops up. An advert for P&O cruises! Appropriate.
"Life boats" effectively worked as "death boats"
only 4 minutes in but the quality of this animation is top-notch, I love the POV shot of the torpedo, really hammers home how screwed the ship was
8:33 Three muffled explosions are heard slightly and quietly.
They were the boilers exploding with the cold water contacting the white hot metal. It flashed to steam and blew up.
@@kaihumphreys96 I'm talking about the third explosion near the third funnel. I'm talking about muffled ones that were in a number of 3.
@@MassimoCalderaro-u8h That was the scalding hot boilers exploding from contact of the freezing waters of the Celtic Sea which like what happened in the sinking of RMS Titanic, When the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean contacted the boilers in the forward engine room, They flashed to steam and exploded and destroyed the uptakes to the second funnel and knocked it of its base. The same thing happened with the third funnel of RMS Lusitania the fourth funnel like the Titanic also collapsed just before the stern went under as they were knocked off from the force of the onrushing water crushing its base from the water pressure pushing against the thin steel walls of the funnels
As for the funnels of HMHS Britannic
During the Britannic’s sinking as she went into her final plunge and started going down by the bow she rolled over onto her starboard side which shifted the weight of gravity on the funnels caused the cables to snap, which caused the funnels to collapse one by one as it sank slower it put more strain on the cables, which ultimately caused the thin walls of the funnels to buckle and collapse which allowed water to flood into the open voids and blew up her boilers at the same time her bow slammed into the seabed, causing it to twist before the rest of the ship which was still above water and longer than the depth of the Kea Channel was deep settled onto the sea bed on her starboard side distorting her bow
The forward two funnels of the Lusitania didn’t have time to collapse as the bow sank so quickly, once it slammed into the seabed they broke off and landed close to the wreck of the ship as it settled onto her starboard side, Because she sank so quickly it split the hull of the ship amidships and distorting her bow.
It’s pretty clear and simple cold water and hot boilers don’t mix
These videos are amazing, they really make you feel like you're actually there. In many ways, the realism is better than that of movie. So much time and effort with fantastic results. Thanks team!!
In an alternate timeline, on April 22nd, 1911, at 11:40pm, Lusitania collides with an iceberg...
It would take 2 hours and 40 minutes for Lusitania to sink...
As mentioned in your last Lusitania productions, outstanding! Cheers, mate!
I have seen several explanatory videos about different big sinkings, but I have never seen one with so many disastrous boat launches. RIP to all those people
This sinking will always shake me to my core. So many smaller ships took MULTIPLE torpedoes before taking the plunge yet... Lusitania only needed one. Is it true the bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink it...? And 18 minutes... It just... leaves me with so much disbelief. I love you... sweet Lusitania... You deserved NONE of this and I hope all who were on you and went with you to your deathbed rest easy... A piece of Lusitania is close to my home and I will visit it tomorrow to... connect with her spirit... let her know that she will always be a part of my life... always.
People don’t talk enough about this disaster. The amount of children who died is so horrifying.
Who doesn’t? This is the second most widely known ocean liner disaster after Titanic.
War or not. Attacking a ship with civilians and so many children on board makes you a monster.
This is now my 2nd favorite TH-cam channel, quite possibly my favorite actually…
What’s the other one?
@@bighand1530 totally unrelated, but it’s Black Conservative Perspective. I like that guy’s takes.
@@chalky_white Nice
Great video.
Narration would really help people that struggle with seeing the text (my mum. 😉)
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I'm wondering, why does Lusitania's fourth funnel emit no smoke in the animation? I've heard that this one was not a dummy like Titanic's. Was it because some boilers weren't in use to save coal?
Correct. The ship was not traveling at her normal clip.
Excellent video. Amazing.
As rivet counter I'm surprised to see the gray band around the ship. I thought she had a yellowish band going around Lucy on her final journey. Was there recent research uncovered that showed being grey instead?
I am also curious about that, the paint schemes on Lucy has changed 3 times, if i am not mistaking. The first one is on one of the drawings he made of Lucy on his website. The second one is in Lusitanias final plunge video, and now this one as the third one. Im soon starting on a lusitania model, and i am very much in doubt about which scheme i should use. I want my model to be as historically accurate as possible, if anyone has any information about this please let me know.
@@PaoloSlothsame here. I have a 1/350 model and like you want to build it up as historically accurate as possible. But this now. I’m like umm 🤔
For such a time where weaponry and even technology as a whole seemed so obsolete and limited you'd think that this kind of damage wouldn't cause such a beast of a machine that Lusitania was for it's time being such a grandiose gargantuan to receive the fall it did.
Boy there are scenes that look like Ken Marschall paintings in this rendering. Excellent videos!
Amazing and truly sobering of what that day must of been for those on board. It seems almost impossible to think in just eighteen minutes she was gone. Her wake many miles behind would have still been seen when she was on the bottom of the ocean.
I find this sooo fascinating! Great work!
I am German and I have met so many great people from UK. Why have we killed each other so many times😪. Stupid wars
Because you German Saxons and English Saxons became so “alienated from each other” that you guys basically forgot your ancestry.
If you want to destroy a people, deny them their history.
Seeing that hallway fill up....lights going out... imagining that... being stuck there... that really got to me. Geez... just knowing.... "this is going to be a very bad set of seconds. This is the end.... I'm going to breathe water. I'm going to die."
Mike & Crew; fantastic job on these videos. I do have one question, how many of the Lusitania's life boats were successfully launched and remained afloat after the sinking? It seems like more people may have been killed and/or injured by lifeboats failures than were saved by the lifeboats.
Only 6 of the Lusitania’s 48 lifeboats were successfully filled and launched and remained afloat. Many people really were killed and injured by those failure lifeboats too and they were just lucky enough to have been able to even see them unlike many others.
i love how youtube added a link about the titanic and not the lusitania
Lol smart move by the fishing boat to interact themselves instead of calling the cops😂
Those lifeboats were just hopeless, like the worst case ever.
Rest in peace to all victims. Horrific ending ...
God the direction, especially in the beginning, was just chilling man. My compliments to everyone who was involved
I enjoyed the pre-roll targeted ad for a cruise ship holiday. Nice work Virgin Voyages.
And just like that Germany lost the First World War
and later the Second World War.
I’m from Germany
@@SCHNIZEL_ You should be very thankful Germany became the very peaceful country it is now after all of those wars.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY she really didn't lose on the battlefield, the first one.
@@stevem2323 But lost the overall wars.
Tragic but beautifully rendered video - Thank you
Truly incredible video! It must have been utterly terrifying, this really brings it to life.
Good work on the soundscaping.