@@newcarpathia9422 wow... I never knew that. If the props were still turning while she was going down, would there be like a situation like in Britannic were people got chopped up by the props?
@@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen I'd have to check my book, wherever that is, but I don't think there's a definitive indication of speed. From the sound of things, it was too slow to suck boats in and chop them up. To hazard a guess, I'd say it was just an expression of the last bits of steam going through the turbines before the engine rooms flooded.
My great grandmothers father died on the Lusitania. Her ashes were released into the ocean, so she once again could reunite with her father. She died in 2018.
Just remember a group of cooks or butcher's on board, decided to all pile into the meat elevator right before the ship lost power. And they all got stuck in the elevator shaft as the ship went down. Horrible way to die.
Lusitania only had enough lifeboats cause Titanic proved that their reliance on the Telegraph and heavily trafficked shipping routes could fail. Before Titanic no ship of the time carried enough lifeboats for everyone onboard.
@Andy Wehrle I agree and they could save much more life if they filled the boats to its capacity. At least 500 souls. The crew had no training and was practically useless. Even if they had +2 hours and 20 more lifeboats they would still manage to kill more than half of the passengers.
People think 18 minutes is a long time for a ship to go under, but in reality that's so fast. You have almost no time to think or react. R.I.P to those who lost their lives
7:47 is why I always have a small flashlight in my pocket on a cruise ship at all times. Modern cruise ships can still lose all electrical power. Especially in an emergency.
@@jesper9622 True. I'm old school so I just carry a flashlight. Nothing huge. Flashlight is easier to handle as well in a stressful situation. You can hold a flashlight in your mouth if you need both hands. Can't do that with a phone. ;)
@@zombieshoot4318 Mm, but is your flashlight waterproof? :p If i was in a sinking ship and i didnt have diving googles with me and a waterproof flashlight, i would feel pretty much fucked. To not be able to see under water is bad.
Dying on a sinking ship has gotta be up there with burning alive. Imagine being there to witness any one of these famous sinkings, sends shivers down my spine.
@Bread Sandwich You really wouldn't. Burning to death is one of the most (if not THE most) physically excruciating things you could possibly experience.
Great animation! Thank you for not layering music over it so we could hear her metallic wailing. Fine tribute to the queen and her service, and all the lives lost. War is ugly.
When I was a kid I first read Lord's "A Night To Remember" about Titanic, and there was plenty of anecdotal detail from the survivors' accounts as the ship went down in a relatively slow and sedate manner. Then I read Hoehling's "The Last Voyage of the Lusitania", and I was struck by how there was little in the way of great gestures compared with Titanic...it was a case of sheer panic as people rushed to find any way to get away from a ship that was visibly sinking right from under them in a matter of minutes, not hours.
Lusitania and Mauretania had something of a design flaw, and the way their watertight compartments were laid out was different to Titanic's. In short, Lusitania / Mauretania's layout made severe listing to one side much more probable, which is exactly what happened. They were very lucky Lusitania didn't capsize. Titanic's design was more balanced and so rapid flooding was less likely. Having said that, Lusitania had much more catastrophic damage - and the second mysterious explosion didn't help.
Just as a little note (someone else may have mentioned it already in the comments): the ship was running only three of her engine rooms to save on fuel; that means only three of her funnels would have been putting out smoke rather than four as shown in this animation. A small point, but in fact, it partly explains the limited speed she was running at (approx 18 nautical miles per hr) rather than her full potential. If at full speed through the war zone, she may have made a less tempting target for her killer.
I read where the reasons for shutting down the forward most boiler room was the lack of available stokers due to the war. Her speed was still adequate enough to outrun a U Boat but she had slowed to go around the Old Head of Kinsale when she was torpedoed. The torpedo ignited coal dust in the empty forward bunkers blowing out the bottom of the ship just ahead of the bridge. Many folks thought the coal dust exploding was a second torpedo.
@@allegheny48 The problems with getting enough personnel was mostly centered around experienced deck hands and able bodied seamen who knew how to do all the things necessary to help with the day to day functioning of the ship. So, Cunard simply hired inexperienced deck hands (and I am sure the same held for the black crew - the stokers). Regarding the second explosion, you can ditch the idea of coal dust igniting. It was too long after the torpedo strike to be coal dust, and the environment of the wing coal bunkers in the North Atlantic weren’t conducive to coal dust being particulate air matter. Why? Because first of all, coal dust is rather heavy and sticky. It likes to cling to stuff and isn’t especially easy to get into a cloud-like state. Does this rule out all coal dust explosions? No, but onboard that ship (or most any ship, for that matter) sailing through the cold waters fo the Irish Sea, there was something interesting going on. The difference between the temperature in the water outside the hull and the temp inside the wing bunkers (and especially the boiler rooms adjacent to the wing bunkers) was vastly different, by close to fifty degrees (about 50 or 51 degrees Fahrenheit water and around 100 or more inside the boiler rooms). The temperature difference cause lots and lots of condensation in the wing bunkers as a result, with the bulkheads dripping - even streaming - water. Add to that the typical minor leaking in a iron plate ship (lots of puddles in the bunkers as a result) and you have an environment where coal dust won’t make it into cloud form, will cling to every surface, and will act more like sludge than dust. See Diana Preston’s “Lusitania - An Epic Tragedy” to learn more, specifically in appendix B, where she writes “Even if we ignore the almost instantaneous spray of seawater that accompanied the rapid flooding of the bunkers after the torpedo detonated, the coal dust would almost certainly not have ignited. The dampness of the compartments would have prevented the dust from being shaken uniformly into the air to create an explosive aerosol.” The best explanation for the second explosion several seconds after the torpedo strike was a ruptured steam line. See the same appendix in her book for an explanation of it and how it likely took place.
@@alphalunamare the Lusitania did have 4 million rounds of artillery shells on board so the real monsters are the ones who lied to the passengers who said it was just a passenger liner
He remarried of course and inherited his millions. But the crash of 29 hit his interest heart and he put a pistol in his mouth that year, or so I read. ..Oops wrong ship.
Yeah. That is also what happened with the Empress of Ireland in May 1914. She was hit by another ship while travelling through heavy fog and she went down in just 14 minutes. Most of her dead never had a chance to get out of their cabins. (The sinking of the Empress of Ireland happened in the early morning hours when most people were asleep in their cabins)
I woundint sleep on a life boat if your a heavy sleeper and then ropes holding the boat snap your gona end up in the ocean and probably get sucked it two the moving props
@@Grape-Juice Yeah. Ropes snapping sounds like something that never happens. Considering they are inspected in every port. On the other hand the Germans sank 5000 ships during WWI. I'll take my chances with the rope.
@@dflatt1783 lifeboats failing is very common actually. in ww2 it was just as common as it was in ww1. even with the more recent modern day cruise ship sinking of the costa concordia, some lifeboats were slipping due to the ships listing.
@@tripwire3992 honestly, i think sleeping sun is fitting for a sinking ship. I dunno why, but especially the refrain sorta fits the horrifying yet majestic aesthetic of sinking ships
i was really amazed at how lusitanias propellers managed to still turn for the entire sinking. No power, boilers are flooded, funnels are collapsing, and yet those turbine engines even though they were flooding at the time she went under they still ran. just shows the true power of the turbine engine.
This sinking isn't very accurate. The propellers didn't remain on the entire time, the funnels didn't collapse, and it listed much more to the starboard side.
This was NOT a labour of love to create. This was a labour of sadness & historical value to create. The only thing missing was the sound on the screams and crying that was most likely heard by the survivors. Thank you for not adding it. There is a point when recreating a moment in history that it becomes too real.
There was also fire and explosions on board, everyone is forgetting two explosive torpedoes struck and exploded inside a very combustible ship, below the water line, in the engine and coal compartments. The smoke, fire, twisted steel and carnage in the ship with loss of power and lights within a few minutes would have been horrific. Probably most of the survivors were on the upper decks.
It's so sad that the innocents were used and lost during war. After much debate and denial, it was finally revealed that the ship was carrying war cargo and thus was a legitimate target. Not the first time that's happened, sadly.
True, the cargo of small arms ammunition was a war cargo (but pretty small-time stuff compared to what would be on actual cargo ships). It wasn't even a secret, being listed on the US customs documentation. Various conspiracy theories (most of which were probably started by Germany) suggested Lusitania was carrying explosives but there remains zero evidence of that, even after diving expeditions. But even if Lusitania had not had a war cargo onboard, U-20 would STILL have sunk it regardless which makes the cargo argument seem very hollow. Schwieger decided it was a target upon seeing the vessel. It could have been the German High Command onboard for all the difference it would have made to his decision. However, it was a safe assumption that given it was a huge passenger liner, it was bound to be full of women and children - many of whom were going to be Americans and other neutral foreign nationals. Shooting first and asking questions later may or may not have furthered Germany's war aims - that couldn't be foreseen. It was however 100% guaranteed to be mass murder and a PR disaster for a country already widely accused of war crimes. I still find it unfathomable why Schwieger didn't signal the Lusitania to stop and abandon ship before proceeding to sink her. Of all the vessels it should have been common sense not to destroy without allowing innocent lives to escape - she was surely the one!
There is the same rumor for MS Estonia, that's why they wanted to seal it with concrete, and there is even a law, who forbids to go dive near the ship. They even managed to dump a lot of ballast in the sea, just to cover the big 4m hole made potentially by a submarin, spying the MS Estonia.
@GunslingerXXI Thanks for your well reasoned points, even if I disagree with some of them. If blockades were supposed to be illegal, then what do you think the Germans were trying to do to Britain with submarine warfare if not to starve the nation out? It was well known to Germany that Britain couldn't feed itself so was dependent on food imports. Restricting the enemies' access to resources is one of the fundamental aspects of warfare. Blaming the disintegration of Cruiser Rules on the British is a bit much. Both sides still tended to obey the rules with surface vessels. Arming merchant ships isn't against those rules either. Submarine warfare by its very nature was what obsoleted cruiser rules (not that any side had quite figured that out). Unlike a traditional commerce raider which could shrug off or outrun any belligerent action by a merchant ship, submarines were extremely vulnerable even to basic naval weapons. This meant those worthless little guns on merchant shipping that would barely scratch an armoured cruiser's paintwork were suddenly vital defences. The British were hardly alone in that realisation either. Germany also created armed merchant ships for the purpose of fending off raiders or doing some raiding. (there was even a weird incident where two fought with each other. Look up the SMS Cap Trafalgar for a very weird naval battle). One area I do absolutely agree with you is that something bad was bound to happen as a result of this messy new system of warfare. I'm not saying Schwieger had to stick to cruiser rules all the time, if ever (as stated, if you have a U-boat then it's foolish to do so). He could silently hunt cargo shipping until his heart was content. That's just the ruthless cost of war. What I am saying is that the Lusitania was an ultra high-profile vessel bound to have innocent civilians from neutral nations onboard. Even if we sanction those civilian murders, it's still a REALLY dumb target to choose. The PR fallout was so bad that here we are STILL debating it a century later! The legitimacy of the target isn't the point I'd debate, as before stated - it was a target, and the British were undoubtedly walking a morally dubious line with placing war cargoes onboard liners. But the U-20's decision to fire flung morality out the window and would mean a diplomatic disaster for Germany. Hell, had U-20 just let it sail by, the US may never have joined the war. Without Lusitania's sinking beginning a 2 year build up of ever increasing anti-German sentiment, the situation for the US may never have become so intolerable as to make them take up arms. One historian I've read goes so far as to label the Lusitania as the event that ended any chance Germany had of victory. I don't go that far myself. I think Germany did plenty more to provoke the US, but the negative impact was undeniable. It was compounded further by Germany's own response to the sinking which was to essentially thumb it up as a success even as neutral nations published horrified headlines around the globe. As I said previously. Of all the ships in U-20's cross-hairs, The Lusitania was the one to play it by the book and warn before sinking. That done, Lusitania would still be on the Ocean floor, and nobody would be having debates over the morality of it being there. But Schwieger fired. Knowingly sinking a cruise liner full of non-combatants. Unknowingly kneecapping Germany's war objectives.
@@CountScarlioni the sinking of the Lusitania did not bring the amaricans into the first world war. They joined 2 years after the Lusitania sank. The amaricans would have still joined the war as the germans sent a telegram to Mexico inviting them to invade amarica.
The secret wasn't that Lusitania had munitions on board, that wasn't hidden, just not publicized. The scandalous secret was that the Admiralty knew the U-20 was in the immediate area and did not warn Lusitania and did not provide naval escort even though there were numerous Royal Navy warships close enough to do so standing idle. The British WANTED Lusitania to be attacked in hope of drawing the United States into the war. She was BAIT. The British government killed all those people.
the end sequence must be inaccurate, the stern could not have been at such a sharp angle. The ship was 787' long, it sank in 300' of water. All accounts I have read described a shudder as the bow hit bottom
same with the HMHS Britannic she was 883 feet long and sank in 400 feet of water and one a bit more modern the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was 729 feet long and sank in 530 feet of water
Titanic: plenty of time not enough lifeboats Lusitania: plenty of life boats not enough time Fact: they lost control to the Engine room so they couldn’t stop the ship so what they did was launched the life boats while it was still moving Edit: thanks for the 100 likes!
Nice job! Some years ago my brother was walking to work in South Boston in the early morning hours. It was trash pickup day in the city when he came upon a trash barrel that had what appeared to be a very old photo album. He scooped it up & continued on to a diner where he picked up his morning tea. The album belonged to a family from the nearby community of Hyde Park. The earliest photos dated from 1909 to about 1920. The family must have been well-to-do as they traveled all around the world. Many images are from the decks of White Star as well as Cunard Line liners. I looked up some of the liners depicted on the internet and discovered at least two were victims of U-boat torpedoes during World War I.
I remember a story about a newlywed couple that were scheduled to sail on the Lusitania that day. They ended up missing the ship due to an issue with their wedding rings. Years later, they lost their lives in the Hindenburg disaster. True story. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Loved that show.
The shells were more forward of where the torpedo struck, it struck the boiler room and not the cargo holds which already completely debunks the whole thing
This gives an ugly impression of the feelings when being a victim of such a ship accident. You get no boat, can maybe jump into the cold water, where you then may get slayed by the overturning funnels... I'm so sorry for the people that died. My thoughts are with the victims.
This was a very interesting video. The only comment I would like to make is about the depiction of the final moments before the stern went under. Lusitania sank in a depth of about 310 feet. The bow hit the seafloor early on, and the ship shuttered. Since the bow as already on the seafloor, the stern settled more on a horizontal angle, than plunge as shown in the vid. The ship was 787 feet long, so it not difficult imagine how a ship this length would settle bow-first at a relatively shallow depth. she sank as quickly as she did, mostly likely because coal dust in one of her bunkers ignited and exploded, blowing out a large chunk of keel in the second explosion. This has never been proven conclusively, because a huge underwater junk pile is settled mostly on what used to be a starboard side. But Dr. Ballard, when surveying the wreck, found a long trail of coal nuggets astern of the wreck site. So the theory seems the most plausible.
Updated Comment based on "On a sea of Glass" Sinking on Titanic's end. 8:15 - Looks like Titanic flooding as if it was 2:16AM (when Titanic was plunging further and further very fast) 14:05 - Titanic was already at a 15 degree angle with water at 2nd funnel during the sinking. 15:45 - Lusitania only has like 2 minutes left while Titanic still had 20 minutes left (although Titanic was listed to port instead) at that position. Titanic broke in two during Titanic's own sinking though at that point. 19:19 is reference mark when both ships have gone down if it was at same time. (I think Titanic took just a little bit over 2 hrs and 40 minutes to sink)
@@pho3nix- Basically, yes. They both had the same number of funnels and similar design style. But overall, technically and virtually, completely different breeds of ocean liners.
This is so well done. Not so many things like this on the Lusitania, or the Andrea Doria. 18 minutes, must have been absolutely horrific. The black smokestacks make it all the more ominous. I used to work for an auction house, and we sold a tiara, in 2015, that belonged to Lady Allan, who was onboard with her daughters. Was a very weird feeling to hold it….
On the docks in Liverpool where I live is one of the propellers from this ship. I place my hand on it everytime I pass there to remember the poor souls who died. I am literally touching history.
I absolutely appreciate the hard work you have put into this historical event. During the animation I wish there were some way of knowing what is actually happening at that moment. You do put in some critical notes but it would be very interesting to know more. Even a voice narration. Beautifully done!
I'm reading Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. An incredibly detailed account of the Lusitania's last crossing. He uses survivor's accounts to reconstruct the entire voyage, and in particular the last 18 minutes. It is quite haunting to read. This animation is a nice account of the ship listing and sinking, but recreating the horror and frantic disbelief on the decks would certainly make for difficult viewing. Check out the book. It is well written.
after the Lusitania sank pieces of it drifted towards land, my great grandparents were able to get a beam and a little basket carried by a passenger. My great grandfather turned the beam into a little piggybank and kept the basket, through the years I have ended up with the pieces
I'm reading Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. An incredibly detailed account of the Lusitania's last crossing. He uses survivor's accounts and information of numerous sources (Cunard Ship Lines, Britain's Admiralty headed by W. Churchill) to reconstruct the entire voyage, and in particular the last 18 minutes. It is quite haunting to read. This animation is a nice account of the ship listing and sinking, but recreating the horror and frantic disbelief on the decks would certainly make for difficult viewing. Check out the book. It is well written.
Nice work there. I do think that even a WW1 torpedo would make a larger explosion though I do not know where you might obtain a clear record of this. Keep up the good work.
Idk why but this one made me really sad. I've watched hundreds of these including ones with added in effects and such but this one just got me. Its so sad to think how many people died a slow painful death.
The subsequent coal dust explosion blew out the bottom of her bow. When the electrical panels went, the elevators stopped, many passengers trapped between decks in total darkness. The elevators were the only way out of the fore baggage rooms and engineering spaces. Those people were without any way of getting out of those areas as the ship flooded. Also, "Lusitania" lays in 300 feet of water, so with her forward momentum, the bow of the ship literally plowed the sea floor, coming to a halt with the stern still above the water. At that point, the ships rear half slide sideways and forward into the sea. It was a cruel and terribly swift death. Fishermen at Old Head of Kinsale were only able to move at the speed of sail to rescue survivors inthe water, and some chilled in lifebelts for three hours before they were picked up. Most of those who made it off were dead by then.
Two summers ago I was in Ierland with my parents and we visited the lusitania memorial and museum and it was a great experience but also sad for the people who lost their loved ones there on sea 😢 Rip to all the souls lost in the sinking of the lusitania and also 18 flipping minutes!!! How is that possible!?!?!?!
Toon Van den broeck, the reason it sank so fast were... 1. The watertight doors weren’t closed. 2. The Torpedo that sank the ship, hit an area with high amounts of gunpowder in it causing a second explosion. 3. Passengers were all going to the lifeboats which caused uneven weight of both sides of the ship. 4. Most of the port holes were left open.
16:32 (video time) - "Captain Turner is washed away from the port bridge wing". Lusitania was listing to starboard, not port, and the port bridge wing is shown to be well above the water at that point. Facing the bow, port is on your left.
If you see this comment, maybe the sultana would interest you? Its not a ocean liner but about 1800 people died, it was a civil war ferry carrying soldiers back home when 3 of the 4 boilers exploded. Killing hundreds from that alone, then, the boat was now a flaming wreck floating amiss. Either u burned on deck or jumped in the below freezing river
The one thing I have not seen in the Lusitania real time videos is when the 790 foot ship nosed down it came to a sudden stop with a shudder. The nose had hit the ocean bottom which was 300 feet below. This was based on eye witness accounts and makes sense. The ship pivoted and slowly laid down under the water on it's side.
I met a Titanic survivor (Winifred Troutt - 2nd. Class) and we had a marvelous time together, a lovely lady. Talk about absolute ecstasy and horror happening all in the space of one week. Life-changing indeed combined with variable memories both good and bad.
The Only "Troutt" i can find is actualy called "Miss Edwina Celia TROUTT", 2nd Class passenger. Also Hate the dark lie's man the last survivor that died from Titanic died on 31 May 2009 (aged 97) her name was "Eliza Gladys Millvina Dean" So unless u went back in time a few years then ok. I'm not a idiot im a historian on Titanic & i know when people lie or make crap up, but if u ever want to be right bout the Disaster then go to "Titanica.com" It actualy tells u correct infomation, instead of using what i call an imagination.
@@roydyncassidy4370 You are right!!! Your NOT an idiot. I got her name wrong, she was known by her nickname Winnie and since I met her in 1976 and I am now 73 I guess the old brain box is a tad rusty. I met her through the Nautical Renderer Ken Marschall who I don't even know if he is alive anymore. Time passes, memories fade.
My father remembered being shewn the newspaper headlines for the 1912 sinking of that other liner and then after the Great War he spoke to the lighthouse keeper who was on watch at the Old Head of Kinsale when the Lusitania went down.
That's a theory which, to my knowledge, has never been confirmed. Much more likely, it was a coal dust explosion. Nearly-empty bunkers, after a transatlantic crossing, would be full of dust - essentially a huge fuel-air bomb. All it would have needed was a source of ignition.
Torpedo fire! 1:08 torpedo, strike 1:10 2 unknown explosions rocks, the ship 1:25 lusitania starboard 10 degree angle 1:42 distress rocket is launched 1:54 SOS comes at once big list.! 2:00 lusitania now has a 15 degree angle 2:07 SOS, SOS,SOS 2:25 sinking really fast unbelievable 2:40 you can just see sky 3:16 bridge 3:22 captain, Turner orders stream to be vented 3:27 boat deck 3:45 the stream begins venting, gives off a loud hiss 3:48 funnels 4:13 stream has been released 4:21 bow 4:36 Lusitania’s electricity have failed 5:10 propellers 5:39 Lusitania cruise is preparing lifeboats 5:50 propellers again 6:00 third class is starting to flood 6:57 third class is flooded 7:30 passages woke up. 7:38 E deck is floating 8:00 E deck is flooded 8:19 F deck is floating 8:27 F deck is flooded 8:409:00 3 decks of d deck they are starting to flood 9:22 D deck is floating 9:34 D deck is flooded 10:02 c deck is floating 10:23 C deck is almost flooded 10:45 C deck is flooded 11:09 cool begins lowering life boats 11:21 all of the Lusitania is passengers 48 lifebelts only six lifeboats has safely launched 12:30 Lusitania has list a lot 13:04 boat 17 was launched, but capsize by two men 13:14 the water is up to Lusitania’s name plate 13:25 the bow is floating 14:07 you can see that Lusitania’s list is a lot 14:19 lifebelt one is launched before it went under 14:33 lusitania has a 25 degree angle 15:40 the bridge is floating 16:00 propellers 16:06 Lusitania sink’s really fast by then 16:20 captain Turner is washed away 16:35 the bridge is under 16:43 the bridge is completely submerged 16:56 final plunge 17:08 second and first final collapse 17:18 the water is up to half 17:30 the grand staircase is completely submerged 17:40 third funnel collapse 17:50 the list it 30° 18:11 final funnel, crabs 18:21 the beck is floating 19:02 the Lusitania has sunk 19:15 just 18 minutes 19:26
I can't imagine the shouts and screams of fear of the people trapped with no chance of escape, and the scenes of sheer panic on the boat deck as they were desperately trying to escape.
I'm here by my history lesson, we learned that in the First World War this ship drowned by the german attackers thinking there were weapons inside..this affected SHBA involving in the war some time later..Rest in peace everyone that died, this is really sad.🥺
And did your teachers show you the US newspapers were the german embassy warned travellers to go to europe ( On the same page above is the article about Lusitania going to Europe.) Did they tell you about the Q-Ships ? Or why the Lusitania had to go south of Ireland instead going north ( to sink a ship with americans is a clever way to get the US into the war).And did they tell you about the mystery of the exploding 37 tons white cheese ?
Sadly, the rapid loss of the Lusitania was probably due to the secondary explosion of the war materials carried aboard the vessel. The presence of this material was not disclosed to passengers, though the Wilson Administration was apparently aware and suppressed the information. Woodrow Wilson was an Anglophile who favored entering the war on the U.K.'s side despite the desire of many Americans to stay out of a war between European imperialists. But the sinking of the Lusitania served Wilson's purposes, and telling the truth about what happened did not serve said purposes.
Two loud bangs wake you up. Ship's crooked. You don't know what's going on. Then loud whistling noise prevents you from talking to anyone. Suddenly, everything goes dark. And then, as you'fe feeling your way through the darkness for a way out, you realise you're stepping on water. What a way to die.
Why can't school teach us more about ships sinking and videos about them? It's so much more interesting, honestly. I spent 2 weeks talking about the Titanic in 4th grade cause it was so interesting to me.
Wasn't there already a real time sinking video of this ship? Anyway, it's really sad Lusitania went down SO fast compared to Titanic and even Brittanic. Although I like the other video more and think it's more accurate, I do like how this one is more detailed!
LITTLE Unfortunately, the Lusitania was a passenger ship, so she wasn’t really built with the idea that someone would try to blow her up with mines, torpedos, or bombs dropped from planes like actual warships are.
@@michaelmurray11189 The Britannic wasn't built with being a warship in mind it was build to be an ocean liner but was changed very quickly to be a hospital ship by just putting beds and medical supplies in it...
@@michaelmurray11189 As part of the government contract they had to be built for military use, this is what I found: " Per Admiralty stipulations, all machinery for the two new ships would be below the waterline, where conventional wisdom dictated that they would be safe from gunfire. Engines were placed in the rear of the ship, boilers were placed amidships, and space for the cargo, which could be converted to a magazine if needed, was in the front " " Longitudinal bulkheads were also thought to better protect machinery from shelling by enemy ships, but as history would later prove, would not be sufficient to protect against torpedo attack. "
There were three German spies on board the Lusitania, they tried to sneak in with some camera equipment, but Staff Captain James Anderson caught them and had them detained, its possible they went down with Lusitania, but their deaths wasn't recorded since they were not on the passebger manifest
You are the first I see to include humans in the animation. Makes it loook much more relateabele than just watching a ghost ship sink. Maybe you can expand on that :)
I'm impressed that you got one detail that most miss, that the props never stopped turning until she went under.
You think the props were still turning once she completely went under?
@@instapizzabmx4206 That's what witnesses reported, that when the props came out of the water, they were still "lazily turning."
New Carpathia That be a sight to see
@@newcarpathia9422 wow... I never knew that. If the props were still turning while she was going down, would there be like a situation like in Britannic were people got chopped up by the props?
@@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen I'd have to check my book, wherever that is, but I don't think there's a definitive indication of speed. From the sound of things, it was too slow to suck boats in and chop them up. To hazard a guess, I'd say it was just an expression of the last bits of steam going through the turbines before the engine rooms flooded.
My great grandmothers father died on the Lusitania. Her ashes were released into the ocean, so she once again could reunite with her father. She died in 2018.
Woah I'm doing the math. Your great grandmother was over 100 years old.
What
They said Great Grandmother's father.
My Great Grand mother’s Friend Died on Lusitania
Bless them
Just remember a group of cooks or butcher's on board, decided to all pile into the meat elevator right before the ship lost power. And they all got stuck in the elevator shaft as the ship went down. Horrible way to die.
Lol
I guess you could say that. I mean the first class passengers probably did say, the sausages were...to die for.
Grand Master Yoda blood sausages...
....Marian Moesinger no apostrophe needed on word ..butcher...one would read who belongs to the butcher.?
@@jinajoejet3366 Whats so funny clown
Titanic:we have a lot of time but not a lot of lifeboats
Lusatania:We have enough lifeboats but not enough time
Lusitania only had enough lifeboats cause Titanic proved that their reliance on the Telegraph and heavily trafficked shipping routes could fail. Before Titanic no ship of the time carried enough lifeboats for everyone onboard.
@Andy Wehrle
I agree and they could save much more life if they filled the boats to its capacity. At least 500 souls. The crew had no training and was practically useless. Even if they had +2 hours and 20 more lifeboats they would still manage to kill more than half of the passengers.
I think they need to add more bulkheads aka water tight doors into big ships............. RIP
1 hour 40 minutes is not a lot of time
Mary Rose: we have no lifeboats, no time, and there is netting covering the entire ship to prevent boarders. XD
I can only imagine all the panic and what a horrible feeling that was.
I don’t think you can imagine all the horrible feelings for the people on the Titanic
PlushyMario64 Yeah, this video isn’t about the Titanic though so
But we All know titanic was worse than this,,,.sadly
There was no panic during most of the Lusitania’s sinking until the lifeboat situation
@@kevinbone5902 Titanic had survivors sooooo
My great great great uncle died on the lusitania
RIP Arthur Foley 1864-1915
an mlg slug productions my condolences.
May he Rest In Peace ❤️
Condolence😭🙏
I just reseacrhed your grandfather and he was a second class passenger
I’m sorry
The sound of iron and steel bending and breaking is so eerie
yea sounds like the eerie movie from the PHILIPPINES
Chilling to me
it probably means it could split any time
People think 18 minutes is a long time for a ship to go under, but in reality that's so fast. You have almost no time to think or react.
R.I.P to those who lost their lives
BrazerFolf Games titanic is what you call a slow sinking ship, she sank in 2 hours and 45 minutes i think
So darn true.
And oceanos sank in 11 hours
Titanic took just over two hours to sink in an act of God. Absolutely right you are, especially with a ship this size.
@Britannic Titanic Olympic RMS RMS HMHS no atleast 1,100 but max 1,200
7:47 is why I always have a small flashlight in my pocket on a cruise ship at all times. Modern cruise ships can still lose all electrical power. Especially in an emergency.
Carnival Triumph
Boeing 7:47
Nowadays people have great flashlights on their phones. People back then didnt have phones
@@jesper9622 True. I'm old school so I just carry a flashlight. Nothing huge. Flashlight is easier to handle as well in a stressful situation. You can hold a flashlight in your mouth if you need both hands. Can't do that with a phone. ;)
@@zombieshoot4318 Mm, but is your flashlight waterproof? :p
If i was in a sinking ship and i didnt have diving googles with me and a waterproof flashlight, i would feel pretty much fucked. To not be able to see under water is bad.
Dying on a sinking ship has gotta be up there with burning alive. Imagine being there to witness any one of these famous sinkings, sends shivers down my spine.
@Bread Sandwich you would not.
@Bread Sandwich Dona Paz would like to know your location
@Bread Sandwich hell no
Gas chamber.. being impaled on stake, having your skin peeled off 1 cm at the time.. etc.. there are options if you are into all that morbid shit...
@Bread Sandwich You really wouldn't. Burning to death is one of the most (if not THE most) physically excruciating things you could possibly experience.
Great animation! Thank you for not layering music over it so we could hear her metallic wailing. Fine tribute to the queen and her service, and all the lives lost. War is ugly.
Yes it is
Susan, yes, war is indeed very horrible.
*king
@@miracbeyza1253 no queen
War is great!
Okay this has to be one of the most terrifying things I've ever watched.
Watch Titanic sink in real time....
@@philipanderson4673 ahahhaahahahaa! Watch Britannic sink IRT and watch the boats get chewed up by propellers!
Yeah, it's only an animation with no animation people and it had me pretty scared. The creeping water, I think.
When I was a kid I first read Lord's "A Night To Remember" about Titanic, and there was plenty of anecdotal detail from the survivors' accounts as the ship went down in a relatively slow and sedate manner. Then I read Hoehling's "The Last Voyage of the Lusitania", and I was struck by how there was little in the way of great gestures compared with Titanic...it was a case of sheer panic as people rushed to find any way to get away from a ship that was visibly sinking right from under them in a matter of minutes, not hours.
The more recent MS Estonia is very much the same, people were panicking and in shock, not being able to move, since it happened so fast.
@@pho3nix- Made worse by the fact that it happened at night in really bad weather.
Another great Lusitania book to read is "dead Wake" by Erik Larson
@@maximilianeissner4759 The weather was horrible that night. But it certainly didn't help, either.
We need a trilogy called a ???? To remember.
Titanic - 2h 40m to sink
Lusitania - 18m to sink
That time difference is astronomical.
I know but titanic hit an iceberg and it could sunk fast titanic but it didn’t leave a lot of holes
And this was a torpedo so it left a big hile
Lusitania and Mauretania had something of a design flaw, and the way their watertight compartments were laid out was different to Titanic's. In short, Lusitania / Mauretania's layout made severe listing to one side much more probable, which is exactly what happened. They were very lucky Lusitania didn't capsize. Titanic's design was more balanced and so rapid flooding was less likely. Having said that, Lusitania had much more catastrophic damage - and the second mysterious explosion didn't help.
@@zeddeka well the bulkhead layout on Lusitania was designed to prevent a iceberg collision like Titanic
2h 22m
The creaking sound is just so terrifying
Not for me
@ina daly so?
Cave sounds joined the chat
@@someguywithhair6439 subnautica sounds have joined the chat
I know right
Just as a little note (someone else may have mentioned it already in the comments): the ship was running only three of her engine rooms to save on fuel; that means only three of her funnels would have been putting out smoke rather than four as shown in this animation. A small point, but in fact, it partly explains the limited speed she was running at (approx 18 nautical miles per hr) rather than her full potential. If at full speed through the war zone, she may have made a less tempting target for her killer.
I read where the reasons for shutting down the forward most boiler room was the lack of available stokers due to the war. Her speed was still adequate enough to outrun a U Boat but she had slowed to go around the Old Head of Kinsale when she was torpedoed. The torpedo ignited coal dust in the empty forward bunkers blowing out the bottom of the ship just ahead of the bridge. Many folks thought the coal dust exploding was a second torpedo.
@@allegheny48 The problems with getting enough personnel was mostly centered around experienced deck hands and able bodied seamen who knew how to do all the things necessary to help with the day to day functioning of the ship. So, Cunard simply hired inexperienced deck hands (and I am sure the same held for the black crew - the stokers). Regarding the second explosion, you can ditch the idea of coal dust igniting. It was too long after the torpedo strike to be coal dust, and the environment of the wing coal bunkers in the North Atlantic weren’t conducive to coal dust being particulate air matter. Why? Because first of all, coal dust is rather heavy and sticky. It likes to cling to stuff and isn’t especially easy to get into a cloud-like state. Does this rule out all coal dust explosions? No, but onboard that ship (or most any ship, for that matter) sailing through the cold waters fo the Irish Sea, there was something interesting going on. The difference between the temperature in the water outside the hull and the temp inside the wing bunkers (and especially the boiler rooms adjacent to the wing bunkers) was vastly different, by close to fifty degrees (about 50 or 51 degrees Fahrenheit water and around 100 or more inside the boiler rooms). The temperature difference cause lots and lots of condensation in the wing bunkers as a result, with the bulkheads dripping - even streaming - water. Add to that the typical minor leaking in a iron plate ship (lots of puddles in the bunkers as a result) and you have an environment where coal dust won’t make it into cloud form, will cling to every surface, and will act more like sludge than dust. See Diana Preston’s “Lusitania - An Epic Tragedy” to learn more, specifically in appendix B, where she writes “Even if we ignore the almost instantaneous spray of seawater that accompanied the rapid flooding of the bunkers after the torpedo detonated, the coal dust would almost certainly not have ignited. The dampness of the compartments would have prevented the dust from being shaken uniformly into the air to create an explosive aerosol.” The best explanation for the second explosion several seconds after the torpedo strike was a ruptured steam line. See the same appendix in her book for an explanation of it and how it likely took place.
Are you possibly ignoring the ship's change of course INTO the range of the U-Boat's torpedoes?
Murder on The High Sea yet they claim they were only following orders ... what makes men so low?
@@alphalunamare the Lusitania did have 4 million rounds of artillery shells on board so the real monsters are the ones who lied to the passengers who said it was just a passenger liner
Only being able to hear the calm waves and the creaking of the ship as she goes down is so eerie
The sheer terror people must have felt knowing there was no way out once they were trapped inside is the most bone chilling thought about all of this.
The sounds of a dying Ship give the video a feeling of being there. Scary.
It's pretty amazing to think a ship that size could sink in 18 mins. 🤯
@Phil Failla Amazing isn't it, even with all his ineptitude he still accomplished his goal.
This is some nightmare level horror story stuff when you get down to it.
Trapped below deck in the darkness as water floods the whole place.
Deepest respect to the crew that reacted quickly enough to get even one lifeboat lowered in such a short amount of time. That's incredible.
He remarried of course and inherited his millions. But the crash of 29 hit his interest heart and he put a pistol in his mouth that year, or so I read.
..Oops wrong ship.
good god........
Cal. What a jerk
He didn’t “remarry”
@Frederick Kellett
Titanic
Cal was a jerk
The moral of the story: If you're going to ride a British ocean liner make damn sure your insurance is paid up...
And don't fill the holds with arms and ammunition during a world war.
Better yet, take a bus.
I’d ride the Olympic
That ship is truly a Legend
Nova Typhoon She is !!
With insurance if the ship sinks you are covered
That would be terrifying, having the water rise that fast and not be able to find your way out.
Yeah. That is also what happened with the Empress of Ireland in May 1914. She was hit by another ship while travelling through heavy fog and she went down in just 14 minutes. Most of her dead never had a chance to get out of their cabins. (The sinking of the Empress of Ireland happened in the early morning hours when most people were asleep in their cabins)
I know right...
And having the lights go out on you so fast that just as the movie shows.
This is a great way to commemorate Lusitania's 105th Anniversary.
I Have A Titanic Profile Picture. Imo a real time sinking video is very appropriate for the anniversary of the sinking of a ship
I Have A Titanic Profile Picture. I have seen you on spammals his channel
@I Have A Titanic Profile Picture. Yes you do
Yeah by making it sink again lol
today.... 106th.
Props the the cameraman for getting all this and escaping unscathed to bring us the footage
Crossing the Atlantic in a ship at that time in the world... Only if absolutely necessary and I don't need a cabin. I'll just sleep in a life boat TY.
I woundint sleep on a life boat if your a heavy sleeper and then ropes holding the boat snap your gona end up in the ocean and probably get sucked it two the moving props
@@Grape-Juice Yeah. Ropes snapping sounds like something that never happens. Considering they are inspected in every port.
On the other hand the Germans sank 5000 ships during WWI. I'll take my chances with the rope.
@@dflatt1783 lifeboats failing is very common actually. in ww2 it was just as common as it was in ww1. even with the more recent modern day cruise ship sinking of the costa concordia, some lifeboats were slipping due to the ships listing.
@@dflatt1783: 5000?
I don't think they allow you to do that..
Nice job on the animation, unlike most people, you don’t put hard metal music over a tragic disaster. Amazing.
Yeah I love metal but this type of video isn't the place for it. I want to HEAR the ship sink as well as see it
Ikr, like the famous britannic sleeping sun edit some idiot made
@@tripwire3992 honestly, i think sleeping sun is fitting for a sinking ship. I dunno why, but especially the refrain sorta fits the horrifying yet majestic aesthetic of sinking ships
The music as the captions read "Lusitania is gone in just 18 minutes" captures the tragedy so perfectly, disbelief and grief
i was really amazed at how lusitanias propellers managed to still turn for the entire sinking. No power, boilers are flooded, funnels are collapsing, and yet those turbine engines even though they were flooding at the time she went under they still ran. just shows the true power of the turbine engine.
This sinking isn't very accurate. The propellers didn't remain on the entire time, the funnels didn't collapse, and it listed much more to the starboard side.
I made that comment 2 years ago@@redneck_dan
@@RobloxianX ah.
This was NOT a labour of love to create. This was a labour of sadness & historical value to create.
The only thing missing was the sound on the screams and crying that was most likely heard by the survivors.
Thank you for not adding it. There is a point when recreating a moment in history that it becomes too real.
There was also fire and explosions on board, everyone is forgetting two explosive torpedoes struck and exploded inside a very combustible ship, below the water line, in the engine and coal compartments. The smoke, fire, twisted steel and carnage in the ship with loss of power and lights within a few minutes would have been horrific. Probably most of the survivors were on the upper decks.
It's so sad that the innocents were used and lost during war. After much debate and denial, it was finally revealed that the ship was carrying war cargo and thus was a legitimate target. Not the first time that's happened, sadly.
True, the cargo of small arms ammunition was a war cargo (but pretty small-time stuff compared to what would be on actual cargo ships). It wasn't even a secret, being listed on the US customs documentation. Various conspiracy theories (most of which were probably started by Germany) suggested Lusitania was carrying explosives but there remains zero evidence of that, even after diving expeditions.
But even if Lusitania had not had a war cargo onboard, U-20 would STILL have sunk it regardless which makes the cargo argument seem very hollow. Schwieger decided it was a target upon seeing the vessel. It could have been the German High Command onboard for all the difference it would have made to his decision.
However, it was a safe assumption that given it was a huge passenger liner, it was bound to be full of women and children - many of whom were going to be Americans and other neutral foreign nationals. Shooting first and asking questions later may or may not have furthered Germany's war aims - that couldn't be foreseen. It was however 100% guaranteed to be mass murder and a PR disaster for a country already widely accused of war crimes.
I still find it unfathomable why Schwieger didn't signal the Lusitania to stop and abandon ship before proceeding to sink her. Of all the vessels it should have been common sense not to destroy without allowing innocent lives to escape - she was surely the one!
There is the same rumor for MS Estonia, that's why they wanted to seal it with concrete, and there is even a law, who forbids to go dive near the ship. They even managed to dump a lot of ballast in the sea, just to cover the big 4m hole made potentially by a submarin, spying the MS Estonia.
@GunslingerXXI Thanks for your well reasoned points, even if I disagree with some of them.
If blockades were supposed to be illegal, then what do you think the Germans were trying to do to Britain with submarine warfare if not to starve the nation out? It was well known to Germany that Britain couldn't feed itself so was dependent on food imports. Restricting the enemies' access to resources is one of the fundamental aspects of warfare.
Blaming the disintegration of Cruiser Rules on the British is a bit much. Both sides still tended to obey the rules with surface vessels. Arming merchant ships isn't against those rules either.
Submarine warfare by its very nature was what obsoleted cruiser rules (not that any side had quite figured that out). Unlike a traditional commerce raider which could shrug off or outrun any belligerent action by a merchant ship, submarines were extremely vulnerable even to basic naval weapons. This meant those worthless little guns on merchant shipping that would barely scratch an armoured cruiser's paintwork were suddenly vital defences.
The British were hardly alone in that realisation either. Germany also created armed merchant ships for the purpose of fending off raiders or doing some raiding. (there was even a weird incident where two fought with each other. Look up the SMS Cap Trafalgar for a very weird naval battle).
One area I do absolutely agree with you is that something bad was bound to happen as a result of this messy new system of warfare.
I'm not saying Schwieger had to stick to cruiser rules all the time, if ever (as stated, if you have a U-boat then it's foolish to do so). He could silently hunt cargo shipping until his heart was content. That's just the ruthless cost of war.
What I am saying is that the Lusitania was an ultra high-profile vessel bound to have innocent civilians from neutral nations onboard. Even if we sanction those civilian murders, it's still a REALLY dumb target to choose.
The PR fallout was so bad that here we are STILL debating it a century later!
The legitimacy of the target isn't the point I'd debate, as before stated - it was a target, and the British were undoubtedly walking a morally dubious line with placing war cargoes onboard liners.
But the U-20's decision to fire flung morality out the window and would mean a diplomatic disaster for Germany.
Hell, had U-20 just let it sail by, the US may never have joined the war. Without Lusitania's sinking beginning a 2 year build up of ever increasing anti-German sentiment, the situation for the US may never have become so intolerable as to make them take up arms. One historian I've read goes so far as to label the Lusitania as the event that ended any chance Germany had of victory. I don't go that far myself. I think Germany did plenty more to provoke the US, but the negative impact was undeniable.
It was compounded further by Germany's own response to the sinking which was to essentially thumb it up as a success even as neutral nations published horrified headlines around the globe.
As I said previously. Of all the ships in U-20's cross-hairs, The Lusitania was the one to play it by the book and warn before sinking. That done, Lusitania would still be on the Ocean floor, and nobody would be having debates over the morality of it being there.
But Schwieger fired. Knowingly sinking a cruise liner full of non-combatants. Unknowingly kneecapping Germany's war objectives.
@@CountScarlioni the sinking of the Lusitania did not bring the amaricans into the first world war. They joined 2 years after the Lusitania sank. The amaricans would have still joined the war as the germans sent a telegram to Mexico inviting them to invade amarica.
The secret wasn't that Lusitania had munitions on board, that wasn't hidden, just not publicized. The scandalous secret was that the Admiralty knew the U-20 was in the immediate area and did not warn Lusitania and did not provide naval escort even though there were numerous Royal Navy warships close enough to do so standing idle. The British WANTED Lusitania to be attacked in hope of drawing the United States into the war. She was BAIT. The British government killed all those people.
the end sequence must be inaccurate, the stern could not have been at such a sharp angle. The ship was 787' long, it sank in 300' of water. All accounts I have read described a shudder as the bow hit bottom
same with the HMHS Britannic she was 883 feet long and sank in 400 feet of water and one a bit more modern the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was 729 feet long and sank in 530 feet of water
Titanic: plenty of time not enough lifeboats
Lusitania: plenty of life boats not enough time
Fact: they lost control to the Engine room so they couldn’t stop the ship so what they did was launched the life boats while it was still moving
Edit: thanks for the 100 likes!
And it was a bad idea
Captain smith for whatever reason said not to fill the lifeboat to full capacity
Serious question.. how would the ship be moving if they vented all the steam?
Dadul Ludad She would have been moving under her own momentum from the moment she lost engine power.
A 700 ft long liner like Lusitania takes time to stop time that passengers and crew just didn't have
Imagine being in the elevators when the electricity went out.
Don’t try to cheer me up.
R.I.P
Wait what
@@MothaLuva r/HolUp
“F**K F**K AAAAAAAAAAAA”
Man, the sound of metal groaning sure is unsettling...
So, this is also telling me that if Titanic had sunk faster, barely or even NOBODY would've survived.
Yes
Yep
Especially at night
Pretty much
The mummy on the ship put a timing for the sinking ship. They carried their damn remainings, people who never knew about the mummy survived.
Nice job! Some years ago my brother was walking to work in South Boston in the early morning hours. It was trash pickup day in the city when he came upon a trash barrel that had what appeared to be a very old photo album. He scooped it up & continued on to a diner where he picked up his morning tea. The album belonged to a family from the nearby community of Hyde Park. The earliest photos dated from 1909 to about 1920. The family must have been well-to-do as they traveled all around the world. Many images are from the decks of White Star as well as Cunard Line liners. I looked up some of the liners depicted on the internet and discovered at least two were victims of U-boat torpedoes during World War I.
I have two pieces of coal that were recovered during a dive on the wreck in the 80's in my collection
Wow...
Lucky
No you don't
@Ralph Dougherty, he could be lying but who knows? Maybe he is telling the truth.
Wooah
I remember a story about a newlywed couple that were scheduled to sail on the Lusitania that day. They ended up missing the ship due to an issue with their wedding rings. Years later, they lost their lives in the Hindenburg disaster. True story. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Loved that show.
But was the Hindenburg a Nazi?
So they still ended up going down with the ship.
It's on Amazon prime video. I love that show too !
With the watertight doors still open do to the power outage that is the reason why Lusitania sank very fast .
The shells were more forward of where the torpedo struck, it struck the boiler room and not the cargo holds which already completely debunks the whole thing
That constant creaking sound is eerie but adds to the intensity and realism
This gives an ugly impression of the feelings when being a victim of such a ship accident. You get no boat, can maybe jump into the cold water, where you then may get slayed by the overturning funnels...
I'm so sorry for the people that died. My thoughts are with the victims.
Cold water, where did this happen
The water wasnt cold, it was more warm than cold.
Im pretty sure no funnels collapsed, and she didn't list hard enough for people to be crushed by her funnel.
This was a very interesting video. The only comment I would like to make is about the depiction of the final moments before the stern went under. Lusitania sank in a depth of about 310 feet. The bow hit the seafloor early on, and the ship shuttered. Since the bow as already on the seafloor, the stern settled more on a horizontal angle, than plunge as shown in the vid. The ship was 787 feet long, so it not difficult imagine how a ship this length would settle bow-first at a relatively shallow depth. she sank as quickly as she did, mostly likely because coal dust in one of her bunkers ignited and exploded, blowing out a large chunk of keel in the second explosion. This has never been proven conclusively, because a huge underwater junk pile is settled mostly on what used to be a starboard side. But Dr. Ballard, when surveying the wreck, found a long trail of coal nuggets astern of the wreck site. So the theory seems the most plausible.
She sank so quickly, what a disaster...
18 minutes
@@robertyoung3992 yes.
It happen so fast, that passengers can’t even have a time to decide which path they had to go to
Updated Comment based on "On a sea of Glass" Sinking on Titanic's end.
8:15 - Looks like Titanic flooding as if it was 2:16AM (when Titanic was plunging further and further very fast)
14:05 - Titanic was already at a 15 degree angle with water at 2nd funnel during the sinking.
15:45 - Lusitania only has like 2 minutes left while Titanic still had 20 minutes left (although Titanic was listed to port instead) at that position. Titanic broke in two during Titanic's own sinking though at that point.
19:19 is reference mark when both ships have gone down if it was at same time. (I think Titanic took just a little bit over 2 hrs and 40 minutes to sink)
Titanic ruptured further towards the bow therefore it sunk at a different angle out of the water to the Lusitania.
Why are you talking about the titanic? This video isn't about it
@@joshuarivet4752 Due to similarities of design, I think people compare it to the Titanic quite often.
But titanic is white star line and Lusitania is Cunard line.
@@pho3nix- Basically, yes. They both had the same number of funnels and similar design style. But overall, technically and virtually, completely different breeds of ocean liners.
In memory of Mr. James Shineman and Mrs. Margaret Shineman Casper, Wyoming, killed in the sinking while traveling to Scotland to visit family.
I never knew there was a Lucy connection to Wyoming. Thank you for this!
Rip butchers stuck in elevater shaft
Yea next thing you knew it's all dark and water rushes in, pretty horrible
@@bagel4944 how can you say "pretty terrible" its actually the worst thing that can happend
8:50
f to pay repects to lusitania deck
Excellent job on this animation for the 105th anniversary.
This is so well done. Not so many things like this on the Lusitania, or the Andrea Doria. 18 minutes, must have been absolutely horrific.
The black smokestacks make it all the more ominous.
I used to work for an auction house, and we sold a tiara, in 2015, that belonged to Lady Allan, who was onboard with her daughters. Was a very weird feeling to hold it….
the Andrea Doria took 11 hours to sink
Have you ever seen the movie about the Lusitania? It did great job showing how terrifying its sinking really was.
Wait what
On the docks in Liverpool where I live is one of the propellers from this ship. I place my hand on it everytime I pass there to remember the poor souls who died. I am literally touching history.
That's a.good way to respect those who died there
I absolutely appreciate the hard work you have put into this historical event. During the animation I wish there were some way of knowing what is actually happening at that moment. You do put in some critical notes but it would be very interesting to know more. Even a voice narration.
Beautifully done!
Thanks for the feedback. Who knows, I may re do it sometime
You can see what's happening, the decks flood, everything slowly starts flooding
I'm reading Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. An incredibly detailed account of the Lusitania's last crossing. He uses survivor's accounts to reconstruct the entire voyage, and in particular the last 18 minutes. It is quite haunting to read. This animation is a nice account of the ship listing and sinking, but recreating the horror and frantic disbelief on the decks would certainly make for difficult viewing. Check out the book. It is well written.
If it were me, taking an ocean liner in the early 1900's, I'd demand my quarters be in one of the lifeboats....
I wouldn't sail on any ship that has "LIVERPOOL" anywhere on the ship.
Liverpool is just it's home port
i like pools
Why it was war time?
I recently found out I had relatives on it and an unknown infant with then didn't survive
Although horrible what happened I think that's very interesting although very sad 😔
@@tripwire3992 me to
after the Lusitania sank pieces of it drifted towards land, my great grandparents were able to get a beam and a little basket carried by a passenger. My great grandfather turned the beam into a little piggybank and kept the basket, through the years I have ended up with the pieces
I'm reading Dead Wake, by Erik Larson. An incredibly detailed account of the Lusitania's last crossing. He uses survivor's accounts and information of numerous sources (Cunard Ship Lines, Britain's Admiralty headed by W. Churchill) to reconstruct the entire voyage, and in particular the last 18 minutes. It is quite haunting to read. This animation is a nice account of the ship listing and sinking, but recreating the horror and frantic disbelief on the decks would certainly make for difficult viewing. Check out the book. It is well written.
Nice work there. I do think that even a WW1 torpedo would make a larger explosion though I do not know where you might obtain a clear record of this. Keep up the good work.
That Uboat had a pretty impressive periscope, digital timer and everything!
Eeewwww your so ugly
@@TomJerry-dl5xs no need to be an asshole
@@TomJerry-dl5xs that's Ren from Ren and Stimpy
German. What did you expect.
Because it happened during broad daylight, somehow it makes it look less terrifying than the Titanic.
There were plenty of disasters that happened in broad daylight that were much worse than the Titanic’s sinking.
The fact that this only took 20 minutes scares me :o
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Excellent animation . Factual with no propaganda.
Idk why but this one made me really sad. I've watched hundreds of these including ones with added in effects and such but this one just got me. Its so sad to think how many people died a slow painful death.
16:52 a water bug
I believe God made this ship sink just so this this video would be made just so this one person could see it and make this banger of a joke
Godspeed
May the souls who died rest peacefully in heaven
Brilliant. I love these...a real treat for lovers of history
The subsequent coal dust explosion blew out the bottom of her bow. When the electrical panels went, the elevators stopped, many passengers trapped between decks in total darkness. The elevators were the only way out of the fore baggage rooms and engineering spaces. Those people were without any way of getting out of those areas as the ship flooded. Also, "Lusitania" lays in 300 feet of water, so with her forward momentum, the bow of the ship literally plowed the sea floor, coming to a halt with the stern still above the water. At that point, the ships rear half slide sideways and forward into the sea. It was a cruel and terribly swift death. Fishermen at Old Head of Kinsale were only able to move at the speed of sail to rescue survivors inthe water, and some chilled in lifebelts for three hours before they were picked up. Most of those who made it off were dead by then.
Great animation! RIP to all the souls lost aboard this ship.
RIP those 1198 souls onboard that beautiful ship 🚢. 🙏❤️. Xxxx
Two summers ago I was in Ierland with my parents and we visited the lusitania memorial and museum and it was a great experience but also sad for the people who lost their loved ones there on sea 😢 Rip to all the souls lost in the sinking of the lusitania and also 18 flipping minutes!!! How is that possible!?!?!?!
Toon Van den broeck, the reason it sank so fast were...
1. The watertight doors weren’t closed.
2. The Torpedo that sank the ship, hit an area with high amounts of gunpowder in it causing a second explosion.
3. Passengers were all going to the lifeboats which caused uneven weight of both sides of the ship.
4. Most of the port holes were left open.
It was believed to be coal dust that caused the secondary explosion because she was near the end of her crossing and the coal bunker was almost empty
@@BigBravesFan1331 oh
@@caseyjr296 sorry to hear that
Ireland
The N64 version of Titanic: Honor and Glory is looking good!
16:32 (video time) - "Captain Turner is washed away from the port bridge wing".
Lusitania was listing to starboard, not port, and the port bridge wing is shown to be well above the water at that point. Facing the bow, port is on your left.
James Fahey I think by that he meant he slipped
Excellent video, it really shows how fast this happened, which explains the tremendous loss of life
If you see this comment, maybe the sultana would interest you? Its not a ocean liner but about 1800 people died, it was a civil war ferry carrying soldiers back home when 3 of the 4 boilers exploded. Killing hundreds from that alone, then, the boat was now a flaming wreck floating amiss. Either u burned on deck or jumped in the below freezing river
Blue Star Line will you do Empress Of Ireland's sinking?
Titanic: "Damn, I sank FAST!"
Lusitania: "Hold my anchor."
The one thing I have not seen in the Lusitania real time videos is when the 790 foot ship nosed down it came
to a sudden stop with a shudder. The nose had hit the ocean bottom which was 300 feet below. This was based on eye witness accounts and makes sense. The ship pivoted and slowly laid down under the water on it's side.
I met a Titanic survivor (Winifred Troutt - 2nd. Class) and we had a marvelous time together, a lovely lady. Talk about absolute ecstasy and horror happening all in the space of one week. Life-changing indeed combined with variable memories both good and bad.
The Only "Troutt" i can find is actualy called "Miss Edwina Celia TROUTT", 2nd Class passenger. Also Hate the dark lie's man the last survivor that died from Titanic died on 31 May 2009 (aged 97) her name was "Eliza Gladys Millvina Dean" So unless u went back in time a few years then ok. I'm not a idiot im a historian on Titanic & i know when people lie or make crap up, but if u ever want to be right bout the Disaster then go to "Titanica.com" It actualy tells u correct infomation, instead of using what i call an imagination.
@@roydyncassidy4370 You are right!!! Your NOT an idiot. I got her name wrong, she was known by her nickname Winnie and since I met her in 1976 and I am now 73 I guess the old brain box is a tad rusty. I met her through the Nautical Renderer Ken Marschall who I don't even know if he is alive anymore. Time passes, memories fade.
The second explosion was war materiel the Lusitania was secretly carrying. That's been called, "The Deadly Secret of the Lusitania."
My father remembered being shewn the newspaper headlines for the 1912 sinking of that other liner and then after the Great War he spoke to the lighthouse keeper who was on watch at the Old Head of Kinsale when the Lusitania went down.
They actually believe it was a boiler exploding but...sure
That's a theory which, to my knowledge, has never been confirmed. Much more likely, it was a coal dust explosion. Nearly-empty bunkers, after a transatlantic crossing, would be full of dust - essentially a huge fuel-air bomb. All it would have needed was a source of ignition.
@@stephenp448 it was confirmed by the UK MoD
@@arthurmead5341 The MOD is hardly an unbiased source.
Wow, the best outro ever.
Even though the size is comparable to the olympic class ships, the time difference is incedible
The sound on this video is awesome! I felt like I was there. Thanks for posting:-))) You did a great job.
Torpedo fire! 1:08 torpedo, strike 1:10 2 unknown explosions rocks, the ship 1:25 lusitania starboard 10 degree angle 1:42 distress rocket is launched 1:54 SOS comes at once big list.! 2:00 lusitania now has a 15 degree angle 2:07 SOS, SOS,SOS 2:25 sinking really fast unbelievable 2:40 you can just see sky 3:16 bridge 3:22 captain, Turner orders stream to be vented 3:27 boat deck 3:45 the stream begins venting, gives off a loud hiss 3:48 funnels 4:13 stream has been released 4:21 bow 4:36 Lusitania’s electricity have failed 5:10 propellers 5:39 Lusitania cruise is preparing lifeboats 5:50 propellers again 6:00 third class is starting to flood 6:57 third class is flooded 7:30 passages woke up. 7:38 E deck is floating 8:00 E deck is flooded 8:19 F deck is floating 8:27 F deck is flooded 8:40 9:00 3 decks of d deck they are starting to flood 9:22 D deck is floating 9:34 D deck is flooded 10:02 c deck is floating 10:23 C deck is almost flooded 10:45 C deck is flooded 11:09 cool begins lowering life boats 11:21 all of the Lusitania is passengers 48 lifebelts only six lifeboats has safely launched 12:30 Lusitania has list a lot 13:04 boat 17 was launched, but capsize by two men 13:14 the water is up to Lusitania’s name plate 13:25 the bow is floating 14:07 you can see that Lusitania’s list is a lot 14:19 lifebelt one is launched before it went under 14:33 lusitania has a 25 degree angle 15:40 the bridge is floating 16:00 propellers 16:06 Lusitania sink’s really fast by then 16:20 captain Turner is washed away 16:35 the bridge is under 16:43 the bridge is completely submerged 16:56 final plunge 17:08 second and first final collapse 17:18 the water is up to half 17:30 the grand staircase is completely submerged 17:40 third funnel collapse 17:50 the list it 30° 18:11 final funnel, crabs 18:21 the beck is floating 19:02 the Lusitania has sunk 19:15 just 18 minutes 19:26
I'm waiting for James Cameron to make a movie called "Lusitania". You hear me James ??
lol it would have to be a short film
@@seethinggohan two words.
Slow motion
there are lusitania movie in 2007
ua-cam.com/video/UiVDOVWgo-M/v-deo.html
Titanic creators: Hell no we don't wanna make another ship for 3 years
It would be drawn out to 4 hours
The scary part and a reason the lifeboats all sank is because it sank in 18 MINUTES!!! I could see the ship sinking in motion form the exterior!
The Ship sank SO fast , that U-boat captain didn't use a 2nd torpedo
I can't imagine the shouts and screams of fear of the people trapped with no chance of escape, and the scenes of sheer panic on the boat deck as they were desperately trying to escape.
One of the most haunting things for me, is listening to the creaking and moaning of the ship as it slowly sinks
I'm here by my history lesson, we learned that in the First World War this ship drowned by the german attackers thinking there were weapons inside..this affected SHBA involving in the war some time later..Rest in peace everyone that died, this is really sad.🥺
And now it's known that there was indeed ammunition and war materials on board. It was a legitimate military target after all.
And did your teachers show you the US newspapers were the german embassy warned travellers to go to europe ( On the same page above is the article about Lusitania going to Europe.) Did they tell you about the Q-Ships ? Or why the Lusitania had to go south of Ireland instead going north ( to sink a ship with americans is a clever way to get the US into the war).And did they tell you about the mystery of the exploding 37 tons white cheese ?
@@michaelpielorz9283 there was De Brie everywhere!
This is the funny part.
The ship forever will be roaming the bottom of he ocean underwater after seeing it move while it sinks
@Luca Yates I suppose that the current over the years moves shipwrecks?
Sadly, the rapid loss of the Lusitania was probably due to the secondary explosion of the war materials carried aboard the vessel. The presence of this material was not disclosed to passengers, though the Wilson Administration was apparently aware and suppressed the information. Woodrow Wilson was an Anglophile who favored entering the war on the U.K.'s side despite the desire of many Americans to stay out of a war between European imperialists. But the sinking of the Lusitania served Wilson's purposes, and telling the truth about what happened did not serve said purposes.
Two loud bangs wake you up. Ship's crooked. You don't know what's going on. Then loud whistling noise prevents you from talking to anyone. Suddenly, everything goes dark. And then, as you'fe feeling your way through the darkness for a way out, you realise you're stepping on water.
What a way to die.
Why can't school teach us more about ships sinking and videos about them? It's so much more interesting, honestly. I spent 2 weeks talking about the Titanic in 4th grade cause it was so interesting to me.
19:15 the year it sunk was the time of the video it went under 1915
Thats actually pretty ironically scary
R/YoungPeopleUA-cam
@@loganw3298 lol
Titanic was much bigger so it would take longer. Titanics watertight doors also activated
Queue the "X-Files" theme music :o
Wasn't there already a real time sinking video of this ship? Anyway, it's really sad Lusitania went down SO fast compared to Titanic and even Brittanic. Although I like the other video more and think it's more accurate, I do like how this one is more detailed!
LITTLE Unfortunately, the Lusitania was a passenger ship, so she wasn’t really built with the idea that someone would try to blow her up with mines, torpedos, or bombs dropped from planes like actual warships are.
@@michaelmurray11189 The Britannic wasn't built with being a warship in mind it was build to be an ocean liner but was changed very quickly to be a hospital ship by just putting beds and medical supplies in it...
Joe Schmo Yep, I consider the sinking animation by Itsstillthinking the most accurate depiction of Lusitania’s sinking.
@@michaelmurray11189 As part of the government contract they had to be built for military use, this is what I found:
" Per Admiralty stipulations, all machinery for the two new ships would be below the waterline, where conventional wisdom dictated that they would be safe from gunfire. Engines were placed in the rear of the ship, boilers were placed amidships, and space for the cargo, which could be converted to a magazine if needed, was in the front "
" Longitudinal bulkheads were also thought to better protect machinery from shelling by enemy ships, but as history would later prove, would not be sufficient to protect against torpedo attack. "
@@itsme-sn5gi Not exactly a warship? She's a noncombatant picking up wounded and survivors regardless of their nationality or which side they're on
People who know Titanic forget about how tragic the sinking of the RMS Lusitania was
There were three German spies on board the Lusitania, they tried to sneak in with some camera equipment, but Staff Captain James Anderson caught them and had them detained, its possible they went down with Lusitania, but their deaths wasn't recorded since they were not on the passebger manifest
But,how U-boat can know that Lusitania paint the funnels black to confuse U-boat?The U-boat fire the torpedo that really British Ship.
You are the first I see to include humans in the animation. Makes it loook much more relateabele than just watching a ghost ship sink. Maybe you can expand on that :)