The undisputed king of b roll and stock footage, fr its such a skill to find high quality era appropriate visuals to tell these stories so great job and great job with the channel over all
WTFrick? Title of a video about R Diesel, and then these other people, I thought they would all be tied together somehow. No, just random pointless stories.... Whatever...
Been watching for a long while now. The quality in your videos is consistently high and often gets better and better. I wouldnt have heard about any of this without your channel. We should take back the History Channel and give you and channels like yours shows on mainstream networks. Your hard work deserves big network cash. This is actual history. Actually informative.
@@hurricanefury439 - Right. He said the money in the bag left for Diesel’s wife was worth $150k today. So that’s fifteen million pennies. Edit: Unless you mean that having $150,000 today is “nearly penniless?”
@@b.w.22 It might be, at least in relative terms and depending on the lifestyle. 150k is peanuts if you have a big villa and a staff, which wouldn't be unheard of as a "well-off" business owner of the time.
@@Grisu1805 - Oh, for sure. One gets the impression that the contents of that bag were an enormous blow to his wife, let alone that her husband had just left this mortal coil, especially when the expectation was profiting enormously off of his invention. The bag and the folded coat, to me, are strong signals that Diesel chose his own departure, as it were.
My wife and I started doing cruises earlier this year. Standing on deck, it's quite sobering to think that if you fell overboard and no one saw it happen, you are pretty much doomed. That being said, the railings are high enough that I can't see someone falling overboard accidentally, unless perhaps you are foolish enough to sit on the railing itself, in which case you are inviting disaster upon yourself.
I think the host of this channel did an excellent job, he have is the disappearance time line, a brief history of the person, and the aftermath of the reported loss. He also gave us the facts and led us to our own conclusions. I can only appreciate the sensitivity of out host, to not put any emphasis one way or the other on the possible causes. You sir are a fine and upstanding reporter, and I wish you well in all your future endeavors.
Interesting fact, to me at least, is that Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on vegetable oils and had to be intensely pressured to convert it to run on petroleum based fuel.
well.. yes/no. Way I read it was not nefariously pressured.... but just... businessman that saw the value and pushed/encouraged Rudolph to lean into light oils from petroleum instead of oil produced from vegetables that were not of the quality to sell as vegies to the market. While you can say.... using Veg. oil would have been more Green....... thaaaaaatttttttt IMHO is debatable. You see at the time when cracking crude oil to petroleum there was a lot of waste product left over. Well that waste was POURED DOWN old unused MINE SHAFTS. It is that waste that these Petroleum Biz. guys saw as a perfect fuel for Diesel's engine. And so it became... That begs to question then..... Did Rudolph's "Diesel" Engine.... switching to run on what got named as Diesel Fuel (stuff that used to get dumped down unused mine shafts) save billions and billions of nasty byproducts getting dumbed down shafts and into pitts. How many years, decades.... would have gone by if using Veg. Oil as fuel instead was the route taken. All that oil fraction "waste" product to continue on being dumped by the hundreds, later thousands of gallons a day for years, decades longer?? IMHO.. it is very possible the decision to run it on light petroleum oils (later named Diesel fuel) saved our planet of a huge pollution disaster. Could it be the Environmental nuts who hate Diesel Fuel, protesting it and Crude Oil's use. (Crude Diesel you could say) actually be hating on what may well have been, a huge part of saving our planet pollution wise???
The belief that anything anyone has ever done could doom or save the planet is insanity. It is truly delusions of grandure. We are like a virus on a basketball.
The belief that anything anyone has ever done could doom or save the planet is insanity. It is truly delusions of grandure. We are like a virus on a basketball.
Sadly yes. The circumstances of the case look extremely suspicious to me. One good push at the right place at the right time is all it would have taken. Eerie.
I agree. If you’re committing suicide then you would care less about your shoes and coat. But his were neatly laid on the deck. Almost like someone wanted us to think he committed suicide.
I'm not so sure. Two things stick out to me. One...he sent his wife a large sum of money before he sailed thinking of her welfare. Two...enclosed bank statements showed he was penniless and cleaned out his bank account. To me, such forethought leans more towards suicide.
@@ohioguy215 I'm sure he was broke, but that was the point of going to England, to sell his engines and remake his fortune. He may have suspected something may happen to him and left the bag of Money for his wife just in case it did. There is something not quite right about it.
It’s so sad to hear these stories. I hope that if they did take their own lives, that they found peace. Cedarville survivor Len Gabrysiak lost a brother on the Lakes who went missing. Frank Gabrysiak was sailing on the Edward Y. Townsend and they just left Duluth and when they went to awake him for his shift, he was gone. They never found him.
Another great episode, if a little sombre and mysterious. The strange disappearances described brought to me the memory of one of the greatest horror stories of being at sea: The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford. I don't doubt for the slightest moment that there is as much truth in Crawford's fiction as there has been fiction surrounding these three unsolved disappearances at sea.
Excellent video! I have heard of the mysterious case of Mister Diesel. Read about that when I was a tweener boy 50+ years ago. I have never heard of the other two vanishing persons at sea. A really fascinating & well done episode. Your channel is great.
I enjoyed this video. For future reference: Parkeston Quay, Harwich is pronounced 'Parkston Key, Harridge'! Don't worry, I'm sure I'd pronounce many American place names incorrectly!
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
I was thinking the same. Harwich is pretty obscure, but quay? I should say I've been listening to this channel a long time and can't think of another error like this. Rare dedication!
I had heard that he may have taken his own l1fe because the German military was so set on using diesel engines and Diesel himself was a strict pacifist which is why he wouldn't sell the rights to them. I have no idea that's just what I heard from some anniversary news article years ago
Rivalry between the German navy and Royal navy was pretty fierce long before WW1 broke out. Germany needed to maintain an edge so the idea that Diesel might be sharing technology with the British wouldn't go down well. It's possible that he was thrown overboard to prevent that happening. He would've been aware of that possibility, so leaving the bag with his wife would have seemed a practical precaution.
Awesome stuff as always. Have you ever considered a video on the Soviet ocean liner MS Alexander Pushkin/Marco Polo, which served from the 1960s until the start of the COVID pandemic? A ship that survived the collapse of the country she was built to serve, and which truly transcended eras.
I recognize signs of a voluntary disappearance in all three cases. As someone that was severely depressed for 8 years I can tell that only the person with the problem really knows what’s going on in their minds and is capable of hiding their feelings, while those around can be perfectly unaware and unsuspecting, refusing to accept that their loved one could ever do such thing.
I haven't finished this yet but I'll go out on a limb and say the German navy had everything to lose if deisal sold his tech to Britain. So, push the poor man overboard to die alone on an empty dark cold ocean. I can't imagine what he was thinking in his final moments before b the end. With drisal gone they could steal his company. Well, I'm finished and I think I was right. Awesome video, B.O.B ❤
It doesn't make sense because the technological details of private companies, in general (unless there is some secret development with government agencies) were known to the great powers, either through patent offices or through espionage. Diesel probably didn't have anything secret to hand over to the English at the time. It wasn't the Cold War where there were enormous industrial secrets, it was 1913, a time when companies from all countries sold everything to everyone. Diesel selling to the English was very common at the time.
@@vampirecount3880 Exactly: Compression ignition engines were already being developed in several countries, not all using Diesel patents, so murdering him wouldn't have conferred any great benefit on anyone. The MV Selandia, the first ocean-going motor ship was launched in 1911, and Burmeister & Wain in Denmark had secured patent rights to build diesel engines as far back as 1895, so there wouldn't be much the Royal Navy didn't know about them. The first British diesel submarines were the D-Class, the first of which dated back to 1908.
It is honestly baffling that Diesel’s body was found two weeks later. It is already near impossible to spot a man overboard, I can’t imagine how incredibly difficult it must be to spot a decomposing body in the midst of choppy storm waters. If anything it seems like it would be the perfect “cover” for the Diesel disappearance conspiracy.
@@conzmolemansome are only capable of imagining belief, being themselves incapable of any belief whatsoever; perhaps it's better to only try to imagine things which actually produce an image funny how people believe they can imagine things which have no image
@@conzmolemanImagine thinking intelligence and consciousness is the result of an unconscious unintelligent random fart that somehow came out of nothing xD
@@ajcelli A.) We can very clearly document how and why consciousness evolved. B.) “I don’t understand this, therefore a magic sky guy. Just one magic sky guy. Who has declared that if we’re good we go to forever happy zone. And if we’re bad we go to forever burny zone. How do I know this? Oh I just do. I *believe* it so it has to be true. I definitely don’t have the mind of a 4 year old who believes in Santa. I’m *smart.*”
Wouldn't the SS Dresden have been built in Germany, and be a German ship?? Aren't the proceeding ships with the same moniker, also be built in Germany, and serving that country?? Of what I have read, those ships (even in different decades and centuries) were all of German design, and origination.
It's my Grandma Fleury's 120th birthday today. She turned 9 the day Diesel disappeared. Grandpa Fleury had just celebrated his 7th birthday the week before, and my other Grandpa was 5 days old, born on his own Dad's birthday. My other Grandma wouldn't be born for another 7 years, and just by happenstance she was born on her future husband's 7th birthday. And in 1913, September 29 was the Feast of Archangel Michael. September 29 was somewhat recently changed to the Feast of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Rafael together. Just some musings.
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name correctly. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
Looking overboard out at sea is looking into oblivion, some people may decide to end their lives this way, I've been in that position on a ship a couple times, it does make you think about how vast the oceans are and the void is tempting in a fatalistic way.
Imagine that . Another ship spotted his body and retrieved his belongings.. Thats almost impossible no less in a rain storm and in the middle of the ocean.
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name correctly. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
Says, “There no evidence of Diesel preparing to make such a move (defecting to GB). I say leaving behind a bag full of $150,000 today’s equivalent to his wife could mean, “GTFO Germany & come join me!” Idk, maybe? 🤷🏻♂️
The undisputed king of b roll and stock footage, fr its such a skill to find high quality era appropriate visuals to tell these stories so great job and great job with the channel over all
WTFrick? Title of a video about R Diesel, and then these other people, I thought they would all be tied together somehow. No, just random pointless stories.... Whatever...
Have to say there's no channel quite like this one when it comes to creating an atmosphere.
His rival "small new boats" is nowhere near as good
Been watching for a long while now. The quality in your videos is consistently high and often gets better and better. I wouldnt have heard about any of this without your channel.
We should take back the History Channel and give you and channels like yours shows on mainstream networks. Your hard work deserves big network cash.
This is actual history. Actually informative.
Cable is dying. Just give him money on Patreon
Well, “virtually penniless at the time of his disappearance” minus the fifteen million pennies in today’s money in that bag, right?
15 million pennies is only 150,000 dollars
@hurricanefury439- Exactly.
@@hurricanefury439 - Right. He said the money in the bag left for Diesel’s wife was worth $150k today. So that’s fifteen million pennies. Edit: Unless you mean that having $150,000 today is “nearly penniless?”
@@b.w.22 It might be, at least in relative terms and depending on the lifestyle. 150k is peanuts if you have a big villa and a staff, which wouldn't be unheard of as a "well-off" business owner of the time.
@@Grisu1805 - Oh, for sure. One gets the impression that the contents of that bag were an enormous blow to his wife, let alone that her husband had just left this mortal coil, especially when the expectation was profiting enormously off of his invention. The bag and the folded coat, to me, are strong signals that Diesel chose his own departure, as it were.
My wife and I started doing cruises earlier this year. Standing on deck, it's quite sobering to think that if you fell overboard and no one saw it happen, you are pretty much doomed.
That being said, the railings are high enough that I can't see someone falling overboard accidentally, unless perhaps you are foolish enough to sit on the railing itself, in which case you are inviting disaster upon yourself.
I think the host of this channel did an excellent job, he have is the disappearance time line, a brief history of the person, and the aftermath of the reported loss. He also gave us the facts and led us to our own conclusions. I can only appreciate the sensitivity of out host, to not put any emphasis one way or the other on the possible causes.
You sir are a fine and upstanding reporter, and I wish you well in all your future endeavors.
Interesting fact, to me at least, is that Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on vegetable oils and had to be intensely pressured to convert it to run on petroleum based fuel.
Very interesting
well.. yes/no. Way I read it was not nefariously pressured.... but just... businessman that saw the value and pushed/encouraged Rudolph to lean into light oils from petroleum instead of oil produced from vegetables that were not of the quality to sell as vegies to the market.
While you can say.... using Veg. oil would have been more Green....... thaaaaaatttttttt IMHO is debatable. You see at the time when cracking crude oil to petroleum there was a lot of waste product left over. Well that waste was POURED DOWN old unused MINE SHAFTS. It is that waste that these Petroleum Biz. guys saw as a perfect fuel for Diesel's engine.
And so it became... That begs to question then..... Did Rudolph's "Diesel" Engine.... switching to run on what got named as Diesel Fuel (stuff that used to get dumped down unused mine shafts) save billions and billions of nasty byproducts getting dumbed down shafts and into pitts. How many years, decades.... would have gone by if using Veg. Oil as fuel instead was the route taken. All that oil fraction "waste" product to continue on being dumped by the hundreds, later thousands of gallons a day for years, decades longer??
IMHO.. it is very possible the decision to run it on light petroleum oils (later named Diesel fuel) saved our planet of a huge pollution disaster. Could it be the Environmental nuts who hate Diesel Fuel, protesting it and Crude Oil's use. (Crude Diesel you could say) actually be hating on what may well have been, a huge part of saving our planet pollution wise???
The belief that anything anyone has ever done could doom or save the planet is insanity. It is truly delusions of grandure. We are like a virus on a basketball.
The belief that anything anyone has ever done could doom or save the planet is insanity. It is truly delusions of grandure. We are like a virus on a basketball.
@coachgeo OMG.
You're not following the narrative. 😂
I've always suspected Diesel was assassinated.
@@shotforshot5983 Maybe or something worse
Sadly yes. The circumstances of the case look extremely suspicious to me. One good push at the right place at the right time is all it would have taken. Eerie.
I agree. If you’re committing suicide then you would care less about your shoes and coat. But his were neatly laid on the deck. Almost like someone wanted us to think he committed suicide.
I'm not so sure. Two things stick out to me. One...he sent his wife a large sum of money before he sailed thinking of her welfare. Two...enclosed bank statements showed he was penniless and cleaned out his bank account. To me, such forethought leans more towards suicide.
@@ohioguy215 I'm sure he was broke, but that was the point of going to England, to sell his engines and remake his fortune. He may have suspected something may happen to him and left the bag of Money for his wife just in case it did.
There is something not quite right about it.
It is sad that you never what is going on in someone else's mind, despite the happiness they show.
So true. I walk around often grumpy and sullen but inside I’m happy and joyful.
That's how life is
Families always refuse to accept reality.
My old dad won't.
His views on our family are distorted.
@@redtobertshateshandles tell us more please
Indeed
It’s so sad to hear these stories. I hope that if they did take their own lives, that they found peace. Cedarville survivor Len Gabrysiak lost a brother on the Lakes who went missing. Frank Gabrysiak was sailing on the Edward Y. Townsend and they just left Duluth and when they went to awake him for his shift, he was gone. They never found him.
Moving, Mysterious and Engaging! Again, hauntingly dreamy, like all your videos. BRAVO BIG OLD BOATS !!!
Thank you for being so respectful in your videos. God rest their souls.
Mike Brady and BOB uploads! My Sunday is complete.
Keep up the good work! One of my favourite ship-related channels. Its informative, to the point and the fella narrating is easy to listen to.
Another great episode, if a little sombre and mysterious. The strange disappearances described brought to me the memory of one of the greatest horror stories of being at sea: The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford. I don't doubt for the slightest moment that there is as much truth in Crawford's fiction as there has been fiction surrounding these three unsolved disappearances at sea.
I had the same thought! Cracking good story
Thank always for these stories and the respectful way you present them, Big Old Boats.
We love your channel and the disappearances are especially poignant and fascinating. Hope you feature more!
Excellent video! I have heard of the mysterious case of Mister Diesel. Read about that when I was a tweener boy 50+ years ago. I have never heard of the other two vanishing persons at sea. A really fascinating & well done episode. Your channel is great.
I did not know any of this! Very interesting. Thanks
I enjoyed this video. For future reference: Parkeston Quay, Harwich is pronounced 'Parkston Key, Harridge'! Don't worry, I'm sure I'd pronounce many American place names incorrectly!
I'm American and I caught that
I'm American and I'm embarrassed to say I would not have pronounced it correctly.
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
I was thinking the same. Harwich is pretty obscure, but quay?
I should say I've been listening to this channel a long time and can't think of another error like this. Rare dedication!
I had heard that he may have taken his own l1fe because the German military was so set on using diesel engines and Diesel himself was a strict pacifist which is why he wouldn't sell the rights to them. I have no idea that's just what I heard from some anniversary news article years ago
Very well put together
Very sad for the families. As usual, I am impressed with your storytelling ability and honest, sincere commentary. Thank you
Really like the way these videos are put together
Thank you for another amazing documentary!
Rivalry between the German navy and Royal navy was pretty fierce long before WW1 broke out. Germany needed to maintain an edge so the idea that Diesel might be sharing technology with the British wouldn't go down well. It's possible that he was thrown overboard to prevent that happening. He would've been aware of that possibility, so leaving the bag with his wife would have seemed a practical precaution.
A story i never heard of before. Ty.
I’d be cool to see a video about the great eastern. Such a cool ship and it was huge!
How very sad. But so very well related and respectful. Ty.
Creepy stuff. Another amazing video! Thanks!
Terrific as always 🎉
I love these dissapearance stories. Brother you have a gift for presentation. Good for you for making these videos. Thank you
Love the video!
I had no idea of what happened to Rudolf Diesel. I am a fan of old Diesel Mercedes engines and even more so now!
Another great effort.
“Yes grandma, I’ll take you to the hospital, just let me watch this real quick!”
Shame on you. 😙😉
I do Hope she is Tickérty , home safe n all's well.
Nice to see my hometown named here. Hull. Little backwater town these dsys but back in the day was the UKs fishing and freight powerhouse.
Another Great Episode! Also do you plan in the future to make an video about SS Andrea Doria?
Good episode
the reflexion at the end hits hard
Fascinating!
Why would a career navy man want to die in the water? If anyone knew how horrible a water death is, it's a rear admiral
Rudolf didnt disappear, he's still around. He just changed his name to Vin because it sounds better.
After this incident, all he had left was...FAMILY!!
😊
Can't be robbery a pocket watch is valuable it isn't left behind
Yasssss🎉. Best way to relax this Sunday evening, with naval mysteries!
Your work always makes my day. Thanks mate! 😊
Sadly, his death was probably not accidental. The circumstances look very suspicious to me.
nice video man can you do a video about the collins line plese
Awesome stuff as always. Have you ever considered a video on the Soviet ocean liner MS Alexander Pushkin/Marco Polo, which served from the 1960s until the start of the COVID pandemic? A ship that survived the collapse of the country she was built to serve, and which truly transcended eras.
new big old boats video, happy day :)
"The doctor quickly picked up on her mental illness.". LOL. I bet.
I recognize signs of a voluntary disappearance in all three cases. As someone that was severely depressed for 8 years I can tell that only the person with the problem really knows what’s going on in their minds and is capable of hiding their feelings, while those around can be perfectly unaware and unsuspecting, refusing to accept that their loved one could ever do such thing.
I haven't finished this yet but I'll go out on a limb and say the German navy had everything to lose if deisal sold his tech to Britain. So, push the poor man overboard to die alone on an empty dark cold ocean. I can't imagine what he was thinking in his final moments before b the end. With drisal gone they could steal his company.
Well, I'm finished and I think I was right.
Awesome video, B.O.B ❤
Ah, I could still consider “death of a salesman” thing, or big coal got to him.
It doesn't make sense because the technological details of private companies, in general (unless there is some secret development with government agencies) were known to the great powers, either through patent offices or through espionage. Diesel probably didn't have anything secret to hand over to the English at the time. It wasn't the Cold War where there were enormous industrial secrets, it was 1913, a time when companies from all countries sold everything to everyone. Diesel selling to the English was very common at the time.
His death would not prevent the sale of the technology to the British though. His company owned it.
@@vampirecount3880 Exactly: Compression ignition engines were already being developed in several countries, not all using Diesel patents, so murdering him wouldn't have conferred any great benefit on anyone. The MV Selandia, the first ocean-going motor ship was launched in 1911, and Burmeister & Wain in Denmark had secured patent rights to build diesel engines as far back as 1895, so there wouldn't be much the Royal Navy didn't know about them. The first British diesel submarines were the D-Class, the first of which dated back to 1908.
Another excellent episode. Thankyou.
It is honestly baffling that Diesel’s body was found two weeks later. It is already near impossible to spot a man overboard, I can’t imagine how incredibly difficult it must be to spot a decomposing body in the midst of choppy storm waters.
If anything it seems like it would be the perfect “cover” for the Diesel disappearance conspiracy.
Your drive for mental wellness is admirable. No pun intended.
Fantastic thanks
I love Big Old Boats and big old boats.
I love this channel! The creator aint to bad lookin either 😊
Love these disappearance videos!
That is interesting.
Also, as a request, can you do a documentary on the St. Louis and the Voyage of the Damned?
Awesome. You should do a video on the ill faded Magdalena. A royal mail line ship that sank on her maiden voyage off south america in around 1949.
Love your channel! I suspect he may have taken his own life. Rest in peace Mr. Diesel. 🙏
Thank you!
diesel is one of the mythical giants on wich shoulders we stand.
Accidental, depression, etc. Whatever these reasons, I hope they find peace in the afterlife.
lmaoooooo imagine believing you “go somewhere” after you die 😂
@@conzmolemansome are only capable of imagining belief, being themselves incapable of any belief whatsoever; perhaps it's better to only try to imagine things which actually produce an image
funny how people believe they can imagine things which have no image
@@filmbuffo5616 Incoherent word salad.
@@conzmolemanImagine thinking intelligence and consciousness is the result of an unconscious unintelligent random fart that somehow came out of nothing xD
@@ajcelli A.) We can very clearly document how and why consciousness evolved. B.) “I don’t understand this, therefore a magic sky guy. Just one magic sky guy. Who has declared that if we’re good we go to forever happy zone. And if we’re bad we go to forever burny zone. How do I know this? Oh I just do. I *believe* it so it has to be true. I definitely don’t have the mind of a 4 year old who believes in Santa. I’m *smart.*”
Wouldn't the SS Dresden have been built in Germany, and be a German ship?? Aren't the proceeding ships with the same moniker, also be built in Germany, and serving that country?? Of what I have read, those ships (even in different decades and centuries) were all of German design, and origination.
It's my Grandma Fleury's 120th birthday today. She turned 9 the day Diesel disappeared. Grandpa Fleury had just celebrated his 7th birthday the week before, and my other Grandpa was 5 days old, born on his own Dad's birthday. My other Grandma wouldn't be born for another 7 years, and just by happenstance she was born on her future husband's 7th birthday. And in 1913, September 29 was the Feast of Archangel Michael. September 29 was somewhat recently changed to the Feast of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Rafael together. Just some musings.
Ford would have been furious regarding his engine.
It was a combustionable and steamy issue.
Indeed. Leaving us with many a burning question and, finally, exhaustion.
A horse woman is called am equestrian....besides your pronunciation of quay, I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!
2:52
No actually she was a female centaur
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name correctly. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
No! You can't just leave it like that. "Admiral Quiggle was one of only 2 US Admirals lost at sea". So who was the other one?????
John W Wilcox - Lost off the Battleship Washington during WWII
John W Wilcox Jr. is the other one. He went overboard from the USS Washington in March 1942. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Wilcox_Jr.
@@roadweary5252 Thank you
@@eknapp49 Thank you.
3 stories in 1 video woo!
Tha k you 🎉🎉
Looking overboard out at sea is looking into oblivion, some people may decide to end their lives this way, I've been in that position on a ship a couple times, it does make you think about how vast the oceans are and the void is tempting in a fatalistic way.
I’m a simple man, I see a big old boats video, I click like
ready to watch within 17 seconds
Reminds me a bit of the Alfred Loewenstein case...
Love your videos. Btw: quay is pronounced like key.
Diesel was assassinated I bet , good video
Is this a longer video, than one from before? It feels familiar.
Hey there should be a video of the wonderful Valley Camp.
Sirens!
I think they all did it on porpoise.
He was offed.
I believe this was the inspiration for the Weird Tales story “The Dead Black Thing”.
Sad for the families involved. Interesting stories.
Looks like Diesel had help into the North Sea to try and stop the British from getting the tech.
Thanks
I’m a huge fan of his great grandson Vin.
Diesel’s next door neighbor probably did it.
Imagine that .
Another ship spotted his body and retrieved his belongings..
Thats almost impossible no less in a rain storm and in the middle of the ocean.
Folded clothes. Call missing 411. 😮🇨🇦
Enjoyink
Just a minor thing, quay is pronounced 'key'
2:52
More egregiously, the host didn't bother to pronounce his chosen (!) subject's name correctly. It should have been "Deezle", with the soft German "s". To my knowledge Rudolf Diesel was no member of the House of Slytherin where, of course, he would have been called "Diesssel". In Parseltongue.
My Hero what a legend Thank you Diesel!
Nothing like a new Big Old Boats documentary on a cool, autumn, Sunday morning. Way better than church.
Says, “There no evidence of Diesel preparing to make such a move (defecting to GB). I say leaving behind a bag full of $150,000 today’s equivalent to his wife could mean, “GTFO Germany & come join me!” Idk, maybe? 🤷🏻♂️
Hmm, someone missing on a ship either he was pushed, jumped, or someone painted him into some background so he could disappear
Quay is pronounced key.
Harwich is pronounced Ha-rich.
😊❤😊
Lots of British English pronounciations aren't super self-evident! Still, I was going to point out the same 😉
@doobat708 My favourite mispronunciation is Wolfpack 345 who pronounced HMS Manxman as Man-axe-man.
And Parkeston is pronounced Park-ston😊.
And Diesel is DEEZ-le!
@@saskatchewan1913 Aye. 'Tis so.