It wounds me to see what has become of the Lusitania. She was magnificent for her time, and, without her, Titanic wouldn't exist, yet she gets barely a scrap of the love that Titanic does. An unexplored wreck site of an underrated disaster. A terrible shame. Many thanks to you, Mike, for spreading more word of her.
Laymen confuse her for Titanic simply because of her four funnels. it's sad that only reason why people were out to discover her in the first place is financial gain. She doesn't get neerly the respect Titanic does.
Huge respect to Mike Brady and everyone involved in this channel. Utter dedication and respect for so, so many lost at sea and those beautiful ships - true feats of human engineering - that went down alongside them. Every video is superb. Kudos❤
Always deeply disturbed by the story of this ship . The disaster itself was a tragedy beyond words as well as all the story thereafter. May her victims rest in peace .
I remember reading that not long after he became president, Franklin Roosevelt, who had a deep interest in ships, asked the War Department to bring him their classified files on the Lusitania. I wonder what he discovered before the files went back undercover again
10:16 I saw this same propeller in January this year while spending the day with my family in Liverpool. We walked around the Liverpool maritime museum too it was an amazing experience will definitely be returning to the museum in the near future. When I stood in front of the propeller I remained silent for a couple of minutes to pay my respects to those lost in the sinking.
Wow - I had no idea there were so many attempts to go down there made over the decades! That pressure suit from the 30's is awfully impressive tech for the day. Given it's rate of degradation, I doubt will find out much more about it before it's too far gone. Amazing work as always Mike & Team.
I am always astounded at how much material there is even on things that have been covered before, like Titanic and Lusitania. Super engaging as always, Mike! Keep it up!!
I'm your friend Duane Barbic and iv got to say, Bravo another great video. You certainly are making a name for yourself with these comprehensive documentaries you have consistently produced. Definitely a scroll stopper when something new comes up from our friend Mike Brady.
Yeah super gross. It would be like making golf clubs of the World Trade Center today. I understand how it would feel pretty badass to have clubs made from something famous, but not from the actual pieces recovered from a tragedy. If it was like a hull plate from the Lusitania that was removed in dry dock and wasn't attached during sinking, sure.
The propeller being located in Dallas made me lose my mind when I first heard about it. I live very close to there and I regularly visit it to pay my respects. The hotel itself recognizes me now and outright says to me when I arrive on every May 7th, she’s waiting for you. :)
0:40 This painting of the Lusitania sinking can be seen in the two *"Naked Gun"* sequels starring Leslie Nielsen (although in the commentary track for both films, they mistook the Lusitania with the Titanic).
Excellent video so good I've watched it twice, my interest in Ocean Liners goes back 60 years and i got to know and meet on numerous occasions Captain Turner's Great Niece Mrs Hylda Bromley,she lived in Driffield East Yorkshire England and we became close friends, no longer with us now sadly but i well remember the long talks we had and did you know that Captain Turner always referred to his passengers as Monkey's. Thanks for sharing.
Have seen the Anatole propeller while at the hotel for QuakeCon years ago. Needless to say, was actually a bit shocked when I read the plaque next to it. I'd actually passed by it many times without realizing what it was because I just figured it was a mocked up sculpture or just a random ship's scrapped propeller. Still, it was a really cool sight to see. Weirdly, they also have a chunk of the Berlin Wall there.
I love how this comes out as I'm currently doing a refitting of my ballasted Lusitania model to give it more correct detailing. Also, I've been to the the Hilton Anatole (beautiful resort) a few times and seen the screw!
Depth charges...... During WW2 German subs hunted for British shipping in the area where Lusitania was sunk. British escorts would on occasion acquire asdic contact on the Lusitania and with the strong currents this would sound like a real target with motion. This is called the doppler effect and if the tracking party doesn't have a good plot the ship would attack with depth charges with some of those being set to deep to explode before hitting the bottom.
Really interesting video, its so great seeing more about the Lusitania, had no idea there was so much dives down to the wreck and where her propellers went, its quite sad that stuff was recovered and sold rather then being preserved, especially sad that one ended up melted down and turned into expensive gold clubs, that is disgraceful
Hi, longtime lurker first time messager. Some quality videos you got there, enjoying them immensely. Some items were pilfered off the wreck, Bemis and the Irish government sued the divers responsible, later Bemis and the government came to legal blows with each other over access. A friend of mine dived it a number of years ago and had an incident down there, he was lucky to have survived.
Well, well, well, if it isn't our good friend Mike Brady. You buddy I absolutely love these videos. I am insane over your warships videos as well. I literally just got off a 14 hour shift and turning around to go back in 10 hours I'm watching your videos. Awesome work my guy
My theory, for the second explosion is quite simple. Superheated boiler + incoming ocean water = thermal explosion, which would also help explain why they lost the ability to control the helm and critical ship systems started failing almost immediately. A boiler blowing would have ruined at least some of the steam pipe systems, and steam was the lifeblood of Lucy.
Had an essay made about this ship in my midterm test, and connecting it with my teacher's lesson about Decision Making Models lesson/lecture, and mentioning how that lesson maybe used by Captain Turner (Hypothetical I know) and getting an A+ because of it, due to how I connected my teacher's lesson to a historical event.
A smashing calm look at the history of this great ship. I agree with you that the depth charges are almost certainly WW2 in origin as the Western Approaches were U boat haunts in the war. Was Lusitania carrying munitions? Almost certainly, the USA was an incredibly important manufacturer of war supplies at that stage in the war and a fast liner is the ideal transport to outrun the U boats. A sad loss of life. Good work Mike, thanks
USA was not neutral in 1914. In german magazine about military history noted, USA claimed , german armed merchantships are warship, but Allied armed merchant ships not. So german wwl merchant U- Boot was unarmed.
Fun fact - the wreck of the Lusitania is not a designated war grave but the wreck of the Britannic, from which all the dead were recovered, is a designated war grave. Which goes some way to explaining why the Irish or Royal Navy thought it was OK to pepper the wreck site with depth charges and hedgehog mortar bombs
@SlidTossedPissed He said with all the people that died and went down with the Lusatania and not recovered. It is strange that the Lusatania in not a War Grave because of the human remains there. But the Britannic is considered a War Grave and all the bodies were recover. So it not a Grave in the sense you may think it is.
@@LarryCrandall-z2w Im sorry to say this... but that still makes no sense!. Lusitania... is mired in controversy + he said / he said. Churchill is deeply involved.... Brittanic.. doesnt have two different contries fighting it out.
Its intersting that the Lusitania was in exellent shape when they found her. There are drawings the divers made showing an intact hull. She collapsed later on mostly because of scavenging her Hull for salvage. During the 1920s after giving up plans to salvage and even raise the wreck the british used her for target practice using depth charges to stop people from telling storys about her cargo and Diving to her. And maybe to cover things up. Really interesting theme for a video, Mr Brady. The story of what happened to the wreck! She wasn't always in that rough shape!
Mike said it was due to the fast currents in the shallow water. The same thing happened to Andrea Doria. Even though AD sank in 1956, the ship has already collapsed and has pretty much been torn apart by the currents. Doria's happened faster because they also used aluminum.
@@PersephoneDaSilva I’ve also heard when they were salvaging the propellers, explosives were used, didn’t John Light make sketches of Lusitania’s wreck and she was mostly intact during the 60’s?
I saw the propeller in Dallas years ago (about a decade at this point), when I attended an anime convention at the hotel. At that time the propeller had not yet been put on permanent "display" and it simply sat out in the grass of one of the courtyards, with no sign or plaque to indicate where it was from. I was shocked when I found out that it came from the wreck of Lusitania, and immediately went back to the courtyard to get some pics of it. Quite extraordinary to have unknowingly been in the presence of such a large chunk of history!
It's really unfortunate that Lusitania's wreck is in such a bad state. It makes you wonder what her condition was when she was discovered. Great video, Mike 👍.
The true cause of America's entry into the Great War: The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded message sent by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico in January 1917. The telegram proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States. It offered Mexico financial support and helped to regain lost territories in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Germany also asked Mexico to help persuade Japan to join the Central Powers.
Not quite. The German government had decided at the same time to resume unrestricted warfare at sea, the same situation that had made the Lusitania a target just because it was a British-flagged ship. This time though (February 1917) U.S. flagged ships would also be at risk if they steamed or sailed into the zone that Germany had laid out, essentially encircling the British Isles and allowing them to dock only at Falmouth, by way of a "safe passageway" into that port which was a very narrow sea lane. (If anyone can access the New York "Times Machine", it is described on page one of 1st February 1917). Obviously the Germans were unaware that the Zimmerman Telegram had been intercepted just prior to their announcement of resumption of unrestricted warfare at sea, and those two combined were the last straw for President Wilson and the U.S. Government.
@@ktipuss The irony of the Zimmermann Telegram was of course that Mexico was in no position to side with Germany and go to war again with the US due to Mexico being still in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, which was essentially a civil war that lasted from 1911 to 1920. Because of how poor American-Mexican relations were at the time due to Pancho Villa's raid into New Mexico in March 1916 and the responding yearlong Mexican Expedition of American troops into Mexico the Zimmermann Telegram was a plausible ploy, even if Mexico would have very likely lost badly if the two countries had gone to war again.
I remember reading about the unexploded depth charges in the Lusitania section of Ballard's book _Ghost Liners,_ which also describes his coal dust hypothesis. And honestly, I'm fairly inclined to believe that hypothesis: combustible dust (and coal dust is *incredibly* combustible) is a very real explosive hazard responsible for numerous industrial disasters, the Lusitania's coal bunkers (which, per Admiralty specifications, were arranged to act as shields for her machinery) would have been rife with dust and slack coal so near the end of her voyage, and the smuggled war materiel would more likely have been hidden amongst the ship's supplies, luggage, etc. than anywhere near where the torpedo hit.
Thanks Mike. Watched a UA-cam video last night of a mighty tanker giving three master salutes to the Edmund Fitzgerald on the 49th anniversary of the loss. The tanker was the last to have had contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald on that night.
So it was the Arthur M. Anderson you saw in the video? Her captain, Bernard Cooper, had probably the best theories of how and why the Mighty Fitz sank, as he was the one guiding them through that vicious storm after they lost their radar. I highly recommend you check out any of the videos on here where Captain Cooper is interviewed,or speaks about that night in November of '75.
Hey Mike, I'm a big fan of your videos and have learnt so much about the titanic, but want to learn more about the lusitania. I am just shocked to see the condition of the wreck
Im not even sure I can say this correctly... Churchill laid mines down over where Lusitania now lay... to prevent anyone from seeing the site. I once went on a BENDER to hunt down diving documentaries that went to the Lustiania. I found 1 documentary series... and the episode involving the Lusitania was missing. The site where she lay.. Churchill put a label on it.. as a type of War Crime site.. and anyone is forbidden from going there. (In short, whatever Churchill decided to do with Lusitania... it was pretty damn bad. Thats ontop of the Inquiry into her demise was a H U G E attempt to have it fall on Turner SOLELY or the U-20. They never mentioned and or completely skipped over / ignored why she never got any help. -- Despite other Liners of her type being assisted...)
Interesting video, Lusitania is among my favourite ships ever built. Does anyone know what became of John Light's footage of Lusitania's wreck in the 1960s? From what I understand he was actually able to shoot footage of the wreck, but it's obviously quite poor quality and to my knowledge no digital copies exist. It would be interesting if this footage could be recovered, it would offer a view of the wreck before as much deterioration had set in. The last reference I can find to someone claiming to have seen the footage is in forum posts from the early '00s.
Bruh I love you vids so much it made me build 16 ocean liners of my own .2 more are coming and my company is Blox lines incorporated and check my chains too ❤❤
Hello Mike Brady ! The most well spoken Australian in the Southern Hemisphere ( and likely Northern, have you watched Boy Boy or friendlyjordies? No clue what their saying)
For the love of God…. Make this young man a professor or, at least, an expert speaker about ships, shipwrecks, ship building….etc. So many people find his stories amazing.
Are there any descriptions of the Lusitania from the first dive? I can't imagine they could see much from that but it would be interesting how the ship looked 20 years after sinking.
An interesting note from the 1935 dive, which I believe there was only a single dive, was that the diver had the unsettling experience of coming across bodies on the wreck, which drifted towards him. If this was indeed the case, and I believe it was, that might account for there only being a single dive on the wreck.
I proposed to my then-girlfriend beside Lusitania's propellor in Liverpool. She was dumb enough to say 'yes', and she's now my wife. We took our honeymoon on the Queen Victoria, which I'd passed by in Cobh on May 15th, 2015, whilst I was there for the centenary of Lusitania's sinking. Funny how life has coincidences like that.
My grandparents many years ago had a big leather covered cushion from Lusitania that had been picked up off the beach after it sank and given to them. It supposedly fell apart years later and was thrown away 😞
I can’t remember where I read this, but I did read a report from a log entry of a British warship supposedly recorded in the area of Lusitania. The log entry recorded making several passes to depth charge a sonar contact to be a U-boat, but discontinued with the note “likely shipwreck”
Robert Ballard found the third propeller in a UK scrap yard “to be melted” pile and even had himself filmed touching it. The yard owner refused to pull it from the pile despite knowing what it was since it was just “scrap metal” to him and Ballard didn’t have the cash immediately on him to buy it. It was gone before the day ended, as I understand it.
0:50 was one the coolest transitions I’ve seen on this channel! Quality work as always my friend Mike Brady!
I’m glad you left this comment, because I was mostly listening. That was an awesome transition!!
Actually got chills from this
It wounds me to see what has become of the Lusitania.
She was magnificent for her time, and, without her, Titanic wouldn't exist, yet she gets barely a scrap of the love that Titanic does.
An unexplored wreck site of an underrated disaster.
A terrible shame. Many thanks to you, Mike, for spreading more word of her.
Laymen confuse her for Titanic simply because of her four funnels. it's sad that only reason why people were out to discover her in the first place is financial gain. She doesn't get neerly the respect Titanic does.
Huge respect to Mike Brady and everyone involved in this channel. Utter dedication and respect for so, so many lost at sea and those beautiful ships - true feats of human engineering - that went down alongside them. Every video is superb. Kudos❤
Always deeply disturbed by the story of this ship . The disaster itself was a tragedy beyond words as well as all the story thereafter. May her victims rest in peace .
I remember reading that not long after he became president, Franklin Roosevelt, who had a deep interest in ships, asked the War Department to bring him their classified files on the Lusitania. I wonder what he discovered before the files went back undercover again
considering he was the secretary of the US Navy prior to being president, it makes sense he'd want to learn!
@@mduff94 That both WWI and II were orchestrated by Zionist bankers?
He was in cahoots with scummy churchill. Birds 🐦 of a feather 🪶, flock together. They were cut from the same rotten cloth.
@ UA-cam just autodeletes my comments now🤣 but I still get chat notices.
@LarryCrandall-z2w can you enlighten me on why you think this?
Turning the propeller into golf clubs. Does anyone else find that distasteful as well as disrespectful? Thank you for the video, Mike Brady!
You aren't the only one, It makes me cry. If it was Titanic there'd be uproar.
That's nauseating. The arrogance is unbelievable. That ship is a war grave!
Oh yes I'll do I agree with you completely Thank you for forcing that
I agree.
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I saw this same propeller in January this year while spending the day with my family in Liverpool. We walked around the Liverpool maritime museum too it was an amazing experience will definitely be returning to the museum in the near future.
When I stood in front of the propeller I remained silent for a couple of minutes to pay my respects to those lost in the sinking.
omg its such a cool artefact! i love that museum.
@DavidWoolrich-z7l
Me too I'll definitely be returning in early 2025.
The Liverpool Maritime Museum is closing for refurbishment and improvements. Be sure to check before travelling that it is open.
Wow - I had no idea there were so many attempts to go down there made over the decades! That pressure suit from the 30's is awfully impressive tech for the day. Given it's rate of degradation, I doubt will find out much more about it before it's too far gone. Amazing work as always Mike & Team.
I would love to see a video examining footage of a dive to Britannic. She's in such beautiful shape it would be great to go through her with you!
I am always astounded at how much material there is even on things that have been covered before, like Titanic and Lusitania. Super engaging as always, Mike! Keep it up!!
Another exceptional piece of historic storytelling. Thanks.
Well put together video, it good more light is being shined onto the lusitania as she most certainly deserves the recognition
I'm your friend Duane Barbic and iv got to say, Bravo another great video. You certainly are making a name for yourself with these comprehensive documentaries you have consistently produced. Definitely a scroll stopper when something new comes up from our friend Mike Brady.
What a friend we have in Mike Brady.
really enjoyed it.
Kind of creepy making golf clubs out of the metal from the ship, considering all the people that died in that attack.
Yeah super gross. It would be like making golf clubs of the World Trade Center today. I understand how it would feel pretty badass to have clubs made from something famous, but not from the actual pieces recovered from a tragedy. If it was like a hull plate from the Lusitania that was removed in dry dock and wasn't attached during sinking, sure.
Rich c&nt$ gonna rich c&nt
Yeah that's so disrespectful!!! I could never use one of those clubs!!!
Waterloo corspes anyone
The propeller being located in Dallas made me lose my mind when I first heard about it. I live very close to there and I regularly visit it to pay my respects. The hotel itself recognizes me now and outright says to me when I arrive on every May 7th, she’s waiting for you. :)
That’s good to hear thanks for your story
She’s my favorite ocean liner and it isn’t even close.
That made me aww out loud, I love that
Even before we get started, that virtual/photo overlay at the end of the intro was amazing.
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This painting of the Lusitania sinking can be seen in the two *"Naked Gun"* sequels starring Leslie Nielsen (although in the commentary track for both films, they mistook the Lusitania with the Titanic).
Wanna hear something even worse? I was drawing the Edmund Fitzgerald sailing through a storm, and an idiot asked if it was Titanic.
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sorry that happened.
@@JOSH-lw2jv yeah i even had "Edmund Fitzgerold" written on her. This person isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
Excellent work once again Mike! I always look forward to one of your episodes on the old liners. Truly a pleasure to watch.
I’m always astounded with your videos, Mike Brady. You’re part of the reason I absolutely adore maritime history.
(Fun fact: my first name is Brady!)
Thanks!
Why not US$5,00?
@@joãoAlberto-k9xit’s the same thing
Excellent video so good I've watched it twice, my interest in Ocean Liners goes back 60 years and i got to know and meet on numerous occasions Captain Turner's Great Niece Mrs Hylda Bromley,she lived in Driffield East Yorkshire England and we became close friends, no longer with us now sadly but i well remember the long talks we had and did you know that Captain Turner always referred to his passengers as Monkey's.
Thanks for sharing.
Have seen the Anatole propeller while at the hotel for QuakeCon years ago. Needless to say, was actually a bit shocked when I read the plaque next to it. I'd actually passed by it many times without realizing what it was because I just figured it was a mocked up sculpture or just a random ship's scrapped propeller. Still, it was a really cool sight to see.
Weirdly, they also have a chunk of the Berlin Wall there.
I love how this comes out as I'm currently doing a refitting of my ballasted Lusitania model to give it more correct detailing. Also, I've been to the the Hilton Anatole (beautiful resort) a few times and seen the screw!
My YT cruise has been aweful today.
Until now.
Thank you for what you. Do and how you do it.
Well done Mike!
Again…
Thank You!
Excellent! Answers some questions, but also adds more!
Depth charges...... During WW2 German subs hunted for British shipping in the area where Lusitania was sunk. British escorts would on occasion acquire asdic contact on the Lusitania and with the strong currents this would sound like a real target with motion. This is called the doppler effect and if the tracking party doesn't have a good plot the ship would attack with depth charges with some of those being set to deep to explode before hitting the bottom.
Fascinating and well produced as usual!
Well done Mike and team you never disappoint
Really interesting video, its so great seeing more about the Lusitania, had no idea there was so much dives down to the wreck and where her propellers went, its quite sad that stuff was recovered and sold rather then being preserved, especially sad that one ended up melted down and turned into expensive gold clubs, that is disgraceful
Great video, I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Hi, longtime lurker first time messager.
Some quality videos you got there, enjoying them immensely.
Some items were pilfered off the wreck, Bemis and the Irish government sued the divers responsible, later Bemis and the government came to legal blows with each other over access.
A friend of mine dived it a number of years ago and had an incident down there, he was lucky to have survived.
Excellent! And the animations, while scary to watch, are fantastic.
Thank you Mike. You truly are a star.
And a friend.
Just saw Caitlyn Doughty (Ask a Mortician) posted a video about the Marchioness - & thanked you for the animation 👍👍👍👍👍👍🍻💐🌺💐🌺💐🌺🍾🇺🇸
Well, well, well, if it isn't our good friend Mike Brady. You buddy I absolutely love these videos. I am insane over your warships videos as well. I literally just got off a 14 hour shift and turning around to go back in 10 hours I'm watching your videos. Awesome work my guy
All friends are good. I have none.
@@joãoAlberto-k9x Me neither.
And I like it that way.
Always so glad to see mike poster a new video
My theory, for the second explosion is quite simple. Superheated boiler + incoming ocean water = thermal explosion, which would also help explain why they lost the ability to control the helm and critical ship systems started failing almost immediately. A boiler blowing would have ruined at least some of the steam pipe systems, and steam was the lifeblood of Lucy.
Fascinating story. Great video, thank you for sharing!
Had an essay made about this ship in my midterm test, and connecting it with my teacher's lesson about Decision Making Models lesson/lecture, and mentioning how that lesson maybe used by Captain Turner (Hypothetical I know) and getting an A+ because of it, due to how I connected my teacher's lesson to a historical event.
Another great video. Thank you.
This video is a real masterpiece, I found it very informative, thank you very much ❤
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Can you make a follow-up part 2 of this video there must be more information to discover😢😢😊😊❤
Always enjoy your videos. The ones on the Titanic and Lusitania are my favorites.❤
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Congratulations on the excellent work for Caitlin Doughty's channel.
Oh hey it’s my friend Mike Brady! Thank you for another incredible video
A smashing calm look at the history of this great ship. I agree with you that the depth charges are almost certainly WW2 in origin as the Western Approaches were U boat haunts in the war. Was Lusitania carrying munitions? Almost certainly, the USA was an incredibly important manufacturer of war supplies at that stage in the war and a fast liner is the ideal transport to outrun the U boats. A sad loss of life. Good work Mike, thanks
USA was not neutral in 1914. In german magazine about military history noted, USA claimed , german armed merchantships are warship, but Allied armed merchant ships not. So german wwl merchant U- Boot was unarmed.
I always wondered if they ever found anything or documents released. Great video!
Fun fact - the wreck of the Lusitania is not a designated war grave but the wreck of the Britannic, from which all the dead were recovered, is a designated war grave. Which goes some way to explaining why the Irish or Royal Navy thought it was OK to pepper the wreck site with depth charges and hedgehog mortar bombs
I thoroughly confused by your statement
@SlidTossedPissed He said with all the people that died and went down with the Lusatania and not recovered. It is strange that the Lusatania in not a War Grave because of the human remains there. But the Britannic is considered a War Grave and all the bodies were recover. So it not a Grave in the sense you may think it is.
Lusitania
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Im sorry to say this... but that still makes no sense!.
Lusitania... is mired in controversy + he said / he said. Churchill is deeply involved....
Brittanic.. doesnt have two different contries fighting it out.
Probably because Britannic was a Royal Navy hospital ship, so the handful of dead were affiliated with the British military.
These videos are just wonderful 😊
As sir Mike Brady. Our Brad Pitt of the oceans.
Great vid as always mate :)
Its intersting that the Lusitania was in exellent shape when they found her. There are drawings the divers made showing an intact hull. She collapsed later on mostly because of scavenging her Hull for salvage. During the 1920s after giving up plans to salvage and even raise the wreck the british used her for target practice using depth charges to stop people from telling storys about her cargo and Diving to her. And maybe to cover things up. Really interesting theme for a video, Mr Brady. The story of what happened to the wreck! She wasn't always in that rough shape!
Mike said it was due to the fast currents in the shallow water. The same thing happened to Andrea Doria. Even though AD sank in 1956, the ship has already collapsed and has pretty much been torn apart by the currents. Doria's happened faster because they also used aluminum.
@@PersephoneDaSilva I’ve also heard when they were salvaging the propellers, explosives were used, didn’t John Light make sketches of Lusitania’s wreck and she was mostly intact during the 60’s?
She was depth charged by the RN in the 30s.
Sketches can be Sketchy
@@PersephoneDaSilva you can inform yourself on Enzyclopedia Titanica. There is an interesting page about what the british government did to the wreck.
I saw the propeller in Dallas years ago (about a decade at this point), when I attended an anime convention at the hotel. At that time the propeller had not yet been put on permanent "display" and it simply sat out in the grass of one of the courtyards, with no sign or plaque to indicate where it was from. I was shocked when I found out that it came from the wreck of Lusitania, and immediately went back to the courtyard to get some pics of it. Quite extraordinary to have unknowingly been in the presence of such a large chunk of history!
Another great video from our friend Mike Brady.
It's really unfortunate that Lusitania's wreck is in such a bad state.
It makes you wonder what her condition was when she was discovered.
Great video, Mike 👍.
The true cause of America's entry into the Great War: The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded message sent by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico in January 1917. The telegram proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States. It offered Mexico financial support and helped to regain lost territories in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Germany also asked Mexico to help persuade Japan to join the Central Powers.
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Not quite. The German government had decided at the same time to resume unrestricted warfare at sea, the same situation that had made the Lusitania a target just because it was a British-flagged ship. This time though (February 1917) U.S. flagged ships would also be at risk if they steamed or sailed into the zone that Germany had laid out, essentially encircling the British Isles and allowing them to dock only at Falmouth, by way of a "safe passageway" into that port which was a very narrow sea lane. (If anyone can access the New York "Times Machine", it is described on page one of 1st February 1917).
Obviously the Germans were unaware that the Zimmerman Telegram had been intercepted just prior to their announcement of resumption of unrestricted warfare at sea, and those two combined were the last straw for President Wilson and the U.S. Government.
So unrestricted U- Boot warfare is a crime, but Q- ships, tricking german U- Boot crews respecting war rules , is good?
@@ktipuss The irony of the Zimmermann Telegram was of course that Mexico was in no position to side with Germany and go to war again with the US due to Mexico being still in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, which was essentially a civil war that lasted from 1911 to 1920. Because of how poor American-Mexican relations were at the time due to Pancho Villa's raid into New Mexico in March 1916 and the responding yearlong Mexican Expedition of American troops into Mexico the Zimmermann Telegram was a plausible ploy, even if Mexico would have very likely lost badly if the two countries had gone to war again.
10:29 The Hilton Anatole has a huge collection of historical artifacts, including a section of the Berlin Wall.
I remember reading about the unexploded depth charges in the Lusitania section of Ballard's book _Ghost Liners,_ which also describes his coal dust hypothesis. And honestly, I'm fairly inclined to believe that hypothesis: combustible dust (and coal dust is *incredibly* combustible) is a very real explosive hazard responsible for numerous industrial disasters, the Lusitania's coal bunkers (which, per Admiralty specifications, were arranged to act as shields for her machinery) would have been rife with dust and slack coal so near the end of her voyage, and the smuggled war materiel would more likely have been hidden amongst the ship's supplies, luggage, etc. than anywhere near where the torpedo hit.
Most dusts are combustible in the right quantities, explosions from flour are a big risk whennit is produced
Awesome video Mike well done ❤
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Thank you for the video!
Thanks Mike. Watched a UA-cam video last night of a mighty tanker giving three master salutes to the Edmund Fitzgerald on the 49th anniversary of the loss. The tanker was the last to have had contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald on that night.
So it was the Arthur M. Anderson you saw in the video? Her captain, Bernard Cooper, had probably the best theories of how and why the Mighty Fitz sank, as he was the one guiding them through that vicious storm after they lost their radar. I highly recommend you check out any of the videos on here where Captain Cooper is interviewed,or speaks about that night in November of '75.
It’s a great day when our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs uploads a video!
I love your channel!
Love revisiting this!
i knew about the ammunition, but not about the undetonated depthcharges, thanks for the new info!
0:51 that transition was very smooth
Hey Mike, I'm a big fan of your videos and have learnt so much about the titanic, but want to learn more about the lusitania. I am just shocked to see the condition of the wreck
Im not even sure I can say this correctly...
Churchill laid mines down over where Lusitania now lay... to prevent anyone from seeing the site.
I once went on a BENDER to hunt down diving documentaries that went to the Lustiania. I found 1 documentary series... and the episode involving the Lusitania was missing. The site where she lay.. Churchill put a label on it.. as a type of War Crime site.. and anyone is forbidden from going there.
(In short, whatever Churchill decided to do with Lusitania... it was pretty damn bad. Thats ontop of the Inquiry into her demise was a H U G E attempt to have it fall on Turner SOLELY or the U-20. They never mentioned and or completely skipped over / ignored why she never got any help. -- Despite other Liners of her type being assisted...)
Interesting video, Lusitania is among my favourite ships ever built. Does anyone know what became of John Light's footage of Lusitania's wreck in the 1960s? From what I understand he was actually able to shoot footage of the wreck, but it's obviously quite poor quality and to my knowledge no digital copies exist. It would be interesting if this footage could be recovered, it would offer a view of the wreck before as much deterioration had set in. The last reference I can find to someone claiming to have seen the footage is in forum posts from the early '00s.
Although i don't think diving history is your thing. You should do a video on those dive suits because that's crazy. Love your videos ❤️
You are the best!
Fantastic viewing and learning
Bruh I love you vids so much it made me build 16 ocean liners of my own .2 more are coming and my company is Blox lines incorporated and check my chains too ❤❤
Stop forgetting the Lusitania! She deserves just as much attention as all other ships.
Honestly I never knew that pressure suits had that kind of tech on them back then? That's actually really cool!
Well done as usual
Nice vid unsure about the depth charges though
Thanks for all the video's like to watch your video's
Great video, you should do the mystery sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Interesting. Great video!
Excellent video.
Charles lauriat’s family lives here in town. Always heard rumors about his involvement in the lusatania. Pretty wild to hear him featured.
the rogue wave story about this ship is one of my faves
Hello Mike Brady ! The most well spoken Australian in the Southern Hemisphere ( and likely Northern, have you watched Boy Boy or friendlyjordies? No clue what their saying)
Yay! My favorite ocean liner!
Loved it.
Mike, You have got to do a review on Jack's 'Project Britannica'. The videos are JUST Awsome and definitely need more publicity!
Hey Mike Would You Consider A Video On Queen Mary Also What Are Your Thoughts On The Poseidon Adventure?
He’s already got 3 videos about the Queen Mary👍🏻
@ I Mean A More Up To Date Video Maybe Remaking The Queen Mary Vs Normandie Video Or A Video Looking At The Ships History Like The Life Of Lusitania
Hi its Mike Brady from oceanliner designs!
For the love of God…. Make this young man a professor or, at least, an expert speaker about ships, shipwrecks, ship building….etc. So many people find his stories amazing.
He already is!
Omg! I was at the Hilton Anatole for several weeks a couple years ago and never bothered to read the sign on that propeller. I failed.
“I really like your golf clubs”
“Thanks they’re made from a propeller from the Lusitania”
Could you pleasedo a video on the sunken munitions ship in the Thames river London?
I always WONDERED what that ship's propeller was doing in the Anatole Hotel in Dallas!
Are there any descriptions of the Lusitania from the first dive? I can't imagine they could see much from that but it would be interesting how the ship looked 20 years after sinking.
An interesting note from the 1935 dive, which I believe there was only a single dive, was that the diver had the unsettling experience of coming across bodies on the wreck, which drifted towards him. If this was indeed the case, and I believe it was, that might account for there only being a single dive on the wreck.
I proposed to my then-girlfriend beside Lusitania's propellor in Liverpool. She was dumb enough to say 'yes', and she's now my wife. We took our honeymoon on the Queen Victoria, which I'd passed by in Cobh on May 15th, 2015, whilst I was there for the centenary of Lusitania's sinking. Funny how life has coincidences like that.
My grandparents many years ago had a big leather covered cushion from Lusitania that had been picked up off the beach after it sank and given to them. It supposedly fell apart years later and was thrown away 😞
Just rereading the Colin Simpson book, had to watch!
Don't stop making videos please!
675K subs and he releases videos weekly, this is also his job/income but he’s just gonna randomly stop making videos……..
Yes. Don't stop the engines. 🎉.
Have you considered doing one on the SS City of Benares?
Would love to hear your take on that sinking.
I can’t remember where I read this, but I did read a report from a log entry of a British warship supposedly recorded in the area of Lusitania. The log entry recorded making several passes to depth charge a sonar contact to be a U-boat, but discontinued with the note “likely shipwreck”
Robert Ballard found the third propeller in a UK scrap yard “to be melted” pile and even had himself filmed touching it. The yard owner refused to pull it from the pile despite knowing what it was since it was just “scrap metal” to him and Ballard didn’t have the cash immediately on him to buy it. It was gone before the day ended, as I understand it.
No it in Liverpool doors on display
@@RaymondSharrocks-lw6mt There were three.