When I was in the 4th grade this became my first essay for school based on the sinking of the Lusitania. It was known that passenger ships from the U.S. to Great Britain were filled with weapons.
Funny thing is that the ship in the teaser with the "mushroom" cloud is the USS Lexington CV-2 in a picture of her during the end of the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific Ocean War with Japan. Double check the picture with the WIkipedia pix on the article of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
You are correct sir, I was about to post the same message. The explosion in the photo was caused by the ignition of aviation gasoline vapors on her hanger deck.
They didn't need spies. They could simply have read the manifest. Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. Any ship was, in the eyes of a U-boat commander, fair game.
It was so much of an open secret that these ships were loaded with goods for the war effort that the German embassy even put ads in the newspapers, warning the passengers of the Lusitania of the risks they were under. But, it was a welcome pretense for the US government to do what they had wanted, like so many other times since then (Gulf of Tonkin, the "miraculously misfiled" warning of Pearl Harbor, 2nd Iraq War, ...).
Amazing the Sussex was able to make it to port with her entire bow blown off! Must of been able to seal the next bulkhead to keep the water from overwhelming the pumps.
Dive! Dive deep! Fear not the King of the seas for in His heart he has a place for those who sail beneath His waves. Dive, dive deep and hope and pray the enemy cannot see the wake of the long eyes nor hear the motor's whine. Dive, down, down, down to the mud and the marl and the fish's surprise of our iron coffin's impact and rest. Fly now! Fly away from this cold, cold grave from the place of silence and grief where our bones will lay till the trumpet's call and the sea shall give up her dead. Valhalla awaits!
What surprised me was how fast the speed of Lusitania sank. At 787 ft (239.9 m) long, with a being in a depth of 305 feet (93 m) of water. Also consider how fast she sank. It's believe she struck bow first several crush her bow.
A french steamer with the name of a Great British county , well done france we look forwar to more than nil points in the next eurovision. Love from Great Britain 🇬🇧
She was actually built for the London, Brighton and South Coast railway (LBSCR) in 1894 (as you might guess with a name like Sussex!) and remained under their control even after she was sold to the French in 1914. After she was repaired she reentered service, but struck a mine in 1917. Repaired again, she was sold to Greek line in 1920, finally being scrapped in 1921 after a fire. Cross channel passengers were still carried in 1916 - the war was only in the NorthEast of France, and this was the only means of getting across the Channel. No aeroplanes in those days!
There's always that one person nieve and undereducated that think they're smarter than the producer of the video and MUST tell them. (When all they gotta do is just read one sentence in the creator's description) 🙄
Please do a video about Laffey (Benson class destroyer DD-459). For the commenters please note that Dark Seas has done a video about USS Laffey DD-724 Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer not Laffey DD-459 Benson class destroyer which broadsided a Japanese battleship at point blank range.
Interesting as ever but don't spoil it by being slipshod. Lusitania was sunk off Irish Coast to the west of Ireland, the Atlantic. The Irish Sea quoted is East of Ireland. Not picking? Not if you are a historian.
One metric horsepower (PS) is 1.5 % higher than traditional horsepower (HP). For engines of that periods the difference is not worth noting as power measurement methods were too crude to see any difference.
The British lied about the cargo on the Lusitania. The ship was loaded with war material thus was a legal war target. The British bare the blame for the lost of Americans.
Conflating the Sussex attack and the sinking of the Lusitania is a crude narrative. Was this done because naming the SS Sussex in the title more marketable than using UB-29 in the title. Sketchy at best. Too many ifs, buts and maybes.
@HubertofLiege I was a secret. They people getting on it didn't know. Germany actually per an aid in American papers saying they would sink it. There were spies here you know.
The HMHS Britannic was allegedly ferrying weapons and ammunition into the cargo holds, yet its not clear whether it was confirmed or denied by the government that it wasn’t surely proven. Yet that’s ok. I’m sure there’s lots of ships that allegedly might be kinda of ferrying weapons and ammunition were quietly stowed away into the cargo holds..
@@HubertofLiege The Germans knew but were adept at blending in that nobody could suspect anything. Not like the internet was available in Lusitania’s time.
If the Germans knew then it was by espionage, and the only time that the only time the could get the massage to the subs was when it was on the serface. That, and last torpeado made it was a risky thing. The whole deal was aganst the alies.
So Germany attacked the USS Lexington? That's the picture in your click bait. I would watch more of your videos if your research was better and you didn't use exaggerated headlines. I might even subscribe. But instead you get a thumbs down from me. The picture is from the Battle of the Coral Sea. May, 1942. The ship was attacked by Japanese bombers and torpedoes.
My question was actually on the name, and had they said the wrong country. The history makes it clear it was built in England the. Transferred to France
The errors that these supposed historical videos make are often hysterical. The only sobering thing is that many of today's ignorant students of "history" will take them as facts and perpetuate the errors.
@@brianm2242 The Lusitania was sank in the Atlantic off Ireland and not the Irish Sea. Just one “fact” that is wrong. I still love watching these Dark channels but never take them as gospel.
My statement stands as posted, no amplification or explanation is necessary. The enquiring mind would examine the original video and discover those errors themselves. The modern mind wants to be spoon fed.
All you people who actually don't realize that the AI voice over made a mistake on saying that ANY ship would bother to carry such a small gun are idiots
Not sure if he was joking or what, but literally none of the specs of the UB II boats were that impressive, even for the time. Also it's far from the most deadly submarine of the war. The U-31 type of U-boats were many times more deadly, with the top boats sinking more than a hundred ships each. They had an 88mm gun which was used by SM U-35 to sink more than 500.000 tons of ships. A lot more capable than the toy gun of the UB II. SM U-39 (fun fact, Karl Dönitz was an officer on this boat) sank 404.000 tons. It was a time before decent sonars and adequate ASW. Edit: lol he changed the title of the video now
So sailing a "ferry" (which I am positive would never have been carrying war materials), loaded with civilians, from Britain to France in WWI is somehow a good idea? And people lost their minds because a submarine shot it?
"The only shio that Germany should never have attacked"!?! Implying they should have attacked the enormous number of other ones they atracked, including the unarmed ones carrying cargo, attacks in which people died?!? Shame on you! You are profiting from the deaths of huge numbers of people while condoning them.
Very bad title on this video. Germany should never have attacked any ship. Ever. Could have saved many lives if Germany had not done the things it did in the 20th century.
@@Beowulf_98 so you believe that Germany should have attacked every ship it ever attacked? Really? I guess your made up name explains your sympathy towards the murderous cowards that set in motion the deaths of about 50 million military and civilians in WW2 alone. Not to mention the other little war before that. Yeah. I see you for what you are.
@@9983sp Again another person defending murderous Nazi Germans. So by your logic if you warn someone not to walk down a certain street its ok to kill them? Disgusting.
That's an interesting question, so I looked it up. Metric horsepower is a real measurement equaling 4,500 kilogram-metres per minute. The metric horsepower is equal to 0.98632 hp.
I would enjoy this site even better if you would not be so lazy and use metric and standard measurements like other content providers. It's not really that difficult.
Title of this video : "The Only Vessel That Outwitted the Deadliest German Submarine in History". You say that the original captain of the UB-29 was rated at 31st place in tonnage sunk by U-Boats in WWI. So how, exactly does this U-Boat merit the title " Deadliest German Submarine in History". That's pretty sloppy of you. Does that even take into account German U-Boats in WWII, because that is history also! WWI stat - M U-35 was a German U 31-class U-boat which operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I. It ended up being the most successful U-boat participating in the war, sinking 220 merchant ships for a total of 505,121 gross register tons (GRT). Her longest serving captain was Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière. Under his command, U-35 sank 191 ships, making him the most successful submarine commander in history.
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When I was in the 4th grade this became my first essay for school based on the sinking of the Lusitania. It was known that passenger ships from the U.S. to Great Britain were filled with weapons.
Funny thing is that the ship in the teaser with the "mushroom" cloud is the USS Lexington CV-2 in a picture of her during the end of the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific Ocean War with Japan.
Double check the picture with the WIkipedia pix on the article of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The "Lex" is a true HERO SHIP...she fought hard, and effectively...A great story on it's own💪
You are correct sir, I was about to post the same message. The explosion in the photo was caused by the ignition of aviation gasoline vapors on her hanger deck.
Yet a another master vid by Dark !
Another very educational video. Keep up the good work
The people on the Lusitania had no knowledge of what the ship was carrying below but Germany did due to spys seeing it loaded.
Open secret what she and others carried
They didn't need spies. They could simply have read the manifest. Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. Any ship was, in the eyes of a U-boat commander, fair game.
It was so much of an open secret that these ships were loaded with goods for the war effort that the German embassy even put ads in the newspapers, warning the passengers of the Lusitania of the risks they were under.
But, it was a welcome pretense for the US government to do what they had wanted, like so many other times since then (Gulf of Tonkin, the "miraculously misfiled" warning of Pearl Harbor, 2nd Iraq War, ...).
The Germans also claimed it was carrying Canadian troops, a lie.
@@dovetonsturdee7033How could they read the manifest if they didn’t use spies?
Amazing the Sussex was able to make it to port with her entire bow blown off! Must of been able to seal the next bulkhead to keep the water from overwhelming the pumps.
Dive!
Dive deep!
Fear not the King of the seas
for in His heart he has a place
for those who sail beneath His waves.
Dive,
dive deep
and hope and pray
the enemy cannot see the wake of the long eyes
nor hear the motor's whine.
Dive,
down, down, down
to the mud and the marl
and the fish's surprise
of our iron coffin's impact and rest.
Fly now!
Fly away from this cold, cold grave
from the place of silence and grief
where our bones will lay till the trumpet's call
and the sea shall give up her dead.
Valhalla awaits!
great narration
What surprised me was how fast the speed of Lusitania sank. At 787 ft (239.9 m) long, with a being in a depth of 305 feet (93 m) of water. Also consider how fast she sank. It's believe she struck bow first several crush her bow.
Love your content... however 4 ads in 60s is a bit much.
Again, excellent content and i enjoy it!
Just get an add-blocker. I haven't had an add in years.
Same here I sometimes get an advert at the start but that's it.
I got tired of the fight. Ad blockers are the way to go, but as a poor man, $13 bucks is also affordable.
Im cheering yall on either way.
One of the victims of the torpedoing was Enrique Granados, the wonderful Spanish composer.
right, as guitarist I read how he was safe but saw his wife in the water and joined her trying to save her........
Fan of Granados and never knew this. Thanks.
I thought it was, which is why I watched the video. What a waste.
A french steamer with the name of a Great British county , well done france we look forwar to more than nil points in the next eurovision.
Love from Great Britain 🇬🇧
A LOT of US ships named for Brit cities/regions -how many "USS Portsmouth" can you find? (I know I'm probably missing your point, LOL)...
What did you expect? French..........
She was actually built for the London, Brighton and South Coast railway (LBSCR) in 1894 (as you might guess with a name like Sussex!) and remained under their control even after she was sold to the French in 1914. After she was repaired she reentered service, but struck a mine in 1917. Repaired again, she was sold to Greek line in 1920, finally being scrapped in 1921 after a fire. Cross channel passengers were still carried in 1916 - the war was only in the NorthEast of France, and this was the only means of getting across the Channel. No aeroplanes in those days!
@@DrivermanO thank you for the information I learned something today 👍🇬🇧
Why did the U-boat have a name plate in the torpedo room?
We must worry.
So why do you show a picof the USS Lexington blowing up after the battle of the Coral Sea?
Must be laziness.
Random picture for thumbnail
Because it's a friggin cool picture?
Laziness...its a namaste type situation where they recognize the laziness of their viewers.
The ship aground on the rocks - its an isle of Man steamer -- ran aground near Fort perch rock lighthouse in fog , she was NOT torpedoed.
His photos should only be considered “approximately reënacted by this other, somewhat similar, craft.”
they do say that their photos and videos are for ILLUSTRATIONS ONLY!!!!
There's always that one person nieve and undereducated that think they're smarter than the producer of the video and MUST tell them. (When all they gotta do is just read one sentence in the creator's description) 🙄
They found pieces of a torpedo in the ships bow.
Please do a video about Laffey (Benson class destroyer DD-459). For the commenters please note that Dark Seas has done a video about USS Laffey DD-724 Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer not Laffey DD-459 Benson class destroyer which broadsided a Japanese battleship at point blank range.
Interesting as ever but don't spoil it by being slipshod. Lusitania was sunk off Irish Coast to the west of Ireland, the Atlantic. The Irish Sea quoted is East of Ireland. Not picking? Not if you are a historian.
More accurately 8 miles south of Ireland.
"malevolent torpedo?" Are there any benevolent ones?
The love torpedo.
and it was a ferry not some navy vessel
One metric horsepower (PS) is 1.5 % higher than traditional horsepower (HP). For engines of that periods the difference is not worth noting as power measurement methods were too crude to see any difference.
music way too loud - cannot hear narration at all
How about an episode on best maritime museums
Luisitania. They also knew there were women and children aboard. They as many of their victims did. Drowned.
I think this was one of your more interesting posts .
Germany should never have attacked ..ANY .....ship , that was in the merchant fleet , warships should only engage other military vessels ,
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
The British lied about the cargo on the Lusitania. The ship was loaded with war material thus was a legal war target. The British bare the blame for the lost of Americans.
God Bless the brave men of the submarine duty, of all lost in the srtvice of their countries
Conflating the Sussex attack and the sinking of the Lusitania is a crude narrative.
Was this done because naming the SS Sussex in the title more marketable than using UB-29 in the title.
Sketchy at best. Too many ifs, buts and maybes.
4 ads in 1,5 min... wow
The Lusitania was carrying weapons and ammunition to England secretly on a civilian vessel. That made it a legitimate target.
If it was a secret then the Germans didn’t know that
@HubertofLiege I was a secret. They people getting on it didn't know. Germany actually per an aid in American papers saying they would sink it. There were spies here you know.
The HMHS Britannic was allegedly ferrying weapons and ammunition into the cargo holds, yet its not clear whether it was confirmed or denied by the government that it wasn’t surely proven. Yet that’s ok. I’m sure there’s lots of ships that allegedly might be kinda of ferrying weapons and ammunition were quietly stowed away into the cargo holds..
@@HubertofLiege The Germans knew but were adept at blending in that nobody could suspect anything. Not like the internet was available in Lusitania’s time.
If the Germans knew then it was by espionage, and the only time that the only time the could get the massage to the subs was when it was on the serface. That, and last torpeado made it was a risky thing. The whole deal was aganst the alies.
The Lexington
So Germany attacked the USS Lexington? That's the picture in your click bait. I would watch more of your videos if your research was better and you didn't use exaggerated headlines. I might even subscribe. But instead you get a thumbs down from me.
The picture is from the Battle of the Coral Sea. May, 1942. The ship was attacked by Japanese bombers and torpedoes.
Ackshewally... 😂 Germany should never have attacked ANY American or Allied ships... 😢❤
War legalized murder winner takes all. ☹️
If not her would been another one
I enjoyed the content but not a fan of the "clacking" on the soundtrack. Becomes very pronounced towards the end of the video and is a distraction.
My question was actually on the name, and had they said the wrong country. The history makes it clear it was built in England the. Transferred to France
The errors that these supposed historical videos make are often hysterical. The only sobering thing is that many of today's ignorant students of "history" will take them as facts and perpetuate the errors.
So point them out. Just saying it's full of errors helps nobody.
@@brianm2242Agreed.
@@brianm2242 The Lusitania was sank in the Atlantic off Ireland and not the Irish Sea. Just one “fact” that is wrong. I still love watching these Dark channels but never take them as gospel.
My statement stands as posted, no amplification or explanation is necessary. The enquiring mind would examine the original video and discover those errors themselves. The modern mind wants to be spoon fed.
@@JoeSchmedlap-lm2wx Please don't be a school teacher.
Those 5cm (2") deck guns must of been devastating 😅
…must have…
Versus an unarmored ship… a peashooter is threatening. Go figure i point a pistole at you, only 9mm but can tuin your day
Take out the bridge, and punch a few holes at or below the waterline..down she goes.
All you people who actually don't realize that the AI voice over made a mistake on saying that ANY ship would bother to carry such a small gun are idiots
Not sure if he was joking or what, but literally none of the specs of the UB II boats were that impressive, even for the time. Also it's far from the most deadly submarine of the war. The U-31 type of U-boats were many times more deadly, with the top boats sinking more than a hundred ships each. They had an 88mm gun which was used by SM U-35 to sink more than 500.000 tons of ships. A lot more capable than the toy gun of the UB II. SM U-39 (fun fact, Karl Dönitz was an officer on this boat) sank 404.000 tons.
It was a time before decent sonars and adequate ASW.
Edit: lol he changed the title of the video now
24.3.16 then You say "many decades later in 1917" - You do You not only say it wrong You do it Wrong - its Maths.
So sailing a "ferry" (which I am positive would never have been carrying war materials), loaded with civilians, from Britain to France in WWI is somehow a good idea? And people lost their minds because a submarine shot it?
The Criminal Crew Of UB 29 Got EVERYTHING That They Deserved
"The only shio that Germany should never have attacked"!?! Implying they should have attacked the enormous number of other ones they atracked, including the unarmed ones carrying cargo, attacks in which people died?!?
Shame on you! You are profiting from the deaths of huge numbers of people while condoning them.
FARTED !
Very bad title on this video. Germany should never have attacked any ship. Ever. Could have saved many lives if Germany had not done the things it did in the 20th century.
You don't know anything about naval warfare do you.
@@Beowulf_98 so you believe that Germany should have attacked every ship it ever attacked? Really? I guess your made up name explains your sympathy towards the murderous cowards that set in motion the deaths of about 50 million military and civilians in WW2 alone. Not to mention the other little war before that. Yeah. I see you for what you are.
It was wartime. Also, they warned everyone not to enter those waters. The Essex was carrying troops and equipment as well.
@@9983sp Again another person defending murderous Nazi Germans. So by your logic if you warn someone not to walk down a certain street its ok to kill them? Disgusting.
WTF is METRIC Horsepower - extremely suspect Video with, yet again, irrelevant Film.
That's an interesting question, so I looked it up. Metric horsepower is a real measurement equaling 4,500 kilogram-metres per minute. The metric horsepower is equal to 0.98632 hp.
I would enjoy this site even better if you would not be so lazy and use metric and standard measurements like other content providers. It's not really that difficult.
Title of this video : "The Only Vessel That Outwitted the Deadliest German Submarine in History". You say that the original captain of the UB-29 was rated at 31st place in tonnage sunk by U-Boats in WWI. So how, exactly does this U-Boat merit the title " Deadliest German Submarine in History". That's pretty sloppy of you. Does that even take into account German U-Boats in WWII, because that is history also!
WWI stat - M U-35 was a German U 31-class U-boat which operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I. It ended up being the most successful U-boat participating in the war, sinking 220 merchant ships for a total of 505,121 gross register tons (GRT).
Her longest serving captain was Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière. Under his command, U-35 sank 191 ships, making him the most successful submarine commander in history.
You've gotta be a bubble bubblehead. We picked up a few of ya'll on sonar......