Sinking of the SS Carl D. Bradley

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  • SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States. Her sinking was likely caused by structural failure from the brittle steel used in her construction.
    Built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, Carl D. Bradley was owned by the Michigan Limestone division of U.S. Steel, and operated by the Bradley Transportation Company. She retained the title of "Queen of the Lakes" for 22 years as the longest and largest freighter on the Great Lakes.
    Thanks to Andrew Tamlyn Stempki
    #CarlDBradley #Freighter #CaljuCotcas

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  • @Steven.Mayes99
    @Steven.Mayes99 2 роки тому +95

    This is amazing! I hope it's for a documentary because the Bradley is in desperate need of a good one. Survivor Frank Mays was my cousin and a good friend. He would have loved this animation! Thank you for keeping the memory of these great ships alive with your animations!

    • @Kaidhicksii
      @Kaidhicksii 2 роки тому +1

      If this had come out a few months earlier, it would've gone perfectly in this one :) ua-cam.com/video/zz2T4UWf9X4/v-deo.html

    • @paulhoffman778
      @paulhoffman778 2 роки тому +6

      I love the FITZGERALD , but I've always been intrigued by the sinking of the Bradley I feel it gets overlooked way to much.

    • @ThatGuy-po7df
      @ThatGuy-po7df 2 роки тому +3

      Maritime horrors has a good video on the Bradley

    • @paulhoffman778
      @paulhoffman778 2 роки тому

      @@ThatGuy-po7df will check out thank you.

    • @hsecornel
      @hsecornel 2 роки тому

      We're actually all cousins everyone in world is

  • @Delta_NWAB747fan
    @Delta_NWAB747fan 2 роки тому +43

    Always love the classic front-bridge/pilothouse forward freighters, they were all such pretty ships. They used to rule the lakes, now there are only a few are left on the lakes in active service. Nice animation!
    Edit: Possibly Daniel J. Morrell or SS Cedarville?

    • @TheEmeraldMenOfficial
      @TheEmeraldMenOfficial 2 роки тому +2

      The term you are looking for is “straight-decked”, and only two are still around without a self-unloader if memory serves. And Ryerson hasn’t sailed in 14 years… :)

    • @Chris-zs4qd
      @Chris-zs4qd 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheEmeraldMenOfficial The Anderson hasn’t sailed for 14 years? It has been frequently sailing without fault, if you check a ship tracker you can see that it is running fine.

    • @Delta_NWAB747fan
      @Delta_NWAB747fan 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheEmeraldMenOfficial well this one wasn’t a straight decker. The ships with the pilot house forward are my favorites rather than the rear bridge freighters that are so common nowadays. I know the term straight decker but the terms I used are specifically classic lakers.

    • @TheEmeraldMenOfficial
      @TheEmeraldMenOfficial Рік тому

      @@Chris-zs4qd was talking about Edward L. Ryerson, not Arthur M. Anderson.
      Anderson is a self-unloader, ans the two surviving true straight-decked ships are the SS Alpena and the SS Edward L. Ryerson.

    • @EperogiLimousine
      @EperogiLimousine Рік тому

      Weren’t these straightdecks pretty much the inky ships that sunk on the lakes? That proves they’re dangerous

  • @noahdavidson8733
    @noahdavidson8733 2 роки тому +21

    It’s great to see lesser-known freighter wrecks getting notoriety. No story in history is insignificant, especially when lives are lost. No one deserved to be forgotten.

  • @retrogamingguitarist5961
    @retrogamingguitarist5961 2 роки тому +8

    Great animation, may I suggest doing either the Daniel J Morrell and or it's sister Edward Y Townsend the latter of which sank within the general vicinity of RMS Titanic as it was being towed to a scrapyard in Spain.

  • @DeltaXK144
    @DeltaXK144 2 роки тому +5

    Where did you get the model for the ship? It looks stunning

  • @TheUnflushedToilet
    @TheUnflushedToilet 2 роки тому +104

    I've noticed that the sinking's of lesser known freighters have started gaining popularity, I've seen a lot of people who thought that the Edmund Fitzgerald was the only ship to have ever sunk in the Great Lakes.

    • @ZekeorSomething
      @ZekeorSomething 2 роки тому +8

      Well it is the most famous ship to sink there so I’m not surprised

    • @RmsLusitainia
      @RmsLusitainia 2 роки тому +1

      I know

    • @insertnamehere313
      @insertnamehere313 2 роки тому +3

      You met ALOT of people who thought the Fitz was the only ship that ever sunk in all the Great Lakes history is not even believable and your stretching the truth or just flat out lying give me a break.

    • @TheUnflushedToilet
      @TheUnflushedToilet 2 роки тому +7

      @@insertnamehere313 Most of these people I've heard were on ship games on Roblox who probably don't live near the Great Lakes.

    • @TheUnflushedToilet
      @TheUnflushedToilet 2 роки тому +4

      And they also were probably children

  • @RAV1953
    @RAV1953 2 роки тому +10

    As sad and as tragic as all sinkings have been, this one may have been the most tragic in regard to how much it affected one town....Rogers City Mi. RIP to all who have been lost on the lakes.

    • @cfgeneric7677
      @cfgeneric7677 2 роки тому

      And then the sinking of Bradley’s sister ship Cedarville sunk affecting Roger city again

    • @tjhookit
      @tjhookit Рік тому

      Yes.....I heard 20 of the men who died in this wreck were from there. RIP

  • @RockyThePupsGamingChannel
    @RockyThePupsGamingChannel Рік тому +2

    Do The SInking Of The SS Daniel J. Morrell

  • @Leprechaunproduction
    @Leprechaunproduction 2 роки тому +4

    It's good to see this ship gaining some attention; there are so many other shipwrecks from the Great Lakes that deserve to be remembered along with the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    And, as other people have asked, where did you get the model for the Bradley? I looked around for one a few months back and had no luck.

  • @HoshizakiYoshimasa
    @HoshizakiYoshimasa 2 роки тому +3

    Do the Daniel J Morrell and Cedarville next. Then you have done all 4 of the most recent and the biggest great lakes shipwrecks!

  • @flatgrimace
    @flatgrimace 2 роки тому +3

    I was just thinking about this channel and how you should have made a video about the Carl D

  • @jacquestheron2392
    @jacquestheron2392 2 роки тому +4

    love your videos. big fan from South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @Komsermavi
    @Komsermavi Рік тому +1

    Oh what a beautiful morning wait what is that squeaking sound?

  • @KhamhbawiTLUMANG
    @KhamhbawiTLUMANG Рік тому +1

    1975 vs 1993 Edmund Fitz vs carl d Bradley

  • @funnelvortex7722
    @funnelvortex7722 2 роки тому +4

    Nice to see more mainstream attention is being brought to Great Lakes history lately including the lesser known wrecks, the Fitz is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to wrecks littering the Lakes, could you by any chance do the Lady Elgin at some point?

    • @Chris-zs4qd
      @Chris-zs4qd 2 роки тому

      One interesting wreck that not many people know of is the Anthony Wayne, it sank 8 miles off the coast of Vermilion Ohio on April 28, 1850. Two of her Starboard boilers exploded.

    • @brianstabile165
      @brianstabile165 Рік тому

      I believe you mean center of the storm

    • @EperogiLimousine
      @EperogiLimousine Рік тому

      Tip of the ice-burg: slang for a small portion of media that is looked at but ignored the rest of said media.@@brianstabile165

  • @Michiganrailfanner23
    @Michiganrailfanner23 2 роки тому +1

    Very amazing now the last freighter that sank is the Daniel J. Morrel,also it would be very cool to see the Arthur m Anderson sink can you make that happen for a video not like a real ship video you know what I mean

  • @michaelbenitez539
    @michaelbenitez539 2 роки тому

    Isn't this animation for the upcoming The Men Long Forgotten Film they're doing about the Bradley?

  • @ukaszwalczak1154
    @ukaszwalczak1154 2 роки тому +2

    Fun fact: After a dive few days(or years, idr-) after Bradley's sinking, the ship was in..suprisingly good condition(for shipwrecks atleast), not split in half, just, sitting there in 1 piece. It was found in 2 pieces only in 1997.

    • @Bald_Cat2007
      @Bald_Cat2007 2 роки тому +1

      No the company that owned it sent they're own team of divers down just so they could say it didn't break up so they couldn't have to pay the families of the victims. And when the divers went down in 1997 they discovered it was in 2 pieces and that was when they payed the families but not the amount they promised

    • @jeffirish3402
      @jeffirish3402 2 роки тому +1

      The current theory is that she split down to the keel on the surface and didn't actually separate until she hit the bottom. In other instances like the Morrell (1966) or the Minch (1940) the bow and stern are several mile apart.

  • @The_Steambox
    @The_Steambox Рік тому +1

    Rip Edmund Fitzgerald and Carl D bradley

  • @tugboats79
    @tugboats79 2 роки тому +1

    Kle sa teed päris häid simulatsioone ajaloolistest juhtumitest... Aga mis arvad kui lisaks mõned tehnilised asjad veel nagu näiteks navigatsiooni tuled nendele laevadele seal videotes? Muudaks pildi veel reaalsemaks ja eriala inimestele muudaks asja vähem silma kriipivaks? Muidu hea töö ja jätka samas vaimus 😉

  • @lecreature856
    @lecreature856 2 роки тому +1

    I'm the only one that see the Bradley like the brother of SS Edmund Fitzgerald?

  • @DONKFORTRESS6956
    @DONKFORTRESS6956 2 роки тому +1

    I still wonder how great lake freighters got away with the hull design even though it was prone to snapping in half

  • @tiktokmems1
    @tiktokmems1 2 роки тому +5

    Good! And I found out there were 2 survivors and I’m a big fan of yours

    • @kyleeaton2660
      @kyleeaton2660 2 роки тому +1

      How did they survive anyway?

    • @Klappadler7844
      @Klappadler7844 2 роки тому +1

      Elmer Fleming and Frank Mays survived

    • @Klappadler7844
      @Klappadler7844 2 роки тому +1

      Technically one other man did for a bit after he was pulled from the water then died

    • @caljucotcas
      @caljucotcas  2 роки тому +1

      There was a raft

    • @kyleeaton2660
      @kyleeaton2660 2 роки тому

      @@caljucotcas Well they must've been very lucky to get on it before it was too late.

  • @windusbindo
    @windusbindo 2 роки тому

    Someone stupid: calls it Edmund Fitzgerald cuz it has forward bridge
    The smart guy: L bozo

  • @medicinemanvids
    @medicinemanvids Рік тому +1

    It looks like a blue Edmund Fitzgerald to me.

  • @captainAlex258
    @captainAlex258 11 місяців тому

    rust sank the carl d bradly no mystery at all so why people call it a mystery it blows my mind plus the carl d bradly has no books of her at all

  • @MrDingus19
    @MrDingus19 2 роки тому +1

    wasn't there a boiler explosion?

    • @HoshizakiYoshimasa
      @HoshizakiYoshimasa 2 роки тому

      Yes there was. Flames went out from the smokestack/funnel

  • @KhamhbawiTLUMANG
    @KhamhbawiTLUMANG Рік тому +1

    Carl D Bradley on 1927 loss thes😊

  • @Kaidhicksii
    @Kaidhicksii 2 роки тому +1

    Nice recreation of the Bradley sinking: eerie animation once again. It's incredible how fast the Great Lakes can swallow a ship whole.

  • @zacharyalcachupas
    @zacharyalcachupas День тому

    Looks like the Emund Fiszt Gerald but blue

  • @madjack1748
    @madjack1748 8 місяців тому

    you didn't include the boiler explosion when seawater got to the engine room

  • @Jumping-cholla
    @Jumping-cholla 4 місяці тому

    I didn’t know so many frightening ship wrecks happened in my own backyard 😕

  • @jezbroncano3006
    @jezbroncano3006 Рік тому

    the ss carl d bradley tge carl was my name so its like its my ship

  • @MatheusMatos-ib5nm
    @MatheusMatos-ib5nm 3 місяці тому

    Quando olhei pela primeira vez achei que erra o Edmund fiztzerald kk

  • @bernardashamiti240
    @bernardashamiti240 7 місяців тому

    How do I know that the ship is going to brake in two!!!!!!!!

  • @randomuser9883
    @randomuser9883 2 роки тому +1

    One little inaccurate thing i found. The survivors said the bow capsized when it sank the stern sank the right way though

    • @HoshizakiYoshimasa
      @HoshizakiYoshimasa 2 роки тому

      The Bow is sitting right-side up on the lake floor though.

    • @randomuser9883
      @randomuser9883 2 роки тому

      @@HoshizakiYoshimasa yeah she is but the bow section could have landed on an even keel search up the survivors testemony’s on the sinking

  • @GoofyGoober191
    @GoofyGoober191 Місяць тому

    You’ve gotta recreate the sinking of the Daniel J Morrell. It’s one of the lesser known great lakers that went down. One of the most interesting and terrifying things about the sinking is once the bow sank, the stern keep going for another 5 nautical miles before sinking.

    • @caljucotcas
      @caljucotcas  Місяць тому

      @@GoofyGoober191 okay, thats interesting, i going to read about that, i will make it one day for sure! Thanks!

  • @dani-o9w
    @dani-o9w Рік тому

    The sink just like edmund fitz gerald

  • @anasanja1214
    @anasanja1214 Рік тому

    Uh i meaned to only Edum Fizgerald is the only bulk carrier who sank At Michigen river

    • @anasanja1214
      @anasanja1214 Рік тому

      Bruh i am bad in English i meaned Lake

  • @tuxedotservo
    @tuxedotservo 5 місяців тому

    What's amazing about the wreck is that the spar deck managed to keep the fore and aft connected after the section in the cargo hold seemingly just fell out.
    All the stress - twisting and bending in the waves, while still under propellsion - one would think would cause the spar deck to fail, and the Bradley to sink in two distinct halves - but that isn't what happened.
    Even the survivors were certain she'd broken clean in half.

  • @rando9347
    @rando9347 2 роки тому +1

    Taaskord oled retsilt hea animatsiooni teinud!!!!!

  • @mohammedkafa
    @mohammedkafa 2 роки тому +2

    Great! 🤗 But the question is: why did it sink?

    • @emmett_n
      @emmett_n 2 роки тому +3

      Structural failure, stressed beyond its strength limit.

    • @mohammedkafa
      @mohammedkafa 2 роки тому +1

      @@emmett_n Thanks a lot! 🌹

    • @funnelvortex7722
      @funnelvortex7722 2 роки тому +4

      Constructed during the interwar period, steel from that era was notoriously brittle, the Bradely was supposed to be done for the season and was scheduled to structurally reinforced in winter drydock but the company ordered it to do one more load at the last minute then it got caught in a storm where the structural failure happened.

    • @mohammedkafa
      @mohammedkafa 2 роки тому

      @@funnelvortex7722 Thank you! 🌸

    • @ZombieSlayer-dj3wb
      @ZombieSlayer-dj3wb Рік тому

      @@funnelvortex7722 single weld hull or riveted hull

  • @christadych5668
    @christadych5668 2 роки тому +1

    How did you figure out how it went down after the break?

    • @brendanfoehr5086
      @brendanfoehr5086 2 роки тому

      Unfortunately, this animation does not match the testimony of the survivors. Apparently, the crane on deck shifted to the side when the Bradley split, pulling the bow over to port and capsizing it; the survivors watched people scramble on the stern but it went down pretty much as it did in the animation, only once it was completely submerged there was a massive explosion from the cold sea water hitting the still burning boilers.

  • @max_biermacher3075
    @max_biermacher3075 2 роки тому

    1:36 it just pulled it down like a catapult

  • @civillady13
    @civillady13 6 місяців тому

    I enjoyed your simulation of this sinking but I couldn’t tell what caused it. The water looked pretty calm and there didn’t appear to be any mechanical issues (explosion, fire and the like).
    What caused the tragedy?

    • @marsfunkhouser5886
      @marsfunkhouser5886 2 місяці тому +1

      A combination of constant excessive loading and a 31-year long career without much regular maintenance at the time of her sinking caused the steel hull to become brittle and split under pressure. There was a sudden storm on Lake Michigan and the vessel was transporting a full limestone load to Wisconsin.

    • @civillady13
      @civillady13 2 місяці тому

      @@marsfunkhouser5886 thank you!

  • @TobbyGiel0215FirstAccount
    @TobbyGiel0215FirstAccount 2 роки тому

    Making a v-break be like:

  • @vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440
    @vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440 2 роки тому

    oh a real v-break up

  • @kk_doomsday92
    @kk_doomsday92 2 роки тому

    The Daniel j morrell next?

  • @pearlharborcauser2020
    @pearlharborcauser2020 2 роки тому

    Ss stand for steamship and carl d bradley did not use steam it use oil

    • @johnhurd6243
      @johnhurd6243 2 роки тому

      Propulsion. General Electric high and low pressure steam turbines turning electric motors to a single fixed pitch propeller

  • @fernandocorreia3894
    @fernandocorreia3894 2 роки тому

    This ship makes me remember Edmund Fitzgerald

  • @pedrorojas4563
    @pedrorojas4563 2 роки тому +1

    What animation app did you use?

  • @tjhookit
    @tjhookit Рік тому

    Wow! You have skills my friend

  • @thehistorickid9100
    @thehistorickid9100 2 роки тому

    I have needed to see a video like this so long so I can see how it sank so I can make a stop motion

  • @МаксимКуява
    @МаксимКуява 11 місяців тому

    FITZGERALD?!🤯

  • @jaydennetzel7147
    @jaydennetzel7147 2 роки тому

    Could you do the Edmund Fitzgerald?

  • @robertmclean1098
    @robertmclean1098 2 роки тому

    I believe the last part has her deck hinged. The dives to the Bradley show the deck is broken. Although I don't believe anyone can prove it, It is most likely hinged at the bottom. This is the video of the break ua-cam.com/video/lqTkgeIi97g/v-deo.html

    • @ZombieSlayer-dj3wb
      @ZombieSlayer-dj3wb 10 місяців тому

      I belive its keel held until the bolier explosion

  • @md.aslam.vi.pro..1076
    @md.aslam.vi.pro..1076 2 роки тому

    লা ইলাহা ইল্লাল্লাহু মুহাম্মাদুর রাসুলুল্লাহ সাঃ আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম

  • @nickols6267
    @nickols6267 2 роки тому

    ρяσмσѕм

  • @XBOPO6YIIIEKnet
    @XBOPO6YIIIEKnet 2 роки тому

    Always this scheme… with this type of ships…

  • @agnosticlibertarian175
    @agnosticlibertarian175 2 роки тому

    could you do one on the Daniel J. Morrell?

  • @brentackerman9857
    @brentackerman9857 2 роки тому

    Man does dang is a maid

  • @codekiller2
    @codekiller2 2 роки тому

    great vid. only critique no boiler explosion , when the stern sinks.

    • @caljucotcas
      @caljucotcas  2 роки тому

      Thanks, I know yes, i had no coice 😃

  • @samsnead7
    @samsnead7 2 роки тому

    How about some narration?

  • @matteoshulze5761
    @matteoshulze5761 2 роки тому

    There’s something about the design of these kind of ships, they look so haunting and just oddly weird but at the same time they can look pretty interesting and just something that just gains your attention. I guess the reason why it looks so haunting is because of all the sinkings that had happened with these kind of similar ship designs with the same flaws in their sinkings.

    • @katherineberger6329
      @katherineberger6329 2 роки тому +1

      Any long freighter is going to have the same flaws because they're built to be the cheapest possible way to carry a lot of very, very heavy cargo. There's a video from last year of MV Arvin breaking in two on the Black Sea. She sank before anyone could reach her, taking half of her 12-man crew with her. The oceans are harsh and the Great Lakes are as treacherous as any ocean - I've seen with my own eyes 50-footers crashing against the cliffs of the North Shore.

  • @pilotbug6100
    @pilotbug6100 2 роки тому

    The waves need to be more severe
    But other than that it is quite good

    • @funnelvortex7722
      @funnelvortex7722 2 роки тому

      Yeah the Bradely sank during very harsh conditions. Though depending on the program he's using and the specs of his PC making big detailed waves can be a pain in the ass to render so I get why'd he go for this.

  • @joshuablassingame7714
    @joshuablassingame7714 2 роки тому

    Was the SS Carl Bradley a sister ship of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

    • @HoshizakiYoshimasa
      @HoshizakiYoshimasa 2 роки тому +2

      No. The Fitzgerald's sister ship was the Arthur B Homer which was scrapped after they found structural issues. Carl D Bradley's sister ship is the Cedarville which sank in the 1960's after a collision with another ship underneath the Mackinaw bridge

    • @joshuablassingame7714
      @joshuablassingame7714 2 роки тому

      @@HoshizakiYoshimasa Thank you.

  • @nateh145
    @nateh145 2 роки тому +3

    you need to make a wreck version this is amazing

    • @caljucotcas
      @caljucotcas  2 роки тому +3

      Coming in 7 hours

    • @nateh145
      @nateh145 2 роки тому

      @@caljucotcas Nice can't wait to see it

  • @l.hefner8872
    @l.hefner8872 Рік тому

    Is this real?

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 2 роки тому +1

    What did you use?

  • @max_biermacher3075
    @max_biermacher3075 2 роки тому

    What caused it? The waves?

  • @bland29084
    @bland29084 2 роки тому

    earned a sub

  • @natureboyy3
    @natureboyy3 2 роки тому

    Good animation!

  • @martapijanowska8218
    @martapijanowska8218 2 роки тому

    Nice

  • @1237Noah
    @1237Noah 2 роки тому

    Great animation

  • @Sirshipbuilder
    @Sirshipbuilder 2 роки тому

    Thank you for doing the Bradley