Pretty cool film. Interesting to see that a private company like Island Tug and Barge paid money to have the film made. Unusual! Unfortunately, they are gone. Now Tidewater.
Thus ends the long and storied life of the _Parthia._ Eighty-six years of service, the longest career of any ocean liner, so long, in fact, that a second _Parthia_ had entered service with Cunard in 1948.
Does anybody know if this Parthia is the one by which Parthia Shoal off Stanley Park is named after? I understand it is named after a vessel of the same name which went aground on it.
"...an uncharted bay" Wow. When your narration is written by someone with a head full of Hollywood melodrama. For a fact, the Aleutians had been exhaustively charted by this time. They would not have known that the bay would be a safe anchorage it it was not charted. That nit pick aside, nice little story.
As an amateur naval historian I don't know that the combined allied navies had an ships classified as corvettes. The Kriegsmarine, on the other hand, did. That would mean she was a war prize. Or I could be mistaken. Please let me know if this is the case.
So cool. My great GM came over on the Parthia - from Liverpool to Boston in1871 when she was 5 years old. Thanks for sharing!
Pretty cool film. Interesting to see that a private company like Island Tug and Barge paid money to have the film made. Unusual! Unfortunately, they are gone. Now Tidewater.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
This is a cool piece of history
Scary watching the guy work above the tow line YIKES
Thus ends the long and storied life of the _Parthia._ Eighty-six years of service, the longest career of any ocean liner, so long, in fact, that a second _Parthia_ had entered service with Cunard in 1948.
Impressive seamanship.
Does anybody know if this Parthia is the one by which Parthia Shoal off Stanley Park is named after? I understand it is named after a vessel of the same name which went aground on it.
I can taste the salt, I've seen cables part so scared me to see those guys checking it
"...an uncharted bay"
Wow. When your narration is written by someone with a head full of Hollywood melodrama. For a fact, the Aleutians had been exhaustively charted by this time. They would not have known that the bay would be a safe anchorage it it was not charted.
That nit pick aside, nice little story.
Maritime history ❤🙏🏼 🇨🇦
A very painful sight to see.
As a naval architect: Corvette to tug?!
Sea worthy and powerful and probably cheap surplus, about says it all.
@@graham2631 Fast boats are bad slow boats.
Probably changed transmission and prop.
bet it needed lots of rudder welded on & I can still imagine it was a pig to skipper.
As an amateur naval historian I don't know that the combined allied navies had an ships classified as corvettes. The Kriegsmarine, on the other hand, did. That would mean she was a war prize. Or I could be mistaken. Please let me know if this is the case.
What you can do when you're broke and need something.
Nearly lost it.
Titanic bow design, bad omen.