The sinking of the RMS Lusitania in WW1 was a major factor in the United States joining the war effort. The loss of life was horrible, the event itself was pure chaos. 18 minutes of terror on the seas.
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nice vid not so nice death
Thanx, guys :)
wait, i forgot can u make- oh its uploaded
@@FelisLeopard Based on the super tiiiiiny bit of 3d modelling I've done, I can tell a lot went into that model. Well done Felis!! And thank you for giving permission and letting us all see it!
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Titanic: plenty of time, not enough lifeboats Lusitania: plenty of lifeboats, not enough time
Titanic barley had enough time to launch her lifeboats. If she had more lifeboats it probably wouldn’t have been enough time for each one The Britannic had less than 50 minutes to launch boats since the captain held the boats up and tried to beach her, but she had the advantage of more experienced crew and those lifeboat gantries. I’m not quite sure how many were on board her that trip, I think around 1,000 were saved and 30 lost
@@ChampaRealLordChampa all passangers managed to get off britannic. the people that died were the ones tht got choopped by the propeller blades,. chop chop chop chop
@@NoName-pe5sx chop chop chop chop
@@ChampaRealLordChampa it literally took 2 hours to sink, ofc they had plenty of time. There was just a lot of shit coordination and the captain’s dumb ass decision to lessen the life boats.
@@randomrazr yep and they put themselves in that situation, launching their own boats and bailing before the Abandon Ship order was given.
Whenever you feel like a failure remember that you could be like the Lusitania's lifeboats
Or the guy who sold 1700 bitcoin in 2011 for .30 ($510), that would now be worth $57.4 million.
@@zyrrhos what about the guy who bought a pizza with bitcoin now worth a few hundren million dollars?
@@alphaexpress6881 Yeah that guy, too. Wonder what happened to the pizza guy though. Something like 3 million bitcoin has been lost.
I need this in a bumper sticker
Ok
I know nothing about this whatsoever, but seeing all those boats sink and fail... gives me a whole new appreciation for the the boats that were successful in Titanic. The fact people were on some of those and they faltered in various ways ... I have no words. At least the ones that were launched in Titanic, were successful (I say the ones launched, not all were launched).
Yea, two big factors in play there; the list, and the impact The list of course because it instantly disabled half the Lucy's boats (riveted hulls absolutely tear wooden lifeboats apart when lowered at a negative angle) and because lowering those small lifeboats on davits that were under-equipped for huge ships like that is hazardous even on a level deck. Lowering them from the top decks wasnt just a nightmare for passengers trying to reach them, it also vastly increased the distance to the water and thus made listing even worse. Notice how almost all cruise ships today store their lifeboats much closer to the waterline And one factor that I think gets left out of sinking explanations often; the sound and feel of the impact. As opposed to Titanic which rather peacefully swiped the berg and left many ppl wondering if the ship was even in danger at all, on Lusitania the two explosions were undeniable signs of danger from the start. Panic set in almost immediately and the crowd's "rowdiness" made the evacuation much more chaotic. As opposed to passengers being ushered into the boats by crew as on Titanic, on Lusitania it was the total opposite and many panicking passengers rushed them before they could be readied. Im an events steward and Ive studied crowd mentality, it really does make all the difference on a sinking ship A lot can be said about how maritime safety laws have changed, but I personally think the huge death tolls from past ocean disasters is more explained by the fact that these ships, in ratio to their size, simply carried too many people
That's exactly what i was thinking. This sinking wouldn't have been half as bad if they were able to successfully launch those life boats.
Except collapsible A and B
They had 2:30 hours to evacuate the Titanic and she wasn't listing. With enough lifeboats, most people would have survived.
@@fenrislegacy It was listing, but nowhere near as intensely as Lusitania or Britannic.
The noises of these huge ships breaking apart must be so scary. The grinding of metal and huge rivets being blown out oml. These animations are such a treat. It is of course extremely heartbreaking & it gives us a better appreciation of what these poor souls went through. Thank you lots to the creators.
This is what I was exactly thinking!!! Well said
JFC... 'these animations are such a treat'... passive aggressive ideat. U don't care a thing about 'these poor souls''' only about getting online affirmation to your narrow mind.
yeah the sound of them, especially at 16:25 and 16:51
I’m sure the screams are the scary part
And most of the crew and passengers in total darkness down below.
When you see big ship, real time in title and duration of 18 minutes, you know this was pure hell.
I'd say SS Atlantic was the worst maritime disaster peacetime. The sheer chaos of waves so agressively smacking against you as you scramble to find safety, screaming all around you past the venting of steam so loud it makes your ears ring long afterward. The death toll was lower, but the passenger's final moments were utterly horrific. People will say titanic was worse, but passengers actually had time to assess the situation, unlike Atlantic. Death toll wise, Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst disaster overall.
@@johnny_tard id argue in terms of terms of worst shipwrecks to be involved in i'd put the Scandinavian star right up there. Not as many people died but Imagine getting lost in the thick smoke and slowly dying as you inhale asbestos smoke while simultaneously getting cooked alive knowing theres no where safe.
@@johnny_tard I think the HMHS Britannic was the worst (in my opinion). Mainly because most of the 30 people that died already got outside the ship... Only to get chopped up by the ship propellor
@@johnny_tard - You're quite right, I agree with everything you say. The horror show SS Atlantic must've been in her final moments... I get light-headed just trying to imagine. Those poor people. And Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10,000 souls, most of whom were lost... Whatever the numbers may be, all of these maritime disasters were terrible losses.
@@johnny_tard Isn't the MS Estonia the worst peacetime maritime disaster ?
Titanic: I'm not very good at filling lifeboats. Lusitania: I'm not very good at lifeboats.
Sheeeeesh
Lol
@@damigab more like I'm really good at destroying the lifeboats
@@Never_Qu1t_2013 correct
Costa Concordia: Im very good at not filling the lifeboats when I need to save people
It's crazy to me how Lusitania and Titanic have very similar numbers in terms of victims and survivors, and yet one took 18 minutes to sink and the other, nearly 3 hours. Two completely different situations with almost the same result.
wasn’t the Lusitania also the ship that rescued the Titanic? If so, very eerie.
@@arcosprey4811 it was actually the Carpathia :)
@@105chloe that also sank
it was cold water that killed everyone
@@arcosprey4811 the ship that rescued titanic is carpathia
My 4x great-uncle was a Second Class Bed Steward on the Lusitania and he drowned when the ship sank. Obviously I never knew him, but it’s sad to think that the 59 year-old man that he was, would likely have never left the ship. He had served on multiple passenger liners with the Cunard Line since he was 20.
I guess if you work on a ship that long, you're bound to sink.
Rip to your 4x great uncle
My mother's cousins sisters nephews step father was a life boat.
@@JJGerrard1980 You’re so funny.
@@gabesscottscott4070 obviously I never knew it but it's sad to think it likely would have chosen to go down with the ship for it had served many voyages with the ship and they had become lovers years prior
I've never seen one ship have so many lifeboats break, capsize or something else go wrong, that was excessively unlucky
Watch the RMS Atlantic real time sinking. It's kind of dark, but in that one pretty much all the boats got destroyed.
@@sorrenblitz805 oh really
@@sorrenblitz805 the Atlantic was such a unique tragedy. You’d think being that close to shore would be a good thing...
I know ! Talk about Sh--- lifeboat luck. I could see one or two mishaps but like 6 ?
If I had to guess, the ship continuing at full speed made launching impossible, as the lifeboats were intended to be launched when the ship stopped. Probably caused the boats to slam into the hull and all sorts of things
Apparently, some of the ships kitchen staff jumped in a food service elevator right after the torpedo hit, to get to the boat deck faster. They were trapped in the elevator when the second explosion happened, and the power failed. I cannot think of a more terrifying way to die.
*I heard it was a myth* I was wrong
@@eveei I read it in “Dead Wake”.
@@eveei actually it’s not
@@eveei Not a myth. Passengers did get trapped in elevators when the power failed.
I read not that long ago that a lift boy (?) who worked in the elevators said no one was trapped but I've never heard of the food service elevator situation before. Truly horrible. I'm not sure but I think something like that may have happened on the Andrea Doria in 1956. I read something about people trapped in an elevator but I don't know the outcome. I think that if it happened at all it ended with those in the elevator being released. I'd read about the trapped-in-the-elevator scenario many years ago and since then have tended to avoid elevators, not out of fear but as a reasonable precaution. Too stair-climbing is good exercise! Still I did get caught in an elevator once but it was resolved in about five minutes and I hope to never experience that again.
That fact that there were 764 surviors out of a total of 1,959 aboard, what with all of the tragedies that took place during their escape is miracle.
Only two shy of 1200 dead.
@@quinna5537 It was actually 1201 if you count the people who died of serious injuries they had incurred in the disaster shortly after they were rescued.
It’s crazy to believe this happened a mere 3 years after the Titanic
How is that crazy to believe
@@UnitedAirlinesDC10 i agree
Not. Not really. There were 142 shipwrecks from April 15, 1912 (day of Titanic's sinking) to December 31, 1912 *alone.* Not to mention this was WW1 - a minimum of like 5,000 ships were sunk over a 4 year period.
There are thousands and thousands of shipwrecks you would be surprised
The empress of island sunk 2 year after 100s dead
It’s actually a miracle that 761 survived when the lifeboats are seriously THIS much of a problem
Yep the engineers who built those did some trolling to much
@@Mattvolko it probably cause they didn’t shut off the engines
@@xander4670 maybe
It was mostly because the boat was still moving the lifeboats are not designed to be lowered when your moving 25mph they almost had to wait for the ship to take on water to slow it down but by then it was too late. Not sure how they all managed to die unless it was freezing cold water, as 15 miles off the irish coast is a sailable distance with a life belt keeping you afloat. 10 hours of breast stroke, jobs a gooden.
@@UncalBertExcretes The fact that the ship remained in motion meant that the hole left by the torpedo acted like a scoop forcing even more water into the hull even faster.
With all the lifeboat troubles it is wonderous that 764 survived.
52 degree water and it went down 11.5 miles from the Irish Coast.
Wait only 62 more survivors than Titanic
How many people died?
@@anthonijloots1276 1,198 died according to Wikipedia
It was only 11 miles off the Irish coast and it was the middle of May in temperate waters, which helped alot. Rescuers were able to reach survivors quickly, meaning people could tread water until then. The basic thing was if you managed to get off and could swim or get to one of the few lifeboats that managed to launch, you were probably fine. The problem was the ship went under so fast there was almost no time to do so.
Titanic: Takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink Lusitania: OH SH-
Lusitania: 18 minutes oh sh-
Lifeboats 1 and 21 deserve a round of applause 👏🏻
there’s just something so creepy about a huge ship being claimed by the ocean
Okay, I'll claim it then. Happy now?
I must go, my people need me *sinks*
Indeed! Its so huge and imposing on the water. Then its just gone. Its still there, just below the surface, but its vanished.
@@HarrisChoudhry this made me chuckle way too hard
@@MrMitchellw16 "It's still there, just below the surface" ... any submechanophobe's worst nightmare LOL.
True story: there was one woman on board Lusitania called Margaret Gwyer, she and her just married husband were travelling on board to liverpool when Lusitania sank, when the torpedo hit, Gwyer was dining with her busband, she got on a lifeboat but her husband stayed behind to help other people into boats, Margaret then looked up and felt that one of the stacks of the ship was about to fall onto the boat she was on, so she got back on board, when all the stacks were under, one of them sucked Margaret and other passengers back into the ship, but then a boiler explosion just below that funnel shot her back out again, she eventually got into a lifeboat and met with her husband again.
@gargy2002 I was going to say, this feels like a staged sinking to get the US into the war.
@@zyrrhos It wasn't staged but it the ship most likely did have war materials on board. Hence the reason the Germans were sinking these ships in the first place. Either way for Germany, it was a lose-lose situation. Don't sink the ship and your enemies have more materials, or sink the ship and now you have a new enemy.
@@mcr-1266 It did have war materials on board that is known. Many people were outraged because of course they did not know. The U.S. was secretly directly involved in the war effort which was against international agreement/law.
@@mcr-1266 It’s been awhile since I read “Dead Wake” but it seems like there was the possibility that Winston Churchill (as the naval admiral or something?) knew there was a German u-boat in that area and there was a high likelihood it was going to get torpedoed, yet did nothing (in order to bring the US into the war). Do I have that right? Did anyone else read it?
@gargy2002 she did have ammunitions onboard, but those were stored in the cargo holds. Funnels connect directly to the boilers and nothing else. An ammunition explosion in one of the cargo holds could not have forced passengers being sucked into the funnels back up. A boiler explosion can do that, as the funnels go directly to the boilers.
It’s honestly crazy how almost all of their lifeboats failed or didn’t launch
Or how people were unable to get them due to being trapped on the ship.
and this is why Austria-Hungary should have hired professional drivers who wouldn’t have taken wrong turns.
18 minutes to us watching this through a screen seems like a lot, but 18 minutes to the poor souls on board at the time must've felt like absolutely nothing whatsoever. A terrifying experience to be sure.
Imagine trying to go from peaceful relaxation to swimming for your life in the middle of an empty ocean in less time then it takes to buy groceries.
@Fauxindigo Sorry, it raced to the bottom at its best speed, propellers turning the whole way.😀
Completely disagree. I'm sure it felt like a lifetime
@@RuminatingWizard How? When doom is approaching time feels like it's speeding up.. The people trapped in the ship and those without a lifeboat it probably felt like 2 minutes.
@@Digital111 When people get adrenalized their thoughts go faster therefore all time (for them) seems slower.
“Boat 1 is launched successfully” me: FINALLY
If you're gonna make a joke, make it funny
@@karsonduncan8014 If you’re gonna judge a joke, know how to identify one
Yes! They really had bad luck
The First Transport is away
@@karsonduncan8014 :/
It's still shocking how fast she sank, in less than 20 minutes.
That’s nothing compare to British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland
It has long been suspected that Lusitania (and other passenger ships) was carrying munitions from the USA to Britain, which 1) was the reason the Germans declared unrestricted warfare on oceangoing ships and 2) was the reason it sank so quickly. The damage was much greater than one would expect from two torpedo strikes. Even the U-boat captain was surprised
It never fails to amaze me just how fast it all happens
When you see this in real time, it is a wonder that anybody survived this disaster at all. Genuinely terrifying.
Especially how fast it sunk. More people survived this sinking then Titanic that took much longer to sink
The difference was how titanic was sinking, the Lusitania was just listing until it falls over
@@ryans413 The torpedo strike in the center of the ship would have rendered more of the watertight compartments useless, than the glancing blow that the Titanic suffered. You have to remember that these compartments are designed to withstand accidental impacts, not intentional explosions. Attacking passenger ships was severely frowned upon by all parties involved, giving way to what was known as "cruiser rules" whereby any unarmed vessel would be treated differently to those that were armed, and both ships were built before WWI began.
@@ryans413 it's because the Titanic was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Will Fenton Yes, I really love these real time videos
Everyone give this man and everyone who helped a round of applause
The ads though.
@@jimhendrix2465 yeah...god forbid he collect a small sum for all the effort he surely put into this.
@@benweiser22 it’s discouraging. And OMG, I gave my opinion.
Cla clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap 😛🤩
I said to my bf im clapping for health workers... because "man who created lusitania sinking animation'' sounds to complicated
I was born in Southampton, England, so I know a fair bit about the sinking of the Titanic. Thank you for posting this so I can learn more about the Lusitania.
I spent time there some years ago, close to where she set sail but circumstances prevented me from going down there. Long story 😮
Those lifeboats are the definite definition of failure and pain, my respect and condolences who died on that fateful day.
I can't imagine being on the ship and watching life boat after life boat fail then it being your turn to get on one....
"Either I die or I maybe die."
I'll take my chances on the ship
The life boats gave ZERO SHITS about the children on the life boats
Good ending: You were on boat 1
That's what I was thinking. But there isn't any good answer. Even if you popped on a life vest and jumped overboard, the propellers never stopped, just get chopped up.
Captain: Please shut off the engines Lusitania: How bout I turn off the electricity instead Captain: ...........
Underrated
Probably wouldn't have sunk as fast if they stopped moving
@@Englishsea24 Lower lifeboats from a moving ship and it will rip them off.
@@ytubepuppy I agree I saw boat no. 16 broke
@@Englishsea24 they couldn't do anything the torpedo probably killed the engines
Wow, this really makes me appreciate the Olympic class ships (Titanic and Britannic) for sinking comparably much slower.
I still believe if titanic never hit that iceberg. It would be docked as a museum today.
@@ScootsMcPoot most likely would have perished side by side with its brother at the hands of dismantlers during the Depression.
@@ScootsMcPoot Eh, I doubt it. The Olympic was scrapped and sold, so I imagine Titanic and Britannic would’ve too.
@@ScootsMcPoot if the titanic never hit an iceberg and sank it would not be famous and iconic as it is now and it will just be another steamer from the early 20th century.
Interesting thought. Still tragic, but appreciation of that extra time isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Good that you saw the positives in the different tragedies, so that we can remind ourselves, sometimes, that the people who were saved are because of that.
The groans and roars of the ship as she starts her plunge, then she REALLY starts to sink. The noises alone are horrifying, and I can't even imagine the sheer terror of the sinking itself. Titanic's sinking always made me feel sad, but Lusitania's sinking scares the shit out of me......the circumstances and the speed of her demise.
One of the factors that doomed the Lusitania was the fact that her watertight doors had to closed by hand. She wasn’t equipped with the same electric doors that the Olympic class had.
Don’t forget that the only way in or out of the hull was a electric elevator that stopped working after the impact
@@spicey4522 Which is not true? How would the 2nd class in the aft deckhouse get around? There were many stairs on the ship
Another factor is they put explosive and weapons on the ship to send to Englaind that really doomed it.
@@alastair9446 What doomed the ship is that the Churchill knew there were U-boats in the area (he was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time) and did not warn Lusitania. He was hoping the sinking of a passenger liner carrying Americans would bring the US into WW1. It worked, but at a cost of so many innocent civilians.
@@jeffburnham6611 I wish he was legit charged for that.
the amount of failed lifeboat launches scare me and is way more impactful than the actual ship sinking, at least in this animation without people.
I mean it is expected for a ship capsizing...
Yes the video needed some screaming and sound of the crew going crazy
This is why people on the Titanic were so reluctant to get into the boats until it was quite obvious that the ship was indeed sinking. Launching a lifeboat can be very precarious and it's a miracle it went as well as it did with the Titanic (and even then there were a few close calls).
@@CameronM1138 And with only 18 minuets from start to finish AND with the electricity shutting off in the first few minuets i guarantee a lot of crew were panicking trying to get the lifeboats off as fast as possible to save as many people as possible.
The ship was still moving while attempting to launch the lifeboats. It traveled 2 miles in 20 minutes while capsizing. The lifeboats are hanging from rope, so they’re pretty much just bashing the side of the ship their whole way down.
Captain: LAUNCH THE LIFEBOATS! Lusitania: I got you fam! **the lifeboats break loose, snap in half and cape size into the water**
I can only imagine how much of a 18 minute traumatic experience this could’ve been for those passengers, just imagine how fast that water must’ve rushed in the lower decks where some people might still be down there trying to find their way out. If only the engines responded it may have bought the passengers extra time and more life boats would’ve been able to launch successfully. Thoughts and Prayers to those who lost their lives.
Have you ever seen the movie about the Lusitania’s sinking? It really did a great job showing what it was like.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACYWhat's the name of the movie?
@@coco094 Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007)
Captain: Turn to starboard! Lusitania: No. Captain: Stop engines! Lusitania: No! Captain: LAUNCH LIFEBOATS! Lusitania: *NO!*
And lifeboat breaks
That is one stubborn, ornery piece of ship
Captain: walks off bridge wing directly into sea
@@bt25 Lusitania: (grabs Captain) *NO* 😈
@@LordWyatt hahahahaha omg yes
Of course the guy named Dolphin was the one that survived when his life boat capsized.... I hope nobody with the last name of Stone was on board...
Not sure if this is supposed to be cursed or a funny joke, take my like.
Avis Dolphin is a girl, she’s only around 15 and travelling only with her nanny
@@texaschainsawmass she was 12 at the time not 15 and she was seasick the whole time and holborn helped her
Avis Dolphin sounds like a webcam name
Oliver Stone was on board and went on to make several good films like Born On The 4th Of July and JFK.
0:55 Lusitania hit by torpedo, opening a wide gash roughly the size of a two story house. Lifeboat 5 is destroyed 1:14 Second explosion, possibly coal dust, blows up causing the ship to immediately list 15 degrees 2:36 Turner orders a hard turn to starboard, hoping to beach the ship off the Irish coast. Steam pressure falls from 190 to 50 pounds per square inch, as the power weakens and engines stop responding 2:46 Distress calls are sent to the Admiralty in London 3:50 Boat 2 and 4’s pins break, causing both lifeboats to fall into the sea 4:00 all electrical power fails, plunging the ship into darkness. Sudden loss of power traps passengers in elevators 4:21 Lusitania rights herself once more as water reaches port side compartments 4:45 Captain Turner orders abandon ship 5:12 Boat 16 breaks apart 9:15 Boat 10 smashes against the side of the ship 9:38 Lusitania is now slow enough to safely launch lifeboats 10:53 Boat 17 tips over 11:07 Boat 9 fails to launch 12:07 Forecastle starts to submerge 12:14 Lifeboat 1 is released and launches successfully, while Boat 18 tips over, spilling its occupants into the sea 12:25 Boat 14 sinks immediately 15:51 Boat 9 is dragged under by the ship 16:31 Captain Turner is swept into the sea but survives 17:15 Boat 15 floats away but is then dragged down with the ship by rigging 18:10 The Lusitania sinks, 20 minutes after the initial torpedo strike *6/48 lifeboats (12%) were successfully launched, some filled with less than 20 people*
Thx
@@Littlefish1239 The ship actually hade over 4 million rounds of .303 british, artillarty rounds and blasting caps for the artillary on board. That was what most likely caused the second explosion.
@@eppygames8976 Cool
@@eppygames8976 But that second explosion happened pretty quickly after the torpedo hit and that military hardware wasn’t being stored where the torpedo hit.
Thanks
For those who are wondering why the funnel isn't emitting smoke: the boilers connected it were shut off to reduce speed. It's not a fake funnel
Specifically, 'Lusitania' was only running three boiler rooms as a war economy measure. Fast liners used a lot of coal, and it was better for Britain's war effort not to waste too much of it on moving passengers around at high speeds. (Also, liners were having trouble attracting passngers.)
Officers: Prepare the lifeboats! Lifeboats : How about *NO*
Lifeboat is like: I don’t want u sitting in me!
Or be like death or cold water your choice
seriously, one jumps right after the torpedo hits, one breaks apart, one capsizes, and repeat lol they didnt give a shit
@@razieltalos here is something I don’t get why did they not turn off the engines I know they were not responding but is there a way or no way to turn off the engines at all like removing the fuel
@@Mrnoobestreturns You can't remove burning coal from a boiler. reversing or stopping the screws required a lot of people turning a lot of valves, most of them were most likely running from flood waters or dead. the boilers were huge. kzhead.info/sun/o9h9dtWRZGJ6onA/bejne.html&ab_channel=Hoeishetmogelijk
Titanic, Britannic and Lusitania, dont get on a boat that has the word Tan in it xD
Cos*ta* Co*n*cordia
“itan”
Or ride the same one that that one woman was on all 3 sank .
@@trossk if you are talking about the one im thinking then they didnt all sink. If you are talking about Violet Jessop, she did survive the sinking of Britannic and Titanic, but the other incident was on Olympic (who colided with another ship but didnt sunk).
Costa concordia 😂😂😂😂
The U Boat captain testified that they only had one torpedo left and that none of the previous torpedo strikes on other ships had done sufficient damage to sink the ship. This time when the torpedo hit there was a moment later an enormous explosion which in his words, watching through the periscope, "lifted the superstructure off the hull"... whether it was the tons of blasting caps and ammunition the Lusitania was illegally carrying or the coal dust in the near empty coal bunkers lining the ships double hull we will never probably know, but the second explosion did fatal damage inas much as it severed the controls of the ship from the bridge and the rudder was jammed so they could neither slow down nor turn the ship toward the Irish coast to ground it. When it sank the bow actually struck the bottom since the water where it foundered was shallower than the length of the ship. 18 minutes of nightmare with people barely able to comprehend what had happened before it was all over..
Big ups to boat 14 passengers that clung on to that thing like a cat. I hope whomever was responsible for these life boats got what was coming to them. Watching this is beyond frustrating
It was chaotic situation and the ship was listing. It's amazing as many of the boats got away
The lifeboats weren't anyone's fault; the ship's angle made launching the portside boats impossible and the starboard side boats dangerous - on top of that, the ship was still moving because the torpedo severed the bridge's control of the engines and rudder, and so lifeboats would move around too much and flip over.
The lifeboats weren't poorly made it was just the circumstances that fucked people up.
00:58 Watching her immediatley heel over to starboard like that is just so incredible and sad. Amazingly done.
Did it really start to list as quickly as that? I'd have thought it would take a good few minutes
@@Mataylor17 True I guess
It is very scary. That torpedo left such a giant hole it instantly caused all that water to flow right in.
@@Englishsea24 this is prolly sped up
I don’t believe the ship began listing until the 2nd blast
Some of those lifeboats sank faster than the ship. Another similar tragedy was the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Sunk, at night, in the St Lawrence river, in just 14 MINUTES. 1477 on board, 465 survived.
It would suck to die in the St Lawrence River.
@@gojewla imagine the last thing you ever experienced being Montreal. That's the real tragedy.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy lol. I like Montreal (in the summer).
@@DistractedGlobeGuy I've lived my whole life in Montreal. Never knew anything else. Is it really that bad? 😭
@@captaindeliciouspants5139 Montreal is amazing.
Your extensive, in-depth, exhaustive research into this sinking shows in your video.
We need more of these. They really help to understand just how desperate these situations were for those aboard.
This so calm and serene. I guess in reality there was a lot of screaming.
There’s some titanic one I watched one that had human sounds in it.
@@RennieAsh lemme guess... Titanic Honor & Glory?
I did appreciate the water sounds though.
@@titanicenjoyer6930 Isn’t that a video game?
idk bout you but if I was on a ship that was sinking as fast as the Lusi, I would be screaming.
Thanks for this. My great grandfather was a pilot in Cobh, Cork harbour back then, and his boat was one of the first on the scene in the rescue operation, and then sadly body recovery. The man was quite traumatised by what he saw and years later he'd refuse to even discuss it.
my great uncle was on a ship following the 'Lusitania',they saw her disappear beneath the waves,the feeling that they would be next was overwhelming.
That was spellbinding, eerie and so sad. Thank you for the history lesson.
The scary thing is that it was assumed the ship's speed would keep her safe from U-Boats. However it only pushed water into the breach faster and her momentum (among other factors) made it nearly impossible to slow down enough the stem the flooding and launch more lifeboats. Lusitania's speed didn't save her. It killed her.
Didn't help that the rapid flooding meant nobody was there to reverse the engines.
actually the torpedo shot by a german u-boat killed her
@@jakeg4858 Yeah, that was the main blow. We're talking the little things that made it that much worse/faster.
Her speed, or more correctly, potential speed, most cerainly did not 'kill' her. Lusitania and her sister Mauretania were the fastest passenger ships in the world at the time. Lusitania was capable of better than 26 knots with all her boilers blazing. Had she been going at all-ahead flank or full, it would've been nearly impossible to hit her with a torpedo. But, due to the wartime rationing of coal, she didn't have enough in her bunkers to achieve more than about 20 knots and still make the crossing. That made all the difference Kapitanlieutnant Walther Schweiger and crew needed to send a torpedo into RMS Lusitania's starboard flank. So it was really the false economy of some admiralty genius being stingy with the coal that contributed one more nail to her coffin.
even 18 knots was more than enough to outrun a WW1 uboat. for comparison, a WW2 Type Vll uboat could only do 14 knots surfaced and 8 knots underwater a WW1 Type l could only make 9 knots on surface and 3-4 underwater. It was pure chance that the uboat was lined up to hit her (as torpedoes need to hit on near 90 degree angles. if it comes in at too shallow an angle, then the detonator is missed and the torpedo simply bouces off) for the uboat crew this was pure luck. for the Lusitania is was sheer bad luck
Imagine making it into a lifeboat only for it to break in 2 or roll over.
Lifeboat: watches titanic movie Also lifeboat: I want to do this!
@@KTBPR67563 *SNAP* AHHH!
With spinning propellers inbound. 😬
Ikea, or the brits got them from their newest Chinese colony
@@KTBPR67563 HAHAHAHAHAHA GG 😂
I have never seen so many lifeboats lost, what a failure
107 years today
Even scarier imagining groups of people being dropped into the sea as those lifeboats fail. Must’ve been horrific to experience.
And being trapped in elevators and unable to find your way to the exits through the rooms and hallways due to the lights going out so quickly.
Because the ship was still moving. Had it stopped like the Titanic, that wouldn't have happened. I have seen this movie Speed 2 Cruise Control and as the last life boat was about to be lowered, similar thing nearly happened with that life boat as the ship started moving again. You cannot lower life boats when the ship is still moving. It's literally almost impossible.
Considering the speed with which she sank, it's amazing they managed to successfully get more than a third of her people off of her.
I'm wondering why isn't the last funnel smoking? Lusitania had 4 engines so why wouldn't the last one be puffing out smoke. Was she only at half speed when they were struck by the torpedo?
@@thomasmcginley7944 Ah, quite probably the animator was thinking it's a fake funnel like on Titanic (though it wasn't on Lusitania)? Her speed at the time of the sinking actually seems to be a contentious topic. It actually slowed down prior to the sinking for a triangulation of its coordinates and then after the torpedo hit, the captain's first order was to steam full speed towards the shore, but they couldn't turn the ship around anymore.
@@thomasmcginley7944 The last one was there for decoration and as a vent for the engines and boiler room, also it made the ship look even mire powerful
@@StarFelMusic As far as I know, Lusitania used all of it's 4 funnels. What you wrote is true for Olympic classes only.
@@StarFelMusic that was only the case for the Olympic class ships. The Lusitania and Mauritania both had four fully functioning funnels
Good work by all involved in making this. Very impressive. I nearly jumped out of my skin when the torpedo hit!
Respect to the camera man who went out there and filmed all this.
Everybody: get on the lifeboat Lifeboats: imma give up in life
If you're gonna make a joke, at least make it funny
yall lifeboats had one job!!!
@@karsonduncan8014 bad day?
@@karsonduncan8014 i thought it was funny
@@karsonduncan8014 it's ironic man .Why did they put lifeboats on that ship but only few was able to be useful?
Titanic: *spends over 2 hours sinking* Lusitania: fuck this shit i'm out
Man it feels weird commenting a month later, but I'm reading a book over the Lusitania that brought me to this video. They think she sunk so fast because she was moving when the torpedo hit. Her estimated speed was 18 knots, which forced so much water into the hole that her chambers were unable to compensate. The impact also caused the engines to become non-responsive. Titanic, if I can recall, was able to stop after the impact, which limited how quickly she took on water.
@@jordancarmer3371 There was also a boiler explosion, only worsening the situation.
@@jordancarmer3371 not to mention titanic had a scratch , that torpedo sure did a big hole. if the movie its acurate ofc.
@@basil9973 My understanding was that it was coal dust in a depleted bunker ignited by the torpedo. Either way, kind of a mundane resolution to a historical issue fraught with implications of criminal guilt falling on either the Germans or the British.
Ooh scuz mebpls
Imagine on top of everything else you look over the side to see the first life boat being lowered break apart and splinter into the sea just to reassure you how truly horrendous the situation is.
Sinking that fast it’s a blessing that many people survived
Those lifeboats seamed determined to dump as many people as possible in the sea
If the ship had had Wellin davits things would have gone SLIGHTLY better, but 18 minutes isn't enough time to change a tire, much less load a lifeboat.
Well they did get the job done That job being getting as many people off the ship One way or another
They were possessed by Satan himself
@@fritzbasset8645 Basically everything that could go wrong did.
Note to self: "Don't board cruise ships carrying war munitions"
Ocean liner* not cruise ship FYI
Germans bombed it first.
@@shijoejoseph2011 Wut?
@@shijoejoseph2011 The Lusitania was subsidized by the british government under the condition to use it in war times + it had ammunition on board. Therefore it was a legitimate target.
@@don6160 doesn't change the fact that the Germans bombed it.
Boat breaks while lowering? That sounds like the titanic!
It’s still terrifying that the behemoth that was a little smaller than the titanic managed to sink in about 18 minutes
Lusitania was actually about 100ft shorter in length than Titanic. Overall about 30% smaller. But yes, you'd think anything of even Lusitania's size wouldn't be possible of sinking in just 18 minutes...until it happens.
@@TitanicAnimations oh dang, thanks for telling me, still though, many thought it was impossible for this massive ship to sink in such a fast pace. Just by one torpedo.
@@attackoramic8361 Actually, the second (and according to survivors; MUCH bigger) explosion was due to illegally carried munitions being carried aboard the ship. A single torpedo would have small chance of sinking this ship in 18 minutes. The British government vehemently denied this fact for almost a century, claiming it was ignited coal dust which caused the second explosion. It was a huge cause of contention between the British and German governments as to whether the Lusitania was or wasn’t a legitimate target. Then in the 1960s, I believe, locals reported Royal Navy ships crisscrossing the area depth charging the wreck, possibly to hide any evidence. However, in either the 2000s or 2010s, a joint US/Irish expedition set out to settle the matter. They cut a hole into the hull outside the cargo hold and what faced their cameras was a well stacked wall of .303 rifle rounds, perfectly preserved though the crate had rotted away.
@@Dimmo87iedamn i need catch up on the lusitania lore, lmao
@Dimmo87ie It's confusing that the British denied it for so long, since the ammo was listed on the cargo manifest for everyone to see, which is why the German embassy issued a warning in the US advising people not to board auxiliary cruisers. That said, no evidence of an ammo detonation was found (unlikely to happen with rifle rounds and empty shell casings). Torpedos carry large warheads, and a pre-war ocean liner with a thin hull is gonna have a bad time getting struck by one. That single torpedo punched a hole as big as a house into the hull and bent it so much many watertight doors wouldn't be able to be closed, not like that would've mattered, but... yeah
Well this explains why modern day lifeboat davits look so clunky, have to be able to adapt to ship rolling and rising with odd bank angles.
Yeah modern day lifeboats are also buoyant enough to float even if they should drop into the sea at a weird angle.
@@KrK007 Nice
ROLLING DOWN IN THE DEEP
@@KrK007 they look hotdogs to me
@@Mattvolko Yeah, they kind of do.
My grandmother's cousin Arthur Elliott when down with the Luscitania. His body was never recovered. His wife Annie nee Harrot Elliott survived. She returned to Canada and gave birth to their daughter. Apparently Arthur went back below deck to get clothing but never returned. Annie jumped into the water as it was at her ankles. Thank you for this animated time line. It shows something of what happened in 18 minutes, minus the people and the terror they must have experienced. Annie lived in the Ottawa area, never remarried and is buried in Pinecrest cemetery, Ottawa. RIP
..Ship sinking is one of those MOST nightmarish & ultimate terrifying event all we can ever imagine!!...The fact that you're slowly or rapidly marching towards a definite painful death. .with only 20% chance to get help & be rescued from the nowhere of a cold, deep, open ocean....And the survivors on the lifeboats is forced to watch the massive sea vessel slowly disappearing from the surface right in front of their naked eyes. . & hear every scary sounds being generated by it. . .which they're never gonna forget the rest of their lives ! 😔
Can't imagine the absolute terror for so many on board that awful day. Rest Peace to all those that lost their lives in this terrible tragedy.
It is. But it is also disgusting to use passengers as living shields to protect a weapon transport.
@@Nikioko Yes, I had read she was carrying ammunition. It was murder.
@@DJ-jn3on The Germans had a good hunch what the Americans were doing so they announced they couldn't guarantee the safety of any vessel in the Atlantic... Sadly it was discovered way later what actually happened - after WW1. The American government sent their own people into the Atlantic well knowing they'd die and still did it to frame Germany as some evil power attacking America so they could justify entering WW1 despite the US population being against it at first. Really sickening.
@@Leon_der_Luftige isn't lusitania a british ship though?
Inherently tragedies are terrible, GW.
I would love to see you animate the sinking of SS Arctic in 1854 if possible. It was one of the worst maritime disasters I've read about, with crew members going against orders and choosing to save themselves over women and children. Just one bout of misfortune after another, especially for the captain, James Luce. I'm not sure how well-known the sinking is nowadays, but it's a fascinating one and I'd love for more people to know about it.
Yes! Horrible disaster.
Thank you for mentioning this. I shall research it. 😊
Just watched a video on it today it’s horrible
You got your wish!
Not even close to the wilhelm gustof. Near the end of world war 2, 10000 germans were load on board, but amidst its crossing, it was torpedoed 5 times, and 9000+ people died.
Out of Lusitania's 48 lifeboats, only *6* were launched successfully
RIP To the 1,195 passengers and crew who were killed in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania
This is actually a pretty good rendering. If Lusitania looks this nice, I’m sure Real Time Sinking Titanic 3.0 will be worth the wait. Keep up the good work.
"The Three Stooges star as lifeboat attendants in their new film Lusitania Lunatics."
nyuk nyuk
My thoughts exactly
15 Minutes After The Torpedo Strike: *Still Afloat* 3 Minutes Later: *Completely Sinks* That Is Downright Horrifying.
Beautiful video of a sad, sad day. Great work. Thanks for sharing.
torpedo hits lifeboat: fuck this, im out!
No, fuc dis sh!t Im out Sorry youtube cannot handle bad words
@@That1Guineapig. KZhead actually does handle swears and shit
It's just scary how it went down that fast with one torpedo
Thats why there is a theory that the ship was carrying ammunition,which caused a second explosion after the torpedo strike.
The Germans knew what they were doing. If you strike it in the center, where coal bunkers would have been left open, you can maximize the intake of water.
There are watertight compartment doors running down the ship, and in something like Titanic, they were able to close those, drastically slowing the spread of water. In this case, the explosions disabled that in some way, and they couldn't close the doors down, so water flooded the bowels of the ship MUCH faster.
It's almost like torpedos are specifically designed to do just that. Weird.
@@DylRicho The crew of U-20 wasn't aiming for the coal bunkers it was even a lucky shot they never thought the torpedo would hit or even sink it
Awesome graphic work! Thanks for sharing. Well done. 👉👊👍
0:53 torpedo strike Lifeboat: YEET
That was lifeboat 5
@@TitanicApril15🤓
@@leonardedwards6013 shut up
And then all the viewers remembered that the lusitania sank in 17 minutes so its gon be a short video
Actually it was 18 Minutes for the ship to fully sink.
@@HyperFoxTails I stand corrected if that makes you feel any better
@@HyperFoxTails Die Lusitania traf nach 18 Minuten den Meeresboden
Sadly it took just 18 minutes and 5 double ads for the ship to sink.
If ads are taken into account the ship took 40 minutes to sink
Such a beautiful lady...Rest in peace to the 1,198 souls lost on Lusitania on this day, 106 years ago...
something the cerator forgot to mention was that the sinking of the Lusitania was actually justifiable because In 1982, the head of the Foreign Office's American department finally admitted that there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous and poses a safety risk to salvage teams
It was already known all the way back then because the ammo was listed in her cargo manifest, which is why the German embassy issued a warning against boarding auxiliary cruisers like Lusitania, which was largely ignored
This is a very well put together animation and it's absolutely terrifying how quickly she sank, the Empress of Ireland sank only four minutes less than Lusitania.
Yeah, and considering the size comparison of the Lusitania and Empress of Ireland, I would say they went down beneath the water at about the same speed.
A lot of lessons learned from these ships can still easily be seen today. Just about all the commercial ships I served on had MES + Link rafts instead of a more traditional boat on davit solution. The MES(marine evacuation system) are like the inflatable slide on jumbo jets except they have a large capacity canister raft at the end(usually 200 man raft). The link rafts are canister rafts mounted along the ships side or deck. These can be launched and brought round to link to the MES raft to transfer passengers as they fill up. MES still needs the ship to slow and preferably stop but aren't written off quite so easily if the ship starts listing over like will happen with a boat + davit system. On a number of shipping disasters life boats on one whole side where rendered near useless due to list. It also means we can evac an entire ship without anyone touching the water and much faster than with rope ladders or loading boats then lowering them not to mention far easier for the disabled and elderly to board via slide than clambering or being lifted in. Ships I worked on also had double the life raft space of the ships maximum carrying capacity and each raft had 100% overload capacity so in theory we could lose 3/4 of our total life rafts and still have enough space. Other features like Hydro Static Units on life boat/raft lines were brought in so even boats and rafts that where never launched will cut away as a ship goes down. A modern ferry goes down today for example and nearly all the rafts will cut away and deploy even if the crew never touch them. Even the MES are rigged with hydro static units so the system will deploy, inflate and raft + slide can cut away from the ship. Each raft also has a survival pack that includes knives so anyone in the raft/boat has the tools to cut the lines if they need to get clear fast. Canister rafts are also quite popular on commercial ships because even if they deploy upside down or get flipped over in waves, one or two crew can flip it back over in what is admittedly a scary maneuver that usually ends with a 100 or 200 man life raft landing on your head. Not as bad as it sounds though. One last big change are the crews. While there was crew training on older ships way back when, it wasn't to the same degree and also didn't involve all crew beyond basic "there's a life jacket and that's how you put it on". Now practically the entire crew(even cabin crew) are trained, drilled and are part of the muster when things go wrong. They are also rotated through different muster positions so everyone knows how to deploy life boats/rafts and who needs to go where to gtfo. There are even strict regulations in place to ensure a safe crew to passenger ratio. I've been on sailings that were delayed or even cancelled because we didn't have enough crew on ship to carry the passengers booked. The pissed off 800+ passengers demanding refund were way better than the massive fines and potentially being shut down if we'd sailed under crewed. I was never unlucky enough to have to abandon ship but did get several drills(usually during refit and ship was out of service anyway) deploying MES. Only balls up was one idiot who didn't listen when told to slow themselves down the slide with their legs. He shot down the slide, bounced off the end and went clear off the other side of the raft straight into Belfast Lough to then be fished out, shouted at and given a nice fat FAIL and stuck shore side until they quit a couple of months later. Lifejackets also advanced a lot from lessons learned. A modern lifejacket is specifically designed to keep you on your back so even if you're unconscious you won't end up face down in the water. Not many things as funny as a pack of trainees trying to front crawl in a lifejacket 😂 Each lifejacket has a whistle, high-vis reflective tape and a bright blinking light activated on contact with water. Generally only certain members of crew will have inflatable lifejackets so they can maintain mobility until they end up in the water. These will inflate either by pulling a cord or automatically when they hit water. Other things that came in are EPIRB(Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) & SART(Search & Rescue Transponder). Ships generally carry at least 2 of each and usually at least 1 EPIRB mounted externally(normally a bridge wing) so even if the ship encounters a total disaster, the EPIRB can cut away and pop to the surface to do it's thing. If the ship needs to be abandoned the EPIRB & SART units are portable and can be taken into the rafts. As long as the rafts stick together after the ships gone they still have the beacons broadcasting and the SART giving direction bearing to anyone near by with Radar. In theory a ship going down doesn't even need anyone to broadcast distress.
My God this turned out amazing. From the animating to the water, to smoke, to everything. It is generally spectactular
Why do ocean liners look so majestic even as they sink?
Titanic: I don’t have enough lifeboats Lusitania: I have a lot of lifeboats,but the problem is in them 😂
and not just in my lifeboats but inside my own body too.
Beautiful ship. Too bad they don't make them today, with such classy lines. Today they look like a floating Maytag.
Well the ships you're referring to, aren't like these ships at all, you're talking about Pleasure Cruise ships which dont really do deep ocean crossings. Sadly Ocean liners with their sleek knife like bow and classy appearance aren't really needed anymore, because of Airplanes.
@@sorrenblitz805 What do they call cruise ships that cross?
@@RW4X4X3006 cruise ships. Sometimes Cruise ships will make crossings to do different routes, so they can do it, but it's not really what they're designed for and they're more likely to encounter problems/possibly sink doing actual crossings. Ocean liners still exist, Queen Mary 2 still does active transatlantic crossings, but she's designed very different to something you'd see on Carnival cruise lines.
@@sorrenblitz805 I was wondering about cruise ships open ocean handling.
@@RW4X4X3006 it's manageable but they don't do well. They're really more designed for shallower coastal waters, and they're dog-poopy in tonka tough storms.
Titanic real time sinking: Almost 3 hours Lusitania real time sinking: 18 minutes Holy hell
Armenia: 4 minutes
If the titanic sank this fast, I don't think anyone would have lived
Britannic:15 mins 😮💨
@@ashleymartinez5753 britannic sank in an hour, unless you mean the first britannic.
@@momoy9159 oh I completely forgot about the other one🤦♂️
I'm surprised that many ppl survived. I feel so bad for the others
I knew an old lady whose name was Lucy. Come to find out later her real name was Lusitania :) Thanks so much for not including any crappy music in these animation videos!
badabing badaboom, that's exactly what we're looking for.
James Cameron is a jerk.
@@equestriangirly2296 word
Yea I get that he meant it more as "Here's the results", but he could have found better words to describe the results.
@@equestriangirly2296 he directed the titanic movie
Lmao
I actually live about 25 Kilometers from the Old heas of Kinsale (18 km form where it sank) Its actually a Diving spot to go see it and the Local Lifeboat In Courtmacsherry goes ouf every year for a tribute . One of my friends been diving there before and said its amazing!
awesome video. you just earned yourself a new subscriber!
1:20 Regarding the second explosion, I'd place my bets on multiple boiler explosions. Lusitania and Mauretania were built with engines capable of incredibly high speeds for the time, so much that upon completion the vibrating was so severe the entire after third of the ship had to be gutted and refitted with stronger frame supports. The torpedo penetrated a coal bunker adjacent to Boiler Room 1, which contained two full sized boilers and two half-sized boilers, which after seven days of continuous heating suddenly coming in contact with cold seawater would have caused steam explosions strong enough to damage bulkheads both forward and aft of the room, possibly causing the same effect if water was able to penetrate aft into Boiler Room 2
Robert Ballard pretty much concluded the second explosion was from coal dust combustion.