Thank you for all these long form videos, I work overnights and I pop in an ear bud and listen to these. Thanks for keeping me sane!

Greed & Incompetence. Two companions, present throughout all of human history.

I am a student of the Civil War. I have studied the Sultana disaster thoroughly. It was a real tragedy brought about by greed and indifference to human lives. It is perhaps the saddest thing I have studied.

Another Maritime Disaster you might consider adding to your list is the loss of the steamer Eastland on the Chicago River in 1915.

All the British Soldiers on board the HMS Birkenhead commited the most loyal, selfless, brave, courageous, heroic - act ever. They would of all known the slow, torteous fate that was to come by following these orders. I have the utmost respect for VC & Medal of Honor Recopients, but this makes these Soldiers more courageous than VC & Medal of Honor Recipients. The level of valour that these British Soldiers displayed when they followed the Colonel's request to save Women & Children first, is far greater than any other act of valour I've read or heard about.

Very well presented. One thing that makes these types of tragedies so sad is knowing that if one or 2 happenstances had occured differently, the tragedies would have been avoided.

As a retired Sailor, these maritime stories have a place in my heart. In 1994 I was stationed on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41. Helped to rescue 8100 Cuban nationals from the Florida Straits in their attempt to reach the United States via whatever they could find that floats.

To just stand there, my god, they were strong men. Wish people were like this still. To give their lives for those women and children. To give their lives for others they deserved medals for that. Those poor blokes stuck below deck.

I want to take the time to thank you, The History Guy for your documentary on the Sultana. Nobody could have put it better. I salute you and our military for all you do and all you've done. God Bless you.

The first merchant ship I joined right out of high school in 1969 was a C-2 type, same as the Mount Hood. It was converted to containers. During my 30+ years in the US Merchant Marine I sailed on 3 ammo ships. Many time I visited the docks at Port Chicago, California. This is where an enormous explosion occured back in WW2. It also left a huge crater below where the ship once was and destroyed the dock and surrounding structures. It was said that it rained body parts for a long ways from the explosion.

Teaching: What not to do. These stories are priceless. Support THG.

This is my new favorite channel to listen to while gardening.

I'm an absolute sponge for a well told history lesson. My father is a retired history teacher and even after all these years he never ceases to feed my hunger for history lessons because he still searches daily for new knowledge 🤓🤓. I recently introduced him to this channel. He's ecstatic to have another source for history and he really enjoys seeing the passion and enthusiasm these lessons are told with.

Regarding the Sultana, we combat veterans are still treated this way to this day.

Hail and well met, fellow students! Greetings from Connecticut! 😀

The French frigate Méduse and the tragedy of the Raft story would be an interesting story to research.

Wow! Some of these maritime disasters should be made into movies.

Haven’t watched a THG video in a couple months because I wanted to give time for a ton of videos to be uploaded so I could binge, this alert was the one that got me started on said binge

More great old HG episodes. Sometimes I miss the 5 minute ones. Good night

Birkenhead Drill..... omg, those poor soldiers, so very brave and made of stronger stuff than most people in our time, it's a very emotional story of unbridled honor 😢

Thank you for keeping history alive, it gives me the opportunity to do the same History Guy.. well done! I will never forget the accidents of 1844 wow that really impacted the USA... actually all of the stories will be retold. Very well done.

Nice cap collection!

The land of opportunity at others expense. I do enjoy your channel. I always learn something. Wish I had you as a history teacher when I was in highschool in the late 60s, I might had completed school.

In your closing about the Sultana disaster, one could easily see how heartbroken you are speaking of the horrors that those poor veterans faced! You Sir are an excellent Historian and certainly a very good man! My hat is off to you and Thank you.

I’ve literally watched hundreds of your videos! Hope you’re doing well. You do these videos w an actual historian perspective where you don’t insert your political or social beliefs… just tell the story and I love that. 🫡 to you. I’ll give ya a watch as long as you’re doing em!

For the Army folk that wonder why we squids get a little woozy every time Ft. Hood is mentioned... xC

That Princeton story was quite the tale. Never heard of that connection to the civil war as a specific cause to the war. Was that just Grant’s opinion or is it a widely held belief shared by CW scholars?

Thank you History Guy for this very moving, informative, precarious and dangerous segment(s) of maritime history. May God hold them gently! ⛵⚓

i was in the navy, fire was our devil, we trained daily!

Needs a volume 2 to cover such disasters as the Wilhelm Gustloff, MS Estonia, The Herald of Free Enterprise, The Empress of Ireland and Costa Concordia.

Absolutely fantastic video. Thank you!!!

Some good stories in the collection!

The story of the Birkenhead was my favorite. Brave men all.

Outstanding material.

I've recently discoverer your channel and subscribed. Fabulous content presented with genuine interest and personality. I am not a history buff, but your presentations are must see and incredibly interesting. You need a network show!

Wow. I was not familiar with some of these. And they all were historically significant. How did I get through so much history without learning about these events? Makes me wonder.

The trend of naming ammunition ships after volcanoes is excellent, as is naming fleet oilers after rivers

Some how I missed this episode, until now. 😢

Fascinating stories. Some I knew of some not. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

Vicksburg is a spot on the map where they legalized gambling. They have antebellum houses there that have cannon shot still in the floor boards from Grant's seige.

This was a great video! Thanks for the info!

Great compilation! I would love to see you do a post on the sinking of the SS America, 'The Ship of Gold'. It's an amazing story and would fit in your channel quite well.

thanks for this informative video.. i am subscribing as I enjoy American History..

Absolutely love your passion!

For years after the sinking of the Birkenhead, having women & children evacuate a ship before the men was referred to as the "Birkenhead drill."

Great channel. This man tells a great story.

"I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened." -William Tecumseh Sherman

I remember reading this in highschool. I read the part about the soldiers that slept by the boiler for warmth and thought what a horrible way to go.

Awsome History here THG I didn’t know most of these! Amazing. We are Babies in 2023 vs 1800 society. 🇺🇸

Thank you HG for these very informing and interesting videos of disasters at sea.The great earthquake of san Francisco would be a great video.

Finally a compilation

@15.51 you misstated the Birkenhead had AIR tight - but was incorrect - they were WATER tight compartments What is strange is that I know of all these events.

How many of these do we have to watch before we receive our Masters? Lol.Thank you sir!

Dude. No need to shout! I’m impressed enough with the content; it makes you sound like one of those over the top early newsreels

I remember❤ I will always remember,, this absolute tragedy!!

History frightens me since I discover so many stories about men and women and children dying through no fault of their own. Overwhelmed. When courage and intelligence the right tools, all of it and still nothing is enough and you die. Courage is not enough.

I live in Upshur County TX, named after Abel P Upshur the Secretary of State..

Very interesting! Thank you for the video.

I absolutely love this channel. I have binge watched it....more than once. Thank you for posting.

Awesome production sir.

This man is super cool.

Hey History Guy 🤓 👋 the 1st story you looked like Bob Backlund!

Well done Lance…

The Birkenhead demonstrates why the British Army is so good. Duty comes before the self and nothing but perfect conduct is good enough.

That Sultana sinking affected hillsdale county, Michigan,where I live. There's a monument in the courthouse grounds, in hillsdale!

I am wondering if the reason why so many big ship disasters don't get into the public memory is due to the fact Maritime issues are considered covered by the Navy or Maritime laws so we assume it's being delt with?

Hope to visit the Sultana Disaster Museum next month.

Thx you're the best

thanks

Three things in history that are covered ad nauseam...Hitler, Titanic and Jack the Ripper... pretty sure other stuff happened 🤔

HISTORY IS ALWAYS HERE SOMEWHERE SO WE DO REMEMBER WHATEVER HAPPENS SO WE LEARN NOT TO REPEAT IT 😮.

Good to see Bill Nye has a youtube channel

Please look up the fire and sinking of the Vanderbilt designed Lexington. You might find it interesting

Seventy-nine years ago today, the most catastrophic maritime disaster in human history occurred. On January 30, 1945, the Soviet submarine S-13, under the command of Captain Alexander Marinesko, torpedoed the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship, which had been repurposed for evacuating more than 10,600 German war refugees from the eastern parts of the Reich across the Baltic Sea. This devastating attack led to the tragic loss of an estimated 9,600 lives, including more than 5,000 children.

Please do one on the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886! City of Heroes is a good book about it with many witness accounts.

The Sultana? Are they going to try and bring her to the surface? The Raisin of the Sultana!

I don't know if I am late to the game here but I would love to hear about all of the caps Mr. History Guy has on the wall behind him. Does anyone know if he has a video on his channel about the different caps, the age or era they come from and what the different emblems stand for? I find the changes in military uniform fascinating (I hate to use the term "fashion" but changes in ornamental military garb often has interesting stories behind them, like changes in materials like wool to cotton or polyester fabrics).

History Guy could you please do a story on the USS Missouri crossing the Artic Circle in November of 1946. Northern Domain of the Polar Bear, so many different stories and mystery surrounds this action ordered by President Trumann, some say it was to check on the Russians and I even heard they checked on UFO? What is the true story. Thanks and God Bless.

This was on an episode of... THE RIFFLEMAN. With johnny Crawford and Chuck Connors . It had my favorite actor in it.. ROYAL DANO .He's looking for his son and thought Johnny was his long lost son, who actually died on that ship accident on the Mississippi , but the baby boys body was never found only the mommas body was found. 🤠🖖 ♨️

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally Giddy up

Never go to sea, especially not in a boat, because ship happens.

Intro looking very upmarket Mr H G 🎆 👀 👏 👍

The sad truth is that now there are people who want the descendants of those soldiers to pay reparations to the people they died, trying to save, or at least the descendants thereof. People need to understand history to truly understand how great this country has been, even with all of its mistakes.

nice graphics. the camera angle looks better.

Love ya bra...but where's the excitement? So maintained and polished, I miss the exuberance. But still and all your work is the best on the net. Thank you!

Cast iron becomes brittle when heated.

Love your videos. In this case I must correct you, unless I heard you wrong, perhaps you said, "worst maritime disaster in US history"? Obviously, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, in 1945, being 5x worse than the paddle-wheeler or 4x worse than the Tetanic.....almost 3x both of them combined with 9000 souls+ lost, and perhaps, the famous "Amber Room", as well. Maybe, you have even done a short on this? If not, it's deserving I assure you.

Hey C. In Sin City, greetings. I know you enjoy Prof. Of Rock, did you see Runaway Train? Dave P. Didn’t look so good in the interview… kind of uncomfortable to watch… Always great to bump into you at THG and POR!

Wow! My life ain't that bad.

What about the Honda Point Disaster? The location is now called "Destroyer rock" because of this incident from 1923

I both dread and desire for this to end...sweet Jesus!

Whaaaaaaaat? No pirates?....

"The Best Of: Nautical Disasters" is a pretty funny title. Lol

Wilhelm Gustov should have been #1. Not too sure if you mentioned it as I didn't get past the first 7 minutes. Titanic was a British ship.

Behind you is a slouch the hat the badge on the fold rim of the the hat is a type I can recognized is isn't the rising sun worn by Australian soldiers

Have you ever looked at the Edmund Fitzgerald which went down in Lake Superior in 1975.

It is little wonder after watching these maritime disaser videos, reading about these and other similar disasters, you quickly understand how quickly human life on a large scale can be extinguished. Our pier officials, merchant marine crews, shipping officers, naval officers, sailors all need to be well trained in safety and emergency disaster procedures. Disasters, fires and dangers of explosions must be anticipated, risks identified, managed and prepared for with robust training. Governments must manage and regulate the shipping industry. Young fresh crops of engineers must replace older engineers. However, the wisdom of experience must be recorded and best practices taught to the next generation to mitigate future disasters surely waiting for the first moment of carelessness to claim human lives. The WW2 disasters at Bari, Italy, Port Chicago, California, West Locs, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii show sailors, Merchant Marine sailors and Army service soldiers in ports have as dangerous of jobs as frontline infantry men. The British also had their share of wartime port disasters. It always took at least five men in the rear to keep one infanttry soldiers at the front supplied. I think when the Merchant Marine with naval armed guards is added the ratio of rear area men to frontline infantrymen goes even higher. No brilliant tactical or strategic military maneuvers or operations by generals or admirals are possible without well supplied amd well equipped sailors, soldiers and airmen supported by a vast logistical network. The potential for disaster lays everywhete men have to move huge quantities of fuel, ammunition, dangerous chemicals, bombs or other flammable supplies in warehouses, ports and cargo ships. Disaster is just one careless mistake, safety short cut or piece of bad luck away.

7:51 I am moved by this first story. I am guessing it was from an early broadcast as your hair style had changed. I like the more distant spacing [ your closeness to the camera] in the later /more recent episodes. Have not yet remembered to try an listen to the podcasts, I always seem busy ,when they come out. Shivering black bell and thumbs up.

I know you have to make decisions on what to leave out. I expected the 1947 explosion to be included. Maybe in another video.

Dear Mr. History Guy: Here are two subjects you might find worth working to promote your The History Guy channel, if you can find anything out: Where did marriage vows of these days come from, or how did marriage vows evolve? There are no "marriage vows" in the Holy Bible, or marriages at all; people are just married already in the Holy Bible, no ceremony, no pomp, no fanfare, just married ta-dah. What happened between Patent and first-use product of the internal combustion engine? Apply "history" from invention to the first useful product of the Otto-cycle engine.