Greed seems to be the cause of so many maritime and other disasters. What a story. Thanks for sharing it.

On another video about the Sultana it said that the wreckage of the ship was discovered by a man who owned the property where it sank when he was doing some digging for whatever reason on dry land . He was curious about his find , did some investigating and found that due to the Mississippi river changing course the wreckage of the boat found its way onto and into the land on his property . It's sad to think that so many men that survived the battles and the horrible conditions of Andersonville ( Camp Sumter ) would perish on their way back to their homes and families all because of greed . Your new channel is very well done and most informative , keep up the great work !! . Much love and respect from Baltimore Maryland . 👍👍

I'm fascinated by sea tales; certain ones particularly. This is one of them. I've heard this story probably 50 times and read at least 10 accounts of it but I still manage to learn something each time. Great channel! Huge fan!

I love these sorts of channels. It is rare to get one with a really experienced seaman, and even rarer for those to be natural on camera, nice job.

A story I'd like you to do is the sinking of Germany U-boat 166, and the the war in the Gulf of Mexico. While most Americans know about the 7 ships sunk at Pearl Harbor few realize U-boats sank 287 ships in the Gulf of Mexico, or that they sank hundreds more just miles off the east coast of America many within the sight of land. While I grew up near Niagara Falls, I live in Mobile, Alabama so the Gulf and its history have been a big part of my life for the last 50 years. While a dozen or so U-boats were sank within miles of the US coasts both in the Gulf and the Atlantic the story of U-166 and its sinking has the twist and turns of the Tom Clancy novel. LCDR Herbert G. Claudius who actually sank U-166 report was discredited and an aircrew was credited for sinking 166. Claudius, he was relieved of command. It wasn't till 72 years later that it was discovered his report was 100% accurate and it turns out the Navy - not Claudius - was off target.

Wow, great story. Greed has always been a problem.

A thumbs up👍 to you, Tim sir!!! For the best, 'shorter' documentary, I've ever seen on this subject. You put interesting details into it, which only the longer docs. have, but that takes an hour, or more.

I'm a fan already pal, keep it up!

Supposedly, my great grandfather lost a couple cousins on the Sultana. It's always really bugged me. I mean, you're finally coming home to Ohio from the hell of Cahaba and Andersonville... Only to be crowded like cattle onto a ship with hundreds of people, many of them still sick from the camps, and then die in a horrific explosion....all because of greed.

This disaster was the impetus for the founding of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company in Hartford, Ct. the following year. Their goal was to greatly improve the dismal safety record of contemporary steam power by offering insurance geared to periodic inspections, which had never been done before. They reasoned that inspections would increase boiler safety and the insurance would function as an incentive to inspect and a guarantee of a quality inspection, along with research to advance the state of the art of steam power. HSB still exists today, as a subsidiary of Munich Re and has expanded into many other areas of industrial machinery and systems.

Another great video, your hard work invest knowledge is incredible. Thank you for the hard work and sharing your knowledge.

Very well done, ty! Im a big fan.

Great video mate, you got my like and sub. I think doing a few takes to remove the occasional stutters in your speech would help the flow of these videos

And here I thought more ship happened at sea. I guess I mainly don't like going to sea because of seasickness and because it's too far of a swim to swim to dry land if ship does, in fact, happen. I had heard of this one, but you provided a lot more details about it so thank you very much for that! I know if I ever found myself on a burning boat of any kind, I'd do my best pencil dive off of it and swim away from it. No need to go down with the ship. Because this one had to do with the Civil War, I wonder if you have ever done one about the Confederate submarine that they had. I always really wondered what caused them to think up the idea of making a ship that is designed to sink when it really seems like the purpose of a boat is to float. I've thought of sticking my camera underwater to take a picture but never to try to go along under the water for very far myself. I would have thought of flying before I would have thought of making a boat that was designed to go under water, although I do definitely appreciate the pictures people have gotten going around in submarines.

Hehe u said Santana at the end lol love your videos!!!

Very interesting thanks,,,

Your a great story teller and really bring these episodes to life.

Interesting bit of history well told at a good pace.

18:30 "..they continued to form *hot pockets.."* Seems hot pockets have always been a bust-those from inside an 1800's boiler, and those from a 21st c. microwave. 😁 Well done; good commentary, content, and editing. Btw; I thought you may want to know-in the video description, maritime is spelled "marimtime." Just an observation.

This a great and very interesting forum. Thanks Tim I'm not sure anybody else is doing this

Thanks for doing this story. I read the book a few years ago, and thought more people should know this story. Aloha.

I'm enjoying the new channel

When I live in GA I visited Andersonville. It was literally haunting just to be on these grounds

Just, devastating............ Damn, so close to getting back home and Greed, one of humans flaws, destories that.

Great content again! 🙂 Not sure if it counts as "maritime" if it is on a river... (of course "maritime" can also mean anything concerning shipping, but its basic meaning comes from Latin "maritimus" = "belonging to the sea").

I'm trying to figure out that mention of the Mississippi River draining the second largest river basin in North America - with the Hudson Bay being the largest? Where is that info coming from?

My 3rd gr. Grandfather died in this tragedy..

You ever notice that whenever we call a ship unsinkable.... it sinks. I think from now on whenever we build a mighty ship, we should say "man ,this ship is going to sink within a week." only THEN will that ship never sink....

Anderson was HORRIBLE for the men held there. This place was a true horror of war!!!

Vicksburg took place th exact same time as Gettysburg and resulted in the Union gaining control of the Mississippi river thus splitting the Confederacy in two.

No one was held accountable *except by natural consequence.

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History is often times very unkind. The Civil War was Americans fighting Americans. Every loss was a tragedy. I do remember this from my college days. It is a really sad tragedy.

Chapter 6 - The Cause ---- see Chap 1-5! Wow, that was gross negligence all the way around!

Gotta say I preferred the original thumbnail…although holy shit look at the amount of people!!

Never heard this story before. As another commenter mentioned, greed causes a lot of disasters. The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. I believe this is true

Professor HistorSea.

The proclamation actually only freed the Southern slaves.

Too bad the captain died and couldn't be held accountable for his greed and cheap fix!!!

13,000 prisoners, died⁉️ In conditions even, without a roof?? Seems like to me, they got away without justice, being served🤨. After all, the vast majority of southerners are republican, and aren't we still combating, the same evil nationwide, presently??

Great stuff, just listened to Mary Celeste great narration Sir, best of luck with your Channel. Greetings from Birkenhead, where the once famous cammell lairds Shipyards was and to a lesser extent still is, many a good Ship built there. 🛳️⚓️