What a tragedy!May God have shortened their sufferings,and may they all rest in peace.All brave souls.

I am always impressed by your ability to convey a story, from the technical, personal, historical aspects. Excellent video. The Carl D Bradley is one a trio of famous tragedies of Great Lake queens who went down. I hope you've done or will do videos on the Daniel J. Morrell and Edmund Fitzgerald.

thank you for using real footage and not AI

I’m confused, the ship broke clean into in rough seas sink hundreds of feet and somehow landed at the bottom of the lake with the two pieces somewhat close and oriented together? I don’t understand how the ship was observed to be in one piece at the bottom of the lake even with dark murky water. I now ponder has any of these large corporations ever been successfully prosecuted for negligence?

Sad story it's unthinkable being in that situation rip to those lost good video as always

Yes. Immediately shouted Californian.

The lack of a search party isn't odd. There was still a prevailing attitude at the time that sometimes ships would just disappear, and that was part of the risk of going to sea. It really wasn't until after Titanic that the idea that safety at sea, recovery of crew and passengers, etc. should be doggedly pursued. Naronic's story, though sad, isn't especially unusual for any ship at all from before the 20th century.

@BigOldBoats I love all your videos, but I live the old version of this video more than the current one.

Why are you whispering?

Stay away from it.

I like this channel a lot. Enjoying the calm delivery style, every episode. Excellent work. :)

The currents are insanely strong. Almost got swept away at Warren Dunes when I was 8. I was swimming a little too far out. However, they have a really cool looking clay pit near the entrance.

NOT a mystery

Man-i-TOE-walk is how we pronounce it. Lincoln high class of 2000! Go ships!

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Michelangelo

I enjoy these stories so much. Your calm demeanor in the delivery also adds so much to the experience. No fake emotions or hysteria. I am so glad I found your channel. I told my husband about it, he is a civilian mariner with Military Sealift Command, a Second Engineer and he enjoys listening to the description of the propulsion systems.

I'm guessing that if the second and most descriptive message was a fraud then it must have been an inside job. There was no wide spread telephone system let alone internet that would allow for researching who the agent for the ship would be.

My father was on the Lexington went thru that and he told me watching ships go down and not come up again. Tragic

That poor man. I'm sure Evans was racked with guilt his entire life after hearing what happened, even though there was, realistically, nothing he could've done

2:20 please just say sailor 😭😭

I feel like I’ve watched a million videos on the Titanic and you’re the first one to ever mention the bit about the Marconi wireless breaking down the night before the sinking and the two telegraph men working to fix it. How different the Titanic’s story might be if that wireless hadn’t been repaired!

Why did the 🐓 cross the road? To come over to my house to watch the latest episode of big old boats

What I never understood about the Bradley and cedar ville, is yes, you make more profit by deferring maintainence on these ships. But, wouldn't the destruction of the ship, loss of cargo and loss of shipping capacity for years on end make the loss in profit miniscule?

Hiya, missing the SS Rotterdam, according to experts, the best ocean liner ever…

What was the song in the intro ?please

The whale quifs are a bit distracting!

For SS Waratah, I assume the most likely event was her ultimately a fire. The reason for her course back for port being a need of help due to a fire on-board either in her coal bunker or flaw with her boilers that caused pressure to build up. Without a telegraph on-board, she was effectively on her own and unable to call for help incase she had to evacuate. And that was what assured her fate. Then it happened. As she was steaming back at full or near full speed, the pressure gave away and she went up. Her boiler erupted and the ship was effectively torn apart, maybe in two, before rapidly sinking. So sudden that no passengers or crew saw it coming, likely dead where they stood as their ship went boom under them. Waratah, now ripped apart and left crippled, quickly disappeared in a few minutes or less. The explosion assured the wreck would tear itself apart as it went down, any air pockets causing implosion that further torn and ripped apart. Strewn throughout the sea floor, the Waratah sat not as a complete mass, but tons of wreckage spread across the sea floor.

History repeats itself

The iceberg - or, for that matter, nature - sure took it personally that the ship was labeled unsinkable

These ships are so Victorian intricate, and ornate, you will probably never see this architecture again!

Better help sells their patient's information in such predatory ways. Hope you aren't still sponsored by them

Jack Phillips saw his birthday, April 11th, on the Titanic

If ismay thought lifeboats weren’t that important then why hop into one when the ship was going down

In the end the iceberg sure took it personally that ships were labeled unsinkable

Never change the name of a vessel without extensive changes made to her, whether a mighty ship, or a humble automobile, or motorbike. Renaming a vessel without extensive reconfiguration is bad luck and will likely doom the vessel. Granted, the Cedarville had a lot of configuration changes. But, was it enough?

First mate should have assumed command, declaring to the crew a medical emergency for the captain. But it was a different era back then. With a do and do not list of things varying from boat to boat, and captain to captain. While it is sad he went down with arlington, medical emergency or not, he did so with great courage and honor. Seeing his crew rescued and waving goodbye, at the helm doing what he obviously loved to do. Captain of his boat...

15:05 the captions say "real company man right there" after the 'piston shooting down through the hull' speculation by another White Star captain. Edited out of the actual narration I noticed lol.

Sounds as if the Captain was Drunk...

Did I mention rabbid animals? Yes! That too...

Want to be a real fisherman... learn to tolerate bug bites, sunburn, loss of equipment, other not so pleasant people, the smell of dead stuff, sight of dead stuff, and a thousand other things I don't have the time to go over!

Update: they have found a US Navy FM-2 Wildcat in there.

Fresh water is not like salt water The water seems deeper, colder, thinker

My Dad, Lloyd Amundson sailed on The Great Lakes out of Duluth 1943-45 on Henry J. Ford, he spoke often of how the weather could change in an instant. They were sailing out of Buffalo the day President Roosevelt died.

Sailors sometimes have a hard time not being superstitious. Often, higher education is somewhat lacking among much of the crew, leaving them with limited capability to explain odd events. I encountered this myself while working security half a world away. One night, there was a disturbance on deck where over 20 hands were almost in hysterics over the phosphorescent algae that was churned up in the wake of a large bulk carrier. I've learned to take their stories with a heavy dose of salt, but to not discount them entirely. After all, they were right about rouge waves well before they were a documented and verified phenomenon.

I was in a storm on a car carrier in the English Channel. Roughest I have ever seen. I don’t know how you would have launched an old wooden lifeboat. These seas were probably larger.

I’m curious what the “general cargo” was. Finished goods?

Why are the subtitles often so different from your spoken presentation?

I just saw something on another channel, mention of the Thomas W Lawson. Have done a video on that one or know anything about it? I love your channel, btw, and have watched almost all of your videos. They are fascinating! Thank you. 🦋♥️🚢

Why hasn't anyone tryed to find the ship?