The S.S. Morro Castle Disaster

[starwarsfandude]

I watched the Morro Castle burning with my dad! We would come to the shore and watch her burn every day until she sank.

[mraphel]

@starwarsfandude

It seems it made a great impression on you.

[starwarsfandude]

@mraphel What do you mean by that?

[mraphel]

@starwarsfandude

I don't think my comment needs explaining but be that as it may... you must have been a very young child in the thirties when you watched it go down and it impacted you enough to look it up on You Tube now. What did you think I meant?

[starwarsfandude]

@mraphel I thought you meant I was looking it up because of the people dying.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

My Grandpa was born 3 years to day after the Morro Castle was loss.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I know the story of the Morro Castle. I read Fire at Sea. I still wonder why did the wireless operator start the fire? Why did he do it?

[susiepeas]

My great uncle, Bejamin Eldred, died trying to rescue survivors. Benjamin was a deck hand on one of the tugboats that was racing to the scene to help in the recovery of survivors when the tugboat capsized. He was only 19.

[phonicsquest]

My mum used to sing this song to me as lullaby when I was a boy in Havana many years ago.

[Gryphonalia]

This ship was fairly unusual in that her wooden decks were varnished. As a result of this fire the US enacted safety laws that have since added up to what we call SOLAS; if you want to know why there are no great US liners and why the SS USA was never considered among the great TransAt ships, SOLAS is a large part of the reason. Ever since this mess, US ships have been required to have steel decks and so much fire retardant material that they looked more like hospitals than liners.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I'm reading about the Morro Castle right now in a book call Fire At Sea. I would soon find the answers as to what happen.

[kjiukhix]

Thank for this posting. The photo at 1:20, however, cannot be of the Morro Castle, but from a much earlier ship. The decor in the photo is distincly Victorian and not Art Deco (the Morro Castle was completed in 1930).

[mraphel]

@kjiukhix

Please check the links I provide under the description. The photo is from one of the Morro Castle's brochures.

[toughcrowd94]

@kjiukhix You're quite right. That picture is from the grand staircase of the first Morro Castle, complete in 1900 for the Ward Line.

[lunablue3]

I know a gentleman that his father worked as a cooker in that ship, he survived and told his son that it was made by other cruise ship company. This gentleman is 85 years old, and hi remembers everything about that tragedy.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Morro Castle. A Liner full of mystery. Where did the fire started? Why did this happen?

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I watch Ghost Ship at least 12 times. Like the fictious Antonia Graza, real life Morro Castle was destroy by her own crew. You know it's disgraceful to scrap a Ocean liner. It's even more disgraceful to scrap a Liner with as many deaths as Marro Castle

[silvester59]

a sad occasion but a very nice vid

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I know the Morro Castle was a luxurious Ocean Liners. I only wish I can know more about her than just the treagdy. I much as I hate to see a Ocean Liner scapped, There was nothing they can do. Brunt to the waterline, everything was gone decks, railing, boats, & hull were gone, everything but the frames & shell

[wilport93]

Whao I started crying whe I heard this song, Mi abuelita(grandmother) used to listen to this song and she explained me what happened to this ship. I loved the song it remains me of her .Love you grandma

[mard420]

i love the music, makes me want to drink tequila and learn spanish muchos gracias

[lunablue3]

Siempre lloro con esta cancion. Cuanta ternura en esas voces viriles. Es tan dulce y explicita que hay que ser de hierro para no sentir que se le traspasa el corazon solamente de pensar la horrible muerte que tuvieron.

[ansuelo69]

wow that reminds me when i was a kid im 27 now but i use to hear this son back in my home in DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

[gailswim]

We lived in Trenton NJ and my mother took me to see this in Asbury Park, I still remember the smell of smoke. There were a lot of people on shore looking

[viticoeldelmanana]

a famous cuban sport man named frank d'beche died trying to help a girl in the ship, in his honor there is a stadium for baseball in guabanacoa, Havana to honor this courageus boy......

[viticoeldelmanana]

I'm very fan of the 30's and the kind of music made by that time, long live to the cuban music.

[viticoeldelmanana]

I'm 40 years old, but my father liked this music so much and Im glad about it, it takes me back into the 30's. this music is beautiful, I want to learn how to play this music in my guitar to honor matamoros and my father who live that epoque(time)

[viticoeldelmanana]

gracias miguel matamoros por esa bella cancion,

[tennisgirlie100]

Loved this! My grandmother was on board the ship and survived after 8 hours in the Atlantic. She gave up her life jacket to a child and was quite heroic that day. We all are good swimmers as that saved her life that night.

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

MC had some nice interiors, first time I seen pic of her inside, nice, sad story

[Plataea]

Actually I believe it was the radio operator who was eventually found guilty of setting the fire~

[LB1973]

Rogers (the radio op) was never found guilty or even charged, but given what happened in his life after the disaster he certainly looks like a good suspect.

[theshipman]

A dead caption, maby a killer, and a fire at sea all combine in a perfict storm situation to create the Morrow Castle Disaster...

[duchessmary]

Booze cuz the US was dry

[comisariosp]

hasta ahora aun se desconocen las causas del incendio que destruyo ese buque??..

[oddgeirbjonnes]

THank you for sharing this it was great to se.

[flg1444]

Gracias!Es parte di mi juventud, este cancion. Ya es 48 años pasado para mi, pero aun la recuerdo

[centauriblue2]

Bravo!. I enjoy the pictures and specially the

music; I had forgotten all about that peace of

history from school.

Thanks!

[thebearchaser]

Excelent!