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  • What a god dam shame!

  • Went out from uk to Fueteventura see it in 2009. Drove down the gravel track, buckled a wheel but saw the wreck. Well the small bit pking out of the water.

  • Maybe you have to have skippered or sailed on a vessel to feel the heartbreak of seeing your ship reduced to a hulk.

    It killed me to see our sailboat a mere shadow of it's former self several years after we'd sold her when we returned from cruising for three years. I'm glad my wife never saw her like that.

    It would have been far better...more fitting... if our vessel had gone down at sea...within sight of land and us safely in our dinghy.

    Always sad to see a ship like this.

  • I dont think its sad i think its nature we come into this world we leave this world.

  • diri pa na amo,hagbay ra na gipatimbang! hehe

  • sooo what happened to the ship it just broke in half or what?

  • Very sad. The first model I ever built as a child was of the S.S. America. I remember Dad driving us up the west side highway (it was elevated then) and America was in the dock, just beautiful. Does she still hold the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing?

  • @davekingpt you are thinking of the SS United States, still docked in PA

  • good thing it cat be a playground

  • American Star sinks in Canary Islands, the last "european" land before America was discovered, the end of an Era........ the American Star sinks and its swallow by the earth..... Beautifull poetry.

  • the peopel who lived around the ship could of made it their house till it got eaten by the sea

  • Final score: Ocean - 1; ss America - 0

  • Rivet city?

  • Nice ship, too bad they didn't save it.

  • Way to go Max (Stein) Stone,if you can't find an invester,you sink it,and collect the insurance money. So Maxy bubbala,how do you have jewish lighting on a ship?

  • watch out, zhey steal iron from it!

  • It's like the Earth reclaiming itself. And unto dust shalt thou return

  • In 79 we sailed on the Australis from Auckland to Portsmouth I was 7 at the time. I was left in a Miami toy shop by my sister Meriel and almost missed it leaving. Scary stuff had to get back on board through a side cargo Door as the gangway was already up. Kid were asking for dimes and my mother kept telling them the time. may have been deliberate being Scottish n all.

  • The ships were owned by an American company, United States Lines. They were US Flagged and were home ported in New York. The United States was newer and larger than the America. The America was sold, once it was sold it was no longer a US registered ship. The United States is rotting away in Philly, because we don't care about our own history.

  • can anyone plz tell me the name of the song?

  • They where sisters.

  • yea this is the American Star sa story non the less

  • soo let me get this straight instead of reusing all of that metal and material from the boat. they just left it to rot and pollute are oceans more? and now you know why people think americans are stupid (let the flaming BEGIN)

  • @mstheman10 the US did not own the ship

  • I think that´s the AMERICAN STAR.The pictures are from the west coast Fuerteventura Canary Islands.Last time i was there she was nearly complete destroyed by the sea.

  • nice song

  • Thats the ocean for yeah, will eat almost anything up. *Watches a plastic bottle float by* "Besides that!!"

  • whats so SAD!

  • MUTE.

  • Thank you for putting this picture story together.

  • The SS United States needs to be transferred to the US Government so they can restore the liner and make it powerful so it could be added as the New Presidential Ocean Liner that is the only way the SS United States could be saved from the scrapyard.

  • All I see is pictures, where's the story?

  • What were those Greeks at Chandris Lines thinking when they painted her a sickly gray with those horrible Xs on the funnels?

  • The sad story of a beautiful and virgin spanish beach contaminated for one hundred thousand tons of american crap. Once again.

  • @Moreda64 spic ?

  • @Moreda64 its not like americans want that to happen. and an average american can't just fly up to italy and clean up the oil with expensive machinery that most people can't afford. yes, some idiotic americans left that ship to rot but hate them, not the rest of us

  • @littlebigtangelo Good reply, thank you.

  • @littlebigtangelo so you know no one in the US owned the ship

  • @1MGSgtRock just proving a point to people who think that every one of us americans are fat and destructive people. And if you know so much about this ship, why would you waste your time watching this video that educates people on the ships story?

  • Wheres the butt

    

  • why leave it there? i mean if possible why not recover precious metal for recycling?

  • @lamoboy Its a kind of sentimental thing to bury it at sea, if you serve with a rifle or on a ship for long enough they become your friends. sort of like burying a human, but with a ship

  • @lamoboy Status: Broken up, disintegrated, and submerged by 2008

  • @lamoboy

    Seems like someone took half of it

  • the old war vet just refuses to die

  • I'm guessing she was beached "accidently" while under tow, for an insurance scam. Very common in the nautical world.

  • My parents were on the United States! Watch the story at LadyRider2007 - Gertrude Kerschner's Life Story -thanks! :)

  • Absolutely beautiful ships they built back then.

  • america = sunk ship

  • @AmericansAnnoyMe Don't insult my country.

  • @wheels0503

    Fatland?

  • @AmericansAnnoyMe No, Fuck you

  • @wheels0503

    Very Fatland?

  • @AmericansAnnoyMe No, F8cking Canada! Us canadians i admit, are addicted to junk food, and mcdonalds! (don't tell other countries) America may attack us for that XD JK

  • damn thats hella scrap metal

  • whats the stroy behide the ship

  • i am not cry

  • What an incredibly sad ending to a great ship.

    Almost as sad as the indictment to the 'money-men' in this world who allow suc things to happen simply because they can't make a buck or two out of it.

  • Sad indeed. One wonders why they do not use these old ships as accommodation for the needy. I realize that this ship was lost to the sea, but there are many old liners waiting in harbors to be dismantled that could be ideal housing solutions. Just a thought. Great video of a once grand old girl.

  • More rubish to our oceans.

  • @Asfrid actually that rubbishis turned into reefs at the bottoms of the ocean

  • Imagine ripping across the bay in your 40' cig boat and hitting your prop at 80mph...

  • not fitting music at all.

  • Just imagine the adventure of exploring the long deserted liner... I'd love it!

  • @skrivbok I agree! Scuba wreck explorations are the best!

  • Would I ever had gotten the chance, I would have boarded the SS America once she stood at Fuerteventura. Too bad was only 4 years old back in 1994...

  • at 1:50 it looks like the funnels are wearing backwards hats....

  • how long did that take to sink ?

  • @LUCAT01 She never really sank. She got stranded near a beach at Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) in 1994. And there she stood until the summer of 2011 (or was it 2010?), when the final parts of the hull collapsed and went back into the sea.

    At first, as you can see, she was relatively intact. But all those years... saline water, weather and wind... I think you know what that does to anything eventually. After some years, the stern flushed away into the sea, with only the stern left

  • Investor sought (unsuccessfully apparently) next pic. she's aground, mmm! a bit sus.

  • how did she sink

  • Happy happy story, clap clap

  • awesome to see the sea eating into a steel monolith

  • HOw did it stop?

  • Same fate suffered by the SS United States. Rusting away in Philadelphia.

  • @jason4485 a group of philadelphians are trying to restore it....

  • @mikebola restore it? good luck

  • @clonetropper99 Its the SS United States they want to restore.

  • At least it didn't end up at the breaking yards at Alang, India, like some of her compatriots did. It's a more noble end to a ship like that than having it scrapped like some oil tanker.

  • too bad it ended up an eye sore on a beautiful beach.

  • Over how many years were these photographs taken?

  • its not sad, she had a long life sailing the world, even sailing in the us navy, these old cruise liners are out phased nowadays by more modern ships, the sea is a better grave, than rusting away at a dock

  • @4VON88BERGGSBORG22 You ARE kidding right?

  • This is stupid because you didn't provide notes to explain its history and final resting place. At least add dates to the progression of photos.

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  • it's SS Australis not SS America

  • that poor shipmis nothing but reamins now. But she fought for a good 18 years and is still there in small peices :D

  • 2:01-7:04 R.I.P

  • This seems to be 2 different ships. About half way through it shifts to a single stack liner.

  • Wow. That is a sad end for a fine ship. It's so sad when a ship breaks mooring and grounds. Once her back broke, there's little hope. Few ships survive such a fate.

  • How did the SS American sink? It's in 2 pieces so just wondering what caused it to break? And did anyone die? And why was it just left there. Very grateful for answers.

  • @Tyranid90 was washed up on a beach in the canary islands the engines were already removed some time before weakest point which was near the engine room.

  • @Tyranid90 Inasmuch as her engines had been removed, I suspect she was under tow (probably to a breaking yard) and broke her tow in rough weather.

  • @flylooper okay man. thx for response :)

  • She was docked in Philadelphia, not too long ago. She's huge and beautiful, but badly rusting, unfortunately. It takes enormous amounts of money to up-keep those ships.

  • @MegaSpitz13 You are confusing this ship with the S.S. United States which is still docked in Philadelphia.

  • @MegaSpitz13 Your mistaking the America with it's Sister the United States Which is sitting in Dry dock in Philadelphia.

  • @OmegaDallen the 2 were not sisters at all they were built many years apart

  • @1MGSgtRock So they're not the same class ship?

  • Im gonna Jump off a Bridge

  • Yes, it brought tears to my eyes too.

    Unbelieveable sacrilage that such a superb and historic vessel can be just left to decay in such a manner.

    Another great classic liner gone.

    And, unless somebody does something soon, the S.S United States will also be gone.

  • just visited the site related to this ship which had a great history which makes the end ot it even more disappointing... The same old song of money winning out everything and everyone.

  • @65emkay The ship was built to make money in the first place. The ship had reached the end of its useful life as a liner and was going to be transitioned into a luxury floating hotel, but the tow was unsuccessful and within 2 days of grounding had broken in half. Ships don't live forever. At least this one died at sea with some dignity instead being cut into razor blades.

    If "money" is such a problem for you, why don't you pony up a couple mil. of your own cash to preserve her stablemate??

  • It makes me sad they leave ships there to rest there doing the same to her sister ship United States! Thank god the SS United States is still there i hope it will come back! Thumbs up?

  • @zootycooner1 sorry, the SS united states is RIP (Rusted In Pieces) the salt water had eroded her and as years passed by, her port side broke down and funnel and all came down the sea. Only 20 feet of her remain on surface. Source: wikipedia, search SS america 1940

  • @brickstone2100 Sorry I meant SS AMERICA, not SS united states

  • The video is an interesting parallel to what is happening to our actual country right now.

    We were once the greatest and best, but we are slowly slipping away into the ocean, to be forgotten forever.

  • A sad end to a once great ship. Better the ocean took her than someone with a welding torch at a boneyard though.

  • ...Her body came from the dust of Mother Earth. Her heart, from the hands, sweat & blood of men. She was...er, responsible for enabling many women to become "mothers" from all the frolicking & L'Amour enjoyed from within Her berths(kinda makes Her a mom, too!). She lived her life. And lived full! Yet, as all living things & things made by the living... She died. Returned...back into that very same blessed 'dust' from whence once She first came. Dear Lady, your children & their children live on!

  • @SittingMooseShaman

    I so agree with you! She lived her life on the sea and died there as well. It was sad though, because in a way she was ours, an American ship but lived in Australia after a time. She had that pretty blue paint job but after awhile it seemed no one had interest in buying her. I notice too in some frames she has only one smokestack, probably an upgraded diesel engine was put in. Technology though keeps her alive in many hearts and memories are shared even easier now.

  • @Showgirl7able ...a good ship sails forever!

  • @Showgirl7able Reading that part about never being bought gives me that same kind of feeling you'd get at seeing an animal in the shelter that doesn't get adopted. That analogy also works with what the other commenter have been saying: better that it be released into the wild to die where it had been the most alive, than to be lead into cold room to be euthanized.

    I just wish I could have known what it was like to voyage on her.

  • @dattomcat89 I wonder that too, what it would be like in those days to be on one of those ships. Must have been something! I am going to search for photos to see what she looked like inside. Surely some exist somewhere! :)

  • I know it's just a ship, but this brings tears to my eyes..

  • @ZerokillerOppel1 then lets sink the damn ship so we can cure you

  • kinda sad...

  • Thats amazing how the sea reclaims the whole ship without a trace right there on that shore. I also noticed over the years they removed the 2nd stack.

  • piece of junk

  • what awful music. Ruined the memory of a fine ship

  • @mekydro It's no awful music. It's just not suited for this movie.

  • Holy crap... they let that ship die...

  • SWEEETTTTT

  • I crossed on her in the North Atlantic in January of 1957 as a little boy. Some of the greatest memories of my family time. We were first class when Dad was a young Captain in the USAF.

  • Great song great ship.............

  • s.s america, reminds me of playing pokemon

  •  S.S. -> America <- in a nutshell.

  • they turneditintoa coral reef, a gloriousafterlife!

  • I know nothing of Freewill. America was a fantastic ship. Her death was one of the best ways to go.

  • a few questions..

    what happened to the 2nd stack?

    how many times did it change hands?

    why/ how did it wreck?

    what happened to the entire back half?

  • Where is the "STORY" part of the Sad Story of SS America? O_o I feel cheated

  • What a bloody shame. When and why was the second funnel removed?

  • what

  • Okay, America or Australis?

  • @1958debs

    It got bought at some point and was renamed Australis. It was originally named SS America, and by the time it was lost, it was called the SS American Star 

  • Could you change the music to something else, pleeeeaaassseee!

  • I don't think it was so sad. I think it would be sad if she finished in a srcapeyard, as that was the inttention before she finished in Fuerteventura. A nice ship like this with all her history needs a tribute. Now you can go to Fuerteventura and in plenty of places you can find objets from her. May be it would be nicer she was a museum o sank to be visited scubba diving, but she finished in beach and thats the end of her life.

  • i legitementaly thought this was a video how pop music became popular and rock music became unpopular because i got led here from a rush music video!

  • @mattymanten the song for the video was freewill by rush but youtube copyright rules changed it

  • @mattymanten rock is the most listened to music other than country in the united states

  • @captinspike1 that made no sense at all!

  • @mattymanten it made alot of sense actully

  • @mattymanten Rock music is better than the shit you listen to. Real Aamericans listen to good music (rock). People who like pop and all the other shit, must be retarted, to not be turned away immediately.

  • @THASSLEHOFF Whoa when the hell did i say i like pop, ii absolutely despise it!!. I said i came from a rush video Rush=Rock!!!!!!!! You need to learn your facts before you go and start calling people retards,retard!

  • @mattymanten Number 1: I'm sorry, I probably hit reply on yours by accident.

    Number 2: I never said you were retarded, I said people who listen to pop and all that, I see a stupid people, and retarded was the wrong word.

    Number 3: I apologize if I affended you, it really had nothing to do with you.

    Number 4: SCREW FANS OF SHITTY MUSIC.

  • @THASSLEHOFF Okay :D

  • I'm not sure what happened?

  • are u serious they just freaking left it there, what a bunch of assholes, they could have intentionaly sunk it and made it a scuba diving attraction

  • aqui en mexico lo hubiesen vendido para fierro viejo jajajaj

  • Ain't the worst music I've ever heard...at least it isn't some GD worn out crap off the Titanic soundtrack!!!!

  • so whats wrong with it?

  • Its had so many rough times, I wish it would have never had to end this way and end like the RMS Gueen Mary (the first one). But the thing is, ALL PEOPLE ARE DOING IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE BLOODY MUSIC! This is the moment of the SS America so just watch and comment things about the ship.

  • A very sad story of the ss america,so sad i bald my head off for most of the day.

  • thumbs up for "goodby"

  • Damnit, I want RUSH

  • This acually does a good demonstration of america today

  • is that thing in the pic that the arrow is in pointing to the back of the ship?

  • Her story was bright and happy from her birth 1940 to 1978 when a shitty Greek shipping company Venture Cruises turned this fantastic ship into a total mess. And that started her sad story until her ultimate fate being wrecked at Fuerteventura in 1994.

  • its a shame that the ship had to go through that she was just tooooooooooooooo old

  • Please tell me what is that song!

    Awesome music!"

  • @cachin100 Bryan Cherry Band - Act a Fool

  • why are the last photo's whitout the back of the ship??

    

  • @je13y Some pikey stole it one night.

  • @alxcsb hahaha so funny, is it away becouse of the waves or becouse it is clean up.

    srry for bad englisch, stil a dutch guy

  • What are these holes at the bottom at 5:34?

  • SS Australis R.I.P

  • This may be a stupid question, but will this ship...or any other ship for that matter eventually rust away into nothing? How long would that take?

  • sad sad story, great pictures but music sucks

  • Sad end? Come on. America died a worthy death. America wasn't scrap which is good fo me. America being scrap would be sad, but not the way America died. RIP USS America

  • name of the song please

  • name of the song please