i can tell that during all those years like from 1910 to hmm 1920 or even more , to much people died on sinking ships :/ its really sad that during those times were sooo difficult and different from now :/
No, not this one's first voyage. It was considered the Mayflower of Canada, as it brought many over from Europe to settle up north. See The Empress of Ireland Artifacts Committee of Canada.
this is a beautiful video, but i'm pretty positive there were less than 200 children on board. it is true that only 4 survived, but i'm pretty sure there were like 138 on that ship.
A stoker survived? Call me cynical, but come on! A ship gets hit, floods like hell below the water line and starts rolling immediately, yet "Mr. Stoker" scampers out of the boiler room way below the water line, makes it up numerous flooding decks and out past hundreds of panicing people (possibly in the dark, to boot) and gets off the ship all in less than 14 minutes. I'm gunna go with "Um, no. Just no."
This is pure trajedy coinsidence,the Empress of Ireland sank at about 2:00 A.M
while the Titanic sank about 2:00A.M.It was its first vogage i think and it was going to Liverpool while the Titanic was coming from Liverpool. This was about 2 years and 1 month away from the Titanic's sinking,many children died i think it was 1910's-20's bad luck
My great-grandfather Reihold Bach & daughter were aboard The Empress when it was struck by the Storstadt. She left a letter of her harrowing experience in the dark, frigid waters that night. At age 78, he was thrown into those frigid waters. She recovered his body on that dock the next morning. This is extremely accurate. Read Zeni's The Lost Empress or contact Marion Kelch , an Empress historian in Czar, Canada for more. This is so tragic, and this depicts it so vividly...it's soul-wrenching.
Your History is wrong! Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic. The Empress of Ireland didn't even have as many passengers as people died on the Titanic.
Your History is wrong! Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic. The Empress of Ireland didn't even have as many passengers as people died on the Titanic.
i noticed something about all those ships that sank that Reuffeo mentioned. they all have the same body (im not talking about other stuff like smoke stacks)
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The song is by a band called Nightwish, the tune itself is called Sleeping Sun and it is sung by tara Turunen. Nightwish is a metal band with operatic overtones, Seriously good music
Cant say I could find a more fitting song for this. Nightwish is very emotional, makes the sinking seem like more than just a tragedy, but like the true end of people's lives. Good job.
Reuffeo has a point, the most tragic sinking was - the Titanic. It's stacks crushed people in the water, it cracked in half, the front went down and smushed like 100 people, and the 3rd class got locked down when it sank. This was a tribute to Reuffeo's point of why your ass should stay on land.
I found out last night from my aunt that my great great uncle Jim Johnson was one of the survivors of the Empress of Ireland. He was part of the Salvation Army Band that is shown in this video.
Those ships made hundreds of crossings though on average safely, except Titanic. And airliners did not exist yet to fly you overseas. Your only option was by boat. Even with water tight compartments, sea travel was still not without accidents resulting in loss of life. Even in 1956 Andra Doria with water tight compartments, and RADAR. It sank after another ship crashed into it. It killed like 50 something people. Both ships in that crash had Radar, but human error... No ship is unsinkable.
Those ships made hundreds of crossings though on average safely, except Titanic. And airliners did not exist yet to fly you overseas. Your only option was by boat. Even with water tight compartments, sea travel was still not without accidents resulting in loss of life. Even in 1956 Andra Doria with water tight compartments, and RADAR. It sank after another ship crashed into it. It killed like 50 something people. Both ships in that crash had Radar, but human error...
I read in a book "Ghost Liners" by Robert Ballard (the founder of the Titanic wreck) that the captain of the Empress of Ireland surrvived and later confronted the captain of the norwegian coal ship that rammed the Emperess and said "You sank my ship". What would you do if you were the captain of the Emperess of Ireland?
I remember hearing about this ship but never really into great detail. Any ship that that is sunk regardless of how and why, its very, very sad. I think it was more sad as well because the loss of life on the Lustiania was, as snakes put it ,equal of tragedy, ths sinking of the Lustiania really overshadowed the Empress.
217 passengers and 248 crew were saved because of the quick thinking of the wireless operator who, without waiting for orders, sent out the distress call which was received at the land station at Father Point. Tugs rushed to the scene, but although the sea was calm, the suddenness of the disaster prevented the rescue of more lives. Had it not been for the wireless distress call few, if any, of the voyagers would have been saved.
Why do all these ship "tribute" videos have this exact same kind of lame music? Seriously what is the deal with this music? Is it from a "music to sink by" album or something?
@bsatom The ships sank in only 14 mins because the collision have put the ship on his side. So the passengers were pretty much trapped in it and for those who were on the bridges, the safety boats were mostly inoperable, again because the ship was on his side.
I have visited the museum at Rimouski Qc,Canada and everything is detailed and how more lives could have been saved if the Storstad would of stayed impaled in the gash,slowing the water infiltration on board the Empress of Ireland
excuse me i have a very serious question why is there a picture of the bodies from the halifax explosion in this presentation of the empress of ireland. you might want to check your sources time index is 1:43
@stefansmom If you check out David Zeni's book The Lost Empress which was thoroughly researched, this exact photo is in that book. This also matches the exact description that my father always told me about, that his aunt who was dragged into a lifeboat had to go the following morning to find her dad laid out on the dock.
A Frank Pearson,ingenier Nordamericà que amb la seva esposa va morir en el Lusitania,ell va construir la primera presa a España,a Barcelona te una Avinguda.
is it just me, or would you have to be stupid to get on a ship in the first 40 or so years of the 20th century? olympic hit two ships, titanic hit the iceberg and sank, britannic hit a mine/was torpedoed and sank, lusitania was torpedoed and sank, the empress here hit a ship and sank, the wilhelm gustloff was torpedoed and sank, everyone sank. damn icebergs and u-boats. but seriously, my ass would be staying on land.
Reuffeo brings up a good point. but at the time the people werent thinking about these ships sinking. i mean these ships were seen as the 747's of there day. and they ( the people) had no idea they would be part of history. trust me my ass would be glued to land during that time too!
Good point but I suppose you have to think the same as we do now about air travel. Yes terrible things happened to a few, but just think how many ships reached their destination ok. Millions each year. No air travel then so there was no alternative. Me, I would choose sea travel any day over air travel! 45,000 tons of steel vs flimsy modern airliners built for profit NOT safety. No contest!!
I tracked down a list of White Star vessels that had been involved in accidedents or were lost at sea in Wikipedia's article about White Star, and I had to double check articles on each individual ship to make sure they were telling the truth.
I ran out of space on the list I posted but there was one more ship mentioned in the article
RMS/HMS Laurentic (II) 1940: Torpedoed by U-99, she was the last White Star Liner to be lost at sea, the remaining liners were scrapped
In the case of Britannic, the same way the Empress of Ireland was overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I, Britannic was overshadowed for two reasons: She was part of the Royal Navy at the time of her loss and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria -Hungary, and the man who started World War I, died on the exact same day as Britannic's sinking
@Reuffeo War took a major role in these wrecks and in that time, there was a lot of political conflicts in Europe that has put their mark through history. Even today, those wars still have influence.
@Reuffeo how else would you get to America from Europe if you wanted to move there in the 1900's?
Our own track record for naval safty in moderen day is not really much better. Although we now have air travel, where back in the day they only had ships there is still a large number of frequent accidents. One of the most noteable involving passanger liners in recent times was the Andrea Dora comes to mind off the top of my head I'am sure there are more of them.
its so cool that someone made a video about the empress. the few people i've ever mentioned her name to just kind of looked at me like "Huh?". Its really a great video.
there is one other wreck that ppl dont reconies as much because it is not as old but it is still tradgic the wreck of the andria doria oh and nice song
Storstad didn't sink, nor was anyone killed. The majority of people on the Empress had retired to their cabins for the night, when the collision occured, and many were trapped inside the liner as she sank.
Woah i didnt notice the storstad had such a strong bow.. if they Hit head On i most Likely think tat neither of them would sink.. judging from storstads Reenforced Hull And Empresses Size(Big) Well not Tat big But still big
Far too many ships lies on the sea-floor... Empress of Ireland... Titanic, Britannic, Gigantic(or something)... DAMN IT! Sorry for the words... I hope someone rebuild one of the ships... *sobs a lot this time*
well, your both right about that, after Titanic sank they renamed Gigantic as Britannic because they were afraid that the public would be superstitious because of how similar the names were, and wouldn't travel on the ship as Gigantic.. so that's why they changed it to britannic
No! they named gigantic into brittanic because when she was finished just as ww1 had started and she was put up as a hospital ship, so white star line re-names her brittanic for brittian...or something like that, but i dont remember a superstition part anywhere =P
gigantic was re-names brittanic only because when she was finished ww1 broke out and she was put to service as a hospital ship, and gigantic isnt a suitable ship for a hospital ship. long live titanic's wreck, brittanic's and lusitania's(and emperess of ir.eland, i had never heard of this wreck)
Don't forget the Olympic even though they scrapped her she was still in WW1. And why do people keep saying that the Lusitania is a sister of the titanic. It isn't.
They're three greek mythological races. It was actually a pretty cool idea to name three ships Olympic, Titanic, Gigantic, after these three races; what a shame it failed!
As mentioned previously, Gigantic was renamed Britannic because White Star was worried that people would hear Gigantic and think of Titanic. That is the reason.
This is an odd little fact: About two years before he was Captain of the Empress, Capt. Henry Kendall was on the S.S. Montrose, and he was instrumental in utilizing the wireless to catch wife-murderer Dr. H. H. Crippen and his mistress, who were trying to escape from America to England. Dr. C. had "disguised" his mistress as his "son" and their peculiar affection got them noticed by everyone on board. Thanks to the wireless, both were caught by Scotland Yard after the ship put in to port.
Did you also know that the Storstad did NOT STOP after ramming the Empress? She could have saved so many people, but her coward of a captain later claimed he was "not aware" that he'd hit anything(!).
Actually Storstad did stop, and rescued the Empress's survivors. The Empress sank in just 14 minutes, owing to the damage the collison inflicted on her and the failure of her crew and passengers to close all the portholes and watertight doors on the liner.
That and how they collided saved the Storstad, but doomed the Empress. A head on hit ( like the Storstad) is less likely to sink a ship than a broadside hit ( like the Empress)
it's sad. There are so many sad shipwrecks. I remember reading about one in WW1 that sank killing something like 7,000 people. It's really makes you realize how helpless you are out there
Amen to that, ships today don't deserve to even be called ships! Raiesing Britannic would be a feat indee, but I think the we'd be better off building a replica. To take the rusticals off Titanic would be a risky prusedure (can't spell) she is a fragial ship. I hope she stays around longer. What we should do is build... send me a private message if you want to hear my rant.
i wish ships were still made today like they were back then ( look wise ) . the Queen Mary 2 is a discrace to the original and doesn't deserve the name she has . i read that some people have thought about raising Britannic at some point which i think would be amazing but what i don't understand and maybe someone can explain this , if titanic is getting so bad from the rustacles , why don't they get rid of them to help keep her clean ?
there is no way to do that to remove them you can knock them off but they will regrow they are caused from constant submersion there is no way to raise the ship without destroying her in the process someone once propsed building a shell around the ship but theres no way to do that either.
Just to say in your descrption you said about a boilerman there was a maid that served Olympic And then survived Titanic and then went on Brittanic and survived
this dude really needs 2 get some different music, cause he uses this in all of his videos... if this is a dude on the other side of this production... well, get some other music
I think the music being used is very fitting as it ties all of these ships together as they are now shipwrecks, its nice music and its good that someone hasnt just stuck with one sad disaster of a ship. Very good videos being displayed and I enjoy the music that is used
Empress of Ireland sank after colliding with the SS Storstad in dense fog. The Storstad's reinforced bow, tore a 14 foot gash into the Empress's side, and she quickly capsized and sank.
Thank you, that was a very nice video. Any idea where that monument/graveyard is. I have been to the Titanic and Lusitania graves so I would like to pay that one a visit too.
R.I.P RMS Empress of Ireland May 28 1914 ;(
greenway347 5 days ago 4
i can tell that during all those years like from 1910 to hmm 1920 or even more , to much people died on sinking ships :/ its really sad that during those times were sooo difficult and different from now :/
katialovex 1 week ago
Empress of Ireland had a very dark end.
SuperTitanicfreak 2 weeks ago
A arca chegou ao seu destino sem contratempo
criandonocaos 3 weeks ago
No, not this one's first voyage. It was considered the Mayflower of Canada, as it brought many over from Europe to settle up north. See The Empress of Ireland Artifacts Committee of Canada.
Hertzogs6 2 months ago
very well selection of material ! i save reference of this video in vkontakte
MarinaHolyak 2 months ago
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MarinaHolyak 2 months ago
who sings this song that makes honor to passengers ?
cartag 2 months ago
this is a beautiful video, but i'm pretty positive there were less than 200 children on board. it is true that only 4 survived, but i'm pretty sure there were like 138 on that ship.
beautyineverythingxx 3 months ago
hey moron the lusitania sank in 1915!!!!!!!!! DUHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yah i do my research
dancegirl123ful 3 months ago
Nice! What is the name of this song??
ViniciusZini 4 months ago
wow this was only two years ofter the titanic sunk
carson11100 4 months ago
A stoker survived? Call me cynical, but come on! A ship gets hit, floods like hell below the water line and starts rolling immediately, yet "Mr. Stoker" scampers out of the boiler room way below the water line, makes it up numerous flooding decks and out past hundreds of panicing people (possibly in the dark, to boot) and gets off the ship all in less than 14 minutes. I'm gunna go with "Um, no. Just no."
SteveLLW 4 months ago
This is pure trajedy coinsidence,the Empress of Ireland sank at about 2:00 A.M
while the Titanic sank about 2:00A.M.It was its first vogage i think and it was going to Liverpool while the Titanic was coming from Liverpool. This was about 2 years and 1 month away from the Titanic's sinking,many children died i think it was 1910's-20's bad luck
hola0com 5 months ago
Sad enough, but 134 Children died. Get your facts staight.
Nogger86Germany 5 months ago
I hear this song whenever I see ship videos.
levelat350 6 months ago
My great-grandfather Reihold Bach & daughter were aboard The Empress when it was struck by the Storstadt. She left a letter of her harrowing experience in the dark, frigid waters that night. At age 78, he was thrown into those frigid waters. She recovered his body on that dock the next morning. This is extremely accurate. Read Zeni's The Lost Empress or contact Marion Kelch , an Empress historian in Czar, Canada for more. This is so tragic, and this depicts it so vividly...it's soul-wrenching.
Hertzogs6 6 months ago
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Hertzogs6 6 months ago
My cousin 3 x removed William George Naulls and his wife Louisa Mary Rose Holton perished in this disaster, so very very sad.
Chelmerfella 6 months ago
14 miniutes. it took 14 miniutes for the empress to sink.
anyone in the engine room and below deck.....
it became their tomb
rest in peace oh noble souls
alf513 7 months ago
luv it cool name
rachxo1217 7 months ago
is it true that what happened to RMS Empress of Ireland also happened to Andrea Doria?(and almost happened to RMS Olympic with Hawke collision.)
marianamarianiful 7 months ago
may 29 my b day not 1914
kalebsthebest67 8 months ago
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Your History is wrong! Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic. The Empress of Ireland didn't even have as many passengers as people died on the Titanic.
Isabella66Gracen 8 months ago
Your History is wrong! Over 1,500 people died on the Titanic. The Empress of Ireland didn't even have as many passengers as people died on the Titanic.
Isabella66Gracen 8 months ago
1:43 - are those real bodies from this ship? I don't think so...
Blueknightex 8 months ago
i noticed something about all those ships that sank that Reuffeo mentioned. they all have the same body (im not talking about other stuff like smoke stacks)
Dusty9261 9 months ago
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Hello, reader. If you started reading this, don't stop or else. I hate people who post these kind of comments but.... Post this to 16 videos in 30 minutes and promise your self to never listen to these kind of comments or make one up. But this one is real.If you don't post this, a boy with no head or legs will show up in ur room at midnight kill you. Everyone will forget u. start posting. the timer will start as soon as you finish reading this. yes I do hate these coments
Destroyer12345679 10 months ago
by the way its actually 462 people who survived...get your facts right!
CoolAlia108 10 months ago
I seen this vid, and didn't know how Empress of Ireland Sank so that was a BIG suprise...
MrVideoman01 10 months ago
The song is by a band called Nightwish, the tune itself is called Sleeping Sun and it is sung by tara Turunen. Nightwish is a metal band with operatic overtones, Seriously good music
twogunz3083 10 months ago
Is there any movies about this ship?
ARSA525 1 year ago
Cant say I could find a more fitting song for this. Nightwish is very emotional, makes the sinking seem like more than just a tragedy, but like the true end of people's lives. Good job.
ultinarok 1 year ago
Reuffeo has a point, the most tragic sinking was - the Titanic. It's stacks crushed people in the water, it cracked in half, the front went down and smushed like 100 people, and the 3rd class got locked down when it sank. This was a tribute to Reuffeo's point of why your ass should stay on land.
LostLinersGeographic 1 year ago 3
may i know the tittle of song background
dandelist123 1 year ago
I found out last night from my aunt that my great great uncle Jim Johnson was one of the survivors of the Empress of Ireland. He was part of the Salvation Army Band that is shown in this video.
MsMom22boyz 1 year ago
@MsMom22boyz omg that must be cool!
mrlego611 8 months ago
Those ships made hundreds of crossings though on average safely, except Titanic. And airliners did not exist yet to fly you overseas. Your only option was by boat. Even with water tight compartments, sea travel was still not without accidents resulting in loss of life. Even in 1956 Andra Doria with water tight compartments, and RADAR. It sank after another ship crashed into it. It killed like 50 something people. Both ships in that crash had Radar, but human error... No ship is unsinkable.
forwardbias 1 year ago
Those ships made hundreds of crossings though on average safely, except Titanic. And airliners did not exist yet to fly you overseas. Your only option was by boat. Even with water tight compartments, sea travel was still not without accidents resulting in loss of life. Even in 1956 Andra Doria with water tight compartments, and RADAR. It sank after another ship crashed into it. It killed like 50 something people. Both ships in that crash had Radar, but human error...
forwardbias 1 year ago
did every ship from the white star line and liverpool sunk thats just seems like a curse
PeelZone 1 year ago
I read in a book "Ghost Liners" by Robert Ballard (the founder of the Titanic wreck) that the captain of the Empress of Ireland surrvived and later confronted the captain of the norwegian coal ship that rammed the Emperess and said "You sank my ship". What would you do if you were the captain of the Emperess of Ireland?
9000tommygun 1 year ago
thank you for posting, dreadful tragedy, the musical accompaniment however is vile
oscarelgy 1 year ago
Every god damn shipwreck video has this song on it
sirvegeta 1 year ago
@sirvegeta cause its awsome
Bartron206 1 year ago
I remember hearing about this ship but never really into great detail. Any ship that that is sunk regardless of how and why, its very, very sad. I think it was more sad as well because the loss of life on the Lustiania was, as snakes put it ,equal of tragedy, ths sinking of the Lustiania really overshadowed the Empress.
Either way. R.I.P. to all victims of every ship.
Rogentx 1 year ago 15
no offense but you have to change the music
theTF2sniper 1 year ago
is it just me or did White Star ships tend to have alot of tragedies?
translego1 1 year ago
Sleeping Sun. The last song I listen didn't suit the Empress Of Ireland, this song is perfect. a song for the dead
SuperTitanicfreak 1 year ago
Only 465 out of 1477 people, ohhh, how sad
SuperTitanicfreak 1 year ago
217 passengers and 248 crew were saved because of the quick thinking of the wireless operator who, without waiting for orders, sent out the distress call which was received at the land station at Father Point. Tugs rushed to the scene, but although the sea was calm, the suddenness of the disaster prevented the rescue of more lives. Had it not been for the wireless distress call few, if any, of the voyagers would have been saved.
allthatjazz2000 1 year ago
Why do all these ship "tribute" videos have this exact same kind of lame music? Seriously what is the deal with this music? Is it from a "music to sink by" album or something?
bartmuley 1 year ago
what is the name of the song
MrTitanicfantic 1 year ago
@MrTitanicfantic sleeping sun by nightwish... there is 2 version of this song..
ted81876 1 year ago
@bsatom The ships sank in only 14 mins because the collision have put the ship on his side. So the passengers were pretty much trapped in it and for those who were on the bridges, the safety boats were mostly inoperable, again because the ship was on his side.
loup9003 1 year ago
what is the name of the song? i must know!
master111yadielle 1 year ago
what is that song?
lamerslammy 1 year ago
@her port side is totally damage by a solid rock that damage her port side..the estimated time of sinking is only 14mins and 23 sec..Wat a tragedy...
kez3arco12 1 year ago
Only if the ship didn't make a starboard turn they would have been just fine and went right on by the storstad.
vikki374 2 years ago
I have visited the museum at Rimouski Qc,Canada and everything is detailed and how more lives could have been saved if the Storstad would of stayed impaled in the gash,slowing the water infiltration on board the Empress of Ireland
lpv1899 2 years ago
@lpv1899 Yeah, but from what i have read on wiki, it said that the Storstad had begun backing up before the collision.
loup9003 1 year ago
excuse me i have a very serious question why is there a picture of the bodies from the halifax explosion in this presentation of the empress of ireland. you might want to check your sources time index is 1:43
stefansmom 2 years ago 2
I checked and double checked, each time it said the bodies came from the Empress of Ireland
snakes3425 2 years ago 3
@snakes3425 ya? well again, get your facts right!!!
CoolAlia108 10 months ago
@stefansmom If you check out David Zeni's book The Lost Empress which was thoroughly researched, this exact photo is in that book. This also matches the exact description that my father always told me about, that his aunt who was dragged into a lifeboat had to go the following morning to find her dad laid out on the dock.
Hertzogs6 6 months ago
you spelled vanished wrong >_>
Tundraboy05 2 years ago
IN MEMORIAN
A Frank Pearson,ingenier Nordamericà que amb la seva esposa va morir en el Lusitania,ell va construir la primera presa a España,a Barcelona te una Avinguda.
FERRAN (malalt de Bach)
des de Barcelona (Catalunya)
JaumeFerran 2 years ago
"Frank Turner", the stoker who supposedly survived all three wrecks, never existed.
GoodwoodAlpha 2 years ago
sad....not even 24 hours and it's already gone....
MIBFreakPack 2 years ago
Photo at 1:18 if messed up because the smokestacks are still on
Jumanji1029 2 years ago
Empress of Ireland's smokestacks stayed on until she hit the seabed.
Kanefan701 2 years ago
465 survied! That's a lot.
Kanefan701 2 years ago
is it just me, or would you have to be stupid to get on a ship in the first 40 or so years of the 20th century? olympic hit two ships, titanic hit the iceberg and sank, britannic hit a mine/was torpedoed and sank, lusitania was torpedoed and sank, the empress here hit a ship and sank, the wilhelm gustloff was torpedoed and sank, everyone sank. damn icebergs and u-boats. but seriously, my ass would be staying on land.
Reuffeo 2 years ago 17
that is so true
but no one can prididct the future but still i would be to sceard to get on a boat after all of that in the news papers
KarisDorgHistory 2 years ago
Same story. "Is it just me, or would you have to be stupid to get on a Plane in the last 50 years or so." etc etc.
ChiefOren 2 years ago
yea for sure. thats why i stick to my beemer. its safest.
Reuffeo 2 years ago
Reuffeo brings up a good point. but at the time the people werent thinking about these ships sinking. i mean these ships were seen as the 747's of there day. and they ( the people) had no idea they would be part of history. trust me my ass would be glued to land during that time too!
TheRdog9 2 years ago
Good point but I suppose you have to think the same as we do now about air travel. Yes terrible things happened to a few, but just think how many ships reached their destination ok. Millions each year. No air travel then so there was no alternative. Me, I would choose sea travel any day over air travel! 45,000 tons of steel vs flimsy modern airliners built for profit NOT safety. No contest!!
admiraldma 2 years ago
iff u look up white star lines in Wikipedia it hase a list of all the white star liners that sank . there is alot!
KarisDorgHistory 2 years ago
Empress Of Ireland was not white star. she belonged to the Canadian-Pacific line
TheRdog9 2 years ago
i no but @Reuffeo was talking about the titanic and britanic and how they both sank so i thoght i would tell him about the overs :)
KarisDorgHistory 2 years ago
all the white star liners sank i think...
ImissKyle17 2 years ago
snakes3425 2 years ago
@snakes3425 Wow. where did you find that?
Dirtboy101 1 year ago
@Dirtboy101
I tracked down a list of White Star vessels that had been involved in accidedents or were lost at sea in Wikipedia's article about White Star, and I had to double check articles on each individual ship to make sure they were telling the truth.
I ran out of space on the list I posted but there was one more ship mentioned in the article
RMS/HMS Laurentic (II) 1940: Torpedoed by U-99, she was the last White Star Liner to be lost at sea, the remaining liners were scrapped
snakes3425 1 year ago
@snakes3425 very intriguing. thanks for sharing.
Dirtboy101 1 year ago
@snakes3425 you missed out the hmhs britannic was Torpedoed
during world war 1
NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS 1 year ago
@NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS Actually Britannic hit a mine during WWI
KFoxBuddy 1 year ago
@KFoxBuddy wheres the mine chain then ? when they checked around where the ship had been they couldnt find one ?
NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS 1 year ago
@NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS there are different kind of mines back then you could just place a mine their and it could float for days
KFoxBuddy 1 year ago
@NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS it could have rusted away or bBritannic somehow sank on top of it. they did find mines chains in the area near Britannic though.
sirtyeson1 1 year ago
@KFoxBuddy
In the case of Britannic, the same way the Empress of Ireland was overshadowed by the outbreak of World War I, Britannic was overshadowed for two reasons: She was part of the Royal Navy at the time of her loss and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria -Hungary, and the man who started World War I, died on the exact same day as Britannic's sinking
snakes3425 1 year ago
@ImissKyle17
Not all of them. RMS Olympic for example had a long and distinguished career serving as a liner and as a Troop Ship in both World Wars.
Scioneer 2 years ago
@Scioneer
oh i did know that lol :) I guess i was mostly thinking about titanic and Britannic and most of the ones that sank lol :)
ImissKyle17 2 years ago
Not true--the RMS Olympic--sister ship to the Titanic was broken up for scrap at Inverkeithing in Scotland in 1936 or 37.
351460 2 years ago
@ImissKyle17 no not all of them olyimpic didnt she was scraped
NeXeLsXPrOdUcTiOnS 1 year ago
@Reuffeo War took a major role in these wrecks and in that time, there was a lot of political conflicts in Europe that has put their mark through history. Even today, those wars still have influence.
loup9003 1 year ago
@Reuffeo Because there weren't airliners.
kittehboidotcom 1 year ago
@Reuffeo I totally agree with you! :-)
jimsed1964 10 months ago
@Reuffeo back then, it was the ONLY way for immigrants or bussiness travellers or just wealthy tourists to get to either europe or america
Andersng1 7 months ago
@Reuffeo how else would you get to America from Europe if you wanted to move there in the 1900's?
Our own track record for naval safty in moderen day is not really much better. Although we now have air travel, where back in the day they only had ships there is still a large number of frequent accidents. One of the most noteable involving passanger liners in recent times was the Andrea Dora comes to mind off the top of my head I'am sure there are more of them.
Jackneill45 7 months ago
@Reuffeo Planes solved that sinking problem .....
seb2455 6 months ago
its so cool that someone made a video about the empress. the few people i've ever mentioned her name to just kind of looked at me like "Huh?". Its really a great video.
AlteredEnvision 2 years ago
what is the name of the song you are using, its haunting.
imaliberal 2 years ago
Song: Sleeping Sun
Artist: Nightwish
bomby4130 2 years ago
omg only 4 children!!
its such a nice looking ship
TheMacca94 2 years ago
just one picture of the whole wreck?
electrotz 2 years ago
there is one other wreck that ppl dont reconies as much because it is not as old but it is still tradgic the wreck of the andria doria oh and nice song
forsythjoseph 2 years ago
That was such a tragedy it lost more passengers than Titanic.
And it was all zoned out by World War I
Rest in peace for those who didn't make it off the ship.
andywatson55 2 years ago
Would you mind if I put this video on my website? Its so good, please say yes!
iluvlittlebigplanet 2 years ago 2
Hi snakes, long time no c, Im captainluigi112, but I forgot my pass =P, so I made this account!
iluvlittlebigplanet 2 years ago 2
did the other ship sink and did any of them die? how did the passengers on empress die was the to cold?
mileyooxx 2 years ago 2
Storstad didn't sink, nor was anyone killed. The majority of people on the Empress had retired to their cabins for the night, when the collision occured, and many were trapped inside the liner as she sank.
snakes3425 2 years ago
Woah i didnt notice the storstad had such a strong bow.. if they Hit head On i most Likely think tat neither of them would sink.. judging from storstads Reenforced Hull And Empresses Size(Big) Well not Tat big But still big
Iwantsanta 2 years ago
its kinda amazing that that ammount of people survided when she only sank in 14 minutes.
(im not saying it wouldn't have been better if more had survided)
captainluigi112 2 years ago
I Swear Upon The skies Tat i will rebuild The ships of the 1900s tat are Legendary
Iwantsanta 2 years ago 2
dlaczego lusitainia zatonoł
patiadamczyk12 3 years ago 2
That's the same way that the Andrea Doria sank!
ActiveWorldsLunitic 3 years ago
*sobbing a bit... just a LITTLE bit*
Far too many ships lies on the sea-floor... Empress of Ireland... Titanic, Britannic, Gigantic(or something)... DAMN IT! Sorry for the words... I hope someone rebuild one of the ships... *sobs a lot this time*
DreadLordBalnazaar 3 years ago
if they do i hope its either britannic, lusitania, or titanic P.S Britannic IS gigantic, they renamed it cause of the titanic insident
Basher86 3 years ago
no they renaimed it cuse of comparison with titanic
titanicfan222 3 years ago
well, your both right about that, after Titanic sank they renamed Gigantic as Britannic because they were afraid that the public would be superstitious because of how similar the names were, and wouldn't travel on the ship as Gigantic.. so that's why they changed it to britannic
ActiveWorldsLunitic 3 years ago 2
No! they named gigantic into brittanic because when she was finished just as ww1 had started and she was put up as a hospital ship, so white star line re-names her brittanic for brittian...or something like that, but i dont remember a superstition part anywhere =P
darkboy976 2 years ago
gigantic was re-names brittanic only because when she was finished ww1 broke out and she was put to service as a hospital ship, and gigantic isnt a suitable ship for a hospital ship. long live titanic's wreck, brittanic's and lusitania's(and emperess of ir.eland, i had never heard of this wreck)
darkboy976 2 years ago
Don't forget the Olympic even though they scrapped her she was still in WW1. And why do people keep saying that the Lusitania is a sister of the titanic. It isn't.
ZackyHoomar 2 years ago 2
Titanic and Lusitania had a very similar design, specifically both had four funnels.
snakes3425 2 years ago
But it still isn't a sister of the Titanic. There are the original WSL sisters: Titanic, Gigantic(Britannic),and the Olympic.
ZackyHoomar 2 years ago
And because you can't allude to Olympians, Titans and Giants if the Titanic is lost.
Gnickk 2 years ago
what do u mean by theys names??? Were they all greek gods? I know Titans Were, Can u tell me?
bomby4130 2 years ago
They're three greek mythological races. It was actually a pretty cool idea to name three ships Olympic, Titanic, Gigantic, after these three races; what a shame it failed!
Gnickk 2 years ago
its almost like the gods interfered w/ the titanic britannic
bomby4130 2 years ago
As mentioned previously, Gigantic was renamed Britannic because White Star was worried that people would hear Gigantic and think of Titanic. That is the reason.
admiraldma 2 years ago
also they thought they were braggin by calling her Gigantic
bomby4130 2 years ago
i thought it was renamed Britannic because of when Titanic sank. Or is it a combination of both reasons?
MIBFreakPack 2 years ago
@MBIFreakPack
They did rename it because it was Titanic's Sister ship but i guess i could be wrong :\
ImissKyle17 2 years ago
it probably was that.
MIBFreakPack 2 years ago
actually, basher is right...
jswaffxxx 2 years ago
Gigantic Was britannic :)
Iwantsanta 2 years ago 2
This is an odd little fact: About two years before he was Captain of the Empress, Capt. Henry Kendall was on the S.S. Montrose, and he was instrumental in utilizing the wireless to catch wife-murderer Dr. H. H. Crippen and his mistress, who were trying to escape from America to England. Dr. C. had "disguised" his mistress as his "son" and their peculiar affection got them noticed by everyone on board. Thanks to the wireless, both were caught by Scotland Yard after the ship put in to port.
FlyingTiger5 3 years ago
Did you also know that the Storstad did NOT STOP after ramming the Empress? She could have saved so many people, but her coward of a captain later claimed he was "not aware" that he'd hit anything(!).
FlyingTiger5 3 years ago
Actually Storstad did stop, and rescued the Empress's survivors. The Empress sank in just 14 minutes, owing to the damage the collison inflicted on her and the failure of her crew and passengers to close all the portholes and watertight doors on the liner.
snakes3425 3 years ago
but how did that other ship which collided in to Empress survived that collision? Didn't it sink?
AndyMcArren1356 3 years ago
Storstad had a reenforced hull, to protect her from ice, so she was able to absorb the damage she took in the collision.
snakes3425 3 years ago
@snakes3425
That and how they collided saved the Storstad, but doomed the Empress. A head on hit ( like the Storstad) is less likely to sink a ship than a broadside hit ( like the Empress)
Scioneer 2 years ago
@Scioneer From what Ive researched the Empress was at 0 knots then shortly after the stordald was in the mist of the fog it starting hard to portside
Finnmarken91 1 year ago
it's sad. There are so many sad shipwrecks. I remember reading about one in WW1 that sank killing something like 7,000 people. It's really makes you realize how helpless you are out there
GWTWobsessed 3 years ago
oh thats WW2 it was the whilhelm gustloff,
mallard290 3 years ago
seeing ships underwater is just plain creepy! i look at the titanic or the edmund fitzgerald wreck and it is just weird seing it under water!
Forceflow63 3 years ago
My birth day was on the date of whene titanic sank! April 15,1999 but it was 1912.
metroliner89 3 years ago
the empress of ireland sank on my b-day ,and i'm part irish.isn't that strange?do you think it is just a coincidence?
rumpleteazer96 3 years ago
She was a beaty of her time... to see her in death is like viewing the battered body of a beautiful woman beaten brutally to death.
NA337reborn 3 years ago
sad story behind a great ship
1912titanic2009 3 years ago
it sank from a colletion with another ship coming out from the fog.
809asphalt 3 years ago
Amen to that, ships today don't deserve to even be called ships! Raiesing Britannic would be a feat indee, but I think the we'd be better off building a replica. To take the rusticals off Titanic would be a risky prusedure (can't spell) she is a fragial ship. I hope she stays around longer. What we should do is build... send me a private message if you want to hear my rant.
pieman97405 3 years ago
i agree but who would pay it since white star lines went bankrupt
sparten771 3 years ago
Britannic is actually feasable, its noty oo deep, shes reasonably solid. shes also not a mass grave. i say let the big T be.
NA337reborn 3 years ago
i wish ships were still made today like they were back then ( look wise ) . the Queen Mary 2 is a discrace to the original and doesn't deserve the name she has . i read that some people have thought about raising Britannic at some point which i think would be amazing but what i don't understand and maybe someone can explain this , if titanic is getting so bad from the rustacles , why don't they get rid of them to help keep her clean ?
IbDaToNeGuY 3 years ago
there is no way to do that to remove them you can knock them off but they will regrow they are caused from constant submersion there is no way to raise the ship without destroying her in the process someone once propsed building a shell around the ship but theres no way to do that either.
archangel670 3 years ago 2
Great Vid.
Just to say in your descrption you said about a boilerman there was a maid that served Olympic And then survived Titanic and then went on Brittanic and survived
dannyman1995 3 years ago
your referring to vilot jessop i know of her well i have a book on here career with the WSL
archangel670 3 years ago
i think i have one as well
dannyman1995 3 years ago
and it killed almost every1 that had rooms on the port? side because the water flooded in so fast
amidol33 3 years ago
the hole thing sank in 14 minutes thats y so many people died plus she rolled to her side not allowing for any lifeboats to be launched
ninjaslayer99 3 years ago
what does empress mean? plz reply!
thetreeregimovies 3 years ago
The female ruler of an Empire
snakes3425 3 years ago
this dude really needs 2 get some different music, cause he uses this in all of his videos... if this is a dude on the other side of this production... well, get some other music
sweetdudeawesome 3 years ago
I think the music being used is very fitting as it ties all of these ships together as they are now shipwrecks, its nice music and its good that someone hasnt just stuck with one sad disaster of a ship. Very good videos being displayed and I enjoy the music that is used
steam2183 3 years ago 2
how empress of ireland sink?
brandfoley 3 years ago
is sink at Pointe-au-Père, near Rimouski. At 1h 55 May 29th, 1914.
djouer 3 years ago
that doesnt tell me why/how it sunk
brandfoley 3 years ago
Empress of Ireland sank after colliding with the SS Storstad in dense fog. The Storstad's reinforced bow, tore a 14 foot gash into the Empress's side, and she quickly capsized and sank.
snakes3425 3 years ago
oh thanks
brandfoley 3 years ago
Thank you; I look forward to visiting someday.
Tristar50 3 years ago
this fog has a curse i think someone said in mystery hunters
Lugiarulz233 3 years ago
Thank you, that was a very nice video. Any idea where that monument/graveyard is. I have been to the Titanic and Lusitania graves so I would like to pay that one a visit too.
Tristar50 3 years ago
well it's at sain-luc(pronouns luce)sur-mer.
and there is also a museum dedicated to this ship wreck at point-au-pere.both of these location are located at rimouski in quebec.
Kattycha 3 years ago
:( how many ppl died? Im guessing over 1000
Roxychoxycool 3 years ago
unfortunatly yes, there was not much time to get to safety for those people. only several hundred survived.
alexcub25 3 years ago
Who owned the Empress of Ireland?
DarthByron56 3 years ago
The Empress was owned by Canadian Pacific Steamships.
24934637 3 years ago