Four Horrifying Shipwrecks You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

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How utterly reckless and cowardly to destroy the Montevideo, it wasn't like it was a war ship so shouldn't have been targeted, despite it being a Japanese ship it was a cargo ship, the many nz/Australian prisoners had no chance to even escape being help prisoner way below deck 😔
Thank you for your great videos, presentation is everything, which you have in abundance 🚢 👍🔥🔥
Ps..also how heinous and cowardly to attack a hospital/ medic ship too 😔

Great video as always sir

I always particularly enjoy your videos about Australian ships. Our nation’s history is so heavily a naval one, and I never knew about any of these tragedies until your coverage. May God rest the many souls of those lost at sea.

Now do the Schenectady. 😅

It’s MON-tee-vi-DAY-o 😄

Well due to the depth that the Montevideo Maru lies at, there will be no remains left at 4 Km depth. Because there is something down at that depth that will eat bones and all very quickly.

I'm watching this vid 2 years after I went to king island and saw the wreck of the ship at some beach

When I hear cataraki I knew it rang a bell but I thought that it was spelt with a k

Rest in Peace prayers to those lost at sea and in these wrecks. Thank you, Mike for another find report.

Most accidents at sea seem to involve poor weather. Not Costa Concordia, she just had an idiot at the helm.

The Aussie pow’s probs wouldn’t have lived anyway in captivity of the barbaric Japanese

Can you do a video on japanese 'hell ships' if you haven't already? If you already have, im unaware of it, and id appreciate it if someone would share a link!

The atrocities committed by the Japanese were largely unpunished.

i find the last one interesting because it really is possible it wasnt the japanese germany had submarines active in the pacific near australia and one is still missing somewhere in the straits of java

My Great Grampop was a POW on the Montevideo Maru.

Definitely an automatic click when I see an Oceanliner Design post. Up there with Brick Ammortar in terms of maritime stories.


I don't necessarily acknowledge reincarnation as we have no idea what happens when the bell tolls but I have an innate fear of being out in the water at night, for no particular reason as I grew up in the Australian outback but I have friends that have boats and have been out on plenty of boats. It just terrifies me to be on a boat at night, for no particular reason.

Well the UK is filling up with people again!!!

THANK YOU FOR TELLING US THE TERRIBLE STORIES OF THESE SINKINGS. WE NEEDTO KNOW THE SACRIFICES OF OUR SEAFARING FOREBEARERS WHO TRIED CROSSING THE PERILOUS OCEANS IN DANGEROUS TIMES. BECAUSE OF THEIR SACRIFICES WE CAN LIVE FRUITFUL LIVES!!!!!

Bros got a doctorate in ships

Hipster shipwreck.

"....you've probably never heard of me....."

The medusa was pretty darned grim

"all the more worse" - no, sounds horrible.

Cataraqui was named for my local area

Salvagers:am I really going to dig up this grave for money*blows up part of the shop with dynamite*yes yes I am

Montevideo Maru isn't the only "Hell Ship" sunk in Philippine waters. There's another in Subic Bay which we dived back around 2010. Torpedoing of these ships appears to be not uncommon. Very sad. It's also interesting to note how similar in design these "Marus" were - we have dived several and they could all be the same ship they are so alike!

Damn imperial Japan was really damn evil

Such loss of life for people seeking the promise of a new life just speaks of horror unfathomable. Not sure how this one is spelled. Not that it matters. Keep up the good work!

On the last one, you said the Australian hat was on the sand, two kilometers deep. But the images of the ship are full of natural light and divers exploring the hull, both indications that it is in shallow waters. Great content nonetheless.

it shows how innocent. people are the victims during war time.

It really amazed me how (relatively) unknown the MV Wilhelm Gustloff and RMS Empress of Ireland are! IF you ask a normal member of the British Public to name a shipwreck 99.9% will say the RMS Titanic, a tiny minority MAY potentially say MS Herald of Free Enterprise, RMS Lusitania or the Bismark, but knowledge of other wrecks / disasters really is something of a rarity! Potentially understandable in the case of the Empress of Ireland due to the time (in history not time of day) of the sinking, but no excuse for any of the other HUGE shipping disasters!

I never understood the urge to immigrate somewheres. I'd much rather take my chances, especially back then to take my family on an earthly trek until we reach or settled new lands. And if you dont believe this to be possible youre simply ignorant of history. In the 1800s there were massive swaths of land that were uninhabited and waiting to be claimed. Yes you'd still have to pay your taxes once discovered; that may take YEARS tho! If at all. All I'd need is a fishable stream, with plantable soil, and surely the woods would be bountiful n ripe for the pickens!

Good sir, you are a talented individual. Im sure of your research, knowledge, studies, and accounts of such disasters. But mostly i want to inform you that you have a natural knack for storytelling chap! I LOVE listening to these stories far better then anyone else I've discovered. And lemme tell you, I've listened to the best of em' and the rest of em' haha 👍🏼you'll be going places sonny boy! Keep it up mate!

The Centaur was carrying weapons as ballast in the ship - against the Geneva Convention. This will be found if the ship is ever investigated further.

Here's one you haven't heard of. The Swedish regal warship Wasa. Picture it. August 10th, 1628. The newly built Wasa ( W pronounced like a V) was sailing down the Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage. It got fourteen hundred yards away from the dock when a gust of wind, described as stronger than a breeze, caused the ship to capsize. Fifty three men died. Three hundred and thirty years later, in 1966, Wasa was found intact. It was raised in 1988. And placed in a specially made museum in Stockholm. It remains today as the best well preserved ship of the seventeenth century. If you have heard of it, I apologise for making the assumption.

King Island? They were amazingly close to Melbourne. It's tragic how close they were, only to die trying to find a way to get off the sinking ship. There are now thriving farming and fishing communities there.

Such a fantastic channel - thank you!

The poor babies born on the first ship...never even got to see land

They used dynamite to sack a sunken ship? Fucking savages.

Wilhelm Gustloff is another that deserves more attention and mourning. A ship crammed and overfilled with civilians fleeing WW2-era Germany. Most of them were actually from German-occupied countries, and had nothing to do with the war, certainly no support for the nazi regime. A lot of women, children, elderly and infirm were aboard, the vast majority of people were innocent citizens. The ship was torpedoed by a Soviet sub. Between 7000 - 9000 (some estimates as high as 9400) died. But because these were refugees of Germany and German-occupation, the most devastating maritime loss of life in history is repulsively swept aside. It's despicable.
No one was punished. Despite it being clearly a war crime it was never deemed as such. Thousands of innocent lives snuffed out, deliberately, simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Excellent presentation, keep up the great work.

Every woman and child on the Collins Liner SS Arctic died

I don't understand how there are visible bones and skulls on the Principe if it sunk in 1014, but no bones or remains have ever been seen on Titanic, which sank in 1912?

Great video but one minor detail about the Centaur - she wasn't sunk going from Cairns to PNG, she was sunk off Moreton Island just off Brisbane.

So sad that the Principe di Asturius was largely ignored by the British and Australians. I hope we are finally learning we are all exactly the same and connected to each other despite language and appearance. God bless all!

Finally someone talked about the centaur.

As a suggestion, how about obscure shipwrecks with few to no losses that exemplified excellent conduct of the crew and orderly evacuation? Something more upbeat? I know the MS Klipfontein and SS Republic are two prime examples

Gee...it's almost like Mother Nature never intended humans to ply the ocean. Like they aren't designed for it.
Isn't that something? :/