Sinking of the SS Carl D. Bradley

SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States. Her sinking was likely caused by structural failure from the brittle steel used in her construction.
Built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, Carl D. Bradley was owned by the Michigan Limestone division of U.S. Steel, and operated by the Bradley Transportation Company. She retained the title of "Queen of the Lakes" for 22 years as the longest and largest freighter on the Great Lakes.
Thanks to Andrew Tamlyn Stempki
#CarlDBradley #Freighter #CaljuCotcas

[@Steven.Mayes99]

This is amazing! I hope it's for a documentary because the Bradley is in desperate need of a good one. Survivor Frank Mays was my cousin and a good friend. He would have loved this animation! Thank you for keeping the memory of these great ships alive with your animations!

[@Kaidhicksii]

If this had come out a few months earlier, it would've gone perfectly in this one :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKuVhWeLjMtsjpY

[@paulhoffman778]

I love the FITZGERALD , but I've always been intrigued by the sinking of the Bradley I feel it gets overlooked way to much.

[@ThatGuy-po7df]

Maritime horrors has a good video on the Bradley

[@paulhoffman778]

@@ThatGuy-po7df will check out thank you.

[@hsecornel]

We're actually all cousins everyone in world is

[@noahdavidson8733]

It’s great to see lesser-known freighter wrecks getting notoriety. No story in history is insignificant, especially when lives are lost. No one deserved to be forgotten.

[@TheUnflushedToilet]

I've noticed that the sinking's of lesser known freighters have started gaining popularity, I've seen a lot of people who thought that the Edmund Fitzgerald was the only ship to have ever sunk in the Great Lakes.

[@ZekeorSomething]

Well it is the most famous ship to sink there so I’m not surprised

[@RmsLusitainia]

I know

[@insertnamehere313]

You met ALOT of people who thought the Fitz was the only ship that ever sunk in all the Great Lakes history is not even believable and your stretching the truth or just flat out lying give me a break.

[@TheUnflushedToilet]

@@insertnamehere313 Most of these people I've heard were on ship games on Roblox who probably don't live near the Great Lakes.

[@TheUnflushedToilet]

And they also were probably children

[@Delta_NWAB747fan]

Always love the classic front-bridge/pilothouse forward freighters, they were all such pretty ships. They used to rule the lakes, now there are only a few are left on the lakes in active service. Nice animation! Edit: Possibly Daniel J. Morrell or SS Cedarville?

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

The term you are looking for is “straight-decked”, and only two are still around without a self-unloader if memory serves. And Ryerson hasn’t sailed in 14 years… :)

[@Chris-zs4qd]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial The Anderson hasn’t sailed for 14 years? It has been frequently sailing without fault, if you check a ship tracker you can see that it is running fine.

[@Delta_NWAB747fan]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial well this one wasn’t a straight decker. The ships with the pilot house forward are my favorites rather than the rear bridge freighters that are so common nowadays. I know the term straight decker but the terms I used are specifically classic lakers.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

@@Chris-zs4qd was talking about Edward L. Ryerson, not Arthur M. Anderson. Anderson is a self-unloader, ans the two surviving true straight-decked ships are the SS Alpena and the SS Edward L. Ryerson.

[@EperogiLimousine]

Weren’t these straightdecks pretty much the inky ships that sunk on the lakes? That proves they’re dangerous

[@RAV1953]

As sad and as tragic as all sinkings have been, this one may have been the most tragic in regard to how much it affected one town....Rogers City Mi. RIP to all who have been lost on the lakes.

[@cfgeneric7677]

And then the sinking of Bradley’s sister ship Cedarville sunk affecting Roger city again

[@tjhookit]

Yes.....I heard 20 of the men who died in this wreck were from there. RIP

[@Kaidhicksii]

Nice recreation of the Bradley sinking: eerie animation once again. It's incredible how fast the Great Lakes can swallow a ship whole.

[@jacquestheron2392]

love your videos. big fan from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

Do the Daniel J Morrell and Cedarville next. Then you have done all 4 of the most recent and the biggest great lakes shipwrecks!

[@Leprechaunproduction]

It's good to see this ship gaining some attention; there are so many other shipwrecks from the Great Lakes that deserve to be remembered along with the Edmund Fitzgerald. And, as other people have asked, where did you get the model for the Bradley? I looked around for one a few months back and had no luck.

[@flatgrimace]

I was just thinking about this channel and how you should have made a video about the Carl D

[@tuxedotservo]

What's amazing about the wreck is that the spar deck managed to keep the fore and aft connected after the section in the cargo hold seemingly just fell out. All the stress - twisting and bending in the waves, while still under propellsion - one would think would cause the spar deck to fail, and the Bradley to sink in two distinct halves - but that isn't what happened. Even the survivors were certain she'd broken clean in half.

[@retrogamingguitarist5961]

Great animation, may I suggest doing either the Daniel J Morrell and or it's sister Edward Y Townsend the latter of which sank within the general vicinity of RMS Titanic as it was being towed to a scrapyard in Spain.

[@1237Noah]

Great animation

[@tjhookit]

Wow! You have skills my friend

[@natureboyy3]

Good animation!

[@Sirshipbuilder]

Thank you for doing the Bradley

[@tiktokmems1]

Good! And I found out there were 2 survivors and I’m a big fan of yours

[@kyleeaton2660]

How did they survive anyway?

[@Klappadler7844]

Elmer Fleming and Frank Mays survived

[@Klappadler7844]

Technically one other man did for a bit after he was pulled from the water then died

[@caljucotcas]

There was a raft

[@kyleeaton2660]

@@caljucotcas Well they must've been very lucky to get on it before it was too late.

[@thehistorickid9100]

I have needed to see a video like this so long so I can see how it sank so I can make a stop motion

[@bland29084]

earned a sub

[@DeltaXK144]

Where did you get the model for the ship? It looks stunning

[@LadOfTheLand]

Rip Edmund Fitzgerald and Carl D bradley

[@Jumping-cholla]

I didn’t know so many frightening ship wrecks happened in my own backyard 😕

[@DONKFORTRESS6956]

I still wonder how great lake freighters got away with the hull design even though it was prone to snapping in half

[@martapijanowska8218]

Nice

[@funnelvortex7722]

Nice to see more mainstream attention is being brought to Great Lakes history lately including the lesser known wrecks, the Fitz is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to wrecks littering the Lakes, could you by any chance do the Lady Elgin at some point?

[@Chris-zs4qd]

One interesting wreck that not many people know of is the Anthony Wayne, it sank 8 miles off the coast of Vermilion Ohio on April 28, 1850. Two of her Starboard boilers exploded.

[@brianstabile165]

I believe you mean center of the storm

[@EperogiLimousine]

Tip of the ice-burg: slang for a small portion of media that is looked at but ignored the rest of said media.@@brianstabile165

[@Michiganrailfanner23]

Very amazing now the last freighter that sank is the Daniel J. Morrel,also it would be very cool to see the Arthur m Anderson sink can you make that happen for a video not like a real ship video you know what I mean

[@codekiller2]

great vid. only critique no boiler explosion , when the stern sinks.

[@caljucotcas]

Thanks, I know yes, i had no coice 😃

[@michaelbenitez539]

Isn't this animation for the upcoming The Men Long Forgotten Film they're doing about the Bradley?

[@Komsermavi]

Oh what a beautiful morning wait what is that squeaking sound?

[@civillady13]

I enjoyed your simulation of this sinking but I couldn’t tell what caused it. The water looked pretty calm and there didn’t appear to be any mechanical issues (explosion, fire and the like). What caused the tragedy?

[@matteoshulze5761]

There’s something about the design of these kind of ships, they look so haunting and just oddly weird but at the same time they can look pretty interesting and just something that just gains your attention. I guess the reason why it looks so haunting is because of all the sinkings that had happened with these kind of similar ship designs with the same flaws in their sinkings.

[@katherineberger6329]

Any long freighter is going to have the same flaws because they're built to be the cheapest possible way to carry a lot of very, very heavy cargo. There's a video from last year of MV Arvin breaking in two on the Black Sea. She sank before anyone could reach her, taking half of her 12-man crew with her. The oceans are harsh and the Great Lakes are as treacherous as any ocean - I've seen with my own eyes 50-footers crashing against the cliffs of the North Shore.

[@madjack1748]

you didn't include the boiler explosion when seawater got to the engine room

[@lecreature856]

I'm the only one that see the Bradley like the brother of SS Edmund Fitzgerald?

[@johnhurd6243]

Yes...

[@agnosticlibertarian175]

could you do one on the Daniel J. Morrell?

[@fernandocorreia3894]

This ship makes me remember Edmund Fitzgerald

[@Ju574ch4nnel]

The sink just like edmund fitz gerald

[@user-cp2fh9uv8t]

1975 vs 1993 Edmund Fitz vs carl d Bradley

[@max_biermacher3075]

1:36 it just pulled it down like a catapult

[@nateh145]

you need to make a wreck version this is amazing

[@caljucotcas]

Coming in 7 hours

[@nateh145]

@@caljucotcas Nice can't wait to see it

[@tugboats79]

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[@NamesDannyBro19]

Do The SInking Of The SS Daniel J. Morrell

[@christadych5668]

How did you figure out how it went down after the break?

[@brendanfoehr5086]

Unfortunately, this animation does not match the testimony of the survivors. Apparently, the crane on deck shifted to the side when the Bradley split, pulling the bow over to port and capsizing it; the survivors watched people scramble on the stern but it went down pretty much as it did in the animation, only once it was completely submerged there was a massive explosion from the cold sea water hitting the still burning boilers.

[@mohammedkafa]

Great! 🤗 But the question is: why did it sink?

[@emmett_n]

Structural failure, stressed beyond its strength limit.

[@mohammedkafa]

@@emmett_n Thanks a lot! 🌹

[@funnelvortex7722]

Constructed during the interwar period, steel from that era was notoriously brittle, the Bradely was supposed to be done for the season and was scheduled to structurally reinforced in winter drydock but the company ordered it to do one more load at the last minute then it got caught in a storm where the structural failure happened.

[@mohammedkafa]

@@funnelvortex7722 Thank you! 🌸

[@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb]

@@funnelvortex7722 single weld hull or riveted hull

[@randomuser9883]

One little inaccurate thing i found. The survivors said the bow capsized when it sank the stern sank the right way though

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

The Bow is sitting right-side up on the lake floor though.

[@randomuser9883]

@@HoshizakiYoshimasa yeah she is but the bow section could have landed on an even keel search up the survivors testemony’s on the sinking

[@rando9347]

Taaskord oled retsilt hea animatsiooni teinud!!!!!

[@MrDingus19]

wasn't there a boiler explosion?

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

Yes there was. Flames went out from the smokestack/funnel

[@ukaszwalczak1154]

Fun fact: After a dive few days(or years, idr-) after Bradley's sinking, the ship was in..suprisingly good condition(for shipwrecks atleast), not split in half, just, sitting there in 1 piece. It was found in 2 pieces only in 1997.

[@Bald_Cat2007]

No the company that owned it sent they're own team of divers down just so they could say it didn't break up so they couldn't have to pay the families of the victims. And when the divers went down in 1997 they discovered it was in 2 pieces and that was when they payed the families but not the amount they promised

[@jeffirish3402]

The current theory is that she split down to the keel on the surface and didn't actually separate until she hit the bottom. In other instances like the Morrell (1966) or the Minch (1940) the bow and stern are several mile apart.

[@user-nh7eo1li5t]

FITZGERALD?!🤯

[@pedrorojas4563]

What animation app did you use?

[@caljucotcas]

Lumion

[@kk_doomsday92]

The Daniel j morrell next?

[@pilotbug6100]

The waves need to be more severe But other than that it is quite good

[@funnelvortex7722]

Yeah the Bradely sank during very harsh conditions. Though depending on the program he's using and the specs of his PC making big detailed waves can be a pain in the ass to render so I get why'd he go for this.

[@jezbroncano3006]

the ss carl d bradley tge carl was my name so its like its my ship

[@jaydennetzel7147]

Could you do the Edmund Fitzgerald?

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

He already did!.

[@robertmclean1098]

I believe the last part has her deck hinged. The dives to the Bradley show the deck is broken. Although I don't believe anyone can prove it, It is most likely hinged at the bottom. This is the video of the break kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqK3nJqbfs5sbck

[@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb]

I belive its keel held until the bolier explosion

[@TobbyGiel0215FirstAccount]

Making a v-break be like:

[@bernardashamiti240]

How do I know that the ship is going to brake in two!!!!!!!!

[@eaglewolffox6275]

What did you use?

[@caljucotcas]

Sketchup and Lumion

[@eaglewolffox6275]

@@caljucotcas neat. Will you do Daniell J Morrell.

[@MatheusMatos-ib5nm]

Quando olhei pela primeira vez achei que erra o Edmund fiztzerald kk

[@l.hefner8872]

Is this real?

[@HMHSBritannicYT]

Y e s

[@captainAlex258]

rust sank the carl d bradly no mystery at all so why people call it a mystery it blows my mind plus the carl d bradly has no books of her at all

[@anasanja1214]

Uh i meaned to only Edum Fizgerald is the only bulk carrier who sank At Michigen river

[@anasanja1214]

Bruh i am bad in English i meaned Lake

[@user-cp2fh9uv8t]

Carl D Bradley on 1927 loss thes😊

[@lochlanmuir2291]

1958. Not 1927

[@joshuablassingame7714]

Was the SS Carl Bradley a sister ship of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

No. The Fitzgerald's sister ship was the Arthur B Homer which was scrapped after they found structural issues. Carl D Bradley's sister ship is the Cedarville which sank in the 1960's after a collision with another ship underneath the Mackinaw bridge

[@joshuablassingame7714]

@@HoshizakiYoshimasa Thank you.

[@medicinemanvids]

It looks like a blue Edmund Fitzgerald to me.

[@SentientMattress531]

They’re both lake freighters so it makes sense

[@MV_2go_maligaya]

Edmund Fitzgerald sister?

[@max_biermacher3075]

What caused it? The waves?

[@caljucotcas]

Yes

[@max_biermacher3075]

@@caljucotcas oh so it was like the Edmund Fitz Gerald, got it

[@samsnead7]

How about some narration?

[@md.aslam.vi.pro..1076]

লা ইলাহা ইল্লাল্লাহু মুহাম্মাদুর রাসুলুল্লাহ সাঃ আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম

[@vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440]

oh a real v-break up

[@pearlharborcauser2020]

Ss stand for steamship and carl d bradley did not use steam it use oil

[@johnhurd6243]

Propulsion. General Electric high and low pressure steam turbines turning electric motors to a single fixed pitch propeller

[@brentackerman9857]

Man does dang is a maid

[@nickols6267]

ρяσмσѕм

[@Kapitan_JaZwing.]

Always this scheme… with this type of ships…

[@windusbindo]

Someone stupid: calls it Edmund Fitzgerald cuz it has forward bridge The smart guy: L bozo