SS.America / American Star

«Аме́рика» (англ. «SS America»), также известный как «Звезда́ Аме́рики» (англ. «American Star») - океанский лайнер, построенный для судоходной компании «United States Lines». За свою историю, начиная с его постройки в 1938 году и вплоть до его крушения в 1994 году, судно сменило множество названий. Среди них были: «Уэ́ст По́йнт» (англ. «USS West Point»), «Австра́лис» (англ. «SS Australis»), «И́талис» (англ. «SS Italis»), «А́льфердосс» (англ. «SS Alferdoss»).

[@philipasliuk6727]

Sad story. I don't like modern ships. They just look like floating houses. Old ones are much more beautiful.

[@sealover5861]

+Philip Asliuk I agree! Put an apartment/hotel building on a barge = cruise ship.

[@deborahrenaut3150]

+Philip Asliuk indeed

[@zosometalgod]

+Philip Asliuk Agree! thats why I love visiting the Queen Mary and having a drink in her bar!!

[@mokeytemouse5167]

+zosometalgod Where?

[@qe2836]

+Mokey Te Mouse Long Beach, California

[@jimpeel]

I love the picture of the SS America passing the SS United states.

[@MrSvenovitch]

I on the other hand could not care less

[@russwhitley7156]

GOD BLESS NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING

[@RollerCoasters62719]

0:55

[@msmirandagirl]

A sad end for a great ship. I sailed on two transatlantic crossings on the SS America with my parents in 1963. I remember them well.

[@KnightFilms32]

ohhh so you were on the australis then??

[@randomuser9883]

@@KnightFilms32 no she was sold to chandris in 1964

[@berniman6884]

There is nothing more sad than to see a dying ship...

[@PabloMartinez-rr4gv]

Very true

[@PabloMartinez-rr4gv]

😞

[@matthewcox6615]

To me a ship is more than a huge piece of metal, it has meaning to it and develops a personality like a person in a way. The reason why a ship is referred to as a “she” is because it looks after her passengers and crew like a mother. Don’t be ashamed to love something inanimate because it would mean a lot to someone who was involved in creating it.

[@petskalina]

😢🚢rip

[@velezdragon3574]

@@matthewcox6615 William f Gibbs would be sad and upset to see both his ships in ruins but happy to know both had wonderful cariears and memories

[@lindagreenleaf7498]

The S.S. America gave my mom and I a new life in 1959, bringing us from Germany to America. Such a beautiful ship. I remember how awed I was when I first looked up at it before leaving port. So sad to watch it slowly die into the ocean.

[@cosminogloocosy1154]

+Linda Greenleaf :(

[@mwilko74]

Linda Greenleaf wow that must be really sad I can't imagine what it would be like to see something You once traveled one just left to rot like that

[@nellz72]

- SÄGI- No, that is the S.S. America. It was renamed after it was sold. It was also called the Austrailis, at one point in it's life. The S.S. United States, is still in a harbor.

[@sagi3187]

nellz72 Ah ok. Thanks

[@nellz72]

- SÄGI- You are welcome. :)

[@JaxieDoggo]

Sleeping sun song is in EVERY Sinking Ship video

[@acesfn7316]

Seems to be a fitting song I suppose

[@t10god]

For real tho.

[@TitanicHG]

Not ours. We made a point not to accidentally use it.

[@scottmccann3946]

JaxToons Not every one. Ever hear of Celine Dion?

[@loser.czsksracky3507]

yes it is

[@stormywx444]

Every time I watch this I cry. My Mother and I traveled on her from London to New York in 1952. My Mom has passed now and every time I watch this video with its haunting music I picture us walking the decks of this beautiful ship.

[@michaelmutphy9077]

My family and I came over from The UK in 1960. It tugs at my heart also.

[@RD_055]

Nossa que incrível! Sinto muito pela sua perda

[@Kitaota]

It’s amazing seeing how destructive the ocean can be comparing the side facing the sea vs the one facing the beach

[@ianloeb1672]

my grandfather worked on this ship he was the chief engineer

[@pclement4609]

I sailed on this ship in February 1971 it was then the ss australis fond memory's of a trip to Australia thank you for the vid

[@Radar-tastic]

So did my mum she was part of the one pound ticket passengers

[@zoeybronson7210]

That was one VERY beautiful ship. Sad to watch it fall apart and vanish like this.

[@returningbuick1665]

Don't worry, for it has only fallen on it's side and sank. Actually, its probably better preserved like this because waves wont be bashing on it like they were.

[@flightmaster178]

She's definitely a hero and served her country. Carried over 350,000 people while in the Navy and survived nearly being blown up.

[@peterson7082]

Dat French Colonel Did you see the deterioration? it has more than fallen on her side.

[@returningbuick1665]

Nathan Peterson You sure? Cause it looks like she fell over

[@peterson7082]

Dat French Colonel she's falling over because of the rusting

[@95Titanium]

It makes me so sad to think of this ship's former glory, and then see her lying there, forgotten and decaying...

[@MrSvenovitch]

Be sad about some real suffering by sentient beings please, don't anthropomorfize some rusting metal somewhere. It never was alive and doesn't feel a thing.

[@matthewcox6615]

It’s unreal to think that this beautiful ship even existed. I actually went to the beach where she was wrecked and I just couldn’t believe that there was once a huge ship stranded there, but it was worth the visit anyway. It was like one moment she was there and the next moment she wasn’t.

[@areyoujelton]

We all obviously remember her.

[@GBPaddling]

Just recently visited the site - March 2016, and sadly the American Star is no more. It has been completely flattened by the endless Atlantic swell.

[@mariuskatutis3989]

its whitered away to nothing

[@matthewcox6615]

GBPaddling I went there at the same time! There wasn't much there as well. 😪 🚢

[@MrSvenovitch]

great news, too bad it can't fall apart twice.

[@mrs.dairycow62]

Still a lot underwater

[@ok-hr7fo]

The ship won't ship again

[@caseywagner8656]

Rest in peace my beautiful friend. Thank you American Star for always being in my heart and for always being their to make me happy.

[@TheMajesty666]

Красавец лайнер закончил свою жизнь расколовшись пополам!!!!!! когда смотрела плакала........

[@GUARDBOT]

Such a beautiful ship for her time, and a shame she meet a fate like this. Is it possible that while being towed, she snapped the tow lines wanting to go out on her own terms? Built as a liner, now one with the waves. Goodbye, S.S. America, for you now belong to the ocean.

[@negrokrilinful]

Lead Nexus Studio when mother nature wants something, it claims it. Apparently the storm was so strong, that the crew had to be evacuated immediately by helicopter.

[@matthewcox6615]

It was a rather fitting end for such a storied vessel. For something that was built for the sea to then become part of it is something extraordinary.

[@sealover5861]

Unfortunately most of the once so glorious great ocean liners are gone. They had all their own history. This is just one of them.

[@KorribansFallen]

Just a awesome sight to see the America Star fade away into the sea. Fantastic Post OP, spot on Music for it too. A job very WELL DONE!

[@aggadownunder6787]

Thanks for this video. In 1970 the SS AUSTRALIS brought my mum,dad & sister from Germany to Australia. Sad to see how she ended her life.

[@markj9166]

Parents immigrated to the US on her mid 50's,beautiful ship, RIP SS America

[@VerlineSigers]

not really American Star died alone without any crew members...she was designated for being floating hotel in Thailand but wrecked during relocation .....:P :P

[@mariosonic9000]

So beautiful. I really liked this ocean liner. Such a shame that she is now at the bottom of the sea :( I am least hoping that her sister ship, the United States, does not get scrapped, otherwise I will be even more sad...

[@rainbond8991]

***** The front part is still showing, the back end has collapsed sadly. but yea I agree!

[@jjjillyeo]

Rain Bond actually, almost everything is gone, been washed away by the ocean.

[@rainbond8991]

***** Yup I saw that recently :(

[@DaveN13]

+Rain Bond youtube/tXgIDN3HNyI

[@hanphilnoffz8827]

this ship is little bit scrap

[@varachack]

0:39 is the *S.S. United States,* her larger sister.

[@riccardod441]

Yes

[@varachack]

+hello there, _United States_ was sold to another company in 1978, where for 18 years she remained in limbo regarding the return to transatlantic service. In 1996, due to the cancellation of plans, she returned to Philadelphia to be moored, where she remains to this day; her future uncertain for the time being.

[@TheMajesty666]

Страшная смерть для корабля.....Без слёз не могла смотреть(((( Красавец лайнер вот так закончил свою историю......Вечная память!!!!!

[@ChristopherR96]

0:49 is not _America._ It’s the American Export Lines’ _Constitution,_ launched in 1950.

[@cosistogo]

I went to Australia in 1967 on this great ship and returned on the ship to the uk in 1973 .the ship was sold and being towed in a storm near the canarie's the rope broke and she came ashore in Feurtaventura and over the years much has been lost ,some can still be seen .Sad end to a wonderful ship

[@FM-0416]

And now please rise for the national anthem of EVERYTHING that has to do with sunken ships.

[@mrslinarcos]

I showed my husband photos of the ship on the island as it was. He was on her as the WEST POINT during WW2. I still remember him saying "That's not how I remember her." A couple of weeks later, he passed away.

[@Deevo037]

Nobody really seems interested in preserving the grand old liners, there are a handful that have found life beyond their time but most having served their purposes have wound up scrap. It's a pity as today's ships are more like floating blocks of flats.

[@lennartvenhuizen2038]

You know HOW she sank? She was towed to Asia. There it should be an floating hotel exactly as like the queen Mary. But the ss America and it's tugboat went into a storm. The ropes broke and she was total loss. She went to this island and stranded. Rescuing the ship wasn't possible anymore and ended up like this.

[@matthewcox6615]

@@lennartvenhuizen2038 The American Star was left there because it was too costly and dangerous to salvage or remove. There was also a legal dispute between the owners and the company insuring the vessel, which led to it being left stranded on a remote beach in the Canaries.

[@lennartvenhuizen2038]

@@matthewcox6615 That has nothing to do with the fact that people don't care for old ocean liners, according to Deevo.

[@matthewcox6615]

@@lennartvenhuizen2038 It was a huge loss to maritime history. But I do have various items from the ship over the years. 🙂

[@lennartvenhuizen2038]

@@matthewcox6615 Of course, but if a ship like that runs aground sidewards and breaks it's keel, it's barely possible to save it.

[@Pyroraptor16]

kinda sad to see a once great ship slowly falling apart. i don't know if there's anything left of her.

[@LudeMoovie]

Look on Google Earth, the ship is on the island of fuerteventura, in the Canary's islands. If you search on google you will find the correct location. There is nothing much left except some small wrecks of the bottom of the ship, unfortunately. Because it was quite an amazing sight.

[@sassymspiggy364]

This is one of the most saddest stories I have ever heard besides the Titanic

[@hanphilnoffz8827]

titanic 1 sister and brother sunk too is worst Olympic Mauretania and Aquitania is only left Olympic almost sunk by u boat if Mauretania and Aquitania then they all sank Aquitania might sink later in ww2 and they are all under water that the alternate future

[@MrSvenovitch]

@@hanphilnoffz8827 you shouldn't stop taking your medication I think

[@MrSvenovitch]

really? look up wilhelm gustloff...you might cry yourself to death

[@theclockperson1046]

@@hanphilnoffz8827 lier

[@FirstnameLastname-sg1zv]

wow, nice ship. sees 1:50 PAAAAAAAIN

[@FreddyFazbearGamer2006]

Those funnels on the ship are awesome for a design. They’re stunning!

[@nztphotography5758]

This is really nostalgic for me, I remember when every ship sinking video was a slide show like this and had Sleeping sun. It makes me want to make my own

[@naiknaik8812]

Holy cow I remember watching this when I was like 4. Oh lord

[@bencollins4740]

great photo sequence and music thanks

[@russwhitley7156]

Always Good Ships. God Bless Newport News Shipbuilding

[@CITYTIGERSS]

nice video, great pictures and song

[@FunteX]

Sleep well old girl . . .

[@Shingypoo]

I actually felt bad for a ship o_O

[@MrSvenovitch]

I don't feel bad for you

[@matthewcox6615]

I can understand that. It was once a proud ship that went everywhere until eventually becoming stranded on an island in the Canaries. The America should still be remembered for her long career at sea as well as the unusual fate it had. I have various items from the ship that I hope will preserve the memory of it for future generations.

[@ddaymen11]

my father was an electrical engineer from the fifties until the mid-to-late seventies and this is one of the ships he was on for a brief period of time. after he died I found that he had copies of the papers of all the ships he had worked on.

[@gyorgykoltai1293]

still goosebumps❤ So beautiful Ship

[@macs8018]

допоследнева держался !

[@user-su8pr8qn5i]

ага он на мели очень олго продержался

[@jleegivens]

You did a wonderful job with this video! It wass heartbreaking to watch this lovely ship "dying" right before my eyes...but unfortunately, corporate greed will always "win".

[@xSKyliNe3000x]

what is with this song and things that sink xD

[@andrewdickson6407]

+xSilent-Nightx I would love to know the song name. It is a pretty awesome song

[@xSKyliNe3000x]

Nightwish- sleeping sun

[@xSKyliNe3000x]

***** sleeping sun by nightwish

[@xSKyliNe3000x]

yep

[@simonwatts8338]

The crazy thing is that the band sacked the vocalist Tara Turunen! Amazing looking brunette dominatrix opera singer.

[@bublycat]

Beautiful!

[@ramonapetermann9585]

Abandoned buildings, ships, churches or houses are not only dead constructions of wood and steel for me. They are living, breathing creatures, and they suffer the way they are treated, when people who built them dicide, they are useless now and leave them to rot and decay. To see the long and undeserving way the American Star died, makes me cry in pain, for I can hear her silent tears.

[@stevedoubleu99B]

Nice video, good music, but a very sad end for the ship, which, in my opinion was quite a pretty vessel in her happier days.

[@savagextv2]

Southampton to Melbourne 1976 that ship was my life and still is a very big part of it god rest her sole Xxxxx

[@ralexandre6314]

Belas histórias por trás dos naufrágios!! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@FSXProPilot]

The title of sound track please? Good video!

[@haleymackinnon6980]

She was wondering around the sea lonely and now she's gone/decade she decade so much she just dissapered

[@Tommaso_28]

WOW, GREAT VIDEO!!!😍😍😍👍

[@nighthawk7863]

wait what happened to the stern, we saw it in the break up and now where is it?

[@Firehawk205]

I have seen this ship at 02:24 live in fuerteventura that was really amazing. R.I.P. American Star

[@stevenatkinson6048]

I've had the privilege to stand on the beach and see this amazing but sorry sight with the naked eye.. xx

[@NanatsukiBenio]

R.I.P All These Ocean Beauties they never will be forgotten.... p.s Heian Maru and Hie Maru always and forever!

[@Fireyshotguns51]

i think it was cool how the waves washed off one coat of paint at a time so you could see what other ways it was painted

[@princeryanbalang268]

Rest in peace ss America star we never forgotten you rest in peace girl

[@pugswillfly3211]

Clicked on this video heard a milisecond of the start thought sleeping sun and every other shipwreck video.

[@tennerear]

DONDE ES ESTE LUGAR EN EL QUE ENCALLO EL STAR AMERICAN??

[@NanatsukiBenio]

agreed but she fought until her end..... Great ship!

[@galiffrey1]

Perfect music, I love Nightwish.

[@Cerber12345v]

SSAmerica Один из самых старых разрушенных кораблей, который до сих пор будоражит мысли при одном только взгляде на него, можно увидеть у берегов Греции. Причем увидеть его можно только в том случае, если будет отлив, иначе остатки судна находятся под водой. Океанский лайнер SSAmerica был спущен на воду 31 августа 1939 года и продолжал ходить 54 года, прежде чем случилась катастрофа. Во время Второй мировой войны он был введен в эксплуатацию в качестве военно-морской техники и был способен перевозить 7678 солдат. На нем были установлены зенитные орудия. Этот корабль был продан в 1993 году владельцам, которые планировали переоборудование корабля для трансфера в 5-звездочный отель в Таиланд. Но этого не произошло. В новогоднюю ночь 1993 года массивный корабль покинул порт в Греции для переправки в Таиланд, но непогода разорвала буксирный трос, корабль дрейфовал. Он сел на мель 18 января. Всего через 2 дня из-за шторма корабль раскололся на двое, и задняя часть гигантского корабля рухнула в океан. Источник: stalkers.info/sudby-zabytyh-korablej/

[@princessvulpix100]

Well it didn't exactly "sink" : When the ship was being towed the lines broka and she was sent adrift.Then it got washed up somewhere in the Canary Islands. Now the ship is completly underwater from the force of nature.

[@thy-yw6to]

poor ship.

[@jomac2046]

In Mar 1942 as the USS West Point was used as a troop transporter from Australia to The Middle East for the Australian Army.

[@md65000]

Sorry if this is a silly question but where did it disappear to after it was wrecked? It looked like it was standing in such shallow water that there would be no way for it to sink any further. But then it seems to gradually slip under the water anyway.

[@MrSvenovitch]

It's above a worm hole of course

[@doughesson]

My Dad saw this ship twice when he was on a trooship going to Germany in 1951.Once when SS America was Eastbound & again when she was Westbound for the States.

[@MrSvenovitch]

My dad never watched the oceans because he is forbidden by Odin and Captain America to go near the water. So sayeth the spider

[@stevedoubleu99B]

This may sound daft, but you can really feel her pain. Sad.

[@MrNJT]

The SS American Star was a beautiful ship. Her only example left is the SS United States. However she might be gone soon as well.

[@Nelis1992]

nice vid, btw whats the song name?

[@tremon3688]

Una vez cuando era muy pequeño, fui a Fuerteventura de vacaciones, recuerdo poco de ese viaje pero si recuerdo quedarme impactado al ver este fantasmagórico barco siendo golpeado por las olas. El recuerdo de quedó en mi memoria cada vez más difuso, llegue a pensar que era todo un sueño extraño, aunque se veía clara la imagen, de alguna manera estaba distorsionado, idealizado. Hace un año volví a ir a la misma playa, y cuando vi que el barco no estaba, se confirmo mi sospecha. Pero al rato de estar allí, un amigo dijo : "Sabes, aquí antes había un barco encallado...". Fue una grata experiencia, y viendo una de estas fotos, es exactamente como lo recordaba. Muchas gracias por el vídeo! Exactamente la del 3:03 (por si alguien está interesado)

[@SamuelSanchezD88]

Gran historia bro. Me hubiera gustado verlo

[@znarf541]

Thanks, great video. Kind of the story of life - you are young and beautiful, then you get old and end up a rusting hulk somewhere...

[@MrSvenovitch]

only the good die young

[@carlto4958]

What happen to the ship btw?

[@kzbxvz]

Your opinion of 1221-2012?

[@Kris-qy7hh]

I remember when I went on this beautiful ship. It makes me sad to look at this now.

[@CaptainSmith23]

+Marlene Mohan You were on the SS America? that's very cool.. was she beautiful on the inside as well?

[@queercus13]

I could be wrong but believe some images are of the sister ship (later and larger and put up in Philly) SS United States, The two look rather similar but SSUS is much longer and holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic both ways. Its career lasted 17 yrs from 1952 until 1969. They are shown passing each other in NY harbor in one pic in this clip..

[@alfasplash]

Please someone tell me the name of the song, I like it.

[@grayoctopus5284]

Красиво

[@chroylikesfish]

what is this song? its everywhere

[@NanatsukiBenio]

Согласен сам чуть не плакал

[@MrSnoww3]

For the people who don't know, the stern washed away. It was sitting and rusting for a long time and finally fell apart. The bow however, is sort of still there. It's only visible when the tide is low

[@MrSvenovitch]

O I thought the rear was under a cloaking device. Good you explained this, captain obvious.

[@ELCRICRI-oe6qn]

una pregunta porque se quebró el barco de la mitad

[@sandrasimostzagos3270]

VerY sad to see the end of this ship.I travelled two times on her,NZ TO CRETE,1977, and South-hampton to New Zealand,1976

[@airsupply29]

I`ve never heard or read about this ship, but what hapened to him, to break this way?

[@MrHeesbeen]

A beautiful ship with classic lines. It is such a pity that she was allowed to end her days with so little dignity.

[@Radar-tastic]

When this was used as the ss australis after ww2 my mum traveled from the UK to Australia on that ship, she's heartbroken to know that wonderful ship is now a wreck

[@Mach1Airspace]

Nice vid.

[@loser.czsksracky3507]

da

[@moon2000409]

How old is the ship

[@andrewbrendan1579]

Thank you for your sensible outlook and comments. I love ocean liners but they're lifeless things. I'm exasperated with the naivete and emotionalism of those who talk about preserving liners or lament their demise. How many preserved liners can be paid for and maintained? Very few. Nostalgia can be expensive; the liners were made to make money. Worse is some people's affection for liners being close to if not idolatry.

[@MrSvenovitch]

I am happy to read this, at least someone has their head up straight. I am also happy to troll all the idiot comments I've read here so far.

[@scifi75]

I have an interest in the history of the ships and plan to take a transatlantic passage on one some day. Not a cruise like some party ship but a real crossing. Having said that I agree that preserving old ships for nostalgia is fraught one. Take a look at the Queen Mary and, even worse, the sad state of the SS United States. At the very least turning them into aquatic reefs for ocean life to use and for recreational divers is sensible. Otherwise these great ladies suffer neglect and are shells of what they once were. Scrap them or turn them into something beneficial. We can all enjoy their history when they were great.

[@m.pilargarcia3260]

lo unico que os puedo decir es que en toldillas,significado parte superior de proa esque estaban las helices del buque,habian sido desmontadas y puestas alli para su traslado y por lo que se su precio oscilaba entre los 60.000euros por unidad,eran dos,fueron cortadas con autogenas por desconocidos y.YO EN CAMBIO poseo cartas nauticas y otros enseres

[@cjwill803]

Where was the location

[@damienjaquillard3684]

J'adore cette Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@FUCKEDUPMUSHROOM]

Is it still their? because its crazy that its eroding their on the pictures :L

[@captnhook236]

The fact that you used NIGHTWISH Sleeping sun was epic in itself!! Fantastic photos and choice of music!!

[@nicolasbernal5348]

uan pregunta quien es la cantante

[@engineerskalinera]

The song fits the story of this ship so eerily...

[@realheloukiti]

what is name of song please

[@monroe3004]

I travelled to Australia on her when she was the SS Australis in 1971. Such a sad ending for a great ship. Remember the old sailors saying about" it's bad luck to change a ship's name".

[@MrSvenovitch]

it's also bad luck to be born since you cannot suffer as long as you don't exist

[@jamesthilberg]

The only honorable way to see it go! Rather than being broken down and sold as scrap.