The Lusitania Sank in 18 Minutes, But its Passengers Suffered for Longer

It took a short while for the Lusitania to go down, but it took rescue boats almost three hours to reach the wreckage. Why?
From: SINKING THE LUSITANIA: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
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[@Ryuko-T72]

"Gee Dad, took you long enough to get here" What a Savage.

[@zay4401]

Yeah savage

[@zzvlr]

Savage life.

[@letiziasereni]

I see you're a man of culture as well with Enterprise on your pfp

[@MissGroves]

some of the survivors ended up with lungs filled with oil from the sinking. My great grandfather suffered for the rest of his life because of it. Also this isn't an american tragedy alone but a british one and other nationalities.

[@MissGroves]

CSM101 they also carried oil on board, or are you not familiar with engines needing oils or other applications. This man was my family and that's what was on his death certificate, I think the doctors were qualified enough to be able to diagnose that.

[@tomemeornottomeme1864]

CSM, when the Lusitania submerged and hit the bottom, she left behind a huge slick of oil on the surface that did indeed get in people's lungs while they were swimming. It literally bubbled out of the ship as it plunged.

[@bangchittybang]

CSM101 Lol you only said "whatever" cos you knew you made an idiotic assumption and then lost.

[@Lar22]

My great-grandmother's family farm faced the stretch of ocean where the Lusitania sank. She watched everything happen from the shoreline as a little girl. Crazy to think our great-grandparents were in close proximity on that day!

[@martinsparrow150]

MissGroves did he talk about it much or were u too young

[@WhiteArrow76]

I remember listening to Frank and Elsie's story in another documentary by National geographic. They had both been born in England and had been living in Canada since emigrating with their parents in 1907. Their mother had died in late 1913 and now their father was moving them back to England. They had actually planned on travelling aboard the Lusitania in Second Class, but switched to Third Class when George learned their former housekeeper, Annie Marsh was travelling in Third Class with her husband Tom and their infant son. Like the Hooks, the Marshes were also English nationals returning to their home country. Annie survived the sinking, but her husband and baby boy did not. Annie Marsh later remarried and spent the rest of her life in England, living at Faversham, Kent until her death in 1977. The Hooks moved to Australia in 1925. George died in 1963, Elsie died in 1995, and Frank died in 1998.

[@IntoxicCH]

With all the tragedy, it's nice to read the occasional story that turned out fine after all. Both siblings lived into their 90s, and the company that Frank founded, Hook Plastics, was apparently still in business in Altona North, Australia, until just a few years ago.

[@NorthWestern1919]

Are you talking about Last Voyage of the Lusitania, which had Robert Ballard in it?

[@dustingriffith7399]

🚢 Lucky Lusitania Survivor FRANK!👍

[@MrTona94]

Truly enjoyed narrating this documentary for The Smithsonian Channel. The complete program will air May 4 and 5 in the US ·

[@rcreccomendationsforpeople3906]

IS FREENF?

[@NorthWestern1919]

Well great work. I thought the narration in this film was very well done.

[@rmsolympicwhiteinene9589]

coool

[@galatheumbreon6862]

you were awesome dude

[@Karuminu2]

"Gee Dad, took you long enough!" Heh. Little smartass.

[@louisxiv631]

*BOI YOU BETTER*

[@Thatgirlcodes]

😂 I died I was like the smartass is strong with this one lol my momma would’ve slapped me with joy lmao

[@north7764]

Karuminu2 That’d totally be me.

[@jj_franklin2345]

Gee sin we though you were dead with the other 1,200 people. You gotta be a smarties to beat a smartass

[@jj_franklin2345]

Smarties was an error. Smartass. It auto corrected

[@NetLockGaming]

"Gee dad took you long enough to get here" best line ever!

[@DannyJustiniano]

I was so happy at the end of the video..

[@JuniorsXbox]

Mario Justiniano yeah it was

[@dkproductions8904]

Mario Justiniano yeah I thought the kid died

[@OrionSlaveGirlUWU]

I was happy at the end of the war.

[@juanleon3875]

@@OrionSlaveGirlUWU “OnionSlaveGirlUWU” *doesn’t know what war is other than roblox games*

[@djj7668]

Rest in Peace to all the innocent victims,who lost their lives on this dreadful day.

[@Xxrocknrollgod]

Due to bankers

[@iminavegetativestatestudio1730]

Titanic sinks: oh my gosh this is so tragic. Lusitania sinks: well damn...

[@griffinbrown2870]

Let alone the fact that Titanic was an accident, Lusitania wasn’t just some shipwreck, it was a war crime that killed 1,200 innocent people ❤️

[@bbvollmer]

@@griffinbrown2870 nope... its cargo of illegal contraband war material made it a legit target

[@SirOswaldMosley.]

​@@bbvollmer isn't that a myth though i sware no one knows if it had anything on it

[@iamhungey12345]

@stormtrooper1484 It should also be noted that the British military higher ups actually knew about the u-boat in the area and chose not to warn the captain about it. Makes one wonder if they were being set up.

[@SirSparrowHawk]

Touching end.

[@sqabbas3284]

man i almost cried that boy died in the sea but he is alive *phew*

[@flopinvictus5646]

He's dead now anyway

[@michaela.orlando4421]

Frank Hook died in 1998 at age 94.

[@FastNCurious88]

S Q ABBAS he may have lived. But it doesn’t quell the pain of so many other little boys and girls didn’t.

[@anthonytang4327]

This happend at 1915

[@Sintaxx]

At least one story of a family reunited after this tragedy. Thank you!

[@connorwilcox4244]

This is just downright eerie. Queens town was the last place that Titanic stopped by to pick up more people, before sinking 4 days later.

[@Saint_pepsi]

????

[@bananawafer7988]

@@Saint_pepsi?

[@FashnKween]

4 days later? Titanic sunk in 1912. Lusitania sank in 1915

[@Justyourlocalgamer]

I can tell you this my great uncle was on the Lusitania and he was on crew when it was sinking Captain Turner ordered him to get on 1 of the 6 lifeboats that were safely launched. He was ordered to get on because the crew member on the lifeboat was crazy and could not control himself and he died but my great uncle survived.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

I guess that crazy guy didn’t stay in the lifeboat long or was one of the three people who died shortly after they were rescued.

[@thepoofs2527]

I actually never knew this tragedy happened 12 miles away from my country..

[@itsme-sn5gi]

The UK

[@nicholasluigi]

@@itsme-sn5gi im crying

[@itsme-sn5gi]

@@nicholasluigi why

[@nicholasluigi]

@@itsme-sn5gi IRELAND

[@itsme-sn5gi]

@@nicholasluigi Which is in the UK?

[@J.R.in_WV]

According to several sources there was one particularly strong swimmer aboard who actually did manage to swim to old head of kinsale and make land near the lighthouse.

[@ernshaw78]

Honestly they should have had a big screen adaption like Titanic because there were so many interesting people here and to say nothing of which the sumptuous backdrop being every bit an equal if not perhaps a touch more elegant. It's amazing to think in the space of 20 minutes a ship 99 or so feet shorter than Titanic would sink, all the engines failing, electricity shot, and the rapid increasing list. And how minutes could have saved your life or not, that's far more apocalyptic.

[@ajcics]

It'd be a short film. About eighteen minutes long

[@iamhungey12345]

@@ajcics They can cover the lead up though and with some padding with shots from other scenes, they can stretch 18 minutes a bit.

[@cheezyguy2866]

This was a sad and scary moment.

[@DiegoRivera-xw1cd]

Wow Titanic sank in the N.Atlantic Ocean which is FREEZING WATER Lusitania also sank in cold water. Gee,Britannic was the only one that sank in hot water -_-

[@mako3509]

Diego Rivera Not Really Hot, Just Normal Temperature.

[@ceratosaurus4511]

it was also the only one where most of the passengers and crew survived.

[@JessycaLunawoona]

No, Britannic sank in the Mediterranean Sea I believe.

[@christophercromwell9467]

Diego Rivera Lusitania wasn't related to the titanic or Britannic though

[@janselkennethtolentino8269]

Christopher Cromwell Lusitania was one of the competitors of the competing company, Cunard

[@iminavegetativestatestudio1730]

Out of many of the famous maritime disasters at the time, Lusitania was just very unlucky. More unlucky than Titanic.

[@MalaysianAviator737-8]

Dont forget Britannic

[@clf8965]

Almost all ships during that time were “unlucky” though…

[@Perich29]

Titanic had an bad acident, but Lusitania was Murdered by U 20

[@aber_kadaber1034]

4:45 I like his style

[@daniellaakinyemi5261]

I still don't understand why it took the rescue boats 3 hrs to reach the wreckage.

[@flowerfaerie8931]

It didn’t. They said in the video, ships deliberately avoided going to the wreck right away because of the risk that they’d be torpedoed as well.

[@StuUngar]

A good read is “Dead Wake.” It really goes into detail surrounding the Lusitania and WW1. The Germans had deliberately sunk ships and waited for the rescue response and continued to sink more ships. I wanna say in one instance, they sunk 3 ships before England mandated that other ships were not to immediately respond to distress signals from torpedoed ships.

[@charlottekimber7848]

@@StuUngar That is a such a good book, I loved it so much.

[@JupiterGreenberg]

In middle of the book right now. Stopped to watch the last known footage and ended up watching a few videos. Such a well written book. And so sad.

[@katiecaputo]

Oh! I remember reading this in school last year.

[@cozzi1731]

12 miles to cold and to far to swim Me: ARE YOU SURE WATCH ME TRY!!!! dies* Me: oh............. :p

[@samoeunprak6664]

Nothin To-see-here haha

[@Seigin1]

This is how papa franku formed.

[@creepercraft213]

Seigin1 EYY B0SS

[@trevorlear5031]

When people blame hitler for this but he wasn't even in power yet lmao

[@__________________________2260]

Trevor Lear I know right

[@starkillerdude1914]

Trevor Lear I know right

[@StuartandIanGaming]

Broke the chain :D

[@omgGrrrful]

on what year this happened? wasn't this around ww2 ?

[@StuartandIanGaming]

1915. (That's WW1)

[@fdr45]

Darn Germany, back at it again with the torpedoing of passenger ships.

[@Blurritos]

Learn history. It was smuggling military reinforcements (weapons) for the British, that's why the Germans torpedoed the Lusitania. Get your facts straight before you speak something, it shows your idiocy.

[@WarriorsCats321]

Blurritos Are you saying it didn't have passengers on it? From what I see, Full Dog was simply making a joke and said nothing incorrect. Maybe that says something about your idiocy, hm?

[@newfie9541]

Full Dog what about the soviets they sank a refugee ship that had more then 8000 civilians onboard

[@finsfan90]

The Lusitania sailed into a known war zone....they were warned and still went. Strike 1. America thought that by using human shields, that Germany wouldnt dare attack the ship. Strike 2. The ship was caring weapons from the U.S to resupply Britain. Thats not neutrality, and Germany didnt tolerate it. Strike 3. Basically, anyone here bashing Germany is dumb. Like the U.S or Britain wouldnt do the same if the roles were reversed. They would. Except they would invent a false story to justify that move.

[@Apollo_1641]

Full Dog *Warship The darn ship had cannons.. And it carried munitions

[@MrHistory269]

I would never go on a ship if an enemy nation that was at war with us said we will sink any ship carrying a allied flag

[@immigrantgaming420epic]

many people still needed to go on business trips and stuff like that

[@legacyoscar4405]

Frank hook is my great grandfather actually and we still have his processions from that Lusitania

[@vloglifesubscribe]

Not true because he is my great grandfather

[@immigrantgaming420epic]

@@vloglifesubscribe No, he is my great grandmother

[@finnm2622]

It wasn’t an “American Tradegy” there were more British people on there then Americans.

[@immigrantgaming420epic]

It was a human tragedy, alright?

[@kimma508]

It was a tragedy period. Innocent people lost their lives and it’s tragic.

[@twiztidyournutz]

American enough for a war, like a reason for the U.S. to get involved in WW1

[@reivang7196]

It was the British government dragging America in another one of Europe war, dont believe me? They wanted America to join the war countless of times , once they knew 200 American passengers were on that ship , they took the course that led them right to the U Boat.

[@ryanhelton1865]

@@reivang7196 as someone on the US army I can’t tell you how much we as country rely on the Uk. They have been with this country through thick and thin and even got involved in our wars just for the sake of helping out. As of Lusitania the blame lies in the captain reports show the British government gave the captain precise instruction which he ignored. Before you act like the Uk was dragging us in wars we have dragged them into more wars then they have dragged us in. And if it wasn’t for them we would honestly be speaking German without their intelligence or their ships for the facts in WW2 we wouldn’t of win the war.

[@michaeloberg3018]

I remember the horrors of this tragedy like it was just yesterday...

[@deadpoolfan6881]

The thing hat the dad says at the end of the video brought a smile on my face after an otherwise depressing video.

[@realtoast7036]

Bright, sunny day that day with still water; not freezing conditions. This point is only important because this fortunate coincidence may have contributed to the survivability of many of those in the water.

[@budhanienterprises7899]

I wish that all the people in the Lusitania were alive and meet one of them R.I.P passengers of the ship

[@Carpenterdane]

Regardless of this ship having munitions, that still didn't give Germany the right to torpedo the ship. Cruel and inhumane!

[@immigrantgaming420epic]

They were required to torpedo every ship, and the big liners were important targets. It is cruel, but so is war

[@Whitneypyant]

The fact that Lusitania had weapons made it a military target. It’s a grey area because technically it was illegal

[@PeterPan54167]

Don’t want civilians to die don’t be a blockade runner simple as that .

[@sahaynam6470]

What’s cruel is carrying civilian passengers and war munitions together onto a battlefield. These people were used as human shields and political/diplomatic tools.

[@lukeschultz6886]

British packed the ship with munitions unbeknownst to the civilians on board. That's the real tragedy. Germans most likely intercepted the message and knew full well what the British were up to. On top of that, the British were also known for arming passengers vessels and firing on u boats once they raised to give a warning. At that point, the rulebook went out the window.

[@cameronhamilton7439]

After this, THE WORLD WE LIVE IN WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME. EARTH 🌎

[@TT_1221]

This was before the Irish Rebellion in 1916 and the Republic of Ireland came into being.

[@TheGamingPolitician]

Lusitania: *EXISTS* German U-Boat: Do you want to explode?!

[@gentlemandudley7761]

yah!!!! Frank survived!

[@gggggggggggggggggggggggggg]

"Its Brighter Here"

[@TACRail]

I can't tell which one would be my most favorite, not because of the sinking, but because of how the ships looked from an bird eye's perspective. I think I would say Lusitania and then Britannic, especially having Britannic as a hospital ship To me, the Lusitania was the mermaid of the Atlantic until her final plunge in the cold freezing waters

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

The waters of the Lusitania weren’t exactly freezing. I mean they were cold enough to make people shiver, but most of the people in that water who didn’t drown were able to survive in it for a few hours.

[@steven_2005-z4f]

The last Titanic survivor died in May 2009. The last Hindenburg survivor died in November 2019. The last Lusitania survivor died in January 2011.

[@Bluemojieatscookie15]

What about britannic

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

@@Bluemojieatscookie15 George Perman and he died on May 24, 2000.

[@plamensimeonov4492]

life boats have rows

[@vanillabeam5400]

At least one little ray of happiness came out of this horrible tragedy

[@Sam-lb8xs]

The Hook family were lucky; of 129 children on board, 94 died, including 31 out of 35 infants.

[@griytzmessesup2212]

This video ended in 5 minutes, but the viewers suffered for much longer.

[@margaretjohnson630]

The 3 sister ship and the other 3 isn't it the titanic olympic and Birtannic and the other 3 are Lusitania aqadtaina and moritaina

[@shibanikisku4018]

thank god that young Frank is safe.

[@cubetorials3530]

I love Eric Grove’s passion

[@DakotaFord592]

It's so crazy because it was tragedy after tragedy! All of the lifeboats that kept on failing and the people were thrown out. And the other lifeboat that even was landing on top of another lifeboat drowning everybody in the lifeboat underneath.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

And other lifeboats detached from their ropes and fatally hitting people already in the water.

[@barbarasolera8656]

This wasn’t hitlers fault, this was in 1915 and the second word war started in 1939 ,

[@jaguar4u2012]

and only 3 years prior the Tianic disaster happened how could people Trust Atlantic Travelling afterwards... is beyond me

[@jaguar4u2012]

@ELDEANTI so dont travel! better than dying a horrific death

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

@@jaguar4u2012 Well, ocean liners were the way of traveling across the seas before we had airplanes and there were quite a few Titanic survivors who were on the Lusitania when it sank.

[@Queenofthemall1445]

My stepfathers grandfather saw the lusitania sink, he was in kinsale planning on going fishing i think iy was

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

Interesting. I know my grandfather's grandfather helped do repairs on the Lusitania's steam pipes right before the voyage it was torpedoed in.

[@tanyaartiaga117]

Aww glad he is safe 💓💓

[@martinreyes4916]

2:33 "do you want to sink as well " lustania yep well i did

[@williamdean4101]

Didn't mean to be rude little one. God Bless you.

[@timmy841212]

Tragic. 😭😭😭

[@mexicanofr7762]

1:48 People screaming 😭😭

[@evelyn.creech]

I’m watching this for school

[@Jettaboii]

Lucky I would love learning this stuff

[@kiis3kii]

I clicked on this thinking it was a documentary on the Titanic 😂

[@ismailgul9066]

humanity at its worst state i mean how can you shoot a passenger liner

[@markharrison2544]

It was carrying war munitions.

[@thomasmatthewharris1980]

@@markharrison2544 doesn't make it right

[@iamhungey12345]

@@markharrison2544 They didn't know at the time however, the captain of U-20 was especially ruthless on how he does things in that kind of warfare. Even if the ship haven't been smuggling ammos it would still have been a target regardless.

[@abreckenridge3001]

Felt like 911 for their time

[@bethaniwalker3023]

I’m glad frank is ok

[@stephenbyrne2170]

18 minutes? No ship that size could sink that fast. Not unless...

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

Have you ever seen the movie about its sinking? It did a great job showing how it sank that fast.

[@robloxeatskids8907]

for once the "its brighter here thing" is relative to the video.

[@jeep146]

Sad, but the ship was carrying weapons which made it a fair target. The British later to cover it up had the ship depth charged to destroy the wreck and cover the blast from the ships explosives.

[@yamato6114]

Yeah the British government is as much at fault too. They used the passengers on the ship as human shields to illegally transport munitions.

[@darragney623]

The British government used their own people and others to smuggle ammunitions. the poor people tried to travelinto Britain/Ireland

[@mrplane4205]

@@darragney623 this is not true in any way.

[@JoeLikesTrains]

When the ship was hit it immediately listed 15+ degrees to port.

[@MrWill1985]

This is more horrifying than the Titanic.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

Yeah, it definitely sank a lot faster than the Titanic.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY Also the lifeboats disasters.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

@@iamhungey12345 Also, its evacuation from the interior. There were people who got trapped in its elevators and couldn’t find their way to the exits since the power went out so quickly.

[@comradekitty2009]

This disaster is probably worse than the titanic disaster.

[@Brian-js6me]

Ethan bolt how so? More people died on the Titanic and the manner of death was mostly the same (freezing or drowning).

[@emerybonner7973]

Actually, the sinking of the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff is the worse. 9,400 of 10,000 people onboard died when the Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine. All the deaths were either by freezing or drowning. (The Gustloff sank in the Baltic Sea in January 1945)

[@comradekitty2009]

Yay I can check off starting controversy on my bucket list

[@iamhungey12345]

@@Brian-js6me Maybe it was because it shows that having enough lifeboats doesn't guarantee anything.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

@@Brian-js6me Yeah, but then again, the Titanic was carrying more people than the Lusitania.

[@bigsai4472]

Everyone knows the reason why the Lusitania sank was because it was carrying ammunitions in the luggage hull part of the ship. The captain didn't agree with carrying weapons but he took them anyway. But still, ammunitions can't make a ship sing in 18 minutes. Therefore I will tell the answer, the Lusitania had a bomb in it. A new British Bomb that was supposed to help the Infantry to defeat the Germans.

[@johnmorgan8558]

Idk about one big bomb but they were carrying all sorts of ammunition, some could’ve been small explosives that all went off simultaneously, severely damaging the ship thus making it sink so fast

[@John-mf6ky]

As it was told to me, the previous captain had actually resigned because he disagreed with using human shields to protect munitions.

[@matthewhase150]

@Geo Thomas Which part? All of it? Or are you stuck in demonizing Germans?

[@iamhungey12345]

@@johnmorgan8558 The bomb was never really confirmed and things got embellished as time went by ever since people learn about the ammos being smuggled. The British navy probably did set them up considering they knew about U-20 being in the area the ship was heading to and didn't tell them about it. What should be noted is that even if the ship wasn't carrying any ammos and the Germans knows it, they should still have targeted the ship. The captain of U-20 was especially ruthless on his approach to naval warfare to the point even the Kreigsmarine higher ups were uncomfortable with what he was doing.

[@Nick-xb5nz]

Elssie: Dont worry ladys! God will save you! Me: I FREAKING KNOW THAT BUT ARE YOU AWARE THAT WE ARE ON A SINKING SHIP?

[@izziebon]

Factcheck; Lusitania was carrying ammunition (cartridges) not weapons as such. It was a British auxiliary cruiser of course, with mostly American passengers. Strange thing is that King George V that very morning is recorded as saying to Edward Mandell House (USA envoy) that he wondered whether the Germans would sink the Lusitania! It sank at 2pm same day!

[@Whitneypyant]

It still military targets cartridges or not. They should have never had them on there

[@iamhungey12345]

@@Whitneypyant In addition the British navy knew about U-20 in the area but didn't warn the captain of Lusitania for some reason.

[@darkk_mp4]

0:20 This lady makes a video about the Lusitania sinking but than she says "tilting" woman, its called listing

[@briannat1086]

A Winston Churchill production.

[@OlivergwrThomasthetankenginefa]

Rip to the 1198 people

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

1201 if you count the 3 people who died of serious injuries they incurred in that disaster shortly after they were rescued.

[@pilot_mattia4233]

R.I.P

[@briannat1086]

Churchill at his best. Read about it. He allowed it to happen.

[@Oogabooga841]

It wasn’t the middle of the Atlantic it was off the coast of Ireland

[@Perich29]

Could have saved the ship by beaching it on Ireland before getting torpedoed

[@jonathanpardoe8722]

Churchill was entirely to blame using his "live bait " policy which broadly meant that because the ship was carrying a substantial American passenger list, it was a way to drag America into the war, as prior to Lusitania, America was neutral , Intelligence on u boats was extraordinalrily accurate for the time and it was known exactly where the German Uboat was and the standard zig zag course to avoid Uboats was countermanded by the Navy who made Lusitania sail in a straight line right in the line of fire for the torpedo's . Forever after known as the "Lusitania outrage" Churchill's name isn't well liked amongst the towns of southern Ireland and in particular the old head of Kinsale where anti Churchill posters still adorn the walls of every public house.

[@heartbeat691]

That is not correct, captain Turner was sailing in a straight line because he had been in heavy fog and needed to get a four point bearing which meant he had to sail in a straight line for 30 minutes t to do so. The U boat had pure luck when the ship had to change course and ended up at a perfect 90 degree angle for a clear shot Read Dead Wake by Erik Larson

[@proxiimatedd]

Someone say the lusitania got torpedoed cause picking up an illegal ammunition

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

It was carrying a load of military hardware to Europe and that’s exactly why it was torpedoed.

[@slumdogpreacher6964]

So God does answer Prayer, at least the Prayer of this family!

[@TheCSprogamingCREW]

And he let over 1000 die a slow painful death do you really think god is real

[@Swifties2day]

Am I the only one that thought that you spoke it out as: Lutisiana?

[@Wix46]

thank god for that random dude looking at dead bodys

[@oKingsWild]

War... War never changes.

[@alexandragross908]

I guess there's two sides to every story. I watched another video where they said the captain of Lusitania received many messages that there was a sub in the area. He was told to get the ship to top speed and into a zigzag pattern because when a sub surfaces it can't go very fast and its hard to aim when the ship isn't going in a straight line. It made me think that the captain wanted the ship to sink.

[@alexandragross908]

Oh god... who shit in your cereal?

[@alexandragross908]

Yes. I DO think the captain wanted the ship to sink. And it wasn't his ship Mr. KnowItAll

[@alexandragross908]

You're a miserable lil shit aren't ya

[@osamabinladen7658]

They wanted the ship to sink so theu can have a reason to join the war...creating weapons and selling them made a lot of money for America...after ww1 stopped America was great in the 20's but then all the munition factories closed because there was no war...then the great depression came and ww2 after it...during ww2 america started mass producing weapons again and became a nice country again...thets why america will always be in some kind of war, its the only way they earn money...just look at the facts.. in last 50 years America is always in war because thats the only way they can sustain their ecemony

[@DJ.Apocalypto]

That is one badass son. 😎

[@sdevilx1074]

Were do you get the full documentary

[@0570965]

I'd just be happy my kid survived.

[@frankofam1069]

At least Frank survived but what about the other kids? Not as cool as Frank or important? My name is Frank

[@Redline0332]

They were used as human shield by Britain. They had a lot of firepower transported. Germany did warn civilians not to sail on that ship.

[@Calh92]

The only munitions on board were small arms ammo, which was allowed under America's neutrality shipping laws. A straight up war crime and Germany knew it. After this they stopped unrestricted submarine warfare for a couple years and publicly shamed the U-boat captain.

[@iamhungey12345]

Plus the British navy knew about U-20 in the area that the ship was entering but didn't tell them.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

Yeah, technically the Lusitania was a war vessel disguised as an extremely luxurious civilian liner, but unfortunately her passengers were unaware of that and didn’t listen to what people said about her being very poorly prepared for her voyage which really made her an even bigger death trap.

[@djcat6596]

Who else thought it said lufthansia and clicked on the video

[@IceFive5]

: Zeatro : no one

[@CB3474]

Idk what you’re talking about.

[@Attomicc076]

No one did

[@Ellen24493]

Bodies washing up onshore. How awful.

[@alexsnower5743]

wondering if Germany kept committing war crimes after Wilhelm abdicated? Yes

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

For some time yes. It was just a little over 4 months after that disaster when Germany finally surrendered before being split into numerous zones which went on for 45 years. It’s just great that Germany is now completely reunited into one country and no longer committing those war crimes.

[@annemadison7258]

The sinking of the Lusitania was not Britain's worst sea disaster the sinking of the RMS Lancastria was.

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

My great great grandfather was one of the engineers of that ship.

[@vloglifesubscribe]

Sure

[@yvetterowan129]

titanic was not just the worst that ship was the same

[@zay4401]

Only thirty five out of one hundred twenty nine children had survived only four babies out of the thirty nine babies survived that terrible day

[@stellertonybeller1972]

this was close to land i wonder why it took so long to get rescue boats

[@darthinsanitus8510]

Using a civilian liner to transport ammunition..is horrific...under the rules of war....they turned it in a military asset

[@darthinsanitus8510]

@ELDEANTI it’s called Spies….it’s even a fact the British broke the German uboat code….they allowed the ship to be sunk to bring America into the war

[@aaronborza7217]

I'm an American Born and Raised and anyone who possesses the tiniest bit of logic and reason understands that the Germans had every right to sink the Lusitania

[@lightdestructions]

Yup the Lusitania was illegally carrying war ammunitions

[@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

And it led to the Germans getting what they needed.

[@TheLexcoupe50]

a U boat eh...

[@trishapaytasdaughter8602]

Ok but why so many lifeboats upside down

[@mexicanofr7762]

The list And the ropes broke