Heartbreaking. I sailed on her from Melbourne to Southampton in 1967.

@captainsupermaket8003

3 жыл бұрын

Wow what was it like

@163london

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainsupermaket8003 I have fond memories of it, even though I was very young.

@163london

3 жыл бұрын

@Diezel Parisius You calling me a liar?

@163london

3 жыл бұрын

@Diezel Parisius Some people Telling me I can't prove it means you suspect I'm lying. Well, I'm not. That said, in the end I suppose it makes no difference what you believe because I know the truth. I was on that ship for 5 weeks. We had to go via the Panama Canal because the Suez Canal was closed due to the 7-day war (when we went to Australia on the Canberra we went via the Suez Canal) .

@163london

3 жыл бұрын

@Diezel Parisius Thanks

You can literally see the steel/rust eroding off of her remains. The ocean is immensely powerful.

@highlysuggestible861

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered if it were rust, or churning up sand from the seafloor.

When I was in high school back in the early 1980's I had a neighbor who server in Word War Two. He was sent to Europe on this ship (SS American Star, ex SS America) when it was used as the troopship USS West Point.

@tmanoutdoors8277

4 жыл бұрын

carsmasher I think your thinking of the ss American star which is still floating abandoned today

@carsmasher

4 жыл бұрын

@@tmanoutdoors8277 Yes, SS America/SS Australis/SS American Star, same ship. The wreck collapsed in 2013 and only a small part can been seen at low tide.

@silent3625

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmanoutdoors8277 that would be the SS United States, docked in Philadelphia

I always wonder how much wreckage/debris of her may still remain below the waterline. I mean, all the heavy stuff like the keel, engines, crankshafts, generators, boilers etc. must have went somewhere. I can't imagine that those massive parts simply dissolved, while much lighter wreckage like this part of the forecastle is still somewhat intact. In older photos you could still see the stern sections hull shape deep below the water, even years after it completely disappeared from the surface.

@Ilikeformulaone

Жыл бұрын

Just letting you know there’s a great vid by Matthew cox it a drone Birds Eye view of the wreck with really clear water so you can see the out line of the wreck th engine and the boilers don’t need to check it out just recommending it

@ChristianSchaal

Жыл бұрын

@@Ilikeformulaone thank you sou much, I think I've found it here: kzread.infouaaPM5CYhTI?feature=share

I had a neighbor who has long since passed away who sailed to Europe on the SS America when she was used as a troopship and called the USS Westpoint during WWII.

rip as American star may you rest peacefully in the ocean waves 😢😖😟😞😩😭😔

Some considerable sand surging around the hull with each wave. We are literally watching the ocean swallow the "America". Remember, while she was considerably older and less powerful, this was the running mate of the S.S."United States". She was a legendary part of the international North Atlantic ocean liner travel system. In a manner of speaking, this end is fitting for a true companion of the sea. I am glad you took the time to review the wreckage in this manner. Thank you!

Very sad, sailed on her as SS Australis from UK to Australia in 1968 when a teenager. Gibraltar/Capetown/Fremantle/Melbourne, Suez Canal was closed.

1. This ocean water is extremely corrosive 2. These waves are insane and tough to break down an entire ship within a span of almost 30 years.

That's amazing!

The nature always win!

@hevendor958

4 жыл бұрын

well remember the Amazon Forrest fire well most likely the ocean seamed to have destroyed it

@GooseyBoosey

3 жыл бұрын

Humans: are you challenging me?

Great video - my personal channel (Doug Griffiths) has video I shot of the wreck in 1999 & 2000. If only drones and hidef digital photography had been available then! I travelled from Southampton to Auckland on her in 1976 BTW.

This must have been during a lower tide, but not lowest tide. Even in October of year 2021, we have seen a little more wreck pieces above the water at really lowest tide including very small pieces of the middle ship section. Visiters should pay attention to the tide time table, every minute counts. But that's only for real fans of the ship, which have seen the wreck in it's impressive conditions many years ago. Newbies will always say: "That's all, this ridiculous small rusty part of metal ?". Poor people, because they missed the wreck when it was the most spectacular one ever seen on earth. 😊

Incredible

Thats not the only piece....... The rest of her is inside the sand you can see the water filling something under her........

How did ship was gone so fast??? Metal gone because of salt water?

@x-fun3149

7 жыл бұрын

NoOne! She collapsed, most likely due to her old age, her split, and her lack of maintenance.

@gordonsflash8612

7 жыл бұрын

Gone so fast.?.it was very visible for 10+ years.

@qe2836

7 жыл бұрын

Salty ocean water is very bad for steel but the very common rough seas there made the ship collapse, It's also the reason why she broke in two at first. And this happened in 1994, not so fast after all. Ships wrecked in calmer waters usually start to rust away at the waterline and they can "survive" for a very long time.

@shopdog831

7 жыл бұрын

20 years

@kawanbrownlee9724

7 жыл бұрын

QE2 well at least the SS united States is still here

Wow...

She doesn’t deserve to be like this. She deserved to be a hotel in Phuket.

So sad. Her soul cry’s out from the waves. Not too different from the concrete ship, Atlantus, in Cape May.

He'she is no more 😔

poor old ship, the only thing still intact and recognizable is the boiler in 10 to 15 ft of water...

Its sad but I don't get why no one went underwater to find it.

@Dimondback999

6 жыл бұрын

The ship was torn apart because of the rough waters. Nothing left to dive\explore other than twisted and torn bits of the ship

@a3bilbaneo842

4 жыл бұрын

Well here you go!: kzread.info/dash/bejne/apupo5mxf8LOf84.html&feature=share

Do you know what remains today?

@jannekereparon

6 ай бұрын

probably nothing, when we went there, the only way to get some footage was with a drone. The ship was almost completely gone…

Flag ship of American ship Flag ship of American ,ship of state!

King Neptune eventually lays claim on all ships except those sent to the breakers by the greed of Man

Still no one has atempted to dive to her?!

@wantedwario2621

7 жыл бұрын

Dive her? There's almost nothing left. As sad as it is, even if they wanted to, the water is too shallow and rough to get to the remains of the ship.

@serpentine1084

7 жыл бұрын

Aw, Would of been good to see if someone could try

@wantedwario2621

7 жыл бұрын

There is however some footage somewhere of someone going inside the ship while it was still upright.

@serpentine1084

7 жыл бұрын

Oh wow!

@mgaviax

7 жыл бұрын

It´s intriguing how could such an iron monster disappear being so close to the shore, still there has to be some remains left to be explored

Жаль, что это всё, что осталось от этого судна...

@sherprilclentis8896

6 жыл бұрын

Виталий Савинкин может этот гордый и славный корабль не заслужил быть тайскм борделем.. пусть покоится с миром.. в своей стихии, вечно омываемый океанскими волнами.. а рукажопый украинский буксир Нефтегаз67 , сам на дне оказался, именно в Азии, куда недоянул.. от поцелуя тож 200 метрового судна..

@Rhebf73b

5 жыл бұрын

В нашим году его нет уже. Он развалился