The Unfortunate Fate of the RMS Rhone

#history #disaster
No matter how far technology advances, man is still at the whims of the sea. Even in an age of iron hulls and steam power, a single error can render a very capable ship into a wreck on the sea floor. The RMS Rhone, state of the art at the time learned this all too well. Learn her story.

Thanks to Eleftherios G for the new background music, you can find that song here:

Cited Sources:
The Law of Storms by Joan Martelli
Twice She Struck by Michael D. Kent
The Wreck of the SS London by Simon Wills
Loss of the Steamer "Tweed," and Seventy-two Lives From the Illustrated London News, April 10, 1847.
The Times/1852/News/RMS Amazon

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[grmpEqweer]

33:33
"...Men and women, in Victorian England, didn't know how to swim."
In a hurricane, and without any flotation devices, swimming ability really wouldn't keep you alive for much longer.

[katelandis]

I wish I'd found this channel when my Dad was still alive. He had a passion for maritime history, and your accounts would have delighted him.

[m.streicher]

Miasma is such an interesting theory because it almost always leads you to the correct conclusion, but only through correlation.

[FireTeamHarmony]

The captain saw that big rock and said "Rhut Rhone, Rhaggy." I'm calling it right now, you'll see.

[andoriannationalist]

No matter how bad your life sucks, it’s never as bad as the sailors in these videos. Ima winner for 45min!

[ellenbryn]

Deadly yellow fever outbreak, major hurricane out of season, 7+ major earthquake after months or foreshocks, significant tsunami.

I don't believe in supernatural bad luck, but that has got to be the worst rolls of the dice that part of the planet has seen since the Yucatan had a very bad day with a very large rock.

[shadowldrago]

A hurricane is terrifying on land as is. At SEA? Impressively, even worse.

[mrskywars]

i’ve dived the wreck of the rhone in the BVI and it’s so incredibly eerie knowing what happened and seeing how close to shore they really were. it took me three minutes to swim to shore from the wreck, three minutes is all that stood between life and death for those people

[laurencestill]

"The mizzen mast snapped" - it went mizzen you might say.

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

Oh boy. Skipper sure did an aweful lot of research for this brilliant video. I really, really liked this a lot.

[rhogardelmirev]

It's always great to hear the Skipper talk about a new video and ship

[yesterdaysrifleman]

Oh boy, a wreck I have dived many times. Thanks for the upload!

[masongiles]

Thank you for never using music always telling a good story and being a calm voice

[darthcheesecake]

Not gonna lie this channel and part time explorer are channels I found last year and I've loved every update since.

[dylanc.]

I found out about this channel like 5 days ago so this is a pleasant little surprise

[sirboomsalot]

I was waiting for a major channel to do a video on Rhone! Such a horrific tragedy that as been forgotten all except for her wreck being a tourist attraction

[connorspaulding]

Also quick news from the Great Lakes, the mitchpicoten is safely back in port at Thunder Bay Ontario after striking bottom 35 miles southwest of Isle Royale

[SpearFisher]

I hate Mondays but NEVER a Maritime Horror Monday!🎉🎉

[CertainlyCaro]

I dove the Rhone in 2016. Ever since I found this channel, I've waited for this upload

[The_Modeling_Underdog]

MH: Shows up, drops a smasher of a hurricane in video format, leaves.
Me: "The barometer hit what mark? Sweet Mercy..."

Always a pleasure to have you posting new videos for us landlubbers, mate.

Cheers.