Lusitania Real Time Sinking Animation

The sinking of the RMS Lusitania in WW1 was a major factor in the United States joining the war effort. The loss of life was horrible, the event itself was pure chaos. 18 minutes of terror on the seas.

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[TitanicAnimations]

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[allisonmcdonough]

Titanic: plenty of time, not enough lifeboats
Lusitania: plenty of lifeboats, not enough time

[KuvDabGib]

When you see big ship, real time in title and duration of 18 minutes, you know this was pure hell.

[krisgavin]

Whenever you feel like a failure remember that you could be like the Lusitania's lifeboats

[deborahol]

The noises of these huge ships breaking apart must be so scary. The grinding of metal and huge rivets being blown out oml. These animations are such a treat. It is of course extremely heartbreaking & it gives us a better appreciation of what these poor souls went through. Thank you lots to the creators.

[CH-emwu]

Titanic: I'm not very good at filling lifeboats.
Lusitania: I'm not very good at lifeboats.

[MichaelBOverthinking]

Apparently, some of the ships kitchen staff jumped in a food service elevator right after the torpedo hit, to get to the boat deck faster. They were trapped in the elevator when the second explosion happened, and the power failed. I cannot think of a more terrifying way to die.

[Alex-cwrz]

I've never seen one ship have so many lifeboats break, capsize or something else go wrong, that was excessively unlucky

[beckiejbrown]

I know nothing about this whatsoever, but seeing all those boats sink and fail... gives me a whole new appreciation for the the boats that were successful in Titanic. The fact people were on some of those and they faltered in various ways ... I have no words. At least the ones that were launched in Titanic, were successful (I say the ones launched, not all were launched).

[SkyScourgeGod]

18 minutes to us watching this through a screen seems like a lot, but 18 minutes to the poor souls on board at the time must've felt like absolutely nothing whatsoever. A terrifying experience to be sure.

[mariselojeda]

True story: there was one woman on board Lusitania called Margaret Gwyer, she and her just married husband were travelling on board to liverpool when Lusitania sank, when the torpedo hit, Gwyer was dining with her busband, she got on a lifeboat but her husband stayed behind to help other people into boats, Margaret then looked up and felt that one of the stacks of the ship was about to fall onto the boat she was on, so she got back on board, when all the stacks were under, one of them sucked Margaret and other passengers back into the ship, but then a boiler explosion just below that funnel shot her back out again, she eventually got into a lifeboat and met with her husband again.

[sappyfoot]

there’s just something so creepy about a huge ship being claimed by the ocean

[lune]

It's crazy to me how Lusitania and Titanic have very similar numbers in terms of victims and survivors, and yet one took 18 minutes to sink and the other, nearly 3 hours. Two completely different situations with almost the same result.

[superedg]

Everyone give this man and everyone who helped a round of applause

[starrsmith]

It’s actually a miracle that 761 survived when the lifeboats are seriously THIS much of a problem

[whizzlepop]

When you see this in real time, it is a wonder that anybody survived this disaster at all. Genuinely terrifying.

[spencerwilson]

That fact that there were 764 surviors out of a total of 1, 959 aboard, what with all of the tragedies that took place during their escape is miracle.

[B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

With all the lifeboat troubles it is wonderous that 764 survived.

[GlamorousTitanic]

One of the factors that doomed the Lusitania was the fact that her watertight doors had to closed by hand. She wasn’t equipped with the same electric doors that the Olympic class had.

[Signal-]

“Boat 1 is launched successfully” me: FINALLY