Scufundarea USS St. Augustine

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1. It's easy to forget when we learn about war from video games and movies, but for every guy running around on the frontlines, guns blazing, there's fifty people working to make sure that guy can get to the frontline and blaze his guns. Not to mention the people back home working to make the ammo and the guns and the food and medical supplies. And all the people who keep the country running even though one fifth of the population are off blazing guns.

2. Most folks in Cape May likely have never heard this story. While Jersey has some notable wrecks, I think few remember this one. 115 men seem a lot for that ship.

3. Love your videos

4. The patrol boats of the Phillipine Islands at start of WWII.

5. The captain of the tanker went to bed sick but left no one on the bridge who could answer a blinker challenge during wartime under blackout conditions? That negligence caused 115 brave men to die. He should have been charged and locked up for life for that.

6. The letter from the war department is horrific. He lost his son! I understand how many people died. But it’s a standard letter. You only have to put thought into it once. And I know someone had to type every letter, but some sympathy maybe.. some gratitude from the government that these young people kept having a country to govern…
   Absolutely disgraceful! No one should hear about their family dying by mail. But I realize the government/people really couldn’t afford to pay for in person notification.

7. Oil tankers are a menace too often. In the early 1980s onboard my Navy Frigate, we were anchored off the harbor at Norfolk, Va. one foggy night. It was considered too dangerous to proceed in. We had our lights on and foghorn constantly sounding. I was on watch on the signal bridge. On the sound-powered phone I heard the aft lookout reporting a big tanker approaching right up behind us! He kept yelling "It's BIG! It's BIG!" That super tanker kept bearing down on us. As it barely missed us, our collision alarm already sounding, I looked onto it's bridge with my Big Eyes binocs – NOBODY was on the bridge! It was going fast on autopilot into a potentially busy harbor! I don't know if anything happened later but that Captain should have lost his command. 🤨

8. I know I’m in the minority, but I watched for the last minute thinking you were going to display the names of the men that died….

9. History repeats itself…. Exxon Valdes ( allow the new guy take the wheel )

10. One of the survivors, a Delawarean, recently died. The obituary noted the incident.

11. Did you say a LNG tanker Chemist Meadows?

    You sure ? The first LNG tanker was in the 1950’s!

    The first LNG carrier Methane Pioneer (5,034 DWT) carrying 5,500 cubic metres (190,000 cu ft), classed by Bureau Veritas, left the Calcasieu River on the Louisiana Gulf coast on 25 January 1959. Carrying the world's first ocean cargo of LNG, it sailed to the UK where the cargo was delivered.[1] The success of the specially modified C1-M-AV1-type standard ship Normarti, renamed Methane Pioneer, caused the Gas Council and Conch International Methane Ltd. to order two purpose built LNG carriers to be constructed: Methane Princess and Methane Progress. The ships were fitted with Conch independent aluminum cargo tanks and entered the Algerian LNG trade in 1964. These ships had a capacity of 27,000 cubic metres (950,000 cu ft).

12. That was very sad to listen to. May they rest in peace.

13. That’s crazy. I hope we never have to convert a yacht into a war ship again.

14. If there's any good news about this story–it's that the captain was not L. Ron Hubbard. He would have ordered the ship south to shell Mexican territory. Again.

15. 👍👍👍

16. I enjoy the end theme music and happy that you're introducing them later in your last comments.😏

17. "Shouldn't their sacrifice be recognized?"

18. "…of him and his children." (not "of he….")

19. Looks like what Richie Rich sail.

20. My grandfather died on this ship. He was Chief Water Tender Arthur Roscoe, for whom I was named.

21. SAD🇺🇸……THG🎀 Thanks

22. Thank you for making this! My great grandfather was a chief on St Augustine when it was lost. He was in his 50s and a WWI vet who re-entered the navy when WW2 broke out.

23. These were some of the thousands of men and women killed by "Friendly Fire" during the war.🙁🙁

24. The History Guy is Great story teller of history and a pleasure to listen to. Thanks

25. Good morning

26. I don’t think the technology existed to transport LNG (methane) at that time. However LPG (propane, butane etc) transport was common.

27. I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

28. War is cruel even to those who only defend their territory, and death can come even without an enemy's actions.

29. Condolences

30. Another group of fighters who were lost in WWII. Like many, they gave their all so that we could be free. Yet, they were not in the glorious part of the war that stories were made of. They just got up, put on the uniform of their country, and went to war, never to come home again. Lest We Forget.

31. 1972 the USS Barb, SSN 596 rescued four B-52 pilots that had to eject their flaming bomber. They landed in the path of Typhoon Rita, a category 5 typhoon. This needs to be remembered .

32. Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics

33. There's a convention 'Don't speak ill of the dead' …. Unfortunately it impedes learning from mistakes.
    To turn across the path of a U Boat or even a Surface Raider would be a brave act.
    But foolish too on balance as either could swiftly sink St Augustine & continue with little gain to the convoy.
    Whilst to turn in front of anything else, well, that would be pointless.

34. A perfect metaphor, the rich float around in luxury on the backs of workers, When their greed is threatened their boat is manned by workers and their sons who fight and die so the rich are once again safe and can buy a new and better yacht, likely at a profit.

35. The USS Garnet (PYc-15) was a yacht that the navy bought and is now on land as a small store

36. It was indeed a beautiful design, even all these decades later. As former Coast Guard myself, I can attest that sailing at night, in those seas is dangerous in peace time. During war and with the limited technology they had all the more. Thank you for sharing their story.

37. I would have like to see a black screen with the names of those lost, as you've done in many other videos. Otherwise, fascinating as usual!

38. Shocked to hear anyone in the Navy couldn’t swim. I assumed that was required.

39. My Uncle Harold was the skipper of a US Army Transportation Corps sailboat during WWII. It was used for resupply of the fortified islands in the Casco Bay region of Maine. He was a commercial fisherman and wanted to do something but, was really too old to be shipped overseas. RIP.

40. Shout out from St. Augustine, Florida. Great episode.

41. As I was told, when I was I the U.S. Navy, that no matter how far out that you go, you are never more than a few miles from land. That land, of course, being straight down. I was not "proud" to have served, I was Grateful to have served. It allowed me to see and experience things that can not be obtained in any other way. Now I shall day dream of Mid-Rats and the 2345 to 0330 watch. My favorite watch to stand.

42. I have a shipwreck map of the Delaware Bay and Coast as someone who grew up near Rehoboth Beach and Lewes. It shows all the shipwrecks including artificial reefs up into 2009. They have specific shipwrecks and incidents covered in the margins including this one. Very interesting to hear more about the circumstances surrounding this tragic wartime accident.

43. Mr History Guy, I appreciate the manner in which you pay tribute and honor many unsung heroes that lost their lives serving our country. To you sir….I tip my hat. Your pen is as mighty as the sword. God Bless You !

44. Darkened ships closing on one another on a dark and stormy night….. Lots of things can go wrong. Without running lights you can't really see the angle of the bow if there are any course changes.

45. The yacht “Caroline 2” built to order in the 1930’s for Victor Records company founder Eldridge Johnson was similar in size and shape. It was converted by US Navy Pacific Fleet to the USS Hilo, flagship of the Leyte-based torpedo boat fleet, and was awarded 3 Battle Stars for its service. It nearly got destroyed by a Kamikazee. It is unprovable to me at this time if Ernest Borgnine had served on Hilo, but another story mentioned Borgnine having a “close call with a suicide bomber” circa 1944. I cannot recall which ‘Hollywood-gossip’ magazine article I had read this in. EDIT: Borgnine served on the destroyer USS Lamberton (sp?)

46. RIP 🙏 🪦 😢to all of the victims and survivors of this maritime disaster. Vaya con Dios y en paz descansen.
    Their sacrifice should not be forgotten to history by anyone, the young need to be taught about history such as this and not swept under the rug.

47. My father did convoy escort duty on a USCG patrol frigate. This reminded me of him

48. After 35 years i still remember the 47 friends and shipmates kill in a gun accident on the USS Iowa

49. Thank you.
    Lots of men served and perished during that war. I was grateful to have known a good number of them.
    Thanks for your video.

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