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The Allan Liner SS Hungarian entered service in 1859, steaming between Liverpool and Quebec, Canada. In February, 1860, the ship went down off of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, with no survivors.
This is our biggest documentary to date and in the making for over two years, featuring detailed recreations of the ship using Unreal Engine 5 built off of the ship’s original plans. We travel to the wreck site, visit the graves, and even find the exact point where the witnesses watched the disaster from.
In this documentary, we’re visiting several museums to take a closer look at artifacts and archives to be sure that every bit of evidence is analyzed. We visit the Barrington Museum Complex and Seal Island Lighthouse Museum in Barrington, the Archelaus Smith Museum on Cape Sable Island, and the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. We even make our way down to Quebec and Montreal, and out to rural Maine to find sites related to this forgotten disaster.
This documentary features not only the wreck of the SS Hungarian, as we piece together the evidence and examine the eyewitness statements, but in exploring the ship’s history, we also recreate the thrilling tale of the wreck of the Jean Martin, where the Hungarian’s crew heroically rescued all on board, and the wreck of Hungarian’s fleet mate, the Indian, only a few months earlier.
Featured in this documentary is a brand new recording of a song written about the disaster by famed American folk musician Stephen Foster titled “Lizzie Dies Tonight”, performed by Dr. Bethany Turpin.
Watch the VFX Animation Reel from this documentary here: (Coming Soon)
Watch the full “Lizzie Dies Tonight” performance here: (Coming Soon)
0:00 – Introduction
2:04 – Cape Sable Island
4:24 – The Allan Line
7:53 – Construction and Early Service
12:34 – The Wreck of the Jean Martin
18:34 – The Wreck of the Indian
20:20 – The Great January Storm
22:24 – Rough Waters
27:00 – The Wreck as Witnessed
34:24 – Victims and Graves
41:40 – Salvage
43:43 – What Went Wrong?
48:38 – The Final Voyage
53:14 – The Wreck of the Hungarian
59:59 – Lizzie Dies Tonight
1:05:43 – Horatio Brannen’s Salvage
1:08:46 – The Area Today
1:14:42 – Conclusion
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I think I saw a movie about that cape and the wreckages, and the long needed lighthouse; but than again it could have been about any of the same areas along the shores there …
I think "John Martin" is just how French speakers would pronounce "Jean" and not two differnet names
This is a masterpiece, I felt immersed in the Hungarian's story the whole time. I was watching this video on the big TV screen when my Dad walked in at 13:29 and asked how anyone was able to get live action footage of a ship which sunk in 1860. This video is THAT realistic and immersive.
Great channel. Exactly the kind of stories I like. I wonder if you know the story of the General Grant.
Excellent!!! Thank you so much.
About the Jean Martin name debacle, is it possible that people have misunderstood the French name "Jean" (pronounced similarly to John) as John in some weird, elaborate game of Telephone? I was taught in my French class that Jean is the French variation of John and since it was a British ship, I'm fairly certain the name is French in origin and would have been Jean-Martin, a decently popular male name in France. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it but it's similar to a "ch" with a leading j sound and the -ean is pronounced with an "-un" sound. My guess is the correct pronunciation is spoken similar to that of Jean-Martin Charcot's name, a French Neurologist. There is a video on here of how to pronounce his name as an example, if you're curious.
Extremely compelling and impactful.
Great video again.Absolutely brilliant channel.
Great story, very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Great documentary as always.
The 3D graffix are upon the point. :3
Brilliant video as always john!
Damn! I don't know what you do full time, but that was one hell of a documentary. Damn!
This is an amazing documentary. Thank you so much.
Thank you Tom, love hearing stories about wrecks that I've never heard of before…. always nice to learn something new 😎 kudos!
Its kind of ironic that sobering moments can make us weep like drunken sadness does.
Baby Ella hopefully knew that her dad did his best 😭
That one painting that you showed in the documentary made me sob. 😢
It's hard to believe that resources like these are free to us. I'm not sure how much revenue you generate from these videos Tom , but yyou deserve much more
Wake up! New part time explorer video just dropped 🔥
Thank you for that and all the other Videos. Its a pleasure to watch them. So much respect for the People out of All the Storys. ❤
There's some probability that the 'Jean Martin' was a French name, pronounced 'zhan' rather than Jean, with the accent on the last syllable of Martin. English speaking reporters could have anglicized the name to John.
once again another masterpiece from you. the way you present history is outstanding. thanks for the upload.
Great channel. Its criminally underrated. Love your videos!
Man, what am I doing with my life.
Totally loved this video. Tremendous in depths with the story. Love the animation drew me even more into the story. Love what you do. Your my favorite. Keep up the good work.
Beautifully done as always. The list of museums I need to visit is growing. Luckily I’m in Liverpool so they’re close by. Thank you for the work you do! My dad was a salvage diver and amateur historian and I wish I could share these videos with him. 😢
This yet again a truly beautiful documentary of such an awful loss of life. Every documentary you make is so well put together, that program makers from big channels like Discovery should take a leaf out of your book. You put so much attention to your work . And the way you present it is so natural. Some of the documentaries I have watched on Discovery , the presenters are acting over the top and seem so fake. I love watching these documentaries of ship wrecks that have been forgotten overtime. Keep up the great work. Kind regards from the UK.
Even the wreck of the Hungarian may not be left. We will still remember those who did not return.
even with advanced tools and technologies, human beings were and continue to be completely helpless when knocked on the head by the wrath of Nature 😐😐
Man, the graphics on the old sailing ships is getting SO GOOD! There are times that you have to remind yourself that it's CG.
Sir, Jean Martin is technically a French name, and in good French Jean is 'zhon', not 'gene', which explains how it easily become "John Martin" in English newspapers. I understand it was always pronounced "John Martin", French or English J, never "Gene Martin"
But amazing storytelling as usual
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"…knew how to handle their shi*"
*Nearly
Once again, a wonderful documentary that brings to life a very poignant tragedy. The attention to detail and the personal response of Tom to the victims is touching; the empathy this evokes is profound – how can you not feel for the captain who, with all the best intentions entrusted his wife and baby daughter to the Hungarian? I have enjoyed all the films you have brought out and am prepared to wait: quality over quantity wins every time.
My friend your videos are incredible! So well put together and informative. I love learning about maritime history and have learned a lot from your stories. I would love to see a story about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think you would do an excellent job telling this story. Keep up the awesome work my friend!
You and your crew do some of the finest documentary film work of anyone, anywhere.
I wanted to leave a comment where you might see it. Although it isn't on this video as I've just begun to watch, it relates to other video's, i.e.: trains. I recommend your team might look into and do a video on the sad demise of the passenger trains across America, small towns and rural areas. That's another topic.
What I wanted to bring up re: train travel (such as remains) are the 'dark age' rules on the rails. The inability to crack open the windows; inability to open the top half of the doors between cars, and the lack of a caboose for passengers who wish to enjoy the pleasures of standing at the end of the trains and watch the country slip by, breathing fresh air outside the confines of a rail car, have greatly diminished the pleasures of riding the rails. As a young person I remember the euphoria these freedoms brought to travelers. As they have slipped into oblivion the demented fools in charge have stolen a major highlight for travelers to choose the rails.
^^^ That was my main point. I consider it 1/3rd of the reason train travel isn't appealing. Another 1/3rd reason people don't ride trains is their lack of convenience, i.e., they do not go East to West to East unless you live in Chicago or New Orleans, nor do they stop in small towns, and their routes appear to have been drawn up by a room full of drunken ameba. Example. I live in a small town. If I want to travel to Los Angeles, I first must find someone to drive me an hour and a half to the nearest train depot. I get the train to Washington, D.C., where I have a wait time of about 4 hours. I then am taken to Chicago where another wait time faces me, this one of over 5 hours. The rides are comfortable enough and the leg room more than adequate, the only plus of the trip. The conductors are nowhere to be found once you've boarded the train. Finally getting on a train to take me West (Yes, I am going to face more wait time, but I'll skip those) it is now evening. I missed seeing all the sites and scenery the trip should provide because they scheduled me to sit in the station during daylight. On this part of the trip I go through Indiana where we sit on the tracks at a stop waiting for freight trains to pass. Now it's dark, travelers cannot see nor enjoy the sights and the towns we pass (not stopping, of course). Once more those who plan the routes have stolen a major reason for taking the train. All that's left to do is read, look out a dark window or sleep. If you have a question/need anything, passengers are just SOL because the conductors have gone into hiding. And all of these amazing pleasures for the low low cost of over $2,000.00 one way if I take a single 'sleeping' room.
The last 1/3rd that makes travel unappealing are the routes, somewhat mentioned in the previous paragraph. This focuses on the time it takes to get somewhere once travelers have managed to get to a station. My son lives about 3 1/2 hours by car from me. I'd love to hop on a train but to get there by train it is a 17-hour trip with multiple layovers.
Unless you're in the Northeast corridor or going from major city to major city travel by train has been rendered the impossible dream for the rest of the country. Would it be possible for your team to make a video about how the powers that be criminally destroyed train transportation in the U.S.A.?
The level of effort, energy, travel and research and sheer leg work AND THATS BEFORE the editing and script and…I wasn't even interested in the subject but the quality of this content needs to be appreciated and commented on. You deserve my view.
If y'all agree pls agree so it counts as engagement. They deserve "applause" truly
You putting roses on those graves really moved me and I think it says something about the maturity of this channel
Automatic subs are disappeared? It s Just a problem for me?
Thank you for this great video, you've given my family and me even more places to visit next time we go see my family in Nova Scotia. I've visited the Maritime Museum Of The Atlantic many time since I was a kid. Please keep making these amazing videos.
Thank you for this! I am from cape island.