#overcrowded and also there were sharks atfacking them

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

me: okay im pretty tired so im just gonna find something light to watch

video about the rms laconia: exists

me: oh hey, i know that one pretty well, i wont end up angry crying about it this time. clicks on video

an hour later

me: is angry crying about it this time

#kai rambles #...listen #ive said like ten thousand times that im a ship person but not a warship person #but i know about a fairly decent amount of them #mostly because a lot of liners got requisitioned on ww1 or ww2 #or were secretly helping the war effort like lusitania #so like i know about lusitania or the captain or hood or sydney etc. #olympics dazzle paint for the war effort is actually a really cool topic #but like #obviously a lot of warship stories are very tragic like the uss indianapolis #and the laconia #but the laconia is just like being punched over and over and over again #because even before the disaster youve got italians pows on board who were being treated awfully and someone having to stand up and stop it #them youve alsl got her being unaccompanied on her route despite being a target and needing it because the navy just didnt have the boats #which led to some officers and civilian passengers feeling overconfident because ''we dont need an escort'' and oh yeah there were civilian #specifically the wives and CHILDREN of the sailors or soldiers #and to make it worse shes over 20 years old and needs new boilers and anywhere she goes a giant black cloud of smoke follows from her funne #so shes an easy target which led to her a u-boat torpedoing her and her sinking which also had this thing where they tried to trap the pows #in the ship so everyone else could get off which fuck that and also it was listing so not all the lifeboats could be launched and most were #overcrowded and also there were sharks atfacking them #and then the u-boat is coming nearer but when the captain realises who were on board HE STARTS A RESCUE EFFORT #and he lies to base and manages to organise a rescue with other u-boats (preventing an attack actually) but then hitler gets wind of it and #he cancels that and tells them to leave the survivors to their fates SO THIS GUY DISOBEYS HITLER AND MAKES A DESPERATE CALL IN ENGLISH TO #THE ALLIES ASKING FOR RESCUE PROMISING NOT TO ATTACK IF THEY DONT ATTACK AND GIVING HIS POSITION TO THEM #and they don't even believe it for two days straight but eventually a few more u-boats arrive to help with promises from italy france & #britain to help and like theyve got a 1000 people mostly in lifeboats tied to the u-boats flying the red cross. and in the night the u-boat #on scene get separated and an american bomber arrives on scene and the survivors think rescues coming but then the bomber gets orders #TO SINK THE U-BOAT SO THEY FIRE OFF THREE ATTACKS WITH ONE JUST LANDING WITHIN THE LIFEBOATS KILLING PEOPLE #and the u-boat guy ends up having to leave the scene because hes fearful for his crew now understandably and the survivors just have to wai #for rescue which does come. but wanna know what happened to the bomber and the guy who gave the order? NOTHING. NOT EVEN AN INVESTIGATION