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Sunken Ships of the Second World War
- jdeibele 2y agoThis is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn't exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers. However, Wikipedia says that there's much less need because there haven't been anywhere near as many atomic explosions recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
- ggm 2y agoThey're still being predated
- assimpleaspossi 2y agoThis doesn't work in Chromium
- sixthDot 2y agoHere that does (version 119)
- vkou 2y agoExcellent visualization! It would be amazing if the timeline could be filtered - to compare the rate and number of sinkings in each area year over year.
- mapsterman 2y agoHey there. Thanks for the compliment. By clicking on the chart at the bottom of the dashboard you can select multiple months.
- lerela 2y agoRandomly clicking on the map led me to learn about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident Would love to be able to filter for events with a Wikipedia page (assuming they were the most significant)!
- sixthDot 2y agoYuu might be interested to zoom in the Toulon harbor area (FR) and to observe the numbers: 99 ships sunk, representing 290 968 Tons, but only 3 causalities. Here is why [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_at_Toulon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...
- ochoseis 2y agoThis is a factoid I didn’t learn until recently, and it blew my mind. I’m not sure how serious they were, but the UK apparently also offered to merge France and the UK into one country before they fell. I learned a ton about WWII from this series on YouTube…here’s the week when the UK sinks the French navy: https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc
- chiffre01 2y agoThere's tons of crazy things you learn. For example France actually invaded a small part of Germany in 1939 and encountered almost no resistance due to the German invasion of Poland, and had they continued they likely would have taken a significant part of the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Offensive
- lonelyasacloud 2y agoOne of the dots off Dunkirk represents the Lancastria. And one of the thousands killed when it was sunk was my Grandma's half-brother. He was twenty two and his name was Arthur. One dot.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoThere were more ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico than I expected. Mostly by u-boats. (A few ships ran into mines.) U-166 was depth-charged/sunk off Louisiana, among a cluster of blue dots.
- snake_plissken 2y agoThis is really cool, nice work! I knew U-boats operated off the Eastern US coast but I did not know they operated so much in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Tangential, I've been watching this documentary series called Battlefield (highly recommended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qqkC1cWvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qqkC1cWvE and they mention later versions of U-boats had a 12,000+ mile range. So the Gulf of Mexico is within range especially if they sortied from France.
- mapsterman 2y agoThanks!
- araes 2y agoAlso one of the fascinating parts from my own perspective. Apparently the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caribbean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caribbean from a history perspective, which I never read about, and kind of looks like the "Year of Fear" from a history perspective. ~350 ships of 2 million tons in less than a year. (WP says by 17 submarines) The histogram zoom feature being one of the cooler UI portions of this. Something that places like MarineTraffic, FlightAware, and Windy could probably implement as a neat zoom for seeing boat traffic statistics in areas and such. Also pretty cool for divers. Maybe not the old steel, yet a lot of these are in fairly shallow water, which would be pretty neat for diving excursions. Probably semi-dangerous, yet there's probably also humans willing to take the risk or sign a disclosure. Is there some way to change the displays? The interface looks like it should be possible ("Show only", "Show sunk by"), yet clicking on times, clicking areas of the UI, only zoom/shrink, and bring up individual ships.