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The CIRCUS SHIP Fire of Yarmouth, NS - The SS FLEURUS
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In 1963, the steamer Fleurus caught fire and was sinking with an entire circus menagerie on board, including their cast of dozens of circus animals. The more the fire department fought the flames, the more the ship rolled to its side. This was a race against time to save the animals on board, while also making sure to keep people safe from the deadly animals.
This is the story of one terribly unlucky band of performers, their clunky old ship, and the heroic action of the locals and fire department of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The Kelly and Miller Brothers Circus had just purchased the SS Fleurus to transport that large circus of performers and wild animals around North America, planning to do an inaugural circuit around Nova Scotia, staging shows in Digby, Yarmouth, Shelbourne, and Liverpool, before moving on to Newfoundland. After the Yarmouth performance, a fire broke out aboard the vessel, jeopardizing the hundreds of animals on board.
Also discussed is the wreck of the Royal Tar in 1836.
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  • @RoBodiMonD
    @RoBodiMonD 35 хвилин тому

    skibidi rizzler ohio gyatt

  • @taxirob2248
    @taxirob2248 Годину тому

    sooo many portents and ironies here

  • @imnotacar25
    @imnotacar25 2 години тому

    That side of Nova Scotia is just packed with all forms of interesting history, just southeast of Yarmouth, you’ve got Wedgeport which is famous for its tuna fishing. There was also a ship, hauling dynamite and all sorts of war material, that struck land and sank.

  • @funken079
    @funken079 2 години тому

    Another interesting story. Thanks

  • @vermontwrites7182
    @vermontwrites7182 3 години тому

    What a wonderful life that ship had. Truly a marvel.

  • @TheWarbonnet660
    @TheWarbonnet660 5 годин тому

    Whoever made this needs to make a train simulator

  • @Milos15GameplaysYT
    @Milos15GameplaysYT 6 годин тому

    Going back to this video for that barrel thing part at 31:15. I believe it could represent that overhang of the aft boat deck.

  • @user-us3bq1ul8w
    @user-us3bq1ul8w 6 годин тому

    Beggers made their ship looting colonial

  • @kamer1955
    @kamer1955 6 годин тому

    my friend your work superb.......but if you limit your talk,we can concentrate on the video,you going too fast...........

  • @gridley
    @gridley 6 годин тому

    Not just old-time Catalina/SoCal, there are also very old-time sections of the Mediterranean, particularly around Italy, containing structures built in the 1700s, 1800s, etc, that are design & engineering marvels. The work invested in various properties through the generations by skilled, talented, resourceful humans never ceases to amaze me. Of course, there are structures like the Taj Mahal in India, the Great Wall of China or the ancient pyramids of Egypt.

  • @odenviking
    @odenviking 8 годин тому

    i remeber what my borther toald me about horses and fires. he said that in a fire in a stable in the case of horses they tend to run back in to tbe stable in panic. the ff in sweden usally train whith horse to get horses used to the firefighters. thanks for a intresting video with photos and video documents from the fire and the sinking of the ship. 👍👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

  • @bbz232
    @bbz232 9 годин тому

    Wth this randomly popped up on my recommended. This is horrific. Well done video tho friend

  • @thruknobulaxii2020
    @thruknobulaxii2020 9 годин тому

    I wish you had found the abandoned van that Christopher and Pauli sheltered in.

  • @yrooxrksvi7142
    @yrooxrksvi7142 13 годин тому

    Incredible channel, I had to subscribe. There's a couple of maritime tragedies you should definetely cover, both Italian liners : the SS Principessa Mafalda and SS Andrea Doria. The first is a story of greed and negligence from the company despite the hard working crew, and the other is similar, albeit not as horrific to the Empress of Ireland.

  • @transloaf
    @transloaf 14 годин тому

    this ship should some how be restored to when it was launched

  • @rebekahpiper7773
    @rebekahpiper7773 14 годин тому

    I learn more on UA-cam than I did in school. 😂 Thanks so much. I don’t know why but I love to learn about ship wrecks. I blame Titanic, the movie.

  • @kenneybis1097
    @kenneybis1097 16 годин тому

    I was a circus attraction when I was younger, I was born with bear feet. 🐻

  • @willowhofmann7409
    @willowhofmann7409 16 годин тому

    The most incredible thing of this entire story other than all the other incredible things, the whole thing is amazing and wonderful and usually with how people treat animals, this is incredible. Perhaps the past isn't always the worst I guess. But a Brahma bull swimming? That is intense. They are not small. I don't. I can't picture it. And I spent a lot of time around bovine of all breeds. That's I got to look that up. Now I need to see it. I'm not doubting it. I just never imagined it. Granted I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about swimming bovines ....

  • @lasersailor6684
    @lasersailor6684 16 годин тому

    You’d have thought that the crew would have glanced at their iPhones and realized how close they were to the shore. 🤷‍♂️

  • @kimboswell8063
    @kimboswell8063 17 годин тому

    What a gorgeous location! Thank you for making such a thorough video of your visit, brilliant 😁

  • @NobleEquineLLC
    @NobleEquineLLC 17 годин тому

    My great grandparents, Nilda and Leslie Harris lived in Elkhorn before moving to Boulder. The White House on the left side of town (coming into Elkhorn) is where they lived. It is still standing. Owned by a different family now. My family and I had the b opportunity to stay in the cabin in the early 1990’s before being sold. It was a rainy day. We also visited the cemetery where my great grandfather Les is buried. We visit his grave site annually. The community has done a beautiful job maintaining it. Hiking around elkhorn is one of my passions and going through this town is very special. A very well done documentary showcasing a Montana Gem.

  • @guyk2260
    @guyk2260 23 години тому

    Nice one , thank you Tom

  • @sujimtangerines
    @sujimtangerines День тому

    Oh! I just saw a glimpse of the Fresnel lighthouse lens in the county museum portion. I am and have been fascinated by those for years & make a point of dropping into NPS visitor centers & museums that have them when we travel. If I'm lucky enough to visit NS, I'll have to make a point of visiting there!

  • @ninageorgieva3708
    @ninageorgieva3708 День тому

    Can you make the second class rooms please?❤😊

  • @cadderley100
    @cadderley100 День тому

    They might not have had to plot an ambush though, if they had approached the Mary Celeste crew from the perspective of friends, only turning on the crew once aboard, with everyone in sight. There wouldn't be a struggle if that were the case. The Mary Celeste crew wouldn't have known what was going on until it was already too late.

  • @cherryrotella3714
    @cherryrotella3714 День тому

    Excellent thankyou RIP those lost 🙏🏼🌷

  • @alexh3153
    @alexh3153 День тому

    There’s a good children’s book about a circus ship sinking off of Maine I’ve always read to my daughter

  • @The_Modeling_Underdog
    @The_Modeling_Underdog День тому

    Come to think of it, it's an amazing story with an incredible amount of pictures taken and recorded footage. Thanks for sharing, Tom.

  • @tybo103
    @tybo103 День тому

    Its INSANE how much was overlooked or straight up ignored in her lifetime. In retrospect, it looks like a company trying to set the record of who could build a vessel with the highest center of gravity.

  • @vermontwrites7182
    @vermontwrites7182 День тому

    Hm. Now I can't name my boat the Lesbian, as someone, clearly, already took that. Perhaps I'll name it the Butch. Also, I am definitely subscribing. This content is gold!

  • @ShadrakJohn
    @ShadrakJohn День тому

    The Empress of Ireland sank 2 years after the Titanic and 1 year before the Lusitania.

  • @morgandavid6908
    @morgandavid6908 День тому

    Recently found you by accident. Amazing how something can be so sad yet so heroic. You did such a wonderful job of bringing a moment in time to life, I had the family sit down and watch this episode. Now I have some catching up to do.

  • @Otronator
    @Otronator День тому

    its amazing how people can be so brave and despicable in the same scenarios

  • @dianthis
    @dianthis День тому

    30:57 I love that the shrine is still there. He keeps it well maintained. 🙏❤

  • @krisztiankovacs6377
    @krisztiankovacs6377 День тому

    If I were this captain I would have sobered out and have been messing with the elephants.

  • @leemasters3592
    @leemasters3592 День тому

    Dr Hawkes certainly got more exotic animal treatment experience in one day than he would have ever expected in a port town in Nova Scotia.

  • @philipdeluca4957
    @philipdeluca4957 День тому

    Missing one bit of this islands colorful history and characters: The Duke of Catalina -Duke Fishman- served as the unofficial greater of Avalon up until his death in the 1970s.

  • @DSToNe19and83
    @DSToNe19and83 День тому

    And you thought the circus was a circus..

  • @TakumiIchimaru
    @TakumiIchimaru День тому

    I wonder what he thinks about the official LEGO Titanic set 🤔

  • @PatrickBaptist
    @PatrickBaptist День тому

    How do you know it was the same length as the ark Noah built to escape the flood? It's wasn't really Noah's ark, it was God's BTW.

  • @billbino6560
    @billbino6560 День тому

    Yanni?

  • @vilegroove
    @vilegroove День тому

    An impossible drinking game would be taking a shot every time the word Frank is said.

  • @oli24yt
    @oli24yt День тому

    Tom, some of my very favourites of your videos are the ones where you illuminate a piece of history I didn't even know about in my own backyard of Atlantic Canada. I grew up spending many summer afternoons poring over the exhibits of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg, which was an easy way for my Nana (a local history buff herself) to keep me easily entertained for a few hours while chatting with her friends in the Lunenburg Genealogy Society upstairs. As a teen and young twenty-something working at a summer camp just outside Annapolis Royal, I would hop across the road from the sail school on my days off to spend my spare change on admission to Fort Anne (and its incredible historic graveyard, including a memorable beer-aided candlelight 'ghost tour' with coworkers), or the O'Dell House Museum, or especially the Sinclair Inn which with its unassuming facade hiding those incredible murals upstairs always felt like a particular hidden treasure (you would likely love Annapolis if you've never been - Two Scoops Ice Cream is a must if you visit). Honestly I think every little town in this part of the world has some little treasure of a small, lovingly maintained museum or two, and a rich collection of history to be shared. It's lovely to see you share it with the world every now and again, and delightful to learn something new along the way! Enjoy your next adventure :)