Secrets Of The Lost Liners
Secrets Of The Lost Liners is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 12 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2025.
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43:58Secrets Of The Lost Liners
This German flagship doubled as the Titanic in a 1942 Nazi propaganda film - and her eventual demise would be equally tragic. As the Second World War came to an end, the ship was housing thousands of concentration camp prisoners when it was bombed by the British. Thousands of in...
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43:52The pride of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the Rex was once the fastest liners on the Atlantic. So precious was she that when WWII came, the Rex was not turned into a troop ship but instead was carefully protected throughout the conflict. So why was she still attacked and destroyed by the Allies even after Italy's sur...
44:02Two of America's best female designers helped create this elegant vessel, which went on to become one of the longest serving liners in history. After changing hands many times over the decades, the SS America ended her life as a dramatic wreck on the shores of the Canary Islands.
43:44When she launched in the 1950s, this elegant and modern vessel was the envy of other shipping companies. With her sleek lines and stylish interiors, the Andrea Doria attracted the most glamorous Hollywood stars. But on her 51st voyage across the Atlantic to America, she collided with another liner and capsized. How could t...
43:37Queen Elizabeth - this floating palace served as a troop-ship during the Second World War, ferrying American soldiers to Europe while dodging the attention of Hitler's U-Boats. In peacetime, she then became one of the most beloved ocean liners ever to sail the ocean. When she was sold to a Hong Kong shipping tycoon in 1970...
43:57The Normandie was the most expensive and extravagant ocean liner ever built. A symbol of French national pride, her designer was in fact a brilliant Russian immigrant. But even he could not stop fire destroying his art deco masterpiece in 1942. Was her demise in New York during the Second World War an accident though, or w...
Season 2
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42:31She was the pride of the French nation and became a much loved and talked about liner of her era. Not only did this ground-breaking ship survive at sea during World War 2, but Ile de France would also save many lives in peacetime with her stunning rescues. But her final days played out like a game of cat-and-mouse after sh...
41:02 42:43She was one of the most shocking shipwrecks in modern history. After she foundered in a storm, Oceanos was abandoned by many of her crew and negligent captain. Hundreds of passengers were stranded on board and it was down to the gallant ship’s entertainment team to orchestrate an escape plan into one of the most breathtaki...
43:24She was known as one of the unluckiest ships ever to go to sea: fires, collisions, deaths and accidents. But Achille Lauro made bigger headlines when she and her passengers were hijacked by PLO terrorists in 1985. The bloody events that followed caused a major political incident and were equally as shocking as the deadly t...
42:23While not an ocean liner, Costa Concordia, like all other cruise ships of today, owe their DNA to the earlier vessels that helped globalize the world. But even vast pleasure ships can meet with disaster and the spectacular capsize off the coast of Italy in 2012 shocked the world.
43:28Titanic sank with a terrible death toll in 1912 but soon World War I overshadowed the tragedy and she almost vanished from memory. But decades later, two very different men had dreams and ambitions to re-discover her, not just the missing wreck, but also bring back her memory and allure to a new generation through the magi...