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Secrets of the Lost Liners Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

6 Episodes 2024 - 2024

Episode 1

Titanic

44 mins

In the first of a new series, we discover how the finding of the world's most famous wreck was actually part of a secret CIA covert mission during the Cold War. We also learn how the cult of 'Titanic' was born after she almost vanished from history but since her rediscovery, her mystic and appeal has taken on a new life of her own.

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Episode 2

Costa Concordia

43 mins

Discover how lavish ocean liners evolved into massive, modern cruise ships like Costa Concordia - but still met with disaster.

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Episode 3

Achille Lauro

44 mins

Discover why the Achille Lauro became known as the world's most cursed ship beyond her bloody high-jacking that shocked the world.

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Episode 4

Oceanos

43 mins

In this episode, we discover how, the entertainment team on board the liner 'Oceanos' ended up saving the passengers after the captain and crew abandoned ship in a heavy storm. Moss and Tracy Hills and their fellow ships entertainment crew almost single-handedly rounded up the passengers, radioed for help and assisted in the evacuation of 'Oceanos'. All this was happening whilst the vessel was slowly slipping below the waves.

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Episode 5

Empress of Britain

43 mins

In this episode, we discover a ship vastly bigger and more lavish than 'Titanic', that met an equally dramatic and shocking demise. The 'Empress of Britain' was a huge gamble for the 'Canadian Pacific' cruise company. Launched and in service in the 1930's until the Second World War and then served as a troop and supply ship. Unfortunately she was repeatedly attacked by enemy aircraft and finally sunk in 1940 by a German U-boat of the coast of Ireland.

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Episode 6

Ile De France

44 mins

In the final episode, we learn about the art deco icon, 'Ile de France'. She was a ship born into art that offered luxury and exquisite taste in the 1930's until World War 2. After the war and becoming a bare metal husk of its former glory, the ship was rebuilt and reborn to grace the waves once more. However time is a formidable foe and in the late 1950's? it eventually caught up with the 'Ile de France'. Her best days were behind her and the owners save her a final send off. With Hollywood beckoning for ship in a disaster movie, the 'Ile de France' would be trashed and wrecked and see out its final moments on screen and finally die in the name or art.

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