Your videos do a great service by providing education on not just the great ship BB62 USS New Jersey, but on several topics of historical importance. Do not get weary in your work. It is very appreciated

@hulkas1715

3 жыл бұрын

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With such interest in battleships in World of Warships, why don't this channel have higher subscribers? Such a shame.

Wow! We visited the New Jersey just today, and I believe it was you who welcomed us aboard? Great job Ryan, and thank you.

Some great info Ryan, appreciated.

The visit of the Great White Fleet to Australia helped the development of the Royal Australian Navy. Australia became a nation in 1901 and had some colonial defence naval units and (typically a couple of older cruisers of the Royal Navy assigned to the area. Its total population at the time would have been less than 5 million. While the Great White Fleet was overwhelmingly welcomed, there were several editorials about the new nation's vulnerability to a fleet who might not be so friendly. An Australian Navy consisting of a battlecruiser, three cruisers, six destroyers and three submarines was ordered and paid for by the locals, arriving in force in Sydney Harbour in 1911. While small by world standards it outclassed most others in the region. During the early years of WW1, the German squadron operating in the Asia-Pacific gave it a wide berth, and considered the battlecruiser alone to be more powerful than their entire squadron. Thanks Teddy!

Great stuff Ryan. I dint know much about the Great White Fleet. Thanks!

Thanks for showing a replenishment at sea of a Canadian Halifax Class Frigate. Loving your videos from your northerly neighbour.

Very informative guys! Looking frwd to the series.

If Ryan didn't have you editing the videos and there was no clock in sight how long could he go on? He sounds like the kind of guy who could start a 5 minute video and still be interesting an hour later (like Lindybeige does on military history). Please note that this is a gift, not a curse.

I spent time on the USS La Salle AGF-3 in the Arabian Gulf. She was painted white and her nickname was the great white ghost off the Arabian coast.

i love your channel. not often you find a host that is so knowable and passionate about their hobby/job's, most people on your level don't like to be in the public eye, thank you for your time

I loved the ancient film footage of those good looking "Great White Fleet" ships!

Great video series. The Great white fleet was quite an undertaking for its time and today you wouldn’t be allowed to call it that. I’ve got a great book on the HMS Dreadnought. Highly detailed showing it’s construction and it’s deck by deck plans.

I remember the first ship my grandpa took me to see it was a British frigate I remember being excited because it had sea wolf missiles and he had been chief of the boat on USS Seawolf at the time it seemed like he must of made those missiles himself in the basement so impressed

I'm still hoping for a video about the Queen Elizabeth class of battleships. And I've been reading about the sinking of Prince Of Wales and Repulse. Originally, the Admiralty wanted to send Nelson and all the old R class battleships, preferring to keep all their KGV ships in home waters.

@pastorjerrykliner3162

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please!

Probably the most important advance was the stereoscopic director/rangefinder and the fire control mechanical computer, im sure it had a big impact on the Dreadnaught design, it meant you could shoot accurately beyond about 5,000 yds

I think the battle of Jutland was certainly an important moment in history of battleships

Adm. Szimanski; your next two requested videos are: 1. if you were CNO 1865 - present, how would you have directed the Navy...with foresight, but no hindsight; 2. what is the future of the USN and other world navies in the next 50 years, and how should the USN be conducted in the next 50 years, given reasonable budgetary restraints? Viewers, please second this request to Ryan. Thanks, MCI (DS2, 1981-1987)

That was really interesting...I hadn't considered many of those aspects as reasons behind the Great White Fleet's cruise. So, battleship century events: the Crimean War, HMS Warrior, La Gloire, HMS Captain, the rise and fall of the ram (battle of Lissa to Camperdown/Victoria collision), Turbinia, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Battle of Santiago, Russo-Japanese War, Jacky Fisher, HMS Dreadnought/WWI naval arms race, HMS Queen Elizabeth (super dreadnoughts), Dardenelles naval campaign, rise and fall of the battlecruiser (Falklands vs Jutland), Jutland, Washington Naval Treaty, Billy Mitchell (disprove myths), Treaty and fast battleships, Taranto/Pearl Harbor/Force z, HMS Royal Oak, WWII battleship duels, battleships for shore bombardment, final designs under consideration or construction by each country, Bikini Atoll, 80's Iowas vs Kirov class CGNs...

The order to paint the ships grey during peacetime had been issued by the time the GWF sailed. They excepted the fleet because of its mission.

This series is a great idea and I look forward to watching the story and designs of battleships progress as the team continues making videos.

I'm tuning in to this series for sure. Great job Ryan.

Good series Ryan - thank you!

This is going to be a great series, it makes my work day go by

Great video. Really enjoyed it and learned quite a bit. Thank you.

This Series is amazing! Can't wait for the next video

Thanks for your informative commentary and visuals!

I have a book that was published in 1904 and has a stamp that says it was property of the USS Kentucky. So this book probably rode with the great white fleet

This is such a great channel by far and I’m really excited for this new series

Love it when history is covered well. Thank you for the video

Again, thank you!

I would like to HIGHLY recommend a book that covers this era called The American Steel Navy. It covers the birth of the New Navy from 1883 to the Great White Fleet. It is PACKED with gorgeous photos of the era.

Ryan, how about a video on the interwar design changes. How we go from ships that are short and stout to ones with sleek profiles, elongated hulls and changes in powerplants to go from 23 to 33 knots.

Great job Ryan. You are a good History teacher. Please consider a video on Aground at Thimble Shoals the grounding of Missouri . Thanks.

Very nice job-thanks!

I love these videos! Please do a video on Jutland!!

Ryan i love ur personality, really good videos my mood goes always up when i see these videos come up :D

Ryan, Your videos are Outstanding! My Major Event was T.R. deciding that it would be presumptuous to seek another term.

Listen to the grinders in the background. Very nice

I wish the oregon didn't get scraped

This is the era of battleships I've always liked the most. The designs are more quirky and less refined than later steel battleships. If I had the chance travel through time the cruise of the great white fleet is on my buck list of historic events to experience. With the nice colours of the ships the fleet most have been an impressive sight.

I am absolutely certain that what you remarked about, “...Why in the hell did we paint all our ships white, when they’re all coal-powered vessels....,” was being darkly muttered by the majority of deck division sailors hanging over the sides in secured in slings with buckets and brushes slathering additional paint to the sides of their ship, while their other lucky shipmates were living it up imbibing liberal amounts of strange local libations and mixing with the local “exotic beauties” who regularly frequent that particular liberty seaport, skillfully plying their trade separating a mariners’ wages from the mariner....

The adoption and tactical/strategic use of wireless in the US battlefleet would also be an interesting topic.

I love the Revenge class battleships.

Great video. thanks! I’d love to hear more about the naval treaties. What was each country was looking to gain through them? How did they impact design? And what do you think we would have built, if we knew Japan had cheated with Yamato and Musashi? The 4 Iowa’s? 4 Montanas? Or that tonnage in Yorktown/Essex carriers?

Good video. But, as an Australian, I feel the effect that the GWF's visit had here is not really understood elsewhere. At the time, Australia was still a very new country, with Federation (the unification of the six British colonies into a Federal system) having only just taken place in 1901. The colonial navies (yes, there was a time when Australia had SIX navies) had been merged into an interim organization called the Commonwealth Naval Forces. The GWF's visit to Australia was met with a great deal of interest at the time. It was also extremely timely, given debates going on at the time about the establishment of the Royal Australian Navy and its exact nature. The GWF provided the impetus for building the RAN into a proper blue water navy rather than simply a coastal defense force. Within the Australian National Maritime Museum, in Sydney, there is the US Gallery, which covers the USA's considerable influence on Australia's maritime history. Included are exhibits about the Great White Fleet.

23:21 Because it looks awesome

Would love to see the New Jersey or one of our Nimitz or Ford-class carriers in white and buff.

@senecanero3874

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen some Photoshops of that, it looks gorgeous, they would be beautifull

@Ewok_Pilot

3 жыл бұрын

I would imagine that it would look um...interesting...

Jutland, of course is a key moment in "The Battleship Century." You mentioned Taranto and Pearl Harbor, which are of course emblematic of the nadir of the battleship. Key battleship battles would include Surigao Strait and Cape Matapan; but I'm not sure if they warrant separate videos or maybe a single video. One moment/event I think would be fascinating to cover from a battleship perspective is Operation Crossroads, where a number of old(er) battleships were dispatched in the name of nuclear testing. I know Crossroads is often spoken of as the "death knell" of the battleship, but the simple fact that so many ships could be declared "surplus to need" and written off right after the war is fascinating, but also that Bikini could become the resting place of ships with such storied histories like Arkansas and Nagato but also the place where New York and Nevada and Pennsylvania met their fates.

History is a good teacher ``your opinion`` .What is the best United States Navy design for the Future . Destroyer and Cruiser designS ?

How many Senators were found crying in the Rose Garden after telling Theodore Roosevelt he couldn't have the money?

Had an early all-big-gun design been chosen for the Virginia and Connecticut classes resulting in slow, semi-dreadnoughts like the South Carolina a few years early, how would the Great White Fleet's cruise been received if composed primarily of these less obsolescent ships?

You should get your Masters and teach history at the US Naval Academy. They’re probably showing your vids to the cadets already anyway. Might as well get paid for it.

@ghost307

3 жыл бұрын

But he should only do it 'on loan' to Annapolis. We don't want to lose Ryan.

Love this series. The evolution of BB is a fascinating subject. My question is did any naval power experiment with an “all armor” ship, or at least a BB that went as far in armor as you can physically go at the expense of all other factors?

Paint them white again,they were beautiful.

@Shadooe

3 жыл бұрын

Last year the Royal Cdn Navy painted HMCS Regina in dazzle cammo. She looked pretty cool.

@shawnkennedy855

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shadooe I'm shocked we spent the money to be honest.

@DardanellesBy108

3 жыл бұрын

If you go to Drachinifel’s KZread channel and select his “Community” tab, you can scroll down and see a computer generated image of an Iowa Class Battleship in White hull, Golden superstructure colors. Have to scroll down to nine months back but there aren’t a huge number of community posts so it isn’t too bad. Looking at the image, ehhhh, for me I’m not a fan.

@seafodder6129

3 жыл бұрын

@@DardanellesBy108 Iowas in battleship gray: Look like demons sent straight from Poseidon's nightmares to sweep the seas clean of all that offend him. Iowas in white fleet livery: Look kinda quaint. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

We painted them white for one reason. It looked nice, seriously... that's why.

15 years to figure out the casemate guns were "wet"

@WALTERBROADDUS

3 жыл бұрын

Design fads come and go. Like tail fins on cars.

I'm curious about how the trash ,. Uneaten food etc was displayed of back in the days of the dreadnoughts.

@BattleshipNewJersey

3 жыл бұрын

mostly just tossed overboard

Setting the bar, teddy style.

Hi Ryan! What naval pc games do you enjoy playing? Great vid as always.

@richhoule3462

3 жыл бұрын

I guess we'll never know

Is there a future in armored vessels that could give and take heavy punishment going in harm's way as compared to vessels that relied on projecting and defending themselves at a distance?

@ghost307

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much damage the NJ would have sustained from that boat that blew a giant hole in the side of the USS Cole. I'm thinking essentially none.

How about the epic transit of USS Oregon BB-3 around Cape Horn, its intimidation factor in the battle Santiago De Cuba, its influence in building the Panama Canal, its deceptive delisting from a museum ship to “active duty,” its deconstruction down to the hull, conversion to an “ammunition barge” and its insulting scrapping in Japan?

Yay history

Have you considered trying something like RTX voice from nivida to help with the background noise?

@ghost307

3 жыл бұрын

As far as the replacement of the teak decking is concerned I'm impressed that he's not so stuck up that he has everyone on the ship stop working and maintain absolute silence when he's speaking. I like the fact that he's on a 'working' ship and enjoy the background noise...and the occasional metallic echos.

Absolutely fantastic video as always. I do wish the Navy would go back to a white hull, colored structure for the modern day. With radar and other technologies trying to be stealthy in a visual sense is kinda pointless. That dark grey that is so common today is absolutely drab and boring. Would be quite lovely to see a Navy break out the paints and change things up.

Mikasa from that time is still around in Yokosuka Japan.

I'll try to guess some of the other videos that will be in this series. Battle of Tsushima Dreadnought Washington Naval Treaty Battle of Jutland The scuttling at Scapa Flow Cunningham in the Mediterranean Attack on Pearl Harbor and the end of battleship superiority The sinking of the Bismarck The Battle of Guadalcanal (last purely battleship vs battleship action) The end of WWII on USS Missouri

can you go into what exactly a dreadnought is?

@ghost307

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a good video. "Dreadnaught" loosely translates as "Fears Nothing" but knowing exactly what that consists of would be very interesting.

@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX981

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghost307 I suppose it would cover the all big gun design and its advantages, and impact

@WALTERBROADDUS

3 жыл бұрын

HMS Dreadnought of 1906. The first Modern BB design.

What about HMS majestic and HMS royal sovereign? Their launch started the pre Dreadnought arms race.

Probably more like, five decades of the battleship (1890-1940). But that is my opinion.

Yeah I think the British make this cruise look like picnic with the empire cruise in 1923-1924

Good info. FYI visuals are much more engaging. Black screen should be limited

I would say it's the battleship half century, 1890s to 1940s.

I think Tsushima is really the major event. It literally led to everything else that happened over the next 40 years. Leads to the Russian Revolution, the rise of Japan as a superpower, and the rise of Germany / Britain's naval race.

HI.

Ryan is winning the war to preserve history but he is losing the war of the receding hair line. Welcome to the club my brother, I feel like I have more in common with you every day lol.

Someone did a rendering of New Jersey in the great white fleet livery

@DardanellesBy108

3 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel under his “Community” tab. Have to scroll a bit but it’s not too far down.

I really love your content. But you guys just seem to have bad luck with your audio eh? :D

Almost as important to the future of the Navy is the personnel -- the officers -- who made the cruise...

Helo

As a officer that would have been a great cruise to go on.

Politicians controlling just navy spending and ship size. Actual admirals in charge designing something based on experience. What went wrong? Instead we got politicians making improvements in the military a bureaucratic nightmare that in turn sometimes by the time something gets introduced it’s already obsolete

I would like to hear from the person who got tired of listening to Ryan but realized it would be beneficial to let him talk to a camera :-)

Gun boat diplomacy

Ok drac, you can’t fool me, great accent, dodgy. Haircut, give it up now there’s a good chap

Pearl Harbor Attack, showed how, Battleships, didn't matter, as all damage was by, Japanese aircraft Carriers