My Mother went out to India to join my Father on her in '46. " the Windrush, more Wind than Rush ", she used to say !

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

It certainly was prone to mechanical problems!

@mikeembe1261

Ай бұрын

How it stayed afloat was amazing !

@mikeembe1261

Ай бұрын

... during it's life, that is ...

@jeffsmith2022

Ай бұрын

God Bless your Mum & all of us as well...

I travelled on the Windrush to Singapore aged 7 with my mother and sister leaving Southampton in December 1948 to join my father at RAF Changi. Remember being taken to the bridge by a ships officer when he saw myself and another boy up to mischief on deck! lol. Also her eventual sinking in the Med in 1954.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing

That was fascinating and - as always - impeccably researched. I knew some of the story because my Dad was on a contemporary troopship (the 'Dilwara') at the same time whilst he was on National Service. In fact, he was very nearly posted to the "Empire Windrush" instead of the "Dilwara". Another contemporary British troopship from that era has a long and eventful story to tell - the "Empire Fowey" which began life as the German liner "Potsdam" in the early to mid 1930s. Captured by the British at Flensburg, she was refitted, renamed, and served as a troopship from the war's end until the 1960s. Incredibly, when her British service was done, instead of going for scrap she was sold to a Pakistani concern in Karachi, renamed "Safina-E-Hujjaj" and served for a further 20-odd years as a Pilgrim transport. She finally went to the breaker's yard in the mid 1980s, by which time she was at least 50 years old! If you were able to find out more about her to "fill the story out" she would, I am sure, make as equally fascinating a video as the "Empire Windrush" - very few of even the most heavily-built ships manage to reach a half-century of nearly constant service!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

That's a fantastic post. Thanks so much for taking ther time to share.,

@PaulFellows3430

Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap my pleasure.

Thank you Chris, for another great story. As retired Merchant Navy officer I know what a lot of research has gone into this story....! Great!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Excellent video as always Chris, and you are correct, I knew very little about this ship.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. thanks.

What an amazing story she has. Thank you.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for your support.

What an amazing story. I obviously know of her, but nothing else. Fascinating, thanks Chris, looking forward to many more.

@TheHistoryChap

21 сағат бұрын

Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.

“I bet there are bits of this story you were not aware of” … that is an understatement of epic proportions. Just wow! That was a superb piece of work .. fascinating & thought provoking.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Researching this story was like opening a Russian doll.

A lucky ship whose luck finally ran out! Thank you for yet another interesting video, Chris, this one proves that there is far more to the story than "popular culture" gives credit to.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your comment.

Thanks Chris. Delightful as always. I never miss your videos and I am yet to be disappointed. 👍👍

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks.

Thank you for the informative and interesting video, Mr. Green. I seem to be developing a fondness for British history. I would appreciate if you continued to make content, as you present your stories very well. Always a joy to watch. Take care!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your very kind comment. I’m glad you’re enjoying my stories from British history plenty more to come.

I did not know the story of this ship. thank you for telling it!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Did you really need to quibble on that point?

Wow! so much i didn't know. Love this channel

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

That’s very kind of you. Please consider joining my membership channel for even more insights.

What a fascinating and storied history that the Empire Windrush lived, I was in St. Kitts-Nevis which I believe was a former colony of the Empire. Thank you for telling her story so eloquently and with gusto. I think her brief involvement in the Holocaust can be forgiven as this ship brought numerous civilians and military personnel safely home. Kudos to you, amigo!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.

Thank you for this, I had never heard of this vessel and its history, so I could enjoy it without any prior knowledge or subconscious bias relating to it.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for taking the time to comment.

I had never heard of the Empire Windrush, so found this story fascinating. What an incredible journey she had. Looking on Wikipedia I was amused to see that the "fate" of the Monte Rosa was to be Seized By The United Kingdom.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

It’s an amazing story.

What an amazing story, thanks for sharing.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Just found your channel Chris and can’t stop binge watching. Superb channel , thank you Chris 👍

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

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An amazing and odd history for a ship. Well worth the listen. Thanks Chris. 👍

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Such interesting history. Thank you for sharing!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.

Fascinating. She seemed unsinkable, grounding, torpedoes, sea mines. Ironic that she destroyed herself in the end.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you found it interesting. Thanks for watching.

Another great video thanks

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I'm a naval history buff, enjoyed this story a lot , not being aware of this ship, thank you mr.Green!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Such an interesting story and really well told, thanks and have a great weekend and stay well.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks very much for watching and have a lovely weekend too.

Thanks Chris, great education

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Fascinating. Thanks Chris 🎉

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another excellent video, these stories are niche and not always noticed but the shine a light on the past.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Took a bit a flak from some quarters for mentioning the Windrush. Not sure they had actually bothered to watch the video.

Thank you this was really interesting, i had no idea about the history of the ship

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. If you haven’t already, please do subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss future videos.

What a fascinating story...i never knew that the"windrush"had such an interesting backstory...thanks so much for posting ,always something more to learn😊

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I was aware of the troopship bit but as I researched I couldn’t believe it!

I just came here for the comments and I wasn’t disappointed. Very interesting history of the ship although I think I like the original name better.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for taking the time to comment.

Quite a story. Thx.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video

Interesting post, thank you.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Excellent video Chris.. what a remarkable life the Monte Rosa / Empire Windrush had; the ship version of Carlton de Wairt

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Speaking of whom, I will be telling his story in the non-distant future

I sailed to Hong Kong from Liverpool on the Empire Clyde and back to Southampton on the Empire Fowey. On the way out we had to stand at attention as we passed over the Windrush.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

That’s a brilliant story. Thank you so much for taking the time to share.

My Dad brought his new family back to the UK in September/October from India in 1947 on the Empire Windrush. I had just had my sixth birthday in the embarkation camp, Bombay. I recall the awful steamed fish meals. boys diving for coins at Aden, passing through the Suez Canal and docking at Southampton. I don't know if he sailed on her again going to and from the Korean war. My son still has the Teak trunk marked "Not Wanted on voyage.". This is part of our family too.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Great story. Thanks for taking the time to share.

@geoffreygoldsmith165

Ай бұрын

Sorry, forgot to say thankyou for such an important series of videos. Immensely enjoyable. Recently visited the bridge in Dandong over the Yalu river in China also in Shenyang where the Japanese had a POW camp for the Allies captured in the Pacific theatre. Nice to let the chaps they are not forgotten. Could be a video there?@@TheHistoryChap

Excellent story. It would make a good specialist knowledge round on Mastermind!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I’m chuckling at the idea! Thank you for your support and please make sure you subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss future videos

Thanks!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

You are welcome. Harry, I really do appreciate your support. Hope to see you on the live call today.

What an interesting history , darkened though by the history of the jewish prisoners to Germany and the disastrous one and only Caribean run and all that has entailed for Britain in the intervening years . Thank you for the video .

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for taking the time to comment.

Truly Fascinating!!!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Getting some flak in the comments 😆

You have stated many of the passengers that came to the uk on the Windrush were ex servicemen and of the RAF. Also, making the point of how many people from the caribean fought for the british during the war. It felt to me like you were trying to justify them coming here and would like to see the evidence of how many of these passengers had indeed served in the war? Very interesting story of survival of a very lucky ship. I have to wonder how different the uk would be now, if the windrush had never visited the Caribbean?

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Probably no different as it only made i voyage and 2 ships had already arrived. The justification was that they were allowed to come as British subjects. I guess that was part of having an empire.

Hi Chris have you made a video on the Royal Navy’s West African Squadron.? A tale of great hardship for all concerned.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

It’s on the cards. Please subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss it.

Thank you Chris for another fascinating video.🛳

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Chris I truly was interested in this story and makes you think what else happened in the second world war. Keep making the great videos love watching them

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I knew that she was German but never got the history. Thank you,

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

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I had absolutely no idea about this story other than the trip from the Caribbean. Thank you so much for your excellent video sir.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your very generous support. Much appreciated.

Good video Chris, excellent story well told. Thank you. Regards Jim.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

My Dad came back from Libya on her in 1953 to be demobbed. I remember as a kid we had a Reader's Digest in the house (still the only one I've ever seen outside of a doctor's waiting room) with an article called "They Remembered The Birkenhead Drill", about the origin of the 'women and children first' protocal (HMS Birkenhead - 1852) and its rigid application when the Empire Windrush sank.

@TheHistoryChap

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your interesting feedback.

Brilliant 👍

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much. If you haven’t already, please do subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss future videos

Excelent story. It was Max Manus and Gregers Gram who put limpet mines on her in Oslo. They later sank the "Donau" the same way. It's covered in the movie, "Max Manus", which is quite viewable, though slightly exagerated....

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video & for your informative comment

Mmm, Windrush, that's certainly a word... Mmm. Well, fishing later anyway, ships are a fitting topic when on the hunt for carp.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment

I thought it was unlucky to rename a ship, oh well bad memory on my part. Interesting video thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I guess it could be called unlucky seeing as it sunk within 10 years.

Great video again, can you let me know if you have done any research into Job Henry Charles Drain V.C from the first world war, I believed he died at the beginning of the war saving two guns. he was a barking boy and has a statue out side the town hall. Once again great videos keep them coming I have enjoyed every one

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment & no, I haven't, but I will add him to my ever growing list.

Thanks Chris awesome as always

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

As an Australian old white man 64 lol I can honestly say say brilliant my friend would love a bit of a story about hmas Sydney doing the runs to Vietnam in our campaign and the 707 that flew to and from Australia to nam and return thank you Sir

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I will add to my list for potential future videos. If you haven't already, please do subscribe so you don't miss futures.

Indeed, The Empire Windrush would indeed qualify for the Kalergi Coudenhove award for its services to multiculturalism.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I haven’t thought of that. Thanks for sharing.

@EuroWarsOrg

Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap No worries, unfortunately, it seems too much uncontrolled multiculturalism, with too little assimilation, is the one thing that ends all empires... USA going the same way.

Hi Chris... its Annette, and I watched this video with my Chris, I must admitt when I saw the title I thought it was going to be all about the men and women coming to the UK on the Widrush... but guess what I was 100 per cent wrong wasnt I..... my chris use to be a mercant navy officer.. ( 2 nd mate ) and he , like you has 100's of stories to tell .. one such story he told me is... normally he would sail under the red ensign and proud of it.. but on the particular voyage, because the captain was R.N. R... the ship flew the blue ensign.. and just like the Windrush... just after leaving the suez canal coming home... the Captain decided to do a man over board drill..... so when the alarm was given... that a man ( actually a barrel ) had falling overboard... the ship did a emergency hard a starboard ( so the the propellers would not hit the man ( or the barrel )... you must remember thwe ship had only just left suez so there were a lot of other ships in the immediate area... and my chris tells me... it was a bit like the keystone cops... they ( the other ships ) did a very hasty retreat in all directions... dont know about you.. but I can just picture it... cant you.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your family story & for watching my video.

Thank you - I do not know how you make such good videos - I never go away from you video without being more entertain, enlighten and edumacated

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Very kind of you. And thanks for your generous support.

Great Story Chris... History is a Bitch ...we may not like what reflection she shows us...but we should learn from Her

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Fascinating, please do more of this kind of content. Your videos get better all the time. There is much more history to know than the narrative about Big A and his band of psychopaths.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Strangely enough I have taken some flak from certain quarters!

Thank you so much for this video! I hope there will be many more of this era. I will be watching the Suez video next.😊

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video

That ship had quite the existence, good and bad. Her demise reminds me of the Titanic. I'd be up for a video on the Third Battle of the Hook.

@TheHistoryChap

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video, & your comment.

The Service Personnel and the Polish passengers were certainly different from those now known as "The Windrush generation"; afterall ther had been invited .

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment

Great to hear more about this famous ship

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

Chris, is there any name for the biography or the life of a ship ? Your fine crafted story made me think of Hornblower and Graf Luckner .. Thx for the lesson again despite any propaganda or political ideas behind it, it was at least a very good history of a vessel! Ludwig

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Not sure that there is. Nevertheless there are some great stories and I enjoy telling them.

Was she one of the Strength Through Joy ships in the 30s?

@Lassisvulgaris

Ай бұрын

Yes, from 1934. She visited Norway and the fjords.....

@captainjoshuagleiberman2778

Ай бұрын

She was not purpose built for it like the Gustloff.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Yes at some time in the 30's, but she was not built for that purpose.

Some time referred to as Empire Flatulance must have had something to do with wind ..

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

You missed your calling on stage -:)

I do hope this video does not get demonetized due to your mention of Germany in certain years and a certain warship

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I doubt it.

Pictures of the Frozen Arsehole Brigade sailing for Korea

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback.

The arrival of the Windrush was the beginning of the end for Great Britain.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback

D-Day

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Didn't participate in D-Day, she was stuck in the Baltic.

Another excellent story, again revealing how History is "messy" - a lot more complicated than we think!

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.

Absolutely love your stuff. But am sick to the back teeth about the Windrush ?

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

So have you watched the video or are you just guessing about the content?

What a pity there were no icebergs around

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Did you actually watch the video or are you just shouting your mouth off?

You seem to be getting it from both sides, Chris. I am sorry for my earlier comment on your previous video. The comment about your video on the Windrush is also lacking in justification. This is a very good video about the ship, not its supposed symbolism, which you address very clearly as lacking in justification. It was not the first ship taking immigrants from the Caribbean, it did it once but it was the one that got the publicity. That is a lot like how history is written. Great video, keep it up, Chap.😊

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comments & for watching my video

I was on this ship with my mum in 1952,on our way to join my dad in Malaya

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

Whole story completely new to me. I was afraid it would end in tragedy, to be honest. Thank God all of her last batch of passengers made it safely home.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching & taking the time to comment.

Can't wait for the Gurkhas

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I think a lot of people don’t realise how the relationship started

@ccd3150

Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap I'm not 100% but I think the British tried to conquer them for more land but they couldn't beat them in the end, I think the British just asked them to join us as mercenaries?.. I'm not good on military history that's why I rely on you 🤣

Chris, I love your videos, but the Windrush narrative is pure propaganda and I won't be watching this one.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

How on earth can you judge my video without watching it? The whole story includes it being a British troopship, attending the Queen's coronation review at Spithead and being in the Kriegsmarine during WW2.

@tonypetts6663

Ай бұрын

Very little of this video covers that voyage, this is the history of the boat, not the migration from the Caribbean.

@spitfire1962

Ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChapWe don’t need racists like Alfonzridesagain on here.

@thegadflygang5381

Ай бұрын

​@TheHistoryChap in his defense it is the only proper reaction to have these days as the lives of Western Europeans are filled with revisionist history, replacement & propaganda The video is pretty good I'm about half way through but when one of us hears "Windrush" we know what to expect 99.9% of the time

@robert-trading-as-Bob69

Ай бұрын

Sometimes I despair for humanity... all it takes to trigger a negative attitude is the mention of the name Windrush? Thanks for an excellently informative story that few would have heard about.

Shouldn’t that have been emigrants on the voice over?

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Maybe

i'm at an age (i originally learned by reading so many long books🤫), that i kinda envy the youngers who are just learning such fond history tales. tyvm again, Chris. 🫎🇨🇦😁

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

I’m glad you’re enjoying my stories. Plenty more coming your way

Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? Did you know ... ? If that was a quiz, I got an F-.

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Ha ha, I will try to make it easier next time! -:)

Thanks

@TheHistoryChap

Ай бұрын

Very generous of you, thanks.