There are few things we Germans respect more than a formidable enemy. HMS Warspite for sure falls into this category, giving us nothing but trouble through two world wars. Why she doesn't lie in glory alongside HMS Victory is a mystery to me.

@davidbrown2571

6 ай бұрын

One word, politicians.

@MickR0sco

3 ай бұрын

​@@davidbrown2571to be fair, money. Britain was absolutely on its arse after WWII.

@christophggcyrus6861

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!

She deserved to be preserved.

@--Dani

Жыл бұрын

My God what a shame it's not a museum in Plymouth...I would fly across the pond to see all of that floating beautiful yet lethal history...

@lesliedrysdale2434

Жыл бұрын

My uncle was CPO on her on d day he gave the captains order to open fire he was a career sailor said it was his favourite ship

@--Dani

Жыл бұрын

@@lesliedrysdale2434 That is very cool, like Warspite on our side of the pond, the Enterprise should have been preserved as well, both should be proud museums. My grandfather fought on and survived the Indianapolis...my grandmother said he was never really the same after they were torpedoed. People need to be able to touch this history to see what that generation went through for our freedom. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇲

@paulmchugh8695

Жыл бұрын

So do I and that’s not happening ! 😅

@davidelliott5843

Жыл бұрын

The British preserved very few ships. Even Brunel’s “Great Britain” (the first screw powered ship) had to be saved by charitable donations.

"I've rammed everything else; what the hell, I'll finish by ramming England."

@konstantinriumin2657

9 күн бұрын

Imagine if England sunk after being rammed by Warspite

@TheRealRedAce

9 күн бұрын

@@konstantinriumin2657 It wouldn't surprise me!

After D-Day she did take part in one last major action. She was the major ship in the Walcheren landings where she was accompanied by the Monitors. It was the last amphibious landing on the war in Europe. There is also a great story about her Normandy bombardment that displays her reputation for accuracy well. Some Allied troops were struggling to clear an area but the Germans had them pinned down having cleverly used a copse of trees as a defensive strong point. Hidden there they were able to hold off every Allied attack thrown at them. The Allied commander called for help and with her renowned long range and accuracy Warspite was the asset for the job. shortly afterwards the Allied soldiers were treated to a firework display as 15 inch munitions levelled the copse throwing Tiger tanks into the air and obliterating the German positions.

@goodshipkaraboudjan

Жыл бұрын

If I read correctly in an article, she only had half her guns serviceable and could make about 6 knots at the time. Tired old girl still had teeth!

@SennaAugustus

5 ай бұрын

This is that story at Normandy, by Glider Pilot Alexander Morrison, 6th Airborne Division: "In our briefing, we had been told that the German 21st Panzer Division was located further east of our position and that the anticipated armour counterattack would first come from them. Accordingly when at 4am we could distinctly hear the sound of tracked vehicles, we realised that we were now ‘for it’ because a 45-ton Tiger tank presents a formidable proposition! But miracles happened and this time we were saved by the Navy. Warned of the danger, an Army spotter plane was airborne at first light and located the squadrons of German tanks assembling for the attack. Fortunately, the pilot was in direct communication with the Navy who promptly alerted HMS Warspite which was standing offshore. After a couple of sighters, she let loose with tremendous shelling and heavily blasted the whole area." "It was a fantastic experience to witness the terrible firepower of this battleship and to hear the huge shells roaring overhead like express trains to land with devastating effect right on the German assembly. The carnage must have been appalling and the severely damaged tanks shortly abandoned their attack and retired on Caen."

Warspite is truly a battleship that despised the hard knocks of war and went out on her own terms.

@glenchapman3899

Жыл бұрын

Like my ex wife. Did her own thing, did it her own way and listened to no one lol

@user-qq2vq4fv8b

6 ай бұрын

Er ....is that good ...?

My Grandad John Chessman 15 years told the Navy he was 16 and was accepted.He served as a boy signalman on the ship during the war and was involved in The Battle of Jutland. He is named on the crew list . Although he suffered from throat cancer in his fifties he survived until 1974 aged 75

@goodshipkaraboudjan

Жыл бұрын

Good on the old boy. Boy sailor alright at that age to go through that. BZ

My model of the Warspite has inherited some of its Proud stubbornness and strong character. It has survived being knocked off the masterpiece several times By a clumsy dusting wife, several play mishaps by marauding daughters Swipes by kittens foolish enough to try, various knocks and drops over the years. A Ship with a Soul indeed, the Warspite deserves all of its Accolades and praise over the years, quite a warrior.

everytime i see a video about the Warspite i feel the need to post the poem written by an ex officer, Lieutenant Commander R A B Mitchell on her decommission and subsequent journey to scrapping - "The Subject" You say you have no subject And your brushes all have dried; But come to Marazion At the ebbing of the tide. And look you out to seaward, Where my Lady battle scarred Hugs the rock that is more welcome, Than the shameful breakers yard. Paint her there upon the sunset In her glory and despair, With the diadem of victory Still in flower upon her hair. Let her whisper as she settles Of her blooding long ago, In the mist than mingles Jutland With the might of Scapa Flow. Let her tell you, too, of Narvik With its snowy hills, and then Of Matapan, Salerno And the shoals of Walcheren; And finally of Malta, When along the purple street Came in trail the Roman Navy To surrender at her feet. Of all these honours conscious, How could she bear to be Delivered to the spoiler Or severed from the sea ? So hasten then and paint her In the last flush of her pride On the rocks of Marazion, At the ebbing of the tide.

@timsimms65707

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@Yverian

Жыл бұрын

How many ships have had poems of love and respect written to them as if they were a beloved woman, mourned and honored like a queen? Only The U.S.S. Constitution has such an ode penned to her, that I am aware of, other than The Spite.

@shep9231

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I had no idea this existed. Thank you so much... for sharing.

The rammings were just part of Warspite's nature - a massive eagerness to fight *anything* on or under the sea ! 😉

Always my favorite BB of any Navy. She deserves all the respect she gets and more.

@ThePaulv12

Жыл бұрын

Mine are the Nelsols. My desktop background on my lappie is of Rodnol.

@user-qq2vq4fv8b

6 ай бұрын

​@@ThePaulv12" Rodnol " sounds like something you would take for a cold .

The modernized version of the HMS Warspite made a visit to the shipyard in Bremerton, Washington for maintenance and repair prior to the United States entry into the war, under the Lend/Lease program. This isn't generally known except by elderly citizens of Bremerton and the Kitsap County Historical Society, which displays pictures of her in drydock. My mother always told the story of watching the Warspite's sailors walking around town.

@nemosis9449

Жыл бұрын

My dad was one of them as he served on her from early 41 to same 43 and said he had a great time in America. Thanks.

@quietus13

8 ай бұрын

​@@nemosis9449 I bet he did. He might be @mikemullay5622 's grandfather

@bairdrew

7 ай бұрын

She was there when Japan attacked Pearl. She went to full battle alert as there were reports of a Japanese raiding squadron nearing the western US coast. There were scouts as memory serves, but no serious raiding force. But Warspite fully intended to put to sail, and fight alone if need be, would it protect the lives of innocent civilians.

@addysong1628

5 ай бұрын

My grandfather was born in Bremerton in August 1942. Great-grandma Cecilia often spoke wistfully of watching British sailors walk around town.

@SennaAugustus

4 ай бұрын

@@bairdrew Warspite was said to be the only AA defence on America's west coast. From 1-11 January 1942, soon after Pearl Harbor, Warspite became the only operational battleship in the Pacific theatre.

My farther-in-law served on HMS Warspite during the late 1930's and of all the ships he served on HMS Warspite was the one he was most proud.

The toughest warship in the Royal Navy during the 20th century!

@shep9231

Жыл бұрын

She was also the best :)

Thank you for this. I collect 1/2400 waterline warships and use them in a tactical table top game, this is going to sound odd but, my Warspite always gave better than she got, after a few engagements whenever I would bring her out, my opponents would always try to sink her first...I had to stop using her because they would target her and her alone, they wanted her gone! lol Having played hundreds of games with these ships and using so many of them, I have over 500 at this point, it is funny that Warspite stands out so well, her spirit lives on! Cheers and God Speed Warspite!

@shep9231

Жыл бұрын

For Five hundred years, every ship thats had the name Warspite has become a legend. The memb er of the Queen Elizabeth class was no exception :)

You say you have no subject And your brushes all have dried; But come to Marazion At the ebbing of the tide. And look you out to seaward, Where my Lady battle scarred Hugs the rock that is more welcome, Than the shameful breakers yard. Paint her there upon the sunset In her glory and despair, With the diadem of victory Still in flower upon her hair. Let her whisper as she settles Of her blooding long ago, In the mist than mingles Jutland With the might of Scapa Flow. Let her tell you, too, of Narvik With its snowy hills, and then Of Matapan, Salerno And the shoals of Walcheren; And finally of Malta, When along the purple street Came in trail the Roman Navy To surrender at her feet. Of all these honours conscious, How could she bear to be Delivered to the spoiler Or severed from the sea? So hasten then and paint her In the last flush of her pride On the rocks of Marazion, At the ebbing of the tide. Poem "The Subject" by Lieutenant-Commander R.A.B.Mitchell,

In Spike Milligan's war memoirs, when they are landing on Italy the see Warspite firing her big guns to targets inshore. One sailor comments "that's not doing the Germans much good!". Then he looks at Warspite rocking heavily on her axis from the recoil of her own guns, and adding "it's not doing Warspite much good either!"

Bless her, and all who sailed in her.

She is one of our nations many ships that should have been saved from the torch, with a amazing career and rich history to have been told and a rich history to learn about walking her decks, feeling what it woukd have been like as a British sailor in a metal big gun giant, she may not have been the world's biggest but she was still a big old ship that defended her country and us brits proudly even with her liking for ramming things

17:23 probably a mercy for the Japanese. As the one thing worse than either the Atomic bombs or the Soviets would have been Warspite and Enterprise joining forces.

@mknewlan67

Жыл бұрын

The gray ghost and the old lady…. Might if won the war in the pacific by themselves lol.

@ph89787

Жыл бұрын

@@mknewlan67 with Johnston, Heerman, Hoel and Samuel B Robert’s as escorts.

@paulkirkland3263

10 ай бұрын

@@ph89787 And HMS Glowworm close by.

@weesamexpress6730

Ай бұрын

And both USS Laffeys

Everything mentioned in this video is exactly why the warspite is my favourite battleship of ww1 and ww2

HMS Warspite is, by far, my favorite WWII battleship. An illustrious record of service and, as it was seen, a cantankerous personality (for a machine), Warspite wasn't the biggest or the fastest, but she was a scrapper! She could dish it out as well as take it despite her age and dubious repair history. It was a pity that such a ship couldn't have been saved from the breakers to sit alongside her historic predecessor, HMS Victory on the Thames. Even in death, Warspite showed her grit by forcing them to dismantle her on her own terms.

@catman492000

8 ай бұрын

HMS Victory is in Portsmouth not the Thames.. that is HMS Belfast

So many iconic ships have been scrapped, It’s good to know that this famous “Big Gun Battlewagon” went out the way she wanted! Great video bro keep up the good work!

Warspite is a hell of a name.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

"Belli Dura Despicio"... Warspite's ships's motto.... "I despise the hardships of war".

Love that ship. Twas the first model-ship i made a long long time ago. In my mind, this brave beauty really should be a living museum today! Thanks for the vid, appreciate it a lot 👍 Greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.

if ever there was a warship that lived up to it`s name and purpose , this grand fighting soul embodied everything it meant to be a part of the royal navy

My grandfather served aboard the warspite after surviving the sinking of the repulse,able seaman Clifford Bryant

If I recall correctly, at the Battle of Matapan it was the future Prince Philip, husband to Queen Elizabeth who was in charge of the searchlight crews that spotted the Italian cruisers.

@ph89787

Жыл бұрын

He was on Valiant.

@DavidOfWhitehills

Жыл бұрын

@@ph89787 Some years later he spent a lot of time on Queen Elizabeth.

@shep9231

Жыл бұрын

Yessir. Prince Phillip served his country proudly. :)

@Dave_Sisson

8 ай бұрын

@@shep9231 He was still Prince Phillip of Greece during the war, even though he was in the British Navy. But he fought off the coast of Greece, so he did serve his native Greece well.

Her many rebuilds, refits, and repairs reminds me of Theseus' ship paradox, a thought experiment that questions whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. 😃

@TheAnon03

Жыл бұрын

From the rudder issues to the tendency to headbutt things (how I choose to interpret it ) I'd say yes.

@PhilipKerry

Жыл бұрын

Triggers broom 😎

@SennaAugustus

3 ай бұрын

@@TheAnon03 Exactly. 2 full rebuilds that were said to be "basically a brand new ship", and yet odd quirks, like turning around in a circle or slipping tow and going wherever crewless, stayed all the way to the end.

Aground in Mounts Bay she looked a sad sight after such long service.

Thank you for devoting an entire episode to HMS Waspite. She has always been my favorite warship of any kind bar none. I built 3 models of her in various scales from 1/600 to 1/300 when I was still a schoolboy. It is a tragedy that she was not preserved. What were the British thinking... Such an ignoble end for a battleship with, quite probably, the most glorious fighting career in the Royal Navy, if not any fighting ship in history.

A great video fitting of the finest battleship the Brits ever fielded. A pity you didn't describe in more detail how she literally blew apart the German Destroyers in the second Battle of Narvik. See Drachinifel's account on his channel. Thanks for a good, humorous story. 🙂

Warspite was hit by Seydlitz. Her A turret was out of action and couldn't be aimed, but Acting Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Annesley Packer kept firing 12 shots anyway, "literally wasted every shell fired into the sea", and was later Mentioned in Dispatches and promoted to Lieutenant, then later commanded Manchester and complained that they should store more ammo in the front so that he could chase down enemy ships, and later again became Warspite's captain, where his experience with the ship saw great damage control after being hit by the Fritz-X and saved her from sinking.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

My father was a stoker aboard Warspite in 1943. Luckily for him he was "off watch" from the boiler rooms when the Fritz X put a hole in her keel.

She must have been quite a sight at Narvik in the fjord using her main armament

The decision for her being sent to the scrapyard was akin to whoever decided to tip the lamp over in the library of Alexandria, beyond shameful and cowardly. There is absolutely no good reason anyone could have ever given to send her to the breakers.

Nicely done. Earned you a sub. Very well presented....the best "Americanized" version of Drachinifel I've ever heard. I look forward to future content.

@shep9231

Жыл бұрын

Indeed sir.

I always considered the scraping of Enterprise the greatest crime committed by humans till I heard one of her sailors say basically he didn't want want people to be walking around eating hot dogs and dropping garbage on the great ship. I said to myself, you know your right. The same goes for the equally immortal Warspite.

A war record second to none. It’s disgraceful that this ship wasn’t saved for the nation after the war. We had so many battleships and none were saved. As usual the politicians have to take a lot of the blame.

@hawnyfox3411

Жыл бұрын

And yet "they" managed to save HMS Belfast ? I've never really understood that, despite I "do" like the 'Belfast' I went on the latter when they first opened her up (to the Public) around Feb'/March 1971 30-years later, back in 2001, I took my own kids on board & the weather WAS considerably better !!

A fine telling of a fine ships story!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This ship should have been kept. One of the most historic ships to ever exist. Texas is in drydock now. Making good decades of neglect. She was our first museum ship. We learned a Lot of Things Not To Do. And a few things that Must Be Done. The British scrap too damned many Truly Great Ships!

@stephenhumphrey7935

11 ай бұрын

True. Even though it's not a warship, it would have been great to keep the Titanic's sister ship, the SS Olympic, as a museum ship.

Absolutely agree, she should have been preserved, what a story she would have told down the generations

Warspite went aground In Mounts Bay inside the Mountamopus buoy and Cudden Point not far from Prussia Cove. Obviously thought she could have one more go against the Germans. After various failures of refloating she was moved to St Michaels Mount and broken up. Her boilers are still there.

One of my favourite KZread channels

When I was a student living in Camborne, in Cornwall, many years ago, I was told that the flooring in one of the local pubs, the Cornish Choghs, was made from Teak salvaged from Warspite😎

Wonderful, Thank you.

rspite would have been the Best Royal Navy battleship to have preserved as she served in both world wars. So sad that no battleship was saved! The usual British short-sighted action . Putting her value as scrap before her value as an historical artefact.

@stephenhumphrey7935

11 ай бұрын

Can you imagine what an impressive sight she would have been as a museum ship.

@johnhooper7040

11 ай бұрын

@@stephenhumphrey7935 Absolutely! I think it is so sad that none of the dreadnought battleships were saved for posterity asa reminder of the times when the Royal Navy was at its zenith. My father served as a young sailor on HMS Malaya. I would have really liked to have visited a similar ship to put all his stories of life onboard a battleship in context

and a great finish! kudos!

What a ship. Imagine a ship serving her country with distinction to the point of literal exhaustion. Still going on mission with a boiler down, a turret down, a concrete plug keeping her floating and a knackered rudder. Reminds me of my old V8 land rover. Usually something niggling wrong with it but always got you home.

She deserves the same amount of clout as what the Bismarck, Yamato, and Iowa classes have had and still do. And the fact that she had a more colorful career than all the latter mentioned

Your documentary is pretty accurate, with the exception of your description of her launch as "so so", it was anything but, although typical for Warspite. As an American I think you might have mentioned that US Navy fleet tug was instrumental in saving the ship after she was glider-bombed, although I beleive Warspite's apalling bad attitude to other shipping provided the American crew with severe problems !I also feel that a ship which not only survived but came back fighting aftre many serious attempts by her enemies to sink her was in many ways a lucky ship. I n my opinion, for instsnce, their Lordships of the Admiralty were off their rockers to send such a large target into the cofined waters of Narvik Fjord when the Luftwaffe was carrying all before it. Warspite was hopwever a bloody awkard ship. IF ever a vessel had personality, it was her. Thank you for bringing her memory back into focus. David Mahoney.

A bit like a modern fighting Temaraire…. But without the ramming,…….she just wore herself out 👌🏽😎….how they all should go……. Thanks for the story. 😉👍🏼

Great video

"Seriously Warspite, watch where you're going!" Warspite doesn't live in our world. We live in Warspites.

I think that Hood and Prince of Wales are more famous than Warspite, due to their involvement in the battle of the Denmark Straight against Bismarck. HMS Warspite also didn't just "stick around for some shore bombardment" at Navik, she played an active role during the surface engagement, sinking the destroyers Z-13 and Z-17, and crippling the destroyer Z-12, who would be finished off by destroyers.

@fXBorgmeister

Жыл бұрын

Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship. You may be right on PoW - Placentia Bay, Denmark Strait and finally Force Z, quite storied, but as it was a KGV wasn't present at Jutland as Warspite was.

@ICommitWarCrimes1

Жыл бұрын

don't forget Warspite's Swordfish floatplane sinking U-64 in the slowest divebombing attack ever ☠

@dennislewis9400

Жыл бұрын

I would agree the stuff of legends

@JohnyG29

Жыл бұрын

Na, Warspite is more famous than them. I think it's only second to the Victory.

@ph89787

Жыл бұрын

She did the Darth Vader hallway scene with those destroyers.

It takes 100yrs to make a name for yourself and 450yrs to make a tradition.....The Royal Navy.

As odd as it sounds the Prinz Eugen probably has the best non-museum outcome: sitting on a tropical beach with the sure knowledge the scrappers will never touch her. 😅

When we moved to Cornwall in 1980, the cottage we bought had an external light, which was one of Warspite’s deck lighting fittings! It functioned for years, but was sadly broken when we moved and took the fitting with us, only for one of the removal men to drop it and drive over it!!

@rickmorgan3930

Жыл бұрын

obviously was a Nazi sympathizer :)

@michaelfoster5577

Жыл бұрын

@@rickmorgan3930 lol!

@dawnofwar4302

Жыл бұрын

The "ram everything field" was still active on the light fixture.

@michaelfoster5577

Жыл бұрын

@@dawnofwar4302 lol !!!

so now we know where hms Glowworm learned how to ram stuff

I LOVE her history! Maybe only another old Brit would get this, but after her 3rd collision maybe the Admiralty should've considered renaming her "HMS Troutbridge" !!!??? Great video...

@mattyshipley

Жыл бұрын

left hand down a bit

Love this ship.

a great fighting ship!!

Had a major refit in the States. Pity they didn't remove those casement 6 inch guns and replace them with the US 5 inch dual purpose guns in twin turrets.

HMS Warspite is the name I always give a ship in a game when ever given the opportunity to name a ship. It goes back to the 1500's...

Spike Milligan and his battery were aboard ship watching Warspite shell German positions before the landings commenced. He noticed (claimed! 😄) that with each salvo, Warspite rolled hard in the opposite direction. One gunner said "That isn't doing Jerry any good." Miligan: "Looks like it isn't doing Warspite any good either."

One of our greatest ships

I would like to speak on behalf of Drachinifel and let everyone know this is the greatest battle wagon EVER built. The greatest warship of any kind, by any country, in any universe. Warspite could lay waste to any other warship regardless of the size, type and era from which that ship would hail. In closing, Warspite is God and whoever decided not to keep her as a museum ship should be hung from the highest tree in London 😂

@SennaAugustus

3 ай бұрын

As the Ministry of Defence proclaims, Fear God and Dread the Warspite.

As others have said she would would.have made a wonderful museum ship..So much history

1st seal was recently cut for the new hms worspite at barrow furnace in Cumbria for new dreadnought class submarine.

Warspite chose to sink herself with her honour intact, than allow herself to face the breaker's yard!

I enjoy your commentary, funny

Tough old bird!

I am an Aussie ex RAAF but having read about HMS Warspite became fascinated by it's story Cheers to all ex and serving RN, RAN,RAF,,RAAF service men and women. We don't get any media aye fucking army ! Floods, drought relief we're straight in there but you don't see us on the fucken telly!

lovely.

Please do you have a documentary on the Royal Oak as my uncle died on it the night it was sunk. Thanks

One of the toughest battleships ever made

A great ship

What a shame she was scrapped. Rip

I think at the very least Warspite and Enterprise should of been sunk with honors and made into artificial reefs. Deep enough to avoid surface ships, shallow enough for divers to visit. Absolutely ashamed neither country stood up to protect the old girls who protected them.

Ramming Barham and Valiant just meant she wanted to give her sisters a hug :) (Either that or shes just out for blood)

Warspite. With a name like that she couldn't help being a badass ship!

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

HMS Warspite's motto. "Belli Dura Despicio" - "I despise the hardships of war"

A remarkable ship.

Thank you. That was fabulous to listen to.😉 "Warspite was doing her utmost to Hate the French coast out of existence". 😃 😃 😃

Old soldiers never die they simply fade away.

Took a licking and kept on ticking. The ship that would not die.

You can see what's left of her hull just west of St Michael's mount on Google maps

Even her own navy learned to stay out of her way when she was on the warpath😡

50 rounds 15 inch rapid fire

10:46 Skill activated: *Divine Sniper*

It is a pity Winston Churchill did not intervene to save her from the scrapyard. After all, it had been he himself who had approved the design and authorised the construction of the QE class battleships before WW1. The Admiralty is not free of guilt: it has a poor record of preserving its heritage. The Royal Navy itself is not keen on looking after old ships. Even 200 years ago the Admiralty did not want to preserve HMS Victory; only public support saved her. Timbers from Nelson's fleet were used for flooring of the new Regency mansions and boulevards in London. I grew up in one. The club, Home House, in London's Portman Square, has large spaces of Nelsonian timber, polished as good as any RN punishment crew could have achieved. HMS Warspite would have been by far the best monument to Great Britain's role in both world wars. In truth she saw so much action because she was old and therefore 'expendable'. The Mediterranean could be deadly for RN warships, especially large ones, where enemy aircraft could spot big ships in perennially clear skies cruising its often shallow, narrow sea lanes. No modern RN battleship would be 'risked' by the Admiralty in the Med - it was the old QE class that was sent there. Luckily there was Admiral Cunningham in charge, and HMS Warspite's peerless gunnery crews, to judge the risks and take them, too, with great success. The loss of HMS Barham was a tragedy, of course. And why is it that the Americans have a much greater affection for their military history than we do?? They have battleships and old aircraft a plenty..

@SennaAugustus

3 ай бұрын

Her expendability was exactly the reason she was sent into Narvik. She was called an old veteran before the battle, and called the most recently modernised capital ship after the battle.

Served in the seventh RN vessel to bear the name HMS WARSPITE - an amazing heritage and (I understand) the only RN warship to have two crests?

@mattyshipley

Жыл бұрын

1/the cannon. 2/the woodpecker.

@SennaAugustus

3 ай бұрын

The woodpecker was never approved by anyone, but they put it prominently as the main crest and nobody dares to correct it. The cannon is the only official one, approved in 1919.

Warspite channeling Sinatra: And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I'll say it clear I'll state my case, of which I'm certain I've lived a life that's full I traveled each and every highway And more, much more than this I did it my way

My Grandad was a Stoker on her (Fred Charville) and had his work cut out. Tough old bird.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

My father was a stoker aboard Warspite in 1943. Luckily for him he was "off watch" from the boiler rooms when the Fritz X put a hole in her keel. Strange to think they may possibly have been "on watch" together at some point.

@nickgardener5802

6 ай бұрын

Probably having a smoke break😀I just wished I asked him more about his time on her but it was never brought up offered in conversation. The best generation kept things to themselves and cracked on with their duty.@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

The sea remembers immortality

Confused about the ship shown at 11:00 which appears to neither be Warspite or Cesare, the ships being discussed at the time.

@skyneahistory2306

Жыл бұрын

That is Cesare. More specifically, it’s a view of her damage. The turrets are her secondary battery.

@TheRealRedAce

Жыл бұрын

@@skyneahistory2306 OK, thanks. I had thought the secondaries were singles, but that was before reconstruction. Kudos for using a pic of the right ship - that's rare on KZread!

where does its name come from ?

Warspite increased speed either to help cure the steerage or get nearer to the enemy at Jutland, says one report, if true does not suggest entirely accidental consequence

Isn't the first picture of HMS Vanguard? Edit: nevermind, a photo from WWII after her refit.

Interesting sidebar...Yamato scored the furthest hit on an enemy ship during Leyte..hitting a Jeep carrier further than Warspites shot.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

It's disputed whether it was Chikuma, Kongō or Yamato that hit the USS Gambier Bay. Warspite's hit was beyond doubt.

@MickR0sco

3 ай бұрын

Warspites record is between exchaninging battleships whilst moving to be a bit more precise.

Did Britain GB consider saving Warspite as a museum ship?

@veryrevrufus

Жыл бұрын

There were countless appeals to save her. No question, it was a travesty she wasn’t saved, but it’s difficult to describe just how desperate was the financial position of the UK in the post war years. There was a massive need for steel, and obviously a large surplus of out of commission ships. She therefor became a tragic example of knowing the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.

@johnjephcote7636

Жыл бұрын

@@veryrevrufus It simply was not the right time. After the War we scrapped everything that came along. Into the 1950s and beyond, with the help of the British Government we even scrapped the most ground-breaking projects, especially in aviation.

Is she entering the Russian port of Sevastopol in that opening photo? Beautiful picture 📸

@jamesyaworsky8996

6 ай бұрын

It's Grand Harbour, Malta

@byronharano2391

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesyaworsky8996 Oh. Thank you. Malta. Still, very nice picture.

She ended up being scraped at Wards in Inverkeithing.