Long live the Royal Navy!

I had weather like that on a Charles F Adams Destroyer in the Northern Sea, its like a never ending roller coaster ride. I had luck and enyojed this ride, but some others dont and gave all the good food to the fishes. Good Musik by the way.

Man thats really incredible, seeing the bow of the carrier go in like that. Really gives you a sense of just how rough it is.

What a video - I keep coming back to watch it . The sight of those flat tops getting tossed about like little match boxes is absolutely riveting !

Seems some of the footage was shot from King George V showing Victorious followed by Duke of York with Renown just visible behind.

My Dad was on a destroyer in the 80's, he remembers in a storm that a big pot of beans fell off the hob in the galley and spilt on the floor, he saw the chefs mopping it up and putting it back in the pot to serve!

@stevenpilling3773

3 жыл бұрын

That's because they kept their deck space Clean, don't you know?!

@suhandatanker

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenpilling3773 1. have you been there? 2. you replied to an 8yo comment, just asking

i can only imagine the skill those navy officers had to sail in a convoy in such heavy seas...back then there were no fancy gps,powerfull radars on board or sofisticated sensors to help you sail...only a compus,a map,craions and skilled men. i take my hat off to them

@briand01

7 жыл бұрын

Schumy90 By 1941 the Royal navy had search radar which could detect at 26 miles. no gps but the plot officer knew where they were probally to within a mile or so. Not too bad.

Two KGV class battleships and an Illustrious class carrier facing up to about as violent N Atlantic storm as you can get. Incredible to see that mighty carrier being thrown about like that. No flying that day! Presumably the cruisers and destroyers though better of it and stayed at home.

Of all the navies of the second world war, the RN was definately under the most pressure and faced most difficult circumstances. Gun calibur and armour aside, the Royal Navy did an incredible job with the theatres and ships they had.

@michaelb9529

10 ай бұрын

Please include the RCN too. They basically went from 4 or 5 destroyers to becoming the 3rd biggest navy by the end of ww2. Our ships were mostly corvettes and frigates then we got the tribals and formed hunter killer groups and took to the woolf packs. But yes thr old RN yet again were the walls of Britain

The aircraft carrier is HMS Victorious (identified by her camouflage scheme) and the ship leading her should be the battleship HMS King George V. The ship from which the footage was shot would be the battleship HMS Duke of York and the one shown astern of her at the end of the clip is the battlecruiser HMS Renown. This could have been filmed during the operation to cover the Arctic convoy PQ12 to Russia in March 1942 in which the Victorious' aircraft unsuccessfully attacked the German battleship Tirpitz which had sortied to attack the convoy. The British had hoped to deal Tirpitz the same fate her sister Bismarck had suffered in May 1941. As it turned out, Tirpitz got away unscathed.

@higfny

9 жыл бұрын

Chartdoc62 Well done identifying the CV :) Thanks for the information :)

@Chartdoc62

9 жыл бұрын

higfny You're welcome! Victorious has the distinction of engaging BOTH Bismarck and Tirpitz, and though her hit on Bismarck was not crippling, it scored a psychological blow, causing Bismarck's first fatality among her crew as well as exacerbating the damage caused by one of Prince of Wales' 14-inch hits earlier that morning. In attacking Tirpitz, her Albacore torpedo bombers scored no hits, though it is said a torpedo missed the battleship's stern by 30 feet - coming so close to a possible repeat of Ark Royal's feat vs. Bismarck. 2 Albacores were shot down. Amazing though to see those big ships tossed around like that!

This video is brilliant. One of my fav. books is about the battle for Atlantic during the IIWW. This is like taken from this book! Those where some rough times. So many died and drowned in the cold seas...

My Dad served in the USN in the N Atlantic in ww2. For a year they sailed in this kind of weather! Then they refitted in NY.....then to the Normandy landings!

Awesome video, as if being in the war wasn't bad enough, also having to go through storms like that.

the unstopable royal navy.... royal navy has always been the best... better than the US at least in my heart..

Certainly KGV Class Battleships and the Arc Royal at a time when we had a decent navy. I think several destroyers were lost in this hurricane.

Because of their shere determination that makes them stand out as brave individuals.

Mild Winter day in the North Atlantic. BTDT on a Destroyer Escort. Great fun once you get over the fear and nausea.

May God Bless all those who go to sea

Royal Navy to Halsey: What typhoon?

after seeing what happened to the carrier at 0:33 i think "heavy seas" is a bit of an understatement.

thanks for comment I tried to get music that fits and this one was in my mind, the author of music has viewed my videos.

@Germankirk Yes I agree!! I really miss the sea so much when I see this clip.

I bet the Flower Corvette crews were in a hell of their own.

This just a picture of how powerful the human intellect can be. Just gigantic technological machines built to rule the seas and fighting against the power of Nature.

Awesome!!! You should let us embed the video... I would like to put it in my profile.

Incredible. I mean not only did these men FIGHT in these seas: they did it because that was the glorious old RN's playground and not only because it was war. Epic ships and epic sailors: they deserve... no, command respect and admiration! Rule Brittania! God bless the souls on all sides that the waves took in that horrible war.

Jesus Crow on a Fishing Boat, Unbeleivable Pitching.

MUY BUENO INTERESANTE

Try muting the sound and open another tab with Vaughn Williams "Fantasia on aTheme by Thomas Tallis. It's quite moving.

@WELLBRAN true. I would recommend "COXSWAIN IN THE NORTHERN CONVOYS" (sry caps, copy/paste :p) by Kerslake. You'll find most of the book for free if you google it.

this is scary, imagine being on the destroyer escorting this lot!

@roygrp

5 жыл бұрын

I was a Tin Can Sailor, 1968-1972, 1st ship USS Wallace L. Lind DD-703 was commission in 1943. I was only in the North Atlantic once and witnessed the America take green water over her bow, we played submarine for a couple of days.

its not very nice to be there but I was a deckhand at 16 and had to wear a harness for safety most of the time - when on deck but had to put it on mostly.

@bombarderoazul You have a splicing of several different little film clips The Carriers are Ark Royal and Victorious. The cruiser could, repeat could , have been Sheffield. The Heavies are Renown and a KGV battleship.

A Boeing A380 twin deck supersonic airplane landed on a chinese super-carrier on Lake Baikal last week to pick up 200 tonnes of spaghetti bolognese which is the traditional food of China

Thanks for your comments.

I always recall my pop saying if isaid it was a wild night outside in broad scots, ye never seen nothing until ye done the convyoys up in the artic for the russians supply, saw a clip years later , my generation are very soft when i saw what they saliors put up with then. brave people.

I would not want to be in a destroyer in that weather

wow

@WELLBRAN

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

Are the birds sailing about Frigate birds? ...I notice gulls as well.

@sailordoc2007

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Flaherty I doubt it -frigate birds are tropical

One of the KGV class HMS Howe,I think, the rest I do not know,

Actually during the entirety of World War II the Royal Navy lost no warships to the elements, compared to the French losing one and the United States losing four.

For your age of 20 you seem so experienced

Sic

Thanks for commenting

Look on the last frame of this clip

They say the Japanese Devine wind did not come to save Japan in WWII. No it came Major Typhon caused major damage and sank destroyers in US Fleet. Gorge Bush Sr. almost got it doing damage control on Carrier as planes breaking off tie downs started huge fire for a few moments it looked like the Carrier might be lost. Another hit with less damage but still serious, A third hit the main staging base for the Invasion had it been done and would have set back the invasion for months, but Japan had just surrendered. No the Japanese Gods, especially with the funky paths of the storms tried their best but storms that could have easily sank a fleet of wooden sail boats like both Mongol Invasion fleets the storms sank could not sink a fleet of Man's way bigger Steel ships.

LOL your Dad was right my Dad used to say the exact same thing! Navy men Eh?

Can anyone tell me which ships are in this video, I notice a cruiser in front, an aircraft carrier in the middle and a powerful battleship behind them.

@ylmazirdenyazc8393

3 жыл бұрын

Aircraft carrier is Illustrious class thats for sure the Four Turreted one is HMS Howe. There is also HMS Renown behind them. Ill Update the Post after i find the Names

actually the ark royal is in this vid.

Incredible. How brave they were. I'd have been sick for weeks. But I suppose it was still better than being in North Africa in a tank at 130F

@michaelb9529

7 ай бұрын

Unless you're escorting convoys into Malta

All that suffering ...and Britain was invaded anyway....

@ILUV74 i suppose thats true

An Illustrious class, not Ark Royal.

Its "rogue waves".... or freak waves.... Not rouge.... Which is RED in french

What a comment.... Its all about waves and seamanship... Not german war machine...

Pax Brittania! forever