Thanks for watching everyone! kind of a remake (not really), I've done some videos on Furious in the past but I didn't like the quality so I wanted to do something better for my favorite Royal Navy large light cruiser/battlecruiser/battlecarrier/carrier :)

@DaveSCameron

Ай бұрын

And you have done a great job with this one too. If I could mention that we lost our grandfather on board HMS Celendine in 1943 so naturally anything related would be so much appreciated by us I can’t tell you how much, even if you were able to point us in a direction where I could research it further, websites or books or forums that may help us discover what happened and what journey it took place etc. anyway thanks again and keep in coming Sir.🇬🇧📚🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ImportantHistory

Ай бұрын

Give me some time to look into and I’ll be sure to get back to you!

@DaveSCameron

Ай бұрын

@@ImportantHistory oh there’s no rush and I’m grateful for your reply and best wishes to you and yours over the Pond.🙏🇺🇸☘️🇬🇧

@harryjohnson9215

Ай бұрын

From my research Fisher wanted more battlecruisers but the Admiralty didn't want to build any capital ships for a year So he came up with large light cruiser to get around it and the Admiralty fell for it I know you have a right to perfer to them as you please

@harryjohnson9215

Ай бұрын

My great grandad served on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS as a aircraft engineer I also had family on :HMS HOOD, DUKE OF YORK AND HMS WARSPITE ( the same one who was on hood)

my grandfather was chief engineer until he was retired in 1931. Thank you

#22 HMS Furious was a good test bed for new technology. First, starting with a 18 inch gun. Which proved bad! Secondly, a aircraft launch vessel, which showed possibilities. Third, a Aircraft Carrier, which proved the need for such vessels. As new aircraft emerged, she proved her need and was an experiment in progress that led to modern Aircraft Carriers. She proved herself as the "Great Experiment" which made the Aircraft Carrier a new Capital Ship. Thank You! Well Done! Carry On!

I’m 56. Probably, roughly 35 years older than you. I first went down the naval history and technology rabbit hole when I was 10. I had a brief envelope of time after my interest was sparked, which I shared with 2 great uncles who served in the WWII U.S. navy; both were tin can sailors. One served predominantly in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific. I loved hearing their stories as much as they loved telling them to me. From my perspective, it’s a joy to see that there are individuals like yourself dedicated to not just the preservation of history and the sanctity of truth in history but also offering a new and honest lens on an 80 year old subject. Also, I never saw that picture of the 3 sisters together. If the rest of your video was pure pablum it still would have been worth it for that alone.

@ImportantHistory

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment and your kind word as always. I will say that your 35 year guess is spot on!

I always thought this was a fascinating series of iterations.

Thank you for a well researched presentation (as always). Fisher’s innovative designs are often mocked as ‘flawed’. I think it is enlightening to regard them not from the perspective of ship types (cruiser/large cruiser/battle cruisers etc), but as responses to the rapid advances in technology during the period - especially radio and aircraft. Fisher’s concept of the ultra fast and heavily armed large cruiser was a response to the arrival of radio, which enabled the RN to dispatch forces against threats over great distances with extreme speed. Today we speak of rapid reaction forces and power projection. Fisher’s large cruisers were the vessels required for the task. The Battle of the Falklands demonstrated the soundness of the concept. From the perspective of ‘evolving mission’ there is a continuous and unbroken line from the launch of the first of Fisher’s ‘large cruisers’ to the 1918 raid on Tondern launched by the Furious.

The origins to large light cruiser: "I have just been having a long talk with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Reginald McKenna]. He has agreed to our building light craft to any extent we can up to a light cruiser. The Chancellor did not say how big the light cruisers could be, so we will build two whoppers, with 15-inch guns, and speed enough to run any German light cruiser off the face of the ocean." - Fisher to 3rd Sea Lord Rear-Admiral Frederick Tudor. (Parliament decided they had enough of Fisher's battlecruiser addiction and forbade him to build more. The decision to avoid the term "battlecruiser" to describe the Courageous class is to get past this restriction.)

As always another interesting video.

Hey, another wonderfully researched piece and there’s something about your narration that makes you easy on the ear and don’t stop anytime soon please! #OurHistory 🎚️📚

I like this video but this is one of my favorite ships

Thanks, and thank you for naming Sqr Ldr Dunning.

White elephant of admiral Fisher 😎

Very nice presentation and commentary. With technology advancing so rapidly at that time the engineers and warship designers were pretty much making things up as they went. Naval engine technology also advanced quickly, as did communications and aircraft etc. With long lead times on capital ships it must have been a nightmare trying to anticipate and plan for ships that if not well thought out, could be obsolescent before they joined the fleet.

I was hoping you would have shown the pic of the old Furybucket as her crew fondly knicknamed her ( including my grand father who served aboard her from 1937 till she was paid off) when she was conducting makeshift trials using the worlds first ski ramp made aboard her by her own crew out of stout timber's, in the pic I'm referring to a Fairy Barracuda is seen taking off using the ramp during a sea trial.

sounds like Fisher was trying to pull a swifty on the British Navy However I've seen her called that in books

Is this the royal navy equivalent of the Alaska, a giant mish mash of design concepts

There‘s nothing wrong about using the official designation ‘large light cruiser‘. They were underarmed and underarmored even in comparison with battlecruisers.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

Ай бұрын

Was the armour even enough to protect from destroyer fire?

Reversed left to right photos are especially inappropriate with Aircraft Carriers. You show the island moved to the Port Side in the American refit picture at time 18:20. That could have been *_corrected_* in a few seconds of photo editing.

@ImportantHistory

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment, I’ll take it into consideration for future videos.

She was sunk while doing hunter killer work? How did they refloat her!?

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

Ай бұрын

Oh no she wasn’t !

@daria_morgandorffer5768

Ай бұрын

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 ok I must have misunderstood! I’m so sorry!

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

Ай бұрын

Courageous was lost doing anti-submarine operations. Sorry for being _‘smart’._

A term created for political reasons. These ships were battlecruisers, just not well designed. Gun caliber was larger than in most battleships and speed far superior. On the downside armor was lacking and the number of barrels too few. Still, that doesn’t take away from what they were.