my grandfather able seaman Clifford Bryant served on this ship he survived the sinking and went on to serve on the warspite

Hi there- I'm working on a youtube documentary on the illegal salvaging of the java sea wrecks and was wondering if I could use a clip from your video in mine? With credit of course

@MrGoo514

2 жыл бұрын

@historigraph, great way to promote other channels!

My great uncle "Sandy" he's in there somewhere.

@bigjohno242

3 жыл бұрын

May he RIP . Brave man. My grandad was in the Royal Navy from 1917 to 1946. He spent the late 1920s to early 1930s on HMS Repulse.

Grave robbing how vile. Awful awful people.

Neratte~ Pon!

@fluffycrocodile9224

3 жыл бұрын

A fellow man of culture

Perhaps a modern minefield should be placed around both vessels with sufficient warning signs in Chinese Afterall both ships are war graves .

@None-zc5vg

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that weeks ago, but why spoil it with warning-signs of any kind ?

@J.A.Hansen

3 жыл бұрын

@@None-zc5vg Because some metall hunter destroying wracks on the bottom of the oceans and doesn't respect that this wracks from WW2 are wargraves. It happened to the grave of the Hms Exeter which is believe it or not,is almost gone,only fragments are on the ground.Some of those dirtbags tried to did the same with the HMS Prince of wales.But the only could break away a large piece of steel and not the whole ship....badly enough... The worst thing about it,is,that if they ever find some pieces of bones of the victims or something they just throw it away...i don't wanna go any further,but now you know,if you didn't....What a fucked up.world we living in... In my opionen they should build a internatiol Navy Force and makin some patrols in those areas where the most wrecks are lying on the ground.There are some areas where those devils can't do nothing it is too deep for them to reach the ships.Like the Bismarck for an example (6000 ,meters or so)But in those areas where they can they should do it.And if they find them doin there evil work,they should sink them with their ship,as a warning for those that try to do the same... However.May the victims of WW1 and 2 rest in peace on the bottom of the seven seas⚓🚢⚰⚓R🕯P🙏

@SixcCamaro1

3 жыл бұрын

@@J.A.Hansen he's meaning why put warning signs. Let them blow themselves up.

@loriryde5437

3 жыл бұрын

Its pre-atomic age steel that's why it is so valuable, I think it is Malasian salvagers doing most of it

@tomdolan9761

3 жыл бұрын

You do understand that these ships are located in highly trafficked merchant shipping lanes and that the nations surrounding these sites were European colonies subjugated and exploited for a couple of centuries and hardly likely to take kindly to Europeans reasserting any kind of dominion in their territory?

Dutch warships along the Indonesian coast have all but disapeared.

They Should be using Satelites, Copernicus Sentinel 2? Or Planet Labs to moniter the sea around the vessels

These ships were very old even in World War ll nothing wrong in salvage

Did she land upright?

We all know who the culprit of the illegal salvaging is, but they can't be stopped as their nation has no respect for anyone. Abhorrent people with no conscience.

This should be condemned by every nation and those doing this should be inprisoned both ships and anyship sunk in war are war graves there bodies in them ships

@marketgarden-nf6qm

2 жыл бұрын

It will not be condemned because people are making serious money out of it. Our Government should demand action but there no chance of anyone listening to those clowns.

My wife's great Grandad went down with this ship. His name is J. J Ashton, I'm an ex Royal Navy ships diver, I'm disscusted with this. Only Royal Navy divers can dive these wrecks, to renew there ensigns, that will constantly fly in there watery grave.

@tomdolan9761

3 жыл бұрын

The British passed a law that only Royal Navy divers can dive these wrecks which are located in the territorial waters of other countries? Good luck enforcing it.

@paulryan1631

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomdolan9761 they are not just wrecks, they are war graves, big difference.

@Jaffacall3251

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulryan1631 Blatant imperialism like this is why they were sunk to begin with, the UK has no rights over these hunks of scrap in another democracies waters.

Sort of surprised diving is allowed on this wreck.

What’s the situation with the scavenging has it been stopped or is it getting worse?

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

2 жыл бұрын

Recycling not scavenging.

@ebf5026

2 жыл бұрын

@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 illegal scavenging of a war grave

Incredible

Sad that people rob a grave

Wasn't this dug up by China?

@73north

4 жыл бұрын

that was the HMS Exeter which has disappeared ) gone totally - this ship , Repulse has been vandalised however

WHY DO THE BRITS LET THIS HAPPEN, THESE SHIPS ARE WAR GRAVES,AND SHOULD BE PROTECTED BY ANY MEANS,YES PUT MINES AROUND THEM,AND LET IT BE KNOWN YOU DO NOT SCRAP A WAR GRAVE

Great job done by Japanese torpedo bombers in Nov 1941 in South China Sea. Prince of Wales had earlier managed to escape by launching smoke screen bombs ,in the Battle of Denmark Straits in May 1941 . The honour of sending HMS Prince of wales to the locker of Old Davy Jones was left for the Japanese.

@markweaver3458

2 жыл бұрын

And the Allies had the Honour of dropping Atomic bombs on Japan.

@akaj188

2 жыл бұрын

@@markweaver3458 Sir Thanks for replying.

@akaj188

2 жыл бұрын

Causalities in Prince of Wales were all of combatants. Where as deaths in atomic attacks were those of innocent civilians.

@arahdog3481

2 жыл бұрын

@@akaj188 can you spell N-A-N-K-I-N-G? There's a list of other cities a mile long

@akaj188

2 жыл бұрын

@@arahdog3481 ,Sir Thanks for replying.