Thanks for watching everyone! Sorry about the lack of photos of the events, it was very difficult to find what I did. A majority of the photos are from before and after. The couple where she is in Malta and the towing photos are the best ones to show the immediate aftermath. Also, I'll be putting out an update video either tomorrow or Monday, but you'll be seeing more videos here shortly :)

It is a great shame that this veteran ship, the highest decorated in the Royal navy, was not turned into a museum ship!

@MyRuno

21 күн бұрын

Agree. She was a great ship.

@spartancam-rs5ru

19 күн бұрын

As you might gather from this video, she was absolutely wrecked post war. It would have cost a tremendous amount of money to refresh and turn her into a museum - money which Britain did not have post war. Its a grand shame for sure but it unfortunately does make sense in the hard calculus of Britain post war.

@hammer1349

9 күн бұрын

​@@spartancam-rs5rushe was also over 30 years old. Her body was tired and worn out. She deserved her rest.

@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground

3 күн бұрын

She was basically falling apart by 1945. They found unexploded ordnance in her armour belt when she was being scrapped,.

One of my favorite warships, what an incredible story.

warspite said: i ain't going out like this!

If any two ships symbolized their respective countries Naval Heritage it was HMS Warspite #03 for the Royal Navy and USS Enterprise CV-6 for the United States Navy. HMS Warspite was in almost every surface battle the RN fought in WW1 and WW2; USS Enterprise was in almost every carrier action the USN fought in WW2. Incredibly, neither ship was allowed an Honorable Retirement as a Museum Ship. Unforgivably, BOTH were scrapped.

@gruntforever7437

16 күн бұрын

absolutely; at least the British had an excuse in being flat broke. There was NO excuse for the US

@hammer1349

9 күн бұрын

Enterprise was perhaps given a fitting funeral at the breakers yard, returning home to finally rest and her duty coming to an end. Warspite was perhaps defiant to the last, mother nature herself wanting to keep her to sea.

I like how you started with a quick summary then got into the details. Nicely done!

One of the most fantastic battleships ever. An exercise in design and the application of evolving naval technology over a long period of time. Great video!

Belli dura despicio. (“I despise the hard knocks of war”) Salute the Grand Old Lady 🫡

An excellent 👍 video 5 star's keep up the excellent work

Thank you. Another superb,detailed and authoritative narrative from first rate sources that many may possess yet have not read in detail. It’s remarkable when you consider her age at the time of this attack,30 years and was repaired sufficiently to fight at Normandy and Walcheren

Ah! Dear old Warspite and her wayward steering, it almost was responsible for her loss at Jutland in 1916

HMS Warspite, mi buque preferido de la Royal Navy 👍👍👍👏👏

Really very nice video, thanks. As you correctly pointed out, the survival of this ship is truly a great feat of professional damage control (damage was truly appalling), good'ol sturdy construction and sheer luck. A few days earlier light cruiser Eugenio di Savoia was targeted by the same weapons but was lucky (near miss, no damage), battleship Italia (former Littorio) was almost hit but had only one rudder damaged (famously, Littorios had three rudders) . Battleship Roma was unlucky, hit hard twice, one bomb perforated the hull exploding just under the keel of the ship but the second bomb hit between barbettes , extensively damaging the magazines, starting flooding and fires, until the munitions in the nr.2 15" tower exploded, catapultating the turret in the air and splitting the ship in two. What usually took dozens and dozens of planes to accomplish, was now possible in minutes using only a few bombers. Obviously, sailing even the most protected battleship without extensive air cover was no longer dangerous, it had become borderline suicidal - and these facts spelled the end for the very idea of the battleship as a viable weapon, as all of them became overnight sitting ducks in front of blazingly fast guided bombs.

Thank you sir for telling this important story! Salute to those braves who fought to preserve freedom.

I'd love to see more about Warspite

It's crazy the amount of damage that Warspite took during the Second World War. It shows how well she was designed and constructed. Her total loss was extremely sad.

@invadegreece9281

21 күн бұрын

Warspite had also been a mild cripple since 1916….. dubious quality at best.

Thank you for the amazing history content. Regarding additional Grand Old Lady information, yes, please!

Thanks for the really cool video. I would like to see more on Warspite.

My uncle served aboard Warspite as a Royal Marine for the duration of the war. Been trying to get crews lists but so far no joy. Lot of stories to be told about her.

@ImportantHistory

12 күн бұрын

Two places I might try, one, the imperial war museum, you might send them an email or a call, they might be able to help. Two, the book in the description about Warspite, plenty of stories and the like in there. Hope that helps, have a great day :)

@lexus5413

12 күн бұрын

@@ImportantHistory I have already tried the IWM - no joy but I will look into the book - Thanks

she was hit by the Fritz X one of the first guided bombs. Made to attack armored ships. No wonder the damage done was so bad. The boiler room was sealed off and she lost a main battery turret as well. Even half crippled she kept on fighting for the rest of the war

Warspite was my favorite battleship from Britain.Please do more

There's a lot of love for Grand old lady. So any other videos on her would be interesting too watch.

Great video. 😊

Vidéos intéressantes, toujours très documentées avec des supports photographiques exceptionnels. Un retour dans l’histoire navale militaire chaotique de la deuxième guerre mondiale et un rappel émouvant du courage et du sacrifice de ces marins. Fritz "X".. une munition excessivement destructrice (cf. RN Roma) que la domination aérienne des alliés pendant la fin du conflit en aura considérablement limité les effets

Before WW2, Warspite was serving in the Mediterranean fleet. The Royal Navy had a firing range in the Mediterranean where ships could fire their guns for training etc. A passenger ship accidentally entered this zone and Warspite firing a full 15 inch broadside which apparently was close to hitting this ship.

Thanks!

@ImportantHistory

20 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Please do more videos on HMS Warspite!

More content on Warspite would be great.

The ship that repeatedly refused to die! Until finally sold for scrap, yet even then refused to go quietly to the breakers. So broke her tow, grounded, wouldn't be refloated in several salvage attempts and, having in essence insisted on a sea-death could be only incompletely disassembled, with much still left lying right off the beach!

Best battleship name of all time.

My favorite British battleship and battleship of any nation, with the Yamato and Mushashi coming as a very closely paired second and third but still quite a ways off Waspite. From sixth grade to college year one, I built four models of this ship, the final one being a 1/350 scale example. I agree with other commentators that if any ship should have been saved and made into a museum ship, it should have been Warspite. I don't mean any disrespect, but the Belfast hardly compares to Warspite's battle honors.

Great Vid. Super informative in a brief time. No problem 👍👍

Why was this relatively small bomb so effective? Its weight is close to just one Yamato shell

Warspite has a bad history of being crippled and stuck in circles. She was a tough old lady 🫡

By rights she should have sunk, but then this is Warspite, the toughest battleship of w.w.2

@MoosicDude

20 күн бұрын

And of WW1. She took absolute pounding at Jutland and just kept on kicking.

ja ik zou graag de geschiedenis van Warspite willen zien, Het is een stukje geschiedenis van een schip wat de vrijheid van Europa beschermd heeft

For those of you who know your mythology, Warspite was escorted through the Strait of Messina by Scylla.

Off Salerno, the USS Savannah was also seriously damaged by an FX bomb. And HMS Uganda by an FS glider bomb.

Having a highly proficient crew made the difference.

That's a LOT of luck, with no follow up attacks at all.

I don't mind a shorter video, it's better than repeating yourself 'to make time' as other channels have done.

Unlike USN ship damage photographs there is a severe lack of similar RN damaged vessels, but surely all serious damage must have been recorded. If it was, then there must be a trove of photographs filled away; if not at the Admiralty, then at the docks where the repairs were completed (sometimes in the US)?

What up Y'alls!

Warspite and Enterprise, two of the greatest Allied ships that ever was. Yet both were scrapped without any consideration for their amazing history. Shameful.

Sketch at 5:17 incorrectly shows the Hs 293 A-1 Missile not a Fritz X

@ImportantHistory

21 күн бұрын

Thanks for the correction. As I put at the end of the video, it was very difficult to find photographs or even illustrations. I thought that one would be fun to put in even if not FX-1400, should've put text over that part to explain!