The Bismarck scored a hit that detonated one of the Hood’s magazines. There, I just saved you 47 minutes.

@joehamlet4307

3 жыл бұрын

HA! That's what I was thinking. But my version is just two words - lucky hit.

@chrishill5919

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.. is not easy to just get into.

@howdee2173

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler lol

@granddukeofmecklenburg

3 жыл бұрын

The Prince of Wales being a turret jamming meme didnt help...hood wasn't that outclassed, if Prince of Wales wasn't covered in problems they shouldve had no issues against Bismarck and a cruiser(eugen)

@agwhitaker

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe both magazines - no sign of the forward or aft turret groups at the wreck site.

My dad was forward range finder on heavy cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen main guns. I am incredibly proud about him. He passed away in May in 2005. I would like to honor both nations sailors, who gave their lives to serve their nation. Their bravery and sacrifice is unforgotten. They may all RIP.

@darkknight1340

2 жыл бұрын

The Prinz Eugen was a beautiful ship,it must have been a real privilege to have served on HIM.

@SnipR9

2 жыл бұрын

How old are you if you dont mind me asking

@axelamps1279

2 жыл бұрын

I can appreciate the superb German engineering that existed to create that ship, even as a Brit. The Bismarck was awesome. I would like to see what we (Britain and Germany) could have created working together back then.

@shaulklein7581

2 жыл бұрын

In jn in

@manuelakani8962

2 жыл бұрын

A

Just as the Hood was destroyed with 1 lucky shot, so was the Bismarck with 1 lucky torpedo that damaged the steering rudder so badly that it could not be repaired at sea. Sad story for two great ships and her crews!

@simonassvedarauskas2813

3 ай бұрын

Battleships always end up with a sad story, - destroy another ship or be destroyed yourself

@comancheviperrrr

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the Bismarck did get a shot. And hit whatever they hit that brought the hood down. But let’s just be completely honest here and take emotion out. The hood was overmatched against Bismarck. And no scenario was the hood when I survive the encounter. Now the irony and the beauty of the irony is that the Bismarck is finally brought down my old by plane, dropping a single torpedo that hits its rudder. And it can’t go anywhere. So it becomes the setting duck.that is irony at its best and poetic justice. The most modern worship in the world took down the pride of the British fleet. And then an obsolete by plane brought down the most modern worship in the world. There is symmetry to that.

@daffyduk77

Ай бұрын

British battleships of Hood's era were vulnerable to "lucky shots" sadly

@KC-nn5wc

Ай бұрын

You know nothing the Bismarck was not destroyed by a torpedo shot when they investigate the Bismarck they saw that all the torpedoes bounced off toll

@KC-nn5wc

Ай бұрын

​@@comancheviperrrrbounced off it's all it was never penetrated the rudder got damaged you know nothing the truth is they sunk itself the British couldn't sink it they weren't strong enough

My Grandfather was Chief Petty Officer on the Hood during it's world tour. My Grandmother said the only time she saw her husband cry was when he heard of the loss of the Hood.

@bobcook

3 жыл бұрын

Chris. I may have known your grandfather. Did he immigrate to Canada? He discussed the sinking in great depth.

@barryjoyce9417

2 жыл бұрын

My father's best friend was with him at the battle of river plate he left the ajax and asked my father to join him on the hood Dad said he would rather stay with the ajax and his friend was killed when the shell hit the cordite room

Easy: Hood: "Detonation" Bismarck: "Devastating Strike"

@PSG1JOHN1

3 жыл бұрын

Someone forgot Juliet Charlie Combat Signals flags...

@RedshawnJones

3 жыл бұрын

@@PSG1JOHN1 xD

@Kullgan

3 жыл бұрын

They also said that broadside was the best tactic...when in WOWS it is not 🙂

@aperioculus1988

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kullgan A broadside probably was in the days of old, where ships used cannons that fired projectiles in straight lines. But in the age of the battleship turret, which fires a shell in an arc, it became redundant as far as I'm concerned. When you think about it, the best battleships of WWII were the Nelson Class of the Royal Navy and the Richilieu Class of the French. These had all their main guns pointing forward which meant that they could keep a narrow profile to enemy ships, but also have all their guns and so their firepower brought to bare without flashing their broadside.

@windborne8795

3 жыл бұрын

@@aperioculus1988 The problem with that is that a shell has the entire length of the hull to land so, vertical dispersion is less important, while horizontal dispersion becomes everything... Also, cannons had greater arcs. Modern rifles have flatter arcs than cannons of old...

Give a little credit to the German gunnery.

@ianfraser1135

5 жыл бұрын

a schuelke at that range and at that speed in those conditions and to strike Hood at precisely the right spot to penetrate the 15in magazine that statement is typically arrogant German nonsense. All rational analysis says that Hood was very unlucky that day. She may well have been beaten in the end but to explode like that was due to an extremely lucky shot by the Nazi battleship

@melvinbennett444

5 жыл бұрын

Oh they can't do that. It took us 40 years to find out about all the German tank aces like Michael Wittman.

@1993Crag

5 жыл бұрын

@@melvinbennett444 Wasn't he the guy that charged into known British tank positions and got himself killed and his entire Tiger Company wiped out by 6 Shermans?

@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs

5 жыл бұрын

Ian Fraser Not an unlucky hit. It was a bad old fashioned magazine design. It’s tolerable for a battleship to be penetrated and for it to loose some capacity (such as an partial engine room knockout or to loose a director or even bridge ) but it is a poor design for it to be completely disabled or for it explode due to a single hit and kill 99.8% of its crew without a chance to survive and fight. All the German WW2 battleships were sunk but not one magazine explosion, even after a tall boy hit on the moored Tirpitz. They were all vastly outnumbered. It typically took a 24 hours with multiple battleships firing guns, cruisers firing guns and torpedoes and destroyers firing torpedoes. Bismarck even had to be scuttled. This probably couldn’t have happened to the KGV class such as Prince of Wales due to its “all or nothing” armour concept but it happened to 3 RN ships at Jutland and to the Hood. The Bismarck’s gunnery tables, well published on the Internet, state that the guns could get repeatable accuracy of within 59 meters at the 18500m they started firing and better when at the 15000m Hood was hit. If you fire a 8 round salvo the chances of getting 1 round to within 15 meters are very high. The Bismarck fired 5 salvos as 10 semi salvos. (Anton Caesar, then Bertha Dora). Initial aiming was via the stereoscopic range finders and the Bismarck’s K38 computers. As shell splash was spotted and measured through special optical instruments it was used to correct the aim as this took into account atmospheric conditions. Salvo 1 was a warm up for the guns, Salvo 2 and 3 were ranging shots, salvo 4 a straddle and salvo 5 was the deadly shot. The German sailors cheered and then quickly became solemn as they realised what had happened to the British men. Thus 40 rounds were fired to score the hit. It went exactly as per the German drill. The 6th salvo was in the air and struck in the turbulent waters where Hood had sunk. Once Bismarck was straddling at salvo 4 a hit was inevitable in the next salvo or two. British observers noted that Bismarck was spot on with range on salvo 1.

@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs

5 жыл бұрын

Crag_r You’re probably mocking Michael Wittmann. Michael was sleep deprived and fatigued after 2 weeks of unrelenting combat. He volunteered to take the dangerous duty from a younger much less experienced commander. Calling them “known positions” is misleading. The Germans didn’t have the crucial reconnaissance units to find reasonably exact positions. They only knew there were Allied tanks about. The Tiger I was hit in the side by a Sherman Firefly.

Love it when a documentary tells me they have proven something, without proving it to me. Quality work.

@Hope4Today9

3 жыл бұрын

Even before a half-hearted attempt to investigate the wreck of the HMS Hood the crew of Octopus achieved their first objective for Paul Alan; the exact location of where it's at. Not to worry Mr. Alan will do it right "himself" next time...

@charlesatkinson813

3 жыл бұрын

I agree @ricardo, why indeed put out something that poses more questions, than answered. Their own words at the beginning of this video.

@garthfairfield8043

3 жыл бұрын

What needs to be proved? The magazine exploded which sometimes happens when you shell each other with naval guns. Enjoyed the footage nonetheless

@fr1sket363

3 жыл бұрын

i think to say the magazine blowing up was a potential cause is correct, based on the evidence they collected. However this could still have been a secondary explosion caused by something else. Also, to say it was caused by a "lucky" shell penetrating the deck armor, i see no proof here, only a theory. I've seen other theories saying there is no way a plunging shot could have caused this due to the distance and angles between the respective ships. Ultimately i think you are right, she blew up in a battle at sea, ships tended to do that in WW2.

@yuwong332

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hope4Today9 ;'

The Bismarck and it’s crew will be remembered as well as the HMS Hood

@robertbruce7497

Жыл бұрын

... the ways of peace they know not - in 1492 columbus sails the ocean blue - 4 dozen or so european city-states and wanna-be-empires - after 400 years of industrial revolution and searching the world for the needed resources - after two world wars - the g20 nations now have a negative birth rate - the cancel-culture future-history will probably remember their own behavioral-sciences struggles and disasters - new boss same as the old boss - the rise and fall of empires - in the year 2525, if anything still survives - who knows what next we may find - maybe a tech-caused instant ice-age - everyone building their own ice hotel - too busy surviving to remember the iron-age-battle-wagons,... who knows,...

Putting a WW1 Battlecruiser up against a WW2 Battleship was never going to be clever

@keptinkaos6384

4 жыл бұрын

and they were probably lucky not to lose the POW too if the Germans had have gone after her she would be on the bottom too.

@cncmne7404

4 жыл бұрын

fox 6 Not really . KGV were a new class of battleships they were a tougher nut to crack than the Hood.

@keptinkaos6384

4 жыл бұрын

@@cncmne7404 turrets had malfunctioned the POW had to flee she wasnt ready for a fight

@cncmne7404

4 жыл бұрын

fox 6 Yes she wasn't ready I acknowledge that but I was talking about the design of the ship not the status . By design it was a good ship.

@Jimmydb

4 жыл бұрын

Hood wasn't alone! there were another battleship! A battleship and heavy cruiser vs a battlecruiser and battleship.... 8-380 + 8-203 vs 8-381 + 10-356...

the hood was a battlecruiser from 1918. the bismarck was a battleship from 1939. mystery solved...

@SIXITHS

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe they should have lent you the research yacht...

@SIXITHS

5 жыл бұрын

@Nobody Knows No, the battleship and battlecruiser are two distinct designs, with the battlecruiser being succeeded by the fast battleship design in the late 1930's. HMS Rodney - battleship. HMS Hood - battlecruiser.

@voltagedrop5899

5 жыл бұрын

@Nobody Knows "The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers designed near the end of World War I. Their design began as an improved version of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, but it was recast as a battlecruiser after Admiral John Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet, pointed out that there was no real need for more battleships, but that a number of German battlecruisers had been laid down that were superior to the bulk of the Grand Fleet's battlecruisers and the design was revised to counter these. The class was to have consisted of HMS Hood, Anson, Howe, and Rodney - all names of famous admirals - but the latter three ships were suspended as the material and labour required to complete them was needed for higher-priority merchantmen and escort vessels. Their designs were updated to incorporate the lessons from the Battle of Jutland, but the Admiralty eventually decided that it was better to begin again with a clean-slate design so they were cancelled in 1919. No more battlecruisers would be built due to the arms limitations agreements of the interbellum. Hood, however, was sufficiently advanced in construction that she was completed in 1920 and immediately became flagship of the Battlecruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet. She served as the flagship of the Special Service Squadron during its round-the-world cruise in 1923-24. Hood was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1936 and spent much of the next few years on Non-Intervention Patrols during the Spanish Civil War, returning to the United Kingdom before the beginning of World War II and the Battlecruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral-class_battlecruiser

@hp2084

5 жыл бұрын

@Nobody Knows Battle cruiser- armed like battleship but lightly armored. Battleship - heavily armed heavily armored,

@yahatinda

5 жыл бұрын

king George Five....... Rodney,also a battleship@Nobody Knows

I knew a fellow who served aboard the Dorsetshire. He told me they got so close to the Bismark before she went down that he could hear the public address system giving orders to abandon ship. He actually recited the German phrases for me as he heard them broadcast that day. Later he served aboard the Hermes, the world's first purpose built aircraft carrier, and was aboard her when she was sunk by a Japanese air raid in the Indian Ocean. He tread water for six hours and could feel her implosions in his chest as she sank far below him. Later, he was part of the invasion force on D-Day, serving aboard a supply ship. He told me he had taken photos even though it was prohibited and asked if I would like to see them. I, of course, jumped at the chance to see these photos that had lain in a desk for nearly seventy years. He allowed me to digitally scan them and then return them. I should make a short KZread video on them.

@thanatosstorm

2 жыл бұрын

Have you done so of late? I'd be interested to see them and share them

@elainemoreland3908

2 жыл бұрын

Please do. Even though I am female, I have always been interested in WW11 ships. Thank you in advance.

@jaybee9269

Жыл бұрын

I’d like to see those!

@Maldoror200

11 ай бұрын

@Docjonel ..Did you make your "youtube video", from your photo-scan's..??

@Maldoror200

11 ай бұрын

@elainemoreland3908 ..Hey Babydoll, why"even if You are a female"..?? Personally, I LOVE Females..!!..& more power to ya..!!

My Grandad Edward "Eddie" Plimbley, was on board HMS Hood, when it went down.

@williambradley9419

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Janine. If you go the the HMS Hood association website, there they have memorial pages for every known crewmember who served aboard HMS Hood, and amongst them is one for P/LX 20803 Leading Steward Edward Charles Plimbley Aged 31 from Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, together with his photograph and long list of ships and establishemnts he served on. A memorial service was held at St James Garlickhythe church in London yesterday which can be viewed here on youtube. The service and sacrifice of your grandfather and his crewmates has not been forgotten. Sincere respects to their memory.

@janineplimbley5101

2 жыл бұрын

@@williambradley9419 Yes I have seen it. My son was watching this video earlier, and had his photograph up on his laptop.

@williambradley9419

2 жыл бұрын

@@janineplimbley5101 Well done for keeping your grandfather's memory alive and relevant with your son, as he grows he'll be proud of his G Grandad and the part he played in our national history.

@oliivagroft5975

2 жыл бұрын

did he and the rest of team, went down the Hood as well?

@mbae_0912

2 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather Ludwig was on board the Bismarck for some time. Luckily he wasn't there when it went down. It must be horrible to be at war in the icecold sea.

The KMS Bismarck's strike on the HMS Hood was the golden BB. Combination of lucky gunnery, German Long Range Cannon works, and the inherent weaknesses of Heavy Captial Ship Design. War knows no nation. May both their crews rest in peace.

@igotmyeyesonu3361

5 жыл бұрын

And they call it mighty Hood. What is mighty with Hopd anyways. It was almost reduce to pulp in 3 minutes. That is mighty?

@potusdumbledore3481

4 жыл бұрын

Well, German crews might have been saved. English vengeance. English soldiers were allowed to escape Dunkirk, while they could have been slaughtered on the beach. Churchill responded by bombing german civilians.

@ginskimpivot753

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Siener No WW2 battleship had wooden decks, idiot.

@ursodermatt8809

4 жыл бұрын

the german guns also were radar guided.

@ursodermatt8809

4 жыл бұрын

@Ben Siener i said the guns were radar guided, not the shells. just think of a laser pointer. the dot indicates where the bullet is most likely going to hit. the laser does not "guide" the actual bullet. most big guns using radar now. at least the big ones like on battle ships.

I went to school with a lad whos grandfather on his mothers side was one of the 3 who survived. His account was a gripping tale of deafening sound and cold, cold, cold. What a terrible loss of life!

The Hood came to Wellington NZ around 1923 on its world tour. There is a photo of it in our harbour with St. Gerard's Monastery in the background. Awesome history.

Sort of ironic that the Octopus was also built in Germany.

RIP to the men of the Hood and the Bismarck

My Grandfather was on HMS Rodney that was launched in 1925 that was the battleship that really did sink the Bismarck. The other ships including King George V stood back while the HMS Rodney went in on what was effectively a suicide charge. Given its age, the HMS Rodney was expendable but quite formidable. Unusually, all its its main guns facing forward and had radar fire control as well as the heaviest main 16 inch guns in the Royal Navy. My Grandfather said the two massive ships were eventually only a mile part with HMS Rodney pouring fire from all its main guns and half its secondary guns (my Grandfather controlled one of those turrets). They eventually fired torpedos at Bismark from HMS Rodney which is the only instance of a battleship firing torpedos in WWII. HMS Rodney crew didn't get the credit for avenging The Hood. After limping back to the UK heavily damaged they were sent to Boston only 3 days later still heavily damaged with the crew living in terrible conditions. There was almost a mutiny. Little known fact was that the Elgin Marbles were actually in HMS Rodney's hold during the battle and were being taken to Boston for safe keeping.

@brianthesnail3815

3 жыл бұрын

Not damaged by Bismarck but actually by her own guns firing essentially flat shots. This from Wiki corresponds to what my grandfather told me. He was in command of one of the six inch turrets. "Rodney fired 378 sixteen-inch shells and 706 six-inch shells during the battle ... Ironically, Rodney's own main guns firing at low elevation had damaged her more extensively than had Bismarck. Deck plates around the main-gun turrets had been depressed by the effects of the guns' muzzle blast, and some of the structural members supporting them had cracked or buckled. Piping, urinals and water mains had broken, while the shock of firing had loosened rivets and bolts in the hull plating, flooding various compartments."

@michaelpielorz9283

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to say bot 1000 shells fired and 5 torpedoes couldnt sink her.thats why Bismarck is hated by a lot of"yesterdays" brits.

@brianthesnail3815

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpielorz9283 My grandfather certainly had no hatred. The sailors on both of these massive capital ships knew that only one would leave the battle still afloat. If Bismarck had surrendered earlier I am sure Rodney and others would have saved more German sailors. Bismarck sank many thousands of tonnes of UK merchant ships and had to be stopped. That was all.

@michaelpielorz9283

Жыл бұрын

@@brianthesnail3815 since Falkland it was tradition in zhe RN to dhell german sailors in the sea that indicates the result of 30 yeas strict anti german propaganda

@jamesstokes3964

11 ай бұрын

The last two torpedo spreads fired were from the cruiser Dorsetshire which got the credit for actually sinking the Bismarck.

I remember reading that Jon Pertwee aka "Doctor Who" once served on HMS Hood, as a young rating from early 1940 to early 41...An excellent documentary, respectfully handled, great to see a very wealthy man funding such a worthwhile endeavor.

@JevansUK

3 жыл бұрын

One of the last men off before she sailed, part of a group chosen for officer training

When the documentary about the sinking of the hood is 10x times the length of the battle that sunk her

@TheMrTommo

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Wehraboos don't get as much credit as Teaboos

@ike3094

3 жыл бұрын

Smart fellow! I applaud you for your intelligent summation of the obvious! But the argument is over "why"?

@ike3094

3 жыл бұрын

Superior German gunnery is the obvious "reason". But "why" was the German gunnery "superior"? A top notch German engineer who had a very high position during WW2, confided in me nearly 50 years ago that the "secret" was that the BISMARCK had a very advanced RANGEFINDER. Therefore, the REAL reason the HOOD was blown to bits will be found on the BISMARCK.

@johnhodge1263

3 жыл бұрын

@@ike3094 plus the weak top armour of the ancient Hood compared to the Bismark.

@ike3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnhodge1263 First of all, there is a silly inclination to make unfair excuses for the HOOD's failure to successfully engage the BISMARCK. To your assumption that the HOOD was "ancient". She was NOT! She was only twenty something years older than the BISMARCK. Navel design made no great strides in that short time period. There are warships in current service that are near one hundred years old. The effective age of their equipment is a much better gage of effective service capability and the HOOD was judged to be fit for service. Nor was the HOOD's armor "weak"! No warship then or today has armor capable of withstanding the impact of battleship grade main guns. High speed was judged to be more important that massive armor-- AND IT IS! The real reason the HOOD went down was because the BISMARCK's guns scored hit after hit at 15 plus nautical miles!

I consider it a bit rude that even were only there for the wreck of the hood they did not include the men aboard the Bismarck into memorial held at the end. Sure, they were enemies at war back then. But I think any killed sailor deserves to be remembered, no matter for which side he fought for and nationality the sailors had.

@fnglert

5 жыл бұрын

More sailors died onboard Bismarck than Hood.

@enyaliosares4301

5 жыл бұрын

The Bismarck sank in a totally different spot for a start.

@BAYSINRACING

5 жыл бұрын

@@fnglert No, the hood only had 3 survivors

@fnglert

5 жыл бұрын

@@BAYSINRACING HMS Hood: 1415 died, 3 survived. Bismarck: Out of ~2200 crew, 115 survived. More people died onboard Bismarck than Hood. Learn your history.

@NAFmunchausen

4 жыл бұрын

Would you want the name of your murderer (may it never happen) sharing your gravestone? Each nation is responsible for the commemoration of their own war dead.

I wish the Hood, Bismark, and Yamato all survived and all 3 battleships were docked together today for public viewing.

@jonathanjones3623

Жыл бұрын

Only two of those are battleships Hood was a battle cruiser with Battleship characteristics

rest in peace great fighting men of the hood and Bismarck.. rip.

I served in the Royal Navy - as a nozza HMS Ganges and later on a Frigate I served with a mate called Andy Flood. Andy's father was one of the 3 men who lived to tell the tale on that fateful day.

@eviesgrandma7258

3 жыл бұрын

Dundas, Tilburn & Briggs were the surnames of the 3 survivors from Hood, so unless your mates dad had a name change he was spinning a dud 'dit'.

@benwilson6145

3 жыл бұрын

@@eviesgrandma7258 or he never married the mother?

@garycarter01

3 жыл бұрын

@@eviesgrandma7258 Correct. And they were picked up by a ship that went on to become a legendary little vessel that was even mentioned in dispatches; a great honour. That ship was HMS ELECTRA. Look up the amazing, but ultimately tragic story of that ship.

Madness, this was all real. Real people with family and loved ones. May they all rest in peace, no matter which side they fought on.

@jean6872

3 жыл бұрын

Sick minds start wars.

My dad was meant to go on the hood with his best friend. He scalded his foot the day before, so couldn't go on- his best friend did, and died when she was sunk. Don't think he ever got over that.

@patrickomaracou7268

Жыл бұрын

My Dad was a Royal Marine aboard the Hood and was on transferred to Eastney Barracks Portsmouth,how lucky can one man be.

@StimParavane

Жыл бұрын

That is karma. Extraordinary.

@StimParavane

Жыл бұрын

@@ianpadraig5263 No such thing as luck my friend.

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!

Wonderful documantry.... Loved watching it..... A salute to the martyred soldiers.... May their souls rest in peace...... (Lumut Malaysia)

I'll save u 46 minutes and 39 seconds: Hood forgot to equip the Juliet Charlie flag.

@indiexanna

4 жыл бұрын

Fun and engaging...

@AniruddhJoshi

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! No magazine detonation.

@Persian-Immortal

4 жыл бұрын

That is why I did not buy the Hood.

@drag0san1

4 жыл бұрын

I know its just a game but.. This shows why you don't broadside in BBs

@TheCourierGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Hatake Kakashi it’s a signal flag in a game that completely negates the magazine from detonating (World of Warships)

The Bismarcks gunners were not only some of the best but also the range finder was just incredible

@idiedoof4339

3 жыл бұрын

USS Iowa: Am I a joke to u???

@stevelenox152

3 жыл бұрын

@@idiedoof4339 nope but if the Grosser Kurfurst had existed you would have been lol

@dovetonsturdee7033

3 жыл бұрын

@@idiedoof4339 You didn't exist in May, 1941.

@idiedoof4339

3 жыл бұрын

@@dovetonsturdee7033 But do I exist in 2020 (¬‿¬)

@NormAppleton

3 жыл бұрын

How many days did the Bismarck survive?

Drachinifel has a great video on this. It didn't occur the way it is generally portrayed. The shell that sunk Hood was one that fell short, and punctured the hull from below.

@Luke_Sandy_High_Ground

Жыл бұрын

Wehraboos have fewer braincells than the number of men who have walked on the moon.

@grahamcook9289

10 ай бұрын

If it breached the hull, then it didn't fall short. It was literally on target.

@SewingandSnakes

5 ай бұрын

@@grahamcook9289 The nerd in me can't let this go. A shell or torpedo can fall short and then have the shockwave/explosion from the shell breach the hull. Falling short simply means not puncturing the hull and detonating inside. For more information look into the US Navy Mk. 14 torpedos, which are a prime example of an ordinance which would fail in multiple terrible ways, sometimes causing damage to the target by pure accident.

Thanks for uploading! Such documentaries are humbling especially when people sacrifice everything to shape a better future, I Salute Them - RIP.

That story told by Mr. Briggs about his Captain’a composure, from calm and confidence 17:00 - to - 17:20 is in accordance to the highest values of not only the Royal Navy but military service generally. I stand and salute. !

@stephenobrien5909

Жыл бұрын

I met him in Doncaster RNA club.

@stevenwolfe7101

Жыл бұрын

I think that comradeships has generally been true of sailors, and perhaps airmen as well. But with the armies of the world, men who fought hand to hand, I think there has been little or no comradeship. In World War One, the the RAF included a well know flier (was his name Douglas Baden or similar) who was a double amputee but who flew with crutches for his legs. He was shot down. Later, an arrangement was made for his crutches to be dropped on a German airbase and delivered to him. The Germans agreed to not shoot down the plane which made the delivery by dropping the crutches from a parachute and the Germans then delivered them to the British flier. Or was this in World War II?

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!

@WorshipinIdols

10 ай бұрын

@@jordanfan5896 what a dumb joke.

They didn't need proof that Hood had started the turn, Ted Briggs repeatedly stated his whole life that Holland gave the order and Briggs was right there maybe 6 feet behind him, you couldn't possibly ask for a better witness. In my mind there was never any doubt. Admiral Holland gave the correct order at the correct time and it didn't matter one little bit. RIP 1418 hero's.

@evanroberts2771

3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to find this comment.

@justthink5854

3 жыл бұрын

one second diff and the shot would have been off. my question is when did the Hood start firing? it's range vs the Bismark? did the Brit's have intel on the Bismark's guns range?

@agwhitaker

3 жыл бұрын

@@justthink5854 War is like that - a few seconds difference ether way in timing and that Swordfish torpedo would have missed the Bismarck's rudder and the ship would have made it safely to a French base.

@MihaiVH

3 жыл бұрын

@@agwhitaker Lutjens should've kept his mouth ....brits didn't know that Bismarck is losing fuel ...

@agwhitaker

3 жыл бұрын

@@MihaiVH Again, war is like that - often the winner is the one who makes fewer mistakes. Bismarck should have maintained radio silence - the British had lost contact . But - the Germans thought they were still being tracked, they were still detecting British radar signals. Except - the radar signal was not strong enough to reflect back to the British ships, so they actually had -no- idea. So Lutjens made a long radio signal to Berlin. Of course, the British picked up the signal and quickly plotted the Bismarck's latest position. - Except the radio signal calculations were done on the flagship HMS King George V, and they were done incorrectly. To the British, it seemed like the Bismarck was heading north - up and over England and back home along the coast of Norway. So all the Royal Navy started roaring north to catch the Bismarck. But the Bismarck was actually headed east to France. Someone in the R.N. admiralty back in Britain figured out the mistake hours later. The Swordfish torpedo attack from HMS Arc Royal was the last, last, (last) chance to slow down the Bismarck. I think there was a signals officer on the King George V who was nearly thrown overboard.

Great documentary. Entertaining and informational. Keep up the great work! :) sir

@AEM-le7uy

2 жыл бұрын

Sham of a documentary.

My grandad was a chief petty officer on the hood during the Second World War. He was a gunner. He was on leave when she sank. One of those out of focus faces would of been him on deck as they left port in the video. Im showing this to my mum, he died years ago and she will love to watch this.

Imagine buying a yacht like this and naming it “Octopus”

@PatTheRiot

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine it's your 76th ship

@TheBrennanSchafer

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being cool enough to lend it out to researchers to do trips like this.

@PornopietistgeilimBe

3 жыл бұрын

Quite ironically the "Octopus" was build by Lürssen, a German company that specializes in Boats and ships for special purposes such as Navy or Giga-Yachts

@RaoulThomas007

3 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful yacht to assist in historical discoveries. What a treat for everyone on board! Paul Allen had incredible vision!

RIP!! To sailors on both sides!!

One of my ancestors died on the HMS Hood, may he and his brothers in arms rest in peace forever!

Your reputation precedes you, Admiral. On behalf of an American veteran, I would like to thank you for your service.

HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS!

@moritamikamikara3879

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck that's quick

@sudombd1230

5 жыл бұрын

THE TERROR OF THE SEAS!

@bigmcdick4916

5 жыл бұрын

MBD Main Battle Dank THE BISMARCK AND THE KRIEGSMARINE!

@grayfullbuster6777

5 жыл бұрын

HELL YEA SABATON

@That1Boi59

5 жыл бұрын

Tim Arendt lol

A remarkable and compelling documentary. It's difficult to grasp the shear distruction and loss of life suffered by both sides in a period of just Three (3) days. A pray for the lost souls and their families.

My great uncles served and died aged around 19 on HMS HOOD. One of them being Sidney John Castle. Im trying to establish my other great uncles name with my Grandmother (their much younger sister) due to there being 17 children in total and being split up living in orphanages etc. My grandmother has a photo of both men in their uniform while my grandmother is sitting on their mothers lap as a very young child.

@user-wp6nf8km5i

2 ай бұрын

My great great grandad was a stoker on the hood he died when she sank

Bismarck in motion king of the ocean :)

@DyslexicSolMusic

3 жыл бұрын

He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas. To lead the war machine... To rule the waves and leaf the kreigsmarine.

@DrSherk-sk9vi

3 жыл бұрын

From the mist, a ship, a shape is taking form And the drifts are about to drift into a storm Sign of Power, Show of Force Raise the anchor and the ship plothing its course

@DyslexicSolMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrSherk-sk9vi pride of a nation, a beast made of steel

@DrSherk-sk9vi

3 жыл бұрын

@@DyslexicSolMusic Bismarck in motion, King of the ocean

@olihsv4047

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrSherk-sk9vi He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine

It's no mystery. A battlecruiser is not designed to take a hit from a battleship gun. It lacks the armor for that. It is like a boxer with a glass jaw. British battle cruisers blew up the same way at Jutland in 1916. It is amazing that the British didn't learn from that. Battle cruisers were designed to catch and destroy cruisers and outrun battleships. Their speed was meant to be their armor.

@aperioculus1988

3 жыл бұрын

Same with the Deutschland Class (Deutschland, Admiral Sheer & Graf Spee). Even though they were described as "pocket battleships" they were never intended to engage anything larger then a cruiser. If they were presented with a larger ship, they were to simply outrun it.

@thomashenaughan8396

3 жыл бұрын

The British battlecruisers blew up because they not storeing cordite correctly and leaving blast doors open as the royal navy favourd rate of fire over accuracy

@Jabber-ig3iw

3 жыл бұрын

castlerock58 trouble is it comes down to what is available in the right part of the sea when you need it. The Hood was what was available. An old ship, still the pride of the fleet, but effectively a WW1 cruiser up against a brand new all singing all dancing battleship.

@skdKitsune

3 жыл бұрын

Depends. German battlecruisers were designed to take hits from battleships and did so during the battle of jutland no problem.

@bwills044

3 жыл бұрын

That is correct Jutland saw more British sailors die and more British ships get sunk than what the German Navy suffered. About 6000 widows were made that day.

I love how there was absolutely no mystery going into this expedition about how the ship sank but the documentary makes it seem like it was more then a rich guy who wanted to use his underwater toys and fetch a bell

@ethanspaziani5269

3 жыл бұрын

it was

@spydude38

3 жыл бұрын

According to the official results of two inquiries by the British Admiralty there was no conclusive evidence as to what caused HMS HOOD to sink so quickly. So there indeed was a mystery still. That rich guy has been finding historic wrecks for a while now, so thanks to him that he decided to spend some of his money to help out history.

@henrymoon3275

3 жыл бұрын

@@spydude38 I'm sure he got paid very well and probably a ton in tax breaks also.

@danielhughes5932

3 жыл бұрын

This is at 69 likes otherwise I'd 👍

@aldenunion

2 жыл бұрын

The Bell is a precious memento for the families of those lost sailors.

Thank you for this dokument 👍I'v always been interested in war documents. This special dokument about those great ships was a typical well - done brittish film👍 I want to see More of them.

I got choked up when they started finding shoes on the sea bed.

The Bismarck was much more modern than the Hood. The Hood was a symbol surrounded by an air of false invincibility. The Bismarck was a better ship, and their shots were on target, not much you can do about that.

@TheNinjaDC

3 жыл бұрын

@Dant3 The Bismark was a high velocity 15 inch gun, compared to the Hood's standard velocity 15. This meant the hood could pierce more armor.

@blaze1148

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNinjaDC The Bismark*

@fac5158

3 жыл бұрын

Should have sent the Warspite to Bismarck, a true naval legend, proven in many battles and just would not go quietly. To have Operation Rhinebung on her long list of battle honours such as Jutland, Matapan, Narvik, meditterraenean, Atlantic and North sea would have been something. But very true statement, Hood was bravado Bismarck was all business.....All naval legends all gallant sailors RIP

@aldenunion

3 жыл бұрын

More Modern ship,cannot say better. The crew of the Hood never had the chance to prove combat readiness,and that is sad. Was sailor's 16 years old aboard...RIP

@scabbycatcat4202

3 жыл бұрын

Tristan Zipp i believe your comment quite true. Everything about Bismark was the biggest and best that German Industry could produce. In contrast EVERYTHING about Prince Of Wales had to be a compromise in order to stick to treaty limits. Having said that POW scored the first hit of the whole conflict and out of 55 shells fired managed to obtain 3 hits. A success rate of more than 5% whereas either side would normally be lucky to achieve no more than 3 % . Considering her mechanical teething troubles this was very creditable and caused enough damage for the Bismark to abandon her original mission of commerce raiding.

To lead the war machine ... The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine!

@maethelsoriano3957

5 жыл бұрын

The only problem to some of the ships like the Bismarck and Scharnhorst class is that they use 3 Propellers instead of the usual 4. This lead to problems in their keel due to vibrations particularly in high speed. Also, their rudders are exposed and unarmored making it vulnerable but they didn't consider it because they think a likely hit on steering gears and the rudders are remote. It was also shown during the training run of Bismarck in Baltic, is that incase of a rudder failure, they will use the revolutions of the Propellers which is predictably, ineffective. So while they were powerful, they were outnumbered and let's just face it, Battleships are slowly becoming obsolete and they are only involved in a few major sea battles in World War 2 particularly with the emergence of Aircraft Carrier and Airpower. Bismarck and the Ships are indeed powerful, but the Kriegsmarine can never win in a battle of attrition with the allies and the only way to do it is to strike convoys hard and fast with the u boats.

@clauslauman8405

5 жыл бұрын

@@maethelsoriano3957 I guess you missed the point here. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYqLp8RmcdeeqcY.html Just a metalhead comment. No content.

@opalishmoth8591

4 жыл бұрын

Two thousand men, And fifty thousand tons of steel Set the course for the Atlantic with the Allies on their heels!

@jacobmullins3644

4 жыл бұрын

Sign of power show of force raise the anchor battleship plotting its course.

@frankmiller95

4 жыл бұрын

Are you writing song lyrics, or is the rhyming a coincidence?

My Grandad served on HMS Hood. He was taken off for an emergency appendix removal & never came to terms with the fact he wasnt on the ship to fight as it went down. Wasnt his fault tho. I wish he could have made peace with that.

It's amazing how big these ships were

@philiprice7875

Жыл бұрын

just made for big reefs at bottom of ocean

My great great uncle died on this ship, he was 19. It shows how powerful the german ships really were.

@mampe8898

2 жыл бұрын

Rip to him 👍👍

@kmsbismarck137

2 жыл бұрын

My condolences to your loss, what happened to the Hood was necessary.

@elainemoreland3908

2 жыл бұрын

So young.

@suburbia2050

Жыл бұрын

Not really, it was luck

@solidfuel0

Жыл бұрын

How that shows?

First Class Crew. Drilling and timing. A deck gang that knew its business.

My Grandfather Erich was a gunner operator of Bismarck. He always tell to me the story about how they fire many salvo to the hood. he said it's just a lucky shot that they hit the magazine of the ship.

@MrPHAELAN

Жыл бұрын

you are a liar.

Next up: How the Bismarck Sank Our Yacht and Its Team of Specialists

Bismarcks shells manage to peirce into hoods armour and into the shell compartment making a huge explosion splitting hood in half Thays why ap shells are the best

You gotta give credit to the Bismarck’s gunnery crew, during the opening salvo that Bismarck fired at the Hood, The concussive blast from her forward gun turrets took out her forward fire control radar. This meant that for the rest of the battle, the Bismarck was essentially shooting blind with half of her guns, while using Prince Eugen as a radar post.

@dovetonsturdee7033

3 жыл бұрын

No. Bismarck's radar had been put out of action when she fired at Norfolk on 23 May. That is why Prinz Eugen was leading.

@comradedog3662

Жыл бұрын

Bismark is a male

@williambrownlow2613

Жыл бұрын

The Bismarck had optical range finders as well...........

@z1az285

Жыл бұрын

@@dovetonsturdee7033 And yet, she scored more hits than Prinz Eugen on Prince of Wales. That says something about her gunnery officer.

@dovetonsturdee7033

Жыл бұрын

@@z1az285 Prince of Wales' damage report records seven hits. Three of 15 inch shells, three of 8 inch shells, and one (number three hit, at the base of PoWs' aft funnel, which was undetermined calibre, and exploded only partially. This renders your comment meaningless. Moreover, are you sure Eugen was actually using her radar for ranging purposes? I have read all 91 pages of her War Diary, and find no reference to it being used during the action. As it is more than a little odd that you have replied to a two years old post, I will not be commenting further.

Who would have thought just slight turn would mean the end of Great ship. I'm amazed at how many missed that major point in the know history of the sinking of the HMS Hood.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

2 жыл бұрын

No. The German Gunners were well trained. _Graff Spee_ did well against _Ajax_ , _Exeter_ and _Achilles_ . But - it suffered some critical hits to it's fuel and water systems that would have kept the ship from making home. .

HMS Hood sank for the same reason the USS Arizona sank in Pearl Harbor. ANY detonation within a magazine storage area will literally cut the ship in half at the point of detonation. The Arizona was sunk from a lucky (or good depending on your point of view), bomb-drop point from a Japanese bomber that penetrated the upper-hull and detonated within the magazine for its main gun. The Hood sank due to what was essentially the same thing, only in cannon-fired 'plunging arch' fire from the Bismark going through its upper deck and detonating in the Magazine for its main gun.

@aldenunion

5 жыл бұрын

Rip Hood and Arizona

@aldenunion

5 жыл бұрын

RIP HOOD AND ARIZONA

@Engine33Truck

5 жыл бұрын

I agree to a point. At Pearl Harbor, many Japanese D3A dive bombers weren’t actually dropping bombs. They were dropping 16” armor-piercing rounds that had been taken from the battleships Nagato and Mutsu and modified with fins. Arizona may well have survived the impact of a regular bomb. However, survival from an armor piercing 16 inch shell impacting the deck armor at a 90° angle is impossible. Hood wasn’t necessarily subjected to plunging fire. When she made her sharp turn to port, she - as ships do - slightly rolled to starboard. At full speed and max rudder turn, the roll was rather sharp, exposing the deck. Had Hood started her turn just 30 seconds before or after she actually did, she may well have survived. Bismarck also very well could’ve been sank that day, as Hood certainly had the firepower to bring Bismarck down.

@xsupremeyx9923

5 жыл бұрын

There is nothing known as luck in war.... as they meant to cause damage to both cases, Arizona and Hood... While Arizona tragedy was an Invasion, while Hood tragedy was counter attack by Bismarck.

@jakobwithak3805

5 жыл бұрын

My grandmothers uncle was an engineer aboard the Arizona. He didnt make it out. We have a letter from him months before the attack, it has the Arizona post office stamp & everything.

I'm sorry I am failing to see how this is a question that needed a documentary and search of the wreck to answer. Is it not extremely obvious that a magazine exploded, and the reason was because of plunging fire from the Bismarck? A magazine explosion will literally rip a hole in the ship or split it in half. That's why it sank so quickly. I think it's also a little disingenuous to say that the Bismarck got "lucky." Bismarck (a battleship) engaged Hood (a battlecruiser) at what, 14 miles? The shells plunge at that distance, coming in at angles that are incredibly steep. The gunnery from Bismarck was accurate, and punched through Hood's very weakly armored deck and detonated a magazine. Doesn't seem too lucky to me.

@brucenadeau1280

5 жыл бұрын

Except that they found out it was both magazines that exploded but she was hit by only one of the Bismarck shells 14000 yards not miles and it was luck to hit magazine

@businesscrimewatch199

5 жыл бұрын

How then is it not possible Hood was also struck by a torpedo ? What is known now in hindsight is that torpedo's were a primary weapon successfully used by Germany to sink ships. Prinz Eugen had 4 triple torpedo turrets but Bismarck had no torpedoes. I believe that to be WW2 propaganda and here's why. Admiral Lutjens, the commander of Bismarck, is the man who invented putting torpedoes on capital ships in the first place. "Better torpedo to sink ships than main guns", he correctly thought. So why would he stupidly not have his own invention, ship launched torpedoes on his ship??? That does not make any sense at all? (But lies never do, do they? ) The lucky million to one plunge shot contradicts itself and is easily debunked as propaganda. Firstly an aimed shot that destroys it's target can never be a million to one 'lucky shot', just a bloody good shot. Secondly plunge fire was impossible at that range. Thirdly there were 2 royal navy inquiries, the first found the belt armour (not the deck armour) was penetrated. The second inquiry concurred with that of the first. However, the finding was made before it was revealed that the Germans had SECRETLY deployed medium to long range acoustic homing torpedoes. Hood was blown in two. That means it was either a direct hit through the belt armor into the main magazine or a proximity fused torpedo exploding under Hood. WW2 was a conspiracy. History is being re-written as we speak.

@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs

5 жыл бұрын

Business CrimeWatch Prinz Eugene got within Torpedo firing range. Due to a miscommunication she did not fire. The Germans had a board of inquiry over this stuff up.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

5 жыл бұрын

@@businesscrimewatch199 I'm not aware that German torpedoes had a 14,000 yard range - or that there was any chance of hitting anything moving in excess of 25 knots at that distance. If they did get a torpedo hit - it would be even luckier than the magazine hit. .

@businesscrimewatch199

5 жыл бұрын

@@BobSmith-dk8nw This might help. Here's 12 German torpedo's that had the range. Designation Codename Propulsion Dimensions Range (speed) Warhead TI G7a Wet heater 533.4mm / 7163mm 120hm (30kn 'NS') / 75hm (40kn 'WS') / 50hm (44kn 'SS') Ka (Pi1), Kc (Pi3) The standard torpedo prior to World War II, used by all platforms during World War II: surface combatants and U-boats at night. Nicknamed "ato" by German crews (i.e. atem- or air-torpedo, indicating the steam propulsion) to distinguish it from the G7e (electric torpedoes). Used from surface vessels during World War II. TI Fat I G7a Wet heater 533.4mm / 7163mm 120hm (30kn) / 75hm (40kn) / 50hm (44kn) Ka (Pi1), Kc (Pi3) Standard TI with Fat program-control type I TI Lut I G7a Wet heater 533.4mm / 7163mm 120hm (30kn) / 75hm (40kn) / 50hm (44kn) Ka (Pi1), Kc (Pi3) Standard TI with Lut program-control type I. TI Lut II G7a Wet heater 533.4mm / 7163mm 120hm (30kn) / 75hm (40kn) / 50hm (44kn) Ka (Pi1), Kc (Pi3) Standard TI with Lut program-control type II. TIü Lut II G7a Wet heater 533.4mm / 7163mm

Whooooaaaaa, Huge, I just like those documentaries !!!

The crew of the Bismarck need remembering to

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. My exact sentiments. They were brave men also. Anyone who has seen combat will tell you that you get a sort of grudging respect for the other guys. Most of Bismarck's crew were probably not Nazis but German Sailors fighting for what they believed to be right. There is no winner in war, the one who loses the least we call the winner. Respect to all who gave their lives.

@williamescolantejr5871

3 жыл бұрын

@@dbeaus Respect to the common sailor,or soldier,airmen ect not to the few who were the real nutzo's

@largol33t1

3 жыл бұрын

The Germans also named a cruiser after Admiral Lutjens. I'm sure there was plenty of silly outrage from WW2 vets in the UK...

@TheArcWelder

3 жыл бұрын

@@dbeaus The whole winner decides history doesnt make much sense in the type of world we live in. What about wars where a small country overpowers a revolutionary army? The winner is easily still the bad guy. Just a matter of opinion on who likes who rather than who wins.

@dbeaus

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArcWelder Interesting, but the winners not only make history, they write history. That written account will be pretty much accepted as fact and taught to generations with little challenge. When I was stationed with the Aussies in VN, they were amazed we thought we won the war of 1812. In England and the commonwealth countries it is taught as a victory for the crown. In Canada, same. You are stretching it quite a lot to suggest the British won 1812, but they believe it totally. Probably many instances it history where this happened.

"there is nothing that match Hoods might" Yamato, Bismarck and Iowa: "Hold my beer"

@sindento1942

3 жыл бұрын

5:59 At the time she was built it says. You may need your ears syringing.

@christopherthomsen5809

3 жыл бұрын

If memory serves, Hood was built during and completed after the first world war, being fitted with twin 15 inch guns in her four turrets at the time of her construction and launching in 1920. At the same time, the IJN were building Nagato and Mutsu, both of which had twin 16.1 inch guns in their four turrets, launching during 1920 and 1921, leaving the Hood obsolescent from the very get go. There's not even a need to invoke 1930'ies designs to put paid to that empty claim.

@piotrd.4850

3 жыл бұрын

FIlm says "at time it was built" and still during Battle of Dennmark Strait, neither Yamato or Iowa were comissioned.

@painiscupcake5433

3 жыл бұрын

Bismarck: "Hold my cordite and watch this"

@maltesefamily7041

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherthomsen5809 We measure by tonnage for ship comparison and hood was largest! what else u want to talk about speed hahaa and then say tugboat is largest..

With the impending fall of France the NZ 2nd Echelon 2ndNZEF Convoy was sent to England around June 1940. Greeting their convoy off Gibraltar was the majestic sight of HMS Hood and its escorts including an air-craft carrier ensuring their safe arrival to Greenock in Scotland.

Built by John Brown Engineering Shipyard 5 minutes down the road from my home, we built great ships. Birthplace site now being developed with housing etc., but the old slipways have been retained at the waterline for historic reasons.

"At a location he wants to keep secret"...then 5 seconds later, a detailed chart of the area is fully on screen

@henrymoon3275

3 жыл бұрын

I know right? Plus what does he think people are going to do if they know?

As an old sailor I enjoyed this Documentary very much and can only imagine what those sailors last thoughts were. Thanks for putting such a quality film together for Naval History Buffs to learn and enjoy~!! P>S> What a lame hook they had on the submersible to try to retrieve the ship's bell. Even I could have designed a scoop type with external hook that would have done the job as the bell was still in sight when they dropped it. Just saying.

@waswestkan

5 жыл бұрын

Read to me thhe men probably may have not known what was about to happen, no time to comprend or think. While we are just saying. Non matter what tool others could construct in hind sight doesn't matte. As no one was going to exit the ROV to change out the tools on the end of the arm

@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys

5 жыл бұрын

@@waswestkan =Agreed -- I just thought they would have replaced that hook when they brought it up many times and they were so very intelligent and had an arsenal of tools and minds on board. Just seemed funny to me. Thanks for your note.

@falke_blade9341

5 жыл бұрын

@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys It sad to see a great ship go down in just seconds. i have family fighting on both sides during the war.

@unclebuck0015

5 жыл бұрын

@@waswestkan I believe they were just too anxious and really didn't take the time to think things through. You must keep in mind it takes over 2 hours to reach the wrecked ship. Costing tens of thousands of dollars each time.. Whatever the case it was extremely heartbreaking to see that very important bell fall through the hole like it did. But never say never. As time goes by our technology continues to grow by leaps and bounds. So what is not possible now, will surely be possible in the near Future! Hopefully, in the lifetime of the surviving family members of the doomed Sailors, the bell will be brought to the surface and given the proper Memorial!

@jscanlan22

5 жыл бұрын

They went back in 2015 and did retrieve the bell.

I can't imagine being one of those 3 to survive. Both happy to be alive and scarred for life over it.

@joeybomba1712

3 жыл бұрын

They must have run out of things to talk about and they investigate German battleship that zeroed in on its Target and hit the Powder Magazine end of conversation and the little airplane that could got lucky and hit it's Achilles heel and they ganged up on it and shot it up to s*** but it was scuttled in the end not that it really meant anything because she probably would have stank eventually

One of my uncles was supposed to sail with Hood: he was given compasionate leave as his wife was in labour and not doing well. I don't a great deal about him, but the level of shock was something that was mentioned to me even as a child.

@coolstorybrooooo7643

9 ай бұрын

Same here, great uncle got called to Bristol to help with engineering after bombings.

Even the Hood's captain knew it was vulnerable to plunging fire.. thats why they were rushing to close range. This was not a huge mystery

@notsureyou

5 жыл бұрын

And he had closed the range to where plunging fire would not be a problem. Admiral Holland knew the odds were stacked against him, Hood had no immunity zone from Bismarck's guns if "beam on"

@Karma0jun

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you watched the video, they were debating a triple mystery - that they answered. Why you think it was not a huge mystery is not important, what is important to history is the question of whether it was a fundamental flaw in the 1900's UK battleship design or whether it was a lucky hit upon a magazine store which was supposed to be heavily armored or if it was a lucky hit upon a torpedo store that sunk the H.M.S. Hood. The fact that it was the magazine store below the Captain's quarters answers the mystery that was unresolved for 70+ years. No question it was a catastrophic explosion that tore the H.M.S. Hood apart in seconds and sunk the ship in a matter of a few minutes - that was testament from eye witnesses. However, the unresolved questions from the Admiralty's board of inquiry seem to be answered with this video and the ROV footage recorded.

@raymondscott6720

5 жыл бұрын

Nobody seems to have remarked on the fact that Hood fired several salvos at Gneisenau in error, giving Bismark time to adjust her gunnery without having to dodge incoming fire.

@notsureyou

5 жыл бұрын

@@raymondscott6720 I think you mean Prinz Eugen

@notsureyou

5 жыл бұрын

@@Karma0jun I can't understand how the ROV could show anything from a section that had disintegrated (was no longer there).

It's elementary my dear Watson. A direct hit in the magazines has caused more than one Navy ship's demise. The same for the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor and the IJN Yamato in the Philipine Sea.

@MARYKSTIVER

3 жыл бұрын

True

@JackBrown7898

3 жыл бұрын

@@MARYKSTIVER Yamato wasn't sunk till April 1945, during the battle for Okinawa

@bobdan9856

3 жыл бұрын

Yamato was sunk by aircraft and never blew up.

The hood was built in my town of Clydebank, there is still a monument to her at the John Brown ship yard from where she was built and launched. I know my great grandfather worked at the ship yard, but I am not sure if he worked on the hood or not.

The Kriegsmarine had excellent battleships, but it just had too few of them to fight effectively as part of a fleet. Each one was pretty much on its own.

@WaveForceful

2 жыл бұрын

The Germans had to many eggs in one basket, they tried to build expensive and time consuming machines when the allies could field 5-10x faster.

@aveit6755

2 жыл бұрын

I would disagree. I feel if you look at the ships Germany produced they were often overweight and very inefficient designs leaning on ww1 principles that showed Germanys gap in shipbuilding.

@briankorbelik2873

Жыл бұрын

@@aveit6755 I'm just asking because I don't know, what were the shipbuilding gaps in the Bismarck class?

@aveit6755

Жыл бұрын

@@briankorbelik2873 Sure, for me Bismarck had 2 main areas where she was inefficient comparted to allied battleships. The first is armour, Bismarck used an older turtleback armour scheme. This offered worse protection at longer ranges as well as meaning the armoured deck was lower in the ship, this reduces the amount of space in the citadel. This meant that more critical systems such as some of the communication wires were unprotected and vulnerable to a near hit or even the blast from Bismarck's guns. Bismarck also had inefficiencies in her armament. 4 x twin turrets isn't terrible but at this point it was generally preferred to have 3 triple turrets as this gave you more guns less turrets to be hit as well as focusing more firepower forwards. She also had a split secondary battery with separate guns for surface and air targets this significantly increase weight over a single dual purpose battery. she also had a few issues with her gun directions knocking out her own fire control radar with the blast of her guns and unstabilised AA directors that significantly reduced her AA capability in anything other than a flat calm.

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!

To save time.... Hood was hit at the main Magazine of Turret no. 3 through the thin main deck by Plunging Fire from bismarcks 15 inch guns. Admiral Lancelot Holland tried to get close on bismarck to avoid being hit by plunging fire and let the armor belt of hood to absorb the shells instead of the thin wooden deck of hood. But theres a fatal mistake he ordered the hood to turn and cancel to "Crossing the T" maneuver in order to fire a full broadside exposing the main deck more than enough for the bismarck to fire a plunging fire.

There's no mystery. The same thing happened to battlecruisers at the battle of Jutland. They are built for speed. They don't have the armor to fight battleships.

@zero3778

4 жыл бұрын

They have the armor for it in critical areas, but it is not encompassing like a battleship. Hood's main belt armor was sufficient to fight Bismarck, but that's not where she got hit. She took a plunging hit to deck armor that's just 3 inches thick.

@davidandmartinealbon3155

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, contents of Ammo lockers and the Magazines dont react well to 15 inch armour piercing shells exploding nearby

@DowJonesDave

3 жыл бұрын

It was more so that the ships were overloaded with ammo. Outside the magazines too. In the corridors, etc.

@Norman7283

3 жыл бұрын

Very arrogant from the Hood to attack the Bismarck.

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their favorite breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!)$&&@

Johnny Horton taught me everything I needed to know about the Bismark.

Used to do automobile fatalities in the late 70s and early 80s... They used to be shoes in the car in the very bad accidents. Especially in head-on collisions!

Rip to my grandfathers brother. Only 23 when he died

@The3rdEstate.

4 жыл бұрын

They were all so young

@beaterbikechannel2538

3 жыл бұрын

Respect. Ventis Secundis.

@shadowpuppet4664

3 жыл бұрын

Same with my grandfathers brother. He was only 17.

@hectortroy2066

3 жыл бұрын

@@shadowpuppet4664 My wife's uncle was 18.

@ChimeraISD

3 жыл бұрын

Respect to your grandfather's brother.

It's worth noting that Hood was not going for Bismarck initially but for Prince Eugen however the captain of Bismarck decided to fire back after the continuous salvo from the Hood towards Bismarck's fellow-ship. So basically Bismarck (The captain) went "Okay fuck this and fuck you Hood. Blast 'em."

Great video study about the sinking of H M S Hood

My uncle was RCN from 44 Retired at Commodore in 85 Sailed with both US and Royal Navy Got to fire a broadside from one of the Iowa class battleships (NJ?) as an exchange officer in Korea The Royal Navy was really big on getting a quick volume of fire when engaging naval targets Quickly find range..and bracket the target (fire bracketing rounds before or as the ranging rounds are landing)...then fire for effect at a slower pace to fine tune the fall of shot So on initial contact there would be shells and powder charges in the turret...doors to magazines open Speed over safety Very different then when firing against targets ashore

@BobSmith-dk8nw

2 жыл бұрын

That habit - of disabling the safety systems to increase their rate of fire came into practice before WWI due to the emphasis on Rate of Fire in their training evaluations. The thing is - you fight the way you train - and at Jutland - that practice caused a number of British ships to blow up. So ... they stopped doing that ... or at least - they were supposed to. .

Hood didn't equip the Juliet Charlie signal flag

@BAYSINRACING

5 жыл бұрын

world of warships pun

@bluefoxy6478

4 жыл бұрын

Hehe only gamers would understand.

@sawadee2k2

4 жыл бұрын

hard turn to port at speed to show full broadside with raised citadel - against a tier 8 - not a good idea.

@someguy8121

4 жыл бұрын

I never get that flag in my boxes

@jayvee8502

4 жыл бұрын

Showing broadside to a T8 BB at 10km. Thats paddling.

A most interesting programme. Hood was a Portsmouth ship and I always think it's of great regret when I stand at the Royal Naval Memorial to Portsmouths 24,660 lost sailors with no known grave;that no ships name appears on the memorial. The only trace of the name Hood is in the half a dozen small stone flower holders on the bench... The only family trace to the 1415 men... and boys lost on the mighty Hood... The pride of the navy. A strange occurrence : I have often visited the great memorial at sunset.. There is always a fine Crow sitting on the memorial... And nobody else ever notices him. I have photographed the Crow on the memorial to the missing sailors and marines over many years... ..... And what was Hoods emblem? The Crow... and the Anchor. R

I look at the HMS _Hood_ and I see a beautiful ship akin to the RMS _Titanic_ herself. The builders put their hearts & souls into her and while _Hood_ may lie beneath the sea, there is no doubt that she (and her dead crew) will be remembered by those who do their utmost to study & preserve history.

@harryeisermann2784

Жыл бұрын

one salvo. and in 2 min the proud of the navy gone? btw 2 survivers, lucky chaps

@tesmith47

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the Bismark was a better war machine!

@azizanm2

Жыл бұрын

Any ship Design based on Titanic, will sink faster. It's a design floes. It's streamline is their biggest weakness.

@daleburrell6273

11 ай бұрын

​@@tesmith47 ...AND YET THE BISMARK IS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC-(!)

@daleburrell6273

11 ай бұрын

​@@harryeisermann2784 ...ARE YOU BRAGGING OR COMPLAINING?! THE HOOD WAS JUST PLAIN UNLUCKY- AND THE BISMARK WAS UNLUCKY-(!) AND IF YOU WANT TO BE SNOTTY: 1- THE BISMARK DIDN'T EVEN SURVIVE IT'S FIRST MISSION, 2- THE BISMARK NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO ATTACK ANY BRIT MERCHANT SHIPS, AND 3- IT WAS ALL JUST A TERRIBLE WASTE!!!

excellent audio and video quality documentary an explosion definitely occured - but will we ever really know what caused that explosion?

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

2 жыл бұрын

The magnitude of the explosion and the condition of Hood's wreck dictates that the main aft magazines detonated, but as for the chain of events that led to that detonation it will be the focus of discussion for many further generations to come.

My uncle was taken off the Hood weeks before that fateful encounter he thought at the time it was a demotion. He was sent on subs in the China sea to help train sailors he survived a sub sinking 1 of a few survivor's ♠️

@josephdaniel73

2 жыл бұрын

hes lucky, could've died

@kmsbismarck137

2 жыл бұрын

A lucky man.

I have always been fascinated by this piece of history. Actually from the moment I saw the National Geographic documentary about The Bismarck by Robert Ballard. This is also a beautiful documentary! I only don't like there not being credits at the end of the documentary. For example, the narrator clearly is Jim Carter. Beautiful speaking voice! Why no credits for him?

My grandfather served and went down with his mates. May they sail onwards.

@williambradley9419

3 жыл бұрын

What was his name? If you go to the HMS Hood association website, there they have a memroial page for every individual sailor who was lost on that tragic day (nearly 80 years ago). If you have any photogrpahs of your grandfather, they would LOVE you to send a copy to them so they can put your grandfather's face to his name. All the best.

"State of the art research ship" *Shows yacht*

@andypaulmanguiat5115

4 жыл бұрын

It was a Research Ship and yes it was state of the art but at the same time a yacht also hahaha

@Sveta7

4 жыл бұрын

exactly my thoughts lol

@bekicot88

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, its a yacht

@kevinfitzgerald1010

3 жыл бұрын

When I first saw the ship, I thought "that's the most yacht-like research vessel I've ever seen." Ten seconds later the narrator noted that the ship belonged to Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, whose net worth at death (2018) was over $20 billion. That explained it right quick.

HMS Hood: THE Flagship of the entire Royal Navy Bismark: I'm about to end this ships whole career

@ianfraser1135

3 жыл бұрын

Hood was not the flagship of the entire Royal Navy and she was 20 years older but given your history on here I see what your agenda is! Evil persists even today!

@gallium3618

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianfraser1135 bruh chill it's a joke

@ianfraser1135

3 жыл бұрын

Carlos Arjona no it isn’t, Carlos. That is what is so sad and so disturbing. Firstly even without the hidden agenda joking about the deaths of 1400 sailors is disgusting but these people are serious I am afraid.

@ianfraser1135

3 жыл бұрын

Carlos Arjona oh and if you want to know where MrTreadbear is coming from, take a look at his profile on here. It’s very revealing. It’s all about admiration of the German war machine.

@gallium3618

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianfraser1135 alright you have a point theres no point in joking about the deaths of 1400 sailors

Metallurgy of the Hood armour versus temperatures during the night and subsequent battle has always been a question to me. Did the cold of the north Atlantic make Hood's armour brittle? And therefore weaker?

Monday the 24th. May will be the 80th. anniversary of the loss of HMS HOOD. There will be a service.

Rest In Peace to the Crew of HMS Hood. Salutes Respectfully

@dennis1701e

4 жыл бұрын

dude both sides not just one both shall rest in peace

@tonyfranklin8306

4 жыл бұрын

@@dennis1701e this was a tribute to the Hood, Bismarck sank elsewhere. The comment is correct and respectful for the video.

@kevinallen7776

4 жыл бұрын

Some credit to them

I already greatly miss Paul Allan, the owner of 'The Octopus', and his singularly unique ability to satisfy his curiosity. He was a hell of a man.

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

5 жыл бұрын

I have noóooo idea. Plz link me or summn to show me and others why you say that about him? Plz 😀👍

@Grabbabba

5 жыл бұрын

It's nice to see people use their fortune in the ways he does. He will be missed!

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

5 жыл бұрын

@@Grabbabba Ok fine Ill check him out. Ty. 👏😋

@hwgray

5 жыл бұрын

I greatly miss having enough money to buy a yacht the size of a battlecruiser just because I want to.

@jordanfan5896

10 ай бұрын

Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知： How Did The Bismarck Manage To Sink HMS Hood So Quickly? Answer: The answers were very simple: When the HMS Hood was battling the German battleships Bismarck et al, those lazy British navy sailors onboard the Hood were busily eating their favorite breakfast food - Biscuits with Sardines. And had forgotten to return fire at the Bismarck!$)(,?)!!!

Wow about 490 survived the Barnham blowing up (as seen in the video), I'm extremely surprised it was so many. Got to think they'd be a bit deaf, the shock wave on that must've been incredible.

The narrator sounds like actor Jim Carson. If it is, his precise articulation is immediately noticeable.

The Bismarck was a beautiful ship.

Just listening to that man retell his story, you can tell he had seen things that you never forget, and they shook him to his core. It's saddening to think what he and those 2 men went through on that day.

Bismarck's shell penetrated the armor of HMS hood and exploded inside the ammunitions compartment resulting in a much more devastating explosion.

@alexanderleach3365

6 ай бұрын

That was the death shot that sunk the Hood.

Hood messing with Bismarck, Bismarck be like: get out of my face! BANG🔥🔥🔥