I used to know the doctor who was on one of the British trawlers (mandated because they wouldn't have been allowed to make port in Iceland in the case of medical emergency). He was onboard when the man from Grimsby was killed. The fisherman wasn't merely "injured" by the severed hawser, he was actually cut in half. He told me about it over thirty years after the fact. Experiences like that don't leave you.

I was serving on HMS Jupiter when we were rammed by an Icelander, we were put back into harbour for repairs

@laraaalsteinsdottir1358

3 жыл бұрын

Haha in yo face dis is our fish

@Boop__Doop

2 жыл бұрын

@@laraaalsteinsdottir1358 and it has been for 50 years it didn't happen yesterday so there's no point in bragging about winning the most powerful navy in the world thrice in a row while only having 7 ships made for defence

@Boop__Doop

2 жыл бұрын

Also you make us all look like a bunch of assholes. Edit: grammar

Ah yes the cod wars

I'm Icelandic, so I should be biased - but you can see how the converted trawler/gunboat repeatedly swerves in front of the frigate (it lists "out" of the turn each time it turns sharply). The tactic is clear: To use the reinforced stern of the trawler to damage the thin-skinned hull of the frigate. The trawler/gunboat was clearly breaking the rules - but usually the rule-book is the first thing thrown out the window in a conflict. The frigate could easily have blown the trawler out of the water, but was not allowed to, allowing the Icelandic Coast Guard to shamelessly use their best weapon; their sturdy hulls, built for operations in the Arctic ocean. What is unfair is the fact that until very recently, Icelanders have been convinced that the British warships were ramming our gunboats when, in fact, the opposite was true.

@MrDestroyer2203

8 жыл бұрын

I like boats

@hausverkur

7 жыл бұрын

The Frigate overtook the ICGV so, according to the rules of the road, was the burdened vessel. Baldur's top speed was 17 knots but Diomede's was 30. So the frigate could have left the scene whenever. The Icelandic captain's orders were to stop the fishing boats. The frigate had been ordered to stop the ICGV from doing so. A conflict is inevitable in cases like that.

@TraustiGeir

7 жыл бұрын

How on earth do we know which is true without reading the minds of every captain involved in this conflict? The first casualty in every single war is always the truth.

@oilersridersbluejays

5 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian and Iceland was in the right throughout the whole conflict(s). Anything else is anti-Icelandic drivel.

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

@swansea007791 apparently it is.

I was on Grimsby trawlers in both 70's conflicts. The British fishermen never wanted this to happen,we hoped for a quota that would at least enable part of our fleet to be saved. But politicians interfered and ruined everything. We could never win because in the end America was threatened by Iceland.The threat was closure of their Airbase at Keflavik which was vital for monitoring Russia's submarines. America put pressure on the UK government and we pulled out. No quota,nothing. I'm sure if just our trawler owners and the Icelandic Government had sat together a deal could have been reached.I'd previously been in Iceland and loved the place and had friends put in after accidents.All very well looked after.Also on occassions when our trawlers went aground in winter storms the people would do everything they could to save lives (and they did). Fish was their countries lifeline so they had to protect the stocks, I know in the last few years I was there it got harder to catch Cod etc.At the time I admit I hated the gunboats for what they did, but also understood why.

@jrr2045

11 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you for sharing! I'm from Iceland, born in the 80's and I came to this video to learn more. Thanks for your insight!

Why was the British trawler fishing in Icelandic waters?

@nichaloushinson2507

Жыл бұрын

3 words Fish and Chips

Still trying to find the one where the news broadcaster casually asks the british ship some questions while on another ship

The 70s sea food was amazing so expensive now miss eating Sea Shrimps/Prawns

I'm very proud of my ancestors that sailed. I respect the British for being Gentlemen. However Icelanders are natural sailors that never give up. Icelanders asked to purchase Destroyers from the USA, Icelanders started plans for their own too.

@Boop__Doop

2 жыл бұрын

Assuming you are the avarage age of around 32 years then you were born in 1990 and that would mean your father would've most likely been born around the 1970-60s so your grandfather and or your father were alive and potentially "fought" in the cod wars .in other words you are calling your grandparents and or your parents your ancestors (Wich is technically true but a bit unusual to call your grandparents don't you think?).

@Clipgatherer

6 ай бұрын

@@Boop__Doop What did he mean by “sailed”? Couldn’t he just have been referring to his ancestors who went to sea? In Iceland, BTW, “going to sea” and “sailor” usually means becoming a fisherman.

My dad was also on board one of the ships that was in the cod war but I can't remember which. He served on fearless, juno and decoy. And was radio op

@IBY-zx2jp

3 жыл бұрын

What nation you are from?

@mooncatt79

3 жыл бұрын

@@IBY-zx2jp uk

@IBY-zx2jp

3 жыл бұрын

@@mooncatt79 oh, but this war doesnt invovle guns am i right?

@IBY-zx2jp

3 жыл бұрын

@@mooncatt79 by the way im from israel

@mooncatt79

3 жыл бұрын

@@IBY-zx2jp the uk ships wasn't allowed to fire at the Icelandic gunboats unless they were fired upon first. To get around this the Icelandic gunboats would try and ram the uk ships. My dad an his buddies used to throw potatoes at them instead

which one was the icelandic boat?

@nlomas

5 жыл бұрын

livinglifeasachinese communistincanada the one that got rammed

@Boop__Doop

2 жыл бұрын

The good one

38 knots Frigate against 14 knots Baldur was Amazing because of the British Frigate much bigger, and had a bigger turn to navigate :) :) And the worst was the British Crown did not pay 3.850 million pounds to the damages from the Cod wars to the Icelandic people and The Icelandic Coastguard!!

That's how UK became the largest empire in the world. Sending battleships to fishing boats 😂😂😂😂😂 HAHAHAH I'm with Iceland.

@Boop__Doop

2 жыл бұрын

Who would win The biggest navy in the world Wich served one of the biggest empires to ever be on this earth Or One fishy boi

Cheers

this is coming lads in the English channel.....

@vespelian5769

3 жыл бұрын

Not with a bankrupt Britain.

@nigelmitchell351

3 жыл бұрын

It's true only this time our navy is about the same size that Iceland's was then. And we won't have anyone with the backbone to use it !

@nigelmitchell351

3 жыл бұрын

@@vespelian5769 There's obviously no such thing as being bankrupt except in the moral sense.

@vespelian5769

3 жыл бұрын

@@nigelmitchell351 Some accountants might disagree with you but as for moral bankruptcy, yes that is a phenomenon.

@vespelian5769

3 жыл бұрын

@@nigelmitchell351 I don't recall Iceland having any aircraft carriers back in the 1970s and their frigate and destroyer force was negligible to say the least. As for lack of backbone, it would be nice if the Admiralty told the Yanks to fuck off from time to time instead of being their perpetual and obedient poodle.

Daft days indeed. A couple of shots across that trawler would have them going in the other direction.

@TraustiGeir

3 жыл бұрын

...and the Keflavik airbase would've been closed.

@bradrum1

3 жыл бұрын

It made no sense to sabotage one of the biggest strategic advantages against the Soviet navy just to keep keep fishing Icelandic waters. NATO, including the UK, invested massive resources to detect soviet submarines and Iceland was absolutely critical to doing so.

COMING TO A NEWS CHANNEL NEAR YOU ...SOON

Some people actually died over a dispute about food that changed nothing

@andromedaassorted1817

2 жыл бұрын

This was a dispute over who was allowed to fish in the seas surrounding Iceland. Do keep in mind that fishing is the second most important industry in Iceland. To Britain and the rest of the world this might have been unimportant and stupid, but to us it wasn’t. There was only one confirmed death in the wars, which was an Icelandic engineer. Yes, that’s terrible and nobody should have died over these disputes. But simply chalking it up to ‘a dispute about food that changed nothing’ is honestly just disrespectful.

A time when we had some balls ..now it's a time of throwing flowers ...flying a rainbow flag & hugs..🇬🇧

Who would win The largest navy in the world backed by multiple large European countries Or One fishy boi

Glad that justice prevailed , and Britain got sense . It's Icelandic waters .

A 'gun boat' with no guns on board, nice try :-(

@lukeshaver1149

4 жыл бұрын

It has a small gun mounted on it's bow, it can be seen at 2:18.

@arctic_haze

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukeshaver1149 Under cover. It may be even a whaling harpoon gun as far as we know (which would not be surprising on an ex-fishing ship).

@arctic_haze

3 жыл бұрын

@OdinSon Actually, I found she was ordered as a patrol ship and built in Alborg Vaerft (shipyard) in Alborg, Denmark.

@Joplin-and-I

8 ай бұрын

Baldur was built in Poland as a stern trawler for a fishing company in Dalvík and arrived in Iceland in June 1974. A year later, the Icelandic government bought the ship to use as a science vessel.[1] Cod Wars See also: Cod Wars In December 1975, Baldur was transferred to the Icelandic Coast Guard and converted to an armed trawler to serve in the third Cod Wars conflict against the United Kingdom

Where is The Gun

@TraustiGeir

3 жыл бұрын

You'll need to be more specific.

Das ist kein Gunboot, sondern ein Fischtrawler.

dont touch their cods

WOTAN!!!

Ah yes bringing up history trying to destroy realizations between UK and Iceland.

@vontai4553

3 жыл бұрын

It’s history this yall problem stop tryna like did not happened acknowledge it Nd move on

@TraustiGeir

3 жыл бұрын

You think this old ass strife is going to affect modern relations? LOL, get real.

@mitchellhogg4627

3 жыл бұрын

I'm ngl to u mate I think brexits pretty much taken care of British/European relations

@mitchellhogg4627

3 жыл бұрын

And by "taken care of" of course I mean beaten molested murdered then set on fire

@TraustiGeir

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellhogg4627 Yikes.

Island sonos Argentinas!

ship rammed 2017

SHOULD HAVE FIRED

🔥

Respct to Icelanders.

Thank god Iceland won

Ramming

They are ramming each other. The british more so in order to prevent the icelander reach the trawlers. David vs Goliath

@michaelhannah4472

5 жыл бұрын

If it was David v Goliath we would have shot them out of the water World opinion won for Iceland not their coastguard If you think they were ramming each other learn rules of the sea PLONKER

@guyjonson6364

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelhannah4472 PLONKER?? Whats that limee? They were ramming each other, Einstein cause even Britain(alas often the 'Bully' of colonies) could not shoot a western ship down. A fellow member of Nato. So I know it for a fact from first hand they were infact ramming each other. Sometimes the Tugboat would ram. Hardly the frigate with paperthin flanks

@patrickmurphy9266

5 жыл бұрын

@@guyjonson6364 You are lucky Gudjon you live 1000km away . Unfortunately we live next to them . Hilsen fra Irlande

@guyjonson6364

5 жыл бұрын

@@patrickmurphy9266 já ! Kveðjur og biðjum að heilsa frændum okkar á Irlandi. We areabout.( Or almost 50% irish blood here) greetings to our cousins

@TheBolacreen

5 жыл бұрын

@@guyjonson6364 I know

we lost our empire, lets's bully Iceland.

Britain was trying to bully Icelanders and snatch the fish there

@tee2899

3 жыл бұрын

If you say so

@peterlloyd8313

3 жыл бұрын

Don`t talk crap. The dispute was over Iceland imposing an extension of its fishing waters.

@col4574

3 жыл бұрын

Same thing no difference.They depend on their fish to a degree we do not.We had no business stealing their stocks

Crash derby

🇮🇸🖤

All this for fish. (Fish is good,dont get me wrong but its not worth losing your life over it.)

@TraustiGeir

4 жыл бұрын

I think you'll find examples of mankind fighting over fishing grounds centuries into the past.

@gunnar314

4 жыл бұрын

humans have fought eachother to death for salt

@col4574

3 жыл бұрын

You have to remember Iceland is a tiny country and fish are its most important Food and industry. LITTLE ELSE BUT SOME TOURISM AND VOLCANIC POWER GENERATION

Rule Britannia..Britannia rules the waves....NOT

@tee2899

3 жыл бұрын

and sleep. This is the most boring bulls hit I've heard

Served on HMS Eastborne at the time, and put the Baldur out of action

@catoomch

5 жыл бұрын

lol, and you're proud of that? The real heroes were the Icelanders who stood up to you bullies without flinching.

@patrickmurphy9266

5 жыл бұрын

Yes . Poaching is wrong. Justice triumphed.

@coryfice1881

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ez9is7lb9p The other side was an old lion with rotten teeth still thinking it's roar amounted to something.

@TraustiGeir

4 жыл бұрын

I read that, less than a year later, the Eastbourne was deemed unfit for sea.

@commando4481

3 жыл бұрын

@@catoomch The Icelanders were the ones ramming and shooting so we taught them a lesson. We only “lost” because the Icelandic’s threatened to shut down the nato airbase.

The British lost!

What was the rn doing there..just like usn sticking its nose into the wrong business and crying foul

@MrEmadelguneid

4 жыл бұрын

Read the history of it

@ivansantana3067

4 жыл бұрын

Once pirates, always pirates and thieves.

@ulsterinfidel9897

4 жыл бұрын

Protecting British fishing trawlers from Icelandic trawlers as they were aggressively harassing the British fishermen

@TraustiGeir

4 жыл бұрын

@@ulsterinfidel9897 It was mostly the Icelandic Coast Guard going after the British trawlers, I've never heard of Icelandic trawlers taking part in the skirmishes.