Admiral Hood being killed in a magazine explosion is ironic to say the least given the fate of his namesake...

@carkid7640

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel no shit

@andromedaputraharyanto5420

4 жыл бұрын

HMS Hood that sunk by Bismarck were named after Napoleonic war figure,Admiral Samuel Hood actually

@bobsemple5848

4 жыл бұрын

Andros The Conqueror Fun Fact: He Is Nelson's Teacher

@SA-qm3bp

4 жыл бұрын

Different Admiral Hood though...

@ahriman935

4 жыл бұрын

A different admiral, but the surname is the same. Counts for the irony factor rather well.

Imagine being so mediocre that you're literally named "Goodenough."

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

Still it means you deserve whatever position you have because, even if you're not the greatest, you're still Goodenough.

@samarkand1585

4 жыл бұрын

And yet he proved himself to be among the most apt British commanders in this battle

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

@@samarkand1585: Maybe the Brits have very high standards so "good enough" means a lot. (Maybe it was quite appropriate that Beatty wasn't named Goodenough.)

@sunnyjim1355

4 жыл бұрын

'Goodenough' for the British is equal to 'Superlative' for everybody else.

@sander6438

4 жыл бұрын

Well you can say he was goodenough

This is the clearest explanation of Jutland I've ever seen.

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@RichardGadsden

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph It was really good. Video is a good format for showing how the different formations move relative to one another, and Jutland is a confusing battle which you make much clearer. If you ever want to make sense of an even more confusing battle, then WWII's Operation Crusader would be a great one.

@nilloc93

5 жыл бұрын

yeah way better than those documentaries that say what the ships are doing but just show stock footage of guns shooting while you sit there trying to understand wtf is going on.

@nobblkpraetorian5623

5 жыл бұрын

The Great War channel also made a good video about the battle.

@themythicalfire809

5 жыл бұрын

@Kriegsmarine Raum Schlactschiffe Executor I love this a bit more

Beatty: "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." Lion's Captain: "There seems to be something wrong with your bloody signal officer today."

@sfs2040

3 жыл бұрын

Lol Seymore

So in a nutshell the british gunned poorly, especially at the start, but maneuvered wonderfully

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

That’s a good way of putting it

@colobossable

5 жыл бұрын

Not really, apart from Beatty's ships which lacked the proper facilities, most British battleships shot as well if not better than the Germans. The newer British rangefinders were markedly superior the German ones but not yet fitted to all ships. The position of the ships relative to the sun, and smoke, were major factors in achieving hits. Arguably the main reason the German fleet wasn't decimated was due to faulty British shells. I can't remember the exact quote but one of the German commanders said after the battle that it would have been a disaster if the British shells had penetrated more reliably.

@nagasako7

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph Did Royal Navy learn from their powder charge mistakes from Jutland? You said that the British ships that detonated were keeping too many charges near turrets. It seems German Dreadnoughts could take a harder beating because they had better storage? In WWII, USS Arizona detonated and it too was a WWI era Battleship

@Morbacounet

5 жыл бұрын

@@nagasako7 The problem was incorrect storage not design by itself. They kept propellant in unsafe places, between the magazines and the turrets, which could result in a chain reaction if a shell landed in the right spot. The storage was better on German ships but it's the bad quality of British shells that saved them. Arizona was caught off guard and took a direct hit to its magazine. It was unlucky, not a design problem.

@Morbacounet

5 жыл бұрын

@@colobossable "It was nothing but the poor quality of their bursting charges which saved us from disaster." Hipper.

"Captain, the Germans are slipping by behind us and slaughtering our destroyers in their way! Shouldnt we radio the Admiral?" "Do we have explicit orders to radio the Admiral?" "Well...no, sir." "Then its kind of a stupid question, isnt it?"

@Wombat1916

5 жыл бұрын

MareTranquil At lectures after the war, Jellicoe pointed out the fallacy of that kind of thinking. Not one report reached him that the HSF was breaking through at the tail of his fleet. If anything, he put it down to light forces scrapping. In the morning the sea was empty and the chance of a great victory was gone.

@samarkand1585

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wombat1916 So basically you're saying his thinking is a fallacy but then you go on agreeing with his joke. Fascinating

@xcritic9671

4 жыл бұрын

@@samarkand1585 No, you just failed to understand what he said.

@FeelFree3

4 жыл бұрын

Buy the Admiral didn't believe the 10:40 message though.

Sailor: Sir the German fleet is tearing through our destroyers! Commander: **looks at large German fleet** eh probably fake news

@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire sthu. You just couldn’t go one video without bringing up politics. Why do you alienate your political opponents so much?

@Normal_Boii

3 жыл бұрын

@@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl this is the world we're living in today

@Robert399

3 жыл бұрын

Jellicoe wasn’t told about the attack on the destroyers.

@deepyamandas1192

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire this is a video about british fleet vs german fleet not some usa political debate area

Goodenough? Geezus the Brits. Gotta love it

@mdrocks7842

5 жыл бұрын

I actually lived on a road named after that man I thought the council had pulled a name out of its arse till I did some research on the name

@stepbruv8780

4 жыл бұрын

There seem to be something wong with our bloody ships today : that goodenough

@davidliu2243

4 жыл бұрын

*What name should I give to my newborn son? HMMMM*

@lollipop9954

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidliu2243 badenough

@redblack8766

3 жыл бұрын

Goodgrief

Though this was a british victory it must be embarrassing when one of your ships that was sunk was literally called "invincible"

@jamiengo2343

5 жыл бұрын

The big bob probably to promote self confidence and pride and install fear into the enemy. These names were really cool

@andrewwenzel3600

5 жыл бұрын

Although the Invincible class carrier HMS Invincible caused complete terror for the Argentine forces during the Falklands war so maybe that wins some respect back to the name

@arsarma1808

5 жыл бұрын

I’m fairly certainly the Naussaus ended killing more German ships than the British did

@JoelJames2

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you know Britain's luck with ships labelled as 'invincible'

@2headedtasman200

5 жыл бұрын

Oof

History teacher: If you're interested in history read a book over the holidays Me: Nah I'll just watch this it's better

@IllicitGreen

5 жыл бұрын

Imergence if u cant enjoy books thats really sad

@LoverBoy-ks9qh

5 жыл бұрын

IllICITGRYNE if you can write an interesting history book please do. The ones they give us now are boring as shit.

@itzthedude971

5 жыл бұрын

IllICITGRYNE Lol my history teacher uses simple history's videos to teach us about history

@imergence9628

5 жыл бұрын

IllICITGRYNE I'm reading a 700 page book on Vietnam lol

@raaaaaaaaaam496

5 жыл бұрын

ItzTheDude that’s very depressing

7:37 [GERMANS SWEAT NERVOUSLY]

@virusguy5611

5 жыл бұрын

it's like the Kul Tiras fleet arriving at Boreas...

@dario0523

5 жыл бұрын

Like the imperial jumping out of hyperspace in return of the jedi, except the germans lost.

@El_Presidente_5337

5 жыл бұрын

How many British ships were there for each german ship? 10?

@roynettle6864

5 жыл бұрын

​@@El_Presidente_5337 No the gap was not quite that big I believe it was something like 2:1 British:German (dreadnoughts not overall ships)

@coledavis5212

5 жыл бұрын

SSH-40 *b r i t a n n i a r u l e s t h e w a v e s*

Jutland seems like a naval Battle of Antietam. The Germans inflicted more damage and casualties, but were forced to retire, where the British came off worse but maintained a good position in the naval war.

@walterfielding9079

2 жыл бұрын

A good position? Good isn't strong enough. The British maintained a wonderful position. Germany was still blockaded and running out of supplies right at the moment their allies began to need help. Jutland, despite the British taking heavier losses was a big defeat for the Germans. They were forced into bad position by the British and were forced to resort to submarine warfare, which just made things worse

@bobbobbins4877

2 жыл бұрын

The only reason the Germans had less losses on the day is because they were closer to port, any further out and many more ships wouldn't have made it back. Even though they were kept afloat, they were so heavily damaged that they were out of action for the rest of the war.

@plasot

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterfielding9079 Not exactly - Jutland scared off Britons from North Sea and Baltic and limited their action there only to mine duties. Germans later were able to put Russian fleet out of action, perform several landings in Baltic States and liberate Finland from Russia and Britons barely could do anything to prevent that.

@josemariaoliverimarin4049

Жыл бұрын

Este comentario de Firehead es breve y conciso y lo mejor ke he leido en mi vida como compendio de la batalla.

@josemariaoliverimarin4049

Жыл бұрын

Kise escribir Fiireheart

By far more understable than anything Ive ever seen on the Battle of Jutland

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@schaferhundschmidt1798

5 жыл бұрын

A very good synopsis; I just finished Massie's "Castles of Steel", goes quite in depth (pun intended). You left out the periscope Beatty supposedly saw that no one else did, or any mention of subs. The Brits didn't learn their lesson from this, and left the ammo hatches open on the Hood when engaged with Bismarck and Prinz Eugen.

@topbanana4013

3 жыл бұрын

he did not mention any of the 11 German ships sunk. go read a history book WHY ???

@zeevox1628

3 жыл бұрын

voided

@sfs2040

3 жыл бұрын

@@schaferhundschmidt1798 where the hell did you hear that? The British very much learned the lesson after this and actually became pretty paranoid about detonations, so much so that in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the one where Hood was lost, Prince of Wales was having trouble firing its guns in part because its ammo hatches were too tightly built and they couldn't open as the ship flexed in its turn. The Hood exploded because it took a penetrating hit to its magazine, and flash doors are there to prevent FLASH from starting larger fires and explosions. If the magazine is breached and starts burning short of it flooding there's little that can stop the force of the entire thing going up and taking the ship with it.

9:27 There was some method to Scheer's madness here. Having retreated from a previous sticky situation, he knew that in the remaining hours of daylight the Grand Fleet, with a several knot speed advantage, could outrun him and cut him off before he'd get back to Germany. Thus, rather than just running away immediately, he judged it better to go for another spear jab which should have crossed Jellicoe's T from behind (no metaphor intended) had the British turned South-West to pursue the Germans as expected. Unfortunately for Scheer, Jellicoe had cautiously decided not to run them down immediately for fear of losing ships to the German flotilla's torpedoes. This meant that he took a wider approach leading his fleet away and then Southward. Thus Scheer accidentally attacked straight back into the British battleline thinking he was out-manoeuvring it, and it was in that arse-openingly terrifying realisation that he lost his nerve and ordered his battlecruisers to charge while he retreated as quickly as he could. It was Churchill I believe who later reflected that Jellicoe was the only man who could have won or lost the war in an afternoon. Great video ! Have a sub!

@malelifesmatter

5 жыл бұрын

Very good video a love naval history and play a lot of naval games so Thump's up on good work so sad that hood died just like the battle cruiser named after him in a face of with Bismarck and prince Eugene

@lkvideos7181

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok that makes more sense, thank you.

@TayebMC

5 жыл бұрын

He turned back in oder to buy time for his pre-dreadnoughts to escape, also Churchill said, Jellicoe was the only man who could have lost the war in an afternoon. If the British had of destroyed the German fleet it would not change the status quo. But if Jellicoe had lost his fleet Britain could not continue the embargo against Germany. So the war would have been lost.

@youraveragescotsman7119

3 жыл бұрын

@@TayebMC Technically the destruction of the High Seas Fleet could have had MASSIVE impacts on German morale for the people and the land Army. Your entire Fleet of Warships has just been pummelled into the ground and the British blockade is still at full strength. The morale impact that would have would be insane.

@kalbogwapo1536

8 ай бұрын

i've heard real accounts about this, they we're driven out and that's why their admiral is called admiral portside and vice admiral ran away.

Fun fact- Major Francis Harvey of the Royal Marines Artillery was a senior gunnery officer on the HMS Lion, his section suffered a direct hit blowing off both his legs but despite this he still had the prescence of mind to order the powder magazine be flooded- preventing the entire ship from exploding and saving over a thousand lives. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries, but was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry

A very confusing and frustrating battle, for those taking part and historians. I read a very good book about it when I was at school which left a deep impression on me. One has to feel sorry for Jellicoe, who had a tremendous amount of responsibility on his shoulders, and who was very poorly served by Beatty and by the light cruisers whose job it was to report the position of the enemy fleet. I think the aptly named Commodore Goodenough was the only one to send accurate and regular reports. One thing which is rarely mentioned is that the British used a volatile form of propellant for their guns - one which tended to burn violently, causing uncontrollable "flash fires" when ignited by nearby shell hits. German cordite burned but did not explode in similar circumstances. This is one reason why German ships did not blow up - despite repeated hits - at the Falkland Islands, Jutland and later in World War Two.

@rupertbaskerville

5 жыл бұрын

Also there was an emphasis with the British on fast gunnery, and most British ships kept a massive amount of spare charges for the guns heaped in corridors and nearby the guns, also leaving a lot of doors open so that when they were hit this set them off and created a chain reaction. I'm sure there's a more technical explanation of this, this is just something I read or saw in a documentary somewhere so can't quite remember the exact details.

@michelangelobuonarroti4958

5 жыл бұрын

"Sponsored by World of Warships" Ah, Really?

@wiggumesquilax9480

5 жыл бұрын

​@@rupertbaskerville Promotion from First Officer to Captain within the Royal Navy was predicated upon how smart the ship looked, discipline was God. Any chipped paint, torn uniforms, or worn bedding could cost someone their chance at the big chair, so no expense was spared in maintaining the entire fleet in parade readiness rather than combat readiness. Not only would a ship's discretionary budget be weighted heavily towards esthetics, but a well-off First Officer would often dip into their own pocket to fund another paint job. Promotion became a matter of wealth and connections as much or more than merit. Even the training budget wasn't spared the need for ever more textiles, meaning that Royal Navy gunners often couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Doctrine was adjusted to compensate, with rate of fire overruling basic safety. There isn't a single elevator running ammo up from the magazine to turret. Rather, it's a series of small, one story elevators, basically dumb waiters, interconnecting the decks between. Propellant is loaded into one dumb waiter, the armored shutter is closed, the propellant gets sent up, another shutter is opened, propellant retrieved, shutter closed, propellant sent across the room into another dumb waiter, and on up the height of the ship's interior to the turret. In theory. In practice, those shutters were just left open at all times in combat, meaning that any detonation could potentially consume the entire turret, magazine, and the barbette (turret vertical shaft) between. Those Battlecruisers weren't bad ships, it's just that they'd already accomplished their mission. In the pre-war years the British performed a naval study regarding wartime shipping, and concluded that any major power could annihilate British shipping across the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean just by deploying a couple dozen cruisers as commerce raiders. Meanwhile escorting every merchant ship would take a couple hundred cruisers, so passive defense wasn't an option. Enter the Royal Navy Battlecruiser, a vessel specifically designed to hunt down and sink any commerce raiding cruiser. Hunting the hunters. This strategy was entirely successful, despite some early successes the German merchant raider fleet had been comprehensively neutralized by the time of Jutland. Too bad for the Battlecruisers, who lacking any other mission got sent North to fight German Battleships whose guns could completely overmatch Battlecruiser armor. Firing a Battlecruiser main battery naval shell required 3 things: the projectile, from one to six propellant bag(s), and the primer bag. Propellant was remarkably resilient, able to withstand major shocks without detonating. Simply trying to fire it out of the cannon wouldn't have resulted in detonation. This was deliberate so as to prevent an internal magazine explosion from consuming the entire ship, in theory only those propellant bags physically inside the blast would ignite. The primer bag was small, roughly the size of an envelope, and mas meant to be loaded inside the gun after the final propellant bag. In Royal Navy service though, and in the name of rate of fire, primer bags were sowed directly onto the backs of propellants. Completely defeating the whole premise of having separate primer sacks. This of course meant that if for whatever reason a propellant bag rolled off a shelf or out out of someone's hands, and landed primer on the deck primer end down it would likely detonate, consuming everyone nearby with it. With Battlecruiser armor having no way to keep Battleship scale violence outside, with an unmeritocratic culture of pretension leaving every armored shutter securely in the useless position, and with that same culture placing every propellant bag in the vessel already ready to detonate with it's own integrated primer, any single hit could potentially take out the entire vessel. Then they got hit.

@rogerwilco2

5 жыл бұрын

@@rupertbaskerville Yes. The British had been so dominant at sea for over a century, that in their training they had started to value the wrong things. How good the ships looked and how clean things were, had often taken precedence over shooting practice, as gun blasts damaged things and created a lot of dirt and marks. And drills that could be done without actually firing the guns, like the focus on loading times, had taken on too much importance. But then the Americans were even worse in a lot of those aspects.

@mircomartinez2666

5 жыл бұрын

Germany didn't use cordite iirc. It was only used by the UK.

2:20 there’s an error. You said Beaty steamed west, but he steamed east, unless he drove his ships onto England.

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

Good catch- I misspoke

@LordDim1

5 жыл бұрын

River Yang "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" "That might be because you've driven them onto land, sir"

@yuno1707

5 жыл бұрын

@@LordDim1 yep

@frogchip6484

4 жыл бұрын

@@LordDim1 im dying xD

@mathy1799

4 жыл бұрын

Thus the first landships were created which would be used to break trough the german lines at the Somme and ended the war before Christmas.

Artillery ordnance fired during Jutland: Germans: 2,424 shells 12", 1,150 shells 11", in total 1,237 tons of explosives. British: 1,239 shells 15", 1,575 shells 13.5", 1,784 shells 12", in total 2,800 tons of explosives. Germans lost a tonnage of 61,180 with 2.551 sailors, British lost 115,025 tons with 6,274 men. German gunnery precision and British armour effectiveness: 93 tons sunk and 5 sailors killed per incoming ton, British gunnery precision and German armour effectiveness: 22 tons sunk and less than 1 sailor killed per incoming ton. To make things worse the pre-dreadnought battleship Pommern was sunk by a British torpedo and the battlecruiser Lützow was intentionally sunk by own torpedos, the only two big German ships lost during the battle, so that the British artillery actually sunk not a single one of their German opponents. "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" - Just today?

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

The main problem was that most British AP shells were essentially defective, and detonated on impact with outer hull

@MaximKretsch

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph The British gunpowder charges were contained in textile fabric and the German ones in brass cartridges. Another good explanation why so many powder explosions occured on the British ships.

@nairdamorton5148

5 жыл бұрын

Maxim Kretsch, but, as an American put it, the German Navy has assaulted it's jailer, but is back in jail. The reason for the blowing up of the British ships was that the anti-flash doors were left open to improve the rate of fire. A very foolish mistake!

@Inkling777

5 жыл бұрын

@@nairdamorton5148, agreed. I've read that the British knew their fire was as accurate as that of the Germans were were trying, as those figures indicate, to make up for that by firing more. To do that, they left doors open and stacked explosives in passages. As a result, a shell penetrating anywhere could blow an entire ship apart.

@nairdamorton5148

5 жыл бұрын

@@Inkling777, yes, that is exactly right. The light conditions had a lot to do with the accuracy, though the German rangefinders were superior to the British.

7:37 I believe the words "mein gott" may have been uttered by several thousand German sailors as the entire Grand fleet emerged onto the battle.

@jamiesmith3396

5 жыл бұрын

Slightly Right Of Centre quickly followed by “scheiße”.

@neniAAinen

5 жыл бұрын

You overestimate amount of people open,exposed and high enough on ship(earth ain't flat) on the main battle line.

@Reyeoux

5 жыл бұрын

I belive the conversation went something like: Sailor: CAPTAIN! Captain: Ye- Yeah? Sailor: LOOOOK! Captain: *looks to the left* OH FUCK, NO NO NO NO NO NO NO *random screaming*

@sleet1650

5 жыл бұрын

Miles kzread.info/dash/bejne/aomeudmGpNWrhM4.html

@chanyb1

5 жыл бұрын

@@sleet1650 hahahaha

My great grandfather was an officer on board the HMS Spitfire when it was rammed by the SMS Nassau. A six meter portion of the Nassau's armour plating was left on Spitfire after the battle, and my great grandfather took a small portion of that plating home as a souvenir.

@BackToBeDumb

6 ай бұрын

Nassau? the slow ass ship with 6 mighty guns?

Unopposed under crimson skies Immortalized over time Their legend will rise And their foes can't believe their eyes Believe their size as they fall And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all

@rickcs7050

2 жыл бұрын

A hull of steel and all the guns to serve the fleet Unrival fire power riding the waves to war A devastating blow will send their foes down bellow Fearless armada now bombarding the shore Light up the nigth when cannons roar In fear of nothing They lead a Navy into war!

@richie_0740

Жыл бұрын

The North Sea has drawn them near the fleets of the High seas approached a contest of titans commenced these days will dictate their fate The grand fleet prepared their guns Unleashed as The Dreadnoughts Clash At Last!

TLDR Version: Beatty - suckered by Hipper Jellico - deployed Grand Fleet masterfully Hipper - sprung trap on Beatty, sacrificed his ships to allow his teammates to escape into the night Scheer - masterfully rescued a perilous situation Really the only senior leader who comes off poorly from this battle was Beatty...

@ilikelampshades6

4 жыл бұрын

Beattie was the one who led the entire high seas fleet into the mercy of the grand fleet. The best move of the match!

@dclark142002

4 жыл бұрын

@@ilikelampshades6, he led them to the Grand Fleet...after foolishly deploying his ships into separated groups, then only when the consequences of his foolishness was clear...led the enemy north to his support...without telling Jellico anything useful. Lost multiple ships in an engagement he should have had an easier time with through lack of communication, poor deployment, and poor training of his crews. Still did the most poorly of the senior officers.

@MickR0sco

3 жыл бұрын

I feel Beatty was well out of his depth here. An absolute moron to be fair

@Robert399

3 жыл бұрын

Beatty clearly made early mistakes but more or less salvaged the situation. I think the greater injustice is that Jellicoe's good decisions didn't earn more credit (especially given how little information he received from his subordinates, including Beatty).

@russellehler6706

Жыл бұрын

I find it "amusing" that the Brits read Scheer's sortie instructions carefully and nearly won the day but threw it all away by not communicating with each other. Jellico put them in position for a monumental victory and their lack of communication up and down the line in action enabled Scheer to quietly steam home. Amazing.

This is an incredible video. Can scarcely imagine how much work went into it. Kudos

Fun Fact: The then Prince Albert was on board HMS Collingwood during the battle. Why is he so important? In 1937 he would become King George VI the father of Queen Elizabeth II

Good to see this great battle is finally getting the attention it deserves.

@NiuhiNui

5 жыл бұрын

Likely wouldn't have without World of Warships sparking interest and sponsoring content.

@PerfectSense77

2 жыл бұрын

You say that like it wasn't widely known beforehand lol. It's been one of the most well-known naval battles of all time for a full century now.

My grandfather told me about my great grand father "When he heard the canons it was like lightning that just keept going and going" Btw if you are Intrested I would like to reccomend the Jutland museum in Thyborøn in Denmark

@michaelj132

5 жыл бұрын

I currently live in Jutland. I really want to visit this museum!

Beatty did EXACTLY what Scheer wanted him to do. Beatty made just about every boneheaded decision that he could.

@jamesharmer9293

3 жыл бұрын

That's because he was an idiot.

@russellehler6706

Жыл бұрын

... and Jellicoe's plan saved Beatty's bacon.

I've seen Jellicoe's and Beatty's graves in St Paul's Cathedral. They're ignored because Admiral Nelson's tomb is next to them. Interesting to see al three and all of the other graves in there

Amazing video as always 🤓

@dafajuliankamal1417

3 жыл бұрын

reference lu salah satu nya dari sini ya bang wkw

Germany has always been like: „Quality over Quantity“ UK has always been like: „Oh look, a single German Warship! Let the entire Navy, Air Force and Army Force hunt it“

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

You can't protect a globe-spanning empire with a small number of ships regardless of how good the individual ships are.

@Tutel9528

4 жыл бұрын

İt was in WW2,Germans had a big surface fleet in WW1 unlike WW2.

@jwadaow

4 жыл бұрын

​@KuBa Bala Multiple hidden explosives between you and the tent.

@jwadaow

4 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 The ships had to be equal or superior in quality.

@godsavethequeen7614

4 жыл бұрын

@KuBa Bala especially if it's the Americans going after the single Taliban 😂 but then a again you country does have the money to waste bombs willy nilly

I must say, though I have seen a number of good videos about naval warfare and a few good ones about this particular battle, no other channel comes close to the quality and especially the clarity of your videos. I already had a pretty good idea about how this battle went down, but a few things i never quite understood, until I watched this. Thank you for making such excellent content, I love what you're doing!

@mtylerw

5 жыл бұрын

Questionmark I was going to say the same thing. Very well done.

@generalharness8266

5 жыл бұрын

Still don't understand what the germans sailed into the line after retreating.

Truth is the British admirals treated the code brakers with contempt and they didn't bother passing on the info to the fleet.

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah- there was a lot of snobbish behavior towards those civilian code breakers

@peterlovett5841

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph Actually, there was a RN rear admiral in charge of Room 40 but you are correct, there were civilians doing the code breaking. However, what was lacking was the knowledge of how to properly interpret the decoded signals as the Admiralty forbade direct communication between Room 40 and vessels at sea. You mentioned the advice from the Admiralty saying Scheer was in port - that came about because an officer walked into Room 40 and asked where a particular German call-sign known to be used by Scheer was. It was in port where it always was because he changed call-signs when he sailed. Room 40 was not given the opportunity to explain or clarify. It was one of many RN failures that day.

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterlovett5841 You're absolutely right. What I said in the video was an attempt to compress the implication of that event (Cpt Jackson's actions in relation to Room 40) into a single sentence, for the purposes of brevity.

@peterlovett5841

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph Understood. The history of Room 40 makes fascinating reading and it makes me believe that the UK was far ahead of the Germans in both world wars in cryptography and the breaking thereof.

@walterfielding9079

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God by the Second World War the code breakers were mostly trusted. There was problems but with people like Churchill in charge, the code breakers were mostly appreciated and able to prove themselves and their art. And it can be argued that the British code breakers won World War II

This was incredibly well done. For all the crap that Jellicoe got, I think that considering he performed perfectly, given the faulty information. He completely outmaneuvered Scheer, and his ability to coordinate so many vessels in an era of limited lines of communication is remarkable.

@sctm81

Жыл бұрын

In the grand scheme of things he sustained very acceptable losses while maintaining a tight the grip on the seas. Not a a dream outcome by any stretch but an acceptable draw to stay at the top.

So: HMS Defence did an offensive charge. Goodenough was.. well, good enough. HMS Invincible wasn't so invincible.

@kingofmanedits

2 жыл бұрын

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It always baffled me why Beatty was lionised and Jellicoe maligned after this battle. Beatty led a poorly trained battle cruiser squadron recklessly into battle. He could have kept Hipper at arms length while he pummeled him with 13.5in and 12in shells but instead inexplicably let the Germans fire first. Jellicoe maneuvered his fleet expertly, and had he been better informed by both Beatty and naval intelligence, would have won a decisive victory.

@dovetonsturdee7033

4 жыл бұрын

Beatty was extremely wealthy and had 'influence' in the right places. Also, as Jellicoe's successor as commander of the Grand Fleet, and later as First Sea Lord, he was in a position to censor the official record, and ensure that it said the right things about him.

The Battle of Jutland was always confusing. Your presentation makes it crystal clear. I've watched it 3 times. Thanks!

Crazy to think that a generation before, ships of the line were built of wood and had sails. They would be in that same exact formation. Amazing.

I've always found this battle really interesting. Cool to see that one of my favorite channels is covering it! Edit: and actually understandable too.

When you have double the numbers, even when you lose double the numbers, you're still the winner in the aftermath.

AND THE DREADNOUGHTS FEAR NOTHING AT ALL!

At Jutland the Brits lost several large warships (along with most of their crews) to massive internal explosions in their ships' magazines. For good reason, the ship's magazines were one of the best armored sections of a warship, as a spark or fire in that area would almost certainly destroy the entire ship from within. In addition, Royal Navy battlewagons were built with "flash doors" to minimize the chance that their propellant stocks of Cordite would touch-off accidentally or in the heat of battle, subsequently destroying the ship. Unfortunately, the British gunnery officers placed such a high value on rapidly reloading and firing their ship's guns, that their gun crews tended - or were even encouraged - to ignore safety instructions to keep their propellant room flash doors closed between shots. It's suspected that this dangerous habit contributed to the loss of so many British warships at Jutland.

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

No, the British gunnery Officers DIDN'T place high value on rapid reloading. Beatty did, He told his inexperienced crew to stack cordite near the turrets for faster reloading, something the Grand Fleet never did. Beatty's BC Squadron had not had time to sail with the Grand Fleet and practice gunnery skills, something that would have been invaluable in this battle, since Beatty's Squadron outranged the High Seas Fleet and could have easily pounded them until the Grand Fleet showed up to deal the killing blow. TL'DR: Beatty was a retard.

8:25 You forgot to mention that the Warspite's rudder getting hit and making circles actually saved the Warrior from being annihilated by the Germans

@wosisndes6721

Жыл бұрын

HMS Warspite was lucky in many situations even in WWII

RIP To the 6,094 British navy men and 2,551 Imperial German navy men who were killed in the Battle of Jutland

Excellent. I have read many written accounts of the battle, but the visuals make this so much clearer. Thank you.

This is the best war history channel on the internet

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

thank you!

Both sides made the mistake of trying to use battlecruisers as battleships. They weren't built to stand in for battleships, they were built to hunt down smaller ships that could elude battleships using their speed, and tear them apart with their big guns when they caught them. They had enough armor to withstand fire from many of the smaller guns, but not enough to stand against a battleship, or even another battlecruiser. They were supposed to run away from ships with guns powerful enough to penetrate them.

Every time I watch this video, I get chills when the First Scouting Group charges the British battle line to cover the retreat of their fellow Germans. Bless their bravery.

The best and clearest explanation about what happened at Jutland. I have watched other videos about the topic, yet this one is the best. Congratulations on a job well done! You earned a new sub!

Why the hell has no one made a movie about this???? From the perspective of one side or both this would still be an excellent movie

@historigraph

4 жыл бұрын

agreed

Btw. we Germans call it Skagerrakschlacht

@barfuss2007

5 жыл бұрын

No we call it Battle at Doggerbank

@barfuss2007

5 жыл бұрын

sorry was wrong

@TheGoatRide

5 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Random - Dogger Bank is a shallow area of the North Sea. There was a previous battlecruiser action around that location in 1915

@ElectroIsMyReligion

3 жыл бұрын

Exept in wasn't fought in Skagerrak but in the North Sea west of Jutland.

I was rewatching Drachinifel’s fantastic 3 part series in Jutland and was looking for a animated map to get a slightly better top down view of the battle. After sorting through a very few battle maps I found on KZread and thinking about how garbage they all were I saw a channel I was already subscribed to had a video on the battle (one that I had even watched already years ago). I guess my brain is running a bit slow this afternoon but this was exactly what I was after and I had forgotten how well made this video actually was. Between this and the Drachinfel videos I have gotten the Jutland fix I was craving today. So thanks for this and next time I will make sure to check here first for a video on whatever military rabbit hole I find myself in. Cheers

Great video man!! Congrats! The mix of game footage, archive, animation to perfectly understand the maneuvers invoked in the battle… keep it up! 🫶🏻🫶🏻 cheers from Colombia, South America

I'd love to make my own detailed videos on subjects like this, Jutland is a huge topic that could be made into it's own mini-series. This is a very concise overview of the battle though, and I can't commend it enough for achieving that on this subject.

I really enjoy your content. I can see the hardwork you ve been putting in the making. I d like to see a video on aircraft carriers and how they have appeared, similar to the one on the dreadnoughts :D

Bravo! The best documentary, with the best and easiest to understand explanation of a complicated, complex sea battle, involving 200+ warships. The debacle of Admiral Arbuthnot in HMS Defense and HMS Warrior was lightly covered and the intervention of the old pre-dreadnought German Battleships, in behalf of the battered, near sinking German Battlecruisers at a critical moment. The old guys distracted the Brit Battleships from finishing off the badly wounded German Battlecruisers. The 5-minute pre-dreadnoughts saved the day for their counterparts.

a hellishly confused fight and one I've read several accounts of. This is the flat out best illustration of the battle I've found and it cleared up much that I'd been foggy about. Many thanks for the effort put in.

Amazing video again :) the blunders of both sides in all these naval battles is astonishing!

@TayebMC

5 жыл бұрын

Communication with such large fleets in difficult visibility and the general lack of situational overview lead to the blunders. Today with satellites, Drones, mobile telephony we can barely imagine what it must have been like to command a massive navy or army being almost blind to the situation.

@waratahdavid696

5 жыл бұрын

if one commander did his thing right 60% of the time, he'll probably win

Amazing,your videos are always extremely enjoyable and really interesting.

Great video. Fun fact. There is a single surviving ship from the battle of Jutland and one of only 3 WWI warships surviving today. C-class light cruiser HMS Caroline. She’s an absolutely gorgeous ship after been lovingly restored in recent years and opened as a museum ship in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. Being over there for a Noel Gallagher gig last year and looking for something to do. Me and my ma just spontaneously ended up going on the tour of her and I ended up staggered. If you ever find yourself in Belfast for a weekend, I wholly suggest you get yourself aboard. It’s a shame the British government hasn’t make more of an effort to preserve surviving ships of both World Wars, I mean 1 of the other 2 ships left (HMS Saxifrage/President) is privately owned and there are/were fears that she might end up getting scrapped without funding.

I've binge watched this series for a few days now and my only complaint was the simple battle graphics..... it makes sense now and is easier to understand. Well done Sir!

Full credit to that legendary German engineering

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the German Battlecruisers particularly were very well engineered. Incredibly survivable ships.

@ThePalaeontologist

5 жыл бұрын

@@historigraph Only even got that far though by stealing the Dreadnought concept from the British via espionage

@mircomartinez2666

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThePalaeontologistLmao Germany had a complete different naval doctrine and understanding of a Dreadnought than the UK.

@ThePalaeontologist

5 жыл бұрын

@@mircomartinez2666 I never said they didn't. That is completely irrelevant to the point I was making. Nice try. I was literally just saying that the only reason they even had Dreadnoughts, was because they stole the idea of the design. Stop twisting what I'm saying. I never said the Germans didn't have their own doctrines. I'm just pointing out that Dreadnoughts came from Britain first. HMS Dreadnought (1906) ''Lmao'', really? You laughed your arse off over your own attempted strawman? Cool story bro. Merry Christmas.

@mircomartinez2666

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThePalaeontologist Lmao you're literally sperging out because you're proven wrong. British dreadnoughts had nothing to do with Germans ones except for both being bigger and having bigger guns. Especially your comment about espionage is such bullshit since countries like France had Dreadnoughts before Germany.

"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."

After some years, I just had to rewatch this video. incredible video about an incredible naval battle. Thank you, my friend :)

Excellent presentation of the courses and positions on the ships. MUCH better than others I have seen.

If the british hadn't known about a plan and didn't got the entire fleet out of port, could Scheer's plan have worked? And what could have been the result?

@BlandSpagetti

5 жыл бұрын

Archangel17 It could have it seemed like a sound plan

@michelangelobuonarroti4958

5 жыл бұрын

It *would* be a sound plan. Since the British turned it around and did the exact same: Lure the opponent with a comparatively weak force towards your main force and destroy it. If Scheer and Hipper had their way, it's entirely possible that the entirety of Beatty's force minus a few Battlecruisers and Super Dreadnoughts (like 4 Battlecruisers of 6 and one Super dreadnought of 4 sunk) would be at the bottom of the ocean, with the rest severely damaged. If this happened it wouldn't really change _too_ much, but of course it would be a severe loss of prestige to the British, Beatty would also have been fired, given he survives. Also, the Blockade might just have been eased a little, compared to before, until the US Navy would enter the fray, at that point the balance of power was ridiculous. (Edit: typo)

@samarkand1585

4 жыл бұрын

Well the British squadron had the advantage of greater speed though. But if they got caught by surprise at a bad time, and seeing their vulnerability to magazine explosions, you could expect a few more of them getting blown up before managing to escape

@swunt10

4 жыл бұрын

the british didn't know the plan. they didn't even know the entire german fleet was out of harbour.

@Wanderer628

3 жыл бұрын

@@michelangelobuonarroti4958 'Also, the Blockade might just have been eased a little, compared to before' lol wut. Why? Losing a few ships, even a squadron wouldn't have done a thing to affect the blockage.

Thank You for this! What an early gift for Christmas you certainly put Santa's elves to shame!

I am two years late to this video and this is by far the best explanation of what happened at Jutland, thank you and keep up the great work, working my way through the WW2 Norwegian campaign currently

I truely appreciate the detailed individual battles that take place during an unfortunate war. It’s far more intriguing than just they won and they lost

How come the battle of the buldge video isn't allowed in the UK? Otherwise brilliant video!

@historigraph

5 жыл бұрын

Because KZread is a very strange organisation that refuses to correct its mistakes

I think you didn't mention that whole German plan was alredy known to a british. It was real stroke of a Genius that cause so many damage to a much stronger enemy who, by the way, knows all your plans.

7:34 Maybe it's the music, but this game me the tinglies like the arrival of the Golden Armada. Remarkable video. Very well done!

Well done and love the cutscenes of world of warships to describe certain events that happened during the battle.

Thank you so much for this video it’s great

Lovely presentation! I'm always fascinated by ship battles like this. Surprising that there were not more of them in the first world war.

@TayebMC

5 жыл бұрын

After this one the Germans were not so keen as to get into another one. With correct handling of ammunition and better shells on the part of the RN the out come would have been very different. The High sees fleet got lucky and they knew it.

@23GreyFox

4 жыл бұрын

@@TayebMC If you say so.

Very nicely done overview, thank you!

Absolutely great as always!

Awesome stuff mate :)

Great video!!!

@Historigraph I really enjoy your videos about WW2 naval engagements keep up the good work 🙂

would love to see an episode on the battle of the somme. thanks for the amazing content!

That was the most concise and well written summary of Jutland I’ve ever watched/listened. Nicely done! Edit: Have I mentioned I actually studied up on British Dreadnoughts and can attest that you got the flash fire thing in a pan eh. geddit? XD

Could you *imagine* the conversation in the bridge of that German fleet? "Sir, we've just had our ass handed to us. We can't see exactly where the enemy is in many places, and all we really know is that we are horrifically outgunned and out of position." "Alright. Tell everyone- turn back around, and *let's do it again.*"

Comprehensive documentary on the subject. Thank you.

I find these fleet Engagements fascinating btw well made I’ve seen some of your other videos like some of the WW2 Mediterranean Battles and I think they are all very awsome New subscriber btw love the content keep it up it’s awsome 👍🏻

7:37 When you realize the boss has a second form

The battlecruiser was another brainchild of the great Admiral Fisher. He advocated them as the solution for the amoured cruisers that were in vogue at the time as commerce raiders. They were as large as dreadnouts with the same big guns. They sacrificed armour for speed. They were never meant to face off in battle with battleships, but being used as scouts, they would, inevitably, come into contact with battleships and the rest is history. The latest post war battle cruisers were converted to aircraft carriers by most powers before WW2.

This is another very good and exciting video provided by historigraph!! the voice narration(story telling) is clear,direct and simple to understand and most importantly its non 'BIAS!' "it is as what it is" and i love it!! the animations also very nice too! i like watching simple history videos like this!!not too many fancy effects!not just me..my kids love it and can understand the story too because of its simplicity. watching your videos makes my eyes and ears glued to the screen till the end of it,and then always makes me say: "O wow..so thats what really happens!!now i know!on to next vids!"lol😄 not like some historical videos that makes me kinda confused,bored and sometimes angry because of..(you know what i meant.im not going to comment about it here.)im lucky to stumble on 1 of your video and now im one of your subscriber! KEEP IT UP HISTORIGRAPH CREWS!! PLEASE dnt stop Making more simple and exciting videos like this!! HISTORIGRAPH ROCKS!!💪👍💓😊 p/s:i will surely tell my buddies to subscribe you and so sorry for the long comments..😅

Fun fact: jellicoes son was in the SAS and formed the SBS.

@sontungle2641

5 жыл бұрын

Really?!!

Derflinger hit 14 times in 4 minutes wow as a Brit I admire you Germans construction skills.

@youraveragescotsman7119

3 жыл бұрын

It was actually a result of British shells being faulty. The metal used was very brittle and the lyydite exploded too soon on contact with ship hulls.

Thanks for the clear explanation of a battle that I had found hard to visualise.

this is excellent way of explanation almost completely with map keep up what your are doing

My great great uncle fought in that battle but drowned at sea

@fatalshore5068

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Do you know which ship he was on?

Alright next up: 1) Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 2) Battle of the North Cape 3) Battle of Surigao Straits 4) Battle of Cape Matapan or Battle of Calabria

Everything I have read about this battle has always been confusing to follow. Thank you for such clarity.

The battleship era fascinates me and is something I wish we got to see more of in fiction.

Good explanation - thx! It is not an art with superior power to win in this way. How the Germans, on the other hand, lured, fought and came back safely against this superior force, very well! Excellent German seamanship.

makes me wonder how much damage the Bayern could have inflicted on the british if she was involved but she want cuz she was still being build but i assume a lot with those 15inch buggers

@TheGoatRide

5 жыл бұрын

Probably not much more than was done already. The problem with the British battlecruisers was their battle practices (they left safety doors open in battle). The British had 6 15" gun vessels available at the battle (4 Queen Elizabeth and 2 Revenge class battleships) If you're thinking of "what if this was a year later", then the British would have also had 2 15" gun battlecruisers (Renown and Repulse); the 5th Battle Squadron could have been at full strength (5 Queen Elizabeth class battleships (QE herself was in dock during the actual battle)) and they'd have had another couple of Revenge class ships for the battle line.

@adamdesouza6153

4 жыл бұрын

TheGoatRide and the new rangefinders... and better shells...

Fantastic video as usual! Jutland is so interesting because it was such a massive, epic clash of the two largest navies in the world, yet in the end it was essentially indecisive. The British took heavier losses, but the Germans were unable to break the blockade.

@Wombat1916

5 жыл бұрын

Anders Schmich Very true, but if you look closely at the figures, the Germans lost more ships as a percentage of their original fleet. It could be pointed out that while the HSF achieved a tactical victory, Grand Fleet achieved the more important strategic victory. Jellicoe returned to Scapa Flow, refuelled and re-ammunitioned his fleet and reported he was ready for sea again in short order. The Germans came out once or twice more, but never took on Grand fleet again. After the battle, 5 more new ships (battlecruisers) joined Grand Fleet and damaged ships (eg HMS Warspite) were repaired and when the US joined the war a complete battle squadron went to Scapa Flow. The Germans added two battleships in that time and most of the High Seas Fleet was lost in the mass scuttle at Scapa Flow in 1919.

What a perfectly wonderful concise portrayal of the the Battle of Jutland and as you correctly state the last and sensational battle at sea between surface fleets. Makes the United States emergence in the later 1900s all the more spectacular after this finale to the 159 years of British industrial 🏭 innovative might. Bravo Sir. 🇬🇧😎

Derfflinger - MVP