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The first episode in this two-part series on the hunt for and sinking of the Bismarck focuses on the initial clash between the German battleships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, and the British battlecruisers HMS Hood and Prince of Wales - the Battle of Denmark Strait, on 24 May 1941.
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My great uncle was a stoker 1st class on the HMS Hood and was on board when it was sunk. My great aunt was devastated and kept looking for him for years after that. RIP Stoker 1st Class Lawrence Crowley
Is'nt awful how war hit us. My great Uncle was Ron Blackham. They found his remains a few years ago.
It's sad... they all died so today's GOP and trumpaniacs and trumpanzees can revive all they went to war to defeat ...they all died for nothing.
My great grandfather killed alot of people during the war he is a beast and your great uncle just died without killing a single enemy? sad
I had a second cousin that went down with the Hood, he was a boy first class aged just sixteen.
Wow, brave men but sad times. I hope we never have to see the likes of it again.
My dad was aboard the HMS Rodney, and fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and received a medal for his part in this famous convoy. RIP 👍
Congratulations. Very special remembrance.
Surely it was an operation, not a convoy; assuming you mean the operation against Bismarck?
Congrats
My father served on H M S Belfast ww2
Dummy My dad too
This documentary must've been made after Albert Edward Pryke "Ted" Briggs MBE unfortunate passing. Ted was one of the last 3 survivors of HMS Hood and he passed back on October 4th, 2008. He has been in almost every documentary regarding the Bismarck and HMS Hood as he was one of the three survivors out of 1500 brave servicemen who survived the sinking of the Hood.
I don't think the other two ever were in a documentary
I would call him very fortunate and his death sad but inevitable. We all must die, its unfortunate for those who go sooner rather than later.
From what I recall he was the only one who spoke about it on camera. But he lived to be a good age, unfortunately living with the haunted memories of that day when his ship went down, tbh anyone of us would be traumatized for life by that experience
Churchill caused the loss of Hood.
Every single man was a hero on the most badass ship in the British Royal Navy at that time. Respect
Brave men on both sides. Unimaginable
Spectacular, immensely well done - and Andrew Choong of the National Maritime Museum is a total master of his brief, makes it so interesting and engaging rather than 'nerdy'. Well done!
Mr Choong comes across as very well educated and knowledgeable.
Except he got Bismarcks beam wrong at "30 metres", .. which he says is wider than Hoods 100 ft beam, .. Ummm??🤔 It was actually 120 ft across, hence about 36.5 metres. Perhaps he has trouble with Metrics? 🙄
I have a student who loves reading about the Dambusters! My husband's grandfather was one of the mathematicians on the design, Joseph Quimby.
Had Dan Snow been to the dentist prior to filming? Asking for a friend 😂
I thought that too 😂
I thought he was having a sneaky mint while speaking
I can only imagine what the pilots felt as they attacked Bismarck - over a 1000 people inside a steel fortress, with some really powerful weapons, all focused on killing you in the most expedient way possible.
They were actually lucky in some ways - the old fashioned “stringbags” they were flying could take a ton of punishment and still be flyable, and they were so slow that the flak and timed fuses were going off before they were in range of the blast. The saddest thing is their lack of numbers when compared to the massive air fleets in the Pacific war. The sheer weight of ordnance involved would have doomed Bismarck to immediate destruction just as Force Z faced less than a year later.
And you're in a slow BIPLANE that has to fly in a straight line to drop your torpedo - which may not even work. The only saving grace was that they flew so low that many of the Bismarck's anti-aircraft guns couldn't depress low enough to hit them.
Mr. Richard Osborne was a true sailor. He carried on. I wouldn't wish that fate on my worst enemies. Truly a great generation.
Who the hell's Richard Osborne...?
@@NobleKorhedron 43:39
I talked to my parents, uncles and grand parents about the Hood and their reaction was shock, anger and a burning desire for revenge. At that moment, sinking the Bismark became a national preoccupation. When you are talking about psychological impact, as with the blitz, the net result was reinforcement of the British determination to endure and to win.
Hearing the explosion, from 9 miles away, is really chilling. I can't imagine experiencing something like on modern cameras. Let alone real life
Thank you for doing this documentary.
It basically an Advertisement for the streaming site.
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die" Herbert Hoover
To true
Too true!
but who pays for the war with cash
If the youth were in charge we would have more wars.
That 15 year old kid found out what war was really like, after he went to the bridge all eager & perky, only to find a jumbled pile of flesh bone and burning metal. Kids should never have to see or experience things like that. Just goes to show the grit & steel of their generation.
Excellent! Loved this. 1 idea though maybe add subtitles to the audio recordings of the sailors. Some were too difficult to understand. I loved this
Been watching Extra History's take as well as other channels that covered the battle....but my god, the footage is one of chills and eerie memory. Perfect documentary.
May 20, 1941. A restaurant in Stockholm. A British officer the navel attaché to neutral Sweden is having diner alone when the water interrupts him with a telephone call from the embassy. His eyes widen. He slams down the receiver and rushes out. Waiting for him at the embassy is a Norwegian colonel, the men Swedish intelligent leaks to if they want information to land in British hands. He has a sighting report from a Swedish cruiser. They relay it to London via encrypted telegram and it says: At 1500-hour, two large warships, escorted by three destroyers, fiver ships and ten or twelve planes, passed to the northeast. The Ships are German and the Hunt is on.
Excellent documentary! Very well told, and the three experts add a very knowledgable, balanced and unbiased view on the story.
The Tirpitz and Bismarck. Amazing technology for their age.
Horribly outdated armour layouts and inefficient AA and secondary layouts? The Bismarck twins were outdated on launch compared to the damn Nelson-Class.
David LaRondelle Not really both ships proved the day of the battleship was over! Enter Airpower!
@@youraveragescotsman7119 Bismarck's armor sheme wasnt dated for the North Atlantic and standard Battle ranges.Most ships had Bad AA at the start of the war.
it's so amazing and sad, that the HMS HOOD had been found, RIP
really great documentary, i especially loved the memoirs by the survivors.
The house keeper of my school had been a surviving sailor of Bismarck. He lost his right leg back then. But today we are facing wars against Russia again. Did we all learn from WW2? No. Very sad.
Great documentary! Also the short lived story of Bismarck is one of my favorite historical topics of WW2! It’s just shocking how quickly Bismarck sent the pride of Britain’s navy to the bottom quickly with the loss of almost all hands! Also what it took to bring Bismarck down is equally as staggering! Those brave biplane pilots had some serious courage to throw their ancient machines against a modern battleship and land an extremely lucky hit on the rudder that doomed the ship.
@Israel Hands You mean the Hood right? In that case yes Hood never hit the Bismarck, but the prince of Wales did hit Bismarck twice. One being a hit that ruptured her fuel reserves and made her return to home. Well “almost” returned home that is.
Steven Moore, It never ceases to amaze me the amount of praise and hero worship the Bismarck seems to attack. This was a ship that went out to sink unarmed merchant vessels and only lasted a week of that single mission. The 'pride of the Royal Navy' was 20 years its senior. What is the big deal about Bismarck? It totally failed in its mission.
@@lyndoncmp5751 It wasn’t the mission it was the ship herself! By the time of her commission in mid 1940 she was the most heavily armed and armored ship in the world. That’s why she was so feared, and even though she didn’t fulfill her mission her existence as a fighting ship will always be legendary
Steven Moore Yes but her role was to take out allied merchant ships and to cause havoc with supplies to Britain. Bismarck totally failed in that singular mission and found herself on the run less than a week into her one and only mission. Cheers.
@@stevenmoore4612 Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! No, just plain no. She was neither the most heavily armed nor best armoured. That is a complete myth. German equipment, military or otherwise, is always held up as being better than anyone else's (whether it's justified or not) on account of it being German. Facts were that its main armament was well behind that of the British Nelsons, American Colorados and Japanese Nagatos and were only on a par with the new French and Italian battleships. Even this is being generous. Its much vaunted armour did not stand up very well to the Rodney's guns during her sinking. So much so that the British ship knocked out half the Bismarck's main armament with just a single hit. She was put out of the fight as a retaliatory unit very quickly and didn't score a single hit on any of the British vessels during the short time she was functional. The German ship's horizontal armour was woefully insufficient ( just like the Hood's ) and, moreover, vital communication lines and fire control systems were placed ABOVE this armoured deck. You won't be surprised to know that these exposed lines were soon cut during the Bismarck's final engagement. The KGV class were contemporaneous with the Bismarcks and so a comparison is fair, and they had not only much thicker armour on both belt and deck, but more extensive too. For example, side belt was a colossal 23 feet deep whereas Bismarck's was a paltry 16 feet. Of course, the British ships did not have the elementary design flaw of having fire control systems above the armoured decks either. The only thing the German ship had in its favour was an exceptional crew who did as much as could possibly be expected of them, and probably more, under the circumstances. It was this that caused the British no end of hassle for that particular operation, not the ship itself. The crew were of the highest order ( pity they chose to serve such a vile regime ) while the ship most certainly wasn't.
Through this whole video Johnny Horton's song "Sink the Bismatk" kept running through my head, should have added it to the video.
My dad used to love this song and Johnny Horton.
@@MsFunnybags I still do. Wish I had my parents old albums
Excellent channel & episode. Hello from Las Vegas, Nevada 🇺🇸 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Looking forward to pt 2. Another fascinating video. Thank you for sharing it.
Get your wallet out, you have to pay for part two.
Another excellent episode. Thankyou for your awesome content.
Cleverly inserted your cuts into the documentary. Very clever.
Gotta brake it up can't be getting hit with those pesky copyright strikes.
Your documentaries are excellent, well done!
Great documentary, as well as video footage. Thanks for sharing video.
The day that the Hood was ordered to go to the Bismark, she was under orders to go into dry dock to have her decks armour plated. One seaman was ordered off the Hood to attend a course. He became Dr Who in the BBC series of that name.
The first Dr Who was William Hartnel who served in the ARMY during WW2- who was the man you speak of ??
Wow, the morse in the documentary actually matches the text. Very unusual.
Noticed that too huh i had to go back and check
... but they encoded such transmissions ?
@@isilder And your point is? Morse Code now a days cannot be read by most people in fact very few people. In a lot of documentaries when depicting the use of Morse code any old random Morse is used. Yet here in this documentary the Morse for Bismarck and destroyers etc is correct.
@@isilder Movies / documentaries often use morse but the amount of text sent is a fraction of what is indicated either verbally or by caption in a scene. This documentary actually has the morse matching the text in the captions. It is being sent in the clear without encoding in this documentary. The element weighting was pretty poor. Just an observation on the morse, not a critique on whether they did what was actually done at the time.
Transform into a Submariner, Warshippers? Slaving for zombies is an aerial force in dreams.
Beautifully, everything was done like I was there!
Thank you for the information. Because I have always enjoyed watching excellent documentaries. I just love British history.
Enjoy it while you can, the globalist corporate hegemony now taking over HATES national histories... they perpetuate national identities....that doesn't fit in with the mocha melting pot of the future.
Great vid! Thank you for presenting it!
Nicely done. Always a pleasure to watch a good British war documentary. Will Part 2 be uploaded or is it pay up or nothing?
It's pay up , sadly
@@ossiepickett1932 I find this really irritating as I watched part 1 before realising part 2 isnt there. Unsubbed.
The Hood found the Bismarck but on that fatal day, the Bismarck started firing 15 miles away!
This and Midway. Colossal stories. Never get old.
Thank you from New Zealand this was very interesting
Drachfinel makes a compelling argument that Hood was hit below her armour belt where the wake dips exposing the hull below the static waterline. We know what happened next.
Why didn’t they extend the armour belt so it went lower in the hull to give the boat better protection ????Is it something to save weight ???? Did the navy change the way they protect there boats for the future ???
@@russcooke5671They assumed since the shell was going to hit the ship above the water, and shell's with underwater punching capabilities weren't even the norm, despite that, Hood had a Great torpedo protection that served "technically" as that underwater belt Bismarck's gunnery officers were extremely lucky because the Shell hit right in-between the Main Belt and Torpedo Belt, which was rather thin, passed through the weak inner side armor plates, and into Hood's Ammo which thereby sunk Hood
@@russcooke5671 Hood was a battlecruiser. It traded armor for speed. It was supposed to catch and sink any cruiser but not fight battleships. It was supposed to outrun a battleship it came across. It was madness to have the Hood fight the Bismark. The British should have learned that from the battlecruisers blowing up at Jutland. It was not designed to take hits from 15 inch guns. A larger armor belt or more deck armor would have added a lot of weight and slowed the ship down.
Another remarkable documentary, very detailed and interesting!
Missing a lot of details from the story. This isn't a good documentary for learning about the battle.
@@iansneddon2956Thank you Ian for your view regarding my comment. I said very detailed not that there is no more details left to say, but if one include all the details it would be a three hour long documentary, I found it very interesting and informative documentary that it made me search more regarding this ship and it's faith.
Yeah but that`s only half the documentary. You have to pay for the second half. Pathetic.
@@3vimages471 In that case you have two options Option 1 'Pay' and Option no 2 'Don't pay' !
really great videos.thanks
Thank you so much fir this awesome video
The title should be "The Legendary Mission to sink the Hood."
Just trying to imagine the horror of being trapped under deck in a sinking ship, like hundreds of men in HMS Hood and in the Bismarck must have been, is just too horrendous to contemplate. Hatches above and to all sides clamped tightly shut from the other, inaccessible side, many maybe even without knowing what was going on until water poured through air vents, such a fate must have been horrific to say the very least. Those men who died on the upper decks through gunfire or other reasons can be considered lucky in comparison. One can only hope that their passing was quick and comparitively painless and may all who died on board of the two ships rest in peace for all eternity. God bless them all.
I think gracefully that wouldn't have been the case for Hood. If you look at the wreck only small sections of the bow and stern are complete, everything else is completely destroyed so we can only hope that during that havoc the crew died instantly
These were 2 brilliant episodes. Very well put together and presented. I really liked the audio clips of the various members of the Royal navy giving their accounts of the action. Overlaid with some quite ominous music, really added to the tension. It is truly very impressive just how much of a beating the Bismarck took before it went down. Lets not forget, the Germans scuttled her. So it could have quite possibly have stayed afloat for a lot longer! Very skillful engineers made in my eyes, one of the best battleships of the entire war. The British, hampered by the Washington naval treaty were forced to reduce armour protection and as a result, they just couldn't take the amount of punishment Bismarck and Tirpitz could. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned.
Just to correct some of the errors in your post, Bismarck sank as a direct result of the actions of the Royal Navy. Also while Royal Navy battleships did have to make sacrifices to keep within the international inter-war naval treaties armour was NOT one of the things sacrificed. Both the British "Nelsons" and "KGVs" had heavier armour in a more efficient scheme that the German Bismarcks.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 The Bismarck would has sunk anyway I grant you, but The Sailors aboard did skuttle her. It says so in the Same documentary! Bismarck's crew just hastened its sinking by a few hours, not wanting the Brits to get the satisfaction. We could argue till the cows come home about the Washington Naval Treaty. If they didnt sacrifice Armour, then what was? The British certainly didn't sacrifice firepower. Why did the British persue Battlecruiser type ships, Trading armour for speed?
@@justandy333 The British didn't pursue 'battlecruiser type ships.' They were evolving a hybrid battleship/battlecruiser type, the Admirals which were, at least in the case of the one completed vessel, Hood, far more of a fast battleship. Hood, for example, had battleship level armour, with the speed of a battlecruiser. After, the Nelsons & the KGVs had superior armour to any other capital ship except the Colorados.
Seen from such distances as occured during the battle, it was indeed quite easy to mistake the Prinz Eugen for the Bismarck, both ships having very similar upper deck silhouttes. The German ships had changed position during the night because the Bismarck's radar was not working properly and therefore the Eugen took the lead with her radar working in order.
My great uncle, Edmund Church was the chief petty officer gunnery instructor aboard HMS Rodney during the battle of the bismark. He won a dsm for his part in the battle, he could recall how many rounds were fired during the battle even in his 90s, I wish I had recorded his stories from ww2. His brother was captured in tobruk and died in the sinking of ss skillen, which was covered up by the allies until the 1980s.
Loved Part 1. It's a real shame Part 2 is pay-walled. With all the ads that were in Part 1 you'd think KZhead offered sufficient revenue to put Part 2 on here as well.
Ad-blockers are your friend. I prefer ublock origin.
Amazing documentaries.
A great friend of my parents, Viv Say - a truly lovely man, was a Chief Engine Room Artificer on HMS Rodney for all 6 years of the war. Every year, Viv and his wife Connie, an ex-Wren, would host a 'Sink the Bismarck' night, which would always be a very jolly 'liquid' occasion! When I joined the Royal Navy, Viv was one of my character referees, giving him and me a bond of understanding, which was special. Viv told me once, that every year on May 27th, he would have a quiet, very personal, often emotional moment to himself - as he re-lived how he felt when the Bismarck finally sank. The relief to be still alive, the relief that the all-embracing fear of the battle with Bismarck, the exhaustion of many hours at action stations. All the RN ships in that action were well aware of what had happened to the Hood - and how badly damaged the Prince of Wales was after engaging Bismarck. Bless you, Viv - memories of time with you I still hold dear.
The commentary by the British crews is excellent, what I note is their professionalism and intelligence, the Royal Navy took the best men I think, I am sure there were talented men in the other services but the Navy seemed to have a very high quality on average.
I couldn't agree more. The professionalism and levelheadedness of the Royal Navy is second to none.
Hi Ali , is history a hobby for you? It is for me but years ago I did a degree in it, but academics normally ensure that nothing engaging is on the syllabus !
Hey there. Yeah David I actually wanted to study history. However due to few career opportunities I had to pursue the law instead. I am transitioning to career counseling and management sciences right now. I love history. My modest book shelf is squarely dominated by works on history.
@@alitahir4147 hi, good for you, keep history as a hobby and develop your career, these days you need to have that sorted out, it’s a competitive world, a couple of years ago I read a book called:- “U Boat Killer” by Captain Donald Macintyre, I throughly recommend it full of the history of this extraordinary aspect of the battle for the Atlantic, hope you can get a copy.
@@davidgray3321 Will look for it. My last read was Peter Hopkirk's 'The Great Game'.
Is it me or did he do the voice over just after having a dental operation or something, his voice sounds very different in the v.o compared to the filmed on location sections.
Yeah Dan seems to have acquired a rather uncharacteristic soft lisp.
Yeah i thought it sounds like his jaw has been wired shut dunno but its unmistakably diffrent in his narrative.
yeah v off-putting
Man, I thought the same thing... It actually really vexed me.
I read your comment before I watched it, and yes, oh my lord, it's so pronounced. He definitely sounds like he had some dental surgery. It's not his normal voice. Why he would do voice over in such a condition, who's to say. But yes, it's very obvious.
This was well done, more insights gained. Thank you 🇮🇪
The one leged housekeeper of our school, a gentle giant we boys all liked, had been one survivor of Bismarck. In 1968 (a lot of students rebellions in Germany that year. The young ones confronted their parents with their roles in WW2) one of the elder school boys aged 18 set the school on fire at night and the keeper allone fought the fire untill the fire brigades arrived. Just an anecdote.....and by the way. sinking ships and killing each other is not the way to solve problems.
It is a way of solving problems if one party is murdering millions and plundering countries. Don’t ever ignore or underestimate evil.
Hartmut Writh It's a pity you Germans never thought about that, before invading every country that you could! 6million innocent people were also slaughtered!
Couldn't we just buy each other a Coke and sit down and talk? I'm 82 and I have lost count of the wars I have seen.
Unfortunately, sinking ships, leveling cities and killing people ARE sometimes the only way to solve problems. Look at what Ukrainians have to do to survive as a people.
I feel that those sailors who were not in charge of where the ship went or what she did, I view as innocent in naval combat. I mean, they’re locked into this ship, usually in a small cramped space or dangerous space (munitions or stoking, or heck cooking), and without their approval they are fired upon and sunk. What I mean is I feel their culpability is far less than tank commandos, fighter pilots, infantry or camp guards. I can’t even imagine the horrors that housekeeper saw during the sinking of the Bismarck. I wholeheartedly applaud his bravery in fighting the school fire alone until backup arrived. I think that backlash you mentioned is severely under-studied. I would be very interested in hearing more of your experiences. I struggle to put myself in those childrens’ shoes (mainly because my ancestors were farmers and flight academy instructors, not soldiers in their own rights). But finding out one or both parents had been involved in unethical war behaviours… I can well imagine the kids rebelled, it’s not surprising at all.
This info is priceless, please don't make me pay for the 2nd part.
Superb documentary. When can we the next part?
What an epic story.
As i've understood the Scharnhorst class cruisers was that they had more armour than their treaty restricted 11inch guns would normally dictate. This would have made them a problem in a straight up cruiser engagement.
The title shoud be "sinking HMS Hood" no Bismark 🤣. RIP to both the legendary ships💕 those were the pinnacle of the naval technology,of there own era. RIP to all the legends servings on those mighty ships .
Wouldn't really call Bismarck the "pinnacle of naval technology". She used heavily outdated choices in her design.
Great documentary thanks for sharing.🙂
A great documentary
Why pay for part 2? Why is this not mentioned at start of part 1? There is already a lot of advertising within the content and now you want me to pay...tough luck.
Kya hua bhai?
If the commercials or advertisements bother you that much, find a way to circumnavigate them or get youtube premium and stop whining!
Good thing I jumped into the comments 2 mins in. Plenty of other docs about same subject without having to pay for anything or watch a part 2. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Saved me some irritation I thank you for that
Thanks Sachin. Saw your comments within minutes and jumped to the last to see what is going on. Thanks to you, didn't have to waste 50 minutes.
@@XxMidnightToker420xX have exact same feelings. This guy deserves a medal🏅.
Such brave men young and old on both sides so sad God bless them all .
The sword fish pilots are in a large part responsible for sinking Bismarck. Unbelievable bravery. They were only lads who never imagined death. There bravery sent a very large message “ no surrender “
I remember seeing this host on another show called “20th Century Battlefields”. Great host. Well done
I really enjoyed this documentary. Sadly I won’t get to see the second part because I quite literally don’t have any money 😢
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I feel you dude me neither 🥺🥺
The Hood was one beautiful ship.
Gripping stuff - I loved the commentary of the sailors who bore witness.
It was tragically ironic that by closing fast on the German ships to avoid plunging fire, Admiral Holland actually put HMS Hood in the exact position for Bismarck to sink her by said plunging fire. Whether Hood could have survived a broadside duel against both Bismarck and Prinz Eugen is of course an academic question, but the outcome could hardly have been worse, had Holland decided thus.
20:46 that's a lot of piffle being talked there HMS Hood was laid down as a battlecruiser and during her construction, the design was changed (more and thicker armour) This led to her being launched as a fast battleship Two US admirals who visited and inspected her after she entered active service even used this exact term As completed, her armour protection wasn't weaker than that of the Queen Elizabeth class battleships At longer ranges, her inclined 12" belt offered even more protection than the vertical 13" belt of said battleships Her deck wasn't thinner than on the Queen Elizabeths either That whole battlecruiser malarkey about Hood simply hasn't got a technical basis
18:17 very articulate talk.
ty for this
Drachinfel does a very good analysis of hoods sinking
The voices of the sailor interviews need mixing in louder. Where's part two?
Read the description
Sounding a lot like 'The Elephant Man' Dan Snow when narrating off camera!
Oh! I was just waiting for him to finish his sweet! LOL
Obviously he's jaws wired or something stop being so judgy
@@rogersage7468 Seems like someone else is doing the 'judging', to me!
@@rogersage7468 😅😆
Dan Snow, who I regard as utterly useless, was clearly still sucking his lollipop while narrating this.
Great info
Sank of Bismarck Proved obviously the important of Air covering of Fleet pieces ....which Bismarck had not air covering from sky ...too nice video from excellent historical channel
Nice video from amazing historical channel....sankey of Bismarck battleship showed that modern wars (especially marine battles after 1WW) mobility going on in systemic and co-operation among several kinds of pieces of same sides ..Bismarck moved with out aircraft covering ...1WW was last important moments of battleships ...but 2WW was importance existence of aircraft carriers ...too nice video with clear explaining all characteristics of huge Bismarck battleship and its easily sankey...through too smart following and intercepted planned by British naval force
Royal Navy: "Okay, we've just lost another asset" Me: "One thousand four hundred and fifteen LIVES were lost. RIP"
Sorry giving them the Nelsons did make chuckle , fantastic documentary 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
I thoroughly enjoyed this. One criticism : the audio bytes from seaman DENNIS PECKHAM were impossible to hear. The volume was too low. You should edit those segments again.
Ditto
Despite Prince of Wales being forced to retreat, its hit on Bismarck's bow was "mission kill". Bismarck's had lost several thousand tonnes of fuel oil whether by leakage or sea water pollution as well as 2-3 knots off her speed capability was forced to abandon the mission and eventually try to head for Brest. After Bismarck's hit on Prince of Wales' bridge, Bismarck never landed another shell on a British warship
St. Nazaire, not Brest, because of the Normandie Dry Dock.
The KGVs were the most underrated battleships because they "only" had 14 inch guns. But those guns used a heavier charge and tremendous punching power. Now you have 10 barrels with heavy hitting power plus when the woes were worked out of the main and secondary gun turrets they were fearsome ships. Their heavy secondary armament could reduce an enemies upperworks to shambles and the 14 inch shells could penetrate any armour on a Bismark or new Italian battleship which was what they were compared to. Look what Duke of York did to Sharnhorst in short order (whose armor almost rivaled Bismark).
@@RossEphgrave Scharnhorsts armour was actually heavier than Bismarcks armour .
@@scabbycatcat4202 yes it was what a beautiful ship it was. Imagine if Germany had put 3 twin 15 turrets on those ships... Yikes!
Top quality.
It’s the little things here that I love. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
Shout out to the Johnny Horton classic, "Sink the Bismarck" "In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun The Germans had the biggest ship, they had the biggest guns The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea On her deck were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees..."
"We've got to sink the Bismarck, Was the battle's sound. And when the smoke had cleared away, The mighty Hood went down."
@@drpsionic So did Bismark! sunk by obsolescent aircraft, they found it, damaged it, 300 miles from home all it could do was wait for the Royal navy to finish it!
Very well done docu, I like it a lot! I'd like to add tho, a major reason for the loss of the battlecruisers at Jutland was poor ammo handling, so I'm not sure I'd call them a dead-end wrt design. They were never meant to fight battleships, but the RN seems to forget that whenever they need big guns. You can't expect a ship to do well against an opponent it wasn't built to fight, that doesn't make it a bad design.
The battlecruisers were designed to do what they did at the battle of the Falkland Islands, run down and destroy enemy cruisers. The armor on these ships was quite adequate to take on cruisers armed with 8 inch guns, with overwhelming firepower to destroy said cruisers.
@@iansneddon2956 Exactly.
I was in the U.S. Navy and it just blows my mind that when the HMS Hood went down the entire crew went down with her ....minus three. Wow
Is part 2 available on KZhead anywhere?
Withholding thumbs up because of part 2 not being on KZhead.
Same here 😤
Two Thousand men and fifty thousand tonnes of steel!
The actor Jon Pertwee was a survior from the sinking of The Hood.
No he was NOT onboard at the time of her sinking.
If you like this stuff, the history channel did a doco titled simply "Sink The Bismarck". It's much more comprehensive with interviews from both Allied sailors and Bismarck survivors. Much more information than this one.
The History Channel did a historical documentary again?????? Jesus, about time...
Yo that "Sink The Bismarck" film is 50 years old. The History Channel did not even exist then.
Actor Jon Pertwee served on the Hood and was only taken off the Hood a few days before for Officer training, otherwise he would have been on board.
You have to look at each war in history moving forward. Troops standing shoulder to shoulder walking across the battlefield Changed as weapons become more rapid firing By WW1 Troops waited for the enemy to cross the line And dug trenchs to avoid the bullets And shells Aircraft was looked at as a very small start to owning the air Ships still slow And Poor to fair range WW2 Aircraft was the key in Very many parts of the war ..It was the front of the Germans Across Europe And it turned the tables at the Battle of Britain It was a bomb dropped on/near the Tirpitz that sank her And a damaged rudder that kept Bismarck from its key advantage : speed And range She had already proven the power of both of these with the Hood. Other notes : Atomic Bomb, The Dam busters, Dresden, And many pockets of other ops WW1 was a trench war..WW2 was a Airwar
Please tell us when the 2nd part is coming out... I am eager
When you pay for it... read the blurb underneath the video... or follow DraterTTV's advice above.
5:05 take note on that WarGaming.
Love the footage from the Kriegsmarine.
If only HMS Hood had been modernized and upgraded during the interwar period. She would have been turned into a modern “Fast Battleship.” But like the American aircraft carrier USS Lexington there was always something else just a little bit more important that had to be done first….
But Kind Sir, back in 1918, ppl were chanting and calling for “la der des der”…the last of the last war…engaging in peace and hoping that Germany would never re-@rm. Peace treaties seem a waste of time and the Geneva convention a laughing stoxk now. Good night everyone. Must be a right ol’ underwater graveyard on the sea bed.
I had a relative on Hood. Sub l Neville F. What a calamity to keep open the doors. A valuable lesson learned painfully
There is NO evidence at all that beatty's gun handling practices from Jutland were being employed onboard Hood. The Admiralty board of enquiry had stomped on such practices in the aftermath of Jutland.
I love Timeline, although please level out audio.
The best story of the bismarck is by mark felton.
And Drach
@@benwilson6145 mMark Felton channel
Both are very analytical in their approaches.. No fluff..
I didn't know that Dan Snow had a lisp until today.
Is that him?!! It sounds like he just got out of root canal surgery and half his face was numb
@@bucksdiaryfan fr it's a little annoying 😂
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@@dankus.memeokus4192 why does he sound normal in the "live" shots while his voiceover sounds hideous?
@@bucksdiaryfan He’s had dental surgery recently