Submarines: From Raider to Wolfpack | Documentary | Ep. 01
Submarines had a great influence in military history and are technical masterpieces.
When submarines were first used more than 100 years ago, hardly anyone believed in their usefulness. Many admirals were convinced that the simple "submersibles" could not stand up to the powerful battleships. This changed in the First World War. For the first time, submarines operated militarily in larger numbers. The reconnaissance boats quickly become hunters that sink enemy ships. In British and Allied propaganda, the German submarine became synonymous with treachery, cruelty and inhumanity in naval warfare.
The German submariners were hailed as heroes at home. The image of the U-boat commander as a silent hunter did the rounds. This heroic glorification has little to do with the reality and the danger the crews find themselves in on every mission.
Submarines originated from a completely non-military idea, namely to be able to look at the world under water. In its history, the submarine was and is both a deadly steel monster and a vital shelter.
As impressive as its construction is, as terrifying is its destructive power. Hardly any other weapon triggers as many emotions as the submarine. It strikes from ambush and can tear the whole world into the abyss with nuclear missiles.
Episode 1 documents the beginnings of submarine development at the end of the 19th century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Submariners, historians and military experts put the events into context.
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Chapters
0:00 The power of submarines
06:22 Invention and evolution of submarines
15:25 Todays submarine technology
20:14 Submarines in World War 1
36:44 Preparations: Submarines for World War 2
A lot of the u boat crews where just lads never seen experienced life ended up becoming a part of their subs permanently at the bottom of the ocean.Likewise how many poor souls where asleep in their bunks in the middle of a cold dark night hit by a torpedo never stood a chance.War is brutal a waste of time and life.Good documentary they should be remembered from all sides men who did what they believed was their duty.
Worth a like for the effort you out in
One ping only please....
Punctuation for fks sake! smh
Not a waste of time if you have a black enough enemy- such as the Stalinist Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam. He ran murderous slave labor camps and opposed freedom of speech, press, religion, and travel plus he created The Boat People who were ethnic Chinese hated by Ho and who were killed, robbed and raped by Viet pirates. Ho knew this and did nothing. Fighting Ho was worth it but the American liberal left sided with Stalinist Ho, just as the liberal reporter Edgar Snow loved and sided with Stalin and Mao (the latter of which killed upwards of 55 million Chinese!) Yeah, wars ARE worth it-
The by far best submarine movie is "Das Boot" Director´s Cut (5 hours version). Nail-biting action........
And u571
Agreed, one year me and my wife sat down for move night, popcorn, wine, etc. Started watching and first she was wow I hate those guys and rooted against them. By then end she was crying for them. Well directed movie.
I love it when I see old WW2 footage I haven’t viewed before.
Me too!
i was in submarine service 66-68 as a reservist...it beat vietnam...it was interesting and food was great..
Ive always heard the food on an american sub is the best in the military. Thanks for your service. You might think that its was better than going to veitnam, but i think you have huge balls going down to depth on a submarine.
thanks@@daveware4117
, all unhealthy food
How ironic. My granddad was forced to work on the U-boats made in Kiel during WW2. I'm glad he did'nt see this documentary. He and his fellow mates suffered a lot from this 'Arbeitseinzats'. Many of them died in that period. He survived but never could forgive what the Germans did to him in Kiel.
This documentary said that the Huntley was the first one to be deployed in war time it was not. The US sub turtle was deployed in the revolutionary war
I have my doubts about both of them. And what they did or didn't do. One thing is the Hunley was found and now in a water tank Chas. way. Also no one ever mentions the "pilot" of the Turtle. Ezra Lee was his name and George Washington commended him as well. He is buried up Conn way.
4:53 "the fear of being ambushed by a submarine is no less today" I'd say I'm significantly less worried about getting torpedoed by a submarine today than people were in the first and second world wars
That concern has never crossed my mind, not even once.
I think they meant in terms of their suprise destructive power but I guess if you never gave a thought to the nuclear power many have access to you'd be right.
I'm inclined to agree, during WW1 & 2, the Germans produced so many uboats that the threat was constant. Today it takes 6 years to build a uboat, so whack the first dozen and they're outta subs for the length of a couple of wars.
I served on HMAS Onslow an O boat that looked like a ww2 uboat. was in cairns when some old guys came aboard. there comment was that she hadn't changed much from when they had sailed her from the UK in the early 70s. This was in the early 90's as they were being phased out. Still lethal even for such an old design.
Take a look at ehat I just wrote: The first nuclear armed u-boots were our latest developments, which were simply taken apart in the middle to insert the core for the nuclear missiles!
As a former Navy Sonar Tech I can tell you that Diesel Electric boats are among the quietest. Unless they surface or snorkel to run their diesels to charge batteries they are very difficult to locate.
Those boats were filthy. Brits don't know what Field Day means. But by gosh they know what grog is.
I have been a maritime historian for the last 34 years of my life and it wasn't until I started researching the Bismarck that I started learning about naval history and how the U-boats (or unterseeboots) operated. At that time I also had no idea that the U-boats had been so prevalent during WWI as well until I started looking in to who had the capabilities to mass produce actual submarines. Robert Whitehead's torpedo revolutionized the submarine as it's known today.
its very interesting, i did write an article in wikipedia about the first submarine: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Holland_(SS-1) - Its the German version i did, but you can use translator or just switching to the english one.
I find it endlessly fascinating. Also how simple things could render them useless, like no blow-out leads to some painful seconds, or rather minutes, until crush depth! And also, read the harrowing true story of the Kursk. Our Norwegian divers and specialists WERE NOT allowed to help, though there were large signs, as we later know true, that there were survivors on board, while this ship was VERY shallow, aka in a position where you could actually rescue them, as rescue equipment at up to 400 meters, maybe more, is feasible, unlike 4000m, like the sub that suddenly wasn't. My biggest thing with the media frenzy was literally that even if they were found alive down there, after so much time it wouldn't be a chance they'd survive all the way to the surface, given nobody could open the thing, as you were built into a "life support" vessel that if anything goes wrong, has no backup. The "warning system" of the Hull, was just a "warning, warning, 10 seconds to disintegration". At 1000+ meters that don't mean anything, why even have it? It just means they were in panic for the minutes or seconds between the warning, until, sadly, "nothing"
I've had the pleasure to visit Kiel, Germany. The water of the North Sea is absolutely stunning! You could see Denmark from Kiel.
Hahahaha
Most excellent clip. Loved it. Thank you so much
THIS IS EPIC!
Please check out the *Battle Of May Island* and the tragedy of the K class submarine in general. The worst of the Admiralty’s arrogance and most costly mistakes and cover-ups in naval history. Almost hundreds dead without a single shot fired, due to arrogance and awful leadership at the top. Also don’t forget Holland first sold his Sub to an IRA splinter finean faction group in the USA. But they refused to pay him and stole it. He managed to steal it back then sold it to the admiralty out of spite years later. And a submersible was used in the US civil war, but was so slow and clumsy they sunk themselves as well as the ship because their hand cranked propeller wasn’t fast enough to escape the blast.
Quite thorough and very interesting.
It's also sad to think about those brave young Germans who volunteered for sub duty and it ended up being the deadliest branch of the German military during WWI and WWII. Edit: I just wanted to say that I am an American, and I respect all nationalities and their duties during wartime.
The U-Boat guys weren't out there commiting atrocities like SS were. It could be argued they sank unarmed ships, but look what the Allies did to Dresden and Tokyo. No side is without blame, some more than others though.
@@mike7652it’s not that it “can be argued” it’s a fact German uboats targeted unarmed vessels. A lot. Like that was there mission half of the time. But yes you are correct
Yes, it was also volunteer service for the American Navy enlistments, it was a total volunteer service. My uncle served on the USS PADDLE SUBMARINE, they were extremely brave souls !! As all our military men in all branches and every single war they ever served in. God bless you Women, Men.... many Basically Boy's and young ladies.❤
The U Boat Crews were treated like Gold when they came home. They had the best of the best including debauchery.
I learned so much from just this video alone that : "p00f! My Mind is Blown" ... I'm totally amazed at how these things worked and at those brave enough to get into one of them and not loose their minds. Thank you for posting this.
Fantastic documentary and footage...thoroughly enjoyed it.
We know that the Lusitania carried weapons and ammunitions, so she was a valid target. But as in every war, truth is the first victim.
The World Wars have become the founding myth of the modern world, with its villains and heroes. Flawed documentaries like this one are pretty much just propaganda enforcing those legends. Truth just falls to the wayside.
Weapons or not it's still a decision on whether a thousand more lives are worth stopping a load of weapons or not. 50-70 millions died in ww2 but only about 20 million were combatants.
I've always thought it hypocritical of the allied powers of WW1 that as they enforced a blockade against Germany they cried with outrage against Germany for doing the same. They also starved German civilians to death by maintaining the blockade after the armistice, so American bankers could get their war loan interest paid.
Lies
@@mikeyoung9810 Well, in WW1 Germany was utterly starved through British naval blockades, nobody knows how many perished. So as I see it, the Brits had it coming either way. Not to state WW1 didn't suck or wasn't avoidable, but takes two to tango, such is war.
Wow what a great documentary!! What did this air on?
Awesome video ! My nephew has been studying the CSA Hunley since she was raised. He's one of their scientists on it. The Navy tried to me in subs when I enlisted but NO WAY ! I want to be able to abandon ship when I feel it's time & there's NO TIME to abandon a nuclear powered sub unless it's in port ! LOL
Incorrect, it wasn't in 1864 that Americans firstly used a submersible in combat. It was instead 1775 by American David Bushnell in the USS Turtle. This vessel made an attempt to sink a British ship
Ezra Lee was the Pilot. That's rarely if ever mentioned in Dox.
Great documentary! ...if nothing else, I haven't seen 80% of this footage, and I watch ALOT of submarine docs. Excellent job.
6 mistakes in 7 minutes, hardly a great documentary….
@@eoincaomhanach1983 And your not going to list them for us amateurs?
@@michaelcalland801 oh wait I think you missed my other comment from 4 days ago, that should start you off, the rest you can do yourself.
@@eoincaomhanach1983 your comment is nowhere to be found.
@@MarsLonsen that’s funny, as I have absolutely no issue seeing it…. It’s in this comments thread and has 6 points. Try herder.
Hey now Lets not forget that Lusitania was not the largest ocean liner at the time. She was a gross registered tonnage of 31,550. Olympic alone was 45,000 tons. Britannic was larger at 51,000. Im confused because even a google search says lusitania was the largest. This is incorrect.
Always, outstanding work. Thank you. ... The stories, of individual "boats"... ... Very cool. Semper Fi...
Hand crank propellor on the confederate sub, jeez those sailors were crazy
Kinda sucks when the candle light goes out. Chewing on some hard tack. God Bless Submariners.
Submariners are a different breed of cat. In the U.S. Navy it's all volunteer service so that tells you something. When I joined the navy in 1955 I knew where I wanted to go and went to sub school straight out of boot camp. Surface sailors think we're crazy. Maybe we are but I think bouncing around on a destroyer is crazier. We're all sailors. Semper Fortis!
@@vm-snss4910 1950s Submarines. I was attached to the Nautilus. But she was 45 years old and parked next to pier. God Bless Submariners.
Good Hunting Herr Kaleun....
I know! Let’s put one more ad in it! It will be great!! Other than that, great channel.
I want my own submarine. Like a private one, but with sleeping quarters and a small galley.
Great this shows alot about submarines
Technically they are submersible, only with the advent of the nuclear power plant did we get U-boats.
No, not really. The German Type XXI (E-boat) was designed from the start to remain submerged permanently. And it's submerged speed was higher than its surface speed. If anything this was the first real U-boat. Obviously after the war the Allies took all that research and you can ask any expert, the Type XXI was and still is the basis of all modern U-boats.
Explorers nonetheless. Brave souls. God Bless Submariners.
Thank You H&C🎄❤️
That 212alfa almost looks like the submarine Seaview, except for the tail being different, I'd almost swear it has windows in the bow !!
For me it is a tragedy which a lot of people killed without knowing that really happened at that time.
Farts must be a nightmare in submarines
I wonder if there are more episodes of this since it reads episode 1. Can’t seem to find any other.
my uncle was on the conqueror a british sub it sank the belgrano 1982 a argentine ship it was very effective
the entire argentine navy stayed in port for the rest of war so it was a master torpedo the belgrano
UK sub skippers are famously skilled because their position as sub commander is far longer than US skippers who are moving along punching tickets in their career.
a ww2 cruiser without escorts........no big deal!
@@user-zu6zp6zn5p it had a aircraft carrier nest to it so your wrong it was in a pincer movement ,you got owned by me
that do not change the facts......ww2 cruiser and no escorts.
Its rarely pointed out in ww2-documentaries, that the (small) US-submarine fleet in the Pacific Ocean targeted mainly Japanese cargo(!)-vessels. 52:00
They also targeted warships. In the crucial battle of Leyte two subs took out 3 heavy cruisers before the battle even started. but yes submarines in ww2 were designed to target cargo vessels
at 40:46 what song is starting to play ?
The Titan submersible sent me here
Is there an episode 2?
True...the German submarine crews spray dark lager on diesel fires.
During World War 2 40,000 men went too sea in UBoats less than 10,000 returned
And when they returned home they were treated like celebrities. The best of the best. food alcohol and for many debauchery. You never know when it will be your last.
Divers recently found munitions on the lustitania,I'm sure I spelled it wrong but I saw the video so it's a legal sinking. She shouldn't have had the munitions aboard.
That’s been suspected for years before the confirmation in 1982 that there were munitions on board, some of the munitions s were recovered by Irish divers in 2008. There’s more to it then that, the British authorities knew the u-boat was in the area and didn’t tell the Americans.
@Fred brandon your point is? I read about it in elementary school and always thought that it was true. Seeing it on tv was no surprise.
@Fred brandon I wasn't even thinking that I knew a secret and was letting the world in on it.thats what the books all said,I'm 57 so the books are old by now. If my comment offended you oh well,I didn't say anything false or wrong
Thanks
Even the first nuclear armed submarines were our latest developments, which were simply taken apart in the middle to insert the core for the nuclear missiles!
The idea of literally cutting a sub in half, dropping in a new section and welding it up blows my mind for some reason 😂
@@mike7652 Was produced and assembled in 2 parts, which is why there was nothing exactly in the middle area. Interesting that they were equipped with torpedoes that found their target on their own!
Reminds me of the old history channel shows.
What did they all say @30:10 ?
They're repeating an order. On modern German submarines, it's protocol for everyone in the control room to repeat what the captain orders to ensure that no one misinterprets what the command given was.
Not nit picking but the Lusitania was sunk off the south western part of Ireland. The Old Head of Kinsale.
6:49 wrong! The first submersible used wasn't in civil war in the US in 19th century but:" On September 6, 1776, the first functioning submarine, called the Turtle, attacked the HMS Eagle anchored in New York Harbor. Designed by Saybrook native and Yale graduate David Bushnell, the Turtle was a one-man vessel that submerged by admitting water into the hull and surfaced by pumping it out by hand". Poor research.
The eagle has a copper bottom and the turtle failed the mission to attach the explosive charge tho
You said some good info. but left out who the Turtle's "pilot" was. His name is Ezra Lee, George Washington even commended him. BTW Ezra is buried up Conn way as well.
Fifty miles of cabling and six thousand sensors. They must've had technical problems hourly. I hope they routed the cabling far around the toilet room for the technician's sake.
Watch ''''run silent run deep'' for the best submarine movie...
Das boot says hello
@@jde-jj1lu That was an EPIC flick that I saw with my dad when it first came out. I watched Down Periscope with my son on my last boat the USS MONTPELIER SSN-765 when we did a "tiger cruise". Be safe and be 😎
@@davidwelch2791 First watched the boat with me pops, didnt know what a tiger cruise was - that's awesome. you take care
Diving is not comprible to flying. Few wish to dive, many if not all wish to fly.
I hate dubbing. Just use subtitles. Ich meine, Deutsch verstehe ich ziemlich gut. And even though my French is lackluster, hearing it spoken with subtitles is a good way to learn.
Disagree. I'll take dubbing
Hmm, i'm a bit disappointed. I mean, there's a major historical flaw in the first two minutes - Lusitania wasn't the largest Ocean Liner of it's time. Actually not since 1911 with the launch of the Olympic class and after that the German Imperator class. I mean okay, ship Trivia, i see. But...how can you forget Titanic? It's like a 2 min. Google search.
569 makes the contact and lead them U-94 scores a kill in the dark 124 sinking four in two approaches 406 suffers failure on launch U-569 makes the contact and lead them U-94 scores a kill in the dark U-124 sinking four in two approaches 406 suffers failure on launch again In their own track came the wolfpack Gleaves led the convoy into the hornet’s nest
Is there a chance titanic was hit by a U boat and not an iceberg.
The director showed a drawing of the Bushnell Turtle but the film states that use of submersibles started in the mid-19th century. But the Turtle was used by the US against the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. Did the British who produced this film overlook the Turtle on purpose? I now understand that a German company produced this film.
17 knots is 19.5 mph. Not 30 mi an hour
Submarines can hide from ships by going under water.
Subhanallah
Battle of Jutland was just another example of German quality engineering---German naval artillery optics had an edge on everyone else, the British found out Germans could aim pretty good 😂
The RN was not using proper procedures in th magazine and the turrets. Caused explosions. That is what was wrong with "our ships"!
Love the documentary, just had to say though. The first actual combat submarine was the turtle, used in the revolutionary war, being the 18th century.
It was completely ineffective, but it definitely was the first.
I'm sorry, was the crew of the Lusitania not aware there was a war taking place? Same with all the merchant crews... you're carrying raw materials for building war machines. Don't like it, dont go in the water then.
A third of its cargo was munitions and other military gear. Also she was set up to drag the US into war. Churchill wrote to the President of Trade one week before the Lusitania was sunk: ""most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the United States with Germany." Also, the wreck has been mined and mostly destroyed by the Royal Navy, so it can't be examined. Bait disguised as war crime.
49:05 The guy is crying foul by Germany here but consider THIS👉🏻Versaille treaty military limiting certain nations to only half of what Britain or USA could have was not unique to Germany, The Washington Naval treaty allowed Japan a navy 40% the size of USA....And then the Nations with the huge military kicks and hits the small army nations until they hit back and then the Large Military nations go to war, win, and blame the little guy....
Smaller nations with a shorter coast lines should not require as big of a navy as a large nation unless they are planning treachery. A little honest history if there is such a thing now days, will explain why Germany and Japan went to war. It is likely Japan felt more negotiating was futile and wanted the advantage of a surprise attack at pearl Harbor over more negotiating. Germany's World War 1 reparations were so excessive they felt another war was greatly to their advantage. War is most likely the biggest scourge of mankind. Such loss and tragedy and waste.
When a nation praise their people for doing what?
Since when was it Only England??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
The Lusitania had large amounts of ammunition on board.
Indeed, was confirmed "officially" nearly a century later though. Not saying they didn't have some Intel about it then, just the Allies didn't admit it for quite a while.
I wonder even more if the British making this film are still upset about the British losing the Revolutionary War to the Colonies. They claim that the most modern submarines are made in Germany. They ignore the nuclear submarines made by the US. I now understand that a German film company produced this film.
I highly doubt their loss ever enters their minds. We've been close allies for a long time
The lusitania was smuggling arms into Europe. You conveniently left that part out.
2,000'
The first were the spaniards to make a submarine
Loving how they paid for a narrator who cannot pronounce 'submarine'. I mean, you'd think the one word you might check. Don't get me wrong, I like summerines just fine.
Why were U-boats called iron coffins according to book
Because so many young German men were "buried at sea" in them. 75% of ALL German submariners were killed during WW2, (That is approx 30,000 fatalities from a total German establishment of 40,000 submariners who took part in WW2).
Gratis clip
Years later a diving expedition found manufactured rounds of ammunition in the holds of the Lusitania. Meaning the United States and England were complicit in violating the neutrality of the United States. The Germans, greatly blamed for their blood thirsty ways, were actually acting properly in that the ship was bringing war goods to Germany's enemy.
Agreed. Also Churchill deliberately set the ship of up as bait. A week before her sinking he wrote that it is "most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the United States with Germany."
@@MrPuch82 The UK forged a map or something to try to draw the US into war, but can't remember if that was WWI or WWII. Seems I recall something similar happening in both, but I can't recall specifically 🤦
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I hope it is also made by DEMETRIS...n if its made by him den haa😏 easy pisily it'll last forever
Germans got some fuckin balls
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WTH IS A SUMMARINE????
As a former Marine, real men love women, not mermaid's.
I don't like that the German historian tried to justify what the German submarine did to kill almost 2000 civilians by saying the ship they sank could be militarized.
It WAS militarized. The cargo was filled with munitions and other military gear. It's existence already violated American neutrality and it wqa
Yea, but it has been proven that the ship did indeed carry millions of rounds of U.S. manufactured ammo. Look it up, the germans wernt wrong.
@@daveware4117 You're looking at this from a historian point of view when everything is clear.
@@taotao98103 yea, and given the fact that germany had spys in america at the time, they had intell to work on. Sorry, in this instance, germany was correct either by accedent or on purpose. It WAS a liget millitary target! The U.S. knew it too and said nothing and used it as an excuses to go to war.
Lusitania disaster really reminds a bit about that civilian plane that got shot down in Ukraine in 2014
Not really. The ship was actually a legitimate military target, because it carried munitions and other military gear. The plane that was shot down over Ukraine was purely civilian and an act of terror.
@@MrPuch82 it flew into a war zone. Never a good idea. Company must've had their head up their arse.
A method
The usa didn't join the war because of the lusitania... The US didnt join the war until it was almost over.
The entire "Zimmermann Message" seems a little hokey to me. Like Mexico was gonna attack the US. They had their own major problems and war with the US was not one of them. I think the Allies were "very close" to losing and needed the additional fodder. So the Brits pulled a "fast one" on Wilson. And he bit on the BS. He vowed in his reelection to not get the US in the war. Yet does just the opposite. History will eventually be clear on all that.
The nazis took it from spain They made the first modern subamarine And also the first old
Seriously, you are narrating a documentary about suBmarines but you can't pronounce the word. You say "summarines". Really makes it hard to listen to this docco.
Correction. USA buildt the first subs. And that's was during the civil war 1865
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What the Hell does Captain Nemo have to do with a submarine documentary? Lousy Doc
If you know about 20000 Leagues under the Sea written by Jules Verne it will all come together. The US actually has a Nuclear Submarine called the Nautilus. First and Finest located in Groton Conn open to the public. Free BTW.
Hey that German guy knows English very well I rekon this is actually a german doc that's been voiced over
Always think this is German state media. You use the same color and style in your logo as the ZDF.
I don’t think Germany should be allowed to have submarines at all, HISTORY!!! You people will never learn huh, you’ll all repeat history. 🇺🇸 to the rescue as usual, 1st, 2nd, WWIII.
It's a suBmarine not sumarine. Just pointing it out.
The guy wouldn't know one, if it bit him in the azz. Historians know alot, but actually know very little unless they lived it. God Bless Submariners.