The Last U-Boat Attack 1982
The story of the German-built Argentine U-boat San Luis and her daring attacks on the British fleet during the 1982 Falklands War.
Many thanks to the British Film Institute for permission to use clips from the following Crown Copyright films:
- You Have The Ship (1975)
- The Aircraft Controller (1977)
- Fearless To The Fleet (1978)
- Royal Navy Report (1987)
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From the title I almost assumed that it was a lone German U-boat, manned by 60-70 year olds that had somehow remained hidden for nearly 40 years lol imagine.
I feel like that would've been less embarrassing than what actually happened.
When i saw the date and that it was a u boat i thought some nazis that escaped in it and went to Argentina decided to fight in the war
@@javcar1238 Martin Bormann lol
Or the Frank Sinatra flick where they robbed a cruise ship..🤣
That would be an absolute killer book/movie/game plot
Nobody ever considers the Whale casualties in war. Thank you Mark for highlighting this oft overlooked tragedy.
I agree with you. Poor whales 😔
Let's hope they missed the bowl of petunias...
How many Greenpeace ships were lost during the war?
I've got to say, the whale story was complete news to me.
"... these turned out to be unfortunate whales"... that's an understatement. I'd consider getting torpedoed in the park on my way to grab lunch "Unfortunate" too...
Gospel truth, I`ve had a pint today with an old mate Mick Hamilton, a friend at school and down our local colliery where we both worked. Tired of the dark dangerous coal mine he signed up in the Navy and after a six month tour docked in Gibraltar on their way back to Blighty only to be diverted to the Falklands, he was onboard the HMS Sheffield the first RN ship to be sunk. I recall his father being called out of the mine by our control centre and being told to make his way to Plymouth to find out if his only son had survived the sinking, which he obviously had, he`s retired today after reaching the rank of Chief Petty Officer. A good friend and a fine chap too I might and may we enjoy many more pints together also.
Huzzah! To both of you chaps! May your lives be as long as you wish!
The submarine commander deserves some commendation for special ability to evade several enemies and manage to survive the war despite its faulty weapons.
And to think that when the guy finally manages to acquire a target and launch a torp, it ends up being a whale. I can imagine him tossing the by-then-nonexistant keyboard and mouse across the entire sub.
@@hansvonmannschaft9062 a faulty torpedo or bomb happens a lot during war. So don't believe on American weapons propaganda. They are intended to make sales and get our money.
... all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Literalmente Galtieri le agarró las nalguinas a la Thatcher😹
RIP to the big benevolent whale who probably heard the screws of that torpedo in a way humans cannot understand. Never thought about large marine mammals as casualties of combat. Excellent as always Dr. Felton.
Why does mother nature always come off second best?
Unfortunately, marine animals come off poorly any time a navy is active. Even sonar during training can cause whales to bleed from eyes and ears and, it's thought, be a primary reason for beaching themselves. Fish may die and float to the surface.
being as Whales use Echolocation and subs have sonar that poor whale definitely detected that torpedo, and had no idea wtf was coming for him. XD
Oddly enough, I was reading a report about Australians on a WW1 troopship who shot up a pod of whales while on their way to England in October 1918.
Every time a vessel use active sonar marine animals are suffering from the noise For whales it might be so painful it’ll end up beaching itself to escape it, which is not that healthy for the animal
That submarine captain was a brilliant commander. Despite being hampered by faulty equipment and useless torpedoes he still persisted in his mission and safely made it back to port, beating the best efforts at hunting his sub down.
it appears that the professional Argentinian warfighter is someone to take seriously I wish none had to loose their lives or on our side either of course and from this the I have learnt Whales had a tough time too.
That story alone would make for a riveting movie
Reminds me of the early WW2 US sub commanders experience with their torpedoes. One of them complained bitterly that the only thing they were good for was alerting the enemy of the presence of the submarine. The torpedoes would either run deep and thus not explode or would hit the targeted ship and not explode, that is if the torpedo did explode prematurely.
Also proved very useful because he helped show the British that they were not even competent at the one mission they were still training for in 1982, that of anti-submarine warfare. Most every ship at the Falklands had been progressively "optimized" to hunt the Red Navy's submarines, with anti-surface and air-defense roles being handed over to the United States Navy. One cheap Argentinian submarine with a smart skipper proved just how overconfident the Royal Navy was and so actually probably did more to help Britain's defense than previous "Ministerial discussions" ever did.
@@genericpersonx333 Utter blarney. The RN was and still is one of the very top ASW navies. What occurred merely shows the complexity of ASW and of Sub vs. Surface ship. (old ASW guy). p.s. One of the limiting factors for the RN was limited/no Maritime Patrol Support from the Nimrods due to distance from shore airfields.
Not only was I serving on HMS Alacrity when San Luis attacked us, I was also on HMS Boxer when the film footage between 9:38 and 10:39 was filmed. It was filmed for a documentary called "BOXER", narrated by Michael Hordern. (Although Boxer [a batch 2 Type 22 frigate] didn't go to the Falklands two batch 1 Type 22's did, so the footage fits quite nicely). In recent years the Captain of the San Luis, Captain Fernando Azcueta, and the Captain of HMS Alacrity, Commander Chris Craig, have met and discussed this incident. They are still in regular correspondence as friends.
Yup - it is pretty obvious that some of the footage is of ships that weren't commissioned in 1982 but surely some poetic licence is allowed.👍
Yes indeed. I am close to a friend of Azcueta and I know both met. I did some artwork for a recent book on British ASW during the malvinas/Falklands war, published in the UK. Have you been in contact with anybody regarding it? Thanks!
@@docdr7199 Yes it is allowed. I was not criticising the use of the footage but stating for general information (plus was proud to have a dual connection with the topic).
@@andreaassanelli4117 What's the name of the book ? Has it been published yet ?
@@andreaassanelli4117 Great, thanks a lot !
It seems to me that if the torpedos had been workign correctly, the San Luis, in spite of her age and decrepitude, would have caused considerable damage. It just goes to show that in the Sub vs Surface match-up, even an older boat is a very, very serious threat.
That is of course, if the Royal Navy's countermeasures had failed. They don't just sit there waiting to be torpedoed you know.....
@@peterstubbs5121 if torpedo managed to hit towed decoy without human guidance i am pretty sure it would hit ship towing it if wire did't break
@@hphp31416 which is EXACTLY what decoys are for you fool.
Not a decrepit sub, the ARA San Luis was a U209 type ship commissioned by mid 70's (as it was the ARA Salta, unfit for combat sail due to motor axis relates noises) As with the HMS Conqueror, wire guide torpedoes were not absolutely reliable (Conqueror used traditional ones in its attack on ARA Belgrano) The WWII subs still in restricted service in this time were ARA Santiago del Estero (never left port) and ARA Santa Fe, destroyed at the Georgias
My dad worked with one of the sailors that was on board the San Luis during it's opration in the war. This video is a pretty accurate representantion of what he told my dad, especially the part about setting on the sea floor and shutting everything down. He also told my dad they managed to score a couple of hits on british vessels but torpedos failed to detonate. This video pretty much sums up the experiencie of argentine troops in the war. Brave troops with old or faulty equipment.
Yeah, that is why they surrendered en masse, right? Because they were "brave"...
Brave, but insufficiently seasoned troops and faulty and/or ill maintained platforms and weaponry. *What could ever possibly go wrong?!!*
Faulty torpedos plagued the Germans in WW2 for a period of time too!
Even we Americans had trouble with faulty torpedoes at the start of the war.
Putin didn't study this little war, that's for sure !
Interesting fact: The Belgrano was a US ship the Phoenix - which survived to attack on Pearl Harbour unscathed and in many actions in the Pacific - it earned the nickname 'the luckiest ship in the US navy' - it's a cruel world.
I guess the day it left the US Navy it lost the right to be that lucky.
It's a maritime superstition that if a ship is renamed it's bad luck. The Argentinians changed the name and so it sunk in their hands
The sub Santa Fe was originally USS Catfish , SS-339.
@@JBGARINGAN That only works if yoiu believe in pregnant married virgins riding donkeys at christmas
Yes She deserved better. I was 14 yo in 1982, 3 seniors students from my school, were drafted for military service, and served on the Belgrano at the moment of the attack by HMS Conqueror, On of them was KIA.
Another gem buddy. The clips from the training videos were an especially delightful touch. You effectively display (yet again) the “Tit for Tat” game of technology and its proper application to a situation. Any situation. Thank you friend. I appreciate this and you.
Not the Boys From Brazil, but the U-boat from Argentina! Great story Mark! I have to admit that I have always been fascinated by submarines. Maybe it was due to watching "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as a child! Always such great historical content on your channel Mark!
"...RAISED FROM THE SEABED and used as training vessels???" There's a crazy story there of these vessels being raised.
Also some video footage on here of that happening
Not crazy enough, named U-Hai and U-Hecht in Bundesmarine service U-Hai sunk again in the 60s (only the Smut survied) and was raised from the Seabed a 2nd time, later they scraped both submarines.
"Get in, it's fine. We cleaned it out"
The amount of whales caught in the crossfire was truly unfortunate
I absolutely died laughing when I realized that whales were being routinely targeted inadvertently by both sides
Dont say that .. it pains me... it hurts so much
Wonderful, majestic creatures caught-up in the foolhardy desires of humans.
That's the collateral damage that I struggle with the most during any conflict. I know it's horrible that civilians get caught up and it's truly a tragedy, but the animals are so innocent they don't ask for anything except food, shelter and a little love. It really bugs me when the u.s. Navy is out there doing their underwater experiments because they're killing untold amounts of sea life. Same with the Russians with their strapping of radio transmitters on the minke whales. The problem is they don't care.
@@dindu551 Died laughing? I don't get the joke. Beautiful, intelligent creatures being slaughtered thru no fault of their own, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. There's absolutely nothing funny about that in my opinion.
Thank you Mark! I was a young lad during that , joining the merchant Navy! Memories..
Can you imagine, at a time the British had PM Thatcher and we had President Reagan. How did we go from that, to the two we now have?
Because they both destroyed the middle class and people are grasping for straws trickle down economics created this out of control wild fire of hoarding wealth at the top. Prior to the 1980's employee income increased hand in hand with executive income. Sure executives still made more , but employees were also rewarded for the performance of the company. The 80's killed the whole premise of sharing the wealth among everyone that makes a company successful. From 1978-today. C-suite compensation has gone up 1,460.2%. Private sector employee pay has gone up 18.1%. Even looking at a smaller window of 2020-Today. Private sector employee pay has gone up 0.4% C-suite has gone up 26.9%. For context, between 1965-1978 this gap was 78% and 20% respectively. In 1965 a CEO earned on average $758 for every $45 dollars a private sector employee made. Today a typical CEO makes $27,780 for every $64 dollars of the average employee. Since Reagan's presidency we have seen the biggest wholesale transfer of wealth to the top in history. Profits are up, Executive pay is up, but joe schmo employee is stagnating. I quit my former employer last year when in a town hall our CEO in response to a question regarding "when are we going to get raises again?" Because since 2020 raises had basically been frozen, despite exceeding our annual revenue forecasts, despite the CEO in question and the whole executive suite lavishing themselves in bonuses and pay increases. Anyway the CEO's response was "I think the market is experiencing a "wage deflation" where people are making less and that's just the new reality". Funny how that didn't apply to her and her cronies at the top. Look there are people a lot worse off than me, but the older I've gotten the more I completely understand socialists. You bust your ass all year, the company's performance exceeds expectations and you get nothing while those at the top just keep taking an even bigger piece of the pie.
We stopped having leaded fuel
At the time, German electricians had a backronym for AEG, also a household appliance maker: "Aufmachen, Einstecken - Geht nicht." (Unpack, plug in - doesn't work.)
Interestingly, AEG built aircraft during WW1
AEG - Alles Ein Gammel.
I have an AEG washing machine.....now over 25 years old...solid as a rock. (Changed drum bearings about 10 years ago.)
Nice one
@@user-tu9ii8kr4k bi-lingual humour! Nice
The Falklands war was 40 years ago almost to the month. 40 years ago I was 18 but it feels like it was only a couple of years ago, I remember the TV broadcasts about it. Good video as per usual Dr Felton, well researched and a great tribute to the memory of our lads who fell and forever remain on that island.
I was a bit younger but also remember it quite well. We were living in Chile at the time. Chileans were worried, Argentina, frustrated by the failure at Falklands, turn to Chile in aggression to mask said failure.
@@daszieher I hope you and your family got through it unscathed. Chile was a scapegoat for Argentinians' lame excuses.
Doesn't seem like 40 years. I was 19 and was watching it on cable tv in California. I was glad that Galtieri failed and was removed from office. Also happy the Falkland residents were liberated. The USA was helping the British with satellite intel.
@@ZER0ZER0SE7EN Good ole USA, always dependable!
@@ZER0ZER0SE7EN the USA refused to allow the British airforce use its bases and advised them to allow the Falklands to remain in Argentinian hands
Always love the history of the Falklands war. I'm here in Canada but one of my nabours here is a veteran of the British navy during that time. I love listening to his stories. Cheers
Excellent presentation. My cousin lived in Plymouth, UK at the time, and he had a good friend, who was an officer on duty of one of those Royal Navy Ships under air attack in the Falklands by the Argentian airforce. My cousin said that even with the sophisticated radar displays showing the attack aircraft, the screen became so busy, that the officer left and went outside to see the aircraft positions to get better clarity of what was going on.
So interesting. That's why I love this channel. Dr. Felton gives just enough information so the layman can understand instead of getting lost.
Glad people appreciate this man's work 🙏
One thing I love about the channel is that he picks the often forgotten stories of history. I never would have known or guessed that the last U-boat attack was in 1982 and not 1945. Many thanks to Mark Felton.
Layman??!!!!
@@puromichoacan8339 a man who gets laid
Modern torps are useless. Belgrano took a 1920s torpedo. An entire naval war happened in Ukraine and zero ships were sunk.
It's interesting how the modern torpedoes the Argentines used caused their missions to fail. Whereas the Royal Navy sub used ww2 vintage torpedoes as they didn't trust their more modern torpedoes and their mission was successful.
That surprised me, too. You'd think any wire guided torpedo was better in every way to unguided ones.
@@Alexander_Snowden sometimes simpler is better. Fewer things that could go wrong after all
Proper maintenance makes the difference, doesn't matter if it old or modern.
@@hansybarra but the Argentinian ones were properly maintained, the german company came in and solved issues with their design and obviously the British ones were maintained however, the modern at the time Tigerfish wire guided ones were proved unreliable as well.
@@hansybarra Indeed! Even an AK, a weapon that supposedly doesn't malfunction will start to do so if you store it impropperly for a few years and don't maintain it (especially if you don't clean it after using corrossive ammo!) :(
I was 13 in ‘82. This War lead me too a 20 yr Army carrier 🇨🇦. Great episode.
Once again, the depth of knowledge and simplicity Prof. Felton delivers in these excellent videos are simply sublime. I feel sorry for the poor whales that took the brunt of a few mistakes by the Argentine Navy. Thank You, Professor Felton for more excellent content. We are in debt.
From the video, it seems that both Nations had a quarrel with them whales for some reason.
The General Belgrano was the former USS Phoenix a Brooklyn Class Light Cruiser that was a Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor, that had been sold to Argentina in 1951.
My father served on the USS Phoenix in early 1944 as a gunners mate. He was very much surprised when I told him that it had been sunk during the Falkland's War.
@@daviddittman1779 There was an effort before it was sunk to buy it back and make it a Museum Ship here in the US.
@@daviddittman1779 When did you tell him?
@@krashd About 2005, when I learned about it. It was about 5 years before he passed.
Met an older gentleman at a donut shop who was.on the Phoenix on 12/7/41. Told me they steamed out of the harbor unit and looked for a fight. It was considered a good luck ship as it was never damaged during the whole war. When MacArthur returned to the Phillipines, as promised, he chose the Phoenix as the ship to carry him there. The old guy was upset that the Argentine Navy got her sunk.
One of my late fathers brothers was one of the crew aboard the Norland. Not the first time he'd gone to war as he also served in the merchant navy in WW2 on the Arctic convoys.
so your uncle?
My Grandfather also served aboard the Arctic convoys as a gunner.
@@hatboxful nothing says serving the cause of liberty more than giving communists weapons for free!
My grandad was on the arctic convoys too but in the RN. Said he'd never been so cold in his life.
@@Graymenn I was trying to not use the term paternal uncle in case people did not know what paternal was.
This was the last true Air-Land-Sea battle since WWII in the Pacific. It served to reset concepts and theories of warfare right after the war ended. I didn't know about the u-boat contribution to Argentina's cause. This was a great commander and he did know how to use the right tactics not to mention his grittiness.
Great Job Mark !!! Probably the best military channel of KZhead quality material as always !!!
Those must have been a very confusing final moment for all those whales
The whales have been diligently rebuilding their forces for a counter-attack. Just wait for it.
Even worse for the bowl of petunias
...strange looking fish... *nom* boom!
my father was in the RN during this conflict and has recently returned from a reunion of that particular ships company and has had it confirmed that the the ship he was on at the time did mistakenly attack a whale with torpedoes. Also that a periscope was spotted in the water close by on another occasion but as to whether it was Argentine or another countries submarine is still a mystery.
You’re telling me the Royal Navy iced a bunch of whales?
@@tootlingturtle7254 it's just an unfortunate thing that happens, contact on sonar, no explanation as to what it is, could be enemy sub so get it before it gets you. I've heard stories of it happening in WW2 and whales being depth charged by both allied and axis powers. Any creature can be an unfortunate casualty of any conflict.
My old man was armed with a Lewis gun in early 1940, defending a pub in Essex. His gun team shot down a swan, they thought it was a 109.@@tootlingturtle7254
@Gee B not a cook but a stoker or Marine engineering mechanic if you prefer, in the engine room as a 1000lb bomb came through one side and went out the other without exploding.
@Gee B what? Ahh yes it does. What, do expect the men arming the torp tubes and sonars just eat nothing?
Who doesn't like a Mark Felton video!
Once again, i always learn more details other historians leave out. Good work as always.
Here in Germany we have an old idiom for the make AEG: A = Auspacken -> unpack E = Einschalten -> switch on G = Geht nicht -> doesn't work I admit, that idiom does only work out with the German wording...
"German engineering" "German quality"
German humour!
Out packing Installing Get nicked
I think it’s important to remember how deadly U-Boats were throughout History. A total of 12,850,815 tons of shipping were sunk by U-Boats really showcasing why they were used extensively up until later. Thanks for this quality video as always Dr. Felton.
not to mention, if it were chosen by the Germans to be produced in a bigger sum, instead of building the big naval fleet hitler wanted and instead went with Admiral Dönitz. they could've starved britian
Common knowledge
Most of the problem lies with allied propaganda still permeating a few history books. One book I read ludicrously discounted the U-boat threat as a tiny part of the British fight for survival and barely devoted any pages to discussing it! Tell that to the men who perished on the HMS Riyal Oak when U47 sneaked into Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands....
@@wrnchhead76 creampuff
But they suffered from 75% loss rate (793 U-boats sank in WWII)
Once again, thank you Mark, for yet another great video, carefully researched and full of relevant information. On a less serious note .... I couldn't help thinking about a U Boat crewed by "The Boys From Brazil", wreaking havoc in 1982.
I know this video (great job by the way) was principally about the San Luis, but I was really taken by the sinking of the General Belgrano. This warship, originally christened the USS Phoenix (CL 46) in 1938, saw extensive and distinguished service in the Pacific throughout WWII starting right there at Pearl Harbor on December 7th. What a ignominious ending for warship with such a proud legacy. I'm sure the men that served on her during WWII were none too pleased when they learned of her sinking in 1982.
I’m wondering what would the ships in the navy think if they were alive? How would the phoenix feel fighting, for the United States Navy, fighting battle after battle against Imperial Japan. Hearing stories of the Nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all while hearing stories of the far away war in Europe of Britannia, France the Nazis. It survives WW2 only to die, 4 decades later fighting in the far south of the Atlantic, at the hands of the power they heard so much or perhaps so little about, the United Kingdom.
I found it incredible that the Belgrano was considered such a threat. Those ancient 6 inch guns out-ranged modern British warships? Anti-ship missiles were ineffective? And it was only a light cruiser!
@@zorkmid1083 there is speculation that the sinking of the belgrano by the UK was a move to show it's strenght more than anything. old as it was, the belgrano was still a flag ship. she was actually returning to port away from the islands, when it was hit. the plan actually worked, most argentine ships were called back to port after. another nuclear power RN submarine was following the argentine carrier but couldn't make a move as there were antisubmarine aircrafts in the area.
@@zorkmid1083So she was not refitted at all. I find that hard to believe.
@@lordeden2732 It's believable if the country that bought it didn't have the money or facilities for a full refit.
I’d pay a large amount for a Felton book on The Falklands. A longer documentary would be great too.
Malvinas
How about a Felton book on the Invasion of Cyprus 1974 .....id buy it in an instant !!!
That aircraft carrier was bought from UK in 1948 by the Netherlands who renamed her to Hr.Ms. Karel Doorman (R 81). An engine room fire took her out of service in 1968. She was sold to Argentina in 1969 and renamed ARA Veinticinco de Mayo. Karel Doorman being the Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship HNLMS De Ruyter was torpedoed during the battle, having chosen to go down with the ship on the 28th of February 1942. My dad served on the Doorman for a while, the Doorman was nicknamed 'the fat boat' by Dutch mariners.
Absolutely fascinating and thanks for casting some light on Germany's Type XXI And Type XXII subs, their postwar submarine production, and the Falklands War.
Thanks Dr.Felton...Great info to know and share!!😊
I’m a second generation driller in the Oil and Gas industry. I worked with a senior engineer who was part of a team from Argo that was assigned to some exploration drilling in the Falklands. They succeeded. But we’re ordered soon after to shut everything down and pack up. Not long after the saber rattling started that led to the war. His opinion is that huge discover was an unspoken instigator.
here we are 40 years later, has there been any production?
@Gameplay Videos as far as I know, nobody has done any production down there.
@@WALTERBROADDUS it's being saved until the UK really needs it.
@@WozWozEre well with Russia cutting off gas to Poland; they might start thinking about new sources?
A few years ago I saw a report that the local TV news FITV, had uploaded to KZhead that said drilling had found a lot of oil had been found in their territorial waters. But they said the locals should not get too excited as the oil price would have to go higher in the long term for development to be viable. But these days the Falklands Government is loaded, so the islands don't really need the oil money anyway.
Brilliant story thanks for sharing Mark Felton, I was 12 years old when this was happening and I can remember it like yesterday! At my school we had a visit from the guy that signed the surrender of the Argentinian forces and he showed us the Argentinian chiefs binoculars, crazy times.
Thank you Mark. Absolutely fascinating as usual. Note: "... unfortunate whales..." I must admit, your dry British humor makes your presentations all the more enjoyable. Cheers from the US!
Fascinating U-Boat story, Mark. Thanks
Thank you Dr. Felton for another extremely well researched and presented video on the Falklands War. Regards, Anthony
The unfortunate whales suffered abysmally during the Falklands War! Tremendous video Mark, thank you so much!
If only they had had seaman Jones in charge of the sonar......
@@notsureyou Jonesy could have figured it out!😁
Since 1982 as 13 year old Teens of India Kids, Children, Youngsters of India knew what the Royal Army, Navy and the Air force then and as on today it's capable of .............. ........................ A BIG ZERO NOTHING 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣👌👌👍👍👏👏👏👏😁😁😊😊😍😍
@@r2gelfand he could tell those biologics from subs . . . "You are talking to a superior officer!" "No, merely a higher ranking one."
Not to mention the ecological damage caused by sending 23,800,000 tons of ships, with fuel
I've read a couple of books on the Falklands war but neither mentioned ex German U boats being used. Great informative video.
Another great video. As I have said before, no one does it better.
Phenomenal research and presentation of an extremely interesting subject. How can your work be so good Mark? Thank you!
It’s so good because it’s plagiarized
@@cfranko1860 do you have any evidence on this?
@@cfranko1860 🤓
Yes, excellent.
Do you expect anything else
Love you Mark, but... The snorkel was for bringing air in for the diesel engines whilst at periscope depth, not for the exhaust. The exhaust was vented overboard further down the sail.
Imagine that? All of those guys looking like my OPA screaming ALARM!!!! Dr Felton could make anything interesting about then and now pure genius! I wish that after the world calms down you can come to NY when it is safe to do some lectures because, it would be awesome and you pick the topic! You have been one of the few that I have been following since the beginning and wish you did a voiceover on a movie! Stay safe and be well!
Excellent presentation as usual; thank you :)
Some of the Argentines fought bravely and professionally. They deserve credit for that and they should not be blamed for poor high level leadership. B, (UK)
Thank you for your kind words. I' ll dare to say that almost all of our combatants have done a good job. Specially the Air Force and Naval Aviation. Have a nice day.
I agree, they fought so bravely, it could had turned out differently.
Thank you my friend! British also fought bravely and as gentlemen!
Well said blokes gave their lives 🇬🇧
@@pucarasetenta4361 they did their duty and many gave their lives. From 🇬🇧
The San Luis was a good ship with bad torpedoes. The whales were the real losers from the Falkland conflict. Didn't know the Argentinians employed AL Pacino as a submarine captain.
You talking too me.... YOU TALKING TO ME....🤣
YOU TORPEDOING ME?
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE... FUUUUCK!!! AGAIN!?!?!?!?!?!
So any idea how many whales were hurt during that action?
Lol I thought the same thing when I saw the Pacino look alike. Those poor whales.
Absolutely fascinating! Being 21 at the time of the Falklands War, I avidly watched every tv News programme I could access throughout the War, to the point of organising my lunch breaks on the farm around them‼️ And I've contiued to watch any related programmes & documentaries ever since! I knew the Belgranno story well, especially as a friend's father was re-commissioned aboard Conqueror en-route, and was on the 'bridge' (not sure of the submarine equivilent!) at the time of the sinking! But this is the first time I've heard anything about the Argentine Navy's submarine service during the War! I must say that I'd never even thought of Whales being the tragic casualties of the War!
Great video ,thank you for highlighting an amazing story that I feel most people never even knew about ,
Right around the corner to me, are 2 former U-Boat docks, DORA 1 and DORA 2, when Germany occupied Trondheim. They were built so solidly that the local government didn't have the time and effort to take them apart, so they just repurposed them into offices and recreational spaces. Would be great to learn the history behind these docks.
Great swimming pool in Trondheim, rich country Norge.
Repurposing old U-boat docks as recreational facilities sounds like poetic justice for a nation that was invaded and occupied by a foreign power despite putting up an impressive amount of resistance against overwhelming odds.
Let's hope my office doesn't sink!
That was an amazing story... especially that they were able to refit that u-boat and make it functional.
Thank you. This was history I did not know.
Love watching your shows. Very informative.
from what i've heard from some of the crew of the submarine the fire control systems failed and the torpedo's gyro's had been wrongly connected, I served aboard the hermes during the war and allthough it's been 40 years it's still very fresh in my memory
I been following Dr. Felton since 2020 and i must say i didnt know anything about the sub warfare during the "Guerra de Malvinas" as we call it here in Argentina. I knew the country didnt have a modern navy, being the battleship Belgrano a clear example of it, but german U-boats? i didnt have any idea ... Anyways, there´s no doubt the Malvinas´s dispute is a delicate matter. This war was started thanks to a decaying military junta which killed thousands of Argentinians in the main land, not only in this war. Great work Mark, hugs from Argentina.
Thank you for your honest comment. Let's wish peace and harmony to all.
Respect sir from the UK.. 🇦🇷 🇬🇧
No delicate matter here. Try it again and the same response+ will be waiting.
USS Phoenix (CL-46) was a light cruiser. Called the ship a battleship after the name changed to Belgrano doesn't do it service. At least use a wilder name like a battlestar or star destroyer.
Brilliantly fascinating as ever, thanks.
Thanks, Mark - for another great presentation.
Mark knows what he is doing.
Great video mark, love your way of making history interesting and easy to understand! Can we have more recent history videos?
Mark, you can really tell a story.
Fascinating Mark. Thanks
Great video really enjoyed it thank you for sharing!
Yet another gem from history. Thank you
Fantastic video by Dr Felton once again. Learned it wasn't good to be a whale in the South Atlantic in spring 1982!
the snorkel is not designed to vent diesel exhaust, it is designed to draw in fresh air from the atmosphere to feed the diesel engines. the exhaust is forced out, usually through a diesel exhaust mast although it can be forced out through different hull valves depending on the configuration of the ventilation system and the facilities on board.
That's true. In any event, a leaking snorkel is still bad, very bad.
Seriously though torpedoing whales isn’t something I ever thought about. Really upsetting just as much as human loss. Thank you for the information
Even more so as people have choices, whales did not.
Doesn't say a lot for military detection equipment does it?
Very thrilling! U-boats were also blamed for dragging Brazil into WW2, after the sinking of several merchant ships along its vast Atlantic coast. Brazil's response was the so called FEB, short for Brazilian Expeditionary Force, deployed mostly to fight in Italy under US supervision. For most Brazilians, FEB members had a relevant role in Italy and are respected as national heros. To some, however, FEB was not more than a waste of precious life, ammo, crafts, etc. Unprepared the GIs were mostly considered a burden to American soldiers. So I wonder what is the real history behind Brazil's FEB... Dr. Mark, have you ever covered the subject on one of your videos? Thanks much! Cheers from Brazil.
Come to Brazil
I will enjoy much to see the vídeo about FEB , made for Dr. Felton .
Ur sailing in a war area, you should be aware that a submarine could be lurking near by
Hey, you stepped up. No shame there. The Western Powers had centuries of warfighting and training experience. Nobody in their right mind would expect a level of technical skill from such a young and rural nation. You put your blood on the line and whether you were an asset or burden that blood is the same. Well Done, Sons of Dom Pedro I.
@@johannsebastianbach9003 I think you have it backwards. The issue was German U-boats sinking ships off the Brazilian coast, which is why Brazil first started letting US patrol aircraft operate from Brazil, and eventually joined the war after attacks on Brazillian shipping in Brazillian waters
Finally a video at exactly the right time..lunch time with Mark Felton...and U Boats..a perfect combination of facts and good food on my end!
Brilliant as always amazing content I never fail to learn something new ftom your video's Thank you
Great story as usual!!!
@Mark Felton Here's a fun fact I read from Tom Clancy's book "Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship" when he interviewed a RN sub commander, the General Belgrano (ex-USS Phoenix) was sunk coincidentally with the same pattern of torpedo hits as her sister ship USS Helena during WW2, which also tore off her bow and blew a gaping hole amidships in the machinery room.
Well done, Mark. I love your videos!
MARK FELTONS PRODUCTIONS Always interesting subjects Always well researched And NO GENERIC IMAGES !!! JUST authentic and detailed presentations
What a fantastic video. I had no idea this even occurred.
Mark I love learning from your channel. Your skill at keeping history is essential to the future. Have you heard the story of u boat commander Otto von weddigen
When the Antelope was in Long Beach, CA in 1978 was on a reserve cruise. The crew hosted us in the "pub," where we enjoyed John Courage in a can (quite good) and traded souvenirs. I often wonder how many of the lads I met were still inboard that fateful day in 1982.
The crew were evacuated after the explosion, one member of an Army bomb disposal team was killed and another severely wounded, Antelope sank next day.
I can't imagine there would have been that many from the crew four years previous. Average length of a draft was one and a half to three years.
Brilliant information and narration.
Amazing. I dont' recall hearing about this in the US during the Falklands war. Thanks for highlighting this unique data.
Reagan screwed Argentina, you know the treaty about outside force coming into Western Hémisphère. Argentina was the only nation that backed USA in the Bay of Pigs and sent a ship. However, I thank the UK for giving rugby, polo, field hockey and football. I forgot the railroad. Thank you.
Even though the San Luis failed to sink a British ship, she was still successful in diverting British resources to hunt down the submarine and also (possibly) keeping high valued assets out of some areas of operation. Hearing more details of this aspect would have been an interesting inclusion - to what effect did the San Luis affect/hamper the British campaign?
Dr Mark Felton, your research is usually impeccable but this is the second time that I have tried to correct you when you say "the Royal Navy only sent Nuclear powered Submarines to the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict!" But the Royal Navy also sent HMS Onyx, SSK 21 a diesel electric, conventional Oberon Class Submarine to the Falklands during the conflict. Remembering that this was 40 years ago, there's a lot of information on the Internet about it's roles and duties during the Falklands War.
Correct, I served on Oynx in the mid eighties & she was down south.
more importantly the onyx had an encounter whit the san luis.
And?
HMS Onyx slammed the Argentinians, and were the inspiration for a whole generation.
I heard "the royal navy also sent nuclear powered submarines"
A good video. As an Australian I remember that we had purchased HMS Invicible and were months away from delivery when the War started. We have never purchased another carrier which kind of disappointed a lot of military people I know.
Basically all we have is a couple of dinghies and a rowboat
And a tyrannical government
Despite having read for forty years everything I could about the Falklands, I was not aware of the attacks on Alacrity. Thanks Mark.
Another brilliant video, with Mark we really get quantity and quality.
I remember as a child watching this on the news, and being impressed with all the high tech military equipment. I watch it now and turns out most of their ordinance was left over from ww2
As usual! This was GREAT!
Excellent reporting with unique footage I had never seen before! I vividly remember following this conflict in the news, but the submarines were not reported about at the time of course.
Mr. Felton, you had your facts to the point. I knew what happened because one of the crewmen in the San Luis and I have a friend in common. Not only he did mention the frustration after the launches, because at the beginning everything looked _"dandy",_ only to watch the torps _go off to live on an island somewhere,_ a second later, but also the level of brainwrecking stress that came from avoiding the ships above for almost a week. On another note, I think I remember HMS Conqueror's Capt. deciding to use WWII torps, because _"they should be fine against a WWII ship"._ I always wondered, though, what was a shiny new nuclear sub doing carrying WWII ordnance. Cheers.
Probably had a lot in surplus after the war and after removing torpedo launchers from ships like the Belfast and other ww2 ships, so with the subs being the only ships capable of using them might as well put them to use. Even ww2 ordnance is still probably overkill if you ever needed to do some commerce raiding and is cheaper too.
The M1911a1 is a WW1 era weapon that's still around, not to mention Ma Deuce (M2) a pre WW2 weapon that is still on active duty. The German M3 machine gun is merely a rechambered MG42. Just because a weapon is old doesn't mean it is useless.
@@jefferyindorf699Hey there! I think there's been a misunderstanding, I'm not pondering about those torps because of their design, but because of their age proper. Sure old small arms do happen to be around and work just fine, and their modern, rather recently manufactured ones do just as well, but in the case of heavy, complex ordnance like torpedoes, why bring 40 y/o ones? An analogue example would be, if you were to choose your quality designed rifle ammo, where quality is not under question, would you use brand new, or 40 year old cartridges? 🙂 Cheers.
@@darman12able Probably. I also thought at some point that it could've been related to the fact that the British MoD was beginning to see its budget being reduced, so they had to make do with whatever was around and deemed reliable.
The Conquer carried Tigerfish wire guided torpedoes, and the old mark 18s. The TigerFish at that time was considered unreliable and had a smaller warhead than the mark 18. So a reliable older weapon with a much bigger warhead was used.
You're the best Dr. Felton!
Quite stellar work...
This is incredible and very sad at the same time.
Love your Falklands series. I'm well in my 50s. So I still remember keenly watching the news daily. All things considered, it was somewhat evenly matched and a more conventional military conflict, unlike the GWOT we are so used to seeing for the last couple of decades or so.
what is gwot
@@grippatherippa3909 Global War on Terror
@@ftc9258 that's strictly an American thing there's a lot other conflicts going on in the world that don't involve the American government directly like the global war on terror has
Ah, the U Boats still haven't gotten over their war against Royal Navy....Thank you for your informative videos Mark :D
Great video I remember watching the news here in the U.S while all that was going on.
Excellent account of war at sea during the Faulklands conflict. The hunt of the San Luis was epic. I was never aware whales suffered collateral damage.
Collateral and Clitoral Damage 😂.