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"...then she was sold for scrap." It's like saying "and then they sold the Lone Ranger's horse to make glue."

1946 in the UK: "We have finally found the holy grail!" The government: "wE cAn ScRaP tHaT!!!"

"Let's make sure history never forgets ... the name ... Enterprise." -JL Picard (2366)

What charming little warships. Especially the Enterprise. "Does this twin turret make me look a bit busty?"

Enterprise - a project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort. I think both lived up to their name in World War 2

Enterprise. The best name for a ship ever. Every Enterprise, American or British, has performed exemplary. Naval ship or space shuttle, Enterprise is an auspicious and honored name.

Every fleet should have a dedicated anti aircraft vessel, armed completely with pom - poms. We could name them, the " Cheerleader class".....

"Let's make sure that History always remembers the name "Enterprise"!

Thank you Drachinifel. My father who is 95 served as a seaman boy on Emerald from 1942 until 1944, including Indian convoys and DDay. He's very frail and I suspect the last living crew member.

I like the lines of this ship. It's also fun to play in World of Warships.

Very successful designs given their WW1 ancestry. The fact their forward looking specification and capabilities (plus upgrades) made them useful throughout WW2 is a testament to that. Great looking ships too - hard to imagine them as WW1 design era really!

Thanks for that Drach, my father served on the Emerald pre and early WWII and was aboard for the Gold Reserve being moved to Canada.

They carried the heaviest torpedo battery of any RN ship and were the fastest torpedo armed vessels in the RN - an aggressive combination by any standard. And RN fish were good - reliable, straight running, no nonsense about magnetic pistols and with 800 pounds of TNT replaced by TORPEX (50 percent greater explosive power than TNT) in the same league as the vaunted Long Lance - as ARA Belgrano found to her sorrow. Imagine them in a night engagement in the Med against the Italians. I guess their weak AA suite kept then in the East Indies.

HMS Enterprise *"This is getting out hand, now there are two of them!"*

my grandad was the radar officer aboard the emerald. he told me many story of this ship. thanks for this video

"Enterprise had the more interesting career of the two" Hey that sounds familiar....

Four quad torpedo launchers on a British cruiser? That seems positively Japanese of them :)

I’ve been waiting for this one! The Spanish Almirante Cervera class was based on the E-class, and like their cousins (I assume there’s a more appropriate word?), they were fine-looking ships.

Good-looking ships. Interesting video.

Hey Drach, nice to see another video but we haven't forgotten that your grandfather died only a week ago. So if you want to take some more time than usual I'm sure people would understand :)

I was hyped for this! Thank you for delivering. This was my favourite ship to play in Navy Field - as a anti-air escort for carriers and battleships with twin 5.25s. Glad to see history isn't forgetting the real thing.

Beautiful ships! I really, really like the lines of this era of British cruiser.

'Let's make sure that history never forgets the name... Enterprise!'

What a wonderful series of photos to illustrate this Ship. Many thanks.

One of the more beautiful british ships built. I love her long lines.

Fitting since HMS Enterprise got added to Azur Lane recently. Well, before PR5 came & blew everything out of the water.

My fave Tier 5 cruiser in world of warships, got a kraken in fast sucession in this thing torped cruisers and blasting Destroyers lol They look so nice an sleek

Thank you for this vid on one of my favorite RN classes - I have always found these to be lovely vessels representing an interesting period of design transition. More importantly, Drach, take to heart the warm best wishes of your supporters and please take time for yourself and family, in dealing with your own transition in the manner that best suits you!

The Emerald class is probably my favorite british cruisers

What a beautiful looking pair of ships.

About the torpedo tubes upgrade; that's why I love Emerald in Warships so much... SIXTEEN torpedoes... One more than Shima in a T5 cruiser!

Strangely enough, one of my favourite looking class of RN cruisers.

Thank you, Drachinifel.

Thank you for covering these fine ships .

Great work Sir thank you

Thank you Drach. Another quality video!

Beautiful ships, exemplary service, and excellent summary Drach. Thank you very much

Nice history…. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Drach This is probably been answered in a drydock but was there any reason cruisers stuck with single guns so long? given the advantages of a twin turrets, and the fact turrets had been used on BB;s for decades, why not on the larger protected cruisers?

Love these videos Drach, thanks. My father and grandfather were both Navy men and living in Plymouth, initially near the Ernesettle R.N. ammo compound and later in the city, a day out as a lad would be a picnic on Plymouth Hoe when word got around that such and such a ship or ships were due into Plymouth harbour. I remember the annual Navy Days very well and the competition between the Devonport and Portsmouth gun crews. When my turn came to join (the FAA) in 1970 I was politely turned away due to the general downscaling of the Navy and the aircraft carriers in particular. As an impetuous youngster I decided to try my luck flying with the Army who always had good relations with any Navy FAA squadron or shipboard Wasp or Lynx that would occasionally be attached to us for tasking. Speaking to the guys on the ground during anti-terrorist ops during the 70's and 80's in N.I., they were always relieved to know it was either a Navy or Army helicopter that would be tasked to support, or return them to base reliably, regardless of the weather. 🙂

Drach uploading at seven am Saturday. , Listening i on my way to work. 👍👍

"depending on where you are on the ship"= a description for the ages

History will remember the name, Enterprise.

Great video

Cool subject.

Good News!! Drac on Saturday

Any chance you can go through the history of the Oerlikon gun?

6:10 Is that... a kingfisher on Enterprise's catapult?

great video! i've always had a lot of interest with HMS Emerald ever since i ran upon a picture of her, my grandfather took, while she was serving on the Yangtze River in China a really long time ago. My grandparents were in China from 1925 - 1932 and my mom was born there in Shanghai. Still have the photo, its B&W, not sure the exact date he took it, need to fine the photo album it had been in, might have more specific date in it.

Those are sure some pretty lines... the look fast, even with the anchor chain out.

I'm always amazed that the E class wasn't used in the Med. They were the most heavily torpedo armed ships of the RN - and British torpedoes were good, exhibiting none of the problems the USN and KM fish had, with the adoption of Torpex in 1942 they had a greater blast effect than the vaunted "Long Lance" (a term never used by the IJN, but a post war invention by Samuel Elliott Morrison) as 800 pounds of Torpex has the effect of 1200 pounds of TNT while the Type 92 had a 1100 pound TNT warhead - as well as being the fastest so armed - an aggressive combination by any standard. Imagine what they could have done in night actions against the Regia Marina.

I never heard of this Enterprise before!

Never mess with an HMS Enterprise, or USS Enterprise.

Okay, I thought that the Royal Navy and the USN had an agreement not to use the same name for ships in their respective fleets to avoid confusion. This one surprised me, especially since both HMS Enterprise and USS Enterprise served in the same the-at-er.

Great video many thanks. To eccles milligan, My father also served on Emerald during that time period, JL Wootton. "The REPLY Tags are not working as well". Kind regards David Wootton.

Interesting, the last picture of the HMS Enterprise looks like it has a US built Kingfisher floatplane on the catapult.

Nice vid

5:53 Is that a discord ping in the background? :D Great video as always!

Great

Hated this ship in world of warships, nice to learn about the actual very interesting vessel.

Drach, Have you done a piece on the USCG Treasury Class cutters? These were some very fine ships with long service histories and stellar combat records.

My father in law was 3rd then 2nd engineer on Enterprise from 1941 to 1944. He would have loved the mention of the New Orleans race.

The E Class crusiers. We have HMS Enterprise in Axis and Allies War at Sea. Oversized destroyers with heaviest torpedo battery Range 0-2 3/3/1

You should do a video on the H. L. HUNLEY.

Hey Drachinifel can you do a review of the USS Rodney M. Davis that recently met a fiery end in the Pacific.

I'd love to see an episode on the Soviet post WW2 Sverdlov class cruisers

Interesting

yay one of my fav classes of tween war cruisers. so my question is which ship is better the twin gun turret or the 2 single guns up front....I think it's obvious the turret is a better idea or at last the start of a better idea but the REAL hero is actually the Danae class before this which FINALLY sees them put all the guns centre line instead of doubling up and putting 1 gun on each side of the ship to cover one position. So 6 guns covered the same broadside fields of fire as 12 had before.

Still disappointed Enterprise didn't get to serve in the Pacific past 1944 when the British were more committed there, would have loved to see her in one of the joint task forces as an escort so she could be with her namesake in the USN.

Does that last picture of Enterprise show a Vought Kingfisher on the floatplane catapult?

Did these ships burn coal or oil? When was the conversion from coal to oil finished?

Would you go through the history of H. M.S. Maxman, and her class, please, thank you, Patrick, Northamptonshire

Emerald wrecks shop in low tier wows legends

It would have been fun if HMS Enterprise had been assigned to Far East Fleet and had ended up escorting USS Enterprise at some point or another.

HMS Calliopie "the Hurricaine jumper"

IJN Yubari review please :P

For Gawds sake - HMS Glowworm, finest action by a little ship in WW2. The Victoria Cross is not handed out every day. It's what Nelson would have done. A captain can do no wrong if he goes 'at em'. ( words like that anyway )

What was the captain's name on the Enterprise?

That's no way to treat an Enterprise!

A plane is passing by...

I like the hull and the torps, but can't help thinking that the superstructure and guns should have been removed and redone to get rid of the single gun mounts and replaced as all twin.

1:20 time mark. HMS Enterprise, Captain Kirk no doubt on the bridge attempting to make out ENS Chekhov's attempts at English. While a worried Mr. Scott simply face-palms.

do navies sail with ammo ships or does the ammo meet them when they need reloading after battles same with other supplies, is there a ship with them acting like a floating warehouse?

I wonder if any Emeralds ever had a notable number of French Ruby pistols aboard.

Yo its the base war thunder british cruiser

Did HMS Enterprise ever have a commanding officer named, Kirk?

In the last photo, did I spy a Kingfisher float plane on HMS _Enterprise's_ catapult??

We can't save them all.

Missile Jammers?

Drac your intro sound is really low compared to the main video

Obligatory comment for the algorithm

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I was wondering if you could do a video specifically on the encounter of HMS Warspite in the Norwegian campaign. Would there be enough for a video? By the way, why on Earth didn’t they preserve that beautiful ship? Criminal act scrapping her.

The RN got their money's worth with these ships

About warn out guns. Is this still the case? Is it more than a Metallurgy issue?

Seems that ships named enterprise always get scraped

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Isn't it a shame that ships with gloried careers such as Enterprise are simply "sold for scrap?" A most unfitting fate. It brings me some joy to learn that the Royal Navy didn't let a ship named "Enterprise" be a simple footnote in history.