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@MrBlueBurd04512 жыл бұрын
The scrapping of the Grand Old Lady, HMS Warspite, remains one of the greatest crimes against naval history ever committed, and like you said Ryan, she did not go quietly.
@anglonorse29432 жыл бұрын
Just seven words condemned her "Approved for HMS Warspite to be scrapped"
@ThumperE232 жыл бұрын
She was in bad material condition, though, with one of her turrets inactive, and a large patch in the bottom of her hull, from the German Guided Bomb.
@Aelvir1142 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately her condition was really bad (just look at the photos of her when she was being disarmed). But thankfully her nameplate and bell were saved. Her captain, Andrew Cunningham kept it hanging in the front of his house until his death (it’s now held privately at Imperial War Museum) and even watched as Warspite was towed away. The nameplate was in a pub near where she ran aground but all sources say it “has since been sold at auction” which means the sale was undocumented and is therefore lost and/or its whereabouts are unknown. One of Warspite’s guns were used aboard the battleship HMS Vanguard. But unfortunately even her guns were scrapped. I personally think Vanguard should’ve at least been saved, since she would’ve had the only surviving 5.25” turrets, sextuple Bofors, and a gun from Warspite, on top of being the most technologically advanced battleship to ever exist (more than the Iowas). She was also in better condition than any Iowa at the time.
@177SCmaro2 жыл бұрын
As great a sight as the fast battleships are, I would have traded all four of the Iowas for preserving Enterprise and Warspite. Both ships represented the Naval war for their respective countries. No one can deny their tenacity for survival. The Japanese reported Enterprise sunk so many times during the war it gave rise to the nickname "The Grey Ghost". I know less of Warspite but if the war was based only on the naming of ships, the British would have won single handedly.
@ThumperE232 жыл бұрын
@@177SCmaro The Warspite was going to be a tough save, because of her material condition. She had as Ryan pointed out a partial concrete bottom. Enterprise they tried to save, but the money wasn't there. Texas barely got saved. As Ryan said, ships that have a State name or City name had local pride that could help save them, while Enterprise was just a name.
@wolfhalupka89922 жыл бұрын
such a shame that HMS Warspite wasn't preserved as a museum. imagine her on the Thames next to Tower Bridge together with HMS Belfast!
@christianjunghanel67242 жыл бұрын
I asume that HMS Belfast would not have been preserved if they made HMS Warspite a museum !🤔 Which i would prefer , to be honest !😅
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
@@christianjunghanel6724 no, had to have a town class as well
@christianjunghanel67242 жыл бұрын
@@wierdalien1 Yeah thats how it turned out ,but if they would have made Warspite into a museum, thinks would have played out differently for Belfast ! They were just willingly enough to do Belfast ! No way they would have kept both!
@LordElpme2 жыл бұрын
@@christianjunghanel6724 Might have happened, remember that HMS Belfast continued to serve until '63 unlike Warspite, whose underside was mostly concrete when D-Day happened. Honestly, Warspite is probably one of the IRL occurrences of the Plot Armour trope, but she would take more money to make good after so many emergency repairs that worth. At best, she would have to be a dry dock exhibit
@christianjunghanel67242 жыл бұрын
@@LordElpme Yeah who knows 🤷! Still its a shame that no other battleship except the american ones survived😔
@boattguyafloat2 жыл бұрын
Can't argue with the exploits of Warspite. Her battle honours are heavily loaded towards steaming balls out in harms way against moving, armoured adversaries. Perhaps the most significant BB in terms of sheer ass kickery...
@johnjubie71442 жыл бұрын
And a very cool name!
@davidb65762 жыл бұрын
@in desperate need of a scotch You got a belly laugh from me.
@LordElpme2 жыл бұрын
aye, to see two world wars and was still very effective (would have said formidable but didn't want to provoke "not a CV" replies :p ) in ww2 is a feat, she seemed to be everywhere
@SennaAugustus9 ай бұрын
@@LordElpme Warspite sunk a ship with her plane, therefore she is a CV too.
@wagonranger73882 жыл бұрын
If I remember right, when the Iowa and New Jersey engaged the IJN Nowaki at about 21mi, the FIRST SALVO was a straddle. Pretty impressive I would say.
@Cailus35422 жыл бұрын
Yep. American and British fire control achieved near perfection towards the end of the war.
@jkull1732 жыл бұрын
Between you and Drach today has been a great day for those interested in Naval shipbuilding history. Thanks!
@codemonkey93222 жыл бұрын
It's such a tragedy to naval history that Warspite was not saved as a museum ship. During the Battle of Jutland, Warspite's steering jammed during an aggressive maneuver to avoid a collision with her sister ship HMS Valiant. This caused her to steam in circles thus drawing German fire away from the damaged cruiser HMS Warrior. Warspite took an incredible beating but she saved HMS Warrior. It was almost as if Warspite herself made the decision to save Warrior. Plus she is the first ship to survive an "anti ship" missile attack from Fritz-X bombs. How much awesomeness can one ship achieve!?
@ChairmanMo2 жыл бұрын
The Fritz-X bombs were not a joke, three or four of them sunk one of the Italian Navy's battleships. The Fritz-X bombs however were easily jammed and the wire guided versions were not useful because the bomber launching it would have had to loiter around the combat zone for too long and they would get shot down by enemy fighters. NatGeo had a documentary on this. The Fritz-X bombs are in a way a preview of the Exocat missile.
@johngregory48012 жыл бұрын
I don't know, but if a proper set of qualifications could be put together, the HMS Warspite Award should be created, for "gallant savagery in the face of withering odds".
@maxkronader52252 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you mentioned the complexity and amount of expertise that go into major caliber guns. Most people don't understand just how much brainpower, effort, and skill goes into designing and manufacturing a gun that can fire a 2,000lb shell 30,000yds+ accurately.
@eatthisvr62 жыл бұрын
For context on how warspite is viewed to brits then I'd say we view her the same way Americans view enterprise. Both great ships that took huge beatings repeatedly and yet refused to lose and just carried on truckin no matter how hard they got hit
@SealofPerfection2 жыл бұрын
Yep, and both were basket case, patched-together wrecks by the end of the war, which is why they weren't saved. They still should have been, though.
@franzfanz2 жыл бұрын
@@SealofPerfection Yep, those two are equal first on historic warships that should have been saved. I'd put HMS Dreadnought at third.
@fredsafarowic31492 жыл бұрын
I wish Enterprise had gone out the way Warspite did, however.
@eatthisvr62 жыл бұрын
@@fredsafarowic3149 warspite went out they she served in both world wars. Giving no fucks!!!
@bogustoast22none252 жыл бұрын
Enterprise took beatings. But it was better known as at one point being the only carrier in service across the entire pacific theater. I think the one you’re looking for is the USS Nevada, which took 2 nukes, 5 days of shelling, and a torpedo to finally sink it.
@OldStreetDoc2 жыл бұрын
The history of the HMS Warspite would be a wonderful video to watch. The more detail the better… but I don’t know how many others would be as in to it as I, so I understand. She had a truly legendary career. Well done!
@tcpratt16602 жыл бұрын
Drach did this video very early in his video career: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpOPeNt-1JbLXac.html
@OldStreetDoc2 жыл бұрын
@@tcpratt1660 Outstanding! Thanks for that! I was just wondering if perhaps he had done something like this. Headed there right now!
@Tuning34342 жыл бұрын
@@OldStreetDoc Don't know how close you follow Drach, but some great recommendations are his series on the Pearl Harbour salvage operations, there is a great interview with Captain Larry Seaquist (USS Iowa captain in '80s) and his coop with Matt Warwick on the KGV's development history was eye-opening for me.
@matthayward78892 жыл бұрын
I think it’s matter of national shame that Warspite (and others) were not preserved
@bmused552 жыл бұрын
@@matthayward7889 Agreed. So many missed opportunities due to short sighted decisions
@iansneddon29562 жыл бұрын
"Captain, there's a World War I battleship coming at us kind of slow. Just 23 knots." "So we've got them outclassed in every respect. This should be easy" "Sir, it's the Warspite" "Oh!"
@anglonorse29432 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, love it !
@britishneko39062 жыл бұрын
**"Belli dulla despicio!" intensifies***
@thehandoftheking33142 жыл бұрын
God help them if it was New Zealand...
@aw345652 жыл бұрын
This will be good. My Great-Grandfather served on HMS Barham during WW1, including the Battle of Jutland, and HMS Malaya in the 1920s.
@geofffikar34172 жыл бұрын
The destruction video of HMS Barham is unbelievable, and hard to watch.
@geofffikar34172 жыл бұрын
@Michael Jackson The Guilty Child Molester Thanks. That was the video I was thinking of.
@kensummerlin1802 жыл бұрын
Jutland was the greatest Naval battle in history. That's something to be proud of.
@matthayward78892 жыл бұрын
To be fair, the Queen Elizabeth class would’ve won every engagement with an Iowa from 1914 to 1943
@willpat30402 жыл бұрын
LOL 🤣
@Ihrtbewbs2 жыл бұрын
I love these longer history type videos! Ryan is really knowledgable.
@robhartley39302 жыл бұрын
Just to clarify, four battleships made a Division in the Grand Fleet, not a Squadron. The subsequent R class battleships were authorised as an 8 ship class, the five as built with the last 3 the original Renown and Repulse to the R class design and the eighth cancelled which was to be called Resistance. The last 3 were changed in design or cancelled when it was decided that no more battleships would be laid down as it was thought the war wouldn't last long.
@TheMasterHackUS2 жыл бұрын
I think it would be interesting to compare/contrast Warspite to New Jersey, especially considering they are the most decorated Battleship from each nation respectively.
@slammerf162 жыл бұрын
Yes! and lets not make it a Versus video either. There's too much X > Y and we should remember they were on the same team and achieved similar goals with differing approaches.
@Theduckwebcomics Жыл бұрын
It's too different a thing though... New Jersey is a great ship but mainly participated in conflicts rather than actually fought the way Warspite did. There's nothing wrong with that but they just don't compare for the most part.
@zzirSnipzz12 жыл бұрын
Like Ryan he is always respectful like Drach, he could just have went off dissing warspite as she was an older design and smaller
@SennaAugustus Жыл бұрын
The ghost of Warspite would haunt New Jersey, you do not want to piss off the old lady, she had beached a ship carrying her own scrap.
@Arutima2 жыл бұрын
A drink to HMS Warspite, the greatest Brtitish warship in history. Shame they scrapped her instead of turning her into a museum ship.
@neildonaldson34082 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. Thank you so much.
@trailrunnah88862 жыл бұрын
I'd definitely like one on the Warspite. I'm sure Drach has a video on her, but it would be cool to see your take as well. I've really gotten hooked on this type of video over the last year, keep up the excellent work.
@timothybarham63742 жыл бұрын
Having the same last name of one of the Queen Elizabeth class battleships HMS Barham is cool, but her fate during WW2 was heartbreaking to learn.
@thetorturepenguin Жыл бұрын
damn that sucks bro
@31dknight2 жыл бұрын
Another great video from the battleship. Thanks
@bill87842 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thank you.
@timandellenmoran12132 ай бұрын
Ryan, this was excellent! Thank you so much 😊
@tyr83382 жыл бұрын
Great to see one of those longer, more detailed videos again, I was a bit underwhelmed by content lately and this is exactly what I was hoping for. Please do something new in atomic series.
@jg10932 жыл бұрын
It takes alot to put out the indepth videos, be grateful
@DashRantic2 жыл бұрын
ur mom lieks in-depth videos
@tcofield19672 жыл бұрын
Great ships for sure. Maybe the New Mexico class was comparable as warships but the Queen Elizabeth Class certainly wins on practical execution of her design. They still packed a potent punch and were used as front line ships 25 years after launch, a remarkable testament to their design.
@sergeipohkerova72112 жыл бұрын
Queen Elizabeth is the pinnacle of 1910s battleship tech versus Iowa which is peak 1940s battleship tech so Iowa should be able to land hits better due to superior fire control. If Iowa's tech was grafted onto Elizabeth or Iowa was reduced to 1916 fire control then the outcome isn't certain. QEs can take a hit and give them, too. One thing QE class has going for it is that at least when they were flagships of the Grand Fleet the battleship was still the final arbiter, whereas when Iowas were launched they were no longer battle deciders and were arguably irrelevant in terms of their designed purpose. Repurposed as support vessels they certainly provided value, but Iowas were never going to duke it out with Yamato or Musashi. The bombers and fighters from the carriers would smack up the Japanese ships before Iowas even got in sniffing distance for the 16 inch guns to fire.
@DeliveryMcGee2 жыл бұрын
Iowas should be compared to Vanguard, the QEs were ancient.
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
@@DeliveryMcGee And yet they were still kicking arse and taking names
@michaelathens9532 жыл бұрын
A lot of people don't seem to realize (or admit) that the big gun battleships were obsolescent by the 1940s. Not completely obsolete yet, but the Iowa class and contemporaries absolutely represent the sunset of battleship-on-battleship engagements. Air power both in terms of the aircraft themselves and their carrier ships advanced so quickly throughout the war, by it's end the carrier and carrier based aircraft really were the decisive factor. Recognizing that fact and moving away from the heavily armored gun platforms towards aircraft carriers must've been difficult for a lot of the more old school naval leadership.
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
@@michaelathens953 its not that simple really, yes air power was becoming dominate, but the free space, and weight, the big gun battleships had compared to destroyers or cruisers allowed them to be utterly packed full of sensors and guns without being a detriment to its fighting capability. There is a reason why destroyers utterly ballooned in size after the war
@T0ffik12 жыл бұрын
@Sergei Pohkerova Most things considering fire control etc were upgraded on ships. There is a reason why QE class and Scharnhorst have the longest scored (two side confirmed) hits of 24+km range on moving ships. Yamato has (only confirmed by US side, Japan destroyed the documents) a 31km stradle that actually did dmg and not just splash. Shell went under the escort CV and exploaded, disabling compleatly its power for some time) and confirmed 19km (if im not mistaken) DD hit with main guns (no one hit a DD till that time from such range with BB). US had overall the poorest longest hits confirmed on BB class ships. QE was nowhere match a Yamato or Iowa class BB's in terms of protection and gun's. But they still could shoot as accurate, as core systems were upgraded through time. Specially that US went out in WW2 with kinda poor long range scored hits in their BB's.
@Birddog1032 жыл бұрын
A video on why naval guns have such a long lead time and take so long to build would be very interesting.
@lonnyyoung42852 жыл бұрын
Ryan's anecdote about the Iowas trying to hit a destroyer at long range reminds me too much of me trying to hit an annoying DD with any of my battleships in WOWS.
@Kakarot64. Жыл бұрын
Sounds like me in my Queen Elizabeth Battleship that I pretend is Warspite because I'm to much of a peasant to buy the actual premium Warspite.
@wildcat200212 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a proper special style video with a trip to Britain to go over the details and history of HMS Warspite. One of my all time favorite ships.
@simonrook57432 жыл бұрын
Warspite is one of only two battleships to sink a Submarine, during the battle of Narvik her Swordfish spotter plane bombed and sank U-64 although the captain and crew went on to form the kernel of the very successful U-124. The other battleship to sink a submarine was HMS Dreadnought (by ramming). A great piece as always Ryan, clearly a direct comparison between the two is a bit silly, but they do bare a comparison of the thinking and principles. As an Aside the QEs were nearly built with small tube boilers which would have added about 3-3.5kt to their top speed making them, possibly, true fast battleships.
@mikeynth79192 жыл бұрын
Narvik. Where a battleship says "I'm not in these fjords with you - you're locked in the fjords with me!"
@mikeynth79192 жыл бұрын
I recall Peter Cremer, one of the submarine officers, remarked he never expected to be rescued at sea by mountain troops. I suppose the mountain troops could say the same thing about rescuing a sub crew and getting shot at by a battleship. Totally not in the brochure.
@simonrook57432 жыл бұрын
@@mikeynth7919 Have you read Grey Wolff, Grey Sea as well then?
@SennaAugustus Жыл бұрын
The first ship-launched plane to sink a submarine, before any aircraft carrier.
@henrycarlson75142 жыл бұрын
Interesting , Thank You
@baronpen2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a history of HMS Warspite. Ditto for the other ships in the class, but especially Warspite.
@mattwilliams34562 жыл бұрын
Drach has you covered until Ryan’s version: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpOPeNt-1JbLXac.html
@xlerb_again_to_music79082 жыл бұрын
Very entertaining vid from Jingles on Warspites history: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp2Hi9CE1bvenqc.html - think I'll repeat this as a main comment.
Drach and Dr Clarke have interesting theories about the unbuilt 6th ship Agincourt.
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
That run counter to each other amusingly
@StrixvariaCraig2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic !
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t2 жыл бұрын
Replacing coal with oil also means you could - depending on mechanical concerns - potentially maintain a higher speed for longer, because you're not relying on the stamina of your stokers holding up. They're not just feeding the boilers, they've got to move the coal between the bunkers, so that it can be fed. Once you move that capacity into other classes of ships, and rebuld your network of coaling stations, you then have an improved ability to strategically reposition forces much faster.
@gmat50462 жыл бұрын
If you are in a fair fight your tactics suck. Those 15 in guns would not tickle. An opening salvo from a Queen Elizabeth would still make an Iowa have a very bad day. That relevance with a twenty year design gap on a platform that big is still impressive. On smaller scales the gap matters less. The ma deuce is a hundred years old, and the last M2 gunner has yet to be born. Great vid.
@davidmcintyre81452 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact about these ships is that there was a movement to have them built with small tube boilers rather than the large tube boilers they were given. If this had happened then this class would have been capable of 27-28 kts thus making them true fast battleships
@Bird_Dog002 жыл бұрын
It would have been interesting to see the world reacting to this monster. A battleship not only much heavier armed and better armoured than anything else on the ocean, but also able to run down battlecruisers? That would have shaken things up. On the other hand, it would have been a great risk. Small tube boilers were bleeding edge technology at the time, and if they hadn't worked as hoped, it would have left the royal navy with a bunch of extremely expensive lame ducks that spent most of their service life in drydock having their engines fixed for the &%")@+*%/-th time.
@davidmcintyre81452 жыл бұрын
@@Bird_Dog00 This is true but the RN at the time already had such a superiority over any conceivable opponent plus the Japanese alliance so the risk could have been taken. This was always Fisher's dream a warship more powerful than any ship afloat with a speed able to run down cruisers
@deanoliv28802 жыл бұрын
good video, would love to see a video on warspite
@crookcounty19782 жыл бұрын
Pumping out the content
@chadthundercock56412 жыл бұрын
The fact that Warspite wasn't kept as a museum ship is a fucking travesty, and remains to this day one of the greatest crimes in naval history.
@Dave_Sisson2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but the British were broke after 6 years of war and had to sell everything they could to fund the development of three different types of large jet powered bombers that could nuke the Soviets.
@chadthundercock56412 жыл бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson Just as bad as Enterprise not being kept
@davidbrown25712 ай бұрын
Thank the ani english politicians.
@774Rob2 жыл бұрын
My favourite QE Class is HMS Warspite. Her first successful attack was against SMS Von der Tann in the maelstrom of the Battle of Jutland and her last, against German positions on Walcheren Island. She scored a direct hit against the (sailing) Italian battleship Giulio Cesare at a range of nearly 15 miles and was the 1st ship to open fire on D Day. She still holds the record for the most battle honours awarded to a single ship of the Royal Navy. Even in her twilight she refused to go to the ship graveyard quietly. While under tow to Faslane to be scrapped, she dropped an anchor and eventually ran aground at St Michaels Mount in Cornwall. There she remained, despite numerous attempts to refloat her until two "experimental" jet engines were brought in and she was moved a grand total of 130ft closer to shore. She finally disappeared from view in 1955. Scrapped on the shore she decided was her place to rest. After thirty two years at sea. Seven and a half of them fighting in two total wars.
@bahoonies2 жыл бұрын
@Rob Bowes As HMS Warspite holds a special place in your affections, are you familiar with Lieutenant Commander R A B Mitchell's wonderful poem about her. It's a very fitting tribute to the Grand Old Lady. The Subject You say you have no subject And your brushes all have dried; But come to Marazion At the ebbing of the tide. And look you out to seaward, Where my Lady battle scarred Hugs the rock that is more welcome, Than the shameful breakers yard. Paint her there upon the sunset In her glory and despair, With the diadem of victory Still in flower upon her hair. Let her whisper as she settles Of her blooding long ago, In the mist than mingles Jutland With the might of Scapa Flow. Let her tell you, too, of Narvik With its snowy hills, and then Of Matapan, Salerno And the shoals of Walcheren; And finally of Malta, When along the purple street Came in trail the Roman Navy To surrender at her feet. Of all these honours conscious, How could she bear to be Delivered to the spoiler Or severed from the sea ? So hasten then and paint her In the last flush of her pride On the rocks of Marazion, At the ebbing of the tide.
@stephengardiner98672 жыл бұрын
I believe that the Warspite holds the record (and likely always will) for the longest range artillery hit on a moving, maneuvering opponent. She was never modernized to the same extent as Valiant or Queen Elizabeth. It is too bad that Britain simply didn't have the resources or time to modernize the Revenge class ships which were somewhat better armoured than the Queen Elizabeths.
@timclaus83132 жыл бұрын
@@stephengardiner9867 Didn't even have the funds to upgrade Barham and Malaya, much less the R class ships. And both Rodney and Nelson were due for major mid-life refits when the war started.
@stephengardiner98672 жыл бұрын
True. The British economy had not truly recovered from the previous war and the great depression. It is interesting to envision what American shipyards might have been able to do with these ships had the funding been available early-war. They did occasionally do heavy repair work on British warships. One British light cruiser (Delhi) had its main armament replaced by 5x 5" 38 cal. D.P. guns (turrets and all) giving it quite a unique appearance (and the broadside of a Fletcher class destroyer). @@timclaus8313
@timclaus83132 жыл бұрын
@in desperate need of a scotch The USN had the same in-class and between class variations based on whether ships were sunk at Pearl. Colorado did not receive all the mods Maryland did, but no US standard battleship received the modifications and upgrades West Virginia did. You can easily make the case it was by far the most capable pre-treaty battleship of any navy after it's rebuild. When it returned to service in '44 it was pretty much a slow version of a South Dakota battleship. Tennessee and California also received extensive rebuilding and upgrades, none of the New Mexicos received the same level of increased AA firepower.
@logicaredux52052 жыл бұрын
Would I be correct in assuming the Queen Elizabeth whom this class is named after would be Queen Elizabeth I, the monarch that reigned during the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
@SennaAugustus Жыл бұрын
The Tudor queen, yes. This is reflected in the ship's crest, which features a Tudor rose.
@higfny2 жыл бұрын
Just putting it in perspective: The age difference between the QE-class and the Iowas are about the same as the Mustang and the F-15.
@matthayward78892 жыл бұрын
Good god, I never thought of it like that!
@kevg33202 жыл бұрын
... or if comparing the Lancaster to the Vulcan. Only about 11 years!
@matthayward78892 жыл бұрын
@@kevg3320 it still amazes me that there were pilots who flew both types operationally! I’m lucky to have a preserved Vulcan so near I can hear it’s engine runs, and see BBMF lancasters fly over head a couple of times a year
@michaelanderson59232 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a video on his warspite and the history on her steering problems
@anthonylowder66872 жыл бұрын
The Barham magazine didn’t explode, the explosion that you see in the film is the main boilers exploding since they were still operating when she capsized and they came into contact with the sea water running down the funnels. If it was the magazine the explosion would have occurred more forward than what the film show.
@AngryMarine-il6ej2 жыл бұрын
I think you should review the film of the HMS Barham again. If you observe the explosion it appears to occur at the point in-line with the aft mast just in front of the no 3 turret. Also it was stated and recorded The "Board of Inquiry" into the sinking ascribed the final explosion to a fire in the 4-inch magazines outboard of the main 15-inch magazines, which would have then spread to and detonated the contents of the main magazines." People not familiar with naval vessels don't realize that battleships have secondary guns. Those magazines are located along the side of the hull. And it was stated that all 3 torpedoes fired by U331 struck so close together amidships on the port side, penetration and detonation of those magazines is highly probable.
@bluemarlin81382 жыл бұрын
@@AngryMarine-il6ej Not to mention a boiler explosion wouldn’t have been nearly as energetic, nor would it produce a huge column of black smoke from burning propellant.
@holdfast4532 жыл бұрын
How would a boiler explosion not trigger the magazines? This is what the footage shows - a chain of two bursts with different intensity and colour.
@neilthreadgold10902 жыл бұрын
I know others have done a detailed look at Warspite, but I would still like to hear Ryan do one. I especially would like to know his opinion on taking a battleship into the confines of a Fiord (2nd battle of Narvik) something I would imagine your not ment to do.
@Cailus35422 жыл бұрын
The Royal Navy had a habit of doing some truly crazy things during WW2.
@christianjunghanel67242 жыл бұрын
Concernig the QE s i m with you ! But can you do a video on the Baden as well ! Just for comparison!
@ronschilreff34142 жыл бұрын
Do a episode on the USS West Virginia. It was actually the last Battleship VS Battleship in Surigao Straight. My favorite Ship because my Grandfather served on her in WW-2 on one of the 5 inch guns. In fact I have the war scrap book from it plus my Grandfather’s War Diary.
@kuroinamida46302 жыл бұрын
A detailed History of Warspite? sign me up, maybe collab episode with Drach?
@janiheikkinen40442 жыл бұрын
History of Warspite would be interesting to hear.
@superior4512 жыл бұрын
We love the Warspite.
@steeltrap38002 жыл бұрын
Excellent vid, Ryan, thanks. Not surprised it's been so frequently asked for. I think the QE class and Iowa class are arguably the greatest two classes of BBs ever built, so it's to be expected you'd be a fan of the QE class, which clearly you appear to be. One point you touched on briefly was the fact the QEs were oil fired. I think it's easy for people who aren't geeks on these sorts of things not to realise just how significant a change, and choice, that was. It was demonstrably true that a coal fired ship with a theoretical top speed of 26 knots, for example, would struggle to maintain that over long periods; the crew would get fatigued as doing so required a LOT of coal to be shovelled to keep the boilers fired. That's not an issue with oil, and it's a BIG deal when oil fired is a decidedly new thing and your opponents would be coal fired (as are many of your own ships). It's also important because the German fleet was forced to use a lower grade coal that, apart from anything else, tended to produce even more funnel smoke than higher grade coal (which is saying something, LOL). That, too, can matter as the direction of the wind in battle is highly significant if your funnel smoke is blown in such a way as to interfere with your gunnery spotting. An oil fired ship ought not have that problem at all. As with everyone else, yes, I agree not preserving HMS Warspite was close to a post-war crime.
@HarryFlashmanVC Жыл бұрын
The Brits had some very cool battleship names - Warspite, Iron Duke, Valiant, Vanguard... Warspite is the coolest though.
@Theduckwebcomics Жыл бұрын
And all of the Revenge class: Revenge, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, and Resolution. Most of those names are straight out of the age of sail.
@bill87842 жыл бұрын
Omg. I must stay up.
@johnshepherd86872 жыл бұрын
According to Drach's Wednesday video on Operation Torch, the Massachusetts hit a French cruiser at 28kyds. There is some uncertainty about the actual range but it like to be at least equal to the Scharnhorst and Warspite hit. The Yamato might have had an even longer range hit at Samar but again there is a lot of ambiguity about which ship and the actual range
@manilajohn01822 жыл бұрын
That's truly incredible- particularly since Massachusetts' after- action report makes no such claim for any hit on any cruiser. Her report actually states the following: "During the second phase of the battle, enemy light forces were engaged. The radars were inoperative and the rangefinders were ineffective due to own ship changing course and because of enemy smoke screens. Enemy ships maneuvered in circles, ellipses, figure eights in and out of the smoke screen. Accurate ranges were not possible and range lines on the graphic plotter, with deduction of range rates, were out of the question. Target angle changed so rapidly that the spotter had trouble keeping up with it. The best range obtainable was set on rangekeeper along with target angle and estimated target speed. Shooting was "from the hip" with application of spots in range and deflection when salvo landed." The cruiser in question (light cruiser Primauguet) was hit repeatedly by dive bombers. Yamato landed two near misses at 34,000+ yards off Samar with two shells right alongside the escort carrier White Plains- one of which exploded and severely damaged her.
@WardenWolf2 жыл бұрын
The QE class was superbly balanced for their day, and even in WW2 their armament was quite respectable. Against most any WW2 battleship, though, their armor, gun range, and gunnery accuracy would leave them at a massive disadvantage which they could not overcome.
@mcduck52 жыл бұрын
Given that the warspite still holds the record for longest hit in a lot harder situation compared to the other record holder I don't think you can fault their accuracy
@timclaus83132 жыл бұрын
2 world wars and only one lost, that to 4 torpedos hitting in rapid succession in a very small area (Barham). Unlikely any WWI era battleship without extensive rework could have survived the strike that caused Barham to capsize. The QE was a pretty advanced design for the time.
@WardenWolf2 жыл бұрын
@@mcduck5 Longest CONFIRMED hit. There is strong evidence that Scharnhorst hit HMS Glorious at a longer distance. Also, you fire enough rounds and eventually you'll get lucky. These 15" guns were not known for great accuracy compared to later ones. At 23 knots, I would not consider them a fast battleship influencer as 23 has no real measurable advantage over 21 knots. The true fast battleship line is around 26 or 27 knots.
@TheStefanskoglund12 жыл бұрын
@@mcduck5 and Giulio Cesare had a very advanced optical sighting system, their salvoes was straddling Warspite three minutes into the fight.
@mcduck52 жыл бұрын
@@TheStefanskoglund1 So? Yamato had a near miss against an escort Carrier at much longer range Near miss doesn't matter.
@NjK6012 жыл бұрын
Good evening, I was wondering Is there any chance Ryan could go over this new Chinese Fujian "super" carrier? And how it differs from current U.S Models?
@jamesbellegarde28932 жыл бұрын
I’ve ever there were 3 ships should’ve been preserved it was HMS Warsprite, USS Enetrprise CV-6, and HMS Rodney for the Bismarck battle.
@_R-R2 жыл бұрын
Warspite!!!
@geoguy0012 жыл бұрын
Would like to see some comparisons to unbuilt Japanese designs like Kii or No. 13
@mikewalker4330 Жыл бұрын
Ryan, I'm always one of the first and most vocal about arguing that Texas is never going to be brought back to service. I feel it's Ludacris to even think about that. However, the iowas may be a different story. In my opinion, what killed the conventional steam powered plants was when OPEX raised the price of oil to a point that Bunker C increased 10 fold. These steam systems burned oil like it was water. They depended on cheap fuel to make them practical. So, to bring back these ships they would have to be repowered. One option for that would be a Nuclear Reactor. However, the problem with any form of repowering it would require cutting through a lot of armor. But, there might be a way to get around that. Being that they've already been converted to fire missiles they probably don't need 9 16 inch guns. So, they could remove one turret and put a reactor there. I believe with today's technology a reactor large enough to duplicate their power afforded them by their conventional oil burning system in that space. Before you pass judgment on my idea, please realize going in that I know it isn't going to happen. This is just another discussion point if interest. But I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
@mikewalker4330 Жыл бұрын
OPEC, not OPEX. Damn auto correct.
@aw345652 жыл бұрын
A "What if New Jersey Was In Place of Warspite at Narvik or Calabria?" would make for a good future video.
@bairdrew2 жыл бұрын
NJ would get stuck. I'm pretty sure she's literally too big to get in to Narvik and make the turns necessary to get out again.
@SennaAugustus10 ай бұрын
Any other battleship or battlecruiser would have been sunk at Narvik. Bringing such a large ship into the narrow confines of a fjord against 9 destroyers and 2 submarines (plus 2 more submarines waiting outside and did fire off torpedoes at Warspite as they exited) is outright irresponsible, and everyone was prepared for the loss of the capital ship. The crew knew this too, for in the news, before they went in, they simply called her an "old battleship and veteran of Jutland" despite being modernised. But Warspite is magic, and all the torpedoes failed, one U-boat sunk, another rammed the seabed and aborted her attack, and the 2 outside had torpedo failures.
@flakstruk-84812 жыл бұрын
If at all possible, i'd love to see some naval wargaming from the staterooms 😁
@Orinslayer2 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to quantify how much better the Iowa is today than when it was first commissioned?
@eatthisvr62 жыл бұрын
Small tube boilers would've given the qe class 28 ish knots. That would most deffinately have made them fully fledged fast battleships. They could've done it too but chose not to
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
It's more Fisher was convinced by industry that it wouldn't make a difference. Until they tried on it something else
@iancarr86822 жыл бұрын
Very new and not proven technology when the design decision was made.
@wierdalien12 жыл бұрын
@@iancarr8682 ehhh
@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Жыл бұрын
46-47 degrees of elevation gives the best range. Lower air density in the upper atmosphere slows the shells less so they fall further out.
@Cdntrvler542 жыл бұрын
HMS BARHAM, sunk by U-331. And years later I find out (thanks to something called the Internet), it was a former bank client of mine (In Vancouver, B.C.) that was the Kaptain of said U-331.
@alanrickett25372 жыл бұрын
Would love a history of the warspite vid
@NomadShadow12 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@Strelnikov4032 жыл бұрын
Are you comparing their as-built numbers, or their post-1930s modernisation numbers with the new machinery and added bunkerage? The 5000nmi @ 12kts range seems quite low.
@thehandoftheking33142 жыл бұрын
It's like comparing a Yorktown to a kitty hawk class carrier. Both are designed for the same purpose, but one is newer and bigger.
@connorjohnson78342 жыл бұрын
You could do a video talking about the exploits of Warspite and compare how well you think New Jersey would fair in those situations
@kennethmorgan35572 ай бұрын
Don't know if you've done any other Iowa comparisons, but matching the Iowas against other contemporaries would be a better test than against QE. Maybe Bismarck, Yamato, Richelieu, Littorio, or Vanguard. They were all the last of their respective navies, and were the best designs they produced, although Vanguard was limited by decisions made after the design, especially her guns, but still a better choice than a KGV.
@mrp84882 жыл бұрын
Ryan, are you on any other platforms, like Rumble?
@18robsmith2 жыл бұрын
In my mind it's "Queen Elizabeths and Warspite". The latter had a fighting sprit that lasted right until the day she was cut up.
@SennaAugustus10 ай бұрын
It's appropriate that the Navy to this day keep the 2 names together, because Valiant and Warspite are 2 peas in a pod in terms of shenanigans.
@timclaus83132 жыл бұрын
I would rate the Nagatos, Colorado's and QEs as pretty much even up. Any advantages one design has over another is offset by a deficit to the other two classes.
@SealofPerfection2 жыл бұрын
Only real advantage a QB or Nagato has over a Colorado is speed. Nag is close in hitting power, but Colorado's armor is superior to both.
@timclaus83132 жыл бұрын
@@SealofPerfection And those 16" 45s were beasts. Their only limit was the lifts could not handle the length and weight of the super-heavy 2700lb AP shells used in the WWII era US battleships. Weight capacity could have been addressed, length would have required rebuilding the entire lift assembly.
@seethingnuclearchaos23 күн бұрын
At oil burners, they can sustain their speed longer than coal-fired ships that need manual stokers, though.
@resolute1232 жыл бұрын
Please talk about eh Queen Anne's Mansion superstructures. That was a common characteristics of British BB in WW2 and I'd like to know why?
@atomicshadowman91432 жыл бұрын
He has a video on the NelRods
@kevg33202 жыл бұрын
Maybe Queen Anne didn't have much imagination when she designed her warships!!
@Dave_Sisson2 жыл бұрын
Queen Anne Mansions was an apartment block in London, people who did not like the rebuilt high rise superstructure in the QEs made fun of its resemblance to the apartment block
@atomicshadowman91432 жыл бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson Ah! Thanks.
@resolute1232 жыл бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson thanks. Do you have any information of the benefits of this design characteristics?
@shaneduc2 жыл бұрын
A video of Warspite and QE would be cool.
@studinthemaking2 жыл бұрын
Lets see on British BB. They serve beer and rum to the ratings. The officers also get hard spirts. USN Ships. No booze. Winner British BB.
@atfyoutubedivision9552 жыл бұрын
US ships have ice cream though.
@studinthemaking2 жыл бұрын
@@atfyoutubedivision955 good point. We can trade ice cream for booze.
@atfyoutubedivision9552 жыл бұрын
@@studinthemaking I'm pretty sure that's what they did during WW2.
@Forscythe802 жыл бұрын
How would the Iowa-class battleships hold up against a Kirov-class battlecruisers? If they were recommissioned and end up facing the Russian fleet. What would be her main mission role?
@ed94926 ай бұрын
I've heard of them referred to as a superdreadnaught.
@benquinneyiii7941 Жыл бұрын
The sun never sets
@bigsarge20852 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@robertyoung39922 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a video of them NOT fighting each other, but how they would work together in battle
@benquinney22 жыл бұрын
Like the Arizona
@asn4132 жыл бұрын
was a turret salvaged from one of these ships and used on the abercrombie class (?) costal monitor battleships?
@Tuning34342 жыл бұрын
No, not at all. Abercrombie was fitted with US 14"/45 guns ordered for the Greek battleship Salamis. Eventually offered to the RN when WW1 prevented shipment to the German naval yards that where building the ship. Those monitors where basically designed around this offer.
@johnthomas24852 жыл бұрын
Curious, did New Jersey and other Iowa Class BB's have Kingfishers?
@Knight68312 жыл бұрын
Considering the battleship supposed to be built after the British Queen Elizabeth and Revenge and before the N3 was a larger Queen Elizabeth design with 8 16" guns or 10 15" guns with enhancement from the Admiral class battlecruiser
@bmused552 жыл бұрын
Not sure who suggested this comparison. It's quite obvious a battleship built 30 odd years after the QE class with larger guns (and more of them), thicker armour and about twice the displacementl, is going to over match the QE class. RE the range of Royal Navy ships: 5000 miles is all they needed due to the Empire being so vast, they were never more than 5000 miles away from a port they could coal up at. So why design for more range?
@SennaAugustus Жыл бұрын
One reason is the Abyssinian crisis of 1935-36. Britain could no longer assume that their lands won't be captured by the enemy.
@SynapseDriven2 жыл бұрын
Ryan is the ultimate geek, the way he struggles with the camera is priceless! lol
@josephstevens98882 жыл бұрын
"Queen Anne Mansion-style superstructure" I wonder who coined that description?
@Dave_Sisson2 жыл бұрын
Queen Anne Mansions was an apartment block in London, people who did not like the rebuilt high rise superstructure in the QEs made fun of its resemblance to the apartment block.
@josephstevens98882 жыл бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson I see... thanks for the explanation!
@MyTv-10 ай бұрын
Knowing the British fetish for recordkeeping those pre designs blueprints should exist somewhere unless something extraordinary.
@becky11662 жыл бұрын
I'd love to hear a historian's opinion of Warspite. My Grandpa was damage control officer on her during the bombardment of Salerno when she was hit by the radio controlled bomb. He talks about it some in a conversation with the Imperial War Museum at www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80024892.
@tokencivilian85072 жыл бұрын
Nice. Have you already done NJ vs KGV? Those 2 are much closer to being contempory.
@mikekelly83772 жыл бұрын
you neglected to mention one way rebuilt Q.E., Valiant, Warspite were more modern than an iowa. they did away with multiple hundre ton, high up conning tower. i do believe several rebuilt pearl harbor BBs did likewise. curiously iowas kept them
@TheStefanskoglund12 жыл бұрын
with regards to longevity - if the US would have been just as broken moneywise as England was in 1945 all the BB and cruisers too would have been sent to the breaker.
@mikeabbott23962 жыл бұрын
I think you should do a video on Warspite just for the name alone, add in everyhting else, and it's a no brainer
@kennethdeanmiller73242 жыл бұрын
Idk, while I do & did enjoy the history lesson it didn't really feel as though you were making a comparison of the 2 different types. However, considering that the Iowa class battleships basically had a different use during WW2 than the Queen Elizabeth & the Iowa Class was like you said 20 years newer so it's not really fair to compare the 2.
@artvandelay10992 жыл бұрын
If ever a warship should have been saved. It's Warspite