"Ready...Aye...Ready" (1933)

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10 жыл бұрын

Full title reads: "Portsmouth. 'Ready ... Aye ... Ready' Whilst Nations are still talking war debts, reparations, disarmament, economic crises, etc. etc., - 'Britain's Bulwark' carries on a s silently and efficiently as ever."
Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Shot of large British Royal Navy warship moving out of Portsmouth Harbour. People watch from the dockside as the ship moves out. It appears to the be the battle cruiser HMS Hood.
Shots of a small military band playing on the deck.
More shots of the ship further out to sea.
Shots of other Naval vessels.
FILM ID:693.24
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@raymartin7172 2 жыл бұрын

The freeboard on Hood, compared to Nelson/Rodney is crazy. No wonder she had the reputation as "the biggest submarine in the Royal Navy".

@thecurlew7403 Жыл бұрын

Look at hoods stern low with 15 inch guns if they had of built her as a battleship like kjv she would have heavy deck armour like bismark and would have been harder to sink in fact put missiles on her and along with hms vanguard could be in service today.

@richhughes7450 Жыл бұрын

She got heavier is prob why. They bolted on allot more armour to make her almost a battleship.

@hellhound47bravo3 Жыл бұрын

@@richhughes7450 Sounds similar to the issue that the American "Indiana" class pre-dreadnought had. It was said that when loaded with the normal load of ammunition, they were so low in the water that their amour belt was below the waterline.

@thejudge-kv2jk 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic footage!

@akula9713 5 ай бұрын

HMS Hood was such an elegant ship.

@dutchman7216 Жыл бұрын

That was wonderful Thankyou.

@danlercaballero1810 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@allgood6760 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful ships👍

@ronin3381 Жыл бұрын

Three of the Royal Navy's most legendary ships. Warspite, Hood and Nelson (or Rodney, I'm not quite sure)

@thomastidswell7310 Жыл бұрын

I think Rodney had the better War.

@easterworshipper730 6 ай бұрын

Prince of Wales.

@Kreatorisbackyt 2 ай бұрын

@@easterworshipper730 He is taking about 1930s there wasn't any KGV class battleship in 30s

@markdavidson1049 5 жыл бұрын

More footage of Nelson/Rodney!

@Mantheon 8 ай бұрын

Can we appreciate how humongous and smooth flowinb Hood was compared to the other 2 ? like she dwarf battleship that were not tiny at all

@allanfifield8256 6 жыл бұрын

The Hood is such a beautiful ship. Lasted two minutes in actual combat.

@OntologicalQuandry 2 жыл бұрын

Watch Drachinifel's analysis of what happened. Beautiful and unlucky.

@allanfifield8256 2 жыл бұрын

@@OntologicalQuandry I have seen that. Very insightful and sad.

@Krieger-productions6149 2 жыл бұрын

She saw combat before she was sunk by Bismarck you know

@michaelcoachtechvp2846 2 жыл бұрын

Cheap steel also a trait of the English and not enough of it.

@OntologicalQuandry 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcoachtechvp2846 erm, you do know that Sheffield is famous for its mass manufacture of crucible steel, which is some of the finest in the world... Also, Hood was made after the British uncovered the Krupp face-hadening technique used on German dreanoughts...

@williamdiffin28 Ай бұрын

Very, very sad. Retrieving the ship's bell was significant.

@robertwilson123 Жыл бұрын

Looks like Warspite at the start, then Hood (God bless her) then Nelson or Rodney.

@hellhound47bravo3 Жыл бұрын

Maybe. Couldn't decide if the lead ship was a Q.E. class or a Revenge class.

@hellhound47bravo3 Жыл бұрын

It's a Q.E. class.

@itzteslamodels9320 Жыл бұрын

1:26 Hoods whistle

@Britannic_Knight 4 ай бұрын

The song at the start is called: Britannia pride of the ocean/ Three cheers for the red, white and blue

@Admiral8Q 8 жыл бұрын

HMS Hood prepares for war.

@yuigahama3189 2 жыл бұрын

Actually its not.the hms hood shown in the video was pre 1935 refit as you can see the secondary batteries on its sides

@Admiral8Q 2 жыл бұрын

@@yuigahama3189 Good eye! Yes! Remember, this was circa 1933. So makes sense before 1935.

@ieatoutoften872 Жыл бұрын

To win a fight, 1st you need to find the enemy. The cruiser HMS Norfolk and cruiser HMS Suffolk found the Bismark and Prince Eugen. ----- 2nd, you need to fix the enemy. The battlecruiser HMS Hood and Battleship HMS Prince of Wales fixed both the Bismark and Prince of Wales on equal terms (not a job for lesser ships). Prince Eugen was forced by HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales (and no other ships) to abandon the mission to escort Bismark. ---- 3rd, you need to destroy the enemy. The list of Royal Navy ships that aided in the destruction of Bismark is longer than I can recall. Even though Bismark sank HMS Hood and disabled a touret and the bridge on the HMS Prince of Wales, all Bismark and Prince Eugen could do thereafter was run for their lives. Due to beating it endured from HMS Prince of Wales, the Bismark had to reduce speed. ---- H.M.S. Hood went down fighting, and in the process completed her mission (that is, to stop the Bismark and Prince Eugen from breaking out into the Atlantic Ocean to sink cargo ships).

@richhughes7450 2 жыл бұрын

One lucky hit (for the Germans) and boom. Makes you wonder how that battle with Bismarc would have progressed has that fatal hit never occurred.

@isaacm1332 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what the name of the first ship? i think that she HMS malaya but i am not sure

@dkneuer 2 жыл бұрын

Queen Elizabeth?

@hazael6769 2 жыл бұрын

@@dkneuer No, it is a Revenge Class, noted by the casemate mounts in the side of the hull

@dominicbuckley8309 Жыл бұрын

@@hazael6769 R-class only had four casemates on each side, this has six: she is a QE class, prior to the major "Queen Anne mansion" refit. Also the Rs only ever had a single funnel, whereas the re-trunking of two funnels can clearly be seen. In 1933, all the R class were stationed in the Med, with QE as the flag. Barham was in refit, so this is either Warspite, Valiant or Malaya, which were with the Home / Atlantic fleet. If you look closely at the gun covers in the opening shot, you can see they have Warspite's original woodpecker logo, rather than Valiant's cockerel or Malaya's tiger. So Warspite, she is.

@Kaipelana Жыл бұрын

Which of the Queen Elizabeth class battleships is preceding the Hood?

@peterasp1968 Жыл бұрын

It was a Royal Sovereign class not a QE.

@dominicbuckley8309 Жыл бұрын

@@peterasp1968 Warspite. All the R class were stationed in the Med in 1933, with QE as the flag. Warspite, Valiant and Malaya were with the Home / Atlantic fleet, Barham in extended refit. W, V & M all very similar prior to the major "Queen Anne mansion" refit, but if you look closely at the gun covers in the opening shot, you can see they have Warspite's original woodpecker logo, rather than Valiant's cockerel or Malaya's tiger.

@peterasp1968 Жыл бұрын

@@dominicbuckley8309 Remarkable powers of observations

@dominicbuckley8309 Жыл бұрын

@@peterasp1968 Ah, the power of the life-long nerd!!!

@FerxeneixeANIMEMANGAHISTORIAYM 6 ай бұрын

1:48 a one of famous big seven

@olegwinner 2 жыл бұрын

Is it a real sound?

@hazael6769 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, because the Hood was built in the WW1 era, she actually had a steam whistle for her horn- unlike what you would expect from say, the Bismarck or Prinz Eugen. She had the same type of horn/whistel a steam engine would have had, just far bigger

@unionpacific8448 2 жыл бұрын

Well fair enough because Hood's keel was laid down in 1916 but wasn't finished until 1920.

@owlgothic248 3 ай бұрын

Horayyy🎉🎉🎉

@FerxeneixeANIMEMANGAHISTORIAYM 6 ай бұрын

0:57 the mighty Hood

@malcolmtaylor518 Жыл бұрын

It's a lovely film, but unfortunately it belies the fact that HMS Hood was outdated and her armour scheme would not be able to defeat 15 inch shells at long range. Her loss was tragic and in some sense foreseeable.

@gnranger Жыл бұрын

Likely no armor deck would’ve survived that. If that shell can haul ass through 2 1in decks, a 2in bomb deck, then through a 3in main deck, it’s likely punching straight through an Iowas 2in bomb deck and 6in armor deck(their deck was only 4.75in of actual armor plate. the rest was STS steel laminated on top). The only difference probably being that the shell goes off before reaching the powder because Iowa’s armored deck is a deck higher and powder rooms are a deck lower than Hood.

@rajesrecipe2492 Жыл бұрын

01:45 Auld Lang Syne

@dkneuer 2 жыл бұрын

There has been much of a debate in what actually sank the Hood. The ship was built in the same yard as the Titanic . The practice then was rivets and welding. The metal used was not pure and had weaknesses in extreme cold weather. It was said that the Hood would actually bend one foot from end to end in a tight turn. I think the explosion in the main magazine during the turn, split the ship in two. Couple that with the stress on the hull with metal fatigue, it sank rather quickly taking most of the crew. Only three survived by a miracle. The explosion was so violent that one of the rear turrets blew completely off the rear deck several hundred feet in the air as witnessed by the Prince of Wales. Hood was a beautiful ship that was obsolete in this time period

@danielcallender8649 Жыл бұрын

Your comment is full of mistruths. Titanic was built by Harland and Wolff. Hood by John Brown. Not only seperate companies but in different countries. The steel was high quality. The poor quality is just a myth.

@samuel10125 Жыл бұрын

Hood was old yes, Obsolete possibly debatable she was supposed to go for a deck refit I'm petty sure because the Royal Navy was very well aware of the deck being weak to plunging fire.

@user-yy8ze2yb5i Жыл бұрын

Правь Британия морями ….✋✋✋….

@paulmicelli5819 4 ай бұрын

It was obsolete by the time of WW2, Bismark proved that fact. RIP to the crews, both never survived.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 4 ай бұрын

So 13in belt armour and 8 x 15 guns don't cut the mustard for you in a WW2 battleship?

@paulmicelli5819 4 ай бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 It was built for WW1, it was OBSOLETE by the time of WW2. The Bismarck proved that!

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 4 ай бұрын

@@paulmicelli5819 So was HMS Warspite (a ship that was 7 years older the Hood) and which had survived everything the the German & Italian navies and air forces could throw at her through TWO world wars, as well as landing one of the longest ranged naval gunnery hits in history as well, also obsolete? Don't mistake a million to one hit on her as meaning she was obsolete. Was Bismarck also obsolete because in all the air attacks made against her she did not shoot a single aircraft down? or in her final battle her "uber" fully working gunnery systems failed to land a single hit on the 4 enemy ships surrounding her?

@paulmicelli5819 4 ай бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I will pray for you.

@paulmicelli5819 3 ай бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Read a History book.

@justhimo2728 2 жыл бұрын

wow that before the ww2 wow I think the 30s was so beautiful days no hate or wars

@williamdiffin28 Ай бұрын

That's 1930s British propaganda for you. Everything is beautiful with the world thanks to the civilizing influence of the British Empire, guarded by the most powerful force of destruction ever commanded by humanity: the Royal Navy. And then you have the Chinese Civil War, the Manchukuo War, the Chaco War, the Soviet 'Great Terror', the Nazi Revolution, the Italo-Abyssinian War, the Sino-Japanese War, &c.