The Allied Ship That Gathered All Its Firepower for One Epic Shot

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The Allied Ship That Gathered All Its Firepower for One Epic Shot

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Күн бұрын

September 9, 1943. As the Allies invade mainland Italy at Salerno, they have an unlikely hero on their side: HMS Nelson. This eccentric old, accident-prone 1920s British battleship, a floating relic of a short-lived class built twenty years ago, is about to use one of her most unusual features to wreak havoc on the enemy.
As thousands of troops leap out of their landing craft and race across the sand, a storm of ammunition rains down on them from the German 16th Panzer Division, which blocks their path. However, thanks to her bizarre design, Nelson has a unique advantage: she has all her guns at her fore. Facing the German defenses head-on, she pounds them with a brutal barrage of 16-inch shells. Unleashing the full force of her nine thundering cannons, she clears a path for the Allies to push on with their mission to liberate Italy and ultimately win the war.

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@kevinmccann2814 2 ай бұрын

My Grandfather Archie Lynch was a Coder on board Nelson. Was onboard at Scapa Flow when the King inspected the fleet.Was still aboard at D Day. He was injured when the ship hit a mine.

@steinetrinder696 2 ай бұрын

Lest we forget!

@tuc-dh4df 19 күн бұрын

Lies!

@markneedham752 14 күн бұрын

@@tuc-dh4df....and you know better. Put up., or shut up.

@tuc-dh4df 14 күн бұрын

@@markneedham752 Make me dickhead

@harryflower1810 3 ай бұрын

My great uncle was a SPO on Nelson from 1940 to 1947

@cameronsienkiewicz6364 3 ай бұрын

Man, if I had a nickel for every time a WW2 KZfaqr put in footage of HMS Barham exploding, I’d be rich

@patsweeney4220 2 ай бұрын

I remember being a kid thinking 10$ was rich 🤑

@Under-Kaoz Ай бұрын

@@patsweeney4220I remember when I used to say keyboard warrior comments.

@patsweeney4220 Ай бұрын

@@Under-Kaoz still do clearly ya idgot

@morstyrannis1951 Ай бұрын

@@Under-Kaozyou appear to be irony impaired.

@ljprep6250 2 ай бұрын

Nelson was a very busy and effective ship, able to withstand torps, mines, and aerial bombing and keep on shooting. Amazing.

@aislemontecristo 3 ай бұрын

The fact that it survived so many hits, is about as impressive as its firepower.

@nomercyinc6783 2 ай бұрын

thats the entire point of battleships and battle cruisers. they arent about just giving damage but taking it and surviving as well. glass canons are useless

@chrissouthgate4554 19 күн бұрын

Well, who was she named for?

@tltc191 3 ай бұрын

My Dad was a machine gunner on landing craft at Salerno. He was wounded there.

@KWC33 3 ай бұрын

Now that’s what I call British forward thinking

@morstyrannis1951 Ай бұрын

The design was necessary to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty. Placing all the main armament forward reduced the area requiring protection by the main armour belt. Germany claimed it was complying with the treaty but, shocker, they were lying.

@jp-um2fr 3 ай бұрын

Somewhere on YT there is a photo of what happened to a Tiger tank after Nelson hit it with a 16" shell. The crew were underneath it at the time, taking shelter. It had been assumed there was nobody near it until they found a lone finger. The Tiger was still recognisable, one wonders what a Sherman would have looked like - if you could find it. WELL DONE, you pronounced every word well. Makes a change.

@BrianSmith-ow9gy 2 ай бұрын

Apart from "forecastle". It's pronounced "folk sul"

@peterwebb8732 2 ай бұрын

I believe that was the Rodney’s work in Normandy. I’ve read that that Panzer unit took 40% casualties before they could get mobile and avoid. With 16”, near enough was good enough

@briand01 Ай бұрын

Nelson was not at the D-Day landings she was being repaired Rodney did the honours

@wodantheviking 3 ай бұрын

My uncle, in the 5th battalion Sherwood Foresters, part of the 10th Corps, supporting the US 5th Army, participated in the allied landing at Salerno. He was wounded twice, during the fighting in Italy, before his regiment was sent to Greece, to prevent civil war, after the Germans had evacuated. He ended up in Austria at the end of the war.

@richardmayes8797 3 ай бұрын

I'm adamant that Nelson and Rodney inspired Star Wars' Imperial star destroyers: a great big armoured wedge, with a tall conning tower at the rear, and all the guns at the front.

@ciaranReal 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@markcairns9574 2 ай бұрын

@@ciaranReal Stuart Goddard? is that really you?

@timonsolus 2 ай бұрын

Plus, officers with British accents!

@theorenhobart 2 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus " our first catch of the day" boooom!!

@Castlelong333 2 ай бұрын

Nope , Yamato and Moshi I believe was the inspiration, for Star wars , imperial star destroyers , one clue is imperial, the Storm troopers are inspired by the WW2 German soldiers and machine guns

@zororosario 3 ай бұрын

Nelson and Rodney are pure firepower 😊, still a force to be reckoned with if brought back today ❤Cheers

@johnsepulveda443 3 ай бұрын

With anti ship missiles they wouldn't last very long in combat

@zororosario 3 ай бұрын

@@johnsepulveda443 modern remedies for anti ship missiles are available 😊🤔

@johnsepulveda443 3 ай бұрын

@@zororosario their also way to expensive to run these days that’s why all battleships are now retired and do you even know how expensive it would be to modernize that ship 🤣

@zororosario 3 ай бұрын

Quality before the price or quantity, that's the the only thing that matters. History reminds us.

@johnsepulveda443 2 ай бұрын

If I remember right the Rodney ran from the Bismarck after the Bismarck sunk the hood that the cruiser Ms shadowed it until reinforcements arrived after the Bismarcks rudder had been hit and jammed

@nickreestearsofaclown4661 3 ай бұрын

My grandfather served on the Nelson being in charge of a battery of Pom Pom guns. An American shell exploded in one of the barrels and a splinter hit him above the eye causing him to be discharged from sea duty and became a dispatch rider.

@francescxavierbulto9848 2 ай бұрын

That’s odd, the reason why the US didn’t adopt the Pom Pom was because they couldn’t make compatible ammunition.

@jeebusk Ай бұрын

They're cheer leaders 😅

@dixiecyrus8136 3 ай бұрын

Brave ship and crew❤❤❤

@Andrew-is7rs 2 ай бұрын

The name, the man .. the ship. Pride 👍🇬🇧

@paulissus8974 Ай бұрын

Can a British warship have a more illustrious name than this?

@jeebusk Ай бұрын

more illustrious than illustrious?

@TheGermanNamedJames 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for doing a vid about this. I had always wondered about the Nelson and how it was used and stuff like that

@harryflower1810 3 ай бұрын

Rodney pulverized Bismarck with her guns and torpedoed her to boot.

@josephgallacher3729 3 ай бұрын

She was equipped with 24 inch Topedoes (21 inch or 18 inch for aircraft were usual ) but I believe they were removed at beginning of war as it was believed th4y were a danger to the ship if they were hit in a battle

@josephgallacher3729 3 ай бұрын

Within minutes hit the front turret of Bismarck which also crippled supervising turret, then 9n Bismarck fighting hand behind it back

@robertf3479 3 ай бұрын

@@josephgallacher3729 HMS Rodney still had her torpedo armament when she engaged KMS Bismarck, thus it is very possible that she did manage a torpedo hit against Bismarck, at one point the ships closed to within torpedo range or "point blank range" for the 16" guns of Rodney.

@dovetonsturdee7033 3 ай бұрын

@@josephgallacher3729 No, they weren't. Rodney used them against Bismarck, and may have achieved a hit.

@johntim3491 2 ай бұрын

@@josephgallacher3729.... Rodney took out 3 of Bismarck's 4 main turrets.

@diannegooding8733 3 ай бұрын

The capsized and exploding battleship is HMS Barham. The other capsized vessel is I believe a battleship from World War One. Possibly Austria Hungarian (?)

@BadgerGB 3 ай бұрын

Correct, the second one was the SMS Szent István btw., a dreadnought of the Austro-Hungarian Navy sunk on 10 June 1918 by italian trorpedo boats.

@user-lc1wk5dh5h 2 ай бұрын

If we are being pedantic Astro Hungarian

@user-lc1wk5dh5h 2 ай бұрын

Austro Hungarian damn this auto correct

@chrissouthgate4554 19 күн бұрын

@@user-lc1wk5dh5h If we are being super pedantic, Croatian as she was in the process of being handed over to them.

@russmartiens3244 2 күн бұрын

Awesome ship. Odd design but what a tough battle harden ship. Total respect to the crew, designers, ship workers, new and repair.

@amiyo321 2 ай бұрын

One of my favourite battleships rodney

@davidc6510 3 ай бұрын

Another great historical video. Thanks for sharing!

@mikep490 2 ай бұрын

HMS Nelson was well named. "Never mind the maneuvers, just go straight at them!" is what she was designed for.

@olwill1 2 ай бұрын

Was I napping? When did he relate the "One Epic Shot"?

@BMrider75 3 ай бұрын

Knots = nautical miles per hour. Saying "knots per hour" is just so wrong...

@BadgerGB 3 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was about to say👍

@jeebusk Ай бұрын

lol yeah

@marksmith1779 3 ай бұрын

HMS Nelson must have had some fantastic guns to be able to hit Italy from the Normandy coast! Especially since the battle for Italy was practically over by June 1944. "With her nine thunderous cannons she cleared a path for the Allies to liberate Italy."

@agunther08 2 ай бұрын

It’s on the Internet it must be true… 😂

@stargazer5784 2 ай бұрын

The term 'cannon' was most frequently used during the age of sail. During the age of steam and steel, the main batteries were referred to as naval guns. Good video non the less. Thx.

@robertf3479 3 ай бұрын

Arguably, those 9 16" guns made the Nelson class the world's most powerful battleships, even more powerful than the USN Colorado class, armed with 8 16"/45 caliber guns. These guns IIRC were marginally more powerful than the guns mounted in the Colorado class and later North Carolina and South Dakota class until the USN developed the 2700lb "super heavy" armor piercing round for the MK6 and MK7 16" guns.

@garyhooper1820 3 ай бұрын

You failed to mention the Iowa Class Fast Battleship. The six that were built for WWII .

@Kreatorisbackyt 3 ай бұрын

@@garyhooper18204 Iowa class were built not 6

@knottyash9908 3 ай бұрын

You are correct. The 2700 pound ap round was a game changer. The us 16/45 guns used 6 90 lb bags of powder and the Iowa class used 6 110lb bags of powder out of a longer barrel giving them more range and accuracy. Bob Ballard and James Cameron both stated that observation of the Bismarck wreck indicated that the Rodney did more damage with her 16 inch guns than the much more modern king George 5 did with her 14 inch guns. To be fair the king George 5 quad mount 14 inch turrets were plagued with reliability issues. It was a 16 inch shell from Rodney that penetrated the Bismarck 14 inch conning tower and killed most of the senior officers on the Bismarck. Several 14 inch hits failed to penetrate the Bismarcks 13 inch armor belt.

@4353HUNVRTNG 3 ай бұрын

@@garyhooper1820 From 1927 when the NelRods commissioned to 1942 when North Carolina commissioned they were most powerful. More powerful than a Colorado or a Nagoto by virtue of being 7 years newer and having absorbed the the lessons of Jutland. By virtue of being 16 years newer that a NelRod, Iowa should be more powerful again. If they weren't you need to get a refund.

@robertf3479 3 ай бұрын

@@garyhooper1820 Granted, but as I DID mention the MK-7 guns that were only mounted in the Iowa class I thought that would be redundant.

@jes2731 3 ай бұрын

It's hard to think of a major ship coming to it's technologically useful end at a mere 25 years old. New technologies rabbit holes were developing so fast back then. Today, our oldest in service carrier is the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), commissioned 03-MAY-1975, 49 years ago, and still more than a half decade away from the longest commissioned carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) with 55 years and 70 days of active service. My one and only, USS Midway (CV-41) had an impressive 46 years and 214 days of service, commissioned on 10-SEP-1945.

@BrianSmith-ow9gy 2 ай бұрын

The main problem was their abysmal lack of speed. Even the Queen Elizabeth class ships from WW1 were faster. The RN never really came to grips with the need for fast battleships, ships that could keep up with the fleet carriers they, the Americans and Japanese were building. This inability to grasp the simple importance of speed is still evident today when recalling that the two Queen Elizabeth class carriers built this century can only manage 25 knots, making combined operations with the US navy impossible. The Nimitz class can manage 32 knots or better. On joining a US Task Force, the admiral in charge of our carrier group, comprising one or more Illustrious mini carriers, asked his US counterpart what they should do. The American replied that he didn't care as long as they didn't get in the way. We build cheap, on the cheap and we operate on the cheap.

@originalkk882 2 ай бұрын

@@BrianSmith-ow9gy I imagine you just looked at the headline figures for speed for the QE carriers. Queen Elizabeth has actually been tested at 32kts. In WW2 the lllustrious class carriers could manage 30kts, and their escorting KGV battleships 28kts, not a significant speed difference. These vessels were designed to operate much closer to heavy enemy land based air cover around Europe, so protection was prioritised. You remarks about the British Pacific Fleet are insulting. The Illustrious class were definitely not "mini carriers", and the Americans were impressed when they continued operating after Japanese Kamikaze's hit their armoured decks, unlike the unfortunate USS's Franklin, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Bunker Hill, and Belleau Wood.

@timonsolus 2 ай бұрын

Nelson and Rodney were in near constant use during WW2, spending far more time at sea during wartime than they did during peacetime. 5 years of wartime service is like 20 years of peacetime service. That’s why they were worn out by the end of WW2 and sent for scrapping soon after.

@jamesday1295 2 ай бұрын

Hms Dreadnought...hold my beer.

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

I have friends who served on both the Enterprise and Kitty Hawk. One of my grandfathers served on the Lexington and survived her sinking at Coral Sea.

@tedthesailor172 3 ай бұрын

We didn't treat our battleships with much respect in peacetime...

@larrywmedford6587 2 ай бұрын

Your words make me think of the poem by Rudyard Kipling, I think it was titled "Tommy" It's Tommy this and Tommy that And chuck him out, the brute But it "Savior of his country" When the guns begin to shoot.

@theorenhobart 2 ай бұрын

i agree, certainly England and US could have saved a few more ( especially the carrier Enterprise ) but they are extremely costly just to look pretty and float around without being useful in modern war. England will always have HMS Victory

@jimmacaulay844 3 ай бұрын

Cannons? GUNS!!!

@BrianSmith-ow9gy 2 ай бұрын

Or just "cannon". It's both singular and plural. "Cannons" is just wrong.

@ericgruel274 2 ай бұрын

Naval rifles

@rogernevin7461 2 ай бұрын

16'' guns, range 22 miles ! She could stand off in the Channel and hit France.

@johnallen7807 3 ай бұрын

I hate the sloppy use of archive film in these KZfaq vids, e.g talking about the sinking of Bismarck while showing film of (I think) HMS Barham.

@colsmith7257 3 ай бұрын

Dark lies is all Anglo American propaganda

@binaway 3 ай бұрын

A common complaint for this youtuber

@johnallen7807 3 ай бұрын

@@binaway Makes you doubt the veracity of the whole thing doesn't it?

@richardcleveland8549 3 ай бұрын

@@johnallen7807 He does sometimes skate close to the truth . . . .

@johnallen7807 3 ай бұрын

@@richardcleveland8549 The "click bait" headlines on so many KZfaq vids annoy me too! lol.

@gruntforever7437 3 ай бұрын

It amuses me the insults used as regards an older ship of war. Hood was older I do believe, would the author have insulted it the same way? Warspite was even older. The Rodney and Nelson was not the only ships designed or built to put all its main armament up front. This was a early response to the Washington Naval Treaty limiting displacement. They were looking for ways to maximize armament and armor on such a limited displacement. so frankly the insults were kind of stupid

@BrianSmith-ow9gy 2 ай бұрын

Specially when you consider how old today's Royal Navy ships are. Surviving Type 23s are slated to serve into the 2030s.

@BaconLick 2 ай бұрын

@@BrianSmith-ow9gy I remember them being commissioned in the nineties.

@lastguy8613 2 ай бұрын

Allied sea power was the reason the Axis never repulsed a amphibious landing in ww2

@drmarkintexas-400 3 ай бұрын

🎖️💪🙏🏆 Thank you for sharing this

@krzysztofwaleska 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful ships. All of them. Great times!

@colinamwilliamson 3 ай бұрын

The forward guns cannot all be used firing forward obviously. only A and B superfiring. C turret is almost useless until almost broadside

@moodogco 3 ай бұрын

Yh they can as the bk turret is just angled up over the top of the other 2 turrets in front, there's plenty of footage of them all firing forward

@johncmitchell4941 3 ай бұрын

First, not nearly as broadside as aiming a conventionally arranged main battery. Angling say 30 degrees vs maybe 60 or more you're a smaller target and incoming shells are more likely to bounce of. If you headed more directly at your target you'd only have the use of A and B anyway. Second, the design was odd and criticized for the layout of the guns, (mentioned in the video) but the goal was not for the gun placement. It was to have a smaller citadel to armor and reduce weight per the treaty.

@frigland9167 3 ай бұрын

Clickbait. No "ONe Epic Shot" here.

@3vimages471 3 ай бұрын

Rodney ..... one of my favourite ships.

@paganphil100 2 ай бұрын

@3vimages471: This is HMS Nelson.....same class as Rodney but not the same ship.

@cameronsienkiewicz6364 3 ай бұрын

lol, I couldn’t even imagine being on a ship, seeing an enemy warship on the horizon, and then immediately be told “we’re going to scuttle the ship, get to the life boats” .. You’re on a perfectly good ship that isn’t damaged in any way, no one is shooting at you, yet you’re about to intentionally sink your ship, climb into a lifeboat, and bob around in the open ocean for god knows how long, just because a ship appeared on the horizon .. I think at that point, I’d just surrender to the approaching ship.. you may be taken as a POW, but chances are at least you’ll get to stay on your ship and travel to the nearest enemy port (as a prisoner) .. at least you’ll survive (more than likely), the only downside is the enemy is able to seize whatever cargo your transporting

@creanero 2 ай бұрын

"A floating relic" the ship was less than 20 years old.

@jeebusk Ай бұрын

the pace of progress was much quicker back then.

@creanero Ай бұрын

@@jeebusk true, but still.

@roncotton7963 Ай бұрын

How’s your blackberry doing?

@danielkeel9265 3 ай бұрын

Great video, but I really wish you wouldn't call it maliar, it's MalAya, as evidenced by it's modern name, Malaysia.

@robertgentile7198 3 ай бұрын

Guns. not cannons!

@garyhorton9827 27 күн бұрын

Exactly! Guns are rifled, cannons are not!

@chuckkline2970 24 күн бұрын

Truly enjoyed this video.

@ouroboris 3 ай бұрын

...12 knots per hour? I don't think that means what you think it means.

@michaelwhalen2442 3 ай бұрын

Maybe the ship was accelerating...

@eriknewman5288 3 ай бұрын

Too bad the once proud British Navy can't even perform shore patrol. What a pathetic state of affairs.

@wodantheviking 3 ай бұрын

Not quite true. The RN has been shooting down drones and missiles in the Red Sea.

@rossmansell5877 3 ай бұрын

explain please................

@lesigh1749 3 ай бұрын

@@wodantheviking Can they figure out a way to target Dinghies?

@eriknewman5288 3 ай бұрын

@rossmansell5877 the British navy can't even put planes on their flight decks. They don't have enough ships to perform basic functions.

@captainsleeman9787 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, but they've got diversity, lots of diversity.

@markdavidson1049 2 ай бұрын

The Nelson and Rodney are my two favorite battleships (along with the King George V-class). They are such a unique design and very "clean"-looking as well. A lot of ships have an "Atlantic bow" which flares up and outwards in order to prevent waves from breaching over and across the deck. Nelson and Rodney had a more streamlined and straight-edged look from stern to bow. The superstructure had the "Queen Anne's Mansion" design to it which looked like a building and I loved the faceted lines like at the very front and how it angled out in straight lines.

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

It was a beautiful ship.

@moosifer3321 3 ай бұрын

And no mention of the `Scapa Incident`, Nelson`s Stoker and `Girlriend`, resulting in the ship being greeted with BAaaaaa?? No mention of Rod-ol or Nels-ol. as the sisters were known due to them resembling Tankers. Enjoy the channel, sometimes, sub`d always.

@bahoonies 3 ай бұрын

@moosifer3321 Do tell. I haven't heard that particular story.

@moosifer3321 3 ай бұрын

Apparently one of the Stokers was caught in Barracks, in bed with a Sheep - he later claimed he thought it was a WREN in a Duffle Coat, hence the Baas.@@bahoonies

@philhawley1219 3 ай бұрын

A WREN wearing a duffle coat! The most convincing excuse ever.

@user-xh3lz9xt4l 3 ай бұрын

Try the fact that she was capable of 22 knots not 12

@kizzyp2735 3 ай бұрын

.......... didn't he say her speed was reduced to 12 knots following damage??

@maurotassinarizugnitauro2990 3 ай бұрын

Twelve knots per hour. Plz. A navy channel. I need no further explanation.

@tim31415 3 ай бұрын

You beat me to it.

@tim31415 3 ай бұрын

Perhaps she was accelerating?

@TheBestDog 3 ай бұрын

7:35 12 knots [per hour] is correct, though not typically how one refers to the speed of a ship. Did I miss something else?

@Samaldoful 3 ай бұрын

Correct, knots is its own measurement and needs no quantifying- however give the bloke a break it’s an interesting video and mainly well done.

@flickingbollocks5542 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBestDoga knot is one nautical mile per hour. If you add another per hour, (ie 12 nautical miles, per hour, per hour) it makes no sense unless you are accelerating.

@darrensmith6999 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful bruisers love them (: Is it me or do they resemble a Star Wars Star Destroyer ship ?

@skyden24195 3 ай бұрын

Good video. However, I'd argue that HMS Nelson's demolition began when she was a target ship. lol. (Of course, if you look at how many times she was damaged during her service, maybe it could be said that her demolition started when she began to serve.) 🤔😏😄

@sirjohng1 2 ай бұрын

Great vid thank you, thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot.

@mickshawforty 3 ай бұрын

Two great looking ships.

@chipcook5346 2 ай бұрын

My suppositions: HMS Nelson had some high quality crews along the way. HMS Nelson had some talented leadership along the way. HMS Nelson had some really good luck along the way.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 3 ай бұрын

Grounded outside Portsmouth harbour - who was court-martialled for that silly mistake?

@paulissus8974 Ай бұрын

I was amazed to learn that the UK was the only country that fought in WW2 from the very first to the very last day.

@morstyrannis1951 Ай бұрын

How do you arrive at that conclusion? The Poles fought on in army, air force, and navy roles. So did some of the French. The British Commonwealth nations declared war on Germany within a few days of Britain. The USA was the only western nation that was late to the fight.

@ironmantooltime 2 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@joeminella5315 3 ай бұрын

Good Vid, Thanks.

@CmdCodd 2 ай бұрын

Now this would have been an amazing museum ship... (It really is a shame).

@kuribayashi84 2 ай бұрын

Every time I see this thing in WoW, I’m taken slightly aback. I always think that something is missing. 😂

@PalleRasmussen 2 ай бұрын

The NelRods were awesome.

@wirz17 Ай бұрын

The moment where German Tank got the most big ammunition😂😂

@yyyyyyyyyyybj 2 ай бұрын

Hms Rodney… named after Dave 😂

@iancarr8682 2 ай бұрын

Overlooked the cheese loss!

@EllieMaes-Grandad 3 ай бұрын

A clip of 'Japanese troops at Hong Kong' @ 9:00 [seen many times before] does not impress. Then again, this channel does a lot of such things . . .

@atompunk5575 2 ай бұрын

It looks funky, but it has a reputation 😮

@jtns2845 3 ай бұрын

most of the videos don’t match the audio.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 3 ай бұрын

As usual on this channel. Always used multiple times too.

@morstyrannis1951 Ай бұрын

You’re right, but in fairness there’s a pretty limited selection to choose from.

@abnurtharn2927 3 ай бұрын

The Allied Ship That Gathered All Its Firepower for One Epic Shot?

@netwrench6570 3 ай бұрын

Did we miss it?

@johnrflinn 3 ай бұрын

@@netwrench6570 The shot not heard around the world.

@richardcleveland8549 3 ай бұрын

@@netwrench6570 You blinked . . . .😂

@abnurtharn2927 3 ай бұрын

@@netwrench6570Don´t know about you, but I missed it.

@Heisrisin3 3 ай бұрын

If you’re going to continue doing videos about seagoing vessels, you need to pronounce this word properly. there's no “for” in “forecastle. It’s pronounced “FOLK-s'l

@MowingMichaelA 3 ай бұрын

Cry some more.

@CHANANNAIRMOSHINGLEFAIRE Ай бұрын

She never should have been scrapped😢

@stephennewton2223 22 күн бұрын

Technically only 6 barrels could fire forward. The third turret could only fire forward slightly to port or starboard.

@subjectc7505 3 ай бұрын

This is the weirdest battleship i ever seen

@lesigh1749 3 ай бұрын

I think it looks gorgeous. Its like the Star Destroyers in Star wars. Command tower at the rear and a full deck of guns along the front.

@davidgifford8112 3 ай бұрын

Even the crews thought they looked more like oil tankers than battle ships, hence the nicknames “Rod Oil & Nels Oil”. While slow and tactically compromised, they were a brilliant compromise as a Naval Treaty compliant design.

@kevinmccann2814 2 ай бұрын

Original design was changed due to a treaty to limit warship size. Superstructure dimensions were changed, this enabled the installation of the third turret. The 16"guns were named after the 7 Dwarfs. Not sure what the remaining barrels were named. Source, my Grandad,🙂

@phbrinsden 2 ай бұрын

Because Rodney and Nelson looked a bit like oil tankers they were nicknamed Rodnol and Nelsol. But Rodney’s 16” guns disassembled Bismarck in short order.

@No_Way_NO_WAY 2 ай бұрын

Nelson was my favorite ship in Navyfield. 3x four barreled turrets and basically no spread ment all of the shells would land on a broadsider.

@davidlauder-qi5zv 2 ай бұрын

Wrong. Three 3 barreled turrets, not four barreled. She and HMS Rodney had 9 15inch guns apiece.

@No_Way_NO_WAY 2 ай бұрын

@@davidlauder-qi5zv you do read that i refer to my loadout in navyfield, which is a pc game where you can equip many different turrets.

@gadgetman_nz4092 9 күн бұрын

12kn/h, whilst not a great rate of acceleration, would have a good lick of speed after 3 hours if maintained.

@freddjie3097 3 ай бұрын

I thought that the Thumbnail was Richelieu at first. Forecastle is too far back to be though

@alanmoore2197 Ай бұрын

What a shame that neither of these famous ships was saved as a museum ship, worse - not a single battleship of any kind - the stupidity of it all!

@dovidell 2 ай бұрын

interesting footage of HMS Barham exploding , to presumably indicate what would happen if a Battleship hit a ( sea) mine

@ilikelampshades6 2 ай бұрын

HMS Rodney (HMS Nelsons sister ship) is the ship that killed the Bismark. For a while it was a 1 on 1 fight and the Rodney blew to bismark to pieces leaving it a firery mess

@johntim3491 2 ай бұрын

Very true... Rodney took out 3 of Bismarck's 4 Main Turrets.

@ilikelampshades6 2 ай бұрын

@@johntim3491 I thought it took them all out. Who did the 4th turret?

@daneelolivaw602 2 ай бұрын

"A floating relic," and yet it was another floating relic that did most of the damage to Bismarck.

@jimmysweat2200 3 ай бұрын

Rodney 9 sixteen inch guns

@MikeHunt-fo3ow 3 ай бұрын

weird looking fishing boats

@PETERWATT-ly5yt 2 ай бұрын

I do not think Nelson could fire all 9 16inch guns while facing head on to the Germans as the number 3 turret was lower than the number 2 turret

@peterwebb8732 2 ай бұрын

At longer ranges the guns are elevated.

@PETERWATT-ly5yt 2 ай бұрын

if you look a a model of Rodney you will see that number 3 turret guns pointy bits sit under number2 and cannot raised to a high angle

@wilsonpickett3881 2 ай бұрын

Nice map of Tarawa

@user-yd1fy8mp8i 3 ай бұрын

If you are go to show film of something use the correct film images

@barbararice6650 2 ай бұрын

British battleships are by far the most beautiful things ever built, and here's why not a single penny was spent to make them beautiful 😐

@jackjude 2 ай бұрын

The majority are conspiously ugly, especially compaired to Germany's WW2 battleships. Rodney and Nelson had their charm though.

@barbararice6650 2 ай бұрын

@@jackjude That's my point those German battleships look like they were designed by toilet water ponces 👈😾

@mospeada1152 2 ай бұрын

The video heading is quite misleading, as not once did I hear of when it gathered all its firepower for one epic shot!

@RO8s 2 ай бұрын

My Grandfather was her Navigating Officer. He was chosen because she was a complete pig to handle and he was the best.

@gruntforever7437 3 ай бұрын

You do not often hear of German Torpedo failure.

@lynby6231 3 ай бұрын

It was very common

@gruntforever7437 3 ай бұрын

@@lynby6231 compared to ours?

@morstyrannis1951 Ай бұрын

Actually a senior Uboat commander got into an argument with Admiral Raeder saying he couldn’t be expected to fight with a dummy rifle referring to technical problems with their torpedoes. Unfortunately I can’t find the quote with Google. I guess it’s too obscure a topic.

@josephpicogna6348 2 ай бұрын

I thought they were good ships that gave very great service, considering their design limitations and slow speed. However, they could not fire their nine main battery rifles, full head. Do use all three turrets, required unmasking the three buried.

@davidhannon6146 3 ай бұрын

My favorite gyms battleship

@cbennetts2746 2 ай бұрын

completely skipped the fact they argued her torpedo watertanks were used for drinking water. a really funny excuse.

@rustymiller194 3 ай бұрын

Tough old girl!!!!!

@lukehorning3404 2 ай бұрын

Crazy life of a battle ship 😂

@carsonagenic6285 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes less pictures and video is better when you are showing totally incorrect references from entirely different wars. Good info, just stick to the facts and slow down and show the right images...

@camojoe83 3 ай бұрын

Knots per hour. Jesus.

@BigAmp 3 ай бұрын

Powerful though she is I still reckon she looks like an angry oil tanker.

@user-tg9qz2ul2k 3 ай бұрын

Built a small snap together monogram kit only one kit of this ship😮

@colinamwilliamson 2 ай бұрын

And, another thing. Twelve knots per hour ffs? That is 12 nautical miles per hour per hour. How can that be possible outside quantum sailing?

@maxhugen 3 ай бұрын

What a strange layout. That 3rd turret of 3 guns, tucked in _aft_ of the 2nd turret, at deck level... 🙄

@BlackHearthguard 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was found that if C turret had been made superfiring it would have messed up her metacentric height, so deck level it was. She still had, I believe, the smallest citadel of any battleship in WWII.

@maxhugen 3 ай бұрын

@@BlackHearthguard 👍 Ah, right, got it. 😎

@briand01 Ай бұрын

@@BlackHearthguard also shortest turning radius of all British warships

@BlackHearthguard Ай бұрын

@@briand01 Which is something that saved Nelsol and Rodol a couple of times when they were able to avoid collisions.