That was truly badass. Everyone, on all sides, who went to sea in a sub was incredibly brave.

Highlight needs this biographical blazing reboot! Maybe you could do a mega sideproject on the xploration of the Whistleverse? Casually of course…

I’ve dived on ROYAL OAK several times and it’s an incredible experience. She is in incredible condition and the size of the torpedo holes is shocking.

It’s back! Now for an xplrd one :)

Glad this channel is alive again ❤️

It's alive! This channel is like a zombie, just when you thought it was dead, boom! It comes back out of nowhere and I love it 😅🧟

I've been really missing this channel, thank you guys!

Good video 👍

The thing I love about this channel is that it's literally highlighting lesser known or vaguely forgotten parts of history! Such a shame it hasn't taken off like some of Simon's other channels.

Happy new year you weird dude

I've enjoyed every one of the videos on this channel immensely. I guess they are long-form narratives of a single "story" but they are able to draw me in. Geo/Biographics is more of an overview of many events, which is great, but lacks narrative continuity. So to Simon: In my opinion this channel has value in terms of bringing something slightly different than the others, it has it's own niche. And I'd like to see it survive if possible! Thanks for the endless entertainment and education as always.

Glad to see we finally got a new video on this channel.

The History Guy did a great video on Scapa Flow recently. Worth a watch AFTER this one lol

The Churchill Barriers are an amazing bit of engineering, still in use today for the road that runs north/south through the islands.

Pride before a fall...more like a float 😂🚢

Worth the wait.

The quote at the end is the definition of what it means to be dedicated to one's craft. To lose oneself in the moment, in the action. Notoriety, fame, recognition means nothing at that moment. It is simply doing what one feels right at that moment.

Just imagine if he had The full harbor and fleet as targets, seemingly the confusion would have allowed him to even select secondary targets as he made his way out, the damage could have been catastrophic. I've always marveled that this was even attempted let alone succeeded. I remember playing silent Hunter 2 and enjoying reenacting this mission

A local lady told me it was their Pearl Harbor when I visited Scapa Flow while in Scotland Sept 2017. The hushed tones and total experience was very much like visiting Pearl Harbor. Very moving.

How is this story not a movie yet?

Excellent narration

Minor point here, but when covering historical events, it's always good to get details right. U-47 was a type VIIB uboat, not a type VIIC. Also, noone says V I I. These are Roman numerals, so type 7 would be the correct way to refer to them.

A few years ago, during a survey of Scapa, they discovered an unexploded torpedo. It was identified as one of U47's shots that missed. Sadly, it couldn't be made safe and was destroyed.

It's a type VII (roman numeral 7)

Every time I hear Scapa Flow, all I can think of is the mission against the Bismarck.

I thought you might have forgot this channel

I have read that the book, "My Way to Scapa Flow was written by another fellow claiming to be Prien and that it contains false facts about the attack.

Vee, eye, eye, C !!!!! Think you'll find that VII C is roman for 7 C

One of the more daring actions of the war? What about SWIMMING directly into Gibraltar to attack with limpet mines?

and here i was thinking that highlight history was... well... history...

🎶Do Dee do do do 😁

Type VIIc aka type 7c

british pearl harbor i will say

correction Doenetz asked for 300 U-boats not 500

Boss move by Prien .

Tsk. It's Orkney, not 'the Orkneys' no plural. Same as Shetland.

My grandads uncle donnie died on the royal oak i believe he was pulled under trying to save the boy sea men. Can't begin to imagine what was going through there minds.

Simon, my dude... Wilhems-haven 😭

The reason there was a gap allowing Prien to get in, in the first place was because the block ship that should have been there was sunk on the way to Scapa,.....by a Uboat! 😉

6:44 The port is pronounced WILHELMS-HAFEN not WILHELM - SHAFEN cause 'Hafen' means Harbour and has nothing to do with shave or shaving as it sound now. The average german would ask what wilhelm schafen should be cause also the 'a' in hafen is pronounced like in harbour - same roots of the languages. It is the port named after the emperor Wilhelm which is a natural deep water harbour, one of the few sites in Germany for a deep water harbour. The whole town was build around the garrison and harbour.

Quotable Quotes from the U Boat Commander

How about the story of U505 now in Chicago?

6:40 Willhelm shaven, you say? Surely you meant to say Willhelm's Haven?! Do you need a new optical prescription, Sigh?

Aye, Scapa. What of it English?

If only 'the cause he served' was just, instead of the vile ideology he followed, you mean.

Günther Prien died at age 33 in his U-boat off the cost of Ireland.

Excellent presentation but there is no 'r' in Scapa Flow. Pronounced ska·puh flow, it irritates Orcadians to hear 'Scarpa Flow'

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If your going to make historical video's like this they should be historically correct, u 47 was a type 7 B u boat ( 7 as in roman numerals V11 B) the type V11C was a development and improvement on the earlier type V11 B

cant wait to see what u got wrong about this, im a naval history expert so

Vee eye eye See ???? do you mean 7 C (VII C)??? :-))

Another fuckin channel, because, of course....

Prien Uber Alles

If only you'd watched a one minute clip about the place, you'd know it's pronounced 'Scappa', not 'Scarper'.

This episode is just a bridesmaid not the bride. The History Guy did this very episode in advance of you guys. Essentially the very same story. Too bad you guys didn’t check before posting this redundancy. No Bull!