Time Team Special: Lost Submarines of World War I | Classic Special (Full Episode) 2013

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FULL EPISODE | CLASSIC TIME TEAM SPECIAL
In our latest Classic Special from the archives, Tony and Phil head beneath the waves to investigate 'the Lost Submarines of World War I'. We trace the development of submarines, from wacky experimental contraptions, to ruthlessly efficient weapons that have permanently changed the nature of naval warfare.
Original broadcast date: 7th July 2013
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@greendragonreprised6885 17 күн бұрын

Tony and Phil, putting the band back together.

@humphrey4976 16 күн бұрын

Mick Tribute act

@bertjesklotepino 7 күн бұрын

now i understand what you mean. But i think this all was recorded way before Mick passed, right? @@humphrey4976

@Pesmog 17 күн бұрын

I never saw this the first time around in 2013, so was delighted to see it this evening. 👍

@jimplummer4879 17 күн бұрын

Same here !

@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328 5 күн бұрын

2013 you say? Thanks, I was wondering when this is from.

@seanpaula8924 17 күн бұрын

What a pleasure to see Sir Tony and of course Mr Harding.

@ssrc30 15 күн бұрын

So happy to see Tony and Phil back on the team. I've seen every episode ever made and it just wasn't the same without the 2 of them.

@harapaki3412 11 күн бұрын

Baldrick you mean

@joezephyr 10 күн бұрын

I still miss Mick

@phantomkate6 3 күн бұрын

Back? They hadn't left yet when this was first aired.

@gmtegirl 17 күн бұрын

This was an awesome episode. Should be part of school curriculum to understand the history, history of engineering and world war history of our world.

@cyclingnerddelux698 16 күн бұрын

Huh, what?

@AKSnowbat907 15 күн бұрын

It is. There's just to much history to cover in the reduced time we give our students.

@gmtegirl 15 күн бұрын

@@cyclingnerddelux698 Information like this should be included in school curricula. Important to teach history like this which is so well presented.

@richardbruce8111 12 күн бұрын

BOLLOCKS It is interesting stuff like this makes learning relevant & FUN!!!.. More teachers need to study how to interact with students IT was sorted way back 30+ years back! its called "Accelerated Learning!" Shows you HOW to use your brain & how to sort out REALITY

@Chris-the-Saxon 9 күн бұрын

Instead the kids have Dance and Relationships (LGBT indoctrination) .

@burtlangoustine1 9 күн бұрын

If you discover a Frog on board one of these Submarines... That's the Toad Array

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

I dived as an Aussie veteran navy diver and anzac descendant on AE2 last year Australia in 70S And 80s had a class of boat called oberon. 2 of them in since declassified docs, where what was called sneaky boats..including the OTAMA they did things no other boat could do at the time to the russians including going up their baffles into Cam Ranh bay without detection.. special medal just for those boats

@jameshollins5659 17 күн бұрын

How have I just learnt that Time Team has a KZfaq channel 😅!! Amazing

@richardh8082 17 күн бұрын

@jameshollins5659 I know, right! :)

@dzzope 17 күн бұрын

They even have new digs.. can't beat Tony presenting though.

@nickychimes4719 17 күн бұрын

Share, subscribe, like, comment #timeteam #history #simplythebest #archeology

@juliesiefke1173 17 күн бұрын

They have TWO! Time Team Official and Time Team Classic. The new digs are on Time Team Official.

@mikereilly7629 17 күн бұрын

Twas a fortuitous discovery, indeed. This is a very good, long lived show. Much to my pleasure.. American history documentaries always tend towards aliens or goofy ass speculation and sensationalism

@mcceight7885 5 күн бұрын

In the mid-1980's I worked on a project to ressurect several of the battery cells recovered from the Holland 1. After cannibalisation of the more damaged cells for replacement parts, repairs, cleaning and flushing, I managed to get a couple of them worked-up to around 25% of their original capacity of around 800 Ah, after 70 odd years underwater. I believe that thease were eventually returned to the museum.

@kurtking7770 17 күн бұрын

After visiting the Fremantle Maritime Museum and taking the colins class submarine tour , I learnt how amazing these machines were capable to function . Just amazing and an honour to board one . Thank you time team for showing the very first Subs . Great lesson

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

ive been on them whilst operational.been out thru the tubes and dived the AE2 and gallipoli wrecks last year...2nd time on the wrecks

@troywallace322 16 күн бұрын

Sure you weren't on HMAS Ovens. Oberon class.

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

@@troywallace322 Otama was main sneaky.

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

@@troywallace322 Otama main one. I was a clearance diver. Team 3. Z special unit descendant. There are declassified papers about cam rahn Bay and otama. In baffles of a soviet. Hawke had no idea till navy told him. He increased funding. Hawke was also next door neighbour of my grandfather in Sandringham. I knew them well as a kid

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

@@troywallace322 clearance divers we went on sneakys. But I had unique career like no other diver. Not withstanding I'm still youngest ever to pass the course. Was under 18. I dived AE2 last year. And the other Gallipoli wrecks for 3rd time. 1st 34 years ago with navy at 75th

@paulhoffman6371 17 күн бұрын

Thanks for making CSS Hunley one of your examples of early sub-warfare; it was lost with all hands after making the first successful attack on a surface ship. The sub and its crew were recovered and the men received a full Confederate States burial.

@gl15col 17 күн бұрын

What an awful way to go, they were still seated at their stations. I'm glad they finally got to rest with other members of the Hunley team.

@jtorola 17 күн бұрын

@@gl15colshouldn’t have been traitors

@larryzigler6812 17 күн бұрын

@@jtorola True

@larryzigler6812 17 күн бұрын

Am sure Trump would have honored them

@pcka12 15 күн бұрын

@@gl15colit is believed that they were rendered unconscious by the shock wave from their spar torpedo & never knew anything about the sinking (like being depth charged by themselves).

@TazerOnlineMedia 13 күн бұрын

I've been watching time team for years and years. Possibly since the start of the show. I went to college to study archaeology and loved it. Somewhere along the line life got in the way and I never became an archaeologist. But instead got behind the camera. Working for woodcut media making history documentaries. Now I'm a videographer and editor. Would love to know how I could get involved if possible. Possibly working on episodes.

@TheKARMMARK 17 күн бұрын

Watched this last night. Just outstanding. Life is good again with new Time Team episodes hosted by Tony and and Phil.

@zippy5131 16 күн бұрын

Drachinifel has recently done a video on the history of countering the U-boat menace. Well worth watching.

@Charners 16 күн бұрын

The Jonny Walker series is fantastic so far!

@davidrenton 13 күн бұрын

@@Charners many Drachinifel fans here i see, good

@dtrain1634 11 күн бұрын

Yes it is :) good video

@tonk84 6 күн бұрын

Would like to think if this episode was done now they'd get Drach on as an expert

@zippy5131 6 күн бұрын

@@tonk84 Now I'd pay to see that.

@PtolemyJones 15 күн бұрын

Submariners are an amazing breed, special people. I couldn't do it.

@mikebennett3812 14 күн бұрын

I and many of my mates did!

@PtolemyJones 14 күн бұрын

@@mikebennett3812 I've met a few, always impressed.

@kevinc4632 13 күн бұрын

Served in Submarines 89-94 , Plank Owner USS SCRANTON SSN- 756. Fast attack boat, the best years of my youth. Thank You

@bobbybigboyyes 11 күн бұрын

Just the same as a nice girl that does not 'Kiss and Tell' AKA 'The Silent Service' 🤪

@timparker2985 14 күн бұрын

The sinking of three British Cruisers deserves a bit of detail. Action was on 22 September 1914. U-9 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigen sank HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy, and HMS Hogue with the loss of 1,459 sailors. Site is about 40 Miles west of Den Helder in the Netherlands.

@ianwhitehouse5818 13 күн бұрын

My Great Uncle went down with Aboukir, my father-in-law was torpedoed twice in WWII, my mother served in a Y Station intercepting U-boat Morse for decryption, via Enigma, at Bletchley Park. I was a submariner for 22 years - commanding a diesel boat and nuclear boat.

@palletcabin-YR_Author 16 күн бұрын

We really like these classics.

@Odanti 17 күн бұрын

I really enjoyed this Time Team video. Great history explained by Sir Tony and Phil Harding. How did I miss this one? ❤️🙏❤️

@Davlavi 8 күн бұрын

Love the classics.

@alayneperrott9693 11 күн бұрын

Fascinating video. So great to see Phil and Tony together again!

@plunder1956 13 күн бұрын

It's curious to think that Conan Doyle published his 42nd Surlock Holmes story the Bruce-Partington Plans, in December 1908! SIX years before WW1 started. Even then the Submarine was being described as a game changer. By the American Civil war it was clear this technology was important.

@oldtugs 11 күн бұрын

Not much secret about BUTEC. Years ago I piloted Pisces manned submersibles operated by Vickers Oceanics out of Kyle of Lochalsh to recover aircraft and submarine launched torpedoes that failed to surface after test firing. We located them by homing in on their acoustic pingers and used a specialized torpedo claw to return them to the surface. The test range was a marvel in itself with the ability to track torpedoes during their runs. Some of the air drop failures were spectacular and few pieces were recoverable. There is at least one torpedo stuck in an underwater cliffside on the east side of Raasay which we tried for weeks to locate until the pinger battery finally died.

@thetruthwillout3347 10 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed this...Very interesting. My Great Uncle was killed on K17 at the Battle of May Island January 1918. The sub was accidentally rammed by HMS Fearless and was lost with all hands. RIP.

@chrishankey3396 17 күн бұрын

Thanks for this. Amazing footage and story telling once again.

@CullenRick 17 күн бұрын

Still amusing to see Tony, a CND stalwart, on one of our nuclear boats.

@humphrey4976 16 күн бұрын

Astute only had nuclear propulsion and is not nuclear armed.

@CullenRick 16 күн бұрын

@@humphrey4976 CND also opposed nuclear power stations (presumably that would also include mobile ones).

@RalphBrooker-gn9iv 10 күн бұрын

Amazed they got on HMS Ambush. I’m not an expert. I just that it was all hush-hush. Also showing crew’s faces surprised me. I did grow up in Gosport home to to HMS Dolphin.

@sarahwatts7152 16 күн бұрын

Fascinating! I'm more sure than ever that I don't need to experience life in a submarine, but the science is really cool

@michaeldenesyk3195 17 күн бұрын

Another legacy from the Holland, The Whitehead torpedo, helped to sink the German Cruiser Blucher in 1940. It was launched by a shore-based torpedo launcher and shore-based old Krupp shore batteries

@larryzigler6812 17 күн бұрын

What's the other legacy ?

@michaeldenesyk3195 3 күн бұрын

@@larryzigler6812 Submarines

@larryzigler6812 3 күн бұрын

@@michaeldenesyk3195 Leonardo invented the submarine but would not share the details due to its evil nature

@cptnkaos5994 16 күн бұрын

Amazing to watch, thank you Phil and Tony

@joezephyr 10 күн бұрын

I have been to Munich and seen the U1. One of the best things I have ever seen! And the museum as a whole is fantastic!

@greatboniwanker 3 күн бұрын

I know channels with millions of subs that don't have 100 members. Well done Time Team fans!

@johnwatson3948 11 күн бұрын

Did not know they did this and nice to see the team again! As a teenager in 1976 got a tour of the sub USS Greenling SSN 614 when on vacation in Barbados - great to learn more of the history here.

@tarlcabbot2551 17 күн бұрын

This is truly amazing! More like this, please!!!

@dreyfusslugado 17 күн бұрын

Some amazing history. What a great episode!

@denisecaringer4726 17 күн бұрын

This just popped up on KZfaq, and it's great. I didn't know to even look for this! Excellent.

@deanmc178 17 күн бұрын

fantastic stuff of our history from the war , rip to the loved and lost during this terrible time

@user-eq4rv5hm6b 6 күн бұрын

I never saw this first time in 2013 so I'm glad I've found it thanks 😊

@wazwulf2698 16 күн бұрын

loved this thank you so much

@GrasshopperKelly 9 күн бұрын

I remember getting into trouble in primary school, age 5 or 6 (Mum remembers it better than me). Because I didn't follow instructions during art. We were to paint flowers into a printed vase. I instead painted a load of brown, covered parts of the vase (missing parts) and added cracks. Apparently I came out of school balling my eyes out. Mum wanted to know what was wrong. The teacher (Who I still like 20 years on) thought "Time team" was some made up children's noncense (uncultuired) and I simply couldn't follow instructions to put in the flower, that had decomposed long ago xD So glad I found the YT channel. It was quite literally my childhood (along with How It's Made).

@marklelohe3754 5 күн бұрын

Excellent video and history lesson. Thanks chaps.

@richcrozier1108 15 күн бұрын

Incredible content, so glad I saw this now…wish I hadn’t missed it the first time round!

@cynthiaalver 13 күн бұрын

Enjoyed the video very much. Thank you!

@emusaurus 6 күн бұрын

Submarines make me uncomfortable, yet I am fascinated by them

@manicmatt7773 17 күн бұрын

Thank you.

@aKalishnacough 13 күн бұрын

Lovely documentary. Cheers lads.

@colinthomas5462 17 күн бұрын

Excellent! I really enjoyed this interesting episode, thanks Time Team. Keep up the great work.

@aaronleverton4221 14 күн бұрын

The wreck is too deep for Phil at 35m give or take. Makes you realise how dangerous the "depths" are when only a few metres make something "too deep". Until oxygen is required nobody says some hill is "too high" to ascend. I guess I explained that with "Until oxygen is required..." As a kid Jacque Cousteau made the underwater world look so easy and he was pioneering it!

@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328 5 күн бұрын

The differen e between deep sea and high altitude I a bit more than needing oxygen. With high altitude you do need just oxygen, but deeper sea work requires very special gas mixtures.

@aaronleverton4221 5 күн бұрын

@@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328 Yeah, "deep sea"...

@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328 5 күн бұрын

@aaronleverton4221 tri-mix gas is used at only 100 metres, so it doesn't even have to be "deep sea". 35 was too deep for phil mostly because of experience and certification issues.

@tarnishedknight730 2 күн бұрын

aaronleverton4221, Just to give you an idea of just one of the problems of being under water... I took an empty, 2 liter coke bottle, put the cap on at the surface and took it down to 45 feet. It was completely flat! It looked like it had been run over by a car. One back on the surface, it had expanded to its normal shape. Next, I took the bottle down to 45 feet. I filled it with air that I exhaled 8 ti the upsidedown bottle. I capped it and brought it back to the surface. The bottle was rock hard and I couldn't get the cap off. One of the other divers poked it with a bolt from a spear gun and it exploded. No one got hurt or even cut, but it startled everyone around. And that's only 45 feet (13.7 meters).

@aaronleverton4221 2 күн бұрын

@@tarnishedknight730 Yes, I was never taught in high school physics (or by any submarine movie) that the weight of the ocean can crush things.

@michaelparker6907 9 күн бұрын

Brilliant episode. Thank-you.

@sarahlee6641 17 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@user-dx5kg1nu6k 12 күн бұрын

I was leaving the Clyde in a yacht a couple of years ago. The light was fading as we headed to the east of Bute. Then out of the murk, appeared two fast ribs crewed by the Royal Navy. We were informed that a submarine, presumably nuclear powered and armed was approaching us from our stern. A couple of RIBS were clearing the way for it. So, the captain of the sub requested that we move over to starboard to allow their passage. So we moved to starboard. But then not long after, a RIB came alongside and told us that the captain had changed his mind and wanted us to move over to port. We laughed and did as requested. In the murk, we watched as Barrow's finest glided past us at about 20 knots! Bill

@GravesRWFiA 7 күн бұрын

the british had the first class of operational sub, the Holland class numbered 1-6. they hold the record of having NO fatalities in training, or their limited combat patrols, the hunnley lost 3 crews. the turtle, the first one you showed survived but got lost in the currents in the 1777

@alannahayter8491 14 күн бұрын

OMG TONY AND PHIL!!! OH MY HEART IS SO HAPPY!

@aarondrennan5650 15 күн бұрын

Britain has the best submarine command course in the world. Even us Americans attend it as a finishing school. It’s called Perisher.

@robynw6307 10 күн бұрын

Thank you for showing an episode that I hadn't yet seen. There's a few of them, but not many.

@killeresk 2 күн бұрын

First time i see this episode, very interesting. Time Team is awesome.

@W4iteFlame 16 күн бұрын

Interesting. Many new details of that ancient conflict

@fraeris1 17 күн бұрын

Ready as always 😀

@maddiethomas5892 18 күн бұрын

I can't wait!

@oldtimers6460 17 күн бұрын

Nicely done.

@lizzy66125 10 күн бұрын

awesome episode not seen before.thank you time team.❤

@harrypenn611 17 күн бұрын

Fantastic

@seanlander9321 17 күн бұрын

During WWI Australia had submarines. After the war it couldn’t afford them as Britain demanded that Australia be singled out as the only country that was required to repay war loans in full. Consequently Australia returned its submarine fleet to Britain in the 30’s, where they rusted. Now we have AUKUS, the first military treaty between Britain and Australia.

@shemanicmaid 17 күн бұрын

😮

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

I dived on AE2 last year Have also dived on them whilst operational.including thru the tubes

@highcountrydelatite 16 күн бұрын

AUKUS is a tripartite agreement..

@billygoatgruff3536 14 күн бұрын

Well that's a load of bull. The UK sold Australia more submarines after the war in the 1927 and then Australia got rid of those submarines in 1931 because the O-class were unreliable and considered too expensive to maintain during the great depression. Where did you get your "fact" about war loans from? Also; AUKUS is not the first military treaty between Australia and Britain, The Five Power Defence Agreement was signed in 1971. It includes, Malaysia-Singapore-New Zealand-UK-Australia.

@highcountrydelatite 14 күн бұрын

What rubbish Australia uk had no loans between them. And lend lease Australia was bot required to be paid back as Australia gave in blood to usa

@thorivaldic 16 күн бұрын

Good one!

@SchmuzzyHead 15 күн бұрын

Glad you are on KZfaq , about time .

@anthonycooper5877 17 күн бұрын

Great veiwing

@gtd-sq2pj 13 күн бұрын

Very good.

@alansivkoff282 15 күн бұрын

Perhaps you might look into Australian submarines AE1 & AE2, both lost in WW!.

@roymcnicholas4825 17 күн бұрын

Nice on baldrick very intresting viewing ..thanx

@gertsy2000 12 күн бұрын

Classic Time Team.

@soviet1918 12 күн бұрын

Cornelis Drebbel (born 1572, Alkmaar, Netherlands-died November 7, 1633, London, England) was a Dutch inventor who built the first navigable submarine. though not a sub id like to get into cos there's no guarantee youd see daylight again lol

@54mgtf22 16 күн бұрын

Long time Time Team fan, loving your KZfaq channel. 👍

@dcamatrix 17 күн бұрын

so cool

@robnelson840 13 күн бұрын

Nice to see Phil on the program again

@Psychlist1972 17 күн бұрын

I take it the "User is not Station In Control" error message at 3:44 means they did that just for video and it was all being controlled from elsewhere.

@RHCole 18 күн бұрын

Gonna be good!

@bradyelich2745 14 күн бұрын

John Holland had contracted for 10 H subs to be built in Canada. The first 5 were delivered to Britain in 1915. These Canadian built subs were the first to cross the Atlantic.

@bunnylove273 11 күн бұрын

hey time team and crew great vid

@theworldaccordingtokirsch 6 күн бұрын

Very educating docu. Now I will watch "Hunt for Red October" again. Submarines give me the creeps because I am claustrophic.

@MadBrit26 9 күн бұрын

They need to bring the show back.

@lukesmith739 16 күн бұрын

Didn't know Phil was so about the underwater life. Interesting.

@davidrenton 13 күн бұрын

he actually dives in the Timeteam episode about the Grace Dieu from 2005, it's on YT "In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu (Bursledon) | Series 12 Episode 6 | Time Team )"

@bobbybigboyyes 11 күн бұрын

Submariners are a very special breed, just like a girl that does not 'Kiss and Tell' AKA 'The Silent Service' 🤪 A Time Cream Special!

@stefbrown9059 6 күн бұрын

Please do a WW2 version. My grandfather was assigned to HMS Sickle after sinking 14 enemy vessals she was sank in June 1944 somewhere in the Aegean sea, the sub and its crew have never been found. Luckily my grandfather was ashore, although in hospital during its last voyage.

@4362mont 17 күн бұрын

So we use "sneaky" for an enrmy, but stealthy for ourselves, whoever we may be?

@eric-wb7gj 15 күн бұрын

TY 🙏

@MrsMcKittenz 17 күн бұрын

Thank you, I served on the USS Archerfish SSN 678, a fast attack.

@harapaki3412 11 күн бұрын

and i was commander of the uss indianapolis// What a dreamer

@MrsMcKittenz 10 күн бұрын

@@harapaki3412 I don’t really care what think. I can back up my statement.

@trevorthrale797 5 күн бұрын

Detecting a surface contact at 3000 nautical miles is a massive exaggeration!! Still I love time team.

@SDE1994 14 күн бұрын

a german ww1 u boat UB98 which was scrapped at Porthmadoc harbour in 1922, some of the hull plates were used in Moelwyn tunnel on the Ffestiniog railway

@user-jn1ew8rs8r 17 күн бұрын

surprised the navy allowed this close up

@bobbybigboyyes 11 күн бұрын

My brother worked on the design and testing of torpedoes for the Royal Navy when he was employed at Marconi Space and Defence in Warren Lane, Stanmore, Middx. They tested the torpedoes at a Loch in Scotland.

@Cheesingabout 17 күн бұрын

long time time team fan

@TomFynn 16 күн бұрын

And God asked the rocks "Rocks! Do you want to be submariners?" And the rocks cried out: "No! We are not tough enough!"

@eireman51 11 күн бұрын

The history of J P Holland should have been included. This Irish man and the motivation behind his invention of the submarine should have been covered.After all the submarine makes are Holland 1,2 ,3,4,5. J P Holland also owned the ship yard that built these submarines. Its always telling when the phrase " British " is used to describe Irish inventors,sports people etc.

@ms2668 16 күн бұрын

Interesting episode, especially as my great uncle was lost aboard the HMS Hawke which was torpedoed by the U9 on 15 Oct 1914 off the coast of Aberdeen.

@sam_uelson 3 күн бұрын

Kinda appropriate there’s a deadhead exploring an ancient submarine

@thoughtful_criticiser 14 күн бұрын

Whilst being broadcast in Channel Four I was a member of the TimeTeam club, I offered my services with a mechanical digger but was informed that they use local diggers and operators. They could have had a keen procipient as well as free diggers. I really would have supported being who I was.

@netzdame 16 күн бұрын

What a nice coincidence, Max Miller over at Tasting History just had an episode about the food on German submarines.

@steve-0493 14 күн бұрын

9:09-we got ourselves a dead head folks!!STEAL YA FACE!!🤪

@MikeWood 17 күн бұрын

If this was July 2013, HMS Ambush was only commissioned that March. So I suspect this was a media tour which Time Team took part on. Nice bit of access. A little different than Bear Grylles getting Benedict Cummerbatch on another Astute class off Syke in 2023. Cool video. :)

@brianvittachi6869 17 күн бұрын

I wonder how the early submarines navigated while submerged?

@michelescola3840 10 күн бұрын

Funny to see how certain things didn't change much throughout the centuries, with or without electronic equipment. 45:35 : "Always ensure the upper hatch is shut before dropping the lower hatch", or at 45:44 : "Masts not to be raised, lowered or trained at speeds above 7,5 kts."