Town class cruisers

Town class cruisers - Guide 090

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The Town class cruisers of the British Royal Navy, are today's subject.
Want to support the channel? - / drachinifel
Next on the list:
-Town class cruisers
-USS Wichita
-Lord Nelson class
-Essex class
-Slava (Pre-dreadnought)
-USS Massachusetts
-Pensacola class
-HIJMS Oyodo
-Riachuelo (NB)
-I-19
-HMS Ark Royal
-ORP Błyskawica
-USS West Virginia
-Amagi Class
-Tosa Class
-Alaska class
-Derfflinger class
-Yorktown class
-Tre Kronor class
-Nelson class
-Gato class
-Admiralen class
-H class (NB)
-Greek 'Monarch' class destroyers
-'Habbakuk' project
-USS Texas
-USS Olympia
-HIJMS Mikasa
-County class
-KMS Tirpitz
-Montana class
-Florida class
-USS Salt Lake City
-Storozhevoy
-Flower class
-USS San Juan
-HMS Sheffield
-USS Johnston
-Dido class
-Hunt class
-HMS Vanguard
-Mogami class
-Almirante Grau
-Surcouf
-Von der Tann
-Massena
-HMCS Magnificent
-HMCS Bonaventure
-HMCS Ontario
-HMCS Quebec
-Lion class BC
-USS Wasp
-HMS Blake
-HMS Romala/Ramola
-South Dakota (1930's)
-SMS Emden
-Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen
-Destroyer Velos
-U.S.S. John R. Craig
-C class
-HMS Caroline
-HMS Hermes
-Iron Duke
-Kronprinz Erzerzorg Rudolph.
-HMS Eagle
-Ise class
-18 inch monitor
-Mogami
-Vanguard
-De Zeven Provinciën
-South American Dreadnoughts
-Fletcher class
-USS Langley
-Kongo class
-Grom class
-St Louis class
-H class special
-All-big-gun designs
-USS Oregon
-Gascogne
-Alsace
-Lyon and Normandie classes
-Leander class
-HMS Ajax
-Project 1047
-O class
-R class
-Battle class
-Daring class
-USS Indianapolis
-Atago/Takao
-Midway class
-Graf Zeppelin
-Bathurst class
-RHS Queen Olga
-HMS Belfast
-Aurora
-Imperator Nikolai I
-USS Helena
-USS Tennesse
-HMNZS New Zealand
-HMS Queen Mary
-USS Marblehead
-New York class
-L-20e
-Abdiel class
-Panserskib (Armoured ship) Rolf Krake
-HMS Victoria
-USS Galena (1862)
-HMS Charybdis
-Eidsvold class
-IJN “Special” DD's
-SMS Emden
-Ships of Battle of Campeche
-USS Texas?
-HMS Tiger
-USS England (DE-635)
-Tashkent
-1934A Class
-HMS Plym (K271)
-Siegfried class
Specials:
-Fire Control Systems
-Protected Cruisers
-Scout Cruisers
-Naval Artillery
-Tirpitz (damage history)
-Treaty Battleship comparison
-Warrior to Pre-dreadnought
-British BC Ammo Handling
-Naval AA Special
-Plan Z
-Drydocks

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@captainseyepatch3879 5 жыл бұрын

Out of the 50+ Museum ships I have been on. The Belfast is hands down the prettiest ship I think I have ever seen.

@archielong9253 4 жыл бұрын

CaptainsEyePatch it’s glorious to look at inside and out.

@TheExcessive1 3 жыл бұрын

I think the the Salem in Quincy Massachusetts will give it a run for its money. But the Belfast saw a lot more duty

@bob_the_engineer1045 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed her on the Thames when I was last in London decades ago, but had no idea what she was, or about museum ships in general. I'm now sorry I made no attempt to see her, though there were one or two other things to see while in London. I haven't visited the submarine USS Cod here in Cleveland since I was a child, thogh, so HMS Belfast shouldn't feel left out. ;-)

@matthewrobinson4323 5 жыл бұрын

Those Town Class ships were really beautiful.

@alansawyer2799 5 жыл бұрын

Really great looking ships. I am not nit picking but my battered copy of Jane's Fighting Ships 1956/7 calls them Southampton class Belfast being a improved version . A really good visit when in London.

@themadhammer3305 5 жыл бұрын

ALAN SAWYER yeah the Royal Navy had a bad habit of that, building ships of the same class different enough that it's debatable whether they were even the same ships in the end

@johndoe-qg7jp 3 жыл бұрын

Functional but not pretty!

@Jon.A.Scholt 3 жыл бұрын

I am partial to the County Class; something about the three funnels does it for me. Three funnels ships by that time looked very out of place but at the same time were beautiful. The Town class aren't half bad either.

@tonyfincham6126 3 ай бұрын

Another famous ship was H.M.S.Sheffield involved in hunting for Bismark & nearly torpedoed by planes from Ark Royal .

@musanix1212 5 жыл бұрын

To prevent the powder gases from affecting the shells' trajectory when all barrels fired simultaneously, the middle gun of the turret was moved a bit backwards

@legioxiiigemina2845 5 жыл бұрын

Je vois que tu es régulièrement actif sur ses vidéos

@americanmade6996 5 жыл бұрын

Also, pressure from each projectile's wake will disturb its neighbor's flight. I'm told this was especially noticeable with battleship rounds--one reason for firing the center gun either just before or after the two outboard guns.

@musanix1212 5 жыл бұрын

Ses vidéos sont superbes, le seul petit point négatif c'est que tu sent qu'il est un peu "biaser" pour la royal navy Mais sinon, il fait de très bonnes vidéos

@model-man7802 5 жыл бұрын

I was about to ask,Why is the center Barrel set back more.?Thanks!

@jonathanevans4610 5 жыл бұрын

US ships used delay coils which meant the center gun fires slightly after the outer guns. Although I was of the understanding that the practice was to only fire half the guns per salvo at least until the target was found.

@coladirienzo3655 5 жыл бұрын

hard to imagine no one has suggested the Giulio Cesare, between her crazy(not so much cost efficient) rebuild, and her service in the Mediterranean she definitely deserves a look.

@jotabe1984 5 жыл бұрын

yea i asked for the Andrea Doria review. They were not such a great ships, but dam they were pretty

@brentsummers7377 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful colour photo of the Belfast at the end. I've been aboard the Belfast a few times. The last time was on a very quiet day & I managed to sit in both chairs on the bridge for quite a while before anyone else came in!

@katerose567 5 жыл бұрын

First off love the videos, in your videos you keep talking about the Washington and London Navy Treaties, I would love to hear the stories of both of them and how each nation, felt going in and coming out. What limitations were set in place, what designs were stopped or changed in order to fit the new treaties, would love a special video about them. I know this comment is a little late, but please do it.

@Wolfeson28 5 жыл бұрын

That would be an excellent topic. I've read up on the Japanese perspective in some detail and I know some basics about a few of the others, and I know each nation had some specific points on their agenda going in. Plus, most discussions of the naval treaties focus primarily on the U.S., U.K., and Japan, so it would be interesting to hear something about France and Italy's perspectives.

@SvenTviking 3 жыл бұрын

Basically, the democracies followed the treaties they signed up to. The dictatorships didn’t. For instance the German “Hipper” class heavy cruisers were up to 4,000 tons heavier than they should have been.

@rusler159 2 жыл бұрын

1:43 now that is just so beautiful

@YorkieKDS 5 жыл бұрын

4:07 - I looked at my phone!

@PPiTTislakatamia 5 жыл бұрын

i thought i was on Discord and someones else s phone rang

@biscuitninja 4 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@somebloke3869 4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Then went to leave a comment, but I wasn't the only one.

@donfelipe7510 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this, I have a thing for British cruisers stemming from my own family history. My great uncle served on HMS Edinburgh right up until she was sunk then served on HMS Newcastle for the remainder of the war. I have a plaque at home which commemorates a journey undertaken by HMS Newcastle from Newcastle in New South Wales Australia to Newcastle Upon Tyne in the U.K. Someone had the clever idea of taking a lump of coal on this journey so they could indeed say they had "taken coals to newcastle" which is a fairly well known but little used phrase these days and perhaps unfamiliar to some of your international fans if they should read this. I would like to know how these ships differed from the 'Crown Colony Class' however, HMS Jamaica, Kenya, Fiji and so on? These ships were quite similar I believe.

@alecblunden8615 5 жыл бұрын

Less displacement, transom stern, a bit more cramped.

@heelfliptodarkslide 2 жыл бұрын

I've just found some photos taken of HMS Newcastle by my wife's great uncle who also served on the ship. His name was Ken Wynn. Wonder if they knew each other.

@donfelipe7510 2 жыл бұрын

@@heelfliptodarkslide Who knows? Sadly my great uncle passed on back in 1990 and my knowledge of his war time career is at best third hand, HMS Newcastle served throughout World War II however and doubtless in that time had many crew changes. While that idea is enticing I suppose we will never know.

@jotabe1984 5 жыл бұрын

town and subvariants were in fact pretty nice ships. they could stand 1vs1 against the supposed better Mogami and Brooklyn but they could build more of them. Overall the extra numbers on the British ships allowed to keep a lot of hulls in the water, and at the end of the day the improved allied radar and FCS really maked up for the size gap like Scharnhorst experienced

@CorePathway Жыл бұрын

A Town really would not want to be on the receiving end of a Brooklyn.

@ianmarsden6276 2 ай бұрын

If you ever get the chance to visit HMS Belfast, do so. It’s a very interesting half day out.

@BillySugger1965 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never really been much interested in military history, but your delivery and content (leaving aside the robo-voiced intro and outro) are absolutely fascinating. I’d love to see a video dedicated to HMS Belfast, in part because of her involvement in many interesting engagements during and after WWII, and also because she is a museum ship viewers can actually visit. Please keep up the most excellent and much appreciated work!

@Rog5446 5 жыл бұрын

My father was in the RN and he told me that the Belfast took a torpedo with loss of life. He said he was detailed (from another ship) to clean up the mess, which involved scraping human body parts and tissue from the bulkheads where he torpedo struck.

@thhseeking 3 жыл бұрын

I knew she was mined, but not struck by a torpedo.

@thhseeking 3 жыл бұрын

OK, Belfast was mined but not torpedoed. That one at 05:48 was HMS Liverpool at Mare Island Navy Yard in the U.S. after getting torpedoed. She was torpedoed twice by aircraft.

@hazchemel 3 жыл бұрын

Aaaah thank you. I think these are the ships my dream self mans. Always wanted to be on a British/Australian light cruiser.

@brantsemallory726 5 жыл бұрын

Thank-you for making this.

@sergarlantyrell7847 5 жыл бұрын

The biggest difference between the Edinburgh's and the rest of the Town's was their range... The Edinburgh's carried an extra 500 t of fuel oil, increasing their range from 5,300 nmi to nearly 8,700 nmi. Officially this was to better protect Britain's overseas colonies, but of course that was because, for political reasons, the Admiralty wasn't allowed a commerce raider... Which the Edinburgh's were definitely not designed to be better at... (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...)

@michalsoukup1021 5 жыл бұрын

RN was not allowed to have commerce raiders? Thats somew strong heresy...

@roryross3878 4 жыл бұрын

As an Island that continues to be associated with piracy, that is not a very plausible press release.

@commandantteste2859 5 жыл бұрын

Do a video on the Kongo class. I think they are pretty underrated/not talked about much. Or maybe a discussion about why warships place gun turrets at the back when placing them at the front can reduce their target size while firing a full broadside

@jasonbrannock1698 3 жыл бұрын

I love the video!! The town class is my favorite class!!! I have the Belfast and Sheffield. J

@jimtalbott9535 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see a class-member preserved for once.

@kennethdeanmiller7324 10 ай бұрын

HMS Belfast... Wow, the UK 🇬🇧 actually spent the money to have a museum ship! And there was MUCH rejoicing!! AND btw that is a great picture of HMS Belfast with the 🌈 rainbow in the background!!!❤

@Pipicrit Жыл бұрын

The Edinburgh (was) beautiful

@jakeyaboi6824 5 жыл бұрын

4:20am here in the good ole US of A. You can thank my shitty friends for me being up this late to watch your video. Love your work, keep it up.

@shannonrhoads7099 4 жыл бұрын

Kamchatka: Do you see torpedo boats? HMS Manchester: The struggle is real!

@Kwolfx 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this story is accurate, but I've heard that an admiral on board the Edinburgh ordered the captain to get close to an ice pack so he could take some photographs of it. Now maybe there were polar bears on the ice pack, because I don't know what was so fascinating he needed to get a picture of a block of ice, but in any case the captain warned him that U-boats were known to hang out near the edge of the ice packs, but the admiral dismissed this warning and this is how the Edinburgh got torpedoed by U-456. Though it was a German destroyer which eventually finished the Edinburgh off later on. However, the Edinburgh got the equivalent of "It's just a flesh wound" in World of Warships by fatally wounding the German destroyer in return. The Edinburgh was carrying a huge amount of Russian gold at the time of her sinking; the equivalent of 64 million pounds in 2018. The gold was salvaged in the 1980's. The salvors visited the HMS Belfast and made careful measurements of the same compartments on her that were used to store the gold bars that were carried by the Edinburgh. At around 800 ft or 244 meters, I believe it is the deepest successful salvage ever attempted with human divers.

@stevewixom9311 3 жыл бұрын

Really some good looking ships.

@bill8791 5 жыл бұрын

Manchester was hit by an E-boat then scuttled I believe. Also one of the ships my grandfather served on.

@dr1Voss48 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful and informative, as per usual. I do wonder if you'd indulge me, having done sailing warships in the past, and have a look at the outstanding vessels HMS Bellona, HMS Agamemnon, and HMS Indefatigable of the mid/late 18th Century-the early 19th Century.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Sure, can add them to the list

@Shadx27 5 жыл бұрын

Please do the USS Wichita. It has a cool service record and its take on the Brooklyn hull design changed all cruisers after.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Sure I'll add it to the list

@CRDT86A 5 жыл бұрын

Video on HMS Liverpool (C11) Town Class light Cruiser of the Royal Navy.

@crabbyr6929 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the overview! My Dad served on the HMS Glasgow, He didn"t talk about it much but he did share a few horrific stories on occasion, One time someone was stuck in the boiler tubes after a cleaning....Big guy smallish tube , they got him out by rope he was pretty scuffed up But the worst part is they had 5 minutes to get him out because they where under attack and if unsuccessful they would have had to fire the boilers up anyway. My Dad was sea sick the entire tour. Would be nice to know the ship name of each photo . They also where torpedoed in the Mediterranean, if I recall correctly the Southampton replaced the Glasgow after the attack and met her demise....I have a few 2 X 2 photo's if you ever want to cover the Glasgow

@derekhieb7458 5 жыл бұрын

Check out 3:25, starboard anchor swinging out from guns fireing.

@bskorupk 5 жыл бұрын

Q&A: will you ever do a special on Ship/Ship Class/"Stone Frigate" naming policies/process's? And, if so, for which Navies? Sincerely, Ben Skorupka.

@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835 5 жыл бұрын

Please can you do a video on HMS Warspite - the ship that refused to be scrapped.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoy - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpOPeNt-1JbLXac.html

@brockbayley5279 5 жыл бұрын

4:06 you got mail

@s.31.l50 5 жыл бұрын

When the British actually get to preserve one of their historic ships *ahem ahem*

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 5 жыл бұрын

Steven Li you mean apart from HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and HMS Belfast (to name but 3 preserved ships)?

@Wombat1916 5 жыл бұрын

A complete (?) list of museum ships is at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museum_ships_in_the_United_Kingdom There are more than people may think.

@letoubib21 5 жыл бұрын

*+Terry Shulky* Thanks! Pretty much to visit during my next stay in GB...

@SvenTviking 5 жыл бұрын

Neil Dahlgaard-Sigsworth Missing Warspite.

@RedXlV 5 жыл бұрын

Belfast is a good example of how much of factor luck is in determining which historic ships get preserved. The Imperial War Museum was looking to preserve one of the 6-inch triple turrets from a cruiser, and when they visited HMS Gambia (one of the other cruisers still in reserve) somebody suggested they should preserve the entire ship instead. But it turned out that Gambia was in rather poor condition, and Belfast was in the best shape of the surviving cruisers so she got selected instead. And then the government refused to pay for her preservation, and it was only because her last captain happened to be a Member of Parliament in 1970 that the Royal Navy even allowed her to be preserved with private funds.

@Napalmratte 5 жыл бұрын

I have a very simple question which is (I guess) difficult to answer: How good did the rivals of WW II know the capabilities of their opponent´s ship? Example: did the american ship x know that it had a zone of engagement where it was immune to shellfire from japanese ship y but had a decent chance of punching through its armour? In hindsight we know much more of course, but did they really know what their opponents where able to do? Armour layout, rof, caliber, shell performance? Did the Admiral of the Hood know what the Bismarck was capable? Battle of River Plate ... The near engagement of an Iowa battleship with Yamato ...

@WALTERBROADDUS 5 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm..... Best guess is that every fleet had basic info from publications like Janes. They also had Naval attaches & intel people world wide. As to deep details about armor or weapons range? It would varry.

@petesheppard1709 5 жыл бұрын

Handsome ships.

@jimfrodsham7938 2 жыл бұрын

I did a project on the Belfast when she was a prison ship. I quite enjoyed working on her, made a change from Army Bks. I thought she was massive, god knows what I'd have thought of a late war Battleship.

@Jpdt19 Жыл бұрын

Prison ship?? Do tell

@jimfrodsham7938 Жыл бұрын

@Jpdt19 sorry, that should have been HMS Maidstone.

@Jpdt19 Жыл бұрын

@@jimfrodsham7938 thanks. I know her history pretty well and than bemused me as I thought you mean Belfast 😂

@furious_gaming14furious_ga91 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing videos on these ships! Can you do some on the Middle Ages and Renaissance ships such as Carracks Caravels Galleons ect?

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Sure, although some specific ships names would be great suggestions :)

@furious_gaming14furious_ga91 5 жыл бұрын

HMS Sovereign of the Seas would be a good ship being the first trip tiered ship.

@marshja56 5 жыл бұрын

Question: Why were portholes phased out? The older designs had lots of them but by WWII some designs have none at all. Maybe a better question is why the older warships had them at all, seems like they were weak points in the hull.

@allaboutboats 5 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel I have always wondered about a particular feature in the construction of the triple 6 inch gun turrets on these ships. What is the purpose of those triangular brackets attached to the front sloping face of each turret directly beneath each gun barrel? There is nothing like them on any other type of turrets that I have ever seen. It seems to be a common feature on every UK 6 inch gun turret. Do you know what its purpose is or what it is called? Thanks for your expertise. Great videos.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Hello, they are resting brackets for the guns, each has a hydraulic piston to prevent the guns depressing into the deck or the turret in front of it but allowing further depression up to a maximum value when broadside.

@allaboutboats 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! I knew you would be the one to ask. Thank you so much.

@garethturner1987 5 жыл бұрын

Oh I got one hms nelson and rodney

@shathriel 5 жыл бұрын

If possible can you do, the SMS Emden, the Leander class frigates, the C class destroyers from late WW2 and the Penelope of the Arethusa class of WW2, :)

@thomasgray4188 5 жыл бұрын

Literally just got back from London and was on board HMS Belfast yesterday.

@WAGNERMJW 4 жыл бұрын

I would like to have heard an analysis of the Town class ships acquired from America early on in WWII, as to their functional capabilities and practical utility in that stage of the war.

@dovetonsturdee7033 4 жыл бұрын

Just out of interest, the ships referred to here as the 'Town' class were actually known within the RN as the 'Southampton' class, firstly because there had been a WW1 'Town' class, but also because the 'Southamptons' were all named after cities, rather than towns, anyway.

@neilisaacson 4 жыл бұрын

1:39 you can see the importance of the new class keeping the thirteen colonies in line. Nicely done.

@RedXlV 5 жыл бұрын

Do any drawings exist of what the quad turret version of Edinburgh would've looked like? In particular, I'm wondering whether those quad turrets would've retained the staggered barrels of the triple turrets.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Not that I could easily find, and I went through a lot. The National Maritime Museum apparently has some plans.

@LarS1963 5 жыл бұрын

Rn Flower-class corvettes and River-class frigates, please.

@hmskinggeorgev7089 5 жыл бұрын

Q&A question could you elaborate on the capabilities of the KGV’s guns and shells that would be great. Also what if the The class had its original 15in gun aumorment in the combat the class saw how effective would they be And thanks for the great content

@themadhammer3305 5 жыл бұрын

Old Battleship the big thing would be that the 15" gun was a proven design with alot of the kinks already worked out, perhaps they would have suffered less mechanical malfunctions which limited their effectiveness but that is purely speculation

@fyorbane 5 жыл бұрын

@@themadhammer3305 The problem was the over complicated quad turret design not the gun itself or the shell [which was very good for a 14"].

@themadhammer3305 5 жыл бұрын

@@fyorbane I've read that the 14" shell used on KGV was very effective. Your right the malfunctions were mostly related to the turrets rather than the guns, but those malfunctions still prevented the guns being used which drastically lowered their practical effectiveness. As far as I am aware the issues with the quad turrets were never properly solved and persisted all the way until the ships were scrapped in the 50's

@jpdillon2832 5 жыл бұрын

Can you do the crown colony class?

@user-xj8ek8qn3h 2 ай бұрын

Correct me if I am wrong but as built the Town Class had 12 x 4 inch guns - not 8 has mentioned - in 6 mounts 3 per side. Certainly Belfast did with 2 mounts being removed later to make way for 2 twin 40mm bofors. In fact if you look at the comparison stats shown later it actually shows 12 x 4 inch guns.

@Drachinifel 2 ай бұрын

The Towns generally had 8, Belfast and Edinburgh were larger variants that had a pair of additional mounts

@user-xj8ek8qn3h Ай бұрын

@@Drachinifel well I have learnt something there I didn't know that fact.

@rogerbust 4 жыл бұрын

How about HMAS Canberra, Australia, and Shropshire (formerly HMS)?

@btbucks 5 жыл бұрын

Q & A: What is a turtle back deck? I know the German ships used it.

@Wombat1916 5 жыл бұрын

btbucks Google is your friend. Open en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-class_destroyer_(1913) and look at the "piccy' of HMS Fame. The "turtle deck" at the bow is clearly visible.

@dubsy1026 5 жыл бұрын

@@Wombat1916 that's really not a good explanation in the context of an armour scheme.

@philipjooste9075 5 жыл бұрын

Q&A: This explains why the British did not build heavy cruisers (I think) after 1931, but why did they not revert when the Treaty limitations fell away?

@WALTERBROADDUS 5 жыл бұрын

The County class were 8" CA. As was Hms York.

@philipjooste9075 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, they were 8" cruisers of which York was the last RN Heavy Cruiser to be built - completed 1931.

@WALTERBROADDUS 5 жыл бұрын

@@philipjooste9075 Ah, that was the critical point of your question. Light crusiers were just cheaper and other building needs like Asw escorts took precedence over more heavy crusiers.

@RedXlV 5 жыл бұрын

In 1940 there were design studies for post-treaty heavy cruisers with 3x3 8-inch guns, comparable to the US Navy's Baltimore-class. And even super-heavy cruisers with 3x3 or even 3x4 9.2-inch guns (it's unclear whether this would've been a new gun design, or the the old 9.2"/47 from WW1 armoured cruisers and coastal artillery batteries). During his time as First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill was the driving force behind the latter concept. But even without treaty limitations, Britain's shipbuilding capacity was finite and there was a large demand for both cruisers and destroyers to patrol their vast empire. The (nominally 8,500 ton) Crown Colony-class cruisers and the follow-up 8,800 ton Minotaur/Swiftsure-class could be built cheaper and in greater numbers than any post-treaty heavy cruiser, so that's what Britain went with. Toward the end of the war, the Royal Navy was looking to build 15,000 ton cruisers, but these would've still been "light" cruisers because they'd successfully developed a dual-purpose 6-inch gun, the QF 6 inch Mark N5. World of Warships players know those designs as Neptune and Minotaur, which were in fact the names the Royal Navy planned to use for them. But then the war ended and the Royal Navy no longer had the budget to afford them. Several of the turrets had already been built, though, so three incomplete Swiftsure-class cruisers were fitted with 2 turrets each as the Tiger-class.

@SvenTviking 5 жыл бұрын

Heavy cruisers had a problem of relatively slow rates of fire with a shell that’s not relatively terribly destructive. The thought was that in an engagement between a Town class and a heavy cruiser, they would normally aim to attack at night and so the range would be shorter and by the time the heavy had established the range of the light cruiser, the light would have blasted three times as many salvos and broadsides into the heavy.

@johndoe-qg7jp 3 жыл бұрын

Should've kept the warspite and the Rodney as museum ships......fat chance!

@patrickradcliffe3837 5 жыл бұрын

How about the county class next.

@acceleratergun7597 Жыл бұрын

“It wasn’t possible to build an 8 inch gun cruiser with real armor and a 10,000 ton displacement” *Pensacola shown without comment*

@gavin3488 5 жыл бұрын

Q&A: Will you ever do specials of well know navel personal? Canada has just "named" a new ship, "HMCS Harry DeWolf". I can see a "special series" covering their contributions, as with a brief history of the ships they served on. Thanks.

@peterjrgensen2792 5 жыл бұрын

THAT Is a Brilliant idea . . . Famous War Heroes of the Time, and their ships .. BRILLIANT!!!! Thou, as a Dane i will miss Our heroes whom was in the timeperiod 1500 to 1870. After that we were just small ;) ..

@Tuning3434 5 жыл бұрын

+Peter Jørgensen Danish naval hero's: entry #1: Michiel de Ruyter

@peterjrgensen2792 5 жыл бұрын

Thats a Dutch naval hero .. :)

@wrappingcave740yeet4 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on HMS Edinburgh please

@jep1103 4 ай бұрын

Could you do something on HMS Tern which was lost in Hong Kong in 1941 please.

@alanmansfield5400 5 жыл бұрын

No chance of doing the Dido class cruisers? My great uncle was killed on the Phoebe by the U161 (I think) attack.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

They are on the list :)

@alanmansfield5400 5 жыл бұрын

@@Drachinifel Cheers mate. Excellent series.

@Shatnerpossum 5 жыл бұрын

OK, how does the Crown Colony class come into the picture?

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

A follow-on class that will get their own video :)

@wcweathe 5 жыл бұрын

Emerald and Enterprise Please....

@shannonrhoads7099 4 жыл бұрын

NCC 1 7 0 1. No bloody A, B, C OR D.... (sorry, sleep deprived bait thinks this is funny)

@happyhighway106 5 жыл бұрын

#135 Now that its 2019, Naval Weapons have changed so much and ships have morphed in size, the Destroyer has taken over the duties of the Cruiser, a vanishing breed of ship. USA and Russia, still have a few. I believe that the major combat vessels are the Nuclear Powered Submarines, Attack Aircraft Carriers, Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes, Fast Attack Craft, Amphibious Assault Ships, Mine Warfare Vessels, and Stealth Counter Measure Vessels. The next war will not be fought like WWII. Merchant Fleets will be destroyed instantly, and those Countries that need them will Starve!!

@NickHey 5 жыл бұрын

Ba-Ding!

@johnfisher9692 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video I think these magnificent ships are all too often overlooked despite the sterling service they gave. Many people focus on the Japanese ships but don't do the research to find out just how blatantly the Japanese lied and broke the treaty's (during peacetime) with their ships being both well over the announced displacement as well as the 10,000 ton limit. The Mogami's announced at 8,500 tons were actually over 12,500 when finally fit for service and that was before any war. Despite all that, Japanese, German and Italian ships were lightly built to fit more guns, speed and armour but were to withstand either rough sea's or battle damage. Thick armour is great but ineffective if what it's attached to is weak and fragile. The Town's were tough and solidly constructed ships that were well able to handle rough weather and stood up to enemy action.

@klipsfilmsmelbourne 5 жыл бұрын

They are little longer as leander

@ihatecabbage7270 5 жыл бұрын

Another famous ship only known by me after a game called Azur Lane, Edinburgh and Belfast. Dammit why does it have to be that game that introduce me to the history of naval warfare.

@ph89787 4 жыл бұрын

For me it’s the other way around.

@klipsfilmsmelbourne 5 жыл бұрын

Its the last 4 gun turret ship in uk

@pickeljarsforhillary102 5 жыл бұрын

WoWS should have gave us the 16 gun version in place of the Neptune at Tier 9.

@somerival930 3 жыл бұрын

From the future. HMS Plymouth is in game at tier 10 with the 4x4 152mm guns

@gOtze1337 5 жыл бұрын

the robot voice kills me :) reminds of most military channels were i turn off the video after 20 secounds.

@captaindusty4884 5 жыл бұрын

Leander Class pls

@clatskanie25 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice the map displayed showed 13 colonies? You Brits never give up do you?

@Dave_Sisson 4 жыл бұрын

I think it just shows that a forgiving parent will allow a rebellious child back into the family when it grows up and realises the error of its ways. So when the United States realises how wrong it was to leave the Empire, the UK will forgive them and allow them to join the Commonwealth of Nations. (... and no I'm not British.)

@nimbusshadow-wings 3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson cute, but its more like the uk is the old senile granpa who still thinks they are in charge

@Dave_Sisson 3 жыл бұрын

@@nimbusshadow-wings I'm not that religious, but it reminds me of the story of the Prodigal Son; a kid leaves home, takes his inheritance and leads a wild and profligate lifestyle. When the misbehavior catches up with him and he apologizes to his parent, he is forgiven and welcomed back into the family. That analogy works if you see "Murica as the prodigal child, Britain as the parent of the family and countries like Australia and Canada as siblings.

@nimbusshadow-wings 3 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson true but also that implies uk is stronger than us

@Dave_Sisson 3 жыл бұрын

@@nimbusshadow-wings Well like many parents Britain is quite old and older people are not as strong as they were when they were younger. :D

@CodeElement190 5 жыл бұрын

Q&A: The People's Republic of China were interested in buying some British ships to boost their navy before the Korean War broke out and the deal fell through and they bought the 4 gnveny destroyer from the USSR instead. My question is what ships were the communists interested in buying from the British?

@garethturner1987 5 жыл бұрын

Imperial Japanese naval Shoho

@LiveErrors 4 жыл бұрын

NOt the Newcastle subclass?

@JohnJohansen2 5 жыл бұрын

I would very much like some engine and propulsion data included.

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

Generally or for this class in particular?

@JohnJohansen2 5 жыл бұрын

@@Drachinifel That would be generally, please.

@DisabilityAustralia 5 жыл бұрын

4 X 2 is 8 😋

@avragetrinidadian3787 5 жыл бұрын

When will we see the "Crown Colony-class" cruisers?

@juri8723 5 жыл бұрын

Avrage Trinidadian they are just slight variations of Town-class cruisers i believe

@avragetrinidadian3787 5 жыл бұрын

@@juri8723 I only ask cause one of the Ships was named HMS Trinidad and it more or less sank itself

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

They are somewhat further down the list

@avragetrinidadian3787 5 жыл бұрын

@@Drachinifel okay.....

@Drachinifel 5 жыл бұрын

@@avragetrinidadian3787 you'll see a video on them, it just might be a while :)

@raulduke6105 5 жыл бұрын

Some had unenclosed bridges??!!

@thhseeking 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all did. Destroyers, corvettes, frigates also.

@zarabada6125 5 жыл бұрын

A real shame about the Gloucester. They served under a complete idiot of an admiral in their final action at Crete, who ordered them into range of the Luftwaffe when they were almost out of anti-aircraft ammunition. They ended up firing practice shells at the planes before they were hit and sunk. The navy then didn't send back any rescue ships under cover of darkness (as they normally would) and the majority of her crew were dead by morning.

@dubsy1026 5 жыл бұрын

Are you calling Cunningham an idiot? What actually happened was that the Admiralty was ordered to provide support at Crete. Hence the Gloucester had to go there when the landings happened. The reason for no rescue was the ships assigned had to go and bombard targets instead, which should give you an idea of how pressed bother the Med Fleet and the Army on Crete were. Realistically the best option would be to get out of Crete before in the first place, but a bit late for that.

@zarabada6125 4 жыл бұрын

@@dubsy1026 Your lack of understanding of the detail shows you shouldn't be arguing about this from a supposed position of authority. 1. No, not Cunningham. Cunningham was the Vice-Admiral in charge of the fleet. I meant the Rear Admiral in charge of the squadron, who ordered Gloucester from a position of relative safety off Crete into the range of the Luftwaffe. The Admiral had been sent details that Gloucester was dangerously low on ammunition but failed to send her back to Alexandria to rearm, as several other ships with a less desperate ammunition supply were ordered to. That Rear Admiral would be quietly moved to a desk job to prevent more mishaps; open criticism wouldn't be possible due to the risk of creating a propaganda coup for the enemy. 2. Being ordered to participate in a battle and wasting a very expensive ship (and 800 trained crew) on a suicide mission are two very different things. You can't correlate presence at Crete for a strategic battle with incompetent orders at a tactical level.

@clandebouyekid 5 жыл бұрын

As a Belfast man, HMS Belfast needs to come home! Built in Belfast and named after the city she's doing nobody a service, we'll trade HMS Caroline for her, Caroline being the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland!

@daniellastuart3145 5 жыл бұрын

as Londoner i can understand your point but could the great city of Belfast support the cost of maintaining the HMS Belfast considering how many visitors it gets in London ???????????????????

@cmphighpower 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t Britain save any oh get dreadnots?

@nadlisse9055 5 жыл бұрын

*_our maids_*

@duanesarjec6887 5 жыл бұрын

I should like to see a vidéo about the Counties Class

@briandillard8125 4 жыл бұрын

Its pronounced witch-a-taw in the US

@thhseeking 3 жыл бұрын

He speaks proper English, like what I do XD

@CrossAnchors 5 жыл бұрын

Not even a mention of the Cruiser Squadron that took part in the Battle of the River Plate, Ajax Achilles and Exeter, shame!

@dubsy1026 5 жыл бұрын

None of those were Towns. 2 were Leanders and one was a York.

@rohannavalkar112 5 жыл бұрын

Hi I have a suggestion for a ship can u do INS Dehli

@Billy_The_Dog 5 жыл бұрын

You mean the HMNZS Achilles?

@rohannavalkar112 5 жыл бұрын

@@Billy_The_Dog Y

@sparviero142 5 жыл бұрын

Why most of the British ships have open bridge?

@dimdimbramantyo7666 5 жыл бұрын

I think it's for Recon Planes, since Brits always put aviation catapult on the bridge

@sparviero142 5 жыл бұрын

wait? how? isn't the bridge where they command the ship?

@oliver8928 5 жыл бұрын

Most British warships of this period had an enclosed bridge, and in the case of Battleships, an armoured conning tower. However, they were hardly ever used due to the limited visibility of standing in an armoured box and so captains preferred to con their ships from the roof of the bridge- which the admiralty took into account in design stages essentially creating a closed bridge and an open bridge above. It was a strange situation, that eventually resulted in late war destroyers and frigates having no enclosed bridge at all.

@sparviero142 5 жыл бұрын

thanks jamraptor for the explanation , Honestly poor guys on an open bridge in the North Atlantic or maybe in a storm in the Pacific.

@oliver8928 5 жыл бұрын

@@sparviero142 Conditions were pretty horrid, but it tells you something about the psychology of those men; they would rather stand out in the freezing wind and spray and rain just for the opportunity to spot a U-boat or Bomber before it was too late. It's very difficult to imagine the terror an unseen enemy inflicts.

@spliffy98 4 жыл бұрын

Head maid

@juri8723 5 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel

@MasterOfDickery 5 жыл бұрын

rly nis is this the part where he replies and you just say drachinfinel again?

@juri8723 5 жыл бұрын

MasterOfDickery MasterOfDickery

@MasterOfDickery 5 жыл бұрын

rly nis I feel I can say with confidence that posting the same thing on every video and thinking that you're funny is so painfully unfunny and unoriginal that I never thought I'd say this but you make me miss the days when people posted "first!" On KZfaq videos.

@WALTERBROADDUS 5 жыл бұрын

@@MasterOfDickery 🤗 well done sir.

@juri8723 5 жыл бұрын

MasterOfDickery MasterOfDickery

@realistic.optimist 4 жыл бұрын

The 13 US original colonies were part of the UK until 1997? LOL!

@buckfiden2697 5 жыл бұрын

Please review the U.S. Second Amendment Rights. I've seen a pitcher if it is one of you're videos buy I cannot Google it as the Constitution stuff comes up. it had 3 turrets stacked on each other with varying sizes of guns in front.

@thhseeking 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Dido? No, not the depressing singer :P