So what do you think? Should (or will) Sabaton write a song about the Battle of Jutland? It was the largest naval battle of the Great War, and they've certainly covered that a lot. We know you have a zillion ideas for things they should cover in their future songs, but how might the lyrics to a Jutland song go? What might the title be even? If you would like to gain early access to our Sabaton History episodes and actively support this awesome project that we are so passionate about, you can do so by joining our Patreon community. There are some pretty cool perks when you become part of the Patreon family. Find out more and join here 👉 www.patreon.com/sabatonhistory
Hey, it was a pleasure to be able to have y'all come out and visit the ship in dry dock! Hope y'all are able to come back and see the ship when the work is finished!
USS Texas is hands down my favorite dreadnought of all time. I had the honor of helping bring her some steel for her restoration. Can’t wait to see her when she’s finished.
(14:47) Yes the USS Texas which it's perhaps most famous story comes from actually World War II off the shores of France during D-day. They actually leaned the ship back, (partial flooding) just so they can shoot further inland. 😎👍
Indy visited the last existing Dreadnought on the world as a child many times, and still didn't know that it's the last existing Dreadnought on the world. You can always learn something new in Sabaton History. :D
First I apologize for my ignorance. but is the USS TEXAS one of the original dreadnought design or could she be classified as a second or third generation development? If the overall basic plans have been revised during the deployment stage it would not surprise me if she deviates from the "True" original dreadnought.
@@HrLBolle The "original" design of Dreadnoughts were outdated already when WW1 started. HMS Dreadnought not even participated in any military combat (like battle of Jutland). The New York class (USS Texas) were an improved version of the Wyoming-class so it can count as the 2nd generation line of Dreadnougths. The USA first generation Dreadnoughts were the South Carolina-class.
All post-Dreadnought battleships were dreadnoughts. Later ones were called super-dreadnoughts, which is just a type of dreadnought. Texas is a super-dreadnought, but so is North Carolina, built far later.
@@reliantncc1864 Nope. The last Dreadnought type was the Bismarck class. The later ships (North Carolina, Iowa, Yamato, Richelieu, etc) followed a whole new design called "fast Battleship" started with Dunkerque. Those not Dreadnoughts anymore.
@@StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe nope. See how unconvincing it is to just say "nope" with no actual argument? By definition, all later battleships are dreadnoughts. Also, which of those ships you mentioned did not employ an all-big-gun layout? Oh, none of them. That's right, because they're dreadnoughts. What's especially funny about your ignorance is that Bismarck resembles those later ships much more than it resembles Dreadnought, in particular by being fast.
Don't you guys ever stop making History! What a perfect timing. I'm building this same exact model of this ship. Side note. I want that hat, in my cart!
When I first heard Dreadnought I thought the song plodded a bit, but by the time it hit the chorus I was right behind it. Now it is my favourite Sabaton song, even above Bismark (Which was the music video that made me fall in love with the band). I love the lumbering, ominous buildup to the bombastic chorus.
As a Texan, I'm proud we house and preserve the last of the steel behemoths that started the advancement of naval warfare technology Long live the Texas! As for "Dreadnought", by far my top favorite song created by this band. Perfectly embodies the epic power of naval might in a beautifully composed song.
I was looking forward to this episode, as Dreadnought is my favourite song from this album, and it did not disappoint. So great the band finally got the chance to visit USS Texas
I waited a long while for this one. It was worth it. Again an awesome history lesson and learning behind the making of this awesome song. Dreadnought quickly became one of my top faves of the new album and I said this before, this one is the closest to being on an even level as Bismarck in terms of power and chilling but super awe because at the time nothing like this had been seen before and was very revolutionary for wartime. We are thankful that one still survives today that being the USS Texas.
@5:15 That's concealment. Cover means that there is physical protection from a threat, such as, ( to use a landlubbers example,) a boulder, as opposed to a rotting log that might provide concealment, but isn't going to stop bullets. I realize that I'm being pedantic, but that sort of thing is important in military circles.
The key issue was fire control. Before 1900 battles were fought at short ranges because they could not hit anything at distance. The introduction of complex mechanical computers to enable hits at long range were what made the all big gun ship sensible.
When the British Navy launched the mighty HMS Dreadnaught, U.S. Congressman John S. Williams (D-MS) introduced a bill to rename the USS Michigan as the USS Skeered O' Nothing.
A video on the HMS Warspite would be awesome. For those who are unaware, Warspite is the most exceptional ship to ever see Royal Navy service, and I personally consider her to be protected by plot armor. In the battle of Jutland, she got hit a number of times, and eventually lost rudder control. Because of this, she sailed headfirst uncontrollably into the high seas fleet, drawing every German ships fire, and incidentally saving the crews of some cruisers the crucial moments they needed to escape. After having survived the fire of the entire high seas fleet, she repaired her rudder and went back into line. In ww2, she did lots. She landed the longest ranged hit in naval history on an Italian ship, she bombarded the shores of France on d day, wearing out her guns in the process. She then got them relined, and went back for more. She then ran out of ammo. At a different point, in the Mediterranean, an Italian manual torpedo was brought under her and detonated in shallow water. Having now had her keel blown out, she sank! Except the water was so shallow you wouldn’t be able to tell that she was sunk, and she was fixed. The German Fritz guided bomb, which was used on an Italian battleship as a test, and sank it, was used on Warspite. It blew a hole from the deck to through the keel, and out the bottom of the ship. Of course, being Warspite, this wasn’t too major, and she simply sailed home to have it fixed. At the end of the war, she was towed off to be scrapped, but the mighty Warspite, the most decorated ship of the Royal Navy, would not allow herself such an easy death. She broke her tow lines and ran away (without anybody on board). She eventually ran aground. She was so stuck, that all three ships that tried to pull her free sank. She was broken up on the shore, defiant to the last.
Yes if there was ever a ship possessed some sort of supernatural spirit, it was definitely Warspite. The stories of the salvage attempts on after she ran aground are insane. Propellers getting tangled, vessels getting damaged. Two attempts at refloat that had very high percentage of success.............failing.
@@glenchapman3899 A ship carrying scrap metal from Warspite ran aground in thick mist and herself broken up on the beach. Warspite was also the first ever ship to sink a U-boat with a ship-launched plane.
they could easily make a whole album just about naval history... battle of trafalgar, battle of leyte gulf, battle of guadalcanal... thats just SOME of the big naval battles, then you have ships that did something heroic/incredible... both of the uss laffeys that served the usn during ww2, 1st one heroically fought kirishima at one of the guadalcanal skirmishes that makes up the entire battle of guadalcanal, 2nd one stood up against over 50 japanese kamikaze aircrafts attacking it when out alone, surviving multiple direct hits of bombs and crashing planes. uss samuel b roberts and uss johnston, their last stands at the battle off samar (1 of the 4 parts of the battle of leyte gulf) were incredibly heroic from not only their captains but their entire crews. uss barb "sunk" a japanese train when it landed some men on the japanese home islands and blew up a train bridge. there are more than just american ships that did heroic actions but they are the ones with most accessible records in the form of documentaries and youtube videos about
Not quite a Dreadnought, but had the pleasure to see the HMS Caroline a couple years ago. It's a heavy cruiser from the Great War, and also fought in the Battle of Jutland. Amazing floating museum
Robert Massies' two books, Dreadnought and Castles of Steel, while thick, heavy, and at times very dry books, those two are still the best ones I can think of when it comes to naval power and global diplomacy and WW1 I can think of.
When it comes to dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts there is only one left she is the last of her kind and that would be the Battleship USS Texas I got to see them tow her into Dry Dock and it moved me to tears
For super dreadnoghts I believe all Iowa class BBs are still floating. Basically if you find a battleship you found a dreadnought of some kind, most likely super.
@@madogthefirstindeed, every battleship from about the 1910s and after is a dreadnought, they just stopped calling them those because everything was one
I don’t know If you are still in the states… But BB55 Battleship North Carolina is located in Wilmington NC. There is a neat story regarding her escort of a carrier. They came under Japanese attack and BB55 responded with anti aircraft guns. The resulting fire and smoke rising from deck caused the carrier command to radio “Showboat… are you on fire”. (Showboat was her nickname)
All of us who play World of Warships Legends/World of Warships PC version... this is a deep dive into our battleships. Of course... USS Texas and South Carolina were one of the many dreadnoughts in the US Navy... Texas is by far the last surviving dreadnought who served with duty for her nation. Good stuff
Favorite song from the last album from the second I heard it. Absolute BANGER! I got to admit that I already knew some of the history behind it because I felt compeled to google it since I loved it so much. But hearing it from Indy and Pär is just taking learning to a whole other level! Love it, guys! Cheers from Brazil!
Fun fact: the US Navy actually came up with the unified all Big Guns battery Dreadnought before the British, and even laid down the South Carolina class before the Dreadnought was laid down. However the reason we call them Dreadnoughts, and not Carolinas, is because like for 75% of their history prior to 1940, Congress wanted to punch pennies, and questioned if the South Carolina class was really necessary for the American navy to have, especially with how quickly ships where rendered obsolete. Compared to the French doctrine of Torpedo boats, which where significantly cheaper and arguably (at the time) just as effective, the South Carolinas seemed just too expensive.
@@therac197 the reason the Satsuma was not considered a Dreadnought class is her original design and layout included tertiary and quantinary batteries common of pre-dreadnoughts, though she did have the unified main gun battery, the presence of the smaller calibers outside the main secondary battery placed her in the pre-dreadnought category, even if her final construction had done away with them.
On that topic I'd suggest both *Dreadnought* about the naval arms race leading up to the Great War and *Castles of Steel* about the naval theatre of war, both books by *Robert K. Massie* and they're incredibly readable for such a massive pair of historical works. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
With the design ideas of the Dreadnoughts, it is worth noting that both the US Navy and the IJN had made similar observations and were working on their own Dreadnought designs at the time, but HMS Dreadnought was completed first.
I really hope you guys can at some point mention the sheer awesomeness of HMS warspite, making donuts in front of the German fleet at Jutland, fought multiple destroyers in a Norwegian fjord in ww2, the only battleship whose floatplane sunk a submarine, point blank fired at Italian ships during the battle of cape matapan and walked of multiple fritz X bombs.
I got down into the rocks at Pelican Island when they were towing USS Texas. I was most likely the closest person to her on that island. Sang this to myself as she made the turn.
Not only did he get the history of Dreadnoughts we also got the history of Mentos commercials which was an added bonus lol another enlightening episode
By the way dreadnoughts keel was layed in October 1905 and launched in February 1906 so the largest ship in the time was also built in the shortest amount of time
I have been waiting (im)patiently for this one. So glad I can watch it now. As for Jutland, I think it (among other major naval battles) would be perfect for a Sabaton song.
In the early '80s, a buddy and I went aboard the USS Texas. It was a great day: just pay your money and climb all over the ship. If they didn't want you to enter an area they would just weld it shut. My buddy is 6'-6" tall, and by the time we left he had a splitting headache, along with several cuts and abrasions on his head from slamming into all the misc. valves and pipes that run "overhead" in the interior hallways. At 5'-11, I just cruised under them. The Texas origionally featured a wooden deck before being re-fit. Great episode, guys!!
Really Indy, if you would have been my history teacher, I would have been glued to your words.....unfortunately you were not....it would not have been possible since we are the same age.... you have a way to explain history. It is amazing. You just cannot not listen to you. Please keep it up and I will definitely stay a Sabaton history Patron....by the way, I want that cap😊
To help Indy There's 8 Battleships preserved in the world excluding USS Texas as she's 9 USS Iowa : Los Angeles CA USS New Jersey : Camden NJ USS Missouri : Pearl Harbor Hawaii USS Wisconsin : Norfolk VA USS North Carolina : Wilmington NC USS Massachusetts : Fall River MA USS Alabama : Mobile AL Mikasa : Yokosuka Japan
It's a shame FDR ordered Oregon scrapped as he couldn't board the then museum in December of 1941 as he was wheelchair bound. Serving in two wars as the lucky sister of the Indiana class.
I'm so glad y'all mentioned our beloved Battleship Texas! Do y'all think y'all can come back when they finish her restoration for her grand reopening to the public?
They should do an album devoted to naval history. There are so many great stories. John Paul Jones, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, the tin cans of taffy 3, I could go on and on
Last time I was under shower, I know great source of revelation, I thought about two ideas for future albums. Unknown/Forgotten Wars: -Korean War -Boxer Rebellion -Balkan 1911-1913 - Introduction to Great War -Paraguay vs. world -Crimea 1860 -An Lushan Revolt - bloodiest conflict, even more percentige of people died then than in Mongol conquest -1812 - Burn of capitol -American civil war - True first WWI experience, trenches and all -Fall Of Rome - early 5th century, fall to medieval timea -Punic Wars -Franco-Prussian War - preludium to WWI -American-Spanish War - Manifest destiny -Sino-Japanese War - I think there is not one song covering this front Some of them are known, but I feel not enough people pay attention to them Conquest of the world -Mongol conquests -Napoleon -Alexander the Great -Paxa Romana - Empire at its peak -Reconquista and rise of Iberian Empires -Ottoman empire -Japanese empire -Rush rise of islam -Patient rise of christianity -British Empire -Prussia - vassal to Kaiserreich -America - 13 collonies to 1st Superpower -Rise of modern China -Soviet communist revolution to cold war Few last are not in litteral sense of the word, but still huge influence.
To my recollection, the most terrifying thing about Dreadnought, in the eyes of naval planners and politicians in Europe at least, wasn't that the ship itself made everything else obsolete, though that was bad enough, it was how Fast Britain could build them. Months instead of years, and Britain could build tens of the things at once (though staggered slightly), resulting in a new one putting to sea every month or so. Previous battleships had been a case of 'two to five years to build a batch/class of two to five ships... if you had the yard capacity to work on them all at once'. Combine that with the significant advancement in capabilities Dreadnaught represented... well. You can see their reasoning. Remember, this was Britain at the height of its power, with all that that implied for its enemies (though, admittedly, a few other nations in the world had Caught Up in various ways by that point, though not yet in naval power...)
i learned just now that the USS North Carolina was not a Dreadnaught, but a Super Dreadnaught (did not know that was a thing). now i kinda want to visit it again when ever i go back home
Just found out about this channel, I don't know how I missed out on this for so long! This is so cool, it has band members and Indy Neidell. His ww1 and ww2 videos are fantastic. All around this is very cool, and I will be binging these.
For those of you that interested in early naval battles, or naval power in general, take a look at the game Ultimate Admiral Dreadnaughts. The game spans ship technology from 1890 to 1940, but the best part, you get to design your own ships.
I thought this song was about Jutland, “those days will dictate their fate” “The grand fleet prepares their guns” “Unleashed as the dreadnoughts clash at last” I thought that was all colluding to the battle of Jutland, it was the ww1 album after all
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So what do you think? Should (or will) Sabaton write a song about the Battle of Jutland? It was the largest naval battle of the Great War, and they've certainly covered that a lot. We know you have a zillion ideas for things they should cover in their future songs, but how might the lyrics to a Jutland song go? What might the title be even?
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Yes a song about the battle of Jutland would be amazing
Abso fucking lutely
Yes! Do it! And here's an idea for what the name should be, "Blood in the Water!"
Yes
@@ForgottenHonor0 I was thinking "Clash of the Titans" myself.
Hey, it was a pleasure to be able to have y'all come out and visit the ship in dry dock! Hope y'all are able to come back and see the ship when the work is finished!
Damn the one and only
@@servinginhellaimingforheav2446 Thats us. The Ship, The Myth, The Legend
BATTLESHIP TEXAS HAS GONE ROGUE, IT MADE A RUclips ACCOUNT.
This is awesome that the official channel actually commented
@@virtual5448 she has not gone rogue. She is just getting a face lift and letting everyone know.
USS Texas is hands down my favorite dreadnought of all time. I had the honor of helping bring her some steel for her restoration. Can’t wait to see her when she’s finished.
She's my favorite dreadnought too!!!
She's the only one left. "Hook Em"
If HMS Warspite was still around she would be my favourite
Keep her floating. Its the only dreadnought battleship left
@@boas7742 Warspite didn't deserve what happened to her but she went out on her own terms.
(14:47) Yes the USS Texas which it's perhaps most famous story comes from actually World War II off the shores of France during D-day. They actually leaned the ship back, (partial flooding) just so they can shoot further inland. 😎👍
Okay. I liked Indy's reaction learning that the USS Texas was a Dreadnought class battlewagon. Almost like a "Really?!? NO SHIT!"
14:40 Indy's face when he realized about Battleship Texas is amazing! Love this channel
Indy visited the last existing Dreadnought on the world as a child many times, and still didn't know that it's the last existing Dreadnought on the world.
You can always learn something new in Sabaton History. :D
First I apologize for my ignorance.
but is the USS TEXAS one of the original dreadnought design or could she be classified as a second or third generation development?
If the overall basic plans have been revised during the deployment stage it would not surprise me if she deviates from the "True" original dreadnought.
@@HrLBolle The "original" design of Dreadnoughts were outdated already when WW1 started. HMS Dreadnought not even participated in any military combat (like battle of Jutland).
The New York class (USS Texas) were an improved version of the Wyoming-class so it can count as the 2nd generation line of Dreadnougths. The USA first generation Dreadnoughts were the South Carolina-class.
All post-Dreadnought battleships were dreadnoughts. Later ones were called super-dreadnoughts, which is just a type of dreadnought. Texas is a super-dreadnought, but so is North Carolina, built far later.
@@reliantncc1864 Nope.
The last Dreadnought type was the Bismarck class.
The later ships (North Carolina, Iowa, Yamato, Richelieu, etc) followed a whole new design called "fast Battleship" started with Dunkerque. Those not Dreadnoughts anymore.
@@StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe nope. See how unconvincing it is to just say "nope" with no actual argument? By definition, all later battleships are dreadnoughts. Also, which of those ships you mentioned did not employ an all-big-gun layout? Oh, none of them. That's right, because they're dreadnoughts.
What's especially funny about your ignorance is that Bismarck resembles those later ships much more than it resembles Dreadnought, in particular by being fast.
"Brothers. To partake in our crusade, is to be immortal." Space Marine Dreadnought
Go back to sleep Tankred
What I learned:
If you say a ship is unsinkable, it will sink
Haha true!!
@@SabatonHistory You can sometimes get away with giving one a cool nickname like "Old Ironsides" though
„But what if we made it bigger?“ - Fisher, (probably)
How do you do that?
I know this was over a year ago, but this is one of my favorite songs. Keep going strong brothers.
Don't you guys ever stop making History!
What a perfect timing. I'm building this same exact model of this ship.
Side note.
I want that hat, in my cart!
When I first heard Dreadnought I thought the song plodded a bit, but by the time it hit the chorus I was right behind it. Now it is my favourite Sabaton song, even above Bismark (Which was the music video that made me fall in love with the band). I love the lumbering, ominous buildup to the bombastic chorus.
As a Texan, I'm proud we house and preserve the last of the steel behemoths that started the advancement of naval warfare technology
Long live the Texas!
As for "Dreadnought", by far my top favorite song created by this band. Perfectly embodies the epic power of naval might in a beautifully composed song.
I'm glad America saved some of your Navel vessels like USS Texas wish my government had saved HMS Warspite.
As a Texan im just here
No ram bow
Then she rammed a u-boat
😂😂
I was looking forward to this episode, as Dreadnought is my favourite song from this album, and it did not disappoint. So great the band finally got the chance to visit USS Texas
I waited a long while for this one. It was worth it. Again an awesome history lesson and learning behind the making of this awesome song. Dreadnought quickly became one of my top faves of the new album and I said this before, this one is the closest to being on an even level as Bismarck in terms of power and chilling but super awe because at the time nothing like this had been seen before and was very revolutionary for wartime. We are thankful that one still survives today that being the USS Texas.
history lesion
That is quite poetic, if unintended.
Thanks for your message.
@@SabatonHistory thank you Sabaton
This song has sentimental meaning for me. My grandfather served on the USS Texas BB35 during WWII. This song resonates pride and victory ❤️⚓️
Thanks a lot for sharing this info 🙂
@5:15
That's concealment. Cover means that there is physical protection from a threat, such as, ( to use a landlubbers example,) a boulder, as opposed to a rotting log that might provide concealment, but isn't going to stop bullets.
I realize that I'm being pedantic, but that sort of thing is important in military circles.
"The only difference between cover and concealment is the caliber you are shooting"
Idk who
0:53 i almost died
British: We shall dread no ship sailing on the seas
Germans: Was ist mit unter der See?
A concert with the Battleship Texas behind it would be amazing. Hard to put together, but amazing.
The key issue was fire control. Before 1900 battles were fought at short ranges because they could not hit anything at distance. The introduction of complex mechanical computers to enable hits at long range were what made the all big gun ship sensible.
Last year, I wrote you guys a suggestion for a song about USS Texas, I was so happy that she made an appearance your lyric video for 'Dreadnaught'.
"Noooo, you can't outspeed our 12 inch cannorinoos and outflank our big-ass ships!"
"haha torpedo boat goes brrrr"
Torpedo Boat Destroyer (origin of the Destroyer we have):
*So you have chosen; death.*
@@rbgerald2469 By that point the dreadnought was dead and buried, soon to be followed by the battleship.
@@matiasyannuzzi9655 Aye..
Doesn't realize it's a Dreadnought class battleship, U.S.S. Texas is the first one to pull a yeet
When the British Navy launched the mighty HMS Dreadnaught, U.S. Congressman John S. Williams (D-MS) introduced a bill to rename the USS Michigan as the USS Skeered O' Nothing.
A video on the HMS Warspite would be awesome. For those who are unaware, Warspite is the most exceptional ship to ever see Royal Navy service, and I personally consider her to be protected by plot armor. In the battle of Jutland, she got hit a number of times, and eventually lost rudder control. Because of this, she sailed headfirst uncontrollably into the high seas fleet, drawing every German ships fire, and incidentally saving the crews of some cruisers the crucial moments they needed to escape. After having survived the fire of the entire high seas fleet, she repaired her rudder and went back into line. In ww2, she did lots. She landed the longest ranged hit in naval history on an Italian ship, she bombarded the shores of France on d day, wearing out her guns in the process. She then got them relined, and went back for more. She then ran out of ammo. At a different point, in the Mediterranean, an Italian manual torpedo was brought under her and detonated in shallow water. Having now had her keel blown out, she sank! Except the water was so shallow you wouldn’t be able to tell that she was sunk, and she was fixed. The German Fritz guided bomb, which was used on an Italian battleship as a test, and sank it, was used on Warspite. It blew a hole from the deck to through the keel, and out the bottom of the ship. Of course, being Warspite, this wasn’t too major, and she simply sailed home to have it fixed. At the end of the war, she was towed off to be scrapped, but the mighty Warspite, the most decorated ship of the Royal Navy, would not allow herself such an easy death. She broke her tow lines and ran away (without anybody on board). She eventually ran aground. She was so stuck, that all three ships that tried to pull her free sank. She was broken up on the shore, defiant to the last.
Yes if there was ever a ship possessed some sort of supernatural spirit, it was definitely Warspite. The stories of the salvage attempts on after she ran aground are insane. Propellers getting tangled, vessels getting damaged. Two attempts at refloat that had very high percentage of success.............failing.
@@glenchapman3899 A ship carrying scrap metal from Warspite ran aground in thick mist and herself broken up on the beach.
Warspite was also the first ever ship to sink a U-boat with a ship-launched plane.
we knew how to build things in plymouth once upon a time, not any more unfortunately.
Belli dura despicio!
Most of what Warspite ended up doing in WWII consists of a) simply not dying or b) stuff other ships could have done at much less expense.
As awesome as a song about Jutland would be, I need y’all to make a song about USS Enterprise. It’d be great. I love the work you do.
CV-6 may need more than one song to cover everything.
@@J_Halcyon Hell they could make a whole album about her
*Ahem* Owari da!
they could easily make a whole album just about naval history... battle of trafalgar, battle of leyte gulf, battle of guadalcanal... thats just SOME of the big naval battles, then you have ships that did something heroic/incredible...
both of the uss laffeys that served the usn during ww2, 1st one heroically fought kirishima at one of the guadalcanal skirmishes that makes up the entire battle of guadalcanal, 2nd one stood up against over 50 japanese kamikaze aircrafts attacking it when out alone, surviving multiple direct hits of bombs and crashing planes.
uss samuel b roberts and uss johnston, their last stands at the battle off samar (1 of the 4 parts of the battle of leyte gulf) were incredibly heroic from not only their captains but their entire crews.
uss barb "sunk" a japanese train when it landed some men on the japanese home islands and blew up a train bridge.
there are more than just american ships that did heroic actions but they are the ones with most accessible records in the form of documentaries and youtube videos about
@@Deilwynna There is actually a song about Trafalgar from Civil War- "Admiral Over the Oceans"
Alot of the members actually came from Sabaton.
Not quite a Dreadnought, but had the pleasure to see the HMS Caroline a couple years ago. It's a heavy cruiser from the Great War, and also fought in the Battle of Jutland. Amazing floating museum
Jackie Fisher was a very devout man. When he was ennobled and became Lord Fisher his motto on his coat of arms was "Fear God and Dread Nought".
Bit of a low-key flex there Jackie?
"Yes."
Robert Massies' two books, Dreadnought and Castles of Steel, while thick, heavy, and at times very dry books, those two are still the best ones I can think of when it comes to naval power and global diplomacy and WW1 I can think of.
When it comes to dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts there is only one left she is the last of her kind and that would be the Battleship USS Texas I got to see them tow her into Dry Dock and it moved me to tears
For super dreadnoghts I believe all Iowa class BBs are still floating. Basically if you find a battleship you found a dreadnought of some kind, most likely super.
Yes all 4 iowa class battleships are still around. All are museums.
@@madogthefirst Except Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought still intact in Japan. Quite a cool ship to visit. Last of the kind.
@@madogthefirstindeed, every battleship from about the 1910s and after is a dreadnought, they just stopped calling them those because everything was one
I'm a Texan myself and it brought tears to my eyes to hear she's getting the work she needs
I don’t know If you are still in the states… But BB55 Battleship North Carolina is located in Wilmington NC. There is a neat story regarding her escort of a carrier. They came under Japanese attack and BB55 responded with anti aircraft guns. The resulting fire and smoke rising from deck caused the carrier command to radio “Showboat… are you on fire”. (Showboat was her nickname)
indy's reaction to texas being a dreadnough class BB is funny AF
All of us who play World of Warships Legends/World of Warships PC version... this is a deep dive into our battleships.
Of course... USS Texas and South Carolina were one of the many dreadnoughts in the US Navy... Texas is by far the last surviving dreadnought who served with duty for her nation. Good stuff
13:35 "And what kind of ship was.."
RUclips subtitles: "and what kind of [_] was.."
0:11 I think of the Queen Elizabeth class. HMS Warspite in particular
Im surprised nobody has commented on Indy's judas priest shirt 😂
Favorite song from the last album from the second I heard it. Absolute BANGER! I got to admit that I already knew some of the history behind it because I felt compeled to google it since I loved it so much. But hearing it from Indy and Pär is just taking learning to a whole other level!
Love it, guys! Cheers from Brazil!
Fun fact: the US Navy actually came up with the unified all Big Guns battery Dreadnought before the British, and even laid down the South Carolina class before the Dreadnought was laid down.
However the reason we call them Dreadnoughts, and not Carolinas, is because like for 75% of their history prior to 1940, Congress wanted to punch pennies, and questioned if the South Carolina class was really necessary for the American navy to have, especially with how quickly ships where rendered obsolete. Compared to the French doctrine of Torpedo boats, which where significantly cheaper and arguably (at the time) just as effective, the South Carolinas seemed just too expensive.
Actually it was the Japanese Stasuma who was the first
@@therac197 the reason the Satsuma was not considered a Dreadnought class is her original design and layout included tertiary and quantinary batteries common of pre-dreadnoughts, though she did have the unified main gun battery, the presence of the smaller calibers outside the main secondary battery placed her in the pre-dreadnought category, even if her final construction had done away with them.
We need a Sabaton History episode all about the evolution of Par's beard.
Best song of the album!
Fisher states his doctrine
Admirals at Jutland: YOLO!!!
On that topic I'd suggest both *Dreadnought* about the naval arms race leading up to the Great War and *Castles of Steel* about the naval theatre of war, both books by *Robert K. Massie* and they're incredibly readable for such a massive pair of historical works.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
With the design ideas of the Dreadnoughts, it is worth noting that both the US Navy and the IJN had made similar observations and were working on their own Dreadnought designs at the time, but HMS Dreadnought was completed first.
I really hope you guys can at some point mention the sheer awesomeness of HMS warspite, making donuts in front of the German fleet at Jutland, fought multiple destroyers in a Norwegian fjord in ww2, the only battleship whose floatplane sunk a submarine, point blank fired at Italian ships during the battle of cape matapan and walked of multiple fritz X bombs.
The warspite embodies the spirit of the people that was caught in the blitz in the UK.
For the Stormtroopers episode I really hope Indy is wearing full Star Wars Stormtrooper armor. 🤣
Dreadnought was one of the most heart-pumping songs in your setlist, I can't wait for you guys to come back to the US
I got down into the rocks at Pelican Island when they were towing USS Texas. I was most likely the closest person to her on that island. Sang this to myself as she made the turn.
Not only did he get the history of Dreadnoughts we also got the history of Mentos commercials which was an added bonus lol another enlightening episode
By the way dreadnoughts keel was layed in October 1905 and launched in February 1906 so the largest ship in the time was also built in the shortest amount of time
YES, THE TEXAS is quite a ship
We need more naval themed songs!
I have been waiting (im)patiently for this one. So glad I can watch it now. As for Jutland, I think it (among other major naval battles) would be perfect for a Sabaton song.
In the early '80s, a buddy and I went aboard the USS Texas. It was a great day: just pay your money and climb all over the ship. If they didn't want you to enter an area they would just weld it shut.
My buddy is 6'-6" tall, and by the time we left he had a splitting headache, along with several cuts and abrasions on his head from slamming into all the misc. valves and pipes that run "overhead" in the interior hallways. At 5'-11, I just cruised under them.
The Texas origionally featured a wooden deck before being re-fit.
Great episode, guys!!
Now I want to see a Menthos powered Dreadnought with Eddie as it's captain
i want a sabaton song about uss enterprise cv-6 the gray ghost
Really Indy, if you would have been my history teacher, I would have been glued to your words.....unfortunately you were not....it would not have been possible since we are the same age.... you have a way to explain history. It is amazing. You just cannot not listen to you. Please keep it up and I will definitely stay a Sabaton history Patron....by the way, I want that cap😊
Looks like Pär is rocking a Turisas shirt, awesome to see a nod to another favorite Nordic band of mine
Dreadnoughts here, and Ghost Ships over at The History Guy. 'Tis a seafaring day
Easily my favourite song on the whole album
It's a great choice indeed
To help Indy
There's 8 Battleships preserved in the world excluding USS Texas as she's 9
USS Iowa : Los Angeles CA
USS New Jersey : Camden NJ
USS Missouri : Pearl Harbor Hawaii
USS Wisconsin : Norfolk VA
USS North Carolina : Wilmington NC
USS Massachusetts : Fall River MA
USS Alabama : Mobile AL
Mikasa : Yokosuka Japan
Just like Texas Mikasa was the last of her kin (pre dreadnougth)
It's a shame FDR ordered Oregon scrapped as he couldn't board the then museum in December of 1941 as he was wheelchair bound. Serving in two wars as the lucky sister of the Indiana class.
Can’t wait for the next episode!
(Also yes, Jutland is one of my favorite battles of WW1)
I really recommend Robert K. Massie's book: Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War. A Masterpiece of a lesson in history!
I agree, it's excellent
I really need a part 2 about the battle of Jutland OR a song about said battle... Along it's episode of course
I'm so glad y'all mentioned our beloved Battleship Texas! Do y'all think y'all can come back when they finish her restoration for her grand reopening to the public?
I would pay a truly FANTASTIC amount of money for a concert to open the Texas after restoration.
Ya’ll
@@ladyzapzap9514 oh man. Yeah I would pay dearly for that
I'd love to see sabaton do an album dedicated to famous warships
Yes! My favourite one from the album!
It invokes similar feelings as Bismarck, but in a different way
I have been waiting for this video! My friend’s favorite song on the album was Dreadnoughts so this is perfect. Keep up the great work!
@0:11 I think of the Iowa Class
They should do an album devoted to naval history. There are so many great stories. John Paul Jones, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, the tin cans of taffy 3, I could go on and on
Last time I was under shower, I know great source of revelation, I thought about two ideas for future albums.
Unknown/Forgotten Wars:
-Korean War
-Boxer Rebellion
-Balkan 1911-1913 - Introduction to Great War
-Paraguay vs. world
-Crimea 1860
-An Lushan Revolt - bloodiest conflict, even more percentige of people died then than in Mongol conquest
-1812 - Burn of capitol
-American civil war - True first WWI experience, trenches and all
-Fall Of Rome - early 5th century, fall to medieval timea
-Punic Wars
-Franco-Prussian War - preludium to WWI
-American-Spanish War - Manifest destiny
-Sino-Japanese War - I think there is not one song covering this front
Some of them are known, but I feel not enough people pay attention to them
Conquest of the world
-Mongol conquests
-Napoleon
-Alexander the Great
-Paxa Romana - Empire at its peak
-Reconquista and rise of Iberian Empires
-Ottoman empire
-Japanese empire
-Rush rise of islam
-Patient rise of christianity
-British Empire
-Prussia - vassal to Kaiserreich
-America - 13 collonies to 1st Superpower
-Rise of modern China
-Soviet communist revolution to cold war
Few last are not in litteral sense of the word, but still huge influence.
12:00 this is fore shawdowing, I can feel it
Love how random and off topic these can get for a couple minutes sometimes
If you ever get a chance you should visit the USS North Carolina in Wilmington. It is a WWII era battleship, and amazingly well preserved!
0:56 CANNONBALLL!!!!😂😂
Two history teachers who brighten up our lives👍🤟
I think we need song about the biggest one of battleships - Yamato
Sabaton needs to make a video for the song on board the Battleship Texas
Ahh... we've been waiting for this story for AGES! Thanks Indy!
Indy talking to a Swedish rock musician about American TV commercials from the 90's was hilarious.
So glad Sabaton history is back!
To my recollection, the most terrifying thing about Dreadnought, in the eyes of naval planners and politicians in Europe at least, wasn't that the ship itself made everything else obsolete, though that was bad enough, it was how Fast Britain could build them. Months instead of years, and Britain could build tens of the things at once (though staggered slightly), resulting in a new one putting to sea every month or so. Previous battleships had been a case of 'two to five years to build a batch/class of two to five ships... if you had the yard capacity to work on them all at once'. Combine that with the significant advancement in capabilities Dreadnaught represented... well. You can see their reasoning. Remember, this was Britain at the height of its power, with all that that implied for its enemies (though, admittedly, a few other nations in the world had Caught Up in various ways by that point, though not yet in naval power...)
i learned just now that the USS North Carolina was not a Dreadnaught, but a Super Dreadnaught (did not know that was a thing). now i kinda want to visit it again when ever i go back home
To add, shes classified as a Fast-Battleship as well. (Also my first battleship I ever visited)
Hell yeah, been waiting for an episode on dreadnought 🔥🔥
I hope you do one about Lady of the Dark soon, love that song. See you in Uddevalla in February!
Just found out about this channel, I don't know how I missed out on this for so long! This is so cool, it has band members and Indy Neidell. His ww1 and ww2 videos are fantastic. All around this is very cool, and I will be binging these.
There’s a reason that the U.S.S Texas is known as the USS Gangster Lean. Only known battleship to hit it’s targets at Normandy from over 8,000 yds!
This channel is so great, thank you!
I missed you guys when you came to Detroit. Didn't know you were going to be here until I drive by The Filmore and saw your name on the marquee.
Finallly a history episode of dreadnought, i have been waitng
Yes write that song as I am now dying to see that sabaton history
That was an awesome segment. I learned a lot. Thank You.
For those of you that interested in early naval battles, or naval power in general, take a look at the game Ultimate Admiral Dreadnaughts. The game spans ship technology from 1890 to 1940, but the best part, you get to design your own ships.
Thanks for the recommendation!
This is an absolutely amazing channel! Thank you for all of the research you do to put this on
Here is an idea for a couple naval songs. A villainous sounding song about Japan's Kido Butai and a heroic sounding song about USS Enterprise.
Dreadnought leaves off on a cliffhanger because the Battle of Jutland itself was inconclusive.
It wasn't that inconclusive. The German surface fleet never again went to sea to challenge the British.
@@SennaAugustus Considering both sides were seeking a battle of annihilation...
amazing work as always
I thought this song was about Jutland, “those days will dictate their fate”
“The grand fleet prepares their guns”
“Unleashed as the dreadnoughts clash at last”
I thought that was all colluding to the battle of Jutland, it was the ww1 album after all