What's It Like Aboard a WW2 Aircraft Carrier? - Let's Visit the USS Hornet

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  • @InvictaHistory
    @InvictaHistory  5 лет назад +24

    Any recommendations on future historical sites to visit? Also please consider tossing a dollar or two over to our Patreon page to help fund awesome trips like this ► www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory

    • @Kelastris
      @Kelastris 5 лет назад

      I'm going to be candid here, the parts of the video when you're talking about the planes landing and taking off were very poorly phrased and lacking the proper information, if you're going to take time to make videos like this, sit down and write a script (you seem like you already do) but have others outside your production read it to make sure it makes sense, and do some research to make sure you don't sound ignorant, especially when it's clear you're intelligent and passionate about the history you're seeing.
      I really like the content you put out, keep up the good work, and if you somehow manage to be able to fund a transatlantic flight, come see Derry and Belfast in Northern Ireland, and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, as well as the country itself. There's more than five thousand years of history here to look into, from the neolithic solstice aligned tombs at Newgrange to the Viking town that became Dublin to the General Post Office which still has bullet holes in the pillars outside from the Irish Revolution, to the peace walls which divide parts of Belfast to this day. Well worth a visit, if you have the time and money.

    • @MelloOwnsRyuuzaki
      @MelloOwnsRyuuzaki 5 лет назад

      visit some famous battle scenes? idk how practical this is but would be cool to see, e.g. where Caesar commanded his final cavalry charge at Alesia (although I know you're american so civil war sites would be cool too)

    • @The_Dudester
      @The_Dudester 5 лет назад

      To add to what Noah said, it would've helped to not only read Flight of the Intruder, but also see the movie. If you had done that, seeing the Hornet, things would've been very much enhanced for you.
      With that said, it is on my bucket list to take the "battleship tour" (10 states have battleships and/or aircraft carrier museum ships).
      I have been on the Queen Mary 4 or 5 times as well as the USS Texas.
      New Orleans has an excellent WW2 museum as does Cantigny (Chicago area). U505, a german uboat, is part of the Chicago museum of Science and Industry.

    • @nodoxplz
      @nodoxplz 5 лет назад

      Charleston, south Carolina has an old submarine you can tour

    • @jonboll2066
      @jonboll2066 5 лет назад

      Any coastal old forts are always cool to see

  • @UMP4509
    @UMP4509 5 лет назад +139

    1:35 Imagine an aircraft carrier launching ships

    • @heirofrohan7865
      @heirofrohan7865 5 лет назад +27

      UNSC Infinity

    • @BAZZAROU812
      @BAZZAROU812 5 лет назад +2

      Ha.. How about the controller room.. Lol.. Not the bridge..

    • @bradleykillen6104
      @bradleykillen6104 5 лет назад +2

      #marines? The USMC launches all sorts of amphibious ships out its ass.. with f35s on deck.. or are we not counting landing platforms

    • @nathangaeta382
      @nathangaeta382 5 лет назад +1

      Yea I was wondering if anyone else caught that

    • @UMP4509
      @UMP4509 5 лет назад

      Bradley Killen I guess not counting landing platform? I was thinking of launching mainly via the flight deck of a World War Two aircraft carrier and not the rear of modern assault ships/commando carriers (is this the right term? Got this from Wikipedia). I think they did board landing crafts from the side of the carriers in WW2 but that’s on the side, not on or within the carrier.

  • @perfection4749
    @perfection4749 5 лет назад +85

    When I was in the Navy I was in an F-14 squadron round about the first Persian gulf war era.. and seeing that tomcat on deck was awesome!

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 5 лет назад +7

      Thank you for your service sir! A shame no F-14s are flying anymore.

    • @perfection4749
      @perfection4749 5 лет назад +6

      Agreed! She was an awesome bird!

  • @randycheow4268
    @randycheow4268 5 лет назад +174

    How I wish the USS Enterprise CV-6 wasn’t scrapped

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 5 лет назад +12

      Oh yeah, or how about USS Ticonderoga? Two legendary ships that should have DEFINITELY been preserved!

    • @mediocreman6323
      @mediocreman6323 5 лет назад +28

      No, they should not have been preserved. You would not want gum chewing tourists with their texting daughters and bored wives … trampling the places where people fought, fought for their lives and sometimes died. It is actually a good thing “the big E” did not suffer this indignation.

    • @DBT1007
      @DBT1007 5 лет назад +5

      About Enterprise, it need to be gone. Because it is nuclear powered carrier. The radioactive is still there, dude. Even after a hundred year.

    • @mediocreman6323
      @mediocreman6323 5 лет назад +34

      @@DBT1007 ... which is why he wrote *"CV-6",* you know, the Yorktown-class. What you are talking about is the CVN-65, which is a different ship! Man got not reading skills :-(

    • @DBT1007
      @DBT1007 5 лет назад +10

      @@mediocreman6323 sorry..

  • @stuartwald2395
    @stuartwald2395 5 лет назад +37

    The Hornet is a great ship to visit, but in terms of this video title, many of the features he is showing were added in refits after WWII, as many Essex-class carriers would be kept in service (at least as second-line vessels) for another 20-25+ years.

    • @JB-ym4up
      @JB-ym4up 5 лет назад +1

      In service till 1991 as a training ship.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 5 лет назад +3

      Not too surprising due to the Cold War years. The WWII battleship USS New Jersey actually shelled shore targets during the Korean War.

    • @chandlerwhite8302
      @chandlerwhite8302 5 лет назад +6

      Thunderbird 1 USS New Jersey shelled the coast line in Vietnam and Kuwait as well.

    • @tbm3fan913
      @tbm3fan913 4 года назад +1

      There were two refits in the 50's. SCB-27A in 1951 and SCB-125 in 1956 where she got the angled deck. That has been it and she became an ASW carrier because of her hydraulic catapults. She was decommissioned in June 1970.

    • @matthewmeador9565
      @matthewmeador9565 4 года назад

      @@tbm3fan913 I didn’t know hornet underwent 27A. I had read that she underwent 27C and received steam catapults, but after reviewing my photo archives, you are correct, as I’ve seen photos of her early on in Korea without an angled deck, but with a hurricane bow and a modified island. I do a lot of research for AVT-16, and these essexes are some of the coolest ships to ever sail in my opinion.

  • @dxonnie1571
    @dxonnie1571 5 лет назад +6

    My grandfather was on the USS Sawanee and survived the first Kamikaze attack. He loved the open water and passed that on to me :) great video!

  • @MFKR696
    @MFKR696 5 лет назад +34

    Fun fact: The newest carriers in America's fleet have replaced steam catapults with electromagnetic ones. The reason why it took them so long was because it was found that the extremely powerful electromagnets used in early Mag catapults didn't have enough shielding, and this caused a few aircraft to have their computer systems go AWOL on them from the small EMP that it produces. Needless to say, with all modern aircraft being primarily fly-by-wire, computer-driven affairs, losing your ECUs/computers right after takeoff is a rather bad turn of events.
    Since the shielding required for such a system was super-expensive, as well as extremely heavy, tis something that we haven't been able to effectively incorporate into a carrier's systems until somewhat recently. Even so, a mag-catapult is easily the heaviest piece of equipment on the entire ship, if you don't count the reactor or its turbines, and having that much weight right up top had to have some clever engineering decisions undertaken in order to make it a sea-worthy system.
    You'd be amazed how much care and due diligence is required for adjusting the ballast on one of those asymmetrical behemoths. If you took the ballast away, in the blink of an eye, the ship would develop a heavy list in excess of 90 degrees, and it would do so quite rapidly.

    • @alecjohnson5043
      @alecjohnson5043 5 лет назад +2

      It caused their computer systems to go away without official leave??

    • @janreeves5443
      @janreeves5443 5 лет назад +2

      As I recall - the Hornet had electric catapults

    • @MFKR696
      @MFKR696 5 лет назад +2

      @@janreeves5443 I didn't know that. She must have had some teething problems with that system for it to have not been used more widely during her era, or maybe it was just deemed too expensive to build, maintain and overhaul. Maybe putting one on the Hornet was a shakedown arrangement of sorts. Obviously it didn't go too well, which is evidenced by the fact that I had never heard that the Hornet had a mag-catapult on it, and I'm what you would call obsessed with history.

    • @MFKR696
      @MFKR696 5 лет назад +2

      @@alecjohnson5043 Indeed. Luckily it was only a test-bed, so it's not like they would have been testing it with the latest and greatest hardware lol.

    • @luisparga5707
      @luisparga5707 5 лет назад

      H3R3T1C

  • @donotneed2250
    @donotneed2250 5 лет назад +9

    Kitchen=galley. Dining room=mess hall(on land) or mess deck. Restroom=the head or latrine. Medical area=infirmary, sick bay. Jail/lock up=brig.

  • @vilstef6988
    @vilstef6988 5 лет назад +32

    The flight deck superstructure is called the Island, not the control tower.

    • @Grain-doulf
      @Grain-doulf 4 года назад +3

      No, control tower is part of the superstructure ...
      The Island or Castle is the all superstructure

  • @sbains560
    @sbains560 5 лет назад +1

    I was on this ship
    I met the pilot on this ship who had an amazing experience of being ditching his damaged aircraft and then being rescued
    You can listen to the entire event with film on RUclips
    Awesome tour by a veteran and a ride to the train station by the same person
    Saved me a long walk
    Thank you sir
    From Victoria bc Canada

  • @ConvairDart106
    @ConvairDart106 5 лет назад +5

    I grew up on that base, at the height of the Vietnam war. Grew up with Carriers. Had holiday meals on several of them. The British invented the angle deck. The design mainly allowed for the simultaneous launching and retrieval of aircraft. The safety feature was a secondary and welcome feature. Imagine, how the battle of Midway, could have been much different, had the Japanese carriers been "angle decked".

  • @Wallyworld30
    @Wallyworld30 5 лет назад +22

    We are incredibly lucky to be able to visit these Amazing ships that took part in Historical Battles that will be remembered for millennia! Very unfortunate that the UK didn’t maintain their heroic ships from WW2 or earlier.
    How did the Brits not preserve the Dreadnaught or Warspite? Madness!

    • @veladorer
      @veladorer 5 лет назад

      It was mainly because of thr Treaty of Washington!

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 5 лет назад +9

      @@veladorer No, it was because after WW2 the UK were in a terrible financial situation. They owed 100s of billions to the US and had to rebuild their country. Not to mention they don't have all the vast real estate that must seem endless to the UK. Its It's a shame because those were such important ships in world history.

    • @VainerCactus0
      @VainerCactus0 5 лет назад +2

      The HMS Belfast would like a word.

    • @MFKR696
      @MFKR696 5 лет назад +5

      It had more to do with financial hard times on the part of Britain than anything else. After the war, Britain's economy was an all-out mess. They simply could not afford to maintain a moth-ball fleet. They needed the scrap metal more than they needed the maintenance costs associated with keeping a museum-fleet painted and afloat.

    • @Wallyworld30
      @Wallyworld30 5 лет назад +2

      @@MFKR696 Thanks for agreeing with me. Washington Naval Treaty had fuck all to with with losing the Warspite. Whilst the UK did have to abide by Washington Naval Treaty this wouldn't stop then from preserving their famous WW2 ships. The UK never had a tradition of preserving many historical ships.

  • @comment2009
    @comment2009 5 лет назад +3

    The "control room" overlooking the deck is Primary Flight Control (aka PRI-FLY). The person in charge there is known as the Air Boss.
    The speed control in the "wheel house" is known as a Telegraph. The "primitive" charting computer (yes, it was technically a computer) was rather advanced technology for the time. Been there four times, met Buzz Aldrin during the 40th Apollo anniversary.

    • @tbm3fan913
      @tbm3fan913 4 года назад

      The primitive charting computer is called the DRT for dead reckoning tracer. Ought to know as I put the parts back.

  • @bradhasecuster3536
    @bradhasecuster3536 5 лет назад +4

    One of my best memories was touring the USS Enterprise with my Uncle who served on her in WWII and retired as Captain in the US Navy. That was an interesting and awesome day. Wish I had videoed it for posterity

    • @richardpcrowe
      @richardpcrowe 4 года назад +1

      The Enterprise has been wonderfully documented in a series of videos showing the history of that Grand Old Warrior Lady in World War Two in USS Enterprise Battle 360...

  • @wramsey2656
    @wramsey2656 5 лет назад +2

    At 17:50 mark Ready Room my father was there in 1944 (Commander John W Ramsey VF-11 Sun downers fighter pilot) on the Hornet tour WESPAC. I visited the ship spring 2018 it was a great experience. He was with the US Navy from 1941 to 1964 thru two wars. Good clear video. His picture is with the rest of the squadron in the Sundowners exhibit on the ship a few doors down from the Ready Room.

  • @etienneracine-hebert9870
    @etienneracine-hebert9870 5 лет назад +13

    Thank you much for doing a video on the USS Hornet! I lived in Alameda in my childhood and I have been the Hornet many times. I think it is the best out of all Essex class carrier museums because of its authentic look, smell, and many of the staff have worked on the Hornet and ships of the same class. I have seen many people whining online about how few aircraft there are, the missing parts, and the need paint job, ect...but do not forget that the Hornet is privately owned and these veterans are doing an impressive job with a small budget. Unfortunately, the USS Hornet is often forgotten in the bay. Many people that live in the bay do not even know what the Hornet is. California's education system is failing us, with history classes only talking about the American homefront of WW2, the LGBTQ, and minorities. They only teach us trash revisionist history. Since I've seen that you have enjoyed the museum, there are many other military museums in the bay, the following: Oakland Aviation Museum, USS Pampanito, SS Jeremiah O'Brien, SS Red Oak Victory, and Alameda Air Naval Station Museum. No worries about waiting in long lines and overcrowded areas because no one else cares about our history.

    • @goldenshark3182
      @goldenshark3182 5 лет назад +1

      This is what happens with open borders and letting the 3rd World in, it’s destroying our country and the first thing communists do is rewrite the history.

    • @tbm3fan913
      @tbm3fan913 4 года назад

      I've been restoring the ship since 1998 and everytime I come home my wife says I smell of ship. Personally I don't smell that anymore myself.

  • @bardolph1000
    @bardolph1000 5 лет назад +2

    I live about a mile away from this museum. I've enjoyed many a visit since it opened. Such an amazing slice of military history.

  • @KD--nz4ck
    @KD--nz4ck 5 лет назад +8

    My grandfather served on this ship, he was in flight group VB-11

  • @richardthomas9263
    @richardthomas9263 5 лет назад +7

    Yes I could see several things that military, especially Navy and Marine veterans would want to correct. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and respect for those who served. I enjoyed the video and chose to overlook the minor stuff. Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work. I will subscribe to your channel.

  • @Devinci297
    @Devinci297 5 лет назад +35

    War is bad but these machines are amazing though.

    • @Mitchmeow
      @Mitchmeow 5 лет назад +1

      The eternal struggle of the war geek. These things are so cool! Too bad their only function is to kill people...

    • @DBT1007
      @DBT1007 5 лет назад

      Bad thing always the most interesting/attractive thing.
      Sex, drug, alcohol, violence, etc.
      That's why being a good guy is hard. Like.. You play the game on hard difficulty.

    • @anthonyc4138
      @anthonyc4138 5 лет назад

      @@DBT1007 sex is not bad you idiot

  • @chandlerwhite8302
    @chandlerwhite8302 5 лет назад +3

    The Hornet was refit and rebuilt many times after the end of WW II, she really doesn’t look anything like what the ship did in the 1940’s. Still awesome to see though. The ship is configured now as she looked in the early 1970’s as an anti-submarine carrier. Still an awesome place to visit, of course. Oh, and this Hornet is an Essex class ship, not Yorktown class. The first Hornet that sank at Guadalcanal was Yorktown class. Thanks for a very good post.

    • @tbm3fan913
      @tbm3fan913 4 года назад

      Configured as she looked in the 60s. Actually that is what she looked like when she was decommissioned in June 1970. We didn't have to do much to configure her for the 60s at all since that is how she went to sleep.

  • @pathutchison9866
    @pathutchison9866 5 лет назад +20

    Tiny nitpick. The pilots get briefed on the mission at hand. They get debriefed when they return.

  • @ricdale7813
    @ricdale7813 5 лет назад +2

    Excellent Documentary. The visuals and the easy understanding narration are On Point. Thank You. My Father was a Signal Officer aboard a very similar Essex Class Carrier. CV33 Kearsarge. 1958-1962. What an Amazing Time Machine The Hornet is.

  • @perfection4749
    @perfection4749 5 лет назад +15

    The yellow shirt in the hangar in the little room elevated above the floor of the hangar deck has the same job as the flight deck director in tracking what planes are where on the hangar deck organizing who is in line to elevate to the flight deck.

    • @CaesarInVa
      @CaesarInVa 5 лет назад

      That's Hanger Deck Control.

  • @zeitgeistx5239
    @zeitgeistx5239 5 лет назад +21

    WW2 aircraft carrier but discussing systems that were installed post WW2 for jets.

    • @octoberland5970
      @octoberland5970 4 года назад

      Yes

    • @matthewmeador9565
      @matthewmeador9565 4 года назад +1

      To some degree, yes, but for the most part the systems described were fairly accurate. While hydraulic catapults were not commonly used during the war, all US Navy aircraft carriers have been fitted with them, albeit not very strong ones on earlier carriers. The arresting wire system was based on the same idea as the modern ones as well. The biggest issue with this video is the terminology he uses to describe things, and his lack of recognition that the essexes did not have angled flight decks until they had underwent the SCB-125 refit.

  • @douglaswaggoner7487
    @douglaswaggoner7487 5 лет назад +1

    A bit nostalgic for me. I was onboard the Constellation in 1967 in the Tonkin Gulf off of Vietnam. A very busy place,

  • @jimmosier5462
    @jimmosier5462 5 лет назад

    My father served aboard the USSHornet in the Pacific during WWII. It is wonderful to get a picture of what life was like for him during those years. Thank you .

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 5 лет назад +22

    humans are terrifying creatures. all this ability and ingenuity, used to build entire floating cities capable of decimating entire coastlines of entire countries. will we ever stop fighting these wars? the lengths we'll go just to kill each other is fascinating, but also horrifying and depressing..

    • @vinylsp
      @vinylsp 5 лет назад +9

      It is because of these machines in the right hands that we have gone longer than ever before without a major conflict in world somewhere. Every country has their closet of skeletons including the US. After bailing out the world twice the US decided to have peace through strength. I to marvel at the absolute waste of life and material destroyed in war. We will always have war as long as someone wants what you have and think they are strong enough to get it. Humans also have great capacity for good. We get to decide animals go by instinct. That’s all just my opinion though.

    • @HeyImLucious
      @HeyImLucious 5 лет назад +8

      @@julmar4304 Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Britannia, pick any of those periods of peace and stability and you will find no major conflicts, but still minor wars. Simply because you don't understand what the term "major conflict" means doesn't give you the right to lambast this period of Pax Americana. Just because one single rifle is fired in a far-flung land at someone who is angry at your country doesn't mean the world is embroiled in conflict. The same goes for the campaigns in the Middle East in recent history and today. A small fraction of manpower/military might is being expended by NATO to fight these small-scale wars. So small that even though they are technically a war, there is no noticeable affect on their economies, companies aren't being taken over by the government to fund the war effort, etc.
      In summary: you're speaking purely out of emotional ignorance. Ignorance is like a disease, so would you kindly stop trying to spread it, okay? Okay.

    • @vinylsp
      @vinylsp 5 лет назад +1

      Jul Mar Thank you for your input. I guess what I am referring to as a “major “ war or conflict is mass casualties and countries involved. Take Afghanistan for instance our longest war. In ww1 ww2 etc we had more casualties in one day or one hour than 18 or so years. Look at the world wide body count from Korea and all the conflicts forward and combine them we still won’t reach the body counts of the 2 world wars and before. The American civil war had over 60k casualties in just the battle of Gettysburg. War is a terrible terrible thing. I hope we can figure out how to avoid them but for right now no one bothers the biggest baddest boy on the block. The only one complaining is usually the 2nd or 3rd biggest.

    • @bxzidffbxzidff
      @bxzidffbxzidff 5 лет назад +2

      @@vinylsp "Bailing out the world twice" American exceptionalism is almost as terrifying as our ingenuity of crafting ever more efficient weapons to decimate ourselves. While I agree that modern weapons such as nukes is a vital factor for the current peace we are lucky to experience, do remember that it is by sheer chance that some Sovjet officers on numerous occasions went against protocol because they didn't trust their instruments which showed a nuclear attack from the US, barely preventing mutual destruction because of wrong interpretation of a moonrise.

    • @VL1975
      @VL1975 5 лет назад +2

      Just STFU and stop with the moralizing and enjoy this piece of machinery.

  • @jamesbrowne6351
    @jamesbrowne6351 5 лет назад +38

    I would strongly recommend learning a bit more about your topic before trying to narrate a documentary about it. This comes across as a kid trying to give an oral book report to a class without bothering to actually read it.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 5 лет назад +9

      Absolutely. Or at the very least at least learn/use the proper terminology. As a navy vet, this was painful to listen to.

    • @rikavi777
      @rikavi777 5 лет назад +1

      Good Job! It's all good.

  • @bx8garageman
    @bx8garageman 5 лет назад +10

    Cool vid USS Intrepid CV11 here in NY

  • @richardpcrowe
    @richardpcrowe 4 года назад

    I served aboard carriers USS Forrestal (CVA-59) and USS Constellation (CV-64) and spent somelimited time aboard ten or twelve other carriers... As big as Hornet seems if you have never visited a carrier - we used to call the Essex Class Carriers "small decks". Our size was so much greater and our living conditions were a lot better (air conditioning in most compartments as an example). BTW: the Essex Class Carriers and Midway Class Carriers were not converted to angled decks until post World War Two.
    As far as visiting historical military and naval sites; the San Diego, California area is blessed with a plethora of such sites. As an example; USS Midway Museum in downtown San Diego Harbor; Flying Leathernecks Museum aboard Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar; Marine Corps Recruit Depot Museum, near Old Town San Diego; and The Amphibious Vehicle Museum aboard Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California.
    The Aerospace Museum in San Diego's Balboa Park is another site well worth visiting!

  • @paynepersons6147
    @paynepersons6147 5 лет назад +2

    I've visited the Midway, I learned more about the Aircraft than the ship. It was fun

  • @perfection4749
    @perfection4749 5 лет назад +17

    Bedding areas referred to as crew berthing.

  • @idk1848
    @idk1848 4 года назад +1

    I've visited a Carrier, Submarine and the destroyer at Charleston, SC. They have a interesting little exhibit on Korea/Vietnam along with some older weapons from the Civil War.

  • @xenofalcon
    @xenofalcon 5 лет назад +1

    This was an awesome video. Genuinely interesting seeing the carriers inner workings and just how it used to operate.

  • @jasonirwin4631
    @jasonirwin4631 5 лет назад +1

    A bit if clarification is need this hornet under went a very extensive modernization program during the cold war. The original flight deck was a straight wood deck and the planes would land and take off under own power and with there own brakes. The catapult and cable system along with the angled metal deck was installed post war to deal with heavier jet fighters.

    • @chandlerwhite8302
      @chandlerwhite8302 5 лет назад

      Jason Irwin Pretty sure every carrier has always had arresting wires, no plane could stop it fast with just its own brakes. Some of the WW II Essex class had a catapult, but it was very rarely used, as most planes didn’t need it. It was only used on low wind days for planes with very heavy bomb loads. The later Essex class ships had he catapult deleted.

  • @NiallLynch
    @NiallLynch 5 лет назад +9

    Filming showers, " A lot of happiness happened here ", loved the on site visit!

  • @MojavegreenRattler
    @MojavegreenRattler 5 лет назад +2

    Great video. I rode that ship during it’s dead-stick move from the Army Supply Depot across the bay to the pier opposite where she sits now at NAS Alameda (ex). I went all over that ship during that move. They did a lot of work since then. A good documentary to watch to give better insight on what it is like to be on that ship in wartime is the wartime documentary The Fighting Lady. Also watch the 1976 Movie, Midway Staring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda. I am looking forward to the dvd release of the movie remake. You might find the documentary The Fighting Lady on youtube. If you want to learn more, read the book (audiobook is better) titled Enterprise: America’s Fightingest ship and the Men who helped Win WW2. The ship was involved in every major sea battle from begining to end, and is still the Navy’s highest decorated warship to this day. After WW2 she went on to develop what is todays modern naval aviation. It is unfortunate that out of all the carriers that were in service, she was not saved, but scrapped.

  • @jeebusyaweirdo3733
    @jeebusyaweirdo3733 Год назад

    My grandfather served on the Carrier named after our family ancestor, Peyton Randolph. Our name is also Randolph, making it really cool that he served on the USS Randolph, CV-15

  • @VL1975
    @VL1975 5 лет назад +2

    I've been on the USS Yorktown in Charleston. Very fascinating ship.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 5 лет назад

      Interesting how many preserved Essex class carriers were ones that carried the name of earlier ones sunk in WWII (Yorktown, Hornet, Lexington). Amazing to see these ships kept well. Too bad none of the more recent ones will ever be preserved like that.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 5 лет назад

      @@thunderbird1921 the Midway in San Diego will most likely be the last. A tiny tiny chance the JFK gets saved. But other than the JFK and kitty hawk all the other conventional powers ones have been scrapped.

  • @Offskew
    @Offskew 5 лет назад

    I have been Aboard and Hosted events aboard the Hornet,,,it is a Fantastic Ship and being on board is like watching an old movie

  • @SpaceJunkie12
    @SpaceJunkie12 5 лет назад

    I got to visit this ship a few years back. It was amazing to be onboard something with so much history.

  • @OliverHinz
    @OliverHinz Год назад

    Your introduction VoiceOver is so well done, music nicely matching. Thank you for the effort.

  • @naughtiusmaximus1811
    @naughtiusmaximus1811 5 лет назад +2

    While you're in town also check out the Oakland Aviation Museum and the WWII Sub U.S.S. Pompanito at Fisherman's Wharf in SF. Also the Victory ship SS. Red Oak in Richmond and the Rosie the Riveter Museum. LOTS of military history in the Bay.

  • @dzpower189
    @dzpower189 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you for this great work

  • @colormedubious4747
    @colormedubious4747 5 лет назад

    The "S" in "fresnel" is SILENT. Carriers don't "catch" landing aircraft, they "TRAP" them. There isn't a "control tower" but there IS a "Pri-Fly" near the top of the island (superstructure). If you live in the USA, you're probably fairly close to one of the four Essex-class carrier museums. The Intrepid is in NYC, the Yorktown is at Patriot's point near Charleston SC, the Lexington is in Corpus Christi TX, and the Hornet's in the San Francisco Bay area. Each is definitely worth visiting. The ships may not move any more but they are anything but static displays. I've been a member of the Lex Museum for many years and every time I visit there's a new exhibit, airplane, activity, or film to experience.

  • @norad1
    @norad1 5 лет назад +2

    This is awesome. No joke, I thought about visiting a ship somewhere after seeing Midway, but kind of need to be close to a coast for that lol.

  • @adsrbad9733
    @adsrbad9733 5 лет назад +5

    “How hectic it would be trying to launch ships”
    Oh wow I never knew there was a boat carrier on sea

  • @JonGretarB
    @JonGretarB 5 лет назад +10

    #1:35 Surely the plan was to launch planes. Not ships. ;)

    • @InvictaHistory
      @InvictaHistory  5 лет назад +19

      no no no you have it all wrong, this is an aircraft carrier carrier. It launches smaller ships which in turn launch their own planes. Very advanced stuff.

    • @JonGretarB
      @JonGretarB 5 лет назад +4

      #3:10 And what were ships doing on the flight deck?

    • @JB-ym4up
      @JB-ym4up 5 лет назад

      @@JonGretarB hurricane season.

    • @AAPatriot
      @AAPatriot 5 лет назад

      Jon Gretar Borgthorsson my boy he is joking lol

  • @andrewtaylor940
    @andrewtaylor940 5 лет назад

    One interesting thing to note as you go through the sick bay and see how complete it was. The Carriers Sick bays weren’t just for the Carriers crews. From the Lexington class on, the Carriers were functioning as fleet hospitals. They could provide more extensive medical services than were possible aboard a destroyer or sub. This became crucial in late ‘44 and into ‘45 when the large fleets sailed west with no plans to return until Japan surrendered. Conducting continuous fleet operations deep at sea for 9 months or more at a stretch.

  • @scottt5521
    @scottt5521 5 лет назад +3

    They don't say "full speed ahead", it would be "ahead flank". In the engine room, if you had a big speed change you would open the main turbine throttles, put additional boiler oil atomizer guns online, possibly startup another feed pump and/or condensate pump, and keep a close eye on boiler water levels as the quantity of bubbles would rise sharply and push the water level higher.

  • @pikeshotBattles
    @pikeshotBattles 5 лет назад +2

    Wow... I mean WOW! That's like some flight simulator I used to play a long time ago. Imagine going there as a kid!

  • @gryhze
    @gryhze 5 лет назад +2

    On the Hornet there's an escalator running from the hanger deck to the flight deck.

    • @InvictaHistory
      @InvictaHistory  5 лет назад

      Yeah I went up that one but didn't feature it in the video as I wasn't sure at what point that was put in. Thought it might be just a museum thing.

    • @gryhze
      @gryhze 5 лет назад

      @@InvictaHistory Mid '60's according to one docent. There are photos on the 'net showing two pilots loaded with gear going up the escalator.

  • @jackpinesavage1628
    @jackpinesavage1628 5 лет назад

    My uncle, Lt. j.g. Keith Messenger flew a Corsair fighter off the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12). He passed away a few years ago at the age of 90. Fair winds and following seas, uncle Keith.

  • @alanhembra2565
    @alanhembra2565 5 лет назад +2

    I visited the USS Yorktown, very cool.

  • @MFKR696
    @MFKR696 5 лет назад

    If you pay attention at 01:40, you'll see that behind that yellow trainer plane lies the most dangerous piece of equipment on that entire ship; A blue Genie Lift lol. They don't call them widow-makers, but they sure as hell should. The problem with them, especially on sea-borne operations, is that they're way too narrow, which makes them handy in tight spaces, but also quite dangerous. I've seen one of those lifts tip over on a perfectly level concrete pad, and that was from within the "safe operating limits" that were stated in the manual. It was one of the few cases where a work-place accident could be blamed almost entirely on the machine. Everything on that machine was running within specified parameters, so it's not something that could be blamed on a mechanic. Just imagine how much worse operating one on a swooping and heaving CV deck would make it. Then again, I very much doubt that any CV would be using Genie lifts like that one on an operational ship. Stuff like that only belongs on a decommissioned ship that never moves or on perfectly level terrain.

  • @2headedtasman200
    @2headedtasman200 4 года назад +1

    I will never forget the day I visited the Hornet. I slammed my head into a drop tank on the F-14 at the head of the flight deck, and now I have a scar in the middle of my forehead to remind me forever.

  • @joestephan1111
    @joestephan1111 4 года назад

    During WWII's pre-catapult days the propeller-driven carrier planes took off using the full length of the deck under their own power. Even post-war's first jet-powered planes took off the same way up until or early Korean War when the British developed catapult system was adopted by the US Navy.

  • @RappyGRafferi
    @RappyGRafferi 5 лет назад +1

    Were you able to visit the CIC? I didn't see any footage but I feel like you'd be right at home in that room.

  • @livingadreamlife1428
    @livingadreamlife1428 4 года назад

    Appreciate the Tour. I gave a Thumbs up but would have appreciated your focusing exclusively on elements of this newer ship that would have been in play during WW2.

  • @thealchemist9131
    @thealchemist9131 4 года назад

    This is great information!

  • @donaldyates3312
    @donaldyates3312 5 лет назад +20

    A lot of things wrong with this narration.

  • @miguel8571
    @miguel8571 Год назад

    truly amazing

  • @deanmanly9901
    @deanmanly9901 2 года назад

    Excellent thankyou.

  • @StoryboardMindset
    @StoryboardMindset 5 лет назад

    Your descriptions and terms were out to lunch but I really appreciate your enthusiasm. Thanks for the video.

  • @TheOtherAngle
    @TheOtherAngle 5 лет назад

    I toured this vessel a few years ago. Amazing experience!

  • @reidhickson7716
    @reidhickson7716 5 лет назад

    You should’ve gone to the USS Midway. It is docked in San Diego and is open to the public. I’ve been multiple times and it is amazing!

  • @concussed5704
    @concussed5704 5 лет назад

    I love the Hornet. I was on her three times and saw something new every time. Everyone should see and experience these floating museums. Pure Joy. Unfortunately I didn’t see any ghosts. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @KickAndDestroy
    @KickAndDestroy 5 лет назад +2

    How high are the ceilings?

    • @beastiebunny
      @beastiebunny 5 лет назад

      5' 10"

    • @bdpopeye
      @bdpopeye 5 лет назад

      You mean overhead. Do you mean the hangar deck? the hangar deck is 17 ft 6 in high. The rest of the ship? It varies greatly. I served with the USN for 20 years. I served aboard 5 aircraft carriers.

  • @PaulewingStHelens
    @PaulewingStHelens 5 лет назад

    Amazing. That ship could set sail today and wouldn't look out of place.

  • @JohnDavis-yz9nq
    @JohnDavis-yz9nq 5 лет назад

    Nice video.

  • @TheSunMoon
    @TheSunMoon 5 лет назад +12

    Sweet! I work on merchant ships, tanker specifically, sometimes I see navy ships, wonder how's the life there..

    • @reminder9146
      @reminder9146 5 лет назад +2

      Generally not that different. I was surprised by how similar our lives are to yours. It's just more cramped and a bit more "military" But we still stand watches, paint, have lookouts. The particulars are where the real differences are. If you joined the Navy it wouldn't be a huge shock in the work, but there is a small learning curve.

  • @GreySectoid
    @GreySectoid 5 лет назад

    Nice video, good commentary. I would've watched more.

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 5 лет назад

      The "good commentary" part is debatable. As a navy vet I cringed at the lack of proper terminology.

  • @eddietorres1000
    @eddietorres1000 5 лет назад

    When I Lived In The SF Bay Area I Visited The USS Hornet Two Time, The First Time It Had Just Started To Be Restored So A Lot Of The Equipment and Air Planes that was shown in this video They Didn't Have Yet, but The Second Time I Visited It That They Had most of that stuff all Ready my Favorite Part Of The Tour Was The Apollo 11 Display That Was Cool

  • @ukeyaoitrash2618
    @ukeyaoitrash2618 5 лет назад +3

    1:35 "launch ships" *space battleship yamato theme intensifies*

  • @danr1920
    @danr1920 3 года назад

    I worked at a factory without windows, 12 hour shift. Hated it. Even the break room didn't have windows. After a few years they moved the break room so it had windows. I need to see outside during some of the day. Also the low ceilings and drab colors would also suck.

  • @keithgoreham1463
    @keithgoreham1463 5 лет назад

    Used to love crawling around that ship before I left California. Took my Dad there once and he showed me what would have been his anti-aircraft station on the Essex class Wasp.

  • @andrewtaylor940
    @andrewtaylor940 5 лет назад

    So Hornet only got the initial partial angled deck refit? Not the full later deck refit that some of the others of her class such as Intrepid got?

  • @perfection4749
    @perfection4749 5 лет назад +1

    Loved the tour, thnx for the vid!

  • @soundknight
    @soundknight 5 лет назад

    That Fresnel light system is so cool

  • @bucksdiaryfan
    @bucksdiaryfan 3 года назад

    At 13:01, that was exactly what I was thinking of... Its WW2 the Hornet is in a naval battle, I'm trying to get a plane ready, and suddenly a kamikaze comes through the ceiling

  • @williamrotelle8038
    @williamrotelle8038 5 лет назад

    what about the boilers and engine rooms?

  • @trevorcarpenter3253
    @trevorcarpenter3253 5 лет назад

    How many times can invicta say ship instead of plane

  • @facecrash24
    @facecrash24 5 лет назад +5

    Awesome video like all you do so this is a really petty nit-pick, but why do you keep saying 'going to be' as in the future tense when talking about past and present things?

    • @Kelastris
      @Kelastris 5 лет назад

      This was kinda irritating. Also, the words around the bit when he's talking about the planes landing and taking off were very poorly phrased, if you're going to take time to make videos like this, sit down and write a script and have others read it to make sure it makes sense, and do some research to make sure you don't sound like an ignorant idiot, especially when it's clear this guy is pretty intelligent

  • @notsopog4889
    @notsopog4889 5 лет назад

    is that the yorktown class ship

  • @richbuckley6917
    @richbuckley6917 5 лет назад

    Great job. Nice tour. Very informative. ... There is a parallel story that runs like this. Visitors to this museum seem to encounter waves of ghosts from time to time that seem to be deceased US Service personnel serving on this ship. They are very kind, more angelic than ghostly, and will talk with you at some length about world peace.

  • @CrossAnchors
    @CrossAnchors 5 лет назад

    A Royal Navy Officer, Captain Dennis Cambell was the designer of the Angled Flight Deck, with the first Aircraft Carrier to be tested with the Angled Flight Deck, HMS Triumph, with HMS Ark Royal launched in 1955, being the first ever Aircraft Carrier to be purpose built and launched with an Angled Flight Deck, the lead Carrier of the Royal Navy Majestic Class being launched after, followed by the U.S.S Forrestal
    The Optical Landing System, the 'Meatball', this was also another British invention, invented by Nicholas Goodhart, and was first trialed aboard HMS Illustrious and HMS Indomitable, it was installed on all Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers by 1954, and then in 1955 that U.S Aircraft Carriers adopted the system
    The third Royal Navy invention for use on Aircraft Carriers was the Steam Catapult, invented by Commander C. Mitchell Royal Naval Reserve, it was first trialed onboard HMS Perseus in 1950, the Steam Catapult was found to be more reliable than the Hydraulic Catapult being used on U.S Aircraft Carriers during the 1940's, and by 1952, the Steam catapult was widely accepted and adopted for use in all Aircraft Carriers

  • @SpecialistQKD
    @SpecialistQKD 5 лет назад +1

    I wonder how much it would cost to put her back into service to operate the f35b in an emergency situation 🤔

    • @goldenshark3182
      @goldenshark3182 5 лет назад

      bigone1ism Why? We have many small Marine Amphibious carriers that deploy the F-35B that haven’t even been outfitted with them yet.

    • @SpecialistQKD
      @SpecialistQKD 5 лет назад +1

      @@goldenshark3182 I am referring to worst case scenario similar to Pacific ww2 when the navy was almost defeated at midway.

  • @charlesledankuz
    @charlesledankuz 5 лет назад +2

    Wait wut i thought uss hornet was sunk on the battle of santa cruz

  • @jeffjohnston4011
    @jeffjohnston4011 5 лет назад

    Releasing ships? 1:34

  • @johnmagill3072
    @johnmagill3072 5 лет назад

    Seeing this makes me miss it so bad.

  • @orringould7367
    @orringould7367 Год назад

    You should be on the USS Midway. It’s still in the WW2 vintage. While the hornet has modern things like the catapult

  • @soundknight
    @soundknight 5 лет назад

    Pan slower, use a monopod with horizontal rotator. The frame rate can't keep up with your turns. (Please)

  • @Gizmo1984ify
    @Gizmo1984ify 5 лет назад

    I served on the USS Kitty Hawk, CV63, from 2004-2007. Engineering/A gang.

  • @ericlakota1847
    @ericlakota1847 2 года назад

    In flight control on the new ships they still mark the deck like monopoly bord to show where all the planes are parked to this day that is still how they where doing it in tour of moder day carrier documentry

  • @DBT1007
    @DBT1007 5 лет назад

    Commanding an aircraft carrier is like becoming a CEO of a company.
    But it's more fragile. Every decision in commanding aircraft carrier is so fragile. Extremely important. Crucial

  • @billbye2427
    @billbye2427 5 лет назад +1

    Essex Class Aircraft Carriers finest duty stations in the US Navy . my first two were CVS -45 then LPH-8, then LPH-5. nee CVS-37 both were Long Bow Ticonderoga Class Essex Carriers oh the girls name was USS Valley Forge and USS Princeton respectfully.

  • @skater7590
    @skater7590 5 лет назад

    Very neat

  • @RaspberryRockOffGridCabin
    @RaspberryRockOffGridCabin 5 лет назад

    How many times do you think you said variations of, "This is gonna be..."?

  • @Rams495
    @Rams495 5 лет назад

    I seen that throttle "communications system" on the Titanic. The ones on the bridge did nothing but tell the people below deck how to set the speed. Obviously was a very old system for setting the speed on large ships.