Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you found the video interesting. Just to let you know, the video is demonetized due to the nature of some of the footage. Just the game with RUclips.
Thanks for another great video. Was unaware that HMS Terror had served alongside two destroyers of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" from the Royal Australian Navy. Makes this Aussie proud to now know.
Gotta love the Scrap Iron Flotilla. Loved Drach’s coverage of them. History of Everything also did a bang up job covering them! Need to show the Royal Australian Navy some more love!
HMS Titanic II, HMS Mummy, and HMS That Place Where the Sexy Teenagers Were Killed 100 Years Ago Tonight will make a word tour past Argentina, then off the coast of North Korea, through the Taiwan strait, then through the Strait of Hormuz up to the Black Sea. After that returning home for a refit adding AA capabilities.
It’s some of the footage, the clips at the end are technically owned by the British Pathé and they claimed it. Granted they’re not going to take the video down, I just can’t monetize it. So, I just made a business decision and decided I’d much rather show you all the footage since this is a hobby and the money is just a bonus.
Thank you. This was very interesting indeed. I was interested by the use of incorrectly manufactured ammo: in peacetime there would have been something in a BR to prohibit that, but when the bullets are flying, anything (almost) goes! I smiled when you named the 'Australian Scrap-Iron Flotilla'; someone will no doubt have a comment about that. But it was a fair epithet, I think. A great service career - I had not realised TERROR was at Malta. A rough berth, for sure. And later on when the guns were worn out and the rounds 'somersaulted' to their targets. The sound they would have made must have been quite something. And the final frames that showed the wreck on the sea-bottom was poignant - but at least there was no loss of life when this ship finally had to give up. And excellent doco, as always! Thank you.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Even better - at one point as a "torpedo ram". I've long thought that Wells was inspired slightly less by the British ship Polyphemus of that type, and somewhat more by the now-obscure Danish ship Tordenskjold, or 'Thundershield' in English: She was an 1880s vessel, slower than the famed Polyphemus, but beamier and with a truly huge forward barbette gun. Rounded off with a quartet of smaller guns sided aft, a pair of embarked third-class torpedo-boats, her own torpedoes and of course the obligatory spur ram, she was *very* Danish indeed, and perfectly designed for inshore warfare against all manner of opponents Now little known, in the mid 1890s, the inquisitive and informed Wells would have been likely well aware of this naval curiosity and her similarity of name to his fictional ship is hard to ignore. (Not to be confused with the turn-of-the-century Elswick coastal battleship built for Norway, of the same name.)
Not really. War of the Worlds was published in 1898, HG Wells is good but I don't think he could describe such a niche Royal Navy ship 18 years before she was commissioned. In the novel Thunderchild is described as a Torpedo Ram, and while such vessels did exist, her description is more in line with a coastal battleship of that era, although truly no real-life vessels match her perfectly. Drachinifel did a great video breaking this down and designing a plausible HMS Thunderchild
I first learned of 20th Century Monitors reading Doublas Reeman's _HMS Saracen_ . The Novel follows (iirc) the main character from his introduction to the ship off Gallipoli during WWI to WWII in the Med. Still for sale on Amazon among others. .
Now was 12 knots her maximum only for emergency speed, or just her normal cruising speed? Either way when she traveled to places like Singapore it was slow going.
On her trials she got 13.09 knots. Certainly an improvement over Marshal Soult. However, her and Erebus really struggled in the World War Two to keep that speed due to the age of their machinery and some other factors like the additional weight of their refits, especially Erebus.
@@ImportantNavalHistory Erebus undertook a bombardment of Calais on the night of 29 September, 1940, after which she withdrew at her best speed. Eight knots.
There was a lot of prostitution on the ship, she was an open secret within the fleet. Man good night's were had aboard and the women were normally seashback ashore very wealthy after 2 weeks, almost certainly being very very sore and dry filled with so much nut butter they would seep for nearly a month. Sadly the sheer amount of STDs spread both on board and to the rest of the fleecothe admiralty was forced to keep a lid on it, denying all claims Can you imagine how many creative positions were figured out aboard
I read the Authobiography of Helmut Mahlke, the Commander of III./StG 1, the unit that sank her. Ironically enough this group had been set up as the Stuka squadron for the Graf Zeppelin originally, with Mahlke himself being a former naval officer. Due to their naval specialization Mahlke's group had been rushed to the mediterranean as one of the first german air units and operated under extremely primitive conditions with minimal supplies at the time
H-M.S. Terror did bombs Sidi Barrani in Egypt and i think also Nibewa, Maktila and Turmann in December 1940, with shells of 350 mm. I remember my grampa told me when he was in Sidi Barrani in 1940.
06:00 A small correction - UC.70 was sunk in the harbour but not destroyed in the June 1917 attack. The Germans were able to refloat it and it was destroyed at sea in 1918. This is probably an error you picked up from the Crossley source. Despite citing Buxton as the source of the destruction claim, Crossley missed Buxton's footnote that the Germans were able to repair it.
THIS astonishes me! WHO woulda thunk the archaic monitor type would have been built so late or lasted so long! The ship certainly fits that old description of the camel: A horse put together by a committee!
*One thing I never hear mentioned in any of these docs is that the Somalis were so effective during this fight, Operation Gothic Serpent, because Bin Laden had provided the Somalis with proximity sensors for their RPGs. So, instead of having to actually hit the Blackhawk, they just needed to get close. It made a huge difference in their effectiveness and was what led to the two birds being shot down. Idk why no one ever mentions that. Its pretty important.*
I am shocked you didnt include anything about the legendary prostitution the ship had, it was THE fleet brothel. Yes many STDs were spread se ding many men to hospital but other than that it kept the men happy and less horny, cutting down on all the busted bums from bending over in tight quarters infront of men who hadn't had any tang in a year
I’ll be honest, I didn’t necessarily want to include that because it isn’t the most family friendly subject. Try to keep things some things to a minimum. I’ll make a community post discussing it because it is very interesting.
Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you found the video interesting. Just to let you know, the video is demonetized due to the nature of some of the footage. Just the game with RUclips.
Thanks for another great video. Was unaware that HMS Terror had served alongside two destroyers of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" from the Royal Australian Navy. Makes this Aussie proud to now know.
Gotta love the Scrap Iron Flotilla. Loved Drach’s coverage of them. History of Everything also did a bang up job covering them! Need to show the Royal Australian Navy some more love!
@@ImportantNavalHistory I know I'd great a great kick out of anything Australian related, look forward to seeing more.
@@madsaadsa7647 And anything Kiwi, too, please!!
Boy do I have good news for you Clive, a certain battlecruiser is coming up!
@@ImportantNavalHistory I'm already hooked ... is it possible to be double-hooked?! =]
Nothing better than naming your warship after a famously lost ship that many deemed cursed. What could go wrong.
HMS Titanic II, HMS Mummy, and HMS That Place Where the Sexy Teenagers Were Killed 100 Years Ago Tonight will make a word tour past Argentina, then off the coast of North Korea, through the Taiwan strait, then through the Strait of Hormuz up to the Black Sea. After that returning home for a refit adding AA capabilities.
@@joshuabessire9169 Did they meet with any Japanese torpedo boats whilst transiting the Baltic Sea?
Lost once but found in the last few years.
Erebus did well though.
@@richardcleveland8549Did you say tornado boats? (Spastically firing at fishing vessels)
You should be proud of your work on this. What in the world got this demonetized?
It’s some of the footage, the clips at the end are technically owned by the British Pathé and they claimed it. Granted they’re not going to take the video down, I just can’t monetize it. So, I just made a business decision and decided I’d much rather show you all the footage since this is a hobby and the money is just a bonus.
@@ImportantNavalHistory good on you
Excellent post of an interesting warship. I especially enjoyed the clear, correct, thoughtful and excellent narration. Thank you for rejecting AI.
A grand old lady and a very lucky ship for her crew a true warrior .
Thank you. This was very interesting indeed. I was interested by the use of incorrectly manufactured ammo: in peacetime there would have been something in a BR to prohibit that, but when the bullets are flying, anything (almost) goes!
I smiled when you named the 'Australian Scrap-Iron Flotilla'; someone will no doubt have a comment about that. But it was a fair epithet, I think.
A great service career - I had not realised TERROR was at Malta. A rough berth, for sure. And later on when the guns were worn out and the rounds 'somersaulted' to their targets. The sound they would have made must have been quite something.
And the final frames that showed the wreck on the sea-bottom was poignant - but at least there was no loss of life when this ship finally had to give up.
And excellent doco, as always! Thank you.
If I'm being honest, Terror's story is probably my favorite out of all the monitors. She's just got some spunk to her!
@@ImportantNavalHistory 👍😄
Excellent video fo the monitor. I rarely see naval battle video.
one of these rammed and destroyed a martian tripod in war of the worlds.
Ah yes. Indefatigable HMS Thunder Child. Her crew did their duty to the end. ;)
No. Wells describes the ship with the ridiculous name as an 'ironclad ram.'
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Even better - at one point as a "torpedo ram". I've long thought that Wells was inspired slightly less by the British ship Polyphemus of that type, and somewhat more by the now-obscure Danish ship Tordenskjold, or 'Thundershield' in English:
She was an 1880s vessel, slower than the famed Polyphemus, but beamier and with a truly huge forward barbette gun. Rounded off with a quartet of smaller guns sided aft, a pair of embarked third-class torpedo-boats, her own torpedoes and of course the obligatory spur ram, she was *very* Danish indeed, and perfectly designed for inshore warfare against all manner of opponents Now little known, in the mid 1890s, the inquisitive and informed Wells would have been likely well aware of this naval curiosity and her similarity of name to his fictional ship is hard to ignore.
(Not to be confused with the turn-of-the-century Elswick coastal battleship built for Norway, of the same name.)
“ who would have believed……”
Not really. War of the Worlds was published in 1898, HG Wells is good but I don't think he could describe such a niche Royal Navy ship 18 years before she was commissioned.
In the novel Thunderchild is described as a Torpedo Ram, and while such vessels did exist, her description is more in line with a coastal battleship of that era, although truly no real-life vessels match her perfectly. Drachinifel did a great video breaking this down and designing a plausible HMS Thunderchild
I first learned of 20th Century Monitors reading Doublas Reeman's _HMS Saracen_ .
The Novel follows (iirc) the main character from his introduction to the ship off Gallipoli during WWI to WWII in the Med.
Still for sale on Amazon among others.
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Good book good writer. Just incase you didn't know he also wrote as Alexander Kent.
Thank you for this video 🙏
A lot of new facts about this famous ship ⚓
Video popped up randomly because I watch a lot of Drachinifel. Subscribed.
Now was 12 knots her maximum only for emergency speed, or just her normal cruising speed? Either way when she traveled to places like Singapore it was slow going.
On her trials she got 13.09 knots. Certainly an improvement over Marshal Soult. However, her and Erebus really struggled in the World War Two to keep that speed due to the age of their machinery and some other factors like the additional weight of their refits, especially Erebus.
@@ImportantNavalHistory Erebus undertook a bombardment of Calais on the night of 29 September, 1940, after which she withdrew at her best speed. Eight knots.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 Yep, covered it her video!
Interesting and to me a previously unknown story. Thanks for sharing it.
There was a lot of prostitution on the ship, she was an open secret within the fleet. Man good night's were had aboard and the women were normally seashback ashore very wealthy after 2 weeks, almost certainly being very very sore and dry filled with so much nut butter they would seep for nearly a month.
Sadly the sheer amount of STDs spread both on board and to the rest of the fleecothe admiralty was forced to keep a lid on it, denying all claims
Can you imagine how many creative positions were figured out aboard
@@johnserrano9689 It seems it must have been interesting to be a fly on the wall on that ship.
Corvette Salvia, interesting. Wonder if that thing was constantly becoming one with the scenery and generally feeling terrified.
With all the effort to make big gun monitors, I wonder if British industry could have instead added tracks, and landed these big guns ashore...
Then the guns would have been imobile. Heavy guns on ships can be move to wherever needed.
A valuable ship that seemed to be very useful in a variety of roles. Who needs battleships when you have monitors?
I read the Authobiography of Helmut Mahlke, the Commander of III./StG 1, the unit that sank her. Ironically enough this group had been set up as the Stuka squadron for the Graf Zeppelin originally, with Mahlke himself being a former naval officer. Due to their naval specialization Mahlke's group had been rushed to the mediterranean as one of the first german air units and operated under extremely primitive conditions with minimal supplies at the time
Great Video!
H-M.S. Terror did bombs Sidi Barrani in Egypt and i think also Nibewa, Maktila and Turmann in December 1940, with shells of 350 mm. I remember my grampa told me when he was in Sidi Barrani in 1940.
Thanks 🙏 🇬🇧📚
06:00 A small correction - UC.70 was sunk in the harbour but not destroyed in the June 1917 attack. The Germans were able to refloat it and it was destroyed at sea in 1918.
This is probably an error you picked up from the Crossley source. Despite citing Buxton as the source of the destruction claim, Crossley missed Buxton's footnote that the Germans were able to repair it.
Yes, that pretty much sums it up!
Such heavy naval artillery. You would think it rated two 40 Bofors or two 37 pom poms at least?
A very handy ship for the investment
Interesting.
HMS Terror AND the HMS Erebus? Nothing quite like naming your ships after cursed predecessors that were lost horrifically and tragically.
Erebus ended up being just fine surprisingly enough.
If this was an Honor Harrington novel HMS Terror would perhaps be a graser LAC
my grandad was hms abacrombie at the Balerno landings .
THIS astonishes me! WHO woulda thunk the archaic monitor type would have been built so late or lasted so long! The ship certainly fits that old description of the camel: A horse put together by a committee!
RN Naval at it's Excellent Best in this!
Club terror still exists in the old Singapore naval yard.
I was Christened in Terror while my Dad was serving on the Mull of Kintyre in Singapore in 1965.
@@diogenesegarden5152 Interesting, I stayed in the estate in the 80s, due to FPDA kiwis provost patrol the area..
Hard working 💪 ships 🚢 💪
Fat-bottomed ships check out the torpedo bulges in the HMS Terror 1916 - 1941
likingandcommenting to feed the tube'y'all's algo-deities
She had big bulges 🙂
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Te ror
*One thing I never hear mentioned in any of these docs is that the Somalis were so effective during this fight, Operation Gothic Serpent, because Bin Laden had provided the Somalis with proximity sensors for their RPGs. So, instead of having to actually hit the Blackhawk, they just needed to get close. It made a huge difference in their effectiveness and was what led to the two birds being shot down. Idk why no one ever mentions that. Its pretty important.*
I'm not sure if this poster is just a deranged, self absorbed teenager or an adult on drugs ??? But whatever, it has no relation to the video.
Nothing worse than a bad commentator,!!
I could think of some other things. In this context, AI commentators. So I’ve been told at least. Thanks for commenting :)
Sounds just like a typical Trump Concept Project! 🙄
A Monitor is so. ...comment able.
I am shocked you didnt include anything about the legendary prostitution the ship had, it was THE fleet brothel.
Yes many STDs were spread se ding many men to hospital but other than that it kept the men happy and less horny, cutting down on all the busted bums from bending over in tight quarters infront of men who hadn't had any tang in a year
I’ll be honest, I didn’t necessarily want to include that because it isn’t the most family friendly subject. Try to keep things some things to a minimum. I’ll make a community post discussing it because it is very interesting.