HMS Hermes - The First Aircraft Carrier (By Design)
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- A twisting tale of redesigns and revisions, HMS Hermes barely missed out on being both the first aircraft carrier designed as such and commissioned as such. As it is, the Japanese carrier Hosho narrowly beats her out on commissioning date.
Nonetheless, by the time her winding design process was complete, Hermes exhibited all the classic 'aircraft carrier' design features. A full-length flight deck, a starboard side island, the whole nine yards.
It's a shame that she was arguably outdated the moment she entered service, though.
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First time we didn’t accidentally build an aircraft carrier.
Hermes was with a task force under Rear Admiral Boyle that raided two villages in Bias Bay on 22 Mar 1927. The Newcastle Sun (NSW) Friday 25 March 1927. Other ships were Forbiser, Delhi, Marazion, and Foxglove.
On Thursday, Mar 24, the New York Times also reported on British planes bombing a pirate base at Bias Bay.
H.M.S. HERMES, despite the gigantic tripod mast, was a beautiful aircraft carrier.
Well done. This was a very important ship in Naval history. It was also very beautiful.
It seems we'll all have to wait for more details on "Aircraft Carrier versus Pirates" in the future. Looking forward to your "shipwreck Sunday" feature on Hermes!
Just love the decoy aircraft carrier 🙂 nowadays the decoy would be far too expensive. RN is a tiny shadow of former self
It amazes me, considering the size of a modern carrier, that this and similar prototype carriers were so small as to be comparable to a moderate\average sized ocean liner of the same time.
But, I must say, I LOVE a lot of those bizarre (by our time), wildly-varying profiles. Just something you'd NEVER see in a port ANYWHERE today. But it makes them unique and special.
Yet ANOTHER Superb Video. How amusing to see the Aircraft-shaped Elevators, and WHY the `Pointy` Flight Deck (in common with many early Carriers)? A worthwhile Ship in an evolving technology, lost in a Darwinian Process. Didn`t know about `Ersatz` Hermes so cheers for that, and credit to HMAS Vampire of the `Scrapiron Flotilla` - Where`s RV Petrel?
Stretching the term "front line aircraft", by WW2, HMS Hermes could still carry front-line aircraft, i.e. Swordfish. IJN carrier Hosho could not carry front-line aircraft (Zeros, Vals, and Kates), but steamed with the "Main Body" at Midway to do scouting duties. After Midway she became a training carrier.
Always had a soft spot for hermes. I'll look forward to the follow up video.its on my bucket list to dive 😊
Brave chaps. 👍🏻🏴
Great video one of my all-time favourite ships.
The old girl certainly had an interesting life.
Great vid Skynea, poor Hermes.
HMS Hermes was the only RN CV to be sunk by naval aviation.
Very true, but it helped that the Royal Navy stayed away from the one Axis fleet that actually had a strong naval aviation component (the Empire of Japan), and only came in AFTER the US Navy had done the bloody work of breaking the back of the Japanese Navy.
This is NOT an insult to the Royal Navy, mind. It was not the Royal Navy admirals that determined the Royal Navy would NOT send a major force to the Pacific to fight Japan until well into 1944. British and American politicians determined that the Royal Navy would focus on the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, and that is why the Royal Navy's modern carriers generally never got close to Japan's carriers while the latter was fresh and strong.
It would be interesting to see how well the Royal Navy would have done if it had been the primary opponent of Japan in the Pacific starting in 1942, rather the US Navy. However improbable, there was always a chance that the politicians decided to have the USA do the heavy lifting in the Atlantic instead, freeing the Royal Navy to send its Atlantic assets to the Pacific instead.
Good Point - maybe the `missing` AA would have helped, Repulse and POW TOO? Poor old Vampire.
Armoured Flight Deck and Hurricane Bow? What say you Halsey? Oops, YOURS was a Typhoon, MY BAD, Wrong Ocean! @@genericpersonx333
@@genericpersonx333 HMS Victorious was lent to the US navy when the damaged Enterprise was needing to be withdrawn for repairs. She joined up with Saratoga but fortunately the Japanese were also in a period where they had exhausted themselves, also you have to remember that when Japan entered the war the RN had been at war for 2 1/4 years already and had lost the three best pre war carriers and had two of the new armoured carriers under repair in US yards.
Funny thing is if WW1 went on for a few more years. People might have seen the power of an aircraft carrier during WW1. Rather than WW2. Not in a big display of power. Just catching the eye of forward thinking people at the time.
The tripod mast looks like it came off of a battleship.
Poor Hermes, sent to sea with no aircraft on board and no escort to speak of in enemy infested waters. So many killed. Unbelievable.
That is what happens when arrogant people go to war. British politicians overestimated what the Royal Navy could do and underestimated what the Germans, Italians, and Japanese could do, thus putting the Royal Navy into a war far too big for the fleet size they had been allowed by those very politicians for decades. British sailors and admirals alike did their best to keep up, but they just didn't have the ships to be properly supporting each other, and the Japanese especially were good at exploiting that.
And now, they're back to the double island ! What goes around comes around ! 😂
Could you just imagine being a pirate on the open seas in 1920's1930's. And have never even heard the name aircraft carrier. Now it's hunting you down 😂
So, was the Ersatz Hermes just supposed to be a decoy, or was it intended for some other purpose?
A decoy.
You should use some images from Rex Morgan's 'The Hermes Adventure' Runciman Press 1985. His father was aboard Hermes when she was sunk and took a series of images from her flight deck as she went down. They are in Ch IX 'The Sinking' On P.27 a marine landing against a pirate village in Bias bay is recorded (not an aerial attack) but the village was deserted except for some old women and the village pigs, none of whom told the RN landing party anything!
Now l know where the Japanese got their "pagoda" style supetstructures on there battleships.
Scale 1/8 = one foot 🤯 Yeah I really have hard time understand how somebody can bulit something like this in imperial. 😂