A History Teacher Reacts | Extra Credits - Bismarck (Parts 1-2)
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- Mr Terry checks out the first 2 videos from Extra History's series on the Bismarck.
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The series on Otto von Bismarck is one of their best pieces of work, I absolutely suggest it for you to watch.
Oh yes, easily
I thought that was this video for a second. Alas!
@@middler5 Same. Was sad when it wasn't, but this series was good too. I've liked all of their history stuff, so...
Yes, the series about Bismarck the Chancellor is really good.
I do love Justinian and the South Sea Bubble too though
HMS Hood: “Why do I hear boss fight music?”
*Bismarck appears*
8- bit of Bismarck does exist
@@wilholloway2924 What about 16-bit
Is it wrong that as soon as I read your comment Megalovania started playing in my head?
HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS
*fires*
HMS Hood: Why is the boss music classical?
Churchill: Bring me everyone...
The Admiralty: What do you mean everyone-
Churchill: EVERYONEEEEE!!!!!!!!
SplendidFactor
:give me all the bacon and eggs you have
:Hold on I worry what you just herd was “give me a lot of bacon and eggs”
:What I said was give me ALL the bacon and eggs you have
SplendidFactor
Pass me a cigar and a large glass of brandy
it’s funny cause both were portrayed by Gary Oldman
Yep, the ship was named after Otto von Bismarck. And yes, we would love to see you do a reaction video of Extra Credit's Otto von Bismarck videos soon!
A sign of how scared the british were after this incident is the fact that the dedicated an entire fleet just to fights
Bismarck's sister ship Tirpitz
I'm not sure about scared, it was an honour thing. The Hood was the pride of the Royal navy and her loss had to be avenged.
Or it could just be pure rage
@@mjpraetorian4386 judging by the aftermath of Bismarck’s sinking, definitely rage
@@jdog345 yup. Pissed off EVERYONE in the navy. Even the Polish. Look up LazerPig and the video "I am a pole"
One of the most bad ass things ever
@@mjpraetorian4386 actually Lazerpig’s video didn’t even cover half the shenanigans Piorun got up to. Seriously look up her service record, she popped off after Bismarck.
One comment I can leave about the German perspective is that when the battle first began, the admiral of the German fleet didn't open fire. It wasn't until the captain of the Bismarck said "I will not have my ship shot out from under my ass!" did he relent and give the order to shoot.
Gunnery Officer Adalbert Schneider: "Frage Feuererlaubnis?" (Question. Open fire?)
Captain Lindemann: "Ich lasse mir doch nicht mein Schiff unter dem Arsch wegschießen. Feuererlaubnis"!. (I'm not letting my ship get shot out from under my arse. Open fire!).
I love the details. At 14:01 the morse code says: "german ship sighted"
I love that ending.
Just the idea of everyone in the Navy getting one message and all of them turning around to slay the giant at all cost. It gives me chills.
One note, the British DO know that there are only two Bismarck class ships. You can't completely hide a ship like that, especially when your nation lacks natural resources (and overseas colonies). By this time, the RAF would have been monitoring naval production, so there's no way Germany sneaks another one into the war.
Anyway, the Bismarck class included Bismarck (obviously) and Tirpitz. Neither survived the war.
superjawes in fairness they were pretty useless as its idea was basically proved unwieldy in the First World War but Hitler didn’t care, he just wanted to build a symbol of power that was fairly unwieldy and practically useless
@@poggies7639 At least he gave up after building only 4 battleships and focused on U-boats instead.
@@poggies7639 "useless" eh? Look up about the usefulness of Battleships at bombardments in the Pacific.
More uboats? Look at their casualties. If they would've earlier built more submarines, the British would've developed countermeasures faster.
Battleships by the start of WWII weren't useless by far. Only later int he war did CVs overtake the BB.
undertakernumberone1 The U-boats we’re ineffective after the British developed countermeasures, but at the start of WW2 they were devastating, and they never completely lost their effect. If the Germans had more U-boats at the start of the war Britain would be devastated.
Battleships (gunships in general) were on steep decline after the introduction of aircraft carriers, but strategies lagged behind until war forced the change. The problem with big ships is that they’re expensive to build, they consume a ton of oil, and they require long repairs in shipyards if damaged. Carriers can out range big guns and still deliver devastating blows via torpedo and dive bombers, and if you lose a plane, you just get or build another one. That’s a much easier method of conducting naval warfare, and it provides more flexibility.
The final nail in the coffin would come later with missile development, but it’s the same principle, really. A missile can be launched from a much smaller ship, which is good for size-to-power ratios, but also means you lose less if a ship is sunk. It’s better distribution of your naval power.
But also, to keep things in perspective, Germany could not have won the Atlantic by skipping the Bismarck class and going with carriers. Even with the right tools (from postwar analysis), the resources and production aren’t there. The UK and US were just way ahead on that. Even with more U-boats, it’s unlikely to turn the war, and you might just trigger a US entrance sooner.
Here a few line on the view of the germans (everything from my memory, might include mistakes)
Shortly before the Bismarck went on it's first mission, the captain (Ernst Lindemann), popular with the crew, was replaced by Admiral Lütjens, a cold blooded strategist.
With that Lindemann was only second in command. Being captain of the Bismarck since it left the dock for the first time, Lindemann reall loved the ship and took great care of the crew. Lütjens was new to the ship and the sailors weren't really trusting him because of his cold, purely strategic thinking.
Later when they encountered the Hood and Prince of Wales, Lütjens was actually hesitating to open fire as he wanted to follow the Führer's orders strictly, to get to the atlantic unnoticed. As the british ships closed in, he didn't want to open fire. Lindemann finally defied his ordinate and ordered to fire as he was concerend about his ship and crew. That's the reason the british could fire the first shots.
From here on until the end of the Bismarck those two officers would constantly argue one another about the strategy they should apply. I remember Lütjens made a cruicial mistake by giving order to radio mainland france. By that message the british could trace the Bismarck again after losing her for a couple of hours. Might be a mistake though as I am not too certain on that anymore.
And the shot that sunk the mighty Hood was a lucky shot the canon round pierced the armor and entered in the ammo storage with that making the big explosion that broke in two the mighty Hood
@@Yamato-tp2kf Lucky yes, but still the same flaw in the design that got all of Hoods sisters sunk in WW1. They tried to fix it but there is only so much you can do with a flawed desing pricipal. The Hood in her later years was already so far upgraded that the rear deck was basically unusable in anything but the calmest of weathers. Even with waves of just around 1m the movement of the ship caused the rear deck to be submerged.
That is also the reason why the retrofit got postponed because it was so extensive that it was more akin building a new ship than to upgrade.
Some of the plans included:
Upgrading the deck armor (which requires demolishing the entire superstructure and then rebuilding it)
Upgrading the engine (Which involved removing almost everything but the hull
relocating the ammo storages and further reinforcing them (pretty easy considering the two main objectives basically required you to remove them anyways)
improving the steering (to ensure almost full control even if one rudder should fail (Ironically one of the many thinks the bismark failed at and the main reason it sunk)
The aim was to increase armor and safety while decresing weight to bring the armor belt up.
@@AlphaHorst And at the beginning of WW2, there were plans to refit Hood in the Summer of 1940... Unfortunately, that came too late (source : RUclips Channel Drackinifel)
react to Yamato, The Right Ship For The Wrong War
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Defiantly
wasn't the Yamato even bigger than the Bismarck?
@@6666Imperator barley. Lookup the sizes
Yamato, The Right Ship agains wrong country. It would have been perfect ship for invading force to pummel beach defenses. Instead it went against 300 planes vs 1 ship = rip
@@6666Imperator Yamato and her sister ship Musashi were the largest battleships in the world. Both in length and tonnage, they also carried the largest guns in naval history.... but ww2 changed naval warfare from gun boats to carriers.
Not only was the Bismarck named after the statesman, she was launched by his Grand-daughter. The trouble with Norway is that the coastline is incredibly long, but divided into countless fjords - basically sea-flooded mountain valleys. Finding even a battleship in such terrain is extremely difficult - particularly if the fjord you want is obscured by low cloud.
"I wonder if someone got fired for that" I think he had a bad day already dont you? ;)
Got fired UPON, more like.
@@kimarous is that... a kirby version of Yahtzee?
Royal Navy: searches whole Northern Atlantic
Bismarck: goes in a straight line
James Reilly Yeah, even dive-bombing American aircraft from the Battle of Midway had a hard time hitting Japanese carriers on a clear day
Mr Terry seems like not just a chill teacher but a chill person
I suggest watching Extra Credit’s Yi Sun-Shin series
Admiral Yi is such a bad ass. Just an all around good dude off and on the battlefield.
Hey!!!
You stole my recommendation!
He's a legend.
Indeed, and it exemplifies my issues with everyone who wants to do fictional Japanese or eastern stories or fantasy variants.
Everyone always just wants to go with the whole "the east hate guns" nonsense. No. Japan may well have arguably had the best guns in the world for a short period of time, as they were rapid adopters of them, and they rapidly pioneered useful methods of mobile fortifications for using them on land. They of course were well behind when using them at sea, but Korea on the other hand... Well, they were the opposite. They didn't really adopt guns very well for their land army, but they (or at least Yi) were the very first people to use Modern Naval Combat, where you destroy ships from range with your cannons instead of charging in and boarding them or fighting in firearms distances. The Turtle ship was actually a dedicated vessel to be as close to unboardable as possible with guns on all sides, to just be the thing that sails into the middle of the enemy fleet and keeps them pinned in one spot while the rest of your ships then blasted away at them from long range.
That is a _must_ for this guy!
28:40 ...german sailors had lots of respect about this ship...!
...once there was an interview on TV, when one of the last survivers of 'Bismarck' told, that they were motivated during drills by their commanders telling them: "...immagine we're fighting the 'Hood'...!
29:40 ...a 38cm shell weighs ~800kg...!!!
Dude that ending was badass, Churchill had a talent for reinvigorating a seemingly defeated nation
The Bismarck like all battleships, will have a cruiser or a heavy cruiser with them to protect the battleship from destroyers (who are loaded with Torpedos) and other torpedo-capable cruisers, as the Bismarck unlike its sibling the Tirpitz, lacked torpedo capability.
A feared killer of cruisers is other cruisers and especially battleships because of the bigger main guns.
Any shadowing British cruiser had to be very, very careful to not fall into the Bismarck’s sights because those eight 15” (381mm) guns will wreck a cruiser in a NY minute and yet at the same time, not lose contact with the enemy ship. It’s a deadly but necessary game to play.
The royal navy had larger quantities of ships rather than more powerful ships.
The Lion class was never built and the KGV class was already to far along to have the guns changed for 16" pipes so they kept the 14" guns instead.
The Lion were basically an improved KGV class, bigger guns, faster, longer and much bigger in displacement.
The Royal navy had plenty of ships as or more powerful that Bismark. Bismark's main battery was 8 15in guns. The British Queen Elizabeth and Revenge classes totaled 10 ships with the same armament. Hood also had 8 15 inch guns. Nelson and Rodney had 9 16 inch guns. The RN's problem was they had a ton of places they needed their navy to be and the Bismark was faster than most of their ships, which had been build during or soon after WWI. The fast ships they had were either battlecruisers (Renown and repulse had 6 15 inch guns, but nowhere near enough armor to take fire from the same) or the brand new KGV class which was still working up. Once they got Bismark pinned in place Rodney had no problem blasting it into a blazing hulk.
Mr. Terry, I love your reaction videos. Especially since you provide additional knowledge and perceptions. I personally love to listen and then debate my own opinions. Your videos are always referencing the original video (not a lot of You-Tube reactors suggest supporting the original content creator), and your voice is very mellow and passionate. I'll be looking forward to many more reactions to come!! Signed, a fellow History enthusiast.
2 small informations from the German side.
1. at the end of production of the Bismark, german comand rushed the building, resulting that the anti-Air guns wasn't all zeroed in into the new modern aiming System; and the Radar-System of the Bismark wasn't mounted correctly; and the germans underestimated the air power so the crew nerarly had none training in Anti Air defece.
2. at the first encounter with the Norfolk and suthfrok (i think thats the names of the initional first two cruisers of britain) with the first fired volly of Bismark, the front Radar malfunctioned... that was the reason why Prinz Eugen was leading ;)
If you're going to continue with the Extra Credits series, I would suggest the South Sea Bubble series
YES! The birthplace of the Walpole meme!
W a l p o l e
Where is he. I know you are here walpole. Show thoust soul.
The reason why hood only had 3 survivors is because hood sunk so fast that the suction pulled everyone underwater even if they made it out, fortunately a lucky explosion happened underwater that propelled the 3 survivors back to the surface if this lucky break didn’t happen hood would have been lost with all hands
The creew of the hood had no chance of survival after the hit and explosion. The Hood sank in less than 5 minutes. There was basically no time for anyone below deck to escape. and those on the higher levels who managed to get off the ship where dragged down by the incredible sucktion created by such a massive ship sinking so fast. The three survivors only survived because they happened to be caught by an updraft of water catapulting them back to the surface.
There probably where almost no corpses in the water after the sinking.
There were 2 Bismarck Class battleships, the other being called the Tirpitz and it was actually 2000tonnes heavier than the Bismarck due to the fact it had torpedo tubes. The Tirpitz never had the same chance of causing chaos like the Bismarck (the royal air force saw to that and kept it bottled up in Norway) but the mear presence of it (kind of like you said) was enough of a threat to the British that something had to be done about it. The Tirpitz go hammered with bombs and was severely wounded several times to the point that it was beyond repair.
RAF basically dropped a damn buster bomb on it and it went straight the way through.
@@ProjectImperator I never said bouncing bomb....I said a dam buster, that's what they were for as well as the bouncing bomb
RIP Mighty Hood, Johnny Horton did you justice lol
Justin Graves 🎵We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea!🎶
@@danieldavis8228🎵 it was the battle cry that shook the seven seas🎵
mentioning that they were afraid of an entire fleet, i remembered that the bismarck had a sistership, the tirpitz, which also has a very interesting story behind it. you might want to look into that :)
On the channel "Drachinifel
" there is a great video on the hunt for the Bismarck. Its called "Operation Rheinübung - First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck". Its a bit on the longer side but its very insightfull and show a lot of info on the German side as well
Extra History has some amazing series. I would say that the 5 best ones are:
-Otto von Bismarck (One of the most amazing politician to ever walk the earth)
-South Sea Bubble (History's looney toons series about invented wealth)
-Sengoku jidai (Aka how the hell do you end 100 years of endless war)
-Admiral Yi (How to become a legend, change the destiny of your nation and kick the ass of the guys from the title above)
- The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry (math is cool :P)
Also one ep. series are amazingly compressed.
Admiral Yi is still the one that I love the most. It shames me somewhat to admit this, but I never even heard about him despite my love of military history. Granted I spent less time on naval and more with the ground and political side of things, but just how damn good he was and his humble beginnings he should be more well known. Especially with great admirals from the West, his allies, and even his enemies admiring his skill he should be more well known than he is.
WWII is one of my favorite history periods precisely because there is always so much more to know. Literally b@tsh*t weapon ideas, massive fronts filled with heroes and villains, and countless more in between, a world being redefined and literally reshaped, and many a moral lesson to take forward with us.
By villains what do you mean. Coz if you mean ordinary Nazi soldiers or Italian soldiers then I say there far from villains or do you mean people who actively took part in crimes and war crimes
@@A2pattingPod042 I would assume he means the latter hopefully. Just like in any type of conflict, there's gonna be some messed up individuals that take advantage of it or go to far, on any side of any conflict I'm sure.
I absolutely love the Dogfights version of the hunt for Bismarck and the battle off Samar. Excellent videos on naval battles.
medical crew: so how many survivors are there?
HMS Hood: three, take it or leave it
Very interesting. I've read and seen about the hood Vs Bismarck, but some bits here I didn't know previously (my interest tends more towards the aviation than the naval or ground conflicts, but in general it is all fascinating).
The auto van Bismarck series is absolutely amazing. They did a great job really digging into his past even his childhood and apparently he was quite the ladies man in his early areas. I’m gonna have to join your patron so that way I can actually vote on the videos because I am now becoming a huge history buff because of your channel, extra credits, and oversimplified. Incidentally if you happen to read this I’m doing talk to text while driving because I like to listen to your videos like there a podcast sometime so if there’s any irregularities in this it’s because it’s talk to text
28:30 there is one funny story from Bismarcks perspective her operation was deemed so important that Hitler ordered an admiral to be aboad her (note while an admiral would be in charge of the mission the ship itself is still under the command of the captain) and her mission was not to fight the royal navy, it was to sink merchant convoys, as such when hood and prince of Wales opened fire admiral leuchen refused to return fire for several minutes until captain Lindiman had had enough and yelled "I will NOT have my ship shot out from under my ass" and ordered return fire.
As far as I know there isn't much information about the exact situation of the German ships during the battle, since the mission of the Bismarck was kind of a top secret operation, which is probably why Extra Credits decided to put a heavy focus on the British perspective.
you know... wrongly. Pick up Niklas Zetterlings book on the Bismarck. It features extensive records from Both the British and German PoV
They'd probably think you're a Nazi if you wanted to hear about the German side considering their recent controversy
Know you've already done 2 but ALL of Sabaton is worth a listen if you want to hear cool history stuff
On the subject of naval battles from this video, Wolfpack would be a good one for him to react to
I don't know about all of Sabaton... But a lot of it is certainly relevant. Especially their last three albums (Heroes, The Last Stand and The Great War).
@@Crazael also the art of war.
bismarck: *fires*
The Shell: Hit Hood in the middle
Mighty Hood: WE Cant Sink We are unsink- *exploded*
Bismarck: ez
Kriegsmarine: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sabaton did a great take on the song, however I have known Bismarck before Sabaton ever released it, yet I still don't get much details about it. And I know Extra Credits did Bismarck before Sabaton ever made it. So it was great of you to do EC's Bismarck to know it more. Great story, probably deserving a movie of it's own.
My Grandfather was an Engineer working at Bloom and Voss in Hamburg 1935-1940. He was helping to develop the mounting for the new fire control radars that would be on Bismarck and Tirpitz. A week after the Launch of Bismarck he joined the ship as one of its Engineering Officers. He kept good notes and passed on a lot of stories. If your still interested in the German prospective Id be happy to tell you what I know.
It was named after otto von Bismarck. There was Also 2 of them, the Bismarck itself and the turpitz
Wow didn’t know you did extra history I like their Chanel and I’m glad you review them
Wow thx for the heart I appreciate it
In regard to how quickly the Hood blew up, it is now known that the shot that ended her was an incredibly lucky one. Of course it didn't help that crews aboard Battleships/cruisers would keep the door to their ammunition open against regulation so they could have a quicker rate of fire. The reason for this was that many thought that if they could get their shots off quicker before the enemy did then it could save the ship by ending the threat before it had chance to strike, of course it didn't end too well for Hood.
"would keep the door to their ammunition open against regulation so they could have a quicker rate of fire." you'd think they've learned after Jutland... Back then the British BCs were stuffed with cordite charges for rapid fire (the brits response for their abysmal hit rate at Dogger Bank)... which caused a lot of kablooey in those thin skinned ships.
The germans meanwhile decided to secure their ammo better after Dogger Bank and their BCs were better armored.
I've read that one historian suggests that Jutland would've been far worse for the Royal Navy if the Hochseeflotte had decided to also maximize RoF
21:38 The crew would have slept in hammocks, rather than beds. And, for extra fun, one of the things on Hood's to-do list for a refit was to fix the steam systems, which provided heat and hot water to the mess decks. Or at least, they were supposed to, but they hadn't been working so well at that function the past few years.
Worth remembering, Hood isn't really a battleship; it was designed as a battlecruiser, and got uparmoured during construction.
*Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel*
*Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean*
he was made to rule over the seven seas
The admiralty: "Prime minister! They have sunk the Hood!"
Churchill: * sigh * "Admiralty... bring me everyone"
The Admiralty: "What do you mean, everyo-"
Churchill: *"EVERYONEEEEEE!"*
Most Wanted reference ? I hope it is lol
one of the main factors why not many more crew members got fished out was because the prince of whales, badly damaged, had to flee the battlefield. It couldn't sit there and recover the stranded crew while being shot at by both Prinz Eugen and Bismarck.
This is one facet of naval war one needs to keep in mind. If your ship sinks, there's no guarantee any other ship around will be able to fish you out of the water. Battlefield conditions may not allow for it.
Pow got some important hits on bismark, including hitting a fuel oil tank.
This meant bismark couldnt go full speed and also had to find a dock to reapir and refuel, this is why she had to run for france
Actually Bismarck ran for France cuz they knew they were getting tracked by the British and breaking out into the atlantic would be suicide. Which is why they dispatched their heavy cruiser Escort to convoy Raid whilst they went back to France
@@neptunenorberg9259were both right
even surviving in that water for an hour is a massive feat in itself.. the water out there in early spring/spring can kill in minutes.
13:48 I think a more accurate guess could be that the commander of the Bismarck did not think ships were near/if the Bismarck’s position was know or it had been known it was in a certain area. Therefore the guns were not loaded and fire controls were prepared and could not get a shot off in time. The reason why I think this makes senses is when the second British ship comes bow to bow with the Bismarck. The Bismarck fires since at that point general quarters would have been called so the guns were ready. Just a thought
keep in mind, Hood had her magazine blow similar to Arizona, most of the crew was likely vaporized or otherwise blown up
Also, even though more people may have made it out then one might realize, an hour in the freezing waters of the straight probably sent a lot of men under waiting for rescue.
From a german perspective: Well, we have 1 good battleship, 1 more in contruction, and 2 not-so-good BBs. 4 in total. And the ënemy (British Royal Navy) has 5 good battleships (including Prince of Wales), 8 not-so-good battleships, 2 smaller battlecruisers and 1 big battlecruiser (Hood), so in total, it is 3 capital ships VS 16 capital ships, and I did not include any of the British aircraft carriers into this comparsion.
When a ship blows up, the explosion ruptures the ship´s bulkhead, and the fireball comes not only up through the deck, but also through the corridors inside the ship. It doesnt matter where you are, if you are aboard when the ship blows up, you are very unlikely to survive.
When the battlecruiser HMS Indefatigable blew up during battle of Jutland (1916), there were only 2 survivors. When another battlecruiser HMS Invincible blew up during the same battle, there were only 6 survivors and when another battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary blew up, there were only 9 survivors.
So when those 4 battlecruisers blew up, there were only 18 survivors in total out of cca 4700 sailors. That means you have cca 0,4% chance to survive such explosion.
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qwertyuiopzxcfgh it ain’t much, but it’s honest work
@@theholyhay1555 lol
I wanna disagree with what the wargaming military expert said. Yeah the Prince of Wales' guns were 14in but people tends to forgot that the British superecharged both the propellant and bursting charges so that they could do the same performance as the 15in.
But the propellant was highly enflammable, unlike the one the Germans used, and it was probably the reason the fire in the ammunition-chamber of the Hood could spark that fast to the point that the other stored ammunition exploded. Well that's at least what wikipedia says.
29:32 “yeah old on a min, I’m just gonna have a quick heart attack”- that guys face
I am always getting teary hearing about the heroism and despair that sailors have to face in naval battles.
I really enjoy the video on the Bronze Age collapse
The game Atlantic Fleet does a good job showing the Battle of Atlantic. You can also replay real-life battles, including the Denmark Straight (as either side). It’s totally possible to win as the Hood. But the dynamic campaign is the star. Each side has a different goal. Germany must find and sink British shipping in the Atlantic. If they can sink a certain amount of tonnage before D-Day, they win. Alternatively, Britain must protect shipping and destroy German ships and u-boats. They can win by either lasting until D-day or sinking enough German tonnage. Battles are turn-based, so you have all the time in the world to line up your shots using the ranging estimates provided by radar and spotters (or just radar if at night). The game is available on PC and mobile.
Each side can also have battleships that were never built, like the British Lion class and the German H-39 class
The Bismarck was also referred as a “he”, rather than a she. One of the other naval vessels to be
fyi there is a national geopraphic special about the hunt for wreck of the bismarck which was produced in the 1988-1992 timeframe
32:56 The Germans had commissioned a 2nd Bismarck-class battleship called Tirpitz (named for Imperial German Navy Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz) whose armor was even better than that of Bismarck. It didn’t have a grand voyage through the Atlantic like Bismarck b/c of Bismarck’s sinking and the St. Nazaire Raid, but throughout the war, the British launched over 25 attacks on her using naval and air forces. On September 22, 1943 while anchored at Kaafjord, she was disabled by mine attack from midget submarines during Operation Source. On April 3, 1944 at Kaafjord, she got pounded by 15 bombs from Royal Navy Barracuda dive-bombers during Operation Tungsten, including a 1600-lb armor-piercing bomb that had penetrated into her main magazine, but failed to detonate. Finally the RAF decided to roll out the big guns and brought out 5 metric ton “Tallboy” earthquake bombs delivered by Lancaster bombers. While anchored at Kaafjord, she was hit and disabled by a direct hit on September 15, 1944 during Operation Paravane, and finally, during Operation Catechism on November 12, 1944, Tirpitz met her end at the hands of the RAF with 2 Tallboys both fore and aft
SINK THE BISMARK
SINK THE BISMARK
SINK THE BISMARK
Pride of a nation
A beast made of steel!
(Sabaton - Bismarck)
Bismarck in Motion,
King of the Ocean
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas!!!
23:57 “Somebody probably got fired for that.”
I, um. I guess you could say that, yeah.
Their series on the Irish potato famine is pretty great
I highly recommend “Operation Rheinübung - First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck” by Drachinifel for a more detailed look at this. He did it from both perspectives, jumping back and forth between German and British perspective. It is a bit long, but very good.
Bismark was one of two ships in her class built, the other being Tirpitz, as said in the video British Intel had been building files on these two ships and knew exactly how much of a threat they posed, Bismark was to destroy the Atlantic convoy system, and Tirpitz was to be sent east to strangle the Russian supply lines.
the admiralty knew this mission was do or die, if Bismark slipped past the Denmark straight and into the open waters of the Atlantic where he could be supplied by fuelling ships and tender boats then the war was lost, it was that simple, the convoy system had absolutely no hope of defending itself against the Bismark.
i honestly think Bismark was doomed no matter what, the royal navy simply could not allow Bismark to exist, one way or another he had to be stopped, otherwise the war was over.
Out from the mist a shape, a ship is taking form...
Wait... wrong video.
And the silence of the seas about to drift into a storm
“I wonder if someone got fired for that.”
Poor form, Mr.Terry! 😂
Didn't know Eugene sailed with Bismarck.
I think they meant Otto von Bismarck
They 100% did. It's a fact
Yeah, I am pretty sure they did...
@@endersdragon34 they did
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Ship with a party blower and hat in front of a triple layer patriotic cake with a candle on it.
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Bismarck in a bottle
Edit: realised merchandise potential for navy museums: warships in a bottle
There is a books called Battleship Bismark: A survivor's story by BarronMullenheim-Rechberg who was the highest ranking survivor. I haven't read it yet (its on my list after Battle of Midway and Killing the Bismark).
For the german perspective, they were actually under direct orders not to engage british warships, but to try to disengage and escape. The captain of the Bismark made the decision to start shooting back with a statement of something along the lines of "I will not have my ship shot out from under me!"
Dan Carlin's hardcore history on this is really interesting. He mentions that Britain investigated why its ships were so vulnerable. One of the aspects was in order to shoot the massive guns you need powder kegs. This were stored below and had to be put on an elevator to load them. Thinking this took to long the sailors were storing them up near where they were more readily available to reload faster. In doing so they pretty much made it so when the Germans hit that area with a shell it would ignite all the powder kegs, blowing the ships into pieces.
Also keep in mind that many of the initial survivors of the hood would have frozen or pulled under as when the battleship sunk it would have displaced so much water that it created a suction which just brings people down. No matter how good of a swimmer you are you will struggle.
If you're still interested about "Sink the Bismarck" I suggest to watch Potential History's version.
Or Drachinifel's version for German perspective on the whole thing.
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The brits seeing the Hood sink must have felt like seeing the best guy in class struggle in the exam
By the way, there is another one. Tirpitz is Bismarck's sister ship. He'll stay afloat till 1944, mainly by being protected in heavily fortified harbors and only making small rapid raids against supply fleets from the western allies to the Soviet Union.
A picture of Prinz Eugen and Bismarck
Admiralty needs you to find the difference between these two ships
HMS HOOD: They're the same ship
magazine explosions basically turn the entire ship into a gun barrel with VASTLY more gas pressure than any metal could possibly withstand. the entire ship basically goes pop like an 860 foot long balloon!
When a ship like the hood sinks I forms a vacume like current above the boat. The water will circle around the boat pulling everyone and thing towards it. So your only chance of survival is getting away of the ship before it goes under. Maybe if you holding on to a rope from another ship you might survive but otherwise you are screwed. Add in the cold stormy water like Mr. Terry said and it makes for poor survival situations.
Not sure If i am The only one to mention this. There was one More ship like Bismarck in europe and that was her sister ship Terpitz that was sunk around a Norwegian fjord.
I read somewhere that the Bismark was very surprised to sink the hood, thinking it would take many salvos. There were no celebrations though, destroying a large ship was often quite a sad experience, often having 1000-2000 people on board, possibly hearing and seeing them die. Opposing countries I think would still offer condolences often after the sinking of a large ship due to the lifes lost in one instance and the huge cost involved also. But war is war and ship battles often ended with "and then they surrounded it and shot 100 shells into it" very brutal, extremely hard to surrender a large ship.
if you watch a series called Wartime Farm where you have historians living in wartime conditions on Manor Farm near Southampton (the farm being as it was in 1941) you begin to understand the strains and pressures the people back then went through just to keep the country from starving. Add to this the fact Britains agriculture was in a massive decline after the first world war and you soon see what a struggle it was
Researching the Bismarck is incredibly interesting. The Bismarck class of ships were massive, powerful, and out of date. Capital ships slugging it out over long distances while still used off an on throughout the war was a tactic of a bygone era. Expensive to produce, equip and man, battleships were more political symbols of Naval power rather than actual Naval power itself. Most combatants of the second world war would attempt to avoid contact between large Battleships because of the political impact the sinking of a Battleship could bring. You are absolutely right in saying that German naval strategy was behind. Admiral Erich Raeder was the one who convinced Hitler of the importance of large Battleships. I doubt that was a very hard task most WW2 buffs know Hitler had a near obsession with building large symbols of German power like battleships, giant tanks, massive artillery guns, just very impractically large weapons. While Raeder knew aircraft carriers existed and could be useful he massively underestimated they’re importance and believed that large Battleships were still the best Naval strategy available. Bismarck was one of the most advanced and powerful battleships ever made and yet it was the wrong kind of ship at the wrong time.
There is a Book I read as a Child. It is written in German and has the date 1950 in it, so I assume the remembrance is quite fresh and close to the truth. It reports the German perspective of the Operation Rheinübung. For the battle of the Denmark strait the book reports (if I remember correctly) that the first reaction aboard the Bismarck about the detonation of HMS Hood was a very calm „Hood got sunk. Shift target.“ (or similar reaction). My father gave me the book, it still exists. I can look up that part in detail if you are interested. Or anything other about the German perspective of hunt for the Bismarck.
Off topic but I just noticed you have 2 what looks like Baki (Anime) Pop Vinyls in your background. Mad respect, that anime is nuts.
From what I understand, depending on what changes you make to the designs, modernizing an old warship can be far more expensive that building from the ground up.
Bismark sister ship Tipritz was built but undergoing armament at the time - would be launched the following year. It would be difficult to hide the construction of major warships due to the limit on possible facilities/locations so they had reasonable confidence of how many ships of the Bismark class there were.
The bigger issue is that the Bismark, once in the Atlantic, could rebase to western France making it near impossible to monitor or assail her and giving the Germans a foundation for a formidable Atlantic surface fleet
I an late on this but there was a show called Dogfights, they focus on aerial battles but they have a few episodes that talk about ship battles. This is relevant because they have a episode in their season 1 called “Hunt for the Bismarck”. They have perspectives of both sides in this as they do in many of their episodes that they can do. It is a shame they only have 2 seasons but I enjoyed it as a history nerd.
That is correct the Bismarck ship is named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
The Bismarck was based on the design of the WW1 era Super Dreadnought battleship SMS Bayern. The reason for Prinz Eugen being in front of Bismarck was due to the encounter between bismarck and the 2 British cruisers HMS Norfolk and HMS Suffolk in the Denmark strait. When the Bismark opened fire with the main battery, the vibrations from the blast knocked out her forward radar so he could not see forward so switched with the Prinz Eugen so their radar would guide the Bismarck.
Hey! I recommend this on the Bismarck sabaton video!
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The interesting thing about the German perspective of the battle of the Denmark strait is that they were fully aware of Hoods reputation. Many of the sailors on board Bismarck were scared to face her in combat and the German reaction to the battle is a mix of joy and shock. Not nearly as shocked as the British but there was a general feeling of "wait, we did that?"
My favourite story in world war is that of the greatest raid of all. The commando attacks on the dry docks of St nazaire the intention was to deny ships like the Bismarck and tirpitz a safe harbor in the Atlantic. It was an absolutely insane full of absolutely insane people that was an absolutely insane success. I would highly recommend the Jeremy Clarkson documentary about it.
My ancestors have fished the North Atlantic for centuries (specifically on the Grand Banks and the mouth of the Labrador Straight). It wasn't uncommon for fishermen and sailors to not bother learning to swim, because death from hypothermia comes unbelievably fast once you go overboard. Many seafarers died after being in the water for less than a minute. If a vessel was lost that far north, then it was VERY common for it to be lost with all hands.