Great video. HMS Audacious launched into the Merseyside where her propellers were nicked overnight and the ship found in the morning chocked up on bricks.
An excellent video, thank you for posting it. I had the privilege of diving on the wreck of the Audacious around 15 years ago, using mixed gas and a rebreather as she’s about 70m deep IIRC. She’s pretty broken up, but one of the sights that will forever remain with me was one of her gun turrets lying upside down on the seabed, having fallen out when she turned over. Those twin 13.5” guns were quite a sight! A chap called Leigh Bishop, a celebrated and pioneering deep wreck diver, took some stunning underwater photos of the wreck a few years before and, once I saw them in one of the dive magazines of the day, I HAD to visit that site. If you Google his name, you’ll soon come across the photos he took of Audacious and that those amazing guns.
Absolutely amazing. That week we also dived on the wreck of the Justicia, another WWI casualty and the Empire Heritage, a merchantman loaded with tanks and trucks that was sunk in WWII with great loss of life. There wasn’t much left of her, but the seabed was absolutely littered with Sherman tanks, diving among them was quite the most surreal experience.
Good story. At least all the crew survived. How unlucky was the sailor on HMS Liverpool. Hit by a piece of metal from about 1/2 a mile away. Crazy odds.
Not an event that I was aware of (which is what you want, of course). Captain Haddock made me laugh ‘cos I’m a bairn - I know. Great video again. Narration is really great. Confident and expressive without sounding mawkish. Great work.
@@TheNorthernHistorian And was, in fact, Tintins side kick. Although the redoubtable Captain Haddock was no-ones side kick in reality. “Billion of blue blistering barnacles!” he would exclaim at the latest egregious twist to the caper.
A tough blow for Britain, losing their very newest battleship so early in the war. Sailors must have cursed mines as the worst - no enemy to fight against. Even with a torpedo there was at least a submarine for your forces to chase.
Thanks for a great video. I like the level of detail you put into other related topics. In this case, it's interesting to see the level to which the media cooperated with the government in the national interest.
Thank you for you very good video . Although I did know about the sinking of the Audacious your take on it gave an awful lot more information to fill in the gaps of what I didn't know . Well researched, well narrated & presented. Thank for all your hard work .
Kinda Ironic that the HMT Olympic the sistership of the largest Ocean Liner lost in war time HMHS Britannic was there to aid the largest Dreadnought lost in the Great War and both large vessels were lost to a mine. Ehh that poor Town class 1910 having a large chunk of metal hitting it's crew from a near mile away is something although tragic as well.
Thank you for producing this fascinating detailed account of another sad incident I knew nothing about. This incident leaves me wondering what happened to the other 198 mines and how long it took us to realise and how they were cleared. I hope the Admiralty then targeted the German Berlin to end its days.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it. The SS Berlin survived the war but was acquired by Britain as war reparations. She was transferred to the White Star Line and sailed as RMS Arabic until scrapped in 1931.
@@TheNorthernHistorian Well thanks for that update, presumably those mines were cleared but sad to hear the Berlin continued laying more during the rest of WWI. At least we got her in the end! Please keep up your series, they really are educational, well presented and highly appreciated.
I think it's weird how mundane disasters can be in real time. The passengers and crew aboard the Olympic would've probably considered this hours' long situation to be quite an adventure, especially the Americans, despite the risk of fatalities. It's like that interview of the passenger couple on aboard Pan Am Flight 843, a plane that miraculously landed safely despite losing about a third of its right wing, a situation where in most cases, the plane would likely crash and kill many, if not all, of its passengers and crew aboard, the couple's calm and collected behavior in that interview, and their recounting of the events, understates the seriousness of the situation that they went through.
She's only example of British super Dreadnought that's exists today, that's free of salvage, because she lies in British home waters, and intact, apart from no bow.
@@splurjioaarmani3205 that's a war grave mod controlled, sorry what i ment to say is British dreads are very rare, guess you could say about HMS barham, but that's war grave too.
Those were the days, when the media had respect for the country during times of national crisis, unlike today where they love to spread doom and gloom and couldn't give a toss about the country. Great video shows how far our society has changed over the last 100 years.
You should go back and check out some headlines from before World War 1 Things weren't as rosy as you think they were Ironically some doom-and-gloom headlines might have been able to prevent World War 1
@@jamesricker3997 Nothing could have prevented WWI short of the Kaiser dying of natural causes as he thought he had more right to the British Throne than King George V given that the Kaisers mother was the 1st born of Queen Victoria, but back then the UK right of sucession was males before females, whereas in Germany it was eldest child regardless of sex.
The British hNavy had the bad habit of sailing with all watertight doors open instead of sealing all compartments and not losing watertight integrity. It was easier to keep the doors open so the data said to facilitate the faster movement of the crew, many ships that are on the bottom are there because their watertight doors could not be closed due to the high volume of water now flooding compartments.
I suspect the distance in metres (730m as stated) is an exact conversion of an observation (guestimate) in cables (4 cables= ⁴/10 Nm~ 800yrd=731m) I understand that from the 1930s surveying, both Admiralty and Ordnance Survey on land used metric scaling ( 1:500 rather than 1:528) though land maps were produced at 1": 1mile until the late 60s. So maps and charts are more easily measured in metres. Charts in 1:50000, 1:100000and 1:150000.
You're confusing Olympic with Britannic, the other sister ship. Britannic was requisitioned into a hospital ship and sank after hitting a mine. Olympic returned to service with White Star Line and sailed through to 1935 before being scrapped.
The design of British battleships and aircraft carriers were flawed, and rarely survived from even relatively minor damage, except for the QE class battleships. American equivalents survived, often having suffered near-mortal damage, as the US Navy had studied why ships sink and had amended their designs accordingly.
Great video. HMS Audacious launched into the Merseyside where her propellers were nicked overnight and the ship found in the morning chocked up on bricks.
Spray painted and sold to he Germans?
Have you been watching police intercepter ?
I have died laughing
An excellent video, thank you for posting it. I had the privilege of diving on the wreck of the Audacious around 15 years ago, using mixed gas and a rebreather as she’s about 70m deep IIRC. She’s pretty broken up, but one of the sights that will forever remain with me was one of her gun turrets lying upside down on the seabed, having fallen out when she turned over. Those twin 13.5” guns were quite a sight!
A chap called Leigh Bishop, a celebrated and pioneering deep wreck diver, took some stunning underwater photos of the wreck a few years before and, once I saw them in one of the dive magazines of the day, I HAD to visit that site. If you Google his name, you’ll soon come across the photos he took of Audacious and that those amazing guns.
That must have been quite a sight to dive down and visit her.
Absolutely amazing. That week we also dived on the wreck of the Justicia, another WWI casualty and the Empire Heritage, a merchantman loaded with tanks and trucks that was sunk in WWII with great loss of life. There wasn’t much left of her, but the seabed was absolutely littered with Sherman tanks, diving among them was quite the most surreal experience.
Good story. At least all the crew survived. How unlucky was the sailor on HMS Liverpool. Hit by a piece of metal from about 1/2 a mile away. Crazy odds.
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Another EXCELLENT documentary. Thanks for sharing your hard work.
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video, all the facts and figures plain and simple.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for that. My great uncle James Pengelly was a shipwright in her sister ship HMS Ajax during WW1, I didn't realise she was there too.
I came for the ship, sub"d for the excellent narration. Thank you sir.
Thanks and welcome
Not an event that I was aware of (which is what you want, of course). Captain Haddock made me laugh ‘cos I’m a bairn - I know.
Great video again. Narration is really great. Confident and expressive without sounding mawkish. Great work.
Thank you so much. (Capt Haddock is the perfect name for a sea captain isn't it?)
@@TheNorthernHistorian And was, in fact, Tintins side kick. Although the redoubtable Captain Haddock was no-ones side kick in reality. “Billion of blue blistering barnacles!” he would exclaim at the latest egregious twist to the caper.
A tough blow for Britain, losing their very newest battleship so early in the war. Sailors must have cursed mines as the worst - no enemy to fight against. Even with a torpedo there was at least a submarine for your forces to chase.
Excellent video again. Thanks for posting
My pleasure!
Thanks for a great video. I like the level of detail you put into other related topics. In this case, it's interesting to see the level to which the media cooperated with the government in the national interest.
I’ve always thought the 13.5” battlewagons were particularly beautiful!
Great video. Beautiful ship. 😢
Excellent summary. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the Naval stuff, please keep it coming 👍🏻💯🇬🇧
Fascinating!!
Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for you very good video . Although I did know about the sinking of the Audacious your take on it gave an awful lot more information to fill in the gaps of what
I didn't know . Well researched, well narrated & presented.
Thank for all your hard work .
You're very welcome!
Kinda Ironic that the HMT Olympic the sistership of the largest Ocean Liner lost in war time HMHS Britannic was there to aid the largest Dreadnought lost in the Great War and both large vessels were lost to a mine.
Ehh that poor Town class 1910 having a large chunk of metal hitting it's crew from a near mile away is something although tragic as well.
Thank you for producing this fascinating detailed account of another sad incident I knew nothing about. This incident leaves me wondering what happened to the other 198 mines and how long it took us to realise and how they were cleared. I hope the Admiralty then targeted the German Berlin to end its days.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it. The SS Berlin survived the war but was acquired by Britain as war reparations. She was transferred to the White Star Line and sailed as RMS Arabic until scrapped in 1931.
@@TheNorthernHistorian Well thanks for that update, presumably those mines were cleared but sad to hear the Berlin continued laying more during the rest of WWI. At least we got her in the end! Please keep up your series, they really are educational, well presented and highly appreciated.
I think it's weird how mundane disasters can be in real time. The passengers and crew aboard the Olympic would've probably considered this hours' long situation to be quite an adventure, especially the Americans, despite the risk of fatalities. It's like that interview of the passenger couple on aboard Pan Am Flight 843, a plane that miraculously landed safely despite losing about a third of its right wing, a situation where in most cases, the plane would likely crash and kill many, if not all, of its passengers and crew aboard, the couple's calm and collected behavior in that interview, and their recounting of the events, understates the seriousness of the situation that they went through.
Could you make a video about the sinking of the HMS Pathfinder (1904)?
She's only example of British super Dreadnought that's exists today, that's free of salvage, because she lies in British home waters, and intact, apart from no bow.
What about HMS Royal oak
@@splurjioaarmani3205 that's a war grave mod controlled, sorry what i ment to say is British dreads are very rare, guess you could say about HMS barham, but that's war grave too.
How unlucky was that Petty Officer on HMS Liverpool?
Those were the days, when the media had respect for the country during times of national crisis, unlike today where they love to spread doom and gloom and couldn't give a toss about the country. Great video shows how far our society has changed over the last 100 years.
You should go back and check out some headlines from before World War 1
Things weren't as rosy as you think they were
Ironically some doom-and-gloom headlines might have been able to prevent World War 1
@@jamesricker3997 Nothing could have prevented WWI short of the Kaiser dying of natural causes as he thought he had more right to the British Throne than King George V given that the Kaisers mother was the 1st born of Queen Victoria, but back then the UK right of sucession was males before females, whereas in Germany it was eldest child regardless of sex.
Interesting.
Excellent quality. Your on your way to drachnifel levels of subscribership
The British hNavy had the bad habit of sailing with all watertight doors open instead of sealing all compartments and not losing watertight integrity. It was easier to keep the doors open so the data said to facilitate the faster movement of the crew, many ships that are on the bottom are there because their watertight doors could not be closed due to the high volume of water now flooding compartments.
Ahh yes the Audatious- jelicoes favourite stationary ship 😊
I am curious where you get the distances, both miles and metres from.
There are various technical data sheets online. I took these from Wikipedia
@@TheNorthernHistorian I was curios as why a statute mile was used and not a Nautical mile. Naval action pretty much always use the Nautical Mile.
I suspect the distance in metres (730m as stated) is an exact conversion of an observation (guestimate) in cables (4 cables= ⁴/10 Nm~ 800yrd=731m)
I understand that from the 1930s surveying, both Admiralty and Ordnance Survey on land used metric scaling ( 1:500 rather than 1:528) though land maps were produced at 1": 1mile until the late 60s. So maps and charts are more easily measured in metres. Charts in 1:50000, 1:100000and 1:150000.
And what there after & today is kept from us as secretive .
You good dude?
Rather ironic that the Olympic was sunk by a mine later in the war.
You're confusing Olympic with Britannic, the other sister ship. Britannic was requisitioned into a hospital ship and sank after hitting a mine. Olympic returned to service with White Star Line and sailed through to 1935 before being scrapped.
Yes, sorry, old age!
I definitely like your Scottish accent. Thumbs up, subscribed.
Scottish ??
So they tried to cover it up.....how typical.....
any comments on the uppercase "L" on the goggle earth pictures. Seems too perfect to be natural but too big to be man made.
Hah! Which if today's new rag would have published and be damned?
It is a shame RMS Olympic was scram she should of been preserve
The design of British battleships and aircraft carriers were flawed, and rarely survived from even relatively minor damage, except for the QE class battleships. American equivalents survived, often having suffered near-mortal damage, as the US Navy had studied why ships sink and had amended their designs accordingly.
The Olympic was actually the Titanic.