The allure of Chieftain's content: you know he researched the subject down to the last detail. Always my favorite videos no matter if it's about tanks, ships or his own car.
@@ZoidFile Dead on - this was like listening to a teacher reading out of an approved history book - Drachinifel is the place to go if you really want excellent Naval History
@@slartybartfarst55 Just because he sounds like he is reading out of a history book doesn't mean he hasn't done the proper research. Cut the guy some slack. I always like listening to Chieftain.
My Grandad served on the HMS Bellona which covered the carriers in the July 1944 raids before it went off to raid the German shipping in the channel again and then later protected the Arctic convoys.
If he still lives, please convey thanks for his efforts from a 35yo in Sweden who's grandfathers both would have been high probability casualties in case of german invasion, one was a hydro power plant manager, the other called to service as a staff officer's driver.
Her armor was then cut up and sold as target pieces, a lot of it ended up with Bofors and the armed forces R&D/procurement bureau (FMV) in Sweden where it contributed to the development, specifically, the penetration tests of HEAT and APFSDS munitions of various types for the coastal artillery and the army. One piece of a few hundred kg with multiple HEAT and kinetic penetrator impacts sits in a small museum in the town of Hässleholm. Another piece of similiar size sits in the WW2 museum at Narvik in Norway.
@@zaizenz7262 the museum in Narvik is much better funded by the Norwegian govt. and actually tells stories from the war and mpre while the Hässleholm museum is run by volounteers on mostly donations and ticket fees, resulting in what mostly looks like a depot of running condition obsolete military vehicles and tanks with info signs, some display sets with mannekins, a few model tables, the retired vehicles of the local fire brigade throughout the 20th century and some really nice condition historical horse carriages and carts. The fire engines and horse carts run by two volounteer organisations, and the military by two others, one for the armored and one for the soft skins.
@@hertzair1186 scrapped. Supposedly there is still parts of the wreck to be found if you dive in the area and it's quite accessible since it's at a pretty shallow depth. But there are strong underwater currents in the area do diving there without guide is not advisable. Most of what's left is also covered by sand. Still, walking around the area can yield some treasures. I have friends who has both uniforms and old shell casings in their inventory, as well as cutlery and porcelain found aboard during the scrapping or while diving.
@@JohnDiabol The firm that bought for 120 00kr, the scrap rights to the ships was "Høvding Skipsopphugging". My best friend's girlfriend is a decendant of the owner, and the family has all sorts of interesting items, from cutlery to china to cigars, from the wreck. The armour plates of the battleship stil do service in construction and road projects, in many ways KMS Tirpitz fiercest enemy are the Oslo Trams who "overrun" her many times yearly! ;)
but from german perspective, that would be more epic, because they lose in the end. but It would have to be a "unpolitical" movie ( no hate against every german, only against nazis )
Thank you Chieftain for another superb video. What struck me, as a now retired US Navy naval officer that served aboard two different types of aviation warships, ( the LPH-7, and the CV-62) was the "fear of a British aircraft carrier" by the German high command back in 1941. They were correct to fear the aircraft carrier. For more than 75 years now it is the aircraft carrier that rules the seas. Please keep up your good work!
Am I the only guy who actually prefers the Tirpitz over Bismarck? For me Tirpitz instilled a true sense of fear among the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy as a battleship should do, to draw that much attention from Britain for simply being present at Norway clearly tells the threat she presented. She also lived a rather invincible service life, despite taking serious damage from various attacks she didn’t sink until her final demise in November 1944. Tirpitz also possessed a number of updates such as heavier AA armament and new radar systems. She was also a beautiful art gallery with all the lovely dazzle camouflage patterns she was painted in during her life! For this she is my favourite battleship, up there with HMS Vanguard. I’ve bought a 1/350 model kit by Revell to build a accurate model of this magnificent ship!
Another key point about tirpitz, that is missed from the reasons for not deploying into the atlantic was that the british launched their first major commando raid against the docks in normandy specifically to knock out the only port in the area that was large enough to service tirpitz.
@@Christoff1996 I believe that was the one but can never commit the name to memory so would have to check. The one where they sailed an old american ship dressed up as a german one into the dock with a large bomb in the ships nose.
Andrew Shaw Yeah that was the St. Nazaire raid in 1942, they sailed in on and old ex US destroyer called HMS Campbeltown with fake German Markings to ram the gate of the dock, then the explosives in the ship’s hull detonating the next morning, putting the dock out of action for the rest of the war.
Good video and well presented. I knew of some of the attacks on Tirpitz in great detail, but most only from lists. It was good to hear about all of them in as much detail as is practicable in 30 minutes.
My grandmother watched Tirpitz get bombed on one occation in Kåfjord. She also told me that the noise from her main guns was extremly loud, after the ship had a test of the gunbatteries.
I love this Historical Things. I watch 100rts of dokumentarys and films. I wrout A over A in the School About thos Topics. Nice Video. PLS more of them
@@ivvan497 Yes she kinda did, in her own Event called "Scherzo of Iron and Blood" (and the event was really fantastic). But the Events are some Mirror Sea/Alternativ Timeline and you can optain Bismarck via gacha drop. So she is sorta alive in your Base you could say.
There’s a few photos of the tirpitz capsized and a few of it being scrapped after the war. I’m surprised there wasn’t more photos of the ship during the scrapping process.
Paul Hudson exactly! Not sure which ship this fellow is looking for but no one will ever find Tirpitz because it is gone. There are only small pieces left here and there but that’s hardly a ship.
At one point I caught an interview with one of the bomb aimers from one of the Tallboy attacks. By that time they had issued the Tirpitz 15 inch shells with time delayed fuses. So they could assist with the attacks by the heavy bombers. He was discussing what it was like to see the 15 inch shells coming in his approximate direction. Though personally I am not too sure if that is actually possible. But he would have been able to see the main guns firing at him. The 15cm guns were also supplied with time delay fuses.
If the buffs will be like the nerfs to the Kremlin than it won't matter at all, you get it? Because they nerfed Kremlin alpha by 1k and fire chance.... Like seriously they'll buff tirpitz hydro range right?
Wrong. The sortie against PQ8 and PQ12 was not Tirpitz's first combat sortie. In September 1941, Tirpitz along with the Admiral Scheer, some destroyers and torpedo boats, and every operational light cruiser in the navy were sent to patrol the Aaland Islands with orders to engage and destroy the Soviet fleet should it decide to attempt to escape Leningrad. However, while the German "Baltenflotte" was at sea, the Russian fleet was attacked and badly damaged by the Luftwaffe, ensuring that there would be no break-out attempt.
I think that opening summary of Bismarck is a little misleading, making it sound like it required all of 2 battleships and 2 heavy cruisers to sink, but much like the Chieftain's remarks about how many Shermans it took to kill a cat, the RN wasn't interested in sinking Bismarck with as few units as possible. After being knee-capped by an antiquated biplane, Rodney alone likely could have sunk the German Battleship after her main advantage of speed and manoeuvrability was taken away.
@@arsarma1808 That wasn't the point I was making. I was just objecting to someone as well read as the Chieftain seemingly perpetuating (whether intended or not) the same old theme of eggagerating the power of these WW2 German battleships, that we get enough of in dumbed down documentaries on the history channel. While Bismarck could well have sunk Rodney too, I wouldn't have given her favourable odds in doing so. Especially as King George V later proved that an arguably better armoured in similar layout (albeit, worse armed) battleship could be sunk by a ship with less firepower. I am probably a bit biased but I do think that ships like Hood are a unfairly maligned where as Bismarck gets more praise than is really due. Her achievements really boil down to sinking a knackered 20 year old battlecruiser, in return for sustaining mission critical damage, then fails to shoot down a single biplane and takes mobility critical damage, then within a few minutes of her final engagement she takes a critical hit to her offensive capabilities. Not the most impressive result from the first action of a new battleship, and especially one that was so oversized (~20%) over the treaty limits of contemporary battleships.
@@sergarlantyrell7847 if Rodney hadn't of closed it's range and fought Bismarck at it's strongest (close up due to it's turtle back armour scheme which is different to KGV's) Bismarck more than likely would have ended it's life in the same way Hood did. believe it or not, Bismarck really didn't have that much more armour than Hood, but it's guns and aiming systems were significantly better...if Hood had it's upgrades then it wouldn't have gone down so easily (if at all) but yeah...shoulda coulda woulda... and I do agree with what you've said that Bismarck does get talked up far too much and the British ships aren't talked up at all... also KGV had a much heavier broadside than Bismarck even though it's shells were smaller.
"Operation Rheinübung" Nearest pronunciation using English sounds would be: Operation Rhine U-boong (but the 'U' without the 'you' sound and the 'boong' rather brief)
Very well told,but we all expect that now i suppose from Chieftain,even when you know the story and aftermath its one of those battles that just gripes you and douse not let go...ATB SNAFU
It's a pity the 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb was not in service at this time, 1 hit from one of those and that would have finished the ship off for sure. I also read somewhere that the craters created by the near misses of the Tallboy bombs contributed to the Tirpitz capsizing, but don't know how true this is.
Bikes02 Jup read that as well that near misses had so much power that they capsized the Ship and the ship did not sink very fast many sailors survived inside the bow and drown horribly as the ship sunk slowly.
ive seen the Tallboy bombs IRL, those bombs are no jokes, and they didnt just contributed to the capsizing, they WERE the cause for Tirpitz capsizing...
To prevent the ship from capsizing the Germans had built underwater sandbanks around the ship’s hull so even if she was hit she would remain above water, unfortunately the tallboy bombs that landed close to the ship destroyed these protective sandbanks which left nothing to prevent Tirpitz from rolling over which she proceeded to do. So indeed the near misses did contribute to her capsizing.
Didn't the other Kriegsmarine ship crews joke calling Tirpitz the nick name "The Tirpitz Hotel" Plus British Commandos made Tirpitz stuck in the Norway fjords by the attack raid at St Nazaire by blowing up knocking out the only dry dock large enough on Europe's west coast if she run into British navy in the Atlantic and need for repairs
Here we have an Irish American Tank Commander that usually lectures about armored warfare talk about a German battleship that never truly saw combat. Hm, quite an interesting mix. Nevertheless good job Mr Chieftain
@@phoenixjz4782Most likely, yes. But the Bismarck-sisters against a fleet of 13 ships, comprised 2 Battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 1 aircraftcarrier and 7 destroyers. Would have been a fantastic battle. Today is also the 75 anniversary of the bombing of the Tirpitz. November 12th 1944.
Chieftain, I was wondering if you can talk about USS Samuel B Roberts (DE-413). It definitely deserves even a short episode. Potentially added to a short episode is the story of HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen. I haven't seen any documentaries that do the battle of the tin cans justice at the tactical level.
@@ivvan497 i agree on that the german BBs are the worst bbs ingame, and they sure need some buffs, but yet i find them as good ships, at least the Bismarck class that is... i still have above averge combat record whit the Tirpitz despise the thing she need to be competive..
There was an excellent video on PQ 17 made by Jeremy Clarkson. First Sea Lord Dudley Pound who was blamed for the disaster was later to die of a brain tumour.
@@davidnoone3254 Irving's book was the subject of a case in the High Court brought by Captain Jackie Broome of HMS Keppel, escort leader. Irving lost and had to pay damages. His reputation as a historian has been seriously called into question as he became a Hitler apologist
Biggest bulnder was Kreigsmarine not having constructed Graf zeppellin to aid Bismarck and Tirpitz. But thats due to the Kireigsmarine wanting 10 years to build up the fleet rather then send them off one by one
It’s almost comedic of how much the British threw at Tirpitz, and it took almost the whole war to permanently “disable” and sink her. She technically wasn’t completely sunk like her sister Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, since she was still mostly above water, and if decided to could have been refloated after the war. Sadly she never was and was mostly scrapped.
Thanks to both KanColle & Azur Lane we have more people interested in naval history than what was taught in schools. Its also thanks to teachers constantly going on strike that Azur Lane & KanColle simply end up being far more appealing that curious folks also watch these videos to learn more about them. I admire Bismarck & Tirpitz both on a normal & Anime level. As much as people want to insult anime for their fear and unable to comprehend anime other people learn from them. I found one flaw with this video noting that the Russian submarine missed all torpedo. From another video I watched that same submarine was noted to have hit the Tirptiz, crippling it, sending it back to port. The crew noted a hit. Lastly, Bismarck is reunited with Tirpitz in Azur Lane. Nice to see them together. I would love to see World of Warships branch out into Silent Hunter 3 type gameplay of actually roaming the seas. We need more open-world free roamy games on an actual singleplayer level; Silent Hunter 3 style.
Sir. Churchill would have mobilised the whole freaking British Navy to hunt the Tirpitz and Bismark down, building Battleships when carriers already showed what they can do... big brain move... and here comes the kicker if they followed the plan they wanted to build the H40-44 classes (420-508mm bores) in 4 turrets each two barrels, Yamato what? That would have basically been the Heavy Dora on the seas but 8 times over xD Studies where made to see if such a thing was even possible... it was, although the Navy was quite concerned over the fact that such a ship would not even be able to reload fast enough to be effective, Japanese and their autoloader proved them wrong. But as we all know Karl Dönitz was quite strongly against this plan, he was seemingly the only Navy man left in Germany who hasn't been infected by the sheer megalomania of Hitler. Yet the Bismark and Tirpitz were built. In the final days of the war, Döntiz was quoted to have said, that if Hitler and Raeder didn't use all that steel to build big BBs and CAs at the beginning of the war, he could have build 150-200 more subs to the year 1942, yet they ignored him and his tactic, and that number is quite scary if you know how close the Nazis came to starve out the Brits before the US entered the war in 1941.
Germany was appeasing Britain all through the 30s. Anglo-German naval treaty etc. Mistake on Germany's side yes but there would have been no war at all if Huey Longfish had not been assassinated.
Lord Dudley Pound, exactly alike Prime Minister Chamberlain who also made some very terrible decisions, was suffering from an undiagnosed Brain Tumour at the time of PQ17. History should not judge too harshly.
Well said, though he wasn't a Lord? "First Sea Lord" is a naval appointment, not part of the Peerage. Some former FSL's have become peers however, Fisher, Jellicoe etc.
the crews they used where the elite dam buster squadron....and they used the latest bomb tech....only one bomb from the 10 odd dropped landed on the mainland from memory...
They should have listed the place names on screen; the pronounciation of Fættenfjord is so misleading you couldn't find it. Possiblt some names too, Raeder isn't pronounced "raider" but closer to reh-der, and Dönitz is nothing like dogh-nets.
I saw a documentary that proved the British Navy did not sink the Bismark. The torpedo hits did not make it through The double hull side of the ship. Two surviving crew of the Bismarck Stated and that they scheduled the ship. British did do a lot of damage to the Bismarck. But they did not sink it. The history books are wrong.
It turns out that the reason no German fighters got to the bombers in time for the last attack was because the German radar operator delayed reporting the bombers. He was one of the small group of Germans who had decided to resist the Nazis and wanted the war to end.
That’s a theory, but there’s not enough information. Just as likely he did not identify the threat well. Remember the radar scene in Pearl Harbor? It could just as easily had been that Germany failed to inform its own units of the Tirpitz’s location.
I’ve heard of this, rumour has it that the radar operator had a small Union Jack in his wallet, meaning he may have been a British sympathiser if this was true
I often wondered why the British didn't ask the US to bring up one of the Iowa class battleships. Their guns out ranged the Germans and they could sit there and blast away until nothing was left. A British air craft carrier's Hellcats and Corsairs could have easily held off any German bombers and German fighters by themselves couldn't even scratch a battleship of this class.
The Iowa could have been available in November to December 1943 as it took the President to Algeria for a conference, however Tirpitz had been disabled by the X Submarine attack in September and was out of service until March 1944 - Admiral King surely preferred having Iowa and her sisters in the Pacific to counter Yamato & Musashi which were both mobile and a greater threat at the time. Also, if Iowa wanted to remain in the open ocean while shelling the target, the anchorage Tirpitz was in was out of range of her guns. The Iowa would have to proceed up a fjord to make the attack. This would expose her to shore defenses, mines, torpedo-boat air and submarine attack in a restricted area where she could not manouvre. It would have been foolish to risk such a critical asset to attack a disabled ship that air-power proved capable of keeping it damage and eventually destroying.
How come we don’t have Battleships like the Missouri or Wisconsin? I think the Missouri was in game at one time? I have only been playing about a month and I haven’t seen one but I think would be nice to have it or the Wisconsin...I have noticed the Inaccurate Guns in the Larger BattleShips can something be done to fix that? I have one tier 8 premium and if I hit anything with it is by accident no joke it’s the Massachusetts and a great looking Ship at that but I can barely get a hit with it.
Addressing your points, Missouri was in the game, but it was removed because it was a money machine that basically printed credits and broke the economy. The Massachusetts is a shotgun BB. It has great secondaries but its main guns have horrid dispersion, it's no wonder you hit things by accident,most of the time the shots scatter like a blind gunner shot each turret separately, not all BBs are this innavirate. Except the German BBs they are arguably worse because of the fewer number of guns.
you really dont understand the concept of 'fleet in beeing'. imagine the RN has to protect every convoy with two older or one new BB. imagine how much oil they burned, think about were thosse BB dont pop up. Or just read about PQ17....
@@karlchenkarolinger5799 The thing is, the RN and the Allies didn't have a shortage of oil like the Nazis did and it was much easier for the Allies to replace ships, material and manpower losses than it was for the Nazis. This gap grew exponentially larger as the war went on. By 1944 the Nazis would have been better off just scuttling Tirpitz themselves.
Nick Hlebasko what i understood was orginally it was planned for the iowa to combat tirpitz since iowa was better in every aspect (armour, guns, speed etc), however due to a miscommunication the iowa sailed the wrong way and tirpitz sneaked away, thus they never met.
Nick Hlebasko Iowa, Alabama, and South Dakota all spent some time with the British home fleet to guard against Tirpitz. All of them were more than a match for Tirpitz. They had better armor for practical battle ranges, more powerful guns with radar fire control, and Iowa also had a 3-5 knot speed advantage. All of them had decent immunity zones against Tirpitz’s guns, while Tirpitz had virtually no immunity zone against the US 16”/45s and especially the 16”/50s. While Bis and Tirp were hard to actually sink with gunfire at close range due to the low turtleback armor scheme (even lower due to Bismarck riding low in the water since it was flooding from POW’s hits and a torp hit the day before), they were relatively easy to turn into a flaming wreck since so many critical systems were above the armor deck. HMS Rodney knocked out 2 of Bismarck’s turrets with its first hit, and the fire control to the others went soon after since the cables were outside the armor. This isn’t to say the US BBs were perfect, because they weren’t due to the naval treaties. However, they were significantly more advanced and powerful than the German BBs, which were big but inefficient and of an older design. A more even matchup for Bis and Tirpitz would have been Washington or NC, as they were slightly less armored than the Iowas and SoDaks.
Sorry I'm also learning German 'cause hell it took me 13 Years to Finally Do It! Also Learning German, Japanese, and English is hard Especially if I want my ENG to be British and Stuff so... ごめんなさい🙇
LeckMichImArsch Sod off. You can't even write your own derogatory name right. You wannabe Nazi. "Meine Damen und Herren" is correct, same order as in any other language. Where do you get this bullshit from?
The design of the ships weren't the problem at the Battle of Juntland. It was the crews, skipping corners and having improperly stored ammunition. Competition between ships to have the fastest firing guns was very prominent at the time which caused crews to cut corners. They had shells stacked up leading from the turrets and going directly to the ammunition magazine, causing a chain reaction if a single shell exploded near the unprotected/improperly stowed ammunition.
hood's sinking was a design fault,it was to under armored on it's deck,it also got to close to the bismarck.....the ships at jutland suffered due to what a2dude stated...incorrect ammo storage
My grat grand uncle was a cooke on abord of a royal Canadian navy ship that helped hunt down the terpitz I still have the WW2 Canadian navy ship egg cup from the ship Kuching
Britain: Sinks Bismarck British public: Yay now we have control of the Atlantic and re-installed our superiority in Naval power! British Navy: uhhhhh.... Tirpitz: What up Bitttttcccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhessssssssssssssssssssssss
@@ArcticuKitsu yeah sure if it comes to the fleet in being thats correct. But I was saying this in the context of the nazis controling the atlantic. :D
The allure of Chieftain's content: you know he researched the subject down to the last detail. Always my favorite videos no matter if it's about tanks, ships or his own car.
Ransomware Sucks Nacho71AR “or his own car” lol. I totally agree!
You should check out Drachinifels channel, if you like well researched Naval videos.
@@ZoidFile Dead on - this was like listening to a teacher reading out of an approved history book - Drachinifel is the place to go if you really want excellent Naval History
@@slartybartfarst55 Just because he sounds like he is reading out of a history book doesn't mean he hasn't done the proper research. Cut the guy some slack. I always like listening to Chieftain.
Someguy6571 he is a good storyteller but of course he has a script! In all media a script is used!
Tirpitz, the OG island camping Battleship
My Grandad served on the HMS Bellona which covered the carriers in the July 1944 raids before it went off to raid the German shipping in the channel again and then later protected the Arctic convoys.
If he still lives, please convey thanks for his efforts from a 35yo in Sweden who's grandfathers both would have been high probability casualties in case of german invasion, one was a hydro power plant manager, the other called to service as a staff officer's driver.
o7
When Chieftain talks, I stop and listen!
Her armor was then cut up and sold as target pieces, a lot of it ended up with Bofors and the armed forces R&D/procurement bureau (FMV) in Sweden where it contributed to the development, specifically, the penetration tests of HEAT and APFSDS munitions of various types for the coastal artillery and the army.
One piece of a few hundred kg with multiple HEAT and kinetic penetrator impacts sits in a small museum in the town of Hässleholm.
Another piece of similiar size sits in the WW2 museum at Narvik in Norway.
thank for telling ..i know where to go for vacation next feb
Other sheets of armor are used in Norway as temporary road surface during construction work
@@perperson199 ouch..!!! That some brutal reality
@@zaizenz7262 the museum in Narvik is much better funded by the Norwegian govt. and actually tells stories from the war and mpre while the Hässleholm museum is run by volounteers on mostly donations and ticket fees, resulting in what mostly looks like a depot of running condition obsolete military vehicles and tanks with info signs, some display sets with mannekins, a few model tables, the retired vehicles of the local fire brigade throughout the 20th century and some really nice condition historical horse carriages and carts.
The fire engines and horse carts run by two volounteer organisations, and the military by two others, one for the armored and one for the soft skins.
Oof I feel bad for him
I live in Tromsø, where Tirpitz met her fate.
May all the sailors who died aboard her rest in peace.
JohnDiabol : what happened to the wreckage?
@@hertzair1186 scrapped. Supposedly there is still parts of the wreck to be found if you dive in the area and it's quite accessible since it's at a pretty shallow depth. But there are strong underwater currents in the area do diving there without guide is not advisable.
Most of what's left is also covered by sand.
Still, walking around the area can yield some treasures. I have friends who has both uniforms and old shell casings in their inventory, as well as cutlery and porcelain found aboard during the scrapping or while diving.
@@JohnDiabol The firm that bought for 120 00kr, the scrap rights to the ships was "Høvding Skipsopphugging". My best friend's girlfriend is a decendant of the owner, and the family has all sorts of interesting items, from cutlery to china to cigars, from the wreck. The armour plates of the battleship stil do service in construction and road projects, in many ways KMS Tirpitz fiercest enemy are the Oslo Trams who "overrun" her many times yearly! ;)
@@HimmelGanger Exactly. The steel used in Tirpitz was legendary. You can still buy knives made from Tirpitz steel.
Whenever I hear things like explosions that lifted the ship out of the water, I wish I could travel back in time with a camera to record it
Every time I watch one of these naval battle videos I think to myself "Damn, that would make a kick-ass war movie"
but from german perspective, that would be more epic, because they lose in the end. but It would have to be a "unpolitical" movie ( no hate against every german, only against nazis )
Thank you Chieftain for another superb video. What struck me, as a now retired US Navy naval officer that served aboard two different types of aviation warships, ( the LPH-7, and the CV-62) was the "fear of a British aircraft carrier" by the German high command back in 1941. They were correct to fear the aircraft carrier. For more than 75 years now it is the aircraft carrier that rules the seas. Please keep up your good work!
Am I the only guy who actually prefers the Tirpitz over Bismarck? For me Tirpitz instilled a true sense of fear among the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy as a battleship should do, to draw that much attention from Britain for simply being present at Norway clearly tells the threat she presented. She also lived a rather invincible service life, despite taking serious damage from various attacks she didn’t sink until her final demise in November 1944. Tirpitz also possessed a number of updates such as heavier AA armament and new radar systems. She was also a beautiful art gallery with all the lovely dazzle camouflage patterns she was painted in during her life! For this she is my favourite battleship, up there with HMS Vanguard. I’ve bought a 1/350 model kit by Revell to build a accurate model of this magnificent ship!
Chris E. Roberts >> I always thought Tirpitz was quite pretty as well! I also had a model of her...quite a long time ago though.
Another key point about tirpitz, that is missed from the reasons for not deploying into the atlantic was that the british launched their first major commando raid against the docks in normandy specifically to knock out the only port in the area that was large enough to service tirpitz.
Andrew Shaw the St. Nazaire raid that was wasn’t it? It was a genius way of keeping Tirpitz out of the North Atlantic.
@@Christoff1996 I believe that was the one but can never commit the name to memory so would have to check.
The one where they sailed an old american ship dressed up as a german one into the dock with a large bomb in the ships nose.
Andrew Shaw Yeah that was the St. Nazaire raid in 1942, they sailed in on and old ex US destroyer called HMS Campbeltown with fake German Markings to ram the gate of the dock, then the explosives in the ship’s hull detonating the next morning, putting the dock out of action for the rest of the war.
Good video and well presented. I knew of some of the attacks on Tirpitz in great detail, but most only from lists. It was good to hear about all of them in as much detail as is practicable in 30 minutes.
My dad and I loved these kinds of videos! Please do more of these in the future!
"So did you find the boat?"
*checks compass*
Why is that fishing boat charging me?
@@jpumbaa1 "Oh crap, it's the Russian"
Sabaton?
Tripitz : *DEMONIC SOUNDS*
RFLOL -Gotta love that Churchill: "... everywhere at once!"
My grandmother watched Tirpitz get bombed on one occation in Kåfjord.
She also told me that the noise from her main guns was extremly loud, after the ship had a test of the gunbatteries.
we gon need a CGI cinematic of Tirpitz's final moments
Indeed!
surprised picachu meme sums it up
There is newsreel film on RUclips of the Tirpitz being hit by Tallboy bombs in the final attack
search youtube there is a doco on the hunt for the tripiz showing cgi about the bombing
The Lone Queen of the North, we salute you. O7
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Nah
The Tirpitz was pining for the fjords...
it's,not,sunk.It,is,shagged,out,after,a,long,squawk.
...much like a Norwegian Blue Parrot.
Tirpitz would have been zooming out into the Atlantic if it weren't nailed to the Fjord.
Boy I sure do love procrastinating and this video is just what I needed
I now want a seal skin for upcoming British submarines.
I like beating up seals with clubs....
I love this Historical Things. I watch 100rts of dokumentarys and films. I wrout A over A in the School About thos Topics. Nice Video. PLS more of them
"My sister...I'm sorry that...I won't ever be able to meet you..."
KMS Bismarck of Azur Lane
wtf?? Bismarck dies in AL?
@@ivvan497 Yes she kinda did, in her own Event called "Scherzo of Iron and Blood" (and the event was really fantastic). But the Events are some Mirror Sea/Alternativ Timeline and you can optain Bismarck via gacha drop. So she is sorta alive in your Base you could say.
@@MARSRigel1 i was talking about the anime
@@ivvan497 oh lol, I thought you talk about the Game hehehe.... Bismarck didn't appear in the Anime yet (aside from the opening scene).
That's deep
There’s a few photos of the tirpitz capsized and a few of it being scrapped after the war. I’m surprised there wasn’t more photos of the ship during the scrapping process.
Paul Hudson exactly! Not sure which ship this fellow is looking for but no one will ever find Tirpitz because it is gone. There are only small pieces left here and there but that’s hardly a ship.
@@jimwiskus8862 there are still small pieces of it lying near to where it was destroyed,although when i say small i mean 2 metre long sections lol
" TRIPITZ AND BRAVE BISMARK " MUST BE TOGETHER IN FIGHT , They Win in all battles together , they Are really LEGEND and real Kings of Oceans
This is actually a pretty sad story
History Really does repeat itself first bismarck with prinz eugen then a few years later tirpitz and admiral hipper
At one point I caught an interview with one of the bomb aimers from one of the Tallboy attacks. By that time they had issued the Tirpitz 15 inch shells with time delayed fuses. So they could assist with the attacks by the heavy bombers. He was discussing what it was like to see the 15 inch shells coming in his approximate direction. Though personally I am not too sure if that is actually possible. But he would have been able to see the main guns firing at him. The 15cm guns were also supplied with time delay fuses.
VIDEO ABOUT TIRPITZ
GERMAN BATTLESHIP BUFF CONFIRMED GUYS
In ur dreams - WG
@@Arengeesus They plan one for the end of the year
@@DreddMann the correct word is "maybe"
If the buffs will be like the nerfs to the Kremlin than it won't matter at all, you get it? Because they nerfed Kremlin alpha by 1k and fire chance.... Like seriously they'll buff tirpitz hydro range right?
@@raulalexandrubota
Tirpitz, uh
doesn't get hydro
This is what happened because they hadn't properly adjusted the Bismark's track tension.
Damn right
Thanks Nick
Timeline documetary on Sinking the Tirpitz on RUclips was outstanding. This is just watching a guy tell the story.
She was a steel hulk! A true juggernaut like most German ships were!
the Tirpitz, where Captain Price Sr finally met his end in an attempt to sabotage it
Wrong. The sortie against PQ8 and PQ12 was not Tirpitz's first combat sortie. In September 1941, Tirpitz along with the Admiral Scheer, some destroyers and torpedo boats, and every operational light cruiser in the navy were sent to patrol the Aaland Islands with orders to engage and destroy the Soviet fleet should it decide to attempt to escape Leningrad. However, while the German "Baltenflotte" was at sea, the Russian fleet was attacked and badly damaged by the Luftwaffe, ensuring that there would be no break-out attempt.
I think that opening summary of Bismarck is a little misleading, making it sound like it required all of 2 battleships and 2 heavy cruisers to sink, but much like the Chieftain's remarks about how many Shermans it took to kill a cat, the RN wasn't interested in sinking Bismarck with as few units as possible.
After being knee-capped by an antiquated biplane, Rodney alone likely could have sunk the German Battleship after her main advantage of speed and manoeuvrability was taken away.
Rodney could have, but it also could have been sunk just as the Hood was. The British weren't interested in risking lives on an even fight.
@@arsarma1808 That wasn't the point I was making.
I was just objecting to someone as well read as the Chieftain seemingly perpetuating (whether intended or not) the same old theme of eggagerating the power of these WW2 German battleships, that we get enough of in dumbed down documentaries on the history channel.
While Bismarck could well have sunk Rodney too, I wouldn't have given her favourable odds in doing so. Especially as King George V later proved that an arguably better armoured in similar layout (albeit, worse armed) battleship could be sunk by a ship with less firepower.
I am probably a bit biased but I do think that ships like Hood are a unfairly maligned where as Bismarck gets more praise than is really due.
Her achievements really boil down to sinking a knackered 20 year old battlecruiser, in return for sustaining mission critical damage, then fails to shoot down a single biplane and takes mobility critical damage, then within a few minutes of her final engagement she takes a critical hit to her offensive capabilities. Not the most impressive result from the first action of a new battleship, and especially one that was so oversized (~20%) over the treaty limits of contemporary battleships.
@@sergarlantyrell7847 if Rodney hadn't of closed it's range and fought Bismarck at it's strongest (close up due to it's turtle back armour scheme which is different to KGV's)
Bismarck more than likely would have ended it's life in the same way Hood did.
believe it or not, Bismarck really didn't have that much more armour than Hood, but it's guns and aiming systems were significantly better...if Hood had it's upgrades then it wouldn't have gone down so easily (if at all)
but yeah...shoulda coulda woulda...
and I do agree with what you've said that Bismarck does get talked up far too much and the British ships aren't talked up at all...
also KGV had a much heavier broadside than Bismarck even though it's shells were smaller.
"Operation Rheinübung"
Nearest pronunciation using English sounds would be: Operation Rhine U-boong (but the 'U' without the 'you' sound and the 'boong' rather brief)
Very well told,but we all expect that now i suppose from Chieftain,even when you know the story and aftermath its one of those battles that just gripes you and douse not let go...ATB SNAFU
What about stuffing box tensioning?
i dont generally like videos delivered from an armchair but the Chieftain done an exceptional job here
Bismarck was scuttled at the same time she sank... she was sank by the Royal Navy and scuttled at the exact same time...
Doesn't change the fact that Bismarck will go down either way
It's a pity the 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb was not in service at this time, 1 hit from one of those and that would have finished the ship off for sure. I also read somewhere that the craters created by the near misses of the Tallboy bombs contributed to the Tirpitz capsizing, but don't know how true this is.
Bikes02 Jup read that as well that near misses had so much power that they capsized the Ship and the ship did not sink very fast many sailors survived inside the bow and drown horribly as the ship sunk slowly.
ive seen the Tallboy bombs IRL, those bombs are no jokes, and they didnt just contributed to the capsizing, they WERE the cause for Tirpitz capsizing...
To prevent the ship from capsizing the Germans had built underwater sandbanks around the ship’s hull so even if she was hit she would remain above water, unfortunately the tallboy bombs that landed close to the ship destroyed these protective sandbanks which left nothing to prevent Tirpitz from rolling over which she proceeded to do. So indeed the near misses did contribute to her capsizing.
Didn't the other Kriegsmarine ship crews joke calling Tirpitz the nick name "The Tirpitz Hotel" Plus British Commandos made Tirpitz stuck in the Norway fjords by the attack raid at St Nazaire by blowing up knocking out the only dry dock large enough on Europe's west coast if she run into British navy in the Atlantic and need for repairs
Here we have an Irish American Tank Commander that usually lectures about armored warfare talk about a German battleship that never truly saw combat. Hm, quite an interesting mix. Nevertheless good job Mr Chieftain
If Azur Lane ever thought me on how to find a ship....all you need is more wisdom cube and gems
But to get Tirpitz... it a whole other story...
Another Masterpiece !
Imagine the war if Tirpitz and Bismarck had fought together.
Quality over quantity would've been best shown!
They'd probably have been sunk together...
@@phoenixjz4782Most likely, yes. But the Bismarck-sisters against a fleet of 13 ships, comprised 2 Battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 1 aircraftcarrier and 7 destroyers. Would have been a fantastic battle.
Today is also the 75 anniversary of the bombing of the Tirpitz. November 12th 1944.
@@123Jokkmokk123 except the British Hime fleet had 160 ships so bye bye Kreigsmarine
Hood: Why do I hear boss music?
Chieftain, I was wondering if you can talk about USS Samuel B Roberts (DE-413). It definitely deserves even a short episode. Potentially added to a short episode is the story of HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen. I haven't seen any documentaries that do the battle of the tin cans justice at the tactical level.
I've been looking forward to this ever since it was teased. (Even if I hate those teasers.)
I really hope, they're buffing that tirpitz ! I feel like it can't compete against other tier 8 BB's
Olivier P what? The Tirpitz is a great ship :p
@@pieterjan81 its garbage bro. I can outplay shitpitz in any T8 BB.
@@ivvan497 you have to look at the player not the ship, its a great ship in the right hands.
@@jamescooper7878 Im a great versatile player and out of all BBs germans are definitely by far the worst.
@@ivvan497 i agree on that the german BBs are the worst bbs ingame, and they sure need some buffs, but yet i find them as good ships, at least the Bismarck class that is... i still have above averge combat record whit the Tirpitz despise the thing she need to be competive..
There was an excellent video on PQ 17 made by Jeremy Clarkson. First Sea Lord Dudley Pound who was blamed for the disaster was later to die of a brain tumour.
David Irving wrote the book.
@@davidnoone3254 Irving's book was the subject of a case in the High Court brought by Captain Jackie Broome of HMS Keppel, escort leader. Irving lost and had to pay damages. His reputation as a historian has been seriously called into question as he became a Hitler apologist
Biggest bulnder was Kreigsmarine not having constructed Graf zeppellin to aid Bismarck and Tirpitz. But thats due to the Kireigsmarine wanting 10 years to build up the fleet rather then send them off one by one
Nest level professional content.
Chief, blink once if you're okay - blink twice if they have a gun pointed at you off screen.
He seems a little... "restrained" in this video.
It’s almost comedic of how much the British threw at Tirpitz, and it took almost the whole war to permanently “disable” and sink her. She technically wasn’t completely sunk like her sister Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, since she was still mostly above water, and if decided to could have been refloated after the war. Sadly she never was and was mostly scrapped.
Grand admiral?! I thought this rank only existed in star wars!
Thanks to both KanColle & Azur Lane we have more people interested in naval history than what was taught in schools. Its also thanks to teachers constantly going on strike that Azur Lane & KanColle simply end up being far more appealing that curious folks also watch these videos to learn more about them. I admire Bismarck & Tirpitz both on a normal & Anime level. As much as people want to insult anime for their fear and unable to comprehend anime other people learn from them.
I found one flaw with this video noting that the Russian submarine missed all torpedo. From another video I watched that same submarine was noted to have hit the Tirptiz, crippling it, sending it back to port. The crew noted a hit.
Lastly, Bismarck is reunited with Tirpitz in Azur Lane. Nice to see them together. I would love to see World of Warships branch out into Silent Hunter 3 type gameplay of actually roaming the seas. We need more open-world free roamy games on an actual singleplayer level; Silent Hunter 3 style.
Maps, graphics, and videos would make these videos much more effective/ educational.
WarGaming - History begin made
Tirpitz was actually just a big tank that floated.
I thought I heard somewhere that the Bismarck and Tirpitz where to be labeled his and him and brother ships. But I could be wrong.
Sir. Churchill would have mobilised the whole freaking British Navy to hunt the Tirpitz and Bismark down, building Battleships when carriers already showed what they can do... big brain move... and here comes the kicker if they followed the plan they wanted to build the H40-44 classes (420-508mm bores) in 4 turrets each two barrels, Yamato what? That would have basically been the Heavy Dora on the seas but 8 times over xD Studies where made to see if such a thing was even possible... it was, although the Navy was quite concerned over the fact that such a ship would not even be able to reload fast enough to be effective, Japanese and their autoloader proved them wrong.
But as we all know Karl Dönitz was quite strongly against this plan, he was seemingly the only Navy man left in Germany who hasn't been infected by the sheer megalomania of Hitler. Yet the Bismark and Tirpitz were built. In the final days of the war, Döntiz was quoted to have said, that if Hitler and Raeder didn't use all that steel to build big BBs and CAs at the beginning of the war, he could have build 150-200 more subs to the year 1942, yet they ignored him and his tactic, and that number is quite scary if you know how close the Nazis came to starve out the Brits before the US entered the war in 1941.
Germany was appeasing Britain all through the 30s. Anglo-German naval treaty etc. Mistake on Germany's side yes but there would have been no war at all if Huey Longfish had not been assassinated.
Tirpitz vs Bismarck. Who is the most powerful battleship.
Lord Dudley Pound, exactly alike Prime Minister Chamberlain who also made some very terrible decisions, was suffering from an undiagnosed Brain Tumour at the time of PQ17. History should not judge too harshly.
Well said, though he wasn't a Lord? "First Sea Lord" is a naval appointment, not part of the Peerage. Some former FSL's have become peers however, Fisher, Jellicoe etc.
Knowing the accuracy of the British bomber crews people living in a hundred mile radius around Trondheim lived in a state of perpetual terror.
the crews they used where the elite dam buster squadron....and they used the latest bomb tech....only one bomb from the 10 odd dropped landed on the mainland
from memory...
free game and free educational content. You guys are a neat development company.
They should have listed the place names on screen; the pronounciation of Fættenfjord is so misleading you couldn't find it.
Possiblt some names too, Raeder isn't pronounced "raider" but closer to reh-der, and Dönitz is nothing like dogh-nets.
Thus ended the tale of the Lonely Queen Of The North!
I saw a documentary that proved the British Navy did not sink the Bismark. The torpedo hits did not make it through The double hull side of the ship. Two surviving crew of the Bismarck Stated and that they scheduled the ship. British did do a lot of damage to the Bismarck. But they did not sink it. The history books are wrong.
It turns out that the reason no German fighters got to the bombers in time for the last attack was because the German radar operator delayed reporting the bombers. He was one of the small group of Germans who had decided to resist the Nazis and wanted the war to end.
That’s a theory, but there’s not enough information. Just as likely he did not identify the threat well. Remember the radar scene in Pearl Harbor? It could just as easily had been that Germany failed to inform its own units of the Tirpitz’s location.
I’ve heard of this, rumour has it that the radar operator had a small Union Jack in his wallet, meaning he may have been a British sympathiser if this was true
Good talk. Really could have used animated maps.
The title makes it read like this man was there in ww2... seems a bit odd. Especially given this guy was a tank specialist, nothing to do with navy.
Heartbreaking end
The ship that took BOMBERS dropping TALLBOY bombs to destroy
Hood was no match for Bismark Prince of wales wasnt ready both were sent mostly because( chiefly Hood) they were Fast
chitlika: Yes, Hood was already obsolete at that time.
I often wondered why the British didn't ask the US to bring up one of the Iowa class battleships. Their guns out ranged the Germans and they could sit there and blast away until nothing was left. A British air craft carrier's Hellcats and Corsairs could have easily held off any German bombers and German fighters by themselves couldn't even scratch a battleship of this class.
The Iowa could have been available in November to December 1943 as it took the President to Algeria for a conference, however Tirpitz had been disabled by the X Submarine attack in September and was out of service until March 1944 - Admiral King surely preferred having Iowa and her sisters in the Pacific to counter Yamato & Musashi which were both mobile and a greater threat at the time. Also, if Iowa wanted to remain in the open ocean while shelling the target, the anchorage Tirpitz was in was out of range of her guns. The Iowa would have to proceed up a fjord to make the attack. This would expose her to shore defenses, mines, torpedo-boat air and submarine attack in a restricted area where she could not manouvre. It would have been foolish to risk such a critical asset to attack a disabled ship that air-power proved capable of keeping it damage and eventually destroying.
Say what you want about the Germans, but the Bismarck and Tirpitz were beautiful ships. Better looking than the Iowa class.
How come we don’t have Battleships like the Missouri or Wisconsin? I think the Missouri was in game at one time? I have only been playing about a month and I haven’t seen one but I think would be nice to have it or the Wisconsin...I have noticed the Inaccurate Guns in the Larger BattleShips can something be done to fix that? I have one tier 8 premium and if I hit anything with it is by accident no joke it’s the Massachusetts and a great looking Ship at that but I can barely get a hit with it.
Addressing your points, Missouri was in the game, but it was removed because it was a money machine that basically printed credits and broke the economy. The Massachusetts is a shotgun BB. It has great secondaries but its main guns have horrid dispersion, it's no wonder you hit things by accident,most of the time the shots scatter like a blind gunner shot each turret separately, not all BBs are this innavirate. Except the German BBs they are arguably worse because of the fewer number of guns.
Massachusetts isn't supposed to be used for accuracy. WG built her for her monstrous secondary guns.
British hunted this ship like it's a unicorn
KMS: Bismarck exists
Royal Navy: Im gonna end this ship's whole career
KMS: Tirpitz's is around
Royal Navy: aw sh!t here we go again!
Kuro Ryu: Tirpitz was sunk by the RAF, not the Royal Navy.
@@paganphil100 ohh yah XD well thanks for the correction there man
What military subject *doesn't* the Chieftain know about
Imagine lifting the Bismarck up from the bottom of the sea.
If we manage to do that... then I wish they would raise Arizona as well...
That would be absolutely impossible. Though hypothetically if any ship could be raised from the sea floor I would much rather see Nevada raised.
never happen ...but do search out a series called draining the ocean..it includes a documentary on the bismark
If you want a job doing properly, call the Lancaster’s
Bismark hardly tore through Hood. She landed a lucky salvo
So for Germany, the Tirpitz ended up being a lot like the Yamoto, great for sucking up resources and manpower and never really being combat effective.
Yes but it was a small headache for the Brits for a while too.
you really dont understand the concept of 'fleet in beeing'. imagine the RN has to protect every convoy with two older or one new BB. imagine how much oil they burned, think about were thosse BB dont pop up. Or just read about PQ17....
@@karlchenkarolinger5799 The thing is, the RN and the Allies didn't have a shortage of oil like the Nazis did and it was much easier for the Allies to replace ships, material and manpower losses than it was for the Nazis. This gap grew exponentially larger as the war went on. By 1944 the Nazis would have been better off just scuttling Tirpitz themselves.
The ship that died a cripple's death
Did uss iowa was going to block kms triplz from going to open waters?
Nick Hlebasko what i understood was orginally it was planned for the iowa to combat tirpitz since iowa was better in every aspect (armour, guns, speed etc), however due to a miscommunication the iowa sailed the wrong way and tirpitz sneaked away, thus they never met.
@@lightbluewaves5526 and yet the same happened when Iowa was heading for the Yamato.... missed that fight too.....
Nick Hlebasko Iowa, Alabama, and South Dakota all spent some time with the British home fleet to guard against Tirpitz. All of them were more than a match for Tirpitz. They had better armor for practical battle ranges, more powerful guns with radar fire control, and Iowa also had a 3-5 knot speed advantage. All of them had decent immunity zones against Tirpitz’s guns, while Tirpitz had virtually no immunity zone against the US 16”/45s and especially the 16”/50s. While Bis and Tirp were hard to actually sink with gunfire at close range due to the low turtleback armor scheme (even lower due to Bismarck riding low in the water since it was flooding from POW’s hits and a torp hit the day before), they were relatively easy to turn into a flaming wreck since so many critical systems were above the armor deck. HMS Rodney knocked out 2 of Bismarck’s turrets with its first hit, and the fire control to the others went soon after since the cables were outside the armor. This isn’t to say the US BBs were perfect, because they weren’t due to the naval treaties. However, they were significantly more advanced and powerful than the German BBs, which were big but inefficient and of an older design. A more even matchup for Bis and Tirpitz would have been Washington or NC, as they were slightly less armored than the Iowas and SoDaks.
@@jamescooper7878 Iowa missed Yamato because Admiral Halsey pulled his fleet away from Samar to engage the Japanese northern force
I have no idea what accent that is...
T A L L B O I S
Guten Tag Mann und Frau!
Sorry I'm also learning German 'cause hell it took me 13 Years to Finally Do It! Also Learning German, Japanese, and English is hard Especially if I want my ENG to be British and Stuff so... ごめんなさい🙇
"Ladies and gentlemen" translates to "Meine Herren und Damen" in German. The order between male and female is reversed due to German tradition.
@@wisdomleader85 yeah, that's wrong
LeckMichImArsch Sod off. You can't even write your own derogatory name right. You wannabe Nazi.
"Meine Damen und Herren" is correct, same order as in any other language.
Where do you get this bullshit from?
Lmao imagine mistaking a submarine for a seal. Gotta love those Germans, they goof up all the time in the most marvelous fashion.
HMS Hood blew up in much the same fashion as the RN battlecruisers at Jutland. Probably the same design faults?
The design of the ships weren't the problem at the Battle of Juntland. It was the crews, skipping corners and having improperly stored ammunition. Competition between ships to have the fastest firing guns was very prominent at the time which caused crews to cut corners. They had shells stacked up leading from the turrets and going directly to the ammunition magazine, causing a chain reaction if a single shell exploded near the unprotected/improperly stowed ammunition.
hood's sinking was a design fault,it was to under armored on it's deck,it also got to close to the bismarck.....the ships at jutland suffered due to what a2dude stated...incorrect ammo storage
My grat grand uncle was a cooke on abord of a royal Canadian navy ship that helped hunt down the terpitz I still have the WW2 Canadian navy ship egg cup from the ship Kuching
3 King George V class Battleships......
Y en español cuando??
Congrats to the first
Britain: Sinks Bismarck
British public: Yay now we have control of the Atlantic and re-installed our superiority in Naval power!
British Navy: uhhhhh....
Tirpitz: What up Bitttttcccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhessssssssssssssssssssssss
And ends up doing jackshit :)
@@snagarum Well, not firepower wise. Its influence still done something.
@@ArcticuKitsu yeah sure if it comes to the fleet in being thats correct. But I was saying this in the context of the nazis controling the atlantic. :D
I always kinda wondered whythe british and us didnt team up with a bunch of carriers and BBs and just attack the fjord in one big attack
The Royal Navy was already stretched so I really doubt they could coordinate such a massive offensive
Gregc247: Fjords were heavily defended and there's not much room for a large group of ships.
Sir Dudley Pound was a knight, not a Lord. “Lord” would have meant a peerage, a viscount at least.
Aye, but he was also first sea lord
looks like he's reading from a screen
The wild hunt*