History's Most UNHINGED Warships
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025
- A submarine the size of a destroyer. A ship with one knock out gun. Enormous, sluggish steampunk behemoths. An aircraft carrier made out of a paddlewheel steamship. These are some of the most bizarre and unconventional warships of all time. Some were the result of periods of unchecked innovation; where the time between two technological achievements can be littered with awkward, unusual, and failed attempts at pushing the boundaries. For every Ford Model T and Mustang there is a Ford Edsel in the middle. So today, in the start of a new series, let’s look at four very unique vessels - the I-400 submarine, monitor Faa di Bruno, battleship HMS Colossus and the aircraft carrier USS Wolverine.
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The USS Sable and USS Wolverine has to be the most Genius out of the Box ideas I've ever heard in my life.
To be honest the paddlewheel aircraft carrier was a brilliant idea. It allowed training of aircrew a lot more efficiently.
The Great Lakes carriers were hugely successful. We could train up new pilots safely within the confines of the Continental US without having to devote additional resources to protect our training carriers and crews from any potential enemy ship, air or submarine attack. We could also trial new aircraft and aerial far away from the enemy’s prying eyes.
It was a genius plan, really.
Yes, they were a very clever idea indeed. 🇦🇺 ⚓
Gravely shoals disagrees with you! 😅
Wolverine should've been kept as a museum ship, I'd have loved to get a chance to see her in person
Or kept as a working cruise ship with its own runway aboard.
"No need to wait for that cruise ship to show up at port, come cruise with C&B and we will fly you straight to the cruise ship already on the water."
Next ep should probably include HMS Habbakuk, the proposed WW2 megacarrier that was going to be built mainly from ice and wood pulp. Never actually built (because by the time the tests on smaller models were concluded and the project's feasibility confirmed the strategic situation had shifted to where it was no longer necessary) it would have been an insanely powerful vessel entirely immune to submarine attack and capable of remaining on station in the mid-atlantic gap (where maritime patrol aircraft from neither the US nor the UK could reach) indefinitely, providing air cover to the one part of the atlantic convoy routes where german U-Boats had been free from the threat of air attack.
The reason they never built Habakkuk wasn’t just a matter of practicality. Once the fantasists were locked back up in Camp Crazy & the real engineers started to evaluate The Habakkuk project the Brits quickly came to the conclusion that there was no way they could build the ship. Also, Germany was on its knees by this point & prospect of building a two million tonne ice & wood pulp carrier for use in the balmy Pacific was deemed not just impractical but downright silly.
The Allies were mostly waging war in warm weather seas out East. It wouldn’t do if their icy super-carrier made like Frosty the Snowman at the end of his song & melted away into the South China Sea…😉
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Another fun anecdote/result of the story of the Wolverine and Sable is that one of the best places you can find relatively well-preserved WWII-era American carrier fighters happens to be on the bottom of Lake Michigan :D
I googled it for more information, its pretty amazing how well some of the planes they've brought up are. Not sure if any were restored to flying condition but just how they look with minimal rust and even their paintjobs still intact it wouldn't shock me.
The Surcouf deserves a place on this list. The whole idea of a "cruiser submarine" that mounted a pair of 203mm guns was pretty ridiculous.
my god, mike brady's done it again
Methinks he has way too much time on his hands to research all this.
The Spruce Goose Award- for thinking outside of the box, going above and beyond the bounds of reality, good sense and practicality.
... and it still works
@@ShadowXIIonce!
I like this series, love mechanical oddities. Keep em coming!
The Brits deserve a special shout-out for finding creative ways to re-purposed old battleship guns and turrets during both Wold Wars.
The RN’s reserve of guns and turrets for weapons in the 12”-18” range was pretty massive. During WWI most of those guns found their way onto various classes & sub-classes of new-build monitors. It was pretty common practice for the Nrits during the back half of WW1 to build cruiser-sized Monitors around 12” battleship guns which were no longer considered adequate for front line naval duty.
General Wolfe and one of its sister-ships took things a step further. Their mixed heavy batteries included two 12” guns in an enclosed turret taken from first-first gen British dreadnaughts & a single massive 18” gun fixed in starboard facing mounts with limited traverse. These massive guns had originally been designed as a single-gun turrets for the “large light cruiser” Furious.
Wolff’s 18” gun was the largest naval gun fired in anger until Yamato & Mushashi went to work in WW2 with their 46 cm (18.1”) main batteries. The Brits continued to build and deploy light cruiser-sized Monitors equipped with their excellent 15”/42 caliber guns as late as WW2.
This was posted briefly earlier today. Great episode.
By the time I clicked on it earlier it was private. Glad it's back.
Thanks, Mike! Informative and entertaining
The comment about the Edsel was cold shot. 😂
The Sea and Bee becoming an aircraft carrier was a clever solution for a real problem.
Indeed, and it doesn't belong on this list.
George H.W. Bush trained on these ships. IIRC he said winter landings on them was "The coldest I have ever been."
I was going to do something productive but a new OD video cannot wait.
I like this idea. Keep sending new eps! Seaplane battleships like the Ise , torpedo battleships... lots of possibilities
The other advantage of having _Wolverine_ and _Sable_ based out of Chicago is the proximity to Naval Training Station Great Lakes, which serves as the Navy's "boot camp" for enlisted personnel, and Naval Air Station Glenview, along with the Douglas Aircraft factory at Orchard Place (later named O'Hare Airport after a naval aviator, retaining its code letters ORD to this day).
Fun fact: Every Sunday evening I put away my laundry while listening to the latest high-quality video courtesy of our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs.
Excellent as always.
Hi. I am a Japanese and enjoy watching your every upload. Japanese sub I-400, correct Japanese pronunciation is rather close to pronounce "E"
"A submarine made out of a cargo ship" im imagining the weirdest impossible makeovers
Well that's just a future dive site.😂😂
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Great videos to fall asleep to. Keep up the good work!
Another awesome video Mike, thank you for all your hard work!
Even though resources, time, money, and labor were wasted. These ships are fascinating to learn about.😊 16:48
Mike, the Wolverine are the mascot of the University of Michigan while Spartans are the mascots of Michigan State University, two different schools.
Always look forward to new vids Mike, appreciate your work and knowledge. ⚓️
To add a little more to the story, there's a few planes in Lake Michigan and Superior that missed their landings.
And a number are being recovered and restored. If things continue there might actually be a squadron of Dauntless dive bombers for the next Midway movie.
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this was really a great episode I had not heard of most of those things. I wish the government had kept all of those ships they would be fantastic museums.
Perhaps you could create an episode about the Martians attacking the British dreadnought in war of the worlds as a what if story? The capability of a dreadnought against the heat ray of a walking tripod machine.
"They were not named after the lizard." Got a proper laugh from that!😂
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love this!
Dam he did it again 👏 🎉🎉
Excellent novel about a monitor, HMS Saracen
I'd really love if you did one on the ICE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and have been binge watching everything especially all things Titanic while you answered so many of my questions about the Titanic that I have had since I was a kid....I still can't quite figure out why they decided to launch her in April when icebergs are more common instead of maybe waiting till summer when it was conceivably safer to make the voyage ...
Because capitalism.
You’ll be more shocked to know that it was a Rockefeller hit on the one man that was holding back the creation of the FED 😂
It was meant to be making weekly trips, I believe, so it would have been on the ocean in winter at some point anyways. Why wait?
@elenna1237 Because it's the first voyage...
Icebergs were actually pretty low on the list of things they were worried about, most accidents in this period (at least the ones where we know for sure what happened, ships sometimes did just straight up disappear) involved a collision between two ships, like the RMS Republic in 1909 or the Empress of Ireland in 1914. Running aground was another constant hazard, as was fire. If collisions with icebergs were more common then the ship’s designers would have been more aware of the kind of damage they could do, but what happened to the Titanic was really kind of a fluke.
These warships clearly dealt in Emotional Damage!
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0:32 I loved the Edsel. 😅
Yay! Mike, hello from Seattle ❤
We need a video on the Grand Ol’ Lady Warspite!
The carrier training ship is not "unhinged" in any way.
Happy Monday morning from Canberra everyone. 🇦🇺 ⚓
Hola from Ecuador!
Michigander here, Go Spartans indeed!!! 😅
I can't believe how early I am. Am I crazy or was this uploaded earlier and then taken down??
You're not crazy. Well, not about it being briefly uploaded earlier.
I can't speak to anything else.
MIKE BRADY!!!!! I may have to rethink just how good of a friend you are, sir!
Little brother????? Really, Mike? Go Blue!😂
@@Spike-sk7ql I'm so glad I'm not the only one who caught that joke. 😂😂
Mike, can you please do Tom Tryon and the sinking of Victoria, and Kit Cradock and Coronel
Edsel on blast
Great video! I really enjoy the way you narrate the history of warships, but I have to admit that the section about Fardy Bruno left me a bit puzzled-does this ship really deserve to be called a "success"?
I thought he said "FARTY BRUNO" 😮
War...what is it good for?...absolutely nothing! A submarine aircraft carrier is an interesting idea on paper, but in practice...not so much. Some of the ship design's esthetics are just god awful! 🤣 I know, I know, Function and then form. 😂 Another fantastic video Mike. As always, thanks our friend! 🖖😁🇨🇦
40 senconds in and hes already made me upset. The Edsel is a beautiful car and doesnt even remotely deserve all the hate it got.
The Edsel is infamous for resembling something I consider beautiful, but not something I want my car’s grill to look like.
Dude, the Edsel was hideous.
@@Spike-sk7ql I can name 44 cars off the top of my head that came out the past 3 years that look so much worse. The only car i can tell that's truly hideous is the Chevy SSR and the Scarab.
I'd say the problem with the Edsel was a combination of poor build quality (caused by poor production management), some strange features (putting the transmission selector buttons where the horn usually is wasn't a good idea) and Ford trying to push out another product line that didn't have a identifiable market.
@@SynchroScore hell man, that could have come out of Motor Trend magazine or something. That was actually probably exactly what was wrong with it. More of a Ford trying to force it on people. Either way, it was still kind of ugly.
25:40 "USS Wolverine was named for Michigan, being the Wolverine State. Go Spartans."
Oh Mike, as a lifelong Michigander, dem's Fightin' Werds, son! 😁
Hey it’s our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs.
Hello its our friend mike bready from australian bread eating designs
Man Faà di Bruno looks more like a floating battery than a Monitor, I know it's not meant to sail out much on it's own but with a box shape like that it's crazy to think they figured sticking engines on her would work. I can't imagine the nightmare of her sailing qualities was
I am not associated with the state of Michigan in any way shape or form. However, if I weren't already I subscriber that little go Spartans would have hooked me. Nice jab.
1 hour nice
And this is why you need to have an outside review board look at your designs before proving them otherwise you get really weird stuff like this
You need to do a vid on American civil war ironclads
If you do a follow up episode, you'll have to mention the French Pre-Dreadnought battleships particularly Hoche, the insanity, the insanity.
Drachinifel has a few good videos about them.
The wolverine was built and intended as a training vessel and they were successful at that role.
The French submarine Surcouf was another oddity, a sub with a big gun.
Imagine if the Japanese had thought to use the I-400's for cruise missiles; a modified version of the V-1. Suddenly instead of 3 planes, they could fit 18 in the same space.
8:10 How did 2 I400s (3 aircraft each), and 2 modified smaller submarines carry 14 aircraft?
That would imply 4 per A-class, which makes me wonder why bother with the I400 design at all?
On the one hand, that "sub-carrier" idea isn't as surprising to me as one might think: long ago, I read about about some of the Third Reich's undeveloped ideas for launching attacks at America, and that was one of the several ideas they considered. On the other hand, those massive ships clearly laid the foundation for another, more fictional vessel, and prompt me to ask: if THOSE things were unwieldy, how badly does that reflect on the design of Tom Clancy's "Red October," which was meant to be the size of a WWII aircraft carrier?
I start watching this as i download FTD...
"Michigan is known as the Wolverine State. Go Spartans" Mike, where did that dig come from when you live in Australia?!
*For those who don't know The University of Michigan are The Wolverines and Michigan State University are The Spartans.
As a Spartan I give two thumbs up!
No, sir. You are wrong. The universities you refer to are named
The University of Michigan
And
Little Brother State University.
😂 I’m a clueless Aussie just stirring the pot
You will never know what's a success if you don't also find out what is a failure.
Boy-O-Boy: Just got home from walking the dog and what was waiting just for me ???
Why a new video from my friend Mike Brady........
"Of the 5 subs to be built, only 3 were complete, with I-400 and 401 making it to sea".
Interesting that White Star Line ordered 3 ships, with hull #'s 400 and 401 being the first 2 going to sea.
Last time I was this early, *Titanic's* keel had just been laid.
We need a video about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
I mean they made a whole song about it. What more could you want?
He may have a done it. Look threw his videos. But if he didn't, it soulf be awesome 🎉
There are so many videos, documentaries, and films on the Fitzgerald already. What more could he possibly add? Kind of like big old boats said about doing both the Fitz, and the Titanic. Would we watch it? Absolutely. Would we learn anything new? 99% chance, no. History Mystery Man does an annual series on the Fitz, with Captain Darrell Walton. Son of former chief engineer of the Fitz, and nephew of a porter who went down with the other 28 men that night.
Unhinged is the post WW1 era steam powered british submarines.
Hi
"Because Michigan is known as the Wolverine state. Go Spartans!"
Oh man you're going to start a fight between the Michigan and Michigan State fans with that.
😂
Lol did you say, "Because Michigan is the Wolverine State...Go Spartans."? Because that is some humor I'd never heard you use before this video. Kudos hahaha.
And hell yes inflating the price of the C&B was patriotic. There's nothing more American than unchecked capitalism.
One thing about the Ford Edsel, when you see one, you know exactly what it is. Good video!
i didnt think anyone would ever mention that beauty again xD
02:57 "Greater East Asia War"
The Akron and Macon were designed to work the same way.
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No mention of titanic great
Pretty sure _Titanic_ wasn't a warship, although it could've been refitted into an auxiliary cruiser.
Surprised there's not a single French pre dreadnaught on this list.
Once again our father in heaven mike brady has blessed us with naval history
Greetings from the northern hemisphere
Was i400 the US Navy name for the class? It is a very anglican sounding name for a Japanese project.
It's worth mentionig that the paddle wheel carrier actually made a lot of sense. You need to train many pilots, so you need a carrier that would serve as a training ship. And for that, you do not need the most advanced ship around, on the contrary.
I 400 was an interesting design, but in the same time a one trick pony, not really good for anything else than these special operations.
i went in the ocean in 1995 and got water up my nose and its still there
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french cruiser submarine surcouf comes to mind
25:45 No way an Australian Spartans fan, Wolverines are better though.
14th! Because it was uploaded 14 minutes ago.
Oh! This is the privated video from earlier.
Push the concept a few years forward and 18x i400's fully kitted out attacking the Panama Canal in 1942-3 could've been devastating and a much better use of resources than, say, laying down the Shinano. And yes this is almost certainly a fantastic scenario probably implementing techs not yet invented.
Have you ever thought of covering the fake found footage videos of Titanics sinking? I'd love to know how they were made and your thoughts on them 💕
I'd expected the K-class to show up here, maybe next time?
like a coal powered submarine? chefs kiss of connoisseurs unhinged disaster.
You probably already covered it, but I think it was the Russians who tried building a round ship, didn't go so well....
You might like to do a story about a Japanese float plane launched from a submarine off the coast of Brookings and dropped a bomb in the forest east of Brookings to start a fire blessings
Either this is a reupload or the worst deja vu I've ever had