General History: HMS Warspite - The Grand Old Lady
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- Опубликовано: 27 янв 2023
- HMS Warspite, almost certainly the most famous British battleship outside Dreadnought herself, is the topic of today's video. A ship that began with a habit of ramming everything in sight, and ended by running herself aground on the way to scrapping.
A ship that stood for everything the Royal Navy stood for, in her stubborn defiance in the face of the enemy. A ship that fought hard and long. A ship that would not die quietly.
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She deserved to be preserved.
There are few things we Germans respect more than a formidable enemy. HMS Warspite for sure falls into this category, giving us nothing but trouble through two world wars. Why she doesn't lie in glory alongside HMS Victory is a mystery to me.
The modernized version of the HMS Warspite made a visit to the shipyard in Bremerton, Washington for maintenance and repair prior to the United States entry into the war, under the Lend/Lease program. This isn't generally known except by elderly citizens of Bremerton and the Kitsap County Historical Society, which displays pictures of her in drydock. My mother always told the story of watching the Warspite's sailors walking around town.
Warspite is truly a battleship that despised the hard knocks of war and went out on her own terms.
"I've rammed everything else; what the hell, I'll finish by ramming England."
The toughest warship in the Royal Navy during the 20th century!
In Spike Milligan's war memoirs, when they are landing on Italy the see Warspite firing her big guns to targets inshore. One sailor comments "that's not doing the Germans much good!". Then he looks at Warspite rocking heavily on her axis from the recoil of her own guns, and adding "it's not doing Warspite much good either!"
The rammings were just part of Warspite's nature - a massive eagerness to fight
Always my favorite BB of any Navy. She deserves all the respect she gets and more.
My farther-in-law served on HMS Warspite during the late 1930's and of all the ships he served on HMS Warspite was the one he was most proud.
My model of the Warspite has inherited some of its
everytime i see a video about the Warspite i feel the need to post the poem written by an ex officer, Lieutenant Commander R A B Mitchell on her decommission and subsequent journey to scrapping -
After D-Day she did take part in one last major action. She was the major ship in the Walcheren landings where she was accompanied by the Monitors. It was the last amphibious landing on the war in Europe.
My Grandad John Chessman 15 years told the Navy he was 16 and was accepted.He served as a boy signalman on the ship during the war and was involved in The Battle of Jutland. He is named on the crew list .
Thank you for this. I collect 1/2400 waterline warships and use them in a tactical table top game, this is going to sound odd but, my Warspite always gave better than she got, after a few engagements whenever I would bring her out, my opponents would always try to sink her first...I had to stop using her because they would target her and her alone, they wanted her gone! lol
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Bless her, and all who sailed in her.
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She is one of our nations many ships that should have been saved from the torch, with a amazing career and rich history to have been told and a rich history to learn about walking her decks, feeling what it woukd have been like as a British sailor in a metal big gun giant, she may not have been the world's biggest but she was still a big old ship that defended her country and us brits proudly even with her liking for ramming things
Everything mentioned in this video is exactly why the warspite is my favourite battleship of ww1 and ww2