British Salvers Horrifying Discovery of Locked and Loaded Torpedoes!
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- The UB-110 was a German submarine that sank off the coast of England during World War I after striking a mine in July 1918. In the years following the war, there were attempts to salvage the submarine for scrap metal. The successful recovery of the UB-110 provided valuable insights into submarine warfare history and allowed for preservation and display of artifacts from the vessel.
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Im glad the folding table still works.
Same, I was losing sleep over it 🙃
@genevieve.annabelle3296 yeah, I was about to cry as soon as I heard it was even involved..... im ok now....🥲
@@diehardbikes we will make it through this challenging time
@@genevieve.annabelle3296 I will pray for your strength💪
We all are.
The fact that a submarine that sank and then sat in the water for a good 3 months was in such a good condition is like a miracle onto itself.
How is it a miracle? 3 months isn't long enough to do much damage to a vessel.
Its only 3 months though. In cold water.
To be fair. It is designed to be underwater
@@spiderzvow1the inside was not supposed to be in water though. It's supposed to be water tight
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I mean, is the wood and metal inside just supposed to immediately dissolve? Like you said, it was just a few months 🤷
At least they got to salvage this sub and not UB40 and its cargo of red red wine.
Lmao😅
Well played 😂
😂😂😂👏
Indeed, indeed.
Nice!
Thank God for people who love history!
God has nothing to do with it. There is no need to thank something that does not exist.
@@manfredconnor3194 Psalm 14:1
God loves historians.
After all, he could of made them Democrats instead.
@@FlorentinoRebuildingCo.5644 Your god most likely does not exist.
@@manfredconnor3194 Perhaps, maybe?
But is not the Bible ( or similar ) a history book?
I was fortunate to have toured U550 in Chicago's MOSI in the 80s and Ill never forget it. My favorite exhibit of the whole place.
You don't realize how big they were until you see them out of the water. That's a cool display.
Don't worry about those torpedoes. They only malfunction and detonate spontaneously during attacks.
One assumes they weren't armed until after firing, but that might have been a alter innovation?
I quickly read the title as "British Slavers Horrifying Discovery.." Thought it was a discovered slave ship wreckage. Nope. Salvaged submarine with loaded torpedos.
I wouldn't disagree it was somewhat anticlimactic but in Mike's defence, I think that's much more about how spoilt and blasé we all are nowadays, rather than the fact there's anything intrinsically "unshocking" about the fact that not only were there likely cumulatively several tons of high explosive found on board - but that it was hooked up to its trigger - which we are furthermore told, was infamous for its temperamentality.
Next time you feel like being shocked, why don't you give being an industrial salvage worker a go - and chance upon some unexploded ordnance still with its detonator in place, a mechanism known for being wildly unpredictable - moreover, which was all laid bare to daylight after you had just cracked open a torpedo tube in which the live material lay, with your oxyacetylene torch operating at approaching 3500°C (over 6000° F).
I don't know what sort of thrill-a-minute lifestyle you lead - but for me at least, I reckon the above scenario would probably just about shock me, even if I was already on my guard that something nasty may well be lurking within.....
@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 it was more I read Salvers as Slavers. I expected a sunken slave ship with skeletons in shackles or something. It was my misreading the title that lead to my "Oh.. this is not what I expected." But yes the actual title is a little exaggerated.
@@Rattrap007me too.
I was just surprised when the slaves were still intact and in working order despite having sat submerged.
@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
Calm down, the guy was just saying that he mistook Salvers for Slavers, no need going off on a tangent and lecturing over that.
My great grandfather worked in UB110 born in Newcastle upon Tyne he worked in swan hunters ship builders until his death
So he died when he left port 😂
@@ArnieC1974 no the brightest you eh lad.
I was born in Newcastle, family emigrated to NZ in 74, I remember Dad taking me to see the Esso Hibernia down at the Swan Hunter yards when i was young, it was huge, looked like the bow was hanging over the houses in the street.
This an amazing discovery. It should be documented, recorded and put on exhibition. The public would definitely would want to see it.
There is a u boat at the museum of science and industry in Chicago you can tour
U550, a Type 7 German sub.
@@chekaschmeka4283 It is the U-505.
@@chekaschmeka4283I think it’s a type nine.
That is an amazing set of photos.
Thanks for putting this together 😊
go check out the U-505 in Chicago fully tourable. Coolest thing I have ever seen.
@justinmoody6721 thanks for the heads up. Living in the UK, it will need some planning 👍😊
They raised an uboat that was sunk in the war and found - TADAA - the torpedo tubes still loaded with torpedos. I mean, what did they expect to find in there?
Probably expected them to be stored on the racks, unless they were actively engaged in combat when it sunk. I got the impression it sunk for unknown reasons.
@@warrenparker6287It was depth charged.
@@warrenparker6287 The Torpedoe Tubes are usually fully loaded for several reasons.
- Space is a rare ressource and you are heavily encouraged to use every possible spot as storage
- If you leave port with all torpedo tubes loaded, you literally get one extra charge of torpedoes for free (free = it does not consume extra space)
- It takes several minutes to load even one torpedo tube. In combat, you often have no time to wait half an hour or more to load torpedoes, before engaging a target
Cheese.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 or bratwurst and pilsner lager :)P
It's a shame they scrapped it
there was a war on, the metal was needed
@@cplcabs it was captured 2 months before the end of the war It wasn't scrapped until after the first world war do your homework before commenting
@@exsubmarineractually metal would have been needed after the war for rebuilding and such. So I see why it was scrapped but boy would it have been cool if they didn't !
@@janiprice6117 The raising and salvaging of this submarine was that it could be reversed engineered. the German u-boats were way ahead in technological advances compared to the allies. at the treaty of Versailles in 1919 all the surviving u-boats were surrendered to the allies with the UK France and America getting the lions share some of these u-boats type UB111s and mine laying in submarines UC 11/s we're actually commissioned into allied navies the UK was very interested in the far superior Daimler Benz engines there was a scrap metal boom after the war what with all the warships guns and infrastructure recovered from the theatre of war I have been lucky enough to locate 3 world war one u boat hulls rusting on the Kent mud flats and have salvaged and provided artefacts to museums some weighing over half a ton
@exsubmariner I say it's an amazing feeling to raise a U-Boat out of the sea 🌊. After it's been on the floor of the ocean for 78 to 111 years‼️
Wow just Wow‼️ I would love to be on the recovery ship 🚢 !!
It's Second World war namesake U-110 was the U-boat captured by the British where the Ultra code books were found on board. She sank the next day due to damage suffered in her capture while being towed to a British port.
Yes, I thought that there was some confusion there. It seems strange to me that a wwII submarine should have been given the same designation as one lost in WWI.
How deep was she ?? Is there any film on how she was raised ??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-110
By lots of british hot air!
kindly share the links to the photos :)
Thank god the wooden table was working. Where else would the brits have their tea?
Not tea, she is German, I think she should be U110 not UB (which I think is a WW1 title?), if the WW2 U110 she took some putting down - depth charged by destroyers Broadway and Bulldog and corvette Aubrieta then rammed by Broadway, south west of Ireland in May 1941!
We had a tour of U534 when it was in Birkenhead warships museum. At that time you could actually enter the boat and walk the length of it. It still had debris and some artifacts laying around.
You could see the section were the plates had been spread from the bomb that had been dropped from the British plane which caused it to sink.
We were shown the keel of the sub which had been opened in the search for gold bullion ( the reason the sub was privately raised )
The sub was thought to be on its way to South America with high ranking Germans on board.
Incidentally it was never disclosed if any Gold was found in the keel.
The sub was cut in to sections and moved to a new location were it is now on display. Sadly you can’t enjoy the experience that myself and my son had, actually walking the length of the intact sub before it was cut up. What a shame.
typical of the shorts makers, you always cut off in the middle of something interesting, I'm thankful that you're not responsible for blood transfusions!
On the bottom of the screen there is a link to the full 12 minute video.
She was sunk by HMS Garry, commanded by Charles Lightoller. Is that name familiar?
Yes, a war criminal.
Responsible for the execution of 19 surrendered german sailors.
@@Quert_Zuiopue
German sailor's who'd just attacked and showed no mercy on unarmed merchant ships, but the moment they were in the same situation they wanted to throw their hands in the air and expected the protection of the Geneva Convention, the same protections that minutes before they didn't extend to someone.
I'd have done the same exact thing out of disgust just like Lightoller did.
Wasn't Lightoller an officer on Titanic
@@psychoaftershok Yes its the same Lightoller.
@@dukecraig2402 German sailors enforcing a naval blockade, attacking war material. There are only a few cases where submariners shot sailors in the water or in life boats. These were war crimes.
Now these sailors were in the same position as any sailor of a sinking or sunk ship, in the water and not a threat any more.
Maybe you find something to say about bomber crews attacking civilian targets? Not military targets, air bases, troop concentrations, railroads, factories producing war relevant goods … but internationally burning down cities, causing civilian deaths and destruction or not war relevant civilian properties and housing and shelter not as collateral damage but as the actual target?
Do you think they should be shot and killed while hanging from parachutes or when caught on the ground?
Excellent commentary. Clear as a bell.
Your research and content is amazing. Always fascinating. 🌹⚓
Very cool. Can you try to recover images of the scrapping of the Olympic, Mauretania, Berengaria, and Leviathan?
First rule of gun safety is to treat EVERY weapon as if it were loaded.
Now, the torpedoes had magnetic fuses - which the Brits knew nothing about - and these were unreliable (and would stay so even to early WWII). The Brits did not know of electric powered torpedoes until Kretschmer invaded Scapa Flow (and had many torpedoes not explode, so they could pick them up).
HOWEVER, the torpedos were perfectly safe to handle - the propeller at the nose is blocking the firing mechanism and will only fall off after a runtime of several 100 meters in the water, so while the fuses loved premature or no detonation, they could not detonate with that safety on.
It’s not like the U-boats loved blowing themselves up, thank you very much, the allied mines already did that job and needed no extra help.
At 63, I remember buying “Iron Coffins” in the late ‘70’s & being hooked from the 1st page ever since! In fact, my Granddaughter and I are building a “Revell German U-Boat, Type VII C/42 in 1:144 Scale 🇺🇸
You should try the Trumpeter one in 1/48 scale.
😮😮
You can spend more on the bits that really bring it to life, trouble is they cost more than the original kit. 😂
There are two nations whose mad scientists should not be trifled with. Germans and Russians. Top tier engineers. Humor colder than the steel they transfigure into machine spirits of destruction and obliteration. Props to them.
That's AMAZING!
Very cool.....😎
According to Wikipedia, when the boat was raised in 1918, an unsettling discovery was discovered. Some of its torpedoes were fitted with magnetic firing pistols-the first to be properly identified by the British. These early examples were problematic, often detonating their weapons prematurely if at all.
A short getting a subscription from me…damn. You win this round ocean liner guy
Yay 🙌.....Tyne & Wear Museums ❤
Interesting photos, scary and fascenating
That control room was a steampunk spectacle if there ever was one.
If the phrase "Armed with an infamously unreliable magnetic firing pistol that could go off at any moment" couldn't possibly be the most horrifying i've ever heard. LOL.
It was horrifying to the men who raised the ship.
@@davidelliott5843 "I think it must be damp."
It’s a BS statement. The Brits did identify the magnetic fuse for the first time there (that’s WW1), so the crew lifting it would not have had the slightest idea they were there - nor know about their tendency to detonate prematurely or not at all.
Also, the fuse is safe until the propeller at the nose falls off after several 100 meters in the water. No self-blowing-up for you when the Entente has perfectly fine mines to blow up your submarine if you are out of luck.
Nice reference photos to make a WW1 sub sim with
Wow. Just wow.
It doesn’t say if they found their bodies.
All but 2 crew members got out before being sank. Sadly the destoyers that sank her fired upon the survivors while they were in the water and only 13 survived. This was WW1, remember how the Allies like to bring up WW2 Germans firing on ship survivors when they did it in WW1.
@@tb7771 I’m pretty sure that’s a war crime.
@@grumpy3543it's never a war crime the first time
If you win, war crimes don't matter
@@tb7771 there is only one known case of a U boat crew gunning survivors in WW2.
Interesting, you're getting into Drachinifel channel territory.
A U boat with torpedoes intact, how surprising.
the technology was way ahead of its time.
They would not have recovered any code books or ciphers though, because in the Kriegsmarine those were deliberately printed on water-soluble paper in water-soluble ink. The Kriegsmarine didn't do things half way either, even the message forms the radiomen wrote down and deciphered radio messages on were water-soluble - and so were the connections inside the rotors of the infamous enigma machine.
What has that got to do with UB-110, a WW I submarine?
I've always wondered just how compartments in sunken subs might look like seeing as they are water tight?
It makes me wonder what the crew looks like?
Tyne and Wear, when England was great.
Not so great in the 1920s and 30s, Jarrow march and all that kind of stuff.
Neat!
I got a birthday card one time that just said "UB-40".
..wish I hed kept thet one. 😞
Code books and the Enigma machine were removed when Royal Naval personal boarded the submarine at sea before it was taken in tow and subsequently sank
oh dee-ahh a war sub had torpedos in it you say? who would have guessed? 😂😂😂
The people doing it didn't know about Ultra.
Well they wouldn't, as that was over 20 years in the future. UB-110 was a WW I submarine.
@@TheEulerID thanks. Learn something new. Never heard of it.
Horrifying? I don't think I will sleep tonight...
UB 110 got redesignated as UB40 shortly aftee it sank
I have a pressure gauge from a U-boat. My grandfather took it while it was in a Harbour somewhere in Scotland.
Not sure which boat it was though.
The torpedoes were "locked and loaded"??? They had little to no guidance in those days
No rules in war.😮
I don't understand the awe of it being in good condition after being submerged. Maybe after it was blown up. It's not being in water that ruins things(generally), it's the oxidation afterwards.
What about crew members? Were any remains found and photographed?
glad we can still have a good talk over a drink on that table, would be a tradgedy if the hinges didnt work.
The control systems composed of valves is very confusing...
The ghost crew lived there and did good house keeping.
Must have missed the "horrifying" part.
This is when I pay the price for being dyslexic. I honestly thought I read, “slavers,” where it said, “salvers,” and I was, “horrified.” Now I’m wondering what was meant by the term, “horrific,” in this description? “Tragic,” “sad,” of course. But no more horrific than any other loss of life, surely?
BTW that is notbthe bow that is the aft. The bow is the front of the ship thw aft is the rear of a ship, the port side is the ships left, and the starboard side is its right side. The control room is the bridge.
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I keep forgetting to look at stars after sunset or before sunrise or I become to tired or busy! I hope yiu have the opportunity from your apartrnt there, I wilk try again this week.
( you always comes out as yiu on touch keys because they are right next to each other! Like U and I, ha ha )
Everyone wants to know - what was the state of the bodies?
It was only a few months not years....
I don't know the story behind this German U-boat but unless the boat was scuttled and the entire crew escaped, it should be considered a gravesite and left undisturbed! Only the German Navy should perform recovery operations or their designated salvage company.
Sobering sight
40,000 went to sea
30,000 never returned
My father wanted to be on u boots but he was on 13 when the russkies came..anyway 1980 went back home..then straight to Kiel and bremerhaven to visit das boot and memorial
Have heaps of stories Inc one aunt on the Wilhelm gustloff sunk by dirty Russ sub she survived but hair went white overnight...that's war eh?
That's WW II. UB-110 was a WW I U-Boat.
There are no flowers on a sailors grave.
A Salver is a silver tray, salvager's would be a better term to use.
Salvor is the correct word.
The Kreigsmarine submariners were epic 😎
OMG real life Rockwell! This is the best day of my life
@@KnownNiche1999 That's right, my friend. They tried to fake my death. I am currently living in the mountains near David Duke.
Kaiserliche Marine. Kriegsmarine was 15 years later.
What about the crew? 🧐
We fought the wrong enemy
Restore it to working order
was scrapped.
It was scrapped out in 1918
This was a ww1 submarine.
I'm going to assume the crew escaped and they didn't disturb a war grave, I get it, war time but still
...for months.
Did they discover bodies.
I thought they wpuld discover bodies
More chance of me shitting myself at the prospect that the sub could have blown at any minute then coming across dead bodies.
@@nottmjas Nope. The torpedoes are safe to handle, the fuses cannot activate w/o the safety being removed. Removal is by the torpedo running through the water for several 100 meters.
Besides, most or all crew left the boat, as it was rammed after being forced up.
No skeletons?
Never disrespect German engineering.
German quality at its finest.Still works and is armed too
ABSOLUTE TREASURE
If the British had wanted to save a U-boat they could have saved an intact one captured at the end of the war.
What happened to the crew,did they survive, if there were human remains on board it should have been regarded as a war grave.
So steampunkish.
Nice of the Germans to evacuate all the sailors
Before hand😐
so, no mention of the crew? puzzling
A commenter after you "Tannhauser111" told the tale of UB-110 that the short did not contain.
As, Nomed38 said above another user shared the story. In essence, all of the staff except for two radio operators could save themselves from the sinking U-Boat, but most of them were gunned down by the brits.
@@thedoublek4816I’m pretty sure that’s a war crime. Were anyone tried?
@@grumpy3543So you keep saying. Look it up yourself
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-110
Salvagers!!!
Glad my sammich eating table still works....🥪🍔🌮🌯(tacos&burritos ARE Spanish sandwiches).
Reform
Steel coffin
I assume men died in that. Poor souls.
May they rest in peace.
They didn't. It was evacuated.
It's a little after 3 am and my brain read the thumbnail as,
"Recovered U-Boat Images! --- British 'Slavers' Horrifying..."
So I'm thinking that the algorithm may have effectively reprogrammed my subconscious to jump to the wildest possible chimeric idea of time-travelling Nazis photographically recording the British slave trade, and also chose to watch it, regardless of the absurdity.
NEEEXT!
jk night-night
...but, maybe? 1 more?...
and people in the starved to death or.
The Americans used the better design of the German torpedoes.
its sounds like the video is implying german torpedoes were no good
i dont think the yanks had a torp that would work until '43 or '44
better late than never
The magnetic fuses in 1918 were not great, but these were the first ones the Brits found and correctly identified.
Yes, FIRST world war. SM UB-110 is not U-110.
US WW2 torpedoes the cause of more friendly fire sinking then german uboats
What did happen to the crew ? where they still in the sub ?
I would think so. Most likely bones by then
@@kiedranFan2035 Sunk July 19th, raised October 4th. Same year, 1918.
Most or all of the crew exited the depth charged and then rammed submarine. A number of them were killed in the water.
That does not leave much time for bones from no-longer-there crew.
Where is it now?
scrapped
Where are the bodies?
Most of them didn't go down with the submarine. Many were killed after the actual sinking, by British sailors on the HMS Garry, either by being shot in the water while trying to swim away, or at the hands of the Garry's crew after they were captured and brought on deck. Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare tactics made their submariners the most hated men in the seven seas, especially in the eyes of British sailors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-110
It's salvors, not salvers. And that's why I'm not watching your video. If you can't get the simple things right, how are you going to produce a good short?
German made
Destroyed by the British. UB-110 was depth charged, rammed, and sunk by HMS Garry.