A British Submarine in WWII Goes from Hunter to Hunted

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @gogiocannizzaro1511
    @gogiocannizzaro1511 5 лет назад +424

    Sometimes I fill up my bathtub then turn on the shower and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit.

    • @youtub__2018
      @youtub__2018 4 года назад +12

      But Why?

    • @daxiding643
      @daxiding643 4 года назад +9

      Wired but cool

    • @alew6883
      @alew6883 4 года назад +2

      Ok I guess

    • @beesechurger9464
      @beesechurger9464 4 года назад

      Reasons

    • @mrexcalibur1418
      @mrexcalibur1418 4 года назад +8

      Legend 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @JIM-tt3wp
    @JIM-tt3wp 5 лет назад +100

    My stepbrother was in a sub in the Pacific during WW2. I asked him once to describe what it was like to be depth charged. His only words to me were “it was very unpleasant”. That was all he would say!

    • @ssPeto
      @ssPeto 4 года назад +17

      My father served on a submarine in the Pacific. He never really talked about it until I told him that what a depth charge attack was like was beyond my imagination. He then spent the next 6 hours telling me stories about his wartime experiences including depth charge attacks.

    • @Youtuberuser007
      @Youtuberuser007 2 года назад +1

      Bro stop talking a fake story

    • @Youtuberuser007
      @Youtuberuser007 2 года назад +1

      Stepbrother on sub imagine on this time not exist

    • @Paladin_Green
      @Paladin_Green Год назад +3

      ​@@RUclipsruser007 You do not know how old his step brother or the guy who owns the account is. Perhaps you should stop assuming.

  • @xXxCLEMSONxXx
    @xXxCLEMSONxXx 4 года назад +262

    I’m surprised submarines don’t automatically sink from the shear size of the balls of the men on board

    • @agapitometuerzo1506
      @agapitometuerzo1506 4 года назад +10

      Totally agree!! Balls and nerves of steel!!!

    • @AOSMAKAKMS
      @AOSMAKAKMS 4 года назад +4

      it was sunk on april 11 1941

    • @deltaboy767
      @deltaboy767 4 года назад

      Can you imagine the stench from all those balls, not to mention the stench of feet festering in 100+ degree heat in the submarine nasty!!!!

    • @harshg.9896
      @harshg.9896 4 года назад

      @@deltaboy767 They got more important things to worry about like not dying

    • @deltaboy767
      @deltaboy767 4 года назад

      @@harshg.9896 This is true.

  • @Acc0rd79
    @Acc0rd79 6 лет назад +300

    Talk about a great captain!

  • @rambler241
    @rambler241 6 лет назад +296

    "Wanklyn's best chance is to escape" - words fail me.

    • @Cybermat47
      @Cybermat47 4 года назад +9

      “The Allies’ best option is to win the war.”

    • @Cybermat47
      @Cybermat47 4 года назад +4

      @Dominik Moeller fighting isn’t an option, it would basically be suicide.
      Surrender isn’t an option as long as you have a reasonable chance of escaping.
      Hiding would be done to facilitate an escape.

    • @italochiacchella2110
      @italochiacchella2110 3 года назад

      @@Cybermat47 pp

  • @Camcolito
    @Camcolito 5 лет назад +64

    If you thought artillery barrages were bad, try getting depth charged.

  • @skyguy1236
    @skyguy1236 6 лет назад +561

    Get some flex tape!

  • @dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189
    @dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189 4 года назад +15

    ...Italians were in essence, trying to turn Upholder into a Cupholder. To manage to survive something incredible like that...and then have your missions classified - so you can't talk about it - would even drive you crazy. Greatest Generation.

  • @garwhittaker3743
    @garwhittaker3743 6 лет назад +30

    They had some great sub crews in WW2 in the Royal navy ...Amazing great men ...

    • @MrEsphoenix
      @MrEsphoenix 5 лет назад +5

      Britain's always had to rely on skill over numbers. There's a reason they invented the modern special forces doctrine, and hold many records in the military field. We have our fair share of issues, but even those we've fought have respected British training and skill.

    • @crusader1997
      @crusader1997 5 лет назад +3

      It is true

    • @5000mahmud
      @5000mahmud 3 года назад

      @@bc8359 Nice little word salad unrelated to the original comment.

    • @bc8359
      @bc8359 3 года назад

      @@5000mahmud You keep your nose out of my salad

    • @5000mahmud
      @5000mahmud 3 года назад

      @@bc8359 dont threaten me with a good time

  • @DeathByLego
    @DeathByLego 3 года назад +16

    “Too close for comfort”. I think any depth charge anywhere in a 2.5 mile radius is too close for comfort.

  • @iraklitos20022003
    @iraklitos20022003 6 лет назад +137

    "Upholder was lost with all hands on her 25th patrol, which was to have been her last before she returned to England. She left for patrol on 6 April 1942 and became overdue on 14 April..."
    From Wikipedia.

    • @mushmorant9253
      @mushmorant9253 6 лет назад +36

      Impressively, she sank over 93,000 tons of shipping in about 11 months on patrol, including 2 enemy submarines and one destroyer.

    • @FastEddy1959
      @FastEddy1959 4 года назад +5

      jeet patil - these men were warriors, they willingly put their lives at risk so that you, I, and everyone, could live free from the awful yoke of fascism. Your comment shows you to have the character of a pig-dog; you are beneath contempt.

    • @robertstorey7476
      @robertstorey7476 4 года назад +1

      she was found a 100 miles from where she was told to patrol. Wanklyn went looking for targets, was tempted to play it safe and survive in last mission like you might be tempted to.

    • @Brassman-ur3ho
      @Brassman-ur3ho 4 года назад

      @@GenSurgVictor got what they did unto others? Same thing applied to the German uboats or were the Germans the victim according to you?

  • @dan4345
    @dan4345 6 лет назад +211

    It was sunk on April 11, 1942. No survivors.

    • @masondunn1507
      @masondunn1507 5 лет назад +37

      way to rain on the keyboard warriors parade

    • @melted_cheetah
      @melted_cheetah 4 года назад +10

      They killed 1,300 alone when they sunk the cruise ship Conte Russo

    • @davidrogers7435
      @davidrogers7435 4 года назад +8

      well that's war

    • @dawoodshahanshah1035
      @dawoodshahanshah1035 4 года назад +12

      R.i.p to the great crew, giving their lives for their Great country.

    • @melvinolsson9958
      @melvinolsson9958 4 года назад

      Smithsonian channel its brighter here

  • @davedaihatsu2585
    @davedaihatsu2585 4 года назад +13

    Captain: Starboard thirty.
    Helmsman steers to port instead and can be seen steering to port for the entire duration of video.
    Marvellous editing, bravo bravo!

    • @allgaming4045
      @allgaming4045 4 года назад

      They did the same thing with the titanic

    • @Mickeysternum245
      @Mickeysternum245 4 года назад

      It was done like that in titanic because back in those days they used to operate the opposite of how we do it now for some reason. So the titanic scene is accurate to how it would have been

  • @MellowYellow.
    @MellowYellow. 6 лет назад +84

    War is scary.

    • @sukimasai718
      @sukimasai718 4 года назад +2

      When it is not?

    • @chicuongvu1806
      @chicuongvu1806 4 года назад +1

      Why ? Yup when there is noise u know what is going on but when it is slient

    • @calebjaymes9710
      @calebjaymes9710 4 года назад

      When ur a good fighter pilot its not

  • @DanielGutierrez-ih6sf
    @DanielGutierrez-ih6sf 6 лет назад +62

    this was awesome....it's a shame that the battle of the Atlantic overshadows the Mediterranean in the European theater

    • @ToreDL87
      @ToreDL87 5 лет назад +3

      It overshadows the Atlantic because minus a few empty chairs here and there the Mediterranean was more or less a cakewalk (considering the Atlantic was the Brits's equivalent of Nazi Germany's Eastern Front), the Brits had near total control of what was going in and out of the Mediterranean almost from the get-go, all they had to do was inflict enough damage to get the point across, the rest of the Italian shipping would be mothballed and the few German U-boats that made it in = largely put to the sword with effective ASW (at the loss of 450k gross tonnage i.e nothing)

    • @nandopassante6888
      @nandopassante6888 5 лет назад +12

      @@ToreDL87 Do some learning man. Your 'cakewalk' costed the Royal Navy 76 warships and 48 submarines (most of the Royal Navy's submarine losses took place in the Mediterranean) from June 1940 to September 1943, not to mention the merchant shipping. Until the arrival of the USAAF gave them air superiority in late 1942 they did not have near total control of anything, Malta was besieged and starved for more than two years and battle such as Operations Harpoon and Vigorous in June 1942 and Operation Pedestal in August 1942 show that Italian naval forces were far from 'mothballed', two years from the beginning of that campaign. The Brits had things so much in control in the Mediterranean that rather than sending supply convoys for their troops in North Africa to Egypt across the Mediterranean, they sent them on a much longer voyage around Africa because they considered the Mediterranean as too dangerous. You are just ignorant, that's all. Oh, and the comparison of the battle of the Atlantic to the Eastern Front is beyond ridiculous. The Western Allies never had to face the scale of violence and human losses the Russians faced there.

    • @waynesimpson2074
      @waynesimpson2074 4 года назад +1

      @@nandopassante6888 Aye, I perceive the Med conflict in the same manner you have highlighted...extremely hazardous ( for us Brits), per square nautical mile, worse than anywhere else on the planet in WW2. For example: The ONLY British battleship ever to be sunk at battlestations ( i.e underway, on open seas, with enemy sonar contact) by a U-boat during WW2 was in the Med; HMS Barham, my granddad was on it. RIP John McHugh.

    • @FastEddy1959
      @FastEddy1959 4 года назад +2

      Nando Passante - Thank you for that excellent post; it held a lot of very good information. One small point, though; one of the big reasons the Russians had such a great scale of violence & suffered so many casualties was the tactics they used. Sending unarmed men into an infantry charge in the twentieth century was going to result in carnage, every time.

    • @jianbozhang4569
      @jianbozhang4569 4 года назад

      @@ToreDL87 /

  • @mushmorant9253
    @mushmorant9253 6 лет назад +6

    Actually the relatively small U class subs could do 10 knots underwater at flank speed which is quite fast (of course no sub would maintain that speed submerged for more than a few minutes as it would quickly deplete their batteries). Their surface speed, however, was limited to a maximum of 12 knots which is considerably slower than anything that is going to be chasing them.

  • @msb3235
    @msb3235 6 лет назад +114

    It's sad the submarine was lost with all hands including Lieutenant Wanklyn and is never found until today.

    • @NiumeLTU
      @NiumeLTU 6 лет назад +20

      MS_ B the submarine is the submariners grave.

    • @ruenshooter3238
      @ruenshooter3238 6 лет назад +10

      Cmon spoilers

    • @Brucev7
      @Brucev7 4 года назад +3

      Davy Jones Locker

  • @samnigam3451
    @samnigam3451 4 года назад +14

    When hunter becomes the hunted reminds me if classic WWII war film Das Boot. The first destroyer encounter is one of the most scary n intense scene of the movie. Based on the true story of the crew of U96.

    • @harleythomas701
      @harleythomas701 4 года назад +4

      With some stuff thrown in to make it more intense as well as to make u actually feel the heart break especially the end of the movie

    • @DiabloOutdoors
      @DiabloOutdoors 3 года назад +2

      great movie

  • @UAPJedi
    @UAPJedi 4 года назад +6

    This is great, you hear all the time about U boats and wolf packs but nothing about allied subs.

    • @Robert53area
      @Robert53area 4 года назад +1

      Should see what american subs did to Japan, makes uboats look like amateurs, most of them sailed huge distance and sank 3 to 4 ships in a day, then had to meet with refitted and refueled at sea.

    • @borisborkovic8894
      @borisborkovic8894 3 года назад +1

      @@Robert53area well us subs had easier job because they mostly attacked undefended ships while uboats attacked well protected convoys

  • @Panzer_Runner
    @Panzer_Runner 6 лет назад +49

    Das Boot vs The Boat

    • @Larry_atta45
      @Larry_atta45 5 лет назад +4

      "IL Bote" because was italian.

    • @Neneset
      @Neneset 5 лет назад +6

      @@Larry_atta45 The submarine was British. The destroyers were Italian.

    • @samueljesse5020
      @samueljesse5020 4 года назад +1

      @@Neneset They didn't sink the British sub, he got away

  • @njtel1370
    @njtel1370 6 лет назад +88

    could you upload full documentaries please

    • @MattKearneyFan1
      @MattKearneyFan1 6 лет назад +3

      NJ Tel copyright will take it down

    • @kshatriya1414
      @kshatriya1414 6 лет назад +5

      it’s a subscription based site that only show parts of the documentary

    • @HansCent
      @HansCent 5 лет назад +3

      Go to their website which is listed in their 'about' page in their RUclips channel and click on 'watch full episodes'.
      They are not free.

  • @crusader1997
    @crusader1997 5 лет назад +45

    The Iron coffins

  • @lreid2495
    @lreid2495 5 лет назад +6

    How, what happened, etcetera?
    The small snippets are interesting, but a further few seconds I often imagine, could easily value add.

  • @teejay5432
    @teejay5432 4 года назад +2

    It takes a special character to be able to withstand living in an ever imminent underwater coffin!

  • @satadrusengupta9136
    @satadrusengupta9136 5 лет назад +1

    @2:18 The sub captain commands "Starboard 30". The helmsman turns the wheel to port?

    • @Yosemite-George-61
      @Yosemite-George-61 5 лет назад +1

      is to confuse the destroyer... :-)

    • @satadrusengupta9136
      @satadrusengupta9136 5 лет назад +1

      @@Yosemite-George-61 Must have confused many on board the bridge of the sub itself ;-)

  • @davidzof
    @davidzof 5 лет назад +1

    They should turn those taps off they use to stop leaks before they get depth charged !

  • @RKsinghmed
    @RKsinghmed 6 лет назад +10

    You really upload great videos

  • @constellation1986
    @constellation1986 6 лет назад +8

    HMS Upholder?Is it also a Triton class SS?

  • @gabry8550
    @gabry8550 6 лет назад +25

    Despite italian soldiers were brave and strong, Italy couldn't afford a big powerful army. This was due to the lack of weapons and strategies. But the italian "navy" was strong. Warfare is just shit guys.

    • @PhonoDirect
      @PhonoDirect 6 месяцев назад

      Yes, the navy was strong. Particularity it's respectable anti-submarine equipment and skills.

    • @67claudius
      @67claudius 27 дней назад

      Lack of sufficient industrial capacity for a global war but above all lack of raw materials which during WW1 were supplied by the United Kingdom

  • @sumerianbrother
    @sumerianbrother 5 лет назад

    Excellent doc. Even the trailer. Good job.

  • @v11cu96
    @v11cu96 5 лет назад +4

    I prefer the look of the third Generation U-Class or V-Class boats, Like HMS Ventura. They looked meaner.

  • @awwk8452
    @awwk8452 4 года назад +4

    The most terrefiying part is the creaking and whining of the ship

  • @KristerAndersson-nc8zo
    @KristerAndersson-nc8zo 4 года назад +1

    It is interesting to see the story of a British u-boat.

  • @JIM-tt3wp
    @JIM-tt3wp 4 года назад

    To: Maynard88: No, I’m only 74. My mom was 70 at the time oh her marriage to my stepfather, who was 80). This was his son who was on the sub in the Pacific during WW2.

  • @johnsmith-zv1lo
    @johnsmith-zv1lo 6 лет назад +13

    they sunk a ocean liner, troop transport Of the 2,729 soldiers and crew aboard, 1,300 were killed.

    • @georgewhiplemyerjr.9165
      @georgewhiplemyerjr.9165 5 лет назад +8

      Unfortunately less to fight on Land. Thus saving many American/British lives.

    • @rikk319
      @rikk319 4 года назад +1

      Subs on all sides sank capital ships, tankers, freighters, and--yes--troop transports.

    • @thecommentaryking
      @thecommentaryking 4 года назад +1

      @@georgewhiplemyerjr.9165 Only British lives, the Americans at the time were not engaged in the conflict

  • @Anonymous-ic6ld
    @Anonymous-ic6ld 5 лет назад +4

    What a hero

  • @alexxx_zou
    @alexxx_zou 3 года назад +1

    That person just standing there eyeballing everything

  • @wannamontana4130
    @wannamontana4130 4 года назад

    So what was the weird sound that the boat above was giving off?

  • @Oistopthat
    @Oistopthat 6 лет назад +8

    Damn explosive spaghetti

  • @ObtuseArmadillo
    @ObtuseArmadillo 4 года назад

    So what was the creaking noise???

  • @grapefruit488
    @grapefruit488 4 года назад

    I love how the captain is the only one who didn’t fall down

  • @joeschlotthauer840
    @joeschlotthauer840 6 лет назад +12

    What was the scraping noise...

    • @vinceallenmeneses5883
      @vinceallenmeneses5883 6 лет назад

      joe Schlotthauer shark

    • @FS2k16
      @FS2k16 6 лет назад +2

      I wanna know too

    • @antonrudenham3259
      @antonrudenham3259 6 лет назад +17

      As Captain Wanklyn said, it was the noise made by the 'Conte Rosso' that he had just sunk, the scraping,screeching noise is the sound of steel bulkheads imploding and folding as the ship sinks deeper and the pressure becomes higher.
      Apparently it's a very distinctive and very mournful sound.

    • @bmurphy0296
      @bmurphy0296 6 лет назад +3

      ANTON RUDENHAM perfect description

    • @otterspocket2826
      @otterspocket2826 4 года назад

      The crews' balls dragging on the floor.

  • @Mostrichkugel
    @Mostrichkugel 6 лет назад +19

    They must have had a whole team of hairdressers and barbers on board to keep them in such shape, and who knitted all those nice white sweaters? And just look at that cute little steering wheel with the handles, ah the British Navy, give them the feeling of handling a ship.
    They should have painted their vessel yellow, they would all have lived - in a yellow submarine.

    • @helenHTID
      @helenHTID 6 лет назад +8

      A video made by Americans no doubt. But put that aside, Do you really think anyone looked like that back then? They blatantly look like clean cut actors! And the set looks like something from a west end play and the CGI is something I can do on my PC! Are you German by any chance? Or Italian? Your frustration would make sense :D

    • @Mostrichkugel
      @Mostrichkugel 6 лет назад

      helenHTID I am German...

    • @helenHTID
      @helenHTID 6 лет назад +3

      The Americans are good at stereotyping in a glamorous but cheesy and cringy way on screen. Their German depictions are probably the worse lol

    • @Mostrichkugel
      @Mostrichkugel 6 лет назад

      helenHTID I was being ironic of course. I know what men in U-boats looked like.

    • @chriskelleher349
      @chriskelleher349 5 лет назад

      This 5minute video might be part of a movie. I don't know. I'm not going to knock it. Well done if it sparks self-examination. As a side remark, looking at soldiers, sailors, and airmen of other countries on the internet.... I wouldn't want to mess with any of them. They all look fit for duty.

  • @211pirate6
    @211pirate6 4 года назад

    What happened to the destroyers and what was that noise they heard?

  • @irfanahmed9112
    @irfanahmed9112 4 года назад

    Is dept charge creat tense jolt?

    • @OrbitFallenAngel
      @OrbitFallenAngel 4 года назад +1

      It's an underwater explosion...meant to damage a submarine..it doesn't necessarily have to be a direct hit, just close enough to do serious damage..

  • @ryan11.11
    @ryan11.11 8 месяцев назад

    Curious to know were the Italian navy a strong fighting force

  • @janefolley8107
    @janefolley8107 4 года назад +2

    OMG USE FLEX SEAL. IT EVEN WORKS UNDER WATER

  • @ToreDL87
    @ToreDL87 5 лет назад +6

    0:30
    Welcome to German U-boat's, and they kept at it for 6 years without b*tching.
    (Not on their side or anything just had to be said).
    Carry on!

  • @Yosemite-George-61
    @Yosemite-George-61 5 лет назад +1

    ...generation after generation is amazed at the U-boat stories, the Nazis did well because their submarines were superior and of course because of the courage of their crews. No one seems to care about those corageous men who sailed in some of the worst submarines of the war (you know who they are) and yet they managed some good hits. I would like to learn more about brithish submarine operations in WWII, I just learned about the "dog fight" near the Shetlands... great stuff...

    • @shadyyy7490
      @shadyyy7490 5 лет назад +2

      If you want to look at some brave underwater action look at the Raid on Alexandria. Really awesome and interesting

    • @zeus-mt7wx
      @zeus-mt7wx Год назад

      @@shadyyy7490
      It’s amazing how the frogman pushed the 3 man sun out in the ocean. The courage of the Italian mini sun operators amazing.

  • @grand-dadmiral
    @grand-dadmiral 6 лет назад +5

    That's a lotta damage! How about some more?

    • @isaachuman1540
      @isaachuman1540 6 лет назад +1

      Hi Paul swift to talk about flex tape to show you the power of flex tape I dropped a bomb on a U BOOT

  • @Tom-nt9xo
    @Tom-nt9xo 4 года назад +3

    Captain: Starboard 30, Wheel is turned to left. wow!

    • @lachlanchester8142
      @lachlanchester8142 4 года назад +1

      Might’ve had a tiller on the rudder, same with the titanic, you have to turn the wheel the opposite direction

    • @Sorarse
      @Sorarse 4 года назад

      Maybe they were at starboard 60 previously and needed to reduce their turn rate.

    • @Justatoy26
      @Justatoy26 4 года назад +1

      That’s how U Boats were. Left was right and right was left. Hard for the incompetent mind to understand I’m sure.

  • @ganeshbachan5570
    @ganeshbachan5570 6 лет назад

    Full episodes please

  • @KanekiKen-by8rb
    @KanekiKen-by8rb 3 года назад

    Im surprised they survived that many depth charges....

  • @kingjames7273
    @kingjames7273 4 года назад +1

    Terror in the depths of liquid space

  • @matthorvat7970
    @matthorvat7970 6 лет назад +2

    Why is he only 70 feet underwater? Thats like 20m

    • @johnwayne6647
      @johnwayne6647 5 лет назад +3

      Because that stretch of sea is shallow

  • @Mc007Queen
    @Mc007Queen 5 лет назад +1

    Awesome the hunter becomes The Hunted .... how many has the hunter killed before it was terminated

    • @kingjames7273
      @kingjames7273 4 года назад

      93000tons in six months patrol two German underwater boats a Gerry's destroyer and a lot of merchant vessels

  • @aztronomy7457
    @aztronomy7457 3 года назад

    Of course a British skipper wears a turtle kneck🤣

  • @Cavelson
    @Cavelson 4 года назад +2

    First battle rule: Save ammo

  • @melted_cheetah
    @melted_cheetah 4 года назад

    Sinking troop ships. A grim business indeed.

  • @gabry8550
    @gabry8550 6 лет назад +5

    I think it's so sad to force people to make war, to fight and in this way to kill other people and risk to lose their own lives. We're all the same we're all brothers so that's not right... if God really exists he will judge us one day..... let's think over it.....

  • @nigelling2795
    @nigelling2795 4 года назад +1

    Oh dear. Another superficial presentation. Please tell the helmsman to turn the wheel the other way. The destroyer propellers are inward turning - all Italians were outward. Nice modern cable knit sweaters - the oiled wool ones were plain. Please tell Mr Groves that the U class were relatively fast and nimble underwater when compared with many contemporary submarines, but were desperately slow on the surface with inadequate generating power just like many warships.

    • @nigelling2795
      @nigelling2795 4 года назад

      And of course he was DAVID Wanklyn, not Malcolm.

  • @805Franco
    @805Franco 5 лет назад

    Now thats how a leader should be.

  • @mr.lowslow7702
    @mr.lowslow7702 4 года назад

    Those turtlenecks are sick

  • @peterlim7053
    @peterlim7053 5 лет назад

    That captain 👌 nerves of steel haha

  • @antonipelaez1053
    @antonipelaez1053 2 года назад

    And turn the light off when you do it

  • @alexsky88749
    @alexsky88749 6 лет назад

    I wonder if the Allies or Germany had some kind of homing torpedoes technology using radar, at the end of the war? I know Germans had some kind of guided torpedoes very late in the war.

    • @iagree4686
      @iagree4686 6 лет назад +2

      @HiWetcam ?is ASDIC not a sonar? And it works in seawater

    • @busteraycan
      @busteraycan 5 лет назад

      Just googled ASDIC:
      ASDIC
      /ˈazdɪk/
      noun
      an early form of sonar used to detect submarines

  • @trkayani4949
    @trkayani4949 4 года назад

    I would say lucky escape and brilliant men in submarine.

  • @shuandoyleiii4
    @shuandoyleiii4 6 лет назад

    Do anyone know why they sink merchants

    • @shepherdlavellen3301
      @shepherdlavellen3301 5 лет назад

      Destroyers can outmaneuver the sub quite easily and can sometimes outrun the torpedoes, and it's the deadliest enemy of submarines. Carriers were anti submarines since they have planes which were another deadly enemy of submarines cause submarines back then had to surface to charge batteries. Battleships were sometimes targets of the submarines but submarines cannot outrun the Battleships to catch up with them. Japanese submarines chose battleships over merchants back then but it didn't work well and even the Kaiten torpedo (kamikaze midget subs) only have one confirmed kill (the one that carried the Hiroshima A-Bomb).

    • @shepherdlavellen3301
      @shepherdlavellen3301 5 лет назад

      Subs back then didn't have a lot of firepower, only limited amount of torpedoes were available for each patrol, reload took forever, aiming at targets was hard, torpedoes malfunction a lot. Using Deck gun to attack Destroyer was suicidal, AA turrets didn't work well against aircraft either. With limited firepower in order to do max damage they had to pick targets carefully, just like snipers chose officers over soldiers, subs chose merchants over battleships. But to the submariners it is never a pleasant scene to see sailors drowning but submarines with limited space and supply cannot afford to pick them up. Not sure about the Japanese, there was one German Captain who shot merchant crew to hide evidence, was executed by Germans for committing war crime

  • @theodorenelson9362
    @theodorenelson9362 6 лет назад +4

    Why no aircraft video

  • @conqururfear
    @conqururfear 5 лет назад

    Yep

  • @williamhalley3573
    @williamhalley3573 6 лет назад +1

    Captain looks so calm the entire time

    • @chriskelleher349
      @chriskelleher349 5 лет назад +1

      William H Actor.

    • @alexvanhorssen7914
      @alexvanhorssen7914 5 лет назад

      @@chriskelleher349 probably was in reality too

    • @RichARock
      @RichARock 5 лет назад

      @@alexvanhorssen7914 no he probs acted calm to keep moral high but he wouldn't of been

    • @jimclark6256
      @jimclark6256 4 года назад +1

      It's an actor acting.

  • @roentgen226
    @roentgen226 5 лет назад

    Epic subwoofer

  • @majesticface3631
    @majesticface3631 5 лет назад

    2:24 wtf did he say feet? hes british tho

    • @ericstewart7269
      @ericstewart7269 5 лет назад

      keep seventy feet

    • @billpetersen298
      @billpetersen298 4 года назад

      Most of the world uses metric. The imperial system is English. Canada is confused.

  • @Mgunner7623
    @Mgunner7623 4 года назад +2

    Great sweaters in the 1940s.

  • @monoken
    @monoken 6 лет назад

    Please we need subtitles uggggh.

  • @phantasma6406
    @phantasma6406 4 года назад

    Just like how dreams speed runner vs hunter always end up

  • @Padoinky
    @Padoinky 6 лет назад +3

    why not go deeper?

    • @arc46789
      @arc46789 6 лет назад +16

      J PR the hull would implode at too great a depth, and WW2 subs were pretty limited in that regard.

    • @mister-v-3086
      @mister-v-3086 6 лет назад +1

      British subs, maybe..but US subs, starting with the Balao class. routinely went to 400 feet.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 лет назад +5

      The U-class could go to 400 feet, though the earlier Odin class could go down to 500 feet. Just because you can doesn't mean you do, though.

    • @BushcraftBoy
      @BushcraftBoy 6 лет назад +2

      He's running on batteries. He doesn't know how long the Italian destroyers will maintain contact so he has to conserve power as well as evade attack. Going lower takes more battery power. The increased water pressure also means that the sub will be even slower and he has no sonar to tell where the Italians are.

  • @brianbozo2447
    @brianbozo2447 5 лет назад

    Most of these crews would have been in their 20's yet already facing death or being themselves killers.

  • @brcarter1111
    @brcarter1111 5 лет назад +1

    Wouldn't have happened if they didn't paint it yellow

  • @pinoyako9830
    @pinoyako9830 4 года назад +1

    What is the Irishman doing in that sub?

  • @rapidfiregames6273
    @rapidfiregames6273 4 года назад

    What Happens If A Depth Charge Explodes On Land?

  • @fanakiosmarketopolous5351
    @fanakiosmarketopolous5351 4 года назад

    I am just wondering if this weapon of war which is the submarine respects the code of honour or if it's a "moral " way of fighting. Because these guys are luring deep in the water and launching torpedoes at ships like stabbing them in the back without appearing openly in the field for a fair play battle. Is there anything which could be called "code of honour" in naval warfare?
    Then the submariners are "punished " with these depth charges which is a terrible way to die. I could not think of these submariners like some glorious knights. They are more like butchers of the deep, than soldiers with an honour. What do you think about that, guys?

  • @syahran1518
    @syahran1518 6 лет назад

    WE ARE THE CHOSEN ONE

  • @ThatLad685
    @ThatLad685 4 года назад

    Go to 1:04 if your tryna hear the spawn of satan come out of this mans voice

  • @johannsebastianbach9003
    @johannsebastianbach9003 6 лет назад

    Still bad that they died in the end year of the war

  • @soulagent79
    @soulagent79 6 лет назад +1

    Did the destroyers' captains know the submarine had no torpedos left?

    • @zach6643
      @zach6643 6 лет назад +7

      No, but he might have guessed that it didn't

    • @chrysllerryu4171
      @chrysllerryu4171 6 лет назад +2

      It doesnt matter even it has torpedos. It will be hard for them to be in position to fire those torpedos. Especially while being chase by a destroyer.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 лет назад +1

      A destroyers job is to destroy submarines, it doesn't matter if they are armed - if you sink it now then it can't resupply and come back.

  • @massimocallegari4898
    @massimocallegari4898 4 года назад +1

    The italian corvette Cicogna sink this submarine near San Vito lo Capo

    • @thecommentaryking
      @thecommentaryking 4 года назад

      No, that was HMS Thunderbolt, this is HMS Upholder

    • @massimocallegari4898
      @massimocallegari4898 4 года назад

      @@thecommentaryking Oh yes, the ex Thetis...sorry. Thank you

  • @Lens15
    @Lens15 4 года назад +1

    when you use uno reverse card

  • @drinks1019
    @drinks1019 6 лет назад +1

    Hold up, look at their beards!!! They must have the shaving standard of a US civil war regiment!!!

    • @willyspinney1959
      @willyspinney1959 5 лет назад

      Were do get the water to shave with on a submarine?

  • @jwalk2601
    @jwalk2601 4 года назад

    Just give me some flex seal. They will be fine.

  • @armandoestebanquito1074
    @armandoestebanquito1074 4 года назад

    Do you remember MALVINAS ARGENTINAS?
    JAJA
    For us you are Hollywood

  • @PrinceGoku191
    @PrinceGoku191 4 года назад

    These guys are good looking

  • @drisselfaiz187
    @drisselfaiz187 3 года назад

    Les Allemands je suis trop fort pour les sous-marins allemands

  • @ExopMan
    @ExopMan 6 лет назад

    J Crew capt.

  • @jaybird1150
    @jaybird1150 3 года назад +2

    Wouldn't it be nice if this happen to the pigz? They go from being the hunter to the hunted?? Can you imagine giving them a taste of their own eagotistical medicine?!?

  • @dtkdk9688
    @dtkdk9688 4 года назад

    italian ship captain: att all crew i think we sink the enemy submarine let go home " ...

  • @BlissinthemiX
    @BlissinthemiX 5 лет назад +1

    67 GERMANS

  • @davidbaxter8875
    @davidbaxter8875 4 года назад

    Still on patrol

  • @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744
    @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744 4 года назад

    Wait a minute I thought British don't use submarine because it un fair un English and ordered to hang captured submarine crew.

  • @Khadija-uj6gy
    @Khadija-uj6gy Год назад

    💘💘💘