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Have not WW1 warships been dissected for valuable metals in the North Sea and Celtic sea.

its so sad that her properlers are gone due to people illegally looting the battleship

Anyone got any updates on the wrecks? Last update was in May this year when the Malaysians detained the Chinese salvage ship. Where is that ship now? One source i saw stated that Prince of Wales was visited 5 times by that salvage ship before it was caught. Thousands of tonnes of steal must have been taken recently.

SCUMBAGS!!

no whats an unpopular opinion is that is not it --- the history is hogwash ok Britain was not in a "good"war and the people knew it. they revolted in 1936 they stuffed it a made it into something else the king died, men may or may not have mutinied . and the first esp part of the war 1941 and later when they sent men to the meat grinder Singapore , you may have a bias history going wit mayor lies through and through. you say prove it. notice the lack of info and many topics. where did the men end up etc.?

would be a shame if the next grave robber got torpedoed.

i see.

Sad to see people have been down stripping this. May the bed of those doing this be plagued by the flea of a thousand camel.

La peor derrota de la royal navy en la segunda guerra mundial el fin de una era

The wreck seems unusually clean?

Sad knowing divers have blown part of the ship up for scrap

Is that the infamously sheared prop shaft that sealed her fate? According to Drachinifel she was very unlucky to be lost. A victim of poor military Intelligence.

WHYDOESNT THE BRITS PUT SENSORS ON THE WRECK, KEEP WATCH, AND THEN BLOW THE SCRAPPERS OUT OF THE WATER

Location?

Hidup malayan people…hidup umno hidup bn hidup ph mati british

How could a relatively small naval base and the dispatch of two ships effectively deter the imperial ambitions of a militaristic Japan and the might of its armed forces? In reality, the plan, design and construction of the naval base in Singapore, reflected an overstretched British empire by the dawn of the 20th century. Britain had to rely on an alliance with Japan from 1902-1923 to help defend its possessions and military interests in the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, and later switched to dependence on a greater industrial-military power in the USA from 1923 onwards. Out of national pride and perhaps nostalgia, the Brits still sing "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves" today, more than a century after Pax Britannica had begun to wane. It did not help that WWI killed more than 700,000 of British troops and severely drained its economy, incurring a heavy national debt. More significantly, in the years between WWI and WWII, British public opinion reflected popular revulsion against war and did not want to shoulder their empire defence burdens. Instead, the electorate preferred their governments to focus on social welfare spending. So their inter-war civilian governments slashed defence expenditures. Sir Winston Churchill, for one, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924, made deep budget cuts to the Royal Navy and opposed the construction of a naval base in Singapore in 1926, believing that it Japan would not go to war with Britain over the following 20 years. This reduced the shipbuilding capacity, upgrading and firepower of the Royal Navy (RN) ships by WWII. The folly of Churchill's false assumptions in the 1920s would later haunt him because the reduced number of limited RN assets had to be prioritized to keeping Britain's Atlantic lifeline from the USA free of the German U-Boat menace and to match the combined German-Italian warships to keep the Mediterranean free of Fascist control during WWII. So Churchill's WWII global strategic priorities, in the face of a multiple-front war and his token support for Russia against a Nazi invasion, dictated that Britain's Far East possessions could not effectively be reinforced with RN ships, army (including tanks) and aircraft in sufficient quantity and quality. He relied on the USA being drawn into a global war to fight Britain's Nazi and Japanese enemies. Thus, his priorities undermined the Singapore Strategy, which required the British and allied army and airforce to defend the Singapore naval base long enough before RN could reinforce it from thousands of miles away. Despite persistent pleas from his Chiefs of Staff, especially by his Chief of Imperial General Staff Sir John Greer Dill and generals in the Far East and Malayan Command, Churchill refused to reinforce Malaya (including Singapore) with adequate defences time and again. And so Churchill played a leading role in the fall of Singapore; which he termed as the "worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". This was a reality that Churchill wanted to hide from the public. He never fulfilled his promise to hold a full public inquiry into the fall of Singapore during and after WWII when he became PM again from 1951-1955. This would have not only undermined his legacy as a lionised victor of WWII in Europe, but also ruin the careers, vested interests and reputations of many more personalities in the British establishment who had contributed to the fall of Singapore. Even then, he had wanted to confine the terms of reference of the inquiry to the Battle of Singapore island itself; not for peninsular Malaya, when it was long recognised that the defence of the two were inextricably bound together. He had wanted to deflect the spotlight to put the blame on the men on the ground, such as Percival. In his defence however, Churchill explained the (British) House of Commons that he bore full responsibility for the fall of Singapore. In justifying his actions, he indicated that the empire risked ruin if limited imperial defence resources were spread too thinly to cover the Far East and the Pacific. Perhaps, the justice that Churchill got was that he could not emotionally get over the loss of Singapore years after the war. In the case of Prince of Wales, in whom he had earlier sailed to meet US President FDR for talks, he could put names and faces to many of the dead, these were young officers whose wardroom he had shared, with whom he had watched That Hamilton Woman, and been so proudly filmed and photographed only 4 months before he sent them to their deaths. According to his doctor, it was these ghosts that were still haunting Churchill’s dreams in 1953.

Рыбам очень по душе этот линкор.....

Amazing condition though

Кто винты украл?

USS. Westvirginia,Prince of Wales ,Bismarck oder Yamato. Alles gewaltige Schlachtschiffe ,aber gegen Flugzeuge hilflos.

..................legend of prince of wales

That’s a shell

I SAY IF YOU FIND ANY OF THESE SCRAPPERS TAKE THEM BACK TO THE SHIP AND TIE THEN TO IT

That's a good look at ole Blackbeard's boat,,,they were shelling cows on a pasture and that had to Stop!!!

With Indonesia having been infected with the decaying hand of Islam, they have no concern for the memory and last resting place of white servicemen.

Hello- I'm currently working on a documentary for TH-cam on the illegal salvaging of the wrecks in the Java sea. Would you be happy for me to use a clip from this video in mine? With credit of course

Fun fact the prince of Wales was killed in a very similar way to the Bismarck to torpedoes to the aft locking it in a constant turn ultimately leading to its death

Would be easy to track down a sale of that much high quality material.. even if broken up.... simple public punishment.. am not going to say what.. as it wouldn't be very pleasant....

Great job done by Japanese torpedo bombers in Nov 1941 in South China Sea. Prince of Wales had earlier managed to escape by launching smoke screen bombs ,in the Battle of Denmark Straits in May 1941 . The honour of sending HMS Prince of wales to the locker of Old Davy Jones was left for the Japanese.

Hard to see now what is battle damage and what is desecrator / salvage damage.

A reminder to the native people to never rely on colonialist and imperialist powers to protect them.

That's disappointing to see. What a magnificent ship, and a war grave. People that destroy them for profit are the lowest scum that deserve punishment. RIP HMS Prince Of Wales and all who died aboard her.

Desecration of a war grave, salvagers are nothing but scum, I say send the Royal Navy in to show them why you shouldn’t touch sunken warships. Especially Britain’s. Fine pieces of Naval history that should only be dived to look at and remember what happened. Nothing more

Hola no me convensen puede ser cualquier barco no se muestra nada para conoserlo

I cannot believe that there are such people who can steal from a ship that is a war grave. I was also a sailor and there is no worse fate for a sailor than this, but in my country there is a saying for such thieves "GOD SEES EVERYTHING, GOD WILL JUDGE THEM" Very sad ...

Sad to see it. Fortunately, I still remember the huge props from our trip in 2010. Rest in peace POW.

Agree

Thank God the HMS HOOD is so deep that these grave robbing BASTARDS cant get to her!!!

So people took away the brass screws, or were they bronze ?😯

So sad That s turned upside down

Super video

I honestly think we need to raise these wrecks and bring them back to Britain to keep these scum away from them.

Alas the people that populate the area are not white and evidently care little about wrecks where white fighting men are entombed. Or perhaps it's cultural. As in their cultures never produced great ships of war and therefore never experienced the grief of loss when such great investments of life and treasure go down in the service of their nations.

Honestly...how could they do that to her. Unless its a significant artifact of some sort, I can't see justifying taking anything off of a wreck like this. What a shame. In retrospect, I find it kind of funny that we get so worked up over something as little as her propellers and shafts being scrapped, but at the same time I cant help but think of how She isn't just any kind of ship. She is a warship. She is the culmination of great minds and hard workers who managed to design and build some of the most powerful weapons mankind could make at the time. She was made for a purpose and She, like many other warships, has served that purpose. She served her people and She severed her country. Leave her be. Let her rest. She's earned it.

Only thing that matters in this world now is money. These brave brave men gave their all .as the monument says at Singapore for your tomorrow we gave our today. Sad Scummy people who do this.

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Thank god the bismarck is too deep to be excavated

The salt water will eat it up anyways.

It's desecration of a war grave. They should be punished.