Andrew Choong Han Lin is something of a star within this excellent documentary isn't he? His appreciation of the subtleties of naval architecture and the relative capabilities of the combatants is most informative and very eloquently expressed as well.
Thank you for the reminder of the thin threads that have kept us from oblivion, and the courage of the unsure yet determined young fighters who have pulled those threads to bring us to where we are.
It gives me similar vibes to when I was younger, chilling and watching History Channel when it was good. It's a pleasure seeing History Hit grow to where it is now.
I have all those books. And I read them from cover to cover every chance I can get. I've loved world War II ever since I was in first grade. And I'm nearly 35 now lol
@@RoughWalkers Young and ignorant i see, HMS Hood ! English ship 2nd WW was sunk with one shell fired from the German ship Bismarck with all 1400 men +lost except for one man blown off the stern
What an absolute privilege to be able to hear the voices of some of the British participants in these engagements. All of them passed on now, but staggering to hear someone like Bob Tilburn speaking so clear-voiced about Hood's sinking. Not sure I would be able to speak about such a catastrophe even decades later without dissolving into a gibbering wreck.
Andrew ,an aussie here . just want to compliment and thank you for your exceptional presentation and style in the bismark documentary . for me you really stood out .with your knowledge and your command and delivery of the english language .for me it was all class.
My self having read and watched many accounts of the battle over many years..... I could be mistaken but I don't remember the "part" about the miscalculation of the Bismarck's position and the resultant wrong way pursuit for many hours, mentioned in any of the accounts I have previously observed. That was a huge factor and could have been a monumental blunder in the result of the battle. You never know when you might learn something new. When the winners are writing the books some of those friendly mistakes are "overlooked". I have run into that in other instances also of actions in WW2.
Outstanding documentary about one of the most dramatic conflicts of WWII . May the fallen sailors of the British Navy and "Deutschen Kriegsmarine" rest in piece !
In the Kenneth Moore movie Sink The Bismark he is shown looking at the map and saying "I have a hunch" the ship will head to France. At the time the movie was made the codebreaking at Bletchley Park was still top secret so they had to make that line up.
Some of the live footage of the hood bismark engagement is stunning to watch. Makes this documentary priceless. Makes you almost feel like you're there.
Excellent documentary! It’s so important to have this. Old stories, but new information and presentations, cultural changes in how history gets presented and shown, biases changes or lessening or disappearing- and making history accessible is incredibly valuable to society, I think. And- an extra thank you, from a personal perspective! This war is such a huge part of my family history and family creation on both sides- it’s just fascinating to learn more and more about what they were living with- the events and upheaval, survival tactics both physical and psychological- that helped form them and trickled down the family line. I’m quite grateful for History Hit and appreciate the wide range of things offered.
I've been watching documentaries about the sinking of the Bismarck for a long time. Yup, I'm old. This is epic on top of epic. The ferocity. Kids who became people like my grandparents. On giant boats with massive guns. It's hard to get my head around. Absolutely fearless.
True warriors from a different time, the UK is a joke now, Britannia doesn’t rule the waves and we would crumble in another world war 😢 Snowflakes will not protect us 😂
visiting a battleship is always worth the trip....today every warship is a "battleship" to this generation...take the time to go see the real thing...very impressive
@@francischambless5919the reason for this is that battleship shells are designed to drop from a steep trajectory and explode after impact, but the British battleships were so close that their shells were just going right through without exploding, however the Scharnhorst was already defeated by this stage
Well done, the oscilloscopic trace of the playback of eye witness audio superimposed on the horizon of the video of the grey unforgiving North Altantic backdrop adds a sobering artistic touch.
I gave up my subscription to Hh last year because most of the programming, as excellent as it is, you can now get on TH-cam ! Plus these are without the issues I continously experienced trying to watch these exact shows I was paying for!
This is what a documentary should look like! Thank you for posting! Keep up the great work, and a thank you to TH-cam this might be the only history some can learn.
got to talk to a German survivor of tht fight at a book signing...asked him of the Brits just sailed away and left them to drown and he said they did after saving only a couple of hundred...guess he was one of the lucky ones
What a wonderful exciting and gripping story of unbelievable circumstances. Your production was of massive professionalism. Thank you for the most exciting video I have ever seen.
Missed this when it 1st came out for want of time. Dan is gaining such a reputation for excellence now that he has easier access to the relevant experts than most. This is worth waiting for and then some. Impressive. 🌟👍
My Grandfather served onboard H.M.S Hood but was reassigned just a few weeks earlier. Later he was assigned to H.M.S Hermes which was sunk by 70 or more Japanese Zero Aircraft just off the East Coast of Ceylon. (Sri Lanka) He was injured but survived. He remained in the Ocean for 5 hours and was then picked up by an American Hospital ship and taken to America. He retired from The Royal Navy in 1945. He signed up when he was just fourteen. Martin. (Thailand) This Ship would make a great video.
Survivors from Hermes were picked up by HMHS Vita, not an American hospital ship, and they were all landed in Ceylon. He must have gone to America by different means. S
@@philsurtees presumably you do not understand my comment. Note HMHS Vita, as I have stated. That means His Majesty's Hospital Ship, as opposed to HNHS, as you have said. I have then stated that survivors were landed in Ceylon. Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension, dopey? D
Fantastic work. i settled in to watch this before seeing how long it was, and suddenly doubted i'd feel like holding on the whole way through. instead, i found myself pulled right into the drama (and occasional absurdity) of classic modern naval warfare. one thing i especially love about this production - and about History Hit as a whole! - is the profoundly humane sensibility that it offers. it doesn't feel like propaganda the way so many warfare documentaries do. it feels like an honest, material explanation of the events as they happened - good, bad, and ugly. thanks for making these, and definitely keep it up.
Eh? There's loads of quality documentaries on the BBC, just look on the iplayer. Most recent one I watched on there is The Devil's Confession about the Eichmann tapes which is excellent. Sorry to ruin the BBC-bashing but that simply isn't true. Edit: typos
Navies all over the world should thank History Hit team for making these brilliant naval documentaries. Surely they will increase the fascination of navy in younger people and boost naval recruitment.
Gosh my Grandfather was on the Hood. He was a young Marine. He never spoke about it. He was in hospital with pneumonia when it sank. This is fascinating
My grandad was on the Sheffield and boy did he tell me some stories. I think he lived more in 3 years than I will do in my lifetime. One story that stayed with me was when the friendly torpedoes were coming his way, then being in the engine room, they dropped all the hatches to seal him and his seamates in just in case the torpedoes hit the hull and compromised his room, then only his room would fill up with water thus… drowning only his small crew. He told me with all with a wave of the hand and said sealing him down there happened so much all the crew in there did was drink some fuel to get as drunk as they could as fast as they could. So, can you imagine when they reopened the hatch and they found most if not all the people in charge of the engines were drunk or at least well on their way. He started writing a book about his experiences but passed away before getting to chapter three. The Bismarck story wasn’t even in the first three chapters.
My great uncles were in the navy during ww2 one was just 16 when his ship the dunedin sank. Unbelievable to think boys his age managed to get in the military. I believe one of them took a photo of the sinking of the bismark from the ship (king george v) have heard that taking photos wasnt actually allowed though.
In the voiceovers Dan sounds like he's just been mauled by a dentist! Poor Dan. Brilliant video thanks, highly entertaining and educational, very nicely done.
That German Videography during the battle with Hood is nothing shy of completely fascinating and completly bleak. Seeing the flashes and realising 2 tons per shell of metal is flying towards you. That would be enough to put the shits up anyone and how all those crewman could be so brave like that is nothing short of completely courageous.
However, I take issue with presenting the speed of sound as being the same as the speed of light. A minor issue compared to the overall quality of this presentation.
Each AP Bismacrk shell weighed 1764# not 2 tons which would be 4000 - 4400# depending on short or long tons. Yamato's shell weighed 3220#, yet still less than 2 tons.
Having watched the Movie Sink the Bismarck and wondering whether it compared favourably with the actual events and accounts of the Navy. This brought home just how accurate a portrayal of events that took place. in the movies depiction of it. I thuroughly recommend watching it after seeing this documentary as i will be rewatching it here on YT in the next few days. Thank you time team for giving us the true accounts through survivors narration and the valuablle experts giving much needed cllarity.
@@colinthomas5462 Greetings from the 🇺🇸! I remember watching the 1960's black and white film SINK THE BISMARK on a television program called, FAMILY CLASSICS with FRASIER THOMAS. A good movie and good childhood memory that fueled my love of history.👍
@@richdurbin6146 Hood was meant to be one of four Admiral-class battlecruisers. None of the others were constructed but their names were used for King George V-class battleships Anson and Howe.
I watched this tonight for my first time. This was one of the most intense, theatrical presentations of a military history event I’ve watched. I do not mean theatric as an offense, the history lesson was true and not hyperbolic. Rather it was theatric in the sense that the documentary of a topic I have studied was still gripping. Small details I n3ver knew were shockers, even if I k ew the overall ending. I remember when you got to the moment where the British launch a torpedo attack on the HMS Sheffield I fondly remembered my Mom and Dad took me to GB when I was a teenager, I was a military history enthusiast from a young age g age so we toured this ship. Anyways, thank you for an incredible history lesson.
@@barbararice6650 The ship was likely either sabotaged by the germans, or the american crew not properly instructed in her complicated high pressure steam turbin engines operation. That said tho, german surface ships were very inefficient, allied ships achieving the same amount of protection and armament on ships thousands of tonnes lighter.
Quality educational entertainment. This took me right back to chilling watching documentaries on the History channel as a kid before the aliens took over. But even better in my opinion. Cheers!
22 or 21 years ago i heard the first time about both Bismarck and Hood. And 20 years ago i saw James Cameron's Documentation on the Bismarck. It still sends waves of chill down my spine to think about the Hood. Especially when i think about Ted Briggs. May their souls rest in peace
While most here name grandparents it was in fact my father, midshipman Brian M Barrow, who was a 17 yo kid in ‘41 and was aboard on HMS Suffolk during this time (he didn’t have me until the ripe old age of 52, in 1976). He had many stories from this infamous chapter and other ships he was on and I’m lucky to have his memoirs written down as he died when I was barely older than he was when the men of Hood and Bismarck sailed to her fate. We must not forget. These men gave their lives for the world we live in. A message that perhaps has never been more poignant and powerful in late 2024.
Similar story here..... My father was a stoker onboard Suffolk's sister ship, HMS Dorsetshire, and took part in the rescue of the 86 Bismarck survivors that she later picked up. I too was a "late baby" with dad being 47 before I arrived. He was 22 at the time of Bismarck's sinking. I spend a fair amount of time in these threads with many others who provide a counterbalance to the nazi enthralled schoolkids who try to pass of their nazi and anti-British tainted nonsense as "fact".
Lutjens considered using explosive charges to blow the damaged rudder off the ship, but the possibility of damaging the propellers and hull put the kibosh on that idea.
There was more damage than simply to the rudder. Several compartments were also flooded and the entire stern, always a weakness in large German WW2 warships, severly compromised.
I love the history of the Bismarck and those 9 days. Excellent documentary, very well made. As an aside, the Bismarck's escort, the Prinz Eugen survived the war, was captured and was eventually used as a target ship and sunk during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Hawaii in 1946. In fact, her capsized wreck is still visible today.
It was nothing more than a jesuit organized hoax on the world. Sad all the people that lose their kids over a big damn lie. People need to repent and be born again, Christians aren't called to the wars and affairs of this life, but sadly most reject to follow Jesus Christ and rather follow statism, impearlism, and pride, all things God hates and will destroy upon His return. What are you calling god? santa claus?
@@francischambless5919 You can think the gov welfare education system for the commi/socialism, can't believe people would die for that shite, then abortion and qu33r marriage, yeah that was so worth all those dead soldiers lives.... People will die over any useless thing these days.
What the F are you talking about? Nazis we're not socialist, they were the other end of the political spectrum. And if you think Britain is either communist or Nazi, there is something seriously wrong with your judgement.
I recall many years ago my father would cheerfully deliver his regular quip, "Right, I'm off to sink the Bismarck". My mother would roll her eyes and we knew not to venture into the loo for the next hour.
Andrew Choong Han Lin is something of a star within this excellent documentary isn't he? His appreciation of the subtleties of naval architecture and the relative capabilities of the combatants is most informative and very eloquently expressed as well.
I definitely thought the same thing! They all did a great job but he stands out to me.
Won't lie, he looks dapper as too, suit is immaculate
There's nothing quite so enthralling as listening to someone who truly loves what they have to talk about, talking about that thing.
He is indeed!
Just what the world needs, quality long videos on interesting subjects. Entertaining and relaxing. Thank you very much
aye, history hit gets it right
Thank you for the reminder of the thin threads that have kept us from oblivion, and the courage of the unsure yet determined young fighters who have pulled those threads to bring us to where we are.
:)
This should win an award. it's not only informative but very dramatic and expertly written.
It gives me similar vibes to when I was younger, chilling and watching History Channel when it was good. It's a pleasure seeing History Hit grow to where it is now.
relax.. its fine
@@JPR3DI have to get 😂😂2229
And full of misinformation presented as fact.
@@Thirdbase9such as?
The man stood in the museum
with all the ships on display is very easy to follow does a awesome job in this documentary
Brilliant documentary, and amazing to see ones of this quality on TH-cam considering they hardly get a look in on TV.
Completely agree 👍
"Basically, terrestrial TV is a dead duck. And who watches a dead duck? Not even its mother. She just flies off, depressed." - Alan Partridge
12 year old me, skipping lunch to read Time Life WW2 books is in heaven watching this documentary. Thank you.
Bravo, keep studying. I'm 60 and have studied WWII since I was your age
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Never stop learning.
I have all those books. And I read them from cover to cover every chance I can get. I've loved world War II ever since I was in first grade. And I'm nearly 35 now lol
Don't. It's bullshit.
Have A Father In Heaven To Pray To JESUS! "it's Destruction!" FamousLastWords!
My mother lost a brother on the Hood i can still picture her tearing up when recounting the story
What the hood? As in nieghbourhood? Was she a gangsta?
@@RoughWalkers Young and ignorant i see, HMS Hood ! English ship 2nd WW was sunk with one shell fired from the German ship Bismarck with all 1400 men +lost except for one man blown off the stern
@@andrewnorgrove6487 contact me so we can discuss your lack.of.judgement in person if you wanna try and be smart
@@RoughWalkers still young and ignorant
@@RoughWalkers that remark is disgusting,..loser🤬
What an absolute privilege to be able to hear the voices of some of the British participants in these engagements. All of them passed on now, but staggering to hear someone like Bob Tilburn speaking so clear-voiced about Hood's sinking. Not sure I would be able to speak about such a catastrophe even decades later without dissolving into a gibbering wreck.
Andrew ,an aussie here . just want to compliment and thank you for your exceptional presentation and style in the bismark documentary . for me you really stood out .with your knowledge and your command and delivery of the english language .for me it was all class.
Agreed, although I take issue with presenting the speed of sound as being the same as the speed of light.
@@andyjackson3414 its a huge difference too... can tell he didnt attend NBC training
The most comprehensive and complete recounting of the sinking of the Bismarck yet produced. Very well done. 1:35:56
My self having read and watched many accounts of the battle over many years..... I could be mistaken but I don't remember the "part" about the miscalculation of the Bismarck's position and the resultant wrong way pursuit for many hours, mentioned in any of the accounts I have previously observed. That was a huge factor and could have been a monumental blunder in the result of the battle. You never know when you might learn something new. When the winners are writing the books some of those friendly mistakes are "overlooked". I have run into that in other instances also of actions in WW2.
Outstanding documentary about one of the most dramatic conflicts of WWII . May the fallen sailors of the British Navy and "Deutschen Kriegsmarine" rest in piece !
I especially like the fact that the decryption also is mentioned, as that has often been missed in this epic story.
In the Kenneth Moore movie Sink The Bismark he is shown looking at the map and saying "I have a hunch" the ship will head to France. At the time the movie was made the codebreaking at Bletchley Park was still top secret so they had to make that line up.
Excellent documentary, found it fascinating, thanks for posting. Please keep up the good work and keep them coming.
Some of the live footage of the hood bismark engagement is stunning to watch. Makes this documentary priceless. Makes you almost feel like you're there.
Excellent documentary! It’s so important to have this. Old stories, but new information and presentations, cultural changes in how history gets presented and shown, biases changes or lessening or disappearing- and making history accessible is incredibly valuable to society, I think. And- an extra thank you, from a personal perspective! This war is such a huge part of my family history and family creation on both sides- it’s just fascinating to learn more and more about what they were living with- the events and upheaval, survival tactics both physical and psychological- that helped form them and trickled down the family line. I’m quite grateful for History Hit and appreciate the wide range of things offered.
Starting to enjoy the TH-cam trend toward long format. Good to listen in the background.
Great isn't it, learning while working and getting paid
Excellent! Gripping report. Well done Dan Snow.
@@Lezzyboy87exactly what I do! 👍🏼😆
Same but these are so well put together I find that listening isn't enough, I really must watch.
I've been watching documentaries about the sinking of the Bismarck for a long time. Yup, I'm old. This is epic on top of epic. The ferocity. Kids who became people like my grandparents. On giant boats with massive guns. It's hard to get my head around. Absolutely fearless.
True warriors from a different time, the UK is a joke now, Britannia doesn’t rule the waves and we would crumble in another world war 😢 Snowflakes will not protect us 😂
if you want ferocity, look into the Scharnhorst and what it took to sink her. 13 or so to 1.
visiting a battleship is always worth the trip....today every warship is a "battleship" to this generation...take the time to go see the real thing...very impressive
@@yes_marky took all they had to retake the Falklands...good fighters though
@@francischambless5919the reason for this is that battleship shells are designed to drop from a steep trajectory and explode after impact, but the British battleships were so close that their shells were just going right through without exploding, however the Scharnhorst was already defeated by this stage
my most sincere compliments to all involved to produce such a superb piece...
👏👏👏
Well done, the oscilloscopic trace of the playback of eye witness audio superimposed on the horizon of the video of the grey unforgiving North Altantic backdrop adds a sobering artistic touch.
I love the understated commentary from the old sailors who were there
I gave up my subscription to Hh last year because most of the programming, as excellent as it is, you can now get on TH-cam ! Plus these are without the issues I continously experienced trying to watch these exact shows I was paying for!
Great video, excellent, very informative
Dan Snow always does a great job
One of, if not, the best video I have ever watched on this channel. Very informative and detailed. Thank you so much for making this video.
This is what a documentary should look like! Thank you for posting! Keep up the great work, and a thank you to TH-cam this might be the only history some can learn.
Andrew Choong is a marvelous and expert presenter of Naval history for sure. He gave a brilliant presentation here.
it made me cry... a mix of pride and sadness, for all who died and their loved ones. great honour to both in the endeavors.
got to talk to a German survivor of tht fight at a book signing...asked him of the Brits just sailed away and left them to drown and he said they did after saving only a couple of hundred...guess he was one of the lucky ones
What a wonderful exciting and gripping story of unbelievable circumstances. Your production was of massive professionalism. Thank you for the most exciting video I have ever seen.
This is just a wonderful show. The spine tingles at the British mastery of exposition. What a story!
Splendid treatment of the subject matter. Peerless presentation of the narrative by subject matter experts. An engrossing story. Thank you.
Wow, that was a very Impressive Informative video. Such a fascinating story of the legendary Bismarck. Very well put together. 10/10
Best Bismarck documentary I have ever seen! Thank you for the meticulous detail. Beautifully done!
Very good documentary. One can't but feel for the brave men in this fight. And for the 4,000 on both sides who went down with their battleships.
Missed this when it 1st came out for want of time. Dan is gaining such a reputation for excellence now that he has easier access to the relevant experts than most.
This is worth waiting for and then some.
Impressive. 🌟👍
My Grandfather served onboard H.M.S Hood but was reassigned just a few weeks earlier. Later he was assigned to H.M.S Hermes which was sunk by 70 or more Japanese Zero Aircraft just off the East Coast of Ceylon. (Sri Lanka) He was injured but survived. He remained in the Ocean for 5 hours and was then picked up by an American Hospital ship and taken to America. He retired from The Royal Navy in 1945. He signed up when he was just fourteen. Martin. (Thailand) This Ship would make a great video.
Val dive bombers from the cream of the Kido Butai sank the Hermes.
Your Grandfather's experience would make an interesting documentary or a docudrama.
Survivors from Hermes were picked up by HMHS Vita, not an American hospital ship, and they were all landed in Ceylon.
He must have gone to America by different means. S
@@derekowens1817 False. The majority of the HMS Hermes survivors were picked up by the HNHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Vita.
@@philsurtees presumably you do not understand my comment.
Note HMHS Vita, as I have stated. That means His Majesty's Hospital Ship, as opposed to HNHS, as you have said.
I have then stated that survivors were landed in Ceylon.
Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension, dopey? D
Fantastic work. i settled in to watch this before seeing how long it was, and suddenly doubted i'd feel like holding on the whole way through.
instead, i found myself pulled right into the drama (and occasional absurdity) of classic modern naval warfare.
one thing i especially love about this production - and about History Hit as a whole! - is the profoundly humane sensibility that it offers. it doesn't feel like propaganda the way so many warfare documentaries do. it feels like an honest, material explanation of the events as they happened - good, bad, and ugly.
thanks for making these, and definitely keep it up.
Ah the Graf Spee in the River Plate
A very well done telling of the tale...Kudos to History Hit !
Thanks
BBC used to make programmes of this quality about 30 years ago...Those days are long gone.
Unfortunately, the BBC has just become an arm of the left wing… Very sad…
Eh? There's loads of quality documentaries on the BBC, just look on the iplayer. Most recent one I watched on there is The Devil's Confession about the Eichmann tapes which is excellent. Sorry to ruin the BBC-bashing but that simply isn't true.
Edit: typos
There's plenty mate, stop being melancholy and stuck in the past
Defund The BBC
@systemofapown defund the BBC
Navies all over the world should thank History Hit team for making these brilliant naval documentaries. Surely they will increase the fascination of navy in younger people and boost naval recruitment.
And hope they never have to face the same fate as the sailors on the Hood.
Enjoyed the blend of archival footage, re-enactments & experts sharing their insights, thank you to everyone involved
Gosh my Grandfather was on the Hood. He was a young Marine. He never spoke about it. He was in hospital with pneumonia when it sank. This is fascinating
Half way through and my emotions are all over the place. Great story telling 👏
My grandad was on the Sheffield and boy did he tell me some stories. I think he lived more in 3 years than I will do in my lifetime. One story that stayed with me was when the friendly torpedoes were coming his way, then being in the engine room, they dropped all the hatches to seal him and his seamates in just in case the torpedoes hit the hull and compromised his room, then only his room would fill up with water thus… drowning only his small crew. He told me with all with a wave of the hand and said sealing him down there happened so much all the crew in there did was drink some fuel to get as drunk as they could as fast as they could. So, can you imagine when they reopened the hatch and they found most if not all the people in charge of the engines were drunk or at least well on their way. He started writing a book about his experiences but passed away before getting to chapter three. The Bismarck story wasn’t even in the first three chapters.
My great uncles were in the navy during ww2 one was just 16 when his ship the dunedin sank. Unbelievable to think boys his age managed to get in the military. I believe one of them took a photo of the sinking of the bismark from the ship (king george v) have heard that taking photos wasnt actually allowed though.
In the voiceovers Dan sounds like he's just been mauled by a dentist! Poor Dan. Brilliant video thanks, highly entertaining and educational, very nicely done.
Sounds like he's been punched 😆
I thought he was eating a cold toffee!
Curious!
He's struggling. The lisp has been getting worse the last few years.
Dentists have many sharp Claws and Fang's
Fabulous presentation, gripping to the end. So much challenge foisted on the fleet by the fog of war. The Loss of the Hood is traumatic even today.
One of the best documentaries I have seen for a long time. Brilliant.
I am delighted by the quality of the documentary. Thank you for the upload.
Utterly brilliant video.
Excellent presentation of a comprehensive analysis of the sinking of the Bismarck.
Exceptional program! I really enjoyed Andrew's explanations.
He's one of the most cogent presenters today..... very fluent and a great communicator.
These Time-Life documentaries really are the very best there are currently available, and WELL worth the investment of one's time.
That German Videography during the battle with Hood is nothing shy of completely fascinating and completly bleak. Seeing the flashes and realising 2 tons per shell of metal is flying towards you. That would be enough to put the shits up anyone and how all those crewman could be so brave like that is nothing short of completely courageous.
However, I take issue with presenting the speed of sound as being the same as the speed of light. A minor issue compared to the overall quality of this presentation.
@@andyjackson3414 It would have been much better to delay the sound realistically.
@@namcat53 " Master and Commander" gets it right with the opening sequence.
I wonder if a Bismark shell might arrive before the sound of the guns.
Each AP Bismacrk shell weighed 1764# not 2 tons which would be 4000 - 4400# depending on short or long tons. Yamato's shell weighed 3220#, yet still less than 2 tons.
@@ewathoughts8476 The weight is insignificant to my overall comment, the point is that it is a fucking heavy piece of metal hurtling towards you.
Another high quality Dan Snow documentary. Well done.
"Then you have problems"... understatement of the century. Gotta love British stoicism.
Understated courage and bravery. That's the British way
👏👏👏
Stoicism is a cover for incompetence and inability to change, not victory through excellence.
@@stevenrogers5506 Brits can be a bit brutal at times...look what happened to the survivors that scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flo
@@rbaxter286 I'll take British stoicism over American cowardice any day. They saved the world while you sat at home...
Good job Dan Snow. You’ve got a real vision for History Hit and wonderful speaking voice.
Having watched the Movie Sink the Bismarck and wondering whether it compared favourably with the actual events and accounts of the Navy. This brought home just how accurate a portrayal of events that took place. in the movies depiction of it. I thuroughly recommend watching it after seeing this documentary as i will be rewatching it here on YT in the next few days.
Thank you time team for giving us the true accounts through survivors narration and the valuablle experts giving much needed cllarity.
A shame about the false and nonsensical sinking of a destroyer, however.
Agreed Sink the Bismarck is an excellent film, Kenneth Moore great British actor 👍
@@colinthomas5462 Greetings from the 🇺🇸! I remember watching the 1960's black and white film SINK THE BISMARK on a television program called, FAMILY CLASSICS with FRASIER THOMAS. A good movie and good childhood memory that fueled my love of history.👍
What a nail-biting documentary! Bravo!
Dan Snow's material keeps getting better and better over time.
He doesn't sensationalise everything, which is a start. Takes after his father
Yes it seems a long time sine he and his father presented 'Battlefield Britain'. He's a very good presenter now in his own right.
@@stevenrogers5506
Is his father still around? I remember watching them as a team on I do believe Discovery Channel.
@@trainnerd3029Yup, aged 86
Quality documentary engaging completely. Thank you.
Very good documentary... keep it up Dan..
Great doc, love the old photos and video of these ww2 warships...
Thank you.
'Rodney' is such a good name for a Battleship..
Only if it has a brother ship called Del Boy.
However HMS Trigger keeps calling it Dave
You should have seen her sister ship, HMS Nelson.
Hood initially was supposed to have a sister ship named Rodney.
@@richdurbin6146 Hood was meant to be one of four Admiral-class battlecruisers. None of the others were constructed but their names were used for King George V-class battleships Anson and Howe.
Kept my interest throughout Even after many WWII books and documentaries, I heard some facts I had not known before. Well done.
great experts! learned a great deal of details that were very interesting!
I was gonna say the same, the historians were excellent in this.
I watched this tonight for my first time. This was one of the most intense, theatrical presentations of a military history event I’ve watched. I do not mean theatric as an offense, the history lesson was true and not hyperbolic. Rather it was theatric in the sense that the documentary of a topic I have studied was still gripping. Small details I n3ver knew were shockers, even if I k ew the overall ending.
I remember when you got to the moment where the British launch a torpedo attack on the HMS Sheffield I fondly remembered my Mom and Dad took me to GB when I was a teenager, I was a military history enthusiast from a young age g age so we toured this ship. Anyways, thank you for an incredible history lesson.
Prinz Eugen was a very good ship , Much underrated by the senior service.
It was, but at that time the size of the barrel was most important.
The American crew who had to sail it across the Atlantic thought it was a bag of bolts
@@barbararice6650Their ships were nothing and it took some sinking
@@barbararice6650 The ship was likely either sabotaged by the germans, or the american crew not properly instructed in her complicated high pressure steam turbin engines operation. That said tho, german surface ships were very inefficient, allied ships achieving the same amount of protection and armament on ships thousands of tonnes lighter.
I've seen quite a few docu's on the Hood and The Bismarck, this one however is extremely well written. Great work!
This should be a major motion picture - riveting
Not a bad video. But if you want to see an excellent video on Bismarck watch "Operation Rheinübung." th-cam.com/video/n69kV4gVoDw/w-d-xo.html Enjoy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_the_Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck with Kenneth Moore excellent movie from the 1950s.
Yeah a remake would be really cool
@@mikewatson8521 I very much doubt that. I would predict: a 'diverse' cast, modern slang, mostly poor CGI and the 'message'.
Excellent doc very well put together thanx for the upload 👍
Interesting directorial choice to record this mid root canal.
Amazing documentary. A must see video. Thanks to all those who made this possible. Thanks to TH-cam too for making this possible for us to see.
Quality educational entertainment.
This took me right back to chilling watching documentaries on the History channel as a kid before the aliens took over.
But even better in my opinion.
Cheers!
22 or 21 years ago i heard the first time about both Bismarck and Hood. And 20 years ago i saw James Cameron's Documentation on the Bismarck. It still sends waves of chill down my spine to think about the Hood. Especially when i think about Ted Briggs. May their souls rest in peace
Hooray! The full video😊😊😊
This was fascinating and so engaging, I was gripped! Really very well done.
Great documentary, thank you. May all RIP.
Brilliant documentary well presented.
I loved this, really interesting and well told. Great work guys!
Excellent documentary!
While most here name grandparents it was in fact my father, midshipman Brian M Barrow, who was a 17 yo kid in ‘41 and was aboard on HMS Suffolk during this time (he didn’t have me until the ripe old age of 52, in 1976). He had many stories from this infamous chapter and other ships he was on and I’m lucky to have his memoirs written down as he died when I was barely older than he was when the men of Hood and Bismarck sailed to her fate.
We must not forget. These men gave their lives for the world we live in. A message that perhaps has never been more poignant and powerful in late 2024.
Similar story here..... My father was a stoker onboard Suffolk's sister ship, HMS Dorsetshire, and took part in the rescue of the 86 Bismarck survivors that she later picked up. I too was a "late baby" with dad being 47 before I arrived. He was 22 at the time of Bismarck's sinking. I spend a fair amount of time in these threads with many others who provide a counterbalance to the nazi enthralled schoolkids who try to pass of their nazi and anti-British tainted nonsense as "fact".
Lutjens considered using explosive charges to blow the damaged rudder off the ship, but the possibility of damaging the propellers and hull put the kibosh on that idea.
There was more damage than simply to the rudder. Several compartments were also flooded and the entire stern, always a weakness in large German WW2 warships, severly compromised.
Loved this video! was waiting for it since the first part!
Just 3 of 1,418 surviving is horrendous.
41:12 And that explosion was terrifying.
What a documentary enjoyed every part of it. Great Work!
I love the history of the Bismarck and those 9 days. Excellent documentary, very well made.
As an aside, the Bismarck's escort, the Prinz Eugen survived the war, was captured and was eventually used as a target ship and sunk during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Hawaii in 1946. In fact, her capsized wreck is still visible today.
Brilliant story. Thanks 🇬🇧
Extremely well-done documentary!
"in a minute we'll be getting our cutlasses and get out and board that" That would have been...EPIC.
They don't like it 'UP em! 😮
That was some sea battle ! This is some Documentary, of that sea battle ! GOOD SHOW !
Feel heartfelt sorry for the young men on both sides who perished in this engagement. Thank God for the Royal Navy helping to defeat Hitler's fascism.
It was nothing more than a jesuit organized hoax on the world. Sad all the people that lose their kids over a big damn lie. People need to repent and be born again, Christians aren't called to the wars and affairs of this life, but sadly most reject to follow Jesus Christ and rather follow statism, impearlism, and pride, all things God hates and will destroy upon His return. What are you calling god? santa claus?
Imagine their horror if and when they found out their grandkids embraced the very socialism they were fighting against.
@@francischambless5919 You can think the gov welfare education system for the commi/socialism, can't believe people would die for that shite, then abortion and qu33r marriage, yeah that was so worth all those dead soldiers lives.... People will die over any useless thing these days.
That is a great and true statement!! It is a total slap in the face to the greatest generation of men and women @@francischambless5919
What the F are you talking about? Nazis we're not socialist, they were the other end of the political spectrum. And if you think Britain is either communist or Nazi, there is something seriously wrong with your judgement.
Excellent documentary. Well done!
Great Wednesday night viewing
thank you guys, great video!
Brilliant documentary
Massive congratulations. To start a project of this scale and to be here now is amazing.
I recall many years ago my father would cheerfully deliver his regular quip, "Right, I'm off to sink the Bismarck". My mother would roll her eyes and we knew not to venture into the loo for the next hour.
What a superb historical documentary, just the best!
This really should be made into a movie.
It was.
th-cam.com/video/2KPAPHW_EkA/w-d-xo.html
thank you for breaking down the barriers to learning complex subjects!