The Biggest Battleship Fleet Ever Assembled
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In this episode we're talking about the time that the Royal Navy and American Navy with the German Navy were all together at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
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hopefully you've vetted the sponsor this time after the previous one turned out to be dodgy
@@Knight6831 I'm going with they didn't. A quick google shows the company and website is in hong kong. Among other claiming you can't visit your plot of land with a tree on it.
@@Knight6831 all these lord companies are scams its america you can be called whatever you want with a legal name change you can add king or god to the front of your name and its legally binding
By law in Scotland anyone can call themselves Lord, Laird, or Lady regardless of land ownership. Also, those plots aren't legally recognized, the 'title' they send you is less valid than an NFT. Good luck finding better sponsors in the future for your museum.
Less well know than the Scapa Flow Scuttling is that at the same time the Naval Airship Division dropped their Zeppelins onto the hanger floors. This wreaked them far more effectively than scuttling a Battleship ever could. Battleships have been raised & returned to service; a pile of twisted metal & canvas is only good for scrap.
The lapel mic is a huge step up. I remember when videos on this channel were just Ryan talking directly to the camera, and it's been really cool to watch the progression in production quality over time. BZ guys!
You absolutely should do a video on the scuttling.
And just as a plug for the guy: Kris Drever has a great song called "Scapa Flow 1919" about the event from the point of view of a lowly German sailor.
Agreed
It's honestly really cool that a channel like this gets sponsors like other TH-cam channels
Yea. Can't complain if it helps the museum out. But hopefully they stay relevant.
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Yeah, I have my doubts one can hand out titles of nobility without any national authority backing it
@@Nightdare yea. That too. But I'm no lawyer
Yes, do the Grand Scuttle!
That pan over to Olympia was great, thanks. As soon as you mentioned cruisers, I was thinking heyy, wait. :)
OMG. In 4 seconds I was wondering what had gotten into Ryan - as a regular viewer. - At least he quickly explained it!
More historical action videos please! Would love to hear about the grand scuttle, or the final days of Yamato!
4 hours is 11pm here so I'll watch it in the morning..my Great Grandfather was in the post Jutland Grand Fleet. He said it was simply awesome
Ryan lampooning the Kriegsmarine never gets old
Lord Ryan
Actually during ww1 the German navy was called the kaiserliche marine.
let’s not forget the Kaiserliche und Konigsliche Mariner of the Austrian navy… because Kaiserliche mariner is not nearly long enough lol
The Grand Scuttle sounds like a good video topic. Go for it !
You have the best job ever! If I were you, I'd have the hardest time resisting the urge to slip "Yeah, I got a Battleship" into all my daily conversations!
Great video! Had some cool panning shots, great history, and perfect sponsorship! The audio was also perfect!
I don't often comment about sponsors but the best thing about these lord titles is that you can absolutely annoy both coworkers and family with it.
I got one a few years ago and I'm still telling people to address me with the proper title much to everyone else's frustration.
My great grandad joined the Royal Navy in 1916, shortly after the battle of Jutland. At that point, the Royal Navy was by far the largest and most powerful fleet in the world. It would be great if you could talk a bit about the battle of Jutland.
Was there an apparitional appearance of Nelson/Rodney early on? Thanks for another great video, Ryan!
Yes and HMS Hood
Definitely would love to see a video on the Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet
Cool sponsor. My hunny got me a lordship (and a ladyship for herself!) for Christmas last year. And yes, you should do a video about the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow. It's a pretty big piece of 20th century naval history.
You go scammed
Ryan's segue from the fleet at Scapa Flow to hawking the noble title had me dying. That little smirk on his face as he sells it like a used car salesman was just too perfect. Like a wink and a nod, almost makes me want to get one as talking piece/laugh.
Lord Ryan: They had a number of older obsolete cruisers from the 1880s like Olympia...
Olympia on the other side of the river: I heard that and I've got your obsolete right here
Yeah, I'd like to see you do a video on the "Grand Scuttling" and maybe something on what in to to salvage/ repair battleships that had been sunk.
A video on the grand scuttle (and maybe another for the subsequent salvage efforts) would be awesome, it’s an amazing piece of history!
Really like the videos of Nelson/Rodney too bad they were not with the R.N. till about 10 yrs. latter. Hood anď Renoun/Ŕepulse get a showing too: just love the look of the last two. Hood launched 1919 Renoun/Repulse launched 1916.
That should be Hood launched 1918, i have fat fingers 😂😂
Battlecruisers do look so darn pretty, since they were built for speed.
'Ah, he's under the guns. Such a cool spot to be'
3 minutes later
'AH! He's ON the #1 turret! Damn, I got to get my own battleship...'
I myself come from a line of British Baronets; the lowest in the ladder of Royalty. My twig of the branch comes from the youngest son of the Baronet. I have this fully documented. What does this benefit me? Absolutely, nothing. A nice story to tell over your favorite beverage.
And my wife is descended from the King of England! Specifically, King John. You know, the Magna Carta guy, villain of Robin Hood!
Baronets are not royalty, they are not even nobility. Rather than are just hereditary knights. Still, that's a notch higher than any of my ancestors.
I have to laugh at these companies that sell titles. But hey, a sponsorship is a sponsorship. And the historical story is a good one.
I really liked that footage of the German ships being raised, follow up video about the grand scuttle?
18:00 Bacon and eggs. For the Admirals and politicians this is eggs to a chicken, but to the sailors this is bacon and very serious to a pig.
Yes. A Scapa Flow video would be great
A really interesting and informative video. Never heard this story before. When I've seen stories of WW1, they've all way talk about the army and not the navy.
I would love to hear about the grand scuttle!
Would very much like a video on the "Grand Scuttle".
Im super interested in the great scuttling
Great video! Yes, it would be fantastic to do a video about the scuttling and the recovery (and some what ifs…). Thanks!
Yes Lord Ryan, devote an episode to the largest assembled fleet of battleships ever! Please!
Neat seeing the sps49 spinning in the background
Another great video from the battleship. Thanks
It was the construction of The Great Michael in the early 1500s, the most powerful warship in the world by The Scottish Navy, that destroyed most of the Oak forests in Lowland Scotland. It used so much timber, all the Oaks and Elms of Fife, Angus and the Lothians were said to have gone into her construction.
I *love* that the ship shown while you’re talking about obsolete battleships is one of the Nelson class ships, which commissioned a decade after WW1 had ended 🤣
For much of this video Ryan is presenting from the top of Turret 1. Off the port edge of Turret 2, way in the background, you can make out two large cylinders. Those are the funnels of SS United States. So in one camera shot, we have the world's fastest battleship AND the world's fastest ocean liner! "I feel the need for speed!"
Nice jab at the end Ryan
03:30 - Careless, those ships are HMSs Hood, and Rodney (or Nelson) either way, post WW1 vessels. Love the channel anyway.
07:07 - Those are German vessels.
Converting Texas from coal to oil. Would love a video on her conversion. That must have been a feet of engineering.
It would almost be a point of pride that the Battleship Texas of all ships doesn't run on oil.
Feat *
I'll be that guy. Sorry
Sounds like a video for "Tom Scot, the older one" He recently did one on the Texas's fuel system.
I have two feet of engineering too. 😅
@@tancar2004 She and most of the others were converted over to bunker oil after WWI as I recall.
The other issue that determined which battleships were sent to England was a shortage of fuel oil for ships. The only battleships sent over initially were coal fired. Coal was something in abundance in England.
Oddly enough Ryan actually said that in the video.
Fun trivia: the Grand Scuttle is one of the primary sources for low background steel.
Low background steel would be a good video topic.
I would like to see the grand scuttle -- always wondered about that event
The Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet would be a great video and I would love to see it.
Please make a video about the scuttling
Thanks for this video, Laird Ryan.
I want to see a video about the scuttle of the German high seas fleet
Sure have a video on the scuttling
McSzimanski is that a breakfast Sandwich ? Thank you for the video .
Definitely do a video on the scuttling of the German high seas fleet
would be good to hear your thoughts on the grand scuttling
Cool thing in the video.... The SPS 49 radar antenna is rotating!
Congrats on the promotion
I'd love to hear more about the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet in 1919,
You definitely need to do a video on the Grand Scuttle. If you can get Drach to collaborate with you, it would be even better.
Yup, absolutely would love a deep dive (pun intended) on the Grand Scuttle.
+1 for the grand scuttle video
I'd certainly like to see a video about the scuttling of the German fleet.
We totally need a Grand Scuttle video. 😁👌
I would love to see the Grand Scuttle!
One of most overlooked aspect of UK and US being on the same side is we speak the same language and it doesn't have much variation
Which is the video about the Grand Scuttling?
Very interesting story about the naval interactions of British and American battlefleets, in opposition to the German navy! By the way, what is the type of German battleship appearing at 11:05?
The Scuttleing of the Grand Fleet is deinitely something you should cover
The High Seas Fleet didn't scuttle themselves because they couldn't fight. Many of the ships were veterans of Dogger Bank, Jutland, Heligoland Blight. They were scrapped because the idea of the British seizing these ships was so distasteful to the Germans. There was an element of national pride involved here. None of the ships at Scapa were in any condition to engage in any kind of battle with the British in 1919 having been, for the most part, demilitarized and sporting skeleton crews.
The French did the same thing when it appeared the Germans were going to take their fleet at Toulon. I suspect the Americans would have done the same thing if some kind of Man in the High Castle event took place and the Germans/Japanese won WW2. There was something of a tradition of sinking your ship to prevent capture, even when the war was lost. In some respects the death ride of the Yamato was a similar event, albeit one where the Japanese thought there was some remote chance that they might get in gun range.
It's also the case that the Royal Navy and the British government of the time were secretly quite happy that the Germans had scuttled their fleet since there would now be no wrangling about which of the victorious powers would get which of the german ships
The British did not really want any other navy to benefit by getting some really good capital ships for "free" so the scuttling had the effect of retaining the staus quo ante
@@brucemcpherson8832 I’m sure there is some truth to that. Britain saw all countries as potential enemies (which they should) so giving a modern Baden class warship to someone like the US or Italy would be something they wouldn’t want to really do.
@@brucemcpherson8832 You are, of course, undeniably correct. The German ships were useless to The UK because of insoluble interoperability concerns, but the idea of other countries having them meant RN ships.might have to fight them, meaning the RN would have to build ships to counter them when the 12" ships were inevitably scrapped. .There was no threat at the time to justify the scuttling, but contented smiles at the Admiralty and Foreign Office say it all.
Woo-hoo trees! Also have one of those titles. Good plug.
was there any effort to salvage the Kraut ships?
Thanks Ryan. A pleasant change to hear the story behind the massive battleship fleet's assembly in Scapa Flo from the American perspective.
I think the story behind The "Grand Scuttling" would be an interesting video. It's both an interesting and somewhat ignominious subject, and one close to my heart as I knew a diver who regularly dived on the remaining ships and took some fascinating & haunting pictures of them.
you would need to use your father's given name and precede that with Mac. it signifies "son of" much like -vic(vitch) or -wicz indicate "son of" in slavic languages.
Lord Ryan Szimanski 1SL/CNS
Ohh Lord Ryan
What’s up with the puff of smoke after gun fire is that to make shore there no spark left?
How many of the different types of ships where there
Woodland cover the began to decline about 11 000 years ago, long before England existed, largely due to early agriculture. By the time the Roman legions of Agricola invaded Scotland in AD 82, at least half of Britain's natural woodland had disappeared. Much of it was replaced by peatland, partly as a result of the cooler, wetter climate and partly because of human activities.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, many of the remaining woods were heavily exploited for timber, charcoal and tanbark. But this probably also secured their continued existenceb becasue they weer seen as a valuable commercial resource.
Major land-use changes occurred after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, including the:
>Switch from a cattle-based to a sheep-based economy
>Rapid increase in commercial sheep-raising with attendant clearing of woods for pasturage.
>Development of large shooting estates with, by the mid-20th century, an expanding deer population that browsed on tree branches.
By the 19th century, interest in preserving native woods was in decline. By 1900, woodland covered, for example, only about 5% of Scotland’s land area, as many small and isolated blocks. This led to the loss of species requiring larger, unbroken blocks of native woodland - especially larger mammals and predators.
Teak was never a naturalized species in Great Britain.
I own six+ acres in Ohio, so I guess I am already a "lord."
I own about .25 acres in Ohio, however, I don't think anyone in my family would ever call me Lord.
@@lonnyyoung4285 So no sale on a square foot in Scotland? Reminds me of the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company, but your "deed" to a square inch in the Yukon Territory of Canada came inside a box of cereal at no extra charge. 0___0
Hell yes Grand Scuttle
We all obviously wanna see the Grand Scuttle video.
This must be involving the surrender of the German high seas fleet
So...how many battleships were at Scapa Flow?
A story about the scuttling & the salvaging of the German wrecks for scrap
wait till you hear about that one italian captain that scuttled a whole port to show the british the middle finger
M'Lord!
Is this your first sponsorship!?!
Do you think if someone would rebuild or make a full replica of a famous ship, that it would be a successful museum.
Do you play world of warships?
Am A Lord now Ty Ryan
Yes My Lord
WHAT DID THE CARGO SHIP SAY TO THE BATTLESHIP?
I'M NOT A FREIGHTER YOU?
Personally I think Ryan Samanski Esquire, sounds more noble, though I think that is less used in The States
You can't buy one square foot of land and become a lord. At best it's a novelty at worst its a scam.
What does a film clip of Rodney have to do with WW 1 ?
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my blessings Lord.
I am Scotts Irish. Interesting that U.S.S. New York got hit by a submarine instead of torpedo.
Who planned for all those battleships but building little else in peacetime?
teddy Roosevelt ?!? (just pulling a recognized era appropriate to get a reaction). So I wonder for a battleship then - what % of GDP did it represent? (What is the USS Ford as % of GDP now) I look and count - USA had 8 Dreadnaught BB when war started (EU date 1914), and by 1917 built 7 more- by 1921 built 5 more. of these 20 - only 6 did NOT serve in WW2. - then we built no more until late 1930's. We had 22 pre-dreadnaught BB built between 1896 to 1905. See The Wikipedia Article - Grand Fleet- 28 UK BB at/in battle of Jutland. "The order of battle of the Grand Fleet at the end of the war in 1918 included 35 dreadnought battleships and 11 battlecruisers" - which I believe includes the 5 US BB present in that count.
The US Congress, otherwise known as the mortal enemy of the US Navy. Battleships were big and prestigious, a way for the US to match up against the much larger Royal Navy and Kaiserliche Marine. Politically, it was great. The fact that the US Navy was pointing out how vulnerable those battleships would be without sufficient escorts was conveniently ignored.
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video suggestion, if the Olympia was to go rogue, would it be able to sink or let alone pen the armor of NJ
Not unless it's the USS Olympia SSN-717 (which was removed from service in 2020).
It has 6 torpedo tubes. That could put a few holes in New Jersey's bottom.
The fact that this guy can't call Britain by its proper name almost defeats all he says
Many of Americans like me don’t even know what to call Britain. England? Britain? United Kingdom?
We know what to call our own country since 1776.