H M S Repulse Hood Nelson and Rodney at Sea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2015
- Found this short clip of film spliced on the end of a home movie in my collection of 8mm cine films and thought I should share it, Shows H.M.S. Repulse/Hood/Nelson and Rodney under sail in heavy seas not sure of the date.
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Amazing images. The Hood was sometimes called “The Largest Submarine Afloat” because the ship was so wet across the bow in heavy seas.
Our brave men aboard those ships during the war. Merchant seamen just as equal in my eyes. God rest their souls.
These help one understand why it took so long for people to understand that some cheap little flying gizmo of cloth and baling wire could be such a vital threat to these monsters of the seas.
Just a shame nobody thought how in the future people would enjoy seeing film of these Glorious old dinosaurs in their element, magnificent machine already made obsolete by new technologies, but still giving Magnificent service at terrible cost, Brave ships and braver sailors, oh how I wish somebody had had the foresight to preserve one for Britain.
I guess this is what they mean by "Taking it green across the bow". WOW!
My father served on H M S Rodney during WW2.
Nelson and Rodney, perhaps the easiest battleships to recognize with all main guns forward and their high citadel conning towers.
Now we know why some of the later on warships bows were raised up more to protect the front turrets and guns in this sort of rough seas? My dad was a sonar operator on a Corvette class hunting Japanese subs in the Pacific and those Corvettes were the fastest ships in the Royal Navy racing around at 35 Knots that's why they earned the nick name " Gray Hounds of the Sea" And boy imagine how bad they felt on board in stormy sea in a long thin ship racing along like a rocket! He said everyone was sea sick all the time even the Captain. allot of the waves were 3 times higher than the ship. These Sailors all were so brave and deserve total respect for going through such hell and still fighting on top against as in my dad's case very determined Japanese warriors and Sailors.
Those seas look rough & cold! That’s the last place I’d want to sink. Such brave, young souls
Nothing beats a calm seas pleasure cruise in the N. Atlantic. I bet convoy duty was a lot of fun...on a corvette :)
My Grandad served the whole war on Hms Rodney ..that looked very rough sea
It is hard to imagine there are thousands and thousands of sailors in each one of those ships.
Love seeing them! Wonderful ships and great crews :)
Awesome (in the correct use of the word). Steel dinosaurs, with almost one thousand men and boys battened down below decks (smell the vomit). At this same time my father was plodding the world's oceans in the Merchant Navy. I wonder how much any of them were aware of what was looming just over the horizon?
Nelson and Rodney were beasts. If only they were a bit quicker.
Fabulous what a Navy we had if only we were like that now. Thank you.
Those deck are well awashed!!
My dad served on the Nelson during the war
Kudos for the brave cameraman there. Would not want to be out there on the deck with that weather.
Great pictures, easy to forget what these men went through....my father was on destroyers, so those kinds of sea states must have been challenging to say the least...