The sinking of the Bismarck (1941)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2020
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Sailors celebrate sinking of German battleship Bismarck, Royal Navy maneouvres, actual footage of attack, eyewitness accounts, officers congratulate troops
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AEROPLANES - RACING Planes take off Ark Royal during sinking of Bismarck action
ALEXANDER .A.V. FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY Congratulates Navy on Bismarck action
"BISMARCK" (See 17546 for details of sinking on NAVAL BRITISH
DALRYMPLE-HAMILTON (Captain of H.M.S. Rodney). Speaks after Bismarck action
DORSETSHIRE H.M.S. (Captain Martin) Cruiser and Crew after sinking of Bismarck.. Captain Martine congratulated by Admiral Wellwood-Maxwell
ENNEVER LT. (Aircraft Carrier Victorious). Speaks after sinking of Bismarck
MARTIN CAPTAIN. Captain of H.M.S. Dorsetshire..congratulated by Admiral Wellwood-Maxwell after sinking of Bismarck.
NAVAL (British). Cruiser Dorsetshire after sinking Bismarck..and crew..Captain Martin congratulated by Admiral Wellwood-Maxwell..German survivors bought ashore..planes take off Ark Royal..Ad.Somerville planes action aboard Renown..actual action from 16mm..
NAVAL (British). Captain Dalymple -Hamilton (Captain of Rodney)
NAVAL (BRITISH). speaks..Mr. Alexander (1st Lord) congratulates Navy..Captain Phillips (H.M.S. Norfolk) speaks..Flt/Cmdr. Ronald (Aircraft Carrier Victorious) and Lt. Ennever of (Victorious) speak..also interview with Rodney Rating..
PHILLIPS CAPTAIN (H.M.S. Morfolk). Speaks after sinking of Bismarck
PRISONERS OF WAR Prisoners of war brought ashore after Bismarck action
RANALD FLT/CMDR. (Aircraft Carrier Victorious). Speaks after sinking of Bismarck
"RENOWN" Admiral Somerville plans action (for Bismarck action)
SOMMERVILLE ADMIRAL SIR. Planes action aboard Renown
WELLWOOD-MAXWELL ADMIRAL. Congratulates Captain Martin (H.M.S.Dorsetshire) on sinking of Bismarck
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Background: Sailors celebrate sinking of German battleship Bismarck, Royal Navy maneouvres, actual footage of attack, eyewitness accounts, officers congratulate troops
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My uncle was on HMS RODNEY at the age of 19 ,which sank the Bismark I have still all his memories in my head
Lt .Colin Croft Ennever at 7:05 who was part of the Swordfish torpedo planes involved in Bismarck’s sinking. Was awarded Distinguished Service medal
The Rodney was a slightly crazy battleship design with all the turrets in the front. This make sense when the Royal Navy philosophy was we never present our read to the enemy.
The grouping of the main armaments produced a large reduction in the weight of armour that was required to protect the guns and their magazines.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 oh great point. Must be why they could mount such huge guns on a smaller(ish) ship too.
@@royw-g3120 She was heavily armed and armoured.... where the admiralty chose to make concessions to keep her within treaty weight limits was by limiting her number of boilers... hence why the Nelsons could only achieve 23 knots. which was an average speed for WW1 battleships.
It is always a feeling of pride that the only Navy in the world that could have sunk the Bismarck was the Royal Navy. Without the RN the Bismarck and her consorts could have wreaked unbridled havoc on the oceans of the world. Johnnie Horton got it right when he sang " we had to sink the Bismarck cos the world depends on us" (meaning the RN ). But for me the real heroes were the two pilots of the Fairy Swordfish plane who swooped to wave height and scored that all important torpedo hit on Bismarck's rudder. What were their names??
Far from it while a good ship she was far from unbeatable and was arguably the worst of the late/post treaty designs the US Navy had just launched the North Carolina class which was more than capable. The USN Carrier force would have been capable, Even the Italians could have done it as the Vittorio Veneto class was vastly superior as was the French Jean Bart the Japanese definitely could have done it.
@@jonsouth1545 the Italians were not an elite Navy by any means I think you could say the same for the French as well.. nice-looking ships though
Three days after the Hood was sunk the Bismarck was destroyed
@@jonsouth1545 No one is discounting the quality of the North Carolina class. Unfortunately, the US was still neutral and quite isolationist at this point in the War, although lend lease was swinging into action. (thank god). So regardless of the capabilities of the North Carolina class, the original poster is correct. In the circumstances of May 1941, it was only the Royal Navy that was capable of sinking the Bismark. France had surrendererd and was collaborating with Nazi Germany at this point. Italy was Nazi Germany's ally. USSR had not yet been attacked by Nazi Germany and were still providing massive supplies to the Nazi war machine. At this point, only Britain and the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, NZ, India, etc, and Crown colonies) and the governments of a few occupied countries in exile stood against the Nazi German menace.
Several navies at the time could have Sunk Bismarck quite easily.
7:05 that midshipman looks to be about 17 a testament to how young some sailors were back then.
He was 28
@@SEnnever I'm talking about the kid left of Ennever. The one with clear midshipman rank insignia. He looks 17 or so.
Ah yes, you are right. He does look very young indeed. Love these Pathe clips with all the different dialects. Brave men everyone of them!
Jolly good show! 👍🇬🇧
My wife's father (my Father-in-Law) MAA Henry (Harry) William York aboard HMS Dorsetshire had the singular honour of 'laying and firing' the final torpedo which sank the Bismark. Harry was awarded the BEM by the King in recognition of his (and his crew mates) contribution.
My father, Stoker first class Stan Higgins, worked in Dorsetshire's boiler rooms. He was "off watch" at the time of the Bismarck action and took part in the rescues of the 86 Bismarck survivors who were picked up by the Dorsetshire.
One of the men he helped haui onboard, Friedrich Junghans (A member of Turret "Dora" gunhouse crew) gave dad his "Erkennungsmarke" (ID tag), it is now on display in the Merseyside maritime museum in Liverpool.
Do you know if your father-in-law survived Dorsetshire's sinking a year later? My dad was one of the lucky ones (450 others WEREN'T so lucky), and for many years after the war dad and his shipmates in Liverpool used to travel to the HMS Dorsetshire Association annual reunion in Devenport.
All the best.
Dalymple -Hamilton's son was serving as a midshipman onboard KGV.
Over whelmiing odds, i imagine one on one the outcome would have been quite different.
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the news was a little harsh on the surviving german sailors geez
Not unexpected for wartime.
Those rescued crewmen's intention during "exercise Rhine" was to sink civilian merchant shipping in order the starve the population of Britain, Do you think we should have welcomed them with open arms? Which is exactly what happened onboard HMS Dorsetshire and Maori, where after their rescue they were provided with exactly the same meals as the crew, and supplied with rum, Cigarettes and even sweets, one Bismarck survivor who was picked up with a severely injured arm, was operated on onboard Dorsetshire, but died during the procedure and was buried at sea with full military honours by the RN. On arrival at Newcastle upon Tyne they were warned that their reception on shore may not be as respectful as they had received onboard. Suffice to say that a large number of the survivors were treated so well during their captivity that after the end of WW2 they elected to settle in Canada and the US where they had been sent to POW camps.
Many years ago I worked with a man who had been a member of HMS Rodney's crew & took part in this action. He told me about it & that those aboard Rodney felt sorry for Bismarck's crew, who were young men like themselves. Only a few cheered the hits & when Bismarck stopped firing most were simply relieved that it was no longer a threat to them & that they had survived the action.
Agreed.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Oh you mean like how England paid other Countries to not Trade Food Stuff and , Starved out Germany during WW one? Also the Germans were Very kind in not destroying Prince of Wales
The sailor shown at 0:49 has one upper tooth missing and three or so bottom teeth missing or damaged. Shipboard accident? Or been in a drunken fight? Or just lack of dental care?
My parents, born in 1909, had no teeth at all by the time I arrived in 1940. My generation was taught in Year 1 primary school to brush our teeth daily, apparently a novelty at the time. It seems to have worked - I still have all my teeth, though 6 have fillings. Kids born after 1965 have even better teeth due to flouride being added to water.
In the UK at least in the days before NHS dental treatment, the cost of dental work was FAR out of the reach of many working people. My own parents both had what are now call "Full clearances" (I.E ALL teeth removed in one or two sittings) before the age of 40, and false teeth fitted. It was more common than you'd believe.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 : That sort of lines up with what my mother told me. She emigrated from England to Australia. My father was born and raised in rural Australia. Pre-war, rural Australia had few dentists - to get dental work done they had to travel to a city. But both blamed their complete lack of natural teeth primarily on not brushing with toothpaste.
In the era when I was born, the government had set up free "baby clinics"" in every town. New mothers had to attend baby clinics with their babies at stipulated intervals. According to my mother, the main thing that baby clinics did was weigh the baby - if it wasn't gaining weight normally, the mother was counselled. But they also taught mothers how to care for a baby - including brushing its teeth when they appeared.
Mother had a low opinion of baby clinics - they were staffed by young unmarried nurses who had not a baby themselves. But she did think being taught to brush baby's teeth was a good thing. It meant that as soon as I was old enough I could be taught to brush my teeth myself and get a life-long habit - something that did not happen in my parent's generation.
@@keithammleter3824 Absolutely Keith, Not brushing was definitely the ROOT cause of the dental horrors that troubled our parents. I myself was not rigourously told to brush each day by mum & dad, they were too busy working hard, just the occasional "'ave you brushed your teeth?" every once in a while, BUT the difference was that I grew up AFTER the NHS had been created and so the occasional dental problems I faced as a youngster were routinely attended to. Sure it meant I got a good few fillings, but at gone 60 I've still got three quarters of my teeth. It took me into my early 20s to realise it would be prudent to develop a good dental hygiene routine.
It was not parental neglect on my parents part, I loved them and they loved us dearly, it was just the lack of proper education and general disregard that was heaped on to the working classes back then... something that I sadly feel we're heading back towards in the UK. Though thankfully we've "enforced" good dental hygiene on our own kids and now in their 30s they've not got a single filling of extracted tooth between them.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 : Interesting conversation. You have it exactly right. It wasn't that our parents didn't care - it was they were not educated on teeth care and it wasn't part of pre-war culture. (Actually, in rural Australia, not educated on a lot of things. My father only attended primary school, not untypical of his generation) Being poor and not many dentists around just made dental health worse.
In Australia today, dentistry is not covered by Medicare - Australia's version of NHS. Australians need to have private insurance for dentistry. I don't consider dental care significant in cost, however the industry is riddled with dentists who overcharge and over-service, causing many people to not have regular checks. You need to choose a dentist with care, ask questions, ask around and find out his reputation.
Mum must have taken the baby clinic advice onboard, as when I was little she was a lot more keen than just asking occasionally if I had brushed. Then in Grade 1 primary school I got it again from the teacher, who was equipped with blown up photos of good and rotten teeth.
Once a year I go to my dentist for a check. Usually he bangs a few teeth, pokes a few more, cleans off a bit of "boiler scale", then straightens up and tells me I'm good for another year. About every 10 years or so he decides a filling needs re-doing.
Incidentally, Mum used to buy "Ginger Nut" biscuits. They were very hard. Mum and Dad used to soak them in their tea to soften them, as with false teeth they couldn't crack the biscuits. I used to chew them up no worries. Tea ruined the flavour. Sometimes Dad would exclaim that meat was too tough - but I chewed it up thinking it was perfectly good.
@@keithammleter3824 Hahahaha, Really interesting social history there, Keith. Fascinating the similarities and differences in our respective upbringings. Your recoolection has unlocked a little memory from my own childhood, thinking back we did receive some dental instruction from school, as I now recall in Infant school being provided with a brush, little tube of toothpaste, and a plastic cup to rinse from... and I even remember the little ditty that was on the cup, as we had it for years afterwards,
Brushing your teeth is important
First thing after breakfast
and last thing at night
will help keep your smile
Healthy and bright.
Now ask me what I had for dinner yesterday? Not a Scooby Doo !!!
Good talking Keith !!! All the best to you & Aus from the UK.
That commentator has a really horrible Tony Robinson-like naturally annoying voice.
Listen to the voices of the individuals involved. It was how a lot of people spoke in Britain then.
I’m glad that giant Nazi battleship was sunk. The Bismarck battleship is a huge pirate terror battleship that would sink the entire allied fleets if we didn’t use aircraft against it.
Er...no. Bismarck was a fairly good ship. Nothing more. The battleship was not alive. It was not a member of the Nazi party. It was a German ship.
The Bismarck is a giant pirate terror ship that sunk the hood and if it wasn’t chased down by air power it will sink the allied fleets.
@@SuperiorAmericanGuy lol. You're funny. Was it commanded by Capt Blackbeard Lindemann?
It’s commanded by German pirates.
@@SuperiorAmericanGuy clearly.