I served in the U.S. Navy in the early 1970s. I can tell you that this is very different from what I experienced. I'd like to make 3 points. 1) I can't believe that no one on that ship knew to turn the gun in heavy seas in order to protect it from waves coming over the bow.. 2) Was there no redundancy backup for the sonar? For the sonar to go down while tracking an enemy submarine is unpardonable. 3) There were huge areas of rust on the focs'l. On every ship I was on, the bos'n mates would have been working around the clock to remove the rust and put on a fresh coat of paint. Every old chief bos'n mate I ever met would have his men working non-stop if he even saw one speck of rust. They would have had cardiac arrest if they had seen that much rust. I really enjoy these videos about the British Navy, but it was very different when I was in. (Yeah, I know I sound like an old man saying, "Well, back in my day....) :)
I'm an ex-Coast Guard GM who sailed on a 327' high endurance cutter with a 5"/38 gun and full anti-submarine capabilities. Your assessment is spot-on accurate. This would have never happened with our old girl whose keel was laid in 1939. How in the f___k does something like that occur on a modern warship? And I just don't get how a vessel could have a design where any seawater ingress in the gun handling compartments could in any way enter the common spaces of the vessel. Should be totally segregated only be able to enter the upper handling room, where it would have its own dewatering system. If water can transverse between the gun handing spaces and the common spaces, then so can rapidly expanding gasses from an ammunition casualty....serious design flaw that could sink the ship. I could also do without the faux drama of a water-induced electrical spark setting off ammunition in the gun handling area...ain't gonna happen.
I’m Army but I sailed on the USS Anchorage in 95. First Woman on board..and I am Canadian. Every sailor was respectful and asked me a million questions. I had galley duty…wasn’t bad… better than scrubbing pots in the snow 🤣 . My hubby was a deck ape,now a clearance Diver Chief PO. But yes,…he complained constantly of painting the ship. I said he was a baby…3 hots n a cot….spoiled 😆🫡
First things I noticed also, I'm just a metal fabricator with no naval experience. I do run a massive operation though and understand the importance of redundancy in critical systems, and preparation ahead known weather events, like parking your trucks and equipment inside before a snowstorm or hail event.
Not a big confidence builder here. Equipment failures and some crew who lack motivation. Yet thank you for serving UK men and women. Appreciate your service to country and peace. 🌊
Seriously it is like that in every service and every countries services. People join for multitude of reasons and attitudes are based on perspective, home life, boredom and so many little things. The newer are the most egger yet have the most anxieties about the unknowns. While the older last trip and I'm out crew are, the "been here done it got that check mark, just kick the tires I'm off next time in port" are less motivated. If you have ever deployed you know that last few weeks before going home, fights break out, restlessness, complacency is a killer.
The leak at the gun barrels rubber gasket was odd. They could have just turned the gun turret 170 degrees and having the back of the turret take the sea spray .
@@bobtate6812 Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about one-twelfth the height of ordinary human beings. Both are empires, i.e. realms ruled by an emperor. The capital of Lilliput is Mildendo. In some pictures, the islands are arranged like an egg, as a reference to their egg-dominated histories and cultures.[citation needed]
Whimpering him who’s come and gives gifts of blessings to those to come to him why not don’t we just dear Jesus lord of kings of all earthly given names welcome king of the clashing of our lions a.k.a lionesses
Old stories sung by English people to discredit other nations. However, their ancestors were much more DISGUSTED of colonizing other nations in the past.
yeah cant wait for Emma from London with James the penguin vs Vladimir from Novosibirsk who is used to eating tree bark for breakfast and wrestling bears.
I found our Officer trainees (3rd year Academy students) that were assigned to us over summers was a great experience. I think for everyone. I was a CW4 and UH-60 Instructor/Examiner, and I made it a point to involve ours in almost everything possible. They were appreciative and helpful it made them better Officers and leaders
We took Middies with us on some patrols on our Submarine in the summers. After a few days it was easy to tell who were going to be good Officers and who weren't. They were usually the 'Ring Knockers' .
Nope your dead wrong he’s upset very very upset God likes it when we fight his impending truth to end all civilizations from recreating a more oh life’s to breath a.k.a live
Been there done that in the North Atlantic 1967-68 tracking Russian submarines aboard a Destroyer Escort. We sonar pinged them for days with our pings bouncing back inside our hull driving us nut's alongside the Russians.They finally surfaced next to us and we greeted them with a three finger salute !
@@LumaLabs Even 1 degree would make a difference; to not turn it at all is very strange. Almost makes me feel it was staged. You'd think they would have a spare seal too but at least they got their Amazon Prime deliveries.
On my mom's side of the family, they have been mariners as far back as the 1600's. My mom and I crossed the Atlantic on a merchant vessel when I was 4 years old. I love boats and I never get seasick. Just looking at them walking below decks puts me in a different state of mind. I need to watch more videos like this.
I find it appalling that they failed so miserably in finding and stopping the water Ingress. My dad and my uncle were both navy. They both said that it is very important to keep all the bunks dry at all times. That means you keep the ocean out no matter what happens with the weather .
to be fair Northumberland is 30+ years old. She should have been de-commed years ago, but modern politicians don't care about the RN, RAF, Army, until it's too late.
The state of readiness of this warship leaves much to be desired. This is not a white glove cruise to show the flag at Singapore, in the early 1930's. The Northumberland is going after a Russian nuclear sub, in North Atlantic and Arctic waters. She has no escort with her, either. The commander of this vessel, and the Royal Navy itself, have some soul-searching to do.
All that history of naval dominance and this is who they are now. That looked more like a cruise ship instead of a warship. Admiral Nelson would be pissed.
I'm no sailor, but I thought with as many centuries experience about naval warfare, they would have figured out how to make ships more watertight and perhaps even have some pumps for the water instead of buckets.
6:15 Nothing like a woman's touch. I think she'll be fine on the ship. In the early 70's my ship made a trip to the Arctic Circle to chase after Russian subs. They were fairly easy to follow because they were so noisy; I was the lead sonarman so it was quite an experience to track them. Maybe the new Russian subs are quieter.
She's supposed to be an officer, then she asked a crewman "What does that do?" What happened to England's navy? Y'all had the best navy in the world, and now you have officers asking what part of the ship is for.
@@VinceBucy Not a knowledgeable person about boats, myself, but I used to work at a sail maker's loft, sewing spinnakers, and met a huge worldwide community of boat people, and all of them, all to a man and woman, said the main thing about a sailor that sets them apart from any other branch of the military, is that every sailor has to have knowledge of everything that's on the ship they're on. Like the ship is a living thing, with all these people who make up it's parts. So she of the many questions made me wonder.
The unspoken part to all this, great documentary by the way, is how did the Northumberland know where to look to begin with? SOSUS or an Astute class lurking? Maybe an Los Angeles class trailing? (All the above) The surface warship tells the Russian "We know you are there" while the true threat to the Russian is right in behind it.
A warship that floods to the point of risking an explosion. A main gun rendered inoperative because of the elements it was conceived to work amidst. A post-pubescent junior sailor that looks like she would be ill-fitted even for a children daycare. A sonar system that goes kaput at the most crucial of times. Suddenly, all the Russian armed forces incompetence and clowning don't seem so egregious anymore.
Yep, as a laymen I was still surprised that as many centuries experience of having a navy, they haven't figured out how to make ships watertight during storms yet. And buckets instead of pumps reminds me of having to use water bottles for heating in London hotel when I was a kid. Felt like kind of ancient tech by then already.
I’ll give a pass on the junior sailor, everyone needs a start and nobody is perfect out of the gate, the rest of the issues, yes it’s pretty bad the level of incompetency
Actually labling decks, corridors and bulkheads is controversial, as having those directions available in a wreak where salvage by the enemy could be made easier if something top secret was aboard. It's also thought that knowing your ship without signs pointing out where you are and are going means that if attacked and dealing with fire, smoke or flooding, a ship that is listing or capsized, one would still know where one was. Most smaller Naval shops opt to not label directions while the city sized air craft carriers have to be marked out as memorizing the ship would reach a point of no return because of storage and other areas that are rarely visited to be recognized, and in larger ships spaces can be reconfigured even while underway and become unrecognizable in only a few days.
The big seas were the fun and relaxing part of my many years at sea but I can honestly say I never had to worry about the ship flooding, maybe need to consider retiring this bugger and replacing it with something a tad more seaworthy or at least waterproof. I would do another deployment in a heartbeat no matter how long
Imagine, the current Royal Navy barely mans 70 vessels, in WW2, with a fraction of the population, they had 430+ massive vessels plus about 1/3 of the world’s merchant marine!
@@dfinlen I agree, it also wouldn't make sense to have a massive navy, it's all about alliances now, the US-UK alliance is not going to go away anytime soon.
Really good documentary! The thing to remember here is that this is dramatized to keep people interested and it’s not as hair raising as it may seem. I was a submarine sailor on the USS Richard B Russell SSN 687 fast attack submarine and U.S. subs are very hard to find, we did exercises with surface ships and we always got them before they found us.
We had to RAS during my time in the RN sometimes during an exercise at night in " darken ship" routine ( no lights except on each lifejacket) and a thin line of coloured lights between the bows for the bridge to judge if we were closing up
It isn't clear from the description or title, but these are episodes of a documentary series. This is the 2nd episode I've seen - the first episode is on their channel now and was posted last week. I imagine the next installment/continuation of the story will be next week.
@@danielwaynemiller it's a documentary behind the scenes of another documentary that was aired a while ago. The mission was aborted when the sub damaged her towed array, rendering the deep listening sonar inoperative and requiring replacement in port. Some speculated that it was intentional, but the array is basically a long cable with microphones, silent and two miles long. So, a wee bit hard to find, let alone hit and a big risk of fouling the screws on a submarine, leaving them immobile.
Sonar working again hey. Thanks for showing us the radar screen. BTW, the towed array is passive and does not search in a circle, it's a listening device.
The Umberland’s seaworthiness is a joke… can we pause for a moment we have a slight leak. Oh yeah and our gun doesn’t work. Aside from that we’re good.
unfortunately vladmir's t-55's rusted commanders hatch got hit by a drone-mounted anti-tank grenade, so he won't be joining us for this one@@valyshknee4203
The Captain of the Northumberland should have known the capabilities of the Russian sub's tactical towed sonar array. To allow the ship to get within 7000m of the sub and not follow it's every change of direction and separation distance goes to demonstrate how inexperienced the Captain was. That 20 year old sonar operator should have been better trained to focus on the subs every move. This is a real eye opener.
Walking around, shooting the breeze with the crew.....that is TERRIBLE leadership. The Captain of a ship is a man apart, a man alone. He does not have friends on board, he has subordinates who must be ready to obey his orders without question, instantly. Trying to be their friend does not command that type of respect, it makes you look WEAK!
Can feel for the Bridge crew calling a pod of dolphins as a possible periscope - long ago in the Pacific while flying off a US Frigate - I caught a radar pop-up on my screen - we flew 60+ miles to ID the small 10 knot target - a knot of 50 gallon barrels and a pipe being moved by the current .
Olivia, sorry I can't do anything more. I just need to lay here.........FOR SEASICKNESS!!!!!!! REALLY!!!!!!!! LIABILITY!!!!!!!!!! You would get LAUGHED out of the USN asking for Sea Sickness medication!
Smart Captain. I don’t know how the Navy life is but all great leaders constantly keep an eye on everyone. Never know when someone is struggling mentally or not doing a job. Just smart to be on top of everything you can. He’s a real leader
Ex navy (not British, but experienced with Arctic operations), and I have to say there are a few things in this video that are really quite concerning, especially if they reflect the overall state of seamanship and hardware of the Royal Navy.
As one of the first women on a US Navy oiler in 1988, that idiotic junior officer decorating with unregulated green lights and a stuffed animal made me sick and embarrassed!
according to the graphic most telecom traffic from the UK to North America is not through the Arctic Circle. I doubt that line cuts within the Arctic Circle will effect telecom traffic that much.
Unless they completely strip the gunmount and remove the salt that gunmount is going to be trashed. Our mounts are able to be rotated facing aft to alleviate this from happening.
@@valyshknee4203 Ivan can wrestle bears all he wants, but meanwhile he also can't read and distinguish the 'shoot' and 'self-destruct' buttons. And because he's a Siberian minority, good chance he's pressed into service by uncle Vladimir, and because of this he hates every officer and NCO of his navy. My money's still on the penguin and the kids 🎉
If you think about it why would they put this on you tube. What should have happen is they didn't lose track of the Russian sub. They made it like they had a malfunction in the sonar and they lost the sub. Because that would be top secret. So if that is infact what happen then they did the right thing. They put on a good show and ended it with hardware failure of the sonar and ended it there.
last but not least, check with the ship's Chief Electrician and see what the options are to shut down electricity near the ordnance, to minimize risk of short circuits and fire near the ordnance lockers.
I find it surprising that the critical equipment wasn't configured as n+1 so thier no single point of failure at the card level. Then if heat is a issue on the board level then Close Coupled Cooling should have been implemented or liquid cooling the backplane of the electronic or at the card level. Next im surprised the gasket around the deck gun appears to be just a single layer and as the ship spends all it time outdoors the sunlight will degrade over time all rubberised material. I see lots of lesson levered from this video. As another viewer mentioned why weren't the deck and walkways given names to help anyone navigate the ship.
Why are pictures just hanging on the wall and loose items around the place? On my narrowboat everything is screwed to the wall. I also keep on top of the rust and have multiple layers of redundancy in my systems. What I've seen here doesn't fill me with confidence in the RN
USMC veteran (1974-1980) offering some observations here. This video left me deeply concerned about our old ally, the Brits. That vessel is simply not squared away. Unmilitary bearing and attitudes seem to be the rule. Ladies carrying on like they're running a cruise ship. And the rust! I was shocked by the condition of the ship. Just intolerable. The military in general is declining along with our civilization rather than setting an example and maintaining standards. Where are Lord Nelson and Jacky Fisher? I hope our old friends can find another one somewhere and promote him to the top.
Making your living space much more like home by putting a bunch of stuff out that could impede the crews ability to fight a fire or flooding in that space. That stupid stuffed animal, will clog a pump. A string of lights could get tangled around equipment or the feet of damage control personal. WERE IS THE DISCIPLINE!!!!!!! WHERE IS THE EMOTIONAL MATURITY!!!!!!!
Has the Captain never heard the phrase, loose lips sink ships? The crew doesn't NEED TO KNOW what your mission is, where you are going. All they need to do is obey your orders as if they came from the All Mighty himself!
United States Navy, as of 2014 medically retired due to injuries sustained onboard ship. My first ship was the USS Comte De. Grass DD974 and I was a Sonar Technician Surface and was part of finding and tracking quite a few russian and other subs myself! We sailed with many a British ship while she was still in service, in the North Atlantic! I miss it every day. Seeing those heavy seas brought back that urge and desire to be out there in the middle of it all over again! It was good to see a ship with such a good tight crew at work in those conditions! I too have my Blue nose! So well done. Although our line routine was a bit more than a blue marker to the nose back then! LOL
So what's a sealed operating pump going to look like on the viewer's screen, just humming away? Boring! The same with a bunch of other things people here are bitching about. This is an edited documentary by film makers. This is how they typically stitch together days worth of random footage.
We used to go up to the Bering Sea underwater. It's much smoother. What happened to their sonar array mounted on the ship hull.? They surely must have more than a towed array sonar.? And it's got a helicopter than can "sonar dip." 😉
In spoken English it has become common usage to use “further” for distance, so it is acceptable. The English language keeps evolving. Unless you insist on taking a prescriptive approach to English grammar and usage.
@@alanb8836 "Prescriptive approach"???🤣 "The English language keeps evolving!🤣 Correction: The English language isn't evolving! It is being corrupted and perverted by linguistically incompetent wannabes, like you! And why use the language in its pristine and purest form. If not, the future generation my finds itself communicating with four letter words!
They do have a bow sonar but what you are seeing is a towed array sonar. They are much more capable than the bow mounted sonars because they can literally be stringed out for more than a mile. All along that array there will be hydrophones, making them very sensitive to noise in the ocean. The Burkes have both a bow mounted sonar, the AN/SQS-53C as well as the AN/SQR-19 towed array sonar. The towed sonar array is much better at detecting submarines than the bow sonar.
A Royal Navy source referred to the North Atlantic collision as "unfortunate", followed by an official statement from the Ministry of Defence. The source said: "In late 2020 a Russian submarine being tracked by HMS Northumberland came into contact with her towed array sonar. You can´t make this up at all hilarious :)
I guess I am just an ancient mariner having entered the Navy in '57 just after "rocks & shoals" was discarded, but I contend that there is no place for a female to serve on a "man of war" ship of the line. I served on diesel subs, FBM subs & as electronics technician in the Naval Air branch. I retired after 20 years' service ending during the cold war.
Yes. Countries the world over rely on a huge network of undersea cables. Most of these are publicly documented because the last thing you want is someone dragging an anchor or a net over one. None the less, they all break on a regular basis and data are routed through different cables (as the internet is designed to do) until they're fixed. The whole cable thing appears to be much ado about little; Russia won't be cutting cables during peacetime because it's ineffective at doing anything but annoying the countries that use those cables.
They needed a script to sell to the media crew. The Russians were probably having a afternoon snooze the whole time British teenagers were mopping the floor & punching the instruments
She's a trainee - if you know anything about trainees, it's the ones who ask ZERO questions are the ones that you should worry about. Asking questions is normal if you know nothing, it's a strength, not a weakness. It's how you learn and everyone needs to always learn.
She is learning her crews tone. Imagine your crews tone was fast laced with alot of info. In a split second the Officer has to decipher that dialect and determine the level of response
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I served in the U.S. Navy in the early 1970s. I can tell you that this is very different from what I experienced. I'd like to make 3 points. 1) I can't believe that no one on that ship knew to turn the gun in heavy seas in order to protect it from waves coming over the bow.. 2) Was there no redundancy backup for the sonar? For the sonar to go down while tracking an enemy submarine is unpardonable. 3) There were huge areas of rust on the focs'l. On every ship I was on, the bos'n mates would have been working around the clock to remove the rust and put on a fresh coat of paint. Every old chief bos'n mate I ever met would have his men working non-stop if he even saw one speck of rust. They would have had cardiac arrest if they had seen that much rust. I really enjoy these videos about the British Navy, but it was very different when I was in. (Yeah, I know I sound like an old man saying, "Well, back in my day....) :)
im ex RN, 76 - 90 and I totally agree with you
I'm an ex-Coast Guard GM who sailed on a 327' high endurance cutter with a 5"/38 gun and full anti-submarine capabilities. Your assessment is spot-on accurate. This would have never happened with our old girl whose keel was laid in 1939. How in the f___k does something like that occur on a modern warship?
And I just don't get how a vessel could have a design where any seawater ingress in the gun handling compartments could in any way enter the common spaces of the vessel. Should be totally segregated only be able to enter the upper handling room, where it would have its own dewatering system. If water can transverse between the gun handing spaces and the common spaces, then so can rapidly expanding gasses from an ammunition casualty....serious design flaw that could sink the ship.
I could also do without the faux drama of a water-induced electrical spark setting off ammunition in the gun handling area...ain't gonna happen.
I’m Army but I sailed on the USS Anchorage in 95. First Woman on board..and I am Canadian. Every sailor was respectful and asked me a million questions. I had galley duty…wasn’t bad… better than scrubbing pots in the snow 🤣 . My hubby was a deck ape,now a clearance Diver Chief PO. But yes,…he complained constantly of painting the ship. I said he was a baby…3 hots n a cot….spoiled 😆🫡
I know! This is really terrible. The Royal Navy needs some re-organization all around.
First things I noticed also, I'm just a metal fabricator with no naval experience. I do run a massive operation though and understand the importance of redundancy in critical systems, and preparation ahead known weather events, like parking your trucks and equipment inside before a snowstorm or hail event.
Not a big confidence builder here. Equipment failures and some crew who lack motivation. Yet thank you for serving UK men and women. Appreciate your service to country and peace. 🌊
Seriously it is like that in every service and every countries services. People join for multitude of reasons and attitudes are based on perspective, home life, boredom and so many little things. The newer are the most egger yet have the most anxieties about the unknowns. While the older last trip and I'm out crew are, the "been here done it got that check mark, just kick the tires I'm off next time in port" are less motivated. If you have ever deployed you know that last few weeks before going home, fights break out, restlessness, complacency is a killer.
every nation has the right to protect the intigrity and serius treats to maintain peace and order
The leak at the gun barrels rubber gasket was odd. They could have just turned the gun turret 170 degrees and having the back of the turret take the sea spray .
@@Crashed131963 lol ,British navy sucks you know that ??
They’re so young and have so much responsibility just to keep us safe. God Bless Each and everyone of them.
To be safe start from being friendly to Russia. GB is not Gb any longer. Just a lilliputian army not even good enough to fight Houthis in Yemen only.
@@bobtate6812 Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about one-twelfth the height of ordinary human beings. Both are empires, i.e. realms ruled by an emperor. The capital of Lilliput is Mildendo. In some pictures, the islands are arranged like an egg, as a reference to their egg-dominated histories and cultures.[citation needed]
very informative, they are not in US national intersts, Guam and diego-garcia is all they can handle@@Marty_TH-camr
WE were all that young with all that responsibility.
@@bobtate6812 Russia needs to fix its homosexual problem first. And Russia's GDP is tiny compared to GB, it's like comparing the USA to North Korea.
The training of that crew leaves a lot to be desired. Wow
27:32 hats off to you man. Even though I’m American I can still appreciate the sacrifices you make for your country 🫡🫡
He can run into the meat grinder in Bakhmut 😂
Have no mercy just like the Phairome
Whimpering him who’s come and gives gifts of blessings to those to come to him why not don’t we just dear Jesus lord of kings of all earthly given names welcome king of the clashing of our lions a.k.a lionesses
Old stories sung by English people to discredit other nations. However, their ancestors were much more DISGUSTED of colonizing other nations in the past.
yeah cant wait for Emma from London with James the penguin vs Vladimir from Novosibirsk who is used to eating tree bark for breakfast and wrestling bears.
One can only hope that the condition of this boat is either an isolated case or a deliberate feint to obfuscate any opponents... ❤
I found our Officer trainees (3rd year Academy students) that were assigned to us over summers was a great experience. I think for everyone. I was a CW4 and UH-60 Instructor/Examiner, and I made it a point to involve ours in almost everything possible. They were appreciative and helpful it made them better Officers and leaders
We took Middies with us on some patrols on our Submarine in the summers. After a few days it was easy to tell who were going to be good Officers and who weren't. They were usually the 'Ring Knockers' .
Better than Netflix, the Russian's will be listening. I'm astounded ahwell victory only to Ukraine 🇺🇦 from Australia 🇦🇺 slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 ♥
Cannot say I'm terribly impressed with the state of this warship and the least said about the crew the better.
I can't believe that they do a bucket brigade by hand! Everyone has portable water pump for this!
The stock footage of HMS North Umberland showed her at a liesurely pace, hardly rushing anywhere.
Hype? 🤭
This old sailor enjoyed the vid a LOT. Thanks for your service 👍
Salute from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.
Nope your dead wrong he’s upset very very upset God likes it when we fight his impending truth to end all civilizations from recreating a more oh life’s to breath a.k.a live
Been there done that in the North Atlantic 1967-68 tracking Russian submarines aboard a Destroyer Escort. We sonar pinged them for days with our pings bouncing back inside our hull driving us nut's alongside the Russians.They finally surfaced next to us and we greeted them with a three finger salute !
Been there, but when my Ship encountered heavy Sea states we swung the Gun to face Aft to avoid such damage, surprised the Northumberland didn't.
I believe on the Type 23, the Mark 8 cannot traverse a full 180 to the rear due to the VLS configuration.
@@LumaLabs Even 1 degree would make a difference; to not turn it at all is very strange. Almost makes me feel it was staged. You'd think they would have a spare seal too but at least they got their Amazon Prime deliveries.
too busy swapping sonar processor boards to worry about bow waves
@@larry365 Probably all is staged. Or just part of an exercise. There was never a Russian submarine around.
On my mom's side of the family, they have been mariners as far back as the 1600's.
My mom and I crossed the Atlantic on a merchant vessel when I was 4 years old.
I love boats and I never get seasick.
Just looking at them walking below decks puts me in a different state of mind.
I need to watch more videos like this.
I find it appalling that they failed so miserably in finding and stopping the water Ingress. My dad and my uncle were both navy. They both said that it is very important to keep all the bunks dry at all times. That means you keep the ocean out no matter what happens with the weather .
to be fair Northumberland is 30+ years old. She should have been de-commed years ago, but modern politicians don't care about the RN, RAF, Army, until it's too late.
The state of readiness of this warship leaves much to be desired. This is not a white glove cruise to show the flag at Singapore, in the early 1930's. The Northumberland is going after a Russian nuclear sub, in North Atlantic and Arctic waters. She has no escort with her, either. The commander of this vessel, and the Royal Navy itself, have some soul-searching to do.
they lack staff and ships not even joking but the two aircraft carriers break down 100% of the time they are used
If my kid was serving on that boat, I would be pretty pissed off at the whole situation.
not to mention that Northumberland is 30+ years old and her class is in desperate need of replacement.
All that history of naval dominance and this is who they are now. That looked more like a cruise ship instead of a warship. Admiral Nelson would be pissed.
I'm no sailor, but I thought with as many centuries experience about naval warfare, they would have figured out how to make ships more watertight and perhaps even have some pumps for the water instead of buckets.
Yeah, I was impressed at UK's Falkland Island response...
6:15 Nothing like a woman's touch. I think she'll be fine on the ship.
In the early 70's my ship made a trip to the Arctic Circle to chase after Russian subs. They were fairly easy to follow because they were so noisy; I was the lead sonarman so it was quite an experience to track them. Maybe the new Russian subs are quieter.
Ever see any UFO/uap/ or USO? Asking seriously.
@@VinceBucyvery quiet they are and invisible
She's supposed to be an officer, then she asked a crewman "What does that do?" What happened to England's navy? Y'all had the best navy in the world, and now you have officers asking what part of the ship is for.
@@Hollylivengood W O K E. I was wondering the same thing? I don’t think the others in the documentary enjoyed her enthusiasm.
@@VinceBucy Not a knowledgeable person about boats, myself, but I used to work at a sail maker's loft, sewing spinnakers, and met a huge worldwide community of boat people, and all of them, all to a man and woman, said the main thing about a sailor that sets them apart from any other branch of the military, is that every sailor has to have knowledge of everything that's on the ship they're on. Like the ship is a living thing, with all these people who make up it's parts. So she of the many questions made me wonder.
The unspoken part to all this, great documentary by the way, is how did the Northumberland know where to look to begin with? SOSUS or an Astute class lurking? Maybe an Los Angeles class trailing? (All the above) The surface warship tells the Russian "We know you are there" while the true threat to the Russian is right in behind it.
There's enough sonar in that area to drown out an Oasis concert
A warship that floods to the point of risking an explosion. A main gun rendered inoperative because of the elements it was conceived to work amidst. A post-pubescent junior sailor that looks like she would be ill-fitted even for a children daycare. A sonar system that goes kaput at the most crucial of times. Suddenly, all the Russian armed forces incompetence and clowning don't seem so egregious anymore.
Yep, as a laymen I was still surprised that as many centuries experience of having a navy, they haven't figured out how to make ships watertight during storms yet. And buckets instead of pumps reminds me of having to use water bottles for heating in London hotel when I was a kid. Felt like kind of ancient tech by then already.
I’ll give a pass on the junior sailor, everyone needs a start and nobody is perfect out of the gate, the rest of the issues, yes it’s pretty bad the level of incompetency
I doubt that submarine was all that worried about this ship.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 problem is she is a commissioned officer not a sailor and all the experienced sailors need to call her “ma’am”
@@maxanders3000 ,
Ви ошибаетесь жестоко ...
Я на мнении,що русские уже хотели сделать разворот обратно на случай SOS от англичан , но все обошлось ...
Olivia gets lost? Don't the Brits put a bulkhead number, deck, and corridor on every corner, like the US has for 80+ years?
WTF?
Don’t UK officers get briefed on vessel layouts prior to going aboard?
Pshh who needs directions, that's the British way
Actually labling decks, corridors and bulkheads is controversial, as having those directions available in a wreak where salvage by the enemy could be made easier if something top secret was aboard.
It's also thought that knowing your ship without signs pointing out where you are and are going means that if attacked and dealing with fire, smoke or flooding, a ship that is listing or capsized, one would still know where one was.
Most smaller Naval shops opt to not label directions while the city sized air craft carriers have to be marked out as memorizing the ship would reach a point of no return because of storage and other areas that are rarely visited to be recognized, and in larger ships spaces can be reconfigured even while underway and become unrecognizable in only a few days.
Directions to the tea room
Damn, the ship is taking on water with a little heavy weather. Interesting.
The big seas were the fun and relaxing part of my many years at sea but I can honestly say I never had to worry about the ship flooding, maybe need to consider retiring this bugger and replacing it with something a tad more seaworthy or at least waterproof. I would do another deployment in a heartbeat no matter how long
Imagine, the current Royal Navy barely mans 70 vessels, in WW2, with a fraction of the population, they had 430+ massive vessels plus about 1/3 of the world’s merchant marine!
It really wouldn't make sense for the RN to have a large fleet like that anymore, not when they can just use the US as their bodyguard
@@KubiqFeet Britain can hardly do anything for itself anymore
@@KubiqFeetit really wouldn't be possible.
India was a colony under that time you have the resource but its not possible now.
@@dfinlen I agree, it also wouldn't make sense to have a massive navy, it's all about alliances now, the US-UK alliance is not going to go away anytime soon.
Using buckets to remove water reminds me of the days we were on tiny boat escaping VN. So funny!😅
Really good documentary! The thing to remember here is that this is dramatized to keep people interested and it’s not as hair raising as it may seem. I was a submarine sailor on the USS Richard B Russell SSN 687 fast attack submarine and U.S. subs are very hard to find, we did exercises with surface ships and we always got them before they found us.
We had to RAS during my time in the RN sometimes during an exercise at night in " darken ship" routine ( no lights except on each lifejacket) and a thin line of coloured lights between the bows for the bridge to judge if we were closing up
A final result would have made this into a SUPERB docco! --- Even if it was a return to Port and some Leave for the personnel!!
It isn't clear from the description or title, but these are episodes of a documentary series. This is the 2nd episode I've seen - the first episode is on their channel now and was posted last week. I imagine the next installment/continuation of the story will be next week.
@@danielwaynemiller it's a documentary behind the scenes of another documentary that was aired a while ago. The mission was aborted when the sub damaged her towed array, rendering the deep listening sonar inoperative and requiring replacement in port.
Some speculated that it was intentional, but the array is basically a long cable with microphones, silent and two miles long. So, a wee bit hard to find, let alone hit and a big risk of fouling the screws on a submarine, leaving them immobile.
Next episode dropped on this channel fyi
Does everything constantly break on all ships? I thought it was just my father-in-law's bass boat! 😂 🌊🚢
On all boats, maintenance and repair is constant. That's why they say boats are "holes in the water into which you throw money"
If you have modern war ship leaking because of heavy seas, you have a bad quality and design problem.
Worked in the med on a 65m M/Y and it was constantly getting fixed. It was 2 years old and breaking. Although Benetti the Alfa Romeo of yachts 😅
@@jezdog3000 Fix It Again, Tony!!
Boats and semi trucks, two vehicles that you will still be paying repair bills for even after you’re dead
Sonar working again hey. Thanks for showing us the radar screen. BTW, the towed array is passive and does not search in a circle, it's a listening device.
The Umberland’s seaworthiness is a joke… can we pause for a moment we have a slight leak. Oh yeah and our gun doesn’t work. Aside from that we’re good.
Oop, our radar got caput.
@21:27 when you realize you forgot the, "As seen on TV Flex Tape" back at port.
"Welcome aboard Ma'am and welcome to the CIC. Here we have the sonar display"
"Whats a sonar?" 😳😳😳
Training prior to deployment appears to be insufficient.
There is simply no substitute for the real deal, my friend. Don't be too critical.
Cant wait for Emma from London with James the penguin vs Vladimir from Novosibirsk who is used to eating tree bark for breakfast and wrestling bears.
"This is the sonar"
"Whats that?"
unfortunately vladmir's t-55's rusted commanders hatch got hit by a drone-mounted anti-tank grenade, so he won't be joining us for this one@@valyshknee4203
Godspeed to all of you sailors and thanks from Oklahoma USA for your service to us all. Democracy has no shortage of enemies.
Wait, I want more!!! I was on the edge of my seat.
I’m surprised the new girl didn’t ask what a dolphin is
Ellis recording bedtime stories for his kids brought me watery eyes....
LOL A magazine detonation will not blow a hole in the ship, it will blow up the whole ship!
Lot of rust on that ship.
Believe it or not all ships look like this after being underway for a while, it is quite normal.
no its not the entire ship looks like a broken rust bucket@@Bellthorian
@@Bellthorianno
@@Bellthoriannope ,The British navy sucks
The training officer acts as if she’s on a cruise ship instead of a war ship. This is serious business , she needs to learn that!
Have you ever served?
@@maddogtank8425I have. Us navy. I'm shocked she's an officer who doesn't know what sonar is used for. Hell, most civilians know what it is.
Maybe there could be more than one sonar; task specific
She seems really immature for an officer. Did she go through any training, because it doesn't appear so.
This is the end result of the Woke DEI Virus
The Captain of the Northumberland should have known the capabilities of the Russian sub's tactical towed sonar array. To allow the ship to get within 7000m of the sub and not follow it's every change of direction and separation distance goes to demonstrate how inexperienced the Captain was. That 20 year old sonar operator should have been better trained to focus on the subs every move. This is a real eye opener.
it's worrying there is no hot redundant system for that sonar
Hard time stopping a leak doubt they could take on a Russian sub
I'm surprised that the British ship can sail at all.😂
😂😂😂 The British still say this is a cutting edge technology
4:53 the face of British military ‘strength’
Wtf , a trainee officer that don’t know what sonar do?
Walking around, shooting the breeze with the crew.....that is TERRIBLE leadership. The Captain of a ship is a man apart, a man alone. He does not have friends on board, he has subordinates who must be ready to obey his orders without question, instantly. Trying to be their friend does not command that type of respect, it makes you look WEAK!
Thank you to all the free world's military members for trying to keep the peace.
Loser😂 russia is conducting freedom of navigation
Boris Johnson sabotaged a peace deal between Russian and Ukraine. Your leader's don't give a damn about "keeping the peace". Get a clue.
Can feel for the Bridge crew calling a pod of dolphins as a possible periscope - long ago in the Pacific while flying off a US Frigate - I caught a radar pop-up on my screen - we flew 60+ miles to ID the small 10 knot target - a knot of 50 gallon barrels and a pipe being moved by the current .
Olivia, sorry I can't do anything more. I just need to lay here.........FOR SEASICKNESS!!!!!!! REALLY!!!!!!!! LIABILITY!!!!!!!!!! You would get LAUGHED out of the USN asking for Sea Sickness medication!
Smart Captain. I don’t know how the Navy life is but all great leaders constantly keep an eye on everyone. Never know when someone is struggling mentally or not doing a job. Just smart to be on top of everything you can. He’s a real leader
Olivia has the inspired demeanor of a high schooler.
Geez
Ex navy (not British, but experienced with Arctic operations), and I have to say there are a few things in this video that are really quite concerning, especially if they reflect the overall state of seamanship and hardware of the Royal Navy.
Godspeed and Good Hunting from your brothers in America.
The Skipper is the real deal, for the 21st century !
i love this i enjoyed this video can't wait for the next one !!
As one of the first women on a US Navy oiler in 1988, that idiotic junior officer decorating with unregulated green lights and a stuffed animal made me sick and embarrassed!
We are so screwed if all navy ships are like this one leaky,sonar breakdown wth.
You can always become american and not worry about it😂
@@SuperEmpathOne not English or American either if (all) navy’s i said .
according to the graphic most telecom traffic from the UK to North America is not through the Arctic Circle. I doubt that line cuts within the Arctic Circle will effect telecom traffic that much.
Unless they completely strip the gunmount and remove the salt that gunmount is going to be trashed. Our mounts are able to be rotated facing aft to alleviate this from happening.
I see UK is in good hands, wow May God protect you all, no chance against Russia
Ukraine has no navy and took out Russia's Black Sea Flagship .
Cant wait for Emma from London with James the penguin vs Vladimir from Novosibirsk who is used to eating tree bark for breakfast and wrestling bears.
@@valyshknee4203 And Russia was going to take Kyiv in 3 days a few years ago .
The Russian military are all alcoholics .
@@Crashed131963correction. Ukraine HAD a navy. It got wiped clean.
@@valyshknee4203 Ivan can wrestle bears all he wants, but meanwhile he also can't read and distinguish the 'shoot' and 'self-destruct' buttons. And because he's a Siberian minority, good chance he's pressed into service by uncle Vladimir, and because of this he hates every officer and NCO of his navy.
My money's still on the penguin and the kids 🎉
If you think about it why would they put this on you tube. What should have happen is they didn't lose track of the Russian sub. They made it like they had a malfunction in the sonar and they lost the sub. Because that would be top secret. So if that is infact what happen then they did the right thing. They put on a good show and ended it with hardware failure of the sonar and ended it there.
sub-terfuge!
At 30+ years old, i would hardly call Northumberland "cutting edge".
This was interesting! What I really enjoyed was the Nortern Lights!!! It is always a spectacular experience in person, for the show!!!! Montana Rick.
that's because it's a tourist ship only NOT a warship
last but not least, check with the ship's Chief Electrician and see what the options are to shut down electricity near the ordnance, to minimize risk of short circuits and fire near the ordnance lockers.
I find it surprising that the critical equipment wasn't configured as n+1 so thier no single point of failure at the card level. Then if heat is a issue on the board level then Close Coupled Cooling should have been implemented or liquid cooling the backplane of the electronic or at the card level. Next im surprised the gasket around the deck gun appears to be just a single layer and as the ship spends all it time outdoors the sunlight will degrade over time all rubberised material. I see lots of lesson levered from this video. As another viewer mentioned why weren't the deck and walkways given names to help anyone navigate the ship.
*there is
*an issue
*there
*its time
*lessons
Why are pictures just hanging on the wall and loose items around the place? On my narrowboat everything is screwed to the wall. I also keep on top of the rust and have multiple layers of redundancy in my systems. What I've seen here doesn't fill me with confidence in the RN
in the engine rooms where I served everything was bolted down
Gees, blue sky and brisky breeze and the poms call it rough weather... Where did they get their sea legs, the river Thames...?
Amazing RAS. One minute RFA Tideforce then a swift RFA Fort Victoria Then back to Tideforce. The RFA are amazing. 👍👍
USMC veteran (1974-1980) offering some observations here. This video left me deeply concerned about our old ally, the Brits. That vessel is simply not squared away. Unmilitary bearing and attitudes seem to be the rule. Ladies carrying on like they're running a cruise ship. And the rust! I was shocked by the condition of the ship. Just intolerable. The military in general is declining along with our civilization rather than setting an example and maintaining standards. Where are Lord Nelson and Jacky Fisher? I hope our old friends can find another one somewhere and promote him to the top.
Seemingly, it's more Love Boat than Hunt for Red October...
Im an ol' Army Yank. However when I watch this I choke up. These servicemen are good kids. Good Kids!!
Making your living space much more like home by putting a bunch of stuff out that could impede the crews ability to fight a fire or flooding in that space. That stupid stuffed animal, will clog a pump. A string of lights could get tangled around equipment or the feet of damage control personal. WERE IS THE DISCIPLINE!!!!!!! WHERE IS THE EMOTIONAL MATURITY!!!!!!!
Dido
Loving the series!
"yay, here we are submarines". I hope the enemy does not watch British TV.
We do. You guys are funny.
Wtf! Buckets? I know nothing about navy warships but I've seen a small local fishing boat with motorized pump to remove water.
It's nice to see how the US Allied ships is like.
Has the Captain never heard the phrase, loose lips sink ships? The crew doesn't NEED TO KNOW what your mission is, where you are going. All they need to do is obey your orders as if they came from the All Mighty himself!
21st century ship. "More buckets". Could have been 500 years ago.
United States Navy, as of 2014 medically retired due to injuries sustained onboard ship. My first ship was the USS Comte De. Grass DD974 and I was a Sonar Technician Surface and was part of finding and tracking quite a few russian and other subs myself! We sailed with many a British ship while she was still in service, in the North Atlantic! I miss it every day. Seeing those heavy seas brought back that urge and desire to be out there in the middle of it all over again! It was good to see a ship with such a good tight crew at work in those conditions! I too have my Blue nose! So well done. Although our line routine was a bit more than a blue marker to the nose back then! LOL
A bucket brigade? One would think that there would be pumps of a portable nature that the damage control team would have available to use.
Don't forget the dust collector that comes with the brooms 😂
So what's a sealed operating pump going to look like on the viewer's screen, just humming away? Boring! The same with a bunch of other things people here are bitching about. This is an edited documentary by film makers. This is how they typically stitch together days worth of random footage.
@@charlieross-BRMwrong
We used to go up to the Bering Sea underwater. It's much smoother. What happened to their sonar array mounted on the ship hull.? They surely must have more than a towed array sonar.? And it's got a helicopter than can "sonar dip." 😉
Hey, Mark Tattersal; if it's distance, it's FARTHER, if it is anecdotal it is FURTHER! (you're welcome)
you mean like you might have seen one whale your whole naval career but when telling sea stories they was a lot more
@@charlesmcintyre8142
Did you forget to take your medication!
@@charlesmcintyre8142wat?
In spoken English it has become common usage to use “further” for distance, so it is acceptable. The English language keeps evolving. Unless you insist on taking a prescriptive approach to English grammar and usage.
@@alanb8836
"Prescriptive approach"???🤣
"The English language keeps evolving!🤣
Correction: The English language isn't evolving! It is being corrupted and perverted by linguistically incompetent wannabes, like you! And why use the language in its pristine and purest form. If not, the future generation my finds itself communicating with four letter words!
This ship would have never sailed in Churchills navy!
Deployable sonar on a modern warship? It should be built into the outer hull like the Burkes
They do have a bow sonar but what you are seeing is a towed array sonar. They are much more capable than the bow mounted sonars because they can literally be stringed out for more than a mile. All along that array there will be hydrophones, making them very sensitive to noise in the ocean. The Burkes have both a bow mounted sonar, the AN/SQS-53C as well as the AN/SQR-19 towed array sonar. The towed sonar array is much better at detecting submarines than the bow sonar.
Feel like I’m watching an episode of Undercover Boss
If these are the quality people of British navy, we are screwed....!
Well done Olivia!! You get them, girl!! 💪
Olivia seems real nice and will probably do ok in her career , but now she clearly shouldn’t be in charge of anything.
A Royal Navy source referred to the North Atlantic collision as "unfortunate", followed by an official statement from the Ministry of Defence.
The source said: "In late 2020 a Russian submarine being tracked by HMS Northumberland came into contact with her towed array sonar. You can´t make this up at all hilarious :)
With all due respect, they seem woefully unprepared and undisciplined. I hope I'm wrong.
Your not
5 years Merchant Navy 10 years British Royal Navy. Do5 HMS Daring Chief Petty Officer Ivor Laggan R.I.P. DA!😢
imagine you're at war and those things happens😆😆😆
Easy enough pray for our subs.
I guess I am just an ancient mariner having entered the Navy in '57 just after "rocks & shoals" was discarded, but I contend that there is no place for a female to serve on a "man of war" ship of the line. I served on diesel subs, FBM subs & as electronics technician in the Naval Air branch. I retired after 20 years' service ending during the cold war.
Doesn't Russia also rely on the same undersea cables for internet connectivity and data transmission?
Not nearly as much as the UK does.
They have their own GPS system and are trying to develop their own (sovereign) Internet system
Yes. Countries the world over rely on a huge network of undersea cables. Most of these are publicly documented because the last thing you want is someone dragging an anchor or a net over one. None the less, they all break on a regular basis and data are routed through different cables (as the internet is designed to do) until they're fixed. The whole cable thing appears to be much ado about little; Russia won't be cutting cables during peacetime because it's ineffective at doing anything but annoying the countries that use those cables.
The whole thing sounds like a training exercise to me. Inexperienced sonar crew?
They needed a script to sell to the media crew. The Russians were probably having a afternoon snooze the whole time British teenagers were mopping the floor & punching the instruments
‘The waves are being to swell’, there’s swell and seas, different types of waves, I haven’t heard that term before.
No matter how hard Olivia works, she will NEVER be more than a liability onboard a ship!
Nothing tests your ships weak points like a
Storm!
Her first day as a officer on a ship. She literally walks in and asks what a radar does. No basic training at all.
She asked what sonar was for, which is even more shocking.
She's a trainee - if you know anything about trainees, it's the ones who ask ZERO questions are the ones that you should worry about. Asking questions is normal if you know nothing, it's a strength, not a weakness. It's how you learn and everyone needs to always learn.
She is learning her crews tone. Imagine your crews tone was fast laced with alot of info. In a split second the Officer has to decipher that dialect and determine the level of response
it does the sonar (if you look at the film properly hahaha)
@@stupidburp she asked what that sonar specifically was for, not what a sonar is. Distinctly different questions