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  • @KnightRanger38
    @KnightRanger38 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Japan initially planned on 5 Yamato-class battleships, but the other two were cancelled a few months before the Japanese Navy decided to convert the IJN Shinano to an aircraft carrier.

    • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
      @jollyjohnthepirate3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lexington and Saratoga both American carriers started out as battle cruisers as was the Japanese Akagi. Kaga started out as a battleship for the Japanese. Shinano's problem as stated by Darkness was she was rushed into service. She could have given excellent service but by 1944 the war had drastically turned against Japan.

    • @peterbrazier7107
      @peterbrazier7107 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yamato Hull No. 111was under very early stages of construction when she was cancelled and scrapped.

    • @metaknight115
      @metaknight115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually, the forth Yamato class battleship, A-111, was started around the same time as Shinano, but was halted following the battle of Midway at 30% complete, and scrapped in place.

  • @philvanderlaan5942
    @philvanderlaan5942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Yamato 12 bombs and at least 7 torpedoes
    Musashi 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes
    Shinano 4 torpedoes
    That’s shows the difference between fully completed battships and a partially completed carrier on the same armored hull.

    • @Crosshair84
      @Crosshair84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yamato and Musashi were doomed with a fraction of those hits. It was simply a matter of the US Navy saying "We want it dead, keep shooting it until it's underwater."

    • @animal16365
      @animal16365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You have to understand the loss between the Yamato and Musashi. When the USN aviators attack the Musashi. They didn't attack on one side like they did to the Yamato. So the Musashi settled lower and lower into the water before sinking. The Yamato was attacked on one side so she would rollover. Hence the less number of torpedoes and bombs used to sink her vs her sister.

    • @philvanderlaan5942
      @philvanderlaan5942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Crosshair84 kinda but even the US Navy would quote sean Connery in ‘ The Rock ‘ what do you want me to do ? Kill him again?
      And the difference between the damage Musashi took over Yamato is the debriefing officers basically said ‘ you guys just did the ( non PC term ) counter-flooding for them you catch the other one only drop torpedos on one side !!!! ‘

    • @still_guns
      @still_guns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Submarine torpedoes are also more powerful than air dropped torpedoes. They are larger and can carry more explosive filler as a result.

    • @animal16365
      @animal16365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@still_guns
      Usually air dropped torpedoes are lighter weight than a submarine launched torpedoe due to the aircraft needing to take off from either a carrier or land base. So weight is a factor

  • @merafirewing6591
    @merafirewing6591 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    We need a series on five of the best ships ever built and five of the best submarines ever made.
    HMS Monarch: *smart design*
    HMS Captain: *dumb design*

  • @Liam-man-93
    @Liam-man-93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    On your next episode of this you should cover the CSS Georgia, the thing could barely float and couldn't move

    • @the4tierbridge
      @the4tierbridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Definitely.

    • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
      @jollyjohnthepirate3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When ships get designed by people who don't have any experience in ship building.

    • @tyler_bt3326
      @tyler_bt3326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jollyjohnthepirate3168 to be fair, ironclads were a new thing at the time, nobody really had experience in it lol.
      Ships like warrior don’t count, she’s iron hulled but only the middle superstructure is properly armoured

  • @alaricjaspers6348
    @alaricjaspers6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM.
    I’m very happy to support you, Darkness. I’ve learned so much history by watching this channel and your content just keeps improving. Keep up the good work, my friend

  • @bluejacketwarrior2457
    @bluejacketwarrior2457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Toshio Abe (or Abe Toshio if you go by how the Japanese arrange their names). Pronounced Ah-bay. Also gota love the ridiculousness of the Russian round battleship

  • @aaronleverton4221
    @aaronleverton4221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Only two ships in the world still have Coles turrets. To see one of them you will need to be able to swim as she has been a slowly-decaying breakwater at Black Rock Beach in Melbourne since 1924. HMVS Cerberus wasn't very fast, but with four 10-inch guns in two completely rotating turrets fore and aft she was very modern and in a way was a precursor of the Dreadnaught.

  • @mikefischer8576
    @mikefischer8576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HMS Capitans freeboard as designed was not considered an issue many ships of the era had similar freeboards. The issue was her huge top heavy center along with finishing over weight.

  • @fishman501
    @fishman501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I can't remember the name of the ship but in the 1910s the Russians built a circular ship which spun round when the guns fired to the side.

    • @FolgoreCZ
      @FolgoreCZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You mean the ship that is literally in this video?

    • @fishman501
      @fishman501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FolgoreCZ I wrote this comment before seeing the section with it in because I had to go.

  • @Atomsk102
    @Atomsk102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In Japanese "Abe" is pronounced Ah-Bay. (no silent E in Japanese)

  • @richardbell7678
    @richardbell7678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 'dynamite' of the Vesuvius' dynamite guns is referring to the filler. As dynamite is nitroglycerin mechanically mixed with a filler, such as sawdust, it is not exactly bore safe for conventional guns. Along with the absence of a muzzle boom, there is also the absence of a muzzle flash, so the USS Vesuvius could actually conduct stealthy shore bombardments.
    As a warship, the Novgorod was not great. As a royal yacht, circular ships were quite comfortable.
    It was not the available power of steam engines that limited their usefulness on ocean going vessels, but their inefficiency. Ocean going warships could either load enough coal for the voyage, or ammunition to fight, but not both. After the utilization of multiple expansion engines, warships could carry useful amounts of coal and useful amounts of ammunition.

  • @Dat-Mudkip
    @Dat-Mudkip 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Novgorod is a weird one.
    One the one hand, she wasn't the easiest to control, as currents were known to cause her to rotate without command. Her rudder was found to be very inefficient due to her design. During trials, her muzzle-loaded guns were found to be a bit too powerful. The guns sat on turntables, which allowed them to be rotated into the desired direction. (A 180 degree turn took about 2-3 minutes.) To prevent the turrets from rotating when the gun was locked onto a target, special locks on the turntables were used to keep them from rotating. The locks weren't strong enough; when fired, the gun[s] would cause the turntable to rotate, even with the locks engaged. This lead to the (incorrect) myth that firing her guns caused the entire ship to rotate. In reality, the problem was fixed simply by installing stronger locks for the turntables. She was also found to have ventilation issues, a problem that was never fixed despite eventual fitting of a large ventilation system. Her boilers and inner workings were not the greatest either, but this was less a design fault and more of cruddy materials and defective workmanship. As a result of this, she was not the most efficient steamer, and was known to burn through a lot of coal.
    On the other hand, she wasn't that bad either. Any problems with unwanted rotation (such as sea currents) could be effectively countered by simply reversing a given number of propellers to counter-act the rotation. Ironically, it worked so well that it was decided whenever the ship had to change direction to just simply put a given number of engines into reverse, and just leave the rudder in a fixed position; this came at the cost of some speed, but considering she couldn't get much beyond 6.5 knots, it wasn't like there was much to lose in the first place. (In later life, she had her two outer-most engines removed due to them being inefficient, yet this only reduced her speed by half a knot per hour.) While her rate of fire was very slow (about one shot every 10 minutes), whatever she fired at was going to feel it - her muzzle-loaded rifled guns could, at 800 yards, penetrate up to 11 inches of armor! On top of all this, she was so buoyant that she would be, in theory, virtually impossible to capsize at sea. (She was not immune to grounding, as she found out in July 1879.) And even after being stricken in 1903, she still proved useful as a storeship, and served this purpose until she was sold for scrap in 1911.
    At the end of the day, Novgorod was a strange ship, but certainly not the worst ship to ever sail, and far from the menace critics liked to prop her up as.

  • @Nlangkirby135
    @Nlangkirby135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Could you update the timestamps to reflect the subjects and when said subjects started? I noticed the timestamps reflects the old top five worst warships.

  • @Wykletypl
    @Wykletypl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For a clarification, Shinano was photographed only twice during her short career. Starting with 05:36, this is carrier Akagi. Yet another battleship/battlecruiser converted to an aircraft carrier.

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980
    @Eric_Hutton.1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Courageous class large light cruisers should be on this list if it wasn't on the other list.

    • @jollyjohnthepirate3168
      @jollyjohnthepirate3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to mention their half sister Furious comicly armed with 2 18 inch guns.

  • @launcesmechanist9578
    @launcesmechanist9578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One ship of a next video, should there be one, would be the French Pre-Dreadnought Bouvet (pronounced Boo-vay). She was called an 'improvement' over an already confirmed failed design and is, in my opinion, considered the French 'Fail Ship'. She collided with a French Dreadnought, the Gaulois, early in her career and, during WWI, she was part of the French detachment bombarding positions of the Ottoman Empire in the Dardanelles Naval Campaign. She was damaged by Turkish guns, and, while retreating, stuck a mine.
    Let me reiterate, she had been called an 'improvement' over a ship design that had the EXACT. SAME. FLAWS. that caused her own foundering. Upon hitting the mine amidship, ALL 16 of her watertight bulkheads COLLAPSED and she capsized and sank in just two minutes taking with her all but 75 of her 620 crew. In fact, the same minefield she sunk in had been disregarded by the British as a lucky artillery or torpedo hit and they sailed into the same area, two of their Pre-Dreadnoughts, HMS Ocean and HMS Irresistible were sunk and a battlecruiser HMS Inflexible was damaged.
    The loss of these three ships forced the Allies to give up on a naval campaign and begin operations of an amphibious landing at Gallipoli.

  • @thomashambly3718
    @thomashambly3718 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the worst ships I can think of was the HMS Captain, a privately built ship that was supposed to replace the HMS Warrior (one of, if not THE best ship in the world when it was built), but it was so overweight and so top heavy that she sunk in a storm during sea trials and the HMS Warrior had to go save the crew.
    By "top heavy" I mean that she could sink herself if she fired all of her guns in a broadside

  • @robertwilloughby8050
    @robertwilloughby8050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How about HMS Victoria? The freeboard was tiny, the controls were a touch too sensitive, the guns buckled the plates. Oh, and it was sunk by one of the most terrible navigation errors EVER.

    • @TallboyDave
      @TallboyDave 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      She's kind of famous for how her wreck was discovered too; sticking upright out of the seabed, buried up to about the superstructure.

  • @tidepoolclipper8657
    @tidepoolclipper8657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Infanta Maria Teresa class is just sad. The ENTIRE family line was eradicated on the same battle.

  • @williamsquires3070
    @williamsquires3070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yep, #4 is the perfect demonstration of why rushing things turns out poorly. Sometimes, to go fast, you gotta go slow. That being said, it WAS wartime. 🙁

  • @Losingsince
    @Losingsince 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In theory, the Moskvas could operate Yak-38 VTOL fighters, but those planes were terrible and overall were basically useless

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Novgorod: The Tsar tank of ships

    • @philvanderlaan5942
      @philvanderlaan5942 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was actually good it just couldn’t maneuver worth a damn .

  • @stekra3159
    @stekra3159 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you take about the Comunia the 113 year old submarine tender and undersea vessal still in russian servis.

  • @the4tierbridge
    @the4tierbridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can’t wait for this one!

  • @ifga16
    @ifga16 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Brits had several battleship to carrier conversions. HMS Eagle was to be a Brazilian Battleship. Furious, Courageous and Glorious started as battle wagons. The US had Lexington and Saratoga. Japan produced Kaga and Akagi. The Independence light carriers were built on Cleveland class cruiser hulls. Japan also had a Moskva type conversion. Ise and Hyuga had aft turrets removed and replaced with a flight deck able to launch float plane fighters. France had Bearn but it was never finished.

    • @davidjones332
      @davidjones332 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Furious, Courageous, and Glorious were variously described as battlecruisers or "large light cruisers". They were very lightly armoured but very fast which made them suitable for conversion. Bearn was converted from an unfinished battleship and was too slow for active service by WW2, but she served as a carrier from 1927 until 1943, when she was refitted as an aircraft transport.

  • @tidepoolclipper8657
    @tidepoolclipper8657 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Other examples of warships and submarines that would belong on future worst lists include:
    Warships = HMS Swift, every French pre-dreadnought design except for Danton class, Littoral class ship (not even the coast guard want them; an example of modular ships being a failed concept), Katori class, Kynda class, Orlando class, American WW1 concrete ships (a failed experiment), USS Galena, HMS Indefatigable, Seawise Giant, and Omaha class were or are not reliable.
    Submarines = I-400 Submarine, AA-1 class, Surcouf, and HMS M1.

  • @DELTAsteeler
    @DELTAsteeler 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This reminds me that the IJN carrier Kaga was actually supposed to be a battleship before she was converted to a Aircraft carrier

  • @ZeldaTheSwordsman
    @ZeldaTheSwordsman ปีที่แล้ว

    At least the Novgorod wasn't "lose a race to a kids' rowboat" slow like the sodding Bruno.
    Also, at least it wasn't the Kamchatka.

  • @klauswagner1607
    @klauswagner1607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There were some pneumatic mortars in World War 1 to reduce the danger of counter artillery fire.

  • @pyronuke4768
    @pyronuke4768 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I must say this one is a better top 5 worst ships than your first video.

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The HMS Captain is the only ship on this list that legitimately belongs on a worst ship list. The the Russian helicopter cruisers were clearly second rate and the round ships had teething problems and were weird but did what they were designed to do which was mostly be learned from.
    The USS Vesuvius was a testbed for underwhelming guns but still fought well within the limits of the air guns.

  • @paul-we2gf
    @paul-we2gf 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HMS CAPTAIN was a really bad idea. She sat too low in the water. Which made her too swappable in a heavy sea. A fault shared with USS Monitor which was also swamped. Both were private designs .

  • @Xarcht
    @Xarcht 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine a sailing ship built in a circle. That would be a odd plan.

  • @stephenbond1990
    @stephenbond1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For anyone interested th-cam.com/users/Drachinifel has done videos on USS Vesuvius, Novgorod and her sisters and HMS Captain and I recommend anyone who enjoyed this video to check him out.

  • @awesomeaustin5704
    @awesomeaustin5704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey I have a question that might make an interesting topic for a video. We’re thee any steam locomotives in America that vanished. Not scrapped but just straight up disappeared. No one knows what happened to them or were they are.

  • @陳毅恆-v8x
    @陳毅恆-v8x 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you do the fuso class battleship next?

  • @DevilDogs1918
    @DevilDogs1918 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a recommended "worst warship" for you. The US Navy's newest class of Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship. They are being built and decommissioned at the same time. Just google them. Waste of steel and money. Example of building a ship without a purpose. Maybe a jobs program for Wisconsin. Very interesting story.

  • @johnfisher9692
    @johnfisher9692 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree with HMS Captain being on the list, she was designed by someone with no qualifications as a ship designer and against the advice of the British Admiralty construction department.
    A ship I'd nominate is KMS Bismarck. A ship grossly over the agreed displacement and thereby violating the Anglo-German naval Treaty of 1935 yet for all that dishonorable cheating totally failed to achieve the superiority the larger size should have given the ship. For 20% extra displacement, her armour was thinner than the KGV's and of the outmoded distributed style.
    Her guns, while newer, were the same as ships 25 years older and fired a lighter shell with a high failure rate.
    And for all the power of her engines, they were over complicated, unreliable, and only gave her .5 knot extra sea speed over the KGV.
    A thoroughly inefficient design with many weaknesses and the only reasons some people rave about her is lack of research and her galaxy level lucky hit against HMS Hood,

  • @harryjohnson9215
    @harryjohnson9215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HMS Lord Clyde
    You will be surprised by her ARMAMENT
    Edit : she is good at her job but she has a low speed and her biggest gun can only fire 1 Direction and at certain angles or it could push her out of position or sink her.

  • @rizon72
    @rizon72 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you made a video of unlucky warships, Shinano would be on it. But a bad ship, eh, stretching it a bit.

  • @Warthunderman-c4v
    @Warthunderman-c4v 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 6 screws is unique because no other ship had that design I think

  • @Wykletypl
    @Wykletypl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Next stop - Ise and Huyga after being converted to half-battleship/half-carriers.

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It took years for the USS Archerfish to get credit for sinking Shinano. Because the US Navy refused to believe there was a huge Japanese aircraft carrier that they were unaware of

    • @metaknight115
      @metaknight115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Archerfish should have been preserved

  • @cadenbarrett9903
    @cadenbarrett9903 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the thing with shinano was that the torpedos hit on a seam in her armor with one hiting right by a boiler room killing everyone inside that room and causing the I-beam in that room to be dislodged and smash through the wall into the adjacent boiler room.

  • @eze417
    @eze417 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There were to be four Yamato class, but the fourth was never finished and never named.

  • @kommandantgalileo
    @kommandantgalileo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think the Kamchatka deserves to be here

    • @jefferyindorf699
      @jefferyindorf699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why?
      She was the best Japanese ship in the Imperial Russian Navy's Second Pacific Squadron.

    • @bobkile9734
      @bobkile9734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the Kamchatka suffered from a stupid crew and traitorous (or so dumb that he had to think to breath) captain. The ship was fine, it was the crew.

  • @godzillahomer
    @godzillahomer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I recalled more bad locos, almost enough for an entire video.
    El Gobernador, the USA's one and only 4-10-0. A loco so bad that all the other US railways decided to never build another 4-10-0. El Gobernador is a poor steaming loco that had quite the history to her construction. History that could allow Alfred Perlman type shenanigans, one of those in charge of the railway was building it without telling the others in charge, leading to confusion when one saw it being built at their works. Before she even actually saw revenue service, she spent about a year being an advertisement tool, then came the abysmal performance. Also, she has a Fireman throwing some hilarious shade at her.
    The LNER Raven Class A2, the NER built Pacifics. The North Eastern Railway wanted to go out with a bang before they were absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. This led to them building hurriedly their own 4-6-2 locos after seeing Gresley's A1s in action. First two were completed in December of 1922, just barely at that. The A2 was found to be inferior compared to the A1, likely owing to how rushed the design was. Number 2402 was the first LNER built loco to be scrapped as well. The small size of the class (5) and their lackluster performance meant that when the boilers wore out, the LNER decided to just scrap the class.
    The LNER Class J14... I'm just going to quote the LNER Encyclopedia on them. "The position of the valves and steam chest immediately below the cylinders interfered with the airflow to the ashpan. The steam chests often became "water logged". Symptoms included a tendency to prime badly, and a slow response to regulator changes. The sluggish J14s were given the ironic nicknames of Swifts and Waterburies."
    The single LNER Class D49/4 or LNER Class D. A Thompson 2 inside cylinder rebuilt of a D49. It didn't do very well, leading to no more D49/4s. For comparison, the D49 is a 3 cylinder 4-4-0, two on the outside, one on the inside. Suffered a similar fate to the LMS Turbomotive, being wrecked after being involved in a collision with two other D49s. The other two D49s survived the accident and would last until at least 1957, 5 years after the accident.

    • @godzillahomer
      @godzillahomer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some extra stuff I found from a forum for the D49/4.
      LNER Info forum, by drmditch » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:25 pm
      "According to RCTS, Part 4, Page 97 :-
      '62768, as it had then become, happened to be the middle one of three Hunt class engines which were involved in collision during shunting movements at Dragon Junction, near Starbeck. It was appreciably damaged about the front end, so it's own t5ender (which escaped damage) was exchanged for the damaged tender of No.62758 and the two cripples were withdrawn from stock.'
      There are a number of pictures of the damaged engine, one being on Yeadon Vol 10, page 68. The front of the frames and the cylinder block are much distorted. Since it was a 'one off' and a not very successful one at that it would not have been worth making new cylinder castings.
      I think I have seen another account of the accident, in an article about Starbeck Shed in the NERA Express. I'll try to look it up after Christmas.
      Since it was a shunting accident on non-passenger (?) lines, and no-one was reported injured then presumably there would not have been any report by external authorities."
      I managed to find a picture of 62768 damaged by google image searching 'three engine collision at Dragon Junction near Starbeck'

    • @robertwilloughby8050
      @robertwilloughby8050 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair to the Raven A2, they were not out and out diabolical, but they were disappointing compared to the A1's, and were notoriously difficult on the trackwork out of Kings Cross, having to be very carefully driven to avoid derailing. But as second-line locomotives on heavy semi-fasts, they were not too bad.

  • @troygroomes104
    @troygroomes104 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Speaking of conversations, uss midway or uss America was converted from the battleship uss Montana

    • @metaknight115
      @metaknight115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not really. Mantana's hull design was slightly modified and used for Midway, but there was no existing hull of Montana to convert.

    • @troygroomes104
      @troygroomes104 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@metaknight115 the keel was already built, on the west coast, the 2nd keel was converted to an experimental carrier

  • @matthewterry5540
    @matthewterry5540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We just got a new black kitten. I suggested Darkness the Curse as a name.

  • @Trainfan1055Janathan
    @Trainfan1055Janathan ปีที่แล้ว

    The Japanese name Abe is actually pronounced, "Ah-beh."

  • @_.Glennicus._
    @_.Glennicus._ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    IJN Shinano seems like it would have been a good ship had she been properly finished, there's potentail, however she's just too big and slow. If she was built today with a more modern design, in addition to nuclear reactors, and other things, she has potential
    There's drawings online as reference

    • @giudicedredd9195
      @giudicedredd9195 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ships of the Yamato class were useless. Yamato and Musashi were the worst battleships of WWII. In the end, Shinano was the most useful, precisely because she was converted to an aircraft carrier

    • @_.Glennicus._
      @_.Glennicus._ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@giudicedredd9195 Yamato and Musashi were too slow
      There's a reason the Iowa class battleships are considered the best battleships of all time
      I couldn't imagine a Yamato getting missiles like the Iowa's did

  • @westernstudios2484
    @westernstudios2484 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you make a video talking about the different American Civil War Regiments? Like the 114th Pennsylvania Zouaves

  • @Losingsince
    @Losingsince 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shinano was an inefficient and poor design. Despite her immense size and weight, she was barely able to operate two-thirds of a typical Essex air-wing, which were less than half her displacement and proved to be extremely durable in combat

    • @bocahdongo7769
      @bocahdongo7769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ship hull were designed with more heavy and centralized weight point as battleship did instead more distributed weight like on carrier.
      There's not much they can do either because if you remove those, the buoyancy force would be so strong to weaker point that it would broke the ship in half.

  • @lancerevell5979
    @lancerevell5979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Captain Abe - "ah-bey".

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why would anyone that would click on a list of 5 bad warships be confused by a carrier conversion.
    The American carriers Lexington CV-2 and Saratoga CV-3 were conversions as were the British carriers HMS Furious, HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious. France had a carrier conversion that was bad because of being built on a old slow small battleship that might be on the list of the five worst French warships.
    The Japanese had to conversion carriers, one based on a battlecruiser the akagi the second Kaga on a battleship because the Amagi was damaged beyond repair by an earthquake while on the builders slip.

  • @SteamboatWilley
    @SteamboatWilley 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone else who's ever tried to paddle a liferaft will tell you that a circular boat is really difficult to steer.

  • @TheTransportationFanfromCA
    @TheTransportationFanfromCA 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    History in the dark you should do ocean liners

  • @ednotari1345
    @ednotari1345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, maybe in a possible future list maybe the Kearsarge Class Battleships will show up. Because the two of them were...not very good. Even for the time.

  • @joshbreck3489
    @joshbreck3489 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The dynamite guns would have been so darn cool powered by TNT

  • @williamsquires3070
    @williamsquires3070 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you sure that “The Captain” wasn’t somehow the fault of… British Rail? Maybe? Just a little bitsy bit? 😏

  • @shawnnelson6146
    @shawnnelson6146 ปีที่แล้ว

    the 1870's era US Navy torpedo boat USS Alarm.

  • @nicoferguson1215
    @nicoferguson1215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If I may recommend a ship just on looks? The WWI Italian Monitor Faa Di Bruno

    • @lancerevell5979
      @lancerevell5979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Had to wiki this vessel Very unimpressive, to say the least.

    • @nicoferguson1215
      @nicoferguson1215 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lancerevell5979 right!? Looks like someone stuck a battleship turret on a floating shed roof

    • @giudicedredd9195
      @giudicedredd9195 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't write crap. The Faà di Bruno was a floating battery of the defense system of the Alto Adriatico. It has nothing to do with ships

    • @nicoferguson1215
      @nicoferguson1215 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@giudicedredd9195 not a floating battery; the thing was a monitor.... while that type of ship could act as a floating battery, they are distinctly different

    • @giudicedredd9195
      @giudicedredd9195 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nicoferguson1215 Look it was a floating battery. Since it was designed and built as a floating battery. And it has nothing to do with a ship. Avoid commenting if you don't know what you're talking about

  • @AndrewTheRocketCityRailfan4014
    @AndrewTheRocketCityRailfan4014 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope somebody can find the Shinano’s wreck one day

    • @chaosacsend9653
      @chaosacsend9653 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We could it's just that the Japanese government won't let anyone.

  • @tidepoolclipper8657
    @tidepoolclipper8657 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    CV-7 Wasp was a standalone design that really floundered hard. At least the Yorktown class was just simply mediocre (except Enterprise; that belongs on a list of truly mighty warships).

    • @markgranger9150
      @markgranger9150 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Yorktown was a great ship that was in both the coral.sea and midway. The coral sea gave the Yorktown experience in timing strikes and crews that were in a battle and damage control. The Yorktown doesn't get the recognition that the Enterprise dose.

  • @SmartassX1
    @SmartassX1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Shinano was not a bad ship at all. It was just incomplete and unlucky. In fact, it was on its way to another port where the watertight walls were to be finished, so that it wouldn't sink from a single torpedo. And yes, a single torpedo would have been enough to sink it at that point.

    • @giudicedredd9195
      @giudicedredd9195 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yamato class ships were useless. Yamato and Musashi were the worst battleships of World War II

  • @Lucien86
    @Lucien86 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know that sailors lives were often treated as of little value but.. The CAPTAIN literally threw those human lives away.

  • @brucefelger4015
    @brucefelger4015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    if they called them Aircraft carriers, they couldn't go through the straits out of the Black Sea. Turkey prohibits carriers through the straits. Helicopter cruisers not a problem.

  • @paul-we2gf
    @paul-we2gf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HMS Captain would have worked if the turrets had been higher than they were,say a ship like HMS Warrior.

  • @panzerjagertigerporsche
    @panzerjagertigerporsche 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:22 Welcome to World Of Warships Blitz by Wargaming

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980
    @Eric_Hutton.1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You're a lucky contestant winner. Your prize is a cruise on either USS Monitor or HMS Captain. You better pray you don't run into a storm while at sea.

    • @joshuabessire9169
      @joshuabessire9169 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I'd rather this be a scam.

    • @lancerevell5979
      @lancerevell5979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just let Publisher's Clearing House run it.... nobody ever really wins, total scam.

  • @classicforreal
    @classicforreal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'll be Dun-quirk-ee over quirky warships

  • @MatthewChenault
    @MatthewChenault 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0/10
    No mention of USS _Galena_ and how it got beat by an angry hill.

  • @Nastyswimmer
    @Nastyswimmer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:52 - Abe is pronounced "Ab-eh"

  • @darkadmiral106
    @darkadmiral106 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is not "Dunkirk", it is said as "Dunkerk"

  • @charlessmith5914
    @charlessmith5914 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe the name of the Captain of the Shinano is pronounced Ah-Bay, not like the nickname of USA's 16th president.

  • @beboy12003
    @beboy12003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The top 3 ships. Truly the worst ships.

  • @eugenemoyers8631
    @eugenemoyers8631 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe the captain's name is pronounced "Ah-Bay." My understanding is that Japanese pronounces every syllable.

  • @JTA1961
    @JTA1961 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wave goodbye to the captain

  • @bobkile9734
    @bobkile9734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Capt. Abe: “Sir please delay our departure. The ship isn’t ready! We need to fix it.
    IJN: “No! You leave now! We need the ship out there and killing americans!”
    USS Archer Fish: *fires 4 torpedoes*
    *Shinano sinks*
    IJN: “how could this happen”
    Capt. Abe: “I f***ing wonder..!”

    • @johnporteous2828
      @johnporteous2828 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Shinano was not being sent out to fight- she was going to a base off the Sea of Japan to be completed in safety.

  • @laserhawk64
    @laserhawk64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    AH-BAY.
    You are reminded that Google Translate has a pronunciation aid for most languages -- the little speaker icon -- and there are countless "How to pronounce" YT videos and websites for essentially every language, including many that Google Translate can't handle.
    Also: oh dear lord. COO POH LAH. If you're not sure, look it up. Not hard to do... mispronunciations do you a disservice, Darkness, you're not Morans Guy, but stuff like that makes you sound like a dunce, when you aren't, all too easily.

  • @philvanderlaan5942
    @philvanderlaan5942 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    HMS Possum you mean since it just decided to rollover and play dead

  • @teddyduncan1046
    @teddyduncan1046 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Abe is English, Ah-bey is Japanese.

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Yamato class were, for the Japanese, a huge waste of resources in material and skilled manpower

  • @leoperizzolo7358
    @leoperizzolo7358 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    imagine being in a swell with those guns...lol.

  • @LastGoatKnight
    @LastGoatKnight 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:35 ironic.

  • @realcanadian67
    @realcanadian67 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your 5'6?

    • @HistoryintheDark
      @HistoryintheDark  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      5’9” I just rounded to a foot for the joke

  • @solarflare623
    @solarflare623 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Abe (at least the Japanese version) isn’t pronounced Abe like Abe Lincoln it’s pronounced Ah-bay.

  • @DJG4040
    @DJG4040 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kamchatka…

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980
    @Eric_Hutton.1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Captain My Captain

  • @rbtsubs
    @rbtsubs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    AH-BAY AH-BAY ok once more AH-BAY = ABE

  • @newobanproductions
    @newobanproductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:46 Someone must be playing Azur Lane, given that's her character design.

  • @velezdragon3574
    @velezdragon3574 ปีที่แล้ว

    And now the Moskva lays at the bottom of the ocean Slava Ukraina

    • @GhostBear3067
      @GhostBear3067 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bottom of a sea, ocean is too good for her. Funny enough the missiles that sunk her came from the same part of modern Ukraine where she was built. It was like a nation state level "I brought you into this world I can take you out of it!"

  • @lhasaroadrat9374
    @lhasaroadrat9374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your voice is rather irritating.