Britain's new battleships HMS Anson and HMS Howe join the Royal Navy fleet (1942)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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Captains Kinahan and Woodhouse assume command of new warships, crew and troops board, supplies loaded as ships prepares to leave the dock
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SLATE INFORMATION: Britain's New Battleships - H.M.S. Anson and H.M.S Howe Join the Royal Navy
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ANCHOR H.M.S.Home drops anchor
GUNS. H.M.S.Howe fires 14 in guns
HOWEN. H.M.S. Battleship takes over..14 in gunsfire..engine room..stores
KINAHAN Captain of Battleship Anson
MACHINERY engine room of H.M.S. Howe
NAVAL. Battleships Anson & Howe in service..finishing touches to. Howe..Capt. Woodhouse takes over..loading stores & munition..14" shells..engine room..H.M.S. Anson, Capt. Kinahan..Howe fires 14" guns..drops anchor
SEA churned up by propellers
SHELLS loading 14 in shell on H.M.S. Howe
SHIP BUILDING workers put finishing touches to H.M.S.HOWE
Navy - Active
Admiral George Anson, British Pacific Fleet, King George V, Admiral Richard Howe, Home Fleet, Sir Charles Henry Woodhouse, World War II, WWII,
Background: Captains Kinahan and Woodhouse assume command of new warships, crew and troops board, supplies loaded as ships prepares to leave the dock
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Absolutely tragic that Britain didn't preserve at least one battleship for the nation! Now we can barely field a frigate.
You haven't noticed the two 60,000 ton aircraft carriers then?
@@Longboardsinglefin😂
@@Longboardsinglefin What,there are times the 2 can actually sail for more than a few days?^^
Obsolete by the time they were finally launched. The current RN fleet is much more sensible. Two SOTA carrier strike groups, long range nuclear subs, etc. HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, is more powerful & at much longer ranges than a KG5-Class battleship. Things change. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto advised his navy ministry the battleship had seen its best days well before WW2.
Britain was broke. And the nation was done with war. It is just a hunk of steel to them. Scrap it and make some money.
My Dad was on the Howe.
03:59 What is this procedure called ? And what is does ?
They are dropping the anchor !!!
@@phillipdoorbar1615 Thankyou sir.
In Which city do you stay sir ?
It isn’t comical, because they were good aircraft, but they comment on the spotting plane and off shoots a Shagbat (Walrus) and then the torpedo bomber is what appears to be an Applecore.
Good aircraft that looked so old and out of place.
Did they crew them with Islamists?
Last Monday I had lunch with Tom, who is 97, and joined the navy at the age of 15 and a half. HMS Howe was his first ship. He told me stories of arctic convoys and chipping ice off the guns.
As did my grandad .
He was a gunner on Anson.
Also being from Newcastle he watched it's last journey up the Tyne to breakers yard
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Magnificent 🇬🇧
Originally to be called HMS Beatty, the hero of the the Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet? There was never a HMS Beatty.
Admiral Beatty!
Admiral Beatty!
Glad they didn't name it after that plonker
Great Mighty Ship
1:54
Anyone visiting Edinburgh should take a look inside St Giles' Cathedral Hms Howe's Bell is on display there
Who cares about a bell?
Hms house
My grandad John horey was a gunner on Anson.
"Happy Hunting"
My father was an engineer on HMS Howe at Okinawa
14 inch guns?...both of these ships were obsolete, before they were even launched,!!...I'm British by the way....just being honest
Because of treaty limits.
14inch was plenty good enough. Your thinking too much about the insane ships the Japanese and Germans were thinking up.
KG5 class focused on Armour not Armenent. HMS King George V could have smoked Bismarck by it's self.
Well my Grandfather was a gunners mate on the USS Massachusetts and they were doing shore bombardment at the end of the war with the British Pacific Fleet and the King George V and I think Anson was the second one but he said they were all in awe at the volume of fire the KGV’s were putting out something they couldn’t come close to matching on the Massachusetts.
Could use them in the channel to stop immigrants today.
Outside of the Vanguard these were the last British battleships built. They had short lives for both of them. By the late 1950's they were just so much scrap. The Vanguard went the same way a few years later. Obsolete and too expensive.
Bloody penny pinching governments
This.. everyone put the Spotlight for the last battleship & other ww2 ships to vanguard, yet Anson gotta had some love, she sailed and contributed she can without a firing a gun to battle (relief to crew but i think they did some trials & improvements since her older sisters, one usnk & 2 get heart pounding bloody sea conflicts) she did she the surrender of hong kong to enduring blistering cold, command for the tirpitz hunt & in fear of Uboats while sending supplies to the soviets at the time.
yet a sad end.. too late to the party as battleships got obsolete, manpower draining & costly to maintain & build as CVs & Subs got a new rise.. not a single museum preserved & left to the reserve & scrappers to a cash strapped britain.
If Anson had had her shot at Tirpitz, she'd have been much better worked up than Prince of Wales, which despite malfunctioning guns got in some good blows on Bismarck in their abortive clash. Doubtless Anson would have taken punishment but in a 1943 head to head clash there might have been an epic reversal of Denmark Strait.
Tirpitz being sunk in 1943, even if leaving Anson in dock for half a year, has interesting ramifications, least of all freeing British carriers to go east a year early.
Churchill having a big carrier force on hand gives him the clout and ability to launch Culverin instead of Tungsten and Goodwood, restoring British power in the far east under his firm hand well before the 1945 election.
Under such circumstances, this battleship would have been worth her weight in gold to the British Empire even if she had never sailed again.
And in 1956, if Mountbatten had had half a brain, and shown half the initiative of Sir Henry Leach in 1982, Anson and the rest of the reserve fleet would have been mobilized within a few days of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, emboldening Eden to undertake a swift strike with Mediterranean Fleet and any troops that could be cobbled together. True the Canal would have been blocked anyway, but the prestige of a swift and firm military victory (before Eisenhower could botch things up after months of delay) would have been more than enough to count as a massive British geopolitical win.
Such a major victory, as in 1982, would halt and reverse British decline, as well as saving the British carrier and surface fleet (then at around 12-15 flattops, and hundreds of escorts). Yet again, Anson and her sisters would have paid for themselves a dozen times over.
Not "obsolete" at all. Providing they were operating with escorts and air cover,
their massive firepower would give any navy a huge advantage. As for "expensive,"
all ships are "expensive." You could save a huge amount of money by having no
navy at all???