The USS Texas not only served during the Great War, but also served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during WWII. Engaging in combat operations such as D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Now currently in dry dock receiving much needed repairs and restoration...⚓
And so far she's looking great! They started putting on blue paint on the 18th according to the site. She's scheduled to be put back in the water in February. I hope soon I can pay her a visit myself
Very interesting and well presented video! I already knew most of the given information, but I had no idea that Hitler purchased some of the steel from the scrapped Imperial German Navy's ships to forge it into the subsequent generation of warships. The sinking of HMS Royal Oak was particularly lethal since it keeled over and sank in little more that 10'. Further, the compartments were not watertight, the doors were wide open and that greatly accelerated the flooding. Particularly grievous was the loss of some 150 navy cadets aged 16-18, many of whom died in their cots. This was a repeat of what had happened during WWI when 3 old cruisers, HMS Hogue, HMS Cressy and HMS Aboukir were torpedoed by a German submarine, also during the first period of the war. Also in that occasion there was substantial loss of Navy cadets. Since back then the captains had little idea of what a submarine or a torpedo was they figured they had run into mines, so they stopped, giving the Germans the opportunity to further target them unhindered. On both occasions Winston Churchill was acting First Sea Lord, and in both instances he was blamed for the tragedies. Child murderer was the nicest thing the British press said of him at the time.
Fun Story about the USS Texas. It was the only battleship to see combat in five theaters of WW2, and at Normandy on D-Day, they literally flooded half the ship to angle the guns up higher than they ever had any right to and hit targets father inland than any other ship.
"flooded half the ship" you mean flooded one torpedo blister, to get it to lean only 3 degrees, so it could match the range of other ships at the battle like the bigger more powerful HMS Rodney.
@@SRR-5657 HMS Rodney was a more modern battleship though launched in 1925 while the USS Texas was launched in 1912. Rodney had more modern designed guns and turrets so they had better range. the Rodney had a 13 year technological advantage on the Texas so its asinine to compare the two.
This is history like never before. Since I personally know little of this remarkable sea battle. This is a living history when the sea bed reveals so much information. Top notch analysis. I could not ask for better more learned scientists. Thanks for the most interesting of videos. Will watch again for sure.
I am so glade I made it to 80, and to be rewarded with detailed information and the tremendous graphics of this historic era. BRAVO National Geographic!!!!!
I hate how this documentary places so much emphasis on this one sonar scanning expedition, making it seem like that’s where all the knowledge of this battle comes from. In reality, the battle of Jutland is the most studied naval event ever.
Yeah they prob should’ve just said that this just confirms everything they had heard about first hand 😂 but I like it when the water drains 💦 it’s pretty cool 😎
I have a book on WW1 naval battles, written in the 70s, and yes nothing here is news. Pretty pictures but nothing new. It would have been nice to say what sank the Invincible was the same thing that sank the Hood 30 ish years later. The Poms loved their rate of fire, and for the most part it worked.
The German HSF went to Firth of Forth on 21 November, which included Battleship Texas (RN 6th Battle Squadron) The subsequent move to Scapa Flow did not include Texas.
There Is Exactly ONE Surviving Ship That Participated In The Battle Of Jutland - HMS Caroline, A C-Class Cruiser Preserved In Belfast, Northern Ireland!!
One interesting side-note to the sinking of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919; that part of northern Scotland did not suffer the same harshness of the Great Depression of the 1930s because there was so much demand for scrap steel, the local population was kept gainfully employed during the refloating of all those scuttled ships, the last of which was refloated in 1938.
I hope they realize just how annoying that repetitive mantra was and maybe find some people that can write interesting things to better fill that time. Even things as boring as telling us tonnage details on selected ships would have been better than...'drain the oceans.' x 437
Well…this was a televised documentary series. Whenever they say “drain the oceans” outside of the first 5-10 minutes, its either before or after a commercial break
To tell the truth, I have unknowledge of the sea battle in Atlantic ocean during World war one. This footage has enlightened me, very thanks for your vedeo.
battlecruisers were never designed to be used like the heavily armored battleships. this was a crucial error in this case that pitted the lightly armored battlecruisers of the British navy against the more heavily armored battlecruisers of the German Highseas fleet. The Germans chose armor over speed, and in this case, it served them well. HMS Invincible is the perfect example of a magazine detonation from a direct hit from a 12 inch German cannon that travels down the unsealed blast doors in the turret.
Now she is a dreadnought but when she was launched to separate her from the previous generation of dreadnoughts the Texas and ships like her were super dreadnoughts.
@@pb68slab18 It's a good idea never to name your ships after a) The actual name of your country - like Yamato and Deutschland and b) adjectives that can be proven wrong like Invincible or Undefeatable or Immortal or similar words. The US Navy came close to doing that with USS America (as opposed to the USS United States which was a supercarrier that never got built, thankfully). The British had the RMS Britanic and ... we know what happened there. Just don't do it - if you value your ships!
@@hannable70 The Brits were the worst with naming ships! HMS Invincible, Courageous, Victorious, and other names boasting of their once powerful but obsolete fleet are all on the ocean floor!
Something for all frontiers of Mankind! To never be forgotten all those Men and Boys that passed to history with the greatest honors of all times! Will forever rest in Peace!
The Battle of Jutland "shrouded in mystery"? What mystery? Naval records show exactly what ships sunk and exactly why. No mystery. No controversy. Desist your Drama Queen rhetoric, please, National Geographic.
A Scottish girl at the time was on a tour boat of Scapa Flow where the teachers told the children they weren't to wave, cheer or show any signs of friendliness towards the crews on the German warships.. The British fleet had left that morning for exercises and they only returned when they got the news that the German fleet was sinking on masse. The Scottish girl Peggy Gibson saw twelve capital ships go down. She said "some stood on their ends and other rolled over and it was the most incredible sight I've ever seen".
Invincible was not a Battleship if was a Battle cruiser whom never should have been on the front line Battlecruisers are basically a up gunned heavy cruiser with Battle ship guns but thin cruiser armor basically they are fast enough to chase an kill cruisers but fast enough to get away if they run into Battleships
What was that saying about battlecruisers? They can't kill what they can actually catch - and they can't catch what they can actually kill. It was a useless design which is why the USN never built any - and no, the Alaskas were not battlecruisers but classified as Large Cruisers meant to be the leader of cruiser divisions.
My first reaction as well. The turrets were not blown out. When the hull capsized, the turrets fell out; there is nothing to hold them in but gravity. Also, the US did not use cordite; cordite was a British propellant.
Assuming that you are referring to that part on Luetzow, it is totally made up. Six sailors in the shattered bow were trapped there (and they had nothing to do with electrical power), everyone else alive was rescued before the ship was scuttled by torpedo.
The only thing I hate is the titles using the word "Battleships". No Battleships were lost by either side at Jutland. Several battlecruisers, but not battleships. In every click bait and TH-cam video it seems the title "Battleship" appears when they are talking about everything but a battleship in modern warships. Also, no one but the US Navy has had any operating battleships since the 1950's and those were the four Iowa class "battleships" finally retired in 1992. It's just a pet peeve of mine.
@@ananthakrishnan6106 As I said, no one except the US Navy has had a battleship since the 1950's. The last French Battleship Richelieu was taken out of service as a battleship in 1952 (used a gunnery training ship for several years). The last British Battleship HMS Vanguard was taken out of service in 1955 and put into the reserve fleet. Even the US Navy would put the four Iowa class battleships in reserve after each major conflict (Korea, Vietnam, and finally retired after Gulf War). My point was and still is that online videos keep using the term "Battleship" for any modern warship (even a destroyer or frigate), which isn't true unless they're discussing the actual battleships of the past.
Most of the British ships that were guarding the German fleet were at sea on a gunnery exercise, so there were very few British sailors to stop the Germans.
_"Unopposed under crimson skies, immortalized over time their legend will rise!"_ _"And their foes can't believe their eyes! Believe their size as they fall!"_
Jutland was a tactical win for the Germans, but a strategic win for the British. The Germans inflicted more damage on the British but they withdrew back to port, while the British had kept the German High Seas fleet from breaking out.
*USS TEXAS* Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire in anger for the first time when shooting medium-caliber guns at supposed submarines (no evidence exists that suggests these were anything more than waves). In World War II, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and later shelled Vichy French forces in the North African Landings and German-held beaches in the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was the only Allied battleship that took part in all four of these amphibious landings. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II. Texas was also a technological testbed: the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US warship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers, the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, and one of the first US Navy warships to receive production radar. Texas was the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship. In 1976 she became the first battleship to be declared a US National Historic Landmark, and is the only remaining World War I era dreadnought battleship. She is also one of the eight remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars. Texas is owned by the people of Texas and is officially under the jurisdiction of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Everyday operations and maintenance of Texas has been handled by the non-profit organization Battleship Texas Foundation since August 2020. At the end of August 2022 she was moved to a dry dock in Galveston, Texas to undergo a $35 million dollar repair project. As of February 2023 the repair project is underway.
What the heck is with these curators and spokespeople talking about cordite? USS Texas did NOT use cordite propellant in her guns. Cordite is British. The USS Texas main guns used SPD propellant.
The Battleship USS Texas will remain in Galveston, Texas. Post its overhaul there is ongoing. It was located at the San Jacinto Monument State Park east of Houston.
Other than one thing, this channel produces high quality programs. My only beef is all of the repetition. I'll bet I heard "drain the ocean" a dozen times. They manage to cramp a half hour of program into an hour. Between the repetion and the commercials, it gets ponderous.
Aww I'm sorry to hear he died. I always liked the guy. I remember when he was one of the professors in a show about the Battle of Midway - he was so excited and so animated that I thought he would vibrate right out of his chair. Bless his heart.
German U-boats spelled the end of the battleships for the British, but it was the coming of age of the airplanes in the Pacific that spelled the end of the battleships for the Americans.
The name of SMS Lutzow is pronounced "L[oo]t'soe", the "u" short as in how the Irish say "fun", the "ow" is an elongated "o" as in "over" (the "w" does the elongation).
If I was the kaiser I would send the whole German fleet out to destroy the British fleet. It's plainly clear that then German mariners are better trained and good shots compared to the English sailors.
I'm always disappointed when a historic documentary says something akin to- "There's only ONE possible explanation "....huh!? The combination of arrogance and ignorance only proves a lack of imagination and critical theory thinking.
Saw it whilst deployed in the US Marine Corps. An absolute treasure on earth ! A place where the beautiful people, their generosity of spirit and rich history is only matched by the majesty of the surrounding landscapes. Very close to heaven on earth. Thank you for a truly wonderful experience. I hope that you and those you care for are happy, healthy, and safe. Semper Fidelis
Germany had a large great fleet of warships in WWI, but after Jutland they were rarely used and a major waste. At the end of WWI they surrendered a great fleet to the Royal navy. Only to end up scuttling their fleet? Germany would have been better off sending all these warships out for one last fight than to just sink their own ships. Shalom
Near the end of the war that was seriously considered, but the crews of the ships refused to go (they, in effect, mutinied) on what they knew would be a suicide mission. They would be facing not only the Royal Navy, but the US Navy as well (including USS Texas).
Cutting huge sections out of a hull is how you ensure ship sinks rapidly. Blow a small hole below the water line to get it going then once water reaches where you cut out sections of the hull it's going down fast. Don't see that having anything to do with scrap metal hunters.
did not know the brits had broken the german naval codes and laid an ambush for the germans. knowing that it is for sure a german victory. the german fleet shouldve been largely wiped out given the odds. that they werent and, in fact, inflicted greater losses on the british make it a german victory. no one would know at that point that the germans would never sortie out and that it would ultimately be one of the most pyric victories in history until the passage of time.
The Brits won Jutland. If you’re victorious? You aren’t the one leaving the battlefield. It would have been much worse for the High Seas Fleet had Beatty or anyone else for that matter decided to signal Jellicoe and let him know what’s happening. The Germans slipped by British battle cruisers twice and not once did those ships signal Jellicoe “hey I have enemy ships in sight”. Every officer there that day who didn’t transfer the information to his fleet commander is guilty of dereliction of duty.
They say a shell hit one of the midship guns n the fire spread from there, But I think the shell hit between the guns directly into the magazine that alone would have blown the two guns and cut the ship in half
The shell penetrated the roof of the turret and exploded, setting fire to the ready use cordite and the flash travelled down the open shell hoists and caused a sympathic explosion in the powder room. Of interest is to look what sank the British battleship in world war 2
While these shows are interesting and entertaining, if you have studied the history of a lot of the battles/incidents involved, unfortunately National Geographic states WAY too much information as factual, and a LOT of what they are stating is speculative at best, and downright ridiculous at worst. You can't just make categorical statements of "fact" about ships on the floor of the ocean based on scans like this, there are way too many unanswered questions to do that.
Well, but the battle is super well documented. You are right that pretty much none of the major statements the video made follow conclusively from the scans, but the facts are still very well known. The video is super misleading in that respect. There are also some false statements, such as that sailors had to remain and die on Luetzow to keep the lights powered while the ship was torpedoed. Nonsense. Everyone alive was taken off the ship except for six sailors that were trapped in the shattered bow. As a minor quip, it would have been worth pointing out that Luetzow had a pretty successful battle sinking at least one and probably two British battlecruisers.
@@yxx_chris_xxy the problem with all of these so called "reality channels", be it national geographic, E, History channel, etc, is they are looking for more views, and sensationalism, and often times plain old reality isn't enough when battling for views with movies and other fiction. It's a disgusting way to do things, but it's been going on for the last decade or more now.
can you drain Bass Strait and see if Frederick Valentich plane is there somewhere between Moorabbin Airport and King Island? It is 60 - 80 meters deep all the way across so if it's there it shouldn't be to hard to spot....
The German capital ships cost 3 or four million pounds to build and seem to have gone to the scrappers for a few hundred thousand, They would have meet the same fate as the British ships built before the QE class even if they hadn't been scuttled.
First of all the ships sunk in scapaflow was not the intore fleet. Second most where recoverd and scraped since so there is in no way the entire German fleet on the sea bottom. Also this is all not new but known fact for over 100 years or more. Trying to pass this off as new is extremely distasteful.
KM Bismarck was the Ultimate Battleship ever built. No other war ship in History or ever again will sustain over 400 large bore hits and 1000's of 8in and smaller rounds plus torpedo's and remained afloat. She was scuttled to prevent capture. Over 1100 crew survived that 4 hour merciless baraged and left to drown. Never forgotten.
@@yabbadabbadoo8225 my point is that even the 'Ultimate Battleship" Bismarck can't beat planes not a single battleship in the world can .You bringing up Pearl proves that . Its why battleships will never be built again .If the Bismarck was the beast you say it is , it would've survived the encounter with the Brits.
Some of them claim they scuttled her but other sailors actually on the ship are skeptical anyone could have done so given the state of the ship. It was damaged enough it was going down sooner or later.
RIP Professor Eric Grove.....I have always enjoyed learning from you.
The USS Texas not only served during the Great War, but also served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during WWII. Engaging in combat operations such as D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Now currently in dry dock receiving much needed repairs and restoration...⚓
SHe's on my bucket list of museum ships to see.
And so far she's looking great! They started putting on blue paint on the 18th according to the site. She's scheduled to be put back in the water in February.
I hope soon I can pay her a visit myself
It actually served in every major theater of operations in WW2. one of the only ships able to claim that honor
Not only that, she survived a direct hit from a 15-inch German battleship gun repurposed as a shore battery, and returned fire.
Also N Africa. She was in every major theater campaign of WWII.
'There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.' Adm. Beatty.
Drain The Oceans is literally one of my fav shows to watch. Ecsp about WW1 & WW2 ships.
Nice. I will watch.
@@mkhanman12345 i love watching this drain the oceans shows
Very interesting and well presented video! I already knew most of the given information, but I had no idea that Hitler purchased some of the steel from the scrapped Imperial German Navy's ships to forge it into the subsequent generation of warships. The sinking of HMS Royal Oak was particularly lethal since it keeled over and sank in little more that 10'. Further, the compartments were not watertight, the doors were wide open and that greatly accelerated the flooding. Particularly grievous was the loss of some 150 navy cadets aged 16-18, many of whom died in their cots. This was a repeat of what had happened during WWI when 3 old cruisers, HMS Hogue, HMS Cressy and HMS Aboukir were torpedoed by a German submarine, also during the first period of the war. Also in that occasion there was substantial loss of Navy cadets. Since back then the captains had little idea of what a submarine or a torpedo was they figured they had run into mines, so they stopped, giving the Germans the opportunity to further target them unhindered. On both occasions Winston Churchill was acting First Sea Lord, and in both instances he was blamed for the tragedies. Child murderer was the nicest thing the British press said of him at the time.
Fun Story about the USS Texas. It was the only battleship to see combat in five theaters of WW2, and at Normandy on D-Day, they literally flooded half the ship to angle the guns up higher than they ever had any right to and hit targets father inland than any other ship.
Ahhh yes...the gangsta lean move 😆😆😆
Crazy
"flooded half the ship" you mean flooded one torpedo blister, to get it to lean only 3 degrees, so it could match the range of other ships at the battle like the bigger more powerful HMS Rodney.
@@SRR-5657 HMS Rodney was a more modern battleship though launched in 1925 while the USS Texas was launched in 1912. Rodney had more modern designed guns and turrets so they had better range. the Rodney had a 13 year technological advantage on the Texas so its asinine to compare the two.
Wow!...Didn't know that................
This is history like never before. Since I personally know little of this remarkable sea battle. This is a living history when the sea bed reveals so much information. Top notch analysis. I could not ask for better more learned scientists. Thanks for the most interesting of videos. Will watch again for sure.
Amazing history. As a RCN veteran, it chilled me to the bone.
I am so glade I made it to 80, and to be rewarded with detailed information and the tremendous graphics of this historic era. BRAVO National Geographic!!!!!
I hate how this documentary places so much emphasis on this one sonar scanning expedition, making it seem like that’s where all the knowledge of this battle comes from. In reality, the battle of Jutland is the most studied naval event ever.
Agreed
The 3D models are certainly cool but ya, most of this information has been known for decades.
Yeah they prob should’ve just said that this just confirms everything they had heard about first hand 😂 but I like it when the water drains 💦 it’s pretty cool 😎
I have a book on WW1 naval battles, written in the 70s, and yes nothing here is news. Pretty pictures but nothing new. It would have been nice to say what sank the Invincible was the same thing that sank the Hood 30 ish years later. The Poms loved their rate of fire, and for the most part it worked.
Indeed. I also don’t like the titanic episode of drain the oceans
One of my favorite television shows 😍😍
We love our Drain the Oceans fans! Thanks for watching!
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@@NatGeo please release more of this.
The German HSF went to Firth of Forth on 21 November, which included Battleship Texas (RN 6th Battle Squadron) The subsequent move to Scapa Flow did not include Texas.
There Is Exactly ONE Surviving Ship That Participated In The Battle Of Jutland - HMS Caroline, A C-Class Cruiser Preserved In Belfast, Northern Ireland!!
Please make more the episodes from Drain The Oceans free to watch, especially the episode Lost Giants where Britannic is included.
One interesting side-note to the sinking of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919; that part of northern Scotland did not suffer the same harshness of the Great Depression of the 1930s because there was so much demand for scrap steel, the local population was kept gainfully employed during the refloating of all those scuttled ships, the last of which was refloated in 1938.
You can play a drinking game for how many times the narrator says they can "drain the oceans"...
I don't have enough rum for that 😂
I hope they realize just how annoying that repetitive mantra was and maybe find some people that can write interesting things to better fill that time. Even things as boring as telling us tonnage details on selected ships would have been better than...'drain the oceans.' x 437
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Well…this was a televised documentary series. Whenever they say “drain the oceans” outside of the first 5-10 minutes, its either before or after a commercial break
To tell the truth, I have unknowledge of the sea battle in Atlantic ocean during World war one.
This footage has enlightened me, very thanks for your vedeo.
North Sea, not Atlantic. 😉
@@Ganiscol yeah, germany didnt get that far huh 😂
Fix your unknowledge with (g)norance! Jay!
Love this show. Thx National Geographic for uploading it to youtube for free. Kudos to you!
battlecruisers were never designed to be used like the heavily armored battleships. this was a crucial error in this case that pitted the lightly armored battlecruisers of the British navy against the more heavily armored battlecruisers of the German Highseas fleet. The Germans chose armor over speed, and in this case, it served them well. HMS Invincible is the perfect example of a magazine detonation from a direct hit from a 12 inch German cannon that travels down the unsealed blast doors in the turret.
The Battlecruisers were still armored. It really was the tactic of leaving blast doors open and stacking cordite everywhere that sunk those ships.
Since the British retained control of the North Sea and maintained the blockade of Germany, I think it is obvious that Britain won the battle.
True, no debate really.
Moral of the story, safety first. Even in hazardous situations.
Michigan state universiity
Love this Drain the oceans series documentaries.
Wow that USS Texas looks so badass, Dreadnaught is a fitting name. The last survivor...
''Dreadnaught is a fitting name.''
As opposed to 'Invincible'.
Now she is a dreadnought but when she was launched to separate her from the previous generation of dreadnoughts the Texas and ships like her were super dreadnoughts.
@@pb68slab18 It's a good idea never to name your ships after a) The actual name of your country - like Yamato and Deutschland and b) adjectives that can be proven wrong like Invincible or Undefeatable or Immortal or similar words. The US Navy came close to doing that with USS America (as opposed to the USS United States which was a supercarrier that never got built, thankfully). The British had the RMS Britanic and ... we know what happened there. Just don't do it - if you value your ships!
@@hannable70 The Brits were the worst with naming ships! HMS Invincible, Courageous, Victorious, and other names boasting of their once powerful but obsolete fleet are all on the ocean floor!
@@hannable70 "Warspite" on the other hand is a fantastic name.
I absolutely love warships and drain the oceans is the show I always watched
Something for all frontiers of Mankind! To never be forgotten all those Men and Boys that passed to history with the greatest honors of all times! Will forever rest in Peace!
There are many U-Boats down below the surface as well. Very brave sailors with nerves of steel.
They had a good run until the Allies had developed new Radar, weapons, you name it and that spilled the end for German Uboats
This is one of the more high quality channels on TH-cam. So many pretenders now.
Here some legit ones
History Hits
Real Crime
Real Stories
Well, I dont like the unnecessary fluff, such as the overly dramatic music nervous cuts. It only distracts from the real stuff, the facts.
The Battle of Jutland "shrouded in mystery"? What mystery? Naval records show exactly what ships sunk and exactly why. No mystery. No controversy. Desist your Drama Queen rhetoric, please, National Geographic.
I was thinking just that😂😂😂
Love this stuff thank you.
"now we can", always love this hook
A Scottish girl at the time was on a tour boat of Scapa Flow where the teachers told the children they weren't to wave, cheer or show any signs of friendliness towards the crews on the German warships.. The British fleet had left that morning for exercises and they only returned when they got the news that the German fleet was sinking on masse. The Scottish girl Peggy Gibson saw twelve capital ships go down. She said "some stood on their ends and other rolled over and it was the most incredible sight I've ever seen".
Invincible was not a Battleship if was a Battle cruiser whom never should have been on the front line Battlecruisers are basically a up gunned heavy cruiser with Battle ship guns but thin cruiser armor basically they are fast enough to chase an kill cruisers but fast enough to get away if they run into Battleships
What was that saying about battlecruisers?
They can't kill what they can actually catch - and they can't catch what they can actually kill. It was a useless design which is why the USN never built any - and no, the Alaskas were not battlecruisers but classified as Large Cruisers meant to be the leader of cruiser divisions.
I think the turrets fell out while sinking and the ship drifted. No doubt the explosion was huge but
My first reaction as well. The turrets were not blown out. When the hull capsized, the turrets fell out; there is nothing to hold them in but gravity. Also, the US did not use cordite; cordite was a British propellant.
Respect for the dynamo room peeps, when the sense of glory for the motherland is way beyond own life!!!!
Assuming that you are referring to that part on Luetzow, it is totally made up. Six sailors in the shattered bow were trapped there (and they had nothing to do with electrical power), everyone else alive was rescued before the ship was scuttled by torpedo.
The only thing I hate is the titles using the word "Battleships". No Battleships were lost by either side at Jutland. Several battlecruisers, but not battleships. In every click bait and TH-cam video it seems the title "Battleship" appears when they are talking about everything but a battleship in modern warships. Also, no one but the US Navy has had any operating battleships since the 1950's and those were the four Iowa class "battleships" finally retired in 1992. It's just a pet peeve of mine.
Both French and English had battleships in the 1950s 😂
@@ananthakrishnan6106 As I said, no one except the US Navy has had a battleship since the 1950's. The last French Battleship Richelieu was taken out of service as a battleship in 1952 (used a gunnery training ship for several years). The last British Battleship HMS Vanguard was taken out of service in 1955 and put into the reserve fleet. Even the US Navy would put the four Iowa class battleships in reserve after each major conflict (Korea, Vietnam, and finally retired after Gulf War). My point was and still is that online videos keep using the term "Battleship" for any modern warship (even a destroyer or frigate), which isn't true unless they're discussing the actual battleships of the past.
Most of the British ships that were guarding the German fleet were at sea on a gunnery exercise, so there were very few British sailors to stop the Germans.
we need more of these
_"Unopposed under crimson skies, immortalized over time their legend will rise!"_
_"And their foes can't believe their eyes! Believe their size as they fall!"_
Isn't that the lyrics from a Sabaton song? Hmmm ....
And the dreadnoughts
Dread nothing
At all.
if y'all want a good documentary over Jutland, swing over to Drachinifels Channel, mate does his research
Totally, he covers and understands warships way better than any of these tv shows.
@@davids5566 I usually watch these AFTER his stuff so I can put his information to their fancier graphics to better understand what happened.
Beaty was out for his own glory and kept sabotaging Jellicoe at every chance he could.
Jutland was a tactical win for the Germans, but a strategic win for the British. The Germans inflicted more damage on the British but they withdrew back to port, while the British had kept the German High Seas fleet from breaking out.
Currently watching the hostile planet ❤ thank you!
Nice bro 👌
*USS TEXAS*
Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire in anger for the first time when shooting medium-caliber guns at supposed submarines (no evidence exists that suggests these were anything more than waves). In World War II, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and later shelled Vichy French forces in the North African Landings and German-held beaches in the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was the only Allied battleship that took part in all four of these amphibious landings. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II.
Texas was also a technological testbed: the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US warship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers, the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, and one of the first US Navy warships to receive production radar.
Texas was the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship. In 1976 she became the first battleship to be declared a US National Historic Landmark, and is the only remaining World War I era dreadnought battleship. She is also one of the eight remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars. Texas is owned by the people of Texas and is officially under the jurisdiction of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Everyday operations and maintenance of Texas has been handled by the non-profit organization Battleship Texas Foundation since August 2020. At the end of August 2022 she was moved to a dry dock in Galveston, Texas to undergo a $35 million dollar repair project. As of February 2023 the repair project is underway.
COME ON TEXAS
scary but historic love it
They say that 1/5th of all the silver and gold that's out of the ground is at the bottom of the ocean in ship wrecks! LOTS to be found!!!
Great vid, this series is really interesting. Thanks for the upload.
If they give an episode about Battle of Leyte Gulf, or Battle of Samar showing maybe USS Johnston
I'm impressed
They did the letter gulf in the China seas episode
Leyte*
Include the battle of Savo Island in that list
Also what happened ro HMS Queen Mary
Also no mention of Beatty
The Texas fought in both world wars. In WW2 The Texas fought in the European, Asian, and African campaigns.
What the heck is with these curators and spokespeople talking about cordite? USS Texas did NOT use cordite propellant in her guns. Cordite is British. The USS Texas main guns used SPD propellant.
Thank you for setting the record straight.
The Battleship USS Texas will remain in Galveston, Texas. Post its overhaul there is ongoing. It was located at the San Jacinto Monument State Park east of Houston.
idk if i watched this one but imma watch it again
Other than one thing, this channel produces high quality programs. My only beef is all of the repetition. I'll bet I heard "drain the ocean" a dozen times. They manage to cramp a half hour of program into an hour. Between the repetion and the commercials, it gets ponderous.
This is typical brainwashing methods, keep repeating and repeating, just like 9'11, the same footage 100,000 times for months
@@yabbadabbadoo8225 A lot like certain liberals do. Long enough and often enough it "becomes" the truth.
thank you
rip eric grove, the professor in this video. you will be missed as a fellow naval historian
he died in april 21
rip
Aww I'm sorry to hear he died. I always liked the guy. I remember when he was one of the professors in a show about the Battle of Midway - he was so excited and so animated that I thought he would vibrate right out of his chair. Bless his heart.
@@hannable70 thats interesting! rip
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German U-boats spelled the end of the battleships for the British, but it was the coming of age of the airplanes in the Pacific that spelled the end of the battleships for the Americans.
Airplanes also ended battleships/battlecruisers for the British: Prince of Wales and Repulse
Pls more drain the oceans
The name of SMS Lutzow is pronounced "L[oo]t'soe", the "u" short as in how the Irish say "fun", the "ow" is an elongated "o" as in "over" (the "w" does the elongation).
Thanks for sharing this information
The Invincible made me think the Hood suffered the same open hatch fate
If I was the kaiser I would send the whole German fleet out to destroy the British fleet. It's plainly clear that then German mariners are better trained and good shots compared to the English sailors.
I'm always disappointed when a historic documentary says something akin to-
"There's only ONE possible explanation "....huh!? The combination of arrogance and ignorance only proves a lack of imagination and critical theory thinking.
Put it in context, and timestamp 0:00.
they show like torpedoes travel as fast as bullets :D
Imagine we could drain the Ocean, Using giant mega-pumps! lol
love the show
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It's morbid. I'd like to see. How many passenger ships were damaged and sunk by natural events and wartime events.
Germany had a large great fleet of warships in WWI, but after Jutland they were rarely used and a major waste. At the end of WWI they surrendered a great fleet to the Royal navy. Only to end up scuttling their fleet? Germany would have been better off sending all these warships out for one last fight than to just sink their own ships. Shalom
Near the end of the war that was seriously considered, but the crews of the ships refused to go (they, in effect, mutinied) on what they knew would be a suicide mission. They would be facing not only the Royal Navy, but the US Navy as well (including USS Texas).
Cutting huge sections out of a hull is how you ensure ship sinks rapidly. Blow a small hole below the water line to get it going then once water reaches where you cut out sections of the hull it's going down fast. Don't see that having anything to do with scrap metal hunters.
Nice documentry I like it
11/10 would watch the series again if it had more wrecks & underwater anomalies looked at.
Texas was a super dreadnaught and was the first ship to be a museum after many years of service.
Imagine if they do in Leyte Philippines. The place used to be the greatest naval battle ever
superb
We have the medal issued to commemorate the battle.
How do you ensure the video remains engaging from start to finish?
did not know the brits had broken the german naval codes and laid an ambush for the germans. knowing that it is for sure a german victory. the german fleet shouldve been largely wiped out given the odds. that they werent and, in fact, inflicted greater losses on the british make it a german victory. no one would know at that point that the germans would never sortie out and that it would ultimately be one of the most pyric victories in history until the passage of time.
I was taught and have always thought this battle was pronounced "Uteland" as a Gemanic "j" is pronounced like our "Y".
The Brits won Jutland.
If you’re victorious? You aren’t the one leaving the battlefield.
It would have been much worse for the High Seas Fleet had Beatty or anyone else for that matter decided to signal Jellicoe and let him know what’s happening. The Germans slipped by British battle cruisers twice and not once did those ships signal Jellicoe “hey I have enemy ships in sight”.
Every officer there that day who didn’t transfer the information to his fleet commander is guilty of dereliction of duty.
What about HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary ? Its a shame the they miss them and narration of the battle is almost worthless
Anyone know what ships these are at 3:29? Ive seen this battle line in old film reels like this one, does anyone recognize them
Good question
They say a shell hit one of the midship guns n the fire spread from there, But I think the shell hit between the guns directly into the magazine that alone would have blown the two guns and cut the ship in half
The shell penetrated the roof of the turret and exploded, setting fire to the ready use cordite and the flash travelled down the open shell hoists and caused a sympathic explosion in the powder room. Of interest is to look what sank the British battleship in world war 2
Why do all historians feel compelled to wear bow ties?
While these shows are interesting and entertaining, if you have studied the history of a lot of the battles/incidents involved, unfortunately National Geographic states WAY too much information as factual, and a LOT of what they are stating is speculative at best, and downright ridiculous at worst. You can't just make categorical statements of "fact" about ships on the floor of the ocean based on scans like this, there are way too many unanswered questions to do that.
glad some else sees the light
Well, but the battle is super well documented. You are right that pretty much none of the major statements the video made follow conclusively from the scans, but the facts are still very well known. The video is super misleading in that respect. There are also some false statements, such as that sailors had to remain and die on Luetzow to keep the lights powered while the ship was torpedoed. Nonsense. Everyone alive was taken off the ship except for six sailors that were trapped in the shattered bow. As a minor quip, it would have been worth pointing out that Luetzow had a pretty successful battle sinking at least one and probably two British battlecruisers.
@@yxx_chris_xxy the problem with all of these so called "reality channels", be it national geographic, E, History channel, etc, is they are looking for more views, and sensationalism, and often times plain old reality isn't enough when battling for views with movies and other fiction. It's a disgusting way to do things, but it's been going on for the last decade or more now.
Maybe how the Hood sunk so fast from the Bismarck was potentially the same tactical error
One would hope that by 1941 the Royal Navy had learned from their 1916 mistakes.
Drachinifel's channel has a video that covers some of the theories.
Good vid.
can you drain Bass Strait and see if Frederick Valentich plane is there somewhere between Moorabbin Airport and King Island?
It is 60 - 80 meters deep all the way across so if it's there it shouldn't be to hard to spot....
I swear the more you look at it. Germany is an example of “if we can’t win then no one wins our ship”
in world of warships, I crossing T enemy (exposed my broadsides to bring all gun to bare) and get annihilated instead.
LOL
Or to stop the German Navy from having free rein in the North Sea? In keeping the Germans bottled up Admiral Jelliceo won the battle!
Jutland was a tactical victory for the Germans, but a strategic victory for the British.
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The German capital ships cost 3 or four million pounds to build and seem to have gone to the scrappers for a few hundred thousand, They would have meet the same fate as the British ships built before the QE class even if they hadn't been scuttled.
First of all the ships sunk in scapaflow was not the intore fleet. Second most where recoverd and scraped since so there is in no way the entire German fleet on the sea bottom. Also this is all not new but known fact for over 100 years or more. Trying to pass this off as new is extremely distasteful.
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I wonder how many times "Drain Away" has been mentioned in the video.
Iron / Steel ? ( Dish Plates )
KM Bismarck was the Ultimate Battleship ever built. No other war ship in History or ever again will sustain over 400 large bore hits and 1000's of 8in and smaller rounds plus torpedo's and remained afloat. She was scuttled to prevent capture. Over 1100 crew survived that 4 hour merciless baraged and left to drown. Never forgotten.
And yet got clowned on by old biplanes lol
@@lessronishere7540 Pearl got clowned also, your point again?
@@yabbadabbadoo8225 my point is that even the 'Ultimate Battleship" Bismarck can't beat planes not a single battleship in the world can .You bringing up Pearl proves that . Its why battleships will never be built again .If the Bismarck was the beast you say it is , it would've survived the encounter with the Brits.
Some of them claim they scuttled her but other sailors actually on the ship are skeptical anyone could have done so given the state of the ship. It was damaged enough it was going down sooner or later.
Texas was there? Live in Texas would have heard about this by now!
Well... I guess the sinking of those German in WW1 essentially gave them ships for WW2!