Right they went down fighting to the end it would of been even more poetic if those last shots actually hit the Bismarck but stuff like that’s only in the movies.
@@scarlettmanson712 know your history, Hood fired first at the Prinz Eugen......realized her mistake and switched targets.....delaying an accurate fire control solution. No rounds on target means losing quickly. It says so in the video
It was likely that it was already loaded and cooked off, or the breech was still open and something set it off. At that point, they were shaking and smashing around so much that it is doubtful they would have been able to fire off.
The forward magazines exploded at some point, the turret interiors must have been in flames. The wreck has a blast detached forecastle and there is a big section missing between where the front turrets were and the bridge.
It’s likely the people were already dead When a ships magazine explodes it sends a huge shockwave through the metal of the ship which is basically enough to kill anyone
it is more likely that it was an accidental shot due to other internal explosions happening which shake the trigger. If you watch the tanks which are just hit, they also shoot their main gun.
Nope it was intentional as the ship was cut in half and the captain didn’t realised as the bow sailed forwards after it was bisected as such no ‘abandon ship’ order was given that’s a reason why only 3 men survived. It was also probably sunk with a single shell as accounts from HMS Prince of Whales says after HMS Hood was bracketed hood turned to avoid the salvo but a shell struck its spine and a ‘gorgeous’ pink and yellow flame spewed from its hull then it fully detonated within minutes no trace of the Hood remained.
@@Bizciut actually in actual WW2 Naval Warfare, bringing your full broadside was very often, same as WW1, as you could fire all guns, in WoWs its different and for gameplay reasons as if it was real life, only like 1 or 2 shots would hit or none at all in the first few salvos, its the more you fire the better you aim gets because you close in on the Target with the Range Finders
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We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us, Hit the decks a-runnin' boys, and spin those guns around! When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down.
@@501ststormtrooper9 The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day, The Bismarck started firin' fifteen miles away "We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound, But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down
@Michael Keeganwar was changing. In modern warfare battleships aren't very useful anymore. It is a true rarity for warships to be in sight of each other. The only use they have is they might carry more antiaircraft guns and missiles then the smaller ships.
I think it's amazing these gunners can hit targets miles off. No laser targeting, no computers, no satellite tracking literally just raw calculations. Edit: I learned something in the replies, they did have early computers for targeting.
no they used fire control computers with machinery attached for ship speed, enemy ship speed, wind, range, angulation, elevation, the whole hog. Not just aim and shoot. Look up the british Dreyer Fire control tables to see what Hood and POW used
@@williamcarter1993 I know the Royal Navy had range finders but they were primitive, it was still alot of math done by the tech. Obviously it wasn't just aim and shoot.
bruh they didn't use binoculars instead they had radars and range finders that helped them to calculate shell drop and the distance between the target XD also yes they used a fire control system to aim even better than before
@@knightsofthewicked9121 I’m talking like on this video. On other videos I see that prince eugen scores the first hit on hold but in this video it just says “a shell”.
Welcome to naval gunnery before fire control radar became universal. It took quite some time and salvos to actually get on target. Both German ships were far newer and had more advanced fire control than Hood, and Prince of Wales was literally brand new, and still managed to make hits and straddles quickly. Not that surprising that Hood was mostly missing.
@@Oddwest yeah, they had similar profiles and Bismarck was leading when the last report from the British cruisers was made. The two swapped because Bismarck had knocked out its own forward radar via gun blast.
5:01, The groan as the hull buckled gave me shivers up my spine. That was a phenomenally powerful explosion. Many of the sailors died mercifully for they didn't know what hit them.
@@mistylover7398 Hood got retribution, you don't piss of the British, who at the time had the most powerful navy in the world, you don't get away with that, so we sent as many ships after the bismarck and bombarded them😁 karmas a bitch
actually the shell that killed the Hood h it the water, amidship, surfed up and into the Hood low on the side. Starting fires in the 4 inch magazines that began the destruction and ultimate ignition of the main magazine just aft. It did not go through the deck or upper side plating.
@@theflaver it does seem the most likely given all the evidence provided, and seeing the photo of the hood from the air showing the amount of lower hull being exposed sealed it for me personally.
That is just speculation, no one knows for sure. The belt of the hood is not all that thick and while IN THEORY they HOPED their armor design would decap armor piercing rounds and that this would then defeat their penetration there is absolutely no test of this and it's also highly, highly optimistic of them to think it will save them from such a heavy hit. It's like taking a tiger tank and putting a skurzen on it and then assuming it's now invulnerable to 90mm firefly cannon fire. Somewhere between highly optimistic and utterly preposterous.
My grandfather was too young to join the Newfoundland Regiment so the found a way to England where he joined the Royal Navy. He was too young and was assigned below deck where no one wanted to be in an attack. He told me about shells punching neatly through bulkheads and severing seated men at the waste, and cleaning it up. His greatest source of pain was when another sailor stepped in for a tour he missed to keep him out of trouble. That ship would be lost. I think it was the battle for Bismarck but I can't be totally sure. He would just recall bits and pieces to everyone out of the blue and never speak of that particular thing again. It was up to the family to try and put them together. My grandmother, a British war bride, was sent to Wales at the start of the London blitz but was mistreated by the sponsor family. She made her way across the UK, collected her sister along the way, returned to London and they got caught out in an air raid. They actually saw a bomb bounce down a street past them and blow up in the bottom of a Dept store building. You could never make a movie to grasp what these folks went through.
Agree, and what is more just after the war was a lot different than today. There may have been peace but countries were wrecked, and took years to make some dent in what was lost. I well remember selling bullets, in the sixties, to Staples the chemist, two and six a box, and having a gas mask, awful things, and whilst going round various parts of the country one would see flax cradles on top of factories, and pill boxes on the beaches, we even had air raid shelters attached to schools with food in them
@@Marly375i difference in visual size between Bismarck and Prinz Eugen was not that big. Bismarck was 250 meters long, and PE was 210 meters. If we add that to the similarity of the silhouettes and a big distance, it was not surprising that the Britts mixed up one for another.
@@tuandungnguyen4548 yamato has a good dispersion and sigma but thunderer, georgia, shikishima and slava are way more accurate and slava is a bit more tanky so slava would be a better choice
Ted Briggs, one of the three survivors from the Hood, recollected that he was up high on the superstructure....after the explosion the order to abandon ship was given...he lined up to exit...he said an officer stepped aside and gestured him out...he did so....and was soon in the water...pulled down then miraculously lifted to the surface in a surge of air exploding from the ship. He swam, and turned to see the bow of his ship standing vertically and slipping into the sea. Of the officers gesture, he could only say, in broken voice..."I can never forget that."
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!! The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME." In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ." Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
@@mightymac63I would wager so. Something similar happened to Charles Lightoller, the second officer aboard the Titanic, when he was being dragged down against a grate when a boiler explosion propelled him back to the surface. It was quite common that hot boilers from ships exploded after being submerged in water, especially the cold and frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
My father lost many friends on Hood, on which he had previously served. Thankfully, he was not on her final voyage, he took the loss of so many men with considerable rage.
@@harrysmith1070 wouldnt had matter, the Allies kept getting better tech to counter U-Boats, Germany was losing U-boats faster then they could sink enemy ships, or build them, the whole Idea and plan for Bismarck was to make him a convoy raider, because usually ships escorting convoys are destroyers, Light cruisers, heavy crusier, or rarely a battleship, and at that time, Bismarck outclassed any surface ship the Allies had, he had the armor to withstand hits, and the speed to make a dash away if a vangaurd of british ships were approaching, now yes the Biplanes did seal Bismarcks fate, but it was said nearly all the Biplanes were full of bullet holes, just the shells had not exploded, so Bismarcks AA did hit the planes, Bismarcks AA was made for modern planes made of Steel or aluminum, not wood and canvas, now if Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gnienesnau had been in a fleet together there firepower would be a very dangerous adversary for the British, and in all honesty, they should have waited for Scharnhorst's to be repaired before sending out Bismarck, if Bismarck, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugene had been together, it would have been a different story,
@@thegermanempire489 sadly Prinz Eugen had left Bismarck alone as a Target for Sword fish..if Prinz Eugen could have remain to Escort Bismarck... Bismarck would ve saved from crippling Torpedo of Sword fishes
@@ashutosh5762 I think it instantly went from the big vertical flame coming out of the machinery space to being hidden in the smoke from the disintegration.
and likely deserve partial credit for her sinking. After she vanished from British radar, she was found when a Catalina spotted an oil slick on the water. Also, she her loss of oil forced her to cut speed some. At top speed she probably would have made it to St. Nazaire where there was a drydock big enough for her.
In a 1 Versus 1 Bismarck would win against prince of wale because prince of wales wasn't tested and had weaker guns she only hit bismarck once with a shell and bismarck replied with 15 inch shells
@@penguin.3882I'm not sure there was a battleship in the world that could match Bismarck. Maybe the Yamato, but it was just as new as Prince of Wales at the time.
@@aymslt8743 However the shell probably hit the water first and then penetrated below the armor belt. The trajectory was too flat for it to have plunged through the deck
The explosion on Hood is so phenomenal. It cut the ship clean in half. The Hood slipped under the waves in less than 3 minutes. All but three sailors never knew what hit them. They died mercifully. May they rest in peace.
Imagine the morale hit the sailors would have taken on Prince of Wales: You're escorting the pride of the British Navy, once the most powerful and feared sea force in the world that for centuries projected power globally through maritime dominance, and in mere minutes this beautiful flagship vessel, this SYMBOL, is obliterated catastrophically before your eyes by the Nazi war machine. This was 1941, the Blitz of England was well underway, Britain was getting blasted and pounded, their backs were against the wall, the situation semi-desperate, then to have that happen, it must have felt like the end of the world to those guys. ADD TO THAT, the enemy that just blew away the Hood...now you're its only target. is what just happened to them going to happen to you next?
Excellent clip on the sinking of HMS Hood. Ludovic Kennedy's book on the subject, Pursuit the sinking of the Bismarck, documents the entire story from breakout into the North Atlantic to the sinking of Bismarck with great accuracy insight and research. A book well worth reading.
I think the shell who sunk the Hood must be the most deadly in human history. 1415 man died from one single shell of Bismarck. RIP all sailors of the battle!
@CHRISTIAN KNIGHT Really dude are you serious? The ship explodes and sunk because of the hit and sorry dude british army was good but they dont win alone.
@@heinzsielmann5952 no actually the tide of the war was determined after the Nazi failure in the Battle of Britain but it would have taken years without the US entry. But then again if isolationists in the US hadn't intervened the US would have entered the war in 1940 and that likely would have prevented Japan from attacking Pearl. It's all very interesting when viewed from afar.
@@iamnumber3678 Churchill lost his Empire because of WW 2 so i think he was not really happy after the war. Sure he defend the motherland against Nazi germany but the price was his British Empire.
I've loved this documentary since I was a kid, but every single time I see Bismarck fire those first 8 shots... Jesus Christ dude, chills and fear every single time
HMS Prince of Wales was so new she still carried dockyard workers to finish calibrating the ships equipment. The Hood, in my opinion, is still the most beautiful capital ship of the line to ever be built. Her lines just flowed from stem to stern. Her low freeboard aft meant she was a wet ship in heavy seas but she is still gorgeous.
I never really understood Lutjens hesitation. Yes, he was ordered not to engage capital ships and focus on convoys, but the battle in the Denmark Straits was unavoidable. His SAG was shadowed by Norfolk and Suffolk with advanced radar and he couldn't evade the scouting ships or engage them. His only chance at evasion is after he clears the GIUK gap, so he was forced to go through PoW and Hood.
The whole idea was idiocy. Sending your ONLY Battleship on a commerce raid? That's what uboats are for. People only remember the sinking but Hitler sent his only heavy battleship virtually unescorted into the Atlantic to sink freighters.
I love the animation of Hood's explosion. The slight lifting of the ship, the sound, the actual look of the explosion. Exactly how I picture a main magazine detonation.
Slight problem. The trajectory they showed would have put the shell out the other side through the superstructure. What likely happened was a hit below the armor belt just after dipping into the water. And at a 14 degree approach angle, this would be a relatively easy hit.
@@JacobA6464 Yeah I didn't say alot didn't drown but the explosion basically created smaller Titanic that sunk faster so even if they could get to life boats they promised fell and turned upside down
@@JacobA6464 The people firing on Bismarck had no idea it was gonna kill that many people, and in all fairness the British opened fire on the Bismarck first and the Bismarck fired back.
O erro da marinha real foi enviar o Hood para batalha sem manutenção. Os britânicos colocaram toda frota no atlântico para caçar o Bismarck, logo é de se esperar que os navios estivessem no seu melhor auge para combater o Bismarck, errado. Como o narrador mesmo disse: "8 dos canhões do Prince Of Wales estavam não foram testados, e as torres quadruplas apresentavam mal funcionamento". Logo é não é de se imaginar que isso obviamente fosse afetar o potencial do navio em batalha. Agora o Hood foi praticamente retirado do museu por assim dizer e jogado atlantico a fora junto com o Prince Of Wales para interceptar o Bismarck e Destrui-lo
A Marinha Real não tinha outros navios capitais disponíveis para interceptar a frota alemã. Hood, apesar de ser 20 anos mais velho, ainda era (com um certo grau de sorte) uma partida razoável para Bismarck. Infelizmente, a sorte não estava com ela em 23 de maio de 1941.
My Father could have been on HMS Hood. He and his two friends enlisted, but as my father was only 17 the papers had to be signed by my grandfather. A veteran of the horror's of WW1 he refused to sign his son's life away. As for my father's friends, they were stokers in the engine room of HMS Hood when she went down. May they rest in peace.
@@GriseWeisshark it's in the video, and has to be at Bismarck's 12:00 position, fuck knuckle. And drugs don't make you hallucinate unless you're on psychedelics.
@@331coolguy Just seems like they wanted to be more dramatic like it's a movie or something. They even DO an episode on Yamato and say literally the same thing, but don't mention Bismarck at all. Being a history documentary, they should clarify that. I mean, they call Bismarck "Hitler's Super Weapon", but not only is it smaller than the Yamato, it got taken down a lot quicker and easier than that ship!
@@starflame34 well it went down in 4 hours cause it was being bombarded by almost a entire navy while yamato was being torn to shreds by little flies and she sat in docks for most of her days unlike Bismarck which did sail and fire her guns and actually sinking something and putting up a massive fight and as the other guy said yamato didn't even exist yet so at the time Bismarck was the largest until yamato and iwoa came onto the seen but Bismarck could still stand up to this two ships just cause shes smaller doesn't mean shes not strong shes plenty strong enough to take a beating of almost or over 3,000 shells and some torpedoes.
What wasn't mentioned in this clip is that Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship. Her deck armour in particular was never intended to face the heavy shells of a battleship's main guns. She was scheduled for upgrades to her armour, but these kept being postponed as she was repeatedly used for propaganda cruises in the late '30s. When the UK declared war on Germany in 1939, there was suddenly no time left. As for Prince of Wales and her four-gun turrets, I'm reminded of something that a martial-arts instructor once said to a friend of mine : if you haven't practiced it, you can't do it.
Actually the episode in its entirety does state about Hood being a battlecruiser, thin amour etc. The above video only shows the battle itself and not the history behind it.
Ive read many misguided comments on here. 1. The British accuracy wasn't as good as the Germans because the British where sailing into the oncoming seas at full speed. This adversely effected their targeting systems. 2. The British where at a tactical disadvantage because of their positioning when the Germans where sighted. The British couldn't manoeuvre into an advantageous position. 3. The hood was the British lead ship, however her radar and targeting/rangefinding equipment was poor in comparison to the pow more modern systems. There's an argument that admiral Holland should have allowed pow to lead the attack. ( Pow scored 3 hits on Bismarck, 1 of these proved crippling). The modern pow was more of a match for the bismark. Not the ageing hood. 4. Hood was 22 years older than Bismarck and was in desperate need of modernization and a total refit. Bismarck was a much more modern ship. 5. The fatal shot was fired from bismarks 5th salvo. The prevailing school of thought is that it hit hood as she turned to port in order to allow her rear guns to target bismark. As she did the fatal shell hit her just below the water line and by a million to 1 chance, missed her armour and penetrated her machine spaces between her engine room and 4" magazine. The subsequent explosion entered the 4" magazine which exploded. This resulted in the large column of flame seen from pow emanating from the area of her rear funnel. Moments later the explosion entered her 15" magazine. This resulted in the enormous explosion that literally ripped her in half. She sunk in 3 minutes. 6. The Prinz Eugen was mistaken for Bismarck because 1 they had very similar silhouettes. 2 they had swopped position when out of British radar range because of damage to bismarks forward radar. The British thought they where in the same position from before radar contact was lost by the shadowing crusers. 7. The pow was not combat ready. She hadn't completed her sea trials and still had scores of civilian engineers on board trying to get her operational. 8. In sinking the hood. Bismarck signed her own death warrant. Within 3 days she was obliterated by pow sister ship, the king George v, and the battleship Rodney. Of note, in this final engagement, the Bismarck failed to land a shell on any British ship throughout the entire engagement.
Love it when TV documentaries spin about half an hour of Show-time out of about 7mins of content. Really drives home the padding when you see it all in one go. Shout out to my homies on the Hood though.
Wouldn't be possible due to more superior Turtleback armour than Hood had! Also the shells that Hood used lacked penetration....at a distance of 20km Hoods shells could penetrate 306mm of armour, Bismarcks shell over 360mm....
@@somedrytoast2307 well the 381 mm guns were one of the best guns back then.....the 14 inch had less Penetration cabability, the 16 inch fitted aboard Rodney and Nelson had only slightly more....so one of the best guns available back then, they were tested, proved guns!
A real battleship is supposed to take hard hits that might have entered the magazines, the British battlecruisers could not resist big guns. Three blew up at Jutland, Hood blew up like just another second rate obsolete battlecruiser. They were not armoured to resist anything bigger than a cruiser’s guns, the Germans did not play the Jackie Fisher cruiser killing game after the Falklands. Hood and the obsolete Revenge/R class battleships should only have been used in secondary roles.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 hood was the 3rd most heavily armoured ship in the fleet The issue was the range they could go through her tertiary belt and into the magazine at that range at futher range the hoods guns could still penetrate Bismarck’s armour but due to a flatter trajectory of Bismarck hers would have pinged off of the front of hood Turtle back armour also isn’t superior it actually reduces the amount of armour shown to plunging rounds At 10,000 yards hoods rounds would impact and go through Bismarck’s turtle back at 10,000 yards Bismarck would have failed to penetrate the hood
They probably chose to do this for a reason, but while watching, I found myself wishing animated people/soldiers had also been put into this recreation. It was a fascinating culmination of events, occuring within WW2. And it'd be fascinating to observe some recreated human played out actions and reactions and behaviours while all this was going on, and each new thing took place.
Battleship turrets are meant to work independently if necessary. While the rear turrets (X/Y) were obliterated, the front turrets (A/B) were still capable of functioning on their own as well as most of the ship's primary targeting equipment.
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!! The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME." In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ." Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
Holy shit, 1400 sailors gone after that 1 lucky hit. Its horrifying to watch as the ship bend and blows up. Even if it is an animation and isnt the real thing. I can only imagine.
@@justinmoe3171 yeah whatever you believe man, whatever makes you comfortable to believe. I bet the germans crushing the british attack in Operation Market/Garden was also just luck because "beating the british paratroopers in battle rarely happens" LMAO.
5:24 As Hood slides beneath the waves her forward turret fires a final defiant salvo before slipping into darkness.. I can just imagine what it’s saying... “ Noob ”
Dogfights Soundtrack OST used at 0:34 when HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. It is "Soldier - v2 (No Melody)" by Alan Paul Ett. Other military tracks from him seems to have been used in other episodes of Dogfights as well. Link: th-cam.com/video/0n0AG7KiIuw/w-d-xo.html If there is enough interest, I'd be more than happy create a full playlist that is public of the Dogfights OST for Dogfights Fans such as myself to listen to and enjoy.
Not in this battle, not in ww2 for that matter. Look up why they did it back in ww1, it's a simple yet fatal reason and it's got nothing to do with ship design.
Lion only survived a turret hoist propellant flash because the magazine was flooded when the turret was pierced. The magazine doors buckled inwards, they were flimsy ships. Lion had no excess propellant outside the magazines.
I love how the failed to mention that after Bismarck's the first salvo the recoil from the guns made made the main aiming antenna fall off If I'm wrong feel happy to correct, it's been a while since I read up on the Bismarck
That happened after Bismarck fired a few salvos at the British cruiser Suffolk (or Norfolk?) that was shadowing Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. The tremors from the turrets damaged the Bismarck's radar, that's why Prinz Eugen took the lead of the formation shortly after. That's why the British wrongly assumed Prinz Eugen to be Bismarck as you can see in this video.
Considering how far north the Denmark strait is located it’s amazing that the 3 soaking wet freezing cold survivors didn’t succumb to hypothermia before they were picked up……must have been made of strong stuff.
Bob Tilburn and Ted Briggs both said they very nearly succumbed to hypothermia, but were constantly roused by the third suvivor William Dundas, who apparently constantly sang popular songs of the time, and made them join in !!! Is that an incredible example of indomitable spirit or what !!!
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!! The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME." In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ." Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
@@SahiPie well think about before AirPower hell even before ww2 started what were most navies building? Battleships because AirPower was not fully developed by this point most planes in the 1930’s were slow, couldn’t carry much ordnances, and think what do you think Japan wanted to do about the American fleet at Pearl Harbor? It wasn’t to destroy the aircraft carriers, they new they weren’t at Pearl Harbor and they attacked to destroy there battleships
@@Ace-rp7vr ACKCHEWALLY, carriers were the prime target. The Japanese were just handed such a golden opportunity they weren't gonna call off the attack because the carriers were mia. And the second biggest tactical target was heavy cruisers. The Japanese command feared these more than the dated US battleships, as they knew it was more likely they'd be directly dealing with them in future surface engagements. Cruisers were better suited to be doing things like contesting invasions and forming 3-4 boat patrols, which is what the Japanese wanted to avoid. The us BB line at pearl harbor was slow, had slow aim, couldn't maneuver well etc. They were ww1 designs, and the Japanese already had the Musashi and Yamato on the way. 1 of those could have probably engaged 4-5 old us battleships, which was the entire point of Japan's design. Cruisers were more effective quick responders, and took enough building resources they were deemed higher value targets. The only people who wanted the thicc ships sunk were those concerned with the Japanese "press"(propaganda machine) coverage.
Hood: **exists** BMs 1st salvo: **wants to know your location** BMs 2nd salvo: **steady steady** BMs 3rd salvo: *gotcha bi*ch !* PEs 4th salvo: **Baby you are a firework** BMs 5th salvo: **I'm gonna end this ships whole career**
yeh the real reason is Hood had side armor but newer guns dropped shells through the deck, from longer range. naval gun ranges had been getting steadily longer since the 3,000 yard mark pre dreadnought.
@@worthyOne420 The IJN Yamato was laid down on the 4th of November 1937 and finished on the 8th of August 1940. The Bismarck was laid down on the 1st of July 1936 and finished on the 14th February 1939. Meaning the Yamato did exist in 1940 already and was therefore the biggest Battleship ever built. But the Bismarck was in fact the biggest Battleship ever built by any European nation
@@worthyOne420 The Vanguard is still smaller than Bismarck. The HMS Vanguard is 248 Meters long, the Bismarck is 251 Meters long. The Beam of the Vanguard is 32,9 Meters (well let's make it 33 meters) and the one of the Bismarck is 36 Meters.
HMS Hood put up a great fight and very extremely sadly that only 3 survived it and 1,415 brave men went with it. That's very extremely creepy but yet they had no other options but fire their last salvo in anger towards the Bismarck who made it happened. British Navy and the German Navy both sides were actually shocked and disbelieve what happened to HMS Hood.
Honestly HMS Hood was a WW1 ship, was quite outdated to fight against WW2 ships and especially Bismarck. They mainly kept it because it was a symbol and never had a chance to upgrade it to WW2 standarts. It was unlucky that they got hit directly into ammunition storage that blew up, they even knew about it being dangerous and tried to close the distance so the angle wouldnt allow this hit on a deck, but it came before they were able to get close enough.
It was a tragedy for many towns and villages on and near the south coast of England because many of the crew were from that area. My family lost 5 members , on both of my grandfathers' sides. They used to describe it as being the fastest submarine in the fleet because she shipped so much water on deck when steaming at speed.
Hello Crusty, are you aware of the HMS Hood association site? It has a memorial page for every known crewmember of HMS Hood (both those lost on 24th May 1941, and those who served previously). They are always looking for confirmed photographs of crew members to put on the relevant page to help keep their individual memories alive. All the best.
Honestly the video makes it seem like the gunners of the British ships were completely incompetent but consider this: the Hood was launched in 1918 and the Bismarck was launched in 1936… they fought in 1941 meaning the Hood was 23 years old at this point, it was fitted with radar in 1941 but still some things can simply not be refit easily like armor, propulsion, turret mechanisms/main guns The Hood could reload in 31-35 seconds but the Bismarck had a record time of 19.5s but realistically could fire them every 24-25s(still faster), I couldn’t find what kind of reload mechanism each ship had but it’s safe to assume that the Bismarcks was more advanced and automated compared to what was used in 1918-1920, also the armor: I’m again guessing with the knowledge I know but it’s safe to assume that the Bismarck had a far more advanced armor scheme to the Hood as well, ships use composite armor and in 1936 compared to 1918 i’d guess the Bismarck had a thicker more well made Krupp composite than the Hood who either had Harvey steel or early Krupp design armor In summary the Hood was doomed from the start, it’s all about who can hit first and breakthrough when they do, the Hood was practically relying on pure luck to hit first bc all statistics pointed to the Bismarck *no one is going to read this, but I had a fun time using my random knowledge👍*
You are guessing that Bismarck had a "far more advanced armour scheme". She didn't... she employed the same "distributed armour" scheme of pre WW1 dreadnoughts than the more modern "all or nothing" armour scheme used by warships of most other navies of the WW2 period. Bismarck's main armoured deck was also one deck lower than in most other ships (actually on her waterline), which while it made her harder to sink, the reduced volume of her "citadel" meant that systems that should have been protected by her deck armour were instead ABOVE her horizontal protection, which was a factor in why she was quickly being reduced to a "floating target" in her final battle. The actual armour composition was roughly similar, (a COMPLEX subject, but unless you want to become a metallurgist, a read of the work of the world renowned Nathan Okun will bear this out). Hood was far from "doomed from the start". While the first hits CAN be decisive they can just as well not be. The German navy used stereoscpic rangerfinders, which the RN had trialled years earlier. The RN assessment of that technology was that while it tended to gain the range more quickly it quickly became less accurate due to the eye strain of the operators. The RN chose to stick with their coincidence rangefinders, which had the opposite characteristics.... slightly slower to find the correct range but had less difficulty in maintaining the firing solution after hits had been achieved, but these technologies were then in the process of being replaced by radar rangefinding. Hood's downfall was likely a lucky "short" which plunged underneath her side armour and set in train a domino effect which resulted in the detonation of her main aft magazines.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 For one, I am extremely glad you wrote this, I’m always down for more WW1/WW2 knowledge on technology and advancements made during the time and I just wanted to say now that I agree with you 100% and even learned a few new things I do feel though that you took my wording as being a little too harsh on the Hood(which really I can understand) I probably should have said “slightly more advanced for the time” when it came to the armor and explained range finding with rate of fire, barrel length, caliber, and shell ballistics, but as you can see when you explain the true scope of these things these comments start to get LONG You did mention that the composites are different slightly but it’s already sparked my curiosity, I’ll have to give the book a look!
Lütjens was only following orders not to engage warships. Bismarck's maiden voyage was plagued with misfortune ever since the first picture of her was taken over Norway. Secrecy was essential for Exercise Rein to succeed & as soon as it was lost, Bismarck was doomed.
@@thomasmcginley7944 That may be true, but at the end of the day, Lütjens failed to make a command decision and take action to save his ship from potential destruction. It was his subordinate that saved them
@@meixo9083 how make you feel that bismarck represent germany? do you feel proud? I'm just curious about it, every time I listen to sabaton song about bismarck I feel proud about a nation that isn't mine.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Not pointless. Battleships are not impervious to 8 inch guns that heavy cruisers are armed with. The cruisers probably are also armed with torpedoes which are a threat to any ship.
There are many theories of which Hood sunk. The greatest probable ranking. 1. The 380mm shell punch through the 7 inch upper belt armor just above the 12inch armour which penetrated lighter bulkhead as well and reach the magazine. Design flaw 2. 1. The 380mm shell from Bismarck punch through the armor below 12 inch belt armor underwater which penetrated lighter bulkhead and reach the magazine. 3. Unable to stop the fire from spreading towards the main magazine when plunging shell from prinz euguen 5 minutes before the final destruction. 4. Accidentally destroyed by her own crew manning the 15 inch gun after cordite was mishandled. Wittness reported weird muzzle flashes on her main gun. RIP Hood
Hood's last salvo is poetic as hell
Right they went down fighting to the end it would of been even more poetic if those last shots actually hit the Bismarck but stuff like that’s only in the movies.
Don't believe that kids
But symbolic of never surrendering
to bad it did not happen what they thought was a final salvo was the fwd magazine exploding
"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
-Captain Ahab
Firing on the Prince Eugen was the final critical mistake for HMS Hood.
Bismarck*
@@scarlettmanson712 know your history, Hood fired first at the Prinz Eugen......realized her mistake and switched targets.....delaying an accurate fire control solution. No rounds on target means losing quickly. It says so in the video
Bismark s captain: I won’t have my ships shot out from under my ass
In the hoods defense, they thought the Prinz Eugen WAS Bismarck. The fake bow wave and darkened frontal hull made Bismarck look much smaller
@rodog991 That is why they have rangfinders and masts. To solve that particular problem.
Mad respect to the people who fired the last salvo
It was likely that it was already loaded and cooked off, or the breech was still open and something set it off. At that point, they were shaking and smashing around so much that it is doubtful they would have been able to fire off.
The forward magazines exploded at some point, the turret interiors must have been in flames. The wreck has a blast detached forecastle and there is a big section missing between where the front turrets were and the bridge.
It’s likely the people were already dead
When a ships magazine explodes it sends a huge shockwave through the metal of the ship which is basically enough to kill anyone
it is more likely that it was an accidental shot due to other internal explosions happening which shake the trigger. If you watch the tanks which are just hit, they also shoot their main gun.
Nope it was intentional as the ship was cut in half and the captain didn’t realised as the bow sailed forwards after it was bisected as such no ‘abandon ship’ order was given that’s a reason why only 3 men survived. It was also probably sunk with a single shell as accounts from HMS Prince of Whales says after HMS Hood was bracketed hood turned to avoid the salvo but a shell struck its spine and a ‘gorgeous’ pink and yellow flame spewed from its hull then it fully detonated within minutes no trace of the Hood remained.
"I will not have my ship shot out from under my ass" translates into "oh hell no! now you fucked up!"
I would love to hear it shouted in angry German🤣🤣
@@AaronJones-yt4vd Drachinifel has a video on Operation Rhineuburg (I apologize if I misspelled) that's a collab with a German who goes by NapalmRatte
@@TheSchultinator Ich möchte nicht, dass mein Schiff mich unter meinen schießt.
That's in German
@@TheSchultinator it's Rheinübung which means Rhine Exercise. Greetings from 🇩🇪
“I cannot actually beat the shit out of her, even getting closer... ”
- Hood
Wow ur profile is literally Hood lol
Bloody hell mate you really can't defeat that shit
Well, we saw how that ended
hms rodney: got it 👌
Hood you didn't even land a shell on biscuit bloody hell
As Rear Admiral Jingles says, “you give the enemy full broadside, your going to get a paddlin”
Gnome Gnowledge
Big facts. Couldve possibly prevented the magazine from exploding too.
One salvo hit, lol
@@Bizciut actually in actual WW2 Naval Warfare, bringing your full broadside was very often, same as WW1, as you could fire all guns, in WoWs its different and for gameplay reasons as if it was real life, only like 1 or 2 shots would hit or none at all in the first few salvos, its the more you fire the better you aim gets because you close in on the Target with the Range Finders
well that's not quite how it works IRL for those ships where designed to take the hits.
mad respect for the cameraman for risking his life on the battlefield and shoot this masterpiece
@@msufoysol3236 i was waiting for a dumb reply and you WONNNNN!!!!!! :D
@@msufoysol3236 no lol
@@msufoysol3236 r/woosh
😂😂😂 good one 👍
@@msufoysol3236 r/woosh
+Kingslayer
+One shot one kill
+Survivor
+Merciless
+Bloody thirsty
+Ruthless
+Giant killer
+Scrapped
+Collateral
TEAM DEATHMATCH
- we’ve taken the lead
- UAV online
- friendly shock RC is coming
- heads up, enemy UAV spotted
- be advised hostile hunter killer drone inbound
- friendly predator missile inbound
- hostile sentry gun in your AO
- be advised hostile VTOL inbound
- friendly EMP systems incoming
- destroyed the enemy’s VTOL
- enemy sentry gun has been destroyed
- keep on ‘em we’re winning this one
@@Acexi1 lol
Enemy Sam detected
Rip
@@severanartia8789
our UAV has been destroyed
Friendly predator missile incoming
We destroyed the enemy’s SAM Turret
we've got to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the seas, with those guns as big as steers, and those shells as big as trees!
We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us,
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys, and spin those guns around!
When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down.
@@501ststormtrooper9 Sabaton’s version is better, and you can do nothing to change my mind.
@@jamesgroccia644 So?
I wasn’t trying to convince you in the first place.
@@jamesgroccia644 No one asked for your overused song
@@501ststormtrooper9 The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day,
The Bismarck started firin' fifteen miles away
"We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound,
But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down
OK imma play world of warships
Same. Lol
@Michael Keegan true that
@Michael Keeganwar was changing. In modern warfare battleships aren't very useful anymore. It is a true rarity for warships to be in sight of each other. The only use they have is they might carry more antiaircraft guns and missiles then the smaller ships.
gross.
Nah go play warthunder
I think it's amazing these gunners can hit targets miles off. No laser targeting, no computers, no satellite tracking literally just raw calculations. Edit: I learned something in the replies, they did have early computers for targeting.
Yeah just a F'ING binoculars and a few hundred meters of approximation
no they used fire control computers with machinery attached for ship speed, enemy ship speed, wind, range, angulation, elevation, the whole hog. Not just aim and shoot. Look up the british Dreyer Fire control tables to see what Hood and POW used
@@williamcarter1993 I know the Royal Navy had range finders but they were primitive, it was still alot of math done by the tech. Obviously it wasn't just aim and shoot.
bruh they didn't use binoculars instead they had radars and range finders that helped them to calculate shell drop and the distance between the target XD also yes they used a fire control system to aim even better than before
Bruh, you sound like a science nerd.
Holy shoot, there was a purge of Dogfights vids here on TH-cam, including this incredible video.
Massive purge
And then they all got removed
Snowykaze VÏRûS all but Kamikaze for some reason
If you are intersted in watching this and other Dogfights Episodes, for the most part are all on dailymotion full length
@@erika_itsumi5141 what’s that
Hood: Approaches Bismarck.
Bismarck: Do you want to explode?
Hood : Nani?!?
Prinz Eugen doesn’t get enough credit 😂😂
Prinz Eugen survived WW2 and 2 nuclear bombs ☢️
I give Eugen credit for starting the first fire on Hood.
@@knightsofthewicked9121 I’m talking like on this video. On other videos I see that prince eugen scores the first hit on hold but in this video it just says “a shell”.
@@knightsofthewicked9121 Nagato too tbh
It ended up as a nuclear test ship after the war. A sad ending for many great ships.
Seems like the Brits didn't bother re-aiming the guns after overshooting every shot.
Welcome to naval gunnery before fire control radar became universal. It took quite some time and salvos to actually get on target. Both German ships were far newer and had more advanced fire control than Hood, and Prince of Wales was literally brand new, and still managed to make hits and straddles quickly. Not that surprising that Hood was mostly missing.
@@TheSchultinator and the fact that the british mistook the bismark for the prince eugen and the prince eugen for the bismark if im not mistaken
@@Oddwest yeah, they had similar profiles and Bismarck was leading when the last report from the British cruisers was made. The two swapped because Bismarck had knocked out its own forward radar via gun blast.
it surprises me that the germans have more trigger discipline
@@shaldurprime7154
Interesting point.
5:01, The groan as the hull buckled gave me shivers up my spine. That was a phenomenally powerful explosion. Many of the sailors died mercifully for they didn't know what hit them.
The death throes of a steel leviathan
Just…dear god
Bismarck: Töten sie Briten! Jawohl, Herr Kommandant! **sinks Hood**
Hood: This is for my fallen Sailors! **fires last salvo**
Poor hood
@@mistylover7398 Hood got retribution, you don't piss of the British, who at the time had the most powerful navy in the world, you don't get away with that, so we sent as many ships after the bismarck and bombarded them😁 karmas a bitch
Bismark: Ez
good job to Bismarck
@@arfgrogue5735 merica 🇺🇸 😎
actually the shell that killed the Hood h it the water, amidship, surfed up and into the Hood low on the side. Starting fires in the 4 inch magazines that began the destruction and ultimate ignition of the main magazine just aft. It did not go through the deck or upper side plating.
Did you watch the Drachinifel video too?
@@NucleAri I believe that that was the one yes. Very good video.
@@theflaver it does seem the most likely given all the evidence provided, and seeing the photo of the hood from the air showing the amount of lower hull being exposed sealed it for me personally.
That is just speculation, no one knows for sure. The belt of the hood is not all that thick and while IN THEORY they HOPED their armor design would decap armor piercing rounds and that this would then defeat their penetration there is absolutely no test of this and it's also highly, highly optimistic of them to think it will save them from such a heavy hit. It's like taking a tiger tank and putting a skurzen on it and then assuming it's now invulnerable to 90mm firefly cannon fire. Somewhere between highly optimistic and utterly preposterous.
@@knightlypoleaxe2501 this is the video I watched, that put forth this idea. th-cam.com/video/CLPeC7LRqIY/w-d-xo.html
My grandfather was too young to join the Newfoundland Regiment so the found a way to England where he joined the Royal Navy. He was too young and was assigned below deck where no one wanted to be in an attack. He told me about shells punching neatly through bulkheads and severing seated men at the waste, and cleaning it up. His greatest source of pain was when another sailor stepped in for a tour he missed to keep him out of trouble. That ship would be lost. I think it was the battle for Bismarck but I can't be totally sure. He would just recall bits and pieces to everyone out of the blue and never speak of that particular thing again. It was up to the family to try and put them together. My grandmother, a British war bride, was sent to Wales at the start of the London blitz but was mistreated by the sponsor family. She made her way across the UK, collected her sister along the way, returned to London and they got caught out in an air raid. They actually saw a bomb bounce down a street past them and blow up in the bottom of a Dept store building. You could never make a movie to grasp what these folks went through.
That is so true
HOW LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG DAT TOOK U 2 WRITE?!
Agree, and what is more just after the war was a lot different than today. There may have been peace but countries were wrecked, and took years to make some dent in what was lost. I well remember selling bullets, in the sixties, to Staples the chemist, two and six a box, and having a gas mask, awful things, and whilst going round various parts of the country one would see flax cradles on top of factories, and pill boxes on the beaches, we even had air raid shelters attached to schools with food in them
The pros of having similar looking Battleships:
The enemy can shoot at the wrong one L O L
Bismarcks advanced camo made it look smaller.
@@Marly375i difference in visual size between Bismarck and Prinz Eugen was not that big. Bismarck was 250 meters long, and PE was 210 meters. If we add that to the similarity of the silhouettes and a big distance, it was not surprising that the Britts mixed up one for another.
My grandmother remembered when the Bismarck sunk the Hood, lots of British moral was lost that day. Only to be regained three days later.
Wow it truly was symbol of British Sea Power and what shocking only 3 men have out of crew 1,418
@Michael Antoine ?
@Michael Antoine did you deadass just ask what after spewing that mess of syllables in your original post?
yeah
despues se hundio el principe of gales en asia marcando el fin del dominio britanico de los mares.....
1:15 I wish I had dispersion like that in wow
Than play Thunderer or Slava and you will be accurate as fuck
Ever tried Yamato ??
@@tuandungnguyen4548 yamato has a good dispersion and sigma but thunderer, georgia, shikishima and slava are way more accurate and slava is a bit more tanky so slava would be a better choice
yeah the german ships really cant aim in wows :(
Ted Briggs, one of the three survivors from the Hood, recollected that he was up high on the superstructure....after the explosion the order to abandon ship was given...he lined up to exit...he said an officer stepped aside and gestured him out...he did so....and was soon in the water...pulled down then miraculously lifted to the surface in a surge of air exploding from the ship. He swam, and turned to see the bow of his ship standing vertically and slipping into the sea. Of the officers gesture, he could only say, in broken voice..."I can never forget that."
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
That surge of air that lifted Briggs to the surface. Wasn't that from one of the Hood's boiler's coming apart?
Nobody can forget that experience, nobody.
@@mightymac63I would wager so. Something similar happened to Charles Lightoller, the second officer aboard the Titanic, when he was being dragged down against a grate when a boiler explosion propelled him back to the surface. It was quite common that hot boilers from ships exploded after being submerged in water, especially the cold and frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
My father lost many friends on Hood, on which he had previously served.
Thankfully, he was not on her final voyage, he took the loss of so many men with considerable rage.
The good ole’ “I detonate your pride” vs the “floating mass of wasted space”
lol 😂
Yuro am I right?
I agree Bismark was a stupid idea. So much better to build u boats instead
@@harrysmith1070 wouldnt had matter, the Allies kept getting better tech to counter U-Boats, Germany was losing U-boats faster then they could sink enemy ships, or build them, the whole Idea and plan for Bismarck was to make him a convoy raider, because usually ships escorting convoys are destroyers, Light cruisers, heavy crusier, or rarely a battleship, and at that time, Bismarck outclassed any surface ship the Allies had, he had the armor to withstand hits, and the speed to make a dash away if a vangaurd of british ships were approaching, now yes the Biplanes did seal Bismarcks fate, but it was said nearly all the Biplanes were full of bullet holes, just the shells had not exploded, so Bismarcks AA did hit the planes, Bismarcks AA was made for modern planes made of Steel or aluminum, not wood and canvas, now if Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gnienesnau had been in a fleet together there firepower would be a very dangerous adversary for the British, and in all honesty, they should have waited for Scharnhorst's to be repaired before sending out Bismarck, if Bismarck, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugene had been together, it would have been a different story,
@@thegermanempire489 sadly Prinz Eugen had left Bismarck alone as a Target for Sword fish..if Prinz Eugen could have remain to Escort Bismarck... Bismarck would ve saved from crippling Torpedo of Sword fishes
Who else heard a Minecraft water splash sound effect.
@Megumin 1:30
@Megumin 1:30
Probably generic
I also heard a barrel explosion sound effect from Doom
Can we just appreciate how amazing the animation looks?
Right without critiquing it.
Also I find it interesting that most of these people critiquing it are recent post's talk about a hopeless generation.
Damn I see you everywhere
I love the Dogfights animations.
Dogfights is a time when History Channel is actually about f ing history
Gets me chills as how powerfull the explosion is, It literally lifts the hull above the sea level
Arizona : hold ma turret.
You realise that it is a cartoon?
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 we're all a cartoon? 😀
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Ik, but just imagine what the eyewitnesses saw of the incident,
@@ashutosh5762 I think it instantly went from the big vertical flame coming out of the machinery space to being hidden in the smoke from the disintegration.
Gives me chills that even as Hood was vertical and sinking the guns still defiantly fired. Unbelievable to say the least.
Having damage Bismarck like that after taking such devastating fire Prince of Wales and the men deserve a ton of respect
and likely deserve partial credit for her sinking. After she vanished from British radar, she was found when a Catalina spotted an oil slick on the water. Also, she her loss of oil forced her to cut speed some. At top speed she probably would have made it to St. Nazaire where there was a drydock big enough for her.
In a 1 Versus 1 Bismarck would win against prince of wale because prince of wales wasn't tested and had weaker guns she only hit bismarck once with a shell and bismarck replied with 15 inch shells
@@penguin.3882I'm not sure there was a battleship in the world that could match Bismarck. Maybe the Yamato, but it was just as new as Prince of Wales at the time.
@@chrismartindale7840 the musashi can also
@@penguin.3882 she hadn't sailed yet. I was referring to at the time the Bismarck sailed.
4:14 I like that they actually made the flight time 20 seconds
Damn, you're right.
Yep , there were no.slow motion so we can clearly see how far both ships are
@@aymslt8743 However the shell probably hit the water first and then penetrated below the armor belt. The trajectory was too flat for it to have plunged through the deck
Terrifying…just I can only imagine everyone’s reaction
@@painiscupcake5433false it was plunging fire
Pride of a nation; the beast made of steel. Bismark in motion. King of the Ocean! He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas!
To lead the war machine! The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine!
THE TERROR OF THE SEAS.......THE BISMARCK AND THE KRIEGSMARINE !
Two thousand men and fifty thousand tonnes of steel,
Set the course for the Atlantic
With the Allies on their heel
FIREPOWER!!!!!......FIREFIGHT!!!!!
Battlestations! Keep the target steady in sights!
The explosion on Hood is so phenomenal. It cut the ship clean in half. The Hood slipped under the waves in less than 3 minutes. All but three sailors never knew what hit them. They died mercifully. May they rest in peace.
There are 3 sections on the bottom.
Imagine the morale hit the sailors would have taken on Prince of Wales: You're escorting the pride of the British Navy, once the most powerful and feared sea force in the world that for centuries projected power globally through maritime dominance, and in mere minutes this beautiful flagship vessel, this SYMBOL, is obliterated catastrophically before your eyes by the Nazi war machine. This was 1941, the Blitz of England was well underway, Britain was getting blasted and pounded, their backs were against the wall, the situation semi-desperate, then to have that happen, it must have felt like the end of the world to those guys.
ADD TO THAT, the enemy that just blew away the Hood...now you're its only target. is what just happened to them going to happen to you next?
@@RobertMorgan imagine the morale hit on the UK once they knew the Prince of Wales sunk
@@RobertMorgan Yet they fought on. Iron men!
Dying "mercifully" is a myth that we shouldn't use to insult the dead. You could have left that out entirely and not stained your comment in shame.
Excellent clip on the sinking of HMS Hood. Ludovic Kennedy's book on the subject, Pursuit the sinking of the Bismarck, documents the entire story from breakout into the North Atlantic to the sinking of Bismarck with great accuracy insight and research. A book well worth reading.
I've been looking for this video for months
Same here
I think the shell who sunk the Hood must be the most deadly in human history.
1415 man died from one single shell of Bismarck.
RIP all sailors of the battle!
@CHRISTIAN KNIGHT Really dude are you serious?
The ship explodes and sunk because of the hit and sorry dude british army was good but they dont win alone.
@@heinzsielmann5952 no actually the tide of the war was determined after the Nazi failure in the Battle of Britain but it would have taken years without the US entry. But then again if isolationists in the US hadn't intervened the US would have entered the war in 1940 and that likely would have prevented Japan from attacking Pearl. It's all very interesting when viewed from afar.
The luckiest player of 2nd world war was British (Winston Churchill). Can't even imagine British against Germany without Soviet and US on his side.
@@iamnumber3678 Churchill lost his Empire because of WW 2 so i think he was not really happy after the war.
Sure he defend the motherland against Nazi germany but the price was his British Empire.
Andrew Tate is innocent
😂
I came here after Andrew Tate mentioned how he destroyed BBC like Bismarck destroyed HMS Hood😆
Same😂
Lmao same.
Same
In three days, almost 4,000 men were dead and at the bottom of the sea with their ships.
Bismarck spams ez in chat
True
Which enraged player Churchill and send half of his fleet to hunt Bismarck.
my friend ;(
I've loved this documentary since I was a kid, but every single time I see Bismarck fire those first 8 shots... Jesus Christ dude, chills and fear every single time
HMS Prince of Wales was so new she still carried dockyard workers to finish calibrating the ships equipment. The Hood, in my opinion, is still the most beautiful capital ship of the line to ever be built. Her lines just flowed from stem to stern. Her low freeboard aft meant she was a wet ship in heavy seas but she is still gorgeous.
hmm ugly more
Hood is best girl，change my mind
Agreed, Hood is my favorite British warship.
el prince of gales fue hundido en la ww2 por japon....era tan nuevo
British Battlecruiser: **exist**
Bismarck: *and I took that personally*
Also Bismarck: So you chosen death!
I never really understood Lutjens hesitation. Yes, he was ordered not to engage capital ships and focus on convoys, but the battle in the Denmark Straits was unavoidable. His SAG was shadowed by Norfolk and Suffolk with advanced radar and he couldn't evade the scouting ships or engage them. His only chance at evasion is after he clears the GIUK gap, so he was forced to go through PoW and Hood.
The whole idea was idiocy. Sending your ONLY Battleship on a commerce raid? That's what uboats are for. People only remember the sinking but Hitler sent his only heavy battleship virtually unescorted into the Atlantic to sink freighters.
From what I've heard he actually panicked.
I love the animation of Hood's explosion. The slight lifting of the ship, the sound, the actual look of the explosion. Exactly how I picture a main magazine detonation.
When you meet a HOOD in WoWs, my head says:
"May 24...1941...DAWN!.."
Damn true
i'm here from the Tate interview on Valuetainment
Slight problem. The trajectory they showed would have put the shell out the other side through the superstructure. What likely happened was a hit below the armor belt just after dipping into the water. And at a 14 degree approach angle, this would be a relatively easy hit.
It's an animation used to represent . . .
Correct. View pictures of Hood's bow wake and look at how exposed the armor is below the main belt which is also directly over the magazine.
the sad thing is that only 3 people survived the hoods' sinking
That's not surprising considering it basically exploded.
@@ohitsrusher842 Many more survived, but drowned from the suction as she plunged down.
@@JacobA6464 Yeah I didn't say alot didn't drown but the explosion basically created smaller Titanic that sunk faster so even if they could get to life boats they promised fell and turned upside down
@@ohitsrusher842 Yeah. It is pretty fucked though, damn shame people survived Bismarck.
@@JacobA6464 The people firing on Bismarck had no idea it was gonna kill that many people, and in all fairness the British opened fire on the Bismarck first and the Bismarck fired back.
O erro da marinha real foi enviar o Hood para batalha sem manutenção. Os britânicos colocaram toda frota no atlântico para caçar o Bismarck, logo é de se esperar que os navios estivessem no seu melhor auge para combater o Bismarck, errado. Como o narrador mesmo disse: "8 dos canhões do Prince Of Wales estavam não foram testados, e as torres quadruplas apresentavam mal funcionamento". Logo é não é de se imaginar que isso obviamente fosse afetar o potencial do navio em batalha. Agora o Hood foi praticamente retirado do museu por assim dizer e jogado atlantico a fora junto com o Prince Of Wales para interceptar o Bismarck e Destrui-lo
A Marinha Real não tinha outros navios capitais disponíveis para interceptar a frota alemã. Hood, apesar de ser 20 anos mais velho, ainda era (com um certo grau de sorte) uma partida razoável para Bismarck. Infelizmente, a sorte não estava com ela em 23 de maio de 1941.
My Father could have been on HMS Hood. He and his two friends enlisted, but as my father was only 17 the papers had to be signed by my grandfather. A veteran of the horror's of WW1 he refused to sign his son's life away.
As for my father's friends, they were stokers in the engine room of HMS Hood when she went down. May they rest in peace.
If you look at Bismarck's super structure directly from the front, you can see a death's head.
Where??
@@GriseWeisshark I'm not tellin ya twice. If ya can't find it that's your fault.
That's Prinz Eugen
@@manicmechanic448 Bruh, Bismarck is literally my phone's background and I don't see any "death head". Are you on drugs on something?
@@GriseWeisshark it's in the video, and has to be at Bismarck's 12:00 position, fuck knuckle. And drugs don't make you hallucinate unless you're on psychedelics.
Narrator: "Bismarck, the largest warship afloat"
Yamato: "Am I a joke to you?"
Well Yamato wasn't commissioned until December of 41 so at the time Bismarck was the largest battleship afloat at the time.
@@331coolguy Just seems like they wanted to be more dramatic like it's a movie or something. They even DO an episode on Yamato and say literally the same thing, but don't mention Bismarck at all. Being a history documentary, they should clarify that.
I mean, they call Bismarck "Hitler's Super Weapon", but not only is it smaller than the Yamato, it got taken down a lot quicker and easier than that ship!
@@starflame34 well. The bismarck *was* sunk
Say what you want to say the Bismarck sunk the hood Yamato you know what it shut down it shot down anyone anyone yeah the Yamato took down nothing
@@starflame34 well it went down in 4 hours cause it was being bombarded by almost a entire navy while yamato was being torn to shreds by little flies and she sat in docks for most of her days unlike Bismarck which did sail and fire her guns and actually sinking something and putting up a massive fight and as the other guy said yamato didn't even exist yet so at the time Bismarck was the largest until yamato and iwoa came onto the seen but Bismarck could still stand up to this two ships just cause shes smaller doesn't mean shes not strong shes plenty strong enough to take a beating of almost or over 3,000 shells and some torpedoes.
What wasn't mentioned in this clip is that Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship. Her deck armour in particular was never intended to face the heavy shells of a battleship's main guns.
She was scheduled for upgrades to her armour, but these kept being postponed as she was repeatedly used for propaganda cruises in the late '30s. When the UK declared war on Germany in 1939, there was suddenly no time left.
As for Prince of Wales and her four-gun turrets, I'm reminded of something that a martial-arts instructor once said to a friend of mine : if you haven't practiced it, you can't do it.
Actually the episode in its entirety does state about Hood being a battlecruiser, thin amour etc.
The above video only shows the battle itself and not the history behind it.
Wrong, Hood's belt armor was virtually the same as PoW, Biskmarck, Iowa etc
@@briannelson1710 - I was talking about Hood's deck armour. Her main belt armour is not at issue.
The problem was that wasn't what killed her.
Ive read many misguided comments on here.
1. The British accuracy wasn't as good as the Germans because the British where sailing into the oncoming seas at full speed. This adversely effected their targeting systems.
2. The British where at a tactical disadvantage because of their positioning when the Germans where sighted. The British couldn't manoeuvre into an advantageous position.
3. The hood was the British lead ship, however her radar and targeting/rangefinding equipment was poor in comparison to the pow more modern systems. There's an argument that admiral Holland should have allowed pow to lead the attack. ( Pow scored 3 hits on Bismarck, 1 of these proved crippling). The modern pow was more of a match for the bismark. Not the ageing hood.
4. Hood was 22 years older than Bismarck and was in desperate need of modernization and a total refit. Bismarck was a much more modern ship.
5. The fatal shot was fired from bismarks 5th salvo. The prevailing school of thought is that it hit hood as she turned to port in order to allow her rear guns to target bismark. As she did the fatal shell hit her just below the water line and by a million to 1 chance, missed her armour and penetrated her machine spaces between her engine room and 4" magazine. The subsequent explosion entered the 4" magazine which exploded. This resulted in the large column of flame seen from pow emanating from the area of her rear funnel. Moments later the explosion entered her 15" magazine. This resulted in the enormous explosion that literally ripped her in half. She sunk in 3 minutes.
6. The Prinz Eugen was mistaken for Bismarck because 1 they had very similar silhouettes. 2 they had swopped position when out of British radar range because of damage to bismarks forward radar. The British thought they where in the same position from before radar contact was lost by the shadowing crusers.
7. The pow was not combat ready. She hadn't completed her sea trials and still had scores of civilian engineers on board trying to get her operational.
8. In sinking the hood. Bismarck signed her own death warrant. Within 3 days she was obliterated by pow sister ship, the king George v, and the battleship Rodney. Of note, in this final engagement, the Bismarck failed to land a shell on any British ship throughout the entire engagement.
"a hurricane of shrapnel"? American's go through that every spring in the hearland of the USA. It's called Tornado Season.
haha but I think being on a battleship that blows in half is a lot more dangerous than living in Kansas
@@toad2117 depends what part of Kansas 😆
@@toad2117 Well, outdated Battlecruiser to be exact ^^
Love it when TV documentaries spin about half an hour of Show-time out of about 7mins of content. Really drives home the padding when you see it all in one go. Shout out to my homies on the Hood though.
Imagine is hood's salvo of defiance magazine detonated the Bismark, that would be so epic.
Wouldn't be possible due to more superior Turtleback armour than Hood had! Also the shells that Hood used lacked penetration....at a distance of 20km Hoods shells could penetrate 306mm of armour, Bismarcks shell over 360mm....
@@somedrytoast2307 well the 381 mm guns were one of the best guns back then.....the 14 inch had less Penetration cabability, the 16 inch fitted aboard Rodney and Nelson had only slightly more....so one of the best guns available back then, they were tested, proved guns!
A real battleship is supposed to take hard hits that might have entered the magazines, the British battlecruisers could not resist big guns. Three blew up at Jutland, Hood blew up like just another second rate obsolete battlecruiser. They were not armoured to resist anything bigger than a cruiser’s guns, the Germans did not play the Jackie Fisher cruiser killing game after the Falklands.
Hood and the obsolete Revenge/R class battleships should only have been used in secondary roles.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 hood was the 3rd most heavily armoured ship in the fleet
The issue was the range they could go through her tertiary belt and into the magazine at that range at futher range the hoods guns could still penetrate Bismarck’s armour but due to a flatter trajectory of Bismarck hers would have pinged off of the front of hood
Turtle back armour also isn’t superior it actually reduces the amount of armour shown to plunging rounds
At 10,000 yards hoods rounds would impact and go through Bismarck’s turtle back at 10,000 yards Bismarck would have failed to penetrate the hood
At least some outdated planes and other ships managed to sink her
Aside from the great animation, the background music Is super tense and exciting, and whoever did the soundtrack for this is amazing.
They probably chose to do this for a reason, but while watching, I found myself wishing animated people/soldiers had also been put into this recreation. It was a fascinating culmination of events, occuring within WW2. And it'd be fascinating to observe some recreated human played out actions and reactions and behaviours while all this was going on, and each new thing took place.
It always breaks my heart to hear Hood's hull give out at 5:01, as if she just finally gave up. It sounds like she's screaming in pain.
Nah, that's just her saying: "See you soon you bitch."
Its worst that I red this comment while thinking of Hood in human form
@@aymslt8743 Azur Lane XD
i never expected Hood's turrets to still be able to fire
Battleship turrets are meant to work independently if necessary. While the rear turrets (X/Y) were obliterated, the front turrets (A/B) were still capable of functioning on their own as well as most of the ship's primary targeting equipment.
@@airplanenut89 underwater
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
Holy shit, 1400 sailors gone after that 1 lucky hit. Its horrifying to watch as the ship bend and blows up. Even if it is an animation and isnt the real thing. I can only imagine.
it wasn't a lucky hit, son.
@@gtifighter hits like that very rarely happen in battle, it was definitely a lucky hit
Shitty rear deck armour isn’t bad luck.
@@justinmoe3171 yeah whatever you believe man, whatever makes you comfortable to believe. I bet the germans crushing the british attack in Operation Market/Garden was also just luck because "beating the british paratroopers in battle rarely happens" LMAO.
@@justinmoe3171Due to the way hood was designed it was common. Hood had a design flaw with it. All her sister ships were sunk this way.
5:24 gave me chills.
War no win or defeat just loss... how ever you look at it.
Dogfights was the greatest show on history channel And you can’t change my mind
From what I can tell, Bismarck had fired his short salvo while Hood was in the middle of her turn. For Hood they unintentionally turned right into it.
"Both were truely great battleships of their day. My dads father served on HMS HOOD. But was on shore leave when it took that direct hit. 🏴
I remember watching dogfights episodes on TH-cam as a kid and now they're all gone :(
Rest in peace Bismarck, got my respect
And Rest in Peace Hood. Greetings from Germany.
Hoods last fire was if anything 'IF IM GOING TO GO DOWN AND DIE, BY HECK, IM GIVING EVERYTHINGG'
5:24
As Hood slides beneath the waves her forward turret fires a final defiant salvo before slipping into darkness..
I can just imagine what it’s saying...
“ Noob ”
"bloody tryhard ye fukin sweat"
without context, bismarck holding fire at the beginning sounds cool as hell, as if they wanted to shorten the distance for the perfect shot
Dogfights Soundtrack OST used at 0:34 when HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales.
It is "Soldier - v2 (No Melody)" by Alan Paul Ett. Other military tracks from him seems to have been used in other episodes of Dogfights as well.
Link: th-cam.com/video/0n0AG7KiIuw/w-d-xo.html
If there is enough interest, I'd be more than happy create a full playlist that is public of the Dogfights OST for Dogfights Fans such as myself to listen to and enjoy.
The British had a bad habit of leaving the powder doors open during a firefight.
Yep, and they paid for it dearly. So did HSM Barham
That was in WW1.
And HMS Invincible
Not in this battle, not in ww2 for that matter.
Look up why they did it back in ww1, it's a simple yet fatal reason and it's got nothing to do with ship design.
Lion only survived a turret hoist propellant flash because the magazine was flooded when the turret was pierced. The magazine doors buckled inwards, they were flimsy ships.
Lion had no excess propellant outside the magazines.
I love how the failed to mention that after Bismarck's the first salvo the recoil from the guns made made the main aiming antenna fall off
If I'm wrong feel happy to correct, it's been a while since I read up on the Bismarck
That happened after Bismarck fired a few salvos at the British cruiser Suffolk (or Norfolk?) that was shadowing Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. The tremors from the turrets damaged the Bismarck's radar, that's why Prinz Eugen took the lead of the formation shortly after. That's why the British wrongly assumed Prinz Eugen to be Bismarck as you can see in this video.
Ah, thanks for the correction, as I said I didn't read about this in a while
Bismarck: *sinks hood*
Royal Navy: *turns doom music on*
hmm not the way history looks at it
Considering how far north the Denmark strait is located it’s amazing that the 3 soaking wet freezing cold survivors didn’t succumb to hypothermia before they were picked up……must have been made of strong stuff.
Bob Tilburn and Ted Briggs both said they very nearly succumbed to hypothermia, but were constantly roused by the third suvivor William Dundas, who apparently constantly sang popular songs of the time, and made them join in !!! Is that an incredible example of indomitable spirit or what !!!
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269. For God’s sake mate go away……
I love battleships! They are so powerful and beautiful! They strike fear into there enemies!
*cough* Yamato *cough*
They’re also slow and overly large in size making for easy targets.
@@SahiPie well think about before AirPower hell even before ww2 started what were most navies building? Battleships because AirPower was not fully developed by this point most planes in the 1930’s were slow, couldn’t carry much ordnances, and think what do you think Japan wanted to do about the American fleet at Pearl Harbor? It wasn’t to destroy the aircraft carriers, they new they weren’t at Pearl Harbor and they attacked to destroy there battleships
@@Ace-rp7vr ACKCHEWALLY, carriers were the prime target. The Japanese were just handed such a golden opportunity they weren't gonna call off the attack because the carriers were mia.
And the second biggest tactical target was heavy cruisers. The Japanese command feared these more than the dated US battleships, as they knew it was more likely they'd be directly dealing with them in future surface engagements. Cruisers were better suited to be doing things like contesting invasions and forming 3-4 boat patrols, which is what the Japanese wanted to avoid. The us BB line at pearl harbor was slow, had slow aim, couldn't maneuver well etc. They were ww1 designs, and the Japanese already had the Musashi and Yamato on the way. 1 of those could have probably engaged 4-5 old us battleships, which was the entire point of Japan's design. Cruisers were more effective quick responders, and took enough building resources they were deemed higher value targets.
The only people who wanted the thicc ships sunk were those concerned with the Japanese "press"(propaganda machine) coverage.
Honestly I’d love to see a country build a Battleship with all Modern Tech.
Pride of a nation a beast made of steel
kinda makes me chuckle, the ilistrations of missed shots. in perfect formation of the barrels. the dispersion of these guns is so outrageous
You see, the British guns where so accurate they had to miss on purpose to make the fight fair for the Germans
They forgot to mention that the Prinz Eugen was the first to hit and damage the Hood multiple times before the Bismarck managed to score a hit
Hood: **exists**
BMs 1st salvo: **wants to know your location**
BMs 2nd salvo: **steady steady**
BMs 3rd salvo: *gotcha bi*ch !*
PEs 4th salvo: **Baby you are a firework**
BMs 5th salvo: **I'm gonna end this ships whole career**
Hood: Here is my final FUCK YOU!
One of these shells that hit the hood was kept under a town hall in Iceland for a few decades.
The LIVE shell was literally removed last year
yeh the real reason is Hood had side armor but newer guns dropped shells through the deck, from longer range. naval gun ranges had been getting steadily longer since the 3,000 yard mark pre dreadnought.
Check out Drachinifel's newest video. It suggests that instead of a deck plunge shot, the Hood was hit under the armor belt at an exposed water line.
Parents: aww, look at him playing BattleShip with his friend!
What he and his friend are thinking:
TAK BYŁO. Nie zmyślam.
Greetings from the bottom of the Denmark Strait! :D
Bismarck: the biggest ship afloat
Japan: hold my beer
you could argue that Yamato was not 'active' then. Commissioned in December 1941.
Actually bismarck was the biggest at the time because it was in 1941 but Yamato was built in 1943
@@worthyOne420 The IJN Yamato was laid down on the 4th of November 1937 and finished on the 8th of August 1940. The Bismarck was laid down on the 1st of July 1936 and finished on the 14th February 1939. Meaning the Yamato did exist in 1940 already and was therefore the biggest Battleship ever built. But the Bismarck was in fact the biggest Battleship ever built by any European nation
@@BrokenAngelWings Hey would you think about the HMS Vanguard?
@@worthyOne420 The Vanguard is still smaller than Bismarck. The HMS Vanguard is 248 Meters long, the Bismarck is 251 Meters long. The Beam of the Vanguard is 32,9 Meters (well let's make it 33 meters) and the one of the Bismarck is 36 Meters.
HMS Hood put up a great fight and very extremely sadly that only 3 survived it and 1,415 brave men went with it. That's very extremely creepy but yet they had no other options but fire their last salvo in anger towards the Bismarck who made it happened. British Navy and the German Navy both sides were actually shocked and disbelieve what happened to HMS Hood.
I'm german but imagine the terror those sailors must have gone through, truly not amusing
It didn't fire a last salvo.
I merely looked like it because of the internal combustion blowing out through the open breaches.
@@Marly375i You have to consider how that is viewed
Honestly HMS Hood was a WW1 ship, was quite outdated to fight against WW2 ships and especially Bismarck. They mainly kept it because it was a symbol and never had a chance to upgrade it to WW2 standarts. It was unlucky that they got hit directly into ammunition storage that blew up, they even knew about it being dangerous and tried to close the distance so the angle wouldnt allow this hit on a deck, but it came before they were able to get close enough.
yeah considering how many of them had seen a ship's magazine actually explode
It was a tragedy for many towns and villages on and near the south coast of England because many of the crew were from that area. My family lost 5 members , on both of my grandfathers' sides. They used to describe it as being the fastest submarine in the fleet because she shipped so much water on deck when steaming at speed.
Hello Crusty, are you aware of the HMS Hood association site? It has a memorial page for every known crewmember of HMS Hood (both those lost on 24th May 1941, and those who served previously). They are always looking for confirmed photographs of crew members to put on the relevant page to help keep their individual memories alive. All the best.
Very apropos. After her modifications she was heavy compared to original design hence a "wet" ship.
Bismarck in warship PvP games: accuracy sucks
Bismarck irl: sinks another ship in 3 salvos
Honestly the video makes it seem like the gunners of the British ships were completely incompetent but consider this: the Hood was launched in 1918 and the Bismarck was launched in 1936… they fought in 1941 meaning the Hood was 23 years old at this point, it was fitted with radar in 1941 but still some things can simply not be refit easily like armor, propulsion, turret mechanisms/main guns
The Hood could reload in 31-35 seconds but the Bismarck had a record time of 19.5s but realistically could fire them every 24-25s(still faster), I couldn’t find what kind of reload mechanism each ship had but it’s safe to assume that the Bismarcks was more advanced and automated compared to what was used in 1918-1920,
also the armor: I’m again guessing with the knowledge I know but it’s safe to assume that the Bismarck had a far more advanced armor scheme to the Hood as well, ships use composite armor and in 1936 compared to 1918 i’d guess the Bismarck had a thicker more well made Krupp composite than the Hood who either had Harvey steel or early Krupp design armor
In summary the Hood was doomed from the start, it’s all about who can hit first and breakthrough when they do, the Hood was practically relying on pure luck to hit first bc all statistics pointed to the Bismarck
*no one is going to read this, but I had a fun time using my random knowledge👍*
You are guessing that Bismarck had a "far more advanced armour scheme". She didn't... she employed the same "distributed armour" scheme of pre WW1 dreadnoughts than the more modern "all or nothing" armour scheme used by warships of most other navies of the WW2 period. Bismarck's main armoured deck was also one deck lower than in most other ships (actually on her waterline), which while it made her harder to sink, the reduced volume of her "citadel" meant that systems that should have been protected by her deck armour were instead ABOVE her horizontal protection, which was a factor in why she was quickly being reduced to a "floating target" in her final battle.
The actual armour composition was roughly similar, (a COMPLEX subject, but unless you want to become a metallurgist, a read of the work of the world renowned Nathan Okun will bear this out).
Hood was far from "doomed from the start". While the first hits CAN be decisive they can just as well not be. The German navy used stereoscpic rangerfinders, which the RN had trialled years earlier. The RN assessment of that technology was that while it tended to gain the range more quickly it quickly became less accurate due to the eye strain of the operators. The RN chose to stick with their coincidence rangefinders, which had the opposite characteristics.... slightly slower to find the correct range but had less difficulty in maintaining the firing solution after hits had been achieved, but these technologies were then in the process of being replaced by radar rangefinding.
Hood's downfall was likely a lucky "short" which plunged underneath her side armour and set in train a domino effect which resulted in the detonation of her main aft magazines.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 For one, I am extremely glad you wrote this, I’m always down for more WW1/WW2 knowledge on technology and advancements made during the time and I just wanted to say now that I agree with you 100% and even learned a few new things
I do feel though that you took my wording as being a little too harsh on the Hood(which really I can understand) I probably should have said “slightly more advanced for the time” when it came to the armor and explained range finding with rate of fire, barrel length, caliber, and shell ballistics, but as you can see when you explain the true scope of these things these comments start to get LONG
You did mention that the composites are different slightly but it’s already sparked my curiosity, I’ll have to give the book a look!
Lindemann has my respect as an officer. All admirals are good for is public appearances and social functions.
Lütjens was only following orders not to engage warships. Bismarck's maiden voyage was plagued with misfortune ever since the first picture of her was taken over Norway. Secrecy was essential for Exercise Rein to succeed & as soon as it was lost, Bismarck was doomed.
@@thomasmcginley7944 That may be true, but at the end of the day, Lütjens failed to make a command decision and take action to save his ship from potential destruction. It was his subordinate that saved them
10% skills 90% lucks for a shells to hit
And three days later 90% torpedo hit luck
None can stop Bismarck before he meet king George IV
You can tell there were about 6 sets of adverts in between segments of this as it keeps recapping every minute or so.
Bismarck: FIGHT ME BITCH
Bismarck: shoots*
Hood: counties shooting*
Hood dies*
I like how he knows what he is talking about but he calls the bismarck *SHE* instead of he
I am german. It is called "die Bismarck". Even though Bismarck was male.
@@meixo9083 how make you feel that bismarck represent germany? do you feel proud? I'm just curious about it, every time I listen to sabaton song about bismarck I feel proud about a nation that isn't mine.
It’s great to see this Video , After building both model Ships !
You have to ask why the 2 British CA did not help in this engagement. Both of them were 8" cruisers like the Prinz Eugen
If I remember correctly they were trying to help but were out of range when the battle happened.
Shells weighed about 1/7th that of a battleship’s. Pointless.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Not pointless. Battleships are not impervious to 8 inch guns that heavy cruisers are armed with. The cruisers probably are also armed with torpedoes which are a threat to any ship.
Something scary to remember when you watch that turret fly up out of the ship:
There were almost 100 sailors inside it.
There are many theories of which Hood sunk.
The greatest probable ranking.
1. The 380mm shell punch through the 7 inch upper belt armor just above the 12inch armour which penetrated lighter bulkhead as well and reach the magazine. Design flaw
2. 1. The 380mm shell from Bismarck punch through the armor below 12 inch belt armor underwater which penetrated lighter bulkhead and reach the magazine.
3. Unable to stop the fire from spreading towards the main magazine when plunging shell from prinz euguen 5 minutes before the final destruction.
4. Accidentally destroyed by her own crew manning the 15 inch gun after cordite was mishandled. Wittness reported weird muzzle flashes on her main gun.
RIP Hood
You can discard options three & four.