The 5-gun salvos of the KM destroyers (1:03) opposed the 8 guns of the 4 RN Tribals (0:04). The sailor near 2:33 waves at the flagship(?) from Bedouin’s A mounting, a gun of which had been disabled by a near miss (Dickens, below). This encounter may be when the admiral sent RN destroyers in pursuit of the last 4 KM ships trapped in the narrow Rombaksfjord. Bedouin went in astern, the 4 good guns of her X and Y mountings to the fore. Or is this later?
@paulabo123 Stray shots like 1:03? HMS Glorious’ survivors on 8 June complained of the same thing, including small arms fire.
A white flag would have settled this. Instead, on the crippled Erich Giese survivors were told they’d done their “soldierly duty” but now cross 1500m of icy water to join the invasion force ashore. Minutes before 1:34 Cossack passed nearby but got abuse not pleas for help (Dickens, below). A dissident officer saved by Foxhound warned of the U-boats.
I don't like the narration. Quite a departure from the quiet and composed confidence that's a trademark of the Brits. Rather, it sounds more like one of those Nazi propaganda tracks.
Watch more Jingoistic british propaganda then? Im about as royalist as the english get these days, but i can see propaganda when it stares me in the face.
Is 1:34 one of 7 hits in 2 minutes on HMS Cossack entering Narvik harbour ahead of Warspite ( W. is not filmed in fjord so has camera?)? Deprived of steam and steering she drifts aground to the right, seen? between 2 wrecks at 2:08 and 2:21. With 9 dead and 21 wounded she keeps firing and floats herself off later. Lord Haw Haw crowed that the famous ship was "a blazing wreck" and equally wrongly that her capt was dead. For details - P.Dickens:"Narvik, Battles in the Fjords", 1974/1997.
My father was on the HMS Hunter (H35) when she was sunk in the 1st battle of Narvik on 10th April 1940.
He was one of the lucky ones who was pulled from the water by a german destroyer, he lost a lot of friends that day.
He spent the remaining 4 years of the war in German controlled POW camps, including Marlag and Stallag V111B. He is now 89 and one of three remaining survivors left from the HMS Hunter.
The British took a gamble taking the battleship Warspite up a narrow fjord. There could have been mines or a U-boat waiting. Not much room to maneuver. The risk paid off big, I shiver to think of unarmoured destroyers being hit by point-blank 15" shellfire. Sort of like using a 12 gauge shotgun to kill flies.
Neat video, but the narration makes it sound like the destroyers did all the work and the crew of the Warspite were just site-seeing.
Unlike German films which were models of impartiality, I suppose? ( Remind me how many times you sank the Ark Royal, if you would...) I would have thought British ships would be too busy trying to escape back to sea without piling into a German ship, another British ship, or a Norwegian rock face to have much time to take pot shots at German sailors once they had parted company from their ships... or what was left of them.
Sunk? A misfortune of the poor survivors swimming ashore is that the abandoned Erich Giese wouldn't sink, making their lone foray even more nearly suicidal. HMS Foxhound rescued 11.
The Giese's dilemma was cruel but she could have chosen to stay in harbour. With only gunners aboard, the immobilised Diether von Roeder stayed put, struck the Cossack(1:34?), had no casualties, and blew herself up. She should be there perhaps bow-on near 1:54. See G.H.Haarr "German invasion of Norway", 2009, etc.
warspite - a truely insane ship - if you look on wikipedia at the entry for ww2 german navy youll find half of it as sunk on two different days in april 1940 and half of those sunk by warspite! Did britain bother to build any new battleships in ww2 or did it just recycle all the ww1 battlecruisers?
I guess Chamberlain's goverment fell after this fiasco.
phillip4644 4 months ago
The 5-gun salvos of the KM destroyers (1:03) opposed the 8 guns of the 4 RN Tribals (0:04). The sailor near 2:33 waves at the flagship(?) from Bedouin’s A mounting, a gun of which had been disabled by a near miss (Dickens, below). This encounter may be when the admiral sent RN destroyers in pursuit of the last 4 KM ships trapped in the narrow Rombaksfjord. Bedouin went in astern, the 4 good guns of her X and Y mountings to the fore. Or is this later?
ijolite 7 months ago
Ever heard of Erich Topp?
Search for his interview here on goolge.. They failed to sink the warspite with their sub, as the warspite entered the fjord..
dunjak111 9 months ago
German seamen must have been a bit concerned when Warspite steamed into the fiord..
As a Brit, I'm very proud of our maritime history.
mickyredmire 11 months ago
@mickyredmire I think germans were concerned when the brits started firing on soldiers in the water an in lifeboats
paulabo123 8 months ago
@paulabo123 Stray shots like 1:03? HMS Glorious’ survivors on 8 June complained of the same thing, including small arms fire.
A white flag would have settled this. Instead, on the crippled Erich Giese survivors were told they’d done their “soldierly duty” but now cross 1500m of icy water to join the invasion force ashore. Minutes before 1:34 Cossack passed nearby but got abuse not pleas for help (Dickens, below). A dissident officer saved by Foxhound warned of the U-boats.
ijolite 7 months ago
my name is narvik im named after a lake, and war.
GAMERGUY11001 1 year ago
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stoopid limey fags gettin their asses handed to them as usual, until America shows up to save the day.!
Rentaghost76 1 year ago
My Grandpa was the Lt. Cmdr on HMS Cossack in this very battle. Amazing.
MrCamion81 1 year ago
Dad was on the Warspite in WW2 and he has lots of papers, such as Christmas Day menus from the Warspite.
He always speaks fondly of the Warspite.
He said one time he came off watch, and the men who went into where he was, were killed shortly afterwards. He survived.
ashjoma 1 year ago
Cool, I live in NArvik right now!
danxtur 2 years ago 2
I don't like the narration. Quite a departure from the quiet and composed confidence that's a trademark of the Brits. Rather, it sounds more like one of those Nazi propaganda tracks.
trent8002003 2 years ago
Watch more Jingoistic british propaganda then? Im about as royalist as the english get these days, but i can see propaganda when it stares me in the face.
tommiatkins 2 years ago
It seems it was a common trait of 40s propaganda!!! (But Dr. Góbbels was extreme...perverse)
KronprinzAdam 2 years ago
Is 1:34 one of 7 hits in 2 minutes on HMS Cossack entering Narvik harbour ahead of Warspite ( W. is not filmed in fjord so has camera?)? Deprived of steam and steering she drifts aground to the right, seen? between 2 wrecks at 2:08 and 2:21. With 9 dead and 21 wounded she keeps firing and floats herself off later. Lord Haw Haw crowed that the famous ship was "a blazing wreck" and equally wrongly that her capt was dead. For details - P.Dickens:"Narvik, Battles in the Fjords", 1974/1997.
ijolite 2 years ago
1:34 direct hit
MPatN 2 years ago
Warspite should have been saved like the Belfast.
matapan50 2 years ago 2
My father was on the HMS Hunter (H35) when she was sunk in the 1st battle of Narvik on 10th April 1940.
He was one of the lucky ones who was pulled from the water by a german destroyer, he lost a lot of friends that day.
He spent the remaining 4 years of the war in German controlled POW camps, including Marlag and Stallag V111B. He is now 89 and one of three remaining survivors left from the HMS Hunter.
Thanks for posting this video.
Bothrops01 2 years ago 15
@Bothrops01 Hey thats really cool man. Glad that your father is alive.
Faltharian 1 year ago
@Bothrops01
hi,
my grandad, charles stanley swales, was on the hunter too and taken to the gunnarn pow camp.
sadly he passed away -96,
he probably knew your dad.
i got some photos if you´re interrested,
jipeess 1 year ago
Very true.
Warspite has more battle honours than any other Royal Navy ship
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
the norwegian campaign was pretty confused.
HMS renown attacked and chased away scharnhorst and gneisenau.
the destroyer glowworm did a suicidal attack against a german battlegroup and was shot to pieces.
5 H class fought 10 german destroyers in the first narvik battle.
ark royals dive bombers sank a german cruiser and 2 other german cruisers were sunk.
the cruiser frobisher was wrecked on rocks.
right at the death the carrier glorious and 2 destroyers were lost to the german big ships.
shathriel 3 years ago
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Pretty cheesey, old films... the music they picked, what was wrong with them.
svillethomas 3 years ago
If , after viewing footage like this, the most you can say is that old films are "cheesey" I think we are entitled to ask what's wrong with you???
littmann03 3 years ago 2
People will look at the stuff we make today and think WTF were we on as well. We made progress and will continue to do so.
s2k997 2 years ago
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Bothrops01 2 years ago
The British took a gamble taking the battleship Warspite up a narrow fjord. There could have been mines or a U-boat waiting. Not much room to maneuver. The risk paid off big, I shiver to think of unarmoured destroyers being hit by point-blank 15" shellfire. Sort of like using a 12 gauge shotgun to kill flies.
Neat video, but the narration makes it sound like the destroyers did all the work and the crew of the Warspite were just site-seeing.
agwhitaker 3 years ago 2
No word of british ships firing at german seamen swimming in the sea after their ship was sunk?
yeah but ok, it's an old propaganda film...
FritzHohlstein 3 years ago
Unlike German films which were models of impartiality, I suppose? ( Remind me how many times you sank the Ark Royal, if you would...) I would have thought British ships would be too busy trying to escape back to sea without piling into a German ship, another British ship, or a Norwegian rock face to have much time to take pot shots at German sailors once they had parted company from their ships... or what was left of them.
littmann03 3 years ago
Sunk? A misfortune of the poor survivors swimming ashore is that the abandoned Erich Giese wouldn't sink, making their lone foray even more nearly suicidal. HMS Foxhound rescued 11.
The Giese's dilemma was cruel but she could have chosen to stay in harbour. With only gunners aboard, the immobilised Diether von Roeder stayed put, struck the Cossack(1:34?), had no casualties, and blew herself up. She should be there perhaps bow-on near 1:54. See G.H.Haarr "German invasion of Norway", 2009, etc.
ijolite 2 years ago
fucken royal navy shooting on survivors swimming towards land!!!!!
cardolino82 2 years ago
warspite - a truely insane ship - if you look on wikipedia at the entry for ww2 german navy youll find half of it as sunk on two different days in april 1940 and half of those sunk by warspite! Did britain bother to build any new battleships in ww2 or did it just recycle all the ww1 battlecruisers?
rosswnelson 3 years ago
Britain built the 5 King George V class battleships during WW2.
HMS Vanguard also came just after the war ended.
HMS Warspite (like her 2 of her sisters Queen Elizabeth and Valiant) were modernised in the 1930's.
HMS Warspite has more battle honours than any other British warship.
ToonandBBfan 3 years ago
It also holds the record for distance scoring a hit on an enemy ship. I think it was 26,000 meters on a fast Italian cruiser or something like that.
wintertwister 3 years ago
we sunk nearly all of hitlers destroyers in the battle of narvik.
fairclought7 3 years ago
Great video. The last ship in this movie is HMS Bedouin (Tribal Class Destroyer), which sunk 15. 06. 1942.
Kiemlicz 3 years ago
Good video which shows the only bright spot in the British Norwegian campaign.
6771944 3 years ago 3
Excellent images!
olivenstein 3 years ago