sure the nazis were smart and all, but why put a huge swatstika on the bow of the ship, its just making it easier for bombers t target thier warships, sure for soicialism, but cmon
The Imperial German Navy was most impressive from what I've heard. No wonder the British feared it so much, it WAS indeed a strong rival to the British Navy.
@girlgarde Impressive Indeed (especially as in just a few years it had Suppassed the French & US Navies in both Size & Firepower, and thus became the 2nd Strongest on Earth).
However: The Royal Navy Itself didn't "Fear" the 'Kaiserliche Marine', Westminster Politicians & the Public Did
(which was EXACTLY what the First Lord of the Admiralty [Jackie Fisher] Wanted, as it helped him to get his Way in Expanding the RN in both Size & Firepower ; )
@TSR1989RN That's good then that the Royal Navy didn't fear the Imperial German Navy, that's part of what makes them respectable is that they're fearless and willing to take on all challengers! Still, if I was in the Royal Navy during the 1900 to 1918 period, I`d respect Germany`s navy as a worthy rival and wouldn`t underestimate them in combat.
@girlgarde If only the Government(s) of the day hadn't allowed mutual Non-Agression pacts to expire it's quite probable that WWI (as we know it) might not have even have happened, of course we'll never know for sure.
There certainly was no bad blood between the British & German Navies, in fact just after the shooting in Sarajevo when the RN Ships on a good Will Visit to Germany were recalled to home they departed with the Crews shouting...
@TSR1989RN That's good to know. It's too bad that the Germans were the enemies of the Western Nations in the two world wars and we were forced to fight them. (of course, it became a must in WW2 given that the Nazis led Germany then)
@girlgarde Indeed, the War of 14-18 could have been avoided (just the result of gradual Diplomatic Breakdown), WWII however was by the late 30's unavoidable, especially as we did nothing meaningfull in Austria or Checoslovakia
(when the Nazi's Annexed both).
What feats (Military & otherwise) we Brit's & the Kaisers Germany could have Attained together can only be guessed apon, they certainly would have been better Allies in a pinch than the French ultimately proved (Not) to be.
@TSR1989RN Yeah, you British and the Imperial Germans could probably have dominated Europe with your combined power. You're right that the Germans would have made better allies then the French turned out to be. You British and the other nations in the empire (like my native Canada) constantly had to bail out the French in WW1 and they constantly begged the Russians to launch ill conceived offensives on the Eastern Front which ended in failure. You guys picked the wrong ally in mainland Europe.
@girlgarde Well despite the slight overuse on your part of "you" i agree with your point, another example of Politicians screwing up at all our cost.
For me the main reason the French decided to start working with us (rather than continue their age old rivalry) towards the end of the 1800's was more to do with the realisation that they couldn't match us in Industrial Power nor in Shipbuilding, something even Germany wasn't able to outcompete us in either
@TSR1989RN Sorry about overusing the word "You". At any rate, that's what I figured that that's why the French ended up allied with the British, they couldn't beat them so they decided to be allied with them for protection. While it worked for them, they were detrimental to the British and contributed to the latter party losing their empire. That's something both your people and the Germans have in common, they both got stuck with crappy allies that cost them everything in the end.
@girlgarde Although i should point out that although it is undeniable that we chose our Allies Poorly, we technically lost the Empire to a Combination of Inter-War Political Bungleing (with regards to India & the Middle East), & Post War US Financial Blackmail (as among the clauses in the post War Loan to cover Lend Lease was to give up our Economic Control over the Empire & open it up Commercially to US Trade [effectively rendering the Empire no longer Economically Viable]).
@girlgarde That Said: While France tried to hold on to their Empire after WWII (& failed [especially in Indo-China & Algeria]) we simply Transfered the majority of the Empire's Colonies & Protectorates over to the Commonwealth of Nations, which had originally been founded in the 30's as a Looser Union to compliment the Empire by bringing together countries outside it. and Concequently have the Largest Post-Colonial Influence (Geopolitical & Cutural) of all, to the Frogs Irritation ;-)
I've always found it amusing how hitler's nazis called themselves "the Nazi socialist party". They were fascists, and hated the far left. Hitler is a disgrace to all of socialism.
@crashrj543 Actually the term "Nazi"is the shortform of the words "National Socialism". The Nazis were certainly closer to Fascism than to Socialism but they still had several Socialistic features like a propagated anti capitalism combined with antisemitism (a typical Nazi feature), the abolition of class barriers and replacing the classes with the so called "Volksgemeinschaft" (ethnic community), national job-creation measures and the tendency towards command economy especially during the war.
@DrGull1888 Almost everyone utilized a command economy during the war. Shifting back to a free market from that model was what got Winston Churchill kicked out of office.
By the way, I once made battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers, and destroyers of the Grand Fleet, and a friend of mine made those of the Hochseeflotte ! He worked fasster than I ! Talk about an arms race! Our scale was one inch = 100 feet and we used balsa wood and pins for masts and cannons. Two great battlefleets. I also admire the Imperial Japanese fleet of WW II and the Italian Regia Marina.
@FRAGIORGIO1 I like battleships in general. They are artifacts of a long lost time and in their architecture unique. RN Vittorio Veneto for example has a very elegant design while HIJMS Fuso has this awesomely oversized pagoda-mast.
I also built model ships in my childhood - not out of wood but those plastic model kits by Revell or Tamiya.
@DrGull1888 How wonderful were battleships indeed! I agree that the Vittorio Veneto class were a lovely and fine class of battleships. By the way, I found Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruisers quite fascinating. The Japanese were the first to realize the importance of aircraft carriers and built enough to rival Both the UK and US. They were unfortunately (for them) unable to get the full value out of them because of the lack of folding wings which gave such a huge advantage to the US.
@FRAGIORGIO1 Yeah, HIJMS Chokai is an interesting design. Her massive superstructure makes her look like a modern era ship.
It weren't just the the folding wings. Bad damage control, little replacement for lost ships and no new plane developments might also have their share of Kido Butai's undoing.
@FRAGIORGIO1 Battle ships were outdated ww2 super carriers were the way to go and know they are outdated science fiction is just around corner or is it her
@DrGull1888 The Austrian SMS Tegetthoff class was a very interesting class of powerful but relatively small battleships. Unfortunately, the Szent Istvan (St Stephen in Magyar) and Viribus Unitis were sunk. I have seen some fine plastic models by Tamiya and Revell in model shops, but my emphasis in the last few years, believe it or not, has been on 25mm plastic soldiers of the Napoleonic Period! I have painted some 1,700 Austrian, French, Bavarian, British, and Russian troops!
@FRAGIORGIO1 Viribus Unitis class is one of the most beautiful WWI battleship designs with its stern gallery and plates on top of the funnels. You can still see the influence of the 19th century as up to date warship design of the early 20th century.
Never painted Napoleonic soldiers. My collection was limited to airplanes, tanks and war ships but I gave away most of them when I moved out from my parents.
@DrGull1888 Even in the 1950s and 1960s there were still two WW I battleships in secondary navies: the German battlecruiser Goeben had become the Yavuz Sultan Selim in the Turkish navy and the former HMS Canada of Jutland had become the Almirante LaTorre of the Chilean navy. Alas, they are now gone. We have the USS Texas (6th Battle Sq. of Grand Fleet) here in my state near the city of Houston. What a sight to see those 14" cannons! Unfortunately, it is not very well kept up by the State.
@FRAGIORGIO1 It's a shame that no European battleship was preserved. Especially the Brits owed much to hips like HMS Warspite or HMS Nelson. Hey, when you are interested check out my SMS Goeben video.
Great fleet, great ships, and a trustworthy ally of our Austro-Hungarian Empire:-)
Of course Germany needed a strong fleet. Even prior to increasing tensions between Germany and the United Kingsdom, it was quite probable that the Germans will have to confront both Russia and France. And both the French and the Russians had very powerful fleets on their own.
Die Bismarck war von der Aussage und dem Eindruck, den dieses Schiff machte, komplett anders als ihr Namensgeber. Zeigte wiedereinmal die Angewohnheit der Nazis, Geschichte umzudeuten.
It is to my understanding that the German Navy had the cleanest war record of all the Navys during world war two, Uncle Karl was a clean fighter! Also was appointed as Furher number two!
What is the exact track being used from the "Medal of Honor" soundtrack, if you don't mind my asking? I think I need to by the soundrack, that's for sure. :-)
@SteveLLW It's none from the official album. My Medal of Honour game installed a folder with audio-files including the complete soundtrack on my computer. From there I got this track. It has no title, only a number but it is used when you drive with the King Tiger.
The build up of the Imperial Navy made war with Britain inevitable and hence the globalization of a conflict that might otherwise have been resolved in the Balkans. Any large scale mobilization of the German navy was predicated on control of the English Chanel and national survival forced Britain to view this as the supreme threat. On the other hand the strain of maintaining a fleet to police the Pacific inclined the British to support first Japan and the the USA in developing their own navies.
I could have won WWI for the German Navy, WITHOUT battleships, or even U-boats. Yup, I'm writing a book about it. Think mean, nasty, completely unfair, but effective guerilla warfare at sea. Then again, military leaders and planners of the day were way too conventional. Mo, on the other hand,...............well, I'm a lateral thinking sonofabitch with a criminal mind. Hee, hee, hee....
Blame Admiral Mahan and Queen Victoria. When little Willy came to England he was as Victioria Grandson made a Fleet Admiral and wore a British Fleet Admirals Uniform. Everybody telling him the British Navy was the best. So when Tirpitz told him he could make a Navy to equal the British he did. Little Willy got his Navy. Bismark told him it was damm fool stunt. The German Navy was much smaller and more concentrated but it was one of the best.
@Cool2BCeltic You forget that the German Empire was not only in Europe! They had colonies in Africa and the Pacific. Togo, Kamerun, Southwest Africa (Namibia), Tanganyika, Mariana Islands and others! French and British greed and short-sightedness divided them up, the Pacific islands going to Japan.
@FRAGIORGIO1 Yes, I know that Germany had an overseas Empire. German is still spoken in Namibia and there is still the Bismarck Archipelago in the Pacific and Mount Wilhelm in New Guinea. Although I've tried speaking German with Tanzanians and none of them seem to speak it nowadays. However, that fleet was built up to confront the Royal Navy.
@Cool2BCeltic Yes, of course, I agree with you on that, and it was necessary as the relatively new empire had powerful enemies, particularly France, Russia, and Britain.
Unsere Schiffe waren wirklich die besten. Denkt nur mal an das Gefecht unserer Schlachtkreuzer "Derfflinger", "Seydlitz', "Moltke", "Von der Tann" und den schweren Kreuzer "Blücher" gegen die britischen Schlachtkreuzer im Vorfeld der Skagerakschlacht. Unsere Schiffe haben deren Schiffe zusammengehauen und eins nach dem anderen versenkt.
@wuestenfuchsxy Jawohl, die deutschen Schiffe konnten gut austeilen und noch viel mehr einstecken. Das einzige Manko war wohl die geringe Reichweite bei hohem Kohlenverbrauch.
Die Blücher wurde ein Jahr vor der Skagerrakschlacht versenkt, bei der Schlacht auf der Doggerbank im Jannuar 1915.
Für mich gesehen hatten wir einfach nur die besten Schiffe in der damaligen Zeit. Und darauf bin ich echt stolz, auch wenn ein Wahnsiniger die Idee hatte :/
@Friedenswaechter Man tut Wilhelm II. unrecht wenn man ihn einfach als Wahnsinnigen abtut denn immerhin hat er sein Land über 25 Jahre in Frieden regiert. Er war seinem Amt in den entscheidenden Situationen einfach nicht gewachsen durch seinen unsteten, inkonsequenten und wankelmütigen Charakter.
La Marina Imperiale Tedesca aveva una flotta formidabile degna di essere considerata una degna rivale della Royal Navy,la battaglia dello Jutland ne è stato un esempio
@falcoluminoso Fu una battaglia formidabile ed unica tra due flotte magnifiche. Ma che triste tanta morte. L'Italia aveva una buona flotta nella seconda guerra, ma gli incrociatori cosi' belli aveva un problema fatale con la loro poca corazza. Se si avesse avuto piu' navi come Littorio !
A futile attempt to outbuild the British and take command of the sea's, the British were simply to far ahead in numbers and their shipbuilding and naval armaments industry far to large for the Germans to challenge sucsessfully.The British would remain the dominant power at sea only surrenderring that title to the Americans (their bretheren) in 1943. Rule Brittania!
@TheCharlie359 In 1919 and to counter the Royal Navy's then 45 battleships, the USA Navy had plans to build 18 battle ships with 18 inch guns. Similar designs emerged in Britain, France and Japan. Only the Japanese ever built such ships. Believing it to be a huge waste of Taxes US Congressmen stopped the plan and initiated the Washington Treaty. After which the RN was certainly no longer dominant although it just remained the largest. Both US and Japanese carriers arms well outclassed the RN.
@binaway Why did the USA have to counter the Royal Navy?
Was there plans to fight the Royal Navy?
The Washington Treaty was as much about the British ship building yards ability to out build American yards.
By the time American battleships came into the war the big gun duel era was almost over, it had been fought by the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy........the last being the Battle of North Cape.
@NAIAD49 The US has Two oceans at its coasts and had possessions and interests in the Caribbean and in the Pacific (the Philippines, in particular). Also it had a great deal of commerce to protect. No rivalry in that sense. My friend, you have not read about the battles between US and Japanese battleships and cruisers in the waters of Guadalcanal? Also the battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines? Great stuff that you should read about also. US and Japan: two great navies.
Impressive ships, nice to look at, but a dead end development, submarines and fast light cruisers where the way to go. That was already during WWI clearly shown, only ignored by most.
fine ships and brave sailors, and a sad end, the folly of building this fleet in returns both military and political for Imperial Germany were both poor, and edged Britain closer to France politically and then militarily, not to mention the ruinous cost to both nations in its Dreadnought building arms race
@Aubury And we shouldn't forget that this mutual European self-destruction resulted on the long run in the fall of all European colonial empires and the rise of USA to superpower. It began with WWI while WWII only accelerated this development.
a shame all that effort was put into nations trying to destroy each other, however many of the ships designs were beautiful and I think it's the point of this short film, not so much politics...
Anyone care the USA thinks themselves a super power?
The bigger they are the harder they..... remember ;)
Power & design is amazing, still we should learn to get along, you think?
@weytyn4god Sorry you have that attitude about your southern neighbor and ally for how many years? I know that some US citizens are obnoxious and don't understand Canada, but then again, ignorance seems to be pretty well spread across the planet as well as intolerance. Let's keep together with the best of what both of us have, shall we? Regards
@Aubury Germany didn't build its navy to take on the RN. Remember, the German army was facing a French army equal in size as well as Russia with an even larger army. German dreadnaughts during the arms race only had 12 " guns as opposed to the British 15 " guns. It's clear the Germans never intended to go to war with Britain, their intent being to support their army against a revanchist France intent on re-annexing two ethnic German provinces and extending their border to the Rhine.
I am more intrested in Land and Aerial warfare but the two major naval battles of the great war if memory serves me corectley where Jutland and Dodger bank ??
@thebritish25 Yes, Jutland was the clash between the bulk of those two navies. Doggerbank was a battle between the two oposing battlecruiser squadrons. There were also the battles of Coronel and Falkland, both in 1914. Those were battles between a German and a British cruiser squadron.
as you sea I never did much on the Great War but for my GCSE History I did Germany 1918-1945 so I did a little bit about the naval mutiny and when Germany was allowed to keep a small fleet as they whould be the first to fight the Bolsoviks ( sorry not sure how to spell it) if they ever expanded into the Baltic.
@airzorne Thanks a lot. Michael Giacchiono is a great composer. He also made the soundtracks to the new Star Trek movie and to a lot of the Disney/Pixar movies.
hell yea! medal of honor allied assault all the way! u have great music choice,,,i get chills every time i hear that soundtrack, bring back good old memories
HELL YEA!!! MEDAL OF HONOR:BREAKTHROUGH ALL THE WAY!! GREAT MUSIC CHOICE! i get chills of excitement every time i hear this song, bring back gooood old memories...:)
This was Queen Victoria's nephew's (Kaiser Wilhelm) answer to Great Britain's Royal Navy It led directly to The Great War! Two stupid, privileged, over-indulged, individuals playing at "My Navy's better than yours"
I always feel more for the fates of the great navies than (say) aircraft. The torpedoing of the Austro-Hungarian fleet in 1918; the Kaisers ships in Scapa Flow; the British destruction of the French Fleet in 1940; the Loss of the Prince of Wales etc.
Great video! I've always had some interest in the naval history of the Great War, largely due to the service of one of my great grandfathers with the US Navy. He served on the USS Fanning, a beautiful and robust destroyer. She was actually credited with the first US Navy U-Boat kill, she helped sink U-58 while escorting a convey. I have a letter which he wrote to my great grandmother describing the destruction of the submarine and the conversations he had with the captured German sailors.
@Linkster2o Thanks for the compliments. One of my great-grandfathers was with the Alpenkorps. He fought in the Royal Bavarian Reserve-Riflemen Batallion No.10. They fought in Serbia, the Vosges, Lorraine and Italy. Fortunately he returned unspoiled. Another great-grandfather was too young and I don't know what the other two did.
@Linkster2o Same here I had a Great Grandfather on serveral destroyers in World War 1, from what my grandpa told me, 2 ships he served on were sunk by U-Boats.
I didn't see her in your slideshow here, but my favorite ship of the Imperial German Navy is the SMS Nürnberg. She was a beautiful light cruiser, a cousin of my great grandfather was serving on her when she was sunk near the Falklands in 1914, sadly he went down with her. That being said, his death saved my Great Grandfather the pain of fighting (indirectly) against one of his family, as he later served with the US Army when we entered the war.
@koelschwolf Ach mein Lieber, das hatten wir doch schon bei meinem Graf Zeppelin Video. Ich gebe meine E-mail-Adresse nicht heraus. Jeglicher Kontakt läuft über Youtube.
@koelschwolf I'm sorry to hear that. My grandparents lost five siblings in the war. What a madness.
I had and have no relatives in the navy. My dad bought and built a model of Bismarck for me, when I was five. This ignited my interest for ships and my love for history.
The Bismarck and the Tirpitz was build during the the Nazi regime not in the imperial German Empire... This are ships built before and during the FIRST worldwar and the Bismarck and Tirpitz were built before and during the SECOND worldwar... Germany had an awesome fleet in both wars
Great vid. My only recommendation would be to list the images by time rather than order of appearance - still, a great idea to title the images. Thanks for putting this up!
The fact you even put up what the images were, in the order they appeared, I believe is exemplary. However, unless someone's keeping up with which images they've viewed, they don't know what the image at a particular time is. It would be easier for viewers to identify the image if after 1 it said, (0:00), after 2 (0:05), etc.
Great video! Some of my favorite ships of all time are Imperial BCs, especially Derfflinger/Hindenburg. Their armor scheme+angled armored-deck edges very reminiscent of Bismarck's armor geometry--a tough, proven design (in 2 world wars) to protect vitals at least. HMS Tiger a good looking ship also, and probably best Brit BC in WW1. My only complaint is no 1/350 models of WW1 BCs! Mackensen/Yorck class would have been awesome: 13.5in guns, great armor+speed=early (first?)"fastBB"? vs. KG5?
Yes, thanks. I do have the 1/700 derfflinger by wsw. I also have Lutzow. I may make a scratchbuilt 1/700 "what-if", hypothetical Hindenburg in 1941 trim with early radar, and a few AA guns...maybe an Arado196, just for fun (what if never scuttled at Scapa Flow?). There is a company called NNT that makes resin 1/700 Mackensen along with photoetch details...But no big scale (1/350) yet of the BCs. Maybe Trumpeter will? Maybe I will scratchbuilt a 1/350 one. These ships deserve re-creation.
Nice idea. Perhaps you can find some inspiration when you watch pictures of Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein and cruiser Emden. The BBs were more or less modernized during the 1920ies while Emden was constructed during those years.
I saw a website, where a guy built a H-Class BB and an O-Class BC. So you aren't alone with a "what if" line of ships.
Yes, I have Großer Kurfürst as model kit. The König-class had a nice broad hull to give stability during firing. My favourite ships are Derfflinger-class battlecruisers. Sleek lines and high fire-power.
I like those old ships for they mark a transition from 19th century to modernity. On some of those ships you have a bow ornament, not only coat of arms, and a stern galleria like on a sailing ship. High-tech behind historical facades, if you want.
wonder what what would have happend if the imperial german navy wherent scuttled, meaby the Bayren class with its 15" could have been refited to bismarck standards and served in ww2
Refitted to Bismarck standarts is doubtful according to her size but perhaps she could have been refitted to be an opponent for Revenge- and Queen Elizabeth-Class.
I dont think so especially when we consider the impact on new technologies and tactics in submarines, radar directed guns and aircraft carriers. The days of the battleships were done for even as WW1 ended. It took the British carrier attack on the Italian fleet at harbour in Taranto and the Japanese carrier attack on Pearl Harbour to make things unmistakably clear that the days of big gun battleships were over as deciding war winning weapons
Most major powers ignorred that and still laid their faith into battleships. They saw the effects of submarines, planes, mtbs and so on but were incompetent in seeing the potential.
Today we know. But with the end of WW I and the victory of the Royal Navy it seemed to be proved that BBs andBCs remained to be the Queens of the seas. It is true,Mitchell sank the Ostfriesland in 1921 with bombs thrown from a plane, but he needed 60 bombs of different size and two days to sink an undefended target which did not move and was not maintained. Not very impressive.
I wish the fleet was never sunk. It would have been interesting if they had instead managed to have hid the fleet somewhere.
EisenKreig 4 weeks ago
@EisenKreig Yeah, perhaps in the Alps?
DrGull1888 4 weeks ago
hmz hab was geiles entdeckt haha
RoseShannaiv145 1 month ago
sure the nazis were smart and all, but why put a huge swatstika on the bow of the ship, its just making it easier for bombers t target thier warships, sure for soicialism, but cmon
kurtchancechace 1 month ago
@kurtchancechace Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's always droll to see when people mistake the history of the German monarchy with the Third Reich.
DrGull1888 1 month ago
The Imperial German Navy was most impressive from what I've heard. No wonder the British feared it so much, it WAS indeed a strong rival to the British Navy.
girlgarde 5 months ago
@girlgarde Impressive Indeed (especially as in just a few years it had Suppassed the French & US Navies in both Size & Firepower, and thus became the 2nd Strongest on Earth).
However: The Royal Navy Itself didn't "Fear" the 'Kaiserliche Marine', Westminster Politicians & the Public Did
(which was EXACTLY what the First Lord of the Admiralty [Jackie Fisher] Wanted, as it helped him to get his Way in Expanding the RN in both Size & Firepower ; )
TSR1989RN 3 months ago in playlist TSR1989RN's favourites
@TSR1989RN That's good then that the Royal Navy didn't fear the Imperial German Navy, that's part of what makes them respectable is that they're fearless and willing to take on all challengers! Still, if I was in the Royal Navy during the 1900 to 1918 period, I`d respect Germany`s navy as a worthy rival and wouldn`t underestimate them in combat.
girlgarde 3 months ago
@girlgarde If only the Government(s) of the day hadn't allowed mutual Non-Agression pacts to expire it's quite probable that WWI (as we know it) might not have even have happened, of course we'll never know for sure.
There certainly was no bad blood between the British & German Navies, in fact just after the shooting in Sarajevo when the RN Ships on a good Will Visit to Germany were recalled to home they departed with the Crews shouting...
"friends now, friends tomorrow, friends forever"
TSR1989RN 3 months ago
@TSR1989RN That's good to know. It's too bad that the Germans were the enemies of the Western Nations in the two world wars and we were forced to fight them. (of course, it became a must in WW2 given that the Nazis led Germany then)
girlgarde 3 months ago
@girlgarde Indeed, the War of 14-18 could have been avoided (just the result of gradual Diplomatic Breakdown), WWII however was by the late 30's unavoidable, especially as we did nothing meaningfull in Austria or Checoslovakia
(when the Nazi's Annexed both).
What feats (Military & otherwise) we Brit's & the Kaisers Germany could have Attained together can only be guessed apon, they certainly would have been better Allies in a pinch than the French ultimately proved (Not) to be.
TSR1989RN 3 months ago
@TSR1989RN Yeah, you British and the Imperial Germans could probably have dominated Europe with your combined power. You're right that the Germans would have made better allies then the French turned out to be. You British and the other nations in the empire (like my native Canada) constantly had to bail out the French in WW1 and they constantly begged the Russians to launch ill conceived offensives on the Eastern Front which ended in failure. You guys picked the wrong ally in mainland Europe.
girlgarde 3 months ago
@girlgarde Well despite the slight overuse on your part of "you" i agree with your point, another example of Politicians screwing up at all our cost.
For me the main reason the French decided to start working with us (rather than continue their age old rivalry) towards the end of the 1800's was more to do with the realisation that they couldn't match us in Industrial Power nor in Shipbuilding, something even Germany wasn't able to outcompete us in either
(till post WW2 anyway).
TSR1989RN 2 months ago
@TSR1989RN Sorry about overusing the word "You". At any rate, that's what I figured that that's why the French ended up allied with the British, they couldn't beat them so they decided to be allied with them for protection. While it worked for them, they were detrimental to the British and contributed to the latter party losing their empire. That's something both your people and the Germans have in common, they both got stuck with crappy allies that cost them everything in the end.
girlgarde 2 months ago
@girlgarde Although i should point out that although it is undeniable that we chose our Allies Poorly, we technically lost the Empire to a Combination of Inter-War Political Bungleing (with regards to India & the Middle East), & Post War US Financial Blackmail (as among the clauses in the post War Loan to cover Lend Lease was to give up our Economic Control over the Empire & open it up Commercially to US Trade [effectively rendering the Empire no longer Economically Viable]).
TSR1989RN 1 month ago
@girlgarde That Said: While France tried to hold on to their Empire after WWII (& failed [especially in Indo-China & Algeria]) we simply Transfered the majority of the Empire's Colonies & Protectorates over to the Commonwealth of Nations, which had originally been founded in the 30's as a Looser Union to compliment the Empire by bringing together countries outside it. and Concequently have the Largest Post-Colonial Influence (Geopolitical & Cutural) of all, to the Frogs Irritation ;-)
TSR1989RN 1 month ago
At 1:15, is that Indomitable or Inflexible? It cannot be Invincible which had a short foremost funnel. Regards
FRAGIORGIO1 5 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 You are right. It's the HMS Inflexible. Good eye! I'm going to change the video description.
DrGull1888 5 months ago
I've always found it amusing how hitler's nazis called themselves "the Nazi socialist party". They were fascists, and hated the far left. Hitler is a disgrace to all of socialism.
crashrj543 5 months ago
@crashrj543 Actually the term "Nazi"is the shortform of the words "National Socialism". The Nazis were certainly closer to Fascism than to Socialism but they still had several Socialistic features like a propagated anti capitalism combined with antisemitism (a typical Nazi feature), the abolition of class barriers and replacing the classes with the so called "Volksgemeinschaft" (ethnic community), national job-creation measures and the tendency towards command economy especially during the war.
DrGull1888 5 months ago
@DrGull1888 Almost everyone utilized a command economy during the war. Shifting back to a free market from that model was what got Winston Churchill kicked out of office.
Benjaminy2k 3 months ago in playlist Benjaminy2k's favorites
By the way, I once made battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers, and destroyers of the Grand Fleet, and a friend of mine made those of the Hochseeflotte ! He worked fasster than I ! Talk about an arms race! Our scale was one inch = 100 feet and we used balsa wood and pins for masts and cannons. Two great battlefleets. I also admire the Imperial Japanese fleet of WW II and the Italian Regia Marina.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 I like battleships in general. They are artifacts of a long lost time and in their architecture unique. RN Vittorio Veneto for example has a very elegant design while HIJMS Fuso has this awesomely oversized pagoda-mast.
I also built model ships in my childhood - not out of wood but those plastic model kits by Revell or Tamiya.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
@DrGull1888 How wonderful were battleships indeed! I agree that the Vittorio Veneto class were a lovely and fine class of battleships. By the way, I found Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruisers quite fascinating. The Japanese were the first to realize the importance of aircraft carriers and built enough to rival Both the UK and US. They were unfortunately (for them) unable to get the full value out of them because of the lack of folding wings which gave such a huge advantage to the US.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Yeah, HIJMS Chokai is an interesting design. Her massive superstructure makes her look like a modern era ship.
It weren't just the the folding wings. Bad damage control, little replacement for lost ships and no new plane developments might also have their share of Kido Butai's undoing.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Battle ships were outdated ww2 super carriers were the way to go and know they are outdated science fiction is just around corner or is it her
motorguzzi100 5 months ago
@motorguzzi100 ????
FRAGIORGIO1 5 months ago
@DrGull1888 The Austrian SMS Tegetthoff class was a very interesting class of powerful but relatively small battleships. Unfortunately, the Szent Istvan (St Stephen in Magyar) and Viribus Unitis were sunk. I have seen some fine plastic models by Tamiya and Revell in model shops, but my emphasis in the last few years, believe it or not, has been on 25mm plastic soldiers of the Napoleonic Period! I have painted some 1,700 Austrian, French, Bavarian, British, and Russian troops!
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Viribus Unitis class is one of the most beautiful WWI battleship designs with its stern gallery and plates on top of the funnels. You can still see the influence of the 19th century as up to date warship design of the early 20th century.
Never painted Napoleonic soldiers. My collection was limited to airplanes, tanks and war ships but I gave away most of them when I moved out from my parents.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
@DrGull1888 Even in the 1950s and 1960s there were still two WW I battleships in secondary navies: the German battlecruiser Goeben had become the Yavuz Sultan Selim in the Turkish navy and the former HMS Canada of Jutland had become the Almirante LaTorre of the Chilean navy. Alas, they are now gone. We have the USS Texas (6th Battle Sq. of Grand Fleet) here in my state near the city of Houston. What a sight to see those 14" cannons! Unfortunately, it is not very well kept up by the State.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 It's a shame that no European battleship was preserved. Especially the Brits owed much to hips like HMS Warspite or HMS Nelson. Hey, when you are interested check out my SMS Goeben video.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
Great fleet, great ships, and a trustworthy ally of our Austro-Hungarian Empire:-)
Of course Germany needed a strong fleet. Even prior to increasing tensions between Germany and the United Kingsdom, it was quite probable that the Germans will have to confront both Russia and France. And both the French and the Russians had very powerful fleets on their own.
orel753 6 months ago
Excellent video of a grand navy and empire! Thank you and congratulations.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Mille Grazie.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
@DrGull1888 Molto gentile, ma piuttosto le grazie dobbiamo a te !
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Figurati!
DrGull1888 6 months ago
Excellent production thanks. Also photo references thanks.
modelleg 6 months ago 7
@modelleg Thanks a lot.
DrGull1888 6 months ago
Diese wort Nazis regt mich auf,nehmt doch bitte denn korrekten Begriff!...Dieser lautet:Nationalist!
derbeste3451 7 months ago
@derbeste3451 NSDAP= National Sozialistische Arbeiter Patei, bitte. Also, Nationalsoziallist.
burqabob 7 months ago
Bismark lasted 9 days after her break out into the Atlantic ...NUFF SAID.
MidwayCastaway 7 months ago
@MidwayCastaway Wrong time and wrong war.
DrGull1888 7 months ago 16
@MidwayCastaway you fucking IDIOT hahaha
cuchulainn187 6 months ago
The german Navy is grand, I love it
kathleen746 7 months ago
VERY NICE
hva1967 8 months ago
SLENDID ,LOVE HISTORY ,TRIBUTE T O ALL NATIONS NOT JUST THE GERMAN THANKS
AM GERMAN MYSELF,BUT HONOR ALL
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41gisela 8 months ago
I have as much respect for the German Empire Fleet as I do the British Navy. Thanks for posting.
MrBazza86 8 months ago
Die Bismarck war von der Aussage und dem Eindruck, den dieses Schiff machte, komplett anders als ihr Namensgeber. Zeigte wiedereinmal die Angewohnheit der Nazis, Geschichte umzudeuten.
Sanguinius93 9 months ago
@Sanguinius93 Jaja, man neigte ja auch dazu Schiffe nach verdienten alten Preußen zu benennen, die sich nicht mehr wehren konnten.
DrGull1888 9 months ago
It is to my understanding that the German Navy had the cleanest war record of all the Navys during world war two, Uncle Karl was a clean fighter! Also was appointed as Furher number two!
Doug48794 10 months ago
What is the exact track being used from the "Medal of Honor" soundtrack, if you don't mind my asking? I think I need to by the soundrack, that's for sure. :-)
SteveLLW 1 year ago
@SteveLLW It's none from the official album. My Medal of Honour game installed a folder with audio-files including the complete soundtrack on my computer. From there I got this track. It has no title, only a number but it is used when you drive with the King Tiger.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 Thanks, DrGull 1888. By the way, I know you were a suspect in the Whitchapel Murders, but I know MJ Druitt did it. ;-)
SteveLLW 1 year ago
@SteveLLW I hope I can trust on your discretion concerning my past.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 "I hope I can trust on your discretion concerning my past"
LOL!!! You can trust me................for a price. ;-)
SteveLLW 1 year ago
The build up of the Imperial Navy made war with Britain inevitable and hence the globalization of a conflict that might otherwise have been resolved in the Balkans. Any large scale mobilization of the German navy was predicated on control of the English Chanel and national survival forced Britain to view this as the supreme threat. On the other hand the strain of maintaining a fleet to police the Pacific inclined the British to support first Japan and the the USA in developing their own navies.
johnsammyanfal 1 year ago
I could have won WWI for the German Navy, WITHOUT battleships, or even U-boats. Yup, I'm writing a book about it. Think mean, nasty, completely unfair, but effective guerilla warfare at sea. Then again, military leaders and planners of the day were way too conventional. Mo, on the other hand,...............well, I'm a lateral thinking sonofabitch with a criminal mind. Hee, hee, hee....
SteveLLW 1 year ago
Blame Admiral Mahan and Queen Victoria. When little Willy came to England he was as Victioria Grandson made a Fleet Admiral and wore a British Fleet Admirals Uniform. Everybody telling him the British Navy was the best. So when Tirpitz told him he could make a Navy to equal the British he did. Little Willy got his Navy. Bismark told him it was damm fool stunt. The German Navy was much smaller and more concentrated but it was one of the best.
progressiverebel 1 year ago
Interesting photos. But there's no way these ships made up a force meant purely for the defence of Germany.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic You forget that the German Empire was not only in Europe! They had colonies in Africa and the Pacific. Togo, Kamerun, Southwest Africa (Namibia), Tanganyika, Mariana Islands and others! French and British greed and short-sightedness divided them up, the Pacific islands going to Japan.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Yes, I know that Germany had an overseas Empire. German is still spoken in Namibia and there is still the Bismarck Archipelago in the Pacific and Mount Wilhelm in New Guinea. Although I've tried speaking German with Tanzanians and none of them seem to speak it nowadays. However, that fleet was built up to confront the Royal Navy.
Cool2BCeltic 6 months ago
@Cool2BCeltic Yes, of course, I agree with you on that, and it was necessary as the relatively new empire had powerful enemies, particularly France, Russia, and Britain.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
Unsere Schiffe waren wirklich die besten. Denkt nur mal an das Gefecht unserer Schlachtkreuzer "Derfflinger", "Seydlitz', "Moltke", "Von der Tann" und den schweren Kreuzer "Blücher" gegen die britischen Schlachtkreuzer im Vorfeld der Skagerakschlacht. Unsere Schiffe haben deren Schiffe zusammengehauen und eins nach dem anderen versenkt.
wuestenfuchsxy 1 year ago
@wuestenfuchsxy Jawohl, die deutschen Schiffe konnten gut austeilen und noch viel mehr einstecken. Das einzige Manko war wohl die geringe Reichweite bei hohem Kohlenverbrauch.
Die Blücher wurde ein Jahr vor der Skagerrakschlacht versenkt, bei der Schlacht auf der Doggerbank im Jannuar 1915.
DrGull1888 1 year ago 2
@DrGull1888 stimmt stattdessen war die "Lützow" dabei.
wuestenfuchsxy 1 year ago
Für mich gesehen hatten wir einfach nur die besten Schiffe in der damaligen Zeit. Und darauf bin ich echt stolz, auch wenn ein Wahnsiniger die Idee hatte :/
Friedenswaechter 1 year ago
@Friedenswaechter Man tut Wilhelm II. unrecht wenn man ihn einfach als Wahnsinnigen abtut denn immerhin hat er sein Land über 25 Jahre in Frieden regiert. Er war seinem Amt in den entscheidenden Situationen einfach nicht gewachsen durch seinen unsteten, inkonsequenten und wankelmütigen Charakter.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888
Nagut, da hast du nicht ganz Unrecht. Vor allem, wenn man ein ganzes Reich verwalten muss. Und so ein Krieg gab es vorher noch garnicht.
Friedenswaechter 1 year ago
@Friedenswaechter Ich glaube solch eine Katastrophe hat keiner gewollt auch wenn bewußt und unbewußt darauf hin gearbeitet wurde.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
La Marina Imperiale Tedesca aveva una flotta formidabile degna di essere considerata una degna rivale della Royal Navy,la battaglia dello Jutland ne è stato un esempio
falcoluminoso
falcoluminoso 1 year ago
@falcoluminoso Fu una battaglia formidabile ed unica tra due flotte magnifiche. Ma che triste tanta morte. L'Italia aveva una buona flotta nella seconda guerra, ma gli incrociatori cosi' belli aveva un problema fatale con la loro poca corazza. Se si avesse avuto piu' navi come Littorio !
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1
Hai ragione i nostri incrociatori avevano una scarsa protezione e non potervano competere con i rivali della Royal Navy
falcoluminoso
falcoluminoso 6 months ago
A futile attempt to outbuild the British and take command of the sea's, the British were simply to far ahead in numbers and their shipbuilding and naval armaments industry far to large for the Germans to challenge sucsessfully.The British would remain the dominant power at sea only surrenderring that title to the Americans (their bretheren) in 1943. Rule Brittania!
TheCharlie359 1 year ago
@TheCharlie359 In 1919 and to counter the Royal Navy's then 45 battleships, the USA Navy had plans to build 18 battle ships with 18 inch guns. Similar designs emerged in Britain, France and Japan. Only the Japanese ever built such ships. Believing it to be a huge waste of Taxes US Congressmen stopped the plan and initiated the Washington Treaty. After which the RN was certainly no longer dominant although it just remained the largest. Both US and Japanese carriers arms well outclassed the RN.
binaway 1 year ago
@binaway Why did the USA have to counter the Royal Navy?
Was there plans to fight the Royal Navy?
The Washington Treaty was as much about the British ship building yards ability to out build American yards.
By the time American battleships came into the war the big gun duel era was almost over, it had been fought by the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy........the last being the Battle of North Cape.
NAIAD49 1 year ago
@NAIAD49 The US has Two oceans at its coasts and had possessions and interests in the Caribbean and in the Pacific (the Philippines, in particular). Also it had a great deal of commerce to protect. No rivalry in that sense. My friend, you have not read about the battles between US and Japanese battleships and cruisers in the waters of Guadalcanal? Also the battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines? Great stuff that you should read about also. US and Japan: two great navies.
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
Impressive ships, nice to look at, but a dead end development, submarines and fast light cruisers where the way to go. That was already during WWI clearly shown, only ignored by most.
Tiberiotertio 1 year ago
@Tiberiotertio Too true.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@Tiberiotertio yes I agree old chap. you and I should have been there.
michaelwright999 1 year ago
fine ships and brave sailors, and a sad end, the folly of building this fleet in returns both military and political for Imperial Germany were both poor, and edged Britain closer to France politically and then militarily, not to mention the ruinous cost to both nations in its Dreadnought building arms race
Aubury 1 year ago
@Aubury And we shouldn't forget that this mutual European self-destruction resulted on the long run in the fall of all European colonial empires and the rise of USA to superpower. It began with WWI while WWII only accelerated this development.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888
a shame all that effort was put into nations trying to destroy each other, however many of the ships designs were beautiful and I think it's the point of this short film, not so much politics...
Anyone care the USA thinks themselves a super power?
The bigger they are the harder they..... remember ;)
Power & design is amazing, still we should learn to get along, you think?
weytyn4god 1 year ago
@weytyn4god Indeed, indeed in retrospect it was such a waste.
Learning to get along sounds nice but since we are an irrational greedy species driven by ignorrance and fear...
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 And all of it is brought on by Greedy Capitalism, Which is why i am more of a Fenian than any thing else.
CptainGarmaZabi 1 year ago
@weytyn4god Sorry you have that attitude about your southern neighbor and ally for how many years? I know that some US citizens are obnoxious and don't understand Canada, but then again, ignorance seems to be pretty well spread across the planet as well as intolerance. Let's keep together with the best of what both of us have, shall we? Regards
FRAGIORGIO1 6 months ago
@Aubury Germany didn't build its navy to take on the RN. Remember, the German army was facing a French army equal in size as well as Russia with an even larger army. German dreadnaughts during the arms race only had 12 " guns as opposed to the British 15 " guns. It's clear the Germans never intended to go to war with Britain, their intent being to support their army against a revanchist France intent on re-annexing two ethnic German provinces and extending their border to the Rhine.
ezreader111 1 year ago
Nice vid :D
ZdravkoT112 1 year ago
@ZdravkoT112 Thanks a lot.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 Your welcome :)
ZdravkoT112 1 year ago
Very well done 10/10.
I am more intrested in Land and Aerial warfare but the two major naval battles of the great war if memory serves me corectley where Jutland and Dodger bank ??
thebritish25 1 year ago
@thebritish25 Yes, Jutland was the clash between the bulk of those two navies. Doggerbank was a battle between the two oposing battlecruiser squadrons. There were also the battles of Coronel and Falkland, both in 1914. Those were battles between a German and a British cruiser squadron.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 Ah I see thank you
as you sea I never did much on the Great War but for my GCSE History I did Germany 1918-1945 so I did a little bit about the naval mutiny and when Germany was allowed to keep a small fleet as they whould be the first to fight the Bolsoviks ( sorry not sure how to spell it) if they ever expanded into the Baltic.
thebritish25 1 year ago
wow. this is incredible.
Benjaminy2k 1 year ago
MEDAL OF HONOR BREAKTHROUGH MUSIC! GREAT CHOICE!
airzorne 1 year ago
@airzorne Thanks a lot. Michael Giacchiono is a great composer. He also made the soundtracks to the new Star Trek movie and to a lot of the Disney/Pixar movies.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
hell yea! medal of honor allied assault all the way! u have great music choice,,,i get chills every time i hear that soundtrack, bring back good old memories
airzorne 1 year ago
aadwdfaw
airzorne 1 year ago
HELL YEA!!! MEDAL OF HONOR:BREAKTHROUGH ALL THE WAY!! GREAT MUSIC CHOICE! i get chills of excitement every time i hear this song, bring back gooood old memories...:)
airzorne 1 year ago
Pretty cool.
jave042 1 year ago
Imperial German Navy was world second largest navy.
So they have should take more battle.
HeiligesReich2 1 year ago
Spent today on HMS Belfast. Amazing but still felt for Scharnhorst.
idle44 1 year ago
@idle44 Yeah, Belfast is a very interesting memorial ship. A pity that Britain didn't preserve one of her battleships.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888
Thats true, especially one that fought in both the battle of jutland and second world war, like Warspite
lucius1976 1 year ago
@lucius1976 Yes, Warspite would have realy deserved it instead of being beached and dismembered at Land's End.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
This was Queen Victoria's nephew's (Kaiser Wilhelm) answer to Great Britain's Royal Navy It led directly to The Great War! Two stupid, privileged, over-indulged, individuals playing at "My Navy's better than yours"
billyconnearly 1 year ago
@billyconnearly Kaiser Wilhelm II was Queen Victoria's favorite grandson, not her nephew.
absalonde 8 months ago
Thanks for posting! Great music to I must add!!!!
lothar804 1 year ago
I always feel more for the fates of the great navies than (say) aircraft. The torpedoing of the Austro-Hungarian fleet in 1918; the Kaisers ships in Scapa Flow; the British destruction of the French Fleet in 1940; the Loss of the Prince of Wales etc.
All very sad and what a waste!
idle44 1 year ago
@idle44 True.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@DrGull1888 GREAT MUSIC CHOICE! MEDAL OF HONOR:BREAKTHROUGH ALL THE WAY!
airzorne 1 year ago
I enjoyed watching this film and very good music too.
MrBazza86 1 year ago
The music from MoH starts at 0:22?
From where, exactly, is that?
Duchermeet 1 year ago
@Duchermeet It's from the very first game and it's used during the two levels where you must drive the King Tiger.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
Great video! I've always had some interest in the naval history of the Great War, largely due to the service of one of my great grandfathers with the US Navy. He served on the USS Fanning, a beautiful and robust destroyer. She was actually credited with the first US Navy U-Boat kill, she helped sink U-58 while escorting a convey. I have a letter which he wrote to my great grandmother describing the destruction of the submarine and the conversations he had with the captured German sailors.
Linkster2o 1 year ago
@Linkster2o Thanks for the compliments. One of my great-grandfathers was with the Alpenkorps. He fought in the Royal Bavarian Reserve-Riflemen Batallion No.10. They fought in Serbia, the Vosges, Lorraine and Italy. Fortunately he returned unspoiled. Another great-grandfather was too young and I don't know what the other two did.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@Linkster2o Same here I had a Great Grandfather on serveral destroyers in World War 1, from what my grandpa told me, 2 ships he served on were sunk by U-Boats.
bittergunowner12 1 year ago
I didn't see her in your slideshow here, but my favorite ship of the Imperial German Navy is the SMS Nürnberg. She was a beautiful light cruiser, a cousin of my great grandfather was serving on her when she was sunk near the Falklands in 1914, sadly he went down with her. That being said, his death saved my Great Grandfather the pain of fighting (indirectly) against one of his family, as he later served with the US Army when we entered the war.
Linkster2o 1 year ago
@Linkster2o She must be somewhere at 01:05. The picture shows the complete East Asia Squadron.
Indeed a tragic story. They crossed the Pacific just to die in the South Atlantic.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
gud ships
8000jk 1 year ago
@koelschwolf Ach mein Lieber, das hatten wir doch schon bei meinem Graf Zeppelin Video. Ich gebe meine E-mail-Adresse nicht heraus. Jeglicher Kontakt läuft über Youtube.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
@koelschwolf I'm sorry to hear that. My grandparents lost five siblings in the war. What a madness.
I had and have no relatives in the navy. My dad bought and built a model of Bismarck for me, when I was five. This ignited my interest for ships and my love for history.
DrGull1888 1 year ago
Thanks for your compliment. On what ship did your grandfather serve and did he return from war?
DrGull1888 1 year ago
The Bismarck and the Tirpitz was build during the the Nazi regime not in the imperial German Empire... This are ships built before and during the FIRST worldwar and the Bismarck and Tirpitz were built before and during the SECOND worldwar... Germany had an awesome fleet in both wars
ThugCologne 2 years ago 6
@ThugCologne Too bad they're fleet wasn't very advanced in the Second World War.
bittergunowner12 1 year ago
Catchy song indeed, haha, XD.
philipaliscious 2 years ago
they did great battle ship leet se the 2 big ones whas bismarck and damn i forget about it
loppan109 2 years ago
The next ship was the tirpitz
xeromancermax1234567 2 years ago
Bismarck, Tirpitz, Hood, Yamato and all other ships R.I.P
Tronor123 2 years ago 2
Konig, Freidreich de Grosse classes of battleship and all 4 classes of battlecruisers are the handsomest vessels in the Hi-Sea Fleet.
trent8002003 2 years ago
My fave is Derfflinger. She's a beauty.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Me too. But only the pole mast version. The later tripod was really ugly. Molke was also great looking.
trent8002003 2 years ago
Der gute Graf von Luckner... wahrhaftig ein Ritter zur See!
DrGull1888 2 years ago
stolz weht die Flagge schwarz-weiß-rot von unserm Schiffe Mast!
mkg
16891291616 2 years ago 22
Dem Feind weh', der diese Farben haßt.
mfg
DrGull1888 2 years ago
@16891291616 nicht mehr mein freund jetzt ist es wie früher auch schwarz rot gold
BioWolf091 9 months ago
Often over-looked is the professionalism and valor of the German Navy.
propatria431 2 years ago 2
Great vid. My only recommendation would be to list the images by time rather than order of appearance - still, a great idea to title the images. Thanks for putting this up!
Lojikbom 2 years ago
Most are sorted by time. I used Mackensen in the beginning for I needed a picture of an unfinished ship.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
The fact you even put up what the images were, in the order they appeared, I believe is exemplary. However, unless someone's keeping up with which images they've viewed, they don't know what the image at a particular time is. It would be easier for viewers to identify the image if after 1 it said, (0:00), after 2 (0:05), etc.
Lojikbom 2 years ago
Aaaah, I see. Thanks and also thanks for the compliment.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
I agree with him, hard to keep up with the names and photos :)
hatemf23 2 years ago
Sorry, I completely lost sight of that subject. I'm gonna change it in the next two days.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
1:40 great uniform!
StarAll4life 2 years ago 3
That's Otto Weddigen.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
didn't he sink 3 cruisers in less than 10 min with his U-Boat?
aldoregozani 2 years ago 2
Yes, with U-9 he sunk HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Great video! Some of my favorite ships of all time are Imperial BCs, especially Derfflinger/Hindenburg. Their armor scheme+angled armored-deck edges very reminiscent of Bismarck's armor geometry--a tough, proven design (in 2 world wars) to protect vitals at least. HMS Tiger a good looking ship also, and probably best Brit BC in WW1. My only complaint is no 1/350 models of WW1 BCs! Mackensen/Yorck class would have been awesome: 13.5in guns, great armor+speed=early (first?)"fastBB"? vs. KG5?
ralsterV 2 years ago
There is a Derfflinger model in 1/700 by wsw and I bet some Eastern European brands have also WWI battlecruisers in stock.
When I'm not mistaken were Mackensen/Ersatz-York-Class planned as a match for Hood-Class or at least Renown-Class.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Yes, thanks. I do have the 1/700 derfflinger by wsw. I also have Lutzow. I may make a scratchbuilt 1/700 "what-if", hypothetical Hindenburg in 1941 trim with early radar, and a few AA guns...maybe an Arado196, just for fun (what if never scuttled at Scapa Flow?). There is a company called NNT that makes resin 1/700 Mackensen along with photoetch details...But no big scale (1/350) yet of the BCs. Maybe Trumpeter will? Maybe I will scratchbuilt a 1/350 one. These ships deserve re-creation.
ralsterV 2 years ago
Nice idea. Perhaps you can find some inspiration when you watch pictures of Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein and cruiser Emden. The BBs were more or less modernized during the 1920ies while Emden was constructed during those years.
I saw a website, where a guy built a H-Class BB and an O-Class BC. So you aren't alone with a "what if" line of ships.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
... i just can watch these old beautiful ships being sinked
they could have been cultural legacy for many countries- especially for my country... germany
StarAll4life 2 years ago
Not only as cultural legacy but also as memorial.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
you is right
StarAll4life 2 years ago
Sounds like Darth Vader March
chrihern 2 years ago
Traditional German military marches were indeed the role model for the "Imperial March" of the Star Wars movies.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
I always thought the Konig class were nice ships
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
Yes, I have Großer Kurfürst as model kit. The König-class had a nice broad hull to give stability during firing. My favourite ships are Derfflinger-class battlecruisers. Sleek lines and high fire-power.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Thanks.
And unlike their British counterparts, German Battlecruisers were well armoured.
WW1 ships just look so majestic (especially the German ones).
They arent infected by numerous AA flak weapons or mounting an aircraft catapult like their WW2 successors.
Out of the Grobe Kreuzers I always had a fondness for Von Der Tann.
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago 2
I like those old ships for they mark a transition from 19th century to modernity. On some of those ships you have a bow ornament, not only coat of arms, and a stern galleria like on a sailing ship. High-tech behind historical facades, if you want.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
I salute the Imperial Navy, and all it's accomplishments. It's a pity Germany had to lose that war.
vonrenouard 2 years ago 2
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wonder what what would have happend if the imperial german navy wherent scuttled, meaby the Bayren class with its 15" could have been refited to bismarck standards and served in ww2
swedo88 2 years ago 2
Refitted to Bismarck standarts is doubtful according to her size but perhaps she could have been refitted to be an opponent for Revenge- and Queen Elizabeth-Class.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
I dont think so especially when we consider the impact on new technologies and tactics in submarines, radar directed guns and aircraft carriers. The days of the battleships were done for even as WW1 ended. It took the British carrier attack on the Italian fleet at harbour in Taranto and the Japanese carrier attack on Pearl Harbour to make things unmistakably clear that the days of big gun battleships were over as deciding war winning weapons
MartinIDavies 2 years ago
Most major powers ignorred that and still laid their faith into battleships. They saw the effects of submarines, planes, mtbs and so on but were incompetent in seeing the potential.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
@Martin Davies
Today we know. But with the end of WW I and the victory of the Royal Navy it seemed to be proved that BBs andBCs remained to be the Queens of the seas. It is true,Mitchell sank the Ostfriesland in 1921 with bombs thrown from a plane, but he needed 60 bombs of different size and two days to sink an undefended target which did not move and was not maintained. Not very impressive.
Nevertheless I understand your piont.
robinhood48 2 years ago
many thanks!!
psymodeller 2 years ago
very nice!
Stalin111 2 years ago
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Hitler was so proud and confident of his navy that he wouldn't let it go to sea.
If he had the British blkasted them out of the water.
His navy was as effective as his army, a big bust.
Duversant 2 years ago