British Battlecruisers-From Invicible to Tiger

[kingbobster0121]

This makes me proud to be british

[Digmen1]

Slightly O/T but my uncle was killed on the Hood in 1941 - only 3 survivors!

[FRAGIORGIO1]

SUPERB and very moving! With a marvelous and appropriate song for the great ships of which three perished so tragically at Jutland, 31 May 1916. RIP those heroes who went down with them The first minute showed the Invincible (Hood's flag), @ 1:20 New Zealand or Indefatigable, Lion (with admiral's stern) at 2:20 and Tiger @ 2.30 (design that inspired the IJN Kongos), 2:38 Queen Mary (?), 4:35 Tiger & 2 Lions, .5:45 onward Queen Mary blowing up. Thanks for sharing this great video.

[DrGull1888]

Those were the days...

[ToonandBBfan]

The picture at 1:25 was beautiful - anyone know where it was taken?

[AaronIzzard]

What song is this called?

[willembrock]

@AaronIzzard the song is called "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" the original is from Eric Bogle, but the version I've used is performed by the Dubliners.

[cirvine11]

Such beautiful... and flawed ships.

[bigbadredsox]

I am a big fan of these balltecruisers. My favorite is the HMS Warspite.

The USN was slow to try and build them. Two had keels laid down but they ended up being finished as the carriers Lexington and Saratoga. Near the end of WW2, a couple were built, the USS Alaska and the Guam. I don't know if they saw any action.

[willembrock]

:-/ HMS Warspite wasnt a bc...it was a "super dreadnought"! a battleship!

[baltic1284]

@bigbadredsox actually the Guam and the Alaska saw a lot of action not much in there class of ship but saw much none the less my grad father served on her till the end

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@bigbadredsox Actually the Saratoga and Lexington were to have been accompanied by the Constitution, United States, Constellation, and President, if I remember rightly, ships 880 feet long with 8 16" big guns. The Alaska and Guam almost had a sister ship, the Hawaii, about 80% complete before she was scrapped. That class had 50 caliber 12" guns. The Puerto Rico and 2 others whose names I don't remember (Samoa?) were to have been built. Maybe somebody knows them and can share with us.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@bigbadredsox The Warspite was a fast battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class, together with Barham, Valiant, and Malaya. They took part in the battle of Jutland and the Second World War. The Barham was torpedoed by a German U-boot in the Mediterranean, capsized, and blew up with considerable loss of life, unfortunately.

[FEStanley]

Fascinating, my mother's relative's shipyard, Palmers, built HMS Queen Mary.

[xRxixcxhxtxexrx]

When you see these wonderful ships i tend to think how did a ship go down with no survivors....The explosions must have been massive and sudden, respect to all who served.

[futch2121]

Even if they wern`t killed by the explosion, most of the crew would be below the armoured deck, with a limited number of hatches & the north sea would have been very cold for anyone making it out & not immediately picked up. It is a fact that no one stopped to pick up survivors whilst the action was still hot.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@futch2121 Only about 3 or 4 survivors were saved from each of the 3 battlecruisers that blew up: Invincible, Indefatigable, and Queen Mary. The same sad statistic was true for the Hood when it blew up in action against the Bismarck in WW II, the last survivor dying about 2 months ago. Invincible class included Indomitable & Inflexible. New Zealand, Indefatigable, and Australia (not at Jutland) were a class, and Lion, Princess Royal, and Queen Mary a class. Tiger was a class by itself.

[CoffeeandCocoa]

Great video about these constantly misunderstood ships..

[elswick1542]

Great video I love all the battlecruisers regardless of nationality.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@elswick1542 Agreed, for the Germans had the battlecruisers Mackensen (not at Jutland, but later): Hindenburg (ditto) with Derfflinger and Luetzow, Seydlitz, Moltke and Goeben (not at Jutland but given to the Turks as Yavuz Sultan Selim), and Von der Tann, and a fine group they were too. The Japanese Kongo, Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna were modeled on HMS TIger. We should not forget HMS Renown and Repulse, built a little later in WW I and served in WW II, and the great HMS Hood of WW II.

[elswick1542]

@FRAGIORGIO1 Check out my Hood,Renown,Derfflinger and Seydlitz videos.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@FRAGIORGIO1 Upon reading about the Kongo class, I found out that HMS Tiger was influenced by the Kongo, which was built in a British shipyard! Interesting face and contrary to what I had read before.