Long live the Victory of Sea of Japan ! LONG LIVE THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVY, GREAT COMBINED FLEET !! Dai Nippon Teikoku Kaigun, Rengo-Kantai wa fukyuu nari !!
You mean Mikasa?, if yes then no she surivived WW II and today serve as memorial ship in Yokosuka (restored with great help from Admiral Chester Nimitz by the way).
Nice job of telling the story of Tsushima Straits in short form and weaving it together with current and historic photos of the Mikasa. I am currently building a Hasegawa 1:350 scale model of the Mikasa and found your video handy to verify color schemes since I have misplaced my own photos of my visit to the Mikasa in 1999. BTW Admiral Togo was my great-grandmother's brother. Thanks for the honored tribute, elswick1542!
@TFB777 Thanks for the great comment,last time I built a Hsegawa kit it was a MIG25 Foxbat about 1978 very good indeed.Guns on MIkasa today IIR are longer than those used at Tsushima.
I read that in 1945 the Russians wanted Mikasa scrapped. Also the only Polish General they did not murder at Katyn forest in 1941 put his survival down to the fact that he was an officer in the Imperial Navy during the battle and the only one to vote against surrendering their ship to the Japanese.The Russians also took satisfaction in hoisting the Soviet flag over Port Arthur scene of the defeat of the Czars army in 1905.
Also well-known fact that russian fleet had to make a very long journey from Baltic sea and had a lot of old ships which reduced the overall battle-worthiness rather than increase it. And something rarely mentioned - Togo was a lucky bastard, standing on the open bridge in all battles and getting not even scratch while russians bombarded Mikasa with shells, and all russian admirals (Vitgeft, Rozhedstvensky, Makarov) dying even before the battle really starts.
@troubleboy Yes this movie does not show that fact. The russian gunners were green also. Many of the russian ships had smoothbore cannon and still rigged for sailing this makes it like all the russian ships were modern.
Not bad, but mistakes mistakes. Check the names of russian ships somewhere, you use some barely recognisable twisted re-translations from japanese. Black powder? You kidding? It was not used anywhere since about 1890. Russian shells were armor piercing with little explosives, while japanese used high-explosive shimosa shells which couldn't penetrate russian armor but killed staff, caused fires and destroyed superstructures. Russian artillerists were also much worse than well-trained japanese.
@troubleboy Translations are from the movie subtitles and not mine,black powder was used in Royal Navy capped pointed common shell until after the battle of Jutland in 1916,Russian APshell used a wet gun cotton bursting charge,few IJN shells were filled with Shimose at this time the RN called it Lyddite.neither side could penetrate thick armour,6" was the most penetrated by a Russian 12" gun.
The idea that Russian shells were propelled by black powder must have arisen from the fact that one Russian obsolete battleship, Navarin, actually used it.
But the real problem was, of course, not with the shells or guns, but with the quality of leadership in the 2nd Pacific Squadron. Ill-trained gunners were just one of the consequences.
I would not make the swap Liberties were built faster then they could be sunk one was laid down launched and sent to sea in one week, Flowers and Liberties may not have been most comfortable ships to sail on but they got the job done. Maybe one day will take cruise on John Brown or Jeremiah OBrian
They cando anything with lights and cameras, Some ancient Great Lake Ore carriers are still steaming with skinner uniflow engines, EM Ford built in 1898 had quadruple expansion steam engines just went to scrap yard in Michigan
Will you do any tributes to one of the unsong heros of WW2 the CVE, combustible, vulnerable expedable have uncle who served on Sangamon recovered rare cruise book from Sangamon after his children tossed it in garbage after he passed on
Absolutely have just posted a Flower Class,will get around to the CVE,S .The first was converted in my home town from a captured German freighter,HMS Audacity (D10) it had no hangers or bridge and just a few Wildcats but fought in a number of important convoy battles before being torpedoed,my Father watched it being converted and my Grandfather worked on it.
My favorite CVE was Kalinin Bay at Samar was shelled by 14 inch BB I think Kongo, then shelled by 8 inch heavy cruisers ( In truth they were APR and passed through the ship) then its rear 5 inch gun scored a hit on CA most likely Suzya which latter blew up when its torpedos exploded also hit some jap destroyers
you mean that movie by james cameron.... one of the best directors in the world.... that won numerous academy awards.... and was one of the highest earning movies in history? that mess of a movie? or are you a mess of a critic
the film is called Battle of the Japan Sea—directed by Seiji Maruyama,hard to get a copy in and never as far as I know released in Europe,got my copy from Ebay.
Lower hull of Mikasa could be in bad condition no way of knowing because its encased in concrete was stripped to the hull after WW2 then rebuilt using parts from Latorre
It may be possible to detect corrosion on the hull using an electrical conductivity technique,it works well on oil gas and water pipe lines,but of course its very difficult to repair.
The Russians had to replace the entire lower hull on Aurora in ST Petersburg they then towed the lower hullout to sea and sunk it, read somewhere that Mikasa hull in concrete was decaying, Same with Olympic in philly
Strange that Warriors hull is in a very good condition as it has not to my knowledge been out of the water except for normal maintenance since it was built in 1861,its iron not steel like Mikasa that may be a factor, Caroline,s hull looks almost as good as new after 96 years.
Not sure which of the 19th century's greatest surviving warships I would like to visit most Mikasa or the Huascar(Mikasa is only just 19th century)so Huascar has got to be first but only if I win the lottery!
Hahaha, come on, Professor, I told you Chile is poor, so trips are far more cheap than in Japan. You can use the city of Concepción as Operation Base to move to Talcahuano. The weather at this date is nice (it is still summer). If you go to Talcahuano maybe you can make a class *5 video in the Elswick tradition of the Huascar.
Sounds great,summer is a distant memory after the coldest winter in 40 years,poor but fascinating,unfortunately the wife will object don't they always! maybe the Victory or Warrior this year if I am lucky.
Back in 94 we stayed in France for a couple of weeks,took the ferry from Portsmouth to Le harve,got to see Victory close up but had to get on the boat so never went aboard,will be in the area about August this year,will defiantly not miss out this time!
Haha!, it makes you happy that Indians couldn't put their finger in an ex-USA cruiser, isn't?
You know, we are just 16 Million semi-starved dudes, with the Huascar we have enough expenses, but yes, it's sad to send marvels like Latorre or O'Higgins to be diemboweled like chickens, vaporizes the dignity of ships.
Only one US ship was scrapped in India that I know of USS Bennington after that there was law passed making it illegal to scrap US ships in poor third world countries due to lax safety standards
There are a few USN ships being scraped at Hartlepool UK they are supply ships I think,the former French carrier Clemenceau is also there it caught fire last week,not much damage,the 1817,s frigate HMS Trincomalee is not far away and far more interesting.
Just some old WW2 rebuilt oilers in UK and frog carrier that was turned back from India, I grew up across the bay from the scrap yard in Kearney New Jersey saw carriers Boxer, Lake Champlain, Wasp, Antietam, Randolph, Essex, FDR, scrapped.They use to burn the insulation off copper wiring there so there was always plumes coming over our house.Use to take raft and catch crabs offsise of ships until my mother found out where they came from and beat the crap out of me (polluted waters)
the local scrap yard closed in 1980 but had a short reprieve in 1990 when some Russian naval ships and subs were broken up,the pollution was very similar also asbestos had to be encapsulated and pcb,s dredged out of the river to restore the site.
Maybe Hartlepool will take some of the retired super carriers for scrap More then likely thay are towed to very deep waters and sunk, keep spies off them
In US decommissioned nuke boats have there reactor removed are welded back together and towed to Bremerton and rest of sub is scrapped reactors buried in pit in Washington for about 100.000 years
Life of a carrier is hard one The energy of the heat and the launch from catapults is absorbed by bulkheads and hull girders,the carrier frame also absorb the energy from arresting gear, Saw action in Cuban Missile crisis, Vietnam, Gulf wars. The Iowas spent most of there time in peaceful sleep in mothballs absorbing hits from sea gulls
True but BB,S have a fascination to me a bit like some people have with steam trains,you know they are obsolete inefficient and ultimately pointless,but there is just something about them.
Everybody has there favorites, Im sure there are people out there who prefer PT boats.I prefer carriers, destroyers cruisers but 2 of the most over looked class of ships, Liberty ship and T 2 tankers Have to respect merchantmen sailing on oilers and ammo ships in torpedo alley early in the war
Should have also mentioned CVE they helped defeat the Uboats and some of them HMS Dasher, USS Liscome Bay blew up and sank with large loss of life Ship builders would weld RIP on them lack of armor, slow speed,
The Flower's were the only weapon to be reverse lend lease,half a dozen worked convoys on the east coast of the US in 42,what endurance to serve on one of them,like crossing the ocean on a fishing boat
Artic convoy were rough on the ships some of early liberties hulls cracked near the deck houses problem fixed by welding band around the hull, murmansk was not exactly great liberty port
Over 200 flowers built and only one left though there might be one surving in some back water port, . Last liberty ship built Albert Boe survives in kodiak alaska as cannery for crabs. another Arthur M Huddel has been giving to Greece for use as museum and Mary Cavett is used as warehouse in vladivostok making 5 surviving liberties
Possible that in some backwater a Flower or something else interesting will turn up WW1 era 6inch gun monitor was used for years as a house boat,strange that in WW2 the simplest things often made the most difference,Flower based on a Whale chaser,Liberty a tramp steamer designed in the 1880,s don't think I would swap either for a V2 rockets or type XX1 U-boats.
Triton was first atomic sub decommissioned in 1969 and in 2010 its still waiting to be scrapped was first sub to circle the globe submerged I believe it had 2 reactors
Unfortunely old wooden sailing ships have little of there original material left only 10% of constitution is original from 1798, HMS Ontario sunk 1780 in Lake Ontario in New york in deep fresh water still has her 2 mast and crow nest and some glass left in windows but its considered admiralty grave site cannot be raised
Thanks my old cock,have tried to do a North Cape video but snookered as it it all took place in the dark may be possible with paintings,Barents sea may be easier.
I once read that the Soviets demanded to dismantle Mikasa after the Japanese surrender but the American military administration for Japan under MacArthur refused that demand for some reason. Nice vid by the way.
Thanks, the story I read was the Soviets demanded it was scraped but on examination it was in such poor condition that they dropped the demand,probably didn't think the Lattoro would be towed that far to be scraped.
大英帝国に感謝！
JINATAHISAKAZU 3 weeks ago
@JINATAHISAKAZU あなたの歓迎!
elswick1542 3 weeks ago
at least she survived from the nightmare of scrapping and sinking:/ phew...
TheBByamashiro 3 weeks ago
Britsh design
Myanleader 1 month ago
Long live the Victory of Sea of Japan ! LONG LIVE THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVY, GREAT COMBINED FLEET !! Dai Nippon Teikoku Kaigun, Rengo-Kantai wa fukyuu nari !!
TheVaccumtube 2 months ago
In 1905 Russian Baltic Fleet was destroyed by Japan navy. This MIKASA was a flagship of Japan fleet. She rests at Yokosuka port now.
kaisermuto 2 months ago 2
Good job !!!
Visit my channel and have a look at my homemade steam powered R/C MIKASA.
januartaka 2 months ago
@chrysanthos66
You mean Mikasa?, if yes then no she surivived WW II and today serve as memorial ship in Yokosuka (restored with great help from Admiral Chester Nimitz by the way).
Qusza2007 6 months ago
Interesting video, but next time use white or yellow subtitles please. Some parts were very hard to read.
VideoCesar07 8 months ago
Nice job of telling the story of Tsushima Straits in short form and weaving it together with current and historic photos of the Mikasa. I am currently building a Hasegawa 1:350 scale model of the Mikasa and found your video handy to verify color schemes since I have misplaced my own photos of my visit to the Mikasa in 1999. BTW Admiral Togo was my great-grandmother's brother. Thanks for the honored tribute, elswick1542!
TFB777 8 months ago
@TFB777 Thanks for the great comment,last time I built a Hsegawa kit it was a MIG25 Foxbat about 1978 very good indeed.Guns on MIkasa today IIR are longer than those used at Tsushima.
elswick1542 8 months ago
@chrysanthos66 Battle in the Sea of Japan made in 1969.
elswick1542 11 months ago
@elswick1542 is it available in youtube?
12ock 10 months ago
@12ock Film was never released in Europe I got a copy from IIR China via Ebay.
elswick1542 10 months ago
@elswick1542 i just want to know where can i watch it
12ock 10 months ago
@12ock Only clips on Youtube not the full movie,its very rare.
elswick1542 9 months ago
I read that in 1945 the Russians wanted Mikasa scrapped. Also the only Polish General they did not murder at Katyn forest in 1941 put his survival down to the fact that he was an officer in the Imperial Navy during the battle and the only one to vote against surrendering their ship to the Japanese.The Russians also took satisfaction in hoisting the Soviet flag over Port Arthur scene of the defeat of the Czars army in 1905.
Talk about long memories!
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
Also well-known fact that russian fleet had to make a very long journey from Baltic sea and had a lot of old ships which reduced the overall battle-worthiness rather than increase it. And something rarely mentioned - Togo was a lucky bastard, standing on the open bridge in all battles and getting not even scratch while russians bombarded Mikasa with shells, and all russian admirals (Vitgeft, Rozhedstvensky, Makarov) dying even before the battle really starts.
troubleboy 1 year ago
@troubleboy Yes this movie does not show that fact. The russian gunners were green also. Many of the russian ships had smoothbore cannon and still rigged for sailing this makes it like all the russian ships were modern.
Lumotaku 1 year ago
Not bad, but mistakes mistakes. Check the names of russian ships somewhere, you use some barely recognisable twisted re-translations from japanese. Black powder? You kidding? It was not used anywhere since about 1890. Russian shells were armor piercing with little explosives, while japanese used high-explosive shimosa shells which couldn't penetrate russian armor but killed staff, caused fires and destroyed superstructures. Russian artillerists were also much worse than well-trained japanese.
troubleboy 1 year ago
@troubleboy Translations are from the movie subtitles and not mine,black powder was used in Royal Navy capped pointed common shell until after the battle of Jutland in 1916,Russian APshell used a wet gun cotton bursting charge,few IJN shells were filled with Shimose at this time the RN called it Lyddite.neither side could penetrate thick armour,6" was the most penetrated by a Russian 12" gun.
elswick1542 1 year ago
@troubleboy
The idea that Russian shells were propelled by black powder must have arisen from the fact that one Russian obsolete battleship, Navarin, actually used it.
But the real problem was, of course, not with the shells or guns, but with the quality of leadership in the 2nd Pacific Squadron. Ill-trained gunners were just one of the consequences.
Artyom2012 11 months ago
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troubleboy 1 year ago
I have the DVD of this movie, really interesting.
I knew the Mikasa was built at Barrow but i didn't know there is a Mikasa street.
jerrymail 1 year ago
Excellent video!
Very valiable pictures.
STATIONO 2 years ago 2
Thanks friend.
elswick1542 2 years ago
I would not make the swap Liberties were built faster then they could be sunk one was laid down launched and sent to sea in one week, Flowers and Liberties may not have been most comfortable ships to sail on but they got the job done. Maybe one day will take cruise on John Brown or Jeremiah OBrian
jers59 2 years ago
Sounds good a triple expansion engine is a great think to see,sort of a moving work of art.
elswick1542 2 years ago
I believe the Obriens engines were used in that mess of movie called titanic
jers59 2 years ago 2
Possible they would look right but not to scale.
elswick1542 2 years ago
They cando anything with lights and cameras, Some ancient Great Lake Ore carriers are still steaming with skinner uniflow engines, EM Ford built in 1898 had quadruple expansion steam engines just went to scrap yard in Michigan
jers59 2 years ago
Will you do any tributes to one of the unsong heros of WW2 the CVE, combustible, vulnerable expedable have uncle who served on Sangamon recovered rare cruise book from Sangamon after his children tossed it in garbage after he passed on
jers59 2 years ago
Absolutely have just posted a Flower Class,will get around to the CVE,S .The first was converted in my home town from a captured German freighter,HMS Audacity (D10) it had no hangers or bridge and just a few Wildcats but fought in a number of important convoy battles before being torpedoed,my Father watched it being converted and my Grandfather worked on it.
elswick1542 2 years ago
There is movie coming out that deals with capture of U505 by CVE Guadalcanal
jers59 2 years ago
My favorite CVE was Kalinin Bay at Samar was shelled by 14 inch BB I think Kongo, then shelled by 8 inch heavy cruisers ( In truth they were APR and passed through the ship) then its rear 5 inch gun scored a hit on CA most likely Suzya which latter blew up when its torpedos exploded also hit some jap destroyers
jers59 2 years ago
you mean that movie by james cameron.... one of the best directors in the world.... that won numerous academy awards.... and was one of the highest earning movies in history? that mess of a movie? or are you a mess of a critic
101andrewj 2 years ago
Yes titanic the chick flick was a mess Hurt locker put hurt on camerons Avatar sunday night
jers59 2 years ago
@elswick: pls tell me, what's the title of the movie? Is it "battle of tsushima" 1975 ?
Rackets1 2 years ago
@Rackets1
the film is called Battle of the Japan Sea—directed by Seiji Maruyama,hard to get a copy in and never as far as I know released in Europe,got my copy from Ebay.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Lower hull of Mikasa could be in bad condition no way of knowing because its encased in concrete was stripped to the hull after WW2 then rebuilt using parts from Latorre
jers59 2 years ago 2
It may be possible to detect corrosion on the hull using an electrical conductivity technique,it works well on oil gas and water pipe lines,but of course its very difficult to repair.
elswick1542 2 years ago
The Russians had to replace the entire lower hull on Aurora in ST Petersburg they then towed the lower hullout to sea and sunk it, read somewhere that Mikasa hull in concrete was decaying, Same with Olympic in philly
jers59 2 years ago
Strange that Warriors hull is in a very good condition as it has not to my knowledge been out of the water except for normal maintenance since it was built in 1861,its iron not steel like Mikasa that may be a factor, Caroline,s hull looks almost as good as new after 96 years.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Well, at least the scraping of Latorre gave new life to this old lady ....
A clock work the job of restoration, very impressive.
matamuelas 2 years ago 4
Not sure which of the 19th century's greatest surviving warships I would like to visit most Mikasa or the Huascar(Mikasa is only just 19th century)so Huascar has got to be first but only if I win the lottery!
elswick1542 2 years ago
Hahaha, come on, Professor, I told you Chile is poor, so trips are far more cheap than in Japan. You can use the city of Concepción as Operation Base to move to Talcahuano. The weather at this date is nice (it is still summer). If you go to Talcahuano maybe you can make a class *5 video in the Elswick tradition of the Huascar.
matamuelas 2 years ago
Sounds great,summer is a distant memory after the coldest winter in 40 years,poor but fascinating,unfortunately the wife will object don't they always! maybe the Victory or Warrior this year if I am lucky.
elswick1542 2 years ago
@elswick1542
Yeah, I heard the wether enraged with Europe this year.
Wifes ... maybe undercovering the trip as a pleasure trip? No, wifes have a narrow sense of smell for such ambushes... hahaha.
But Nelson is really a seven seas legend, and his gold and black ship is something that I need to see before I die.
Best regards from Chile.
matamuelas 2 years ago
@matamuelas
Back in 94 we stayed in France for a couple of weeks,took the ferry from Portsmouth to Le harve,got to see Victory close up but had to get on the boat so never went aboard,will be in the area about August this year,will defiantly not miss out this time!
All the best from the UK.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Why did you sell the old ex Brooklyn to indians for scrap would have made good museum at least she sank before she was scrapped in Alang
jers59 2 years ago
@jers59
Haha!, it makes you happy that Indians couldn't put their finger in an ex-USA cruiser, isn't?
You know, we are just 16 Million semi-starved dudes, with the Huascar we have enough expenses, but yes, it's sad to send marvels like Latorre or O'Higgins to be diemboweled like chickens, vaporizes the dignity of ships.
matamuelas 2 years ago
Only one US ship was scrapped in India that I know of USS Bennington after that there was law passed making it illegal to scrap US ships in poor third world countries due to lax safety standards
jers59 2 years ago
@jers59
There are a few USN ships being scraped at Hartlepool UK they are supply ships I think,the former French carrier Clemenceau is also there it caught fire last week,not much damage,the 1817,s frigate HMS Trincomalee is not far away and far more interesting.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Just some old WW2 rebuilt oilers in UK and frog carrier that was turned back from India, I grew up across the bay from the scrap yard in Kearney New Jersey saw carriers Boxer, Lake Champlain, Wasp, Antietam, Randolph, Essex, FDR, scrapped.They use to burn the insulation off copper wiring there so there was always plumes coming over our house.Use to take raft and catch crabs offsise of ships until my mother found out where they came from and beat the crap out of me (polluted waters)
jers59 2 years ago
the local scrap yard closed in 1980 but had a short reprieve in 1990 when some Russian naval ships and subs were broken up,the pollution was very similar also asbestos had to be encapsulated and pcb,s dredged out of the river to restore the site.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Maybe Hartlepool will take some of the retired super carriers for scrap More then likely thay are towed to very deep waters and sunk, keep spies off them
jers59 2 years ago
RN wanted to do exactly that with nuke subs but the greens objected.
elswick1542 2 years ago
In US decommissioned nuke boats have there reactor removed are welded back together and towed to Bremerton and rest of sub is scrapped reactors buried in pit in Washington for about 100.000 years
jers59 2 years ago
The RN ships have the nuclear materiel removed but are still not scraped even Dreadnought I think is at Portsmouth its was decommissioned about 1982.
elswick1542 2 years ago
@elswick1542 When they retire the Enterprise it will be expensive with 8 nuclear reactors, which made it maybe the fastest warship ever
jers59 2 years ago
@jers59 also in my opinion one of the greatest and most iconic warships ever.
elswick1542 2 years ago
@elswick1542 Which one HMS Ontario?
jers59 2 years ago
@jers59 no the Nuke carrier.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Life of a carrier is hard one The energy of the heat and the launch from catapults is absorbed by bulkheads and hull girders,the carrier frame also absorb the energy from arresting gear, Saw action in Cuban Missile crisis, Vietnam, Gulf wars. The Iowas spent most of there time in peaceful sleep in mothballs absorbing hits from sea gulls
jers59 2 years ago
True but BB,S have a fascination to me a bit like some people have with steam trains,you know they are obsolete inefficient and ultimately pointless,but there is just something about them.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Everybody has there favorites, Im sure there are people out there who prefer PT boats.I prefer carriers, destroyers cruisers but 2 of the most over looked class of ships, Liberty ship and T 2 tankers Have to respect merchantmen sailing on oilers and ammo ships in torpedo alley early in the war
jers59 2 years ago
Should have also mentioned CVE they helped defeat the Uboats and some of them HMS Dasher, USS Liscome Bay blew up and sank with large loss of life Ship builders would weld RIP on them lack of armor, slow speed,
jers59 2 years ago 2
Corvettes are overlooked a bit like Liberty/empire ships,imagine crossing the Atlantic on a Flower class with a Wolf pack closing in.
elswick1542 2 years ago
The Flower's were the only weapon to be reverse lend lease,half a dozen worked convoys on the east coast of the US in 42,what endurance to serve on one of them,like crossing the ocean on a fishing boat
bv141a 2 years ago
4 were even operated by the Kreigsmarine,the Arctic convoys don't even go there bad enough on a battleship!
elswick1542 2 years ago
Artic convoy were rough on the ships some of early liberties hulls cracked near the deck houses problem fixed by welding band around the hull, murmansk was not exactly great liberty port
jers59 2 years ago
only one flower corvette left, Was first flower class named flower?
jers59 2 years ago
Last flower is the HMCN Sackville,first was the Gladiolus.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Over 200 flowers built and only one left though there might be one surving in some back water port, . Last liberty ship built Albert Boe survives in kodiak alaska as cannery for crabs. another Arthur M Huddel has been giving to Greece for use as museum and Mary Cavett is used as warehouse in vladivostok making 5 surviving liberties
jers59 2 years ago
Possible that in some backwater a Flower or something else interesting will turn up WW1 era 6inch gun monitor was used for years as a house boat,strange that in WW2 the simplest things often made the most difference,Flower based on a Whale chaser,Liberty a tramp steamer designed in the 1880,s don't think I would swap either for a V2 rockets or type XX1 U-boats.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Triton was first atomic sub decommissioned in 1969 and in 2010 its still waiting to be scrapped was first sub to circle the globe submerged I believe it had 2 reactors
jers59 2 years ago
Unfortunely old wooden sailing ships have little of there original material left only 10% of constitution is original from 1798, HMS Ontario sunk 1780 in Lake Ontario in New york in deep fresh water still has her 2 mast and crow nest and some glass left in windows but its considered admiralty grave site cannot be raised
jers59 2 years ago
Nice video Elswick boy.
Have to learn how to use moving pictures myself........DrGull knows his stuff.
As does Elswick1542......do a video of North Cape.(HMS Duke of York)
NAIAD49 2 years ago 5
@NAIAD49
Thanks my old cock,have tried to do a North Cape video but snookered as it it all took place in the dark may be possible with paintings,Barents sea may be easier.
elswick1542 2 years ago
what the name of this film??
840511065853 4 months ago
@840511065853 Battle in the sea of Japan made 1969.
elswick1542 4 months ago
very nice video
*****
Totenschlacht 2 years ago 4
Thanks friend
elswick1542 2 years ago
Great video. Up to your usual high standards. Very appropriate choice of music too. What was it?
bahoonies 2 years ago 3
Thanks the sound track is made up of clips from the motion picture sound track,The Last Samurai.
elswick1542 2 years ago
Nice video.
italodisco4ever1 2 years ago
Thanks
elswick1542 2 years ago
where is she now?
cocoaandcoffe 2 years ago
Mikasa is at Yokosuka,not completely sure were in Japan that is.
elswick1542 2 years ago
It's the South-Western entrance of Tokyo Bay.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
thanks
cocoaandcoffe 2 years ago
You're welcome. Check it out on google earth.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Very nice.
I read that MacArthur stopped the Mikasa from being scrapped by using her has a refuge centre.
A very famous battleship.
shathriel 2 years ago
Think it was examined by the Soviets,found to be just a bomb damaged unrecognisable shell,may of been used as a refuge centre also.
elswick1542 2 years ago
I once read that the Soviets demanded to dismantle Mikasa after the Japanese surrender but the American military administration for Japan under MacArthur refused that demand for some reason. Nice vid by the way.
DrGull1888 2 years ago
Thanks, the story I read was the Soviets demanded it was scraped but on examination it was in such poor condition that they dropped the demand,probably didn't think the Lattoro would be towed that far to be scraped.
elswick1542 2 years ago
I thought the Soviets tried to remove a memorabilia of Tsushima. But your version is also possible.
DrGull1888 2 years ago