This was a magnificent production and I thank you personally for posting this. One thing -- had to crank up audio to the max on it. Other than this it's GREAT! It's amazing the tiny number of people know ANYTHING about this..
Oh lord, here we go again with misinformation propelled by Nazi legend. The Littorios were just as big, just as fast and outgunned the Bismarck. The South Dakotas were marginally slower but definitley out gunned the Bismarck with their nine 16 inch guns. A good ship but not the indestructible behemoth it's portrayed as. It was crippled by an obsolete biplane and blown to simithereens largely by old HMS Rodney that put out Bismarck's two forward turrets in the first 15 minutes of its last action.
Adding to my previous comment and to stir things up a bit. My Uncle, who was in the Royal Navy during WW2, was in the 'Royal Oak' when it was supposedly sunk by Prien's UBoat. Until the day my Uncle died he swore that it was not torpedoed. The explosion occurred inside the ship and was too low down to be a torpedo. He thought it was sabotage.
@derfel18 Thing is, Royal Oak is upside down on the bottom of scapa flow, and the torpedo damage has been surveyed. One hit the extreme tip of the bow and this damage is visible from the surface as the hull is not far down at this point. Google Royal Oak on images and shots of the most recent sophisticated sonar images will turn up.Eyewitnesses are very often the most unreliable sources.
to AntarcticaMate24 -I was a child in London during the Blitz and the bombing and flying bombs and rockets. You would not want to be around back them. The Germans , however, got what they deserved for starting the war. derfel18
I don't believe this - the programme has been on 27 seconds and there's adverts flashing up on the screen - what the hell is going on here ????????????
a house only costed a thousand bucks, if that much.
and just about anything else ranged from just a penny, to about 20 bucks. lol
I could walk down the street, and go home 50 applications for employment, hand them in, and have 50 jobs.
and didnt have to worry about what people would say or do, because people didnt act like animals, unless they really were monsters, but most monsters were murderers, and easy to apprehend quickly.
damn, @7:20 who would have known that this seemingly normal man so proud of his ship would be responsible for the death's of million over the next few years after this was filmed!
As fersome as Bismarck was she was nothing compared to the battleships Germany had on the drawing board: the H-Class, which were desinged to be just as big and as powerful as the Yamato Class, the only thing that prevented the H-Class from becoming a reality was the outbreak of World War II. The only other surface ships that could've devistated the convoys as badly as the U-Boats were the Graf Zepplin class aircraft carriers had they been completed
No! Bismarck at 50,000 tons was big but NOT the biggest afloat.
The biggest battleship of all time was the Japanese YAMATO at 73000 tons! sunk on Apr 9 1945 by planes from US carriers near Okinawa -12 Americans lost to 3700 Japanese killed.
how about bring bismarck and tirpitz ,prince eugen,sharnhorst,gneisenau came back today bigger and stronger and just let lose on every body what then.
@goblinking300 not a bad idea if the Germans waited 6 months they could have sent both battleships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, into the North Atlantic. Can you imagine the havoc they could have caused?
The Allied send every ship they had to sink the Bismarck. I think the Bismarck and Tirpitz would be outnumberd. The German build less Machines but perfect ones. The Bismarck was the Tiger Tank on the Water.
The Narrator is intorducing the general concept of battleship design in the beginning, with the Iowa illustrating his point. The Iowas are considered the most successful battleships ever, and were the technical state of the art in battleship design - especially in fire control. So, it makes sense to show the Iowa.
Has anyone ever thought that the Bismarck couldve been Saved, because at the time, the Luftwaffe did possess an Aircraft that has a Range of over 2000 miles and was used many times to attack and sink Supply Ships that were inbound to England...the Focke Wulf FW200 Condor.
@saksari93 Not all of the Condors were used in Barbarossa, since the plane was used for Long Range Recon and Bombing Runs on Merchant Shipping heading to England from the US in 1941.
I wonder what would have happened if the Bismarck & Tirpitz sailed together along with the Scharnhorst & Gniesenau?That would have been quite an impossing force. Tha battle of the Atlantic could have been quite different.
Such a force would´ve need a large screen of destroyers (no less than 8) to protect them from subs and aircraft. With such a force is nearly impossible to stay hidden for long and in a matter of days they would be facing the whole Royal Navy along with quite some bombers from the RAF.
Donitz and Raeder both knew the surface fleet of the Kriegsmarine was not nearly enough to be a threat to the Royal Navy in a face to face battle. Thats the reason for the corsair and submarine warfare.
Due mostly to blind luck, sure. It took the combined might of the bulk of the British Atlantic fleet to sink the Bismarck, and they only just barely managed too.
Hell, the Allies knew where the Tirpitz was for most of the the last few years of the war, and they still had an ass-hard time sinking her.
There is a huge difference between "weight" and "displacement" that this documentary misses. Naval displacement is based on the actual weight of the water a ship displaces at an average of 2,120 pounds per 100 cubic feet. Merchant ship displacement is the capacity of the hull up to the weather deck. Thus merchant ships and liners seem to be heavier, which is not the case at all.
Under the treaty, Naval ships are classed by their finished, ready for sea displacement, with 2/3 fuel, ammo and supplies. This can allow for "paper" savings by mis-stating the amount of ammo and fuel the ship can actually carry. The Iowas were 3k tons over, the Bismark was 3k over and the British ships were actually under the limit.
The Germans built the Bismark to the legal limit of 45k tons, DISPLACEMENT. Because the Japanese had pulled out of the 1931 extension of the 1921 Treaty in 1935, an "escalator" clause had been automatically activated, allowing Germany, Britain and the Us to build ships of 45k tons and 16in guns.
Because those who control the media don't want to glorify the Germans in any way!
They rather come out with crap like "inglorious basterds" and "valkarie" that glorify cowards or ridiculous senerios that are reminiscent of "Hogan's Heroes" than real events. They should make a movie about Michael Wittmann or Hans Rudel or even Hanna Reitsch, real life German Heroes, whos exploits revival the fictional Rambo!
It's appreciated, but don't count on a landslide of viewers. In 2007, WWII is as far removed from the consciousness of citizens ages 15-30, as the American Civil War was to Americans ages 15-30 in 1965. Amnesia Accelerated, Reigns - Alas.
Well, according to a couple professors at college, I am a pretty good writer. Trust me, I have my own personal library at home. Most of which are by Stephen Ambrose, I have books from the American Rev., Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam.
@kingtiger88 Excuse me, but youtube says that your channel is not available in my country (France). Would you please re-consider and make your channel available to all of your subscribers? Thank you for your uploads.
Bismarck was an awesome ship! We can use something like her today.
TitanicBismarck1987 1 month ago in playlist WW2 Naval Warfare - Hood & Bismarck
It sucks that no navy in the world uses battleships anmore.
GTGreviews 3 months ago 2
This was a magnificent production and I thank you personally for posting this. One thing -- had to crank up audio to the max on it. Other than this it's GREAT! It's amazing the tiny number of people know ANYTHING about this..
ChristopherSaindon 5 months ago in playlist Bismark
One of my favorite documentary
Bismarck one ship to remember
263sparky 6 months ago
0:44/9:00 hard core
Mandigmatron 7 months ago
volume too low in this film
magicbrainman 8 months ago
50,000 tons?? That's way over the limit than what Versailles set!
smallfire66 8 months ago
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SupaaaCreolaan211 9 months ago
Oh lord, here we go again with misinformation propelled by Nazi legend. The Littorios were just as big, just as fast and outgunned the Bismarck. The South Dakotas were marginally slower but definitley out gunned the Bismarck with their nine 16 inch guns. A good ship but not the indestructible behemoth it's portrayed as. It was crippled by an obsolete biplane and blown to simithereens largely by old HMS Rodney that put out Bismarck's two forward turrets in the first 15 minutes of its last action.
deriter64 10 months ago
How does the reporter know that Hitler was an evil man because of building the Bismarck?
StaffanGoldschmidt 11 months ago 2
Brilliant documentary. Fascinating story.
jsmilgin 1 year ago
Adding to my previous comment and to stir things up a bit. My Uncle, who was in the Royal Navy during WW2, was in the 'Royal Oak' when it was supposedly sunk by Prien's UBoat. Until the day my Uncle died he swore that it was not torpedoed. The explosion occurred inside the ship and was too low down to be a torpedo. He thought it was sabotage.
derfel18 1 year ago
@derfel18 Thing is, Royal Oak is upside down on the bottom of scapa flow, and the torpedo damage has been surveyed. One hit the extreme tip of the bow and this damage is visible from the surface as the hull is not far down at this point. Google Royal Oak on images and shots of the most recent sophisticated sonar images will turn up.Eyewitnesses are very often the most unreliable sources.
SvenTviking 11 months ago
to AntarcticaMate24 -I was a child in London during the Blitz and the bombing and flying bombs and rockets. You would not want to be around back them. The Germans , however, got what they deserved for starting the war. derfel18
derfel18 1 year ago
I don't believe this - the programme has been on 27 seconds and there's adverts flashing up on the screen - what the hell is going on here ????????????
vulpecula999 1 year ago
the usa should make 60 new battle ships, the New England Class.
:)
AntarcticaMate24 1 year ago
I wish I was alive back then.
a house only costed a thousand bucks, if that much.
and just about anything else ranged from just a penny, to about 20 bucks. lol
I could walk down the street, and go home 50 applications for employment, hand them in, and have 50 jobs.
and didnt have to worry about what people would say or do, because people didnt act like animals, unless they really were monsters, but most monsters were murderers, and easy to apprehend quickly.
RoyalAntarctican24 1 year ago
damn, @7:20 who would have known that this seemingly normal man so proud of his ship would be responsible for the death's of million over the next few years after this was filmed!
fordxbgtfalcon 1 year ago
higgy baby!
fordxbgtfalcon 1 year ago
As fersome as Bismarck was she was nothing compared to the battleships Germany had on the drawing board: the H-Class, which were desinged to be just as big and as powerful as the Yamato Class, the only thing that prevented the H-Class from becoming a reality was the outbreak of World War II. The only other surface ships that could've devistated the convoys as badly as the U-Boats were the Graf Zepplin class aircraft carriers had they been completed
snakes3425 1 year ago
I've watched this before, and the story is sad about how many people actually survived the sinking of the Hood and the Bismarck when they went down.
TheQueenoftheDead 1 year ago
these vids are great. history comes alive again for us.
Rico8458 1 year ago
Paul Beaver looks so young here :D
heisenfeis 1 year ago
This has been cut to ribbons and what happened to the Brit commentary ? This Yank sounds like a guy selling insurance.
stnicholas54 1 year ago
a testament to the furhers evil etc....erm no she was in the design phase way before hitler popped up on the scene...
GamingLeeLee 1 year ago
The allies should have rigged the place to explode at the opening ceremony. However this is not Inglorious Bastards so I'll shut up now.
pedrosmellz101 1 year ago
dont ya just love irony, everytime someone declares a ship unsinkable it ultimately sinks... I'm not making fun btw its just an observation
GamingLeeLee 1 year ago
thanks for uploading :D
chemicaltemptation 1 year ago
john hillerman the narrator? higgins from magnum pi?
bclmax 1 year ago
Love the narrator!
EJCQGriff 1 year ago
Thankyou again Kingtiger88 for great vids- Keep it up
Flyingwolf46 1 year ago
No! Bismarck at 50,000 tons was big but NOT the biggest afloat.
The biggest battleship of all time was the Japanese YAMATO at 73000 tons! sunk on Apr 9 1945 by planes from US carriers near Okinawa -12 Americans lost to 3700 Japanese killed.
ANDPRY 1 year ago
@ANDPRY
At the time, the Yamato was still being built when the Bismarck was fully operational, which makes Bismarck the Biggest Ship afloat.
EvilFingers 1 year ago
The History Channel has got some seriously badass millitary stuff
BlackValkyire 2 years ago
how about bring bismarck and tirpitz ,prince eugen,sharnhorst,gneisenau came back today bigger and stronger and just let lose on every body what then.
goblinking300 2 years ago
@goblinking300 not a bad idea if the Germans waited 6 months they could have sent both battleships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, into the North Atlantic. Can you imagine the havoc they could have caused?
Sokar2488 1 year ago
@Sokar2488
The Allied send every ship they had to sink the Bismarck. I think the Bismarck and Tirpitz would be outnumberd. The German build less Machines but perfect ones. The Bismarck was the Tiger Tank on the Water.
JazzJaRa 1 year ago
@JazzJaRa allies? it was just the English in that battle.
Dogmeat1950 1 year ago
@Dogmeat1950
I know, but i call them allied.
JazzJaRa 1 year ago
at the beginning isnt that USS Missouri ?
:3 <3
willy1315 2 years ago
I think it is Wisconsin- BB-64, 64 looks to be on the bow- same class as Missouri, of course.
clank4001 2 years ago
so whats a usa ship goto do with bismarck and hood pmsl
imachristian100 2 years ago
@imachristian100
The Narrator is intorducing the general concept of battleship design in the beginning, with the Iowa illustrating his point. The Iowas are considered the most successful battleships ever, and were the technical state of the art in battleship design - especially in fire control. So, it makes sense to show the Iowa.
Treetop64 2 years ago
the bismark sits in the sea so right. Really a lovley looking ship that glides through the water. Allthough i hate to say it. god save the queen.
patsyd80 2 years ago
Has anyone ever thought that the Bismarck couldve been Saved, because at the time, the Luftwaffe did possess an Aircraft that has a Range of over 2000 miles and was used many times to attack and sink Supply Ships that were inbound to England...the Focke Wulf FW200 Condor.
EvilFingers 2 years ago 4
@EvilFingers They Had them...but at the time they coudlnt be used to get out at sea to provide air protection for the Bismarck
Vicsam7 2 years ago
@EvilFingers But what do you do about the damaged rudder ? She needed a tow
tincoffin 1 year ago
@tincoffin
Think Sea Going Tug Boats.
EvilFingers 1 year ago
@EvilFingers is this true that the Germans have the fw2000 condor ?
Badboy21thekiller 11 months ago
@Badboy21thekiller Focke Wulf 200 Condor, look for it on Youtube, there are several videos of it or google it for the specifications and war service
EvilFingers 11 months ago
@EvilFingers shame that they all of them where probaly posisioned in the russian border for the preperation of operation barbarossa
saksari93 2 days ago
@saksari93 Not all of the Condors were used in Barbarossa, since the plane was used for Long Range Recon and Bombing Runs on Merchant Shipping heading to England from the US in 1941.
EvilFingers 1 day ago
Amazing !
Harvin87 2 years ago
Great documentary! That narrator could cure insomnia though... he sounds SO excited zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Yanqui9 2 years ago 19
I know what you mean!!
spookespook 2 years ago
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ENGLAND AND GERMANY TOGHETHER europe would be ours now long live the fuhrer...seig
imachristian100 2 years ago
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fuking gobshite nazi queer
77vinbob 2 years ago
I wonder what would have happened if the Bismarck & Tirpitz sailed together along with the Scharnhorst & Gniesenau?That would have been quite an impossing force. Tha battle of the Atlantic could have been quite different.
kaang69 2 years ago 7
Such a force would´ve need a large screen of destroyers (no less than 8) to protect them from subs and aircraft. With such a force is nearly impossible to stay hidden for long and in a matter of days they would be facing the whole Royal Navy along with quite some bombers from the RAF.
Donitz and Raeder both knew the surface fleet of the Kriegsmarine was not nearly enough to be a threat to the Royal Navy in a face to face battle. Thats the reason for the corsair and submarine warfare.
bfahren 2 years ago
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Would not have mattered,planes whould have done the same......
BISMARK SUNK IN 9 DAYS.....NUFF SAID..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
CastAway421 2 years ago
Due mostly to blind luck, sure. It took the combined might of the bulk of the British Atlantic fleet to sink the Bismarck, and they only just barely managed too.
Hell, the Allies knew where the Tirpitz was for most of the the last few years of the war, and they still had an ass-hard time sinking her.
elfinfluff 2 years ago 2
It was a damn shame the Bismarck was sunk....Awesome ship!
"This ship is a 'He' not a 'She'!", Capt. Lindeman
Spatacus360 3 years ago 2
all ships are consederd a she and if the bismarck was not sunk we would have lost war and we will be nelaling to the nais
ironwolf9999 2 years ago
One ship doesn't win a war.
NinjaDude564 2 years ago 3
she would have sunk a shit load of merchent ships that carry millitary supplys
ironwolf9999 2 years ago 3
One ship at the right place at the right moment can give that decisive tip in favor of the Axis. But if the Bismarck could have done that?
ghostdivision7 2 years ago
Captain Lindemann was wrong, men don't have curves like that. The Bismarck is a SHE!!! LOL!
spookespook 2 years ago
There is a huge difference between "weight" and "displacement" that this documentary misses. Naval displacement is based on the actual weight of the water a ship displaces at an average of 2,120 pounds per 100 cubic feet. Merchant ship displacement is the capacity of the hull up to the weather deck. Thus merchant ships and liners seem to be heavier, which is not the case at all.
Bullettube 3 years ago
Under the treaty, Naval ships are classed by their finished, ready for sea displacement, with 2/3 fuel, ammo and supplies. This can allow for "paper" savings by mis-stating the amount of ammo and fuel the ship can actually carry. The Iowas were 3k tons over, the Bismark was 3k over and the British ships were actually under the limit.
Bullettube 3 years ago
The Germans built the Bismark to the legal limit of 45k tons, DISPLACEMENT. Because the Japanese had pulled out of the 1931 extension of the 1921 Treaty in 1935, an "escalator" clause had been automatically activated, allowing Germany, Britain and the Us to build ships of 45k tons and 16in guns.
Bullettube 3 years ago
I wonder why there aren't any new movies about Bismarck. It's the most epic sea hunt/battle ever.
Bustetrollet 3 years ago 22
@Bustetrollet
Because those who control the media don't want to glorify the Germans in any way!
They rather come out with crap like "inglorious basterds" and "valkarie" that glorify cowards or ridiculous senerios that are reminiscent of "Hogan's Heroes" than real events. They should make a movie about Michael Wittmann or Hans Rudel or even Hanna Reitsch, real life German Heroes, whos exploits revival the fictional Rambo!
konigtigertank 1 year ago 3
@Bustetrollet I remember hoping for that exact thing after "Titanic" came out---what a story you know????
Guitfiddlejase 1 year ago
@Bustetrollet There is a movie, its also called "Sink the Bismarck" and it stars Kenneth Moore.
SvenTviking 11 months ago
@Bustetrollet Got that right! The greatest WWII story of them all...
Guitfiddlejase 10 months ago
Fascinating part 1. :)
I'm going to slowly savour all 10 episodes during the next few hours. 5*
straydoggio 4 years ago 6
Let me know how you liked it. Please Rate!!! and comment
kingtiger88 4 years ago
@kingtiger88 thank you for this excellent documentary!
lusitanium1 10 months ago
@kingtiger88 sorry - can't give it a rating, I turned it off after 27 seconds when the first advert flashed up
sockington1 7 months ago
very nice video thanks! 5/5
rawkon91 4 years ago
PLEASE RATE IF YOU LIKED !!!!! THanks
kingtiger88 4 years ago 3
It's appreciated, but don't count on a landslide of viewers. In 2007, WWII is as far removed from the consciousness of citizens ages 15-30, as the American Civil War was to Americans ages 15-30 in 1965. Amnesia Accelerated, Reigns - Alas.
7855waldo 4 years ago
I'm 20, and things like this keep me interested in history and WWII. I have a 500 pg. book on the Bismarck. Thanks for posting this.
ThePearl1941 2 years ago 3
Excellent. Just remember, most historians know how to research, but are lousy writers and generally, do not get the able editors they need.
Try, when the time comes along,
1) Endgame 1945, by David Stafford, &
2) Napoleon Bonaparte, by Alan Schom.
You should be able to get used copies for a good price on Amazon.
7855waldo 2 years ago
Well, according to a couple professors at college, I am a pretty good writer. Trust me, I have my own personal library at home. Most of which are by Stephen Ambrose, I have books from the American Rev., Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam.
ThePearl1941 2 years ago
you need to get out more maybe.?
patsyd80 2 years ago
@kingtiger88 Great uploads, but couldn't you increase the sound level? I am using headphones and i can barely hear what the guy is saying.
alxcsb 1 year ago
@kingtiger88 better than the 5 part series from History Channel
markushanrath 1 year ago
@kingtiger88 Excuse me, but youtube says that your channel is not available in my country (France). Would you please re-consider and make your channel available to all of your subscribers? Thank you for your uploads.
leananshae 8 months ago