Dying War Ships

[admiraldma]

This is a great video, a few pics I have never seen before, notably of Exeter, Pennsylvania, Eagle, and Oyodo. Great stuff.

[DrGull1888]

@admiraldma Thanks a lot.

[Tull29]

@admiraldma -"For Those Who go Down With the Sea"

-beautiful and meaningful montage.

[jef934]

where is the bismarck?

[DrGull1888]

@jef934 When I made this video I wasn't aware that there is a picture of her sinking. I sailor on HMS Dorsetshire took it. She might appear in a possible sequel.

[admiraldma]

@jef934 Everyone is probably sick of seeing pics of the usual WW2 era ships, especially Bismarck! Im glad to see a few different ones.

[jef934]

@admiraldma sure but he still could have put it in between

[collectorman81]

Where's the IJN Yamato?

[DrGull1888]

@collectorman81 She might be in a possible sequel.

[ThadYaltis]

No mention of the only German capital ship to survive the war? Prinz Eugen. (Subsequently damaged in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test, and sank after being towed away and then flooding). Gneisenau was not destroyed in combat either, it was scuttled as a blockship to close the harbour. (It's main guns had already been removed to create shore batteries which still exist today).

[admiraldma]

@ThadYaltis Capital ships are Battleships and Battlecruisers, Prinz Eugen was a heavy Cruiser. Sorry.

[elevenCubed]

Don't be Lazy...fix you text supers...your text is covering what you're audience is watching

[DrGull1888]

@elevenCubed I do not understand.

[elevenCubed]

@DrGull1888

I apologize for the typo. Fix YOUR superimposed text. You are covering what is most important, the ship that is sinking. Put the text over the sky or the water or the beach.

[DrGull1888]

@elevenCubed Well, this video was made with windows moviemaker xp. You can't move the text with that program.

[DrGull1888]

@elevenCubed Once posted the video file can't be changed. The only way would be to delete this video and redo it from the scratch. And honestly, I won't do so.

[TheBByamashiro]

my favorite was fuso ise and kongo....but......:(

[coolconfuzer]

Glowworm was a great story. That Captain had a huge pair of balls.

[RemZone79]

I would like to thank all the warlords and weak ,corrupt government minds for building such ships of beauty. They are engineering masterpieces and rulers of the sea.

[Koteika2012]

бисмарк  и худ где и шарнхорт?

[Warkillerism]

If they re floated USS California, then why they did not re float USS Arizona? USS Arizona was a great ship to sail on the seas.

[DrGull1888]

@Warkillerism She was too much damaged. The explosion of her ammunition tore Arizona's hull literally apart while California needed a few holes to be jammed.

[Soundwave3591]

@DrGull1888 she also had the bodies of 1177 men still inside, and they wanted our Sailors to remember why they were fighting.

[pramboy09]

@Warkillerism simple, the arizona had a broken back! pretty hard to refloat something that is split in two. The california just had torpedo damage to the hull that sunk her and was pumped out and refloated

[Gromit801]

@Warkillerism Because realistically, from the number 2 turret barbet forward, the IS NO USS Arizona. Just a collapsed pile of steel.

[Merlin5by5]

The USS California, equipped with Fire Control Radars and Better guns, destroyed Several Japanese ships at Guam, Palau, and Leyte Gulf. She delivered the US Occupation troops to Honshu in Japan. When the Japanese saw the Pearl Harbor battleships (except the Arizona) pull into Tokyo Harbor, their hearts must have sunk more than the California ever did.

[falloutghoul1]

I find a haunting similarity of the sinking appearances of the HMS Hermes and the IJN Hiryu. Anyone else notice this?

[darthreven9999]

The RM Roma was a great battleship and would most likely not have been sunk if the allies provided the aircover they promised the italians to protect their fleet sailing to internment. if that was the case than my great uncle would still be alive today.

[DrGull1888]

@darthreven9999 Indeed a shame they didn't provide the necessary aircover but war is always a sum of omissions and mistakes while ifs and would are a pointless occupation.

[coolconfuzer]

epic video cool music Love it!

[DrGull1888]

@coolconfuzer Thanks a lot.

[jankowskiandrz]

ark royal no diving

[DrGull1888]

@jankowskiandrz Nope, too deep.

[Apophis1966]

all ships from 1919 wer sunk off the german marine soldiers not during an impact or something

[thenoblegeek]

@Apophis1966 That is correct. They scuttled the ships instead of handing them over to the English.

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

@thelleht Good Point

[alxcsb]

The German ships did not have the "DKM" in front of their name. Tirpitz is only named Tirpitz.

[JRSchmuke]

Not to be picky, but BB44, California, didn't die, but was raised,refit, and fought again. She was scrapped after the war.

[DrGull1888]

@JRSchmuke As was Comte di Cavour.

[JRSchmuke]

@DrGull1888 Correct she was re-floated. But I thought she never retuned to battle.

[Jaiissica]

@JRSchmuke To be deliberately picky, she died and was resurrected.

[vinorob]

Great collection of images but no mention of HMS Hood,Bismarck, Sharnhorst, USS Princeton, Bunker Hill, Yamato. What about modern losses?? The Belgrano, HMS Sheffield,HMS Ardent and Antelope? All of which have recorded images of their death throes on record.

[DrGull1888]

@vinorob Yes, you are right. But since there's an abundance of images of dying war ships I toy with the idea of a sequel.

[vinorob]

@DrGull1888 Excellent. I look forward to Dying Ships 2- The Wreckage Strikes Back.

[RoadCaptainEntertain]

Death on a Gunship is gruesome.

Uncle's ship was strafed off Saipan at night, his best friend caught a round. After the attack he was ordered to "Bag him up", he didn't want to do it but if he didn't he was courtmarshaled.

He bagged up the big pieces and washed the rest of his friend over the side with a fire hose.

Changed him forever........nicest guy you ever met.

[DrGull1888]

@RoadCaptainEntertain I have no doubt that s.th. like this changes a person forever.

[borrowpl]

Great video. But Gneisenau sank in Gdynia, not Gdinia.

[DrGull1888]

@borrowpl Oh my, another mistake. Where was I when I made this video?

[robinhood48]

Excellent video, Dr Gull.

BTW From where did you get your doctor´s degree? University of Bayreuth?

[DrGull1888]

@robinhood48 Thanks a lot.

I bought mine at University of Prague. They grant a discount for CSU members.

[Cassalier]

manque tous les naivres de la marine française, bison, dunkerque doris, strasbourg ajax etc 

[DrGull1888]

@Cassalier C'est vrai. Pardonnez-moi.

[TehChocco]

ahhh the prince of wales, unbeilevablely short life. teh british would of been kicking themsleves after that one, so much steel gone to waste

[SSGLew]

Great video - most people don't realize that Austria-Hungary even had a navy. I've always thought that the their battleships were the most beautiful ever designed.

[DrGull1888]

@SSGLew Oh yeah. Viribus Unitis-Class was most beautiful with its stern gallery and superstructure.

[16891291616]

DKM?????

its called KMS (Kriegsmarineschiff)

[DrGull1888]

@16891291616 Indeed.

[utubeady]

Great video thank you. What a waste of a nations money those ships sinking.

[higfny]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Blücher was not counted as a capital ship, she was just a cruiser, or ? (I know.. the video is brilliant, and a few poetic licenses just makes it better, but anyway, facts! :p)

[DrGull1888]

@higfny I thought cruisers are like battleships capital ships. If not I can also live with that.

[higfny]

@DrGull1888 I

According to Wikipedia battleships, battlecruisers and after 1942 carriers where considered capital ships. Heavy cruiser was not capital ships.

But, as I said, fantastic video, and it was by no means a criticism, just asked out of curiosity ;)

[DrGull1888]

@higfny Very well then, thanks a lot for your compliments.

[greasyelvis]

@DrGull1888 It's not the only one that isn't. The Exeter for example, but that takes nothing away from the video. Thanks for taking the time to make and upload.

[DrGull1888]

@greasyelvis Yes and Glowworm, don't forget Glowworm.

[SvenTviking]

You can see Prinz Eugen on google maps! Kwajalian atoll, at the bottom.

[longstreet2006]

Welche Musik ist das?

[DrGull1888]

@longstreet2006 Das ist das Requiem von W.A. Mozart.

[longstreet2006]

@DrGull1888

Danke!!!

[DrGull1888]

@longstreet2006 Kein Problem.

[bwan13]

If you make a sequel you should add Yamato

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

I think its better for a glorious ship to become one with the great sea she sailed on and rest in one piece then to be thrown into a scrap heap and made into refridgerators. (I don't know how to spell that :)...)

[DrGull1888]

@ShortCardinalsFan262 Agreed.

[parsecboy]

@DrGull1888 Personally, I'd rather see them preserved as museums.

[ThebigEcv6]

@ShortCardinalsFan262 That is very true being that a few warships either deserve tobe museum or sunk gracefully where they fought like USS Enterprise CV-6 and HMS Warspite

[higfny]

@ThebigEcv6 Indeed. If I had to pick out just two ships that should have been preserved as museum ships, that would be Enterprise and Warspite. Imagine, Japan have Mikasa a perfect example of a pre-dreadnought, then we would have Warspite as a super-dreadnought and Enterprise as a carrier. That would be the top three of modern historical ships. (And ofc, the brits still have Victory)

[TheBlackSpider82]

@ShortCardinalsFan262 Would the sailors aboard those sinking ships agree...?

[ps3guy201]

@ShortCardinalsFan262 That comment reminded me of what happend to CV(N)-6.

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

@ps3guy201 My favorite warship :(

[geronimojippie]

Warum sind denn so viele deutsche schiffe 1919 und 1920 gesunken? da war der 1. weltkrieg doch schon vorbei.

[DrGull1888]

@geronimojippie Die Kaiserliche Marine hat sich 1919, noch vor Abschluss eines gültigen Friedensvertrages selbstversenkt um nicht in feindliche Hände zu fallen. Die Schiffe, die man bergen konnte, haben die Siegermächte als Zielschiffe versenkt.

[1mezzomix]

@geronimojippie die wurden zur sicherheit von den Engländer versenkt

[navyreviewer]

Excuse me, subby has something in his eye

[SuperSkeptiker]

Sehr schön gemacht. Danke.

[DrGull1888]

@SuperSkeptiker Und ich danke für das Lob.

[DeDuivel802]

Great tribute! 5*****, but would have liked the yamato in it to

[DrGull1888]

Thanks a lot. I don't know why I didn't include her. Perhaps rashness?

[Exmech2]

@DrGull1888 Another few notables that are missing, and photos of their sinkings exist: Akagi, Soryu, Hiryu, Bismarck, General Belgrano, Hyuga... just a few. Though, I must say... a most excellent and fitting memorium for these valiant ships. Thank you for the time you put into it.

[DrGull1888]

@Exmech2 Enough material for a sequel. Thanks for your compliments.

[ZephyrWestWind]

What is SMS? I know what is HMS KMS IJN ....

[DrGull1888]

SMS is the shortcut for the German words "Seiner Majestäts Schiff". The translation would be "His Majesty's Ship".

[cumania]

Seine Majestat Schiff=Her /His Majesty Ship in german. The sign of battlehips of the AustroHungarian Fleet, 1867-1918

[SuperAncientmariner]

@ZephyrWestWind It stands for Seines Magistats Schiffe. (His Majesties Ship)

[pablononescobar]

Beautiful use of Mozart's Requiem!

[basscymro]

Excellent!

[justforever96]

What the hell? I just posted two comments on here, and I refreshed the page a while later and they aren't here! Arrgh. Stupid YouTube.

Good video though. Always sad to see such beautiful pieces of human engineering and labor destroyed like that, especially when they take so many lives along with them.

[DrGull1888]

It isn't youtube, it's me. Every comment needs my approval for I want to avoid unpleasant ones.

Thanks for the compliment.

[psour33]

Nice video. But it should have talk about all french slailors betrayed by everyone include its own bastard governement ,and the whole french fleet who scuttled itself to respect its word and not fall in german's hands.

[DrGull1888]

No, it shouldn't. This video contains ships of all sorts of nationalities and they share more or less the same tragic fate. Therefore it should be political neutral for they all fulfilled their duty for their countries.

But if yo are interested in the betrayal and scuttle of the French Fleet, I mentioned it in my Operation Catapult video here, on my channel.

[Workinbus]

I count ships of 7 nations, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, US, Australia, & Austria-Hungary....

[DrGull1888]

Me too.

[pedro1095]

How many Nationalities wher in this video

I never counted them

One thing that did come to me was what they all had in common

It was not the fact they had been damaged and where sinking

It was the fact They All had Brave Men n Board

May they all have evelasting PEACE

[DrGull1888]

When I'm not mistaken are seven nationalities in this video. Not all of those sinking ships had losses. Some were just scuttled after a war or to get rid of them or were used as target ships. But to those which were manned: Resquiat in pacem!

[tubbymarshall]

@pedro1095 good comments friend, i'll say amen to that. peace to you too.

[TheZuikaku]

Best death ever goes to HMS Barham

[DrGull1888]

I wonder if the sailors who crawled on her slippery hull before she blew up would agree.

[TheZuikaku]

If you gonna go out, go out dramatically. I say.

[DrGull1888]

But the outcome of Jutland didn't change anything. Britannia still ruled the waves.

[ralsterV]

Yes, I have seen a grainy still photo of a distant Bismarck's bow in the air and sideways as it was simultaneously capsizing to the left, I believe, and also going down by the stern--which explains the bow in the air. A stark reality and monumental moment, considering the enormous legend that ship earned.

Thanks, again.

[ralsterV]

Nice video. You know it is shocking that there is no video of Bismarck going down, with all the Brit ships in the area. Not that I really want to see my favorite ship going under, but that certainly was an opportune, daylight event.

[DrGull1888]

Thanks. There is a picture, shot on HMS Dorsetshire. With Bismarck burning and sinking in the sea. I send you the link.

[CrusaderKnight1099]

Which piece/composition is the soundtrack?

Thanks in advance.

[DrGull1888]

It's the Requiem by Mozart.

[TheKiki03]

SMS Szent istván is Hungarian Ship and also get on vid the sinking

[DrGull1888]

One of two sinking BBs captured on film. The other one was HMS Barham in 1941.

[disturbedone5009]

No matter the flag these ships sailed under it is amazing that man can build such massive machines that float on water. Two of my relatives served on the USS John C Stennis and seeing that thing in person in awesome. It is so massive and powerful.

[DrGull1888]

USS John C. Stennis is no ship, it's a floating city.

[disturbedone5009]

Yeah 4.5 acres of moving land.

[jimmywrangles]

Awesome work DrGull.

I was especially moved to see the photo of HMS Gloworm.

Rarely has a ship fought so hard against an enemy so much larger.

RIP.

[DrGull1888]

Thanks. HMS Glowworm indeed fought gallantly. A brave ship and a brave crew.

[HardstyleBorusse]

Gute Arbeit und ein gutes Lied dazu gewählt.

R.I.P.

[matamuelas]

Man, this is so sad.

Good music. 5*

[DrGull1888]

Gracias.

[matamuelas]

Sehr höflich! Danke schön!

[DrGull1888]

Man bemüht sich! Keine Ursache!

[thewrightbrotherz]

what music is this?

[DrGull1888]

The track's title is "Introitus-Requiem aeternam" out of the requiem by W.A. Mozart.

[thespawnof66]

very interesting video, the music certainly was also quite impressive.

[BicyclingGuitarist]

A couple technical points of nomenclature: DKM for the German WW2 ships and HIJMS for the Japanese WW2 ships were not used by those services. They named their ships but had no prefixes comparable to USS or HMS.

[EmperorNapoleonIV]

Slightly incorrect, the German ships were perfixed KMS for Kriegsmarineschiff, admittably, this prefix is not commonly heard or used, even in official documents. But nonetheless it is there. And HIJMS is correct. That is an approximate translation of the Japanese.

[waltherluger]

.... the prefix of RN stands for (Italian) Regia Marina and MN for (French) Marine Nationale...

[Smogger911]

Your intending to show ships that have sunk but you have made a few errors in this vid. (just some constructive Criticism) You made an error in the spelling of H.M.S. Indefatigable you spelled it H.M.S. Indefetigable. You also showed the U.S.s. CAlifornia as a ship that has sunk for "died" as you put it; but it did not it was damaged in Pearl Harbor but not sunk. Other than those minor things it was a nice video. Thanks for sharing it. :D

[DrGull1888]

Regarding HMS Indefatigable I'm guilty as charged, but USS Califarnia was so badly wounded that she sank on the ground showing only her superstructure. Of course she could be lifted and repaired. I see your point, she didn't die. RM Conti di Cavour could be repaired, too. She was given to the USSR after the war. Thank you. :)

[waltherluger]

RN Cavour sank twice (in 1940 and 1945), was refloated twice and scrapped in 1951. Her sister RN Giulio Cesare was given to URRS as war reparation; renamed Novorossiysk she blew up in port, capsized and took the life of more than 400 sailors...

[DrGull1888]

Aw, my. You're right. It was Giulio Cesare. They say she run over a unremoved German mine.

[waltherluger]

Btw, RN stands for Regia Nave ( =King's ship, because Italy was a monarchy...)

[justforever96]

Not "Regia Nautica" or something? Hmm...I guess you learn something new every day!