This large ship along with Prince of Wales, were no match for the Japanese G4MI. Aircraft and Carriers were the true potent weapons of the Pacific. Too bad the British didn't understand that and sent these two ships out without any RAF protection.
perhaps even more profound was that the allies learned the Force Z and Pearl Harbour lessons and used Battleships in second line roles from then on (after Force Z no allied Battleships/Battlecruisers were lost in action), however the Japanese continued to send their own Battleships out without carrier or air cover. They even believed as late as 1943 that their capital ships could beat America's in a decisive line engagement.
The commander disobeyed orders - was told to take the ships to Australia. There was no RAF CAP, when the ships were in RAF range. RAF fighters mixing it with the lumbering Japanese bombers would have been a very different matter.
The Brits fully understood naval warfare. The USA built large Iowa class ships. The obsolescence of battleships was only fully realized about a years later. The first lesson was when Ark Royal's planes helped sink the Bismark about 10 months before sinking
@greg71579 I believe they did understand.. The carrier HMS Indomitable was supposed to support them but it ran aground in the Caribbean so they had to go without.
ALL great ships got destroyed -.-.. Scharnhorst, Yamato, Repulse, Hood, Bismarck ... fuck, man. Couldn't all of the countrys keep their wonderfull battleships at home?
the RN made a massive mistake sending repulse and price of wales to singapore, with no aircover. Sending 2 capital ships was suppose to scare off the japanese, all this did was attract the attention of japanes carriers. I can't believe the RN could have been so stupid. Compleletly unnessary wast of lives and ships.
The Battleship was obsolete, it's very difficult to accept that when you have all of your investment in the potency of big ships. The Japanese made the same mistake by insisting on building huge battleships that never got to fire a gun in anger, and operating their carriers and submarines as part of the battle fleet.
It's unfortunate, but humans often only deal with reality, when reality deals with them.
@canisfamilliaris not quite sure what you are trying to say? yes it took navies a while to cotton on to the fact that the battleship was not the no 1 weapon, it took taranto and pearl harbour to see that. Repulse was not obsolete by ww2 she and her sister were in fact extensively mondernised, superstructure, armour, AA's and hangers and seaplanes. (which was deleted from renown later in ww2).
and they were sunk by, errrr, lets guess, aircraft, how useful. I'm just sorry the Japs didn't appreciate they had hangers, bad Japs.
They were used for shore bombardment, that was about the only role they had left. The Bismark was disabled by, aircraft, very old aircraft, and if the big ships hadn't taken her out, those same aircraft would have sunk her in the morning.
The point I'm making is that it takes countries (people) a long time to discard what they put so much effort into
@canisfamilliaris i know aircraft had a hand in most battleships sunk! believe me i love my aircraft, but all it meant is that navies had to be smart how they used them.battleships needed carriers to provide cover, hence why the yanks didn't lose another BB after pearl harbour. Just because they were vunerable to airpower didn't stop a BB doing it's job, just they needed carrier support.
@canisfamilliaris Yes the battleship didn't have the same role as ww1 but there were still battleship v battleship battles to be fought like against bismarck and battlecruisers sharnhorst and gneinsau and like the battles the americans had against the japanese battleships. But their main role was bombardment of land based structures like at normandy and the pacific, for this role the battleship was very usefull and infact was the main reason of the iowa class battleships being re-commissioned.
Repulse was a fine and handsome ship. Still, the bombastic comments of the typical British announcer are unintentionally amusing, in retrospect. Britain's days of ruling the sea were not to last long. " Sic transit gloria mundi. "
@RhinoCockJuice your a total joke, if you knew anything about the Royal Navy then you would have said anything, and this video shows nothing of the Hood and the Hood was a great ship; just not a great adversary for the Bismarck.
Great comment mate. Rhinocockjuice is a prick who understands nothing about naval combat. Hood was a battlecruiser NOT a battleship so was not designed for going up against a battleship, but at that time we had to stop Bismarck at all costs. The penis is judging the glorious royal nave on one lost battle!! HMS Hood was a great ship, best looking warship, but with a glass jaw.
@RhinoCockJuice If I were you, I would show some respect for the men and women of the Royal Navy for the fact that they gave their lives for their country. HMS Hood sank with 1415 men. I wouldn't laugh at such a great loss of life.
That ship doged 18 trops during the fight the reason why they both where sunk was the anti-air weapons where not very good there crews even stated if they had the right weapons the battle might have been dif
Somehow I dont think the families of the 436 men who went down with her would agree with you, not to mention the scores of men who later died in Japanese captivity
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HMS Repulse..."british sea power is still supreme" - *lol*
British sea power scrap Repulse got supremely sent to the fishes roughly 18 months later...capsized after only 15 minutes of battle and having taken some japanese torpedos...capsized like the British Empire in fact after slimy Churchill took the lead...*lol* !
Great video to a great ship.. As for diving on a wargrave, usually a person has to get permission from the local authorities or the British Gvt.. If all those people as so concerned about *theft* of souvenirs, then we should all be up in arms over what has been stolen from RMS Titanic. I think that is more a crime. Also, if we did not visit, then for some, closure is harder to get.. Was wonderful that the late Ted Briggs, lived long enough to see his *Mighty Hood*, regardless where she was.
lol 1940's sound fx
LYinKansas 3 months ago
was Force Z meant to cover Hong Kong as well?
ErichRaeder 3 months ago
i just dont like the fact the brits openly told the japs "LOOK WE ARE HERE" as soon as the jap knew what they were dealing with ... goodbye
MagicpotatoAus 10 months ago
This large ship along with Prince of Wales, were no match for the Japanese G4MI. Aircraft and Carriers were the true potent weapons of the Pacific. Too bad the British didn't understand that and sent these two ships out without any RAF protection.
greg71579 1 year ago
@greg71579
perhaps even more profound was that the allies learned the Force Z and Pearl Harbour lessons and used Battleships in second line roles from then on (after Force Z no allied Battleships/Battlecruisers were lost in action), however the Japanese continued to send their own Battleships out without carrier or air cover. They even believed as late as 1943 that their capital ships could beat America's in a decisive line engagement.
HelmutVillam 11 months ago
@greg71579
The commander disobeyed orders - was told to take the ships to Australia. There was no RAF CAP, when the ships were in RAF range. RAF fighters mixing it with the lumbering Japanese bombers would have been a very different matter.
The Brits fully understood naval warfare. The USA built large Iowa class ships. The obsolescence of battleships was only fully realized about a years later. The first lesson was when Ark Royal's planes helped sink the Bismark about 10 months before sinking
NearAbbeyRoad 10 months ago
@greg71579 I believe they did understand.. The carrier HMS Indomitable was supposed to support them but it ran aground in the Caribbean so they had to go without.
evildeathmonkey1 8 months ago
ALL great ships got destroyed -.-.. Scharnhorst, Yamato, Repulse, Hood, Bismarck ... fuck, man. Couldn't all of the countrys keep their wonderfull battleships at home?
eselpopo 1 year ago
I love the blast off the 15 inchers!!!!
ToonandBBfan 1 year ago
the RN made a massive mistake sending repulse and price of wales to singapore, with no aircover. Sending 2 capital ships was suppose to scare off the japanese, all this did was attract the attention of japanes carriers. I can't believe the RN could have been so stupid. Compleletly unnessary wast of lives and ships.
pramboy09 1 year ago
@pramboy09
The Battleship was obsolete, it's very difficult to accept that when you have all of your investment in the potency of big ships. The Japanese made the same mistake by insisting on building huge battleships that never got to fire a gun in anger, and operating their carriers and submarines as part of the battle fleet.
It's unfortunate, but humans often only deal with reality, when reality deals with them.
canisfamilliaris 1 year ago
@canisfamilliaris not quite sure what you are trying to say? yes it took navies a while to cotton on to the fact that the battleship was not the no 1 weapon, it took taranto and pearl harbour to see that. Repulse was not obsolete by ww2 she and her sister were in fact extensively mondernised, superstructure, armour, AA's and hangers and seaplanes. (which was deleted from renown later in ww2).
pramboy09 1 year ago
@pramboy09
and they were sunk by, errrr, lets guess, aircraft, how useful. I'm just sorry the Japs didn't appreciate they had hangers, bad Japs.
They were used for shore bombardment, that was about the only role they had left. The Bismark was disabled by, aircraft, very old aircraft, and if the big ships hadn't taken her out, those same aircraft would have sunk her in the morning.
The point I'm making is that it takes countries (people) a long time to discard what they put so much effort into
canisfamilliaris 1 year ago
@canisfamilliaris i know aircraft had a hand in most battleships sunk! believe me i love my aircraft, but all it meant is that navies had to be smart how they used them.battleships needed carriers to provide cover, hence why the yanks didn't lose another BB after pearl harbour. Just because they were vunerable to airpower didn't stop a BB doing it's job, just they needed carrier support.
pramboy09 1 year ago
@canisfamilliaris Yes the battleship didn't have the same role as ww1 but there were still battleship v battleship battles to be fought like against bismarck and battlecruisers sharnhorst and gneinsau and like the battles the americans had against the japanese battleships. But their main role was bombardment of land based structures like at normandy and the pacific, for this role the battleship was very usefull and infact was the main reason of the iowa class battleships being re-commissioned.
pramboy09 1 year ago
@canisfamilliaris also didn't meniton also how vital the AA's of the battleships were vital in protecting the carriers.
pramboy09 1 year ago
Repulse never had a torpedo belt installed like her sister did
Mrbob200 1 year ago
A powerful battleship, but her end only proofed, that the days of heavy battleships were gone, and those of planes who fought them had come ...
After all, my respectful salut to those brave seamen (and those of our Bismarck).
gosuc 2 years ago 2
@gosuc Very well said. All of us should respect the sacrifices made by the men and women of both sides in World War II.
Sokar2488 1 year ago
@Sokar2488 Many of them had to sell thier medals when thatcher was in
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
Repulse was a fine and handsome ship. Still, the bombastic comments of the typical British announcer are unintentionally amusing, in retrospect. Britain's days of ruling the sea were not to last long. " Sic transit gloria mundi. "
Morgteck 2 years ago
Royal navy was a goddamn joke. Hood? Hahahahha
RhinoCockJuice 2 years ago
@RhinoCockJuice your a total joke, if you knew anything about the Royal Navy then you would have said anything, and this video shows nothing of the Hood and the Hood was a great ship; just not a great adversary for the Bismarck.
Smogger911 1 year ago
@Smogger911
Great comment mate. Rhinocockjuice is a prick who understands nothing about naval combat. Hood was a battlecruiser NOT a battleship so was not designed for going up against a battleship, but at that time we had to stop Bismarck at all costs. The penis is judging the glorious royal nave on one lost battle!! HMS Hood was a great ship, best looking warship, but with a glass jaw.
admiraldma 1 year ago
@RhinoCockJuice How great was your navy, prick!
Oh sorry, your from Trinidad and Tobego, you've NEVER had one!
admiraldma 1 year ago
@RhinoCockJuice If I were you, I would show some respect for the men and women of the Royal Navy for the fact that they gave their lives for their country. HMS Hood sank with 1415 men. I wouldn't laugh at such a great loss of life.
Sokar2488 1 year ago
@Sokar2488 My father and 2 uncles was ON it when it went down. No body even gave a SHIT.
RhinoCockJuice 1 year ago
British colonial arrogance go down with the Repulse in South China Sea.
ali4330 2 years ago
You went down on your father.
God save the Queen!!!
GhostofHood 2 years ago 2
Royal navy is a joke.
Craigfucker88 2 years ago
As is your braindead comment.
HelmutVillam 2 years ago
Your mother was a joke too.
Craigfucker88 2 years ago
Wow, what a fucking amazing comeback.
HelmutVillam 2 years ago
I'm sorry. Let me buy you a beer.
Craigfucker88 2 years ago
@Craigfucker88 Coming from someone in Hungary , your comments don't count for much.
r1wantone 2 years ago
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TheZuikaku 2 years ago
What a tragedy that it was sunk by the Japanese planes.
lycfmtkl 2 years ago
Beautiful ship
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
That ship doged 18 trops during the fight the reason why they both where sunk was the anti-air weapons where not very good there crews even stated if they had the right weapons the battle might have been dif
Mrbob200 2 years ago
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frankydman 2 years ago
Somehow I dont think the families of the 436 men who went down with her would agree with you, not to mention the scores of men who later died in Japanese captivity
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
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frankydman 2 years ago
Do YOU even understand the point I'm making.
Renown being scrapped post-war was a much better fate than Repulse being sunk and the subsquent loss of life.
I suppose your glad that Hood blew up too taking over 1400 men to the bottom, but hey - at least "she;s still with us"
ToonandBBfan 2 years ago
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frankydman 2 years ago
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frankydman 2 years ago
QUI TANGIT FRANGITUR!!!
frankydman 2 years ago
For those of you who don't speak latin, that is the Motto of the HMS Repulse
frankydman 2 years ago
HMS Repulse was a Great ship.
RMSTitanic87 2 years ago 17
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HMS Repulse..."british sea power is still supreme" - *lol*
British sea power scrap Repulse got supremely sent to the fishes roughly 18 months later...capsized after only 15 minutes of battle and having taken some japanese torpedos...capsized like the British Empire in fact after slimy Churchill took the lead...*lol* !
Rezessionsmottenkist 3 years ago
Clearly she shipped a lot of water even with a raised clipper bow. Little wonder the KGV class was always considered a wet boat.
trent8002003 3 years ago
Great video to a great ship.. As for diving on a wargrave, usually a person has to get permission from the local authorities or the British Gvt.. If all those people as so concerned about *theft* of souvenirs, then we should all be up in arms over what has been stolen from RMS Titanic. I think that is more a crime. Also, if we did not visit, then for some, closure is harder to get.. Was wonderful that the late Ted Briggs, lived long enough to see his *Mighty Hood*, regardless where she was.
DennisTBL69 3 years ago 3
Wonderful ship. Hard fighting, hard dying, a symbol of good old times and values.
robinhood48 3 years ago 5
@robinhood48 Lol, your calling war "good old times". People dying, faving fun... :D
Paciat 5 months ago
@Paciat
You know exactly what I meant. Don´t try to be witty.
robinhood48 5 months ago
@robinhood48 Well put.
transonicbuoy 1 month ago
Great pictures of a great ship, 15" guns firing awesome 5 stars.
elswick1542 3 years ago
She was an awesome ship it is a real shame she was sunk by aircraft same gose for the HMS Prince of wales.
YamatoTitanic 3 years ago 2
That's pretty cool and I like the description too.
MPfeifer716 3 years ago