BATTLESHIP IRON DUKE FLAG SHIP OF THE GRAND FLEET

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[studentjohn36]

No mention of Iron Duke's afterlife as gunnery training ship and later grounded base ship at Scapa. Shame!

[elswick1542]

@studentjohn36 Ran out of time on the audio tracks unfortunately,have a good photo of the Duke fitted with a 5.25 DP gun in B turret for trials.

[EmperorLongo]

That was really cool. I've always thought Iron Duke was a very handsome ship with an impressive broadside. The underway scenes are a vivid reminder of the raw power of the Royal Navy's battle line. BTW, I recall that the series World War One had great overhead shots of the Iron Duke steaming, in case you'd ever modify this video someday.

[elswick1542]

@biggayal1992 Next to Victory with a bronze statue of ADM Jellicoe on the bridge.

[techdavey1000]

Those were the bad old days. Allegedly there were captains who liked to leave the safety doors between gun turrets and magazines open as in this way the shells could be got to the guns faster. Unfortunately this serious breach of Health & Safety led to the comment "There seems to be something wrong with our ships". Even today there are captains who think they know it all as recent events in Italy have shown. 

[boleynali]

There is one warship still afloat that served at Jutland,the light cruiser hms Caroline,which is in Belfast harbour in Ireland ,right next to where the Titanic was built.

[zarquon53]

@mrmarkymark77 Actually , the battleships weren't the greediest coal-eaters in the fleet .

It has to do with the installed horsepower ( number and type of boilers and engines ) and the amount of other machinery ( electric Generators , pumps ,and hydraulic machinery -- if fitted , for the gun turrets ) that is being driven by the steam plant .

these ships did an average 21 knots , so were not fast .

Cruisers and Destroyers could eat more , proportionally .

[zarquon53]

@biggayal1992 At the end of World War 2 Britain was utterly bankrupt , owed billions , and had almost nothing with which to buy food and other basic necessities from abroad .

Some things were still on Ration in 1954 when I was born , and as a toddler I remeber me and my Mum queuing at the wood hut behind the church for tall blue and white tins of powdered milk " For the Children of Britain from the people of Canada "

It's nonsense to think there was any money to spare for that .

[crpdst2003]

for sheer number of actions and survival the HMS Warspite definitely should have been preserved.....

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@jers59 Fine ships indeed, and the Japanese were very good sailors and fighters.

[jers59]

@FRAGIORGIO1 Agree the Kummano may have been the best of jap cruisers

[FRAGIORGIO1]

The Iron Duke class sister ships were HMS Marlborough, HMS Benbow, and HMS Emperor of India.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@jers59  The Japanese had some fine heavy cruisers in WW II.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

At 2:15 I believe that is HMS Neptune without a rear mast in the foreground. I once made a model of her, among others I made of the Grand Fleet battleships, battlecruisers, armoured and light cruisers, and destroyers. Shame that I have them no longer. I had a friend named Ron Howard that was building the Hochseesflotte and was working much faster than I ! --An arms race, and in the Los Angeles Catholic seminary!