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HMS Hood
The Loss of HMS Hood - But why did it blow up??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPeC7LRqIY
Drachinifel
Dec 16, 2020
runtime 42:36
Today we look at the destruction of HMS Hood, with a particular focus on how, why and where the ship exploded.
The Refit of HMS Hood - But what if she had survived?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqnk2-noeUY
Drachinifel
Dec 23, 2020
runtime 43:56
Today we look at what might have been, if Hood had survived her clash with Bismarck
Some of the renders of the possible Refit HMS Hood used in this What if video are here
https://terranrhea.artstation.com/projects/ZGd1LN
Theodora Wwwwwww
Lead Hobo at Downtown Corner
HMS HOOD if survived would be refitted around 1942-1944.
A model built for Drachinifel's upcoming video on her.
A Better Hood with KGV style superstructure and vanguard style of main searches.
I still decide to add the hangers for seaplanes as it was designed before 1942.
In theory, DIIIH shall be replaced by more lifeboats and a sickbay. |
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Expedition: Bismarck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFkN66bv6Q
TheBaconWagoneer
Mar 25, 2020
runtime 53:48
James Cameron, the director of 'Titanic', explores the wreck of the Nazi uber-battleship Bismarck |
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Hitler's Raiders in the Pacific - Modern Warfare DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiWX9pkWns
Kings and Generals
Feb 21, 2021
Kings and Generals 3d animated historical documentary series on modern warfare continues with a video on the German naval raiding vessels which attacked Australia, New Zealand and other Allied territories in the Pacific Ocean during the early portions of World War II.
This episode focuses on the exploits of Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran, explaining how the Kriegsmarine's vessels attacked the targets in the Pacific Ocean, especially Nauru and its phosphate facilities.
Kings and Generals
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw |
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Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck - Animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my3oaSqfIEU
The Operations Room
Jul 7, 2019
runtime 10:22
Operation Rheinübung, 18–27 May 1941 - The new and dangerous battleship Bismarck sets sail into the Atlantic to attack convoy shipping. The Royal Navy must find and sink her, or she will do untold damage to the British effort.
NOTE - there are a number of theories as to the cause of the swift sinking of HMS Hood, of which a deck armour penetration is one.
The Operations Room
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZJt7yQw5IztVwe-Dscd-Q |
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Armchair Admirals Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVmXzlhZvJVT_ZSzeIi79ti2qBctrUqlP
(see further below for the Armchair Admirals Twitch Streams link)
World of Warships - Armchair Admirals Streams on various
naval battles, typically on the last friday of the month,
and Stream recording available via the playlist.
A Quick Outline of the battle, discussion and various
questions answered.
They try to generally follow a sort of Battle Anniversary schedule
by the month.
Say Battles that happen previously in that Month of the Year,
more likely to covered in that Month of the year.
For example - Battle of Midway 4-7 June is likely to be covered in June.
Features commentators such as:
The Mighty Jingles (jingles my have stopped doing these), Drachinifel, Dr. Alexander Clarke! and others
For some individual Youtube Channel links see here:
Youtube Channels of possible Interest
http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8529
Note:
Some World of Warship Game Cinematic Footage for the first few
Minutes or so at the Start of the Stream, you may wish to
scroll forward a bit until you start seeing people's faces.
You may find this of possible interest
Previous Topics Include:
Battle of Dogger Bank (WW1 early 1915 Battlecruisers)
Battle of Cape Matapan (WW2 Surface action in the Med)
The Naval History Series: Episode 1 Carrier battles of 1942 -
Coral Sea & Mostly Midway
Arctic Convoys & PQ 17 (Tirpitz caused the scattering of a Convoy)
Battle of Savo Island (Guadalcanal)
Battle of Moon Sound (WW1 Baltic - Gulf of Riga)
Raid on Taranto (Carrier Air Strike)
Pearl Harbour (Carriers Air Strikes - Tora Tora Tora)
Battle of the Java Sea
(Scratch Allied Force vs Japanese with long lance Torps)
Battles of Narvik (Invasion of Norway)
EDIT:
[EN] Armchair Admirals - Superships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdS3bPh-r34
Jun 28, 2021
runtime 2:44:15
Join our panel of historical experts as they discuss superships - your H-class, SuperYamatos, Tillman Battleships and other crazy designs!
2nd EDIT:
recent Armchair Admirals Streams apparently are here on Twitch,
as not updated on the above youtube playlist.
[EN] Armchair Admirals
https://www.twitch.tv/search?term=%5BEN%5D%20Armchair%20Admirals
World of Warships Twitch Content (various Languages)
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/world-of-warships
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One battle that would have been something to see
was when the IJN battleship Yamato was prevented from reaching
Okinawa.
Operation Ten-Go - The bigger they come, the harder they fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCkfPeMls7s
Drachinifel
Admiral Mitscher launched a massive air strike from his carriers of
Task Force 58 which sank Yamato.
Fleet commander Admiral Spruance had first ordered Task Force 54,
which consisted mostly of modernized Standard-type battleships
to intercept and destroy the Japanese sortie.
Mitscher only informed Spruance after the Strike launches were
completed and on the way, of the air strikes.
Spruance then ordered Admiral Deyo as a contingency,
to assemble a force of six battleships
(Massachusetts, Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Missouri),
a mix of modern South Dakotas & Iowas
together with seven cruisers (including the large cruisers Alaska and Guam)
and 21 destroyers, and to prepare for a surface engagement with Yamato
should the airstrikes prove unsuccessful.
That would have been some what if surface engagement:
South Dakota & Iowas, Alaska large Cruisers against Yamato
The Americans with accurate Fire control radar would have prevailed
but probably not without losses as the IJN had superb optics.
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Aircraft Carriers Versus Battleships in War and Myth with James R. FitzSimonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD43yEnbfL4
Western Naval History Association
Sep 20, 2020
runtime 1:31:52
FitzSimonds argues against the popular myth of aircraft carrier dominance that emerged during World War II.
FitzSimonds is a research professor with the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College and director of the Halsey Alfa Advanced Research Group. Captain, USN (retired), FitzSimonds is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and MIT.
Popular myth or not, there was only one Battleship completed
and launched after WW2, but Class after Class of Aircraft Carriers completed,
with more in the works. |
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The 6th Queen Elizabeth-class battleship was to be called
HMS Agincourt
Agincourt was to be built at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth which
had previously constructed the lead ship in the class Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Agincourt was Cancelled, August 1914 presumably by the
outbreak of war, yet some ships of the class were not comissioned
until early 1916 as still under construction.
The Agincourt name was later reused for a different Battleship ordered by
Brazil then sold to the Ottoman Empire while under construction,
and seized for use by the Royal Navy before the beginning of the first World War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)
Rio de Janeiro, then Sultan Osman I
Renamed Agincourt by the Royal Navy
Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship
http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Queen_Elizabeth_Class_Battleship_(1913)
According to the Naval historian Dr Alexander Clarke,
Agincourt QE class ship was cancelled because of technical issues.
This was on a class of battleship the Royal Navy has 5
previously constructed or under construction and Agincourt was
to be constructed at a dockyard that already had built a ship of the class.
Dr Clarke's theory is that Agincourt was to use Small-tube boilers
giving an expected 28 knot speed as much more powerful
(greater surface area)
(earlier QEs ships were 24 knots with large tube boilers
and most other battleships then were 21 knots)
The ship guns has 2 theories.
One is it was to be armed with 18-inch guns in 4 twin
or triple gun turrets.
(A IJN Yamato armed equivalent ship in 1916).
The other is it was to be armed with 4 or 3 triple 15 inch gun turrets
(A WW2 Iowa class equivalent ship more or less in 1916)
The Courageous class of large light cruisers
(later converted to Carriers)
suddenly had 18 inch guns & turrets and small-tube boilers available.
These are long lead items and were available for use
without apparently being ordered specifically for the Couregeous class.
Agincourt is most likely the ship for which they were originally intended
and may help explain the technical issues with a well known by then
ship design.
This ship if built and armed as outlined would have made all existing
28 knot battle cruisers obsolete as was a fast battleship capable of running them down, while still being battleship armored and could outrun or outfight any previous battleships also rendering them obsolete.
Essentially the Royal Navy was trying to pull off another Dreadnought
type revolution in battleships.
Moving to Fast Battleships which could combine both Battle Cruiser & Battleship roles some 2 decades early.
It was only in the late 1930s onwards that these capabilities would be achived in other Battleships. for example
USN North Carolina, South Dakota or Iowa class Ships
The Brits were trying to do this back in 1916.
There is a distinct lack of records about the QE agincourt as if the british deliberately didn't want detailed records as were up to something most secret at that time.
The Royal Navy saw itself competing with all the German, French, Italians, japanese, American and rest of the world combined Navies and would grab any chance to get a technological jump on them like with Dreadnought).
[EN] Armchair Admirals - Superships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdS3bPh-r34
Jun 28, 2021
runtime 2:44:15
Join our panel of historical experts as they discuss superships - your H-class, SuperYamatos, Tillman Battleships and other crazy designs!
Includes Dr Alexander Clarke
Agincourt Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship theories are mentioned
at about 16 mins
Dr Clarke keeps hoping to find conclusive evidence in the
Royal Navy archives on Agincourt's design.
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Xebec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xebec
used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean Sea.
Xebecs were ships similar to galleys primarily used by Barbary pirates, which have both lateen sails and oars for propulsion.
Early xebecs had two masts while later ships had three. Xebecs featured a distinctive hull with pronounced overhanging bow and stern, and rarely
displaced more than 200 tons, making them slightly smaller and with slightly fewer guns than frigates of the period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen
These ships were easy to produce and were cheap
After the 18th century, galleys became increasingly outdated and xebecs became the preferred ships of Barbary pirates thanks to their heavy and effective use of wind power, reduced need for slaves to row, ability to carry more cannons than a galley, and overall cheapness, speed, and maneuverability.
Xebecs were generally faster than contemporary ship types until the introduction of steamships.
Corsairs built their xebecs with a narrow floor to achieve a higher speed than their victims, but with a considerable beam in order to enable them to carry an extensive sail-plan.
The lateen rig of the xebec allowed the ship to sail close hauled to the wind, often giving it an advantage in pursuit or escape. The use of oars or sweeps allowed the xebec to approach vessels who were becalmed.
When used as corsairs, the xebecs carried a crew of between 90 to 400 men.
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