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@user-tb5my2xg5i 15 күн бұрын

They kept the Adams radial tanks going, because of the tight curves on the branch line. They then spent a fortune straightening the line, costing a load of money, and then closed it. Typical waste and scrap of the Beeching/BR logic. Btw, number 488 - the only one remaining - is preserved on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.

@cjpaul2894 18 күн бұрын

My Great Uncle, George Manning, Stoker 1st Class was killed in action during the Battle of the River Plate, serving onboard HMS Exeter. He was buried at sea en route to the Falkland Islands.

@rossimachado4274 Ай бұрын

last classic naval combat!!!... aircraft carriers and submarines did not participate!!! Porto Alegre Brasil

@routeman680 2 ай бұрын

I had no idea such footage existed of all these events. Thank you for uploading. Struck by the scenes of so many ordinary men, so patriotic, so enduring, so brave.

@mrivantchernegovski3869 2 ай бұрын

I was a Sea Cadet in the 80s here in Auckland ,New Zealand ,It was TS Achillies and we knew our history of the Ship that our unit was named after ,Also ACDC played a big concert at the River Plate lolI heard a rumour many years ago that when the HMNZS Achillies was going to scrap they were going to float it up Meola creek and have it as a museam close to the Aeroplanes that MOTAT has on display there ,pity it never happened,I think we had parts of the ship on our Bridge we had there ,pity i didnt pay much attention back then i was more into our Orliaron 20mm auto cannon thing and a big Bofor gun to lol

@harrycurrie9664 29 күн бұрын

I read somewhere she was sold to the Indian navy and served there for many years before being scraped.

@CarrierDeck 3 ай бұрын

lovely nostalgic look-back at saner days!

@alanjpoole7274 3 ай бұрын

Who narrated this? Not bad overall, BUT, his pronunciation of some of the places names is strange, to say the least. :-)

@user-xz9dn2ub1x 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video 😊😊 Another line which should never have closed Thank you for uploading this video 😮 As I was born in 1950 I’ve seen some of the better railway days

@user-wz2qe2pv6r 4 ай бұрын

My grandfather Bob Sweet was a fireman...I can still just remember the sound of the donkey pump....

@robgibson6884 4 ай бұрын

A complete lack of fore site Could do with the line into Ventnor now. Cant see leeson Rd opening anytime soon

@barryroberts2196 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Thanks so very much👍👍

@RockDove5212 4 ай бұрын

Shame Exmouth destroyed so much if its Victorian architecture pertaining to the station. Fantastic film.

@user-nx3fm5rk9j 5 ай бұрын

I was once told a story, whilst at work on the railway, it went....... Axminster, over the bridge for Lyme. But porter, I have a tin trunk. My Dear, I dont care if you've got a tin arse-hole, over the bridge for Lyme.

@ianmcclavin 6 ай бұрын

The branch lines may have long gone but Axminster now has two platforms again, the "up" one having been closed for many years as part of the "rationalisation."

@Braveplantt 6 ай бұрын

not to mention its all built in scotland and it was also made as a mainline engine in hong kong

@mariadelcarmenvaldezlozano9534 7 ай бұрын

I dont know theres something about flower class Corvette that fascinantes me

@waggafletcher 7 ай бұрын

British sailors look so jolly and happy. Given what they'd been through that's amazing. Good chaps.

@Tauraco00 7 ай бұрын

Amazing❤

@Tauraco00 7 ай бұрын

This is great🎉 Regards ElizabethI have one on my layout❤

@WilliamDoyle-rb6lt 7 ай бұрын

I didn't know that part about how complex the diesel system was and how he only had hours of propulsion. If he had left port to fight it would have been a suicide mission. He could have fought it out and caused alot of English casualties but eventually he would have lost propulsion and been a sitting duck for being dispatched by English guns and torpedoes. He wasn't going to do that to the men under his command. He was a Honorable man who had the courage to do what few men then and nobody today would do.

@thomaspearson1919 8 ай бұрын

Built on the Tyne Neptune yard.

@nigelduckworth4419 8 ай бұрын

Marvellous and extremely detailed video. I have learnt a lot. Rather a pity that the railway authorities have decided both with this line and many other closed lines, not to retain the trackbed just in case. Rail travel in the 60s was declining and continued to do so for many years but then of course it started to rise dramatically and commuters in particular would welcome a fast trip into work rather than ever lengthening traffic jams and parking charges to get into Exeter in this instance. I had a choice for many years of driving into Sheffield or getting the train. I chose the latter. It was much quicker and relatively cheap. That line is fortunately still open and thriving unlike this one and many others.

@GM-fh5jp 8 ай бұрын

What a great vid. Thanks for posting!

@tedwalsh2856 8 ай бұрын

The town of Ajax, in Ontario, Canada, named after HMS Ajax, named a street after Langsdorff, as they had already done for Harwood, and many others from the squadron of cruisers.

@JZsBFF 8 ай бұрын

00:45 Searching in vain? Not at all. Harwood was tipped off by ULTRA. Harwood's educated "guess", as referred to in publications, was a bit silly, but successful attempt to keep ULTRA from the public.

@dovetonsturdee7033 8 ай бұрын

Ultra Intelligence was not available to the British as early as December, 1939.

@JZsBFF 8 ай бұрын

@@dovetonsturdee7033 Very true and you rightfully point this out. Perhaps it was wrong to refer to the Allied decoding of Enigma in general terms as Ultra but they were already decoding Enigma well before that date and if it weren't the British then it surely were the Poles and the French. The educated "guess" of Harwood is, with hindsight, as clumbsy attempt to bypass British knowledge of German codes.

@dovetonsturdee7033 8 ай бұрын

@@JZsBFF Sorry, but you are still wrong. The first break of wartime naval traffic was in December 1939, into signals that had been intercepted in November 1938, when only three rotors and six plugboard leads had been in use. Further progress required more information from German Enigma users. This was achieved through a succession of pinches, the capture of Enigma parts and codebooks. The first of these was on 12 February 1940, when rotors VI and VII, whose wiring was at that time unknown, were captured from the German submarine U-33, by minesweeper HMS Gleaner. On 26 April 1940, the Narvik-bound German patrol boat VP2623, disguised as a Dutch trawler named Polares, was captured by HMS Griffin. This yielded an instruction manual, codebook sheets and a record of some transmissions, which provided complete cribs. This confirmed that Turing's deductions about the trigram/bigram process were correct and allowed a total of six days' messages to be broken, the last of these using the first of the bombes. However, the numerous possible rotor sequences, together with a paucity of usable cribs, made the methods used against the Army and Air Force Enigma messages of very limited value with respect to the Navy messages. For whatever reason, you seem to have a need to deny that Harwood's educated guesses were simply that. Enigma played no part in them.

@ivanlussich8146 8 ай бұрын

I am from Uruguay, 84. Graf Spee was scuttled the very day of my 1st birthday, Dec. 17, 1939. My father saw HMS Ajax when she visited Montevideo in Jan. 1940. He said she looked like a destroyer rather than a cruiser ! He wondered how Capt. Harwood could battle the bigger, powerful Graf Spee with such a light force. Decades later my father and I met former British Ambassador Sir Eugen Millington-Drake who was on duty in 1939. He had many friends in Uruguay and talked very little about the battle.

@TimSimms-pj7wu 8 ай бұрын

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

@petephone9353 8 ай бұрын

I never know that there were fake battle(s) of the River Plate too Were they staged for them or something ?

@ayungclas 8 ай бұрын

Rio de la Plata

@plhebel1 8 ай бұрын

This narration I can't figure out. I hear a New Zealand accent but also a Virginian/southern part as well which could be the case for sure but I just wonder if maybe this is computer generated narration which in no way takes away from the video, just stating what I hear. Like the video stated what an uplift for the people of the UK to have given the enemy a black eye at sea when things were not looking so good. Thanks for the video always enjoy WW 2 naval docs.

@rossmansell5877 9 ай бұрын

EXETER was nicknamed "PEPPERPOT" after arrival in Devonport with all her damage visible

@davidroberts6549 9 ай бұрын

Those light cruisers had open bridges, I think...when I was a child in Liverpool in the 1970's, I found an old Royal Navy propaganda book from 1940, called "Our Navy". ( My grandfathr and a couple of great uncles had served in the Navy ) I still have it. It was clearly aimed at recruitment, and at the time of publication, the war in western Europe had not started, and one of the main stories was that of the River Plate and the Narvik action. It obviously could not disclose ( indeed the publishers possibly didn't even know about ) the subterfuge and clever trickery that led to Graff Spee scuttling herself.

@johnarmstrong3782 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely superb! Thank you. I very much enjoyed it.

@johnallen7807 9 ай бұрын

Image the howls from the "elf n safety" mob if children were allowed to ride on the footplate like that today!

@user-yp7oh7jp9z 9 ай бұрын

In all the comments I have read/seen there is never any mention of the fact that there were no more 11" shells left as they had all been used up

@auldflyer 9 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation.......

@jackharrison2785 9 ай бұрын

well done to Kaptain Langsdorf for saving so many sailors

@tedthesailor172 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting archives, many thanks for sharing...

@tow1709 9 ай бұрын

2:43 Montediveo 🤣

@bertmacdonald337 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Ace, cheers ears, yours aye Stax.

@LordUhtred1 9 ай бұрын

Inspiring.

@sandysanderson8588 10 ай бұрын

I was on the Exeter in 91 and remember the video being played on the SRE, I recorded it but never could find it. Great to see it again, I think remember Chops M .

@nathanieltitley 11 ай бұрын

0:05 isn't parkend its Lydney Town

@eprohoda 11 ай бұрын

yo. you did outstanding masterpiece~ :))

@garrymartin6474 Жыл бұрын

For information Esplanade rhymes with lemonade

@joshslater2426 Жыл бұрын

I like the on at the National Railway Museum that’s painted in the mint and chocolate livery. It looks very nice with its LSWR coach.

@CutThroatJake 11 ай бұрын

I agree with you

@dylanlarge11 Жыл бұрын

Irony is lines like this they now want to reopen!

@briantilke Жыл бұрын

My ex-wife father was chief Petty Office on Exeter at the battle of The Battle of the River Plate he was badly wounded in the action and left on the Falkland islands he was later aworded the DSM for his courage in the battle his name was Jimmy Greene when Exeter was refitted he was presented with the old telegraph wheel as he was the last man to use it my ex-wife still has it on a plack a momentom of a famous battle

@charlesmorton7944 Жыл бұрын

Notice some women running to sailors in the parade. In those days, touching a sailor's collar was supposed to bring good luck.

@CutThroatJake 11 ай бұрын

I got married in the 1970's in London and in uniform, ladies that were total strangers did walk up to touch my collar for luck

@rossmansell5877 9 ай бұрын

🤣Worked well for pulling the women as well@@CutThroatJake

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