Britain's new battleships HMS Anson and HMS Howe join the Royal Navy fleet (1942)

[@ianmachin5945]

Last Monday I had lunch with Tom, who is 97, and joined the navy at the age of 15 and a half. HMS Howe was his first ship. He told me stories of arctic convoys and chipping ice off the guns.

[@vickibella8761]

As did my grandad . He was a gunner on Anson. Also being from Newcastle he watched it's last journey up the Tyne to breakers yard

[@РоманВьюшкин]

😂😂😂❤

[@theram4320]

Absolutely tragic that Britain didn't preserve at least one battleship for the nation! Now we can barely field a frigate.

[@Longboardsinglefin]

You haven't noticed the two 60,000 ton aircraft carriers then?

[@timbenbrown5716]

@@Longboardsinglefin😂

[@NashmanNash]

@@Longboardsinglefin What,there are times the 2 can actually sail for more than a few days?^^

[@dbyers3897]

Obsolete by the time they were finally launched. The current RN fleet is much more sensible. Two SOTA carrier strike groups, long range nuclear subs, etc. HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, is more powerful & at much longer ranges than a KG5-Class battleship. Things change. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto advised his navy ministry the battleship had seen its best days well before WW2.

[@TrickiVicBB71]

Britain was broke. And the nation was done with war. It is just a hunk of steel to them. Scrap it and make some money.

[@PETER-c4n]

My late Dad, a National Service Castle Class (the Oakham) man later served for three weeks on Anson. It was too big for him & he hated it, so he was drafted to the Hengist (ocean going tug), then No.1 barrack guard at Drake. He spoke regularly and with real passion about his time in the RN right up until he crossed the bar on 25th September 2021, aged 90. He loved anything RN & collected tallies for many years. His first tally was of the Howe. I took him to pompey to see the 'new' Queen Elizabeth & he loved the boat trip around the harbour to see her & the Dragon. All the times I spent with him over the years are treasured memories - of a man who loved his family, the RN & his country.

[@OrbitalStereo]

Magnificent 🇬🇧

[@x4dd]

My Dad was on the Howe.

[@Kreatorisbackyt]

Great Mighty Ship

[@lfcloyal8284]

Anyone visiting Edinburgh should take a look inside St Giles' Cathedral Hms Howe's Bell is on display there

[@holdfast453]

Who cares about a bell?

[@runega1]

My father was an engineer on HMS Howe at Okinawa

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Originally to be called HMS Beatty, the hero of the the Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet? There was never a HMS Beatty.

[@Longboardsinglefin]

Admiral Beatty!

[@Longboardsinglefin]

Admiral Beatty!

[@admiralmallard7500]

Glad they didn't name it after that plonker

[@vickibella8761]

My grandad John horey was a gunner on Anson. "Happy Hunting"

[@lilboy3102]

03:59 What is this procedure called ? And what is does ?

[@phillipdoorbar1615]

They are dropping the anchor !!!

[@lilboy3102]

@@phillipdoorbar1615 Thankyou sir. In Which city do you stay sir ?

[@itzjustbryan123]

1:54

[@kellybreen5526]

It isn’t comical, because they were good aircraft, but they comment on the spotting plane and off shoots a Shagbat (Walrus) and then the torpedo bomber is what appears to be an Applecore. Good aircraft that looked so old and out of place.

[@dennisbasinillo9713]

Hms house

[@mrmyth5846]

Did they crew them with Islamists?

[@brianpoole4369]

14 inch guns?...both of these ships were obsolete, before they were even launched,!!...I'm British by the way....just being honest

[@RampantFury925]

Because of treaty limits.

[@noahstorstein7313]

14inch was plenty good enough. Your thinking too much about the insane ships the Japanese and Germans were thinking up.

[@kairopalmer5109]

KG5 class focused on Armour not Armenent. HMS King George V could have smoked Bismarck by it's self.

[@jimbo6635]

Well my Grandfather was a gunners mate on the USS Massachusetts and they were doing shore bombardment at the end of the war with the British Pacific Fleet and the King George V and I think Anson was the second one but he said they were all in awe at the volume of fire the KGV’s were putting out something they couldn’t come close to matching on the Massachusetts.

[@bertiewooster3326]

Could use them in the channel to stop immigrants today.