Submarine Patrol (1943)

Royal Navy instructional film A.141 (ADM 5031) released 1943. The submarine featured in the documentary is HMS Tribune, billed as the non-existent "HMS Tyrant" to confuse enemy intelligence.

[@cycleSCUBA]

Nearing Remembrance Day 2020, massive respect to all R.N. submariners and those who lost their lives.

[@awlonghurst]

If you enjoyed this short film then try reading any of Antony Melville-Ross' books. He was a WWII submariner (skipper I believe) and his descriptions of submarine combat are excellent.

[@timmi59]

Ok, I’ll check it out. Thanks 🙏

[@tamar5261]

Read' 'one of our submarines,' written by Edward Young if you can find a copy. I found this book around 50 years ago and it's amazing.

[@onastick2411]

And HMS Thule Intercepts, by Alastair Mars is a good read.

[@zen4men]

Lieutenant Commander Roderick Maclean Wilmot, DSC, Royal Navy. First Lieutenant HMS Torbay in WW2, commanded T-Class submarines until 1956, including HMS Tactician in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War. Now on Eternal Patrol. .

[@tommyestridge9301]

Love that everyone is dressed in formal uniforms.

[@johngray8249]

Thoroughly enjoyed the video, hmm nostalgia. Also no blaring music for they're false dramatics. Thanks for sharing.👮👮👮👮👮👮👮

[@JonnKammeron]

David: You have done a Man`s Job of Work in creating this Outstanding Channel. Many Thanks

[@stevenpilling3773]

N76 was HMS Tribune. She survived the war and was scrapped in 1947.

[@sophrapsune]

Very carefully filmed, cinematic work. Is this edited from a contemporary movie, I wonder?

[@captaintimba]

This clip is taken from the film Close Quarters(1943)

[@dulls8475]

"It must be the Hun" cant beat British eccentricities.

[@kevg3320]

Well to be fair, it probably was!

[@AllansStation]

Makes it look all to easy- but it was not as easy as shown here- Ex-Submariner

[@kevg3320]

Too true! (ret'd TG-Tiff/Wrecker M)

[@AllansStation]

Kev G Ex SPO Tally-Ho typical Oh how Jolly

[@diamonddog257]

LIES ! ..... you submariners actually used space for Massage Parlors and Opium Dens.... -- you made fortunes smuggling .... and were actually partying on some beach, ...while making false operational reports..... right ?......Right ?

[@sophrapsune]

Yes, a very theatrical production that doesn’t show the complexities & challenges. Still good to see, though.

[@raybin6873]

Another perfect British submarine mission... sinks enemy cargo ship - ✔ dodges depth charges - ✔ sights /sinks enemy sub - ✔ Back home for another cup of that victory tea... 😄👍

[@thekingsilverado3266]

Just imagine a submarine with no crapper... Makes glad to be an American Navy sailor...

[@JonnKammeron]

One other comment: I so much enjoy the RM Band`s Performance on the video Know Your Navy-Just A Great Historical Channel David.

[@steve1053able]

You mean, the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines. A not so small, but important point

[@bobrussell1957]

P-216 is HM Submarine Seadog. Love that name.

[@LordShadrach]

Is this video in the public domain? I need some clips for a short video I am working on.

[@PeterWalkerHP16c]

2:55 Notice the OOW was wavy navy.

[@Don_Camillo]

I need this as cutaway- model in 1:190 scale to show it beside my U-47.

[@joecombs7468]

Actually the submarine's density increases not the weight as it goes deep. (USN. STS2/SS)

[@Monfet]

lol what?

[@garethgriffiths4616]

This must be a submariners recruitment film. As a former R.M. who worked with the old O boats l think there's to much space and head room for it to be real?

[@brianconway397]

I think you'll find that many of the interior scenes were done in a film studio. I can't remember which one.

[@sophrapsune]

Agree, especially in the last shot. Almost looks like a movie sound stage, it has so much room.

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

yep, even us Yanks who knew submariners never met one that was tall. i knew 2 from the Pacific side, neither was more than 5'-8" tall. worked with 1 u-boat survivor who wasn't more than 5-7. he lost all 4 fingers on his left hand at the 1st major knuckle during destruction of his boat by aerial attack.

[@fortboy66]

Hope that was a German sub they shot at? The first British sub on sub action of the war; it was a British sub sinking another British sub, off Norway I think?

[@geoben1810]

Jolly good show mateys! Deep sixed those bloody Huns what? Job well done! I wonder if she ( the sub) survived the war?

[@onastick2411]

That's the Hun for you, either at your feet, or at your throat.

[@michaeldillon3113]

Are there still any amazing ww2 submariner's around ( my late father was one on the tally ho patrolling from Trinco ) ?

[@alexandermukai7724]

My Grandfather passed away over 20 years ago. He served on S-Class submarines during WWII as a radio operator. His father had served on the K-Class submarines between the wars; his son (my father) served on T-Class submarines in the late '50s early '60s.

[@michaeldillon3113]

@@alexandermukai7724 If your father is still alive then suggest to him that he writes about his experiences . I so regret not talking to my father more about his experiences . Having said that , he was that type who didn't really talk about what he had been through . At my dad's funeral one of his workmates said " I worked with your dad for 25 years and never knew he was on subs ! " .

[@mikewilmot7963]

My father was on HMS Torbay 1943-45 in the Med and Far east. Fortunately he wrote down his 'Torbay Tales'...

[@michaeldillon3113]

@@mikewilmot7963 That's good to hear . Is it in print and available ?

[@mikewilmot7963]

@@michaeldillon3113 they were never printed or published... just his recollections... Whilst sailing on the surface, back ftom Malaya, after VJ day, he drew a chart of all the patrols and successful engagements...which included the sinking of a floating dry dock!!!

[@eduardodeandres3864]

Awesome, Thank u

[@g2macs]

Bugger for a moment I thought it was Faslane but it looks very like the Holy Loch. Anyone confirm?

[@timebandit9469]

Looks like Gareloch and GarelochHead to me too. Where Faslane was later built. I really don't think that's Holy Loch as those hills on both sides of the loch say Faslane to me. I do know for sure that Gareloch was used for locating both depot ships, and later on anchoring many reserve ships right up till when Faslane was built. Best wishes from an old A, P & O Boat veteran.

[@andymacnicol4511]

It's definitely the Holy Loch

[@willyspinney1959]

That is the Holy Loch and the submarine depot is HMS Forth.

[@tedthesailor172]

Ahh, those clipped `middle-class' accents of the 1940's. Jolly good show - what?

[@philcosgrove6823]

What what indeedy time for a gin old chap lol

[@buckshot704]

Ted thesailor ; I say, chaps...that was a wizard show! All crumpets and zero prangs.

[@romeo9017]

What about the poor Cooks?

[@007bigrob]

Fascinating

[@Clio1326]

AKA 'Close Quarters' filmed at Holy LOch and Blyth. Yes it's propaganda, yes the special effects are laughable but No actors just real submariners who knew what it was really like to be depth charged. My old mate Gus Britton played the part of the bunting tosser.

[@colingibson8018]

Clio1326 . I thought Gus was a stoker.

[@stevenpilling3773]

What on God's Green Earth is a "bunting tosser"?? That sounds like something from a Monty Python skit!

[@tamar5261]

@@stevenpilling3773 signal man if I'm not mistaken.

[@grahamlait1969]

This submarine apparently sails from Clyde Submarine Base (because it's clearly the Clyde she's sailing from), submerges, and finds a German convoy hanging about in the firth (Scottish for estuary).Aye right, that'll be the way it was...then it faffs about for a few days and.... Oh, we'll just pop off a stray U boat on the way home, won't we? This load of old tosh must have had the silent service hooting with laughter back in dear old Blighty in 1943, 'cos there's one thing you can be sure of: This is how it wasn't.

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

we americans had much better submarines way better organized and with radar in 43 and we still lost 1/3 of our submarines that were on patrol. Germany lost 3/4 because of british advances in supersonic asdic in 43 all their famous aces were sunk. The depth charging shakes your very brain with sonic pulses, and it is no fun, toothache indeed and more. The very best men in this detail too. Imagine pressure gradients so strong light bulbs were shattered. Probably the greatest reason for winning the war, way more than our surface ships.

[@onastick2411]

Well, although the Gato, Tench classes were indeed good boats, the fact that they were excellent for the vast reaches of the Pacific war, was more by coincidence than design: they were designed to scout ahead of the fleet, and report and whittle down the enemy, before the "inevitable" fleet action: battleships flinging huge shells at each other. Lets gloss over the American's tactical failures and shockingly bad torpedoes. British submarines, were adapted for a closer environment: close to land, shallow water, where the advantages of a large boat, were less obvious. Hence the U, S classes. Their deep sea boat (not as good as a Gato admittedly), was the T class, which still got the job done, oddly. You can find this sort of stuff out by reading a book. Libraries and book shops stock them, it works wonders, but alas, I suspect, does take a bit of an effort on your part.

[@kevg3320]

Also had 2 more years to prepare!! Just saying 🤔

[@admiralrover5675]

Who is this submarine

[@admiralrover5675]

Ok i know it

[@brianconway397]

HMS TRIBUNE. Which was also used in the film 'Close Quarters' in 1943. Look it up online.

[@MP-zf7kg]

actually....no. those subs 'steamed along' via diesel on the surface and while snorkeling; in that capacity, they powered electric motors and charged the batteries. otherwise, the electric motors ran on battery power. either way, electric motors powered the propellers.

[@tomnewham1269]

They didn't have snorkels until after the war. Also those older diesel submarines would have direct drive from the diesel engines to the propellers and when operating below the surface would disengage the engines with a clutch and have the electric motors drive the propellers. The US subs on the other hand did have the electric motors solely drive the propellers and had the diesels charge the batteries but only on the surface as the Germans were the only country to have the technology of the use of a snorkel and only towards the end of the war.

[@gunnerhoward3134]

When men were men.

[@Jeffyrules]

What a poor video. Periscope depth is 30 feet? Too shallow, was the hull diameter less than 10 feet? I realize that a 1943 blurb has security issues to deal with, but this post is too antiquated, and too full of misinformation, to post in today's world. As a former USN submariner, I believe the Brits were better than this.

[@2adamast]

So you can't imagine a 600 ton submarine?

[@Jeffyrules]

@@2adamast of course i can, but I never served on a 600-ton sub, did you?

[@2adamast]

@@Jeffyrules Maybe those small 16 feet high submarines do fit into 30 feet of periscope depth

[@tango6nf477]

Ill let you into a secret - its not real

[@onastick2411]

@@tango6nf477 lol, I don't think they can understand that. Could you imagine, U Boat sighted, film crew and sound men to the bridge, and the Captain, we'd better compromise the entire boat, for a shot. It's obviously a example film of life at sea in a sub. The shots of the Australians storming the cook house at Alamein, were'nt real either, somehow they missed the possibility of having a whole film crew running around in an actual battle, with 1940's equipment; go figure?

[@b1laxson]

Wheeeee its not Usa!

[@argtv100]

PROPAGANDA

[@floor993]

argtv100. For the good cause than, so not propaganda.

[@argtv100]

"good cause" 800 degree steam boiling flesh off black gang in the target. Bully!

[@philcosgrove6823]

Explain one's self old chap

[@argtv100]

Read "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler. Or watch 45 minute video by Mike Rivero "All Wars are Bankers' Wars" as a point of departure if you care to.

[@philcosgrove6823]

Thanks old chap I'll give that a whirl. I have a basic understanding what one says but not everything is black and white as per propaganda goes what what

[@MarioGon-y5r]

Fajny film