HIRMS Slava - Fighting Against Impossible Odds

[@BHuang92]

Funny enough, this is not the last time a ship called Slava sank. The most recent one just so happened to be renamed Moskva........

[@Zehya8253]

Your point being? You another Russiaphobic person?

[@danboyle7165]

​@@Zehya8253 hard to be Russiaphobic when they can't even resist Ukrainian counterinvasion in Kursk. LOL

[@JGCR59]

At 7:29 the three funnelled ship is the british built armored cruiser Rurik, probably the largest and most heavily armed non battlecruiser armored cruiser. And a good looking ship

[@michaelkovacic2608]

Yes, some of the later armored cruisers were amazing ships.

[@JGCR59]

The Russian 12 inch gun was probably one of the best of its caliber, at least regarding range. It usually out ranged similar german guns. Also due to the russian and soviet tendency to install them in fortresses (sometimes in former battleship turrets) a lot of these guns and turrets survive. One of them at the Suomenlinna Fortress off Helsinki is probably the last battleship calibre gun in the world to be fired regularly, on the finnish independence day, albeit with a water charge instead of a shell.

[@genericpersonx333]

I think you are confusing Slava's 12-inch guns with the later Obukhovskii 12-inch/52-caliber Pattern 1907 which were fit on their last dreadnoughts. The 40-caliber weapons on ships like Slava were very ordinary for their time. That said, with many of Germany's predreadnoughts using 283mm guns, the Slava and her fellow Russian battleships did, theoretically, have a slight edge in hitting power when they did hit, thanks to the extra weight of the shells.

[@alephalon7849]

All in all, that was a fairly impressive showing for an outdated battleship that missed Tsushima, especially since Slava fought threats that her designers couldn't have imagined (airplanes and dreadnoughts).

[@JGCR59]

The Russian Navy in WW1 was actually pretty well trained and led. They had taken the right lessons from 1905 (both the revolution and the Battle of Tsushima) and applied them. In the Baltic, they were pretty good at mine warfare, in the Black Sea, they basically shut down all turkish and bulgarian traffic and brought Constantinople to the edge of freezing in the first war winters as coal was shipped via the black sea as there was no railway between the turkish coal areas and Constantinople. Germans had to actually supply coal by train once a land route was available after Bulgaria joined the central powers. They also regularly outshot SMS Goeben/Yavuz, though that ship of course had to avoid any major engagement due to very limited repair facilities and (again until the entry of Bulgaria) only the shells she carried in her magazines from before the war. And, in contrary to 1905 or the Germans and Austrians in 1918, it was not the Navy that mutinied.

[@russkatherealoriginal6904]

Shh. Don't let pop historians see this.

[@lyedavide]

It's nice to see a video on a Russian battleship. There simply isn't much available on the Russian navy.

[@ФедорЛаскарис]

Thanks a lot! Slava was a notorious manowar.

[@jameschenard1386]

2…possibly 3 air attacks…including a torpedo bomber attack…by Germans…on a battleship…while coordinating with a submarine? IN WWI!!! If it was 6 months from now, I might be thinking “April Fool’s”

[@jimmiller5600]

I disagree. The first shots of the battle of Tsushima went the Russian's way. Another modern ship may have kept the momentum going.

[@LostShipMate]

You're right, perhaps a modern Arleigh Burke class may have given the Russians a fighting chance.

[@iffracem]

It's less to do with the ships and more to do with incompetence. The best ships in the world would not have helped them.

[@jameschenard1386]

@@iffracem Exactly. Someone like Admiral Willis “Ching” Lee running things would have been far more valuable

[@tomlindsay4629]

The Borodinos have an awful reputation, but Slava, with the help of geography, tells a different story

[@wilkatis]

Not exactly strictly relevant to the ship, but I’d like to point out something about the weather here - note how the gulf used to freeze over year after year, as a normal part of the season. Meanwhile nowadays the region barely gets any snow at all, let alone the major bodies of water freezing. Oh how times change

[@Marshal_Longarm]

We are getting farther from a The Minor Ice Age of 15th-17th centuries.