Uncut, untouched HMS Hood raw color footage filmed in 1939 after her refit.
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@GeneralKenobiSIYE8 жыл бұрын
Wow, you can just SEE how heavy HMS Hood looked with how much she seemed to sag and how low the quarterdeck was to the waterline.... Still one of the ,ost beautiful ships ever constructed. Most definitely the most beautiful WARSHIP ever built.
@GeneralKenobiSIYE4 жыл бұрын
@The Visitor Hood was over 45,000 tons and Bismarck was 53,000 tons
@johnevans63253 жыл бұрын
Ludovic Kennedy, in his book “ Pursuit “, describes HMS Hood as a wet ship. He beautifully describes both Hood and Bismarck in his story of the hunting down and subsequent sinking of the latter.
@charliekk33773 жыл бұрын
Apparently the Hood received the nickname the largest submarine in the navy by the saliors on the ship
@academyofnaturaljustice89393 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale "TROLL"
@academyofnaturaljustice89393 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale "TROLL" .
@ToonandBBfan9 жыл бұрын
This footage is historical gold dust
@J.A.Hansen3 жыл бұрын
Absolutly
@philipnunn18167 жыл бұрын
My Great Uncle Leslie Tucker was on the Mighty Hood... RIP Les and the rest of the crew...
@robertsikora84496 жыл бұрын
Four of my Countrymen were killed on this ship.
@greatwolf53728 жыл бұрын
Mind blown. To see a color footage of such an migty old ship is just straight awesome.
@michaelgrey7854 Жыл бұрын
Yeah she was mighty good at blowing up haha lol.
@deanwallden297 Жыл бұрын
The Victory in the background. Incredible the change in warships in just over 100 years.
@christophermancini73807 жыл бұрын
HMS Hood one of the most beautiful capital warships ever built. I'm rather partial to the latter HMS Vanguard and the American Iowa class, with their graceful twin funnels. The Yamatos and Bismarcks had their own ominous beauty as well. A wonderful jewel of a film clip highlighting the pride of the Royal Navy at its best!
@gnosticbrian39807 жыл бұрын
I liked HMS Tiger. Such a shame that the Washington Treaty did for her (and the mighty G3s).
@ylmazirdenyazc83934 жыл бұрын
Roma and Renown was also beautiful
@ylmazirdenyazc83934 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine a Hood with Block tower like King George V or Queen Elizabeths.
@NH1969GOAT9 жыл бұрын
1:07 Victory in the background.
@GGBundy10 жыл бұрын
Whomever posted this, thanks. I'm a true Hood fan. I love it. She was awesome.
@jonathanswyfte24146 жыл бұрын
My father was on this when the film was shot, he served aboard her from July 1938 to the 21st May 1940
@barbarajones54735 жыл бұрын
Bull shot u are a day lier
@NightHeronProduction5 жыл бұрын
Could give us any stories he may of told of life aboard Hood, maybe this exercise shown toward the end if he ever relayed it to you?
@beedalton96753 жыл бұрын
Im a merchant marine I would of loved to been in the engine room on hood just to hear flank speed hear her turbines pick up speed I wear a hms hood necklace shoes gone but never forgot she still sailing in our minds and hearts a Wisconsin bb vet said its almost a adultery for a man to love a piece of metal I can love this ship.....
@apieceofdirt46818 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful ship!! Our Iowa Class are beautiful as well but there was just something about HMS Hoods lines that made her more special. I can't imagine what it must've been like to be standing on a bridge in the 1920s watching her go out to sea. Something so massive that size alone makes her seem invincible. Her stern is virtually uninhabitable at speed or the slightest of gale. I bet she was a soaking wet ship but yet still pleasing to the eye. Even if she hadn't succumbed to her fate I highly doubt Britain would've saved her from the scrap yard. Out of all the awesome RN ships they picked HMS Belfast as a museum piece?? I know WW 2 broke them just about, but HMS Belfast??? Out of all the others?? Seriously??
@Akm728 жыл бұрын
HMS Belfast is pretty special as she was probably our best cruiser built prior to or during WWII, but I know what you mean.
@allisokandsweet8 жыл бұрын
She was a beautiful ship HMS Hood built 1916, and by the way she was years above HMS Belfast 1936 in age and beauty.
@apieceofdirt46818 жыл бұрын
+Marky Mark Sooooo true. If you look at the video around 2:33 her stern looks precariously close to the water. To me it kinda adds to her nice lines but after lessons learned from Jutland and the addition of some 3,000 + tons of additional armor I'm surprised she was considered a stable gun platform.
@allisokandsweet8 жыл бұрын
She was a great ship people didn't realize it, all she needed was a refit but like usual money is god and a lucky shot was her end "but that's life".
@WozzasWatches8 жыл бұрын
my grandad joined hood in 1940 sadly till the end.and yes,without sounding biast i think she was without doubt one of the most beautiful warships ever.and as far as saving a ship,i think HMS warspite earned that right,without a shadow of a doubt.she didn't even wanna go to the scrapper
@FixedPixelYT8 жыл бұрын
Those poor lads, rest easy gentlemen.
@stuartwhigham71464 жыл бұрын
Especially the boy sailors seen at 4:20 who would have still been on board when she was sunk.
@malcolmjw87505 жыл бұрын
Magnificent. Puts to shame whatever CGI can do.
@davidpope3943Ай бұрын
Wonderful stuff. I never thought I’d see film of Iron Duke in her gunnery training ship role.
@trent80020038 жыл бұрын
Really galling to see such a beautiful ship being sunk by just 1 lucky hit!
@cookoo4cocopuffs2214 жыл бұрын
That's Battlecruisers for you Ours at least
@edwardteach30004 жыл бұрын
@@cookoo4cocopuffs221 Considering Hood had more vertical armor then (and near identical armament to) the R-class battleships (the British battleships under constuction when she was entering service) I don't think she is (or should be called) a true battlecruiser, indeed the primary reason she was called such was because at the time the British called any ship with battleship sized guns faster then 24 knots "battlecruisers". I think she is more of a fast battle ship then a battlecruiser. Anyway that is my 2 cents. Edited because I was typing this while the video played and in the background and when it finished youtube started playing my watch later and autoposted my incomplete comment.
@cookoo4cocopuffs2214 жыл бұрын
@@edwardteach3000 The British don't do 'Fast Battleships' in the RN its either a BB or a BC
@edwardteach30004 жыл бұрын
@@cookoo4cocopuffs221 Yeah I know, but calling it a battlecruiser immediately makes everyone think "unarmored death trap" when she was in fact very well (vertically) armored (and actually had decent horizontal too)(for her time).
@paulleclercq84853 жыл бұрын
@@edwardteach3000 Yes at 45,000 tons and with 8 x 15" main armament of course she was a battleship, in fact that word was actually used when she was laid down.
@Kris-qy7hh5 жыл бұрын
That battlecruiser is the most beautiful one ever made by any country.
@patl7098 жыл бұрын
Great and highly evocative film! I particularly enjoyed the early sequence of HMS Hood passing the cameraman who I assume was on shore. The sequence shows the majesty of the ship that made her so iconic. The film really gives one the sense of what it would have been like to have been on a great warship of that era.
@phaasch9 жыл бұрын
It was always said that Hood was a "wet" ship, and this shows just how! The quarterdeck must have been a no-go area in all but the lightest seas. Truely priceless footage. Is that the Repulse featured heavily towards the end?
@tim84319 жыл бұрын
Biggest submarine in the fleet! She looks awesome though.
@steeltrap38008 жыл бұрын
+phaasch Became considerably 'wetter' after last refit, especially with extra weight of added AA weapons and other changes. All in all she was a few THOUSAND tons heavier than her initial design weight. Lowered her freeboard considerably.
@phaasch8 жыл бұрын
2 ships together, both facing sudden ends just a couple of years away....
@anthonyschiavo47898 жыл бұрын
It looked like HMS Renown also appeared near the end with her newly reconstructed fore superstructure.
@calumblair52057 жыл бұрын
lazytonwn
@terumiterumasa42276 жыл бұрын
What a magnificent battle crueser. A ones biggest battleship of her class. An a truely symbolic and iconic battleship of her time.
@michaelgrey7854 Жыл бұрын
Learn to spell please.
@Treetop649 жыл бұрын
The fidelity of this footage is remarkable, considering it's age. Looks as though it was shot in the 1980s.
@andrewpante60474 жыл бұрын
Agreed . But I think it says more about the 80’s .😂
@bofoenss839310 жыл бұрын
Tony Lovell - That is HMS Iron Duke. After the Washington Treaty she was reduced to training and depot ship through removal of B and Y turrets. After the other remaining ships of her class were expended in the early 30's as gunnery targets she was the only battleship in the RN with two funnels. The Queen Elizabeth (after modernisation) and Royal Sovereign classes both sported a single wide funnel. Besides her, only the battlecruisers Renown, Repulse and Hood had two funnels among RN's capital ships until King George V Class appeared.
@geoffreymowbray67899 жыл бұрын
+BoFoenss - HMS Iron Duke has a trial installation of a twin 5.25-inch turret mounted on her stern atop of the former 13.5-inch 'X" barbet. At this date she was a gunnery training and trials ship and she carried out much experimental work.
@rygneisanau17245 жыл бұрын
this footage left me without words .... but i can say amazing and beautiful ship in every way ! simply gold ! can t describe ....
@gnosticbrian39807 жыл бұрын
Hood's quarter deck submerged - you can see why sailors described her as the Navy's largest submarine.
@academyofnaturaljustice89393 жыл бұрын
“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships,” said Admiral David Beatty. Hood wasn't the only British battle-cruiser to sink like this, 3 other Battle-Cruisers Invincible, Indefatigable and Queen Mary sank in the same manner, their magazines exploding within 30 minutes of commencing battle. That's 4 different class Battle-cruisers.
@steeltrap38002 жыл бұрын
To compare their losses, however, is entirely misleading. The ones lost in Jutland were lost due to poor discipline with the powder handling as the BC fleet chose to favour rate of fire as somehow compensating for their poor gunnery (it didn't work). Choosing to ignore the standards around closing the various doors etc as ought to have been done, let alone stacking the gun house with extra charges (as some did) is what caused them to explode. Any explosion in a turret basically went down the turret trunk into the propellant charge handling and magazine, and that was that (it's not the shells that exploded and sank them, it was the propellant). Hood was better armoured and didn't have that issue of poor propellant handling. She was destroyed by what was likely a shot in a million, so to speak, and all but certainly NOT through the deck (Bismarck was far too close for plunging fire to be an issue). In fact it's interesting to wonder how the battle might've gone had she NOT been lost and both she and Prince of Wales had started trading full broadsides with the Germans. They had a significant firepower advantage, even with PoW's turret unreliability issues.
@fluffyslippers55894 жыл бұрын
Great footage and nice to see them in color.Hood, Ark Royal, Warspite, One of the Iron Duke class & a Renown Class
@alanpartridge60243 жыл бұрын
How did you identify her as the Ark? Hard to judge from the silhouette...
@fluffyslippers55893 жыл бұрын
@@alanpartridge6024 The flight deck over hang. I mean it could be one of the Illustrious class also but they wasn't commissioned until 1940 so i doubt it's any of that class
@geoffreymowbray67899 жыл бұрын
Commander (E) Robert Terrance Grogan: born 20 Sept 1899 - missing presumed dead 24 May 1941. Engineering Officer HMS Hood 5 May 1939 to 24 May 1941. Midshipman 1 Feb 1918; Lt (E) 15 July 1921; Lt Commander (E) 15 July 1929; Commander (E) 30 June 1933. Mentioned in Dispatches 1 Jan 1941.
@MegaFaery8 жыл бұрын
Beautiful bit of footage. To behold the sheer majesty of the dreadnoughts back in those days cruising gracefully along makes today's ships almost seem impotent, (in looks alone I mean).
@aegisbm18 жыл бұрын
+Tim C Not only in looks, modern warships are not armored and carry puny 5 inch main guns, which would not even scratch the paint on a WW2 Battleship's armor, on contrast a salvo of 14 inch shells would demolish even the largest aircraft carrier, missile technology is better than naval artillery but the Battleship will always be the epitome of National pride, gallantry, power and manliness on the seas.
@greebo78578 жыл бұрын
That's why the Missouri is maintained as a museum. Wisconsin as well. Damned shame the Poms didn't keep any. Unless you count the Victory.
@greebo78578 жыл бұрын
Speaking of beauty, the Japanese Yamato would have to be up there. Incredible ship.
@Rogan_Dorn8 жыл бұрын
Modern warships carry missiles that would crack a battleship in two. The main gun is only used for light surface targets.
@GeneralKenobiSIYE7 жыл бұрын
I may have missed it, but was that battleship traveling left to right an Iron Duke class?
@jonathanevans46104 жыл бұрын
It's HMS Iron Duke, notice that the turret isn't on B Barbette and Y Barbette has a prototype mount for the 5.25 DP guns of the KGV/Didos
@ironmantooltime3 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanevans4610 knowledge 👌
@jamespowell56023 ай бұрын
I absolutely love watching HMS Hood. Many years ago I saw a video where men who served on her, were talking about how she was a terribly wet ship! They said you could not go on the quarter deck in high seas. There was an Admiral who talked about how beautiful she was. The Admiral also said that she was heavier than was planned, because they added more steal. There was another seaman who said that when she came out of high seas, she would shudder side to side. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW HOW i CAN GET THAT VIDEO? iT IS A TREASURE AND i LOST IT MANY YEARS AGO. THANK YOU LOVERS OF THE MIGHTY HOOD! God bless.
@motaz19758 жыл бұрын
great video of the mighty Hood!!!
@RW4X4X30068 жыл бұрын
Anyone know of any photos of the compass platform and bridge area? I just watched an interview with Mr. Ted Briggs, and would like to get a visual of what he was dealing with regarding his escape.
@rickhigson38817 жыл бұрын
Those were sad days for my family and England!
@Spindrift_876 жыл бұрын
Magnificent ships, precious footage
@250chop11 жыл бұрын
very interesting footage, made even better by the fact you've not felt the need to put cheesy music over it!
@justsomeguywithasurprisede40594 жыл бұрын
So this is what the Hood looked like... magnificent...
@PropaneWP7 жыл бұрын
Wow. The sea's not particularly rough and the deck is very flooded. Taxing conditions for both ship and crew.
@99IronDuke7 жыл бұрын
+PropaneWP, The Battle Cruisers Hood, Repulse and Renown (and the earlier Tiger, scrapped 1932) very often had their quarter decks (at the stern of the ship) awash at any sort of speed, especially in heavy weather. Remember these were all very powerful 28-31 knot ships. Very rare colour film.
@Spindrift_876 жыл бұрын
Hood was known, within the fleet, as 'the largest submarine in the navy' because the quarter deck was perennially awash in anything other than a flat calm. A lot of weight (mostly in the form of extra armour) had been added to Hood since her launch so she sat lower in the water than as designed.
@stevenvater26813 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who feels very sad when watching this footage ? But also very proud at same time?
@walterkronkitesleftshoe66842 жыл бұрын
You're not alone Steven.
@michaelgrey7854 Жыл бұрын
I feel happy that she got sunk hahaha lol.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelgrey7854 Stupid cnuts are allowed to enjoy whatever they like. thanks to regimes like the British empire. If you'd expressed a similar view on Bismarck under a nazi regime, you'd have ended up as a pile of dust on the floor of a nazi death camp.
@Coop-sg6qc6 жыл бұрын
Rip the people who died in the battle of the Denmark strait
@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot6 жыл бұрын
Dear My! How majestic indeed.... Indeed.....
@chrisfreestone63347 жыл бұрын
11.59 is the very definition of epic. she's like a liaithon smashing through the mighty seas. but how low was she in heavy seas!? surely not the best platform for her guns to achieve accuracy. that and the spray blinding the fire command control was the undoing of her. that and having NO protection from plunging fire. I think holland did his best (20 degree turns to try to throw the Germans gunners) but he already knew he was in the pride of the navy and a beautiful ship, but one 20 years out of date. respect to everyone involved.
@renown63866 жыл бұрын
Do someone know the name of the biggest british submarine between 14:00 and end?
@annezerafa4692Ай бұрын
Thankyou for posting this very Nostalgic video of HMS Hood on her Sea trials. What a Mighty Shop she was...!!!. Is is possible to put a narrative or suitable music with this video...
@henryvagincourt8 жыл бұрын
Amazing film.
@TheEvilscotsman1239 жыл бұрын
Amazing to see Hood going under the Forth Rail Bridge.
@coleencarter87767 жыл бұрын
R.I.P lads
@stevbrkr5 жыл бұрын
HMS Iron Duke returning from gunnery training at 3.12.
@michaelgrey7854 Жыл бұрын
Wow the ammount of people that still to this day worship a ship that could not even last one battle!!!.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Жыл бұрын
A warship that was the largest and most powerful in the world for nearly 20 years. One that sported battleship armour, battleship firepower but was 7-8 knots faster than the rest of the world's battleships when she was completed.
@boattguyafloat11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! Hood, Repulse and others...
@NightHeronProduction4 жыл бұрын
Not certain but I do believe the ship at 0:48 is HMAS Perth
@davidgrooby4187 Жыл бұрын
I was on HMS HOOD when she blew up I was on the port side right at the front I have been reincarnated twice since then but I often shed a tear for all my ship mates
@walterkronkitesleftshoe668411 ай бұрын
Was that funny when you thought it up?
@davidgrooby418711 ай бұрын
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
@davidgrooby418711 ай бұрын
It wasn't funny when I was there you fucking idiot one day when you die you might find out@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
@walterkronkitesleftshoe668411 ай бұрын
@@davidgrooby4187 Public display of mental illness... never nice to look at.
@bofoenss83938 жыл бұрын
Since this was the beginning of her commission that lasted until her loss, it is pretty safe to assume that all the men in this film died with her. Chilling thought
@WozzasWatches8 жыл бұрын
well its possible some of these men transferred,as my grandad sadly joined her at the end of 1940 till the end in may 41
@sydlemon52855 жыл бұрын
After Gunther Prien sank the Iron Duke with lots of boy seamen lost, I understand large numbers of sailors under 18 were landed pending parental approval. My father was one and he was then posted to the Rodney.
@robertewing31144 жыл бұрын
@@sydlemon5285 the Royal Oak, not the Iron Duke, in case anyone is confused
@Ah013 жыл бұрын
Actually, fair amount of Hood`s crew was scattered to other RN ships at early WWII and replaces with new recruites, which might have made it somewhat less effective fighting unit when it mattered the most. There was a lot of confusion in her fire control during the decisive minutes of the battle of Denmark strait. Bismarck was allowed to fire the first salvos at Hood virtually unharassed, since the British ships mistook the column leading heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen for Bismarck.
@WTEGog8 жыл бұрын
When was this footage found? Its amazing!!!!!
@trevordockeray85104 жыл бұрын
Was there a practice of trailing the guns to leeward during heavy seas? Maybe to protect machinery from weather damage?
@jonathanevans46104 жыл бұрын
I guess if you had already removed the Tampions prior to a firing exercise, on an aside HMS Sheffield, a town Class cruiser lost part of the armoured roof of a turret to a wave hit on arctic convoy duty whilst training the guns in that manner. Water ingress was a problem on the KGV class when waves were coming over the bow
@joebutterman30848 жыл бұрын
I think these are some great old pictures of one of the great ships. But there are some dating problems. From 1929 to 1931 Hood had a major refit and her funnels were enlarged and changed. There are several photos here of her before this refit, with her original funnels, so the date of 1939 is suspect.I was particularly touched by the photos of the signalmen at work. If these photos were taken after the refit, there is a distinct chance that Ted Briggs might be there as either a Boy Signalman or an Ordinary Signalman. He was one of the three survivors of her action with the Bismarck. He stayed in the Navy and retired as a Lt MBE. I highly recommend the book he co-authored with Alan Coles "Flagship Hood".She was a beautiful ship and they don't seem to build them anymore.
@robertewing31144 жыл бұрын
Iron Duke, Renown, and possibly Repulse, but definitely Warspite. Hood in fine fettle, leaves Rosyth very much how she found it.
@MrFredSed11 жыл бұрын
All the ships in the last quarter of the flm look to be from a b&w film that had the sea and sky colourised. It made me look at it again and look at the sequence of signalmen hoisting flags @ 4:23, the flag boxes are b&w. A little later on around 4:45 - 4:55 the 4" gunsheild is the same tone as the sea beyond. I say colouised b&w film.
@asheer91147 жыл бұрын
I wonder what ship is shown on 11:50? And video itself is truly amazing because you can see many details on those ships.
@JapLance7 жыл бұрын
Looks like a French light cruiser (a La Galissonniere class).
@coskuntoktamis8 жыл бұрын
Is there a reason for the turrets pointing at out the sea??
@ironmantooltime3 жыл бұрын
Avoid sea water in the rifling, they're pointed away from the prevailing wind.
@TonyLovell11 жыл бұрын
What ship at 3:38, seemingly reduced to a training vessel?
@Thorny57185 жыл бұрын
Tony Lovell hms iron duke pal
@LeiHongxing8 жыл бұрын
Bad luck. The ammunition got hit at first.
@liamjh819 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@mortified7763 жыл бұрын
Had no idea there was any colour footage of her! Good grief, she really was as wet as they say she was.
@NickRatnieks8 жыл бұрын
I wonder if that old battleship seen earlier was HMS Iron Duke? When I was a kid in Portsmouth, thirty odd years after this was filmed there were still a few buff coloured paddle steamers used by the Admiralty like those seen in this film. I assume they were tugs and presumably as paddle steamers they were very agile. They thrashed around inside the harbour!
@futch21218 жыл бұрын
Sure was Iron Duke, partly demilitarised as a gunnery training ship. The shots at sea show Repulse & a county class cruiser astern of Hood, & Renown makes an appearance. Interestingly we see Ark Royal & a French cruiser (at11:46) as well. As Hood leaves harbour she passes the bows of the old carrier Argus. Great footage.
@NickRatnieks8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for confirming my observation- she was constructed in Portsmouth. You did well to spot Argus- we just see her bow- and the obvious conversion aspect making her the first aircraft carrier. Of course, later on in high seas Repulse is quite obvious- and also later, the new superstructure of Renown- which survived the War. Hood's speedy and rakish lines were shown to good effect in this remarkable film. When I was at school Portsmouth, three of the school's masters were "commanders" but we never discussed their ships- they were all maths teachers.
@futch21218 жыл бұрын
Although the reconstructed Renown was a much superior ship to Repulse, I think the improvements removed a lot of the majesty. I am a fan of the tripod mast & piled up superstructure. I have seen a good clip of Repulse firing her main armament i weather such as this, quite magnificent. A pity that she & POW could not have met a couple of Kongo`s.
@futch21218 жыл бұрын
Looking at the clip again I am not sure that the ship astern of Hood is the reconstructed Renown. She had a curved front to her bridge structure. It may be a reconstructed Queen Elizabeth. Looking at the cutaway forecastle it might be Warspite.
@NickRatnieks8 жыл бұрын
I will have to watch the film again. Obviously, the rebuilt ships were similar if not the same. I had a book about the sea as a kid that had a fantastic chapter on Warspite. The author wrote it while watching the contractor scrap Warpsite in Cornwall. Sadly, the book disappeared in a house move and I cannot remember its title to track a copy down. I think I bought it at a school jumble sale when I was about six years old.
@aczjbr7 жыл бұрын
Historical film and Sir Churchill did not approve the armor of this class of cruisers.
@101gaminglegion77 жыл бұрын
what was that buetiful tallship in the backround at 1:06?
oh yeah if i ever go to england i really want to see the victory an other tallships being in australia limits me to recent tallships
@markrobinson85397 жыл бұрын
Yes go and see the Victory. You will not be disappointed.
@yeetspageet67077 жыл бұрын
101 Gaminglegion go see the James Craig or Endeavor replica tall ships in Sydney. You could also go see the tall ship polly Woodside in Melbourne. There are also several other tall ships scattered around Australia. Just Letting you know you don't have to go to England to see a real tall ship.
@yeetspageet67077 жыл бұрын
Also James Craig isn't a replica it is a real ship.
@юрийкасаткин-к3х3 жыл бұрын
Еternal memory to those who filmed .
@CaptainColdyron2225 жыл бұрын
At 3:12 I believe is HMS Iron Duke
@InvestStrategyWire3 жыл бұрын
It would be nice to date the footage of Hood leaving Portsmouth. Any body have any idea? There are endless debates about the colour of Hood which changed during her service. Somewhat ironically the rather dark blue grey that we see here does not fit with how she 'should' have been looked - at any time in her career - by the theorists. I know colour film is not necessarily accurate but I would rather go with this than how she was 'supposed' to look. Incredible footage !
@InvestStrategyWire3 жыл бұрын
To answer my own question, June 1939 ... the time is mentioned at the start of the video.
@allgood6760 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! 👍
@jeremymillard29043 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if Hood could still make 32knts by 1939?
@thomasaxon4313 жыл бұрын
Yes I’m pretty sure she could at 1939
@boomerdiorama Жыл бұрын
Bow wave creaming over the forecastle @ 10:00 . . . jeesh.
@enochpowelghost8 жыл бұрын
when we had a real navy
@architect118 жыл бұрын
+enoch powellsghost Still do, got 6 type 45's, some of the most advanced in the world. And are about to have 2 brand new supercarriers!
@stevechristie25698 жыл бұрын
+Architect11 type 45s have unreliable economy engines which performed much. better in testing than in the real world - better suited to commercial ships
@WozzasWatches8 жыл бұрын
agreed,when brittania ruled the waves.now we just have a few floating computer tin cans
@99IronDuke7 жыл бұрын
Actually the Royal Navy is soon to commission the two largest warships ever built for the RN, the QE Class Aircraft Carriers. The RN does badly need more escort ships and men though. www.savetheroyalnavy.org/
@lukeriley41015 жыл бұрын
I wish I could take a smelly fresh piece of dogshit, put it into a hole in my computer and have it pop out of your computer right into your lap. When will science give me what I want?
@braeco755910 жыл бұрын
At .55 HMS Amphion awaiting to become HMAS Perth.
@jonathanevans46104 жыл бұрын
Good spot I'm annoyed for not spotting it as a Leander batch 2 by the twin funnels
@geoffreymowbray6789 Жыл бұрын
On 29 June 1939 Captain Harold B Farncomb MVO, RAN joined Amphion and preparations were immediately put in place to effect her transfer to the RAN. This subsequently took place in a naming ceremony (10th July 1939) held on the quarterdeck when Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, officially renamed the cruiser HMAS Perth.
@academyofnaturaljustice89393 жыл бұрын
HMS Hood Memorial post deleted, something to hide?
@jpk11210 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@georgetaylor54337 жыл бұрын
min: 3:18 what ship is it please ? many thanks
@pilot62457 жыл бұрын
It`s HMS Iron Duke, a former WW1 battleship, in 1932 recommissioned as a gunnery training ship.
@thomasaxon4313 жыл бұрын
Yes HMS Iron Duke
@briangulley60273 жыл бұрын
I'm sea sick after watching the last 4 minutes or so.
@thomasaxon4313 жыл бұрын
👏👏 beautiful just beautiful
@lbanke110 жыл бұрын
Odd color but no sound... but still awsom
@phaasch8 жыл бұрын
If you wanted sound in those days, you required a second man plus lots of heavy and expensive equipment, so basically a professional set-up like Paths. This was shot by the ship's engineering officer.
@marcocunego33264 жыл бұрын
Do you know on board HMS Hood there was a sailor of Italian origins? He died with his mates on May 24th 1941. Sunk by Mussolini's friend...
@marcocunego33263 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale Assirati, Albert Assirati.
@marcocunego33263 жыл бұрын
Jonah, yes, he was of Italian parentage, but his family was forced to emigrate because of Italian poor economic situation.
@marcocunego33263 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale God bless you Jonah for your words. I'll follow your advice. No, I am no descendant of his, I'm only Italian (at least partially) and I often think about Albert, a brave mariner with Italian origins, killed by... Bismarck, during a war in which Italy and Germany were unfortunately together. I do always think about the others, 1412 good mariners sunk with Hms Hood, Lancelot Holland, commander Kerr... I am dreadfull sorry, for all the brave died during all the wars. I do remember almost all the battles during at least the last 100 years: Bismarck, Repulse, Prince of Wales, Arizona, Royal Oak, Invincible, Zara, Fiume, Pola, Roma... The list is so long... I love peace, I love Uk, I love Europe, I love people. Yes, people are people or what should it be, you and I should get along so awfully? (Depeche Mode, on a British cruiser...). Hoping to meet you one time.
@marcocunego33263 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale Hallo Jonah. I do understand and accept your words. You are right. Europe did huge mistakes. I'd like you to know this Europe is not the one I dreamed. Have a look at the vaccination here... There was another possibility: John Maynard Keynes. That was another Europe, for people, respecting differences. We must anyway pay attention not to excessively underline differences that must be anyway considered. It' a balance. Otherwise sooner or later some kind of new Hitler or Mussolini will come out again. And then we'll see another glorious Hms Hood sailing towards honour and death. I think you are honest and kind. I just tell you again: I love you, Uk. I have a friend in Farnborough, Hampshire, where I used to stay when I was a boy. He's a "son of the few", yes, R.a.f., Supermarine Mk2 Spitfire. Thanks Uk, you stopped the devil...
@marcocunego33263 жыл бұрын
@Jonah Whale Good advice. Thanks friend.
@richhughes7450 Жыл бұрын
Hood looks like a submarine that 😊just surfaced.
@mauriceofnassau54763 жыл бұрын
Well, i guess HMS Victory is still there....
@SolmonGTrauth4 жыл бұрын
COLOUR ? More like varying levels of B L U E
@billylauwda91784 жыл бұрын
Well it's the *S E A*
@jensen196411 жыл бұрын
H.M.S. Iron Duke.
@TheEpicminecraft707 жыл бұрын
Man still can t believe this ship is not in world of warships yet
@johngee729511 жыл бұрын
I made a comment earlier but somehow it didn't appear. Well, so what. Note the French cruiser about 11:00, seems it was a joint exercise.
@Iphone-gp9oo2 жыл бұрын
Rip hms wood
@Iphone-gp9oo3 жыл бұрын
1:07 HMS VICTORY
@hagenvantronje88228 жыл бұрын
Deck armour plating 3 inches thick !
@dubsy10265 жыл бұрын
Bismarck's was 3.2 inches
@mauriceofnassau54763 жыл бұрын
It did not matter, Bismarks shells punched true the side armour
@えぼし-h2z10 жыл бұрын
victory!!
@joaquinmartinezrequena87722 жыл бұрын
HOOD BOOM
@dozo172010 жыл бұрын
check out hms hood talkin tarn
@triodehexode4 жыл бұрын
The mighty hood built on the Clyde Clydebank Scotland she has so much power look at the turbulence. Not so sure about the efficiency of the hull or propellers that came later that others with knowledge may explain this better.
@chudley31697 жыл бұрын
Colour
@milwaukeegregg7 жыл бұрын
Everything looks great, EXCEPT THE DECK ARMOR, lol 6 rds from Bismark and Hood is a hotel for fish..... Should have finished the refitting instead of going to the parade......This ship never had a chance.....
@walterkronkitesleftshoe66842 жыл бұрын
I'd just like to say that there is another copy of this footage here.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIS5o357p9iWe7s That copy is of much better quality, together with a beautiful & poignant soundtrack.
@colinrowe652110 жыл бұрын
Nope..all real colour film, filmed by R.T Grogan, very rare and real colour footage.
@geoffreymowbray67899 жыл бұрын
+Colin Rowe - Commander (E) Robert Terrance Grogan: born 20 Sept 1899 - missing presumed dead 24 May 1941. Engineering Officer HMS Hood 5 May 1939 to 24 May 1941. Midshipman 1 Feb 1918; Lt (E) 15 July 1921; Lt Commander (E) 15 July 1929; Commander (E) 30 June 1933. Mentioned in Dispatches 1 Jan 1941.
@robertewing31144 жыл бұрын
@@geoffreymowbray6789 Good man, Robert, it all seems like yesterday, and a wonderful record of that time
@geoffreymowbray67894 жыл бұрын
@@robertewing3114 Refer Commander (E) Robert Terrance Grogan Some of his audio recordings he sent home to his family during his naval service were found in resent years. Education: Haileybury School (1913-1915) 07.09.1917 entered RN 01.10.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Warspite (battleship) (additional; for ER duties) 08.05.1924 - (01.)1925 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 08.09.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.05.1927 - (04.)1928 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 05.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS Castor (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 13.09.1928 - (08.)1929 staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham 23.09.1929 - (02.1931) 2nd Engineer Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) (01.1932) no appointment listed 17.03.1932 - (06.)1933 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 17.12.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) (02.1936) no appointment listed 01.04.1936 - (10.)1938 Engineer Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 06.12.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS President (for Air Matériel Department, Admiralty) 05.05.1939 -24.05.1941 Engineer Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) [missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
@robertewing31144 жыл бұрын
@@geoffreymowbray6789 Tremendous Geoffrey, thanks. Possibly we will hear more of RTG, he filmed shots of nearby capital ships in heavy weather that were no doubt very impacting dramatic scenes, and no camera could deliver that experience, but we can imagine his experience. I may mention his life of Hood recording in my next book, so any further information is welcome. Cheers.
@ragnarlundin15792 жыл бұрын
We nixed her w.3 salvos nd proudly . so.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe66842 жыл бұрын
While Bismarck's face was ground into the shit for 90 minutes... sweet.
@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 Жыл бұрын
I will point out that she was very unhealthy ship,
@tompearson6999 жыл бұрын
The Hood's deck's, awash with sea water near the end of the film..
@hagenvantronje88228 жыл бұрын
+Tom Pearson The Hood was a very wet ship and quite a few Sailors contracted TB due to their messdecks being permanently soaking wet.
@tompearson6998 жыл бұрын
Flower Class Corvette's also had the same dilemma,
@1985Viggen8 жыл бұрын
And then Hood got fucked up by Bismarck xD
@broncosgjn8 жыл бұрын
Yes and 1,400 men died
@Vostadues8 жыл бұрын
Then the home fleet beat the shit out of Bismarck...
@broncosgjn8 жыл бұрын
Vostadues I am beginning to wonder if these forums are about military history, love of fine fighting machinery or just some kind of national pissing contest.