Nelson was a very busy and effective ship, able to withstand torps, mines, and aerial bombing and keep on shooting. Amazing.
@markdavidson10494 ай бұрын
The Nelson and Rodney are my two favorite battleships (along with the King George V-class). They are such a unique design and very "clean"-looking as well. A lot of ships have an "Atlantic bow" which flares up and outwards in order to prevent waves from breaching over and across the deck. Nelson and Rodney had a more streamlined and straight-edged look from stern to bow. The superstructure had the "Queen Anne's Mansion" design to it which looked like a building and I loved the faceted lines like at the very front and how it angled out in straight lines.
@rikk3194 ай бұрын
It was a beautiful ship.
@fus149hammer5Ай бұрын
Logical layout for a british warship as the enemy would never see a Royal Navy ship running away only advancing to the attack.
@optimusminimus-v3d12 күн бұрын
The Nelson touch!
@danielslocum71694 күн бұрын
Not quite how it worked out for Prince of Whales against Biskarck and Prinz Uegen after Hood blew up.
@kevinmccann28144 ай бұрын
My Grandfather Archie Lynch was a Coder on board Nelson. Was onboard at Scapa Flow when the King inspected the fleet.Was still aboard at D Day. He was injured when the ship hit a mine.
@steinetrinder6964 ай бұрын
Lest we forget!
@tuc-dh4df2 ай бұрын
Lies!
@markneedham7522 ай бұрын
@@tuc-dh4df....and you know better. Put up., or shut up.
@tuc-dh4df2 ай бұрын
@@markneedham752 Make me dickhead
@Dave5843-d9m2 күн бұрын
The Russian bots are bottling the wrong videos.
@aislemontecristo5 ай бұрын
The fact that it survived so many hits, is about as impressive as its firepower.
@nomercyinc67834 ай бұрын
thats the entire point of battleships and battle cruisers. they arent about just giving damage but taking it and surviving as well. glass canons are useless
@chrissouthgate45542 ай бұрын
Well, who was she named for?
@russmartiens32442 ай бұрын
Awesome ship. Odd design but what a tough battle harden ship. Total respect to the crew, designers, ship workers, new and repair.
@cameronsienkiewicz63645 ай бұрын
Man, if I had a nickel for every time a WW2 KZbinr put in footage of HMS Barham exploding, I’d be rich
@patsweeney42204 ай бұрын
I remember being a kid thinking 10$ was rich 🤑
@Under-Kaoz3 ай бұрын
@@patsweeney4220I remember when I used to say keyboard warrior comments.
@patsweeney42203 ай бұрын
@@Under-Kaoz still do clearly ya idgot
@morstyrannis19513 ай бұрын
@@Under-Kaozyou appear to be irony impaired.
@markwilliams83696 күн бұрын
😂
@Andrew-is7rs5 ай бұрын
The name, the man .. the ship. Pride 👍🇬🇧
@optimusminimus-v3d3 ай бұрын
Can a British warship have a more illustrious name than this?
@jeebusk3 ай бұрын
more illustrious than illustrious?
@zororosario5 ай бұрын
Nelson and Rodney are pure firepower 😊, still a force to be reckoned with if brought back today ❤Cheers
@johnsepulveda4435 ай бұрын
With anti ship missiles they wouldn't last very long in combat
@zororosario5 ай бұрын
@@johnsepulveda443 modern remedies for anti ship missiles are available 😊🤔
@johnsepulveda4435 ай бұрын
@@zororosario their also way to expensive to run these days that’s why all battleships are now retired and do you even know how expensive it would be to modernize that ship 🤣
@zororosario5 ай бұрын
Quality before the price or quantity, that's the the only thing that matters. History reminds us.
@johnsepulveda4435 ай бұрын
If I remember right the Rodney ran from the Bismarck after the Bismarck sunk the hood that the cruiser Ms shadowed it until reinforcements arrived after the Bismarcks rudder had been hit and jammed
@spotontheroad18 күн бұрын
When I first started work I workwd with a chap called Reg Kyte who had been a gunner in A-turret on the Nelson. I remember him telling me that the 16" guns could fire a shell 20 miles with accuracy and 25 miles just dropping it in a general area. He was injured in action and saw out the rest of the war stationed on HMS Victory on fire watch. Reg was a very quiet, kind man. A real gent.
@jp-um2fr5 ай бұрын
Somewhere on YT there is a photo of what happened to a Tiger tank after Nelson hit it with a 16" shell. The crew were underneath it at the time, taking shelter. It had been assumed there was nobody near it until they found a lone finger. The Tiger was still recognisable, one wonders what a Sherman would have looked like - if you could find it. WELL DONE, you pronounced every word well. Makes a change.
@BrianSmith-ow9gy5 ай бұрын
Apart from "forecastle". It's pronounced "folk sul"
@peterwebb87324 ай бұрын
I believe that was the Rodney’s work in Normandy. I’ve read that that Panzer unit took 40% casualties before they could get mobile and avoid. With 16”, near enough was good enough
@briand014 ай бұрын
Nelson was not at the D-Day landings she was being repaired Rodney did the honours
@restoflifАй бұрын
@@BrianSmith-ow9gy Yes, not British. Also, knots per hour is an acceleration not a speed.
@TheGermanNamedJames5 ай бұрын
Thank you for doing a vid about this. I had always wondered about the Nelson and how it was used and stuff like that
@richardmayes87975 ай бұрын
I'm adamant that Nelson and Rodney inspired Star Wars' Imperial star destroyers: a great big armoured wedge, with a tall conning tower at the rear, and all the guns at the front.
@ciaranReal4 ай бұрын
Yes
@markcairns95744 ай бұрын
@@ciaranReal Stuart Goddard? is that really you?
@timonsolus4 ай бұрын
Plus, officers with British accents!
@theorenhobart4 ай бұрын
@@timonsolus " our first catch of the day" boooom!!
@Castlelong3334 ай бұрын
Nope , Yamato and Moshi I believe was the inspiration, for Star wars , imperial star destroyers , one clue is imperial, the Storm troopers are inspired by the WW2 German soldiers and machine guns
@wodantheviking5 ай бұрын
My uncle, in the 5th battalion Sherwood Foresters, part of the 10th Corps, supporting the US 5th Army, participated in the allied landing at Salerno. He was wounded twice, during the fighting in Italy, before his regiment was sent to Greece, to prevent civil war, after the Germans had evacuated. He ended up in Austria at the end of the war.
@harryflower18105 ай бұрын
My great uncle was a SPO on Nelson from 1940 to 1947
@robertbruce188725 күн бұрын
Thank you Dark Seas for this excellently illustrated & narrated documentary on a incredible ship.
@dixiecyrus81365 ай бұрын
Brave ship and crew❤❤❤
@Cheesesteak70-d1v5 ай бұрын
Now that’s what I call British forward thinking
@morstyrannis19513 ай бұрын
The design was necessary to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty. Placing all the main armament forward reduced the area requiring protection by the main armour belt. Germany claimed it was complying with the treaty but, shocker, they were lying.
@johnhanson59439 сағат бұрын
What happened to it, however?
@diannegooding87335 ай бұрын
The capsized and exploding battleship is HMS Barham. The other capsized vessel is I believe a battleship from World War One. Possibly Austria Hungarian (?)
@BadgerGB5 ай бұрын
Correct, the second one was the SMS Szent István btw., a dreadnought of the Austro-Hungarian Navy sunk on 10 June 1918 by italian trorpedo boats.
@NeilHardy-i4l4 ай бұрын
If we are being pedantic Astro Hungarian
@NeilHardy-i4l4 ай бұрын
Austro Hungarian damn this auto correct
@chrissouthgate45542 ай бұрын
@@NeilHardy-i4l If we are being super pedantic, Croatian as she was in the process of being handed over to them.
@tltc1915 ай бұрын
My Dad was a machine gunner on landing craft at Salerno. He was wounded there.
@davidc65105 ай бұрын
Another great historical video. Thanks for sharing!
@nickreestearsofaclown46615 ай бұрын
My grandfather served on the Nelson being in charge of a battery of Pom Pom guns. An American shell exploded in one of the barrels and a splinter hit him above the eye causing him to be discharged from sea duty and became a dispatch rider.
@francescxavierbulto98484 ай бұрын
That’s odd, the reason why the US didn’t adopt the Pom Pom was because they couldn’t make compatible ammunition.
@jeebusk3 ай бұрын
They're cheer leaders 😅
@randyandtheretreads3144Ай бұрын
What? His eye injury prevented him from being a sailor, but he could ride a motorcycle? Sounds like the army had lower standards or were less compassionate.
@harryflower18105 ай бұрын
Rodney pulverized Bismarck with her guns and torpedoed her to boot.
@josephgallacher37295 ай бұрын
She was equipped with 24 inch Topedoes (21 inch or 18 inch for aircraft were usual ) but I believe they were removed at beginning of war as it was believed th4y were a danger to the ship if they were hit in a battle
@josephgallacher37295 ай бұрын
Within minutes hit the front turret of Bismarck which also crippled supervising turret, then 9n Bismarck fighting hand behind it back
@robertf34795 ай бұрын
@@josephgallacher3729 HMS Rodney still had her torpedo armament when she engaged KMS Bismarck, thus it is very possible that she did manage a torpedo hit against Bismarck, at one point the ships closed to within torpedo range or "point blank range" for the 16" guns of Rodney.
@dovetonsturdee70335 ай бұрын
@@josephgallacher3729 No, they weren't. Rodney used them against Bismarck, and may have achieved a hit.
@johntim34914 ай бұрын
@@josephgallacher3729.... Rodney took out 3 of Bismarck's 4 main turrets.
@amiyo3215 ай бұрын
One of my favourite battleships rodney
@krzysztofwaleska5 ай бұрын
Beautiful ships. All of them. Great times!
@michaelswales447711 күн бұрын
My Uncle was on the HMS Nelson as Chief Yeoman of Signals severed for 3 years winning a BEM medal which was presented by the King
@BMrider755 ай бұрын
Knots = nautical miles per hour. Saying "knots per hour" is just so wrong...
@BadgerGB5 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I was about to say👍
@jeebusk3 ай бұрын
lol yeah
@mariusgrobler11 күн бұрын
Indeed. A knot is a nautical mile per hour. The term "knots per hour" would therefore refer to the rate at which the ship accelerates and not its speed.
@johnallen78075 ай бұрын
I hate the sloppy use of archive film in these KZbin vids, e.g talking about the sinking of Bismarck while showing film of (I think) HMS Barham.
@binaway5 ай бұрын
A common complaint for this youtuber
@johnallen78075 ай бұрын
@@binaway Makes you doubt the veracity of the whole thing doesn't it?
@richardcleveland85495 ай бұрын
@@johnallen7807 He does sometimes skate close to the truth . . . .
@johnallen78075 ай бұрын
@@richardcleveland8549 The "click bait" headlines on so many KZbin vids annoy me too! lol.
@BadgerGB5 ай бұрын
No, it is the SMS Szent István, WWI dreadnought, explosion of HMS Barham is shown at 4:29 These are the only two existing film recordings of sinking battleships btw.
@marksmith17795 ай бұрын
HMS Nelson must have had some fantastic guns to be able to hit Italy from the Normandy coast! Especially since the battle for Italy was practically over by June 1944. "With her nine thunderous cannons she cleared a path for the Allies to liberate Italy."
@agunther085 ай бұрын
It’s on the Internet it must be true… 😂
@markwheeler20211 күн бұрын
@@ancient1946 The treaty signing with Italy.
@jes27315 ай бұрын
It's hard to think of a major ship coming to it's technologically useful end at a mere 25 years old. New technologies rabbit holes were developing so fast back then. Today, our oldest in service carrier is the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), commissioned 03-MAY-1975, 49 years ago, and still more than a half decade away from the longest commissioned carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) with 55 years and 70 days of active service. My one and only, USS Midway (CV-41) had an impressive 46 years and 214 days of service, commissioned on 10-SEP-1945.
@BrianSmith-ow9gy5 ай бұрын
The main problem was their abysmal lack of speed. Even the Queen Elizabeth class ships from WW1 were faster. The RN never really came to grips with the need for fast battleships, ships that could keep up with the fleet carriers they, the Americans and Japanese were building. This inability to grasp the simple importance of speed is still evident today when recalling that the two Queen Elizabeth class carriers built this century can only manage 25 knots, making combined operations with the US navy impossible. The Nimitz class can manage 32 knots or better. On joining a US Task Force, the admiral in charge of our carrier group, comprising one or more Illustrious mini carriers, asked his US counterpart what they should do. The American replied that he didn't care as long as they didn't get in the way. We build cheap, on the cheap and we operate on the cheap.
@originalkk8824 ай бұрын
@@BrianSmith-ow9gy I imagine you just looked at the headline figures for speed for the QE carriers. Queen Elizabeth has actually been tested at 32kts. In WW2 the lllustrious class carriers could manage 30kts, and their escorting KGV battleships 28kts, not a significant speed difference. These vessels were designed to operate much closer to heavy enemy land based air cover around Europe, so protection was prioritised. You remarks about the British Pacific Fleet are insulting. The Illustrious class were definitely not "mini carriers", and the Americans were impressed when they continued operating after Japanese Kamikaze's hit their armoured decks, unlike the unfortunate USS's Franklin, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Bunker Hill, and Belleau Wood.
@timonsolus4 ай бұрын
Nelson and Rodney were in near constant use during WW2, spending far more time at sea during wartime than they did during peacetime. 5 years of wartime service is like 20 years of peacetime service. That’s why they were worn out by the end of WW2 and sent for scrapping soon after.
@jamesday12954 ай бұрын
Hms Dreadnought...hold my beer.
@rikk3194 ай бұрын
I have friends who served on both the Enterprise and Kitty Hawk. One of my grandfathers served on the Lexington and survived her sinking at Coral Sea.
@stargazer57845 ай бұрын
The term 'cannon' was most frequently used during the age of sail. During the age of steam and steel, the main batteries were referred to as naval guns. Good video non the less. Thx.
@daneelolivaw60215 күн бұрын
I don't know about the rest of the age of sail, but during Lord Nelson's time in the RN, they were called Guns.
@colinamwilliamson5 ай бұрын
The forward guns cannot all be used firing forward obviously. only A and B superfiring. C turret is almost useless until almost broadside
@moodogco5 ай бұрын
Yh they can as the bk turret is just angled up over the top of the other 2 turrets in front, there's plenty of footage of them all firing forward
@johncmitchell49415 ай бұрын
First, not nearly as broadside as aiming a conventionally arranged main battery. Angling say 30 degrees vs maybe 60 or more you're a smaller target and incoming shells are more likely to bounce of. If you headed more directly at your target you'd only have the use of A and B anyway. Second, the design was odd and criticized for the layout of the guns, (mentioned in the video) but the goal was not for the gun placement. It was to have a smaller citadel to armor and reduce weight per the treaty.
@ericthemauve12 күн бұрын
Yes they can all fire forwards. Naval guns fire at an upwards angle.
@drmarkintexas-4005 ай бұрын
🎖️💪🙏🏆 Thank you for sharing this
@combridgeinternational391Ай бұрын
For clarity, the operation to Malta described in the video was in Operation “Pedestal”, 11-15 August 1942 and was the savour of the island, it was a strategic victory, raising the morale of the people and garrison of Malta, averting famine and an inevitable surrender.
@mikep4904 ай бұрын
HMS Nelson was well named. "Never mind the maneuvers, just go straight at them!" is what she was designed for.
@gruntforever74375 ай бұрын
It amuses me the insults used as regards an older ship of war. Hood was older I do believe, would the author have insulted it the same way? Warspite was even older. The Rodney and Nelson was not the only ships designed or built to put all its main armament up front. This was a early response to the Washington Naval Treaty limiting displacement. They were looking for ways to maximize armament and armor on such a limited displacement. so frankly the insults were kind of stupid
@BrianSmith-ow9gy5 ай бұрын
Specially when you consider how old today's Royal Navy ships are. Surviving Type 23s are slated to serve into the 2030s.
@BaconLick4 ай бұрын
@@BrianSmith-ow9gy I remember them being commissioned in the nineties.
@3vimages4715 ай бұрын
Rodney ..... one of my favourite ships.
@paganphil1005 ай бұрын
@3vimages471: This is HMS Nelson.....same class as Rodney but not the same ship.
@megapangolin109319 күн бұрын
Great video, great ship. Fantastic video footage, never seen that before. Don't forget that Rodney was present and was a key part of the sinking of the Bismark. How about a profile of Rodney?
@chuckkline29702 ай бұрын
Truly enjoyed this video.
@sirjohng14 ай бұрын
Great vid thank you, thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot.
@ericthemauve12 күн бұрын
Oh dear! Be careful what you 'learn' from Dark Seas. A lot of his content is woefully inaccurate. 🙄
@ouroboris5 ай бұрын
...12 knots per hour? I don't think that means what you think it means.
@michaelwhalen24425 ай бұрын
Maybe the ship was accelerating...
@jimmacaulay8445 ай бұрын
Cannons? GUNS!!!
@BrianSmith-ow9gy5 ай бұрын
Or just "cannon". It's both singular and plural. "Cannons" is just wrong.
@ericgruel2744 ай бұрын
Naval rifles
@rogernevin74614 ай бұрын
16'' guns, range 22 miles ! She could stand off in the Channel and hit France.
@tedthesailor1725 ай бұрын
We didn't treat our battleships with much respect in peacetime...
@larrywmedford65875 ай бұрын
Your words make me think of the poem by Rudyard Kipling, I think it was titled "Tommy" It's Tommy this and Tommy that And chuck him out, the brute But it "Savior of his country" When the guns begin to shoot.
@theorenhobart4 ай бұрын
i agree, certainly England and US could have saved a few more ( especially the carrier Enterprise ) but they are extremely costly just to look pretty and float around without being useful in modern war. England will always have HMS Victory
@robertbruce188725 күн бұрын
Theorenhobart: Fortunately the U.S. kept their Iowa class Battleships
@williamkirk1156Ай бұрын
Oh yeah, I love that ship and all ships like that when playing World of Warships. Few survive a full broadside blast and like the video says, you need only present a small section of your ship.
@frigland91675 ай бұрын
Clickbait. No "ONe Epic Shot" here.
@robertf34795 ай бұрын
Arguably, those 9 16" guns made the Nelson class the world's most powerful battleships, even more powerful than the USN Colorado class, armed with 8 16"/45 caliber guns. These guns IIRC were marginally more powerful than the guns mounted in the Colorado class and later North Carolina and South Dakota class until the USN developed the 2700lb "super heavy" armor piercing round for the MK6 and MK7 16" guns.
@garyhooper18205 ай бұрын
You failed to mention the Iowa Class Fast Battleship. The six that were built for WWII .
@Kreatorisbackyt5 ай бұрын
@@garyhooper18204 Iowa class were built not 6
@knottyash99085 ай бұрын
You are correct. The 2700 pound ap round was a game changer. The us 16/45 guns used 6 90 lb bags of powder and the Iowa class used 6 110lb bags of powder out of a longer barrel giving them more range and accuracy. Bob Ballard and James Cameron both stated that observation of the Bismarck wreck indicated that the Rodney did more damage with her 16 inch guns than the much more modern king George 5 did with her 14 inch guns. To be fair the king George 5 quad mount 14 inch turrets were plagued with reliability issues. It was a 16 inch shell from Rodney that penetrated the Bismarck 14 inch conning tower and killed most of the senior officers on the Bismarck. Several 14 inch hits failed to penetrate the Bismarcks 13 inch armor belt.
@robertf34795 ай бұрын
@@garyhooper1820 Granted, but as I DID mention the MK-7 guns that were only mounted in the Iowa class I thought that would be redundant.
@robertf34795 ай бұрын
@@Kreatorisbackyt Six Iowa class were laid down with only four being completed although BB-66 (Kentucky) was launched incomplete from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard to clear the building way for an aircraft carrier (but never started IIRC.) BB-65 (Illinois) was not as far along as BB-66 and was scrapped on the building way. Part of Kentucky is still around, part of her bow was used to hurry completion of repairs to Wisconsin (BB 64) after that ship "busted her nose" when she collided with destroyer USS Eaton. Looking at the ship from her pier, if you know what to look for you can see the difference in construction techniques. Wisconsin is moored in Norfolk VA, about 10 or so miles from where my butt is planted as I write this. 😁
@darrensmith69995 ай бұрын
Beautiful bruisers love them (: Is it me or do they resemble a Star Wars Star Destroyer ship ?
@moosifer33215 ай бұрын
And no mention of the `Scapa Incident`, Nelson`s Stoker and `Girlriend`, resulting in the ship being greeted with BAaaaaa?? No mention of Rod-ol or Nels-ol. as the sisters were known due to them resembling Tankers. Enjoy the channel, sometimes, sub`d always.
@bahoonies5 ай бұрын
@moosifer3321 Do tell. I haven't heard that particular story.
@moosifer33215 ай бұрын
Apparently one of the Stokers was caught in Barracks, in bed with a Sheep - he later claimed he thought it was a WREN in a Duffle Coat, hence the Baas.@@bahoonies
@philhawley12195 ай бұрын
A WREN wearing a duffle coat! The most convincing excuse ever.
@olwill14 ай бұрын
Was I napping? When did he relate the "One Epic Shot"?
@ericthemauve12 күн бұрын
He never did. It's his usual clickbait nonsense.
@mickshawforty5 ай бұрын
Two great looking ships.
@formerlydistantorigins697214 сағат бұрын
Nelson had the perfect name. She looks designed to follow the rule of 'just run straight at them'
@PalleRasmussen4 ай бұрын
The NelRods were awesome.
@cameronsienkiewicz63645 ай бұрын
lol, I couldn’t even imagine being on a ship, seeing an enemy warship on the horizon, and then immediately be told “we’re going to scuttle the ship, get to the life boats” .. You’re on a perfectly good ship that isn’t damaged in any way, no one is shooting at you, yet you’re about to intentionally sink your ship, climb into a lifeboat, and bob around in the open ocean for god knows how long, just because a ship appeared on the horizon .. I think at that point, I’d just surrender to the approaching ship.. you may be taken as a POW, but chances are at least you’ll get to stay on your ship and travel to the nearest enemy port (as a prisoner) .. at least you’ll survive (more than likely), the only downside is the enemy is able to seize whatever cargo your transporting
@danielkeel92655 ай бұрын
Great video, but I really wish you wouldn't call it maliar, it's MalAya, as evidenced by it's modern name, Malaysia.
@mospeada11524 ай бұрын
The video heading is quite misleading, as not once did I hear of when it gathered all its firepower for one epic shot!
@branofattrebates2847Ай бұрын
It's a shame that such a historical ship could not become a museum piece .
@ilikelampshades64 ай бұрын
HMS Rodney (HMS Nelsons sister ship) is the ship that killed the Bismark. For a while it was a 1 on 1 fight and the Rodney blew to bismark to pieces leaving it a firery mess
@johntim34914 ай бұрын
Very true... Rodney took out 3 of Bismarck's 4 Main Turrets.
@ilikelampshades64 ай бұрын
@@johntim3491 I thought it took them all out. Who did the 4th turret?
@kuribayashi844 ай бұрын
Every time I see this thing in WoW, I’m taken slightly aback. I always think that something is missing. 😂
@chipcook53464 ай бұрын
My suppositions: HMS Nelson had some high quality crews along the way. HMS Nelson had some talented leadership along the way. HMS Nelson had some really good luck along the way.
@ironmantooltime4 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍
@owenjones506Ай бұрын
Nelson and Rodney were supposed to be much bigger to be more like the Hood ,but weight treaties curtailed this .
@johnhallett584614 күн бұрын
They were the results of the Washington Naval Treaty. 35,000 ton maximum displacement allowed. The Brits wanted to cram the most guns plus armor on that limitation and that was how they did it. I think the only other BB designed like that was the french Dunkurque class. It was a design not repeated by anyone else. The idea was that with the main battery concentrated like it was, they could save weight on armor.
@skyden241955 ай бұрын
Good video. However, I'd argue that HMS Nelson's demolition began when she was a target ship. lol. (Of course, if you look at how many times she was damaged during her service, maybe it could be said that her demolition started when she began to serve.) 🤔😏😄
@jtns28455 ай бұрын
most of the videos don’t match the audio.
@EllieMaes-Grandad5 ай бұрын
As usual on this channel. Always used multiple times too.
@morstyrannis19513 ай бұрын
You’re right, but in fairness there’s a pretty limited selection to choose from.
@EllieMaes-Grandad5 ай бұрын
A clip of 'Japanese troops at Hong Kong' @ 9:00 [seen many times before] does not impress. Then again, this channel does a lot of such things . . .
@jamesbaker22328 күн бұрын
Nelson had a very unique answer to when you cross the T. She had all her armor along with her guns pointed direct to front at the enemies side. Battleships are tanks on water.
@raywest383414 күн бұрын
Richelieu and Jean Bart had a great solution to this problem too, with all eight 15" guns able to fire directly ahead.
@neilashley846011 күн бұрын
Some of the archive film is Pathe newsreel of Nelson's sister ship HMS Rodney shelling German fortifications on Alderney by firing over the Cotentin peninsular.
@joeminella53155 ай бұрын
Good Vid, Thanks.
@edhuber355711 күн бұрын
Seems the 3rd main gun mount was behind-&-below the 2nd, limiting to off-angle forward targets. As such, diagonal-to-target course would seem similar to common design (i.e. 3rd mount rear) which also needed diagonal course to engage forward targets. Perhaps the degree-of-diagonal course might still give slight advantage, and yes, there were other pros-&-cons, but this touted pro seems less so.
@lastguy86135 ай бұрын
Allied sea power was the reason the Axis never repulsed a amphibious landing in ww2
@markwheeler20211 күн бұрын
Dieppe?
@MichaelCampin5 ай бұрын
Try the fact that she was capable of 22 knots not 12
@kizzyp27355 ай бұрын
.......... didn't he say her speed was reduced to 12 knots following damage??
@ShaneKilpatrick-i4t12 күн бұрын
Tough ship. Right name. Admiral was as hard as nails.
@charlesarmstrong529211 күн бұрын
A nice concise round up of this great ships history. By the Way ...this is how Malaya is pronounced Ma lay a not Ma lie ya.
@No_Way_NO_WAY4 ай бұрын
Nelson was my favorite ship in Navyfield. 3x four barreled turrets and basically no spread ment all of the shells would land on a broadsider.
@davidlauder-qi5zv4 ай бұрын
Wrong. Three 3 barreled turrets, not four barreled. She and HMS Rodney had 9 15inch guns apiece.
@No_Way_NO_WAY4 ай бұрын
@@davidlauder-qi5zv you do read that i refer to my loadout in navyfield, which is a pc game where you can equip many different turrets.
@megapangolin109319 күн бұрын
@@davidlauder-qi5zv 16 inch guns. The largest guns on any shop.
@davidlauder-qi5zv19 күн бұрын
@@megapangolin1093 16 inch guns. I did actually know that. I've always known that! If you were to go back to other naval sites on KZbin you'd find that it was usually me correcting others about Nelson and Rodney. "No, 16 inch guns, not 15 inch..." The only 16 inch ships in the Royal Navy. Why did I say 15 inch on this occasion? Early onset dementia, I guess. Just to cover my embarrassment , I do know a little more about the two ships. Many thought that, from a distance (and with your eyes half-closed, and in a fading light), because the superstructure of both ships was at the rear, with all three of the gun turrets were for'ard, that they resembled oil tankers. There was a convention at the time to end the names of tankers with the letters "ol". Nelson and Rodney were therefore nick-named "Nelsol and Rodnol". There. A piece of useless information for you! Which you probably already knew...But they were not the largest guns on any warship. The Japanese had two 9 gun 18 inch calibre battleships in WW2, the Yamato and the Musashi, the largest battleships ever constructed. Neither survived the war.
@megapangolin109319 күн бұрын
@@davidlauder-qi5zv Hi David, thanks for the update on the 18inchers, I knew that too, but forgot in my enthusiasm to correct you. My father served on the Rodney as a radar operator and never ceased to tell me about the 16 inchers and how impressive it was to be present during a broadside. Good luck with your corrections though. We need to be vigilant!
@maurotassinarizugnitauro29905 ай бұрын
Twelve knots per hour. Plz. A navy channel. I need no further explanation.
@tim314155 ай бұрын
You beat me to it.
@tim314155 ай бұрын
Perhaps she was accelerating?
@TheBestDog5 ай бұрын
7:35 12 knots [per hour] is correct, though not typically how one refers to the speed of a ship. Did I miss something else?
@Samaldoful5 ай бұрын
Correct, knots is its own measurement and needs no quantifying- however give the bloke a break it’s an interesting video and mainly well done.
@flickingbollocks55425 ай бұрын
@@TheBestDoga knot is one nautical mile per hour. If you add another per hour, (ie 12 nautical miles, per hour, per hour) it makes no sense unless you are accelerating.
@denysvlasenko1865Ай бұрын
What are you talking about, "unique advantage"? All somewhat modern classes of UK battleships and battlecruisers could fire full broadside (they had all turrets on centerline, no "wing" turrets, which allowed them to fire all of them to a side).
@dovidell4 ай бұрын
interesting footage of HMS Barham exploding , to presumably indicate what would happen if a Battleship hit a ( sea) mine
@EllieMaes-Grandad5 ай бұрын
Grounded outside Portsmouth harbour - who was court-martialled for that silly mistake?
@alanmoore21973 ай бұрын
What a shame that neither of these famous ships was saved as a museum ship, worse - not a single battleship of any kind - the stupidity of it all!
@robertgentile71985 ай бұрын
Guns. not cannons!
@garyhorton98272 ай бұрын
Exactly! Guns are rifled, cannons are not!
@phbrinsden4 ай бұрын
Because Rodney and Nelson looked a bit like oil tankers they were nicknamed Rodnol and Nelsol. But Rodney’s 16” guns disassembled Bismarck in short order.
@atompunk55754 ай бұрын
It looks funky, but it has a reputation 😮
@bunnyniyori63246 күн бұрын
Nelson clearly served well.
@creanero4 ай бұрын
"A floating relic" the ship was less than 20 years old.
@jeebusk3 ай бұрын
the pace of progress was much quicker back then.
@creanero3 ай бұрын
@@jeebusk true, but still.
@roncotton79633 ай бұрын
How’s your blackberry doing?
@seadoggozo-fishingguitarsa18375 күн бұрын
My dad was on Nelson. 1937 to early 1943.
@eriknewman52885 ай бұрын
Too bad the once proud British Navy can't even perform shore patrol. What a pathetic state of affairs.
@wodantheviking5 ай бұрын
Not quite true. The RN has been shooting down drones and missiles in the Red Sea.
@rossmansell58775 ай бұрын
explain please................
@lesigh17495 ай бұрын
@@wodantheviking Can they figure out a way to target Dinghies?
@eriknewman52885 ай бұрын
@rossmansell5877 the British navy can't even put planes on their flight decks. They don't have enough ships to perform basic functions.
@captainsleeman97875 ай бұрын
Yeah, but they've got diversity, lots of diversity.
@daneelolivaw6024 ай бұрын
"A floating relic," and yet it was another floating relic that did most of the damage to Bismarck.
@daneelolivaw60215 күн бұрын
Some of these people haven't got a clue what they are talking about. It gives me the hump when they say cannons instead of Guns.
@stewarts8597Ай бұрын
a shame they couldn't keep her as a museum piece
@brucewilliams1892Ай бұрын
Do you believe a regular three- or four-turret design could not fire broadsides?
@TheRealRedAce16 күн бұрын
Nelson's layout had nothing to do with her ability to bring her guns to bear for shore bombardment.
@abnurtharn29275 ай бұрын
The Allied Ship That Gathered All Its Firepower for One Epic Shot?
@netwrench65705 ай бұрын
Did we miss it?
@johnrflinn5 ай бұрын
@@netwrench6570 The shot not heard around the world.
@richardcleveland85495 ай бұрын
@@netwrench6570 You blinked . . . .😂
@abnurtharn29275 ай бұрын
@@netwrench6570Don´t know about you, but I missed it.
@ericthemauve12 күн бұрын
Shameless clickbait.
@gadgetman_nz40922 ай бұрын
12kn/h, whilst not a great rate of acceleration, would have a good lick of speed after 3 hours if maintained.
@barbararice66504 ай бұрын
British battleships are by far the most beautiful things ever built, and here's why not a single penny was spent to make them beautiful 😐
@jackjude4 ай бұрын
The majority are conspiously ugly, especially compaired to Germany's WW2 battleships. Rodney and Nelson had their charm though.
@barbararice66504 ай бұрын
@@jackjude That's my point those German battleships look like they were designed by toilet water ponces 👈😾
@CmdCodd4 ай бұрын
Now this would have been an amazing museum ship... (It really is a shame).
@iancarr86825 ай бұрын
Overlooked the cheese loss!
@wilsonpickett38814 ай бұрын
Nice map of Tarawa
@georgetirebiter434312 күн бұрын
Pree pare to fire the wave motion guhhhn!
@subjectc75055 ай бұрын
This is the weirdest battleship i ever seen
@lesigh17495 ай бұрын
I think it looks gorgeous. Its like the Star Destroyers in Star wars. Command tower at the rear and a full deck of guns along the front.
@davidgifford81125 ай бұрын
Even the crews thought they looked more like oil tankers than battle ships, hence the nicknames “Rod Oil & Nels Oil”. While slow and tactically compromised, they were a brilliant compromise as a Naval Treaty compliant design.
@kevinmccann28144 ай бұрын
Original design was changed due to a treaty to limit warship size. Superstructure dimensions were changed, this enabled the installation of the third turret. The 16"guns were named after the 7 Dwarfs. Not sure what the remaining barrels were named. Source, my Grandad,🙂
@stephennewton22232 ай бұрын
Technically only 6 barrels could fire forward. The third turret could only fire forward slightly to port or starboard.
@stephennewton222315 күн бұрын
@@ancient1946 Do you have any documentation for this. I have never heard it before and it sounds....off. The engineering would be difficult and the blast effects on the foreword turret would be horrific.
@ericthemauve12 күн бұрын
@@ancient1946 Correct.
@PETERWATT-ly5yt4 ай бұрын
I do not think Nelson could fire all 9 16inch guns while facing head on to the Germans as the number 3 turret was lower than the number 2 turret
@peterwebb87324 ай бұрын
At longer ranges the guns are elevated.
@PETERWATT-ly5yt4 ай бұрын
if you look a a model of Rodney you will see that number 3 turret guns pointy bits sit under number2 and cannot raised to a high angle
that's fine but Rodney unlike Nelson had an AA gun battery pompom I think on top B turret that would get damaged by blast just like Bismark's radar did every time the guns fired