The Best British Submarine Commander of WW2

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@THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of Ай бұрын

ABOUT TIME WE HAD SOME LIGHT SHED ON BRITISH SUB COMMANDERS INSTEAD ALL WE HEAR IS HOW WONDERFUL THE AXIES AND US SUBS WERE

@jester5ify Ай бұрын

No 'e'......

@markwilliamwestonwilson1503 Ай бұрын

My great Uncle Fred Ringham was Chief Petty Officer on the HMS Thunderbolt , it was 1 of 3 submarines to be converted to carry Chariot 2 mss as n human Torpedoes, it was lost with all hand on or before the 28/ 03 /42 ,but before then it had had a great success.

@pissedoff-is1mt Ай бұрын

Great to hear about allied subs as all you tend to hear about is U boats

@davidgaston738 Ай бұрын

lest we forget those brave men who died for our freedom

@soyboymotivation Ай бұрын

You dont have freedom, look around.

@pincermovement72 Ай бұрын

We don’t even have free speech now , how many political prisoners are in jail now for words, brave men but they were duped like too many others .

@josephinebennington7247 Ай бұрын

Just to add a good submarine history, I suggest reading “Unbroken”. The WW2 story of HMS Unbroken, in the Mediterranean, written by its skipper, Alistair Mars. A decorated but later court-martialled captain.

@accomuk Ай бұрын

The rank in the Royal Navy is pronounced "Left"tenent not "Loo"tenent as it is in the American Navy.

@stephenguk Ай бұрын

To be pedandic, I think that the RN pronounciation is "Let"tenent. It was when I was one.

@KJs581 26 күн бұрын

@@stephenguk Exactly. I love when people tell those of us in the Navy "how we say it/what we do/how we do it." I get civvies telling me all the time "I think you'll find it is meant to be LEFT tenant..." No, it isn't. While I was never RN, I was RAN, and our traditions and "jackspeak" comes from there/sayings the same. The Army love their "Left - tenant." While we never say "Loooooo - tenant", you are spot on, it is a clipped first syllable, to the point where the letters/sound in the first syllable after the L is barely sounded, so said as "La" or "Luh"; so "Luh-tenant." 40 years in a blue suit, 20 of that at sea. How many times was the word mentioned in our everyday speech? With thousands of them around over the years, (20 to 25 of them on every ship, HUNDREDS of them at depots, THE most common Navy officer rank), we would have heard/said it thousands of times. No sailor EVER said "Left - tennant" and you never heard it, unless you ran into someone who was Army, or a civilian who "wants to tell us what we all say." But then again, what would we know? We just "did it." :p

@AlexeiChoquet 15 күн бұрын

And where does "Loitnahnt" come from? ( also spelled "Leutenant"

@tonyjames5444 28 күн бұрын

My grandfather served with him on HMS Porpoise, he mentioned his name to me back in the 70's when I was a kid, it was the only time he talked about his service.

@chrissycarr1618 Ай бұрын

The amount of vessels he sank was incredible. The amount of vessels sank overall in WW2 is mind blowing.

@guyandrew4668 Ай бұрын

My father, the late Commander Bruce Andrew, served on Thunderbolt as First Officer until the end of her penultimate patrol. Recommended by Thunderbolt CO as ready for command, my father took over Unbroken from Alistair Mars - luck paid for by "a tough act to follow". On Thunderbolt's next patrol she was sunk, and I would not have been on the planet to write this! Alistair Mars had had an excellent run, of the sort his rookie skipper successor was unlikely to equal. My father rose to Commander after the war and died in December,1985.

@TheGixernutter Ай бұрын

Superb video. One of the best.

@namu1957 Ай бұрын

Not to sound picky, but while it is spelt lieutenant it is pronounced Leftenent in the British, Canadian and other former colonial countries

@philhawley1219 Ай бұрын

Only in the army. The navy doesn't pronounce the 'F' sound.

@jongulliver984 Ай бұрын

Yes it does not pronouncing it is unusual these days.

@philhawley1219 Ай бұрын

@@jongulliver984 I worked for a retired navy lieutenant commander who served just after the second world war and into the 1960's. He corrected me on the mispronunciation of his rank once, explaining to me that the 'F' is never used because it is not bloody well spelt with a fucking F. Considering that Lt. Cdr. Wanklyn VC served and died before this other officer even served it is only right that the proper pronunciation is fucking well used too.

@namu1957 Ай бұрын

@@philhawley1219 ok, I stand corrected. :)

@KJs581 26 күн бұрын

No, it isn't, that is Army (see above). Navy doesn't say "looooooo-tenant" (ie, extend the syllable), it is barely sounded, so it is "La" or (hard to phoneticise more likely "Luh" tennant. At least it was in my 40 years in (1973 - 2013.) But then again, civvies usually know FAR more than "we who did it" do. Well, the civvies in my family are an example. They always knew FAR more about the Navy than any of us who were actually in it. 🙂

@fltltcrashcrocker5017 Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this video. I can recommend Unbroken by Alastair Mars. It is an account of the Unbroken's time in the med.

@domenicozagari2443 Ай бұрын

The British had informers in the central office of the Italian Navy. These people also prevented the invasion of Malta.

@Twirlyhead Ай бұрын

Spies you mean.

@geordiedog1749 28 күн бұрын

I think they cancelled Herkules for a variety of reasons. Crete for example.

@Alan-pv2bi Ай бұрын

Canada currently has 4 of the Upholder Class submarines in service, although renamed and are now the Victoria Class

@Sonofdonald2024 Ай бұрын

I remember when they were brought into service for the royal navy then immediately sold. Typical ministry of defence incompetence. Good that they were put to use by RCN but irritating that the government had 4 built then immediately scrapped the idea insisting on an all nuclear fleet

@MrBook123456 Ай бұрын

good one

@markaxworthy2508 Ай бұрын

The siege of Malta was not one of the "bloodiest". Malta was stone-built and there were many cellars. As a result civilians had good cover and, although parts of Malta had the most concentrated bombing of the war for two years, civilian fatalities were relatively low at "only" 1,300. My mother was a cipher operator at naval HQ throughout the siege and knew the junior officers of 10th Flotilla well. They did suffer heavy losses.

@robertstark8527 Ай бұрын

My cousin was a submariner on P38 in 1941.

@thatguy990 Ай бұрын

Yes👍👍

@janwitts2688 Ай бұрын

Still on patrol

@ronalddevine9587 28 күн бұрын

That is how a proper navy is operated. RULE BRITANNIA!

@nihilmiror6312 Ай бұрын

I had the privilege of knowing and sailing with Cdr ‘Teddy’ Woodward DSO and bar who for some time was C.O. of HMS Unbeaten one of the boats of the Malta submarine flotilla. One of a kind and greatly missed. R.I.P. good friend and mentor. 🙏🫡🇦🇺🦘

@andrewfischer8564 Ай бұрын

COL KLINK... ive seent this movie? or tv show? silent service? twilight zone?

@michaelK3148 Ай бұрын

Yes, Klemperer portrayed Gunther Prien in Silent Service episode U-47 at Scapa Flow.

@murrayscott9546 Ай бұрын

Victoria !

@markaxworthy2508 Ай бұрын

What makes this "hidden" history? There are at least two books on Wanklyn and Upholder.

@英語で学ぶ会計入門 29 күн бұрын

A few seconds in ... "These were the most strategically brilliant naval officers." I`ll watch the rest, but that statement does not make any sense.

@joseph-sj7do Ай бұрын

Malta was most. Bombed place in WW2.

@anthonyeaton5153 Ай бұрын

British submarine commander Meyres VC on more than one occasion machine gunned survivors of ships that he had sunk.

@carcharinus6367 Ай бұрын

Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Caper Miers (1906-1985). RIP

@ThorstenKreutzenberger Ай бұрын

He was convicted for warcrimes and executed as war criminal i assume?

@carcharinus6367 Ай бұрын

@@ThorstenKreutzenberger ???!

@ThorstenKreutzenberger Ай бұрын

@@carcharinus6367 its a war crime to kill survivors???!

@carcharinus6367 Ай бұрын

@@ThorstenKreutzenberger The incidents involving the shelling of German soldiers on dinghies, transported on Greek sailing ships (caiques) - the commander of HMS Torbay, Ltn-Commander Anthony Miers, reported in detail in the patrol log. You can read about the reaction of his superiors and Anthony Miers' further career in the English Wikipedia.

@murrayscott9546 Ай бұрын

Double Ups