The History & story of the Gneisenau

Hello all!
And welcome to a story of the Gneisenau, the German Battleship that caused terror to the Merchant fleet. I hope you enjoyed this episode, a new style of video from me, if you did please let me know below.
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[@banhbaothit1629]

i have this ship in world of warships and i LUV It

[@flfar3445]

i just got it and had to grind a lot with the california lol

[@adytowe7969]

I would love to play that game I am thinking of getting it is it good

[@stacyhamilton2619]

I have the Rawalpindi. I HATE it.

[@livenloud6697]

I am currently using this ship in Xbox One Battle of Warships. . Which is what brought me here to learn about the real one. In the game it is still a formidable dangerous ship. Thank you so much for an educational video we appreciate your hard work

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you for watching! i am glad i could help you learn about it! :)

[@OsborneCox.69.420]

same here, live loud! i'm making my way towards the Bismark at the moment. the Gneisenau has it's pro's and con's in the game, like the wildly dispersed gun trajectories and excellent armour.

[@psychomusician1]

My GF is Norwegian and you can see C turret from her front door, and while I was in Norway in January I was able to go up and see the C Turret =D

[@Skreezilla]

she sounds like a keeper! :D it is very cool that you can visit this and it is still around we lost so much of the Axis equipment - well and allied too. But yeah so many ships of the time are gone to have this left is a large part of history.

[@brothergrimaldus3836]

That's trip

[@ejdotw1]

Nicely done. Thorough, and not too long, I fully enjoyed your presentation. Just one suggestion- I'd really love to see you make the visuals a part of what you are presenting. So many young publishers, like yourself, are not doing this. When done, presentations are greatly enhanced. For instance, many of the geographic locations you mention may not be known to viewers. So maps would be great. You put a tremendous amount of work into this. Don't be afraid to edit it - I believe you can get a great number more views. Thank you for your work.

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you very much! and the feed back is much appreciated and noted. I will look at doing this for the next one for sure! :)

[@Skreezilla]

Damn this was a big one, i think i put about 20ish+ hours all together for this? maybe upto 30 i started early last week, wrote 3 scripts... uhg! anyway i think it is worth it!

[@flfar3445]

Appreciate it, it was great 👍 👌 💯

[@user-lh5fp7bf2c]

Some of the most beautiful ships ever built. Nearly perfect. Only thing i would have changed would be 11" guns changed to 13"-13.5" high velocity guns.

[@howardbursee307]

This ship is very good in Legends, as well!

[@ivandasty277]

Very nice and useful. I enjoyed too much and offered watching this video to my friends .

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it. :)

[@Barbosa-dh3ex]

Gneisenau is my favorite German battleship

[@Skreezilla]

It was a very beautiful ship, and had a great look too it. It is such a shame machines of such evil were made, But i still adore machines of war for their beauty.

[@julianpalmer4886]

Excellent presentation of a wild ship

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you very very much! positive feed back is really needed some times.

[@splatattack0375]

Very *juicy indeed* - Gneisenau 1940

[@mallificussentius3989]

Well done my good man, yes waffley but never the less informative. I might just have a look at your other vids :o) Thank you :o) Kenneth Campbell took off from St Eval airbase in Cornwall, he was 23 years old. Against what can only be described as 'monumental odds', Flight Officer Campbell managed to fly through the defences of Brest Harbour at almost sea level and launch the single torpedo responsible for crippling Gneisenau, putting her out of action for a full six months of the war. Having done so, the twenty three year old was faced with no choice but to expose the full silhouette of his Beaufort aircraft to the formidable defence batteries so synonymous with Brest. He was shot down and crashed into the harbour. Germany, admirably acknowledged this feat of courage and Campbell along with his crew were buried with full military honours. Kenneth Campbell's mission is not as extensively documented as one might assume, but is well worth looking into. In the numerous accounts of heroism I have studied, his efforts and fearlessness can't be held in anything other than, the highest of regards. There is a great book called 'Woe to the Unwary' (Nesbit) that documents the feeling of dread at RAF St Eval as that mission was being mounted.

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you very much! There is much waffling and history in the archive hope you find some you find interesting! You may like the Vickers Vimy video with the star the Vimy here in south Australia! Also thank you for adding some written History! thing i love about this platform is you can add so much in the comments. A big thank you. Defiantly Campbell's bravery is just jaw dropping and heart breaking, There are a few stories of pilots downed over German held territory being buried with full honours, and vice versa i always feel that warriors respect each other despite being enemies.

[@mallificussentius3989]

@@Skreezilla :o) I notice you play War Thunder, a game I have nearly 4k hours on ha ha!!! We should Squad Up and waffle at each other over a few games my good man :o)

[@WorshipinIdols]

DUDE!!! Those guns lobbed 338kg shells (not 300) and they scored (officially) the second longest hit in history against the HMS Glorious at just shy of 25,000 meters (unofficially at 28,000 meters beating the warspite).

[@icetea1455]

that was her sister ship scharnhorst :)

[@WorshipinIdols]

@@icetea1455 corrected

[@RossEphgrave]

Hmm let's see...almost the same armor and secondary armament of the Bismarks. Sharnhorst holds the record of one of the longest landed shots in history, on the Glorious. Their shells had enough punch to engage in long to mid range battles with many classes of battleships. I think they were elegant, beautiful ships. Though Gneisenau was misused and both had a tragic end. These ships with 3 15" twin turrets would have been deadly

[@jetpackjoyride8671]

I have Water line models of every juggernaut from WW1 and WW2 and some designs they came up with are works of art in the war world

[@martentrudeau6948]

Great history, the Gneisenau was not a lucky ship, she never got sorted out, and her luck was bad! -- She was a great battleship that the Kriesmarine never really finished building to their own spec.

[@Skreezilla]

Thank you. Yeah there were a few German ships that had poor luck based off their names.

[@manilajohn0182]

Skreezilla- SMS Gneisenau was not sunk at Scapa Flow after the defeat in the first world war. SMS Gneisenau was sunk at the battle of the Falkland Islands in December of 1914. That is a VERY elementary mistake. Better research and video preparation is in order...EDIT: Additionally, battleship Gneisenau received no new stack after sea trials; instead, the existing stack was capped. The purpose of the rake (angle) to the cap was to vent smoke away from the bridge- not to port or starboard, but toward the mainmast and stern.

[@Skreezilla]

I have no idea why i said Scarpa flow! sorry about that, i was just going over my script and had written Falklands there my brain just missed that one!

[@manilajohn0182]

Not trying to "attack you"; Just saying that videos need to be accurate as much as possible. Kudos to you for taking the time to make a video of a well-known warship. She was a beautiful vessel.

[@Skreezilla]

@@manilajohn0182 Not a problem, we do not grow if we are not told of mistakes. :) i missed it in editing which always annoys me.

[@neildonnelly6710]

Great video

[@Commander1keller]

Is that the 37mm Quickfiring AA gun the we see on the R-Boot 301 (the only one with regular propellers) at the 12:35 mark? Looks like it

[@Skreezilla]

I would say yes with out looking things up, Germany were pretty good at uniforming their weapons platforms.

[@rylanwipf3852]

Great video!

[@Skreezilla]

i am glad you enjoyed it! thank you

[@frederickgates4349]

Yes Sir i agree with you love this video

[@alaskanh.o.g.4lyf948]

Very good and informative video thank you

[@RandomlySelectedUserName]

0:45 emm i thought this was abt gneisenau not other ship as u can see here the main gun can fire 3 shells while gneis can shoot 2...

[@Skreezilla]

Ah you did not watch to the end i take it? ;) The ship was armed with triple gun turrets after repairs. Hence the Norwegian coastal guns having 3 guns in a turret.

[@RandomlySelectedUserName]

@@Skreezilla woops yep i didnt watched till the end... sry anyways xD

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

The "German" Class battleship? I don't think there was a "German" Class battleship in WWII. The last ones were the Deutschland Class pre-Dreadnought battleships. The SMS Gneisenau was also not sunk in Scapa Flow. It was sunk along with the SMS Scharnhorst at the Battle of the Falklands by the British Battlecruisers HMS Invincible, and HMS Inflexible. Really proving when used as they were meant to, the battlecruiser performed their roll with spectacular success. Edit: Also, it wasn't a "Pre-Dreadnought Class" Class battleship they were allowed to keep. it was a Braunschweig Class pre-Dreadnought SMS/KMS Hessen.... I do hope your videos have gotten better since this one.

[@Skreezilla]

Forgetting the battle of Falklands was a brain fart sorry and thank you for pointing that out. I either miss spoke and meant to say the Merchant raider class Deutschland class cruiser, or there was a vague remembrance of one of the H - series possibly taking up the name. Knowing me it was a miss spoken section. It was pretty rare we got to see the BC concept work correctly! the cruiser hunter was a good idea and did work some times, just sadly many Admirals chose to use them as ships of a battle line like a BB... And we all know how well that worked.

[@FrederikEngelmand]

her 150mm is still on the Stevns fort in Denmark as well. as part of a defense line. why wasnt this added?

[@Skreezilla]

did you watch to the end because i did talk about that? ;)

[@FrederikEngelmand]

@@Skreezilla I just rewatched, there is no mention, even though they are just as intact and historically important as the larger guns.

[@Skreezilla]

Shit yes brain dead moment there! Thank you for pointing this out! :D i will have to make a little follow up on them. Sorry i was sure i mentioned them but it was only the main guns i talked about.

[@gibbiard]

Did he say sea trials in 1949?

[@Skreezilla]

possible :p i always manage to say one thing wrong, would have meant 39 :p

[@GodOfChaos_HeXa]

wait gneusenau had 3x3 turrets wow has lied to us

[@Skreezilla]

Yep Scharnhorst and her were the same in that respect, how ever in dock they were converting Gneisenau to take the 3x2 380mm Guns of the Bismark class. :) When it was laid down the 380mm were not yet ready so they went for the smaller caliber triple turret as a stop gap.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Did you mean British Channel (which is north Russia) or English Channel (which is between England and France)? Interesting video but a few slips in naration I think.

[@Skreezilla]

yeah, i had a couple of audio flubs in this one. It is a thing i want to clean up some time maybe do a re-record. I do have a bit of a list with the mistakes there for people to see. my main thing is i am very much an amateur historian, never claim to be anything more. I like to just share what i can so people can learn and hope to do it where they have fun too. maybe learn somthing neat. It would have been the English Channel too, although in Dorset we use both terms for the channel i think it is a local dialect thing?

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

@@Skreezilla Good job nevertheless. Also, I learned two things: there actually is a British Channel (I googled before commenting) and more than that, there's two of them if you're a Dorset native. 😀

[@spencerderosier6649]

1:27 bro you're scaring me

[@Skreezilla]

i scare my self, it was a miss speak hat i missed i did pop a note on that.

[@tristanrainey5080]

1:27 error. First Gneisenau was sunk in the Battle of the Falklands with her sister ship Scharnhorst. Not at Scapa Flow with High Seas Fleet.

[@hahhousetown9292]

Wrong, it was damage at Kiel harbur by air attack

[@tristanrainey5080]

@@hahhousetown9292 Wrong ship LOL

[@tristanrainey5080]

@@hahhousetown9292 Seriously, did you even read the words "first Gneisenau" or think to look it up at all?

[@hahhousetown9292]

I look it up, and it it's written that it was damage at Kiel harbur by air It was sunk gydina in polen 1945

[@tristanrainey5080]

@@hahhousetown9292 Bud, the first ship with that name was sunk at the Battle of the Falklands.

[@Baskerville22]

I'm pretty sure the "G" in Gneisenau is silent

[@Skreezilla]

From every German i have heard talk about it the G is there, it is not pronounced with as much emphasis some times but that is some times more due to the accent. (why it is stronger for me because of my accent)

[@Baskerville22]

@@Skreezilla Thanks

[@Baskerville22]

@@Skreezilla Seems that every example of a German pronunciation concurs with yours, but the English, American & Australian (my country) all have the "G" silent. www.pronouncekiwi.com/Gneisenau

[@manilajohn0182]

"Guh Nye Seh Now"

[@jetpackjoyride8671]

That was no battleship that was a war piggy like every other war piggy

[@rickhall1155]

Really interesting and informative but ... narration needs a bit of work 😫

[@Skreezilla]

Interesting and informative is a good thing! Luckily - I have managed to improve sound quality over the years a little. :) Sadly my vocal quality and rambliness never improves :p

[@aBRUSHforCONFUCIUS]

It's is a pocket battleship. Not as powerful as Graf Spee, which is also considered as a pocket battleship. Her and sister have some of the most adventurous stories of modern dreadnoughts.

[@NashmanNash]

Gneisenau is a Battleship,nothing pocket,and far more powerfull than an overgunned cruiser like Graf Spee....

[@alexandertemple-williams728]

I will not waist my time witching your video because you get the basics wrong right at the start . The ww1 ship was sunk at the battle of the Falklands with its then sister ship Scharnhorst no at Scapa . Do your research properly.

[@Skreezilla]

people make small mistakes now and thne it is imposible to re-edit a video after uploading sadly - MAYBE IF YOU REEAD THE NOTES!!!! THAT EXPLAIN THE MISTAKE THEN I AM GLAD YOU DID NOT WATCH THE VIDEO YOU PADANTIC WANKER

[@colinmarble2552]

Sorry, didn't make it to 5 minute mark. Gave up. Your reading and video footage are substandard. Waste iof my time!

[@Skreezilla]

Sorry to hear that

[@scottwest9299]

Yes Skree, quit wasting iof Colin’s time.

[@flfar3445]

i thought it was great

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

@@flfar3445 There were already a couple rather large mistakes before the video even got past the 1:30 mark though... Where the SMS Gneisenau was sunk at the Falklands and not Scapa Flow as well as calling it a "German Class" battleship rather than a Scharnhorst Class..