The Ridiculous Way British Sailors Were Ordered to Stop German U-boats During WWI

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In the opening days of WW1, Unterseeboots, better known simply as U-boats, proved to be a potent and constant threat to Allied ships, with one U-boat identified as SM U-9 infamously killing nearly 1,500 British sailors in less than an hour by sinking three armoured British cruisers on September 22, 1914.
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[@lexthepikachu851]

The ramming technique worked to a degree, HMT Olympic has a U-Boat kill to her name for ramming it and was the only Oceanliner to have done so.

[@andrewolson5471]

On the morning of May 12, 1918, the R.M.S. Olympic (the sister ship of the Titanic) spotted a German U-boat, U-103, preparing to attack. The Olympic turned on the U-boat and rammed it before the boat could flood it's torpedo tubes. One of Olympic's screws sliced open the hull of U-103 and it sank. After the collision, the Olympic steamed away like a boss.

[@AdrianOkay]

I think that the u-boat hesitated to shoot a civilian ship

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@AdrianOkay they had sunk a bunch of civilian ships by that point. If it was a British ship they considered it the enemy.

[@massimookissed1023]

@@AdrianOkay , She was commandeered as a troop ship. A fair target. Lusitania was a passenger ship, but that didn't save her from getting torpedoed. Olympic was herself rammed by British cruiser HMS Hawke, who was later sunk by... SM U-9.

[@andrewolson5471]

@@massimookissed1023 As I understand the situation of that day, you are 100% correct that she was serving as a troop transport at the time of the incident, and the crew of U-103 were definitely planning to sink her. But they didn't get their torpedoes ready to fire quickly enough and got reck.

[@TomOkkaTom]

I think the German captain that sunk the Lusitania probably wouldn't have believed that it was a civilian ship of you told him so. You wouldn't go on a cruise to Somalia after all or take a touristic bus tour through Syria. The people that went on that ship despite the many warnings must have been complete idiots or they were purposely kept ignorant so that the US would have a good reason to join the war.

[@chartle1]

"It's so crazy, it just might work"

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

Cliff Hartle Oh my god I love The Master of Disguise.

[@hunterfaima4577]

Caleb Grill me too

[@johnbockelie3899]

" I say, ........, Did.I ever tell you what I did during the great war ?". "I had a job in the Royal Navy, bagging and bashing periscopes," " Hmmm, sounds rather smashing, if you ask me."

[@potatomatop9326]

They all ate 1 can of spinach

[@jackwood8307]

The Uboat issue with the British refusing to admit the problem sounds very similar to what the US went through with aircraft carriers and the ability to sink a ship with an airplane. Billy Mitchell proved that it was possible and in February 1921 in a now famous demonstration named Project B: Anti-ship bombing demonstration, that floored the US naval command who insisted it couldn’t be done. It was a success. And quite possibly kept us from losing WW2

[@Legitpenguins99]

Also there was a US Admiral who refused to use convoys and implement city blackouts like the British kept suggesting causing hundreds of ships to get sunk.

[@13irishsailors]

As a blacksmith I approve of this method!

[@Carewolf]

Excellent, we wont need you help in WW3, but we might need it in WW4.

[@T1Oracle]

Man overboard! He was an excellent blacksmith...

[@JustinY.]

What if they took the U-Boats, and *PUSHED* them somewhere else?

[@0subscribers706]

Justin Y. First

[@woobyvr9654]

ahh the legend Mr Justin here early as expected

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Does anyone not recognize him at this point

[@peanutbutterboi8489]

Im early to a Justin Y. comment. I feel special

[@murrayjones694]

Oh we meet again

[@woobyvr9654]

the British didn’t see Submarines as a threat? they must play hearts of iron 4

[@John77Doe]

QuebeC VR Too science fictions like Jules Verne's the Nautilus. 😑😑😑😑

[@Healermain15]

Hitler certainly seems to, since he tried the old "bomb the Grand Fleet in the channel with infinite naval bombers" strategy.

[@soulagent79]

They didn't want to admit the Germans had a new weapon, the mighty and glorious Royal Navy hadn't even heard of at the time.

[@mouseprotector5081]

jokes on you. i cant even ciunt the number of times my spam fleets of hundreds of submarines have sent the royal navy to a watery grave.

[@cattraknoff]

@@mouseprotector5081 If Germany concentrated fully on submarines they probably could've taken on the Royal Navy decivisely, sinking it all and then fully blockade Britain. Instead they split their focus to all kinds of different projects which lowered efficiency. Hitler and the Nazis failed at managing the war economy and grand strategy.

[@UpcycleElectronics]

What?!! Literally the conversation went, "...we can put a bag over it..." ..."Then what?" ... ... "A Hammer!" The second "a bag" was mentioned the persons involved should have been discharged. "We have a tube that is essential for the function of the submarine, and there is potential to reach it with a small boat." ..."So you're saying we have access to a small essential tube connected to the life support and command center of the submarine?" "Yes." "The only question left is, how large of an explosive device to attach?" "Well we have TNT, grenades, an incendiary device, thermite, mines, warhead,...." "...NO NO NO...not enough." "" ... ... "" "Go get Billy!" "The blacksmith?" "Yes! ..and get Bob too!" .... ... "Bob, you're going to take a boat out to this tube in the water and bag it. Then, Billy you're going to use the power of your golden god arm to smash the Bob bag as only you are capable of. "...but sir, the explo" "Silence!! The Billy Bob Initiative is the peak of my brilliance! No futher discussion is needed."

[@The-Artless-Gallery]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Riceball01]

The periscope wasn't connected to a sub's life support, nor was it a critical part of the sub, just very important. At any rate, you'd think that the sub skipper would immediately order the periscope to be lowered the second he saw a bag get dropped over it.

[@angelwhispers2060]

Roflmao

[@2MeterLP]

@@Riceball01 Or the second he sees two dudes in a rowboat coming towards it. I do wonder, why was shooting the periscope with a machinegun not the most obvious solution? The bullets would shatter the lens and mirrors in the periscope and also create holes that would flood the tube.

[@Riceball01]

@@2MeterLP That's because most machineguns, at least during WWI, were large, heavy, bulky things and not really well suited for use on a small boat. The few more portable shoulder fired ones were still fairly heavy, had limited ammo capacity, and would have had pretty fierce recoil to contend with. You're only going to get 1 or 2 well aimed shots on full auto, all other shots are just going to go in the air and this would be even worse in a small boat bobing up and down in the water. Another thing, machineguns typically are less accurate than a rifle since their primary job is suppression and not pin point accuracy. Tha and their range wouldn't be any better than that of a rifle either so you would still have to get really close to have any chance of hitting.

[@Falney]

I'm pretty sure we didn't need to do much to sink them. The early u-boats were death traps that often sunk them selves and could only run under water for about 45 mins

[@AdrianOkay]

FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU THEY IGNORED THE U-BOAT THREAT

[@acediadekay3793]

U-boats was more succesful in WWI then WWII Look up Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, he was a German U-boat commander during World War I. With 194 ships and 453,716 gross register tons (GRT) sunk, he is the most successful submarine captain ever. His record will most likely never be surpassed and he lived to tell the story.

[@AdrianOkay]

If you deploy a new tech into the war and you juice it the most you can, you'll be basically pubstomping noobs everywhere, like the K/D ratio of german planes in WW2

[@TheVergile]

yeah, except they sunk millions of BRTs of enemy ships. And they were relatively cheap to produce compared to the targets they sunk.

[@Falney]

The success of one or two boats doesn't change the fact that they had a bad habit of spontaneously springing leaks whilst deep under water and sinking. U boats were still a newish thing and had the quirks involved in being new technology.

[@nathanialwoods8281]

Well that less crazy than training a pigeon to fly a missile.

[@charlesdorval394]

Just want to note that that's still smarter than blowing tanks with dogs or better yet, napalm rigged bats. :P I love how those ideas backfired hehehe

[@Chilukar]

If I remember right the pigeon thing worked, at least more than most of the alternatives available.

[@jaydunbar7538]

pigeons are effective,only problem was training took to much time compared to the new computerized targeting that came out while the training was still in progress.

[@foxymetroid]

@@jaydunbar7538 Bats made sense at the time. Bats don't like being out in broad daylight and the Japanese built a lot of their structures out of wood since wood was cheap and wooden structures are more resistant to earthquakes than stone/ brick buildings. Drop the napalm bats over a Japanese city and they'll start roosting in the wooden buildings.

[@tawelwchgaming8957]

One would think that this would have been sponsored by World of Warships

[@twinkieman237]

It would make the most sense

[@woobyvr9654]

*unristricted submarine warfare intensifies*

[@raymondj8768]

how ? do you have 2 hammers hahahahahahahah

[@danielbickford3458]

*USA has entered the chat*

[@mbryson2899]

HMS Dreadnought (a battleship) successfully rammed and sank the U-29. The U-29 was at that time commanded by Otto Weddigen of U-9 fame. In WWII Johann Schepke, one if the top three U Boat aces, was mortally wounded when his sub was rammed by a British warship.

[@christelheadington1136]

Today I found out,why military intelligence is an oxymoron.

[@nickstav08]

WW1 was a 20th century war that was trying to be fought with 19th century tactics in the beginning

[@oldesertguy9616]

They didn't know how to deal with them and were desperate. It's easy to sit back, knowing the capabilities and end result of things, to see things as idiotic when in fact they were simply desperate measures.

[@heyhonpuds]

Christel Headington - Groucho Marx rose from the dead, he wants credit for his joke.

[@christelheadington1136]

@@heyhonpuds -Oddly enough,my Great Grandmother was a Marx.(no relation) and her brother was Karl Marx(also no relation), at least as far as our family can tell.

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

Lol just imagining building a multi million submarine just to have it stopped by a bag and a hammer lol but seriously navies still have trouble hunting submarines, its kinda the nature of the submarine to be hard to stop

[@KimberlyGreen]

I read the emailed version of this & here I am watching it. Why? Because Simon adds that extra dimension that makes it worthwhile.

[@cyalknight]

During WWI, I was in the British Green Paint Division. Our ship would patrol the ocean and when we thought a a U-boat was nearby we would start pouring green paint over the ocean. Then when the enemy periscope would come up it would get a layer of green paint on the lens and the submarine would keep rising. When the submarine got to about 50 meters up in the air, we would shoot it down with our 4 inch guns.

[@davidstrickland8550]

I hope this is a joke

[@cyalknight]

@@davidstrickland8550 Reworded it better. I'm not 100 years old.

[@JonGee420]

And all the sailors clapped.

[@TheP3NGU1N]

So you're what... Near 100 years old?

[@magistrumartium]

@@davidstrickland8550 Of course it's a joke! Green Paint Division? U-boats 50 meters up in the air? Duh...

[@Annie_Annie__]

My favorite bit of trivia about WWI U-boats is that they were so primitive that they really didn’t have a ballast system. When they’d fire a torpedo the change in weight and the force of it firing would send the U-boat bobbing around like a child’s bath toy. To get the ship back under control the captain would order the majority of the crew to all run to the side of the ship that had just fired the torpedo to offset the weight some. Then he would direct the crew to run to this end and that one until the ship was once again balanced and under control. The idea of this captain standing in the middle of the ship yelling “RIGHT! NOW LEFT! NO, NOW TO THE BOW!” And the crew of young men literally falling over each other to run as fast as they could to one end of the ship, then the other, as the ship rolled and bobbed madly is absolutely hilarious! I keep imagining it as an old filmstrip with zany music played over it.

[@Annie_Annie__]

Oh, and it’s hard for us to understand just how blind these u-boats were when they weren’t on the surface. The seafloor hadn’t really been mapped like it is now, so often they didn’t even know how deep the water was when they dove. I read about one incident, in the North Sea I believe, where the waves were so rough and dangerous that the U-Boat was forced to dive despite being in German waters. So they go in to a dive, when suddenly there’s a kind of grinding noise. Before they can figure out what was going on the ship starts violently waving up and down. Crew members were getting injured from the motion slamming them to the floor, then up again, and since they were in a dive, everyone was being pulled to the bow. They eventually figured out that where they were the Sea was unexpectedly shallow. So when they went in to the dive, the bow hit seafloor and the whole back half of the ship was sticking up out of the water and was at the mercy of these massive and violent waves. I can only imagine how awful that must have been considering that everyone on board was likely incredibly seasick on top of the injuries from being slammed around.

[@anthonyhargis6855]

"For Asgard!" -- smite periscope. ROFLMAO Too funny, Simon! Love the videos.

[@adamk203]

You should have mentioned the one successful ramming attack against a U-Boat, done by Titanic's sister ship, RMS Olympic.

[@mebsrea]

There were many successful ramming attacks against submarines in both wars.

[@randomuser22]

Just a tipp: WHen you say "Unterseeboot", the "Boot" part has an o sound like "horse", not like the english "boot".

[@DavidMaurand]

important to note - the boats only submerged to hide, and periscopes were used to see if it was safe to surface in order to fire their weapons. yes, they operated on the surface, and at night, sailed on the surface. also, in wwi, the allies started attacking the ships that resupplied the uboats. this, along with traveling in convoys, was effective.

[@michaelwalton4017]

"RAMMING SPEED!"

[@joejoee]

Sovi?

[@Xanman64-p6q]

As to the animal angle, US Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions to patrol harbors and find swimmers in the water. For many years it was the best way to find a lone swimmer bent on espionage/sabotage or mines. They still use them for research for other secret stuff.

[@ThisOldSkater]

Is this where the saying "Dumb as a bag of hammers" came from?

[@MyLateralThawts]

I figured out the perfect means of taking out U-Boots. Use the oversized canons, as seen in circuses or carnivals, to fire clowns with oversized inflatable shoes at the periscopes. Then, using a custard pie, they would effectively blind the submarines. Admit it, genius, amirite?

[@mbryson2899]

Otto Weddingan, the Captain of the U-9 (which sank the Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy) was later killed when the HMS Dreadnought (yes, that Dreadnoght) rammed his new command and sank her with all hands. In WWII, Joachim Schepke, one of Germany's top U-Boat aces, was crushed to death when his sub was rammed.

[@flightparamedic505]

Really good video and incredibly informative. Having interest in the topic, until now I had never heard of this. Thanks Simon.

[@GriffVicious]

If I use the Crossout link, do I get a bag and hammer attachment for my vehicle?

[@tawon1984]

Hammer Time!

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

"Its Crazy, So Crazy it just might work" Pistacio Disguisey I love The Master of Disguise.

[@Viktor16161616]

On the topic of sea-lions, the Swedish marine trained seals to tag submarines with a tracking device during the early cold war. The seals were brilliantly well suited to the task given training, but when the admiralty came for a demonstration most of the seals got stuck with their harness on the targets and divers had about 40 minutes to get down there and cut them lose lest they drown. In the end the project lost its funding, but due to material shortcomings, not due to the seals. Experts have later stated that had the project stayed active we might have actually caught some of the submarines detected in our archipelagos. They also tried using birds to make it easier to spot the periscopes but they pigeons got eaten by preying birds due to being too tired during the return flight, the two eagles did not take to captivity with one ending up dead and the other released.

[@promontorium]

I didn't think it would be difficult for sea lions to find subs, but what practical use could they be in WW1? No tracking technology existed. Plus a ship would have to slow to a crawl to release them and wait for them to return. If a sub was nearby that would be the worst time to slow down and hang around.

[@jbtechcon7434]

I just forwarded a Simon W video to my friend. He glanced at it and said, "Ugh, no, I can't stand Vsauce..."

[@nicholasrose8173]

Ouch

[@coreygrantham123]

You always thank us for watching. Well, thank you for your content

[@kendavis8046]

I think it is ironic that despite the initial skepticism of the British about the effectiveness of the U-Boat, I believe they are the most recent nation to have sunk a naval vessel in war time, the Argentine Belgrano (which also ironically was an old US Naval vessel before it was sold to them.) I've never quite understood the need to fight over the Falklands, but I also think that military organizations with big epaulets (looking specifically at Argentina during the era) are highly ineffective.

[@HiekerMJ]

I wondered about some sort of 'fouler': basically a net with a large float attached. When it snagged on the 'scope it both marks it properly for shooting it and if they try to evade by submerging either it causes such drag...all we have to do is wait for it to surface - assuming the prop / control surfaces aren't immobilised because - well: 'fouling'. Alternative: the device causes such drag / weird upward forces it compromises the seals flooding the command area - as U-Boats weren't a refined design likely it would not have taken much.

[@chinareds54]

I don't know why they tried training sea lions. It was obviously a job for navy seals.

[@dodger1792]

Applause

[@scooterdogg7580]

can't help but think it had some merit considering the current use of dolphins and seals for EOD and inspection

[@jammer3618]

Ok. This is Monty Python.😎

[@JonGee420]

Cannibalism has almost been completely wiped out of the RN. Come together with the RN. It's really something other than else. Was the expedition of Lake Pahoe ever finished?

[@THLM-jo2yu]

Seagulls, seals, bags and hammers?! Enough internet for today.

[@nunyabidness117]

I just read about the island of Severney. It was where the Soviets detonated the largest man-made explosion in human history. It was a 50 megaton hydrogen bomb, scaled down from the original 100 megaton design, yet was still powerful enough to level the town of Severney some 55km (34 miles) away.

[@tuppytheducky]

One of Titanic’s sister ships managed to ram a submarine

[@TheVergile]

that actually happened more than once in both world wars. Being rammed was a serious threat for u-boats.

[@Shaggyshadric]

Knowing Olympic’s history of collisions, I’d almost assume the UBoat was rammed by accident 😂

[@MistahBryan]

"Sub!" -Sailor 1 "It's Hammer Time!" -Sailor 2

[@milksheihk]

You'd think it'd make more sense to just have snipers aboard ships to shoot the periscopes out.

[@barneymiller7894]

Shooting from one moving platform, at a moving target less than 12 inches wide, with a WW1 era rifle and optics. Ya, thats one hell of a shot. Coast guard interdiction sharpshooters are considered to be some of the best marksmen around because they disable boats from a moving helicopter, and even with modern optics the shots they make are dam near impossible. The bags and hammers method is probably actually better lol

[@GriffVicious]

Also snipers cost more to train than hammers

[@dannydaw59]

I wonder if gyroscopes/gimbal could've been used to steady the shot.

[@XDbored1]

@BarneyMiller you would just slide the gun across the railing so you could easily make the kind of slow consistent adjustments from 2 slowly moving ships it wouldn't be to different to shooting from the inside of a car but probably a little easier because of having much more room also WW1 era rifles are very similar to hunting rifles used today so unless your shooting something more then 200m away accuracy should be no concern shooting the periscope would shatter the mirror likely blinding the submarine so it couldn't attack but they would still be able to breath through it and navigate back to safe waters with a compass so you wouldn't actually kill the submarine but with the hammer you could in theory seal the periscope shut forcing the submarine to surface properly to breath that is assuming the submarine doesn't just submerge when your smith starts hammering away at it since it would take a while to make a seal airtight enough to stop the submarine from breathing so as much as i like the hammer i think shooting it is still a better idea as it is a lot easier

[@Max-zr7hr]

@@XDbored1 oh is that all they'd have to do!? Gee you should be captaining these warships need minds like you.

[@johneastmond9092]

5:25 With a ridiculous graphic of a tied bag and hammer and a nod to a guy bashing a periscope in whilst declaring; " For as god!" Yep, I definitely missed out on that one!

[@technophant]

Turning toward the sub makes for the smallest target. If it’s close then you can close beyond the minimum arming range of the torpedoes.

[@pipe2devnull]

I say .. why not glue a picture of the Kaiser in fishnet stockings in front of the periscope. Haha wot?

[@encalica853]

@Mass Debater Sniper rifles were not really accurate, and the fact that the periscope is tiny and and is moving around and you're quite a long way away

[@encalica853]

@Mass Debater smash the glass in!

[@encalica853]

@Mass Debater that can't open the window and poke a rifle out 😂😂 they've only got torpedoes

[@encalica853]

@Mass Debater 'I don't think you should send civilians to combat enemies when guns are a thing' - you just suggested they could get shot by the sub. The English and Atlantic were not controlled by the Germans so that's why they were using subs. No German ships in shipping lanes used to transport supplies

[@encalica853]

@Mass Debater shooting the periscope or the actual sub?

[@kalleklp7291]

You never know when a good blacksmith comes handy. "Hold my beer..I'll take care of that damned U-boat.." ⚒🔨🔨

[@thebigdog2295]

The seagulls reminded me of the U.S. military experiment of using bats as weapons to start fires. Let's just say it didn't go so well!😂

[@springtrap1796]

The Olympic: I’m about to show you how unsinkable I can be!

[@Aeturnalis]

"We need some drunk Hackneys who can kamikaze jump on the periscope and beat it to death!" eventually resulted in official "sack n' smack" policy.

[@ziljin]

Over 1000 dead in one attack. Tragic. War is terrible.

[@rarbiart]

this must be a joke. If you can put over a bag and even hammer it, why not simply put a handgranade with a strap (sling, magnet whatever...)

[@rcbif101]

Because a hammer works. Why bring dangerous explosives into a small boat if you dont have to? One slipup and you are dead. Not so much with a hammer, and should literally only take seconds anyways.

[@purpnurp533]

Crossout is the best! Favorite game for over 2 years! Twisted Metal and Mad Maxx combined!

[@freddypedraza2066]

U-boat exists Olympic: so you've chosen death

[@emmitstewart1921]

The key to all these methods is: First, you have to sight the periscope. A periscope is very small and the sea is very big.

[@celtgunn9775]

🤣 When in a pinch, Military forces ~Will~ try damn near anything. I must admit that I hadn't heard of this though. Corrective Percussion I have though. But not this incident. This is amazing Simon. I love our Military, my husband served in the USAF EOD, retired Oct. 1, 2018. 😊 Thank you to any who Serve/Served!

[@server0752]

Just the most awesome thing I have heard today.

[@geo2680]

Crossout was awesome!!

[@mattmexor2882]

I have to wonder if a blacksmith was more useful to the war effort smashing the periscopes of u-boats or running a smithy.

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed the video and gave a Thumbs Up

[@Otokichi786]

Train animals to attack the Hun at Sea? That only works in Cartoons! That's it, throw a bag of hammers at the U-boat's periscope! What are you doing, Hubert? Sir, I've put a bag over the Hun's periscope! Well done, bang on it with a hammer, will you? Sir, that's a Mine! Stop, Hubert! (BOOM!) How about this grenade, sir? That's it, Alf, drop it down the hatch.

[@eobardthawne3333]

Well SOMEONE was hammered

[@AaronM-zh4ug]

Couldn't they chuck a barrel of alcohol (or other flammable substance) near it? They could bring back the catapult for the barrels. Once a barrel was in the general area of the periscope, light on fire. Even if the periscope survives, I doubt anyone will be able to see much from them.

[@samuelmmmk181]

Ahh, yes. The Ol' sack and hammer trick. Chuck the sack over the foes (periscope or head) depending on Ya situation, and hammer away. A sure fire way to show naval opposition you mean business 💪

[@butternuts3656]

Ramming was an actual tactic though... the keel hitting a sub would basically sink it or damage it enough that it had to surface. I mean a cruiser or destroyer moving at 33 knots can basically cut open a sub like a tin can without really hurting the ship

[@jamal69jackson77]

Speaking of German submarine threats, you should make a video detailing the achievements of the amazingly beautiful and intelligent celebrity Hedy Lamarr. She invented and patented technology in the 1940s that amongst many things, would have greatly increased the attack and defensive capabilities of American and allied naval forces and undoubtedly saved thousands of sailors lives, had it not been for her not being taken very seriously by military command and government officials... due in great part to her being a woman, naturally. Decades later that same technology made cellular phones possible and she did finally receive recognition for her inventions and achievements in 1997, and is recognized today as one of the most influential female inventors of all time. She was as beautiful as she was smart.

[@spyersecol0013]

So what was her invention? I mean after all that you wrote there, why not tell us what your are referencing.

[@jamal69jackson77]

@@spyersecol0013 well first because it's all easily found information on the web, secondly because I wasn't addressing my comment to everyone, just Simon, the host of this channel, he might already know about Hedy Lamarr, but if he doesn't, and if by some random chance he picks up interest in my comments, not disclosing everything might make it more intriguing for him to find out exactly what she did. So in a nutshell, this is why I purposely did not mention that bit of information . If you'd like to know what she invented and how it contributed to history, then just look up "Hedy Lamarr" on Google and you might find it's a good and unusual read.

[@jamal69jackson77]

@Charlie Cross yeah man, those are hard to come by.

[@heyyou5189]

I think they already did. Back in 2013 I think

[@jamal69jackson77]

@@heyyou5189 I thought it might be possible, but I couldn't find a video about her on their channel. Still though it's quite possible.

[@CorkySchillinger]

Simon, I love your sense of humour!

[@oxenforde]

"Lord Farrow never wore a bag, he was an old fashioned sort of gent." --MR. PLOPPY Blackadder II - Episode #2 "Head"

[@furrybacon1512]

Ramming speed: The only Acceptable speed.

[@schristy3637]

Hammer and a Bag. Sometimes you got to work with what you got. Great Vid!!

[@Flightunamed]

Sailor: Captain! Our radars aren't working, we won't be able to find any U-boats! Captain: *RELEASE THE SEA DOGGOS!!!*

[@amdreallyfast]

And then of course there was little known Funniest Joke in the World, which was found to be lethal at up to 50 yards. If only they could have made it work underwater

[@insane_troll]

2:10 Mines were utilized with minor effect!

[@FalloutUrMum]

I just want to let you know, the game Crossout that this video is sponsored, is an amazing game and it's stupidly fun

[@ultra_axe7812]

The bag and hammer thing wasnt as widespread as the bat. 2 men would be lowerd into the see in a dingy, they would row up to the periscope and beat it with the bat.

[@DarthSmirnoff]

I want to shake the hand of the man who had an Admiral come up to him and tell him "I'm sorry, but we no longer need your hammer to combat U-Boats."

[@lifeisa.smalllesson4607]

Popeye the Sailor Man was born. And everyone lived happily ever after.

[@bobloblaw1021]

Just watched a funny commercial by 'Amazon' with some seriously scary implications.

[@tz8785]

1:26 And yet the Royal Navy had 74 subs at the beginning of the war while Germany had 20.

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Those dislikes must be from the ghosts of German U-Boat crew members

[@TheP3NGU1N]

More probably because he was sponsored by a horrible game lol

[@tracytron7162]

Dagan Ward don’t make jokes about that. Just don’t.

[@jaydunbar7538]

@@tracytron7162 I hope they all visit you after they dislike the video.

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

@@tracytron7162 I didn't mean it like that. I just meant because ww1 was 100 years ago that anyone who fought in that war is a ghost now, even if they survived the war.

[@joeshaver1104]

This was great.... can't wait to hear about this on 50 amazing facts.

[@dr.scifly4075]

Could you do a video on boxtops? They're those paper cutouts that you find all over packaged food and household goods.

[@GreenAppelPie]

Buhbye

[@rens9247]

The best way for merchant ships to stop u boat's would be to just ramp it, but as far as i know there was only one who succeeded being the hmt Olympic

[@user-fe1le2yl3x]

That’s what happens when you mess with the Old Reliable ...

[@photonoasis664]

If they could get close enough to the para-scope to hit it with a hammer, then wouldn't they have also been definitely close enough to use some kind of explosive or firearm on it or even the u-boat underneath?

[@ZemplinTemplar]

Crossbow-launched bolts equipped with a small explosive warhead and a ferromagnet at the flat front end of the warhead. Get a sharpshooter to shoot the bolt at the periscope from a close enough distance, the bolt attaches itself to the periscope, boom, and voilá, periscope damage. Not to brag, but even I could have thought of a safer attack method than the "no doubt brilliant" minds in late-Edwardian military intelligence. :-p And they did use some crossbow-like launchers in WWI, so building a simple steel crossbow (or reusing one of those old-fashioned spearguns) would have been perfectly viable with 1910s technology.

[@atomicskull6405]

US Navy uses sea lions to detect divers and mines so the sea lion idea really wasn't that silly. Animal handling and training was a lot more primitive back then though.

[@cferracini]

-Sir, we have a problem with uboats sinking our ships! -If I don't acknowledge it, it doesn't exist! -Sir, uboats are real and we are losing ships! -Ignore it and it will go away. -Sir, the problem didn't go away and now we don't have supplies! -Bloody hell! Put on your thinking hats people!!! We need solutions!

[@borismuller86]

“Kapitän! Zey hav giant burds!”

[@TRUSTLBLACKMETAL]

Hey, I remember crossout. It's still going?

[@burtvhulberthyhbn7583]

The British Navy really was carrying on the tradition of Lord Horatio Nelson. Nelson may have been physically frail but he was a complete pitbull attacking the enemy.

[@joshuahadams]

Surely if you can get close enough to a submarine to put a bag on the periscope, you can set up an explosive and just sink it.

[@conixcentralgaming]

You forgot got about the R.M.S. Olympic. She ramed U-boat 103.

[@bazookallamaproductions5280]

They need a big "large Marge" face on the front of all ships before ramming towards anything XD

[@rawheas]

Why was ramming a submarine a ridiculous idea? Surface ships where often way larger, faster and could take much more damage without sinking.

[@josephkoester3217]

Why didn't they train the sea lions to put a bag over the periscope?

[@eorzeanECM]

Hey Simon...would like to know about Michelin star please. Thanks

[@2MeterLP]

Did really noone think of just shooting the periscope with a machinegun? You cant look through the periscope if the lens and mirror are shattered and theres water filling the tube.

[@AdmiralWillisLee1942]

I mean. HMS Dreadnought's bow was DESIGNED to ram.

[@stevesilvasi5843]

Wait... why not just train snipers to shoot the lenses. I mean obvesley u need to see them but if u rotated in and out snipers and spotters on a shift of the boat or came up with a better spotting system for the lenses. I mean I'm sure it wouldn't be easy but I mean even if u didn't shoot it u had a heads up of sorts.