@@pom8130 if you are a u-boat why is there a car (a competitor to your species) in your pfp?
@pom81302 жыл бұрын
@@Praktical_ I am who my enemy is of enemy beware of me
@drawbricksboy Жыл бұрын
you sink your target then when it hit the sea floor you eat it
@02Tony2 жыл бұрын
A cool piece of trivia on something I had never noticed. After the sinking of the Royal Oak, Churchill Barriers were built as permanent obstacles to the submarine threat for Scarpa Flow but were never finished until the end of the war and were built by Italian POW's Today they act as causeways and landmarks for the Orkney islands.
@anananandsdsdsds34862 жыл бұрын
Those POWs built themselves a chapel out of scrap material from the construction project, and made a sufficiently sturdy and artistic job of it that it's the only bit of their camp that's preserved to this day. The artist who painted the interior actually stayed on after the war to finish the job and returned a couple of times to help with preservation and upkeep. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel
@Genius_at_Work2 жыл бұрын
They acted as Causeways from the very Beginning, as they were officially declared as such. The Reason is, that U-Boat Barriers would have been a War Effort, and thus using POW Workforce would've been prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
@HighlanderNorth1 Жыл бұрын
Churchill barriers you say? So, they prevented subs from entering the harbor by building a barrier of fat, elderly, balding men with top hats and dry senses of humor?
@alphaone54062 жыл бұрын
Ah Das Boot, the best sub film ever
@johnosborne18733 ай бұрын
Might I submit, The Hunt for Red October
@martinidry63002 жыл бұрын
Always come up with stuff that seems obvious only when you highlight it. Excellent & thought provoking.
@dUFGoLZ2 жыл бұрын
Some helicopters have something similar: Hooks with knives at the top and lower of the cabin protect it in case it hits a wire during flight.
@JazzJaRa Жыл бұрын
Some tanks used to have that too even on Jeeps in WW2 it was attached because there were wires from tree to tree to injure or kill the crew of vehicles.
@luke_skywanker7643 Жыл бұрын
When I was involved with rotorcraft in the National Guard, ALL of our helicopters had "Wire Cutter Kits" installed. There's a cutter above the "greenhouse" and one below. They do work. I've seen videos out here of a civilian helicopter hit some powerlines and the wire cutter did its job and the helo didn't crash and didn't suffer much -- if any -- damage.
@stevebean1234 Жыл бұрын
Biplanes, too, have struts designed to (attempt) to cut power lines to save pilots from being decapitated. This is a big problem because crop dusters are often flying low and near power lines that often run along roads at the end of fields. You can avoid them if you know they’re there but the extra insurance is something often designed in.
@luke_skywanker7643 Жыл бұрын
@@stevebean1234 I'm old enough to remember biplanes being used for crop dusting because they had great up and down maneuverability. That was back in the 1950's in Delaware.
@battlejitney21972 жыл бұрын
I’ve not seen U47 in Scapa Flow. Didn’t know Werner Klemperer ever played a UBoat skipper. Nice find!
@HootOwl5132 жыл бұрын
It was an episode of the American TV series, ''The Silent Service.'' Aired 28 NOV 1958. ''U-47 In Scapa Flow.'' Series 2, Episode 39.
@DragonJohn Жыл бұрын
Saw that clip: "Is that Werner Klemperer?" spent entirely too long trying to find anything before realizing the maker of the video had put the names of the clips.
@kegginstructure Жыл бұрын
I believe the Jules Verne image of a submarine, the Nautilus from "20,000 Leagues Under The See", was equipped with saw-teeth, though in that case it was attacking wooden ships with its cutters. There was no torpedo in that story.
@theslavicsailor6654 Жыл бұрын
It did have torpedoes in some iterstions.
@bigblue69172 жыл бұрын
One of those who died on the Royal Oak was you uncle of KZbinr Drachinifel. Gunther Prien would die in March 1941 on his 10th patrol when he was caught on the surface and depth charged just after diving. The German U-Boat service suffered very high casualty rate, some 90% I believe, which was the highest rate of any service in WW2. Even higher than that of the Japanese kamikazes
@mbryson28992 жыл бұрын
17-03-41 saw Schepke killed and U-100 sunk as well as Kretschmer captured and U-99 sunk. It was a bad 30 days for the Kriegsmarine, their three top aces and crews lost. The British had really upped their game.
@loyalpiper2 жыл бұрын
It was 70% not as bad but still high as hell
@digitaal_boog2 жыл бұрын
Not very good kamikazes if they survive are they
@mbryson28992 жыл бұрын
@@digitaal_boog Kamikaze were not required to kill themselves if they could not find a target, the weather turned bad, etc. Some survived several sorties before finding a terminal one.
@digitaal_boog2 жыл бұрын
@@mbryson2899 oh I know. Wasn’t there a kamikaze pilot who flew dozens of sorties and never even saw an American ship?
@ricksmith76312 жыл бұрын
only watched a few videos, very impressed, not too long, not to short and very informative about different things. keep em coming
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rick. I appreciate the kind feedback.
@somebod8703 Жыл бұрын
+1 For showing the answer in the first second, and still having enough content to make the rest of the video worth the while.
@KibuFox Жыл бұрын
I remember reading somewhere, that some ships could actually move with their torpedo netting deployed, but that they were restricted to very slow speeds.
@grizwoldphantasia5005 Жыл бұрын
Yes, and they were found to be terrible in battle, with the possibility of being ripped loose forward and dragging backwards to foul the screws. As torpedoes got faster and heavier, they found the nets couldn't be hung far enough from the hull to prevent the torpedo's momentum from either smashing through or ramming the net (and torpedo) up against the hull.
@johnleach7879 Жыл бұрын
Well researched, engagingly presented, and excellent overall, thank you.
@thee05812 жыл бұрын
1:34 Is that Colonel Klink? Submarine, Air Force, Lagerkommandant - he has truly come around.
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
It sure is!
@ManinTidyWhities2 жыл бұрын
Now I understand why the German ships from Azur Lane have that shark motif
@Panzermeister362 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! But, one thing I noted is the Whitehead torpedo predates 1900. The first successful use of torpedoes (as we know them today -- self-propelled) was in the 1870s. And, 1890s Whitehead torpedoes were what the Norwegian Oscarsborg Fortress used to sink the Blücher in 1940. Yes it is hilarious that a brand-new heavy cruiser was sunk by 50-year-old torpedoes fired by a fort 😛
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the clarity my man. Left the date just so people knew the date of the video. But I see now how that would be confusing.
@noahwail24442 жыл бұрын
And a few hits from the forts Krupp guns, leftovers from WW1.. The wreck still poses a great danger to Oslo, if all the munitions went off, the resulting tsunami would cause havoc in the city.
@williamgandarillas21852 жыл бұрын
@@noahwail2444 I doubt there would be more than a 1-3 foot wave at Oslo after an ammunition detonation. Bluher was a decent bit away from Oslo when she was sunk.
@noahwail24442 жыл бұрын
@@williamgandarillas2185 Well, that was what they said, when I lived there..
@anananandsdsdsds34862 жыл бұрын
My favourite detail of the Oskarsborg fortress is that the commander in charge of the fort when they sank Blücher trained on those torpedoes and guns as his first assignment as a newly-minted junior officer, and had been called out of retirement to command the fort for WW2. Of course, there was no need to update torpedoes that were covering a strait only a couple of hundred yards wide, and apparently the Norwegians hadn't missed a maintenance interval in fifty years.
@samholdsworth4202 жыл бұрын
A question I never knew I wanted to be answered, thanks Johnny!
@rickster4455 Жыл бұрын
I wondered about this for 40 years or more. I figured it was for breaking through ice. Thanks for clearing it up.
@danijuggernaut2 жыл бұрын
Das Boot is the best submarine movie ever made.... So funny when the officer tells to the reporter: The factory gives warranty till 90 meters, but we can go deeper...hahahaha
@1PaulG12 жыл бұрын
This is such great content, well done …it’s Short, informative, interesting, great production and well written 10/10
@tonymerritt7141 Жыл бұрын
“Anti Submarine netting is a large subject.” I see what you did there, Johnny. 😂
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Жыл бұрын
Caught cha!
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
Nice video as always. The Italian craft were called Maiale (pig). The British later copied them an called them Chariots. You could do a video on the Maiale/Chariot and the X-Craft.
@robertrobert79242 жыл бұрын
Gigantic medieval chainmail for defence against submarines.
@bravoyankee16322 жыл бұрын
Was hoping for a scene from 20,000 leagues under the sea 😢
@Murphy0072 жыл бұрын
Great video 👍🏻 Thank You
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Lol funny thing was that was in my notes to add but I make these from a chaotic household and likely was pulled away by something and forget on return to my desk 🥸
@kingkoopa642 жыл бұрын
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq maybe do a video about torpedo since where on the subject of subs
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
And sure enough Disney would be on his ass.
@bravoyankee16322 жыл бұрын
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq regardless love your channel! Great videos!
@billyponsonby2 жыл бұрын
There are piles of rusted steel net rings on South Ronaldsay and likely elsewhere around Scapa Flow today.
@KilRoy6802 жыл бұрын
I have a picture my grandfather took of their ship ramming a U boat.
@briankorn69882 жыл бұрын
Fascinating subject! Great video.
@Demolitiondude2 жыл бұрын
Collision speed! Full!
@stevenkimdmd Жыл бұрын
Considering how much discarded waste fishnets there are floating in the sea, this makes perfect sense.
@LuGer212 Жыл бұрын
so close to 100k, let's goooo people - johnny deserves it!
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Жыл бұрын
My man!
@jamesmurray85582 жыл бұрын
Colonel Klink in a serious role.He did a few.In Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Nimoy, Shatner.
@jackcade68 Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid it reminded me of the nautilus from 20,000 leagues under the sea, which would ram wooden ships.
@StormLaker2 жыл бұрын
Love the use of one of my favorite movies "Das Boot".......best sub movie of all time aside from "The Hunt For Red October".
@filster1934 Жыл бұрын
Don't forget Crimson Tide with Denzel and Gene!
@stephenbritton9297 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, the upper cutter would have to be be significantly more substantial to even hope to do any damage to a ship worth the risk of such an attack. Also, remember the USS BORIE's mutually destructive encounter! My dad, a WW2 sailor, when he first arrived on his DD in the med was assigned to the Mount 51 handling room. They were at GQ hunting a U-boat (U-73, Dec of 1943) and word was passed to clear all forward compartments for possible ramming. U-73 was forced to the surface, taken under fire, and abandoned by the crew instead.
@rismarck2 жыл бұрын
Obviously since they had flying tigers they needed swimming tigers
@paleoph61682 жыл бұрын
Because they are sharks.
@kommandantgalileo2 жыл бұрын
I thought they were wolves
@jeffreyrobinson35552 жыл бұрын
How interesting. I’ve ‘been into naval history since a teen but never knew this👍
@toddclayton2 жыл бұрын
Werner Klemperer!
@eamonnclabby70672 жыл бұрын
Johnny does it again.....the enfant terrible of the interweb...
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Lol that's a new moniker! Gave me a good chuckle with that one my friend
@HandyMan6572 жыл бұрын
Cool topic, thanks for the knowledge. Take care.
@oleopathic Жыл бұрын
Glad that Das Boot is getting lots of attention in this video.
@johnosborne18733 ай бұрын
Love the content!
@americanpatriot24222 жыл бұрын
Great video
@geordiedog17492 жыл бұрын
Ramming was the preferred method of destroying anything in the Royal Navy. Even faced with perfectly good opportunities to shoot stuff they will ram it. (Eg operation pedestal. HMS Wolverine rammed RN sub Dagabur at 27knts and sank it but totally stuffed her own bows back 20 feet).
@georgemorley10292 жыл бұрын
Am in Royal Navy, can confirm, I love to ram stuff. Ram it! (I’m RDP)
@geordiedog17492 жыл бұрын
@@georgemorley1029 must be awful with all this long range gubbins they have now. Can’t get close enough to ram the bar stewards! I had to laugh actually. I read, a couple of years back, that an RN frigate while on commerce protection duty in the Gulf of Aidan had “attempted to ram a suspected pirate vessel”. I though “you just can’t help yourselves, can you? Millions, nay, Billions! of quids worth of modern warship but no, Bloody ram them. Guns: Captain, sir! Capt: what is it Guns? Guns: Permission to fire the Super Sea-Devil-Dart ‘Blow the balls off a fly over the horizon’ ship to ship guided missile, sir? Captain: What do you think No. 1? No.1: Well, sir, why use an expensive bit of kit like that when we can risk buckling the whole ship by RAMMING the swines!!? Whole ships crew: Ram him!! Ram !! Capt: Right! All ahead flank. Stand by to RAM!!
@DieWitness Жыл бұрын
HMS Warspite loved ramming stuff even allies
@geordiedog1749 Жыл бұрын
@@DieWitness yes! Very true. :)
@brooklyntguy772 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about lever action rifles and its different variations please?
@superiorbear6382 Жыл бұрын
Next level fishing
@1337fraggzb00N Жыл бұрын
Whale:"pls give scritches" U-Boot Captain:"Jawohl! Luckily das Boot has das teeth."
@neurofiedyamato8763 Жыл бұрын
IfnI recall correctly, it was to cut anti submarine nets defending harbors. Gave seen the videobyet though.
@thekhoifish01462 жыл бұрын
Because wolves get hungry
@User_Un_Friendly2 жыл бұрын
It’s a ram. Like in Disney’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Johnny, did you know the Ruhr dams were protected by anti-torpedo netting? That’s why Barnes Wallis had to create a bomb that jumped over the netting. I’m not sure if any dams had ever been attacked by torpedoes, that might make a good video. 😮 Edit: the US torpedoed North Korea’s Hwachon Dam during the Korean War. With Skyraiders, no less. 😮
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
The destroyer rammed the sub in that film. It is a net cutter. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the warships that were attacked had wooden hulls. Even a pointed prow would smash the wooden hulls.
@User_Un_Friendly2 жыл бұрын
@@garfieldsmith332 Yep. I edited my comment after remembering that the destroyer rammed the sub. 😊
@BeingFireRetardant2 жыл бұрын
Skyraiders, king of attack planes...
@BratislavMetulski2 жыл бұрын
@@User_Un_Friendly "Disneys" 20000 leagues under the sea????? DISNEYS?????????? i cry myself into sleep now 😅
@User_Un_Friendly2 жыл бұрын
@@BratislavMetulski it’s a classic! And made before Disney became as corpulent and bloated as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Back when Disney still made great live action movies. 😋
@ronaldvilliers8954 Жыл бұрын
The 'U47 in Scapa Flow' clip shows a young Werner Klemperer (Col Klink)
@callsigntonks40292 жыл бұрын
Noo before 1.1k views keep it up johnny
@greyscarclawcloud863 Жыл бұрын
I love this, it gets straight to the point and within ten seconds you know what the teeth are for! This is perfect context
@tavish46992 жыл бұрын
never noticed it and i just saw das boot
@stcredzero Жыл бұрын
I swear, I've seen the ring style anti-submarine netting used somewhere to retain excavations next to roads going through the mountains.
@John14-6... Жыл бұрын
Das Boot was a great movie!
@puebespuebes85892 жыл бұрын
Because it look cool
@Kruppt808 Жыл бұрын
my grandfather was in the U-Boat Service in Germany in the 30s before he and his family got out. He came to the USA and when Pearl Harbor happened he enlisted. They made him a torpedo Capt. and sent his boat out sinking Japanese Merchant Marines(the Maru's). Much of our family still live out in the Hawaiian Islands since that was where he was stationed for WW2, Korea and Vietnam.
@CrimsonAlchemist Жыл бұрын
So he helped kill innocent merchants on Japanese vessels?
@markrobinson4230 Жыл бұрын
Cutting cables on barriers
@Rius9106 Жыл бұрын
There might be one case where the teeth of the submarine might have been a deciding factor for the outcome. A finnish submarine Vetehinen spotted a soviet submarine and engaged it with torpedoes but missed, though it did hit the submarine with its deck gun. They were firing with all they had but it didnt seem to be enough so the captain ordered to ram it. Vetehinen was equipped with the teeth at the time. This happened in november 1942. None of the soviet crew survived.
@JW-kx1oo Жыл бұрын
“They got all them teeth and no toothbrush”
@JustPeasant Жыл бұрын
By late 1941 sub's (u-boats) net cutters were removed. Simply put, British ports were too heavily reinforced (both nets, mines and other means) for a u-boat commander to even consider a port raid. German u-boats weren't only submersibles to be fitted with net cutters. The Dutch O-19-class (among others) had them as well.
@varovaro19672 жыл бұрын
How sharp were they?
@vandliszt Жыл бұрын
Ad started before watching so I’m gonna guess based off of its look alone and my general knowledge of boats. My guess is that the teeth are actually specifically spaced out a calculated distance. Possibly to assist those at the top of the submarine or those viewing the submarine determine how deep in the water the craft is sitting or determined the distance of the craft to other objects. Time to watch and see the truth. 2 seconds into the video and I’m wrong. It’s really quite fascinating. I considered it might be some other reason than the one I gave but never that people would make massive nets to pull submarines in like big fish.
@jasondouglas67552 жыл бұрын
So I looked up the Buckly Vs U66 incident when you said hand-to-hand combat I did not think you meant literally hand-to-hand combat.
@questionmark05 Жыл бұрын
1:37 hoooGANNNN!!! I think that's colonel klink.
@Salty_Balls Жыл бұрын
0:39 Nice shot of USS Washington.
@kaleb_barbour32 жыл бұрын
Those nets sound like the OG cope cages
@hansmerker56112 жыл бұрын
You could do videos on aircraft carriers and battleships.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
Why does this make me want to play Silent Hunter III all over again? Anyways, am just gonna *sub* to this channel now. Tad bit overdue, this, but eh, you guys and gals deserve it.
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Жыл бұрын
haha right on thanks Michael!
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You're welcome and appreciated!
@marcbartuschka63722 жыл бұрын
While it is 100 percent true that guns on subs were more of a reserve weapon against damaged/lone targets, there were a few instances when a sub, being forced to come to the surface, fought back against its warship-enemies with its guns - and even inflicted serious or fatal damage. I think that happened bot with italian and germans subs and maybe also some of other nations.
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely I appreciate you adding this
@L_Train2 жыл бұрын
Intelligence has found us a way Heinz! Ha, I've never heard of U-47 at Scapa Flo. Is that a documentary or motion picture with a narrator?
@Satunnaistasotilashistoriaa2 жыл бұрын
Submarine net cutters remained relevant in the Baltic Sea until the end of World War II. The sea is shallow and both sides laid a huge amount of mines and submarine nets. Bow cutter can also be used to cut thin ice layer. Handy feature in late autumn weeks. Finnish submarine "Vetehinen" ram and sank Soviet submarine in November 1942. "Vetehinen" fired two torpedos but both missed the target. Ramming was last-resort attempt because they did not want to let enemy escape. Soviet submarine was destroyed, but "Vetehinen" also suffered quite bad structrural damages.
@jd4200mhz Жыл бұрын
it should be said that a few u-boats did attack destryers and cruisers with there deck guns, but with little effeck to none
@somethingelse48782 жыл бұрын
2:26am uk morning, very interesting
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
Goodmorning to you 🇬🇧
@loganoldon8924 Жыл бұрын
I like the two barrel guns. The torp guns
@pumberdog Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Always wondered what it was for.
@simonnachreiner83802 жыл бұрын
Wasn’t there a North Korean spy submarine that got caught by an unarmed civilian fishing trawler?
@rcrawford42 Жыл бұрын
The USS Barb rammed small craft it came across. But that's a unique case.
@Lankythepyro Жыл бұрын
The Japanese also utilised a midget submarine to maneuver into Sydney Harbour, but one of the subs was caught in submarine netting. While all in all it's probably a fairly insignificant event on a global scale, it was one of the few attacks on Australian soil through the length of world war 2
@tylerdurdangedachtnishemd4904 Жыл бұрын
Martin Semmelrogge for ever :)
@verycoolandepicgamer6265 Жыл бұрын
It shows dominance during mating season
@m2y8v Жыл бұрын
me boat, u boat
@joehughes5177 Жыл бұрын
It's a cable cutter
@t_7692 Жыл бұрын
Ask why Harbors or Battleships was protected by Torpedo-Net! But even this could not prevent the fall of a Royal Oak. Torpedo Net direkt around a Battleship was started as Invention bevor WW I. Cheers
@GrahamWalters2 жыл бұрын
Nets were not employed at Scap Flow, blockade ships were, Prein got into Scapa Flow via the virtually unprotected Kirk sound at slack water at high tide, Prien himself later commented how easy it was to get in on the surface.
@JohnnyJohnsonEsq2 жыл бұрын
In 1937 work started on a Boom Defence Depot and by May 1939 there were booms across the three main entrances to Scapa Flow. After the sinking of HMS Royal Oak a second line of net was added. In total, 6.52 miles of anti-submarine net and 6.1 miles of anti-torpedo net were laid in Scapa Flow
@user-hg8ze5bk7m2 жыл бұрын
its a cable cutter
@joechevy2035 Жыл бұрын
I thought the sawtooth device was used to help the u boats break through the ice when surfacing thin ice on Arctic missions...
@s.danielpie53042 жыл бұрын
A R A M? N E I N!
@corbynxavier11622 жыл бұрын
Yes sir
@villeandersson26322 жыл бұрын
0:45. Or any submarine in general, not just U-Boats.
@EDKguy2 жыл бұрын
I thought those were stairs when I was a kid.
@DanakarEndeel Жыл бұрын
The only submarine with teeth meant for ramming was the Nautilus where Captain Nemo would use them as the primary means to destroy ships by ripping holes through them. Ofcourse that was at a time when everyone was still sailing on wooden ships in a marvelous piece of fiction called "20.000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules Verne. 😉
@Burboss2 жыл бұрын
gee... Italian, Soviet, German subs of that period had those teethy net cutters.
@jesusprieto2273 Жыл бұрын
What movies are these? I know das boot but the others?
@danzmitrovich62502 жыл бұрын
I found the us navy and us coast guard abservation towards in delaware and they should do a movie on them watch the Atlantic Ocean for the German submarines and other ships attacking Ocean city maryland areas and the other parts of the coast line as well and the Chesapeake bay areas as well and there where uboats near the naval academy and they will send in a crew into town getting food and beer from bars and restaurants as well
@timothyortiz2222 Жыл бұрын
To cut cable
@jamesclukey7488 Жыл бұрын
To cut thru cables that were placed at the mouths of harbors to block access to the submarines.
@CMDRFandragon Жыл бұрын
They have teeth, cuz even Uboats need to eat.
@chornobylreactor45 ай бұрын
It is said that u boats after killing their pray will bite the victim and suck the victim ship's blood like a sea lambray vampire fish the Lusitania after her death the u boat that shot her with a torpedo in the neck the u boat stayed to watch her die choking on her own blood
@ironjavelin7482 Жыл бұрын
So the submarines can bite the enemy ships
@Stribog13372 жыл бұрын
These theet have been created so the U-Boat can cut through power lines and not get stuck in the middle of the road