World of Warships Press Event at Chatham Historic Dockyard

On October 1st, Wargaming invited the Press to Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent to unveil World of Warships and announce the new German Cruisers and Soviet Destroyers. Since we were there anyway, I took the opportunity to get a look at the Oberon class Attack Submarine "HMS Ocelot", the Victorian sloop "HMS Gannet" and the worlds' only surviving British World War II Destroyer, "HMS Cavalier". Oh, and I looked at some PC game about ships too.
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[@heba2711]

That was a super guided tour by Irene. She was so charming, had great stories and such a very nice charming laugh. If anyone needs a tip for super guiding that must be her! Great job, Irene Henrik from Denmark

[@jerrylegion]

I like these little historical vids

[@xxAnaconta]

+John Data ''little'' 40 minutes long

[@FrenziedRoach]

Works for me - I get long periods of time at work where I got nothing to do. Videos like this are nice.

[@donaldjasoncrunk]

Best tour you've filmed. Irene is absolutely lovely, camera work is smooth and well composed, audio sounds great! Wonderfully immersive tour video! I've been on quite a few subs, but I've never seen such cramped officer quarters! Maybe a Romeo class boat, but even WWII US Navy boats had more room for the Big Boys

[@shawns.3376]

+donaldjasoncrunk Totally agree! You have to respect a tour guide like Irene. She probably hears the same jokes, the same one liners ((poop deck comes to mind...) constantly. Yet she can still find it in herself to laugh and enjoy it all the same. Takes talent :D Edit: Jingles, you need to send this video to Irene so she can see herself if you haven't already! :)

[@heatherrockwell9012]

Oh, just go to the Growler at the popular site in NY NY. They're actually smaller.

[@robloxdude19]

37:45 Oh Jingles, that's dark and I love it

[@elchema1994]

+Minarus Infernus perfect :p

[@Makapaa]

I really hope you guys gave Irene a grand applause and huge thank you after the tour. Even here, when watching her talk in the video, I get 'so' excited about things she says and points out!

[@matthewh9647]

Jingles this was one of the better videos I have had the pleasure to watch. Thank you for all the historical info on the sub, and the DD. And your tour guide looked to be a pretty fun lady as well. Thanks again.

[@MelodiousChaos]

Thank you for this Jingles! It's nice that we can watch this kind of thing when we can't attend ourselves!

[@TheSunkenSwede]

Love stories like this :D ... also love how Jingles and the lady are like best buddies and remembers back together :D

[@TrickiVicBB71]

I'm not fully through the video but give my thanks to Irene. Thank you for the tour and information of the submarine and also Jingles thank you for all the footage.

[@Air-Striegler]

Beautiful! Thank you very much, Jingles! Greetings to that highly professional and charming tour guide, Irene!

[@gordonclark119]

Another brilliant video, Jingles. Cheers! Irene was a fantastic too.

[@ibenomage5793]

Super cool to see the British sub, Ms Irene seemed really knowledgeable and cool, i really enjoy the historical videos.

[@AtholAnderson]

Thank you Jingles for the interesting video, and to Irene for the funny and informative tour. (I needed a laugh to day, and she did wonders.)

[@douglashyslop1963]

Irean is adorable. Jingles thanks for the video. Love all your vids! Alot of the games I don't even play... yet. Keep up the work my good man.

[@Flambass]

You're starting to sound like yourself Jingles, wish you even faster recovery!

[@MERLK2]

+Flambass He once more defeated valiantly the dreaded man-flu - despite the odds ;)

[@gwen8841]

+MERLK2 let's take a moment to remember the brave souls who lost their lives during the Great Man-Flu Pandemic of 1632. RIP

[@GamingBear_Q_E_D]

Hope you feel better Master, it's hard work in the salt mines without the constant whipping

[@Blackstaff425]

@Jingles Thanks for the tour of the ships. It was really cool.

[@cantbyou3086]

Top Notch Jingles, loved it, thanx for the time spent editing it, really a bang up job..

[@theycallmeapache4509]

Jingles, I REALLY appreciated this video very much... had an awful day so far I needed this very bad.

[@irishexplorer7862]

Nice to hear about your naval past again jingles You enjoyed making the video and I enjoyed watching it

[@Burley_Bert]

I was having a bad day because i had to tend farm instead of heading to Lake Tahoe with the family, This got my brain off the farm today and into some amazing places! Thanks Jingles.

[@Daehawk]

Sub was very claustrophobic. SO small. I cant imagine working in the engine room just 1 foot between two large diesel engines. Gotta say I love her job. She seems to also. That ladder must have been a treat when the girl went commando :) Favorite video ever! And very informative too.

[@GeorgePrince]

Wow thanks, so much for JIngles...utterly awesome! VERY educational!

[@tibour007]

Hats of to Irene she was a lovely tour guide. I really enjoyed your footage of of the Kent dockyard. Yes Submariners/bubble heads are a strange breed. I have known several over the years.

[@turrell139]

Thank you for the video. The tour guide was a peach, she made things fun and as always you made my day.

[@georgeharvey6460]

Damn Jingles. You were only about 5 minutes away from my house! Wish I knew you were there, Loved to have met you! Hope you enjoyed The Historic Dockyard!

[@tuberaider]

Very sweet tour guide, thanks for the vid, Jingles. :)

[@mpersad]

Jingles - as you have often said yourself, but it bears repeating, you really do have the best job in the World! Great vid as always.

[@TheChainreaper]

this actually cheered me up in a very very dark time, thank you for the video jingles :') cheers from belguim

[@sgtbarnes93]

A great video jingles. Really very interesting to see Chatham. Many thanks.

[@dylancraig3845]

Great video Jingles! And a big shout out to Irene, lol.She was a great tour guide! :)

[@starkat70]

Jingles have you ever considered doing a Silent Hunter Campaign series on your channel ....from any of the Silent Hunter franchise 3, 4, or 5 respectively

[@outrageousgamer315]

I like 4 and 5

[@jordankeeps]

+starkat70 This is a fantastic idea!

[@Falkirion]

+starkat70 Agreed. Would love to see how he handles RN hunter killer groups during the late war in GWX!

[@TrickiVicBB71]

that would be cool to watch. I am watching Bismark play it on his channel. "Iron Crosses for everyone!"

[@Tonci87]

+starkat70 He should totally play SH5 with the Wolves of Steel Mod on full realism.

[@Vnx]

Just last night I saw Polish was among the ship nationalities on the player statistics pages. Thank you Irene for the tour!

[@fernandomarques5166]

Nice vid Sir! I've been on a Oberon class sub before in Rio de Janeiro's Naval Museum there's one, this video made me feel so nostalgic.

[@maxx_2245]

Very excited to see the Błyskawica in action!

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

Many years ago my Dad and I visited HMS Ocelot. I'm a Kent local, so the dockyard is about 20 minutes down the motorway. When I visited, Ocelot had just arrived and was missing its dome after an accident bringing it into the dock. We were the only two visitors so we had a personal tour of the sub, including letting the 8-year-old me play with the main controls. Chatham dockyard is just great.

[@Almightyrastus]

Huge well done to your guide on those visits, she as awesome, great fun

[@TAM1906]

Jingles I'm applying for the submariners in December I'm glad I know your opinion of me ='D

[@gwen8841]

Good luck! :)

[@TAM1906]

Thanks I appreciate it ^.^

[@iglidor]

+Matt Thompson You can call him target from now one :-D

[@ZerotheWanderer]

+Matt Thompson Don't forget a supply of wet wipes for cleaning

[@TAM1906]

xD

[@leongt1954]

Great vid, I've never been on any type of warship so it was good to see what they look like inside

[@Sallafar]

Thanks Jingles, i initially planned my Day otherwise, but now i have to go and watch "Das Boot" again... great xD

[@misterdipster4241]

Thx for the vid, Admiral! A very intresting museum you got there on the island.

[@SharkoonBln]

@ Irene: Madam, you did a fantastic job! Hats off to you!

[@lesstagpool1371]

God, this takes me back. I served on these boats for 15 years. Happy Days

[@kalathos0042]

Every time i see you do a museum visit, especially one of naval ships i always think about the USS Silverside back in my home town.

[@chassumner421]

Damn it Jingles! Your comment about the Germans being on the Bismark caused me to spray coffee all over my keyboard. Very funny!!

[@pedecia]

I really enjoyed this Video Jingles. Thank you!

[@LittleJohnAB1]

Thanks for the tour of the O boat :) If you ever make it to Halifax you should tour the Flower class HMCS Sackville, also in Hamilton HMCS Haida a Tribal class destroyer. Both survivors of WWII. Awesome channel :)

[@marcushorne7504]

well it was really nice to see the cavalier this was one of my late grandfathers ships in ww2 the other being hms algerine made my day thanks jingles gj

[@NubiaSinnet]

I vote for a Lets Play Together with The Mighty Jingles and SirNossi (the german who played the WoWs game) ;)

[@Raz0rking]

+Nubia Sinnet or/and mootality! i am not sure about their english capabilities though...xD

[@NubiaSinnet]

Raz0rking Would be funny anyways :D

[@angloengland559]

Wow, so much respect for submariners, very challenging in so many ways

[@AKlover]

Surprised you could sit through this Jingles, too much like being back at work.

[@RedtailFox1]

there is one of these O class boats on display at the Sydney Maritime museum here in Australia, my stepfather served as a sonar operator on it, the HMAS Onslow. The Australian submariners used the aft torpedo tubes to store beer cans and they say they were always cold.

[@VelikiHejter]

I am an excellent swimmer, having been a waterpolo player for 6 years, and an exceptional diver, I can drive a length of a swimming pool, 50m, on a breath, couldn't do more but am a fat and old now, and do not have even a hint of claustrophobia, but if somebody told me that I had to serve on a submarine I would immediately desert. I do not get how people can serve on a ship, and when I even imagine sense of helplessness that you get not being able to even hear what is going on while you are submerged... It's scary!

[@skirataclone7254]

+Radovan Dragović And!!

[@VelikiHejter]

skirata clone And?

[@skirataclone7254]

Sounds like you like a swim, your just as boring as jingles!! hahahah

[@VelikiHejter]

Begone troll... Nice try! LOL LOL LOL!!!

[@kingofengland111]

if I remember right submarine duty is voluntary.

[@bryanFDNY]

She seems very fit for a lady of her age :D

[@jackbeauregard5250]

+BryanFDNY Which of the ships do you mean? :P

[@angus_white]

+BryanFDNY plot twist she's a really old looking 32 year old

[@CompetitiveRacist54]

+angus white Stop with the plot twists, we don't need all that god awful facebook shit on youtube.

[@manuelburgos6267]

Plot twist: He was talking about the tour guide

[@BNT1985]

A very nice lady and good guide :)

[@SeattleForge]

Thanks @jingles, she's great!

[@AgentTasmania]

Sure a tour of that sub would make Jingles look back kindly on the accommodations of his Gulf War era Frigate Hell, I felt claustrophobic touring the brand-new HMAS Canberra LHC.

[@itatane]

Absolutely love your guide. Folks like her make museum visits even more enjoyable... Hey, is that bearded fellow Ectar? His voice sounds much younger than he appears.

[@miwove]

46min .... thats like chrismas... hurray deer Jingles hurray deer Jingles!

[@Fraxxxi]

so hyped for stronk soviet destroyers, my beard is quivering with anticipation

[@jamesh2321]

Like you, I was a 'skimmer' or a 'target' too, but I went to school (USN Navy Nuclear Power Program) with several wannabe bubbleheads, and they are their own breed, no doubt. I went to a bird farm and served for 4 of my 6 year obligation (the other 2 being all in school). As large a s a Nimitz Class carrier is, I still had days I felt cramped, and we still suffered from time to time with water shortages... I can only imagine what it must have been like on a WW2 era Submarine. But, as they say in the Navy, "Choose your rate, choose your fate"... and as the flagship of the fleet, we at least got to stop in all the best ports of call (that could accommodate a floating city, anyway). Loved the video, Jingles, love to tour old ships and battlegrounds, and I missed this opportunity when I had a short stopover in London, but this was good enough to almost count being there.Cheers,EM2(N)/SW 'gumborex' on the NA server

[@DokturProfesur]

That tour guide just seems like the most darling woman. She must have been a treat.

[@andrewschulze3865]

I loved the German comment jingles, keep on steaming and watch out for those torps

[@jameslrbrand2002uk]

Oh my the memories my father used to work there till they opened at sire at Allens West in Eaglescliffe and he was sent up to set it up I was born not long after but we always used to go on yearly visits to Chatham during the late 80's and 90's

[@jamespfp]

There need to be more witty sub tour t-shirts. "I used to love sub tours, but to get this t-shirt I spent 15 years of my life underwater." Excellent vid, btw!

[@belesariius]

Had the fortune to visit Ocelot at sea in the 80's off the coast of Arran - the jump from the tender to the sub in an ''arran squal'' remains etched somewhat

[@IamTinyJoe]

She seemed so nice, Such a nice tour guide.

[@sapphic_vomit]

The tour guide is so warm and cute D:

[@SgtSteel1]

39:48 I was expecting the gun to be louder... or the camera just didn't pick it up? Then again, some people were going "woah" Great video Jingles. Thanks.

[@1337flite]

Oberon class in the RAN - we used to go tour the RAN ships when they were in port as kids including Oberon - they used to visit regularly.

[@lafeelabriel]

Very nice video there Jingles. And I spied me something more meatier than a DD..The Imperator Nikolai 1. (second ship of that name)

[@MrGshock2011]

just me that wants a video of Jingles explaining his time in the navy?

[@Shankmeyster]

got some more great replays for you jingles. gonna send em tonight.

[@Fezzafred]

when i was there and had a tour of the submarine, they sounded some sort of alarm (not sure which one, it was a while ago) where they had all of the periscopes, it must have been one of the loudest things i have ever heard in my life!

[@judgedredd8657]

I love these videos, thanks jingles

[@4ngelfinder]

"many German on board"...hahaha :D Jingles thanks for this cool video. "The British are coming! ...The British are coming!" ...away quickly :P many greetings from Germany ;)

[@robertcaudle14]

that was a great video i love the history your guide was funny good stuff man keep it up

[@scrag2841]

God bless our Submariners, the sacrifices they made/make to help keep our countries safe. From a former US Navy surface fleet sailor, aka a target ship.

[@scrag2841]

+TornadoADV I know I didn't mention it in my comment but I was on two carriers (USS Coral Sea & Eisenhower - both very high value targets)

[@San4311]

What a wonderful lady she seems to be. Great guide.

[@ifga16]

Your visit to Kent was fascinating and reinforces my belief that submariners (aka Bubble Heads) are a loony bunch. Next trip to the US, you need to go to Norfolk, VA. to see the USS Wisconsin.

[@turbogerbil2935]

So WG chose Chatham Historic Dockyard to announce an early 20th century naval warfare game that ignores and excludes the RN?

[@MoA-Reload...]

Annoyingly the marketing department seems to be getting the final say on the development schedule. Wargaming aren't stupid. They know the Royal Navy is the one most of the community wants to see. Even their choice of venue there is just to remind everyone RN is coming...just going to be a while. They've still to launch HMS Hood as a premium for a start. While they haven't said they would it's an obvious move.

[@San4311]

+Turbogerbil They don't ignore it, they think like businessmen. There are more German and Russian players playing the game than British.

[@outrageousgamer315]

War Gaming needs to add a British tech tree into this game and yes I know they have added some British ships

[@turbogerbil2935]

+San4311 Oh I understand their marketing strategy well enough - US vs JPN for the US and Asia market, RU vs DE for the Russian and European market. Its pretty much the same for WoT: British tanks are treated mostly as "meh" fillers to pad the game out a bit. Probably the RN line will suffer the same fate whenever it is dragged out. I'm just pointing out the paradox of having a PR event for a non-RN (for one year, two years maybe?) game in a historic RN base...

[@Madhattersinjeans]

+San4311 I don't mind it actually. It gives them more time to iron out issues with the game currently and time to balance the existing ships enough that when the RN are released it should be a reasonably smooth transition.

[@tiredwolf900]

Wish I knew you were there, whilst the event was on I was in chargemans office playing with little model ships wondering how it was going

[@ChardFXN]

You somehow made Chatham seem interesting, I thought it was impossible!

[@Ashfielder]

Irene is good at her job. I would never remember all that.

[@Throki]

Great Tour guide you had there! :)

[@Trusteft]

I remember one day when one of those shells fell on my foot while we were loading our ship. It hurt, it hurt a lot, but I was extremely lucky I had no lasting injury. It was for a 5inch gun.

[@ChakiOida]

Upvote for Irene.

[@grannetia72]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you!

[@Ashfielder]

Is it that bloody boat, errr, real life experience again?

[@dimetime35c]

Idk how sub crews do it! Just walking through that id have a major panic attack and need to get out. I have trouble just sitting for a 5 hour flight.

[@WickedMuis]

Such a sweet lady tour guide with a good sense of humour as well! :D

[@M1Garand22]

Great video worth the wait. Thanks for sharing.

[@InsolentHalo]

What a lovely lady, I could hear her talk all day about these other lovely ladies.

[@evanderer]

no need to go there any more after this!!! but still i will next year as i went to Portsmouth this year thanks from Belgium

[@VeronicaVenatrix]

Definitely looks a bit roomier than when I visited the U.S.S. Pampanito, a WW II Balao-class submarine, that is moored in San Francisco. Now that is a very tight fit, especially as I'm a decent bit taller than average. Addendum: Great video, very interesting and I am really looking forward to the German cruisers. I thought Soviet torpedoes would have better range, I thought U.S. destroyers were bad, but 3 kilometers? :P

[@bbmikej]

Its interesting to see that the Oberon and the Gato were similar sizes, but the Oberon seems more cramped.

[@curteverson120]

Thank you I love this I have ms and can,t go to see this good stuff not like the old day's

[@highfall60]

Jingles what were you thinking?! I wanted to read that paper on the torpedo!! D:

[@israelballew4155]

Jingles, if you ever get the chance to visit Los Angeles, you should check out the USS Iowa. As you probably know, she is an awesome ship and would make a sweet video.

[@WNxKorsakoff]

I really enjoyed this vid. Nice for diversity in content on your channel :D cant understand why anyone would dislike this....

[@toad762002]

Glad I was carrier Navy (CVN-70). Though I do miss that beast, I do drive a BB in WoWS. Currently Tier V American, working Tier VI.