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Warships of the ultimate
symbol of a nation's military might.
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These things are monstrous.
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One does of technology.
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Enormous vessels crewed
by thousands bristling
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with massive guns
and powerful aircraft.
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They can deliver tariff buying
destruction turn the tide of history.
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With sheffield
built to win the war.
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There was no other reason.
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From the beginning
of the twentieth century
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to the present day.
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These stories of
classic warships.
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From dreadnoughts to baseball.
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Japan's months to
see warrior yammer to.
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The American super
ships Wisconsin
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Lexington and enterprise
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to today's cutting edge
royal Navy carry is.
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These are the world's
greatest warships.
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Halfway through world war one.
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Over two hundred warships clashed
in the air is defining naval battle.
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Battle
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of chocolate.
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Over twenty five ships and thousands
of men was sent to the bottom.
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Loss was a shock
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but there was also success.
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On both sides a new type of ship
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dished out massive damage
and taken many huge hits.
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Yet remained a float.
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Able to return
to base for repair
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these were the war machines that spot
the arms race that changed the world.
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It was a menacing
dangerous looking ship.
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And everybody wanted.
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These
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with the dreadnoughts.
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But they only came
about because of a book.
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In eighteen ninety an American naval officer
called Alfred thayer mohan published a
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detailed study of
British naval strategy.
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My hands book on
the influence of seat.
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On history was a
painstaking analysis.
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In effect.
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Of britain.
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Came to be so big.
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In the.
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Andrew Gordon
is a naval history in.
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Hands book explain
something nobody.
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Worried the heads about.
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How could it happen this.
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Rainy country in
the northwest of you.
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Had this huge global presence.
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In the answer of course.
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Will see power.
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It had been ninety years since
Nelson's decisive victory at trafalgar.
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And britain was the
most powerful nation
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in the world.
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It's ceilings policed by a royal
Navy that dwarfed its rivals.
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Rivals who'd had enough
of playing second fiddle.
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Britain was looked at by
other nations with a mixture of
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and the and admiration.
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Especially on the German side.
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Jan vet teaches early
twentieth century German history.
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And.
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Germany was fully industrialized
and was a blooming economy.
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Nevertheless at
that point of time in.
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Military and strategic trump's
it was still a continental power.
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Germany's ambitious
emperor kaiser Wilhelm
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the second was a big
fan of Manhattan's bulk.
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The main argument of Mohamed was
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if you want to be.
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A world power you'll
need a strong maybe.
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So this was the ideology
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the kaiser embrace to
make Germany by this
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a world power.
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Germany quickly started to build a powerful
new fleet to rival the royal Navy that
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was becoming
increasingly bloated.
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On a paper the fleet is unquestionably
the mightiest Navy in the world
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but if you look closely
there were a vast number
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of ships that were no
longer fit for purpose.
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Andrew chung there's one of the
curators at the royal museums in greenwich.
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The problem was that in
any kind of shooting war
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while they were perfectly
good for imperial policing.
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They would struggle to survive
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against the
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more modern ships that were
being deployed by smaller Navy's.
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The German build up focus British minds
on the need to modernize and in ninety know
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for the royal Navy appointed
a radical new lead on.
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The very colorful admiral
Jackie Fisher becomes
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the first sea lord
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and effectively the
royal Navy is his
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within certain limits he can stamp
his style on it do what he wants with it
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and he already has in his mind this concept
of the super battleship of the future
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this ship embodies to
very important elements
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one is very very high speed
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Fisher was all about
having technical superiority
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by being able to run rings
around the opposition.
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The other is superior firepower
vastly superior firepower.
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Fishes problem was that is concept was
based on theories rather than experience.
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He needed facts
to back up his ideas.
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What Jack efficient needed.
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Was a was.
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Since ninety no three Japan and Russia
had been at war on land and sea over who
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controlled large parts
of southeast Asia.
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Defining moment came
in nineteen o five with
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a naval battle in the
straits of to shima.
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Interesting thing about
tsushima is it's the
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first battle to come
for an awfully long time.
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Q it his head of exhibitions of the
national museum of the royal Navy.
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You have to go back
nearly one hundred years.
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Really to find the last
big fleet action to anybody
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texting you notice of you
look at the napoleonic wars.
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Battles fought between
the ships powered by sale
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power made of wood firing
muzzle loading cannons.
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As school with one hundred
years and you've gone
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steal battleships rifle
guns a revolving tourists.
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Powered by steam engines
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and nobody has tried
this technology out
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it's never really been
used in action before.
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This was a very very
mismatch of conflict a
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rush Russia was an
established European power
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and although Japan had modernized to an
incredible degree in the last few decades
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no one really thought that
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an Asian upstart would be able
to challenge this European giant.
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The experts were wrong.
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Japan's Navy had
fast modern ships.
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Equipped with powerful
twelve inch guns.
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And royal Navy trained crews.
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Russia's was dated
and ill prepared.
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And during the battle the Japanese
ships out maneuvered the Russians.
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Guns were more accurate
and effective at a greater range.
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Results.
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Were devastated.
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I
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Was a total wind
patterns the Russian fleet.
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Forty nine
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to fifty two Russian ships
were sunk or captured.
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This decisive victory
one Japan the wall.
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Tsushima is an earthquake
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it's an absolute culture shock
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to the great powers.
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The upstart has one
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and the upstart has one because
they possess the superior battle fleet.
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The message was modernize.
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Modernize
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or die.
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As the twentieth century begun
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britain status as the world's
greatest see power was under threat.
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Navy's fleet was becoming dated.
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Germany was building up an ever
more ominous collection of warships.
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But new naval supremo
Jackie Fisher believed he had an
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idea that would keep britain's
command of the seas intact.
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Now Japan's decisive victory at the
battle to shima had delivered proof that is
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concept for a world beating
warship was on the right track.
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He wanted a ship with big punch.
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It was fast.
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And
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keep out of the range.
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Of enemy gun.
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In that she was called.
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Treadmill.
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Jackie Fisher plan to create the
world's first old big gone battleship.
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An unprecedented ten twelve
inch guns and five tourists
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would deliver
accurate and deadly fire
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over a huge range.
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The latest air engines would
give smoother more reliable power
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allowing her to outpace her
rivals and to dictate the battle.
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Belt of face hard and Dharma
would protect of main control rooms
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turrets and magazine.
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Completing the formidable package
that would make hms dreadnought
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the most powerful warship
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ever built.
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As if that wasn't enough
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fish wanted the
launch of his new ship
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to take his rivals by surprise.
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Fisher had set a
targets of wanting to ship
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completed within a year
which was unheard of
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battleships when normally completed within
two to three years from the laying of the
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keel so this was
a supreme effort
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and he wanted this to be
done quietly because he wanted
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the ship to have all the more
impact when it was finally launched.
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Said dreadnought is
built on less than a year.
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She's in power bill in
less than a because.
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Fisher takes them.
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Clever tricks he prefabricated steel and
has a piled upon the dockside side he'll
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just as many parts in
advance as you can.
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And only that impresses the the
go button on building the shave.
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One of the great problems when you're building
a ship in this period is that the guns
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and the turrets take almost longer
to manufacturer than the ship itself.
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Luckily for Fisher
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to large battleships were being constructed
for the royal Navy at the same time as
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dreadnought and that turrets and the gun
calibers were exactly what he wanted so.
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These for turret the with
reallocated to dreadnought
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which meant that she could
be completed on schedule.
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Unveiling of fishes
vision for a new era of
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British naval supremacy
arrived in nineteen o six
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when can get with the seventh
launched hms dreadnought
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Portsmouth naval dockyard.
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Predictably
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it was an old big gun layouts
that impressed witnesses the most.
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Shit apparently invincible
and capable of one discharged
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from the guns of throwing
with unparalleled pools.
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Twice as much met close any
foreign matter war now a float
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I'm three times as much as most.
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And
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neither dreadnought nor any
other battleship of her day still exist.
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Except wall.
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Commission and nineteen forty.
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UK s as Texas stands alone as a.
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Testament to first world
war battleship technology.
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Her old big gun
layout still fully intact.
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She is able to conjure a
sense of what operating
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of fear some artillery was like.
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Andy Smith is the ships manager.
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So we're down in the belly the ship about
six stories down from the top of the turret
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this all mechanism is
attached to that turret
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and would move with the tour
were in the magazine so this is
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where the shells or store.
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So ultimately the
shells are stored in here
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they're attached this monorail
system brought through here.
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They hooked up to
this voice in an attached.
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Then when it's ready to go up.
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Bowl ring this bell.
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And in their cranked up all the
way to that toured eventually.
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So we're inside
turret number one.
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These are the rifles this
is the whole reason why
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the battleships club to
have these rifles available.
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So ultimately you'd have a
brown about fifteen hundred pounds
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coming all the way from
the very bottom of the ship
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comes up this elevator.
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Right there rolls over then
he gets rammed in here
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and then you got four
more bags for bags of
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powder that come up
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get put in behind
that rammed in.
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The strapped themselves and
they go ahead with just talking to.
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Guns rented fire.
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They're strapped up gift wall
here out of the way of this freak
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wait.
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And they pulled the trigger.
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This shell
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traveling up to twelve
miles and then when it hits.
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Creating a hole the
size of a basketball court.
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Of course the awesome power of all those
fourteen inch shells was only an advantage
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if they hit their targets.
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Again Fisher a
thought this through.
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The idea to use a single caliber
main armament solved a problem the
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long prevented guns from
being used accurately long range.
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Before dreadnought.
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Ships generally find an array of
different calibers at the same target
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which meant gunnery offices
often struggled to Gauge ranges.
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You can't correct.
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If you have three
different calibers of guns
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banging away independently.
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Because nobody knows
who shall splashes foods.
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And that's what was
keeping ranges in close.
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To increase the effective
range of its massive guns.
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Hms dreadnought was the first ship
with a purpose built fire control platform.
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This area is the lookout and more
importantly the fire control position so the
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gunnery officer would
be based up here
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directing the fire of the entire main
armament of the shit this was a very very new
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system for the royal Navy
they were still evolving
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this when dreadnought
was built and commissioned.
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Organizing the guns to file.
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One month.
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Gunnery officer in the spotting.
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Who is observing the full.
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Of shot.
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And is pressing the
button to find silva is.
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An SUV get a group
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of shells landing together.
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And you can tell if you'll the
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gunnery officer in the for top.
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If the shells and landing short.
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Or over
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and you can correct.
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Ram home their advantage.
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These powerful and now
accurate guns needed
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to be brought to bear
on their targets quickly
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and from the best angles.
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This meant dreadnought
needed to be faster than
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all of her rivals.
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Until now all large warships had used
huge triple expansion steam engines
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with massive pistons
driving crankshafts.
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But pushing these hard
cause damage in vibrations.
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Once again Jackie Fisher
opted for the cutting edge
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technology.
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Steam turbine engines.
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Putting turbines into a large untested
battleship was a very very brave move.
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The technology had been proven
but not as not in a ship of this scale.
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Turbines are quieter.
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That faster than more efficient.
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They are less
prone to breakdowns
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dreadnought could be run at her
maximum speed of almost twenty knots for
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stained periods
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and what this meant
in practice was that she
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could outrun any pre
dreadnought in existence.
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To tied together the advantages of
high speed and devastating firepower.
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Hms dreadnought was
also equipped with the very
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latest technology and that
electrical power systems.
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Similar to one still
on us as Texas today.
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So this is your power
distribution for the whole ship
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this is as much a cutting edge
technology has those big girls
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is that big armor we have
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as those turbine
engines that are
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are are pushing
these dreadnoughts.
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This is the cutting edge.
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She think about the average sailor
that came aboard he probably didn't have
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electricity and is home and now
he's coming aboard and everything's lit
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with fans and blowers
mean people would
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die in the ships
they get so hot.
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You need air
movement you need light
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all those little things that
make it all work those hoist
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to get the the shells up to the
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top of the turret
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they're running off
electricity where's that
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electricity coming from
it's coming from and here
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and so to all of these
switches are basically
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turning off and on
power to various parts
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of the ship and
redirecting it where needed.
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You imagine if a
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part of the ship is underwater is
being flooded because it was hit.
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You don't want electricity
running through that so they
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would shut the power down
to that part of the the ship
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redirect it somewhere else
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so you're dealing
with high high voltage
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there's a lot of power
coursing through here.
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It wouldn't.
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It wouldn't come
as a surprise if
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when you did this
there'll be a little pushback
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these guys down here will probably
some of the bravest guys on board the ship
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this was not a.
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This is not for the
faint of heart for sure.
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Really big shock had been
caused by hms dreadnought herself.
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No ship had ever combined
size speed power and Alma
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such a fearsome machine.
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Dread not something
that fears nothing
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it can project power it
can secure sea lanes
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it can defend a coast
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it can attack and coast
it can dominate the seas.
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Hm is dreadnought
is a real gains change.
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The old vessels
the old pre-draft not
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as they're called
now battleships.
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Are simply outclassed.
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The creation of page miss
dreadnought was a great triumph
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Fisher but he also had created an enormous
problem for himself and for the royal Navy.
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It made everyone has
a battleship and world
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obsolete.
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Including all of britain's.
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Fisheries essentially
pressing the reset button
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on the global arms race.
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The German admiralty
simply saw itself forced.
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To build vessels like
agent has dragged on.
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It was the arms race like we
saw post-world war two between
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the Soviet union the u s
in the fifties it was nukes
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in the teens it
was dreadnoughts.
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The u s France and Japan all set about
making diversions of hms dreadnought.
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But it was Germany's response
the worried the royal Navy.
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Took the Germans a couple of
years but they succeeded in quickly
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designing and launching
their own dreadnoughts.
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Author Mark steel specializes in
the battleships of the twentieth century
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the German ships were a bit
different than the British designs
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because they
emphasize protection.
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At the expense of firepower.
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So they were not as heavily armed
as much British ships were of the day.
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By nineteen eleven
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the Germans of producing
designs that match britain in quality
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and in the years after
that if anything some
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of that designs of
beginning to pull ahead.
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By nineteen forty.
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Germany a truly come of
age as a warship builder.
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Perhaps the best example
was the current class battleship.
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For were built.
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Including sms koenig herself.
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So we looking here
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at a magnificent plum
of the cooney class
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it's very well
designed in regard of.
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Protection.
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So you see here a heavy.
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Deck amo
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you see here a
massive side Alma.
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You see here
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the double bottom in case of a
minute there is a great chance.
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That the vessel will
only be lightly damaged
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and you see a huge
number of bulk hats.
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Which invites the vessel
in watertight compartments
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you see also the the
number of guns listed
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to ten a three point five or twelve
inch main guns in five turrets
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fourteen fifteen centimeter guns
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also ten ain't point
eight centimeters guns
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full fighting of torpedo boats
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there were quick firing or
quick loading guns of course
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five torpedo tubes on the
water was on in the bow
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and for
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on the broadsides so
yeah she was really.
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A vessel to re
reckoned with in battle.
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Germany's Navy grew.
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The likelihood of was
named ever-larger.
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Formidable new ships such as
koenig were intended to present
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an acceptable risk
to britain's interests.
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The only dad wants
to be powerful enough.
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To cause the royal Navy.
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Sufficient casualties
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that even if the
German fleet last
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British positions.
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Would be vulnerable.
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To other pounds
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therefore the royal Navy
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would not want to challenge.
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The German fleet
for them reason.
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It would stop written
declaring war on Germany.
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But didn't.
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Nineteen o six hms
dreadnought at five the starting
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pistol on the old big gun
battleship hobbs race.
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Britain France the united states Russia
Japan and Germany that all battle fiercely to
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build the biggest baddest
gunship the world had ever see.
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Nineteen fourteen so fast was the pace of
change that the original hms dreadnought
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was all already
passed her sell by date.
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Always find it quite
amusing that we we'd look at
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technological development now we get
excited to visit a new smartphone comes out
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batch late in that
eight year period
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these things changed
beyond recognition
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to the point where
each miss dreadnought
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is obsolete by the
started the first world war
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and hms dreadnought may have
been relegated to minor fleet duties.
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But so indelible was her legacy the all big
battleships became known as dreadnoughts.
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With excellent
dreadnoughts like the koenig
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Germany had caught up
with britain and quality but the
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one thing they wouldn't never
able to match was quantity.
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Britain has the advantage.
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If you compare for example with with
Germany Germany is also trying to build the
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world's largest army
at the same time
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and they simply cannot keep up.
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The British who are
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eighty one hundred percent
focused on naval building.
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That building these
things most of the rate of.
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Class of for every he
gets loaded and laid down.
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And getting progressively
bigger and bigger.
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In britain the Navy
was the senior service.
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While in Germany
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although she had this
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ambition to become a whirlpool
still was continental opponent
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so she needed a strong army
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and so the bulk
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of the money's
spent for military.
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Was spent for the on me.
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And at this also kind of hindered
of cause a massive built up
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off the fleet.
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In August nineteen forty.
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Powerful German
army invaded Belgium
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the British ally.
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Triggering world war one.
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When war breaks out in
the arms race is brought to
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a sudden halt
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the British have twenty two
dreadnoughts in commission
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the German Navy is somewhat behind with
thirteen and to add to this and the British
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have nine battle cruisers in
commission to Germany's for
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so it looks like a
substantial lead in the royal
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Navy's favor at the
beginning of world war one.
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From day one of the war
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the sheer number of their
ships met the royal Navy
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had the upper hand on
Germany's high seas fleet.
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The speed of modern
warships meant that the main
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grand fleet could lie
secure and scapa flow.
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It's new base in Scotland.
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With smaller fleets
based in recife
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courage and on the south coast.
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Britain I've had a very
effective blockade on
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Germany's small section
of the north sea coast.
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The proud new ships
are the kaiser's fleet
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struggled to operate
beyond their own local waters.
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It's probably fair to say that at the start
of the first world war the German high
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seas fleet did not
know what to do.
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They're planning had been based on an
idea that the royal Navy would follow its
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traditional lacrosse aggressive approach
and come stay impeding into the southern
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north sea to take
on take them on
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and annihilate them in
in in a sort of trafalgar to.
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Both sides of waiting for this apocalyptic
confrontation between the two fleets.
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And much to
everyone's frustration this
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doesn't happen the
British didn't come.
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So there was thirty size
of battle in the north sea.
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Asked the Germans had expected.
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Sill they had to
build up from scratch.
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A new strategic approach.
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So to break the deadlock and the Germans
formulate a plan whereby they will try and
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entice a portion of the
grand fleet out to engage them
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and hopefully trap and
sink this detached portion
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with the entirety of the
high seas fleet strength
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once they have done this to
the royal Navy enough times
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they'll but then be
able to meet it an equal
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or superior terms and
when a decisive victory.
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On may thirty first
nineteen sixteen
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that exact problem was underway as bowl
new German commander admiral sheer prepared
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to ambush a small fleet
of royal Navy warships.
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This scouting fleet engaged a
British battle cruiser squadron.
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What like dreadnought
battleships.
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Battle cruisers were lightly
armoured for greater speed.
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Initially the German if it goes according
to plan the to battle cruiser forces meet.
494
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And catastrophically to
British better crisis blow up.
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In sync.
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I.
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This is mainly because
of the way in which they're
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storing and using ammunition
on board the shapes.
499
00:27:55,094 --> 00:27:56,474
On the to battle cruisers.
500
00:27:56,864 --> 00:28:00,114
With two thousand three
hundred and eighty five sailors.
501
00:28:00,314 --> 00:28:02,244
Only twenty survived.
502
00:28:02,864 --> 00:28:05,559
It was around one
to approach sheer.
503
00:28:07,004 --> 00:28:10,514
She and are chase the small British
fleet towards the coast of jutland.
504
00:28:10,844 --> 00:28:12,498
Where the rest of
his high seas fleet
505
00:28:12,764 --> 00:28:13,304
in wait.
506
00:28:13,694 --> 00:28:15,418
Ready to pounce.
507
00:28:16,959 --> 00:28:19,724
What he didn't know
was the also lying in wait.
508
00:28:20,054 --> 00:28:23,004
Was the entire
British grand fleet.
509
00:28:24,044 --> 00:28:28,124
In command was admiral
jellicoe aboard his flagship hms
510
00:28:28,244 --> 00:28:29,244
iron Duke.
511
00:28:29,564 --> 00:28:33,464
Bang up to date battleships so advanced
from the original hms dreadnought
512
00:28:33,734 --> 00:28:34,754
does she was known.
513
00:28:35,084 --> 00:28:36,864
As a super dreadnought.
514
00:28:37,904 --> 00:28:43,914
Andrew chung as an original as
completed plan of this powerful vessel.
515
00:28:44,954 --> 00:28:50,624
If lay these plans of h m s iron Duke
over the ones of h m s dreadnought
516
00:28:50,864 --> 00:28:56,324
it allows us to see the huge changes
that have taken place this ship was built
517
00:28:56,564 --> 00:28:59,534
a mere seven or eight
years after dreadnought.
518
00:28:59,864 --> 00:29:05,624
General improvements resulted in ships
that were larger faster luck more powerful
519
00:29:05,804 --> 00:29:09,681
this ship is a quantum leap
above it's near ancestor.
520
00:29:09,944 --> 00:29:15,894
The differences necessitated a much larger
whole to accommodate all the improvements.
521
00:29:16,484 --> 00:29:20,503
So again the most noticeable thing
about this ship is the primary armament the
522
00:29:20,504 --> 00:29:23,864
powerful main battery of
thirteen point five inch guns
523
00:29:24,104 --> 00:29:25,694
larger than the those mounted a
524
00:29:25,975 --> 00:29:26,534
dreadnought
525
00:29:26,924 --> 00:29:28,494
but most importantly
526
00:29:28,664 --> 00:29:32,514
gonna the winged turrets which
we saw and dreadnought everything.
527
00:29:32,984 --> 00:29:37,274
Is on a center line which means that
when this ship engages in enemy vessel
528
00:29:37,454 --> 00:29:40,734
she can bring her
entire armament to bath.
529
00:29:41,654 --> 00:29:43,724
The key improvements
to iron Duke
530
00:29:43,982 --> 00:29:45,324
to her firepower.
531
00:29:46,664 --> 00:29:51,464
Eight of her thirteen point five inch guns
when are set in super firing paz meaning
532
00:29:51,465 --> 00:29:55,880
for barrels come out
a directly for or off.
533
00:29:56,864 --> 00:29:58,364
Middle Tory it was
never are censored
534
00:29:58,574 --> 00:30:01,044
able to aim across both flanks.
535
00:30:01,574 --> 00:30:03,554
Secondary armament was beefed up
536
00:30:03,734 --> 00:30:05,564
with six inch
guns on each flight
537
00:30:05,714 --> 00:30:10,584
posts small away happens to guard against
the threat of face boat torpedo attack.
538
00:30:12,042 --> 00:30:13,272
Faster and smarter
539
00:30:13,482 --> 00:30:17,782
the super dreadnoughts were built
to rule the waves of the north safe.
540
00:30:18,432 --> 00:30:24,522
In the churning sees of jutland.
541
00:30:25,002 --> 00:30:29,981
I into played sixteen or
the super dreadnoughts to
542
00:30:29,982 --> 00:30:32,062
create admiral telcos
formidable British battle line.
543
00:30:32,388 --> 00:30:34,002
The German battle line
544
00:30:34,242 --> 00:30:39,082
led by koenig was now unwittingly
steaming straight towards them.
545
00:30:39,642 --> 00:30:40,692
Perfectly positioned
546
00:30:40,962 --> 00:30:43,882
jellicoe gave the
order to engage.
547
00:30:44,832 --> 00:30:47,202
I enjoy took aim at koenig
548
00:30:47,442 --> 00:30:51,472
and on the least a salvo of
nine thirteen point five a shelves.
549
00:30:53,712 --> 00:30:57,372
Next few minutes koenig was
hit by seven of inject shells.
550
00:30:57,792 --> 00:31:00,142
Or the ship scored hits as well.
551
00:31:03,792 --> 00:31:07,182
She received ten heavy
five to six like to hits.
552
00:31:07,632 --> 00:31:10,032
With forty five of a crew debt
553
00:31:10,512 --> 00:31:11,082
and
554
00:31:11,380 --> 00:31:13,062
another twenty seven wounded
555
00:31:13,482 --> 00:31:16,072
but she still was a float.
556
00:31:18,991 --> 00:31:23,092
I In juke leads the attack on the
German lines twice more that evening.
557
00:31:26,322 --> 00:31:29,722
Gunners hitting koenig
again and sinking a destroyer.
558
00:31:31,632 --> 00:31:34,012
Great loss on both sides.
559
00:31:34,842 --> 00:31:35,842
Admiral share it.
560
00:31:36,042 --> 00:31:40,151
Comes to the conclusion
that this is not the sort
561
00:31:40,152 --> 00:31:41,688
of battle he wanted he
didn't want an epic showdown.
562
00:31:41,712 --> 00:31:44,382
At his only thought is
to disengage and get his
563
00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:48,462
fleet back to safety because a number
of his ships a battered by now and.
564
00:31:48,762 --> 00:31:52,751
That combat effectiveness
has been reduced so he needs
565
00:31:52,752 --> 00:31:54,712
to get them home he needs
to get them home intact.
566
00:31:55,212 --> 00:31:56,412
So the German fleet.
567
00:31:56,742 --> 00:31:58,402
Mostly gone.
568
00:31:58,602 --> 00:32:01,012
And got home before left.
569
00:32:01,092 --> 00:32:03,292
Because it happened
close to Denver.
570
00:32:03,432 --> 00:32:05,512
And the German fleet claimed
571
00:32:05,862 --> 00:32:07,312
to have been victorious.
572
00:32:07,752 --> 00:32:12,161
One German newspaper
even quoted the kaiser is
573
00:32:12,162 --> 00:32:13,248
saying the midst of
trafalgar has been broken.
574
00:32:13,272 --> 00:32:18,161
We've ended the blockade
a Germany is achieved its
575
00:32:18,162 --> 00:32:20,482
subjective on the says we
hold the trident now not britain.
576
00:32:20,712 --> 00:32:23,422
It was a plane that
initially made sense.
577
00:32:23,472 --> 00:32:25,902
Only two major German
ships have been sunk
578
00:32:26,082 --> 00:32:29,712
and that death toll was two thousand
five hundred and fifty one man.
579
00:32:30,102 --> 00:32:33,292
The British had
come off far worse.
580
00:32:33,462 --> 00:32:34,782
Over six thousand the.
581
00:32:35,113 --> 00:32:36,113
Said perished.
582
00:32:36,282 --> 00:32:38,572
Six major ships sunk.
583
00:32:39,072 --> 00:32:45,212
As the grand fleet struggled
home the trauma of it all sank kid.
584
00:32:45,342 --> 00:32:48,953
But Stevens was the
stoker on board hms Chester.
585
00:32:49,632 --> 00:32:52,180
When we come back
come out to crack we
586
00:32:52,283 --> 00:32:54,560
a passion for terribly
passionate about.
587
00:32:55,152 --> 00:32:56,232
When we got about.
588
00:32:56,592 --> 00:32:58,522
One hundred miles from grimsby.
589
00:32:58,572 --> 00:32:58,963
Captain
590
00:32:59,303 --> 00:32:59,742
and says.
591
00:33:00,111 --> 00:33:02,002
I'm going to stop the shape.
592
00:33:02,084 --> 00:33:02,292
Said.
593
00:33:02,704 --> 00:33:04,062
Or have to type of shows.
594
00:33:04,422 --> 00:33:05,422
A completely.
595
00:33:05,540 --> 00:33:06,540
In are too bad.
596
00:33:06,762 --> 00:33:07,782
Knee stopped the ship.
597
00:33:08,112 --> 00:33:09,223
How military do with a
598
00:33:09,432 --> 00:33:11,652
very diverse sponge
was aside say.
599
00:33:11,982 --> 00:33:13,092
That mean canvas and.
600
00:33:13,482 --> 00:33:15,054
Would Tommy shelling.
601
00:33:15,192 --> 00:33:16,192
Over to show it.
602
00:33:16,332 --> 00:33:19,191
Or forget how many
repair couldn't decide.
603
00:33:19,423 --> 00:33:19,635
Know
604
00:33:19,887 --> 00:33:21,323
to terrible say.
605
00:33:21,822 --> 00:33:24,222
The royal Navy had suffered.
606
00:33:24,642 --> 00:33:25,962
A once the smoke cleared
607
00:33:26,112 --> 00:33:29,581
the claims of a German
victory run hollow.
608
00:33:30,672 --> 00:33:31,692
Johnson was.
609
00:33:32,172 --> 00:33:33,172
What was.
610
00:33:33,312 --> 00:33:34,312
What was known as.
611
00:33:34,782 --> 00:33:36,622
A fleet in being.
612
00:33:36,882 --> 00:33:37,882
Victory.
613
00:33:38,112 --> 00:33:39,112
For the British
614
00:33:39,314 --> 00:33:41,792
strategically the
battle change nothing.
615
00:33:41,947 --> 00:33:43,752
The British black
cable still in effect
616
00:33:44,202 --> 00:33:46,752
and the German battle fleet
was in no shape to go to see
617
00:33:47,052 --> 00:33:48,192
for a number of weeks.
618
00:33:48,702 --> 00:33:50,032
It was a defeat.
619
00:33:50,442 --> 00:33:53,272
Because finally was proven.
620
00:33:53,742 --> 00:33:55,842
That the high seas split.
621
00:33:56,322 --> 00:33:57,652
Could not.
622
00:33:57,762 --> 00:33:59,602
And the war.
623
00:33:59,682 --> 00:34:02,092
In favor of Germany.
624
00:34:02,742 --> 00:34:05,902
There was one clear
winner of this great battle.
625
00:34:06,102 --> 00:34:08,502
It was the dreadnoughts
themselves.
626
00:34:09,218 --> 00:34:12,641
The interesting thing about challenges
it shows the the power of the defensive
627
00:34:12,642 --> 00:34:14,674
technology has been
introduced with the
628
00:34:14,862 --> 00:34:17,149
treadmill and then to see
the dreadnought battleship.
629
00:34:17,437 --> 00:34:20,682
The British news three battle cruisers the
Germans lose an elderly pretty treadmill
630
00:34:20,687 --> 00:34:22,087
battleship and
battle battle cruiser
631
00:34:22,272 --> 00:34:25,269
not one dreadnought
battleship he sunk.
632
00:34:25,782 --> 00:34:27,652
And think this.
633
00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:30,552
Proves the quality of
634
00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:33,232
shipbuilding of
ship construction.
635
00:34:33,462 --> 00:34:38,332
Of these drac not class
vessels on both sides.
636
00:34:39,192 --> 00:34:41,692
They really were
a formidable ships.
637
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:49,192
Jackie fishes vision of super warships
at demonstrated that all some power.
638
00:34:49,242 --> 00:34:51,792
But their influence on
sea power was perhaps not
639
00:34:52,002 --> 00:34:53,812
quite what it foresee.
640
00:34:56,082 --> 00:34:58,182
Is dreadnoughts have
been able to destroy
641
00:34:58,422 --> 00:35:02,052
everything in that gun
sights accept each other.
642
00:35:02,382 --> 00:35:06,652
The official would have been
happy that the outcome favorite brit.
643
00:35:07,152 --> 00:35:08,712
In the aftermath of jutland.
644
00:35:09,013 --> 00:35:13,132
The German surface Navy
was again called find support.
645
00:35:13,272 --> 00:35:14,815
A month after jutland that
646
00:35:15,042 --> 00:35:17,952
sheer rights a confidential
report to the kaiser
647
00:35:18,252 --> 00:35:21,562
in which he admits
as such he says that.
648
00:35:21,852 --> 00:35:25,392
One of the lessons we've learned
from this battle is that we cannot
649
00:35:25,662 --> 00:35:27,852
defeat the royal Navy it see.
650
00:35:28,154 --> 00:35:32,501
In a mahogany and
sense we cannot annihilate
651
00:35:32,502 --> 00:35:33,618
that battle fleet that's
beyond our capability
652
00:35:33,642 --> 00:35:36,082
we have to think
of something else.
653
00:35:37,813 --> 00:35:38,813
From now on
654
00:35:38,922 --> 00:35:42,342
German submarines attacked
commerce shipping in the Atlantic.
655
00:35:42,672 --> 00:35:46,242
The tactic that eventually
brought the usa into the wall.
656
00:35:46,572 --> 00:35:48,162
Increase the allies strength
657
00:35:48,282 --> 00:35:53,002
helped end the war
itself the piece was fragile
658
00:35:53,142 --> 00:35:57,221
and the remained one
massively powerful weapon
659
00:35:57,222 --> 00:35:57,882
that needed to be
handled very carefully
660
00:35:58,164 --> 00:36:01,064
the German
dreadnought the fleet.
661
00:36:01,182 --> 00:36:05,592
The British don't fear the remains of
the German Navy the biggest British fear.
662
00:36:05,952 --> 00:36:07,602
Is that smaller nations
663
00:36:07,842 --> 00:36:12,366
will make a play for those battleships and
increase their own Navy's as a consequence
664
00:36:12,372 --> 00:36:15,755
and in particular they worried about France
and Italy both of whom have said that
665
00:36:15,757 --> 00:36:17,532
they want some of
these German treadmills
666
00:36:17,652 --> 00:36:21,131
so pretty much the top of the shopping
list for the British is to have the German
667
00:36:21,132 --> 00:36:22,722
name he handed
over and and turned
668
00:36:22,992 --> 00:36:25,362
the German fleet was disarmed.
669
00:36:26,229 --> 00:36:28,375
The breaches of the
gun will left and for them.
670
00:36:28,992 --> 00:36:31,762
So together with the ammunition.
671
00:36:31,812 --> 00:36:34,192
So there were
absolutely defenseless.
672
00:36:35,022 --> 00:36:39,222
They had only a minimum of coal
only a skeleton crew on board and then.
673
00:36:39,612 --> 00:36:43,032
Steamed over the
north sea to scapa flow
674
00:36:43,362 --> 00:36:46,312
to be in turned the.
675
00:36:47,172 --> 00:36:51,442
Koenig was the final German battleship
to enter the Scottish naval base.
676
00:36:51,852 --> 00:36:55,132
Here this once mighty
fleet awaited it's fate.
677
00:36:55,482 --> 00:36:59,842
But a secret plan met the Germans would
take back control of that dreadnoughts.
678
00:37:10,782 --> 00:37:14,980
In nineteen sixteen most of britain's fleet
a super dreadnoughts at fort Germany's in
679
00:37:14,981 --> 00:37:17,542
the defining naval
battle of the war.
680
00:37:20,262 --> 00:37:21,942
Hundred and one
but more importantly
681
00:37:22,152 --> 00:37:24,472
proved they couldn't be beaten.
682
00:37:25,242 --> 00:37:28,552
This played a key role in
Germany's eventual defeat.
683
00:37:31,272 --> 00:37:36,012
Seven months after the
war the victorious allies
684
00:37:36,042 --> 00:37:36,522
met a verse sides decide
how to punish Germany
685
00:37:36,792 --> 00:37:41,543
on what to do with her vanquished but still
awesomely powerful fleet of dreadnoughts.
686
00:37:41,952 --> 00:37:43,602
Now could in scapa flow
687
00:37:43,902 --> 00:37:46,313
on the royal Navy god god.
688
00:37:52,765 --> 00:37:56,261
Summer nineteen nineteen
Aruba spreads through the
689
00:37:56,262 --> 00:37:57,528
gym fleet that the war
was going to start again.
690
00:37:57,552 --> 00:38:00,852
And they're sitting there
in the main British base
691
00:38:00,882 --> 00:38:02,448
with no ammunition on the
ships and virtually no Cruz.
692
00:38:02,472 --> 00:38:04,962
That the one thing that
they can choose to do
693
00:38:05,202 --> 00:38:06,462
to make that gesture
694
00:38:06,612 --> 00:38:07,812
that is still part of the wool
695
00:38:07,962 --> 00:38:11,362
is to scuttle their own ships
and that's exactly what they do.
696
00:38:12,072 --> 00:38:14,962
On the twenty first of
June nineteen nineteen.
697
00:38:15,102 --> 00:38:19,492
Almost the entire British Godfrey
left scapa flow on exercises.
698
00:38:20,382 --> 00:38:23,052
The German
commander secret plan.
699
00:38:23,382 --> 00:38:25,102
Was put into action.
700
00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:31,193
My prearranged signal
they opened the see cooks.
701
00:38:31,632 --> 00:38:33,172
And the whole fleet.
702
00:38:34,092 --> 00:38:35,842
Started to sing.
703
00:38:36,552 --> 00:38:39,412
That was the way the
Germans could salvage.
704
00:38:40,332 --> 00:38:42,762
An element of of self esteem.
705
00:38:43,067 --> 00:38:43,212
Of.
706
00:38:43,991 --> 00:38:45,172
That predicament.
707
00:38:45,342 --> 00:38:45,692
Was to
708
00:38:45,945 --> 00:38:47,232
none of these ships
709
00:38:47,592 --> 00:38:48,898
to the airlines.
710
00:38:51,072 --> 00:38:55,512
Four hundred thousand
tons of finest John Steele.
711
00:38:55,904 --> 00:38:57,382
Going down.
712
00:38:58,812 --> 00:39:03,491
Main royal Navy Godfrey
rushed back to scupper
713
00:39:03,492 --> 00:39:05,012
as the ship's slipped
under the waters.
714
00:39:06,792 --> 00:39:09,802
Claude choules was
on board hms revenge.
715
00:39:11,532 --> 00:39:11,862
We're
716
00:39:12,132 --> 00:39:13,742
rushing into scapa flow
717
00:39:13,842 --> 00:39:15,672
we could see the
German ship some of them.
718
00:39:16,032 --> 00:39:19,072
A junk and others were
going over the sinking.
719
00:39:19,270 --> 00:39:21,312
Ships good all over the place
720
00:39:21,793 --> 00:39:22,144
and.
721
00:39:22,782 --> 00:39:24,552
We said the that
crushed for that
722
00:39:24,792 --> 00:39:28,212
we've been up your nearly six
months waiting for our service leave.
723
00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:31,282
Now will go there are
no and get our services.
724
00:39:31,711 --> 00:39:33,596
The bastard to gone.
725
00:39:37,743 --> 00:39:41,682
The sinking of one of the world's
most powerful dreadnought fleets
726
00:39:41,802 --> 00:39:46,042
was and remains the greatest
loss of ships in one day.
727
00:39:46,512 --> 00:39:48,672
At.
728
00:39:49,025 --> 00:39:53,321
One hundred years on from that midsummer's
day moving commemorations have been taking
729
00:39:53,322 --> 00:39:56,062
place in orkney
to Mark the events.
730
00:39:58,182 --> 00:40:00,852
This has been one of the
most unusual memorial events
731
00:40:01,002 --> 00:40:04,152
marking was thought to be
the only occasion in history.
732
00:40:04,512 --> 00:40:06,732
In which a Navy
destroyed its own fleet
733
00:40:07,182 --> 00:40:09,652
and a little over three hours.
734
00:40:11,766 --> 00:40:13,362
When was there.
735
00:40:13,902 --> 00:40:16,972
On innocent scenery of the
skeptical of the high seas fleet.
736
00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:18,322
I felt.
737
00:40:18,462 --> 00:40:18,972
Grief
738
00:40:19,242 --> 00:40:19,782
regret.
739
00:40:20,172 --> 00:40:25,252
About the waste of so
many fine ships and also.
740
00:40:25,512 --> 00:40:26,862
So many fine man
741
00:40:27,042 --> 00:40:29,622
in a war that certainly
was one of the.
742
00:40:30,282 --> 00:40:30,432
Mo.
743
00:40:30,879 --> 00:40:32,418
Useless morse.
744
00:40:32,768 --> 00:40:34,338
In European history.
745
00:40:40,390 --> 00:40:45,517
About only had world war one been a tragic
waste of human life the dreadnought arms
746
00:40:45,518 --> 00:40:49,818
race had also been cripplingly
expensive for all countries involved.
747
00:40:50,528 --> 00:40:54,018
That didn't stop the
rush to build more of.
748
00:40:55,028 --> 00:40:59,467
Dreadnought back and
ships are still the currency
749
00:40:59,468 --> 00:41:01,154
by wage nations measure
their power and prestige.
750
00:41:01,178 --> 00:41:03,098
They all the nuclear
weapons of that day
751
00:41:03,398 --> 00:41:06,080
they determined the
most important nations.
752
00:41:06,188 --> 00:41:09,997
Smaller nations are desperate
to build one or two treadmills
753
00:41:09,998 --> 00:41:12,158
just to show that they can
have a say to the top table.
754
00:41:12,638 --> 00:41:17,610
Washington naval treaty of
nineteen twenty one to nineteen
755
00:41:17,618 --> 00:41:19,899
twenty two between britain
France Italy america and Japan.
756
00:41:20,258 --> 00:41:24,618
Greatly reduced the size and number
of battleships built in the coming years.
757
00:41:24,878 --> 00:41:27,648
Many famous dreadnoughts
were also scrapped.
758
00:41:29,468 --> 00:41:31,009
Hms dreadnought.
759
00:41:31,117 --> 00:41:34,358
The ship whose name it become
a byword for the ultimate battleship
760
00:41:34,598 --> 00:41:37,698
had been unceremoniously
scrapped a year later.
761
00:41:38,018 --> 00:41:39,834
But iron Duke survived.
762
00:41:40,118 --> 00:41:43,098
Staying in service
another twenty years.
763
00:41:44,318 --> 00:41:46,088
However there was
one dreadnought.
764
00:41:46,388 --> 00:41:49,218
Whose story had only just begun.
765
00:41:49,502 --> 00:41:55,328
I think Texas is the
world's greatest worship
766
00:41:55,598 --> 00:42:00,367
now because she fought in
the most battles but because
767
00:42:00,368 --> 00:42:01,724
she symbolizes a lot of
what naval warfare is about
768
00:42:01,748 --> 00:42:04,448
Texas is here she's still a
touchstone for that history
769
00:42:04,868 --> 00:42:06,818
and she's deal
with capital ship left
770
00:42:06,968 --> 00:42:08,708
there was involved
in two world wars.
771
00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:10,490
That scene difficult.
772
00:42:11,588 --> 00:42:12,606
Following the war.
773
00:42:12,968 --> 00:42:16,758
Texas was modernized with
radio communication equipment.
774
00:42:17,318 --> 00:42:18,318
Radar.
775
00:42:19,448 --> 00:42:21,258
Anti aircraft defenses.
776
00:42:22,148 --> 00:42:24,108
She even had our own seaplanes.
777
00:42:26,408 --> 00:42:27,792
When world war two broke out
778
00:42:27,938 --> 00:42:31,878
Texas was still fighting
fit and thrown into the fray.
779
00:42:33,098 --> 00:42:36,198
She protected north
Atlantic convoys from u-boats.
780
00:42:36,248 --> 00:42:41,018
Supported north African
landings before being called
781
00:42:41,048 --> 00:42:43,068
up to help out on June
six nineteen forty four.
782
00:42:43,568 --> 00:42:47,498
At de de deus ex she's
right off the coast majority
783
00:42:47,738 --> 00:42:49,207
provide that gunfire support
784
00:42:49,478 --> 00:42:51,338
later on June twenty fifth.
785
00:42:51,877 --> 00:42:55,297
The allies were taking
cherbourg the port town
786
00:42:55,298 --> 00:42:56,460
that they need to do
and she was right off.
787
00:42:56,484 --> 00:42:58,748
Of the sure they're
providing go far sport and
788
00:42:58,868 --> 00:43:02,408
basically occupied those big two
hundred and forty millimeter German guns
789
00:43:02,648 --> 00:43:03,688
so they were at a dual she
790
00:43:03,818 --> 00:43:05,468
bracketed over sixty times
791
00:43:05,798 --> 00:43:06,798
and hit twice
792
00:43:06,907 --> 00:43:08,547
one of those shells
came in right above us
793
00:43:08,798 --> 00:43:11,108
in exploded it took
out the bridge above us
794
00:43:11,348 --> 00:43:12,968
injured a couple of
gentlemen in here.
795
00:43:13,478 --> 00:43:13,778
But
796
00:43:13,899 --> 00:43:16,019
you can see this armors
up to twelve inches thick hair
797
00:43:16,238 --> 00:43:19,248
and so she could take
her out she still able to.
798
00:43:19,478 --> 00:43:20,658
Be effective.
799
00:43:20,858 --> 00:43:23,888
Still greatly feared and so
she was basically decoys and
800
00:43:24,094 --> 00:43:26,078
and provide that
support in a distraction
801
00:43:26,348 --> 00:43:29,538
while the army was moving
in and taken over the point.
802
00:43:30,129 --> 00:43:32,508
With the north coast
of France secure.
803
00:43:32,558 --> 00:43:36,727
Texas was sent to the pacific where she
supported the American troops in the bitter
804
00:43:36,728 --> 00:43:41,898
fighting on the your jima and okinawa
in the dying days of world war two.
805
00:43:42,368 --> 00:43:44,018
And.
806
00:43:44,558 --> 00:43:47,778
Even then Texas'
war was and over.
807
00:43:47,836 --> 00:43:49,538
The los Angeles.
808
00:43:50,048 --> 00:43:51,048
Through the way to.
809
00:43:51,639 --> 00:43:52,238
But their own.
810
00:43:52,561 --> 00:43:54,277
The battleships Texas Nevada.
811
00:43:54,608 --> 00:43:56,318
Boat veterans of two wars
812
00:43:56,588 --> 00:43:58,338
and five invade.
813
00:43:58,808 --> 00:44:02,437
Perhaps the highest
native her career she did
814
00:44:02,438 --> 00:44:03,733
what the u s referred
to as magic carpet rides.
815
00:44:03,757 --> 00:44:05,408
She brought home
over forty two hundred
816
00:44:05,648 --> 00:44:07,478
soldiers sailors marines.
817
00:44:07,778 --> 00:44:10,518
So she went out in a high style.
818
00:44:10,598 --> 00:44:12,248
Or the loved ones who had waited
819
00:44:12,488 --> 00:44:14,808
nothing can compare with.
820
00:44:18,098 --> 00:44:20,538
UK s as Texas had survived.
821
00:44:21,758 --> 00:44:25,818
Great battle fleets of dreadnoughts
would never be seen again.
822
00:44:27,157 --> 00:44:29,958
Next time the aircraft carrier.
823
00:44:30,610 --> 00:44:36,258
That audacious hybrid of flying and sailing
that changed want to see was waged.
824
00:44:36,366 --> 00:44:40,988
These giants have become the
most fearsome conventional weapons
825
00:44:41,138 --> 00:44:42,408
ever built.
826
00:44:42,643 --> 00:44:43,988
The truest measure.
827
00:44:44,558 --> 00:44:46,818
Of a nation's naval strike.
828
00:44:51,758 --> 00:44:53,138
Scaling down the drama
829
00:44:53,255 --> 00:44:57,287
a great model railway challenge with
miniature minutes to pcs then you see
830
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,748
starts the frame it eight.
831
00:44:59,318 --> 00:44:59,467
That
832
00:44:59,612 --> 00:45:02,112
see next Nixon late
where it's action stations of
833
00:45:02,266 --> 00:45:03,458
the hm mr Duncan
834
00:45:03,728 --> 00:45:06,758
as they come face-to-face
with Russian forces in worship.
835
00:45:07,178 --> 00:45:08,457
Under attack.
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