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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,030 --> 00:00:07,080 Warships of the ultimate symbol of a nation's military might. 2 00:00:07,562 --> 00:00:09,790 These things are monstrous. 3 00:00:10,170 --> 00:00:11,773 One does of technology. 4 00:00:12,330 --> 00:00:17,850 Enormous vessels crewed by thousands bristling 5 00:00:17,851 --> 00:00:18,510 with massive guns and powerful aircraft. 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,160 They can deliver tariff buying destruction turn the tide of history. 7 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:25,980 With sheffield built to win the war. 8 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:28,060 There was no other reason. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,500 From the beginning of the twentieth century 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:32,970 to the present day. 11 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:36,220 These stories of classic warships. 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,340 From dreadnoughts to baseball. 13 00:00:40,350 --> 00:00:43,661 Japan's months to see warrior yammer to. 14 00:00:44,010 --> 00:00:46,390 The American super ships Wisconsin 15 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:48,520 Lexington and enterprise 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,990 to today's cutting edge royal Navy carry is. 17 00:00:52,532 --> 00:00:55,750 These are the world's greatest warships. 18 00:01:08,130 --> 00:01:10,020 Halfway through world war one. 19 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:15,280 Over two hundred warships clashed in the air is defining naval battle. 20 00:01:17,069 --> 00:01:17,610 Battle 21 00:01:17,910 --> 00:01:19,124 of chocolate. 22 00:01:21,483 --> 00:01:25,900 Over twenty five ships and thousands of men was sent to the bottom. 23 00:01:30,448 --> 00:01:31,500 Loss was a shock 24 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:33,792 but there was also success. 25 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,370 On both sides a new type of ship 26 00:01:38,533 --> 00:01:42,520 dished out massive damage and taken many huge hits. 27 00:01:42,630 --> 00:01:43,800 Yet remained a float. 28 00:01:44,190 --> 00:01:46,349 Able to return to base for repair 29 00:01:46,567 --> 00:01:53,770 these were the war machines that spot the arms race that changed the world. 30 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:59,831 It was a menacing dangerous looking ship. 31 00:01:59,970 --> 00:02:01,720 And everybody wanted. 32 00:02:02,509 --> 00:02:03,000 These 33 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:04,598 with the dreadnoughts. 34 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:07,961 But they only came about because of a book. 35 00:02:11,722 --> 00:02:17,010 In eighteen ninety an American naval officer called Alfred thayer mohan published a 36 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,020 detailed study of British naval strategy. 37 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,180 My hands book on the influence of seat. 38 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,600 On history was a painstaking analysis. 39 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:30,405 In effect. 40 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:31,540 Of britain. 41 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:33,090 Came to be so big. 42 00:02:33,510 --> 00:02:34,691 In the. 43 00:02:38,334 --> 00:02:41,980 Andrew Gordon is a naval history in. 44 00:02:42,809 --> 00:02:45,138 Hands book explain something nobody. 45 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:47,413 Worried the heads about. 46 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,704 How could it happen this. 47 00:02:50,371 --> 00:02:53,320 Rainy country in the northwest of you. 48 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,750 Had this huge global presence. 49 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,300 In the answer of course. 50 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,202 Will see power. 51 00:03:00,270 --> 00:03:04,661 It had been ninety years since Nelson's decisive victory at trafalgar. 52 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,710 And britain was the most powerful nation 53 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:09,220 in the world. 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,980 It's ceilings policed by a royal Navy that dwarfed its rivals. 55 00:03:15,570 --> 00:03:19,150 Rivals who'd had enough of playing second fiddle. 56 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,889 Britain was looked at by other nations with a mixture of 57 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,690 and the and admiration. 58 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,780 Especially on the German side. 59 00:03:33,210 --> 00:03:37,300 Jan vet teaches early twentieth century German history. 60 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:38,037 And. 61 00:03:38,550 --> 00:03:42,852 Germany was fully industrialized and was a blooming economy. 62 00:03:43,470 --> 00:03:45,654 Nevertheless at that point of time in. 63 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:50,050 Military and strategic trump's it was still a continental power. 64 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:55,709 Germany's ambitious emperor kaiser Wilhelm 65 00:03:55,710 --> 00:03:57,470 the second was a big fan of Manhattan's bulk. 66 00:03:57,985 --> 00:04:00,390 The main argument of Mohamed was 67 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:01,680 if you want to be. 68 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:04,710 A world power you'll need a strong maybe. 69 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:07,440 So this was the ideology 70 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,530 the kaiser embrace to make Germany by this 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,160 a world power. 72 00:04:14,284 --> 00:04:19,410 Germany quickly started to build a powerful new fleet to rival the royal Navy that 73 00:04:19,418 --> 00:04:22,000 was becoming increasingly bloated. 74 00:04:25,710 --> 00:04:30,660 On a paper the fleet is unquestionably the mightiest Navy in the world 75 00:04:30,870 --> 00:04:35,789 but if you look closely there were a vast number 76 00:04:35,790 --> 00:04:37,386 of ships that were no longer fit for purpose. 77 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:41,740 Andrew chung there's one of the curators at the royal museums in greenwich. 78 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:46,589 The problem was that in any kind of shooting war 79 00:04:46,590 --> 00:04:48,156 while they were perfectly good for imperial policing. 80 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:50,130 They would struggle to survive 81 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,400 against the 82 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,451 more modern ships that were being deployed by smaller Navy's. 83 00:04:55,950 --> 00:05:00,839 The German build up focus British minds on the need to modernize and in ninety know 84 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:05,153 for the royal Navy appointed a radical new lead on. 85 00:05:05,337 --> 00:05:08,760 The very colorful admiral Jackie Fisher becomes 86 00:05:08,970 --> 00:05:10,350 the first sea lord 87 00:05:10,470 --> 00:05:13,500 and effectively the royal Navy is his 88 00:05:13,710 --> 00:05:18,540 within certain limits he can stamp his style on it do what he wants with it 89 00:05:18,810 --> 00:05:23,420 and he already has in his mind this concept of the super battleship of the future 90 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,060 this ship embodies to very important elements 91 00:05:27,330 --> 00:05:29,790 one is very very high speed 92 00:05:29,970 --> 00:05:35,009 Fisher was all about having technical superiority 93 00:05:35,010 --> 00:05:36,216 by being able to run rings around the opposition. 94 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,540 The other is superior firepower vastly superior firepower. 95 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,510 Fishes problem was that is concept was based on theories rather than experience. 96 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:52,660 He needed facts to back up his ideas. 97 00:05:52,831 --> 00:05:54,540 What Jack efficient needed. 98 00:05:55,110 --> 00:05:56,501 Was a was. 99 00:06:03,330 --> 00:06:07,860 Since ninety no three Japan and Russia had been at war on land and sea over who 100 00:06:07,861 --> 00:06:11,080 controlled large parts of southeast Asia. 101 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,419 Defining moment came in nineteen o five with 102 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:20,060 a naval battle in the straits of to shima. 103 00:06:22,134 --> 00:06:25,799 Interesting thing about tsushima is it's the 104 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,480 first battle to come for an awfully long time. 105 00:06:27,504 --> 00:06:31,500 Q it his head of exhibitions of the national museum of the royal Navy. 106 00:06:31,830 --> 00:06:33,590 You have to go back nearly one hundred years. 107 00:06:33,930 --> 00:06:37,560 Really to find the last big fleet action to anybody 108 00:06:37,561 --> 00:06:39,426 texting you notice of you look at the napoleonic wars. 109 00:06:39,450 --> 00:06:43,349 Battles fought between the ships powered by sale 110 00:06:43,350 --> 00:06:44,856 power made of wood firing muzzle loading cannons. 111 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:51,690 As school with one hundred years and you've gone 112 00:06:51,697 --> 00:06:53,046 steal battleships rifle guns a revolving tourists. 113 00:06:53,070 --> 00:06:54,450 Powered by steam engines 114 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:58,829 and nobody has tried this technology out 115 00:06:58,830 --> 00:07:00,590 it's never really been used in action before. 116 00:07:02,214 --> 00:07:06,839 This was a very very mismatch of conflict a 117 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:07,380 rush Russia was an established European power 118 00:07:07,650 --> 00:07:12,120 and although Japan had modernized to an incredible degree in the last few decades 119 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:14,310 no one really thought that 120 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:18,820 an Asian upstart would be able to challenge this European giant. 121 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,210 The experts were wrong. 122 00:07:22,650 --> 00:07:26,170 Japan's Navy had fast modern ships. 123 00:07:26,837 --> 00:07:29,710 Equipped with powerful twelve inch guns. 124 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:32,740 And royal Navy trained crews. 125 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:36,280 Russia's was dated and ill prepared. 126 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:42,760 And during the battle the Japanese ships out maneuvered the Russians. 127 00:07:43,951 --> 00:07:47,680 Guns were more accurate and effective at a greater range. 128 00:07:50,010 --> 00:07:51,010 Results. 129 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:52,399 Were devastated. 130 00:07:53,570 --> 00:07:55,890 I 131 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,020 Was a total wind patterns the Russian fleet. 132 00:08:01,530 --> 00:08:02,353 Forty nine 133 00:08:02,470 --> 00:08:05,740 to fifty two Russian ships were sunk or captured. 134 00:08:06,030 --> 00:08:09,490 This decisive victory one Japan the wall. 135 00:08:10,830 --> 00:08:12,690 Tsushima is an earthquake 136 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,150 it's an absolute culture shock 137 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:16,860 to the great powers. 138 00:08:17,310 --> 00:08:18,930 The upstart has one 139 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,250 and the upstart has one because they possess the superior battle fleet. 140 00:08:23,581 --> 00:08:26,220 The message was modernize. 141 00:08:27,030 --> 00:08:28,030 Modernize 142 00:08:28,290 --> 00:08:29,530 or die. 143 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,510 As the twentieth century begun 144 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:44,020 britain status as the world's greatest see power was under threat. 145 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:48,850 Navy's fleet was becoming dated. 146 00:08:49,022 --> 00:08:53,140 Germany was building up an ever more ominous collection of warships. 147 00:08:55,050 --> 00:09:00,119 But new naval supremo Jackie Fisher believed he had an 148 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,401 idea that would keep britain's command of the seas intact. 149 00:09:03,514 --> 00:09:08,429 Now Japan's decisive victory at the battle to shima had delivered proof that is 150 00:09:08,430 --> 00:09:12,820 concept for a world beating warship was on the right track. 151 00:09:13,860 --> 00:09:16,690 He wanted a ship with big punch. 152 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,490 It was fast. 153 00:09:18,721 --> 00:09:18,890 And 154 00:09:19,170 --> 00:09:20,800 keep out of the range. 155 00:09:21,210 --> 00:09:22,781 Of enemy gun. 156 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,270 In that she was called. 157 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,040 Treadmill. 158 00:09:30,660 --> 00:09:35,841 Jackie Fisher plan to create the world's first old big gone battleship. 159 00:09:36,570 --> 00:09:40,470 An unprecedented ten twelve inch guns and five tourists 160 00:09:40,650 --> 00:09:42,840 would deliver accurate and deadly fire 161 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:44,980 over a huge range. 162 00:09:45,302 --> 00:09:48,750 The latest air engines would give smoother more reliable power 163 00:09:48,990 --> 00:09:52,990 allowing her to outpace her rivals and to dictate the battle. 164 00:09:54,180 --> 00:09:57,900 Belt of face hard and Dharma would protect of main control rooms 165 00:09:58,050 --> 00:09:59,982 turrets and magazine. 166 00:10:01,332 --> 00:10:04,966 Completing the formidable package that would make hms dreadnought 167 00:10:05,206 --> 00:10:07,066 the most powerful warship 168 00:10:07,366 --> 00:10:08,666 ever built. 169 00:10:11,205 --> 00:10:12,496 As if that wasn't enough 170 00:10:12,736 --> 00:10:14,926 fish wanted the launch of his new ship 171 00:10:15,136 --> 00:10:17,606 to take his rivals by surprise. 172 00:10:18,497 --> 00:10:23,505 Fisher had set a targets of wanting to ship 173 00:10:23,506 --> 00:10:23,776 completed within a year which was unheard of 174 00:10:23,986 --> 00:10:28,125 battleships when normally completed within two to three years from the laying of the 175 00:10:28,126 --> 00:10:30,736 keel so this was a supreme effort 176 00:10:30,916 --> 00:10:33,736 and he wanted this to be done quietly because he wanted 177 00:10:33,975 --> 00:10:38,006 the ship to have all the more impact when it was finally launched. 178 00:10:38,866 --> 00:10:41,405 Said dreadnought is built on less than a year. 179 00:10:41,836 --> 00:10:44,716 She's in power bill in less than a because. 180 00:10:45,233 --> 00:10:46,233 Fisher takes them. 181 00:10:46,427 --> 00:10:50,831 Clever tricks he prefabricated steel and has a piled upon the dockside side he'll 182 00:10:50,870 --> 00:10:53,606 just as many parts in advance as you can. 183 00:10:53,656 --> 00:10:57,296 And only that impresses the the go button on building the shave. 184 00:10:57,638 --> 00:11:01,965 One of the great problems when you're building a ship in this period is that the guns 185 00:11:01,966 --> 00:11:06,296 and the turrets take almost longer to manufacturer than the ship itself. 186 00:11:06,676 --> 00:11:07,906 Luckily for Fisher 187 00:11:08,326 --> 00:11:13,035 to large battleships were being constructed for the royal Navy at the same time as 188 00:11:13,036 --> 00:11:17,086 dreadnought and that turrets and the gun calibers were exactly what he wanted so. 189 00:11:17,446 --> 00:11:21,735 These for turret the with reallocated to dreadnought 190 00:11:21,736 --> 00:11:23,776 which meant that she could be completed on schedule. 191 00:11:28,214 --> 00:11:32,892 Unveiling of fishes vision for a new era of 192 00:11:32,927 --> 00:11:34,312 British naval supremacy arrived in nineteen o six 193 00:11:34,336 --> 00:11:37,299 when can get with the seventh launched hms dreadnought 194 00:11:37,486 --> 00:11:39,716 Portsmouth naval dockyard. 195 00:11:40,426 --> 00:11:41,426 Predictably 196 00:11:41,536 --> 00:11:46,016 it was an old big gun layouts that impressed witnesses the most. 197 00:11:47,356 --> 00:11:51,795 Shit apparently invincible and capable of one discharged 198 00:11:51,796 --> 00:11:53,332 from the guns of throwing with unparalleled pools. 199 00:11:53,356 --> 00:11:56,416 Twice as much met close any foreign matter war now a float 200 00:11:56,596 --> 00:11:58,859 I'm three times as much as most. 201 00:11:59,296 --> 00:12:05,426 And 202 00:12:05,716 --> 00:12:09,866 neither dreadnought nor any other battleship of her day still exist. 203 00:12:10,636 --> 00:12:12,146 Except wall. 204 00:12:13,636 --> 00:12:15,956 Commission and nineteen forty. 205 00:12:16,006 --> 00:12:18,466 UK s as Texas stands alone as a. 206 00:12:19,006 --> 00:12:22,680 Testament to first world war battleship technology. 207 00:12:25,676 --> 00:12:28,366 Her old big gun layout still fully intact. 208 00:12:28,696 --> 00:12:31,276 She is able to conjure a sense of what operating 209 00:12:31,396 --> 00:12:33,806 of fear some artillery was like. 210 00:12:34,006 --> 00:12:36,176 Andy Smith is the ships manager. 211 00:12:38,296 --> 00:12:41,896 So we're down in the belly the ship about six stories down from the top of the turret 212 00:12:41,926 --> 00:12:44,176 this all mechanism is attached to that turret 213 00:12:44,386 --> 00:12:46,876 and would move with the tour were in the magazine so this is 214 00:12:47,086 --> 00:12:48,226 where the shells or store. 215 00:12:48,556 --> 00:12:50,986 So ultimately the shells are stored in here 216 00:12:51,106 --> 00:12:53,896 they're attached this monorail system brought through here. 217 00:12:54,376 --> 00:12:56,876 They hooked up to this voice in an attached. 218 00:12:56,958 --> 00:12:58,272 Then when it's ready to go up. 219 00:12:58,786 --> 00:12:59,896 Bowl ring this bell. 220 00:13:00,436 --> 00:13:03,688 And in their cranked up all the way to that toured eventually. 221 00:13:05,536 --> 00:13:07,003 So we're inside turret number one. 222 00:13:07,366 --> 00:13:10,905 These are the rifles this is the whole reason why 223 00:13:10,906 --> 00:13:12,352 the battleships club to have these rifles available. 224 00:13:12,376 --> 00:13:15,196 So ultimately you'd have a brown about fifteen hundred pounds 225 00:13:15,436 --> 00:13:17,446 coming all the way from the very bottom of the ship 226 00:13:17,656 --> 00:13:19,226 comes up this elevator. 227 00:13:19,516 --> 00:13:22,156 Right there rolls over then he gets rammed in here 228 00:13:22,426 --> 00:13:24,376 and then you got four more bags for bags of 229 00:13:24,496 --> 00:13:25,496 powder that come up 230 00:13:25,756 --> 00:13:27,560 get put in behind that rammed in. 231 00:13:28,095 --> 00:13:30,916 The strapped themselves and they go ahead with just talking to. 232 00:13:31,426 --> 00:13:32,996 Guns rented fire. 233 00:13:36,346 --> 00:13:38,986 They're strapped up gift wall here out of the way of this freak 234 00:13:39,196 --> 00:13:40,196 wait. 235 00:13:40,576 --> 00:13:44,266 And they pulled the trigger. 236 00:13:44,896 --> 00:13:46,276 This shell 237 00:13:46,516 --> 00:13:49,556 traveling up to twelve miles and then when it hits. 238 00:13:50,056 --> 00:13:52,676 Creating a hole the size of a basketball court. 239 00:13:54,286 --> 00:13:59,116 Of course the awesome power of all those fourteen inch shells was only an advantage 240 00:13:59,356 --> 00:14:01,348 if they hit their targets. 241 00:14:02,056 --> 00:14:04,496 Again Fisher a thought this through. 242 00:14:04,882 --> 00:14:08,566 The idea to use a single caliber main armament solved a problem the 243 00:14:08,677 --> 00:14:12,626 long prevented guns from being used accurately long range. 244 00:14:13,786 --> 00:14:14,786 Before dreadnought. 245 00:14:15,136 --> 00:14:18,676 Ships generally find an array of different calibers at the same target 246 00:14:18,946 --> 00:14:22,826 which meant gunnery offices often struggled to Gauge ranges. 247 00:14:24,106 --> 00:14:25,763 You can't correct. 248 00:14:25,966 --> 00:14:28,546 If you have three different calibers of guns 249 00:14:28,786 --> 00:14:30,746 banging away independently. 250 00:14:31,066 --> 00:14:34,445 Because nobody knows who shall splashes foods. 251 00:14:34,846 --> 00:14:38,276 And that's what was keeping ranges in close. 252 00:14:38,416 --> 00:14:41,596 To increase the effective range of its massive guns. 253 00:14:42,046 --> 00:14:47,186 Hms dreadnought was the first ship with a purpose built fire control platform. 254 00:14:47,446 --> 00:14:52,215 This area is the lookout and more importantly the fire control position so the 255 00:14:52,216 --> 00:14:54,376 gunnery officer would be based up here 256 00:14:54,616 --> 00:14:59,415 directing the fire of the entire main armament of the shit this was a very very new 257 00:14:59,416 --> 00:15:03,645 system for the royal Navy they were still evolving 258 00:15:03,646 --> 00:15:05,566 this when dreadnought was built and commissioned. 259 00:15:09,976 --> 00:15:12,714 Organizing the guns to file. 260 00:15:13,091 --> 00:15:14,091 One month. 261 00:15:14,356 --> 00:15:16,526 Gunnery officer in the spotting. 262 00:15:16,876 --> 00:15:18,676 Who is observing the full. 263 00:15:19,126 --> 00:15:20,276 Of shot. 264 00:15:20,416 --> 00:15:23,966 And is pressing the button to find silva is. 265 00:15:24,706 --> 00:15:26,356 An SUV get a group 266 00:15:26,656 --> 00:15:29,067 of shells landing together. 267 00:15:29,386 --> 00:15:31,096 And you can tell if you'll the 268 00:15:31,276 --> 00:15:33,600 gunnery officer in the for top. 269 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:35,536 If the shells and landing short. 270 00:15:36,016 --> 00:15:37,016 Or over 271 00:15:37,156 --> 00:15:38,636 and you can correct. 272 00:15:42,470 --> 00:15:44,276 Ram home their advantage. 273 00:15:44,446 --> 00:15:49,125 These powerful and now accurate guns needed 274 00:15:49,126 --> 00:15:49,666 to be brought to bear on their targets quickly 275 00:15:50,056 --> 00:15:51,926 and from the best angles. 276 00:15:52,248 --> 00:15:54,616 This meant dreadnought needed to be faster than 277 00:15:54,736 --> 00:15:56,426 all of her rivals. 278 00:15:56,867 --> 00:16:02,086 Until now all large warships had used huge triple expansion steam engines 279 00:16:02,356 --> 00:16:05,246 with massive pistons driving crankshafts. 280 00:16:05,836 --> 00:16:09,117 But pushing these hard cause damage in vibrations. 281 00:16:10,535 --> 00:16:13,152 Once again Jackie Fisher opted for the cutting edge 282 00:16:13,273 --> 00:16:14,273 technology. 283 00:16:14,416 --> 00:16:16,796 Steam turbine engines. 284 00:16:16,996 --> 00:16:22,336 Putting turbines into a large untested battleship was a very very brave move. 285 00:16:22,816 --> 00:16:27,076 The technology had been proven but not as not in a ship of this scale. 286 00:16:27,466 --> 00:16:29,636 Turbines are quieter. 287 00:16:29,866 --> 00:16:31,606 That faster than more efficient. 288 00:16:32,026 --> 00:16:34,556 They are less prone to breakdowns 289 00:16:34,696 --> 00:16:39,076 dreadnought could be run at her maximum speed of almost twenty knots for 290 00:16:39,376 --> 00:16:40,396 stained periods 291 00:16:40,726 --> 00:16:45,285 and what this meant in practice was that she 292 00:16:45,286 --> 00:16:47,086 could outrun any pre dreadnought in existence. 293 00:16:47,986 --> 00:16:52,286 To tied together the advantages of high speed and devastating firepower. 294 00:16:52,456 --> 00:16:57,255 Hms dreadnought was also equipped with the very 295 00:16:57,256 --> 00:16:58,492 latest technology and that electrical power systems. 296 00:16:58,516 --> 00:17:02,066 Similar to one still on us as Texas today. 297 00:17:04,696 --> 00:17:07,186 So this is your power distribution for the whole ship 298 00:17:07,336 --> 00:17:10,666 this is as much a cutting edge technology has those big girls 299 00:17:10,876 --> 00:17:12,706 is that big armor we have 300 00:17:12,916 --> 00:17:14,806 as those turbine engines that are 301 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,606 are are pushing these dreadnoughts. 302 00:17:16,966 --> 00:17:18,076 This is the cutting edge. 303 00:17:18,406 --> 00:17:21,555 She think about the average sailor that came aboard he probably didn't have 304 00:17:21,556 --> 00:17:24,586 electricity and is home and now he's coming aboard and everything's lit 305 00:17:24,706 --> 00:17:27,256 with fans and blowers mean people would 306 00:17:27,376 --> 00:17:29,236 die in the ships they get so hot. 307 00:17:29,628 --> 00:17:31,366 You need air movement you need light 308 00:17:31,576 --> 00:17:34,696 all those little things that make it all work those hoist 309 00:17:35,026 --> 00:17:36,646 to get the the shells up to the 310 00:17:36,946 --> 00:17:37,696 top of the turret 311 00:17:37,936 --> 00:17:40,939 they're running off electricity where's that 312 00:17:40,940 --> 00:17:41,446 electricity coming from it's coming from and here 313 00:17:41,926 --> 00:17:44,206 and so to all of these switches are basically 314 00:17:44,386 --> 00:17:47,686 turning off and on power to various parts 315 00:17:47,687 --> 00:17:48,136 of the ship and redirecting it where needed. 316 00:17:48,466 --> 00:17:49,126 You imagine if a 317 00:17:49,246 --> 00:17:51,886 part of the ship is underwater is being flooded because it was hit. 318 00:17:52,426 --> 00:17:55,365 You don't want electricity running through that so they 319 00:17:55,366 --> 00:17:56,452 would shut the power down to that part of the the ship 320 00:17:56,476 --> 00:17:57,976 redirect it somewhere else 321 00:17:58,096 --> 00:18:02,085 so you're dealing with high high voltage 322 00:18:02,086 --> 00:18:02,326 there's a lot of power coursing through here. 323 00:18:02,836 --> 00:18:03,856 It wouldn't. 324 00:18:04,186 --> 00:18:05,626 It wouldn't come as a surprise if 325 00:18:05,746 --> 00:18:08,206 when you did this there'll be a little pushback 326 00:18:08,357 --> 00:18:11,397 these guys down here will probably some of the bravest guys on board the ship 327 00:18:11,536 --> 00:18:12,619 this was not a. 328 00:18:13,276 --> 00:18:15,716 This is not for the faint of heart for sure. 329 00:18:17,806 --> 00:18:22,226 Really big shock had been caused by hms dreadnought herself. 330 00:18:23,086 --> 00:18:27,405 No ship had ever combined size speed power and Alma 331 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:29,874 such a fearsome machine. 332 00:18:29,986 --> 00:18:32,296 Dread not something that fears nothing 333 00:18:32,596 --> 00:18:35,236 it can project power it can secure sea lanes 334 00:18:35,416 --> 00:18:37,426 it can defend a coast 335 00:18:37,606 --> 00:18:41,066 it can attack and coast it can dominate the seas. 336 00:18:41,597 --> 00:18:43,487 Hm is dreadnought is a real gains change. 337 00:18:44,026 --> 00:18:46,606 The old vessels the old pre-draft not 338 00:18:46,756 --> 00:18:49,166 as they're called now battleships. 339 00:18:49,846 --> 00:18:51,506 Are simply outclassed. 340 00:18:53,086 --> 00:18:56,502 The creation of page miss dreadnought was a great triumph 341 00:18:56,716 --> 00:19:02,636 Fisher but he also had created an enormous problem for himself and for the royal Navy. 342 00:19:03,467 --> 00:19:05,686 It made everyone has a battleship and world 343 00:19:05,806 --> 00:19:06,806 obsolete. 344 00:19:06,946 --> 00:19:09,478 Including all of britain's. 345 00:19:09,646 --> 00:19:11,836 Fisheries essentially pressing the reset button 346 00:19:12,016 --> 00:19:14,156 on the global arms race. 347 00:19:14,531 --> 00:19:18,809 The German admiralty simply saw itself forced. 348 00:19:19,036 --> 00:19:22,496 To build vessels like agent has dragged on. 349 00:19:22,696 --> 00:19:27,497 It was the arms race like we saw post-world war two between 350 00:19:27,531 --> 00:19:29,152 the Soviet union the u s in the fifties it was nukes 351 00:19:29,176 --> 00:19:31,916 in the teens it was dreadnoughts. 352 00:19:32,894 --> 00:19:38,106 The u s France and Japan all set about making diversions of hms dreadnought. 353 00:19:39,826 --> 00:19:43,466 But it was Germany's response the worried the royal Navy. 354 00:19:45,251 --> 00:19:48,166 Took the Germans a couple of years but they succeeded in quickly 355 00:19:48,436 --> 00:19:51,536 designing and launching their own dreadnoughts. 356 00:19:52,156 --> 00:19:56,296 Author Mark steel specializes in the battleships of the twentieth century 357 00:19:56,566 --> 00:19:59,866 the German ships were a bit different than the British designs 358 00:20:00,166 --> 00:20:02,350 because they emphasize protection. 359 00:20:02,386 --> 00:20:04,137 At the expense of firepower. 360 00:20:04,396 --> 00:20:08,606 So they were not as heavily armed as much British ships were of the day. 361 00:20:09,437 --> 00:20:10,994 By nineteen eleven 362 00:20:11,174 --> 00:20:15,234 the Germans of producing designs that match britain in quality 363 00:20:15,344 --> 00:20:19,689 and in the years after that if anything some 364 00:20:19,699 --> 00:20:21,379 of that designs of beginning to pull ahead. 365 00:20:23,744 --> 00:20:25,464 By nineteen forty. 366 00:20:25,574 --> 00:20:29,334 Germany a truly come of age as a warship builder. 367 00:20:29,504 --> 00:20:32,725 Perhaps the best example was the current class battleship. 368 00:20:34,184 --> 00:20:35,264 For were built. 369 00:20:35,774 --> 00:20:38,664 Including sms koenig herself. 370 00:20:40,694 --> 00:20:42,134 So we looking here 371 00:20:42,344 --> 00:20:45,404 at a magnificent plum of the cooney class 372 00:20:45,644 --> 00:20:49,154 it's very well designed in regard of. 373 00:20:49,574 --> 00:20:50,574 Protection. 374 00:20:50,804 --> 00:20:53,274 So you see here a heavy. 375 00:20:53,504 --> 00:20:54,504 Deck amo 376 00:20:54,764 --> 00:20:57,944 you see here a massive side Alma. 377 00:20:58,334 --> 00:20:59,534 You see here 378 00:20:59,773 --> 00:21:04,044 the double bottom in case of a minute there is a great chance. 379 00:21:04,214 --> 00:21:06,824 That the vessel will only be lightly damaged 380 00:21:07,094 --> 00:21:10,724 and you see a huge number of bulk hats. 381 00:21:11,234 --> 00:21:15,734 Which invites the vessel in watertight compartments 382 00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:19,394 you see also the the number of guns listed 383 00:21:19,724 --> 00:21:26,174 to ten a three point five or twelve inch main guns in five turrets 384 00:21:26,294 --> 00:21:28,694 fourteen fifteen centimeter guns 385 00:21:28,814 --> 00:21:32,144 also ten ain't point eight centimeters guns 386 00:21:32,384 --> 00:21:33,914 full fighting of torpedo boats 387 00:21:34,124 --> 00:21:36,614 there were quick firing or quick loading guns of course 388 00:21:36,884 --> 00:21:40,964 five torpedo tubes on the water was on in the bow 389 00:21:41,324 --> 00:21:42,324 and for 390 00:21:42,434 --> 00:21:46,824 on the broadsides so yeah she was really. 391 00:21:47,024 --> 00:21:49,881 A vessel to re reckoned with in battle. 392 00:21:50,414 --> 00:21:51,794 Germany's Navy grew. 393 00:21:52,184 --> 00:21:54,684 The likelihood of was named ever-larger. 394 00:21:54,734 --> 00:21:58,124 Formidable new ships such as koenig were intended to present 395 00:21:58,413 --> 00:22:01,314 an acceptable risk to britain's interests. 396 00:22:02,174 --> 00:22:04,974 The only dad wants to be powerful enough. 397 00:22:05,294 --> 00:22:07,404 To cause the royal Navy. 398 00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:09,584 Sufficient casualties 399 00:22:09,764 --> 00:22:12,014 that even if the German fleet last 400 00:22:12,224 --> 00:22:13,601 British positions. 401 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:15,204 Would be vulnerable. 402 00:22:15,464 --> 00:22:16,934 To other pounds 403 00:22:17,207 --> 00:22:18,431 therefore the royal Navy 404 00:22:18,644 --> 00:22:20,574 would not want to challenge. 405 00:22:20,955 --> 00:22:23,454 The German fleet for them reason. 406 00:22:23,564 --> 00:22:27,264 It would stop written declaring war on Germany. 407 00:22:27,524 --> 00:22:28,763 But didn't. 408 00:22:41,924 --> 00:22:47,082 Nineteen o six hms dreadnought at five the starting 409 00:22:47,088 --> 00:22:49,104 pistol on the old big gun battleship hobbs race. 410 00:22:51,943 --> 00:22:56,953 Britain France the united states Russia Japan and Germany that all battle fiercely to 411 00:22:56,954 --> 00:23:00,534 build the biggest baddest gunship the world had ever see. 412 00:23:04,513 --> 00:23:09,404 Nineteen fourteen so fast was the pace of change that the original hms dreadnought 413 00:23:09,434 --> 00:23:12,114 was all already passed her sell by date. 414 00:23:14,529 --> 00:23:16,964 Always find it quite amusing that we we'd look at 415 00:23:17,264 --> 00:23:20,834 technological development now we get excited to visit a new smartphone comes out 416 00:23:21,104 --> 00:23:23,264 batch late in that eight year period 417 00:23:23,504 --> 00:23:25,094 these things changed beyond recognition 418 00:23:25,334 --> 00:23:27,344 to the point where each miss dreadnought 419 00:23:27,494 --> 00:23:29,654 is obsolete by the started the first world war 420 00:23:29,984 --> 00:23:36,204 and hms dreadnought may have been relegated to minor fleet duties. 421 00:23:36,434 --> 00:23:41,984 But so indelible was her legacy the all big battleships became known as dreadnoughts. 422 00:23:43,184 --> 00:23:45,374 With excellent dreadnoughts like the koenig 423 00:23:45,524 --> 00:23:49,693 Germany had caught up with britain and quality but the 424 00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:51,985 one thing they wouldn't never able to match was quantity. 425 00:23:53,144 --> 00:23:54,684 Britain has the advantage. 426 00:23:54,794 --> 00:23:58,123 If you compare for example with with Germany Germany is also trying to build the 427 00:23:58,124 --> 00:24:00,164 world's largest army at the same time 428 00:24:00,644 --> 00:24:03,164 and they simply cannot keep up. 429 00:24:03,632 --> 00:24:04,632 The British who are 430 00:24:04,754 --> 00:24:07,464 eighty one hundred percent focused on naval building. 431 00:24:08,146 --> 00:24:10,666 That building these things most of the rate of. 432 00:24:11,024 --> 00:24:14,084 Class of for every he gets loaded and laid down. 433 00:24:14,594 --> 00:24:17,724 And getting progressively bigger and bigger. 434 00:24:18,382 --> 00:24:22,884 In britain the Navy was the senior service. 435 00:24:23,234 --> 00:24:24,374 While in Germany 436 00:24:24,674 --> 00:24:26,114 although she had this 437 00:24:26,234 --> 00:24:29,294 ambition to become a whirlpool still was continental opponent 438 00:24:29,564 --> 00:24:31,424 so she needed a strong army 439 00:24:31,844 --> 00:24:33,404 and so the bulk 440 00:24:33,644 --> 00:24:36,354 of the money's spent for military. 441 00:24:36,554 --> 00:24:38,594 Was spent for the on me. 442 00:24:39,314 --> 00:24:44,384 And at this also kind of hindered of cause a massive built up 443 00:24:44,624 --> 00:24:46,044 off the fleet. 444 00:24:46,544 --> 00:24:49,644 In August nineteen forty. 445 00:24:49,810 --> 00:24:52,213 Powerful German army invaded Belgium 446 00:24:52,421 --> 00:24:53,421 the British ally. 447 00:24:53,714 --> 00:24:55,887 Triggering world war one. 448 00:24:56,384 --> 00:25:00,374 When war breaks out in the arms race is brought to 449 00:25:00,674 --> 00:25:01,514 a sudden halt 450 00:25:01,634 --> 00:25:04,964 the British have twenty two dreadnoughts in commission 451 00:25:05,234 --> 00:25:11,713 the German Navy is somewhat behind with thirteen and to add to this and the British 452 00:25:11,714 --> 00:25:15,314 have nine battle cruisers in commission to Germany's for 453 00:25:15,584 --> 00:25:20,173 so it looks like a substantial lead in the royal 454 00:25:20,174 --> 00:25:22,014 Navy's favor at the beginning of world war one. 455 00:25:22,066 --> 00:25:23,474 From day one of the war 456 00:25:23,654 --> 00:25:28,003 the sheer number of their ships met the royal Navy 457 00:25:28,004 --> 00:25:29,884 had the upper hand on Germany's high seas fleet. 458 00:25:31,818 --> 00:25:36,103 The speed of modern warships meant that the main 459 00:25:36,104 --> 00:25:37,430 grand fleet could lie secure and scapa flow. 460 00:25:37,454 --> 00:25:39,354 It's new base in Scotland. 461 00:25:40,304 --> 00:25:42,344 With smaller fleets based in recife 462 00:25:42,524 --> 00:25:44,694 courage and on the south coast. 463 00:25:45,944 --> 00:25:50,443 Britain I've had a very effective blockade on 464 00:25:50,444 --> 00:25:52,284 Germany's small section of the north sea coast. 465 00:25:52,334 --> 00:25:54,824 The proud new ships are the kaiser's fleet 466 00:25:55,094 --> 00:25:58,644 struggled to operate beyond their own local waters. 467 00:25:58,784 --> 00:26:02,863 It's probably fair to say that at the start of the first world war the German high 468 00:26:02,864 --> 00:26:05,484 seas fleet did not know what to do. 469 00:26:05,534 --> 00:26:09,643 They're planning had been based on an idea that the royal Navy would follow its 470 00:26:09,644 --> 00:26:13,843 traditional lacrosse aggressive approach and come stay impeding into the southern 471 00:26:13,844 --> 00:26:16,181 north sea to take on take them on 472 00:26:16,514 --> 00:26:19,844 and annihilate them in in in a sort of trafalgar to. 473 00:26:20,234 --> 00:26:25,134 Both sides of waiting for this apocalyptic confrontation between the two fleets. 474 00:26:25,634 --> 00:26:27,794 And much to everyone's frustration this 475 00:26:27,944 --> 00:26:31,284 doesn't happen the British didn't come. 476 00:26:31,364 --> 00:26:33,794 So there was thirty size of battle in the north sea. 477 00:26:34,214 --> 00:26:36,144 Asked the Germans had expected. 478 00:26:36,584 --> 00:26:39,924 Sill they had to build up from scratch. 479 00:26:40,094 --> 00:26:42,384 A new strategic approach. 480 00:26:43,214 --> 00:26:48,073 So to break the deadlock and the Germans formulate a plan whereby they will try and 481 00:26:48,074 --> 00:26:51,734 entice a portion of the grand fleet out to engage them 482 00:26:52,004 --> 00:26:57,103 and hopefully trap and sink this detached portion 483 00:26:57,104 --> 00:26:58,250 with the entirety of the high seas fleet strength 484 00:26:58,274 --> 00:27:01,334 once they have done this to the royal Navy enough times 485 00:27:01,574 --> 00:27:06,223 they'll but then be able to meet it an equal 486 00:27:06,224 --> 00:27:08,024 or superior terms and when a decisive victory. 487 00:27:10,634 --> 00:27:13,064 On may thirty first nineteen sixteen 488 00:27:13,334 --> 00:27:18,820 that exact problem was underway as bowl new German commander admiral sheer prepared 489 00:27:18,821 --> 00:27:22,464 to ambush a small fleet of royal Navy warships. 490 00:27:23,264 --> 00:27:27,385 This scouting fleet engaged a British battle cruiser squadron. 491 00:27:28,067 --> 00:27:30,494 What like dreadnought battleships. 492 00:27:30,854 --> 00:27:34,344 Battle cruisers were lightly armoured for greater speed. 493 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:40,644 Initially the German if it goes according to plan the to battle cruiser forces meet. 494 00:27:41,084 --> 00:27:44,905 And catastrophically to British better crisis blow up. 495 00:27:45,104 --> 00:27:46,678 In sync. 496 00:27:47,286 --> 00:27:49,168 I. 497 00:27:50,054 --> 00:27:52,906 This is mainly because of the way in which they're 498 00:27:52,934 --> 00:27:54,854 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. 67577

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