Channel Dash by Battleship Scharnhorst & Gneisenau 1942 Animated
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- The Channel Dash of 1942, also known as Operation Cerberus, was a daring and successful naval operation by the German Navy during World War II. The operation involved the evacuation of three powerful German warships, the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, from their base in Brest, France, to Germany.
The Channel Dash was a significant achievement for the Germans, as it allowed them to avoid being trapped in Brest by the British Royal Navy. The operation began on February 11, 1942, when the German ships slipped out of the harbor and made their way through the English Channel, with the support of Luftwaffe bombers and fighters.
In conclusion, the Channel Dash of 1942 was a significant event in the history of World War II. It demonstrated the effectiveness of German naval tactics and equipment, and had important psychological effects on both the German and British militaries. The operation also had significant strategic implications, as it allowed the Germans to reposition their naval assets and better defend against the British blockade.
Animation, Directed and Produced by: The Warline - Фільми й анімація
I was already very familiar with this operation so I actually came here to check the quality of the video and find out if it was worth subscribing. Let's just say I was so pleased with the quality, I watched it to the very end despite knowing the entire story already. Subscriber count: +1
Seconded.
Was there not somekind of duel between British and German coastal artillery?
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This channel has 600 subscribers? it should be in the millions range. What an incredibly well put together video.
Thank you
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Probably cose there are other, older and vastly popular (and in some aspect better) videos about those topics. About Channel Dash specificly there are great videos by Operation Room and BuzBattles. Btw, this one look suspiciously symilar to Buz's one.
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Yes, very high effort videos
Just been recommended by histograph channel , good video.
Same here! Found this channel that way too. Made sure to subscribe. Looking forward to future videos!
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The British submarine Sealy-un!?! It's Sea-Lion!
Ya, and Boulogne isn't Bologna either!
Tee-Pits...no it's pronounced Tur-puhts
Wow, boys - calm down.
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Here to add to these pronunciation critiques: quality video, presenting a very accessible explanation of this thrilling wartime episode. Good script and graphics.
Frisian was another one
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Your back! I’m so glad. I hope you do get more recognition.
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This is terrific. The channel dash was always one of my favorite world war maneuvers
I love this mission. It was so bold, mad and straight to the point. Plus succeeded.
Indeed. A successful strategic calamity for the Germans, effectively signalling the end of their surface fleet as a relevant factor in the war.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 It was ending anyway. Germany was running out of fuel therefore Naval fleet was always on the clock. Plus US comiting to carriers fully broke/changed Naval warfare and rendered all these fleets useless.
@@MALITH666 'Plus US comiting to carriers fully broke/changed Naval warfare and rendered all these fleets useless.' Really? Perhaps you might explain the importance of US carriers in the naval war against Germany?
@@dovetonsturdee7033 They didnt have to. Its a case of 'even if Germany managed to have a surface fleet'.
American partners, the British, succesfully did that with their fleet air arm. Which is the prelude for the this mission. 1940 aircrafts were far too great deterrent than the biggest battleship.
@@MALITH666 Which German warships, or come to that Italian warships, were either sunk, or even crippled, by Fleet Air Arm aircraft?
I love the video but I spotted that your map may be more recent because of the coastline of the Netherlands. Keep up the good work!
I love the history of battleships. Respect for all the captains regardless of nation or reasoning. Absolutely amazing marvels of war technology.
Wonderful graphics and narration. Please continue making videos! You will get the recognition you deserve soon.
Thank you
So happy I found this channel by accident, keep up the good work! Can’t wait to watch more of your videos!
This is the most underrated channel ever, good luck man, earned a sub :)
Found this channel by accident, but I’m glad I did. Great story telling and animation.
Came here from historiograph!
I was reading a biography of Nelson in shop where Commander Fanning came in. Happy to see some one interested in Naval History he offered his copies of Nelsons letters for me to read. I was told after he left that he had been awarded the D.S.C. Commander Fanning returned with a huge book and I asked about his medal. He said that he had been a navigator whilst chasing the Prince Eugene and Gneisenau and that the government had dished out some medals and his name was pulled out of hat to recieve a medal.
When you think of the responsibility of of these young men, I feel very humble.
No disrespect to him and there's no doubt he deserved it but he was telling the truth. I met a man who saw out the war as a mess waiter with a regiment in Italy. It was not a high flying job but in his position he saw and heard just about everything. He said after major battle they got a list of decorations to be awarded and in one case they passed the job to a Major who awarded himself the D S O.
@@freebeerfordworkers I understand. Yet he navigated a flotilla of ships and therefore had thousands of lives to look after.
One of those very young men who took on huge responsibility.
I respect them all.
Hi there,
just to be precise: The name of the ship was >Prinz Eugen< .
Historiograph brought me here. Excellent channel, you're looking at some serious growth in the near future. High quality video.
Wow, thank you!
Incredible content. waiting impatiently for more.(thanks historygraph)
Wow this channel deserves atleast 100k subs with content like this
Wow, thanks!
What a good coordination and plan by the kriegmarine and the Luftwaffe, their dedication is commendable!
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This was really good, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for drawing our attention to this excellent account of the Channel dash👍
Lovely narration and animation, and I honestly applaud your approach of butchering French, English and German city and ship names alike.
I actually think the pronunciation was quite good. Except maybe for the city of Wilhelmshaven, which sounded like "Wilhelmshown". I suppose this is an artificial computer generated voice. Maybe it's programmed or follows the name "Copenhagen" as a role model, which in Danish is written "København" and pronounced "Koebenhown".
The V in Wilhelmshaven (literally: Williamsport /Williamshaven) is pronounced as F.
Side note:
The V in German and Dutch words and names of Germanic origin is pronounced as F .
Examples: Vater (father), Vogel (bird), vier (four), vorbei (over, past), Volk (people, the people, folk), Hannover (Hanover), von Bismarck, van Beethoven, Amstelveen (Dutch town), Bremerhaven (coastal city, port of Bremen) ...
Whereas the V in German words of Latin/Romance origin is pronounced as V.
Like: Variation (variation), violett (violet), Vibration, Viktor/Viktoria (personal names), Vakanz (vacancy), Lavendel (lavender) etc.
What a great video. This chanell will blow up for sure
Your last 2 videos, phenomenal. You've found your mix.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much!
Came here by recommendation.good video,hats off
Amazing video, always so interesting to see the Ugly Sisters in action.
Great Video, best one I’ve seen on the channel dash
Thank you
Bro this channel is so underrated 8.5k views only? It should be more.
Wow! That WW2 must've been terrifying for all those involved. I'm just glad no one got hurt.
Nope, no casualties during the whole war!
wow this is some high-quality stuff!
Very good video loved the detail and style
Thanks so much!
Excellent, detailed exposition with good, simple and clear graphics. Information is mainly accurate as well. My only criticism is that some of the translations are a little too direct and need to be corrected into English idiom. Good to hear a non-transAtlantic accent and a clear voice. I look forward to the next one.
Info should not be mainly accurate. Either it is or not. In second case one should not spread it having a YT channel.
Well done and informative, thank-you.
great graphics, and well told 😊
Very well animated
Nicely done Warline! Altough to be frank your map about the Dutch coastline is not just "more recent" as somebody has already pointed out but also incorrect regardless of the time it is set. Because the dijk which separates the Ijjselmeer from the North see was already built by the beginning of the war but the Markerwaarddijk which separates the Ijjselmeer and the Markermeer was not. But the point is the Markermeer is shown as a body of water on your map but the Ijjselmeer is not. This is a clear mistake whatever time the map is based on. I know it sounds harsh but to be honest I really loved your work and your video. It is great that you have put this together. I just wanted to help you with you later contents. Keep up the good work!
Hi, thank you for your feedback.
The coastline look level of details of all the countries were the same. The maps were adequate to show ship movements imo.
@@TermiteUSA Nobody said it wasnt decent enough for its purpose. But still a map is a map and it should be correct otherwise people get confused and with mistakes like this its harder to locate the exact location of the story.
This is fantastic!
Awesome vid looking forward to the next one
Thank you
What an interesting channel! Thanks for your efforts :)
The British Channel, you mean ?
Now this is great content
Great production!
Great video! I have no doubt this channel will take off like a rocket quickly!👍🙏😎
Really excellent presentation.
Historigragh sent me. Excellent work
Great details!! Kudos!
Thanks for this, like others I had read a fair bit about it BUT your maps etc put the words in a better perspective - for example, I hadn't taken on board just how far along they were when first found nor how much luck played a part (HMS Sealion/recon Spits etc).
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheWarlineI always wondered why the St Margarets Bay 14" guns didn't seem to play a part, at least one was in place by end of 1940 and the other somewhere around the Dash itself..?
In 1940 two 14-inch cross-channel guns were installed near St. Margaret's at Cliffe.
These guns were named 'Winnie' and 'Pooh'.
The four shown in the video is an mistake.
@@TheWarline You may not be mistaken, I have strong recollections 9.2" guns were on the coast, ex-navy ones which had no ship to go on (though I think Drac mentioned plans for a "super cruiser" with 9.2" guns..). I wouldn't bet proper money on it however (the 9.2" coastal guns, not the super cruiser). My favoured author said Pooh was installed in Feb '41 so could have been around for the Dash but later on two 15" were also mounted. They and the 14" guns had duels with German heavy coast guns it is claimed, along with some railway guns of similar calibre. Anyway, today I have enjoyed two of your videos and expect I will enjoy some others no doubt.
A couple of years later it would just have been another trip for 617 Squadron and their Tallboys.
This video reminds me almost to mutch about the operation room video about the dash through the channel
Prinz Eugen was a lucky ship that survived the war. It was destroyed in a post-war atomic bomb test.
Two nuclear bombs, and Prinz Eugen is still partially above water.
No, it wasn't, because nukes don't exist.
I don't care what you memorized from school, or what you watched on TV. Because that's all you have for proof.
Awesome animation and subscribed.
Thanks for the sub!
Can’t wait for part 2!
Keep 'em comin!
Heinz Knoke in his book, I flew for the Führer, described the operation from his position flying cover for part of the dash.
The Germans were able to.maintain silence until swordfish appeared, them the typical Luftwaffe radio chaos ensued with everybody talking all over each other.
He seemed to feel German pilots were a bit excitable when in combat.
Kenneth Campbell and his 3 crewmen perished in the attack on Gneisenau, but he and his crew's bravery put Gneisenau out of action for many months in which it might have wreaked havoc on British convoys. God bless the brave men of the RAF and RNAF.
every goddamn pilot/crew was a knucklehead within that airforce
He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions.
Best video I ever seen.
Why is the closed captioning text so wildly different from the spoken audio? In some parts, it's literally describing details never covered by the narrator.
Quality work 👍 👏
Thank you so much
Poor Prinz Eugen... Survived the entire war only to die to a nuclear blast
Listening to the operation being narrated got me anxious.
Also came in by a recommendation. Maybe you'll get a lot of new subscribers now :)
There was also some electronic / radio deception conducted just prior to the dash.
Great detail
Thanks!
ah dats why Prinz Eugene called the Lucky Ship through-out the end of war.
Could have sworn some fella named Galland played an active role in the dash.
Well told...
Excellent.
I read someplace that, after the Gneiseau was badly damaged by bombing in Kiel in early 1942, it was planned to not only replace her bow but lengthen it. Would this have allowed her to carry eight 15 inch guns? I assume that she could not do so in her original design.
No. Her nine eleven inch in three turrets were to have been replaced by six fifteen inch in three twin turrets.
Great content dude I landed here due too historiograph.
which island is being illustrated when you claim that Tirpiz was in the Baltic Sea at 4:40?
Ok so a minor correction:
Victorious renown and repulse didnt battle bismarck. That was suffolk, norfolk, rodney and i think sheffield or dorsetshire, along with king george V.l
Victorious, or, at least, her aircraft, did. Repulse was with King George V (not VI) initially, but withdrew due to lack of fuel Renown stayed with Ark Royal, as the whereabouts of Prinz Eugen were unknown.
Operation Cerberus was just about the only time in the entire war that German ships proceeded at sea with proper air cover. Perhaps their freinds in japan talked some sense into them.
Radio silence. Had the fighters been able to call back position, the Germans might possible have been stopped at the choke point. Well done Britain
Good video i enjoyed it 👍 however a few mistakes in the wording. its not "the HMS Hood" or "The bomber command" its just "HMS hood" and "bomber command". Also the official name of the navy of the UK is "the Royal navy" not "the British navy"
I betcha Otto never misses an opportunity to tell people he is a celiac.
Great cideo! Subbed!
To not include Rodney in the graphic regarding sinking Bismarck is criminal.
Great.
Mostly unknown stuff ,even in Germany
0:12 Who were considered the Allies in March of 1941?
The more I watch this video, the more I'm convinced it's read by a bot, who's reading a script with typos in. Clearly at one point the narrator says "petrol line", rather than "Patrol line" which left me very confused.
Came from historigraph, great content indeed !
It seems there is some debate over whether you pronounce the 'G' in Gneisenau. I have always been taught it was a silent G by professors I learned under for Modern History, but some channels on YT seem to believe you do say the G making it an awkward word to speak.
I’ve always heard the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau referred to as “Pocket Battleships,” not as “battlecruisers.” In fact, when HMS Glorious was sunk by the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, the message it sent out specifically identified the two capital ships attacking it as “PBs,” which was the abbreviation the Royal Navy used for German pocket battleships. I had always understood that, though lighter than a regular battleship, the pocket battleship still had more armour than the typical fast battlecruiser (such as the HMS Hood). Could you please clarify this terminological confusion? Doesn’t a pocket battleship also have a bit more firepower than a typical battlecruiser, which sacrifices armour and a few guns in the secondary battery usually in return for markedly increased speed? I guess I’m simply wondering *how* the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau survived *so* much battle damage from torpedoes, naval guns, aircraft bombs, and mines without sinking, whereas the most celebrated battlecruiser in the world, the HMS Hood, was sunk quickly by **ONE* direct hit from one of Bismarck’s naval guns…to be followed in short order to the bottom of the sea by the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, part of the foolishly small Force Z sent with nearly no air cover to “intimidate the Japanese” and defend Singapore. Instead, the kido butai had little difficulty locating the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the Repulse; launched their torpedo and dive bombers; and easily sunk both warships.
This is my point: a pocket battleship *does* sacrifice *some* armour to *seem* to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty, but in fact these warships were still perfectly well defended enough to operate in formations with slower ships in relative safety, and, more importantly, to form part of a naval battle line, and be able to depend on its armour to offer it a good deal of protection as it exchanged shots with enemy warships.
The same cannot be said of the standard battlecruiser, whose greatest assets were its speed and maneuverability.
"pocket battleship" referred to the much smaller KMS Deutschland and KMS Graf Spee, equipped with smaller guns (only 6, 11 inch guns) and lighter armor, as well as being much smaller to the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were very much comparable to the HMS Hood in size. Pocket Battleships have far less firepower and armor than battlecruisers, and were only employed by the Germans during the interwar period to skirt treaty limitations on their ships.
Think of battlecruisers as battleships with less armor and higher speeds. Pocket Battleships are smaller and weaker in every way--their like bite-sized candy.
@@fightingdreamer123 , this was not how the Royal Navy categorized the Scharnhorst or Gneisenau. When those ships were spotted, HMS Glorious Used the abbreviations P/Bs, in the message sent to the Admiralty. I appreciate your response, though. Thank you.
@@MrMalvolio29 Glorious had more pressing matters concerning her than whether she was being attacked by Deutschlands or Scharnhorsts.
The Scharnhorsts were definitely called battleships by the German navy.
@@fightingdreamer123The Germans never used the term Pocket Battleship. They used Panzerschiffe which means armored ship. In terms of concept the Panzerschiffe were closer to the armoured cruisers of the pre-dreadnought era
Deutschland was renamed Lutzow - before the Norwegian campaign. Renamed by Hitler as he did not want a warship called Deutschland to be sunk. In the German Navy, Deutschland / later Lutzow was classified as panzerschiff / armoured ship , this could be translated as armoured cruiser. Some newspapers of the time called the Deutschland a pocket battleship.
Nice
Great video, but you should work on your sense of direction. You confused East for West and vice versa several times in the video. Otherwise, it's fantastic!
Thanks for the tips!
The ships didn't "weigh" around 32 thousand tons. Their displacement was around 32 thousand tons.
It means the same, LOL.
@@romzwint4121 - In land-crab lingo, yes.
Channel Dash by BattleshipS Scharnhorst & Gneisenau
The account is good, but does not mention that Bletchley Park had decrypted the co-ordinates of the swept channel past Terschelling, which enabled the RAF to drop mines into the swept channel and thus damage both battlecruisers. Scharnhorst took months to repair and my recollection is that Gneisenau was bombed while on a floating dock at Kiel so that she was never used again in anger.
I defer to better information.
“Both of these were battlecruisers”
Oh boy you just caused a firestorm
I rather call them Undergunned Battleships, but Also agree with the term Battlectuiser
Nah, they are battlecruisers in role and usage.
@@alphamaccao5224 Not at all. The intend was to counter the Dunkerque class. That makes them Battleships.
Un super document sans doute ! Cela dis c’est fatigant avec le décodeur en français ! Pourquoi on a pas la version en français pourquoi ?!?!?!
some people cant let go the loss of things like hms hood
Such a dash that made the British look very incompetent. "Fotune favors the bold". It certainly did so her
No. It made the Royal Air Force look incompetent.
Dig the detail described herein.
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I would not want to have to stand in front Churchill and tell the bad news. Nor would I want to be any of the major figures in this.
Scharnhorst and her sister had battleship armor. Even thicker than the French dunkerque class. (Which were proclaimed battleships.) But their guns were vastly inferior to battleships by WWII. Some would say this makes them a propriety class. Others say that since they were meant to murder cruisers and run from battleships. This makes their roll that of battlecruisers. And therefore battlecrusiers they are..... In Truth, At the end of the day you can call them whenever you want.
Germany just called them Battleships because germany never run the name battlecruiser.
In Germany a battlecruiser like ship is named a Großkreuzer (Big Cruiser).
It was planned to make a retrofit on the Scharnhorst class with 3×2 380mm guns.
Never happend because the war started to early and not as planned 1949.
They were fast battleships, just with relatively small guns.
@@michaeld.uchiha9084 Germany had loads of battlecruisers, up until Jutland anyway...
@@tomriley5790 Well, they werent officially called Battlecruisers. For fiscal reasons. They were Big Cruisers (Große Kreuzer), just like the Armored Cruisers before. On the same note, officially Germany didnt have Battleships (Schlachtschiffe) until, well, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau came around. All before were Ships of the Line (Linienschiffe, Pre-Dread) or Big Ships of the Line (Großlinienschiffe, Dreadnoughts, so Nassau to Bayern)
Inoffically the crew etc still called them Battleships /-cruisers, cause thats what they were.
Even thicker then the Dunkerque does not mean much. The Twins had a really strong Beltarmour with a decent Turtleback as backup. The Gund are also not too bad. They really performed quite well for the caliber. Penetration and range clearly make them capital ship guns.
The mission profile for the Twins also was not cruiser killing but to oppose the Dunkerques. That makes them Battleships and they are classified as such.
That German task force cruised the English Channel taunting the Brits to do something about it…
By which I assume you mean that the three German heavy ships fled back to Germany under a massive air umbrella, abandoned any future possibility of operating in the Atlantic, and thus played almost no part in the rest of the war,
Admiral Raeder declared the Dash a major strategic reversal. He was correct.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 A risky dash, torpedos and mines made it to risky…
Thank you for this video. A well made operation by the germans. Still I wonder why they rappatriated these ships being useful enough to cut convoys from America to England... Then making them nearly idol and useless between the north sea and Scandinavia along with the Tirpitz...
Maybe they were so harrassed by the brits they could have somewhat lost their real purposes and drop the case...