The Most Catastrophic Russian Battleship Disaster Ever

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  • Опубліковано 1 лют 2024
  • In the early hours of June 26, 1940, NMS Delfinul, a Romanian submarine, set alarms blazing after the sighting of 5 large warships heading for the Port of Constanța, a major strategic target on the western shores of the Black Sea.
    Romania had just joined the Nazis and attacked Soviet airfields, destroying 37 bombers in one mission. The Soviet Black Sea Fleet was now on the hunt for revenge.
    Constanța was robustly defended by Romanian anti-air artillery units, a detachment of 700 German Kriegsmarine manning the powerful Tirpitz gun battery, destroyers, and gunboats along the coast, and 1,000 mines had been laid in the sea covering any point of entry.
    A first wave of Soviet bombers attempted a run at Constanța but were unsuccessful. At 3:58am, the destroyer leaders Moskva and Kharkov carpeted the port with 350 shells in less than ten minutes.
    With the raid in full force, a second wave of Soviet bombers descended again on the scene. It was then that pilot Horia Agarici of the Royal Romanian Air Force took to the skies in one of the most bizarre of aircraft to ever fight for the Axis side. It was a British Hawker Hurricane, and the Soviets would be forbidden from revealing what happened next…

КОМЕНТАРІ • 453

  • @vilo_h5541
    @vilo_h5541 4 місяці тому +321

    So there are two Moskvas at the bottom of the Black Sea now.

    • @rockerjim8045
      @rockerjim8045 3 місяці тому +26

      One and two halves

    • @shortrandomusername
      @shortrandomusername 3 місяці тому +6

      ​@@rockerjim8045😂

    • @derekhieb7458
      @derekhieb7458 2 місяці тому +11

      They're russian submarines now.

    • @olehcelsior1005
      @olehcelsior1005 2 місяці тому +2

      Still fans of infamous austrian artist will get smashed 2nd time

    • @TheAllMightyGodofCod
      @TheAllMightyGodofCod 2 місяці тому +12

      ​​@@olehcelsior1005Klimt? Franz Alt? Rudolph Ernst? Friedrich Loos? Friedensreich Hundertwasser? Falco?
      That guy who played the inspector in inspector Rex?
      You really need to be more specific, there are so many Austrian artists!

  • @portaltwo
    @portaltwo 4 місяці тому +270

    Lesson for Russia - stop naming ships 'Moskva'. 😉

    • @Mike-tg7dj
      @Mike-tg7dj 3 місяці тому +13

      Moskva, yeah that's two ships with that name on the bottom of the Black Sea. It's hard to imagine a Navy so inept, I want to say I'm sorry but, I am not Ruzzia is a bully nation who invaded Ukraine in 2014 and full on in 2022. So, no I'm not sorry about that. I am sorry for all the loss of life on all sides. Did any know Jesus Christ ? Were they saved? What were they fighting for? Peace is what we need.

    • @YaBoiBlantyre
      @YaBoiBlantyre 3 місяці тому +2

      @@Mike-tg7dj crimea welcomed russian forces with open arms in 2014, though the current invation is illegal

    • @user-ms7dg2kg1j
      @user-ms7dg2kg1j 3 місяці тому +3

      AFTERWARDS - ROMANIA 60 YEARS OCCUPIED BY SOVIET BLOCK...

    • @lyns8062
      @lyns8062 3 місяці тому

      ​@@YaBoiBlantyrenot exactly more than 50% voted not recognizing it's legitimacy. And actual Crimean Tarters certainly didn't welcome them. Don't forget that Stalin deported the entire Crimean population. So any Russians living there were living in stolen property.

    • @trevorgough2286
      @trevorgough2286 3 місяці тому +3

      ​well said..

  • @pcka12
    @pcka12 4 місяці тому +101

    So there are two 'Moskva' warships on the bottom of the Black Sea!
    It might be tempting fate to launch another.

    • @andrewjost6714
      @andrewjost6714 3 місяці тому +3

      If I were a Russian seaman, I would never want to be assigned to a ship called the Moskva... Does Moskva translate to "Doomed Ship?"

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 3 місяці тому +3

      @@andrewjost6714 it means Moscow & the story goes that Moscow has no natural defences so it's inhabitants want to hold positions in other people's countries like Poland where there are rivers & hills.

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому +1

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 3 місяці тому +2

      @@eliotness4029 because Romania is a far smaller nation than their opponents?
      An example of 'God is on the side of the big battalions'?

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      @@pcka12 Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici joined german nazi. so what he criyng about?? he is criyng he joined to small nazi?

  • @guenoleadamantu8939
    @guenoleadamantu8939 4 місяці тому +80

    Romanian hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber in deep poor rising 5 children. The Soviet pilot who was spared over Black Sea pay him a visit in ‘70’s as full general now and give him a house as gift. Romanian communist authorities has to find a pilot outfit to dressed Horia Agarici because the Soviet general wants to see him proper dress. And after that Romanian pilot was hired as translator therefore he speaks perfectly 5 languages. He was born in Lausanne, Swiss.

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

    • @thefockn3831
      @thefockn3831 3 місяці тому +4

      ​@@eliotness4029Because it's only in the movies the good guys win all the time.

    • @kwd3109
      @kwd3109 3 місяці тому +17

      ​@@eliotness4029Agarici was a hero, he was an officer in the Royal Romanian air force. He was not a national socialist.

    • @Bata.andrei
      @Bata.andrei 2 місяці тому +9

      ​@@eliotness4029you don't know what you are talking about. Romania and its army was in a loose-loose situation. At first Romania was allied with Germany and after they allied with Russia. Guys like Horia Agarici and a lot more were punished for doing their jobs and following orders.

    • @laszlokovacs1270
      @laszlokovacs1270 2 місяці тому

      Rums

  • @StretchMedia
    @StretchMedia 4 місяці тому +134

    I'd hate to be the guy stationed on the next ship named Muskva. Their flagship doesn't have a good history.

    • @bluemule3891
      @bluemule3891 4 місяці тому +14

      Hahaha, I was just thinking the same thing, "comrade you have been assigned to the new flagship Moskva" "ahhh thanks comrade, I will take my chances in Siberia" 🤪

    • @Maelli535
      @Maelli535 4 місяці тому +7

      But NO! The last Moskva had a great history - for Ukraine!

    • @bluemule3891
      @bluemule3891 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Maelli535 🤣🤣

    • @megalodon7916
      @megalodon7916 3 місяці тому +7

      Nice joke. I see what you did their. The most pathetic thing about that incident is the fact that had the Russian Navy actually taken proper care of the ship prior to the incident, it would have taken more than just two missiles to overwhelm its defenses and sink the ship. The Russians didn't even bother fully repairing the ship the last time it was in drydock. Didn't take much to turn the over glorified rust bucket into scrap metal after that. But that's par for the course of the Russian Navy, who love turning their ships into submarines.

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 3 місяці тому +3

      @@Maelli535 & the one before for Rumania?

  • @terrencemolinari
    @terrencemolinari 4 місяці тому +60

    I think that this should be corrected to reflect that this occurred in 1941, not 1940.

    • @basilmcdonnell9807
      @basilmcdonnell9807 4 місяці тому +9

      Yeah I was trying to figure that out too.

    • @Wolf-hh4rv
      @Wolf-hh4rv 4 місяці тому +17

      Yup this channel is not big on facts , next Vietnam War 2010-2019

    • @minhthunguyendang9900
      @minhthunguyendang9900 3 місяці тому +3

      AI ?

    • @yurialtunin9121
      @yurialtunin9121 3 місяці тому +7

      Yes. It changes the whole story, since it was AFTER Hitler’s invasion into Russia, and Romania was Hitler’s ally.

  • @AwesomeNinja1027
    @AwesomeNinja1027 4 місяці тому +158

    And once again Russia lost a ship in the Black Sea.

    • @hohenstaufenz
      @hohenstaufenz 4 місяці тому +34

      And the ship bears the same name, Moskva😅

    • @menwithven8114
      @menwithven8114 4 місяці тому +15

      This what happens in war...

    • @AwesomeNinja1027
      @AwesomeNinja1027 4 місяці тому +2

      @@hohenstaufenz yes 🤣🤣🤣

    • @cvandy2252
      @cvandy2252 4 місяці тому +11

      They've seriously gotta stop giving ships that name.​@@hohenstaufenz

    • @jtjames79
      @jtjames79 4 місяці тому +15

      ​@@cvandy2252 Russia should just stop navying.
      Or not for our amusement?. 😂

  • @0Defensor0
    @0Defensor0 4 місяці тому +71

    So... how many flagships named Moskva were sunk in the Black Sea so far? Only two?
    Wait, how did this happen twice?

    • @ebryant6280
      @ebryant6280 4 місяці тому +10

      Well ,there has been multiple Enterprises in the US navy.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j 4 місяці тому +6

      @@ebryant6280 And Yorktown and Lexington. But only one of each were sunk.

    • @roykliffen9674
      @roykliffen9674 4 місяці тому

      @@user-gl5dq2dg1j ... and Hornet

    • @Getoffmycloud53
      @Getoffmycloud53 3 місяці тому +1

      What is more important, sinking a ship or winning a war?
      So far the collective west has failed to defeat Russia.
      The failed to defeat Russia economically, politically and militarily.
      Right now we are entering the strategic end game of this conflict, with either NATO intervening directly and thus starting WW3 - global nuclear war - or NATO accepting its defeat and the end of its eastern expansion.

    • @TheAKgunner
      @TheAKgunner 3 місяці тому +8

      @@Getoffmycloud53What dream world are you living in?

  • @thefez-cat
    @thefez-cat Місяць тому +4

    I bet Hawker felt a bit stupid for selling those Hurricanes to Romania a year before they joined the Axis, but at least they only delivered 12 of them.

    • @user-zs5nr8dd1z
      @user-zs5nr8dd1z 22 дні тому

      I bet you feel a bit stupid after you re-read your comment.

  • @whgordon6109
    @whgordon6109 4 місяці тому +18

    History Needs a Spokes Channel,
    This One is off to a Good Start!

  • @lukasito100
    @lukasito100 4 місяці тому +40

    Interesting . Less known episode of WW2 . Black Sea battles are forgoten a bit.
    Regards

    • @photoisca7386
      @photoisca7386 4 місяці тому +4

      No Americans, no publicity.

    • @philipdawes2661
      @philipdawes2661 4 місяці тому +2

      True for both world wars - both Russian and Turkish navies did quite a lot in WW1 which are rarely covered in the west.

    • @PoochAndBoo
      @PoochAndBoo 4 місяці тому

      oh please...dont start
      @@photoisca7386

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      @@philipdawes2661 west always forget other countries history XDD, so basically in every country history studings goes around own country history all other mostly forgotten

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

  • @Mekanicu
    @Mekanicu 4 місяці тому +34

    Outstanding episode!!!

  • @avlaus2629
    @avlaus2629 4 місяці тому +28

    Another great story I've never heard of. Ty DS.

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

  • @brah007
    @brah007 2 місяці тому +5

    2023 Moskva promoted to Submarine.

  • @philipdawes2661
    @philipdawes2661 4 місяці тому +2

    fascinating scenario, thank you.

  • @critcalreader4160
    @critcalreader4160 4 місяці тому +32

    Oooh. What a fantastic episode. You always bring us great stories. Thank you.

  • @raymond7269
    @raymond7269 4 місяці тому +11

    History repeats itself.

  • @forresttm
    @forresttm 4 місяці тому +20

    Imagine being a mechanic for Romania.. the variety of aircraft was amazing.

    • @ShizukuSeiji
      @ShizukuSeiji 4 місяці тому +3

      Imagine being a mechanic for Germany.. the variety of vehicles was amazing.

    • @Munakas-wq3gp
      @Munakas-wq3gp 3 місяці тому +1

      The finnish air force had even more plane types in use, including hurricanes that were captured from the soviets or donated by the british when the soviets attacked finland before the war escalated to all of europe. The soviet union was an ally of nazi germany in 1939 and they overtook Poland in co-operation and gave Finland for the soviets with the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement. Much to the soviets surprise, Finland didn't give up without a fight.

  • @Wolf-hh4rv
    @Wolf-hh4rv 4 місяці тому +26

    Russia must just give up on the navy thing. Too complicated keeping ships floating. Now defeated by a country that has no navy. 🤣😂

    • @ianturner9815
      @ianturner9815 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, it's great because you are obviously pro-nazi

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому +1

      so basically till 1905 Russian navy were mostly dominant on Baltic and Black Sea, Russia navy at least twice wiped out Turkish Navy

    • @PaulTomblin
      @PaulTomblin 3 місяці тому +2

      @@tsugumorihoney2288they didn’t do too well when they tried to send the Atlantic fleet to Japan in 1905, though.

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      @PaulTomblin man, did you read my comment? Read it again, i said exacly: TILL 1905 Russian navy were dominant on baltic and black sea, i didn't mention pacific also i said 1905 since in 1905 russian navy were slaughtered in tsushima battle

    • @PaulTomblin
      @PaulTomblin 3 місяці тому +3

      @@tsugumorihoney2288 I was agreeing with you. At least I was until you decided to be a dick about it.

  • @GHOST5663
    @GHOST5663 4 місяці тому +3

    Excellent video.

  • @ronrubacher1425
    @ronrubacher1425 4 місяці тому +10

    You must mean 1941. Not 1940.

  • @cvr527
    @cvr527 4 місяці тому +5

    "The more reliable Hurricane:" "but was informed that his aircraft (Hurricane) was under repair," "the only other available Hurricane was also grounded after reports of engine overheating."

    • @Munakas-wq3gp
      @Munakas-wq3gp 3 місяці тому

      The Merlin engine was on average more reliable than the german DB 603/605 engines which suffered from lubrication problems. Some of the problems was caused by sabotage from the slave workers though. The DB engines were superior performance wise due to having the fuel injection systems and forced induction engines in early war but the reliability was not stellar. Finnish air force pilots were forbidden to use the war emergency power and the water methanol injection system in order to increase engine life with the very limited resources they had.

    • @cvr527
      @cvr527 3 місяці тому

      @@Munakas-wq3gp If true and I dont except it as "true," has absolutely nothing to do with my comment.
      The narrator directly contradicted himself.

    • @Munakas-wq3gp
      @Munakas-wq3gp 3 місяці тому

      @@cvr527He didn't contradict himself even though there was a dash of irony with the circumstance. The overheating problem was a single instance that could affect any engine type of the era. The DB engines then again suffered catastrophical failures of the main bearings, which is far more serious than overheating.

  • @marcoosvald8429
    @marcoosvald8429 Місяць тому +1

    And 83 years later, the Russians have yet to learn their lessons losing the same named and flagship all over again. Officially funny.

  • @demizer1968
    @demizer1968 4 місяці тому +6

    gotta wonder how many of those mines are still hanging out at the bottom

    • @kenkahre9262
      @kenkahre9262 4 місяці тому +2

      I saw the number just a few days ago. I can't recall the exact figure, but its in the thousands.

  • @davidrodriguez-so8lq
    @davidrodriguez-so8lq 3 місяці тому +7

    Hey two Moskva s in the same ocean and both of them at the bottom of the sea how cool is that

    • @scorpion19142001
      @scorpion19142001 2 місяці тому

      Go ask Dave Jones, he could give you some fascinating stories.

    • @olehcelsior1005
      @olehcelsior1005 2 місяці тому

      Almost as cool as calling sea an ocean. Ignorant stump!

  • @trackhoe23
    @trackhoe23 3 місяці тому +3

    The ship in the thumbnail is a Russian ship wrecked during the war, but it has nothing to do with this event. It is the SS Lamut, which wrecked on the northwest tip of Washington State in 1943.

  • @sebastian-FX357Z1
    @sebastian-FX357Z1 4 місяці тому +22

    Even if romania or bulgaria did not join the axis do u think soviet union would just leave both countries alone, just look at poland fate in ww2 & now ukraine, never ever trust the russian!

    • @YaBoiBlantyre
      @YaBoiBlantyre 3 місяці тому

      bother, my guy, I THINK THE SOIVETS HAD MORE TO WORRY ABOUT AT THAT TIME, also fuck the natzis and there allys

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому +1

      Oh yeah, first you come and get Russian lands, later when Russian come back and kick you out: Uh Oh bad Russians

    • @sebastian-FX357Z1
      @sebastian-FX357Z1 3 місяці тому +4

      @tsugumorihoney2288 Russian lands? What era r u talking 'bout, which century? Go & read history of balkans first before commenting!

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      @@sebastian-FX357Z1 since 1812, before it it were ottoman

    • @sebastian-FX357Z1
      @sebastian-FX357Z1 3 місяці тому +2

      @tsugumorihoney2288 How the hell did u pass your history test, did u really check it out? U r really humiliating yourself.

  • @M-I-K-E
    @M-I-K-E 4 місяці тому +14

    "The Ship Everyone in Moskovia Was Forbidden from Talking About" how often they lose the Moskwa ?

  • @lizardo667
    @lizardo667 3 місяці тому +1

    It's so cool seeing the Sevastapol battleships in action due to their use of bombardments instead of naval action

  • @MausMasher54
    @MausMasher54 3 місяці тому +3

    Wow, Two Moskva's at the bottom of the Bleak Sea, as reefs...

  • @robertkarp2070
    @robertkarp2070 4 місяці тому +5

    Great story. You hear all about WWII in the Pacific and Atlantic but never about the battles fought on the Black Sea.

    • @minhthunguyendang9900
      @minhthunguyendang9900 3 місяці тому

      There were :
      - the amphibious operation at
      Feodosia in Crimea to relieve
      Sevastopol in 1942. The landing
      succeeded, but the nazi prompt
      reaction Anzioed the soviet move into wet reverse gear 🔄 ⚙️
      - the 1943 landing in Novorossisk in Eastern Black Sea with much more considerable means.
      But which got Anzioed all the same. Although this time the
      sovs didn’t wet their red rears,
      the Germans being considerably worn thin.
      In ‘72 with the imminent POTUS
      visit to ursus, records of the heroics of the sov SecGen as
      PolKomissar in this operation
      were published considerably
      enhanced & pinned ⬆️ describing him running 🆙 & down the bridgehead exhorting the heroic red marines to hold or… else.
      The 1st operation was described in detail in von Manstein’s “Lost Victories”
      The 2nd was in Paul Carell’s
      “The Scorched Earth - Russian-German War 1943-1944”

  • @mikebrase5161
    @mikebrase5161 2 місяці тому +1

    Moskva? Thats a funny name for a reef.

  • @klaus-peterborn1370
    @klaus-peterborn1370 4 місяці тому +2

    Reminds me never set foot on a ship named Moskva.

  • @Your.God.is.a.Delusion
    @Your.God.is.a.Delusion 4 місяці тому +4

    @:02 If the war against the Soviets had already started then this would be June 26th, 1941, not 1940.

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

  • @Markjr778
    @Markjr778 2 місяці тому

    Thanks dark docks for more wartime documentaries

  • @jimbowling8528
    @jimbowling8528 4 місяці тому

    What goes around, comes around.

  • @user-zd4wm4su8w
    @user-zd4wm4su8w 4 місяці тому +6

    Quite good, but the aircraft at 06.25 is a Spitfire not a Hurricane

    • @richarddixon7276
      @richarddixon7276 3 місяці тому +1

      There's a lot of misleading clips , but if you ignore them the narrative is always interesting if not always100% accurate , not being an historian if someone in another comment hadn't pointed it out would have believed it occurred in 1940 but apparently it was 1941 , I'll check that out later but it is interesting , For genuinely accurate naval accounts of battles , Drachinifel is right up there , He checks everything multiple times from as many sources as is reasonably feasible and if there is any doubt or concern about accuracy he clearly informs You of such . Highly recommended for genuinely interesting and as accurate as possible information .

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому +1

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      this video from another place

    • @user-zd4wm4su8w
      @user-zd4wm4su8w 3 місяці тому +1

      @@richarddixon7276 I agree, narrative is interesting, the people who edit film clip let down the narrative not knowing the models types or even nationality of equipment. I am no expert but the spitfire is an iconic fighter and very different from an hurricane. Even mianstream documentries on TV made very visibile mistakes, I saw burning T34's burning in a documentary on Normandy

  • @jerrykozlowski2948
    @jerrykozlowski2948 Місяць тому

    Great video, sad loss for the allies.

  • @davidcolin6519
    @davidcolin6519 4 місяці тому +7

    I really do find it extraordinary that anybody has ever taken Russian/Soviet naval power seriously. I can't think of any time when it was anything other than an embarrassment.
    OTOH, I may be wrong, so I'd be interested to hear from anybody who can shed some light on a time when Russian/Soviet naval power was of benefit.

    • @tileux
      @tileux 4 місяці тому +2

      Peter the great created the russian navy and it is the second oldest navy in the world behind the british navy. It dominated the Baltics, helping to push back what was - at the time - the swedish empire, which then controlled a large chunk of what is now germany, poland, finland, and the other baltic states, and helped take a huge amount of territory off China. Look up ‘dalian’ on the map of china. Its on the border of north korea. That is the former russian port city of Port Arthur. It was from here the russians controlled the coast up to what is now Vladivostok, until 1905 when the japanese destroyed the russian’s eastern fleet in the tsushima straits, arguably one of the most important naval battles in history.

    • @davidcolin6519
      @davidcolin6519 4 місяці тому

      @@tileux I am aware of Port Arthur, and its place in Russian history. And I am also aware of its position and strategic importance. However, it was only dominant at a time when there really wasn't any competition in the North Pacific.
      As soon as Russia needed a modern fleet there, it had to be sent half way around the world because Russia had no ship building capacity there. The battle of the Tsushima Strait reads like a book on precisely how NOT to prepare for battle, and eversince, the Russian navy has been almost comical in its ineptitude.
      Dominating the Baltic, in which shallow beams are more important than almost anything else, is not at all like trying to run a deep water navy, and Tsushima proved it.
      Thank you for the comment though, I had forgotten the Russian Baltic Fleet.

    • @tileux
      @tileux 4 місяці тому

      @@davidcolin6519 for what its worth, the russian black sea fleet had a significant role in multiple wars with Turkey. But russia’s geographic position means that its just not a global sea power.

    • @I_Don_t_want_a_handle
      @I_Don_t_want_a_handle 4 місяці тому

      @@tileux Yes, IIRC Sevastopol is Russia's only all year round naval base. It's one of the reasons why they want the Crimea.

    • @christianfournier6862
      @christianfournier6862 3 місяці тому +1

      @@tileux= The Royal Navy of Great-Britain has been organized as a permanent fleet by the mid-XIIth century. But its title as the oldest Navy is debatable, since the Venetian, Pisan, and Genovese Navies were organized from the IXth to the XIth century - and they have later been incorporated into the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy.
      The Royal Navies of the Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain were created in the XIVth and XVth centuries respectively.
      The Navy of the United Provinces Republic (ancestor of the Dutch Royal Navy) was organized at the end of the XVIth century.
      The French Kingdom has had a “Royal Corps of Galleys” since 1410 (but those galleys were privately owned in the service of the King); Cardinal de Richelieu transformed in 1624 this Corps into a permanent Royal Navy of the Kingdom of France.
      Organized in 1696 (end of XVIIth c.) under Peter-the-Great, the Russian Imperial Navy is at best the seventh oldest, not accounting for Navies of other continents (among which the Imperial Chinese Navy which exists since the XIIth c.). __ .

  • @timgosling6189
    @timgosling6189 4 місяці тому +10

    Nice to see a Romanian Hurricane with both a desert air intake and a rotary engine - who knew!
    Romanian flak hits a B-17!
    Naval vessels disguised as freighters.
    Aircraft and ships lost in the English Channel.
    Usual awesome clip selection!

    • @jimdavison4077
      @jimdavison4077 4 місяці тому +1

      Laziness of these UA-cam content creators is reaching new limits every day.

  • @patrick87100
    @patrick87100 4 місяці тому +1

    Yup

  • @Herman6507
    @Herman6507 3 місяці тому +1

    4:14 the sea at constanza retreats 😎

  • @im4broke643
    @im4broke643 4 місяці тому +2

    That's interesting...I play World of Warships and have a Moskva....always getting sunk no mater where I place her...she's a target. I now understand why. I hope I have sub'd to all your channels? They hit all my interest, space, mystery, history and a few others. I do try to keep up, but enjoy looking for your new content.

    • @JeffSmith-pl2pj
      @JeffSmith-pl2pj 4 місяці тому

      Not sense Peter The Great.

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      no, it is just you a noob

    • @im4broke643
      @im4broke643 3 місяці тому

      @@tsugumorihoney2288 You obviously do not have a tier ship that is focused by enemy. Un-contested a Moskva is deadly. But everyone can see the ship line-up when entering and communicate. A "noob" would reach this level and choose such a ship, they would pick safety first, not a glass cannon. I play this Moskva reasonably well and along with several other high tier ships. I've been at this since WoWS started.

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      @@im4broke643 noob pick ship it likes, cuz noob don't watch guides

  • @QDStrength
    @QDStrength 22 дні тому +1

    Soviet/Russian Ships never sunk, they are promoted to submarines

  • @wackowacko8931
    @wackowacko8931 4 місяці тому +5

    The shot at 4:12 is a little distracting. It shows the waves starting at the shoreline and going out to sea. I realize you have a limited number of clips to use, but that seems to be an editing 101 thing: don't run a clip in reverse showing a shoreline where waves are breaking. The shot at 7:55 is the same kind of thing (but harder to detect) - a map doesn't move that way when being laid on the table. It only "works" in one direction, where the map is being removed from a table.

    • @moonmunster
      @moonmunster 4 місяці тому +1

      I noticed that too. I thought it was funny.

    • @MartinCanada
      @MartinCanada 3 місяці тому +1

      It seems that the German Imperial naval ensign at 12:04 is misplaced. Cheers.

    • @minhthunguyendang9900
      @minhthunguyendang9900 3 місяці тому

      @@MartinCanada
      Like the Japanese twin-engined
      kamikaze 💦 into the Pacific.
      6:55 > 7:02

  • @rodneydecormier1504
    @rodneydecormier1504 3 місяці тому +1

    Here’s a thought, maybe Russia should stop naming ships Moskva.
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @manuelhausmann6422
    @manuelhausmann6422 4 місяці тому +4

    Russian Ships can go into Transformmode 😄

  • @DaveLife1
    @DaveLife1 2 місяці тому

    History repeats itself, even for those who remember it.

  • @daveweiss5647
    @daveweiss5647 4 місяці тому +1

    "They were equiped with the more reliable Hawker Hurricane".... plane overheats and can barely be used....

  • @serraticseraphis8695
    @serraticseraphis8695 3 місяці тому

    "manning the powerful Tirpitz gun battery" - what is meant by this?

  • @gypsydildopunks7083
    @gypsydildopunks7083 3 місяці тому +2

    I thought you would say "The Vice Admiral fell out of a 6 story building while on leave".

  • @arr4512
    @arr4512 3 місяці тому +2

    There is a surprising amount of Soviet steel at the bottom of the Black Sea. Seems to be a thing for them.

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

  • @Mr26mikeylikesithot
    @Mr26mikeylikesithot 4 місяці тому +1

    So now there's two Moskvas floundering in the black sea? How embarrassing lol

  • @HarryWHill-GA
    @HarryWHill-GA 3 місяці тому +2

    You've lost ANOTHER Moskva Yevgenny?

  • @dipimage1935
    @dipimage1935 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for making a doc, about Romanian involvement. I didn't knew we had a submarine 😀
    In late June the Black Sea is green cause it's full of algae. Blue at the offshore...
    Sunrises look amazing, and the sun goes up the horizon at 05:23, so they the russians sure leaved Odessa near 2AM in the night. From Midia cape to Tuzla are 20 km of open sea, with slow sloaped sand in Constanta to 2-story hight coastal hill near the water line.
    Destroyers Amiral Murgescu, King Carol The First and Aurora placed 1000 mines in the sear on that 20 km space. Mamaia is north of Constanta, now they are almost one and the same city 😛
    Destroyers Queen Mary and Mărăști (the name of a city where we have a big memorial grave after the First World War)
    Torp boats Viforul = blizzard; Vijelia = storm
    Sub Delfinul = dolphin
    And at 13:38 you have a big calcaros hill near the waterline of the sea, a landscape I Identify as being Bulgarian, cos we don't have that relief anywhere, near Kavarna to Balcick where 100 meter cliff, another 70-150 km southern of our border

  • @l.d.t.6327
    @l.d.t.6327 8 днів тому

    When searching for Atlantis, researchers will find that it was Moskva laying at the bottom of the Black Sea.

  • @stevenleahy5941
    @stevenleahy5941 4 місяці тому +2

    Moskva was an unlucky ship…even back in 1940…😮😂

  • @minhthunguyendang9900
    @minhthunguyendang9900 3 місяці тому

    At the same time in the far north, on the Leningrad front,
    British-manned red-star-painted Hurricane 🌀 fighters
    were fighting for red ursus.

  • @forresthale9529
    @forresthale9529 4 місяці тому +4

    I think I am done subscribing. The titles never seem to have any connection to the story. Did I miss something?

  • @EneriGiilaan
    @EneriGiilaan 4 місяці тому +9

    Hmmm ... at 7:00 "the first pilot shooting down three enemies in one sortie". Might be 'technically' true - but more than a year earlier (in 6 Jan 1940) - Lt. Jorma Sarvanto (flying Fokker D XXI) shot down *six* Ilyushin DB-3 bombers in 5 minutes - before running out of ammo.

    • @ShizukuSeiji
      @ShizukuSeiji 4 місяці тому +1

      I expect the comment referred to "the first ROMANIAN pilot shooting down three enemies in one sortie"

  • @citizenb9318
    @citizenb9318 18 днів тому

    Who would have guessed Moscow was a 2 time underwater city? :D

  • @andrewfischer8564
    @andrewfischer8564 4 місяці тому +6

    russians losing ships to ukraine with no navy just yesterday they lost another warship 1940 2024 russian never learn

    • @ianturner9815
      @ianturner9815 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, it's great because you are obviously pro-nazi

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      it is not hard to kill ship with swarm of drones, i guess any navy ship will lose it, also if check what ships Russia lost, only Moskva were warship, all other were small ships like around 1000 tonns or landing ships

    • @andrewfischer8564
      @andrewfischer8564 3 місяці тому

      @@tsugumorihoney2288 and another one sunkk and a huge landing ship this time

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 3 місяці тому

      @andrewfischer8564 yes, i know, it were small patrol boat armed with 1 76 mm gun and couple machine guns, and 2nd were landing ship, and still guys put a pretty good fight, landidng ship crew destroyed couple drones, and luckily both ships crew survived. And Russian budget get rid of 40+ years old scrap

  • @the-trustees
    @the-trustees Місяць тому

    I'm not sure you can call any action by the Allies against the Axis "aggression." As always, informative and interesting. 🙂

  • @user-fw6kz1kc4n
    @user-fw6kz1kc4n 3 місяці тому +5

    The Hurricane shot down more German aeroplanes than anything else we had in the Battle of Britain.Without the Hurricane we would all be goose stepping down the road to the shops!

    • @minhthunguyendang9900
      @minhthunguyendang9900 3 місяці тому +1

      « It Happened Here »1966 movie by Kevin Brownlow.
      ……………………………………….
      The Hurricane frame was so sturdy that in the Western desert 🏜 in 1942 it was fitted
      with 40mm X 2 cannons for tank-busting.

    • @Munakas-wq3gp
      @Munakas-wq3gp 3 місяці тому +1

      Despite that the Hurricane was considered a pretty poor plane. It was slow, especially in a dive due to the fat leading edge of the wing, didn't turn too good and it had a fuel tank right in front of the pilot. One hit to the tank doused the pilot with gasoline so that gives some perspective to why so many stories of horribly burned pilots exist from the battle of britain. The FAF flew the brewster buffalo which is considered to be the worst fighter of WW2 by some, yet it was totally superior to the hurricane. It could outturn, outdive and outgun the hurricane mk I. The mk2 with the 4x hispano cannons was of course way superior in firepower. Even then, hurricanes with hispanos often couldn't fire the cannons in turn fights due to the g-forces jamming up the cannons which only a mechanic could fix on the ground.

    • @r.ladaria135
      @r.ladaria135 3 місяці тому

      The spitfire had a 85 imperial galons fuel tank right in front of the pilot. @@Munakas-wq3gp

    • @eliotness4029
      @eliotness4029 3 місяці тому

      Romanian nazi hero Horia Agarici was stripped of all rights post war and has to work as a plumber ? why romania lost war if he is so called hero?

  • @MultiMrsmurf
    @MultiMrsmurf 4 місяці тому +2

    And now the Russians have two Moskva’s at the bottom of the Black Sea 😂

    • @ianturner9815
      @ianturner9815 4 місяці тому

      You are laughing because you are on the side of the Nazis. 😂

    • @user-fu8vn7xo6c
      @user-fu8vn7xo6c 4 місяці тому

      Maybe a bad luck name for a Russian ship.

  • @CliffMcAulay
    @CliffMcAulay 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this interesting episode. It never ceases to amaze me that people would forfeit their precious life to help Nazis.

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 3 місяці тому

    And I could so see an episode of Star Trek where a federation ship named the muskva goes missing... Or gets blown up.

  • @jonshive5482
    @jonshive5482 3 місяці тому +2

    "In the early hours of June 26, 1940...". Shouldn't that read, "In the early hours of June 26, 1941..."? Thanks.

  • @Zw33dDreamZ
    @Zw33dDreamZ 19 днів тому

    I think you might be wrong about Romania annexing Transilvania. This was actually part of Hungaria immediately after joining the Germans. Only after the end of the war did Transilvania become part of Romania (by that time, Basarabia had been taken away though)

  • @SlicerJen
    @SlicerJen 4 місяці тому

    the karkov? i guess nobody could escape from karkov.

  • @M5290kek
    @M5290kek 4 місяці тому +27

    One point to clarify - it wasn't an "expansion' of territory or access to anything specific , it was the reunification of the Romanian lands, taken/occupied by "friendly" neighbors.

    • @TankHill69
      @TankHill69 4 місяці тому +2

      That sounds like the same logic Hitler used…

    • @M5290kek
      @M5290kek 4 місяці тому +3

      Learn some history, then comment.@@TankHill69

    • @TankHill69
      @TankHill69 4 місяці тому

      @@M5290kek lmao wow you sound like such a loser.

    • @TankHill69
      @TankHill69 4 місяці тому +2

      @@M5290kek lol learn some history? What kind of vague statement is that? I’m sure you felt so self righteous saying that nonsense too lol. Probably thought “yeah I got him” lol. I can’t get over how dumb that sounds “learn some history” 🤣. Thanks, you made my morning bowel movement a much more enjoyable experience.

    • @jimdavison4077
      @jimdavison4077 4 місяці тому

      That's the same story Putin is using and Chiang Kai-shek used in China in the 1930's for his murdering rampage. Same story the Israeli's are using for their genocide as well.

  • @jamestrotman1593
    @jamestrotman1593 3 дні тому

    A strange and varied assortment of pictures,

  • @kittymervine6115
    @kittymervine6115 3 місяці тому +1

    Romania had a terrible royal crisis going on, much like the UK with their king, but it was settled poorly and greed won out. Romanians were well known flyers, including women who bravely flew wounded out of Stalingrad.

  • @MobiusMediaSTL
    @MobiusMediaSTL 4 місяці тому +1

    Geez, how many Moskvas have been sunk in the Black Sea?

  • @jonjahr3403
    @jonjahr3403 16 днів тому

    So the russians have now lost two prized naval vessels, both named Moskva and both sunk in the Black Sea. As the final line in the song Rasputin goes, "Oh, those russians" 😅

  • @JohnSmith-se9yl
    @JohnSmith-se9yl 4 місяці тому +3

    I have NO idea what the title is referring to. What ship can't who talk about?
    Really lousy title...

  • @TAZ0300
    @TAZ0300 11 днів тому

    Did he say on the coast of🤷🏻‍♂️ Costanza? ☝️🤨🙄🤔🤔 As in the Seinfeld episode??
    CAN’T STAND YA (Costanza ) 😳🤭😂😂😂😂😂

  • @lexuiosub118
    @lexuiosub118 Місяць тому

    We never learn about this battle in school, and I've never heard of this till now, and bloody hell I am Romanian and i do like history

  • @miljangrehovic8936
    @miljangrehovic8936 21 день тому

    And once again Russia lost mans, ships, battls and wars. And again there is Russia!

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 3 місяці тому

    Considering what the condition was of the borrowed ship returned to the UK after WWII....they don't deserve to have naval vessels.

  • @MISTERLeSkid
    @MISTERLeSkid 26 днів тому

    Watching this is a bit confusing now because I don't know who to cheer for anymore. I was born in the 60s so when I was a boy, Russians were the bad guys. Then after the wall came down, they became our friends. I also learned that Russia was instrumental in defeating the nazis and ending WWII, even though they sided with Hitler at the beginning of hostilities. And since they invaded Ukraine, we're back to hating them again. To make things even more complicated, I married a Russian girl in the 90s lol (she hates Putin too).

  • @philjono2462
    @philjono2462 4 місяці тому +1

    The titles of these videos are getting more and more click baity.

  • @rbtsubs
    @rbtsubs 4 місяці тому

    why's the film running backwards at the 4:12 point

    • @DeMews
      @DeMews 4 місяці тому

      Here too: 1:57

  • @RANDALLBRIGGS
    @RANDALLBRIGGS 3 місяці тому +1

    Over and over and over, the video does not match the narration. Narration of how a Hawker Hurricane had engine problems is accompanied by video of a radial engine being serviced. Just one example. All that's missing is some footage of the Battle of Britain.

  • @bernardtheulsterman
    @bernardtheulsterman 3 місяці тому +1

    "Romanian bravery against Soviet-Imperial aggression..." what ? who started "Operation Barbarossa" - wasn't it the other way round ?

  • @jmflournoy386
    @jmflournoy386 4 місяці тому +1

    great but what mystery?

  • @randymagnum143
    @randymagnum143 2 місяці тому

    When you get pwned by Romania..........i mean..........what's left? The shame is palpable.

  • @fredericksaxton3991
    @fredericksaxton3991 6 годин тому

    On my computer screen this video has a thumbnail picture of the Argentinan Cruiser 'Belgrano' sinking in 1982 after being torpedoed by HMS Conquerer..
    What has this got to do with a Russian navy video of WW2?

  • @eugeneblue299
    @eugeneblue299 2 місяці тому

    Neat.

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po
    @JRRodriguez-nu7po 3 місяці тому

    The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

  • @stefanleonardo9734
    @stefanleonardo9734 3 місяці тому

    I'm noticing a pattern with these Moskva ships. 😂

  • @billholley2446
    @billholley2446 4 місяці тому

    When the hell did the Hurricane get a rotary engine?

  • @iankingsleys2818
    @iankingsleys2818 4 місяці тому

    The date is wrong. Its not 1940, its 1941

  • @Dilley_G45
    @Dilley_G45 3 місяці тому +3

    Romania didnt join the "Nazis", if joined Germany in a war against soviets which had stolen Bessarabia a short time before. As today russia was the original aggressor. Romania succeeded in regaining their lost territory. Sadly it didn't last

    • @matthewhuszarik4173
      @matthewhuszarik4173 2 місяці тому

      Sorry joining Germany was joining the Nazis.

    • @Dilley_G45
      @Dilley_G45 2 місяці тому

      @@matthewhuszarik4173 no...They didn't join the nazis they sought protection from the greater evil the communist Soviets. Western "democracies" had let Stalin steal Bessarabia. And invade Poland, and attack Finland and annex 3 Baltic countries. Blame the west, not Romania

  • @TheRealBobBasher
    @TheRealBobBasher 4 місяці тому +6

    So now there are two "Moscows" at the bottom of the sea. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 4 місяці тому

    and again they had cargo which you had donated, isn't it?

  • @jimcrozier3785
    @jimcrozier3785 2 місяці тому

    3 aircraft downed in 1 minute............ not possible.
    3 aircraft downed, totally believable.

  • @clivecartey
    @clivecartey 3 місяці тому

    Regarding your Hurricane comment ...."...a better plane.." you should have said "...a correctly maintained plane....".

  • @user-McGiver
    @user-McGiver 4 місяці тому +4

    how many ships named Moscwa can ''hide'' in the Black Sea bottom?....
    we should make a game around it...

    • @ianturner9815
      @ianturner9815 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, it's great because you are obviously pro-nazi

    • @ianturner9815
      @ianturner9815 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, it's great because you are obviously pro-nazi

  • @holgernarrog962
    @holgernarrog962 4 місяці тому +9

    The early Hawker Hurricane as delivered to Romania was not better than the He 112 and not better at all than the Me 109F variant used in mid 41.

    • @forresttm
      @forresttm 4 місяці тому +2

      He didj say better. He said more reliable.
      There is a difference.

    • @holgernarrog962
      @holgernarrog962 4 місяці тому +1

      @@forresttm The Messerschmidt E model was evaluated as very reliable by the Swiss. I assume it is the same for the F model. The later G-models with the later DB 605 engines were built in small factories by less qualified workers designed for 30h only.

    • @petercollingwood522
      @petercollingwood522 4 місяці тому

      @@forresttm The Hurricane was most definately not more reliable than the 109. The only thing it had going for it was easier ground handling beacuse of it's wider undercarriage. I could also turn inside the 109 but that was not a war winning ability. I had an uncle who was a Hurricane pilot in North Africa. He flew Spitifires later in the war as well.