Even today, ice breakers are common in Spring and Fall as the many fiords of Sweden and Norway can result in sudden patches of ice in the Baltic and North Sea.
I dunno, a lot of the ships the USN took on its world tour in "The Great White Fleet" were coastal battleships and not meant for open ocean sailing, but they managed several heavy storms (one had even been a typhoon IIRC) and none of them suffered significant damage nor were any of those low freeboard coastal battleships in danger of foundering. Though in that same storm, one crewman was actually washed overboard off his ship, and seemingly being the LUCKIEST sailor to have ever lived, a wave washed him right onto the deck of the battleship that had been sailing directly astern of his ship. So the post storm report had one man lost on one ship, and one man added to another.
I feel so bad for Adm. Rozhestvensky. Somehow chaperoned his squadron the the Pacific despite its best efforts, then assumed full responsibility for the debacle in the end. o7
@@BlueflameKing1 I guess they did nominally achieve their objective,.... while alternating between derp and ethnically/religiously motivated slaughter.
First Crusade actually achieved something. The Fourth Crusade didn't even get past Constantinople, decided to sack it, and left it a shadow of its former self.
Hey author, why are you laughing? Should you recall Pearl harbor attack, when 23 US ships were destroyed or damaged along with 350 aicraft? Given that USA is not landlocked country.
Japan sunk us ships us sunk Japan and beat Japan at it's own carrier game the Russian lost the war with Japan and lost its fleet how can you compare this to Pearl 😂😂😂
We got an angry Ivan. 🤣 Russian incompetent knows no bounds. Pearl Harbor ships were lost in an attack. Russians second Pacific fleet lost their battle before it even started. There is no comparison.
@@5969destinyHe's just an emotional and defeated Russian suffering cognitive dissonance. On one hand "glorious Russia is unstoppable" yet on the other hand, Russia has had the most horrendously pathetic history over the last 150 years.
Pearl Harbour didn't continue to get attacked for several months. The equivalent to this would be if the Japanese had appeared off the coast and the Americans had accidentally blown up the harbour themselves. Followed by New York, Washington DC and Chicago.
Being a supporter of communism at that time was the best option. People often underestimate, due to thfir ingrsined hstred for the USSR, how terrible the russian empire really was. The russian empire was not better than the USSR.
Not so much the US, more like BuOrd. As Drach said, US pilots and sailors did their absolute best and sometimes yielded results with these utterly terrible torpedoes.
Don't forget the taiho.... operation ten go or the Olympia videos.... And the destroyer development 1914-39 has quite a few good bits in it. Love history with some good jokes thrown in.
Basically it would be something like The Death of Stalin, this black comedy that you just couldn't believe any of it was real and then are shocked by how much of it really happened
@weldonwin I had to pause the Death of Stalin and look up what happened because I was thinking "There's no possible way it was like this." Lo and behold, the only inaccuracies were timing, with some of the minor events happening over the course of months rather than days.
Admiral Makarov was actually a legit genius, hugely influential on naval warfare. It may be good to distrust Russian navies as a general rule, but Makarov was legit.
I’m not defending the Aurora’s crews decision to support the Soviets, but if they continued their superiority in discipline until 1917 I can understand being frustrated with this level of incompetence all around you
If i directed a miniseries about this i would put a lot of disclaimers at the begining, middlecand end of each episode saying this really, really happen. I would even offer links and notes to the appropriate literature for fact checking for the audience.
I saw Russia and Pacific and I just wanted to mention this guy called Radio Tapok made a song about the Russo-Japanese War called Tsushima. The song is in Russian but Iron Thunder Lyrics got it translated to English.
Please react to drachinifel's video on leyte gulf for more of the hilarious.. in a good way actions of navies . plus some great destroyers that showed as much courage as the Piorun. Go USS Johnston
Just the fact that you keep reminding us that, "Yes, this all happened. It's all true." This voyage is peak comedy. Too bad it gets really dark in part 2.
The Russian Admiral, in charge of the second Pacific squadron didn’t go by the Suez Canal, because he was frightful that it was a bottleneck. He didn’t go because the British, because of the incident with the fishing trawlers, denied him access… Because of the phantom torpedo boat on Dogger bank, the British denied him the request to send the bulk of his fleet through the suez canal.
Yep I hate it so much. Who advised Tsar on this? just what kind of people were in power back then? What kind of aristocrats #creme de la creme# were looking at this and told everyone Go ahead ! Its going to be fun
Don't you hate it when you open the fridge and a dozen Japanese torpedo boats appear out of the butter?
I swear that happened to me last week I thought I was seeing things thanks for the vindication LOL
@@Warmduscher1876 happens to the best of us...
To quote the tagline of Russian naval history “and the it got worse”
As well as "THIS! ACTUALLY!! *HAPPENED!!!"*
I should remind you about Pearl Harbor?
If Russia had attacked Pearl Harbor, they'd have hit no Americans and shot down half their fleet.
That seems to be the description of the Russian military in general, right up to today it seems
@dmitryletov8138
Pearl Harbour only happened once, try harder.
I love how when Drachinifel is talking about the parrot at 38:30, the way he says "somebody" makes it sounds like he's actually upset about it
That had to be the first multilingual parrot because there aren’t enough curses in any one language to deal with this lot
Makes it sound more like he was the one who did it.
39:48 A large amount likely being tigers and oceanic white tips, as in swimming garbage cans and the shark version of the Fremen.
I had to stop the video several times to stop myself from literally dying of laughter. The admiral should have done stand-up comedy.
I'm at the Floating Zoo part, they needed a rino.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one! Drach is the man
Sadly, the records don’t tell us if he ran out of binoculars.
Even today, ice breakers are common in Spring and Fall as the many fiords of Sweden and Norway can result in sudden patches of ice in the Baltic and North Sea.
Do you see torpedo boats?
Yes I do. Horizon to horizon, packed gunwale to gunwale.
Came back to rewatch after a different video mentioned the kamchatka and my brain panicked briefly.
I dunno, a lot of the ships the USN took on its world tour in "The Great White Fleet" were coastal battleships and not meant for open ocean sailing, but they managed several heavy storms (one had even been a typhoon IIRC) and none of them suffered significant damage nor were any of those low freeboard coastal battleships in danger of foundering. Though in that same storm, one crewman was actually washed overboard off his ship, and seemingly being the LUCKIEST sailor to have ever lived, a wave washed him right onto the deck of the battleship that had been sailing directly astern of his ship. So the post storm report had one man lost on one ship, and one man added to another.
I feel so bad for Adm. Rozhestvensky. Somehow chaperoned his squadron the the Pacific despite its best efforts, then assumed full responsibility for the debacle in the end.
o7
This will make a great comedy film
You are a gentleman and a scholar for this my man!
Ahh finally the inspiration of the administratum
Oh yes, a fail fest to rival the first crusade.
At least the first crusade was a success, in the most ass way possible.
@@BlueflameKing1 I guess they did nominally achieve their objective,.... while alternating between derp and ethnically/religiously motivated slaughter.
First Crusade actually achieved something. The Fourth Crusade didn't even get past Constantinople, decided to sack it, and left it a shadow of its former self.
Technically the peasants crusade was first, before the First Crusade , and was about as successful as this...
It would be quicker if you asked about what didn't go wrong
There wouldn't be a *video.*
I looked it up anf the port they were ransomed at was Copenhagen.
They were also forced to dock in Spain to offload officers who ordered the ships to open fire. He beach a few of the idiots he didn't like too.
In Star Trek Online I named my stealth torpedo ship the Kamchatka. Do you see torpedo boats?
ohhhhgod, I gotta try that with a klingon Bird of Prey.
"Now you see the torpedo boat, now you don't!"
Kamchatka! Or the speech: "An than it goes worst!" on Water XD.
Admiral Pethrovich - Stannis Baratheon.
Ahh but wait it gets worst their is a second part that covers the battle just as much fun.
InteressAnte
Do you think that follow naval history are idiots..eg the explanation of blue and brown water navies...give us some respect please
Hey author, why are you laughing? Should you recall Pearl harbor attack, when 23 US ships were destroyed or damaged along with 350 aicraft? Given that USA is not landlocked country.
Japan sunk us ships us sunk Japan and beat Japan at it's own carrier game the Russian lost the war with Japan and lost its fleet how can you compare this to Pearl 😂😂😂
@@5969destinyI'm failing to see how the Pacific squadron has anything to do with pearl harbor in the first place
We got an angry Ivan. 🤣 Russian incompetent knows no bounds. Pearl Harbor ships were lost in an attack. Russians second Pacific fleet lost their battle before it even started. There is no comparison.
@@5969destinyHe's just an emotional and defeated Russian suffering cognitive dissonance. On one hand "glorious Russia is unstoppable" yet on the other hand, Russia has had the most horrendously pathetic history over the last 150 years.
Pearl Harbour didn't continue to get attacked for several months. The equivalent to this would be if the Japanese had appeared off the coast and the Americans had accidentally blown up the harbour themselves. Followed by New York, Washington DC and Chicago.
TFW the Kamchatka almost kicks off WW1 ten years early.
Well at least everyone vs the Russians if that counts.
They could even have prevented WW1 by destroying relations between Russia and Britain.
Kamchatka: Do you see torpedo boats?
Admiral: What? No we don't see an... Wait, do YOU see torpedo boats?
Kamchatka: All the time, laughing at me...
Ah the Kamchatka...
AKA. Everybody's Problem.
It's Russian history, 'And then it got worse' is always on the board.
The aurora was so traumatized by the voyage that it went from a competent ship to a key supporter of the Communists
One can't really blame her.
Being a supporter of communism at that time was the best option. People often underestimate, due to thfir ingrsined hstred for the USSR, how terrible the russian empire really was. The russian empire was not better than the USSR.
@@carlossaraiva8213 Yep. For all its myriad faults and horrors the USSR was still an objective improvement over the empire.
Drach's 'Mark 14 Failure is like onions' will have you either laughing or crying at the US's incompetence
As the little girl says, ‘Why not both?’
Not so much the US, more like BuOrd. As Drach said, US pilots and sailors did their absolute best and sometimes yielded results with these utterly terrible torpedoes.
Yes ! This video as well as the one about leyte gulf
Don't forget the taiho.... operation ten go or the Olympia videos.... And the destroyer development 1914-39 has quite a few good bits in it. Love history with some good jokes thrown in.
I told him it was upsetting.
A true historical event that, if ever turned into a semi-accurate movie or series, would simply not be believed.
Basically it would be something like The Death of Stalin, this black comedy that you just couldn't believe any of it was real and then are shocked by how much of it really happened
@weldonwin
I had to pause the Death of Stalin and look up what happened because I was thinking "There's no possible way it was like this." Lo and behold, the only inaccuracies were timing, with some of the minor events happening over the course of months rather than days.
It is kind of impressive that they made it to Tsushima.
"This gets worse!" Oh I know. That's why I'm watching.
Do you see torpedo boats?
No! No one sees torpedo boats. Do shut up.
Rozhestvensky: OH *CYKA BLYAT!*
Britain, where is this voyage going again?!
@@sonofjack6286
/sigh....
No, no one sees torpedo boats, please be quiet 🤫
Oh God yes, who ever recommended this to you is worthy of the man emperor's glory!
That would be the user Nomquam who used his patreon request for it.
The ice breaker is needed because the Baltic tends to get icy. It helps if you have a way to get your fleet unstuck if you need to.
The Bothnic Gulf gets iced in the winter but not the Baltic itself. So again the icebreaker was nonsense.
Admiral Makarov was actually a legit genius, hugely influential on naval warfare. It may be good to distrust Russian navies as a general rule, but Makarov was legit.
Ohhh Drach! I love drach! This is a welcome event.
"And then it gets worse" is basically the russian navy throughout history 1600s to Today
I’m not defending the Aurora’s crews decision to support the Soviets, but if they continued their superiority in discipline until 1917 I can understand being frustrated with this level of incompetence all around you
If i directed a miniseries about this i would put a lot of disclaimers at the begining, middlecand end of each episode saying this really, really happen. I would even offer links and notes to the appropriate literature for fact checking for the audience.
I saw Russia and Pacific and I just wanted to mention this guy called Radio Tapok made a song about the Russo-Japanese War called Tsushima. The song is in Russian but Iron Thunder Lyrics got it translated to English.
dear god ...an ork waagggg with their commander's head half missing would be more competent than these guys...
Yeah we saw what happened there at armageddon
Their gunnery would be more accurate at least.
Y'all see any Japanese Torpedo Boats?
Denmark, where is this invasion again?!
They make the Imperial recruitment look like geniuses
I was crying with laughter this entire video.
JESUS CHRIST this is worse than the peoples front of the russian navy.
Please react to drachinifel's video on leyte gulf for more of the hilarious.. in a good way actions of navies . plus some great destroyers that showed as much courage as the Piorun. Go USS Johnston
I’m sure the Johnston and Pioron would be drinking buddies.
Drach's content is some of the greatest for subtle-dry-British humor.
There are times even he cant keep it dry and it is alwsys when he ralks about the russian navy. He's only human, he has limits.
Holy shit your watching a drac video this is awesome!!!!
Please watch part 2
I should not have been drinking when they listed the nicknames XD
now gotta clean my monitor lol
Battle of Samar by Drach
Because running is boring.
Just uploaded.
Look up Drachinifel's naval Darwin Awards.
It was worse? Sources! I need a good laugh. 😊
react to USS William D Porter - Guide 026 (Human Voice) by Drachinifel
I fell in love with the Kamchatka
You really need react to the video about the mark 14.
The first time I ever watched this video I passed myself laughing. 10/10 would piss myself again
The swearing parrot had me in stitches! 😂
Thanks for the Extra Humor 😊 I watched the Original 5 times it's SOO Stupid...ha ha 🤣
Talk a comedy of errors. Voyage of the damned, indeed!
Why are you stopping the video and stating the bleeding obvious...with an American perspective...not really necessary
Just the fact that you keep reminding us that, "Yes, this all happened. It's all true." This voyage is peak comedy. Too bad it gets really dark in part 2.
I do hope thar parrot survived
It did. It just didn’t survive a Russian winter.
@@Isolder74 Damn. I really liked that profanity spewing bird.
@TheAKgunner
Andrew Jackson had a foul mouthed parrot too. The parrot had to be removed from Mr. Jackson's Funeral.
@@karmaalstad5588 One of the reasons Andrew Jackson’s a favorite president of mine.
I'd have loved to know what kind of creative language came from that bird. 😂
I know I’m like 2 years late but I would love to see you react to the uss Marblehead and his glowworm
You can't go wrong with Drachinifel
Kamchatka, my clumsy beloved
What crap, watch the original instead
I'm just here for the Kamchatka jokes.
The Russian Admiral, in charge of the second Pacific squadron didn’t go by the Suez Canal, because he was frightful that it was a bottleneck. He didn’t go because the British, because of the incident with the fishing trawlers, denied him access…
Because of the phantom torpedo boat on Dogger bank, the British denied him the request to send the bulk of his fleet through the suez canal.
I would turn it into a limited series.
And it would be a dark comedy.
Yep I hate it so much. Who advised Tsar on this? just what kind of people were in power back then? What kind of aristocrats #creme de la creme# were looking at this and told everyone Go ahead ! Its going to be fun
The Russian Empire was one of the geriatric old men of Europe at this point, alongside the Ottomans, which was slightly better, and Austria-Hungary.
@@sonofjack6286 Beneath the tech how little has changed.
@@forrestpenrod2294 I know, granted losing nearly half the population of the Soviet Union didn't help modern Russia either.