New British Battleships: World War II (1942) | British Pathé
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Two British Royal Navy battleships, the HMS Howe and HMS Anson, prepare for their first voyage during World War II. This feature from the Pathé Gazette shows everything from the loading of shells for their 14"/45 caliber guns to shipping out to sea.
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Titles read: "PATHE GAZETTE TAKES PRIDE IN PRESENTING THE FIRST PICTURES OF - NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS".
Somewhere in Britain.
Various shots of new battleships HMS Howe and HMS Anson, receiving a final 'touch-up' of paint before being handed over to the navy. Dockyard workers leave the two ships.
The navy crew board the ships, followed by supplies. Captain Woodhouse takes over HMS Howe after the signing by the shipbuilders. Shells are lifted aboard by cranes.
C/U of a pile of bank notes being counted. At the first pay parade the crew put their caps on a table and their money is placed on top.
The naval chaplain conducts a service on the open deck; crew stand with heads bowed. Battleship Howe leaves the Graving Dock and enters the Firth of Forth. It moves very slowly through the narrow exit of the dock then heads out and under Forth Bridge. Engineers in the engine room check dials.
During tests at sea we see the Howe being put through her paces. Catapault seaplane is launched from the decks. Men climb onto the large 14 inch guns, take their covers off and they do their first firing; good shots of naval barrage.
L/S of the Howe coming in and dropping anchor.
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What wonderful days when we had such a magnificent navy & ships.
While battleships are very cool I'm not sure I would describe the early 1940s as "wonderful days."
Beautiful Ship
Work of arts made from steel.
I want a narrator to use this tone of voice to announce when I turn in my homework.
Remember when navies were ranked by how much of an absolute unit their ships are? Yeah...
For my money, Nelson and Rodney were the greatest of the European battleships. Triple triple 16s all up front, all killer no filler, a superstructure like a medieval castle. It is like an ancient fortress has put to sea to vibe check your Teutonic ass.
Absolutely incredible vessel.......but obsolescent by the time of her commission.
Awesome!
I appreciate this was the greatest conflict in human history, but life seemed to be far more innocent than today.
Brilliant👍
amazing
Fabulous footage, great to watch. At a time when battleships where still thought to rule the seas. All changed when Admiral Nagumo and his carrier fleet attacked Pearl Harbour, a day that will live in infamy!
(battleships still fought several major battles after this)
Certainly did, the USS Missouri saw action for many years after WW2. T he Belgrano, formerly USS Phoenix was sunk in 1982. But my original point was about how air superiority had changed navel war at Pearl Harbour and then again at Midway.
@@densalbeach1 I'm not talking about "Technically in combat like shelling a beachhead or escorting a carrier battle group" i mean "proper Battleships throwing shells at each other to win a naval battle" happened several times after pearl harbor.
To see battleships in action against another battleship must have been an incredible sight, but horrific when you think of the loss of life, only three survived the sinking of the Hood when she was sunk by the Bismark!
@@densalbeach1 the problem here is due to the nature of capital ship warfare lifeboats just become a source of fire and splinters, and are often or usually destroyed at the same time the rest of the ship is destroyed.
So if you’re sunk and a friendly ship is unable to come pick you up later, that’s all she wrote. Hope you can swim. (Many sailors could not)
Also they have a habit of blowing up in massive explosions or rolling over suddenly. Both tend to kill anyone on or near by the ship
Beautiful ships. Sadly it would turn out to be a waste of money, and they were all scrapped in the 1950s and 1960s.
If turned into museum ships, they could have been magnificent sources of income through tourism.
@@mattb8190 Indeed.
@@mattb8190 that would require forward thinking. Something Britain has always seriously lacked
Waste of money? The KGV class were some of the hardest working ships of the WW2 era Royal Navy. KGV and Prince of Wales were instrumental in the sinking of the Bismarck, Duke of York inflicted the death blow on the Scharnhorst, Howe & Anson ran multiple convoys through the Uboat infested arctic route to Russia. These ships were worth every penny paid.
@Matt B If Vangard was retained the Falkland war would have been won