Thanks for watching everyone! Sorry if my voice sounds a little more rough than usual. I'm dealing with a sore throat of some sort, I think it ended up okay though. Let me know what other ships you want to see!
Thank you guys! I did find out what was wrong. I had been taking a nasal spray to help with my allergies, and found out its side effect is a dry/sore throat so I promptly stopped that!
Funny thing is SMS Viper of the Wespe class survived as a crane ship conversion until at least 1967. Some even suspect she's still around as an unrecognized hulk or work platform somewhere
Honestly this was a very good video start to finish. You talked about ships that i had never even heard of before (doing more digging on the first two because well Knowledge). Can't wait to see more! However if you ever decide to do a video like this on American ships. I have to ask you to incorporate the Sub Class of the Fletchers. It consisted of three ships, USS Halford (DD-480), USS Pringle (DD-477), and the USS Stevens (DD-479). There was 6 of these ships planned, but only thoe three were completed. These ships had the 3rd 5in gun removed as well as one of their torpedo tubes, and in their place a catapult was fitted in thier spot. Its a very weird design choice, and worth talking about.
What strikes me is that when discussing the German navy of 2nd Empire, people seem to forget that the coastal German states had plenty of maritime history and experience as merchant sailors, that Germany entered the industrial age together with the old naval powers having certain advantages over them and that all navies were transitioning in the second half of the nineteenth century. That’s why in relatively short time the German Imperial Navy grew into a formidable force culminating in the Hochseeflotte of WW1.
Ah, SMS Hessen, defiantly one of the lesser known vessels of the Kaiserliche Marine, and even more so during her service with the Kreigsmarine. Hessen is probably most known for her wacky rebuild as a radio-controlled target ship, being the only vessel that Tirpitz ever fired upon, even if she was only a target ship, and being one of the very few german surface warships to survive WWII, even if she still was only a disarmed target ship. Cool Vid!
I enjoyed your presentation. I have always had a fondness for the panzerships of the German navy. I'd like for you to do one on the Mississippi class ships that were sold to the Greeks.
Thanks for covering lesser known German vessels from the late 19th century. An excellent presentation as usual. Perhaps you could do a video on Japanese warships during the same era.
If you want to make a video on a truely unique and new area of sea warfare you should look into the naval warfare in the wadden see in the wars between german states and Denmark for Schleswig-Holstein. It featured some unique vessels and interesting battles, as larger ships couldnt operate in the area, due to the tides rowboats with cannons where used in the shallow areas. That war featured some of themost modern ships at that time on the danish side and some true scrap in the various german navies (some of the best prussian ships couldnt leave port, as they would just sink, if they left the harbour).
Hessen was very interesting. Remote controlled or drone ships are older than one might expect. I saw an early 20th century model at Windermere last week. Very interesting doco. Honey and lemon will sooth your throat. Get well soon ship mate 👍🏽
Congratulation and thanks for this very good and interisting video. The three "Panzerschiffe" were very famous, the "Wespe-Class" was a interisting, but failed experiment and the "Hessen" was """only""" a Pre-Dreadnought like many others. But a longlife one. And the modification to a RC-Targetship made "Hessen" together with the other RC-Targetship, the even older Pre-Dreadnought "Zähringen", very unique. Here is a old german movie: ua-cam.com/video/zYA-qBpNzWI/v-deo.htmlsi=1zP6VxLsD2Jpza1i From 1:07:35 you can see "Hessen" or "Zähringen" together with the Controllship and the technical details. It seems that the German sailors were very good at inventing nicknames. They came up with two for the "Hessen". Another pre-dreadnought, the "Preussen", was scrapped in 1931. However, a 63-meter-long section in the middle was still used as a target for mines and torpedos. The nickname of this remaining section was SMS Vierkant (SMS Square).
"Their slow speeds and poor handling caused them to be hated by their crews, due to their poor seakeeping (keeping water out)." So which was it? You switched subjects mid sentence. Did you mean "and due to their poor seakeeping?' I'm betting you did (hopefully). Proofread your scripts.
They’re on the list! My current problem is the fact I don’t have the sources I need to do the video properly. Although I do have a list of books to purchase in the future when I have the money to do so.
Thanks for watching everyone! Sorry if my voice sounds a little more rough than usual. I'm dealing with a sore throat of some sort, I think it ended up okay though. Let me know what other ships you want to see!
Sounds good to me!
Hope it gets better soon!
Sounds great, you're doing a good job as always man!
Thank you guys! I did find out what was wrong. I had been taking a nasal spray to help with my allergies, and found out its side effect is a dry/sore throat so I promptly stopped that!
Funny thing is SMS Viper of the Wespe class survived as a crane ship conversion until at least 1967. Some even suspect she's still around as an unrecognized hulk or work platform somewhere
Yep, she is in Turkey, Black Sea coast, app in 2023.
really? Is there any proof?
@@itsflyguy5353 deutsches Marinemuseum in Kiel
@@steffenrosmus9177 proof?
@kyle_mk17 do their and browse the archives as I did
Panzerschiff, the ultimate conclusion to the problem of being restricted to a pre-Dreadnought sized ship with pre-Dreadnought sized weapons.
Honestly this was a very good video start to finish. You talked about ships that i had never even heard of before (doing more digging on the first two because well Knowledge). Can't wait to see more! However if you ever decide to do a video like this on American ships. I have to ask you to incorporate the Sub Class of the Fletchers. It consisted of three ships, USS Halford (DD-480), USS Pringle (DD-477), and the USS Stevens (DD-479). There was 6 of these ships planned, but only thoe three were completed. These ships had the 3rd 5in gun removed as well as one of their torpedo tubes, and in their place a catapult was fitted in thier spot. Its a very weird design choice, and worth talking about.
What strikes me is that when discussing the German navy of 2nd Empire, people seem to forget that the coastal German states had plenty of maritime history and experience as merchant sailors, that Germany entered the industrial age together with the old naval powers having certain advantages over them and that all navies were transitioning in the second half of the nineteenth century. That’s why in relatively short time the German Imperial Navy grew into a formidable force culminating in the Hochseeflotte of WW1.
Ah, SMS Hessen, defiantly one of the lesser known vessels of the Kaiserliche Marine, and even more so during her service with the Kreigsmarine. Hessen is probably most known for her wacky rebuild as a radio-controlled target ship, being the only vessel that Tirpitz ever fired upon, even if she was only a target ship, and being one of the very few german surface warships to survive WWII, even if she still was only a disarmed target ship. Cool Vid!
Italian warships R 'habitually' overlooked, a shame as they tend 2 B routinely unusual, & often innovative, especially in the ironclad era ❤
I have a weird love of weird and odd ships of History so I look forward to the next one that you do
I enjoyed your presentation. I have always had a fondness for the panzerships of the German navy. I'd like for you to do one on the Mississippi class ships that were sold to the Greeks.
Thanks for covering lesser known German vessels from the late 19th century. An excellent presentation as usual. Perhaps you could do a video on Japanese warships during the same era.
If you want to make a video on a truely unique and new area of sea warfare you should look into the naval warfare in the wadden see in the wars between german states and Denmark for Schleswig-Holstein. It featured some unique vessels and interesting battles, as larger ships couldnt operate in the area, due to the tides rowboats with cannons where used in the shallow areas.
That war featured some of themost modern ships at that time on the danish side and some true scrap in the various german navies (some of the best prussian ships couldnt leave port, as they would just sink, if they left the harbour).
Hessen was very interesting. Remote controlled or drone ships are older than one might expect. I saw an early 20th century model at Windermere last week. Very interesting doco. Honey and lemon will sooth your throat. Get well soon ship mate 👍🏽
Thanks! All good now, whatever nasal spray I was taking for my allergies was the cause. Guess I won’t need that again.
Congratulation and thanks for this very good and interisting video. The three "Panzerschiffe" were very famous, the "Wespe-Class" was a interisting, but failed experiment and the "Hessen" was """only""" a Pre-Dreadnought like many others. But a longlife one. And the modification to a RC-Targetship made "Hessen" together with the other RC-Targetship, the even older Pre-Dreadnought "Zähringen", very unique.
Here is a old german movie: ua-cam.com/video/zYA-qBpNzWI/v-deo.htmlsi=1zP6VxLsD2Jpza1i
From 1:07:35 you can see "Hessen" or "Zähringen" together with the Controllship and the technical details.
It seems that the German sailors were very good at inventing nicknames. They came up with two for the "Hessen". Another pre-dreadnought, the "Preussen", was scrapped in 1931. However, a 63-meter-long section in the middle was still used as a target for mines and torpedos. The nickname of this remaining section was SMS Vierkant (SMS Square).
"Their slow speeds and poor handling caused them to be hated by their crews, due to their poor seakeeping (keeping water out)." So which was it? You switched subjects mid sentence. Did you mean "and due to their poor seakeeping?' I'm betting you did (hopefully). Proofread your scripts.
Yes, I did. My scripts are proofread. However, I made a mistake while recording and didn’t catch it till it was too late. Mistakes happen.
Sieht aus wie das Zielschiff Zähringen oder Hessen.
Please look at the French early ironclads!
They’re on the list! My current problem is the fact I don’t have the sources I need to do the video properly. Although I do have a list of books to purchase in the future when I have the money to do so.
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I like drill down episodes like this that discuss unique stories…good stuff…your voice sounds OK…content is key…
Why does this say it’s Upcoming and is so short?
Sorry David! It’s a trailer for the latest video which will be out at 9:00 PM GMT.
@@ImportantNavalHistory Ah I’m with you now, appreciate your response and will be looking forward to seeing it later. Cheers.🇬🇧🙏🇺🇸👏
I would prefer to see a video about the coastdefence ships of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands
Good call! I think I could do one on minor European powers. The Finnish ones are some of my favorite vessels!
Make one...why prefer? Why not both?
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This is a typical British non-objective view when it comes to naval issues.
I’d love to hear your reasoning. I’ve been more than fair to German warships in the past, as you have pointed out on those videos.