The Devastating Hit That Turned a WW2 Ship into a New Monster
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2023
- In the waning months of World War 2, USS Canberra was thrust into the Pacific’s violent theater of war. Newly commissioned, she navigated into the maelstrom of battle late, but her participation would be exceptional.
Canberra met her trial by fire in the heart of the most brutal encounters - Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Each battle drove her deeper into territories held in the clenched fist of the Japanese Empire. Yet, in the face of escalating danger, her luck was to crumble.
On October 13, Canberra fell victim to a brutal assault. A Japanese aircraft’s torpedo struck beneath the cruiser’s armor belt with remarkable accuracy.
The blast hurled crew members into the air and ripped open the engineering rooms, exposing them to the relentless sea. She teetered on the brink, nearly claimed by the ocean’s depths.
But Canberra’s story was not meant to end that day. From this devastating blow, she was reborn through a transformative overhaul. This reconstruction made her ready to grapple with the demands of modern warfare.
The combat career of USS Canberra was far from over; it still had a pivotal role to play in the unfurling of modern history…
My dad served on the Canberra CAG-2. He was a Lt. and was in charge of the #2 turret. Over time, he lost some of his hearing due to his time on the ship. On a different note, I was a baby in the 1960's and I was baptized on the ship. Both my parents are gone now, but they were Navy through-and-through. God Bless the USN.
SEMPER FORTUS !
My old man served on the Canberra in Nam too. He was in the munitions room 67-69
My husband's father was Lt.JG aboard the USS Canberra and was also in charge of the second turret. We were fascinated by this video!
I built a great model of the Canberra when I was a kid, but unfortunately, she was lost to a hostile action involving my brothers, a BB gun, and some firecrackers.
I lost a battleship for similar reasons. Except it was a Ruger 10/22. Even with my added compartmentation.
And don't ask about my LST I scratch built with a balsa wood hull.
@@bizjetfixr8352 Ah, yes, the campaigns and conflicts of our youth.
I firecrackered the USS Midway, in 1945 guise, not long after I built it. Felt kind of stupid afterward.
So I consoled myself by rebuilding it and doing the firecracker thing all over again.
This continued until there were no pieces left to rebuild with.
Hi all, loving the UA-cam channel but The name of the ship is not said like that it is pronounced Can-ber-ra .
Loving your channel 👍🏼
@@SteveRussellPyou tell em Steve...emphasis on the Can...
October14 1943 was the day I was born. Now 80 I have no memory of WW2. Never stop telling the tales of WW2 to new generations, for tales untold will never be known.
And for your forth Birthday, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for you. ;)
@@user-tf1rq9vg1j Thanks, did not know that (was quite young at time) David
In spite of the laws, I believe it was very fair and honorable to send the bell to Australia. A great honor to the Australian sailors who served alongside the United States in the Pacific war.
I can Tell ya........ as a USN Veteran, 84 - 05, I was Proud to Serve with.... 'Aussie' sailors during a couple of five (5) different RIMPACs (Rim of the Pacific). Where Navy's from around the Pacific Ocean, (including Australia) would get together and drink beers....... I Mean, train together then drink beers!!🍺🍻🍺
Honestly you Yanks can keep the bell 😂
Our RAN beats your pitiful navy in everything bar air coverage/air projection
@@richardcostello360 I thought you guys were buying subs off of us? I guess I have that switched around - the USA must be buying advanced subs from Oz.
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
What a day to present it, too. Sept 10, 2001. I can certainly understand why I didn't hear much about it in the news in the U.S. the next day...
What a respectful tribute from each navy naming their warships to honor their ally.
yeah, this was the first and only example in the US Navy and it reflects the fact that the HMAS Canberra was sunk by a US destroyer in a friendly fire episode. It wasn't publicised because of the need to keep friendly relations between allies, but that is the reason. Surprised it wasn't mentioned here.
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
@montecarlo1651 TY
If it is true, what you say. This channel has lost a little credibility, in my eyes. 😒
@@icosthop9998 The whole thing was hushed up at the time but with careful research you can find references to it. Apparently the USS Bagley, which seems to have been a poor destroyer fired at the Canberra early on thinking it was Japanese but without considering the ships it knew were ahead of it in the line, it was the Bagley's hit that crippled it. Perhaps the Canberra's British, and therefore unfamiliar design profile/silhouette didn't help. The Australian Govt was, at the time, making a huge pivot away from Britain to a US based alignment and Americans had not always been viewed favourably up to that time, possibly because of inherited British biases arising from the war of 1812 which still lingered in the US Navy (Adm King for example). In any event, the Aust Govt didn't want a friendly fire episode to anger the public and perhaps make the political realignment more difficult (it was already difficult given the historic links to Britain). The US Govt of course, hardly wanted to publicise the episode so it was quietly pushed into the archives and forgotten. Just why the US Navy has an Australian vessel name in their fleet, was also glossed over and assumptions like those used here, help to cover up the truth.
As an aside, this isn't the only example of inconvenient facts pushed under the carpet. To this day, Australians taken POW by the Japanese don't have their medical records released to relatives, and this is because of the high number of cases of Japanese cannibalizing them. Having this information become generally known was thought to jeopardize good relations with post war Japan. I know this as I was told by the archivists that control the records.
Drach has a video on Savo Is and this comment is posted. I didn't check his video to see if he mentions it.
@amadeokomnenus1414
2 years ago
Midn Bruce Loxton who witnessed USS Bagleys torpedo hit the Canberra maintained it was the USN that crippled the ship. He insisted that this was covered up to maintain morale and avoid division within the alliance.
Wikipedia under HMAS Canberra mentions it and has two references that can be checked. This snippet under Bagley is also interesting and the reference is to a book by Loxton:
"Bagley turned sharply to the left to bring the starboard torpedo tubes to bear on the Japanese warships looming out of the darkness but, either due to the torpedoes not being armed in time or because the ship turned too quickly for the torpedo tubes to be aimed properly,[1] she continued her turn and fired four torpedoes to the northwest from number two port mount. Although the torpedomen claimed hits a few minutes later, no Japanese ships were damaged by torpedoes in that area. It is possible, but unconfirmed, that one or two of Bagley's torpedoes may have hit Canberra on her starboard side"
Given crew on the Canberra witnessed the attack from Bagley, the speculative nature of the attack here is in keeping with general cover up.
@@montecarlo1651
When I first got on UA-cam. I had a different Avatar name. But that phone completely died on me. And I tried to get back on without knowing the password. UA-cam forced me to have a new name.
But when I first got on I was all over the World War Two stories, like a book you couldn't put down.
The thing about the Japanese cannibalism is new to me too.
I knew the Japanese tortured a lot of prisoners but nothing about the cannibal stuff.
There is much more that could be covered in this video. It is understandable that time was limited. One small point is the torpedo attack was on Friday the 13th. which bothered some people and was pointed out to me many times through the years. The ship was always busy when I was on-board. We had refresher training, 2 med cruises (Europe, Asia on the Med, North Africa), several humanitarian missions, trouble with the Russians, cruises to the Caribbean, in Cuba before and during the Missile Crisis, Presidential Flagship to Bermuda when President Kennedy went there for the Mid-Atlantic Conference (his family emergency prevented his returning on the ship as planned and he had to fly back), hurricane help in Jamaica, rescue in the Atlantic, and other activities and events. We suffered damage to the ship, ship's boats, and some of the crew in the Northern Atlantic on the the way to the med for one of our tours of duty. There was great joy when we arrived in Rota, Spain for repairs before entering the Med.
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
As a kid, my consuming hobby was putting together scale models of warships and painting them with meticulous attention to detail. My parents gave me a special part of our small basement as a workshop. It's all i wanted for birthdays and Christmas. One of those models was the USS Canberra after the missile refit. I remember the yellow paint on the missiles. Beautiful lines. Never knew the ship's history. until now.
As an Australian, this is likely one of the many reasons our relationships have been so strong since WWII. One thing I would say though, is that's not how we pronounce Canberra, at least for our own cruiser, you are of course welcome to say it how you like. We pronounce it Canbra, well, almost like that, lol.
l know many Australians who also pronounce it Can-berra.
All my family.
lt depends where you went to school.
@@vertmicko4763 I have never heard another Aussie pronounce it the way Americans do (Canbear-ah)... literally never.... but hey, you do you.
@@BlackHearthguard Come down to the Snowy Mountains NSW or norther Victoria.
You will hear plenty of kan-berra
@@vertmicko4763 We used to call it that as a joke, kind of ironic, generally when one of the pollies had done something dafter than usual, but yeah... "never in WA" i'll say, lol.
@@BlackHearthguard
l can't know.
l've worked in WA & l've heard Albany pronounced as Al-bany whereas we always called it Awl-bany.
As l said, it depends where you went to school.
What a tremendous legacy! She sure served her nation proudly! Thanks for your research and posting.
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
I have been a hobbyist World War II naval historian for over fifty years and I can say I am extremely pleased that Australia has _Canberra_ 's bell.
My Dad served aboard Canberra from 1960 to 62 as a CPO and participated in the world cruise and Cuba Blockade. This was his last ship and perhaps his best time in the US Navy.
Maybe he could say Canberra correctly unlike this guy. I'm not an Aussie but hearing him butcher the ships name is grating in the extreme
Your dad was the Chief Bos'n . I remember when he retired in 1962. If you have the 1962 cruise book, his goodbye retirement quarters picture is on page 140. I worked on the #2 Missile Launcher and the Missile Magazine during the same time period and some time after he left.
@@jerryodell1168 that is amazing! Thank you for replying. It is so good to hear from someone who knew him. He rarely spoke of his Navy life.
Two bad in 1980 the Canberra wasn't given to Australia and used as a museum ship. I think the Aussies would have taken good care of her. This would also remind younger generations the sacrifices Australia and the U.S made during WW2, Korea and Vietnam.
Nah. The greens would get her scuttled.
Keeping up a museum ship is very expensive, look at all the work that they've had to do to restore U.S.S. Texas which is still in dry dock after undergoing massive hull repairs.
I wandered all over the one parked in Buffalo, NY at the Navy park. Man, that Terrier system really did take the whole back 1/3 of the aft upper decks with massive chain hoists and handling / storage rooms. It was very impressive .
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
Please do a video about Laffey (Benson class destroyer DD-459). For the commenters please note that Dark Seas has done a video about USS Laffey DD-724 Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer not Laffey DD-459 Benson class destroyer which broadsided a Japanese battleship at point blank range.
Bro how long you gonna ask
@@Triggatra4258 I’ve actually have taken a month or two of commenting and have only know got back to asking for a video about Laffey.
@@Triggatra4258
I’d say as long as it takes.
I’ve seen his request for a long time, and hope someday he gets it.
USN retired
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There were several ships that did that.
I am certain all of the sailors and officers who served on the Canberra will honor and treasure the memory of that ship forever. RIP to the brave Australian sailors and officers 🙏 who preceded her.
USS Mississippi Battleship - had two new RIM-2 Terrier missile launchers installed in 1952 with No. 4 turret removed, the work being completed on 9 August at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The first test firings of a ship-borne Terrier missile took place on 28-29 January 1953 off Cape Cod.[20] Mississippi later tested the Petrel missile, a radar-homing weapon, in February 1956
The model of the 'Mighty Mo' that I built as a kid had only three 16" turrets; two forward, and one aft.
@@wittwittwer1043 The USS Mississippi had (4) main gun turrets. The Missouri followed the Northampton Class Heavy Cruisers with (2) turrets forward and (1) aft.
Take care - I still have my USS Missouri model I built in the 1970's.
It’s worth noting if you want to see a similar conversion, the USS Little Rock is docked in Buffalo NY and open as a museum ship. It was converted on the TALOS missile system rather than the Terrier
My Father also served on the Canberra. He speaks very fondly of the ship and the crew.
Fair winds and following seas old girl...............
Just when you don't think these videos can get any better he steps it up another notch
There are two Canberra's now = USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. and HMAS Canberra is the lead ship of the two ship Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships otherwise known as a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
Theutual respect between the Americans and Australians with the two ships is heart touching
My father was a Fireman first class on the Canberra. Thanks for the details on his ship!
in 1976 the USS Canberra and USS St. Paul were in Bremerton, WA at the pier next to battleship USS Missouri BB 63. You could see the difference between the ship sizes and the main battery 8 inch vs 16 inch guns. USS New Jersey BB 62 was down a few Essex class carriers ships.
What a fantastic site that must have been!!!
@@Glenn-em3hv Yes it was. In August of 1976, we could not board the mothballed USS Missouri BB 63 for they were painting and closed her for the filming of the Gregory Peck Movie - MacArthur. We when back in 1978 to board USS Missouri. If you check out the USS Canberra photos on the Navsource web site I submitted a photo of the USS Canberra left and USS St. Paul right backed in next to USS Missouri. Check it out I took it with a Brownie Hawk eye Camera. Take care!
I was at Bremerton in 1978, my ship was in yards for refit. We had a small shop for electronic gear, and the view was a couple of battleships and the Canberra, I remember dome shaped covers over some of the guns or installations. She’s gone now, and so is the Berkeley. Read about recent suicides on a carrier in for nuke refuel, because of living conditions. We lived on a 40’s era barge, pretty spartan. Guess we were just used to it. At least we weren’t going to save all the time. Different Navy, different sailors, I guess.
Sorry, going to sea all the time. Stationed on board for 4.5 years
@@kenschwarz9227 Thank you for sharing and thank you for your service. In 1978 I was with my dad and mom and my dad served on the heavy cruiser USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46. He witnessed (52) sailors and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler buried at sea due to (3) kamikaze hits in the Pacific. Louisville delivered Halsey staff of 150 men
to USS Missouri in Guam in May 1945 and Louisville was tied up right next to Missouri. My dad passed in 2017 at age 92. One main gun turret found in Nevada Desert used for atomic bomb measuring. Turret in the Desert. Take care!
G'day Dark, thank you so much for this history of the name of two great warships shared between two countries with a long history of serving, arm in arm, as staunch allies, with the goals of freedom and democracy.
Just a small point, as we in Australia like to 'mess' with the English language; when most of us say the word Canberra, the emphasis is not on the 'n' and the 'e' when we say it quickly sounds more like a 'u' than an 'e'. Phonetically, it sounds a bit like [canburrah].
When it was envisaged that the new nation of Australia should have a dedicated Capital city, there was strong rivalry between Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales. Both cities had been, historic 'capitals' over the years but as a dedicated capital was being decided the bidding from both cities was a rough and tumble affair.
Unable to come to a decision one way or the other, finally, a piece of grazing farmland, approximately halfway between Melbourne and Sydney was chosen and declared the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), virtually its own, comparatively, small plot of land with the status of a State.
Oddly, designed and laid out by a pair of talented American architects and 'city planners', Canberra is now one of the best designed cities in the Southern hemisphere. It has an outstanding range of magnificent public buildings from varying slices of history since its inception.
Thanks again for this interesting video. Cheers, Bill H.
Appreciate the footage you include in your videos.
On this title I expected the Tirpitz under Tallboys and Grand Slams
Thank you for this great video!
The new USS Canberra (LCS 30) was Commissioned on 22 July, 2023 in Sydney, only a few months ago.
Why would a United States ship be commissioned by the Australians? Don't you mean HMAS Canberra?
@@theloneranger8725 It is the only US navy ship that has ever been commissioned outside of the US, and yes, there is also a HMAS Canberra, a carrier that was also recently commissioned...
Awesome background documentary. A story very rarely told and of such importance in example of the honor and bonding of nations!
Good info! Thanks
Excellent stuff bro
Sorry, no, the torpedo hit on USS Canberra wasn't the most devastating naval hit inflicted by an airplane in World War II. That honor goes to the hit landed by Dick Best, skipper of USS Enterprise's Bombing [Squadron] Six, at the Battle of Midway. He had just one bomb left, but he put it exactly where the Japanese didn't want it -- as far as anyone could tell afterward, right on top of a fully armed and fueled Nakajima bomber awaiting its turn to be hoisted to the flight deck of IJNS Akagi. The ensuing chain reaction of explosions finished the Akagi. (If all this sounds familiar, IMHO it should, as this episode would be evoked many years later by Luke Skywalker's million-to-one shot that destroyed the original Death Star.)
Dick Best some how did a second time to a Carrier at midway during the battle and got the Navy Cross for it
I was lucky enough as a kid, in 1973 to visit both Australia and New Zealand. I was 10. We traveled around for over 3 months. When people found out my Dad have been a naval officer in Australia during the first part of the war, they literally opened their homes to us. Those folks were so grateful for what the US had done to protect Australia in particular.
Tirpiz comes to mind as does Roma. Both were hit by aircraft. Then Prince of Wales and Repulse. 3 Japanese carriers at Midway. There were many sunk from the air.
Actually, all four Japanese carriers were sunk at Midway, all by American aircraft.
@@theloneranger8725 wasn't one sunk by torps from a IJS destroyer? My bad. I must be getting old
That was a great documentary.
I'd have thought the sinking of Tirpitz by 617 Sqdn by The Dambusters would rank up there too
around 2010 I worked on an Audio System at an Anaheim Church. I talked with an Elderly Volunteer one day, we became fast acquaintances. at the time I recognized his Ball Cap with his ship's numbers and SEVEN Battle Stars. I asked him about it while telling him "I Knew this Ship" it was in the Battle of Leyte! He told me of his Life, Love, and his WAR STORY! with tears as fresh as that day!
he was the Gun Director in the Armored Target on the Top Mast!
From 20yrs of Naval service I have NEVER felt SO CONNECTED!
I won a trip to Norfolk as a Washington Post newspaper boy in the late '50s. One of the ships that we toured was the Canberra while it was in port. The tour was brief, but other paperboys who had won the trip and I watched a demonstration of the missiles being automatically being loaded onto their launchers. I had no idea of that ships history until now.
Almost willful mispronunciation of the ship's name (actually Can-bruh) isn't a good start. But I'm still not sure what this monstrous and pivotal post-war role was. She was damaged at Leyte, fully repaired back in the US, mothballed for several years, converted to a guided-missile cruiser and eventually deployed to the Vietnam theater. But at no point did she use her missile system in anger and she was used in SE Asia only for her guns. As I understand it, the missile capability was also fairly quickly made obsolete, which is why the conversion wasn't completed. So a great ship and no doubt loved by her crews, but not exactly pivotal or exceptional' She wasn't enen the USN's first missile cruiser (USS Boston) and despite the title of this video the conversion wasn't a consequence of the damage suffered.
Unlike the "Treaty Cruisers", the Baltimore class was more balanced (= a bit more armor and greater displacement). And unlike the Treaty Cruisers, the Baltimores had greater capacity for upgrade. The last of the Treaty heavies underwent conversion to razor blades in 1959, over 10 years before USS Canberra's conversion.
And somehow the Admiral Hipper class really didn't surpass the treaty cruisers in spite of its 15000 ton weight.
The USS Pittsburgh lost 100 feet of her bow in a Typhoon and my dad's ship USS Louisville CA 28 went thru (2) Typhoons with minimal damage. Also, in WW2 the Majority of the Island bombardment was done by the Older Cruisers and Older Battleships and The New Cruisers and Newer Battleships screened the Aircraft carriers. Currently, (1) main 8 inch gun turret off of USS Louisville in Nevada Desert used for atomic bomb testing. Both USS Salt Lake City and USS Pensacola survived (2) atomic bombs at Bikini bomb test.
USS CANBERRA (CAG-2) the "CAG" part is born from being a "heavy cruiser" = " CA " during her WW2 time, but when the war ended and she was converted into a missile cruiser, she still had the index " CA ", but with her NEW missiles and reconfiguration she became " CAG " with the " G " for 'guided missile'.
As an added note.... CANBERRA is the second ship of the BOSTON-class, with USS BOSTON (CAG-1).
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Thank You to ALL of You Veterans......Even My 'Aussie' Buddies I sailed with.....
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Yup, along with a few of the Cleveland class Light Cruisers (CL) converted to guided missile cruisers (CLG). USS Oklahoma City (CL91/CLG5/CG5), USS Little Rock (CL92/CLG4/CG4)
I believe 1975 redesigned CG.
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It's too bad she was scrapped. She could have been a great Museum ship bridging the WWII era with the Modern Era!
In Buffalo New York the USS Little Rock is a World War II light cruiser that was re-fitted with missiles and helps perform the very role that you were suggesting. However it would be cool if there were more museum ships
I would think the most devastating aerial hit was the one on Roma by the Fritz X.
Or the Hood
@keithw4920 you beat me to that one, I would have got the Missile wrong I was thinking of the Hs 293.
@@entranced3366 Aerial weapon only,
@@entranced3366 Bismarck wasn't an aircraft!!😁
As for aireal hit the 16 inch armor piercing bomb that hit the arizona in the forward magazine should be inn the top three
Brilliant!
The ending!! Grrr! LOL Love Victor’s story.
Perhaps there is a degree of guilt involved in the use of the name. At Savo Island, HMAS Canberra was torpedoed and crippled on her disengaged side by the destroyer USS Bagley, at the start of the action.
THE US NAVY HAS STATED THAT THEY DID NOT SINK THE RAN CRUISERS AT SAVO ISLAND. CHECK US NAVY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
HMAS Canberra also could've been saved after the battle. If not for the US admiral's refusal to rescind his arbitrary deadline for getting the engines back in operation, even when it turned out that there were several more hours available for repairs before the fleet would actually get underway. Her scuttling was completely unnecessary.
@@RedXlV IN RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS THAT RAN SHIPS WERE SUNK BY US NAVY SHIPS A RAN RESERVIST WHO RAN TRAMP STEAMERS IN THE GILBERTS ISLANDS WAS CONSULTED REGARDING TIDES AND TIMING FOR AN UP COMING AMPHIB OPERATION THE REST IS HISTORY
@@RedXlV Agree entirely. It is almost as if Richmond Turner could not be bothered with a mere 'foreign' warship, although I hope that isn't true.
it hurts me, everytime, hearing a Warship being 'sold for scrap'
Glad the bell made it's way to the aussies, such an interesting history
We operated with USS Canberra (CA-70) • USS Newport News (CA-148) [Heavy Cruiser] operated on Song Huong Estuary during February 1968 and on Mekong River Delta in vicinity of Vinh Binh Province during December 1968 We also operated off Haiphong
Nice video, thanks. You could have added a sentence about the fate of Doug Hegdahl and when he as released.
There was a recent upload somewhere that mentioned HMAS Canberra wasn't actually crippled by the Japanese but a torpedo hit on starboard side from a US destroyer the opposite direction of the Japanese warships approach was, and that the scuttling of HMAS Canberra may not have been necessary, crew was told they had a day to get it patched up or scuttled yet the actual departure from area was delayed another day would've given crew plenty of time to get cruiser watertight enough for towing, scuttling order wasn't changed though so some other US destroyers went about shooting it up and finally sent torpedos into it
Nice clip of DDG-1 Gyatt ❤️
@3:35, looks like a darkened and Blurred out USS Truxtun DLGN/CGN-35 playing USS Canberra CA-70/CAG-2... :--)
I was stationed aboard the Supply Ship USS MARS-1. We resupplied the Canberra off the coast of Vietnam in 1968.
My kind of ship. I love cruisers. Sleek looking, fast, well armed, Queens of the sea.
The second Heavy cruiser rebuilt as a single end guided missile cruiser.
I wonder what made her early Terrier launchers obsolete? As a US Navy veteran, I know that the Terrier system was continuously updated in the fleet. Eventually evolving into the standard missile system. Tartar evolving into standard SM-1, Terrier evolved into SM-2 ER. Perhaps as one of the very earliest experimental conversations. Updating her rail launchers and magazines, didn't lend itself well to the upgraded version of Terrier. As was used by Ships like USS England CG-22, and USS Longbeach CGN-9. Just to mention two ships who were built with Terrier but ended their service using SM-2 ER.
The USS England was of the Leahy Class Guided Missile Cruisers, named after the namesake USS Leahy 1st of her class. I myself served on board the USS Worden CG-18, also of the Leahy class. We had the Terrier Missile system as well, but we were shooting SM-1s and SM-2s. I worked on Sperry-Rand's AN/SPG55B fire control Radar which was part of the Terrier AAW weapon system in the late 70's to early 80's. Although ancient in terms of technology (some major components still incorporated Tubes!! LOL) and required much "tweaking and Peeking" to remain functional, we could still hit targets!!🚢🚢
@@CJB_777 On active duty I served onboard USS Ranger CV-61. Got out, then Joined the USNR. When I was attached to the USS England unit. Never actually saw CG-22. Ended up going to ses for two weeks aboard USS Gridley CG,-21. I was an electronics warfare Technician. Fair winds and following seas.
At 06:58, I was still waiting for "The Most Devastating WW2 Naval Hit Inflicted by an Airplane" but it turned out that WW2 was already finished and it was the year 1952. Incidentally, the most devastating WW2 naval hit inflicted by an airplane, was that delivered by Dornier Do 217 K-2 with a Fritz-X, on 9th. September, 1943 with two hits, (well OK, its hits not hit!) that sank the new (she was barely one year old) Italian battleship 'Roma', remaining to this day, the only capital ship sunk by guided missiles.
Served on board Canberra from 1969 until decommissioning. She was a heck of a ship.
Way cool😊 me and my friends were doing about the same thing I think I had the Canberra was that reveal or Aurora model we had a 4X 8 sheet of plywood painted blue we had the sullivans destroyer Missouri battleship Long Beach cruiser and of course PT 109
What is the source of the video at 3:48? It looks like a US CGN, the Truxtun or Bainbridge.
A friend of mine, no longer with us, a retired Marine was part of the Canberra crew during Vietnam RIP Lester Lam.
Love how inevitably, about a quarter of the images during WWII are actually post war images showing identifiable cold war period hardware.
I think the early aft missle system were Talos then upgraded to Terrier. I served on a Terrier CG in early 80's.
I have 2 challenger models . One was opened and built and one is new . It would be interesting to see the prices they bring . I’m going to give to my grandson
4:28 How weird is it to hear Commander Chakotay narrating, talking about the USS Enterprise, and it’s not the same one?!
So, there exists the potential for this ship to have served alongside both Enterprises...Nice!
Yanks and Aussies are similar. We both were used to populate colonies by people the British found distasteful. We both would fight at the drop of a hat to defend our ideals.
My dad was stationed on the Canberra in '66-'67. he wasn't a "spiritual" person, but he swore up and down that he saw a ghost in the boiler room of the Canberra, he saw someone clear as day walk into an area between a boiler and a bulkhead that had no exit and followed him in, and no one was there.
I was assigned to that ship just out of boot camp 1966.
Anytime brother 🇦🇺
Can you make a video on HMAS Canberra?
you share coordinates of all units before starting history
1:20 if anyone ever has a chance to check out bethlehem steel the place is so cool sadly it basically turned into a casino and car show parking lot nowadays but you can just imagine hat it was like back then
Baltimore class heavy cruisers were fast, heavily armed, tough capable ships.
The ship named after the city I lived in for decades was a Baltimore class with a distinguished career.
USS Salt Lake City, look her up.
The Terrier missiles, in one form or another were in service until the the mid-1970s when they were replaced by the Standard Missile, extended range family. The missile launches were replaced by the current vertical launch systems in use today.
Please match the photos to the time zone. Otherwise, it's a great story .
Hello …. USS Arizona ?
6:12 I was born in Watch Hill. I wonder if it’s the same?
My Ship USS Vance DE387 was named after Ltjg. Vance who was killed. In the radio shack of the Aussie Canberra when it fired upon. Vance was the American liaison.
Did anyone else catch that the ship's bell was presented to Austrailia by GWB on Sept 10, 2001? Wow...the very next day...
She was one tough old gal
FYI an Independence-Class Litoral Combat ship was commissioned named USS Canberra.
There were stories that the Australian Navy was kind of upset in one way about Canberra. With the US naming a cruiser Canberra, the RAN was not allowed to commission a ship named Canberra.
You need to correct USS Canberra to HMAS Canberra in your description.
Another fine video. A bit irritating, though, is frequent use of the term "strategic" when "tactical" is more accurate.
I saw Canberra while serving on a tincan in the Tonkin Gulf. Don't remember specifically, but probably inport at Subic Bay.
USS Canberra now lives as (LCS 30) commissioned at the Royal Australian Navy’s Fleet Base East in Sydney, Australia, July 22 2023
There is a new USS Canberra as of this year according to a Reuters article dated July 25th, 2023.
SPS -43 on Canbera?
Big bead skreen antenna.
The SPS - 48 is still the way to sail, and run the air pitcure,
because you can if need be.
Very interesting, pity the commentator mispronounced the ships name throughout, & incidentally Australia’s capital city .
I was on a guided missile cruiser (Chicago CG-11) in the late 70's. We had talos and tartar missle systems.
I was USS Chicago (SSN 721). We had a VLS system. I'm proud that CG 11 was known as the deadliest ship in the navy.
We used to see the Chicago all the time, WESTPAC 76. I several pictures of her at sea. Hard to miss those big stacks, and a really big black radar, looked like the feed horn was a giant fist
@@kenschwarz9227-- Heck, you might have seen me on deck. Skinny blond 18 year old, horn rimmed glasses, dressed in blue.
I see a lot of critics of the videos this man put out. There should be a lot of counter videos. Or shut up trolls
Crazy old coot I knew last century, Steve StGeorge, swore blind that the USS Chicago sank HMAS Canberra out from underneath him. Said he wrapped the white ensign around his waist and paddled a dory inspecting damage as she went down. Japanese took out the bridge with a lucky shot but the three torpedo holes were on the friendly side. Had a flag to back up his story but probably sailor talk.
Not quite. The torpedoes came from USS Bagley. Sadly, it is a case of friendly fire.
Thankyou for the correction, and corroboration.
@Dollarplays we need this ship
I don't think there's anything more honorable location for her bell than in Australia.
I love the Australian people. America thanks you.
The most devastating hit of World War 2 inflicted by an aircraft, Was the bomb that sunk the Arizona. Is chain explosion, Broke the ship in 3 pieces and sunk it immediately .
There is a new USS Canberra, it's a Freedom class LCS.
On a small point of accuracy, it's 'CAN-berra' not 'Can-BERRA'.
Does anyone know if there is any history of the canadian pt boats that served in ww2 where did they help?