Eastern Fleet: USS Saratoga salute
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Mostly colour footage of USS Saratoga's sendoff by the British Eastern Fleet. Ships including County class heavy cruisers, Town or Colony class cruisers, HMS Renown, HMS Illustrious, HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Free French battleship Richelieu and several destroyers parade past the US carrier. Mostly as seen from USS Saratoga. www.armouredcarriers.com
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The Richelieu looks so good, what a beast.
Quite an emotional sight watching this. What an amazing fleet.
HMS Renown looking effortlessly handsome...
A great day to be a sailor at sea. Excellent film of many fine ships.
Very nice video! I have to say Saratoga still looks lovely and menacing despite being near to retirement.
Color film 1944, thx looks great especially Renown, beauty of a ship.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
My dad was a teenage 20 millimeter AA gunner on Saratoga from summer 1943 to the end of the war. To see many photos of Saratoga go to navsource.org, then click on Aircraft carriers, then click on Saratoga (CV3). To see many photos of the February 21, 1945 kamikaze attack scroll far down to Special Photo Feature - The Harold C. Cassar Photo Collection. If you look at Aftermath Part 1 you’ll see the harsh reality of some of Saratoga’s fallen warriors.
Stunning. As a lifelong buff its cool to see so many things. Live footage of the Sara- She rolls a lot but is BIG and fast thanks to the original BC design. Clearly the 5" Twins a big improvement over the 4 8" turrets originally there. Color fottage of some freat ships at see- Renown (Bristling with AA by this time) Queen Elizebeth (This lady serve at Jutland, MEditerrian theatre, etc), and especially the Counties. Never have seen color of these workhorses. Thank glad I stumbled on to your page
the venerable QE doing sterling service in her twilight days seeing her passing by and knowing the same ship was at the Dardanelles in 1915 is extraordinary, what an historic ship. Cannot believe we didn’t even save Warspite from the breakers would be an incredible museum ship today, telling such a compelling story of her class serving in both wars.
It would have been incredible but she was in a very bad state at the end of the war. Repairs would have been needed before putting her as a museum but Britain didn't have money for that so...
My father joined up on 31 December 1941, and was posted to Sara on 2 November 1942 until 24 September 1945. During that time he had a short posting on the British carrier in the Indian ocean- he was not pleased because the British ship was not aircondioned (in the tropics) and the food was terrible.
There is a great summary of Sara's history in the navy book called "Story of Sara".
Thanks for that. You may enjoy my webpage about Operation Diplomat www.armouredcarriers.com/illustrious-and-saratoga
Outstanding video. That was a heck of a ships' line-up! Fine day to be a sailor!
Thank you for the movie
You forgot to mention the last, interesting battleship that passes at 6:42 . It is the French Richelieu, which has the appearance of a Iowa or North Carolina, but can be easily recognized by the three smaller triple turrets at the back (quarter deck) instead of one big turret, like the US battleships had. Notice also the big French tricolour flag. This must be between April and July 1944 in the Indian Ocean.
+V1Rotate to be precise: 18 May 1944 : commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richelieu_from_Saratoga_May_1944.jpg
+V1Rotate As a Dutchman it is also good to see the Dutch destroyer HNLMS Van Galen (G84) at 3:57. Must have been Van Galen and not her sister-ship Tjerk Hiddes, because the latter was at Trincomalee for repairs until June. Both were British N-class destroyers, transferred to the Royal Dutch Navy in '42. Note the horizontal red,white&blue tricolour flag halfway up the mast.
+V1Rotate Ah, terribly sorry. Yes, terribly obvious... Very distinctive ship.
+Armoured Carriers btw really like your series! I enjoy doing a little background research on historical ww2 footage, especially naval actions where Dutch units were concerned.
+V1Rotate Thankyou for the detail Do you know the names of the Dutch N Class ships? I'll update the details on the web page I am building about USS Saratoga's forays with HMS Illustrious in the British Pacific Fleet, and the follow-up "Club Run" strikes against the Japanese before the carriers transferred to the British Pacific Fleet.
Never seen footage like this.
What a collection! Birmingham in a beautiful swell, Renown looking fine, & old Sara w/ flak In place of boats 💜.
Incredible footage
Holy cow, the US Lexington class carriers were huge! (USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Saratoga CV-3)
7:33 Town-class looks great at speed.
Awesome video. Thanks
Such a pity none of these ships were preserved for posterity. QE or Renown, as well as Saratoga herself, should have been kept as museum ships.
Think that’s HMS Newcastle from 07:37. Three Town’s had their third turret removed, and of those three (Glasgow, Sheffield, Newcastle) only Newcastle seems to have been in the Eastern Fleet / British Pacific Fleet (whatever date this was). Can’t find listing of fleet ships anywhere to check :(
This footage is from the conclusion of Operation Transom, when Saratoga left the Eastern Fleet to return to the Pacific. Ceylon, Gambia and Kenya were present.
www.armouredcarriers.com/illustrious-and-saratoga
@@ArmouredCarriers :D
They do look maddeningly similar, yeah. Surely though the Fiji’s had the straight funnels, whereas the ship from 07:37 has slanted ones? (Part of the fwd superstructure looks different to a Fiji too, the vertical section with the liferaft seems shorter than the Fiji’s).
Brilliant footage.
Awesome movie.
Great film , thanks
Was this the same British fleet that bombarded the Dutch Indonesian Islands and helped free them from the Japanese? My parents were born there and lived through the Japanese occupation as children. I am building models of some of the ships in this clip. Currently the HMS Renown and I think that I will now paint it in the colors recorded in this film. Great footage.
Highly likely. The Indian Ocean Fleet was active in Indonesia at the end of the war. Though this footage was taken in 1945, so the exact ships may have changed somewhat.
@@ArmouredCarriers I read that HMS Renown was definitely involved. That makes this particular battlecruiser all the more special to me.
Does anyone have an idea of what messages are being sent via the flags? If I can, I would like to reproduce it on my ship model.
Excellent!
My dad stood on the deck of cv38 and witnessed the bikini test and watched Sara go down
This video clip is a segment of one part of a 3 part video series, each part being about an hour in length. I know because I saw all three parts a few years ago. they were narrated by someone (from Canada, I think) who was involved in the war at about the time the these scenes were filmed, and had had put together several archived film clips. Unfortunately I don't remember his name, or what that series was called.
Must be in some degree of EMCON, probably EMCON "ALFA", the highest degree of radio silence, as the Saratoga's air search antenna is not turning.
They're using flags.
WW2 Legends and fighters.....
What year was this??
Early 1944
@@ArmouredCarriers Thank you Sir.
Looks like some Benson class destroyers also
Waved at my dad on the Saratoga, he was in the crowd somewhere I hope he noticed from beyond the Jordan
I know how you feel! I got to tour the USS Missouri with my dad before he passed. I asked him to show me his battle station. He said they don’t let people go that deep, LOL.
@john tabler - if you haven’t seen the website navsource.org it is magnificent. I just posted a comment about it. Regarding Saratoga I mentioned how to find the Special Photo Feature - The Harold C. Cassar Photo Collection that includes photos of the February 21, 1945 kamikaze attack & aftermath. My dad was a teenage 20 millimeter AA gunner on Sara from summer ‘43 to the end of the war.
@@LoneTinaja thanks for the tip
My papa was on that ship
The Sara rolls so badly compared to other ships you see
She got a little drunk at the party. :)
Paranoid about torpedoes...
eh... eh...? Damnit! Can't hear you! EH!!!