The Tiny Ship that Drove Japan Insane
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In the turbulent waters of the Indian Ocean, by March 1942, the Allies’ time was rapidly running out. The Battle of the Java Sea had ended in disaster, and now, as the Imperial Japanese Navy continued its trail of destruction, the tiny Australian sloop HMAS Yarra was tasked with escorting a convoy consisting of three of the last few British vessels left in the region through the danger zone to the safety of Fremantle, Australia.
As dawn broke on March 4, Yarra’s lookout made a horrifying discovery: the topmasts of three enormous Japanese heavy cruisers bearing down on them, accompanied by four destroyers. Under the command of the ruthless Admiral Nobutake Kondo, the enemy fleet towered over the humble sloop in number, size, firepower, range, and speed. As the alarm bells rang out on board Yarra, Lieutenant Commander Robert Rankin knew the odds of making it out alive were almost zero. But the sloop had a convoy to protect, and it wasn’t going to go down without a fight…
As a former USN officer with a fair amount of actual sea service I have huge respect for the Captain and crew of this tiny, slow, ( about 16 knots max speed), sloop of war. Armed only with three tiny, 4 inch WWI era guns she attacked 3 ships armed with 8 inch rifles, and the consort of enemy modern destroyers. The sheer courage of her Captain and crew should be honored by those of us that have the freedoms she so gallantly fought for. Bravo Zulu HMAS Yarra.
Wasnt the name of the ship they said fought like a battle ship in the battle fought by taffy 3? Samual Robert’s? . This makes me think of that battle fought in the pacific . The distorter Johnston , two small carriers , and i think another destroyer? Anyhow it was a big miss match but it put up such a fight the jap comand er thought he was up against a bigger force an turned retreating ?
US Navy Veteran. Great story that people should know. How can you appreciate the freedoms we enjoy if you don't understand the price paid for it.
Very well said.
And thank you.
you probably fought the enemies of our government, not our people. for a tyranny called 'freedom'. but was the result good? is the national debt saddled onto children and grand children a good one?
Interesting you say that considering the ship was used to crush the dreams of freedom for both Iranians and Iraqis.
For decades I have soaked up everything I can about WW2. This one is new to me.
@@CordovaMage A use of tax money that any sane person would deem correct. My position has always been, the entire region should be a "glass-floored, self-lighting, parking lot". Show the World that you have some balls, watch this: "Brigitte Gabriel's Epic and Brilliant Answer To "Most Muslims Are Peaceful..."
This crew had huge BRASS BALLS!!
Nope. Let us not conflate testicles with resolve.
If you want to see how small HMAS Yara was, her sistership, Diamantina, is at the Maritime Museum in Brisbane Australia.
Thanks for featuring WW2’s Iraqi & Iranian campaigns.
As a former tin can sailor, I am honored to be in the company of such brave men.
A fitting video for a fighting ship.
Brave crew fights against overwhelming odds... but how did they drive the Japanese insane?
You get used to it ,title and video Pic usually don't match what the video is about. Little but never the entire thing
@@brunozeigerts6379 if anything the Japanese Navy would have saluted them fellers.
@@dennisfarris4729 Under their religion, Bushito, death was the salute. There was no place for mercy or honourable surrender. They would have claimed that it was their duty.
ça c'est la littérature /la propagande JPN officielle !
Tous les japonais ne sont pas / n'étaient pas des samouraïs ; il ne pensent /pensaient pas tous que c'est "cool" de mourir plutôt que se rendre ou faire grâce.
Video is misleading.
We really just can't get enough of the word "insane" in UA-cam titles, can we? It seems to be a catch-all word for . . . "watch me".
Substitute refusing to back off, they weren't insane; just outgunned!
Not on my watch....
harrington had some wild sideburns, he pulled it off though.
Hated by the entire RAN and his funeral passed into legend. His son, a great officer
@sparty94 Harrington was conducting Admiral's Divisions ceremony as part of the annual inspection. He passed a Chief Petty Officer sporting the same.
He snapped at him, "On me, they look distinguished, on you disgusting! Shave them off!".
Thank you for this piece. As Americans, we get no coverage of the Indian Ocean or Red Sea campaigns of the British, and precious little on the East Indies campaigns.
I am British, ex-military and ashamed. We used Canadian and ANZAC forces in 2 World Wars to achieve victories we could not stomach. They bought 75 years of peace with their lives. Total respect.
Britain sacrificed too.
@@rogerpattube0000000
That is a slur on british veterans and history .. go and educate yourself before shooting your mouth off you melt !
Colonial fodder. Canada should have applied for statehood. Too late now, Toronto is almost Oakland CA now. My Dad had dual citizenship with Canada, luckily for him he chose USAAC. Hot spot for a landing? send in the Canadians.....
Sorry but your monarch is their monarch as well, why shouldn’t they defend Britain and its monarch’s interests…
What's with the misleading title? 90% of the video focuses on the ship's service in the Atlantic/Mediterranean/Red Sea. Only in the last few minutes is a single encounter with the Japanese fleet mentioned.
While moving and well presented I also have to take issue with the title....I expect better of this channel for the most part.
Evidently this video has achieved it's purpose,
because "they're coming to take me away...."
The Japanese were not driven insane.
Furthermore the footage is entirely random as usual with this class of pseudo doco, a mishmash of barely relevant content, painstakingly made and blithely expropriated (fancy word for stolen).
@@Gottenhimfella So basically you're angry that there isn't footage of the ship in action for each and every ship that has ever been built?
Should only the ships with surviving combat footage have videos made about them?
if it wasn't ever filmed, it didn't exist?
Its "YARRAH" Mate !!! 👺
DON'T take a shot every time he says it wrong !!
But how do I know now how it should SOUND right? 😢
@@pseudonym745 Search for ANY video using "yarra river"
@@pseudonym745 The first 'a' sound should be like in 'bat', that's the only issue.
@@abcoatesAh, thanks!
Wrecks credibility if you can't pronounce the ships name or river in Melbourne.
Riker: "Tough little ship."
Harrington: "Little?!?"
Harrington: now there's a facial hair configuration I've never seen
What’s your configuration?
@@pooperscooper8791Patchy
@@pooperscooper8791 Unkempt disheveled homeless guy
Good to see this story, few know what the RAN did in WWII being overshadowed by American and British actions (many of which had Australian ships attached).
Only criticism is that Yarra is pronounced with the first “a” as in cat.
Swap the 'y 'in 'carry' for an 'a' = carra, then the 'c' for a 'y' = yarra.
There was an Australian author by the name J.E. MacDonnell, who wrote stories about sailors onboard destroyers during WW2. My favorite stories from him are the ones about HMAS Wind Rode - later HMAS Wind Hound - and its crew... from Captain Peter Bentley and his C.O. Robert Randall to the Quartermaster Hookey Walker and the Boatswain Rennie. Good stories - good fun!!
@@mikaeljohnledet1060 I know those books and read most of them when travelling on the train to and from work. Had most of them. Bentley, Sainsbury…but that’s 20 years ago now.
@@AJHyland63 Yeah... I started reading them back when I was a teen in the mid 80's. Used to scour the used book stores for these Victory, Veteran and V-book paperback pocketbooks. Now, in my mid 50's, I still have some 45 of them on one of my bookshelves. ^_^
Great video. Respect to the crew of the Yarra. Why don't you fix the title to something more accurate? Their story deserves a proper title
Now do PC’s. Patrol Craft. The Donald Duck Navy. Didn’t have names. Just numbers. Lots of escort duty from Australia to Guadalcanal and beyond.
I wish you would stop throwing in random footage of different ships. You even showed US sailors while talking about Austrailians. Just stick to still shoots of the actual ship your are talking about so people don't get confused.
They do their editing in the Dark.
There is a severe lack of live footage you know.
@@dennisfarris4729 They don't have to use footage, just stills will do. There is almost always some of those.
It's written, directed and narrated by AI algorithms, this is what you get. 🤷♂️
@@ALL_OUT_OF_BUBBLEGUM With a computerized voice as well.
Every size ship. Each airplane regardless of type helped win the war. So many brave men that a few years earlier were just home studying or doing their jobs. Happy Trails
Harrington was a great CAPTIAN! The Yara's crew was GALIENT and had a lot of BALLS! God Bless them ALL!
@johndyson4109 Um Harrington wasn't the Captain.
I understood the Yarra was described in Australia as a ''River Class Frigate''.
No. She was a sloop. The Bathurst were corvettes. The six mod Type 12 and Leander-class FF were the Rivers and we made them the stuff of legends. I served in Parramatta, Derwent, Torrens and Swan - all Vietnam and FESR veterans.
The featured picture is of 4 Australian warships from the 1970s. The ship with the Red Circle around it is an Australian River Class frigate in company with the Aircraft Carrier HMAS Melbourne. Just a random picture from the 1970s accompanying a WW2 story 🙄
"The Tiny Ship that Drove Japan Insane"
Pictured, Yamashiro's tugboat
Oh dear. 🙂
Maybe the Capt was terrible?
Surprise, surprise, surprise
Yah (short "a") -ra (another short "a") after the river on which "Mellbin" sits... not Yarr-a and "Mellborn"
Were there no photographs of HMAS Yarra available to use in the thumbnail, the ship circled can't be Yarra since that photo was taken post W.W.II.
Her sister ship HMAS Diamantina is in the maritime museum in Brisbane. Pics should be easy enough to get on google
Yet another excellent episode, thank you.
You might know the answer to this: Considering both are originally RN design, why did the RCN opt for the Flower Class corvette over the Grimsby Class Sloop? From what I've read the Sloop would have made a much more effective Convoy/ASW platform - not to critique the resilience and heroism of the RCN.
You would have to be crazy or fear nothing to join the navy. I couldn’t for the fact your in a tin can in the middle of the oceans and if your ships going down your swimming with sharks. No thanks but kudos to the brave sailers who did and still do!!!!
As a Navy vet, I can confirm this is true lol.
We are crazy, we are Australian sailors. WE are legends
An amazing ship and crew ❤
Very interesting history but I seriously doubt that this ship drove Japan insane
HMS Stronghold. How do the Brits keep coming up with such badass names?
Being the progenitors of the language might have something to do with that.
From Middle English strong-hold,[1] strong-holde, stranghalde (equivalent to strong + hold), from Middle English strong (“having physical strength, sturdy, strong; built to withstand assaults, fortified”) (from Old English strang, strong (“strong”),[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“stiff, tight”)) + Middle English hōld (“grasp, grip; control, possession, rule”) (from Old English).[3]
I’ve always absolutely loved how the British Empire named their warships. Very in your face names. Like HMS Defiant, HMS Vengeance, HMS Dagger, etc. They know how to name them to intimidate.
@@privatepilot4064 Hell yeah! Your comment made me think about British tank codenames:
Caernarvon
Centurion
Challenger
Challenger 1
Challenger 2
Challenger 3
Charioteer
Chieftain
Churchill
Comet
Conqueror
Contentious
Conway
Covenanter
Cromwell
Crusader
Light Tank Mk VI
Matilda I
Matilda II
Medium Tank A/T 1 - an amphibious tank prototype
TOG 1
TOG 2
Valentine
Why the CLICKbait title. It was a very good informative video about a brave ship and crew which should have a truthfull title. Why cheapen it with a dishonest "Drove Japan Insane"
Down in Australia they spell it Yarra. Never heard anyone say Ya Ra! 😂
Never in my life had i seen a man with a cheek mustache until now
You didnt want to meet him - ever
They're called mutton chops
And now we have given up western civilization without a fight, my how times and men have changed 😢
you are right and it makes me sick to the stomach
@5:44 Rifle is US M1 Garand....
The part of this video that mentions action against Japanese forces doesn't occur until after 13:00 minute mark. I also didn't see anything about action that "drove Japan insane". Seems that part of the title was merely clickbait!
That sounds like a huge crew for such a small ship!
Who was the LCdr with double oakleaves on his cap?
The vessel at 1:02 is a latter River Class Destroyer. One of them was named HMAS Yarra, but the River class are from the 60s and are far bigger than sloops.
Yeah with the twin Mortar Mk 10
Yes. The footage is entirely random as usual with this class of pseudo doco: a mishmash of barely relevant content, painstakingly made, and blithely stolen.
And here was me thinking we were gonna hear about Yukikaze…
The HMAS Yarra is named for a river that runs upside-down ! True story diggah !
Brave buggers.
As a Melbourne native, I am struggling with the pronunciation. It is 'a' like "ahead" not like "car".
@andrewduncan1217 same. It's Ya rra not the Yar ra he pronounced it as. But I'm thankful as anything that he has told a story a relative was Involved with.
Dont EVER call out ships The HMAS, The His Majesty's Australian Ship? Ok for the USN
"Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on"
Japan sunk the HMAS Yarra. So how did it drive Japan insane?
Your videos are interesting enough without false titles
Second that, I really wish he'd start using descriptive titles instead of this cheap and unnecessary click bait.
That was one busy ship.
Enjoy the content of this channel but at the 3 min 30 sec mark in this video is that a man with 2 random patches of hair growing on his face?
A noble story that must be told. Unfortunately the unnecesarily dramatic and breathless narration encouraged me to consistently skip ahead to avoid it.
This was more about how the Japanese kicked its ass! Get your titles right!
What are the extra 30 sailors do?
They became extra watchkeepers, weapons handlers etc. Ships are always fitted with a peacetime crew and a wartime crew(casualty replacement also figures but we dont focus on that)
It's Yarra Not Yara!
Yeah took me a minute to figure out what they were talking about.
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give him a break he is a sepo
What is phonetic?
Love an English version or a competent narrator. Worse than CGT voice 😢
The title of this video is just clickbait. The Japanese barely knew Yarra even existed, and they quickly dispatched her in their first ship on ship encounter. If you want to talk about a ship that drove her enemies crazy, choose one like Bismark were the British threw everything they had at her, or the US submarine fleet in general because they sank almost all of the Japanese merchant fleet. That must have driven the Japanese insane.
So you put Yarra down? A sloop against three cruisers and destroyers knowing they were going to die? Oh of course, the US submarine fleet. Well; they would also be ,more brave than a single Australian ship defending its convoy. Of course Hollywood would make some bs movie about the brave Yanks. Joke. NO Yank EVER did what Yarra and Armidale did. And Bismarck? Actually, only a few hulls. And by guns of similar size.
@@andrewstackpool4911 you missed the point. However brave Yarra was, it did not drive the Japanese “Insane” or instill much fear in them. The psychological effect of the Bismarck is what I was referring to. It did drive the British insane until they sank her. As for brave Yanks, you are apparently unaware of the destroyer action at the battle of Leyte Gulf where the US destroyers USS Johnston and USS Hotel plus the destroyer escorts Samuel B Roberts, and USS Eversole took on Kurita’s entire Japanese Center force of four battleships including the Yamato, six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and eleven destroyers. All of the destroyers I mentioned were sunk. Four others survived. The destroyers were defending US landing zones and some small escort carriers. The Yanks were just as brave as anyone else. So yes what they did was on the same level as Yarra and Armidale if not more so.
Ship at 7:41, HMAS SYDNEY after she sank Colleoni in the Med
go Oz
Lest We Forget
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First...
Infantile narcissist
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Awesome.
Minute 1. Daring destroyers
1930's sloop. WW2 era Japanese fleet of of 3 ships. No movie. I guess the Hulk would have helped.
how did this ship drive japan insane?
we need to know more about Indian infantry. we never hear about how much they contributed.
We still have a corvette class mine sweeper in Williamstown
No, Bathurst-class. HMAS Castlemaine
NB : Any tide in the gulf is negligible.
It's a pronunced Ya- rra and runs through Melbourne
Yeh the yara river the only river to float upside down. It’s in my home town
Then spell the bloody thing right.
Would be awesome if you got the pronunciation of Yarra correct.
The Australian “sloop” sounds much like what the US Navy called the “destroyer escort.”
No, sort of a close model but different armament.
The pronunciation of the Australian ships is terrible, its Ya Rra not Yaarra. As for the photo of the Yarra it's HMAS Swan. Only one glimpse of Yarra in the film, it's mostly generic RAN.
Trademark of this channel, the images rarely line up with the narrative.
It's an AI generated voice
and others - and Arch Harrington.
What STUDS!
Great little ship. The Yarra is pronounced with the first 'a' as in 'at' & the second 'a' pronounced like the 'u' in 'up'. Sorry it's hard to describe the Aussie accent. Best I could do. 🤷♂️🇦🇺
Thank you "Dark Seas". So welcome to see you americans showing the efforts of Allies, those Hollywood "somehow" forgot.
Except much of the video footage of Yarra is of American sailors in American uniforms. During actions in which the Americans were not involved.
Brave brave sailors …
*Insaner.
If you’re going to talk about an Australian ship get the name correct
It's Yarra, not Yurra!
Why is it called a 'sloop'? Is there a 'sloop class'?
It's Y A rr - A just like Nasa! There's no H at the end.
No one else talking about the fact that 70% of the video, and 80-85% of the ship's service refer to the European theater, and harassing the European Axis powers, which is distinctly not Japan, as the title suggests, and that Imperial Japan did what Hitler and Mousallini couldn't by sinking it, or was the plan to not bring up that she probably drove THEM nuts, not the Japanese, again, as the title suggests?
More accurate title, "When the Tiny Ship Hitler Couldn't Sink Met the Imperial Japanese Navy." A little lenghty, true, but still very clickbaity, and that serms to be your style.
Yarra pronunciation YA-ra, i know non-aussie will say it like the vid but as an aussie I gotta add pronounciation
As a sailor, the ambiguity of the word "sloop" constantly infuriates me.
"Sloop of war" has a long and honorable lineage in several navies.
@@SirWhiteRabbit-gr5so oh it all depends on what time you're talking about. It had one definition, it's supposed to have one definition. Depending on your time period it may refer to (especially in normal popular speech) about 12 different things. It's infuriating.
A sloop is supposed to be a single masted sailing vessel, with a mast well ahead of the rudder post and above the keel. Usually with a single main sail and one fore-sail (2 fore sails technically makes it a sloop cutter), either with a bermuda or gaff rigg. But nooooo people had to keep calling all sorts of crap a sloop, enough so that crap like sloop of war became an official term, and now nearly no one knows what the heck it should mean.
It's not Ya-rah, it's Yarra, the a is like the a in apple, both of them. Great video, though. Love your work.
Write then phonetic - your description is missing - well everything
Half the video you show have nothing to do with what you are talking about.
The general Society of today cannot even begin to fathom the courage and sacrifices of those who fought to make possible our current privileged situation. This is made possible by the collective ignorance of History, thus failing to develop the critical mind that is necessary to avoid deception by opportunistic politicians. 2024/07/23. Ontario, Canada.
Destroyer size?
He just has to stay healthy
Aden - "Aiden" not "Ardenne".
So - did one of the ships being escorted by Yarra survive?
No. 😞
@@fredericksaxton3991 Thx for answering. :)
No, all three were lost
3:30 interesting choice on facial hair….disconnected sideburns
They're called mutton chops
Not pronounced Yar! Try Ya! Think Ha for the pronunciation. Melborn! try Melbun 🙂
The pronunciation of Yarra, both ship and river, rhymes with cat and not with car.
Yarra not Yur-ruh
13:00 for the story ffs
"Insane" title.👎
I have noticed across all the "dark" channels, and increasing use of clickbait titles, hyperbolic words like Insane!, or Terrified, pictures in the thumbnail suggesting things never seen in the presentation. using stock footage that is not illustrative of the subjects covered, and other ways to pad out the visuals, distracting from the real facts.
like naming a plane, the subject, but showing other aircraft, while speaking of the subject. I saw a recent offering about a Corsair pilot, but the thumb was the nose of a medium bomber,and how it drove japan INSANE..
I have been subscribed to these channels for some time and the degradation of quality has me skipping more and more times.
GO BACK to the more accurate presentation, even if you must do fewer of them,
3-inch not 4-inch guns
It’s not ‘Yar ra’ it’s ‘ya rra’
Sorry to add to your misery regarding pronunciations, but I see no one mentioned your pronunciation of the city of Aden. It is not Ar-den, it is Ay-den.
Also, the Yarra variants below are often unhelpful. It is Yar-ra. The first 'a' is very short, like in cat, not long as in tar, as you pronounce it. The second 'a' sounds like a very short 'uh'. And it's true, it doesn't sound especially nice pronounced correctly but given it is from an Aboriginal language, it pay to say it correctly.
Melbin is the correct sound for Melbourne unless you are from the US Melbourne or the one in Derbyshire.
Appreciate the effort. Even Drach gets it wrong more often than he'd like, it can't be easy.
I've blocked this channel because the photos were so inaccurate and title was all clickbait. Shame, it used to be a decent channel.