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Agree 100% but a very recent vid and interview reveals there is many years of restoration ahead before this happens. Stripped of most of its outer planking with the interior structure needing much attention. It doesn't look like the pictures at all right now.
Our city had a WWII destroyer at the docks. A real piece of history that sat there rusting away for years. They kept slobbering on some kind of rubberized coating on the decks and one day in a blizzard it nearly capsized under the weight. Private money finally saved it.
Now, I could be wrong here, But at the school I went to in Kent in the late 60s we had a chemistry teacher called Chris Harvey, he lived on a converted German MTB at Shoreham on sea. Could this have been the same boat? It would be interesting to find out.
I KNOW that they are responsible for the deaths of thousands of allied troops and sailors, but they ARE absolutely gorgeous boats! Personally I think they've got the edge as far as style goes over the British and American equivelent.
I can understand your view. My Dad was a ball turret gunner on a B17 out of England starting Jan '45. He had fired on and damaged a Me262 over the continent. Oddly, now, I appreciate the looks of the Me262. RIP FMJ. 8th AF 487 BG 839 BS
I have not seen any images of S-130 that date after 2015, nor have I found a website that stays up-to-date with the restoration progress. One website I found during my research was rovcom.co.uk but it hasn't been updated since April 2012.
@@SurvivingHistory I just did a deep dive into this and found that the Kevin Wheatcroft Collection who purchased the boat, has a facebook page, and they last posted images of S130 on the 75th Anniversary of DDay. There were people there for the remembrance ceremony of the Slapton Sands Disaster. The date of this post was I think in June 6, 2019? I had to scroll down multiple pages of their Facebook to scan for anything about S130. He recently purchased a historic drydock, and after it is cleaned up it will be the new home of the S130. But right now it is still looking pretty sparse, as several upper planks have been removed. You can see that much work has been completed. Additionally they have collected numerous pieces of equipment and even torpedoes, so it will be soon when they start the restoration progress again. Just a little longer now and they will start the restoration again. It is kind of frustrating because whenever anybody asks them for an update on the S130 progress, the canned answer that everyone receives goes something like: "Not much has changed on S130, so no update is needed, stay tuned until the drydock is ready and the boat will be moved there" So it is pointless to ask for any update information until they are good and ready to let us know. I wish them much luck and am following the progress closely. She will be amazing to see when they are finished! Jerry
@@allaboutboats Well it's good to hear the restoration project is still underway and she's getting a new home soon. I'll definitely be following the progress on their page. Thanks for the update!
@@allaboutboats They have bought a historic dock to keep her at when she's finished, but that also needs restoring first. They have a FB page that gives updates on the whole collection regularly.
What an excellent video I learned a lot ! Just fyi KEEL is how the city is said not kee-el and Boot is said like Boat It now seems so silly that they are remembered as E-Boats and not S-Boots
My father’s oldest brother died in the April slaughter of the 600+/- soldiers that were in full gear and drowned without any life preservers. My uncle was a sailor on one of the two LSTs that night and a great part of the tragedy for the Allied troops was that a British Destroyer was assigned for protection (as usual that night) and could have given much more protection for the convoy with it’s larger guns and trained gun crews that could handle multiple targets, however the captain of the destroyer put into port for repairs and failed to report that to command for a replacement which left the largest and most potent weapon out of the plane and those men paid the price for stupidity and arrogance in the cold water of the English Channel. To say that Eisenhower was pissed when he heard about this fiasco is an understatement. But beyond the huge death toll from a training session 6 weeks before D Day, he was outraged by the loss of the LSTs which had been difficult to get because of their cost of $250,000 each which was an amazing amount of money to get congress to approve for only less than a dozen specifically for this invasion. I researched the total number of LSTs, but could never get an answer. However, Navy records indicate that 26 were sunk by the end of September 1944. And out of the total, one was kept afloat in the Navy, although LST 715 was listed as lost in June of 1944, it also shows up in Vietnam in and was back in the US and decommissioned in 1973. In one of two flukes, I happened to meet a veteran and we talked about my father’s service as the gunner and copilot on an SBD DOUGLAS DIVE BOMBER and it got around to my uncle’s death in the slaughter that was the result of the British captain’s dereliction of duty (who also never had any action taken against him because the entire event was covered up and everyone who died in it was buried in mass graves and it was not until the mid 1980’s when another uncle saw an article in the paper from a freedom of information act telling the truth about his oldest brothers death. My grandparents were told by the military that he had died during D Day and we decided that there was no reason to tell them the truth as they were in their 80s and the stress might have killed them), the second fluke of an event was that my wife and I went to England in 1991 for almost 3 weeks and after the obligatory tourist experience in London for two days we headed north and ended up in the town of Hexam in a B&B in the home of a lovely family who were so nice that we stayed 3 days touring the area of Hadrian’s Wall and the Moors during the days and enjoying their company at the pub and home in the evening. During one evening, I told the story about my uncle’s death and the wife became very quiet for a moment and then began telling me that she had been a nurse down on the SE Coast back then when she was just more than a girl. She said that they were called into an auditorium early that morning and told that they were about to see things that was extremely top secret and that should anyone be caught talking to outsiders, they would face the death penalty. When they left, they had to begin processing the bodies of the soldiers and sailors (over 150 sailors per LST) for burial in mass graves. The recovery of and processing of the dead took several days. I was blown away to have come to England and ended up meeting this lovely woman and her family! I understand that the town where this happened now holds a memorial service each year in April, and I regret that I am too old to attend one of these now, but I am pleased that the men who died in the service of our country are finally receiving the recognition and honor that they deserve! I have to say that I have always questioned the reason to have sent the men so far into the channel just to turn and practice a landing. But, that’s why I was not in command! God bless my uncle and all of his compatriots! The old professor Live free or die!!! Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic!!! Pedophiles too!!! No Shit………….
4:50 An interesting term: “taken as a war trophy.” That probably means … “it’s ours and no changings” … it probably goes back centuries to old Admiralty Law. No title transfer needed. Any THOUGHTS? Lawyers? Enlighten me, please.
…that’s a super common term Rob. Referring to any materials (arms, or material seized by a conquering army). It’s not like buying a car or a boat and ‘transferring ownership’. Cheers! ✌🏼🇬🇧
@deaterk War trophies were a real thing but applied to sword, gun & knives etc. Like the German jets this would have ended up being studied by engineers in a secure facility. On a more grim note check out LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944. A Marine's girlfriend pondering what to write him for his "gift" of a Japanese soldiers skull. If memory serves me the soldier had been burned alive in a tank. If nothing else at least Germans were Christian but the Japanese were slant eyed savages. Those aren't my thoughts, look at the posters from WWII.
Die Nazi's bauten überhaupt gar nichts, daß war die Leitung der deutschen Kriegsmarine, die diese in Auftrag gegeben hat. Außerdem war die Kriegsmarine, die Teilstreitkraft mit den aller wenigsten NS - Partei Mitglieder,sowie die Masse des Deutschen Feldheeres.
Mention PT boats & the image of a handsome JFK, hair blowing in the breeze comes to mind. PT boats were noisy & flimsy death traps despite the bravery of the crews. They used WWI torpedoes that often got jammed in the tubes. MacArthur fled the Philippines to Australia with two of the four boat flotilla never seen again. Too bad MacArthur didn't go down. He was a great man in WWI but a pompous & inept coward in WWII and desperately wanted to nuke China in the Korean war. As an example try and imagine Rudy Giuliani replacing Omar Bradley, all of Europe would have been speaking German by 43.
I apologize for my honesty catastrophic mispronouncing. But I have since learned from the mistakes made in this video, and my narration has, in fact, gotten better in my newer uploads if I do say so myself.
Hello all, and thank you for watching this video!
I appreciate y'alls feedback, but please note that this video is now 2+ years old, and does not show my best work, as I was working with older equipment at the time, and had not yet begun working with Tank Encyclopedia.
If you want to see more work of mine, visit my channel, or visit Tank Encyclopedia's UA-cam page and look for the video editor named "Mace".
The German's did some audacious missions across the channel, gutsy effort on their part considering the odds.
How steady those boats plow through the water, without bouncing , incredible and impressiv
The first thought that I had was the US PT boats but this is another animal. Wow!
Seeems better. Or heavier.
@@tonyromano6220 S boats were better than the U.S. PT boat.
The Great White of the seas. A very fearsome boat in its time, i hope the restoration comes to completion.
Well, well, well, at last a video that requires an Oscar, I rate this video beyond anything I have watched on UA-cam, Great information
Save S130....she deserves to sail again.
Agree 100% but a very recent vid and interview reveals there is many years of restoration ahead before this happens. Stripped of most of its outer planking with the interior structure needing much attention. It doesn't look like the pictures at all right now.
Absolutely fascinating, life of a boat is almost inspirational. More exciting than most human lives.
Incredible history wow
I believe HMS Frobisher, a cruiser, was torpedoed by an E boat while shelling the D Day landing fields. Not sunk, but forced to retire hurt.
Thanks from Canada , Wow great video !!
the crews on those S Boats were Brave Lads
The old battle and commando magazines
Very impressive boats. Though I hate the look of the broken sheer to launch torpedoes.
In Poland, in Świnoujście, a former German auxiliary submarine chaser "Kehrwieder" is for sale in the port
Nice, not enough WW2 boats are still round and in sailin condition. Its all history, no matter side they come from.
Our city had a WWII destroyer at the docks. A real piece of history that sat there rusting away for years. They kept slobbering on some kind of rubberized coating on the decks and one day in a blizzard it nearly capsized under the weight. Private money finally saved it.
There is one in a Backwater in Wilhelmshaven !
A very nice video, thanks. Personally, I think they retained their sleek, non worn out look.
Now, I could be wrong here, But at the school I went to in Kent in the late 60s we had a chemistry teacher called Chris Harvey, he lived on a converted German MTB at Shoreham on sea. Could this have been the same boat? It would be interesting to find out.
I KNOW that they are responsible for the deaths of thousands of allied troops and sailors, but they ARE absolutely gorgeous boats! Personally I think they've got the edge as far as style goes over the British and American equivelent.
I can understand your view. My Dad was a ball turret gunner on a B17 out of England starting Jan '45. He had fired on and damaged a Me262 over the continent.
Oddly, now, I appreciate the looks of the Me262. RIP FMJ. 8th AF 487 BG 839 BS
Do you have any recent photos or how to find a restoration progress update for this boat?
I have not seen any images of S-130 that date after 2015, nor have I found a website that stays up-to-date with the restoration progress. One website I found during my research was rovcom.co.uk but it hasn't been updated since April 2012.
@@SurvivingHistory I just did a deep dive into this and found that the Kevin Wheatcroft Collection who purchased the boat, has a facebook page, and they last posted images of S130 on the 75th Anniversary of DDay. There were people there for the remembrance ceremony of the Slapton Sands Disaster. The date of this post was I think in June 6, 2019? I had to scroll down multiple pages of their Facebook to scan for anything about S130. He recently purchased a historic drydock, and after it is cleaned up it will be the new home of the S130. But right now it is still looking pretty sparse, as several upper planks have been removed. You can see that much work has been completed. Additionally they have collected numerous pieces of equipment and even torpedoes, so it will be soon when they start the restoration progress again. Just a little longer now and they will start the restoration again. It is kind of frustrating because whenever anybody asks them for an update on the S130 progress, the canned answer that everyone receives goes something like: "Not much has changed on S130, so no update is needed, stay tuned until the drydock is ready and the boat will be moved there" So it is pointless to ask for any update information until they are good and ready to let us know. I wish them much luck and am following the progress closely. She will be amazing to see when they are finished!
Jerry
@@allaboutboats Well it's good to hear the restoration project is still underway and she's getting a new home soon. I'll definitely be following the progress on their page. Thanks for the update!
@@allaboutboats They have bought a historic dock to keep her at when she's finished, but that also needs restoring first. They have a FB page that gives updates on the whole collection regularly.
@@jamesdeath3477 Thanks James! Nobody else has replied since OP was six months ago. I had given up on any updates from this group.
What an excellent video I learned a lot !
Just fyi KEEL is how the city is said not kee-el and Boot is said like Boat
It now seems so silly that they are remembered as E-Boats and not S-Boots
Also, it's Lat-vee-ah, not la-teev-ah.
Look at the later RN fast boats of the Brave class.
My father’s oldest brother died in the April slaughter of the 600+/- soldiers that were in full gear and drowned without any life preservers. My uncle was a sailor on one of the two LSTs that night and a great part of the tragedy for the Allied troops was that a British Destroyer was assigned for protection (as usual that night) and could have given much more protection for the convoy with it’s larger guns and trained gun crews that could handle multiple targets, however the captain of the destroyer put into port for repairs and failed to report that to command for a replacement which left the largest and most potent weapon out of the plane and those men paid the price for stupidity and arrogance in the cold water of the English Channel. To say that Eisenhower was pissed when he heard about this fiasco is an understatement. But beyond the huge death toll from a training session 6 weeks before D Day, he was outraged by the loss of the LSTs which had been difficult to get because of their cost of $250,000 each which was an amazing amount of money to get congress to approve for only less than a dozen specifically for this invasion. I researched the total number of LSTs, but could never get an answer. However, Navy records indicate that 26 were sunk by the end of September 1944. And out of the total, one was kept afloat in the Navy, although LST 715 was listed as lost in June of 1944, it also shows up in Vietnam in and was back in the US and decommissioned in 1973. In one of two flukes, I happened to meet a veteran and we talked about my father’s service as the gunner and copilot on an SBD DOUGLAS DIVE BOMBER and it got around to my uncle’s death in the slaughter that was the result of the British captain’s dereliction of duty (who also never had any action taken against him because the entire event was covered up and everyone who died in it was buried in mass graves and it was not until the mid 1980’s when another uncle saw an article in the paper from a freedom of information act telling the truth about his oldest brothers death. My grandparents were told by the military that he had died during D Day and we decided that there was no reason to tell them the truth as they were in their 80s and the stress might have killed them), the second fluke of an event was that my wife and I went to England in 1991 for almost 3 weeks and after the obligatory tourist experience in London for two days we headed north and ended up in the town of Hexam in a B&B in the home of a lovely family who were so nice that we stayed 3 days touring the area of Hadrian’s Wall and the Moors during the days and enjoying their company at the pub and home in the evening. During one evening, I told the story about my uncle’s death and the wife became very quiet for a moment and then began telling me that she had been a nurse down on the SE Coast back then when she was just more than a girl. She said that they were called into an auditorium early that morning and told that they were about to see things that was extremely top secret and that should anyone be caught talking to outsiders, they would face the death penalty. When they left, they had to begin processing the bodies of the soldiers and sailors (over 150 sailors per LST) for burial in mass graves. The recovery of and processing of the dead took several days.
I was blown away to have come to England and ended up meeting this lovely woman and her family!
I understand that the town where this happened now holds a memorial service each year in April, and I regret that I am too old to attend one of these now, but I am pleased that the men who died in the service of our country are finally receiving the recognition and honor that they deserve!
I have to say that I have always questioned the reason to have sent the men so far into the channel just to turn and practice a landing. But, that’s why I was not in command!
God bless my uncle and all of his compatriots!
The old professor
Live free or die!!!
Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic!!!
Pedophiles too!!!
No Shit………….
Karl Donitz lost one son who was a submariner, after his U-boat was sunk. I didn't know about the other son, I'm glad I saw this video
He died in the war too.
4:50 An interesting term: “taken as a war trophy.” That probably means … “it’s ours and no changings” … it probably goes back centuries to old Admiralty Law. No title transfer needed. Any THOUGHTS? Lawyers? Enlighten me, please.
…that’s a super common term Rob. Referring to any materials (arms, or material seized by a conquering army). It’s not like buying a car or a boat and ‘transferring ownership’.
Cheers! ✌🏼🇬🇧
@deaterk War trophies were a real thing but applied to sword, gun & knives etc. Like the German jets this would have ended up being studied by engineers in a secure facility. On a more grim note check out LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944. A Marine's girlfriend pondering what to write him for his "gift" of a Japanese soldiers skull. If memory serves me the soldier had been burned alive in a tank. If nothing else at least Germans were Christian but the Japanese were slant eyed savages. Those aren't my thoughts, look at the posters from WWII.
Anyone know what type of construction she was built with?
A turret on the Iowa weighs more than almost all surviving ships from WW2 from other countries combined
Absolute crap lmao. HMS Belfast alone is 11,000 tons.
"Lativa"
It is not a speed boat it is a Torpedo boat.
Kriegsmarine lacked coherence and overall mission. Despite this it was a terror to the Royal Navy again!
What does it matter? They lost.
@patrickmiano7901 You got it, you can return to your knitting. Thanks for your call.
They were the German PT Boats then?.
No real sound 😢
So ein schnittiges Boot sollte erhalten werden.
Warum hat man kein englisches MTB dafür genommen 😅
6:18 LATT VIAH
The Nazis should hand made more of those fast boats they coukd have caused havoic in hit and run attacks all over the coasts of The UK.
Die Nazi's bauten überhaupt gar nichts, daß war die Leitung der deutschen Kriegsmarine, die diese in Auftrag gegeben hat. Außerdem war die Kriegsmarine, die Teilstreitkraft mit den aller wenigsten NS - Partei Mitglieder,sowie die Masse des Deutschen Feldheeres.
Hitler being Hitler dashed all of that.......
Mention PT boats & the image of a handsome JFK, hair blowing in the breeze comes to mind. PT boats were noisy & flimsy death traps despite the bravery of the crews. They used WWI torpedoes that often got jammed in the tubes. MacArthur fled the Philippines to Australia with two of the four boat flotilla never seen again. Too bad MacArthur didn't go down. He was a great man in WWI but a pompous & inept coward in WWII and desperately wanted to nuke China in the Korean war. As an example try and imagine Rudy Giuliani replacing Omar Bradley, all of Europe would have been speaking German by 43.
Germany 💪💪💪
Not much happening on this project for about the last 10years.. 😑
Greek sub's please❤
An appalling loss of American lives through poor planning and miss management and was all hushed up at the time
"La Combatt..." WHAT? "Lativa..."? Good grief.
I apologize for my honesty catastrophic mispronouncing. But I have since learned from the mistakes made in this video, and my narration has, in fact, gotten better in my newer uploads if I do say so myself.
Attacked with no warning? Hmm, that must have been the only time that happened. 😅
😂New country of Lativa ????
Was anyone reprimanded for allowing the S boats to engage the transports
These insertions of agents were betrayed by trator Kim Philby.
ok, so you can't pronounce german but "Lativa"?
Zelensky will take it!
For God's sake, do something about all the spelling mistakes.
Bro… blow your nose…
My father was on PT boat's in WW Two