The Halifax Naval Museum - A Hidden Treasure
Вставка
- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Head to www.squarespace.com/drachinifel to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRACHINIFEL
Today we look take a quick tour through Canada's naval history as exemplified by the RCN Naval Museum in Halifax, Canada.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:55 - History
Naval History books, use code 'DRACH' for 25% off - www.usni.org/press/books?f%5B...
Free naval photos and channel posters - www.drachinifel.co.uk
Want to support the channel? - / drachinifel
Want to talk about ships? / discord
Pinned post for Q&A :)
it seems throughout history the biggest obsticle to the size and capabilities of a Navy's vessels (especially it's capitalships) is drydock and canal sizes, so logically the simplest solution is to expand these pieces of infrastructure first, yet it always seems that throughout the time period in history this channel covers every nation would rather do anything else, why? what makes the expansion of drydocks and canals such a painful pill to swallow? and what does it take for the various nations from the time period the channel covers to actually do it.
Drach, I heard you mention the Franklin expedition during your "tour". Would you ever consider doing a video on the expedition itself?
I've lived around Halifax for nearly 30 years and have never been there. Guess I'll have to check it out.
What's the most meme boat ever?
Was there any chance that the Japanese carriers at Midway could have been saved instead of being scuttled? Every source covering the damage to the carriers doesn't mention if they were already at risk of sinking before being scuttled. If there were still watertight, was there any consideration to towing them back to Japan, as looking at the picture of Hiryu after she was hit, she looks intact enough that she might have been able to be repaired and returned to service.
The missing ships badges are actually from new ships, so they probably haven't been made available yet. They're all either newly commissioned or still under construction. They're the new AOPS vessels.
Did you see Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles over across the harbor?
“Easy on the 6 paper joints Rick”
Someone mentioned us! There, got that out of my system.
My grandfather served on one of our escort carriers during WW2, so our navy has a special place in my heart.
I’d love to tour this place. Navel history and a very interesting architectural building in one place. Between checking out everything from the artifacts to the door casings I’m sure I would drive everyone around me nuts.
The ships badges which are missing are the new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessels of the Harry DeWolf class. Harry DeWolf, Margaret Brooke, Max Bernays and William Hall all have badges created but as the ships are so new, the museum might not have physical copies on hand. Frederick Rolette and Robert Hampton Gray do not have badges created and released to the public yet as the ships are not complete.
Very interesting little tour. I'm not a Navy man myself, but on behalf of my fellow Canadians, thank you for your kind words about the relatively modest role we've played in things.
Excellent !! Thankyou for high-lighting this Canadian museum . Stuart Lorriman , HMCS Sackville Trustee and Tour Guide .
What a rich and cosy museum and what an insightful tour indeed! Many thanks, sir. It's a pity there's no special hall dedicated to the Barrett's privateers though)
Greetings from Halifax! Also a member of the RCN. Iroquois was my first ship as an attach posting until my actual one a short time after to the Athabaskan for just under 5 years until it was paid off. The Naval museum really is a hidden gem. I love the models! Great video thank you!
15:29 I had a bit of a double take at the model of HMCS Labrador, recognizing the ship design; it's derived from the USCG's _Wind_ class icebreakers; the USCGC _Northwind_ (WAG-278), commissioned as the _Staten Island_, was sent to Russia under Lend-Lease (as the _Северный ветер_), returned to the Navy as AGB-5 _Northwind_, resolving a name collision with the USCGC _Norwthwind_ (WAG-282)by being renamed back to the _Staten Island_, where my father served aboard her in the mid-to-late 1950s. That's the first time I've run across a connection to my own family history in one of your videos, albeit at a level of remove.
Hiding a museum is one way to preserve the stuff but there can't be all that many people visiting it.
I'm sure if one made enough of a stink about the difficulty in finding the museum, as a Canadian citizen they would simply and very politely offer you assisted suicide as a remedy/end to your difficulty.😐
@@nom_chompskyIt's a funny MAID joke, lighten up.
I went to this Museum! it has such an interesting layout that makes incredibly effective use of the suprisingly little space they have to work with.
That wooden ship model is I guess one of the Scharnhorst-class. The secondary gun layout 2/1/1/2 and the triple main gun turrets looks more like this class as the Bismarck class. The same for the 2 cranes. 😊 nice to see they have a pics from the captain of U99 Otto Kretschmer in the background as well.
Sorry for the poor English it’s not my main language 😅
Kretschmer was a POW in Canada from 1942-7.
As an FYI, the museum is located in what is known as "Admiralty House". It was the summer residence of the RN admiral commanding the North Atlantic Station from 1819 to 1905.
I have been to the maritime museum on the harbour but didn’t know about this place. Looks like a great complement to that (albeit in a location a bit farther from the touristy harbour area)
Wonderful museum! As I doubt I'll ever make my way out to the Maritime provinces, it's nice to get a virtual tour!
What a nice little gem, I missed this one on my Halifax visit.
As a Canadian... I just have to say one thing.... "VERY NICE!"
Nice to see they have carried on the royal navy tradition of ships with names in french :)
Canada was founded by French, British, and Native Peoples. The names of our Navy reflects this.
Its not RN tradition, it's that Canada has a sizable French speaking population and many places and geography with French names. The names of the RCN's ships cover the entirety of Canada and it's people; English, French, and Indigenous from East to West and far north to the Arctic.
hahahahaha....(and then there are the serious people who missed the smileyface)
The deadly serious responses make me despair for humanity.
@@jamesharding3459 really? if there is one thing the internet has brought to the foreground, it is that there are a plethora
of opinions, and ways to express them.
I don't despair because of that.
I despair because there are those who want to suppress that plethora.
usually for nefarious reasons
You should visit the Canadian Naval Museum in Calgary. Really! It is quite impressive and has an exhibit about the only Canadian Navy person to be awarded the VC.
Gray was his name Corsair fighter shot down Poor Fella
i have to say that's not where i would expect to find a navy museum....
They’ve upgraded considerably since I was there, mid 70s. Back then they had one of Bell’s hydrofoils on display.
Alexander Graham Bell's pioneering hydrofoil (I can't recall her number) is now in the museum created for his discoveries in Bras D'Or, Nova Scotia. The hydrofoil is really cool!
I had no idea anything naval survived the Halifax Explosion. All the more reason to visit Halifax. Thanks Drach!
Nasty business that it was It wasn't surpassed until the A bomb blast that took Hiroshima apart thirty years later
What a wonderful place!
Regards from Oakville Ontario, for which the ship was named. There was quite the christening ceremony on Nov. 5 1941. The ship dropped anchor offshore, in Lake Ontario. Apparently there were thousands of spectators in Lakeside Park that day. And various bigwigs. The bit about the coke bottles (later on in her story) is awesome. The bit about ramming and boarding the submarine ain't bad either!
Thank you Drachinifel for bringing us this quick "tour" of the museum. I would very much like to visit this place and see it for myself but that's unlikely to happen any time soon
The Nautical Museum in downtown Halifax was another fine treasure museum when I was there decades ago. Thanks Drach.
Loved the juxtaposition of an alarmed door and a torpedo 🙂
Chaps, we did it yet again, another Friday in the books! Cheers🎉
Thanks. I never knew if this during our one visit to Halifax. The cruiser Blucher ran screaming from the room when you showed the Whitehead torpedo.
Definitely on my list the next time I'm in Halifax! Thank you for this quick tour Drach!
X marks this spot on Drach’s History Treasure Map 🗺….Thanks for the tour ..
Thank you Drach enjoyed that quick tour
Drach, I love your videos, and the incredible effort you put into them Is clear to see. Thank you for telling these stories that we find so interesting, and fostering a community that wouldn't be anywhere close to what it is now without you
Great video, as always, Drac! Looks like you have the whole place to yourself, you lucky devil!
I haven't watched the video yet. Last time I was in there, (in 2000 - I live in Vancouver) the officer's mess kit from the 1960s had once belonged to my father.
Certainly well hidden. Lifetime resident of Halifax and I had no idea
Really Mr Redshift42 Far out!
Great way to wake up on a sunny Friday! Beautiful museum we'll try to visit when tour New England next year!
One of my favorite things about growing up in Nova Scotia is all the damn museums
My God ! The "Stratford" bell looks like something used it for a chew toy. LOL
I love old buildings. Thank-you for this video, Drach.
11:19 "This Room is is a little bit, umm-- I wouldn't say *macabre*, because that's not really the point..."
*Sobering" would have been my choice of adjective to characterize that room.
Thanks for sharing highlights of your visit.
Very nice tour. Thanks!
I hadn't known about this museum - I'd visited the Maritime Museum on Halifax's waterfront a few times.
Superb!
Halifax is on my list.
I’ve made it to the museum at Esquimalt. It was great for a small museum.
I get a similar vibe from this one.
It’s always interesting to see a different place.
Thank you Drach, good to see parts of a museum that there is no way I will every visit personally, as gettine to Canada is not something I would physically be able to do travel wise.
Got to go there when my ship pulled in there back in the 90’s. I agree it’s a wonderful museum.
I didn't get to visit this museum when I went to Halifax. I did get to see the one further down by the harbour and the one inside the fort. Both were great, and the fort even had a gladius uncovered at vimy ridge on display, possibly from the times of Julius Caesar(? I can't remember). The fort also had an M4 sherman in the courtyard.
Loved this city. If I do go back to Halifax, I'd love to visit the courvette, this museum, and the artillery park they have.
I was just there a few days ago, along with the Sackville! Quite a fantastic place
Interesting tour. Thanks
I love going to that museum.
Thanks Drach.
Lovely museum drach
If you ever make it to Vancouver. You should check out the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
They have a model of a French 74, rigging and sails, crafted out of what I believe is Scrimshaw, or bone of some kind.
Thanks for this.
You might like a vizit to Vancouver's maritime museum. Features the St. Roch, the first vessel ( I believe ) to circumnavigate North America. Tours available with admission. Also a bathyscaphe used to study the Gulf Stream..
They also have the Benjamin Franklin Deep Submersible used by NASA sitting on display out back.
Fabulous looking museum - will have to have a look down the back of the sofa and see how many pennies I can find!
sadly was unable to visit the museum when i was in Halifax for a cousin's wedding... wanted to go but had a bad case of the sniffles... my nose was running like a faucet after getting caught in a a mighty downpour that wasn't on the forecast (at least not to the degree it did), so i'm grateful you recorded your trip through the museum!
I did get to go up and see Halifax from the walls of The Citadel... was pretty neat seeing the city from up there
Nice layout, I like the subs in the basement. Thats were they live....lol
Would love travel to Halifax and see everything. Friend showed me all the pics she took with her husband of the naval base.
It is just so expensive
Nice museum, stuffed to the rafters with artefacts and information. Thank you.
Wonderful
HMCS Restigouche was affectionately known as Rusty-Guts...
Marget brooke and Harry dewolf are very recent commisions of AOPS Ships
If you ever get out to Vancouver island there a great Air Force museum and a tiny but surprisingly good naval museum with a massive exhibit and artifacts on U-480 (they actually have some of the rubber hull) and HMCS Alberni in the Comox valley.
I just did a quick search and couldn't see that you've done it. The next time you're over here in the States, you might make arrangements to visit the Smithsonian. When I was a kid my dad took us to the Smithsonian several times, and all I can remember it was the same day we saw the inaugural gowns of the first ladies - but they had several large-scale models of various USN 20th century worships. I seemed recall that they were something like 8 ft long, but for example I cannot remember which battleships and carriers I was just a kid then. There was of course lots of other stuff, but I thought you might find it interesting.
The Smithsonian national Air and space museum also has several naval aircraft on display. You might be able to make one video of each
That's what they are called. Cap tallies. I saw one in Calgary and didn't know. Thought it was a pole showing off all the ships in the RCN
Looking at the Bismarck model the question hits me:
When did various navies do away with the position of ship’s carpenter?
that's a curious question.. wonder if its within drachs normal timeline.
Also, my grandfather served on some of these ships mentioned/ seen in this
Thank you sir
Old school museum:
Cram as many artefacts as possible between floor and ceiling.
Modern museum: put 3 artefacts in a room as huge as a carrier hangar and paper the walls with information boards.
That Whitehead torpedo, you ccould have asked Blücher if they were any good.
The PacNW has the Columbia Maritime Museum and Ft Stevens (briefly shelled in WWII) if you get to the other side of the country.
27:38 Cats! I bet that's who was scratching the bell up..
You pronounced Restigouche correctly, well done. Now try Passamaquoddy, Sououdabscooksis, and Piscataqua.
One of the things I like about dual langauge countries is when you look at information boards, they look quite daunting with so much writing, but having two languages you only have to read half of what is written down as the other half is i the other language. It gives a sense of relief and almost feel like you are reading less. I've always like that about living in Wales.
Really? I expect I’d feel quite gypped. I never feel that information boards never have quite enough detail even to prompt adequate secondary research.
I first read about the Halifax Explosion as a kid in a random edition of Reader's Digest at my grandparent's and was instantly chilled and captivated (grain of salt needed, of course, given the publication) but I've wanted to visit Halifax ever since. Still hope to do so and this is all the more reason to make the effort!
More power to you fella!
C'MON, DRACH! RING THE BELL! . . . lol . . .
Top tier ASMR drac 😂
I would love to visit Halifax naval museum but I would be severely tempted to smuggle in a toffee hammer and a glass cutter!
If you ever decide to visit the historic ships of Baltimore, let me know. We have uss torsk, tench class sub, uss constellation, age of sail version, coast guard cutter Taney, last survivor of pearl harbor, the ss John w. Brown liberty ship( to my knowledge still offering short cruises in the bay.) And outside of your channels scope, but still cool(not open to the public, but on the Sam peir as the brown) the ss Savanah, America's only(?) Neuclear cargo and passenger ship.
A nice museum. I suppose it being on a navy base explains why there was no mention of HMS Frisky aka Foundation Franklin a deep sea tug based out of Halifax after WW-I responsible to numerous rescues of sinking or disabled ships in the worst possible weather including during WW-II. After reading the Grey Seas Under (Farley Mowatt) a number of times I'd hoped there might have been some mention of that tug (and the other Foundation Maritime tugs based out of Halifax).
Does the HMS Frisky's bell still hang down at the waterfront?
The models are a bit too large for wargaming.
But damn! They'd look nice on my table.
You should try the Norwegian navy museum too if you are able
Could you do a tour /visit to the Liverpool HQ for WW2 Atlantic convoys. That would be interesting.
He's done a few videos on site at Western Approaches already.
I’m sure someone has already mentioned this to you, but is there any chance you’d be able to look up Mr. Seth Paridon and/or Capt. Bill Toti from the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War channel during your next American tour?
It’s truly surprising what can be found in “small” local museums. While touring local museums in Manitoba I got to touch pioneer artifacts from the early 1800’s and stuck my head in the mouth of a genuine, fully formed dinosaur skeleton on display in a local rec centre. Try doing that in a national museum - security would like to have a word with you.
Anyone can answer. While at the Portland Rose festival, maybe early 2000's, there were several modern Canadian warships there. Don't remember, but probably destroyers. They were painted in sea foam green. I can't say it was a pleasant color to me. Anyway, seeing all the models in the vid with the more standard grays, when did the Canadian navy start painting their ships sea foam green?
Surprised me too
Idk, it's weird that for some reason as a child I first heard about the Halifax explosion & for some reason I thought it happened off the coast of Ireland, rather than the coast of Canada. I don't know why!
Being from I had no idea this existed 😮
Could you cover the HMS Camperdown in th future?
My city!!!
Interestingly, both the Halifax explosion and Texas City were both instigated by French cargo ships. And in both cases, the ships' anchors are preserved as permanent memorials to the tragedies. So when a French cargo ship comes into your port, remember to move OUT....
I understand why the museum doesn't want every visitor ringing the bells, but have the considered making recordings available so we can hear the bells without wearing them out?
I think the German crew who made the Bismark model has been watching your critique of the battleship design.
Did you also visit the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic while you were here?
God... sorry for a third post, but just had to add, uss torsk is "famous" for firing the last torpedo shot of ww2.
I WAS JUST THERE A WEEK AGO
They should get a bell you would be allowed to ring if you leave a donation
The crewman who made that wood model could of been transfered from Scharnhorst or Gneisenau. I've no evidence upon writing this comment, but it would be plausible/logical to transfer experienced crew to the newest capital ship on deployment while the others are laid up in Brest recovering from damage or receiving overhaul. That could be a possible explaination as to why he made a model with triples instead of twins. As for why it's considered Bismarck, that could simply be an assumption based on whoever acquired it from a Bismarck crewman in captivity.
Rebuttal: I have no facts here, as this is just a theory. I have every reason to be wrong.