The Incredible Tale of History's Only Real Sky Pirates
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2024
- Uncover the incredible and daring tale of history's only true sky pirates! In the midst of World War I, a German zeppelin commandeered a Norwegian schooner in a jaw-dropping aerial raid.
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Please get another voice. This guy is everywhere. Not a fan of his grating voice. Sorry, not
Please get a better S filter, my guy. Or edit out the high pitch.
@@maxwellblackwell5045 or not watch 😀
Sky pirates? Hell yeah! We badly need a remake of the classic game Crimson Skies!!
Or more games about Sky Pirates. I love 3d movement, but wish there were more games with it that were neither in space or underwater.
God I loved that game growing up such good memories
YESSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! NONE OF THE OLD GAMES WORK ON MODERN CONSOLES OR PCS!!!!!!! *cries and cries and cries* I though it was great alternate history game!
I remember being able to take a hex editor to the save file and load out your plane with everything…
It's on gamepass
Sea Pirates: exist
Land Pirates: exist
Aerial Pirates: once exist
Space Pirates: in progress
In 2019, American entrepreneur Nova Spivack declared he was the "first space pirate" for smuggling tartigrades to the Moon on board Arch Mission Foundation lander without informing the Israeli launch company SpaceIL. Items have been taken into space without permission since the mid 1960s.
Smuggling isn't piracy. Piracy is theft of goods
@@usonumabeach300 yet authorities treat both as the same.
Only a matter of time
🚀🏴☠️🎸
German Historian here (Working for the IFZ in Munich mostly. As much as i do enjoy a lot of Simons Content i must applaud him for posting this rather unknown Incident on the "Today I Found Out" Channel. Surprised me massively.
Simon and of course the whole Team doing the Research etc. for him do have an insane amount of Variety and as a Historian i often check Videos of his Channel and go "Nice! He's covering something lesser known compared to 99% of all the other History-related Channels!"
Now Simon and his Team only have to make a Video on the following 2 very overlooked but worth-telling Stories of these two German Personalities which both to this Day are still respected by the American and especially British Military (and their Stories taught in Military Academy):
- Felix von Luckner (aka "The Sea Devil" (german: Seeteufel)) of World War I who has also been called "The Emperors Pirate" by British Historians who because of his Actions was even praised by the British a few Years after WWI
- Günther Prien (aka "The Bull of Scapa Flow (german: Der Bulle von Scapa Flow)) of World War 2 who with his U-Boat did something so ballsy early on in WW2 against British Ships in Scapa Flow that also right after WW2 a ton of British Veterans and Historians praised him and wrote Books about him (Think Rommel but U-Boat).
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps and keep up the great Work
We know about Scapa Flow because it’s where we get our pre-atomic metal to make X-ray machines and Geiger counters.
He's done Günther Prien: ua-cam.com/video/eTb4Iq1iwDY/v-deo.html
When people say "as much as i enjoy this" they are following it up with a negative comment. You cant use it the way you did. "As much as i" is like a prefix. Its letting a person know that whatever your about to say will be followed by the opposite feelings. As much as i love chocolate, i hate being fat. As much as i hate to exercise, i really like being in shape.
@@ferretyluv😂Yes, lots of pre-atomic steel.
Why would you thank Simon? He's a presenter, he's the human text to speech for dozens of channels (not all of which bother to check facts at all)
To quote The History Guy, "Don't all good stories involve pirates?"
Great channell and without the idiotic comments Karl Smallbrain makes on 'Biographics'
Of course!
Well, the inclusion of a pirate never made a story worse.
Love that channel no. 5
Nice to see somebody finally picking up this story^^ It's a good one. Another fun fact about the privacy incident is that the bulk of the airship was used to block the wind behind the sailship, leaving it dead in the water. A truly bizarre interaction of vessels.
On another note, the German commanders were well aware of how ineffective those raids were. They continued anyway because they were binding considerable allied resources in the UK.
I think the Houthi capture of that ship via helicopter would count as sky piracy
"Dirka Dirka Mohammad jihad!" ~ Houthi Sky Pirates
Good point, but the Houthis are almost nation state actors
@@hillbilly4895 [secret panic signal intensifies]
Considering it was during a war and the ship was considered a "valid war prize" wouldn't they technically be considered "privateers" instead of pirates, or would they need official sanction to perform the actions for them to be considered privateers?
For most purposes, privateers are just state sanctioned pirates. A subgroup, not a different thing altogether.
Privateers are irregular forces authorized by a government to act on their behalf. What the Germans were doing was commerce raiding, which is different from both privateering and piracy.
Both options are not valid.
Real pirates were criminals, without any rigths to atack and capture vessels. They were hunted dowm by everione, captures any number os ships from any nation they could. Everibody was theyr enemies.
Privateers were private enterprises (hence the naming convention), but authorized by a "Letter of Mark and Reprimendum", that allowed them to capture shipsfrom specific nations, to hunt pirates, to use port facilities from theyr sponsor nation and so on. Both ships and crews were hired by the boss, very ofthen the captain himself.
Those airships and crews were from the German Navy, so, served the nation's military.
Hence, not criminals, nor a private enterprise, so, not pirates, nor privateers.
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543wouldn’t most governments be considered a private enterprise since they don’t have a direct stock and are recognized as businesses and banks?
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543great info tho, just curious.
I watched Talespin, I know there are more flying pirates than just these guys
Friends for life through thick and thin with another tale to spin!
It is I Don Karnage! ha ha... you may grovel for your lives now.
Oh wee oh! oh we oh! Oooh oooh. Another tailspin :-D
And a few Studio Ghibli movies confirm this.
They actually existed I be dam
Important to point out that the Zeppelin base at that time was in Germany, those islands became Danish in 1920.
Perfidious denmark
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 well, in fact it was the only territory annexed from Germany after 1918 that was passed due to a referendum....
@@riccardodececco4404 excuses for perfidious actions.. Kick a man when hes down and a few years later you are surprised by a big ol kick..
Nathan zackary manning the zeppelin gypsy magic with the fortune hunters... what a game crimson skies was
With a crew of drunken pilots
We're the only airship pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies and a danger to ourselves now
The only thing i could hear in my head this entire time 😂
5:04 That would be something to sing a song about it afterwards.
So glad to see fellow Abney Park fans in the wild!
You can tell that they are true drunken airship pirates by the loss of their rhyming scheme! :)
@@backwashjoe7864 You kinda have to hear the entire song. It links the verses so the entire chorus doesn't rhyme but the song does when you hear it in it's entirety.
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But sure, Abney park have a pretty unique style.
"A crew of drunken pilots! We're the only airship pirates!"
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves.
@@riftvallance2087 Was looking for this comment chain!🤣
@@NClark-lp3bq Because you have exceptional taste.
There is the Airborn series, a series of novels which play in a world where airships provide for the entire air travel. There is in one book also a raid by airship pirates. When I was a teenager, I really loved these books.
I read Oppel early in my teens, however it took me quite a while to figure out that "Airborne" is in fact the title of the first book, because in my translated version, the title is "Panther of the Clouds", which is, in my humble opinion, a way more intruiging name.
Not the only case - and that was a legitimate war prize.
The *real* sky pirates are the Houthi pirates who seized a car carrier, the Galaxy Leader, in November last year after boarding it by helicopter.
De är tunga.
@@bryanfreeman437 De har onekligen en tung effekt på världens logistikkedja... om det är det du menar.
@@awmperry Jag menar att alla som bekämpar ZOG har min respekt.
Bor i ett land som inte har importbehov i matväg oavsett.
Gives a whole new meaning to Captain Jack "Sparrow"!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Talking about Cpt. Led Zeppelin maybe
I wish anyone makes any Sci-fi Steampunk/Dieselpunk Genre About Sky Pirates with Airplanes and Airships like Crimson Skies or Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow. But Hollywood just won’t give it a shot.
Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow
Here I am still playing crimson skies on my old windows XP laptop because war thunder is just not zeppelin enough .
There used to be an old source game like that I forget what it’s called
You should check out Mortal Engines… they gave it a pretty good try there
Not really aligned with these genres but Porco Rosso maybe?
I think the record for the longest flight by a military airship is held by the US Navy when the 'Snow Bird' flew 9,448 miles over a period of 11 days in its' double crossing of the Atlantic in 1957. The flight was non-stop and un-refueled.
I was introduced to the concept of sky pirates by Final Fantasy XII. I'm glad to know there eas at least one single historical case irl.
As for me, I got that same concept from watching Elemental Gelade. Though the MC was only one in the first and last episodes.
I need a sky pirate shanty now.
Have you heard of the band named Abney Park? They have airship pirate songs. Including one called Airship Pirates.
@@GraveyardRomance no, but I'll check them out.
@@GraveyardRomance
Abney Park was the first thing i thought of with this title.
Despite this entire video, nobody explained WHY they were abandoning a perfectly functional ship.
They saw the zeppelin and thought it was about to shoot them down... It's rather simple
As a modern day airship crewman. I approve of this
I can't believe no-one has picked up a line like, "As a modern day airship crewman" . . . .
Goodyear? Fuji? Soeone else?
In a middle school class, one of my kids wrote a proposal for an airship tourism cruise line to visit the Oregon coast from cities in our Willamette Valley, concluding it wouldn't (quite) be viable. His prospectus was really nice-looking, though.
Have you heard about Sergey Brins airship project?
@kevinmurphy5878 yes I have it seems pretty neat. Hopefully it Flys later this year.
@arcadiaberger9204 I was snoopy, direct TV , carnival cruise, plus a bunch of other short term contracts.
@@invaderraven1 High five!
Very, VERY high!
"You claim yourself a sky pirate, but I see no wings." Ramza Beoulve, FFT War of the Lions
And quite a few of those navy zeppelins were based near a small town in northern germany, called Wittmund. Which is crazy considering wittmund at the time was like a 10k population city at most? It was just barely above the threshhold for a village to become a town.
Laputa: Castle on the sky came to my mind instantly when i read the title, my all time favourite movie!
Me too! Miyazaki was very into aviation themes. And Castle in the sky was definitely “Sky Pirates” themed.
Simon had me at Sky Pirates
I'm surprised I've never heard about this before. I've tried to learn it all, but there seems to be no end to history.
Yeah, there’s more history happening all the time.
There's a fitting song for this.
Abney Park "Airship Pirate"
Fires high and the airbags tight,
Foods low but the skies are bright
Props spinning all through the night,
We're low on cash but we've seen another target
Goggles down, and the cannons up
My blood starts pumping as I drain my cup
I give the wheel a spin and I turn this girl around,
We're way above ground but we're closing on our target!
Flying Jib is filled with air
East India ships filled with despair,
We even up, her broadsides bare
Our cannons flair but it's just a show of muscle
Steady on, she doesn't need to burn
She tries to flee, and she tries to turn
Grappling fire, we grab her hull
We're starting to roll, but we've got her on a leash!
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now
Expendable crew starts to reel her in
Our swords are sharpened and we're ready to sin
I'm three miles up, we're about to swing aboard
My tethers made of leather so I'm not about to fall here
A swish of air and my boots hit deck
No cash, no fuel, no - not a speck!
Grape shots made this bird a wreck
And a glance below deck shows a crew of nuns and orphans!
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves
With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!
We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now
-- Robert Brown
@@arcadiaberger9204
That's the one.
I remember reading this book called "Airborn," one of the main plot points was airship pirates
"With crew of drunken pilots,
We're the only airship pirates!
Well we're full of hot air and we're startin' to rise;
We're the terror of the skies and a danger to ourselves, now..."
~"Airship Priates", by Abney Park
Abney Park sent me here. First thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail.
Im ready for Space Pirates...
Definitely, that's how I played the game Darkstar One, professional space Pirate and drug smuggling were always my favourite alignment even though I tried it all once, being a normal trader can be very profitable, but nowhere near as fun 😂
damn, I was hoping they would raid another zeppelin
A really interesting story, it could be straight out of an adventure film. I knew a guy (old boy as they say in Norfolk) who lived in King`s Lynn and remembered the Zeppelin raids on King`s Lynn when he was a very young boy. He saw them flying over the town and dropping bombs. Thank you for making this video.
Crimson Skies, Sky Captain, and Airship Kingdoms Adrift came to mind immediately
wont lie. the thumbnail looked like simon pointing at half a peanut in an old photo for a second, lol
Man, rigid airships need to make a comeback
Are you telling me that Don Karnage probably wasn't based on a real person?!
Awe…. Now Im sad… I miss Talespin
I want more stories where you say “aluminium.”
How does his tongue form such a sequence of syllables? Incredible.
Only US dirigibles were constructed using Aloomnumb. 😂
@@Steve-GM0HUUironically the USA's airships used Duralumin (tm) alloy.
@@Kieselmeister OK, noted thanks and apologies.
I am stunned by this story. Simply fascinating stuff. Thank you for sharing
Love your content 😊😊😊
The moment Porco Rosso was waiting
And here I am thinking for decades that "Tale Spin", the 1990s Disney cartoon, was just a fictional story about sky pirates. 😂🐻🐯🐵🛩
Fun fact, the Sea Duck was a combination of a Fairchild C-82 Packet, Grumman HU-16 Albatross, and a Consolidated PBY Catalina.
"Warlords of the air" is a great zeppelin fantasy classic.
Although Tønder is today in Denmark, the town only became part of Denmark in 1920, when the northern part of Schleswig became part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Until then, Tønder had been part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which in 1864 was conquered by Prussia and thereby became part of the German Empire.
So during the First World War it would be more correct to say that Tønder was located in Schleswig-Holstein or Germany.
Sky pirates operating an airship. I am surprised Jules Verne, as to my knowledge, didn't write a story on this topic. 😅
so tailspin creators took some inspiration from a real group of sky pirates from ww1 who also used a airship for don Karnage's sky pirates who operated a airship called the iron vulture and they would try and make raids on cape suzette and generally fail and get turned away by the cliff anti aircraft cannons
Everyone be ho ho ho with a bottle of rum until the hydrogen starts acting funny
I live in Cologne Ossendorf. Here the imperial German military and Peter Strasser, did research and did operate the Zeppelin fleet against Belgium, France and Great Britain targets.
This is just amazing! I'll have to show it to my son tomorrow, he is a big fan of pirates
That beauty regimen must be working. I had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t pre-pandemic Simon 👀
Well a Zeppelin taking out a sailing ship definitely sounds anachronistic.
As does the early 1920s event where the Brits sent the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes out pirate hunting in China. So yes aircraft carrier vs sailing pirates is something that sounds very anachronistic that happened
The Talespin fan of my young days is taking heart
I wish there was a way to put all of Simon's channels into their own separate notifications Playlist so that I could just go into UA-cam and hit play all and it would just automatically play all of the most recent uploads from every channel of his... it's so tedious to sift thru my notifications for all his channels uploads... especially if I miss an upload day..
Oh-weeeoh, Tailspin! Oh-weehaye, Tailspin!
please tell there arch nemeisis was a guy named baloo,because that would make my day.
Who can forget the infamous Air Pirate Don Karnage.
I need to play Skies of Arcadia.
This would make a really cool short story movie or something with the main scene being the sky piracy
I imagine those Norwegian sailors were terrified and also very very confused.
I love this History, I never knew? THANK YOU!
"just one second sarge i need to find an eye patch" ;)
Wonderful story 🙏🙏🙏 thanks
Thanks for the lesson. Cheers
🎉🎉 who needs a Valentine when you got Sky Pirates and starfish
Fun fact: under international law hijacking is classified at air piracy so technically sky piracy never really ended
>Simon: The only sky pirates
>Houthies: let me introduce myself
This reminds me of the story Airbourne! I bet the story takes inspiration from the Sky Pirates of Air ships! Highly recommend it!
Wonderful story of the time and life of a turn of the century adventure. Dreams of future past
The real life Toppat Clan!
World wasn't ready for skyrates
Please do a video on the A4 Skyhawk. There's no good videos on here bout them, despite them being the most iconic jet of Vietnam.
Simon should do a medieval history channel, european, english history is what he's good at and it would go down well.
Guess Simon forgot about Don Carnage and his air pirates. Only Baloo could outfly them.
Love the channel. Would be curious about Gestational Diabetes (Type III Diabetes). Apparently an extremely rare and not understood form of diabetes, Type 1 & 2 being almost the entire diabetic population. Very curious if you have the opportunity to explain!
this was truly a bad ass story love learning new facts
Prone to bursting into flames? Not really. You had to treat them pretty badly for that to occur, with the possible exception of Hindenburg
Actually the Hindenburg was deliberately sabotaged. However the result was so horrific it effectively doomed the airship concept in a single incident
@@tedoramoneGlad someone brought this up. The sabotage though may have been done with the intention of taking down the airship business. You can thank that for why sky cruises aren't a thing today
It is clear that Tale Spin paid homage to these sky pilots. They even had a Zeppelin in the classic show.
There was a band of American pirates in WW2 that stole and modified B-17/B-25s to raid Japanese convoys. They were led by Paul Irvin Gunn.
That's commerce raiding, not piracy.
The Zeppelin Pirates when I pull out my Surface to Air Missiles:
6:32 "all the tome" hahahaha
What a tale!
For real Sky-pirates - check out the game ‘Skies Of Arcadia: Legends’.
Very cool.
May be fifteen years ago, i visited the castle of a descendant of Graf von Zeppelin during a historical tour. The descendant has now the name von Brandenstein- Zeppelin. In his castle he could show us a handfull relicts from an airship.
A PvP based, airship combat game focus on teamwork and cooperation between specific rolls called "Guns of Icarus"
Simon looks like a chad in the thumbnail of these old vids
We making it to Crimson Skies with this one!!!🔥🔥🔥
When General von Lettow-Vorbeck arrived in east Africa in 1914, he was on the same liner as Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), author of 'Out of Africa.'
Enormous airships helped to build the pyramids of Giza, the Lighthouse of Alexandra, and The Colossus.
Fun fact, the two most famous zeppelins are, the Hindenburg & Led Zeppelin! The wound with the most impact to the world is Led Zeppelin and it’s also the most Metal AF \m/
Like B1M, Simon Whistler is guilty of code switching.
So that’s how they got inspired to make that boat hijack scene in “Carnival Row” (Season 2)
Break out the rum lads and let’s sing some Air Shanties.
I got the Sony wf1000xm5 (again, cool name Sony ... ) And they're absolutely incredible. I use them with the hi res tidal subscription and they sound amazing. Also, I don't even realize I have them in my ear. So comfortable. Highly recommend
Imagine living in Great Yarmouth and giant balloons start attacking.😂
Thats badass
Really wish that episode of history would have lasted a little longer. Just for the epics.
This is the equivalent of me abandoning my house to a butterfly. 😂😂😂 it's mind-boggling how dumb these ppl were
I'd like to find out how many channels you have. It seems like every video of yours that shows in my feed is listed under a different channel.