The Battleship that Suddenly Exploded
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Liberté was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the mid-1900s. She was the lead ship of the Liberté class, which included three other vessels and was a derivative of the preceding République class, with the primary difference being the inclusion of a heavier secondary battery. Liberté carried a main battery of four 305-millimeter (12 in) guns, like the République, but mounted ten 194 mm (7.6 in) guns for her secondary armament in place of the 164 mm (6.5 in) guns of the earlier vessels. Like many late pre-dreadnought designs, Liberté was completed after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought had entered service, rendering her obsolescent.
On entering service, Liberté was assigned to the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, based in Toulon. She immediately began the normal peacetime training routine of squadron and fleet maneuvers and cruises to various ports in the Mediterranean. She also participated in several naval reviews for a number of French and foreign dignitaries. In September 1909, the ships of the 2nd Division crossed the Atlantic to the United States to represent France at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
Liberté's active career was cut short on 25 September 1911 when a fire broke out in one of the ship's propellant magazines and led to a detonation of the charges stored there, destroying the ship in a tremendous explosion that killed 286 of her crew. The blast also damaged several other vessels and killed crewmen on six neighboring ships. An investigation revealed that the standard French propellant, Poudre B, was prone to decomposition that rendered it very unstable; it had likely been the culprit in several other ammunition fires in other ships. The wreck remained in Toulon until 1925, when her destroyed hull was refloated, towed into a drydock, and broken up.
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There were a LOT of Battleships that suddenly exploded; some Cruisers as well. It was going on and on for over a decade from the 1890s onward, and ships all around the world were exploding without an immediately obvious cause. However, the French Navy figured it out --- the propellant charges in the magazines of these ships contained liquid nitroglycerin, which meant that when the magazines got too hot, the charges sweated that substance, causing it to pool on the floor. The slightest spark or shock could set it off, resulting in a chain reaction that would detonate the whole magazine in seconds.
The solution was surprisingly simple. Navies around the world just refrigerated their magazines. Some ships would still explode in later years for other reasons (e.g., the Battleship Mutsu exploded in a Japanese harbor in World War 2, due to the notoriously unstable "Beehive" anti-aircraft shells loaded into her main magazine), but it was no longer a common event.
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I worked with a maintenance mechanic who was burned by Scaulding hot water when he was doing work on a boiler where we both worked.A steam burn is one of the most painful,because it does complete nerve damage very deep into the skin.I can't imagine being around a boiler when it explodes.Thanks once again HIDDEN HISTORY for an unknown tragedy at sea.😊
Hi psi steam is Mind Blowing. Look for a leak with a wood broom handle as you cant see the leak, but it cuts the wood at the leak. I worked with steam and lots of energies! LOVED my JOBS!
@@davefellhoelter1343 Thank you for your reply.
Read ‘Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors’, & some of the descriptions of scalded burns just made me shudder thinking abt it.
As cook that works with industrial steamers I agree steam burns are the worst!!
@jamessimms415 Ya, that would be almost as bad as dying.
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was HMS Invincible. On that note, never tempt fate by naming your ship "invincible" or touting it as "unsinkable".
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I thought it was _Mutsu_ .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu#
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Funny how reversing the logic and calling your ships “future submersible class” doesn’t have the same effect on fate.
31ST OF MAY 1916 MAJOR BOOM-BOOMS
I thgought it was either the USS Maine or HMS Vanguard
now im glad i stayed for the end i thought i knew this story but you went into new details id never heard before thanks
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It's amazing that anyone onboard could survive such an enormous blast.
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An unfathomably ugly ship design. RIP to all those killed in such a tragic and unnecessary way.
unfathomably bad roboVoice too.
Why?
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Not unknown amongst battleships, several of which exploded after cordite ignited. A British gunnery officer on board the Lion found cordite dust everywhere in the turrets, which only required a discarded cigarette butt to ignite it, sending flame down into the magazine.
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Imagine working inside a turret full of explosives and leaving the flash protection doors open to speed up loading...all while smoking a cigarette...
Someone show me where sailors smoked in turrets.
Have you heard of HMS Natal? She was at anchor in the Comartry Firth next to Invergordon in Scotland. There was a party on board for the officers who had invited their families and children along. It suddenly exploded, rolled over and sank. Many people didn't get off. There is a memorial garden in the town looking over the firth. About half the hull was blown up and removed as it was a danger to shipping but the rest of her still lies upside down at the bottom.
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Defective stabilizer. They used amyl alcohol for the first French smokeless powder. They later switched to diphenylamine which is used by everyone today.
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I used to draw battleships like that when I was 7.
It's French, what do you expect. They couldn't even be bothered to finish constructing the Maginot line when they knew Hitler's lot were trashing Poland.
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Wonderfully researched and very enjoyable videos. I do suggest that you narrate with a somewhat faster and more conversational tone. I sped it to 1.25x and that speed was just more natural. Keep up the excellent work
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HMS Vanguard blew up at anchor inside Scapa flow without any enemy action ….court of enquiry stated “ faulty cordite” ….1200 dead in 1917 …
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Hvac technician working on boilers and chillers. My hope if a pipe breaks is i don't have time to scream if something breaks near me.
Remember it was made with parts from the lowest bidder, assembled by the lowest bidder, after a 3 beer lunch on a Friday.
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Rule 1 of Steam; no wrenches on hot pipes. ☠️
I thought it was the IJN mutsu as she also exploded in half while docked.
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>The battleship that suddenly exploded
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down
My first thought was HMS Hood (Yes I am aware that it is a battle cruiser)
@@TIMOR-OWZAT. Maine, Mutsu, and one German battleship i can't remember the name of.
@@hudsonball4702 Thanks. The more you know, the more you learn. Will check those two out.
Yeah, I clicked because I thought it was about USS Maine.
@@TIMOR-OWZAT.: We’re talking about warships that suddenly explode WITHOUT being attacked by an enemy. So Hood is not in that category.
Poudré B decomposition? (Sort of like early Cordite not aging well?)
Addendum: spoken of in the Vid *after* initial writing.
It sounds exactly like the same reason why the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana harbor resulting in the Spanish American war!
If I remember my history correctly, Maine was lost because of a long-smouldering coal bunker fire that touched off a coal dust explosion. It was not a magazine explosion. Both will rip the plates right out of the ship, though. To the sailors killed in the blast, there is no difference.
The Suspicious Explosion of USS Maine
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Nitro-Cellulose , , , Nitroglycerin in Sawdust. Basically old fashioned TNT, unstable and prone to "sweating" Nitro.
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Dynamite.
Nitrocellulose is NOT the same thing as sawdust soaked in nitroglycerine. Nitroglycerine is glycerol that has had one or more OH groups replaced with an NO2 group. It is very temperature and vibration sensitive and saturating sawdust with it helps to reduce that and the resulting explosive is dynamite. Nitrocellulose is formed when cotton linters or some other cellulose fiber is soaked in a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids, and forms the base of all smokeless powders in use today. TNT is trinitrotoluene, a completely different compound from either of those. The common item is that each one has some of the sidechain molecules replace with a nitrate molecule.
What is “metric horsepower”?
Lol! Not sure if that's an imperic or metrial measurrment. :-)
Metric horses do 0 - 100 with 7HP. Imperial Horses do 0-60 and get shot if they are not fast enough 😅
Wikipedia says:
*Horsepower* Two common definitions used today are the *imperial horsepower* as in "hp" or "bhp" which is about 745.7 watts, and the *metric horsepower* as in "cv" or "PS" which is approximately 735.5 watts.
I must be little horses that reproduce with their faces.
There were many that did that: see also HMS Bulwark and Vanguard
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Odd, but not as bizarre as other french ships.
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The class was scrapped in Savona Italy around 1922.lots of pictures exist while breaking them up
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Sure cure for insomnia.
I need a Pinache!
Screw the millimeters
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Six years to build.
One second to sink.
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the french at war with themselves
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That happened throught history , stocking hundred of tons of gunpowder was never safe .
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I think that you meant to state mid 1800s not the mid 1900s which would have the French building these ships around 1950 ... other than that oversight ... an informative video.
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I thought it was a story about Battleship U.S.S. Maine.
I have a video about that on my channel!
😮 when you realize the US Iowa class battle ships had 406.4mm cannons....
Interesting story, very detailed - but I can't give it a like due to the use of a monotone AI voice and gratuitous use of AI-generated images.
Another video that needs to be played at 1.25 speed to sound right.
She had enough of Fleet reviews and took herself out.
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The Story starts and 8:30
NOPE, there's no such thing as metric horsepower. There is no "horsepower" unit recognized in the SI system. There is a French unit for horsepower but being French does not make it metric and the French unit of horsepower is not recognized in the SI system.
That's probably because horses have been around for thousands of years before anybody thought of the metric system. :-)
IJN Mutsu
Anyone else see ,"The Creature from the Black Lagoon,"?
Case-mate lol
What about The Maine?
Not the ugliest design of French Battleships, but still pretty awful. This was a magazine explosion. The propellants used in naval guns at that time were not stable and some like cordite could leak an explosive dust from their bags with deadly consequences.
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She got US Mained? or Hillaryed? Maybe Robinette'd
Or Mutsued.
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You only found 10 of material?
The HOOD?!
Hood eas a Battlecruiser
@@jamesricker3997 Close enough!
The Hood was sunk in battle by a shell from a German battleship - not in an accident.
@@timonsolus The infamous BISMARCK?
@@CT9905. Yes
what a mess
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So... front fell off.
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The French had an unrivalled talent for producing ugly war machines in the early 20th century. French pre-dreadnought and dreadnaught battleships top the list though.
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quand on voit la "tête" des chars britanniques lors de la ww1 et ww2 , nous avons aussi le droit de rigoler.... loool
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Libertaaa 😂😂😂😂😂
Unglaublich wie viele Menschen ihr Leben durch diese Unfälle verloren haben.
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Good prononciation !! Interesting video !
A I reading reports, not real
@@davefellhoelter1343 AI reads french at University Level !?!?!? 😵
@@davefellhoelter1343Apparently he just has a really flat voice that makes people think its AI, unless I’m confusing it with another small history channel.
moDELL instead of model? 100% AI
Stands for Absent Inspiration
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Quite a recitation of useless information
And so this is as another, issue as the USS Maine. NOT GOOD
Very true The Suspicious Explosion of USS Maine
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blah blah blah
"THE ship that suddenly exploded..."
Half of the Royal Navy fleet of every single time period in history comes to mind.
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can anyone tell me what is hanging from the bow rigging to the crowsnest at this time, is it their laundry?
Way too long to get to the point of the narrative.
Metric horse power?
There's very little difference between the two measurements. Metric horsepower is 75 m kgf/s, which equals 735.49875 watts. On the other hand, imperial horsepower is exactly 746 watts.
A horse of a different color.
“…Pferdstärke?…”
You don't get to the explosion part until 8:58. A waist of my time.
Something around your misection? Oh, you mean WASTE!
Modelle...?
Smoke being observed does not mean “suddenly” and that was halfway through the video
What are you whining about?
By modern standard a sudden accident at work must occur within one shift. This is abut 8 hours. I guess we can call it sudden.
I thought that ALL explosions happened suddenly: Iv'e never heard of any explosion that happened gradually, or slowly. :-) :-) :-)
So, so, so Boring!
Did the French waste their money on a navy for WW1 and WW2?
Your lack of knowledge is as hopeless as your opinion
The Incredible Story of the French Navy in WW1
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The French Navy in WW2
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