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  • ‪@BlueJayYT‬ is an animated history channel that is blowing up! It's like Oversimplified and Sam O'Nella had a baby. I asked YOU which video I should review first, and the people have spoken. Come find out what Mr. Terry thinks of "The Dumbest Russian Voyage Nobody Talks about".
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 286

  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  Рік тому +326

    What do you think of BlueJay? Do you think we have a powerhouse of the history community on our hands?

    • @Nietzscheisdead-God1900
      @Nietzscheisdead-God1900 Рік тому +36

      It’s one of my favorite historical UA-camrs. His content has more of a dark and well timed humor style. But the topics he has covered are fascinating.

    • @HavikXIII
      @HavikXIII Рік тому +24

      BlueJay has some of the best comedy combined with history I've seen since Sam disappeared. He fills a much needed void, im excited to see you react to more of his content

    • @Leo_SC
      @Leo_SC Рік тому +9

      Definitely, BlueJay is like a homage to San O’Nella, but he manages to have his own style on top of it, it’s some pretty cool stuff.

    • @philosotree5876
      @philosotree5876 Рік тому +5

      How does everyone just not notice the fact that BlueJay is clearly plagiarizing several of Sam o'nella's jokes.

    • @Leo_SC
      @Leo_SC Рік тому +10

      @@philosotree5876 it’s more of a homage for me, it’s not like he’s completely copying Sam

  • @danialahmadariffinlee1510
    @danialahmadariffinlee1510 Рік тому +800

    To paraphrase the words of Drachinifel, "Of course, this being the Russian navy, the phrase 'And then, things got worse' is in full effect".

    • @kranodor
      @kranodor Рік тому +43

      The Drachinifel videos are SO GOOD. Much longer, but still so interesting.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому +36

      Ah. Yes. "Voyage of the Damned."

    • @CvBrony
      @CvBrony Рік тому +19

      You can attach that phrase to just about anything involving Russia.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz Рік тому +3

      @@CvBrony In Finnish, we have the term 'ryssiä', which means 'to fuck things up completely'. It literally means 'to Russian things up'. Russians should be aware that they're literally the epitome for failure somewhere abroad.

    • @Nepomniachtchi_Austin
      @Nepomniachtchi_Austin Рік тому +4

      Absolutely LOVE that dudes channel.

  • @snszbyd
    @snszbyd Рік тому +662

    The russian line that the parrot said literally means: "The enemies are coming from the east!", and for some reason I die laughing every time I hear it.

    • @juliakovacs4885
      @juliakovacs4885 Рік тому +76

      I'm pretty sure I recognize it as a voiceline from CoD

    • @dominicclark5284
      @dominicclark5284 Рік тому +11

      XD I die laughing at this too

    • @dominicclark5284
      @dominicclark5284 Рік тому +19

      Thank you so much I’ve been looking everywhere for what this means lol

    • @panzerwolf494
      @panzerwolf494 Рік тому +1

      You aren't the only one

    • @emeralddragon2980
      @emeralddragon2980 Рік тому +4

      Weird, because when I translated it five times through Google translate, four times it came up as "Enemies coming up from the drains". But then again, I guess Google translate is far from perfect.

  • @MrDdaland
    @MrDdaland Рік тому +61

    "The Kamchatka, the most effective Japanese ship to never serve in the Japanese Navy"

  • @maximaldinotrap
    @maximaldinotrap Рік тому +88

    I posted this on VTH's reaction too but:
    As Drachinifel said in his second video said: The numerous threats faced by the Russian Second Pacific Squadron were:
    Imaginary Japanese torpedo boats, real English fishing boats, The Kamchatka, almost starting a war with a global super power, accidentally shooting up their own ships, The Kamchatka, disease, mountainous seas, The Kamchatka, poisonous snakes, prophets of the end times, The Kamchatka, highborn officers running rat hunts through the fleet, being saddled with a bunch of obsolete floating targets that only served to slow them down, and, of course, The Kamchatka

  • @MrAagaard
    @MrAagaard Рік тому +74

    another story about this "voyage of the damned" was that the admiral would keep certain ships as close as possible to his flagship. this was so that he could keep an eye on them, but also so he could hurl abuse at the captains.
    he also gave several ships less than savory nicknames.

    • @maximaldinotrap
      @maximaldinotrap Рік тому

      Such as Lecherous Slut
      Also Known as Kamchatka
      I am gonna assume that Kamchatka was in that position the most

  • @DanGamingFan2846
    @DanGamingFan2846 Рік тому +130

    "As accurate as Helen Keller playing laser tag." Yikes, that stings!

    • @maximaldinotrap
      @maximaldinotrap Рік тому +16

      Hey that's not fair
      Helen Keller would have better accuracy

    • @luisf2793
      @luisf2793 Рік тому

      @@maximaldinotrapit’s historically accurate that Helen Keller has less friendly fire kills than the Russian navy

    • @jharri7908
      @jharri7908 9 місяців тому

      Pmsl

  • @killman369547
    @killman369547 Рік тому +272

    Ah yes, the Russian 2nd pacific squadron. The words "Dumpster fire" are about as close as one can get to describing this absolute disaster of a voyage that literally drove some of the men involved insane. It was such a disaster the battle of tsushima was basically a mercy-killing.

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +19

      Blue Jay just hits the highlights. Watch Drachinifel’s Voyage of the Damned for the whole story and even Drach leaves stuff out!

    • @josephvarno5623
      @josephvarno5623 Рік тому +21

      @@Isolder74 But Drach's follow up on the Kamcatka fills in more of it. I disagree with dumpster fire as it was more of a cluster f**k with napalm finisher.

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +10

      @@josephvarno5623 With a Tzar Bomba finisher.

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 Рік тому +9

      @@Isolder74 I have watched both videos he did on it, i couldn't help but burst out laughing a few times, especially for the insults rozhesvetsky came up with for ships that didn't follow orders or otherwise annoyed him. ESPECIALLY the Kamchatka

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +6

      @@killman369547 You should see the 5 minute guide on the Kamchatka.

  • @4partharmony208
    @4partharmony208 Рік тому +17

    Basically a real-life Monty Python sketch

  • @Mr.Heller
    @Mr.Heller Рік тому +37

    But hey, they taught a snake to drink vodka, it wasn't a total loss.

  • @RamdomView
    @RamdomView Рік тому +28

    13:42 The ship that was hit was the Aurora. Twelve years later, a shot from the ship was among the first events of the October Revolution.

    • @chedelirio6984
      @chedelirio6984 Рік тому +8

      Ah... so she waited patiently for payback...

    • @peterwindhorst5775
      @peterwindhorst5775 Рік тому +3

      @@chedelirio6984 and payback she did - she also fought in World War Two defending Leningrad from the Nazis.

    • @gloverfox9135
      @gloverfox9135 8 місяців тому

      @@peterwindhorst5775payback for what? The Russians shot themselves, shouldn’t they be shooting them selves back?

  • @Truthseeker4449
    @Truthseeker4449 Рік тому +116

    Drachinifel is a naval historian and he has such a great video on this voyage and of course the subsequent battle. It's not animated, but the level detail is absolutely incredible (there is a lot that got left out here for the sake of time) and just as mind-blowing and it's still funny. Highly recommend listening to it and the rest of his channel even if it's to pass your own time.

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 Рік тому +1

      awesome recommendation

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 Рік тому +8

      "Do you see torpedo boats?"

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Рік тому +1

      Drachinifel is an engineer by trade (though he originally wanted to join the Royal Navy and comes from a navy family, which explains both his interest in and extensive knowledge on naval matters).
      Incidentally, his great-uncle died on Royal Oak in 1939 courtesy of Gunther Prien.

    • @sirboomsalot4902
      @sirboomsalot4902 Рік тому

      @@bkjeong4302 Huh, I knew he was an engineer but I didn’t know the rest. Cool!

    • @SomeGuy-sd4kp
      @SomeGuy-sd4kp Рік тому +2

      He also corrects some mistakes and omissions in the BlueJay video which were done for comedic effect.
      1. Torpedo Boats in the Noth Sea were not totally crazy as Japan ordered many of their ships from Britain so its possible that they had some finished torpedo boats there which they just needed to send a crew to.
      2. It was always planned to go around Africa as it was feared that the dreadnoughts were too large for the Suez channel. The Dogger Bank incident only resulted in the pay or reparations.

  • @Isolder74
    @Isolder74 Рік тому +65

    Just remember that the ship that all of the other Russians kept shooting at on their own side was the Aurora. It was the ship hit and the crewman and the chaplain was on at Dogger Bank and the ship hit by the Kamchatka in the funeral salute.

    • @trinalgalaxy5943
      @trinalgalaxy5943 Рік тому +3

      And if I remember right, she was the ship towing the static target...

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +9

      @@trinalgalaxy5943 The records do not confirm it but it would not surprise anyone if it was.

    • @doctoremil2678
      @doctoremil2678 Рік тому +12

      And the Aurora was one of the very few Russian ships that survived the battle.

    • @HDreamer
      @HDreamer Рік тому +8

      @@doctoremil2678 They apparently learned how to avoid getting hid during the voyage.

    • @peterwindhorst5775
      @peterwindhorst5775 Рік тому +3

      @@doctoremil2678 then it was used to trigger the Russian Revolution and defend Leningrad (formerly Petrograd, formerly St Petersburg, formerly peter the great's log cabin, formerly a Swedish swamp) during the 100-day Siege of Leningrad.

  • @onkelkonkel5
    @onkelkonkel5 Рік тому +8

    12:53 - sharks following a ship is an old maritime superstition that means someone will likely die. Quite fitting really.

  • @sumvs5992
    @sumvs5992 Рік тому +33

    I think the parrot's "cursing" is just random russian from the earlier CoDs, so it's probably just saying something like "they're over there" or "cover me I'm reloading".

    • @leserb9228
      @leserb9228 10 днів тому

      "THE ENEMIES ARE COMING FRON THE EAST" Is what the parrot said, which is.... Accurate in that situation.

  • @TheGallantDrake
    @TheGallantDrake Рік тому +19

    Funnily enough, historians suspect that if Russia had continued to ship troops in over land, they would have eventually won through sheer numbers. The Japanese army itself had taken serious losses, but with the calamity at Tsushima the Russians were facing a PR disaster and had to cut the war short in order to deal with internal unrest, again.

  • @christiansee2500
    @christiansee2500 Рік тому +8

    Ah... "The Kamchatka"- The wise words of Drach

  • @NJDRJ
    @NJDRJ Рік тому +109

    Mr. Terry, Drachinifel has a 40ish minute video on this voyage (The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned). Would you consider making a multi-part reaction on it? This video was great but left out quite a bit.

    • @jeroen6139
      @jeroen6139 Рік тому +3

      Would be a awsome watch to see.

    • @jaytucker7873
      @jaytucker7873 Рік тому +9

      What is absolutely insane is that the full story is crazier than Blue Jays version!

    • @Demonslayer20111
      @Demonslayer20111 Рік тому +2

      Yes!! Absolutely.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому +4

      Those are actually two videos

    • @zombieoverlord5173
      @zombieoverlord5173 Рік тому +1

      @@ronmaximilian6953 One is about the voyage itself and the other is on the Battle of Tsushima

  • @Cyberc50x
    @Cyberc50x Рік тому +6

    9:05 "Oh god, the Japanese have Torpedo Fish!"

  • @TBoneTony
    @TBoneTony Рік тому +76

    This is just about as funny as the tragic Burke and Wills expedition.
    The leaders of this Russian Voyage were so inept they would loose a war against the Dumb and Dumber characters.

    • @the1andonlydrmixxel
      @the1andonlydrmixxel Рік тому +8

      *lose

    • @archiostivnnih2774
      @archiostivnnih2774 Рік тому +20

      The admiral is actually the only competent person in this fleet and since the beginning he thinks the tsar idea is stupid but he can't go against his order
      He's an unfortunate man trapped between idiot tsar and completely incompetent crew

    • @saintcynicism2654
      @saintcynicism2654 Рік тому +14

      @@archiostivnnih2774 He even tried resigning to get out of it at one point, and his resignation was refused.

  • @B0risTheBlade
    @B0risTheBlade Рік тому +4

    The parrot said "the enemies are coming from the east"

  • @dndgeek4112
    @dndgeek4112 Рік тому +38

    I had no idea this is what they meant by “Russian voyage”. I actually learned of this event from another teacher creator named history with Mike.

  • @Tzilandi
    @Tzilandi Рік тому +7

    Mad props to Vice-Admiral Rozhestvensky; when his subordinates faced court martial for surrendering to the Japanese, he took all the blame (despite having taken a piece of shrapnel to the skull and being unconscious for most of Tsushima), getting the captains and crews off the hook, with the death penalty they all faced reduced to short prison sentences.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Рік тому +3

      The fact he even dragged this trainwreck to Tsushima says a lot about his skills as a sailor.

  • @roshasensi2220
    @roshasensi2220 Рік тому +4

    i was not prepared to hear the phrase "its like if Oversimplified and Sam O Nella had a baby. its this channel"

  • @BRoyce69
    @BRoyce69 Рік тому +14

    Even if you reacted to different content and had the same job I think some people would pick up on your academic connection because your one of the few react tubers with not only good and informative insight but proper citation and academic integrity.
    Sometimes with these type of videos, I can't even find links to the original. Your doing a great job Terry! Keep up the great work

  • @MrAlex_Raven
    @MrAlex_Raven Рік тому +5

    Probably plenty of people have pointed this out, but I will cite again, Drachinifel makes great note of how Admiral Rozhestvensky was actually a remarkably good admiral, just was in this case subjected to perhaps the worst combination of underfunding and overt royal corruption of any admiral in history. Even Japan honored his ability to perform despite the decisive victory.

  • @A_Name_
    @A_Name_ Рік тому +7

    2:00 "idk if they are going to get into the russo-japanese war" me: well this is going to be more fun than I thought 😂

  • @maximaldinotrap
    @maximaldinotrap Рік тому +2

    90% of the problems faced by this fleet was thanks to one ship
    The Kamchatka.

  • @kingaggaming1971
    @kingaggaming1971 Рік тому +34

    Well, it's nice to see their logistics haven't gotten any worse over time

    • @RamdomView
      @RamdomView Рік тому +10

      No, they do seem to have gotten worse.
      The fleet would have made it to its destination if it were not intercepted.
      Russia was able to somewhat supply its army on the other side of a continent. This despite the fact that parts of the route didn't have rail access.
      By contrast, today's Russia's offensives stall out within a single truck's range of their depots despite said depots being in core territory and the destinations being former parts of their empire.

    • @RamdomView
      @RamdomView Рік тому +6

      Update: It's even _worse_ now. Imperial Russia was able to supply and train millions of soldiers well enough to not immediately crumble against Germany.
      Modern Russia's mobilized army is already showing serious cracks with significant surrenders, routs and even officer fragging.

  • @Mauther
    @Mauther Рік тому +8

    When we studied this in my Surface Warfare course, the instructor pointed out that the Russians, for all of their epic mistakes, had managed to catch the Japanese fleet out of place for defending the home islands. If Rozhestvensky had opted to go around the east coast of Japan and use the straights around Hokkaido (he would have had to refuel one last time) he could have smashed and raided the coast and the small naval force left by the Imperial Combined Fleet before reuniting with the Pacific Fleet.
    Also one mistake with the video, the Russians weren't barred from using the Suez. The Russians were concerned their new battleships were too big for the Suez so they along with escorting cruisers took the long way around. The older battleships and smaller ships passed thru the Suez under the command of von Felkerzam.

  • @JK-wc5oq
    @JK-wc5oq Рік тому +13

    What most people don’t realise is that the Japanese battleships and a number of their cruisers at the time were built by Britain. Two of the battleships were built by Thames Iron Works, one was built by John Brown on the Clyde in Scotland and the flagship was built by Vickers in Barrow.
    So the Baltic fleet was actually fighting a modern navy.

    • @Shaun_Jones
      @Shaun_Jones Місяць тому

      The Russian fleet was just as modern, four of their battleships were only about three years old at that point. But the difference in crew competency made all the difference. You could have given the Russians HMS Dreadnaught and it wouldn’t have changed a thing.

  • @artemperesada3454
    @artemperesada3454 Рік тому +15

    I just really miss Sam and hope he's doing okay

    • @saiken811
      @saiken811 Рік тому

      He uploaded a new vid a couple of weeks ago.

  • @RamdomView
    @RamdomView Рік тому +11

    6:32 Repeating what I said from other videos:
    This fear was well warranted. Torpedo boats were scary back then - small, fast moving enemies that can one-shot a battleship in the days when eyeballs and telescopes were still the main means of fire control.
    Britain was allied to Japan at the time and had built much of Japan's navy. Japan started the war with a surprise attack. As far as the fleet knew, Japan had prepared torpedo boats or the British reflagged some of their ships in advance.
    The fleet recieved a report from a transport ship that "four torpedo-boats which only showed lights on the mizenmast-head so that at a distance, they might be taken for fishing boats".
    Of course, the transport's report was just plain wrong.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому

      I rather like Russian conspiracy theories which held that the captain of the Kamchatka was a Japanese agent.

    • @saintcynicism2654
      @saintcynicism2654 Рік тому +1

      Funnily enough though, it'd been several years by that point since Japan had ordered a torpedo boat from the British (though I don't know about their other ships), and the last batch of torpedo boats they purchased from Europe were actually French-built. The British did build several, but by the time the war rolled around they were considered second or third class, not even important enough to have names (something reserved for the first class only, which by that point were domestically produced rather than foreign-made).

  • @ronmaximilian6953
    @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому +8

    Drachinifel, an amateur naval historian who has an eponymous channel on UA-cam created two videos about this. The first is "Voyage of the Damned," coveringly trip over. He has a second on the Battle of Tsushima itself. It's rather amusing and depressing hour and 20 minutes of material. It's best enjoyed with hard cider. But we are civilized in the US and drink it cold.
    One of the reasons for the Russo-Japanese War was the fascist rants about Asians taking over the world by the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. At that time, Kaiser Wilhelm II was trying to restore an alliance with Russia and kept goating his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II into acting against British India or Japan. It didn't work out so well for Russia, and probably did lead to World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II was in a league of his own in bad diplomacy. To put things into perspective, he thought that he could force the British into an alliance by threatening their preeminence as the largest naval power.

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +1

      It’s a trilogy as you need to watch the 5 minute guide on the Kamchatka as well. In the order of release it’s voyage, Tsushima and Kamchatka but I would suggest watching the one on the Kamchatka second.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому +1

      @@Isolder74 I wonder if some brilliant person has branded binoculars with a logo of the Kamchatka.

    • @maximaldinotrap
      @maximaldinotrap Рік тому +1

      @@ronmaximilian6953 The binoculars would be shit though.

  • @xjp1998
    @xjp1998 Рік тому +16

    Omg that video was great, but they left a lot out. In the battle with Japan in the Strait, the Russians did more damage to their own ships than the Japanese did and the same with the Japanese they both stunk, just Russia did more damage to each other.

    • @goli8699
      @goli8699 Рік тому +7

      Honestly at that point that was to be expected

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Рік тому +1

      The Japanese did do more damage to their own ships, but that pales in comparison to how much damage they inflicted on the Russians during that battle.

  • @WanderingWriter
    @WanderingWriter Рік тому +15

    This was very fun and educational. It's cool they use an *animal* to tell the history.

  • @stevenclark1662
    @stevenclark1662 10 місяців тому +1

    I commented on one of your videos, like 4 or 5 years ago. I wasn't as nice as I could have been, but I remember saying that I was expecting more added historical context from a history teacher.
    I've occasionally stopped in since then, and you have REALLY come in to your own here.
    You remind me of my humanities teacher in high school, and that's a major compliment! Keep it up, I'm really enjoying what you do!

  • @comradekommandmentklaus1848
    @comradekommandmentklaus1848 Рік тому +9

    I’ve watched almost all his content. He is by far one of the best.

  • @JKingSniper
    @JKingSniper Рік тому +5

    God that's sad
    mistaking thr Japanese ship for Russian just the final straw for me, can't believe it

  • @bkjeong4302
    @bkjeong4302 Рік тому +2

    Japan hadn’t annexed Korea by the Russo-Japanese War. In fact, they in part started the war so that Russia wouldn’t get in the way of their plans to annex Korea, which they succeeded in.

  • @throwaway4553
    @throwaway4553 Рік тому +1

    2:14 "Alright, so it's in the Baltic" Sure, for a while 😏

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Рік тому +1

    I bet there could be a pretty good dark comedy film about this subject kind of like The Death of Stalin

  • @scottsthoughtschannel9538
    @scottsthoughtschannel9538 Рік тому +8

    FACEPALM!!!! What a disaster!!! Also, a great history lesson!!! :)

  • @cocacola4blood365
    @cocacola4blood365 Рік тому +2

    If L. Ron Hubbard had had an admiralty, this is what it would look like. For that don't know it, he commanded a patrol boat in WWII and shelled a Mexican island thinking it to be a deserted American one, five hours into his first voyage as captain of a sub chaser (fresh out of sub chaser training) he spent 68 hours in combat against a "known magnetic deposit" he thought to be two Japanese submarines. Other accounts say it was a log.

  • @mannamedisaak3316
    @mannamedisaak3316 Рік тому +1

    I still thank you for taking my suggestions 😊

  • @luggilu7864
    @luggilu7864 Рік тому +1

    Especially losing to Japan, a country which at that time has had about 100 years to turn from a 1600s feudal society to a modern western influenced state.

  • @MattnessLP
    @MattnessLP 3 місяці тому

    Bluejay's intro about the Russian navy reminded me of those "The Russian Navy sucks" videos I keep getting in my recommendations

  • @dontcare803
    @dontcare803 Рік тому +13

    If to recommend, drachinifel has a good long video about the voyage of the second pacific squadron, he keeps it too comedical, he goes even into more detail. the thing is, the admiral got more flak in blue jay video then he deserved, he was i think considered one of the competent admirals at the time. he was one of the only ones not corrupt, but having major anger issues and taking it out on his crew if they screwed up.

    • @RRW359
      @RRW359 Рік тому +4

      Which is kind of understandable when THIS is what he had to deal with.

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +1

      Rozzy clearly played the part of only sane man.

    • @dontcare803
      @dontcare803 Рік тому +3

      @@RRW359 drachinifel even mentioned when the guy became too frustated, he threw his binoculars overboard, but his staff was aware of that habit, so they had an entire box full of them i believe

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому +3

      @@dontcare803 A box holding 50 pairs of binoculars. So many commenters wondered if he ran out by the end.

    • @dontcare803
      @dontcare803 Рік тому +2

      @@Isolder74 wow, didn't know it were that many

  • @mixedup6354
    @mixedup6354 Рік тому +3

    I recommend reacting to bazbattles videos especially the battle of north cape. There's alot to learn from it

  • @kineuhansen8629
    @kineuhansen8629 Рік тому +2

    do you see torpedoboats

  • @jiyuhong5853
    @jiyuhong5853 Рік тому +2

    Da : (Russian for Yes)
    Net : (Russian for No)
    Russians: So let me guess this right, you just decided to shoot up fishing Boats, BRITISH, GERMAN, SWEDISH, and FRENCH and fishing boats?
    Admiral: ... Da.
    Russians: But you halted fire and helped rescue the survivors?
    Admiral: Net! We ran away!
    Russians: Where were you running to?
    Admiral: Suez
    Russians: The same Suez controlled by the British.
    Admiral: Da.
    Russians: Via British controlled Gibraltar?
    Admiral: Da
    Russians: So you were running away from the British by running to the British? What part of this plan did you think about?
    And then you lost, 7/11 I repeat 7 out of 11 battleships, hit nothing and only sank 3 torpedo boats (which sank due to colliding with japanese own destroyers), : DA...

  • @LeveyHere
    @LeveyHere Рік тому +2

    Nice! I completely forgot about his channel. I found BlueJay either when he started blowing up or just before I believe. I guess at some point I either accidentally unsubscribed or the UA-cam glitch for that happened, because I'm not longer subbed. Now that I remember definitely gonna watch the videos and get caught up lol

  • @katjosephperez8772
    @katjosephperez8772 9 місяців тому

    Snakes typically hate vodka. “Snake Discovery” here on UA-cam is Emily and Ed, and it’s gone from her filming in her house to them owning a freakin zoo. Years ago they made a video about getting snakes to stop biting you, and one safe way to do it was to splash a bit of vodka at the snake (& your skin). Ed said that’s the best use for *cheap vodka* 🤢🤪

  • @jasonnelson5745
    @jasonnelson5745 9 місяців тому +1

    This voyage should be named Murphy's voyage

  • @Packless1
    @Packless1 Рік тому +5

    7:00 ...they didn't...but that's the point...! 😝
    ...but the russian sailors were so incompetent, they couldn't tell the difference between a destroyer and a fishing boat...! 👎
    ...ooops...no more spoilering...! 🤐

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому

      Twice, the first time it was a pair of Russian fishing boats.

  • @psymar
    @psymar 6 місяців тому

    7:20 He's saying they only made it as far as Denmark before the crew started freaking out about Japanese torpedo boats that weren't there.

  • @StudioCoqui
    @StudioCoqui Рік тому +2

    Love your reaction to National Lampoon's Russian Voyage.

  • @AdurianJ
    @AdurianJ Рік тому +1

    What happened at the same time as the Russo-Japanese war was the Swedish-Norwegian union crisis in 1905. With the Russian Baltic fleet gone Sweden could concentrate far more on rebellious Norway like moving it's entire fleet to the West coast and war plans would be much simpler.
    Sweden was much stronger militarily than Norway and this helped alleviate the crisis because Sweden showed good faith in negotiations, had the odds been more equal the more hotheaded Norwegian faction which wanted a war for independence might have gained the upper hand. Germany was egging Sweden on to go to war as well. There was some real stumbling blocks in the negotiations between Sweden and Norway that could easily have been used as an excuse for war.
    The negotiations in Karlstad was about honor.
    The Norwegians had insulted the Swedish king (who was also king of Norway) and thus Norway needed to accept something equally humiliating for a peaceful resolution to be reached.
    The results was the dismantling of Norwegian border fortifications and a demilitarized zone between Sweden and Norway (which lasted until the 1990's).
    An interesting fact about the negotiations was that the first question everyone agreed on was that the Sami population would still be free to cross the border with their reindeer herds.

  • @Maukustus
    @Maukustus 10 місяців тому

    ah yes, committing war crimes before reaching even 10% of your way to the destination

  • @lnomsim2
    @lnomsim2 Рік тому +2

    I'm surprised no one seems to have commented on that, but no, they didn't get ambushed by Japanese torpedoes boats by Denmark.
    Butthe crew thought it might happen, which is quite stupid considering how far they are from Japan.
    And Russian ships shooting at fishing boats? It's nice to see they haven't changed their doctrine much in 1 century.

  • @SemIdeiaDeNome4
    @SemIdeiaDeNome4 Рік тому +3

    hey so now that you're reacting to BlueJay content can you react to his video called "How to survive Victorian London" ? it talks about how life was in victorian london for the rich class and the working class

  • @Jack-lo5me
    @Jack-lo5me Рік тому +1

    Has anyone else noticed that the fleet fired on every single small ship, and then themselves, and the moment they saw a battle ship that actually LOOKED like a ship that would be at war…
    And they assumed that it COULDNT be the Japanese! It HAD to be Russian! The Japanese were eastern savages, they didn’t have similarly powerful warships-
    And then they all died.

  • @Nails077
    @Nails077 10 місяців тому

    There needs to be a movie made about this journey.

  • @user-st1un1ol1t
    @user-st1un1ol1t Рік тому +10

    Captain's parrot says "ВРАГИ ПОДХОДЯТ С ВОСТОКА!"
    Hope this helps ;)
    "Enemy coming from the east!" if you need translation. Its words from some game I don't remember name of....

  • @PhantomNull13
    @PhantomNull13 Рік тому

    I'm flashing back to the Sam O'Neila video on the William D. Porter.

  • @Uldihaa
    @Uldihaa Рік тому

    I swear this is like when you play a video game and deliberately pick the worst possible choices for the achievement.

  • @LESTR97
    @LESTR97 4 місяці тому

    12:30 The parrot is just saying some random Russian voice line from one of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare games

  • @denoodler5002
    @denoodler5002 Рік тому +1

    You should definitely react to "History's most mischievous french celebrity" next

  • @blackoutlol2857
    @blackoutlol2857 Рік тому

    I genuinely didn’t know about this channel until recently so yeah very cool.

  • @PlaAwa
    @PlaAwa Рік тому

    it makes one think that the belt and road project ain't just for trade

  • @astartesfanboy5294
    @astartesfanboy5294 3 місяці тому

    Hey if you want a really in depth analysis of this battle Drachinifel has a good detailed video on it as well.

  • @octapusxft
    @octapusxft 8 місяців тому

    Your students will have loved that one

  • @alexberntsen3168
    @alexberntsen3168 Рік тому

    Please do a reaction of any Drachinifel video. The voyage of the Bismark and the Channel dash are both epic.

  • @nevrynkinori3627
    @nevrynkinori3627 10 місяців тому

    can expand the cursor easy in settings. Nice video!

  • @timtsai9285
    @timtsai9285 10 місяців тому

    Well of course he's the next Sam O'nella. He literally steals half his jokes from Sam.

  • @MahsaKaerra
    @MahsaKaerra Рік тому +3

    Regarding the bit where you say that Russia's loss in this war may have contributed to their attitude going in to WW1.
    Might it also be fair to say that Japan's victory here contributed to the idea that they could match up to other European powers and, in 1941, the United States?

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому

      Are you suggesting that the Japanese who defeated the larger Manchu empire with a sneak attack, and then defeated the Russian Empire with a war starting with a sneak attack, would try that again?
      Sarcasm a side, the Japanese pretty much went to war with every allied European power in 1941. Being unable to completely defeat the Chinese, they went to war with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and managed to piss off the Vichy French. And they also invaded Thailand, which got Thailand to join their side. Pretty much she only people they didn't go to war with in 1941 were the Germans and Italians although they would rectify this in 1943 by going to war with Italy.

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Рік тому

      @@ronmaximilian6953 In 1943 Italy ousted Mussolini and joined the Allies to only be occupied by the Germans. So technically Italy switched sides.

    • @ronmaximilian6953
      @ronmaximilian6953 Рік тому

      @@Isolder74 yes, I know

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Рік тому

      Not only did this cause them to think they could take on European powers or the US, it also informed much of their naval strategic doctrine, aka the so-called Kantai Kessen doctrine where they would fight defensively against an enemy naval force travelling from a long way away to whittle down the enemy fleet, destroy the remainder in a single decisive battle, and then hope the enemy gave up (though this was modified into a much more offensive strategy just before PH, which turned out to be a horrible idea for Japan as it resulted in them vastly overextending their limited logistical capabilities)

  • @LexusLFA554
    @LexusLFA554 10 місяців тому

    Update 1.8.90 New Weapons
    Very clever, made me chuckle.

  • @Paul-ft9dn
    @Paul-ft9dn Рік тому

    actually the suez canal was built by France, the UK bought shares of it from Egypt and then in 1882, conquered Egypt and occupied it until 1952 and controlled the Suez Canal zone until 1956 after which Nasser's Egypt nationalized it.

  • @Eli-dx2uj
    @Eli-dx2uj Рік тому

    I'm a little rusty on interpreting morse code, but I think at 14:37 says "You are a you"...?

  • @angussoutter7824
    @angussoutter7824 8 місяців тому

    He’s taking the mick 😂😂😂

  • @arnepietruszewski9255
    @arnepietruszewski9255 9 місяців тому

    This is the voyage to Tsushima.

  • @recklssabndon
    @recklssabndon Рік тому

    Subbed for more Bluejay reacts

  • @DanDorugh
    @DanDorugh Рік тому +1

    I feel like the Russians thinking that small fisher boats are the Japanese's navy and the actual coal powered warship isn't, is weirdly consistent when we remember the general opinion that Europeans had of the Asians at that time.

  • @Brunette_Rapunzel
    @Brunette_Rapunzel Рік тому

    There's a new Blue Jay out! :)

  • @redstarlegion7009
    @redstarlegion7009 Рік тому

    Drachinifel does a good job describing this voyage

  • @timmypeschel1571
    @timmypeschel1571 Рік тому

    i see they never heard of dont shoot the messager

  • @RaphaelCrafts
    @RaphaelCrafts Рік тому

    Mr terry with a beard scares me deeply

  • @mountab1253
    @mountab1253 Рік тому

    You should watch the victorian era video from bluejay

  • @renegadeleader1
    @renegadeleader1 Рік тому +1

    The Russian fleet fearing an attack by Japanese torpedo boats in the Denmark straight and off the coast of England is not entirely without merit. The British and Russian Empires had been rattling their sabers at each other for much of 1800's over possessions in east and central Asia so badly it let to the British joining the side of long time enemies France and the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War in 1853.
    Following the signing of the Anglo -Japanese Alliance in 1902 and the commencement of hostilities with the Japanese in 1904 the Russians feared the British would allow the Japanese to station ships in their ports enabling them to easily attack Russian possessions in Europe.
    It's this little seed of possibility that led to the rampant paranoia that overwhelmed the poorly trained, neglegent, and inexperienced crews and nearly caused them to trigger the first world war ten years early.
    Does it excuse them firing hundreds of rounds at unarmed fishing boats and messenger ships and mostly missing while inflicting more damage to themselves? No, but it does put some historical context onto the situation outside of prexisting severe brain damage being the reason for the incident. 😆

  • @JackT-7
    @JackT-7 11 місяців тому

    “Denmark has Japanese submarines??” 🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @brandonburum8279
    @brandonburum8279 Рік тому

    I saw your thumbnail and became disappointed that you’re not Rich Evans of Red Letter Media.

  • @skadifrozenfury9266
    @skadifrozenfury9266 3 місяці тому

    6:29 it’s still new today, they have made few necessary advancements in the true need for navy importance. 😬

    • @1truejellybean
      @1truejellybean 2 місяці тому

      I can’t stop shidding please send help, I’ve shidded nearly 300 times during this video and I can’t stop shidding and edging

  • @stevenchoza6391
    @stevenchoza6391 Рік тому

    You need to react to a Jack Rackham video!

  • @Reyrocksall
    @Reyrocksall Рік тому +1

    BlueJay is awesome. Highly recommend it.

  • @Packless1
    @Packless1 Рік тому +1

    7:50 ...invisible stealth japanese torpedoboats...! 😱😱😱
    9:30 ...they couldn't use the Suez-Channel...? 😮😮😮
    ...might it be that Britain and Japan were allies in these time...??? 🤔🤔🤔

  • @timmypeschel1571
    @timmypeschel1571 Рік тому

    and they call us stupid cowboys from armgeton

  • @swymaj02
    @swymaj02 5 місяців тому

    between this and Korea in the Imjin, which is worse? I mean, without Admiral Yi, they were toast.

  • @jounilojander8821
    @jounilojander8821 Рік тому +1

    In that time Japan didn't build ships like torpedoboats itself they buy from Great Britain! And intelligence made mistakes so first warning happened near Danmark second time was British waters! Japanese torpedoboats near....But they was too nervous so in near Great Britain Russians attacked against fishing ships in anchour. This was reason why they couldn't travel shortest route except oldest ships.

  • @Maeshalanadae
    @Maeshalanadae Рік тому

    Think about who has control of the Suez Canal these days, Mr. Terry, and the current setup…

  • @ozzybloke-craig3690
    @ozzybloke-craig3690 Рік тому

    0:39 Mr terry sends Polish people to your Sub Feed!