A British Submarine in WWII Goes from Hunter to Hunted
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It's May 1941, and the HMS Upholder has just claimed a major victory by sinking the Italian ship, Conte Russo. But it's come at a huge cost - it's damaged, has no torpedoes, and is being hunted by an Italian warship.
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My stepbrother was in a sub in the Pacific during WW2. I asked him once to describe what it was like to be depth charged. His only words to me were “it was very unpleasant”. That was all he would say!
My father served on a submarine in the Pacific. He never really talked about it until I told him that what a depth charge attack was like was beyond my imagination. He then spent the next 6 hours telling me stories about his wartime experiences including depth charge attacks.
Bro stop talking a fake story
Stepbrother on sub imagine on this time not exist
@@UA-camruser007 You do not know how old his step brother or the guy who owns the account is. Perhaps you should stop assuming.
Talk about a great captain!
Acc0rd79 ii
as well as a terrible submarine
And his great team
"Wanklyn's best chance is to escape" - words fail me.
“The Allies’ best option is to win the war.”
@Dominik Moeller fighting isn’t an option, it would basically be suicide.
Surrender isn’t an option as long as you have a reasonable chance of escaping.
Hiding would be done to facilitate an escape.
@@Cybermat47 pp
Get some flex tape!
Immunity hahaha this had me choking
That's what I thought
Repair that boat with flex tape
Lol flex tape is the shit
To show you the power of flex tape, i saw this sub in half
If you thought artillery barrages were bad, try getting depth charged.
I’m surprised submarines don’t automatically sink from the shear size of the balls of the men on board
Totally agree!! Balls and nerves of steel!!!
it was sunk on april 11 1941
Can you imagine the stench from all those balls, not to mention the stench of feet festering in 100+ degree heat in the submarine nasty!!!!
@@deltaboy767 They got more important things to worry about like not dying
@@harshg.9896 This is true.
Sometimes I fill up my bathtub then turn on the shower and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit.
But Why?
Wired but cool
Ok I guess
Reasons
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...Italians were in essence, trying to turn Upholder into a Cupholder. To manage to survive something incredible like that...and then have your missions classified - so you can't talk about it - would even drive you crazy. Greatest Generation.
"Upholder was lost with all hands on her 25th patrol, which was to have been her last before she returned to England. She left for patrol on 6 April 1942 and became overdue on 14 April..."
From Wikipedia.
Impressively, she sank over 93,000 tons of shipping in about 11 months on patrol, including 2 enemy submarines and one destroyer.
jeet patil - these men were warriors, they willingly put their lives at risk so that you, I, and everyone, could live free from the awful yoke of fascism. Your comment shows you to have the character of a pig-dog; you are beneath contempt.
she was found a 100 miles from where she was told to patrol. Wanklyn went looking for targets, was tempted to play it safe and survive in last mission like you might be tempted to.
@@jeetpatil9653 got what they did unto others? Same thing applied to the German uboats or were the Germans the victim according to you?
They had some great sub crews in WW2 in the Royal navy ...Amazing great men ...
Britain's always had to rely on skill over numbers. There's a reason they invented the modern special forces doctrine, and hold many records in the military field. We have our fair share of issues, but even those we've fought have respected British training and skill.
It is true
@@bc8359 Nice little word salad unrelated to the original comment.
@@5000mahmud You keep your nose out of my salad
@@bc8359 dont threaten me with a good time
“Too close for comfort”. I think any depth charge anywhere in a 2.5 mile radius is too close for comfort.
War is scary.
When it is not?
Why ? Yup when there is noise u know what is going on but when it is slient
When ur a good fighter pilot its not
It was sunk on April 11, 1942. No survivors.
way to rain on the keyboard warriors parade
They killed 1,300 alone when they sunk the cruise ship Conte Russo
well that's war
R.i.p to the great crew, giving their lives for their Great country.
Smithsonian channel its brighter here
Captain: Starboard thirty.
Helmsman steers to port instead and can be seen steering to port for the entire duration of video.
Marvellous editing, bravo bravo!
They did the same thing with the titanic
It was done like that in titanic because back in those days they used to operate the opposite of how we do it now for some reason. So the titanic scene is accurate to how it would have been
When hunter becomes the hunted reminds me if classic WWII war film Das Boot. The first destroyer encounter is one of the most scary n intense scene of the movie. Based on the true story of the crew of U96.
With some stuff thrown in to make it more intense as well as to make u actually feel the heart break especially the end of the movie
great movie
The Iron coffins
This is great, you hear all the time about U boats and wolf packs but nothing about allied subs.
Should see what american subs did to Japan, makes uboats look like amateurs, most of them sailed huge distance and sank 3 to 4 ships in a day, then had to meet with refitted and refueled at sea.
@@Robert53area well us subs had easier job because they mostly attacked undefended ships while uboats attacked well protected convoys
It's sad the submarine was lost with all hands including Lieutenant Wanklyn and is never found until today.
MS_ B the submarine is the submariners grave.
Cmon spoilers
Davy Jones Locker
Das Boot vs The Boat
"IL Bote" because was italian.
@@Larrycspinga The submarine was British. The destroyers were Italian.
@@Neneset They didn't sink the British sub, he got away
this was awesome....it's a shame that the battle of the Atlantic overshadows the Mediterranean in the European theater
It overshadows the Atlantic because minus a few empty chairs here and there the Mediterranean was more or less a cakewalk (considering the Atlantic was the Brits's equivalent of Nazi Germany's Eastern Front), the Brits had near total control of what was going in and out of the Mediterranean almost from the get-go, all they had to do was inflict enough damage to get the point across, the rest of the Italian shipping would be mothballed and the few German U-boats that made it in = largely put to the sword with effective ASW (at the loss of 450k gross tonnage i.e nothing)
@@ToreDL87 Do some learning man. Your 'cakewalk' costed the Royal Navy 76 warships and 48 submarines (most of the Royal Navy's submarine losses took place in the Mediterranean) from June 1940 to September 1943, not to mention the merchant shipping. Until the arrival of the USAAF gave them air superiority in late 1942 they did not have near total control of anything, Malta was besieged and starved for more than two years and battle such as Operations Harpoon and Vigorous in June 1942 and Operation Pedestal in August 1942 show that Italian naval forces were far from 'mothballed', two years from the beginning of that campaign. The Brits had things so much in control in the Mediterranean that rather than sending supply convoys for their troops in North Africa to Egypt across the Mediterranean, they sent them on a much longer voyage around Africa because they considered the Mediterranean as too dangerous. You are just ignorant, that's all. Oh, and the comparison of the battle of the Atlantic to the Eastern Front is beyond ridiculous. The Western Allies never had to face the scale of violence and human losses the Russians faced there.
@@nandopassante6888 Aye, I perceive the Med conflict in the same manner you have highlighted...extremely hazardous ( for us Brits), per square nautical mile, worse than anywhere else on the planet in WW2. For example: The ONLY British battleship ever to be sunk at battlestations ( i.e underway, on open seas, with enemy sonar contact) by a U-boat during WW2 was in the Med; HMS Barham, my granddad was on it. RIP John McHugh.
Nando Passante - Thank you for that excellent post; it held a lot of very good information. One small point, though; one of the big reasons the Russians had such a great scale of violence & suffered so many casualties was the tactics they used. Sending unarmed men into an infantry charge in the twentieth century was going to result in carnage, every time.
@@ToreDL87 /
Actually the relatively small U class subs could do 10 knots underwater at flank speed which is quite fast (of course no sub would maintain that speed submerged for more than a few minutes as it would quickly deplete their batteries). Their surface speed, however, was limited to a maximum of 12 knots which is considerably slower than anything that is going to be chasing them.
What a hero
It takes a special character to be able to withstand living in an ever imminent underwater coffin!
That person just standing there eyeballing everything
The most terrefiying part is the creaking and whining of the ship
Damn explosive spaghetti
It is interesting to see the story of a British u-boat.
OMG USE FLEX SEAL. IT EVEN WORKS UNDER WATER
could you upload full documentaries please
NJ Tel copyright will take it down
it’s a subscription based site that only show parts of the documentary
Go to their website which is listed in their 'about' page in their UA-cam channel and click on 'watch full episodes'.
They are not free.
I prefer the look of the third Generation U-Class or V-Class boats, Like HMS Ventura. They looked meaner.
They should turn those taps off they use to stop leaks before they get depth charged !
How, what happened, etcetera?
The small snippets are interesting, but a further few seconds I often imagine, could easily value add.
Captain: Starboard 30, Wheel is turned to left. wow!
Might’ve had a tiller on the rudder, same with the titanic, you have to turn the wheel the opposite direction
Maybe they were at starboard 60 previously and needed to reduce their turn rate.
That’s how U Boats were. Left was right and right was left. Hard for the incompetent mind to understand I’m sure.
Excellent doc. Even the trailer. Good job.
I love how the captain is the only one who didn’t fall down
You really upload great videos
Terror in the depths of liquid space
To: Maynard88: No, I’m only 74. My mom was 70 at the time oh her marriage to my stepfather, who was 80). This was his son who was on the sub in the Pacific during WW2.
they sunk a ocean liner, troop transport Of the 2,729 soldiers and crew aboard, 1,300 were killed.
Unfortunately less to fight on Land. Thus saving many American/British lives.
Subs on all sides sank capital ships, tankers, freighters, and--yes--troop transports.
@@georgewhiplemyerjr.9165 Only British lives, the Americans at the time were not engaged in the conflict
First battle rule: Save ammo
Im surprised they survived that many depth charges....
Those turtlenecks are sick
They must have had a whole team of hairdressers and barbers on board to keep them in such shape, and who knitted all those nice white sweaters? And just look at that cute little steering wheel with the handles, ah the British Navy, give them the feeling of handling a ship.
They should have painted their vessel yellow, they would all have lived - in a yellow submarine.
A video made by Americans no doubt. But put that aside, Do you really think anyone looked like that back then? They blatantly look like clean cut actors! And the set looks like something from a west end play and the CGI is something I can do on my PC! Are you German by any chance? Or Italian? Your frustration would make sense :D
helenHTID I am German...
The Americans are good at stereotyping in a glamorous but cheesy and cringy way on screen. Their German depictions are probably the worse lol
helenHTID I was being ironic of course. I know what men in U-boats looked like.
This 5minute video might be part of a movie. I don't know. I'm not going to knock it. Well done if it sparks self-examination. As a side remark, looking at soldiers, sailors, and airmen of other countries on the internet.... I wouldn't want to mess with any of them. They all look fit for duty.
Sinking troop ships. A grim business indeed.
Now thats how a leader should be.
HMS Upholder?Is it also a Triton class SS?
Ahh,Never knew RN have such a lot of SS,thanks
I would say lucky escape and brilliant men in submarine.
That's a lotta damage! How about some more?
Hi Paul swift to talk about flex tape to show you the power of flex tape I dropped a bomb on a U BOOT
Despite italian soldiers were brave and strong, Italy couldn't afford a big powerful army. This was due to the lack of weapons and strategies. But the italian "navy" was strong. Warfare is just shit guys.
Yes, the navy was strong. Particularity it's respectable anti-submarine equipment and skills.
Epic subwoofer
That captain 👌 nerves of steel haha
Captain looks so calm the entire time
William H Actor.
@@chriskelleher349 probably was in reality too
@@alexvanhorssen7914 no he probs acted calm to keep moral high but he wouldn't of been
It's an actor acting.
Just like how dreams speed runner vs hunter always end up
...generation after generation is amazed at the U-boat stories, the Nazis did well because their submarines were superior and of course because of the courage of their crews. No one seems to care about those corageous men who sailed in some of the worst submarines of the war (you know who they are) and yet they managed some good hits. I would like to learn more about brithish submarine operations in WWII, I just learned about the "dog fight" near the Shetlands... great stuff...
If you want to look at some brave underwater action look at the Raid on Alexandria. Really awesome and interesting
@@shadyyy7490
It’s amazing how the frogman pushed the 3 man sun out in the ocean. The courage of the Italian mini sun operators amazing.
Wouldn't have happened if they didn't paint it yellow
Great sweaters in the 1940s.
Of course a British skipper wears a turtle kneck🤣
Curious to know were the Italian navy a strong fighting force
Yep
@2:18 The sub captain commands "Starboard 30". The helmsman turns the wheel to port?
is to confuse the destroyer... :-)
@@Yosemite-George-61 Must have confused many on board the bridge of the sub itself ;-)
Awesome the hunter becomes The Hunted .... how many has the hunter killed before it was terminated
93000tons in six months patrol two German underwater boats a Gerry's destroyer and a lot of merchant vessels
What was the scraping noise...
joe Schlotthauer shark
I wanna know too
As Captain Wanklyn said, it was the noise made by the 'Conte Rosso' that he had just sunk, the scraping,screeching noise is the sound of steel bulkheads imploding and folding as the ship sinks deeper and the pressure becomes higher.
Apparently it's a very distinctive and very mournful sound.
ANTON RUDENHAM perfect description
The crews' balls dragging on the floor.
And turn the light off when you do it
So what was the weird sound that the boat above was giving off?
Full episodes please
WE ARE THE CHOSEN ONE
Why is he only 70 feet underwater? Thats like 20m
Because that stretch of sea is shallow
What happened to the destroyers and what was that noise they heard?
I think it's so sad to force people to make war, to fight and in this way to kill other people and risk to lose their own lives. We're all the same we're all brothers so that's not right... if God really exists he will judge us one day..... let's think over it.....
So what was the creaking noise???
Most of these crews would have been in their 20's yet already facing death or being themselves killers.
Please we need subtitles uggggh.
when you use uno reverse card
0:30
Welcome to German U-boat's, and they kept at it for 6 years without b*tching.
(Not on their side or anything just had to be said).
Carry on!
What Happens If A Depth Charge Explodes On Land?
Oh dear. Another superficial presentation. Please tell the helmsman to turn the wheel the other way. The destroyer propellers are inward turning - all Italians were outward. Nice modern cable knit sweaters - the oiled wool ones were plain. Please tell Mr Groves that the U class were relatively fast and nimble underwater when compared with many contemporary submarines, but were desperately slow on the surface with inadequate generating power just like many warships.
And of course he was DAVID Wanklyn, not Malcolm.
What is the Irishman doing in that sub?
These guys are good looking
Just give me some flex seal. They will be fine.
I wonder if the Allies or Germany had some kind of homing torpedoes technology using radar, at the end of the war? I know Germans had some kind of guided torpedoes very late in the war.
@HiWetcam ?is ASDIC not a sonar? And it works in seawater
Just googled ASDIC:
ASDIC
/ˈazdɪk/
noun
an early form of sonar used to detect submarines
Is dept charge creat tense jolt?
It's an underwater explosion...meant to damage a submarine..it doesn't necessarily have to be a direct hit, just close enough to do serious damage..
Still bad that they died in the end year of the war
Why no aircraft video
Les Allemands je suis trop fort pour les sous-marins allemands
Did the destroyers' captains know the submarine had no torpedos left?
No, but he might have guessed that it didn't
It doesnt matter even it has torpedos. It will be hard for them to be in position to fire those torpedos. Especially while being chase by a destroyer.
A destroyers job is to destroy submarines, it doesn't matter if they are armed - if you sink it now then it can't resupply and come back.
why not go deeper?
J PR the hull would implode at too great a depth, and WW2 subs were pretty limited in that regard.
British subs, maybe..but US subs, starting with the Balao class. routinely went to 400 feet.
The U-class could go to 400 feet, though the earlier Odin class could go down to 500 feet. Just because you can doesn't mean you do, though.
He's running on batteries. He doesn't know how long the Italian destroyers will maintain contact so he has to conserve power as well as evade attack. Going lower takes more battery power. The increased water pressure also means that the sub will be even slower and he has no sonar to tell where the Italians are.
i wish the axis won.
WHO GIVES A DAM ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK?!!
67 GERMANS
Do you remember MALVINAS ARGENTINAS?
JAJA
For us you are Hollywood
Still on patrol
Go to 1:04 if your tryna hear the spawn of satan come out of this mans voice
The italian corvette Cicogna sink this submarine near San Vito lo Capo
No, that was HMS Thunderbolt, this is HMS Upholder
@@thecommentaryking Oh yes, the ex Thetis...sorry. Thank you
italian ship captain: att all crew i think we sink the enemy submarine let go home " ...
J Crew capt.
Wanklyn
Do anyone know why they sink merchants
Destroyers can outmaneuver the sub quite easily and can sometimes outrun the torpedoes, and it's the deadliest enemy of submarines. Carriers were anti submarines since they have planes which were another deadly enemy of submarines cause submarines back then had to surface to charge batteries. Battleships were sometimes targets of the submarines but submarines cannot outrun the Battleships to catch up with them. Japanese submarines chose battleships over merchants back then but it didn't work well and even the Kaiten torpedo (kamikaze midget subs) only have one confirmed kill (the one that carried the Hiroshima A-Bomb).
Subs back then didn't have a lot of firepower, only limited amount of torpedoes were available for each patrol, reload took forever, aiming at targets was hard, torpedoes malfunction a lot. Using Deck gun to attack Destroyer was suicidal, AA turrets didn't work well against aircraft either. With limited firepower in order to do max damage they had to pick targets carefully, just like snipers chose officers over soldiers, subs chose merchants over battleships. But to the submariners it is never a pleasant scene to see sailors drowning but submarines with limited space and supply cannot afford to pick them up. Not sure about the Japanese, there was one German Captain who shot merchant crew to hide evidence, was executed by Germans for committing war crime
Hold up, look at their beards!!! They must have the shaving standard of a US civil war regiment!!!
Were do get the water to shave with on a submarine?
Wait a minute I thought British don't use submarine because it un fair un English and ordered to hang captured submarine crew.
I am just wondering if this weapon of war which is the submarine respects the code of honour or if it's a "moral " way of fighting. Because these guys are luring deep in the water and launching torpedoes at ships like stabbing them in the back without appearing openly in the field for a fair play battle. Is there anything which could be called "code of honour" in naval warfare?
Then the submariners are "punished " with these depth charges which is a terrible way to die. I could not think of these submariners like some glorious knights. They are more like butchers of the deep, than soldiers with an honour. What do you think about that, guys?
Malcolm wanklin 😂