British Battlecruisers. This video will be the second part in a two-parter covering their development, design, and doctrine. It will focus primarily on the Third and Fourth Generation of battlecruisers. There will be a large focus on the how and why of these ships, as much as in technical details and service history.
It will also cover some basics of the wartime history of the ships.
I do joke on the ‘Fully Armored Battlecruiser’ thing, but there are design studies using it, and that part was a bit snarky in general.
Further Reading:
https://www.amazon.com/British-German-Battlecruisers-Development-Operations/dp/1682470113/
https://www.amazon.com/British-Battlecruisers-1905-John-Roberts-ebook/dp/B01MZ20GM0/
https://www.amazon.com/Clydebank-Battlecruisers-Forgotten-Photographs-Shipyard/dp/1591141206/
https://www.amazon.com/British-Battleship-1906-1946-Norman-Friedman/dp/1591145627/
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By all means, keep up the snark! If I want dry, there is, as you said, wikipedia 😀
Everything in this video is taken direct from the books linked in the description. As well as dives on the sunken battlecruisers, in particular, Queen Mary.
Nothing is untrue in here unless you want to argue that the sources (including Friedman, probably the most well-regarded Naval Historian alive) are lying.
Your dry wit definitely sets your videos apart from many other presenters, so I say intensify the snark until it's enough to trigger turret flashfires XD
People don't appreciate my dry humor or snarky comments either.i feel your pain. great video.ty
I like it, nice job.
S.M.S Goeben was not "unwilling to fight" ,because if there is no war declared it would`t be nice to shoot. May be you have a different point of view following Adm Fisher" the german fleet should be copenhagend"!When war was declared did the brirish BC followed and fight Goeben? (:-)
Fisher's theory did sound good in head: super fast and super powerful, quick strike. Then you need just paper armor, if fight would be over fast. Sounds ideal. Only if there wasn't that one tiny detail that precision was not a thing in 1910s. Americans had still similar ideas much later when they intended to built basically just paper armored floating rocket launchers.
Funny factoid. I read somewhere that on the stocks HMS Vanguard was classed for a short time as a Battlecruiser because of her speed.
So HMS Vanguard was almost the last British battlecruiser.
During the late 1930s Battlecruiser were set to make a comeback as treaty cruiser killers like the Alaskas, B65 Super Type A, Project 1047, the German O cruisers and the Soviet Kronstadts.
There's a hint that these ships would shift from hunting treaty cruisers to hunting each other with the development of the B65 Super Type A cruisers.
After the Japanese learned about the Alaskas the B65 design went from 30,000 tons to 40,000 tons and from 31 cm guns to 36 cm guns.
The American response to this upgrade would have been simple. USS Iowa.
9:44 Jackie Fisher's rationale for the Courageous and Glorious was operations in the shallow waters of Baltic sea and a potential invasion by that route into Germany.
These are fantastic videos, honestly thought your subscriber count was 416k not 416. Quality is 416k my friend
Renown faced off against the scharnhorst and her sister ship which are now called battleships and they both declined combat
Keep the snark!
Great video on British BC.
Whoa whoa whoa don't attack Drach. That's my boy. Hahahahah but I like your style.
"Snarky and Dry"…
Don't sweat it, your doing a good job, believe me. I follow several other naval history channels aside from Drachinifel. And they all have different and unique personalities, that differentiates them one another. That includes you. It's nice to hear from someone who doesn't have a beautiful British accent talk naval history.
Perfect appreciation of the subject.
Enjoying the videos! Agree that the Blatant Drach copycats try to take his dry wit and approach too far off the scale and create some rather sterile content. Your style fits nicely in my naval history playlists, between the more engineering based Drach who appeals to my mechanical nature, and the VERY passionate Dr. Alexander Clarke who doesn’t hold back from shedding a tear in the company of retired warships!
re: your postscript. Dry humor and snarkiness are tools that a skilled toureguide utilizes to engage genuinely enquiring minds and meet them, avoiding direct insult and invective (as in Fox Propaganda crap). Leave no thinking person behind.
The 5 Queen Elizabeth's showed what could have been. Oil fired, armed with a 15 inch main battery and a speed of 25ish knots. The fact that four of them were supporting Beatty at Jutland kind of makes the point.
Drach's not impartial when it comes to his domestic naval forces and history, so your vids are rather refreshing in being genuinely impartial.
Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank or as it's known in the Treasury – Large Armoured Car. Great vid, thanks.
Furious was designed for the shallow Baltic sea in flank the western front but when they too it into the Atlantic her deck were warping in sea .
So they modified it into a carrier .
Very good!
Beautiful accents threw an empire and millions of lives away.😎
In 1914, Bluecher was the most modern German armored cruiser, not Scharnhorsts. If "most modern" can be in general said about a warship in class that was completely obsoleted by the battlecruiser concept. 🙂
Your snark is distinct enough from drach.
The way you do your videos is the reason I listen to all of them while I'm at work. Don't change a thing