Our first look at British warship design! And… oh my. Well. Uh. Let’s be charitable, it’s… certainly a ship.
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Germany Continues War on Egypt
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 14 October 1938
The German Army is continuing to attempt to take Upper Egypt, and suffering serious losses. The Afrika Korps took over 6000 casualties this month to the Egyptian Army’s 2500.
9:41: Liberate Norway !
Battle of Guergueret
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 21 October 1938
The Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima of the Azores Station found the Brummer class light cruiser Sperber escorting one transport out of the city of Guergueret at the southern end of Western Sahara. The Sperber was a 1938 refit and much more capable then her sisters.
Ioshima spotted the convoy to the east and turned to close, taking two 7.3” hits and five casualties from Sperber early in the battle. She replied, getting five hits on the 9.4 thousand ton 90 manned armed transport. The transport sank with 84 of her crew.
Ioshima, after settling down in her course, began to get hits on the Sperber. The Sperber was burning across her hull and attempting to withdraw. Finally, having taken more damage, the Sperber turned to engage more closely. But listing to starboard, she had trouble getting any hits. Sperber did however destroy A turret on Ioshima, forcing the ship to turn and bring her aft turrets to bear. After pounded away at Sperber with high explosive shells the German ship broke her keel and settled, taking 831 of her crew down with her.
Ioshima suffered 67 casualties, and picked up 22 members of Sperber’s crew and the six survivors of the transport.
Hi, love your vids. Why don't you reshuffle your ships so we can see other cruiser classes and not only haguro?
Battle of The Gefion
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 8 December 1938
The Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima and the Abukama class light cruiser Yoshino of the Azores Station found the Brummer class light cruisers Gefion and Nymphe escorting six Lauenburg class 10 thousand ton, 97 manned, six single 3.2”/38 armed transport in the middle of the North Atlantic.
Yoshino led the division and on sighting the enemy convoy headed South-east. The German escorts turned to engage the raiders as the transports ran. Aiming to cut between the escorts and the convoy, Yoshino took Gefion under fire while Ioshima targeted the Nymphe. Their secondaries would engage the transports when they came in range.
Lacking the refit of the Gefion, the Nymphe, with older armor standards, couldn’t withstand the fire from Ioshima. She sank with 734 of her 853 man crew.
Ioshima now took on the Gefion while Yoshino engaged the transports. She sank all six of them, either through flooding or structural damage, before Ioshima sank the Gefion with 837 of her 853 man crew.
The 62 thousand tons of shipping lost by the German Merchant Marine were the Kaiser Karl der Grosse with 88 of her 97 man crew, Friedrich der Grosse with 91 of her crew, Beowulf with 86 of her crew, Wuppertal with 90 of her crew, Kaiser Friederich III with 91 of her crew, and the convoy leader Lauenburg with 94 of her crew. 42 officers and seamen were picked up after the battle.
The Reichsmarine suffered a total of 1570 officers and sailors killed or lost at sea with 136 taken prisoner.
The Yoshino took 22 casualties while the Ioshima took 5.
Try and make a destroyer with as many guns as possible. I made and American destroyer 24×3 4in guns
22:57: Haguro could really use some more freeboard.
Battle of Arrecife
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 13 December 1938
The Azores Station’s Nikko-Shirane class heavy cruiser Haguro and her destroyer escort, the Samidare, lead ship of her class, were patrolling the waters between the Canary Islands and the coast of Morocco when they encountered two refitted Brummer class light cruisers, the Medusa and München, escorting six Hagen class 6 thousand ton 44 manned armed transports. Whether they were headed for Dakhla or Santa Cruz the raiders’ orders were clear, no transports were to get through to the German defenders.
Sighing the convoy to the south, Haguro and Samidare turned to close. Haguro opened fire and after she settled down got two 9” hits on the enemy. The German escorts began to engage the Samidare, showing their position in a smoke screen to the east of the convoy. Samidare replied by launching her torpedoes into the smoke screen. When Medusa came out of the smoke screen Haguro put her 9” guns on the German cruiser and quickly sank her with 775 of her 853 man crew.
Haguro then sank the transport Oldenburg, with the German ship losing 37 of her 44 man crew. Elsass sank with 36 of her crew. The München tried to distract Haguro but she kept her 3” fire on the transports, sinking the Beowulf II next with 41 of her crew. The Kaiser Friederich III #2 sank with 39 of her crew. With München hitting Haguro with one of her 7.3” shells the heavy cruiser targeted her 9” guns to reply back. Meanwhile the 3” guns sank the transport Hannover with 36 of her crew lost. The convoy leader Hagen sank with all but two of her crew.
Haguro now turned to close on München. Haguro was dragging her stern, with three compartments flooded and water washing over the aft deck. After a short chase Haguro sank München with 791 of her 853 man crew.
Haguro took 41 casualties. Samidare had retired after launching her torpedoes and took no casualties. The German Merchant Marine lost 35 thousand tons of shipping and vital supplies for the Canary Islands, according to survivors, of which there were 33. The Reichsmarine suffered a total of 1566 casualties and 140 officers and sailors captured.
So I said to him "If the Portuguese insist on taking command over this operation, you won't find me floating in their way…" Captain Yukazimi
Invade Europe and South America
BrotherMunro, would it be possible for you to make the Amagi class? I would love to see a ship with 5×2 16 inch guns
Famos last words of general custard ,: Evacuate IN THE MOMENT OF OUR TRIUMPH 🤣
Btw, about that drifting… I had one cruiser (an early modern british hull) that run with 30kts highspeed just perfectly whenever it turns. When I refitted them and gave them 32 kts maximum, the problems were starting. So it seems like this rudder problem starts just above 30kts maximum speed. (No matter the actual speed in battle). Have seen this problem at 11:50 in your video again.
It's 5 am and I don't need sleep I need glorious ship action 😂( bit late to the party I know )
I'm glad that it wasn't just my mind that went to Admiral Tarkin at the end of that battle 😆
"Oh, AI, never change!"
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Battle of Madeira
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 8 January 1939
The Azores Station came out in force, sending the Nikko-Shirane class heavy cruiser Haguro, the Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima, and the Samidare, lead ship of her class destroyer class, to intercept a convoy of four Schleswig-Holstein class 10.8 thousand ton 104 manned armed transports sent to the Madeira Archipelago to provide supplies for its defense escorted by three Reichsmarine Brummer class light cruisers, two with the 1938 refit, the Berlin, Bussard (II), and Karlsruhe.
Haguro sighted the convoy to the South-east and turned to engage, with Ioshima and Samidare matching her movements. The enemy convoy turned around to get away.
Haguro, with her 9” guns, and Ioshima with her 6” guns soon began to get hits, with Haguro finally getting a penetration of an aft belt on a cruiser. The convoy leader Schleswig-Holstein was the first ship sunk, going down with 103 of her 104 man crew. The Kaiser Barbarossa broke apart from a 6” shell, and took 92 of her crew with her. The Oldenburg also broke apart, and she lost 93 of her crew. The Prinz Eitel Friedrich broke from a 9” shell, and sank with 90 of her crew.
The escorts remained, and had done little damage to the raiders, while all taking damage themselves. Samidare had closed to torpedo range and launched a spread of four at the German cruisers, followed by a double spread. Before they could hit the Bussard sank with 742 of her 853 man crew.
Ioshima had to turn to avoid becoming a casualty to Samidare’s first and second strikes. But she continued to hit the German cruisers, and the Berlin sank with 819 of her 853 man crew.
Karlsruhe was alone, on fire, flooded aft in steering and a compartment adjacent, had lost control of her rudder, and had 64 casualties. Ioshima was closing, Samidare was falling back to reload her torpedo launchers, and Haguro was coming up and getting an occasional 9” hit. Though faster the Karlsruhe was less well armored, and sank with 751 of her 853 man crew.
In total the German Merchant Marine lost 43 thousand tons of shipping, 378 officers and seamen killed or lost at sea, and 38 rescued by the Japanese Navy. The Reichsmarine lost three of their most modern light cruisers, 2312 officers and sailors killed or lost at sea, and 247 pulled from the water and taken prisoner. In return the Reichsmarine inflicted ten casualties on the Haguro and one on the Ioshima.
Afrika Korps Takes Upper Egypt
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 12 February 1939
Despite the horrific losses inflicted on them the German Army’s Afrika Korps has once again taken Upper Egypt south of the first Cateract. Our Egyptian allies complained that we did not provide support to their efforts to stop the naval invasion.
28:14: Four years ago Portugal was an ally of the Germans. Eighteen months ago the Chinese built Portuguese battleship Weisheng was protecting a German convoy against Japan and was sunk by the Haguro and thus was Portugal was still an ally of the German. Now the British built Portuguese battlecruiser Glorious is leading an attack on the German battleship Wettin?
There is a reason I ask that you drop into the whole politics screen and the whole fleet screen (or at least the builds) once every six turns. So we know what is happening diplomatically.
No ****ing secondary or tertiary except one triple mount.
33:03: You have to give the Portuguese Navy in Exile a break. They got the Glorious from the British between 1918, when they were our ally, and 1929, when they were Germany's Ally. I'm only sure they were allied to the British in June of 1921. Mark 2 16"/37 aren't that bad, though quad turrets is quite an accomplishment for the British.
So i believe the %of buoyancy is the % of compartments needed to keep you afloat that are flooded. So if your ship can float on 4 compartments but sinks when only 3 are left unflooded then 3 compartments flooded would be 50%
38:42: well, sousing out the details the German Navy lost one more man than the Japanese navy, so a moral victory I suppose.
It's interesting how the Germans have stuck to a design principle of 6 guns on a ship
44:27: Ugh.
47:50: The Yamatos fire a balanced magazine of 1434 kg base fuze high explosive shells with a range of 34.6 km and 2341 kg armor piercing capped II shells with a range of 39.5 km using low burn Cordite III as the propellant and TNT IV as the bursting charge.
The Wittelsbachs fire 862 kg High Capacity high explosive shells with a range of 26.7 km and 1634 kg capped ballistic I armor piercing shells with a range of 32.4 km.
Battle of Santa Cruz
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 25 April 1939
With the Dai-yon Kantai (4th Fleet) investing the capital of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Reichsmarine ordered the Wittelsbach class battleship Posen and the fast anti-cruiser 12.7” armed battlecruiser Hindenburg, lead of her class, to sortie out of Santa Cruz de Tenerife with their two Brummer class light cruiser escorts, four new 1939 refit Brummer light cruisers, and the new V-34 class destroyer lead.
The Dan-yon Kantai was the fleet formed around the two 18”/45 Mark 3 armed Yamato class battleships Musashi and Yamato escorted by the Tatashina class heavy cruisers Shirouma and Tatashina and the Tsugura class light cruisers Izumi and Matsushima. Though new to the Atlantic theatre the battleships and cruisers had already seen combat in the East China Sea at the Battle of Keelung.
Being outnumbered in light ships based on reports coming out of Madeira, the Kaigun-chūjō formed his escorts behind the Musashi and Yamato. Sighting the enemy to the west, the Musashi turned the battle line north to open their broadsides and got two early hits. The 1939 refit Brummer class Geier was the first ship sunk, going down with 981 of her 1002 man crew.
With the Geier down the Kaigun-chūjō ordered Musashi and Yamato to concentrate their 18” fire on the Posen and leave the remaining German cruisers to the escorts. 18” shells began to drop on Posen’s deck. Soon most of the crew was fighting fires and flooding and trying to bring their two disabled engines back on line. Posen had no time for firing her guns.
The 1939 refit Brummer class Niobe tried to close on the battle line. Armed with torpedoes, this threat was quickly neutralized and the Niobe sank with 966 of her 1002 man crew.
Musashi and Yamato continued to pound on Posen as the German battleship tried to limp away on one engine, until that also was disabled. With Posen’s stern pointed at them the battleships switched to high explosive shells, and with one more hit the Posen surrendered, abandoned ship, and scuttled. She would end up with 400 men lost out of her inadequate crew of 888.
The next German ships sunk was the unrefitted Brummer class light cruiser Breslau, going down with 791 of her 853 man crew. Their light cruisers were hiding under smoke so the Kaigun-chūjō ordered the battleships to target the Hindenburg. Hindenburg had the speed to keep the range open, but then her guns couldn’t hit back. They continued to fire on Hindenburg with a mix of armor piercing and high explosive shells. Flooded fore and aft, the Hindenburg turned and tried to pull away. But the damage 18” shells could do to such a large target was immense, and the Hindenburg broke apart, losing 2177 of her 2592 man crew.
Meanwhile the cruisers were targeting the lighter German ships, sinking the V-34, lead ship of her destroyer class, with 122 of her 136 man crew. With the V-34 and the Hindenburg sunk the surviving German cruisers had slipped over the horizon to the South-east. But with a quick change of direction Musashi bound the Stettin, Bremse, and Cöln. The unrefitted Brummer class light cruiser Bremse was flooded with engines damaged, and a few hits sank her with 742 of her 853 man crew. The 1939 refit Brummer class Cöln was flooded amidships and had one engine disabled, but was 100% manned at all stations. Her 6.7” and 3.6” guns were woefully inadequate to face up to battleships, and she wasn’t able to close to launch her torpedoes. She quickly began to flood forward after 18” and 9” hits. But a last 18” main belt penetration broke the ship and she took 964 of her 1002 man crew down with her.
The 1939 refit Brummer class Stettin had been separated from the other ships, and now she was the final target. Stettin quickly last all her double geared turbines to rising waters in her engineering spaces. Now a sitting duck, with another salvo of shells and Stettin flooded aft, sinking with 923 of her 1002 man crew.
Musashi took 114 casualties and Yamato took 30. The Japanese cruisers were untouched. The Reichsmarine suffered 8066 officers and enlisted men killed or lost at sea with 1264 captured and taken prisoners of war.
Western Sahara Captured
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 14 April 1939
The Imperial Japanese Army, attacking from Morocco and Southern Algeria, suffered 35,882 casualties while inflicting 22,043 casualties on the German Afrika Korps. This however enabled the Kaigun-Hohei (Naval Infantry) to land at Dakhla and Bouidour and complete the conquest of Western Sahara.
The battle on the Madeira Archipelago had progressed with the Kaigun-Hohei inflicting 475 casualties on the German occupiers while suffering 642 and against the Canary Islands the Kaigun-Hohei inflicting 1063 casualties while taking 2452.
Battle of the Mainz
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 2 March 1939
The Azores Station’s Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima found the unrefitted Brummer class light cruiser Mainz trying to join up with a force of Reichsmarine ships stationed east of Madeira.
Under a heavy overcast the Ioshima sighted the Mainz and closed on the German ship. Ioshima opened fire first with her 6” guns, and got the first hits. Mainz tried to reply with her 7.3” guns but wasn’t able to target Ioshima effectively. Ioshima kept racking up hits and sank the Mainz with 806 of her 853 man crew, pulling 47 officers and sailors out of the water. Ioshima took no casualties.
Battle of the Glorious
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 24 February 1939
The Azores Station’s Nikko-Shirane class heavy cruiser Haguro and Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima joined an Portuguese fleet lead by the British built and Portuguese in Exile controlled Favorite class battlecruiser Glorious operating out of Guinea-Bissau. The rest of the Bissau squadron came along, the British built Gnat class destroyer Martin, three Japanese built Harukaze class destroyers, the Sawakaze II, Nenohi, and Warabi, the Japanese built Asanagi class destroyer Sawakaze.
It’s a pity the Portuguese have a superstition about christening ships with Portuguese name only in the port of Lisbonne.
The Almirante on the Glorious was concerned that most of his ships were low on fuel, and asked the Kaigun-chūsa of the Haguro to escort the Nenohi, Warabi, and the two Sawakaze away from the battle while he took the Martin and the Glorious to engage the Wittelsbach class battleship Wettin escorting a convoy of eight 10 thousand ton 90 manned 3.1” armed transports. The Almirante had a particular grudge with the Reichsmarine whom he felt had so callously sacrificed the Portuguese battleship Weisheng in September 1936.
As Martin closed on the Wettin she spotted the signature of the transports, and turned towards them after taking two massive hits from Wettin. But with flooding contained forward the Martin kept moving on the transports, burning smoke to avoid any more hits. This only switched Wettin’s fire to the Glorious.
The Almirante’s strategy was working. The Germans were concentrating their fire on him, allowing his destroyers either to retire under the protection of the Japanese cruisers or, in the case of the Martin, close on the convoy. The Kapitan of the Wettin was trying to stay out of range of Glorious’ 16.2”/37 Mark 2 guns, and in doing so was reducing the effectiveness of his own 17.3”/49 Mark 2 guns, literally bouncing some shells off Glorious and being less effective with what hits he got.
Martin and Glorious finally sighted the convoy and Glorious opened fire. But now the fire from Wettin was becoming effective. Glorious was flooded aft in three compartments and had two engines disabled. But she still had the speed to close on the convoy, if not the chase armament she would had like. The Royal Navy designers had mounted both quad turrets forward, but put both on elevated barbettes to provide an easier solution for broadside fire from the fire director. In a stern chase this reduced Glorious’ firepower in half so the Almirante ordered the Glorious to turn slightly to starboard, move away from the Wettin, and open her broadside. And she got her first hit.
Martin was now in range, and firing with her 4.5” gun. This drew the fire from the Wettin on the destroyer which took out her 4.5” gun. The 3.1” guns on the armed transports now outranged the two single 3.1” guns the Martin carried. Martin took flooding aft and sank with 128 of her 137 man crew.
Glorious continued to try to close on the convoy but with Martin gone Wettin once again targeted the Portuguese battlecruiser, and her next hit disabled Glorious’ last engine. Wettin was still kiting away from Glorious, having avoided taking any hits from the Portuguese ship’s 16.2”/37 guns. With Martin gone as a spotter Glorious could no longer see the convoy. But Wettin had lost Glorious as well, and using only auxiliary power the battlecruiser limped back to Bissau.
For the loss of the Martin the Almirante had saved four Japanese built (that is, good) destroyers and was able to take his flagship home for repairs. He had lost 219 men on the Glorious and had name men from the Martin captured by the German transports. In return one man on the Wettin was killed in a shell handling accident and 33 officers and seamen from the two trailing transports were killed or seriously injured.