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Today with the help of CPO Rob Griffin, we take a quick look at the history of a unique destroyer of a more modern vintage.
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I clicked on closed captions, because Griffin's accent makes it hard for a Yank to understand, and was surprised at how incompetent the CC program is! Heroin for heroes and other oddities made it quite funny, but it's also made me mad because the interesting bits get lost in the translation.
Careful, Drach, you may be opening a can of worms talking about post 1950s ships! I suspect many other people reading this, like me, can name a ship we served on that we'd love to see reviewed, and we know you'd rather stick to more distant history.
She is ugly enough to make the type 42 look good.
Yes I could easily look it up but….when was she built? Where? When did she serve (sans Falklands)? Or is this a strictly in the know video ?
Is this precedent setting?
Really excellent, thank you for all the effort by both. Australia.
#159 Do to the size of the ship at that time, I would call her a Scout Cruiser, rather than a Destroyer. Just my feelings about realigning ship classifications. A class of her own!
Start with year maybe ? I assume after WW II up to the sixties for the super carriers ?! But it would help if you mention a year…
I bet they never asked a German crew to use the pool 😉
Why is space, square?
I understand the politics and finances which led to the decline of the RN, but it always makes me sad to compare its capacity now (or really since the 60's) vs. WWII and before. A couple of USN carrier groups outweigh the entire RN now, I don't think that it had to be that way.
How can the UK not figure this out? Your government will not help and/or help this ship to be preserved? America has dozens of Museum ships, but it seems like everything in UK is designed for the government make money and for the citizenry a massive pain in the a$$.
does the Royal Navy know that you are sort of retired.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much.
Very interesting presentation.
Thx Drach. Great job.
What a lovely guest, so courteous and thoughtful. Lovely gent.
1:55 is roughly the start
Drach I love your channel. I am a very long time fan going back to when you used the computer voice. But I gotta ask will you ever do edited videos where you show naval battles minute by minute again? (Like the battle of the Denmark straight, Guadal Canal etc) I really loved those videos but I’ve noticed for a long time it’s just been interviews, Drydock and ship guides. Thank you for all you do. I’m just asking!
Ah, HMS teenage pregnancy
Leander class please!
I had the pleasure of serving on the Bristol from 79 to 81, best ship I ever served on with an unusually close crew, especially the stokers and greenies.
I remember the swimming pool very well, the yanks couldn't believe it. We were exercising with a us carrier group on if memory serves operation springtrain, I believe the carrier was the uss mount Whitney, when we left the fleet to head to Wilmington we had to do a sail past, the flight deck was dressed up as a beach with palm trees made out of beer cans, lads dressed as ladies on sun beds and a fully occupied swimming pool, a BBQ in full swing. It certainly opened the eyes of the yanks, conformation that they joined the wrong navy😁
Do you come to Tewkesbury festival ? If so come say hello to the cannon crews Yorkist side (usually right hand side as viewed from the stands )
If she was on Azur Lane, she would have PTSD following death of her sisters…
At about 8:00 there is the union jack as you’d expect…but a US flag up high (main mast?). What’s up with that?
The Royal Navy is nothing like it used to be.
Wanna come over for a BBQ and a swim in our pool🤣👏
I'm afraid Great Britain is just fading way into the past just like this old lady.
What is this, Mr Drach, a modern warship on your channel ?? A Daring (of the late 40s) is correct for your channel, but this ship of the 1960s ?
The Bristol was in service when I was in the RN during the 80's.
She was big compared to the T42 etc. She always reminds me of a half way house in her design. She has some features of the preceeding County Class Destroyers and when you look at the T42 design you can see some of Bristol in that. It's a shame that she's been left to rot and will probably end up at the scrappers 😢
I was only reading last night from Capt. Brown's 'Wings on my Sleeve' about his help and then his disappointment over the abandonment of the CVA-1 carriers.
I know it’ll never happen, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for a Forrest Sherman or Tench class after he mentioned the former in a previous video
2:50 This picture always makes me think the turret crew have just heard something about the rum ration and are asking the bridge crew to 'clarify the situation'.
How many tons?
Better a swimming pool than a bowling alley… ^-^
Very nice post, its a pretty boat. Texas A&M Galveston has always kept a retired Navy boat for cadet training and "schools in" cruses as well. Never give up the study for business cases in education of maritime, law, transportation, engineering, military and tourism,
A sailors first active ship is always an eye opener. There is so little personal storage, not to mention personal space. You get used to it, but it's definitely a shock. There's a reason sailors get really clever at finding places to stuff things that there isn't any room for. There is, you just have to be sneaky about it.
13:48 I am speechless 🙂
Too many good ships are razor blades these days, and we go through to many disposable razors these days. Thanks Drach and Rob, good stuff.
Thanks!
13:30 During the Vietnam War, when the USS New Jersey was reactivated in the late 1960s, the forward 40mm guns were removed during an abbreviated refit. These were sealed, painted blue, and used as swimming pools. They were removed during the 1980s refit when she was pulled out of mothballs again, but the USS New Jersey Museum had one recreated in 2018 to restore part of the ship's Vietnam War heritage. Since the original 40mm gun tubs were removed during the later refits, the museum staff bought an above-ground pool as a tribute to CAPT Snyder, who had the gun tubs on either side of his cabin converted into pools as a morale booster for his crew.
Ohh ….. other words…. classic
Ummm – was unable to, ummm – put up, ummm – all the ummms…
Excellent , but to say that the cost of keeping her would be to high is ridiculous , how much is spent on Warrior or Victory no one says cut her up for firewood as she is to expensive to maintain!!
We don’t have anything that represents this period of our naval history and to have a complete ship in relatively good condition is unique . She would be fantastic if she could be moored next to Warrior .
We don’t have anything else left to preserve and unlike America we seem a bit wet about preserving our naval heritage , she could be a fantastic memorial to the personnel that fought and died in the Falklands.
I served on HMS Bristol during my BRNC officer training in 1989 when we actually sailed into Leningrad as part of the perestroika and glasnost era that Gorbachev initiated. I had a fantastic experience serving on the ship and have many fond memories. Thanks for sharing this video.
I was an Army Officer attached to HMS Bristol when she was a DTS vessel. We water skiied behind on a trip off West Africa!
I was an apprentice spark in the engine room on her 1969 at Swans ,it was the first warship built at Wighams