Throughout history, no one could top the power and might of a battleship at sea. Their fearsome firepower was simply unmatched, and as far as anyone could tell, it would remain that way forever. That is, until, a small but significant propeller plane successfully took off from atop a modified battleship, and suddenly, the rules had changed.
Years of development passed, and the aircraft carrier was born. Sea and sky were united in a lethal combination unlike anything seen before. Suddenly, the rules had changed, and everything that once made battleships grand was now their weakness. No longer did strength lie purely on the surface. Aircraft, and the elegant carriers they called home, changed the face of naval warfare forever.
Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history’s most famous ocean liners and machines!
00:00 Intro
01:35 Pre-Aircraft Operations
03:16 The Invention of the Airplane
05:02 Early Experiments
09:21 World War II
12:34 Overtaking the Battleship
15:40 Parallel Advancement
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In the future I wonder if there will be a video "how drones killed the aircraft carrier"?
Thanks to their radars, the Iowa class ships could sneak up to enemy ships at night or in fog, and just finish them off without being seen. The Royal Navy had such a success with radar-guided guns in the Battle of Cape Matapan, where they decimated Italian forces.
But for further ranges, airplanes were needed anyway.
I like how you ended that video… I hope we don't need to use them either
The US Navy operates 11 super carriers, all nuclear, no other nation has more than two.
Another great video
Pa-tom(like home)-ac(like ick) River 3:04
Just checked the low volume everybody is talking about, mine is fine! I do have a manual volume button on my external speakers so I can mute the ads, I just adjust it up again in between.
Since aircraft could go 200 miles,actively hunt for their targets and repeatedly attack more accurately with more explosives than an unguided shell which had an effective range of 10 miles and could be used but once,it was inevitable.
Hi Mike. In a sort of cross-over, it's interesting to note that the Sitmar lineship S.S. Fairsky, known to some Australians in the 1970s as a cruise ship, and before that as migrant ship had been the Bogue-class escort carrier HMS Attacker in Royal Navy service during WW2, converted from a merchant ship under construction. She served on many operations in the Mediterranean. In the 1970s, if you knew what look for, you could still see characteristics of her aircraft-carrier ubild, even though she had been rebuilt into a passenger ship/cruise ship.
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my mind jumped immediately to a 4 parter documentary by name "Warship: A History of War at Sea" and specifically the 4th. part which also talks about the advent of the Aircraft carriers.
And while has been some time since I've watched it, I still remember that the Officer in charge, Admiral Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves broke of a small flotilla comprised of Lexington, CV-2, Saratoga, CV-3, and some vessels for protection/assistance and made a surprisingly successful attack run on the Panama Canal they launched the planes fairly far out at sea, after which the both Carriers made best possible speed towards the engagement zone for retrieval operations.
Reason for braking them of the main force was a fuel shortage
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Musashi and Yamato are the two ships completed according to the original plans, the 3rd ship, the Shinano, of 5 planned units of the class was already converted in the shipyard to a Fleet aircraft carrier (one of the largest of that Time) and the fourth was demolished in dry dock after the cessation of all hostilities
Another interesting video, Mike. In the alt history series Southern Victory/Timeline-191 by Harry Turtledove, navel POV character Sam Carsten goes from a deck-hand to a commanding officer, and some of his experiences involve serving on early aircraft carriers after the SV/TL191's Great War/WWI into the Second Great War/WWII. Turtledove does point out that, USS Remembrance, was started as a cruiser, and was transformed partway through construction into an aircraft carrier, and that later carriers were built keel-up to be such.
For an alternate history series, its pretty good IMO and worth reading (know you're from Down Under) to see a fictionalized navy use the same concepts used in our world.
I think the battleship will come back and dominate the next generation. They are basically immune from drone swarms, and take a lot of hypersonic damage. They have a massive payload to carry enough drones, replacing their main guns, to take out Aircraft carriers. My guess anyway…
Sometimes people need reminding (yes, I know it's old) There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?”
You could have heard a pin drop.
and one of them regularly burns under the flag of Russia.
could you please do a show on benjamin guggenhiem, john jabob astor, isidor strauss, jp morgan, milton s. hershey and the book, the wreck of the titan?
It’s crazy to think we perfected (somewhat) submarines before single wing aircraft lol
Hypersonic anti ship missiles may render the carrier obsolete in all but a permissive environment.
If it wasnt gonna be carriers it wouldve been missiles
In 25 years we may be seeing a video called “how drones killed the aircraft carrier”
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Love how you write these, The Union had a Balloon Core. Soon the Technological Landscape changed too : Flying Machines 😀
Yeh Carriers never really defeated the battleship. Yes it was a carrier air group that ultimately sunk both Bismarck and Yamato but they were extraordinary circumstances.
Bismarck was built with AA defences intended to combat fast high altitude dive bombers hence the 120mm flak guns default position was actually almost vertical. So when slow torpedo bombers flying low came to fight it the targeting computers for the AA were not equipped to accurately track them. Even then it was only a lucky torpedo hit that allowed the other slower battleships to actually kill Bismarck.
Yamato was sunk by experience learned from attacking Musashi. Always attack one side so only 50% of the AA can be utilised and causing flooding on only one side of yamato caused her to roll over and sink. Even then it took over 250 aircraft to sink her. only 6 of the torpedo bombers got through to deal a kill the other fighters and bombers being a distraction that Yamato had to deal with.
Put the shear amount of aircraft used to sink Yamato and the carriers required to carry them and it equates to about 3 Iowas what Yamato was expected to fight in the first place.
If we take Tirpitz. over 1100 aircraft were needed to sink her and was almost entirely ineffective. It took 3x 7000KG armour piercing bombs dropped by Lancaster's to finally sink her. Had Tirpitz had the fuel to be more mobile they never would have had the chance.
Now for the issues with carriers. Carriers were usually slow and unprotected against smaller ships, relying on escorts to defend them.
Carrier aircraft could not fly at night unless you were aboard USS Enterprise. Carrier aircraft could not operate during rough weather or lack of wind to get aircraft airborne.
The survivability of aircraft returning to the carrier was about 45%. Carriers always operated behind the battle lines and behind the time of action so any sudden chance would take time to filter back to the carrier and even longer to get relayed to the pilots.
Aircraft carriers were entirely vulnerable to submarines where as a battleship could survive torpedo hits by a submarine and battleships have been used to sink submarines.
So No the aircraft carrier never bested the battleship.
Things become obsolete when a more effective way to achieve the same thing is found. The purpose of battleships was to bring enough firepower to overpower other battleships. Nowadays an average destroyer or fregat is capable of carrying enough firepower to take out any battleship, achieving the same goal much cheaper.
Railguns will usher in the revival of battleships in the future.
Should do a video about Navys on what hulls were used to converted ships
I'm more interested in how aircraft carriers float. I can probably look it up on YouTube but Mike Brady is the best.
I'm quite sad that the Montana class battleships were never completed, mainly because one of them would have been named after my home state, USS New Hampshire. At least there is the South Dakota class battleship USS Massachusetts, which I've been to multiple times and is my personal favorite ship!
Also, I do believe battleships can still be used in modern fleets. Yes, modern missiles can hit a warship way before it can even physically see it coming. However, if all of a warship's anti-ship missiles are shot down, or are disabled by an EMP, they would need to rely on their main guns, which typically are of a small caliber. Battleships can be used as a powerful anti-ship deterrent, as one salvo can obliterate any modern warship. They can also be used for their original roles of naval bombardment and power projection, as the Iowa class battleships proved during the Korean War, Vietnam War, and even the Gulf War. Of course they would need modern radars and equipment, but their main and secondary guns can still be highly effective.
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Oh and the USA extended the lives of its WWII battleships to actually serve during the 1991 Gulf War, launching cruise missiles into Iraq from the USS Iowa!
Chilling last words……
I don't think carriers killed the battleship as a whole they killed dreadnought battleships at 23knots but still needed fast battleships at 28knots-33knots for escorts. I would say missiles killed the battleship as a whole.