Uncover the incredible and daring tale of history’s only true sky pirates! In the midst of World War I, a German zeppelin commandeered a Norwegian schooner in a jaw-dropping aerial raid.
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Your editor missed a typo at 5:06 "Something to SIGN a song about."
What's with the 26 year old Simon in the Thumbnail? That beards growth deserves to be represented on the front page!
Man, rigid airships need to make a comeback
"just one second sarge i need to find an eye patch" 😉
Wonderful story of the time and life of a turn of the century adventure. Dreams of future past
Yes the zeppelins dropping bombs were the bad guys because we ignore the fact that Britain carpet bombed Britain carpet bombed German civilian centers into Oblivion
And they are susceptible to bursting into flames when Americans are committing acts of terrorism by detonating bombs on them.
So that’s how they got inspired to make that boat hijack scene in “Carnival Row” (Season 2)
Sky + pirates = skyrates… how is this not obvious to everyone?
Kapitanleutnant Simon knows how to outdo the Felton war channel. Bum bumma bumma dum…
This is the equivalent of me abandoning my house to a butterfly. 😂😂😂 it's mind-boggling how dumb these ppl were
During the war would it be piracy or privateers? Maybe not even that but a simple, lawful raid against an enemies forces or the supply lines and industry that supports such forces? Piracy has a very strict definition depending on the circumstances.
However, if the airship was not a merchant marine or civilian controlled vessel with a warrant to sieze merchant shipping, any seizure of such shipping might be piracy by the rules of admiralty law.
If they Simply sink the enemy merchant ship it is lawful war, but a military vessel, taking prizes would I think be piracy as mercenary work such as that isn't supposed to stain the uniform of a nation's uniformed services.
Important to point out that the Zeppelin base at that time was in Germany, those islands became Danish in 1920.
Simon i'm following you even away from other channels BUT why do you deliver speach so fast? Dont get me wrong, its habit now to change playback speed but really …. do you hype your normal speech speed up artificially?
But if the schooner was a legitimate prize, taking it wasn't an act of piracy, making the title of the video inaccurate. I was expecting better of Simon!
The moment i saw the title i IMMEDIATELY thought of Talespins Don Carnage 🤣
Now I thought we had agreed that you would stop ruining such beautiful archival footage that you come up with by having your editors put tacky looping fake aging on it.
Seems like they arent the only sky pirates
https://youtu.be/qdvrlNoOurY?si=wWHuNWfndSwpO_w3
Talespin 😊
For the love of god, stop using an old-fashion picture style overlay on video images! It screams "I want this to look cool but don't want to put a lick of effort into it." Just show the video in B&W fer god's sake, or do the stupid sepia tone, but lose that ridiculous overlay.
Please stick to the subject this time. No personal, slightly related stories…please.
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I remember reading this book called "Airborn," one of the main plot points was airship pirates
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this 😂
Im confused. One minute he shot and destroyed the zeppelin and parashuted into the sea and later drowened, yet he wrote of the account and went on to other exploits.🤔❓
Simon why do you not look like Simon in the thumbnail
I wish there was a way to put all of Simon's channels into their own separate notifications Playlist so that I could just go into YouTube and hit play all and it would just automatically play all of the most recent uploads from every channel of his… it's so tedious to sift thru my notifications for all his channels uploads… especially if I miss an upload day..
Please do a video on the A4 Skyhawk. There's no good videos on here bout them, despite them being the most iconic jet of Vietnam.
Make no plans to pirate that aren't balls to the wall cool!
Um actually, that's a sky privateer, not a sky pirate 🧐
Although Tønder is today in Denmark, the town only became part of Denmark in 1920, when the northern part of Schleswig became part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Until then, Tønder had been part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which in 1864 was conquered by Prussia and thereby became part of the German Empire.
So during the First World War it would be more correct to say that Tønder was located in Schleswig-Holstein or Germany.
Excuse me? As I rather enjoy nitpicking, the capture of a ship at sea by Zeppelin was not "piracy", but a valid action of war. The units of one state actor were acting against the resources of a hostile state. OK, the capture of a sailing ship by an airship was totally bad-ass!
To quote The History Guy, "Don't all good stories involve pirates?"
What a tale!
I believe the correct name for sky pirates is “skyrates”; or American Airlines.
Dear Sir, 1 think you may be incorrect on one point. Count Otto Von Zeppelin was working on airships before 1900AD. That was when he established Demag, the world's first airline. The Zeppelin company also manufactured cars at some point. I don't know the exact time. Otherwise, a nice episode.
How come this is not a movie
Did the air crew get a cut of the ship value ?
Other reasons for the use of Zeppelins by the Navy where there greater range making them better suited for operations over open water and there vulnerability to land based fighters
how could anyone consider a Zeppelin the flying Dutchman
Baloons and Dirigibles dont fly after all😂
It's a good thing that they didn't have helium.
When General von Lettow-Vorbeck arrived in east Africa in 1914, he was on the same liner as Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), author of 'Out of Africa.'