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Just surprised they did not go deep deep. Don't know if they could control the down angle or up angle of the Torpedoes' back then. I don't think back then a sub could tell the depth of their targets. Not like the Modern Subs can, like the hunter subs they have, which hunts other subs.

As an ex Australian Navy and Army Veteran who have my father and uncles fought in the ww2 and great uncles served and died in ww1 its still sad on both sides, bloody politicians, as an Australia Veteran with German heritage and Irish and Scottish and Spanish and English l say R.I.P to all those very brave people. ❤

26:44 How can they hear diesel engines from a submerged submarine that’s running on its batteries? No mention of a snorkel.

RIP Your duty done.

"Still on patrol" - R.I.P.

No entiendo or que la mujer llora... Es que no sabía a qué fué su padre? No sabía que él también ovasionó muerte y tristeza en otra gente? Así es la guerra, por desgracia

11:11 they didn't break the code the US stole an enigma

P 10:22 I can't believe they're still trying to distance from the early 2000 late 90s they found the ship in it has 147.710 lb of mercury on board

I had no idea that many german submariners died

These classic History shows. The hours i spent watching these.

We're are the new updates on this sub?? Geeze man😮

23:46-23:47 I never knew that John Watson developed an America's accent! Lol

you people have NO IDEA what a skill shot this is, those are unguided torpedos fired at a target that's submerged and taking evasive maneuvers. there's a reason this has only ever happened ONCE. it's so unbelievable. this right here is the single most impressive shot fired by any weapon, ever.

I DON'T GET IT! HOW THE HELL CAN THE U-864 BE RUNNING UNDER WATER WITH ITS DIESEL ENGINE OPERATING?.!? No mention of that German "snorkle " either!

Weren't they carrying a lot of mercury, too?

Infatti 4in a row you need to fire!crazy

46:09 that ending gives me chills all the time. May the 30,000 German submariners find peace wherever they are. They’re sacrifices shaped our world and their country today. May they all find peace. 🙏🏻💐🇩🇪

If they had maintained radio silence and changed course at random nobody would ever know.

Yeah that’s messed up here in America all of our war and peace time military shipwrecks are protected

My father and his shipmates aboard a US Tin Can ( Destroyer) sank 3 German Uboats in the N.Atlantic in 1942. No survivors. I asked him how he and his fellow ship mates felt about that? His answer was no surprise to me..he said quote " If you think we were happy about 50+ German Uboat crew members were now dead..you are wrong. This was nothing to be "Happy" about..we were only releived that we got our enemy before they got us, and not jubilant that these Germans had just been killed" Exactly the answer I expected from my now deceased father.

My father was a telegraphist on the Venturer, I only found out when sifting through his belongings after he died. He was a member of the Venturers old boys association and there was a lot of correspondence between shipmates who had settled down after the war some as far away as Canada and Australia. Quite a few of his fellow crewmen called in to see him and stopped over as we lived in Portsmouth,handy for HMS Dolphin. It is all a mix of typed and handwritten from a time when email and mobile phones were yet to be invented. He never,ever,talked about his war service as a submariner but remained a submariner until leaving in the 60s.

Wonderful documentary and having the the family perspective is incredible rest in peace young heroes

The royal pigs.hahaha

U-865 Up or Down, a new committee is what is needed.

Great video, but, when you mention a Lancaster, don't show footage of a Bristol Blenheim, and it was a Tallboy bomb, not a Tally boy 😂

sorry, why were there bottles/flasks of mercury, countless bottles of them, on board?

HMS Hogue, Cressy, and Aboukir were armored cruisers and were 3 of 5 sister ships. For their time (early 1900's) they were great warships, armed with two 9.2" big guns, and 12 X 6" secondaries. There were a slew of smaller caliber guns for torpedo boats and destroyers. These cruisers were big, at 12,000 tons, and crewed with over 700+ sailors and officers. By the time World War 1 started (Aug. 1914), these cruisers were in reserve. Obsolete, but still quite useful. They were all brought back on line again and crewed with reservist, naval cadets, along with veteran Officers to help quickly get the ships back into "fighting condition" again. The 3 named armored cruisers had just been activated and sent to sea, and young Mr. Duncan Stubbs 15 was one of many teenage naval cadets.called up for service. The obsolete big cruisers were all crewed with reservist and what naval cadets could be spared. Each old warship had active senior officers to facilitate training and vessel familiarity. The shakedown cruise was brief, as war had started. These warships were sailing on patrol in the area known as the Broad 14, in the North Sea. A German sub spotted the 3-cruisers sailing without escort and moved in to attack. The end result was all three. old cruisers were sunk one by one with a heavy loss of life, young Duncan being one of those casualties. There were no other adequate warships available for this patrol duty but the older warships. They were fine warships for the early 1900's by by 1914 newer, faster, and better armed warships had replaced them for front line duty. Still serviceable for patrol duty with escort.

They should've made Germany to retrieve the sub and mercury

I have never heard about this :O....this is on the level of USS Indianapolis in terms of a Navy screwing up. Both incidents Destroyers could have saved/prevented the losses. Cruisers don't tend to have Anti Submarine warfare equipment (Until the Cold War times) so these 3 ships were target practice and the Royal Navy knew it...they should have pulled the ships out with the Destroyer's. You can't blame the Germans for this at all...the ships were fair game under Wartime Conventions....this was the Royal Navy Admiralty being dumb. The RN practically handed the Imperial German Navy free kills. Salvaging them was another blunder

People who dislike these kinds of videos are the internet Karen’s

It may just be me, I may have something wrong with me, but I don’t feel sry for the ppl in the other sub. If it’s war it’s war and we know what happens in war. If it bothers u don’t join. It just has never bothered me to take another’s life.

Awesome British submariners! This event seems so exciting yet deeply saddening and heartbreaking! Rest in Peace, brave sailors!

Launders was not, "unaware of U864's evasive action". Thats exactly why he fired a salvo. He figured out exactly where that sub was going, and knew it would turn and dive. U864 steered right Into its own death, predicted by Launders. That was no accident. He planned that salvo to the T, and hit on the last shot for which it was intended. The man was a true tactician, a legend amongst his peers.

41:16 if I was a ww2 hydrophone operator and heard torpedoes approach I would be like this is it. that dude sounds terrified

Video ruined by commercials.

Thank you for good video.Tesekkurler

The main observation....if he was submerged and running diesel engines.that means the snorkel would have had to been extended...so maybe they tracked that's ..not the periscope...

The narrator sounds like Mark Strong with a cold

How did they run a diesel engine submerged? This documentary said nothing about snorkeling.

Just amazing..well done..

"Ultra" codebreaking machines? Two-engined Lancasters? "Taliboy" bombs? And that's just the first 13 minutes...

They did not mention that U0864 had been equipped with a snorkle. You can not run diesel engines submerged unless you have a snorkle and then you had to stay a periscope depth. I think this was a big issue they should have mentioned in this video. The U-864, commanded by Wolfram, left Kiel on 5 December 1944, arriving at Horten Naval Base, Norway four days later. Before leaving Germany, U-864 had been refitted with a snorkel mast. Several messages found in the Ultra archives show that there were problems with the snorkel, which needed repairs before the U-864 put to sea for her voyage to Japan. All Schnorkel trials and training were conducted at Horten near Oslo. U-864 would have needed to be certified ready to sail at Horten before proceeding to Bergen. Wikipedia

How did that old boy see a uboat sink 40ft below the surface? Sounds like his imagination ran away with him as a kid.

How can a electric motor become noisy? Their diesel engines do not run under water.

I wish that when they show stock footage of jet engines they wouldn't show a Walter rocket motor from the ME163 Komet or when they show Lancaster bombers they show Blenhiems or B17s. Come on. Do just a little bit of dillagence. Use the correct images. For us people who are familiar with the topic, it just makes the program look amateurish.

@ 18:40 damn it was creepy plugging the 60degree 47', 004degree 26' coordinates into google maps and being snapped to the North Sea not too far Northwest of Bergen in Norway. It really helps to kinda put you there. Also if you hit satellite view you can see the topography of the ocean floor, and it's a lot easier to see how a sub could accidentally bottom out in seas like that...

TALLBOY bombs. Not "tallyboy". Also why do you show Blenheim bombers but the narrator is talking about Lancaster bomber

In any place of the UNIVERSE there is a monster like human race. What a shame!!!

The British submarine crew are true seamen after they killed the U-boat they donned their hats and had a moment of silence for that German crew because both sides were submariners

You'd have thought they'd bother to get footage of Lancaster bombers to accompany the narration about a raid by Lancaster bombers. Sloppy.